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You have probably read on other blogposts and places on the internet about new regulations regarding VAT on selling PDF patterns and other e-documents.
I am a little bit concerned about this and finding it tricky to get my head around what I need to do.
It isn't quite as disastrous as we all first thought as there are various options out there to deal with it. However all of them are going to take some sorting out and so from Jan 1st my PDF patterns will no longer be able to be purchased.
This is very disappointing to me, especially with my Giant Hexie pattern that has proved to be extremely popular.
So basically if you have been wanting to buy it, as an instant PDF download, you will have just 3 days left as I will be temporarily removing it for purchase on Jan 1st until I have sorted out which route I will go down.
Go here to my Etsy shop if you would like to purchase my Giant Hexie Quilt Pattern, Sweetheart Quilt Pattern, or my Peg Bag Pattern.


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Brussels, 3rd April 2017
PitPoint acquired its first hydrogen refuelling station by taking over the High V.LO-City refuelling station in Antwerp on the 1st of January 2017.
Antwerp is one of the demonstration sites in the High V.LO-City project, which aims at facilitating the deployment of fuel cell electric buses and their related hydrogen refuelling infrastructure in four European cities.
The refuelling station in Antwerp has been in operation since the 1st December 2014. The ownership of the station was transferred from Solvay to PitPoint on the 1st of January 2017, when Solvay left the High V.LO-City project as part of a strategic refocus of the company's hydrogen activities. The role of existing partner PitPoint Clean Fuels has therefore been extended in the project.
The hydrogen refuelling station in Antwerp is a non-public fuelling station with Flemish public transport operator 'De Lijn' as its dedicated customer. The station is currently refuelling De Lijn's five fuel cell electric buses on a daily basis. The hydrogen is delivered to the refuelling station by Air Liquide through a pipeline. The hydrogen used is an industrial by-product from chlorine production via electrolysis. The refuelling station, which is currently located in the port of Antwerp, will eventually be moved to De Lijn's bus depot in Antwerp. This will ensure a smoother daily operation of the buses.
For PitPoint this investment is an important next step to realise its mission of clean transport by 2030. Oskar Voorsmit, Business Development Manager at PitPoint, said: "Our investment in this station is important to further intensify our role in the High V.LO-City project. The use of fuel cell electric buses improves the air quality and is an important step to realise clean transport by 2030. Our experience with providing clean fuels to our customers makes us the perfect candidate to operate and maintain the hydrogen refuelling station in Antwerp."
PitPoint's role in the High V.LO-City project also includes the design, construction and operation of the hydrogen refuelling station for the Groningen site, where Dutch bus operator QBuzz is operating two High V.LO-City fuel cell electric buses since February 2017.
For any inquiry, please contact the project team at email@example.com or Valentine Willmann at firstname.lastname@example.com / + 32 2 285 4094
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This press release is available in PDF here.
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About the High V.LO-City project: cities speeding up the integration of hydrogen buses
The High V.LO-City project, coordinated by the bus manufacturer Van Hool, started in 2012 and will run until the end of 2019. During the course of the project, 14 fuel cell electric buses will be operated in 4 locations: Aberdeen, Scotland (4 buses), Antwerp, Belgium (5 buses), San Remo, Italy (3 buses) and Groningen, Netherlands (2 buses). The 14 buses will be used as like-to-like replacement of conventional diesel buses and trolley buses. The key project objectives are to increase the energy efficiency of the buses and reduce the cost of ownership, as well as to demonstrate an operational availability of the buses equivalent to diesel (over 90%). Another objective of the project is to contribute to the commercialisation of fuel cell electric buses in Europe. Since the start of the project, more than 570.000km have already been travelled by the buses and their daily operation is proving that fuel cell electric buses can be put in operation with the same level of efficiency and flexibility as diesel buses. Different methods of hydrogen production are tested and the overall availability of the buses is expected to continue to increase as experience is accumulated by the project partners.
About fuel cell electric buses
Europe is rapidly expanding the demonstration of fuel cell hydrogen buses in regular public transport services in several cities across the continent. Fuel cell electric buses are a type of electric buses. Hydrogen is used to fuel the buses; a fuel cell then transforms the hydrogen into electricity, which is then used to power the bus. Other FCH-JU funded projects demonstrating fuel cell electric buses are CHIC, HyTransit, 3Emotion and JIVE.
About the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking
The Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) is a public-private partnership between the European Commission (DG Research and Innovation), Europe's FCH industry (Hydrogen Europe) and research organisations (N.ERGHY), aiming at accelerating the market introduction of fuel cells and hydrogen technologies. It is also a funding agency, supporting R&D and Demonstration projects in transport and energy. So far, more than 200 projects have been selected for funding, including High V.LO-City. For more information, please visit www.fch.europa.eu.
About PitPoint
PitPoint constantly works on expansion of clean fuel stations in Europe for governments, businesses, and individuals. Through constant innovation and investment in CNG/Biomethane, opening new CNG/Biomethane and LNG filling stations, facilitating electrical charge stations and the construction of hydrogen stations, PitPoint is making it possible to drive and provide cleaner air at the same time. For more information please visit www.pitpoint.nl/en.
About De Lijn
De Lijn is the public transport operator in Flanders, funded by the Flemish government. De Lijn is operating 5 fuel cell buses in Antwerp since December 2014. For more information please visit https://www.delijn.be/en/
The High V.LO-City project has received funding from the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking under the European Union's 7th Framework Programme under grant agreement n°278192
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Just a few of my current Spring obsessions…
- Balenciaga Marble Wallet found here
- Zula Juice found here
- Nars Schiap Lipstick found here.
- Russel & Hazel Gold Fringe Key chain found here
- Nars Multi-Action Toner found here.
- Russel & Hazel abstract binder found here.
- Narsissist Pallet found here.
- Bond travel purse spray found here.


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The AMA/GMC professionals had to read about, and validate High Intensity UltraSound 2002. All Dr.s bought an 8W 3MHz ultrasound massage unit, and verified it cleared all cancers.
8 W 1MHz ultrasound sets off Molecular Nuclear Fusion in the pressurised cancer cells: they have to be pressurised in order to grow.
1 H2O+P+US->He+O+E2+X-ray
So 2002 Dr.s had the cure to all cancers. The device can be purchased, medically licensed from E-bay for around 16 UK pounds.
Facial Body Skin Cleaner Beauty Ultrasound 1MHz Ultrasonic Beauty Massage Device
- $16.05Was: $16.89
- or Best Offer
Dr.s were horrified! Simple, cheap total cure. No expensive agonising decline to death in 2 years. The AMA thought of using it, as the Hippocratic oath demanded, but decided not to. They failed to tell other medics to use High Intensity UltraSound – so they didn't.
And ½ a billion cancer patients around the world died. Totally criminal. So every member of the AMA/GMC ceased to be Dr.s 15 years ago.
So this terminated their employment! So they must return all wages and get no pension for the last 15 years.
You can buy your own device – or borrow one from a lady friend. #they are sold to help with weight loss. And cure your cancer at home.
dr.s all have to pay $16 million per cancer death, and get a 25 year jail term – for 1st degree3 murder of their paying patients. Truly the most evil killers who have lived,
So all Dr.s at the AMA/GMC can no longer work there – for 15 years. Cancer – simple to cure.
Using technology medcis borrowed from metallurgists. No patent protection on borrowed technology. The last graph I saw, 90% of cancers are being cured – but it is getting harder and harder to get an up to date graph.
As all cancers are cured by High Intensity UltraSound – and Charities like cancer research are continuing to research defective medicine like biochemistry.
Ho? No Dr can. And only Dr.s do the research for Cancer Research. Oh I remember – Cancer Research PAYS struck off Dr.s.


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Does using a lock has better performance than using a local (single application) semaphore?
I read this blog from msdn : Producer consumer solution on msdn
and i didn't like their solution to the problem because there are always 20 elements left in the queue.
So instead, i thought about using a
Semaphore that will be available only in my app (i just won't name it in the constructor), but i don't know how it will effect the app's performance.
Any one has an idea if it'll hurt the performance? what are the other considerations to use lock and not
Lock(obj) is the same as Monitor.Enter(obj); A lock is basicaly an unary semaphore. If you have a number of instances of the same ressource (N) you use a semaphore with the initialization value N. A lock is mainly used to ensure that a code section is not executed by two threads at the same time.
So a lock can be implemented using a semaphore with initialization value of 1. I guess that Monitor.Enter is more performant here but I have no real information about that. A test will be of help here. Here is a SO thread that handels about performance.
For your problem a blocking queue would be the solution. (producer consumer) I suggest this very good SO thread.
Here is another good source of information about Reusable Parallel Data Structures.
The solution in the MSDN article has a bug where you'll miss an event if SetEvent is called twice by the producer in quick succession whilst the consumer is processing the last item it retrieves from the queue.
Have a look at this article for a different implementation using Monitor instead:
In general: If your consumer thread manages to process each data item quickly enough, then the kernel-mode transition will incur a (possibly significant) bit of overhead. In that case a user-mode wrapper which spins for a while before waiting on the semaphore will avoid some of that overhead.
A monitor (with mutual exclusion + condition variable) may or may not implement spinning. That MSDN article's implementation didn't, so in this case there's no real difference in performance. Anyway, you're still going to have to lock in order to dequeue items, unless you're using a lock-free queue.


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The Harbors and Navigation Act 1993 (SA) outlines a number of offences that may apply when operating or acting as a member of a crew on a boat or water vessel.
It is an offence to operate a vessel and be so much under the influence of drugs or alcohol as to be incapable of exercising effective control of the vessel [Harbors and Navigation Act 1993 (SA) s 70(1)]. It is also an offence to be a member of a crew and be so much under the influence of drugs or alcohol as to be incapable of effectively performing the required duties [Harbors and Navigation Act 1993 (SA) s 70(1)].
A maximum penalty of a fine of not less than $1100 and not more than $1600, or a term of imprisonment for not more than 3 months, applies. Higher penalties apply for subsequent offences [Harbors and Navigation Act 1993 (SA) s 70(1)].
Any person who operates a vessel, or a crew member who is engaged in duties affecting the safe navigation of the vessel, must not have a blood alcohol level of 0.05 or above, or any drugs in their system [Harbors and Navigation Act 1993 (SA) s 70(2)]. Different fines apply for these offences depending on the blood alcohol content level and whether it is a first or subsequent offence - see section 70(2) for penalties.
Marine Safety Officers and Police Officers can conduct breath tests [Harbors and Navigation Act 1993 (SA) s 71]. A drug screening test can also be administered by a police officer if a person has submitted to alcotest or breath analysis [Harbors and Navigation Act 1993 (SA) s 72].
It is an offence to refuse to comply with a direction to undertake an alcotest, breath analysis test, or drug screening test [see ss 71(8); 72(10)].
In the event of a boating accident and where a person aged over 10 years is taken to hospital, the treating medical practitioner has a duty to take a sample of the patient's blood to test it for the presence of drugs or alcohol [Harbors and Navigation Act 1993 (SA) s 74].
Specific speed restrictions may also apply in certain circumstances, and an expiation notice or fine may be issued if these limits are not adhered to - see Harbors and Navigation Regulations 2009 (SA) reg 168. Some SA waters may also have specific, local speed restrictions, which are often sign posted near boat ramps and which must also be adhered to.
For more information on boat safety requirements, including in relation to life jackets, speed limits, and boat loading, see the Service SA brochure Safety on the Water.
The content of the Law Handbook is made available as a public service for information purposes only and should not be relied upon as a substitute for legal advice. See Disclaimer for details. For free and confidential legal advice in South Australia call 1300 366 424.


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Paulist Fr. Gilbert Martinez is pastor of St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Community in Los Angeles.
He served from 2006 to 2018 as pastor of our mother church, the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York City,
Fr. Gil made his first promises to the Paulist Fathers on August 5, 1989.
He was ordained a priest on May 13, 1995.
He has served as pastor at St. Sebastian Church in Los Angeles and St. Cyril of Alexandria Church in Tucson, AZ.
Prior to these assignments, Fr. Gil was director of campus ministry at the University of California at Berkeley. His other assignments were at the Saint Jude Cancer Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, and associate director of the Paulist Center in Boston.
A native of El Paso, TX, Fr, Gil was reared in California. He completed a bachelor of science degree in conservation of natural resources from the University of California at Berkeley.
He worked for seven years as a National Park Service Ranger at Grand Canyon and Big Bend National Parks before joining the Paulist novitiate.


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My second Christmas in Korea has come and gone and again there has been little to no snow, just cold weather. Unfortunately I picked up a nasty bug which I've been trying to shake for the last month. As soon as I start to feel good I ether catch a fresh batch or a handful of drug resistant bacteria make a comeback.
I let my students make Christmas cards in class last week. After working hard on it all lesson, one of my grade 1 students gave me the card she was making.
For Christmas Jihyeon and I bought some roast chicken and enjoyed it with the gravy mum sent from Australia and some steamed vegetables. I forgot how good gravy is. I can't believe they don't have it here in Korea.
Merry Christmas
Just 72 days until I fly home.


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So who is right: the lone voice warning that the miracle growth is over, or others who claim this shows a deep misunderstanding of the country?
Diana Choyleva is the bear in the China shop. The analyst from Lombard Street Research says last week's China GDP figures – which revealed growth slowing to a three-year low – are an early warning signal of the hard landing to come.
Dig deep into the data, she says, and you'll find that Chinese exports are falling. All that is propping up the economy is gargantuan investment in infrastructure financed by state- directed banks that look more and more like Western banks just before the collapse of 2008. Except they are bigger and badder.
Choyleva radiates a pessimism that is almost unique among Hong Kong's investment professionals. Westerners, she says, are so awed by the China dream they can't see the coming China-geddon. The excesses that drove the West into a financial crisis and, in Europe, an economic depression, are gripping the Chinese economy, too. "It's just that they have become bigger," she says. The country's vast pool of savings is being squandered on dead-end infrastructure projects that make Japan's roads to nowhere look like prudent planning.
"China's miracle growth is over," she proclaims, saying that if Chinese policy makers get it right they might, just, see the country's growth halve to 5% or below. Get it wrong, and the consequences could be devastating not just for China but for the rest of the world, too. "Building those roads to nowhere can go on for a long time, but ultimately financing it will become unbearable," warns Choyleva.
As long as US and European consumers were accumulating colossal amounts of debt, much of it to pay for goods made in China, the merry-go-round worked just fine. But as western economies deleverage, the driver for growth has been extinguished.
"The financial crisis has changed everything," she says. "It can no longer rely on abroad to buy its excess production. The US will consume less, and produce more. The years of current account surpluses are over, rendering the growth model obsolete."
Meanwhile, the banks that have been the lynchpin of growth are insolvent, and their mountain of bad loans will eventually lead to a liquidity crisis.
But Choyleva's is a lone voice. At brokerage CLSA, one of the region's biggest investment banks, China macro strategist Andy Rothman, a former US diplomat, says the wall of worry comes from a fundamental misunderstanding.
The first myth to explode, he says, is that it is an export economy. It's not. It assembles the likes of iPads (they are all made in China), but the value remains, mostly, in the US. Even Korean firms make more money from the iPad than China. Over the last decade, while it has enjoyed GDP growth of 10% per annum, only 1% of that was from exports. What we haven't woken up to is that China is a domestic growth story.
It's not an unbalanced export-only economy – instead, it's the world's best domestic consumption story, claims Rothman. It is being driven by "phenomenal" increases in wages for average workers; incomes are up 173% over the past 11 years. That also puts the so-called property bubble into perspective. The price per-square-foot of an apartment in a major Chinese city has leaped by nearly 10% a year, for many years. But as incomes are rising even faster – by around 13% a year – it's not the issue it became in the west.
Better still, it's not on the never-never. Mortgages are still in their infancy in China. One in five first-time buyers purchase entirely with cash. The average downpayment is 30% – a long way from the 100% loans that became common in the US and the UK.
"Even if prices fall by a third, almost no one will actually be underwater," says Rothman. Westerners are also obsessed with startling property price rises in Shanghai and Beijing. But go into the interior and prices are "dramatically lower," he says.
Patrick Collinson was a guest on a trip organised by Fidelity Investments. Fidelity's China Special Situations investment trust is a holder of shares in Ping An, Master Kong and Wu Mart.


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"A true story so brutal and horrifying it was kept from the public for over a century!"
1976 – NR – 79 Minutes – Raro Video
Starring Annik Borel, Howard Ross, Dagmar Lassander – Directed by Rino Di Silvestro
You know what I think of when I think 'werewolf'? Freakishly long nipples. That's right, the kind you can hang coat hangers from. Yeah, Werewolf Woman isn't your typical werewolf movie in the slightest. For starters, there isn't really a werewolf in it or anything that would really qualify being of lycanthrope, definitely nothing you would consider especially by today's standards. No hunky, shirtless teen dudes that travel with a pack of other shirtless hunky dudes battling for the love of an emotionless plank of wood (my apologies to planks of wood everywhere). Instead, what is presented here is a woman out of her gord, biting the neck of just about everyone she encounters for the first half of the movie. The movie has plenty of throat rips that put Patrick Swayze to shame. Then it becomes an odd amalgamation of other genres and goes back to kind of being a werewolf movie.
I'm getting ahead of myself. Let me tell you all about it!
Daniela can't stop having feverish dreams of an ancestor she believes to be a werewolf. She believes this, because in her dreams she sees her (or herself) dancing, fully nekkid, in a way that can only be described as losing your balance while trying to avoid a bee. She then transforms into a werewolf! Or at least what $20 worth of cheap Halloween store makeup and dog shavings will get you. Seriously, the werewolf effect here is passible for the world's best Chewbacca costume on the smallest budget. As the narrator goes on about how a werewolf hunts during the full moon, as she pounces on a torch carrying villager and bites his throat. The rest of the villagers capture her and torch her at the stake. Was that the answer to every problem back then? Just burn it on a stake?
Daniela's father, Count Neseri, is keeping a close eye on her since she was traumatically raped and she happened upon an ancestor's journal, detailing the previously told events and believing herself to curse. Daniela, in her shocked state, believed every word of it. You see, back then, reading something in a journal was like believing everything you read on the internet.
As if believing you are a werewolf wasn't a big enough problem, her sister Elena (played by Dagmar Lassander, the grouchy real estate lady from The House by the Cemetery) and husband Fabian visit from school where she studies nuclear physics. Seriously, that's what she says. At first I thought she was going to turn her sister in to some sort of radioactive werewolf monster, but I'm going to crush that dream for all of us right now and tell you that doesn't happen. That evening, Daniela flashbacks to the villagers burning (and iguanas… because it all ties together?) her at the stake and one of them looks just like Fabian. Daniela peeks in on the Elena and Fabian knocking boots and becomes aroused by it and takes care of 'business'.
So at this point, you're watching a woman masturbate while she watches her sister have sex. Feeling dirty, yet?
Fabian catches her and darts off to find her, which I have to wonder what kind of questions he has for her or do you think… no, that would be gross! He finds her outside where she successfully seduces him, taps into her werewolf ancestry and bites his throat out!
Daniela's constant hallucinations land her strapped to a bed in the looney bin, where a nymphotic patient wanders about trying to mount everything that walks by. Well, even if it doesn't walk. I guess it just needs a pulse (which is a good thing, because I just reviewed NEKRomantik) as she begins groping and kissing Daniela, who manages to convince the patient to unstrap her from the bed and repays her by biting her throat out.
The film wanders into slasher territory for a moment when she spies on a young couple then kills the girl by (would anyone like to guess?) biting her throat. Later, police begin to see a connection between this murder and Fabian's, along with Daniela's escape and the murdered patient, making these police look more competent than Chief Wiggum. Knowing that someone would notice a woman covered in blood a mile away, Daniela steals some clothes only to get spotted a moment later and murdering a few other sleaze bags that try to pick her up. Well, so much for that plan!
But not all guys are sleazy, as friendly Luca offers her a home cooked meal and a bed to sleep in without sex, which is odd considering he is played by Howard Ross who played the sleaziest character of all time, Mickey Scellenda, in The New York Ripper. As it turns out, this is just what Daniela needs to overcome her trauma, as she and Luca fall in love and do romantic things like laugh, eat dinner and reenact getting shot on a bell tower and falling on a crash mat… oh, I forgot to mention that he's a stuntman, so it makes sense.
She realizes she can never leave Luca or their quaint little home, so she calls her father and apologizes for the murders and is never coming home. Since she apologized, I guess that means it's okay to move on with her life, but history has a tragic way of repeating itself. A group of greasy, disgusting mean have been following her around, breaking into her home at night while Luca is away, raping her and killing Luca upon his return while trying to fight them off.
Being that it's the 70's and the rape/revenge genre is popular, Daniela doesn't take this sitting down. She tracks her tormentors down, not unlike a feral creature would do and gives them their comeuppance. Maybe that's the werewolf tie-in to this section? At first I was rooting for her to get her revenge, but then I remembered this was the woman who murdered innocent people by biting them to death. I'm not saying what she did here isn't justified nor was what happened deserved, but it's hard to see her as an anti-hero instead of a murderer. The police put all of this together and finally track Daniela down and things end rather, eh, anti-climatically, leaving you without a bang, but not exactly a whimper. It just doesn't feel like it was all paid off.
So, you may have some questions. The main and most obvious one being, why was this called Werewolf Woman when it didn't predominantly feature said werewolf? To possibly offer an answer, because it's an Italian exploitation film that wanted to exploit several genres so it could be marketed to several different audiences. It feels like the same story is being told through several different genres that doesn't blend well together. It starts off as a werewolf movie, moving on to slasher, then adds a rape/revenge element. Heck, there are even possession type elements thrown in (after all, The Exorcist was popular at the time). It doesn't become a mess or incoherent to the point where it's unwatchable or not understandable, which is odd since it does seem to be able to tell the same story without making it confusing, although at times you will have the thought, "wasn't this a werewolf movie?" from time to time. The plot about her ancestor being a werewolf is enough of a story to base an entire film on, but this movie tends to overcompensate that, leading into several other side plots that, honestly, it could do without. It's like the filmmakers wanted to exploit several of the exploitation genres at once, instead of making several different movies. The Howling or An American Werewolf in London this ain't. Although instead of Sybil Danning dancing around a fire nude, you get Annik Borel, which is a fair trade.
Raro Video offers this new Blu-ray transfer, which does look pretty dang good, but not the best a transfer could be. Some parts still are quite noticeably grainy and scenes look dull at times, but luckily the cinematography is really nice to distract you from that. The audio, however, is nicely cleaned in 2.0 Mono in both Italian and English. Believe it or not, this can offer you two different viewing experiences, since the dubbing in English is laughably atrocious, it's best to watch in Italian with the English dubs. There isn't much in the way of bonus features, just about a twenty minute interview with director Rino Di Silvestro in Italian, but dubbed in English and a theatrical trailer.
This is a film with just enough sleaze to make only make you feel uncomfortable when you stop and think about it. It's a very well told story, even if it can't decide which genre it wants to be. Maybe that was the way to go about it though. It leaves several different impressions in my head, all of them pretty good. I should also point out that the foxy Annik Borel spends a good amount of time in the movie completely nekkid. It's the right kind of Euro-trash that's got enough nudity, blood and a bizarre storyline that never reaches a ludicrous point, but just enough to make it satisfactory. However, this makes it unappealing to your average movie goer, since they now all expect werewolves to be shirtless, hunky dudes tied up in a love triangle (well, this story offers some of those).
Check out this review and plenty others at Goon Reviews.
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Premier Hytemp, a leading provider of metal-based solutions to the oil and gas industry, is increasing its engineering capability in Singapore with the development of a second manufacturing facility.
The US $20 million investment by the Edinburgh-headquartered company will create a 67,000 square foot precision engineering facility which will serve the downhole tools, wellhead and subsea tree markets. This will complement the established Premier Hytemp manufacturing operation in Singaporewhich primarily serves only the wellhead and subsea tree markets.
The company has acquired land for the development adjacent to its existing 78,000 square foot facility in the industrial area of Jurong in western Singapore and expects to start construction later this year. The strategic location offers easy access to Singapore and throughout the Asia with excellent port facilities for export shipments.
Premier Hytemp is a leading engineered solution provider for low alloy, stainless steel and nickel alloy products in the global oil and gas industry. It manufactures operationally critical components for the industry's major original equipment manufacturers and service companies for applications in wellheads and production equipment, well construction, valves and actuators, and downhole tools. It is known for its engineered solutions to complex supply requirements, its innovative processing of materials and its ability to consistently meet challenging lead times from its modern manufacturing facilities in the United Kingdom and Singapore.
The company is highly responsive to client needs and can service contracts ranging from one off commissions with short turnaround times through to providing turnkey solutions and full supply chain management. Its suite of services include sawing and proof machining, heat treatment, testing, final machining, cladding and assembly and is fully supported by its in-house technical team with expertise in metallurgy, forging, heat treatment, welding and project engineering.
The management buyout of Premier Hytemp in November 2012 was backed by Dunedin, the UK mid-market private equity specialist.
Campbell MacPherson, chief executive officer of Premier Hytemp, said: "This $20 million investment in our second Singapore facility will significantly increase our capacity to serve clients in the downhole tools market and complements our existing service offering for wellhead and subsea tree components out of Singapore.
"The expanded scope of the new facility and our ability to manage products from raw material through to fully tested, final machined and assembled consignments – supported by extensive in-house technical expertise developed over 30 years – means that we are strongly positioned to deepen our relationships with established customers and attract new business. Our control of all aspects of the product manufacturing process also provides our clients with additional assurance in terms of quality control and on time delivery."


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Revenue. Company's revenue (or sales) is always the starting point of any cash flow forecast. In the PDVW stock intrinsic value calculation we used $6 million for the last fiscal year's total revenue generated by pdvWireless, Inc.. The default revenue input number comes from 0001 income statement of pdvWireless, Inc.. You may change it if you feel that it should be adjusted for some unusual circumstances that are not expected to be repeated in the future or if you already know (from interim financial statements, for example) that this year's revenue is going to be quite different.
Revenue growth rate. Forecasted future revenue growth rate is the most important input parameter for the intrinsic value calculation. Unlike other input parameters that are reasonably expected to be in line with their historic averages or their historic trends, the revenue growth rate by and large is a wild card: nobody really knows what the company's revenue will be in the future. Of course, the level of unpredictability is different for different industries (utility companies being the most predictable and, thus, less risky).
We use three input parameters to forecast the revenue growth rate in our PDVW stock valuation model: a) initial revenue growth rate of 2% whose default value is the revenue growth rate in the most recent quarter compared to the quarterly revenue a year ago; b) terminal revenue growth rate of 5% whose default value is chosen to be close to the average nominal (i.e. not adjusted for inflation) GDP growth rate; and c) revenue decline factor of 0.9, which stipulates that revenue growth rate in each forecasted year will be equal to the difference of the revenue growth rate in the preceding year and the terminal revenue growth rate multiplied by this revenue decline factor (with the passage of time the revenue growth rate will be approaching the terminal revenue growth rate, but not quite reaching it - though the difference could be infinitesimally small).
At the revenue decline factor of 1, the future revenue growth rate is forecasted to be constant and equal to the initial revenue growth rate. The smaller the revenue decline factor, the faster the revenue growth rate will approach the terminal revenue growth.
Discount rate. The discount rate is used for determining the present value of future cash flows: future cash flows are "discounted" as at normal conditions (that translate into positive expected return on investment) one dollar today is worth more than the same dollar in the future. Unlike all other valuation models, we use variable discount rate, i.e. it increases for each consecutive year. This is done to account for higher risk of cash flows coming in further in the future.
The initial discount rate of 4.3%, whose default value for PDVW is calculated based on our internal credit rating of pdvWireless, Inc., is applied to the cash flow expected to be received a year from now (well, actually, to be precise, in the financial year following the base year - the last year for which we have financial statements). For each consecutive year the discount rate is multiplied by the discount rate multiplier of 1.05, e.i. each year it increases by 5%. Feel free to change this number to correspond to your level of risk assessment of pdvWireless, Inc..
By the way, it is easy to set the discount rate to be constant (this would make comparison with other valuation models easier): just set the discount rate multiplier equal to 1 and chose the magnitude of the initial discount rate to your liking.
Variable cost ratio is the ratio of variable costs (i.e. costs that fluctuate with fluctuation of the volume of production) to the revenue expressed as a percentage. In the calculation of intrinsic value of PDVW stock the variable cost ratio is equal to 150%.
Fixed operating expenses is just that - expenses that are not dependant on the volume of production. They are set to $31 million in the base year in the intrinsic value calculation for PDVW stock. These expenses increase with the level of inflation in subsequent years.
Interest rate on debt is the average all-in rate of interest paid by the company on its debt. It is set at 5.4% for pdvWireless, Inc..
Corporate tax rate of 27% is the nominal tax rate for pdvWireless, Inc.. In reality, companies find ways to pay much less taxes than that or not to pay them at all.
Cash flow adjustment could be used for any adjustment the investor deems necessary. Most commonly we use this field to account for stock options-related effects in excess of what is reported on the company's income statement. The cash flow adjustment is expressed as a percentage of the revenue, and in the current valuation of the PDVW stock is equal to 0%.
Production assets are the company's assets used for manufacturing products or provision of services. In the valuation model input table they are expressed as a percentage of revenue and for PDVW are equal to 1109.4%.
Life of production assets of 42 years is the average useful life of capital assets used in pdvWireless, Inc. operations. It is used to calculate yearly capital expenditures needed to keep these assets in good order - we call it the maintenance CAPEX.
Working capital is the difference between the company's current assets and liabilities. In the model we use the ratio of working capital to revenue, which for PDVW is equal to -54.5%. A negative number means that the company is apt at using financial resources of its suppliers and customers; a large positive number, on the other hand, means that it either provides in-kind financing to others or is not good at managing its inventories.
Book value of equity - $208.529 million for pdvWireless, Inc. - is used in calculation of the "floor" for intrinsic valuation based on the discounted cash flow (DCF) method. Even if the prospects are very bad for a company, its assets could always be sold now for their current fair market value.
Shares outstanding of 14.696 million for pdvWireless, Inc. is needed to calculate the intrinsic value of one share.
Market capitalization is used here only for reference purposes and as a quick check that the share price and the number of shares outstanding numbers are correct - something especially to be cognizant about at stock splits. So, the market capitalization of pdvWireless, Inc. at the current share price and the inputted number of shares is $0.7 billion.


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Barnes leads Mavericks to 113-105 win over Wizards
DALLAS (AP) — After a disappointing 2016, the Dallas Mavericks started the new year off on the right foot.
Harrison Barnes scored 26 points and Deron Williams added 21 as the Mavericks rallied to beat the Washington Wizards 113-105 on Tuesday night.
Devin Harris had 17 points and Seth Curry 16 for Dallas, which went 10-24 before the New Year. Williams, Harris and Curry all hit four 3-pointers as Dallas made 17-of-32 from long range.
Six Mavericks scored in double figures, including Dirk Nowitzki, who started at center and chipped in with 11 points and nine rebounds.
"We've got to find ways to win right now," Nowitzki said. "We want to make some ground up this month. Whoever's number is called has to be ready."
John Wall led Washington with 27 points and Bradley Beal added 25 for the Wizards, who fell to 1-6 on the second half of back-to-back games. They lost to Houston on Monday night.
Dallas trailed by nine points in the third quarter before rallying on the strength of 11-for-16 3-point shooting in the second half.
"If we shoot the way we shot tonight, we're pretty good," Harris said.
Trailing 88-87, the Mavericks scored the first eight points of the fourth quarter and led 110-100 on Barnes' 3-pointer with 2:51 to play.
The Wizards shaved the lead to five, but Beal missed a 3-pointer and then Wall missed two 3s, any of which would cut the lead to two before Barnes made another 3 with 24.3 seconds left to put the game away.
"We had a great situation, a great opportunity to come in and take advantage of it, and we didn't," Beal said.
Wizards: Wall was named Eastern Conference player of the month for December after averaging 24.5 points, 10.7 assists and an NBA-best 2.7 steals per game as the Wizards went 10-5. . Washington has lost 12 of 13 to the Mavericks dating to 2009, their only win coming last season.
Mavericks: Andrew Bogut, who missed 11 games this year with a knee injury, limped to the bench with 3:52 remaining in the fourth quarter after banging his knee against a Washington player. But Bogut said after the game he would be fine. . Forward Dorian Finney-Smith was a finalist for Western Conference rookie of the month for December but lost to New Orleans' Buddy Hield. Finney-Smith started 16 of the team's 17 games in December, averaging 6.6 points.
Wall took over the final 2:30 of the first half, scoring 13 points in a 20-3 Wizards run that gave the Wizards a 67-61 lead at the break. He scored the final 11 points of the half for Washington.
But Dallas held him to just seven points in the second half.
"I missed two or three pull-ups I thought were good shots," Wall said. "They just rimmed in and out. They were making shots in the third and we didn't have an opportunity to get out in transition off missed shots."
Bogut asked Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle to bring him off the bench due to the struggles the team was having with both him and Nowitzki in the game as starters. Though the pair had only played 53 minutes together this season due to injuries to both, Dallas had been outscored by 62 points when they were on the floor together.
"It's better than starting the game and getting dragged out," Bogut said. "If you're going to do that, you might as well do it the right way."
In an effort to promote the All-Star candidacy of Barnes, the Mavericks debuted the Harrison Barnes All-Star Burger at concession stands for all January home games. Barnes is averaging a team-leading 20 points for Dallas.
"I'm more concerned with his day to day progress, that he keeps learning and growing," Carlisle said. "That's really his personality so I think he's going to continue to trend upward. He hasn't plateaued in his work ethic or his thirst to get better."
Wizards: Hosts Minnesota on Friday. Washington has won eight in a row at the Verizon Center.
Mavericks: Home against Phoenix on Thursday, the second game of a three-game homestand for a Dallas team that has played six of previous seven on the road.


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The Epley maneuver, Semont maneuver, and the Brandt-Daroff exercise are all exercises used in the treatment of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, according to WebMD. The canalith procedure is also used in treating this condition, according to the Mayo Clinic.
The Epley maneuver and the Semont maneuver attempt to move the particles causing the vertigo symptoms back into the proper position through a series of specific head movements assisted by doctors, states WebMD. Vertigo sufferers can perform the Brandt-Daroff exercise unassisted. It involves moving from a prone position to a seated position repeatedly in order to reposition the ear particles.
A doctor can assist with the canalith procedure or the patient can perform it alone. It involves slow movements of the head to return the ear particles to their proper positions, reports Mayo Clinic.


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Instruments - LasIR
LasIR gas measurement instruments are based on the absorption of light in the infrared region of the spectrum. Their unique light source is a tunable diode laser – a tiny solid state device, the laser emission wavelength of which depends on the composition of the lasing chip, the temperature and the current passing through the chip. The standard LasIR employs lasers in the red to Near Infrared region (700 – 2700 nm) which are similar to those found in consumer products such as CD players, but the laser wavelength can be tuned to the gas absorption feature of choice. The light emitted from these lasers can be fiber-coupled, allowing the analyzer electronics to be located hundreds of meters from the actual measurement point. This is an important feature for measurement locations that are not easy to access or are in hazardous locations. It is also possible to multiplex the laser to multiple locations (up to 16 as standard), allowing measurement of the gas at multiple locations with a single analyzer. This makes the system very cost effective. The same system can be used for in-situ and/or extractive gas measurements in any combinations.
Recently, Unisearch developed its LasIR-QC system employing Quantum Cascade (QC) lasers which emit in the mid-infrared wavelength region (3.5 – 10 microns). Very high sensitivities (parts per billion level) can be achieved with such laser devices. At present fiber-coupled QC lasers are not commercially available. This limits the gas measurement to a single location. LasIR and LasIR-QC analyzers are factory calibrated and do not require field calibration. The analyzers can be audited for stability and linearity. Permanently-sealed inline as well as built-in flow-through gas cells are available for this purpose.
Gas Monitoring Equipment: an analyzer/controller that takes readings at specified intervals in a smoke stack. It enables the manufacturer to keep the waste gas emissions of the manufacturing process within the government-mandated regulation limits and sound alarms when nearing maximum limits. LasIR RB101/ RB102/ RM104/ RM108/ RM112/ RM116 gas analyzers.
Portable Gas Monitoring equipment: LasIR RP101 units – point monitor analyzers that can be hand carried to make measurements of the target gas in the area.
Environmental Process Monitoring: The analyzer is used in a manufacturing facility. It aids the manufacturing process by maximizing efficiency, especially when the gas being analyzed is recaptured for sale as a byproduct. All types of Unisearch analyzers are capable of this process.
Fence-Line Monitoring for Perimeter Monitoring: Used to estimate fugitive emissions from landfills, petro-chemical plants and any industries that may be emitting regulated gases.
Ambient Air Quality Monitoring: can be used by government agencies to determine ambient gas conditions.
Gas Applications: HCl (Hydrogen Chloride gas) Monitoring, NH3 (Ammonia gas) monitoring, HF (Hydrogen Fluoride gas) monitoring, O2 (Oxygen gas) monitoring, H2O (Moisture) monitoring, CH4 (Methane gas) monitoring, CO (Carbon Monoxide gas) monitoring, CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) monitoring, NO (Nitric Oxide gas) monitoring, H2S (Hydrogen Sulfide gas) monitoring, HCN (Hydrogen Cyanide gas) monitoring, HDO/D2O (deuterated water) monitoring and various Hydrocarbon and Fluorocarbon gas monitoring.
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The multi-channel analyzer allows the user to make measurements of a specific gas in up to sixteen locations. On-board memory enables the user to store the data, which can then be loaded into a computer for analysis.
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Allows for real-time measurement of target gases in a compact, weather-resistant design suitable for open-path, ambient-air and fence-line monitoring.
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Lady Bellatrix has strapped her slave to her bed and put a dildo gag on him. "Its some time since I've been laid but look at that pathetic cock and floppy balls. Why would I want to fuck myself with those?" Mistress wipes her cunt juices on the slave's nose and cock. "How does that smell slave?"
Mistress picks up her Hitachi magic wand and rubs it against her cunt and sits down on the dildo gag. "Now that is what I call a cock, I definitely like that. I've found a use for you after all. I'm going to finish myself off and make you clean up after." Mistress has a huge orgasm. Picking up the dildo gag she inserts the dildo down the slave's threat to clean off her juices. "Gag on that slave".
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John 5
"I like taking things to extremes," understates John, "and I wanted this album to reach a new level of insanity. As a result, the songs are really long and complex, with intros, outros, interludes, and intense changes."
John's rigorous intensity—as well as his curiosity about evil—is intertwined with the album's song concepts, as all but two tunes are inspired by serial killers such as Albert Fish, Ed Gein, and Son of Sam (whose final murder was committed on John's birthday, hence the song title "July 31st"). To amplify the creepiness, the album artwork opens up to form a small Ouija board.
"I'm not pro serial killer by any means," says John. "But I'm fascinated by how someone's mind could work like that—how they could be so cold and 'normal' while committing such horrible acts. So I wanted to create sounds that were total madness—a soundtrack of what would go on in these people's heads."
John's fertile mind is also firing revolutionary salvoes at guitar education, as he is soon set to release the world's first R-rated instructional DVD (for a preview, click to john-5.com).
"The inspiration is that guys are going to want to learn these guitar licks, but the usual approach is so sterile that it's almost uncomfortable," explains John. "I'll play songs from the CD, and explain how I do all these things, but then we'll go to clips of topless girls and weird David Lynch-type stuff. It's education and debauchery. Let's face it—99 percent of the guitarists buying these DVDs are guys, and who doesn't like breasts?"
Doubling all your solos—especially at the speeds you play—is pretty nuts.
Yeah. It was a challenge, because every double I recorded had to be in tune and perfectly in time. We did it first on "Werewolf of Westeria"—putting each part in its own speaker channel for a stereo effect—and the album producer, Sid Riggs, really liked it. He said, "We gotta do this for every song!" But the hardest part about doing it was not the speed, it was the bends. If you don't bend perfectly, the double is going to be out of tune. Behind-the-nut bends were really a challenge—they probably took the most takes to get just right—and doubling the western swing of Chet Atkins' "Young Thing" was a chore, as well. But the biggest challenge of them all was "Bella Kiss." The song is in an open tuning, and I used my right hand as a kind of drumstick, tapping harmonics while my left hand was making the chord changes. Then, I did some behind-the-nut bends for another part of the song. We just kept working at it, and working at it, until everything lined up. Also, when I go to a harmony line, it's just my double moving to the harmony.
After sweating through all those torturous overdubs, do you feel like it was worth all the trouble from a sonic standpoint? I mean, your single guitar lines have always sounded pretty darn good.
I just think that having both tracks going makes the solos sound thicker and kind of cool. I believe Randy Rhoads doubled some of his solos, and I wanted to take a shot at doing it myself. [Ed's note: Rhoads was known for triple-tracking many of his best-known solos.]
How did you typically arrange the guitars for each song?
For the rhythm tracks, I generally used a Les Paul, and then doubled the part with a Fender Sub-Sonic Telecaster. For the solos, I typically chose one of my signature Telecasters for each of the two takes. I'm really comfortable with Teles. All I would do to differentiate the overdubs was switch pickups and/or amps.
What amps were in the picture?
A Marshall Mode Four, a Fender Tone-Master, and a Peavey 5150. For the cleaner stuff, I plugged into a '55 Fender Champ. Pedal-wise, I used the Coffin Case Blood Drive, a CryBaby wah, and maybe a chorus pedal.
I don't think any of that stuff made the weird, nightmarish sounds on "First Victim."
Oh, no [laughs]. That's an Electro-Harmonix Bass Micro Synthesizer, a doubleneck Gibson SG with 6- and 12-string necks, and a violin bow. I got the idea for that when I was playing with Rob Zombie, and we did a song called "The Devil's Rejects" with a horror film clip running on the screen behind the band. I grabbed the doubleneck because the song is played with a 12-string, and I added the bow to get a scary sound that matched the movie images. I thought, "Aw, man—that's a cool sound. I'll add it to my record." You know, I'm such a Tele nut, but I can only play that part on the SG, because the fretboard has a curve to it that helps my bowing. A Tele neck is too flat for using a bow—at least for me. For "First Victim," I mostly played on the bass strings of the 12-string neck.
How do you devise your compositions?
Sometimes, I start with a riff—just the basic rhythm bit—and then twist it as much as I can to make it interesting, fresh, and a little odd for the listener. For example, country licks are usually played in major keys, but I might make the part sound really strange by putting it a minor key that works with a scary rhythm track. When you put something like that together, you might get a totally unique-sounding piece of music. For "Dead Art in Plainfield," I wanted to present the vortex in Ed Gein's head, so I played the parts faster and faster, and added these twisted seconds and flat fifths to make the song sound "off"—like a person who is walking down the street, but who just doesn't seem right. On the cover of "Welcome to the Jungle," I wanted the guitar to emulate Axel Rose's vocal, so I used the wah to phrase the part as much like his voice as I could. But, whatever I do, I usually follow the chords with my single-note lines. From a composition standpoint, playing over changes takes a lot of thought, because your notes have to follow the chords. I don't just blast scales.
How do you feel about instrumental guitar records these days, and where they fit into popular culture? Obviously, doing a commercial record is hard enough. I don't think most investors would bet that an instrumental, heavy-rock guitar album is going to zoom up the charts.
Absolutely—but I think that's one of the reasons I'm doing this right now. A very small handful of people are doing instrumental guitar albums, and I'm one of those people, because I don't want it to die. I also believe that guitarists should be inspired to pick up and play their guitars, instead of just slamming out a bunch of chords. We're in the era of My Chemical Romance, the Killers, and the Strokes—and I love all those bands—but many of the people who are listening to those groups have no recollection of Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, or Yngwie Malmsteen. So they can't really understand that the guitar is an amazing instrument that's capable of so many more things than what the guitarists in a lot of today's popular bands are playing.


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A New Theatre for North Texas
The Orchard Theatre of Texas (OTX ), under the Artistic Direction of Executive Producer Jim Covault (formerly of Stage West), will embark on its inaugural season in 2018. Our innovative new company will present a variety of plays – from originals to classics, with subjects ranging from the personal to the political – in a myriad of exciting settings. You might see O'Neill in a bar, or Shakespeare in a barn – each venue will be uniquely suited to the play at hand. Look for us in the most unlikely places as we "pop up" all over the DFW Metroplex.
We are particularly interested in producing plays written by Texas playwrights, or about our part of the world, new plays, classics, plays concerned with cultural identity, and plays about science and technology.
Our Next Show
Look for our Season Announcement in January
We'll be announcing a four-show season in January, with the first play in the regular season opening in March.


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One of the side effects of living in Central Florida for as long as I have, you become jaded. Every few weeks there is some new ride, stage show or attraction opening up. After a while, they all start to run together. This summer some very large and expensive E-Ticket attractions opened including Antarctica Empire of the Penguin and Transformers The Ride. Sea World and Universal spent a lot of money on their new additions and each are impressive in their own right. However, the stand out attraction of 2013 was definitely Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center.
After spending nearly three hours in the exhibit, I walked out feeling truly inspired. Not just theme park phony balogna, where you tear up watching a fireworks show. This exhibit truly transcends the manufactured crap you can find at Disney and Universal. Everything about this attraction revolves around the shuttle program designed by engineers at NASA, flown by real astronauts and it all happened on the grounds where you can now see Atlantis up close and personal.
According to Daren Ulmer of Mousetrappe, the company in charge of creating the pre-show experiences for Atlantis told me, the feeling of inspiration was an intentional one from the beginning of the design process. In a recent interview, Daren told me the intention was to not make the new attraction feel like a museum. Instead of mourning a loss, the idea was to celebrate the accomplishments that the shuttle program made while Atlantis was an active member of the fleet. Even going up the ramp to experience the pre-show, the walls are covered in huge posters of Atlantis while she was in flight. The message is subtle, but effective: the space program is alive and well.
The first pre-show room is set up like an engineer's work bench. All kinds of shuttle and rocket drawings, paintings and concepts line the walls. As guests shuffle in, a sketchpad of drawings comes to life on screen. Without any dialogue, it brilliantly showcases how basic scientific principals lime propulsion and flight lead to the space program before the shuttle was introduced.
By staging guests in various pre-show rooms before the big reveal of the shuttle, it gave the creative team the chance to tell a linear story. After the lights dim, the first pre-show reenacts key moments in the development of the shuttle program. Today, the idea of being able to launch something into space like a rocket and land it like an aircraft seems easy. However, as you learn in the Atlantis exhibit, this was an extremely risky undertaking.
The final pre-show leading up to the reveal of Atlantis is truly impressive. Sixteen projectors combine to create a truly immersive experience. Jon Baker and his team worked with a full orchestra and the end result is truly inspiring. After I told Jon that the music from the film, if not the entire pavilion, felt like Epcot when it opened in 1982. He took it as a huge compliment and commented that's exactly what they were going for. The rear projection screen complete with built in fiber optic stars that lifts up to reveal the shuttle cost seven million dollars. That number does not include the rest of what it cost to build the final theater.
That reveal of Atlantis is enough to give anyone chills. Long before Jon Baker or anyone from Mousetrappe was involved, the design of the building revolved around the moment where guests find themselves staring at a real space shuttle, nose to nose. After the captivating pre-shows Mousetrappe created and the emotional connection of Jon Baker's score, you can't help but feel a sense of pride on behalf of the astronauts that flew Atlantis.
Even the astronauts that were interviewed for this attraction about their on board Atlantis would get choked up just recalling some of their stories. Perhaps most importantly, this new exhibit means a lot to them. Guests may look at this as a neat attraction to showcase the shuttle program. For the astronauts and crew that worked on Atlantis for many years, she was a labor of love. Unlike most theme park attractions, the story being told here is not one of fiction and that makes the emotional impact much stronger.
Notice how the shuttle is pitched on its side and the cargo bay doors are open with the Canada Arm fully extended. This is not just a fancy way to display Atlantis, but a conscious decision on how guests perceive the shuttle program. It looks like Atlantis could just be rolled out of that building and take off again at any time. Again, without directly saying it, the idea is to show the space program as something that is alive and well – even though the shuttles no longer fly.
The post-show area takes up the vast majority of the 90,000 square foot exhibit. There is plenty to explore and do in this massive area from crawl spaces for kids, to a recreation of the living quarters for crew members aboard Atlantis. This attraction not only redefines Kennedy Space Center as a tourist destination, but any museum looking to showcase artifacts of any kind can take notes from the progressive strides the creative team took to make this a reality. I love the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington D.C., but it's not even close to being as inspiring or innovative as the Atlantis Exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center.
Even though I think this $100 million dollar addition is exactly what the Kennedy Space Center needs, it doesn't mean the attraction is a success. There is no doubt that it's a great addition and definitely conveys that space exploration and NASA are far from dead. However that is only half the battle. Central Florida is a fiercely competitive market and it's not easy to convince tourists to ditch Mickey, Harry Potter and Shamu for a day and drive out to the coast. All eyes are on the marketing team for KSC to get the message out. If Atlantis is given the proper marketing and successfully brings families out to Cape Canaveral, we stand a chance of seeing more attractions like this and a very bright future for Kennedy Space Center.
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Sockeye Salmon in the Adams River, British Columbia
Sockeye salmon make this amazing journey from the Pacific Ocean and travel 30 kilometres on average every day against the river currents to reach this spawning area some 500 kilometres into the interior of B.C. where they come to lay their eggs and die.
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Really interesting stuff… http://code.google.com/p/flash-thunderbolt/
ThunderBolt is a lightweight logger extension for ActionScript 2 and 3 applications using Firebug. For logging without Firebug, especially for AIR applications, check out the ThunderBolt AS3 Console.
For more information about ThunderBolt AS2 and ThunderBolt AS3 check out the Wiki.
The ThunderBolt project based on the Mozilla Public License 1.1..


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As you are aware, the school was inspected during our first week back after the February half term. We had four inspectors on site who conducted observations of lessons, looked closely at work in children's books, analysed school documentation, including governor minutes, performance management information and pupil progress data, and met with pupils, school leaders and governors.
The new OFSTED Framework, which was introduced in September 2012, is more rigorous than the previous one. In fact, 30% of schools inspected under the new framework have received a judgement which was lower than their previous inspection outcome. As a result, schools such as ours, which were judged 'Good' at the last inspection, which remain 'Good' at their next inspection will, without doubt, have improved in the months in between. Having a judgement that is the same is, therefore, a real achievement.
I am, however, delighted to say that this school has been awarded an Outstanding in every area in this most recent inspection. Here are some quotes from the report.
Achievement was graded Outstanding because, 'most pupils make rapid and sustained progress as they move through the school in reading, writing and mathematics'.
Teaching was graded as Outstanding because, 'the senior leaders and teachers have high expectations of all pupils whatever their age or background'.
Behaviour was graded as Outstanding because, 'Their excellent attitudes to learning have a significant impact on the high standards achieved across the school.'
Leadership and Management was graded as Outstanding because, 'Leaders at all levels have clearly defined roles and responsibilities and carry out their duties rigorously.'
We are, of course, delighted with the outcome of this inspection. However, we do not intend to 'rest on our laurels'. There is still much work to be done.
In the meantime, though, I would like to extend my thanks to everyone who is involved with the school, including yourselves. Your approach to parenting is a significant factor in preparing the children for learning by ensuring that they know that they need to be in school regularly, arrive punctually, dress smartly and listen intently. Thank you.
The official report is available below.
In summary, your children now officially attend one of the top 4% of all schools in the country recognised by OFSTED as Outstanding! Fantastic!
Graeme Burgess
Click here to go to the OFSTED website and download the latest inspection reports.
Click here to download a pdf version of the full report.


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As Japan honors the spirits of those who were killed when America dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki half a century ago, one aspect of the dawn of the nuclear age is nearly forgotten in Japan, unmentioned in textbooks, speeches and peace museums.
It is Japan's own attempt to build an atomic bomb during World War II.
Japan did not get very far in the project, certainly not far enough to figure out how it would use an atomic bomb. But almost no one seems to doubt that if the Imperial Army had succeeded in building the bomb, it would have tried to use it against America as well as in China and other countries where fighting was fierce.
Like the German effort to build the bomb, also unsuccessful, it is one of those "what ifs" of history that can lead to scenarios of nuclear devastation in San Francisco and New York and a negotiated peace that would have allowed Japan to keep its military Government and part of its empire.
Tatsusaburo Suzuki, now white-haired at 83, was one of the leaders of the Japanese research effort. Then a young physicist, he produced a report for the military in 1940 suggesting that an atomic bomb was feasible.
He then spent the war years with a team of about 50 scientists working on the bomb, but the wartime Prime Minister, Hideki Tojo, did not provide nearly the resources that the team needed.Continue reading the main story
"People like Mr. Tojo said we should hurry in our research," Mr. Suzuki said in a long interview in the cramped living room of his Tokyo house, filled with old physics books. "But he said that only after the war situation turned against Japan."
Those Japanese who have heard of the nuclear research programs often regard them as unimportant, perhaps because their existence conflicts with self-perceptions of Japan as exclusively a victim of the nuclear age.
On the other hand, many Americans regard Tokyo's nuclear efforts as very significant at a moral level. For Americans troubled by guilt over the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is perhaps reassuring to think that the United States was not more inclined to mass killing than Japan, but simply more technically sophisticated.
The Japanese effort to build the bomb was serious, with backing from those close to the Emperor, but it did not have anything like the extraordinary resources that were used in the Manhattan Project to build the American bomb. The Americans deployed about 150,000 people to work on the bomb and spent $2 billion -- then a phenomenal sum, perhaps a thousand times as much as the Japanese spent.
John W. Dower, a historian and expert on the Pacific war, has written that the Japanese effort was minuscule even compared with the American nuclear research before the Manhattan Project formally began in 1942.
Although Japan scoured the territories it controlled, from Korea to Burma, it was hampered by difficulties in obtaining uranium ore to work with. The researchers did get some from a mine in northern Korea, and then in March 1945 a German submarine was on its way to Japan with a cargo of 1,235 pounds of uranium oxide.
The German commander of the submarine surrendered to an American ship, two Japanese officers on board committed suicide, and there has been speculation that the uranium may have been incorporated into the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
The uranium transaction was simply a commercial deal, and Japanese and German scientists did not cooperate in trying to build a nuclear weapon. It is not clear whether they would have made much more progress if they had.
Even if Japan had obtained enough uranium ore, the researchers would have been hard pressed to separate and enrich bomb-quality uranium. Mr. Suzuki said he had once calculated that Japan would be able to produce only one milligram of usable uranium a year. "At that rate it would take 10,000 years to produce a bomb," he said.
Scholars say Japan would presumably have used the bomb, but by the latter part of the war the Imperial Army would have had difficulty transporting a nuclear weapon very far without having a plane shot down or a ship sunk.
One indication that Japan might have been willing to use the bomb appears in the writings of Yoichi Yamamoto, an army officer who took part in the Japanese effort to obtain uranium and later vigorously defended the American dropping of the bomb. When they are at war, he said, countries do what they must.
Another sign that Japan was prepared, in principle, to attack American civilians came at the end of 1944 when Tokyo mounted a bizarre balloon attack against the United States.
Women all over Japan were put to work stitching giant balloons, which then rode the prevailing winds and carried small explosives to the United States and Canada. Most landed in the sea or in remote areas, but one balloon killed several people in a logging community in Oregon.
At the end of the war, one military unit also hatched a plan to use a submarine and light plane for a suicide mission to infect San Diego with plague-carrying fleas. The war ended before the mission could be carried out, and in any case it is not clear that it would have been.
Aside from peace campaigners and those who have read extensively about the war, few Japanese know about their country's attempt to build a bomb. One group of high school students in Hiroshima said they had never heard of it, and the famous Hiroshima museum devoted to the atomic bombing does not mention it.
This disturbs some Japanese, who say people should know not just about Japan as a victim of the bomb but also about its attempt to build one.
"I think the Hiroshima museum and the textbooks should mention the Japanese project to build the bomb, because the only difference was that Japan was behind the United States," said Sho Ishida, 20, a student at Hiroshima University. "If Japan had developed it first, Japan might have used it."Continue reading the main story


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BUMPER PROPOSES UNIFIED FORMS for 501 C 3 RESCUE GROUPS
We've been chewing over recent events here in Los Angeles.  One idea that's come to mind is that it may be a good idea and the right time for all Los Angeles 501 c3 rescue groups to develop a standardized adoption form.
While we're at it we could also create universal forms for intake of animals, a 3rd party release of an animal to an agency, home check list criteria and interagency transfer, etc.
A standard set of forms would streamline the adoption process and possibly result in animals finding homes faster because alll potential adoptors will know one set of terms and conditions applies to all groups.
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Here is another block I've completed for the Birthday Swap I'm participating in.
This one is for my friend Deana and the block is called Joseph's Delight. It's a 12-inch block and she had requested it be made in burgundy or teal shades with a WOW background. I like the block and think it would be perfect in a scrappy quilt or perhaps batiks.
Well, the year is almost over and I'm finishing my final catch-up block. Afterwards I'll assemble the final block for this swap. Hard to believe the year has passed us by already. I'll be posting information on my next block in the next day or two. In the meantime, what are you working on? Anything special planned for the new year?


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LONDON, July 5 (UPI) -- An aging British model who lied about her age on a passport to get a job in Hollywood barely avoided prison, officials said.
Saskia Porter, 36, of London, changed the date on her birth certificate from 1971 to 1979 in an attempt to get a replacement passport with a younger age, the Daily Telegraph reported.
"She said she had applied for the passport because she had the opportunity for a modeling job in the U.S. and the prospect of presenting a documentary which required an individual younger than she was," prosecutor Peter Zinner said.
Porter was arrested after authorities learned she lied on official documents, officials said.
Zinner said the model's actions were "wholly motivated by a desire to take up employment."
She admitted to lying to get a passport and possessing false identity documents, the report said.
Documents indicate Porter received a nine-month jail sentence that was suspended for a year and was required to pay about $700 in court fees.


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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
NaBloPoMo (3) and (4)
Only the third day in January yesterday and I already missed a post. =O( Not getting things off to a good start at all. So, I'm combining my Tuesday and Wednesday posts.
Tuesday: My favorite start of the year tradition, as I mentioned in my post on Monday, is going over to my grandparents' house on New Year's day for brunch. We have the black-eyed peas for good luck in the new year, along with hog jowl, turnip greens, and cornbread. Yes, very southern! My other favorite tradition is, oddly enough, coming up with my new year's resolutions. I used to really research things and make a really set plan, but as I've grown older and become busier in my life, it usually consists of a one day marathon planning session. However, it's tradition for me and I really don't see myself ever stopping.
Wednesday: I'm not really superstitious, so I'm not superstitious about beginnings. However, I do always try to start out on the right foot when I embark on anything. That usually involves planning and I tend to take it to the extreme. I tend to over plan at times or I put too much thought into every move. That's why when I began my novel in November, I stalled rather quickly because I just don't think I had enough planning under my belt. I have the beginning and I already know the outcome (or ending), but it's the details in between that have me thinking I need a bit more of a plan. However, I'm not talking a structured outline or anything like that. Just a little more research (it's historical fiction) and some notes here and there. After all, I'm the girl who, in college, wrote the paper first and did the outline last. LOL! Hey, it worked for me and I usually received As on all my papers.
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Wright's book is about much more than just Tyneham, though, which he uses as a jumping off point for a meditation on English rural radicalism, pastoralism, the Picturesque, the writer Mary Butts and a whole host of other eccentrics, oddballs, political extremists, aristocrats and army flunkies. Making an unexpected cameo appearance at one point are various members of the Archigram group who set architecture student projects there when teaching at the AA in the 1970's. Coming across like an only slightly less absurd version of Withnail and I, David Greene and Warren Chalk buzz around the place with their long haired prodigies (including young Will Alsop) in clapped out vehicles and stride into local boozers ordering quadruple whiskies.
Archigram's interest in the dematerialisation of architecture and with landscape as a kind of serviced amenity finds an odd parallel in the controlled territories of MOD land, where vast targets sit in the landscape like giant Pop Art sculptures, and tanks roam the planes like miniature walking cities.
The controlled and territorialized landscape of military manoeuvres is like an apocalyptic version of the English taste for the picturesque. Here an enthusiasm for controlling and mapping out large areas of landscape, the scopic control required by the battleground general, is not so far from Capability Brown's manipulations of nature for the enjoyment of wealthy landowners. Instead of Gothic follies romantically consumed with Ivy, MOD land leaves the bombed out fragments of places like Tyneham.
Gillian Darley describes in her book Villages of Vision, the vogue for wealthy landowners in the 18th century to remove unsightly houses and dwellings that lay in the way of their view of the countryside. Frequently, their country houses would end up some miles away from the re-positioned village, with only the church for company as a reminder of where the village had once been. Sometimes bits of the cottages would be retained as romantic ruins, evacuated and aestheticised according to the picturesque tastes of the upper classes. Slowly, rights of way might be opened up back across the landowners estate to encourage ruddy faced peasants to walk across like a theatrical troupe of unpaid extras. All this was according to the picturesque conventions landscape designers such as Brown and Humphrey Repton and borrowed from the paintings of Claude Lorrain where simple peasants lolled under trees and worked in arcadian splendour. The ha-ha, a deep ditch separating the landowners immediate garden from the rest of his land, allowed a seemingly endless sweep of the countryside to be co-opted into the experience, whilst controlling the movements of peasants and animals lest they stray too close.
For a persuasive but slightly terrifying exploration of the idea of the aestheticisation of the landscape of war, read Jeff Wall's essay Dan Graham's Kammerspiel, or at least the bit on American architectural legend Philip Johnson. Wall conducts a forensic examination of Johnson's notorious involvement in neo-fascist organisations whilst at university in the 1930's and, in particular, his trip to Europe as a reporter following the German invasion of Poland in 1938. Wall recounts Johnson's slavering descriptions of the burnt out wreckages of Polish villages, the smouldering remains where most of the houses had been exhumed by fire, leaving only the brick foundations and the odd chimney standing. Wall then makes a leap to an astounding reading of Johnson's famous Glass House in Connecticut. Here, the house itself is dematerialised by its glass walls, so that the only non-transparent elements are the low brick walls on which the glass sits and the circular brick tower containing the bathroom and the fireplace. Walls' audacious analogy suggests that Johnson deliberately evoked the burnt out houses he had seen in his youth following the blitzkrieg, and recreated them in the bucolic picturesque landscape of his New Canaan estate.


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The success of the music ministry of Westminster depends on the willingness of volunteers to invest their time and talent to serve the Lord. If you are interested in participating in this vital ministry, please contact Leigh ([email protected], or call the church office).
Sanctuary Choir
The Sanctuary Choir is open to all adults and youth. Rehearsals are held on Wednesdays from 7:05 to 8:30 in the choir room, except during July. We sing a variety of music, from the classical masterpieces to arrangements of contemporary songs. We are currently in need of a couple of tenors.
Chamber Orchestra
The Chamber Orchestra accompanies the hymns on Sunday in addition to offering special music on occasion. Rehearsals are held on Tuesdays at 5:00 pm or Wednesdays at 4:15 pm (Sanctuary). Choose the rehearsal time that is most convenient for your schedule.
Contemporary Worship Ensemble
This ensemble leads the contemporary songs in our blended worship service. If you play the guitar, keyboard, percussion, or sing, your help is needed! Music is given out at the beginning of the week and rehearsals are held on Sunday mornings at 9:00 (Sanctuary).
Fellowship of the Ringers
This is our youth handbell ensemble, open to students in grades 6-12. Rehearsals are held on Wednesdays from 4:45 to 5:30 pm in the Sanctuary (August-May).
Celebration Choir
The Celebration Choir is for children in grades 2-5 and involves singing and the ringing of chimes. Rehearsals are held on Wednesdays (August-May) from 4:45 to 5:30 pm in the choir room.
Music Makers
Music Makers is Westminster's choir for 4 year olds through 1st graders. This group employs a variety of music making, including singing, bell ringing, and playing percussion instruments. Rehearsals are held on Wednesdays (August-May) from 4:45 to 5:30 pm in the classroom next to the choir room.


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FUN TIMES: Enjoying Carnival with supermodel Jourdan Dunn
OF LATE, my new name has been Mr BrukOut, but after the 2017 Notting Hill Carnival I feel more like Mr BrukUp!
My Carnival week consisted of more than the streets of Ladbroke Grove. My weekend started on Thursday night as Team BrukOut celebrated our club night's one-year anniversary at Notting Hill Arts Club in London.
On Friday morning, I had a 9:03 train from Kings Cross to Leeds as I hosted the 1Xtra stage at Leeds Festival. There were some huge performances for the two days I was there from the likes of J Hus, Mist and Bugzy Malone. My aim is to get some reggae and dancehall in that stage next year, though.
After a decent sleep on Saturday night, I was ready for my train ride back down to London to do what I've been doing with my dad from a young age getting out and enjoying the delights of Carnival.
Even if I think to myself, 'll give it a miss this year', it always calls me, and I end
up heading down to enjoy the festivities. This year, This Is BrukOut teamed up with Rampage Sound. Rampage have the biggest static soundsystem at Carnival with the biggest crowd to go with it. I arrived at the site in Colville Gardens at 1pm to a very chilled vibe, with everyone enjoying themselves.
DJ Maurice and D-Nyce were setting the vibe nice whilst we made sure everything else was in place. By 2pm, the road was already half full and bubbling to some old school garage with Treble Tee taking care of mic duties. Tee is a Carnival veteran, who knows how to pace himself over the weekend as it is common place for DJs to end up with no voice by Tuesday morning.
BrukOut brought that Caribbean vibe to Carnival musically. My thing of late is to celebrate what our parents brought to this country, at the same time as celebrating UK garage, grime and other music genres.
I thought it was important for me to start with some classic old school selection of soca to set the mood on the road. Classics like Sugar Bum Bum, Hot Hot Hot and Pump Me Up all went down well with a mixed crowd on Colville Gardens. The party had started, the road was now near capacity and we was in full swing.
Our first performer of the day was St Vincent artist Dynamite who has a massive soca hit on his hands, Brave. This record has already been signed by the UK label Black Butter, as it has that undoubtedly UK garage vibe to it and you can expect to hear plenty of it, if you haven't already.
Straight up afterwards was Linky First. He is a Jamai- can artist who makes soca music as if he was a Trini. Rock & Come is another one of those soca records in high rotation, and the carnival crowd was lapping it up and enjoying the beat.
Every Carnival has to have one police officer who goes viral due his dancing skills.
After seeing the performance of this officer, I swear down that he is more of an undercover raver than an undercover cop. I hope his superiors don't have other views on what they saw.
As the day began to get warmer, the BrukOut x Rampage stage became hotter. When I looked backstage, I knew that Carnival ravers were in for a treat due to the amount of talent I recognised.
Next up on stage was my BrukOut Team. I'm a hard man to please, and I had my label boss hat on when Alicai Harley, E Mak and Big Zeeks hit the stage to entertain. Alicai looked amazing, and had the crowd eating from the palm of her hands when she performed Gold. E Mak and Big Zeeks once again proved that they have one of the most energetic performances around with their stage presence.
CARNIVAL VIBE: Senseea and Alicia Harley
In between the acts, Team BrukOut with Celebrity Raven, Rampage Sound, Team Salut and Masterstepz were keeping the party atmosphere on the road. The drinks were flowing and the vibes were good.
Next up was Fuse ODG. It looks great when you see an artist as big as Fuse come and represent for his people. He rinsed through three smash hits to massive applause.
Did we have more to come? Of course we did! Kevin Lyt- tle has one of the soca anthems from the early 2000 period. Turn Me On is a record that will never disappoint. Dressed in a yellow blazer, Kevin took to the towers and did his thing.
Someone I saw back stage who had promised me that she will pass through was rising Jamaican star Shenseea. I've been supporting her music for a while on my 1Xtra show, and to see her growth is amazing.
She's a beautiful girl, so I didn't want her hidden away, and I encouraged her to jump up on the speakers stacks. I was a bit frightened she might fall through, but all was well.
There is something about Carnival and what it brings out in people. I had two especially amazing moments in Carnival, and one was the minute's silence for the victims of the Grenfell Tower blaze.
Everyone on those streets was paying their respects – you could have heard a pin drop.
The other top moment for me was meeting supermodel Jourdan Dunn. I have to admit, I didn't know who she was to begin with. I'm terrible with faces and names.
My social media team wanted the pic, so I asked her security if I could. They said no.
All of a sudden, she turns around and says: "Oh my God! It's Seani B! I've been listening to your mixtapes for years."
She isn't talking about Soundcloud either, as she mentioned my cassettes and CDs.
Her security had to step aside!
To close the stage, the next act drove 109 miles from Birmingham after I told them they would miss the biggest party they had have ever seen. Style X, whose tracks include Me Love My Fatty, couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the crowd.
Let's put it this way, they were very appreciative of my column in The Voice note to say you don't wanna miss out! The build up to this day was madness, but it went a treat on the day. Special shout to our partners Rampage Sound. Happy 25th anniversary, guys.
If you want to listen to what went down on the day, listen back to my BBC Radio 1Xtra Show online.
Now, I'm off to hibernate for a few days...
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