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From the outside, it doesn't look like a nerve centre. It looks like a nondescript London office block. But from the seventh floor, with glorious views over the Thames, teams of doctors and ex-military security experts are on call 24 hours a day, managing a worldwide network of medical facilities, security operations and, if necessary, evacuation teams.
The atmosphere in the International SOS alarm centre is calm, but alert. Most of the 300-plus daily calls can be resolved with advice, but they could be anything from a lost passport to a car crash to people shooting in the street. And at a moment's notice the facility can join forces with 23 others around the world to help pull clients' employees out of anything from an earthquake to a coup.
The company was set up in 1985 by Arnaud Vaissié, a Frenchman then working for a German company in San Francisco, and Pascal Rey-Herme, who was just back from a couple of years as the first medical attaché to the French embassy in Jakarta. Dr Rey-Herme had a plan for providing Western multinationals in South-east Asia with top-notch medical services for far-flung staff.
"It was a whole new concept, that just hadn't existed before," Mr Vaissié says, still bubbling over with enthusiasm. Despite his unthinking fluency in English, Mr Vaissié is sufficiently charming and well-dressed to be unmistakably French. But he has something of the British sense of humour. "I have had the unfortunate fate of being best friends with him from the age of four," he says of Dr Rey-Herme.
International SOS started small, offering 24-hour medical care and evacuation services with a single control centre in Singapore. But with their start-up capital of $100,000 (£66,000), Mr Vaissié and Dr Rey-Herme created a new industry. "Before we started, if a corporation wanted to deal with a medical issue abroad they either bought insurance or had their own medical department," Mr Vaissié explains. "There is a gigantic step from that to a dedicated professional service."
The timing was perfect. Back in 1985, less than a quarter of the top 500 US companies had significant operations abroad, now the majority do. "You can't have corporations providing an incredible level of care in their country of origin and then having other people around the world with no plan," Mr Vaissié says.
Twenty-five years on, the company operates anywhere in the world, however dangerous, except for active war zones. It has 6,000 staff, of whom 900 are doctors, and a global network of 31 clinics, 23 alarm centres, and four regional flight desks. Some 60,000 registered contractors provide medical, security and logistical support.
The business model is relatively simple. Corporations pay a membership fee. Any major operations, such as evacuations, are paid for additionally on a cost-plus system with margins of about 10 per cent. "The operational stuff is the substance of what we do, but the business model is around membership because that is what brings in cash and gives us the capability to have the infrastructure up and ready," Mr Vaissié says. "The alarm centres are all cost centres with negative results, but it is what we are selling so that's fine."
From the early ad hoc medical services business, International SOS has expanded to provide a full outsourcing service operating 450 sites across the world. The largest is at Freeport McMoRan's Belgium-sized mining concession in Papua, Indonesia, where International SOS facilities – including a purpose-built hospital – look after a 200,000-strong "city" of 20,000 employees and the local population.
But the biggest change in the business came with the fall of Indonesia's President Suharto in May 1998. With a very real risk of civil war, International SOS was called upon to evacuate the majority of Jakarta's expatriate population. All the airports were closed, but 4,500 people were shipped out to Singapore within 36 hours, using a military airport with hastily convened immigration and check-in counters staffed by the company's medics. "It was extraordinarily tense," Mr Vaissié says. "There were a couple of hundred of us working day and night for a week."
There were two overwhelming lessons from the experience. One was the demand for a security service, similar to the medical offering. The other was the central role of planning. "We were recommending people to leave from early on but nobody would move," Mr Vaissié remembers. But when the US embassy decided to evacuate its staff there was panic and International SOS had 4,000 people on its waiting list within two hours. "The problem in crisis management is that nobody wants to move until the thing is starting, and then there's panic," Mr Vaissié says. "That's why planning is fundamental."
Thus the second area of the business was born, offering security planning and crisis management. The alarm centres have a full team of security staff, all of whom have military backgrounds, the majority with operational experience. As well as crisis response, the company also offers training, on-the-ground support teams, and up-to-the minute analysis of geopolitical risk. Access to real-time expertise can be a lifesaver. Some 3,000 people rang in during the Mumbai terrorist attack in 2008. One call was from a man in the Taj Hotel, where the terrorists were going from room to room shooting the occupants. He was advised to move as soon as possible. Thankfully, the man survived. But those in the rooms on either side of his did not.
Such incidents may be rare, but they are compelling. Mr Vaissié says the biggest challenge is that organisations do not know what International SOS offers. But nearly three-quarters of the world's top 1,000 companies are members, and the market shows few signs of saturation. Recession has not been easy, slamming the brakes on annual expansion of nearly 20 per cent and putting the company into stasis. But growth is now back up to 10 per cent with revenues of $850m last year.
The fact that the company is private is crucial, says Mr Vaissié. Financing through the issuance of private notes in the US is "fabulous, very cheap and effective", and the management is not driven by short-term financial priorities. The recent crisis is a case in point. Rather than being forced to cut its highly trained and expensive staff, International SOS was able to ride things out on a cash pile, amassed when the going was good, that would itself have drawn City ire. "We were able to take the risk of looking at the mid-term horizon, rather than being constrained by the demands of the market," Mr Vaissié says. "We can also take risks, which is crucial in a completely new industry with no one else to follow."
Even the awesomely complex logistical challenges pale beside the strain of blazing a cultural trail. Mr Vaissié tells the story of a massive bus accident in China, with 20 of the company's Japanese clients seriously injured, and several dead. International SOS needed to bring everyone back to Shanghai, and from there to Tokyo. But the Japanese passengers refused to leave unless the bodies of the dead were on the same aeroplane, for cultural reasons not shared with the Chinese. It took three hours of intense negotiations to get the go-ahead, with the injured waiting on oxygen support. "We have to reconcile different cultural fundamentals, and that is no small thing."
Some such challenges have produced lasting results. In 2007, after a year and a half of talks, the company ran an air ambulance from China to Taiwan – the first flight between the two countries since 1949. "That is one of the things I am most proud of," Mr Vaissié says.
But to match the sublime, is also the ridiculous. The weirdest emergency ever? "A Japanese gentleman once rang because he lost his trousers," Mr Vaissié says. "We did find them – in a hotel in Hong Kong – but we never got to the bottom of it."
CV: Arnaud Vaissié
* Arnaud Vaissié is president and CEO of International SOS, the company he set up with Dr Pascal Rey-Herme in 1985.
* After graduating from the Institute of Political Sciences, Mr Vaissié worked for Germany's Clou Group in France before moving to San Francisco in 1983 to run Clou's US subsidiary, Compass Inc.
* He is Chairman of the French Chamber of Commerce in the UK and has co-founded a think-tank, Le Cercle d'Outre-Manche.
* He is a member of France's Legion of Honor.
* He is married, with three children, and lives in London.
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Accretion-ejection instability and QPO in black hole binaries I. ObservationsJ. Rodriguez, P. Varnière, M. Tagger and Ph. Durouchoux
Service d'Astrophysique (CNRS URA 2052), CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
(Received 23 May 2000 / Accepted 25 February 2002)
This is the first of two papers in which we address the physics of the low-frequency Quasi-Periodic Oscillation (QPO) of X-ray binaries, in particular those hosting a black hole. We discuss and repeat the recent analysis and spectral modelling of the micro-quasar GRO J 1655- 40by Sobczak et al. (2000, hereafter SMR), and compare it with GRS 1915+ 105; this leads us to confirm and analyze in more detail the different behavior noted by SMR, between GRO J 1655- 40and other sources, when comparing the correlation between the QPO frequency and the disk inner radius. In a companion paper (Varnière et al. 2000, hereafter Paper II) we will show that these opposite behaviors can be explained in the context of the Accretion-Ejection Instability recently presented by Tagger & Pellat (1999). We thus propose that the difference between GRO J 1655- 40and other sources comes from the fact that in the former, observed in a very high state, the disk inner radius always stays close to the Last Stable Orbit. In the course of this analysis, we also indicate interesting differences between the source properties, when the spectral fits give an anomalously low inner disk radius. This might indicate the presence of a spiral shock or a hot point in the disk.
Key words: accretion, accretion disks -- X-rays: binaries -- stars: individual: GRS 1915+105, GRO J1655-40
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B&E Roll of Distinguished Alumni
The WVU College of Business & Economics initiated this award in 2011 to coincide with the College's 60th Anniversary Celebration. New members will be added each year as the College recognizes the tremendous successes of its graduates.
The College has helped mold countless successful careers in areas such as business, government and academia; the creation and growth of new enterprises; and the development of opportunities for the well-being of West Virginians and people around the world. Our inductees will serve as a reflection of those successful careers, as well as role models for our students.
Nominees must meet the following criteria:
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- At least 10 years post-degree
- Distinguished themselves by success in business or life at the regional, national or international level
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A precious thought from hearts and minds, can live and stand the test of time.
A welcome smile dressed on your face, can start the day with happiness.
A pounding heart that beats with love, is precious as the one you are thinking of.
For if we share our precious thoughts, there shall be no maliciousness as we share one heart.
The precious food we eat each day, is a gift as some don't live that way.
The waters from the wells and streams are there for sustenance and not everybody has it.
The precious care that nature gives is by example a way we all could live.
Be thankful for the precious time, we enjoy in this life and do be kind!
Those precious to us are for whom we care, but spare a thought for others whom in life we share.
Like precious words, on precious days, if you are not well meaning then don't ever say. . . . . ..
I love you are those precious words, but mean them or don't let them be heard!
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Of course, when hundreds of thousands of dollars are on the line, Conley isn't going to be too picky about which team drafts him.
"I'll be happy with whatever happens," Conley said.
Conley will be even happier, however, if his name is called today, when the first 60 picks are made. The draft will start at 4 p.m. Pacific Time. It will continue Tuesday and Wednesday.
"I think Monday they're going to give me a shot," Conley said over the weekend.
Conley, a junior, said he's grateful for his WSU experience, but he's ready to take his considerable talents to the professional ranks.
"It is important to me to get my degree (in criminal justice)," Conley said. "Career-wise, it makes the most sense to leave now. It'd be hard to risk another year of potentially getting hurt."
Conley was a Mariners fan growing up in Kennewick and Olympia. "I think the first time I said I wanted to play professional baseball, I was about 7 years old," Conley recalled. "I remember I was watching Randy Johnson pitch. He was playing for the Mariners back then.
"I guess by the time I was 7 years old, I was smart enough to realize that Randy Johnson threw with the same arm (left) as me. I thought that was pretty cool."
Like Johnson, Conley is a tall, hard-throwing, southpaw. Conley's fastball has been clocked in the upper 90s. Poor offensive and defensive support helped limit Conley to a 6-7 record and 3.50 earned run average this season.
Baseball America magazine ranks Conley the 69th-best prospect in the draft. WSU coach Donnie Marbut said "there's no way" Conley will be drafted lower than in Tuesday's second round, which begins with the 61st pick.
The first round (33 picks) today is immediately followed with a what is called the "sandwich round"(27 picks) for teams that lost free agents to other clubs.
Conley said the teams that have been in the most contact with him lately are the Mariners, Tampa Bay Rays and New York Yankees. The Mariners draft second overall, behind Pittsburgh.
Seattle's second pick is 62nd overall.
Conley was drafted out of Olympia High School by Minnesota in the 32nd round in 2008. No Cougar has been drafted higher than the third round since pitcher Aaron Sele and Scott Hatteberg went to Boston in the first round (Hatteberg as a compensation pick) in 1990.
Several WSU players figure to be drafted this week, including redshirt sophomore first baseman Taylor Ard and junior right fielder Derek Jones. Marbut said he's not certain if Ard or Jones will sign this year, but the coach – a big fan of Conley as a competitor and hard worker – said he knows Conley will not return.
The first and sandwich rounds will be televised Monday (4 p.m., MLB Network).


text: I was watching an old episode of Pitmasters the other day and I caught something I never heard before. It was the one where Tuffy gives Myron a nice frozen brisket. Myron says that he has to get it thawed out because injections don't take as well when the meat is cold -- or something to that effect. Of course you can't inject a nearly frozen brisket but is there a benefit to injecting a not so cold brisket? Does it have something to do with all the blood in the meat? Thanks Y'all!


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Offers intruder alarm installations and maintenance, local and remotely viewed CCTV systems and a full range of electrical services.
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Huckleberries Best of the Northwest — 9/7/05
Seattle Mariner Morse was suspended today for 10 days for violating the steroids policy, the ninth major league player penalized under baseball's tougher drug rules/APhoto here.
Top Story: A Battle Ground, Wash., man who paid $10,000 for a Krispy Kreme doughnut to help his granddaughter raise money for Hurricane Katrina relief enjoyed the treat here.
1. David Horsey/PI looks at "two pleas for help" and, of course, the Republicans come out on the short end of his stick here. And you can find a wonderful remembrance of the late Bob Denver by free-lancer Milt Priggee here.
2. A suspect held in the slayings to two Bellingham sex offenders wants to speed things up and plead guilty here.
3. Spokane Bishop William Skylstad appeals federal judge's decision that churches and parochial schools can be sold to raise money to pay claims from sex-abuse victims here.
4. The state of Minnesota will have to wait to extradite multi-murder suspect Joseph Edward Duncan III and child molestation charges until Idaho is finished with him here.
5. A 23-year-old Kennewick man died Tuesday after driving his brand-new motorcycle through the fence of his Kennewick apartment complex here (free subscription required).
6. IMHO-NW: Danny Westneat/Seattle Times (A flood of public response), Rebecca Nappi/Spokesman-Review (Tragedy moves TV reporters), Bob Williams/Evergreen Freedom Foundation (Blame amid tragedy), Olympian (Which critters worth saving?), and Joel Connelly/PI (Denial can lead to disaster here).
55.5% of the WSU students answering a Daily Evergreen poll say they feel "very safe" walking around campus at night here.
*A flock of 14 Canada geese will live to fly again thanks to Boise city workers who rescued the fowl from the foul sludge of a sewer plant here.
*Spokane City Council sez no to referendum on domestic partners benefits here.
*The number of gray wolves may have maxed out in the northern Rockies recovery area here.
Orbusmax provides the rest of the Northwest here.
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There was not much that Jose Mourinho failed to achieve in his time at Chelsea, although for some reason he found beating Arsenal as tough as anything. Oddly, his variety of successors as manager have succeeded in that aim on a regular basis, so much so that the north London club would have to regard Chelsea these days as something of a bogey team: four defeats in a row and seven in the last eight meetings is the discouraging statistic for Arsène Wenger's squad to take into tomorrow night's important encounter at the Emirates.
The story of those games has mostly been as familiar as the outcome: Arsenal play their pretty passing football, only to be brushed aside sooner or later by their opponents' physical power, summed up in the awesome figure of Didier Drogba.
When the Ivorian set his team on the way to their habitual win over Wenger's side at Stamford Bridge in October, it was his 13th goal in 11 starts against them. Arsenal, who remain particularly fallible in defence without the injured Thomas Vermaelen, can only hope that Drogba's recent bout of malaria has cost him a little sharpness although, according to Carlo Ancelotti, a fortnight without a match has enabled several Chelsea players, Drogba included, to return to something much closer to full match fitness.
"I have a feeling during training that the team is ready to come back to its best form again to win games," he said. "Drogba was one of the players who have used this time to improve his condition. He needed to work continuously day by day and he did this. He worked hard, in focus, with concentration, and I think that malaria is now a memory for him."
Ancelotti acknowledges that physical strength has been an advantage in the recent meetings, although he detects changes in Arsenal that are making them more competitive: "This year they have a different opportunity to score – [Marouane] Chamakh is a different player to what they had last season. Chamakh is able to play with the head, they can use more crosses. And because they improved their experience. One year more is good. It could be a different game."
Wenger would like to think so, even if his team's poor performance away to Manchester United in the previous match against championship rivals offered little encouragement. The manager was even forced to try making a positive out of his captain Cesc Fabregas's suggestion that they were "scared" of losing the game and consequently sat back too much instead of playing their football. "They had a bit more belief than us," Wenger conceded. "It's good that the players are conscious of that because when you are conscious about something, you can do something about it. That's why I believe it's a fair assessment. I'm not unhappy he has said that. The most important thing for the top-level teams and the top-level players is to have an honest and fair assessment of what happened with your performance. With that, you can correct it."
It is a reasonable assumption that emphasis on taking the game to the opposition will have featured in training sessions and team talks at London Colney this past week. Playing at home should make it easier to put into practice; and it is worth noting that Arsenal have already had to play away this season to Chelsea, United, Manchester City and Liverpool.
Not that Wenger accepts his team are mentally or physically frail: "The Arsenal mentality is fantastic and very strong. This team is hungry and the players want success. It is more about belief, and belief comes by focusing on playing together and the way we want to play rather than thinking: 'can we beat Chelsea or not?' We can beat Chelsea but the best way is to focus on what we want to achieve."
Like Chelsea, Arsenal must play their next game 48 hours after this one, in their case at Wigan, followed by Birmingham away, Manchester City at home and then two cup ties. Of that run, a Carling Cup match would normally be insignificant, but a semi-final against Ipswich has taken on new importance for a club who are regularly reminded that they have not won anything for five years.
Ancelotti said of Wenger: "He is doing a very good job. I like to watch Arsenal play." When asked, however, if he would still be in a job if Chelsea went through as barren a period, he could not resist a smile and one of the understatements of the club's highly successful 2010: "I think it would be more difficult to stay here."
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Just saying…
Rather striking, non, on a dreaded sunny day?
"Now, a scathing expose in Forbes by Katia Savchuk is highlighting the plight of AAU's grads. In her article, Ms. Savchuk describes the 86-year-old for-profit institution as little more than a masterful scam, which sinks prospective arts students into debt and leaves them with few job options and little career guidance. And with federal loans paying lots of the bills, the school's founders aren't too concerned about graduates' ability to pay back their hulking loans."
As seen in GGP, rather far afield from any Academy of Art locations I'm aware of:
(As opposed to Country Knights?)
Bonus: What would you call the cheerleaders? ANSWER: The KnightinGals? That's one possibility.
Americans will play soccer, particularly when we're young,* but we don't want to watch, 'cause we think it's boring. Sorry, World.
Now the reason we think watching televised soccer is boring is partly due to this game right here, from 1999, a BFD, with President Bill Clinton showing up. But regulation and overtime play was a "tepid affair," non? It ended in a 0-0 tie. And then the game was won on penalty kicks. Start watching at 9:00.
"Liu Ying was China's third-round shooter, but her shot was saved by United States goalkeeper Briana Scurry."
Boy, that was a nice high-def vid I gave you, huh? Anyway, did you notice this?
This is how the U.S. won the game. If the Chinese shooter chooses to go to the right, as she did, then there was a futbol's chance in Hell the ball could go into the net.
Oh, so the FIFA refs didn't call it, so it's all right? Well, what if the goalie kept on charging and kicked the ball before the shooter had a chance to and the refs didn't call that either? There comes a point where you simply go too far trying to attain your "goal," or non-goal in this case.
Anyway, I'm not taking away your victory, USWT99, I'm a just putting a big, fat asterisk in the record book.
Let's hope USWT15 cheats less today, 16 years later.
*In my part of SF, the Western Addition, you can start you kid on soccer at an RPD park at 18 months old, for like $50 a session.
Here's your scene – they call it sloshball, or keg kickball, whatever.
Of course there are legal ways to your drink on in GGP, but RPD views them as "profit centers," so usually it's only corporations what can afford them. And sometimes, even then, it's just not worth it.
On It Goes…
"If you plan to host an event here, be prepared for it to be a complete pain in the ass. Better yet, don't host an event here.
The Parks and Rec department clearly doesn't care about their customers. I planned a company picnic recently and continued to have issues with the permits people.
I reached out to them in February for an event in October. It took months for them to get back to me to start the process. It took even longer for them to understand how simple my event was. They wanted to charge me $18,000 (what they charge for Outsidelands) for a simple, 300 person max event. Completely ridiculous. Then, three weeks before the event (when I still didn't have the permit!) they sent me a list of items I needed to send them before I could have my permit. The list was not things that are easy to get. They also take forever to return calls or emails (at least a week.)
The whole proces was a complete nightmare. I'd look elsewhere to hold any event. Even getting a picnic permit for a table is expensive and not worth your trouble.
Here it is, this mothership is fully operational – the open house was last month.
The marquee, oddly, used to sing the praises of Supervisor Mark Farrell, until recently:
Read all about it from this bit in the San Francisco Chronicle. Noteworthy:
"He hit a bit of a rough patch while in college. On a visit home for the holidays in 2007, he got embroiled in the infamous "Baker's Dozen" incident, in which a group of visiting Yale students got into a fight with some hometown boys at a New Year's party. Though he was a latecomer to the fisticuffs, Aicardi was named in a civil suit seeking damages, along with his brother Richard. In the end, no charges were filed against him and the matter was settled privately..."
In other words, settled privately for big bucks. I'll just add that the straight-shooting Matier and Ross team had a different take on the "I'm 20 deep and my boys are coming" incident, where jelly and beer were mixed in a quite unappealing fashion. If somebody wanted to say, well, I've made a public apology and I'm struggling to move on, ala Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, well, it's never too late to do something like that, whether you claim you're barred from doing so or not. Moving on…
I used to turn the lights on at an old Landmark theatre and the all the fuse panels looked a little like this – I'll tell you, the monthly electricity bill was through the roof, it was a major expense. I'm sure it was similar at the Bridge. Like, even if somebody gave the building to you for free, would it be worth the time and money to operate it as a theatre? I don't think it was.
So maybe this academy will make money or maybe it's more a labor of love. We'll see.
Here's a Club Sportiva delivery back in the day, on Market Street:
An "experience beyond ownership," whatever that meant.
Now here's another on 19th Avenue, just recently:
So what, your wife spends $1000-something bucks to have two bros deliver a Lambo to your office on a Friday afternoon and then you'll be a big macher for the weekend?
I'll tell you, this business makes no sense in Frisco.
Florida plates, BTW.
Or should I say, Florida plate, as this gold exoticar doesn't have a front license plate, which is a no-no in The Golden State.
And of course, you've got less than three weeks after moving to California to deal with the California DMV, but I'll tell you, most Lambos you see in SF aren't properly registered with CA DMV.
Anyway, this car reminded of Dennis Rodman's old ride, one that's being used as a daily driver by a CCSF student.
Stay gold, Lambo owner. Bienvenidos a 415 / 628 / 650!


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The Fountain Hotel is located in Mahabaleshwar overlooking the Koyna Valley and adjacent to strawberry plantations. The town market and Venna Lake are within close proximity to the hotel.
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Fountain Hotel's outdoor pool commands views of the emerald-green valley. The restaurant showcases Gujarathi Thali foods. Other highlights include a mini-theater, a game room, and even a helipad.
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Fountain Hotel has an idyllic setting in an area of spectacular natural beauty, with thickly wooded mountains, deep valleys, waterfalls, panoramic views, and crisp mountain air. Strawberry plantations, lookout points, the town market, and Venna Lake are all within easy reach. The scenic Panchgani hill station is 112 miles (19 kilometers) away.
The outdoor pool area offers views of Konya Valley. The restaurant at this Mahabaleshwar hotel features local Gujarathi cuisine. A game room is outfitted with table tennis, a pool table, and carom. An air-conditioned mini-theater shows Hindi and English movies. Fountain Hotel also hosts live entertainment, including magic shows, puppetry, and juggling. The expansive grounds include a helipad. Amenities include a garden, tour assistance, doorman/doorwoman, porter/bellhop and luggage storage. Other facilities include limo or town car service available, and a train station pick-up service (surcharge) is offered on request with 24 hours notice.
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2. Meanwhile, cut unpeeled potatoes into thin slices; thinly slice onions. In 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat, in hot salad oil, cook potatoes and onions until lightly browned. With pancake turner, turn potato mixture occasionally. Stir in undiluted cream-of-mushroom soup, water, wine, salt, and pepper; over high heat, heat to boiling. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer 5 minutes, gently stirring occasionally.
3. With serrated knife, cut block of frozen fish into bite-sized chunks; add fish and frozen peas and carrots to potato mixture; over high heat, heat to boiling. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer 5 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork and vegetables are tender. Add cherry tomatoes; heat through. Serve with lemon wedges.
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Calories 1954 Calories from Fat 604
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 68 g104.9%
Saturated Fat 4.8 g23.8%
Trans Fat 1 g
Cholesterol 9.1 mg3%
Sodium 2537.5 mg105.7%
Total Carbohydrates 213 g70.9%
Dietary Fiber 34 g136.2%
Sugars 36.4 g
Protein 127 g254.7%
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Hyundai and Kia seem to be stepping up to their responsibilities to the owners of their vehicles in the wake of Mileagegate. The brands are aggressively communicating with their customers and offering to reimburse them for the cost of fueling their cars beyond what the companies' mileage ratings had led them to believe would be necessary.
But what about the automakers' responsibilities to their brands? While they don't seem to have taken a substantial hit in U.S. sales in the month since their disclosure of mileage falsifications of their most fuel-efficient models and a settlement with the EPA, neither have Hyundai or Kia marketing brain trusts done much to ensure that the episode doesn't cause long-term damage to brands that have accomplished considerable things over the last few years.
"We're treating this like the serious matter that it is," John Krafcik, CEO of Hyundai's American unit, vowed to reporters at the Los Angeles Auto Show, according to Automotive News. "This whole episode has been a difficult one for Hyundai."
Hyundai spokesman Jim Trainor told me that the brand's "sole focus is on taking care of our customers with things like the reimbursement program." And at Kia, said spokesman Scott McKee, "our priority is and will remain making things right for our affected customers."
Krafcik said that about 90 percent of Hyundai customers have been satisfied with Hyundai's moves, which also have included creation of a web site that explains the adjusted-fuel-economy reimbursements. For its part, Kia also has sent letters to its customers and released a nostalgic TV commercial evoking its decades in the U.S. market as a brand and "how far we've come since that first bicycle."
But will any of that be enough in the long run? Maybe not.
Mileagegate seems to have the potential to become a significant crook in the road for these brands. Maybe it won't become as destructive as the product-recall problems that Toyota confronted a couple of years ago, or the continued distress Ford is causing its customers by not getting MyFord Touch right after two years of frustrations. But Hyundai and Kia's self-imposed difficulties do have the potential to dog them for some time.
And, actually, one or both of the brands might be missing an opportunity by not pivoting from Mileagegate in another direction. They don't need to pretend they did nothing wrong. But neither should they dwell on it by not talking about anything else.
Hyundai, especially, gained favor with American consumers in part because it demonstrated an unusual sensitivity to their circumstances with the launch of its Assurance incentive program during the depths of the Great Recession. By reassuring buyers that the company would pick up their car payments if they lost a job, Hyundai scored a lot of points with consumers even if they remained reliably employed, because the program amounted to a statement that the brand understood the times -- and was willing to innovate and take leadership even during such an era.
In these circumstances, Hyundai may need to call up some of that positioning magic once again. Certainly there might be a remaining reservoir of goodwill with American consumers that could be tapped to help Hyundai do so.
Maybe Krafcik and colleagues should consider simply changing the conversation about their brand from a mileage emphasis to a discussion about the broad range of vehicles now being offered under the Hyundai umbrella, from economy models to the luxurious Equus. That's a stretch Krafcik has remained committed to covering with a single marque. Now -- with its burgeoning manufacturing presence in the U.S. as well -- may be the right time for Hyundai to declare its status as a fitting member of the American-industry mainstream.


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It was in the middle of Euro 2012, as Germany were on another of their magnificent runs, that Joachim Löw felt assured enough to offer what may become a defining statement. His team, the manager effectively declared, were the future.
At that point, it was difficult to disagree. With the side in scintillating form going into the semi-finals, Löw gushed about the strength of the player their structure was producing, the way so many youngsters were being introduced to the team and how the country "benefited from the 'scientification' of football".
The only problem was that the formula was incomplete, as Italy's 2-1 semi-final win showed. The future was delayed.
One of the questions regarding what is undeniably the most alluring group of the 2014 World Cup is whether this pool will also cause Germany problems, or whether it will prove a stepping stone towards fulfilling what Löw clearly sees as their destiny.
Group G, comprising Germany, Portugal, Ghana and the United States, does appear to distil one of the grand divisions in modern international football.
On one side is that Germany team. Like Spain and to a lesser extent Holland, they have revolutionised their football infrastructure to the point where their fundamental principle is to build an international squad with the cohesion of a club team.
On the other side is Cristiano Ronaldo, who is one of a number of individuals who want to make this World Cup his own and effectively personifies the other defining trait of the international game.
Because of the growth of club football, and the all-consuming demands of the Champions' League, national commitments have become secondary for many players. At the very least, it is hugely difficult for international managers to develop anything like an integrated system. The best they can do is try and fit something together quickly and hope for individual magic to have an effect. An under-achieving and disjointed Portugal are perhaps the ultimate example of this. As Roy Keane put it at the 2002 World Cup, the majority of top international squads are "collections of stars" rather than true teams.
The curiosity, however, is that it is many years since single players have defined tournaments. Whereas Zinedine Zidane dominated Euro 2000, Roberto Baggio USA 94 and obviously Diego Maradona 1986, it is more difficult to so readily associate any of the last decade's competitions with one player.
Individuals have tended to be engulfed by teams, as was illustrated by the fact that Spain have eliminated Ronaldo's Portugal in the last two tournaments and Germany eviscerated Leo Messi's Argentina in the 2010 quarter-finals. But there are signs that this is starting to change, and it is probably no surprise that this has coincided with the rise of the Ballon D'Or as such a media event. Messi has started to show his Barcelona form for Argentina, Luis Suarez has remained ridiculously consistent for Uruguay, Radamel Falcao has been decisive for Colombia and Ronaldo offered a real statement performance in the play-off against Sweden. Anything close to a similar display from the Real Madrid No 7 in the opening game in Salvador could badly trouble a suspect German defence which has already been undone by the individual class of Balotelli.
The one big question surrounding Löw's side is not whether they have the quality to win a tournament, but the character to handle the later-stage pressure. This group will provide a variety of early anxieties. Aside from the extensive demands of the travel schedule, there is a different challenge posed by each match. With Portugal, it's the extraordinary individual class of Ronaldo. With Ghana, it's a team that have also grown together. With USA, it's a tight, technical outfit – but which also has the insider knowledge of a former manager and hero.
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03 Aug 2016 17:49 #78332 by eman5oh
I was looking at doing a G0704 and then found this mill near by. In the end it cost less money and I think it will be a more capable machine. I plan to remove the vari drive and run it with a set of fixed pullies with hi and lo range with t he vfd. I also want to add an spindle encoder for tapping., maybe some AC servos in the future..... never done
07 Aug 2016 20:22 #78456 by 5axisormore
The Boss is a lot beefier machine. The only down side is the limited quill travel vs the G0704. looks good. I have a friend who has a Boss that I keep wondering about getting. Did yours come with Universal Quick Switch or Kennametal style tooling?
08 Aug 2016 20:04 #78502 by 5axisormore
My ill spent youth was on Boss 3,4 and 5 machines with Kennametal tooling. We programmed with a calculator and Teletype. I have a Lagun with an Anilam Crusader II control and Universal Quick Switch tooling. They both work well for tooling. Mine is getting switched to Linux with the 6i25/7i77 board I have sitting on the bench. The coolest part of the Bridgeport is the odometers on the X and Y axis. Makes setup really nice. We always checked them before each part to make sure we hadn't missed a few steps on tough cuts.
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The Universal Quick Switch was a solid spindle. No through hole. I actually looked at my friends Boss 5 the other day and was talking to him about getting it running. He has a pair of HAAS mills and a HAAS twin spindle lathe with live tooling, but no Y-axis. So, the Boss is actually just taking up space. I bought back my Hardinge HNC that he had bought about 17 years ago from me, so I could probably get the mill. I was looking at it for a 4th axis engraving setup for some parts I help him with occasionally. His Boss has the Erickson Spindle, which is pretty strong, but the Universal collets were more precise in my experience. My Lagun has a chip tray that sits on top of the base and catches a lot of the chips, but I have thought about making an enclosure that would have an 1/8 inch plate welded to pads or rails almost like a pallet, and build a cabinet on top of that to fully enclose the machine, then just have a door or two to access it like a conventional CNC mill. You could put studs through the pads and bolt the machine to the pads. Better than the ancient Kearney and Trecker horizontals, which had a coolant dam around the table, but we used shower curtains on bent conduit around machine to keep the mess down.
23 Nov 2016 13:01 #83161 by eman5oh
I missed the notification for this post, but my spindle does have a though hole in it. I have read other say that they did not but mine does and a few other have them with the through hole. I have no idea if this is the spindle that mill shipped from the factory with but I do know that had been apart before I purchased the mill.
25 Nov 2016 22:03 #83317 by 5axisormore
Does it use a drawbar, or the quick change nut on the bottom of the spindle? I will check Ed's machine today when I am up there. There really shouldn't need to be a hole in there. there are a lot of machines that used the NTMA style tapers and the drawbar with an air drawbar using air impact type arrangement when the drawbar went to tool change position, but most of the early Bridgeports used the quick release spinldle lower nuts. Some people liked the Erickson better because they were less prone rattling loose on heavy cuts. I never found it to be an issue for the Universal Kwik Switch, and for drilling, didn't find a need to wrench the closer. I did on milling, but still never had an issue with it.
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