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|30th November 2012, 09:19
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Re: Renault Duster : Official Review
I don't find any confirmation from Renault from the link you have posted above.
I again disagree on different sets of crank, rods , pistons used in 110 as i have also been following this whole thread closely from the start and nowhere i came across this statement. I have also spoken extensively with the Engineers from Renault and they have confirmed same set of engines being used in both the engines.
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No blue letters in the word DCI on the sidestrip.
No intercooler.
Turbo is a 5435 970 0000 Borg warner K series.
JB3 gearbox pretty much same as 1.6 16v.
Engine codes - K9K 704, K9K 700
OVAL PLATE CB07 (Inside of drivers door)
Standard Turbo Boost Pressure = 1 Bar (14.5psi)
Standard Fuel Pressure = 1400psi
No intercooler
80 bhp -
Blue I in the word DCI on the sidestrip.
Large Intercooler located infront of the radiator.
Injectors 15% more efficient than 65's.
Slightly different turbo to 65 (5435 970 0002 Borg warner K series).
JC5 gearbox pretty much same as 2.0 16v. From 2004 onwards JH3 and JR5 boxes were also fitted.
Engine code - K9K 702
Standard Turbo Boost Pressure = 1.2 Bar (17.4psi)
Standard Fuel Pressure = 1400psi
100 bhp -
Blue CI in the word DCI on the sidestrip.
Small fat intercooler (17% more efficient than 80 ic). Located infront of the radiator at the bottom.
Same injectors as 80.
Same fuel pump as 65 & 80 but runs at 1600 bar
Again, more efficient, variable geometry turbo (5439 970 0030 Borg warner K series)
Different block and head and different injection set up to 65 & 80 with the 100 having a stronger crank, stronger rods and pistons.
Inlets on the head are bigger, different cam and ex manifold.
Gearstick, reverse is down and right as opposed to up and left with the lift.
Gearbox is a JR5 120. (5 Speed box as fitted to petrol lagunas, no renault 6 speed box fits!)
Engine code - K9K 712.
Standard Turbo Boost Pressure = 1.25 Bar (18.1psi)
Standard Fuel Pressure = 1600psi
Satyaprakash - its mentioned in the linked article about the strengthened crank, rods and pistons. See highlighted part.
There are other links about the 5 speed gearbox not able to handle torque beyond 200nm I have read before. But ultimately this is some other forum opinion. The differences above are from Renault, see link below.
I am not here to discourage you in anyway, ultimately its your car and maybe you will find out enough and do the changes and share your knowledge benefiting everyone.
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Renault starts exporting the Duster from the Ennore port in Chennai. The first consignment has 350 Dusters on the way to UK & Ireland.
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The export models, i presume is under the Dacia name ? Also that blue and grey colour parked dont seem to be available in India ?
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|30th November 2012, 17:22
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Interesting! A boatload of Dusters getting away from frantic locals! Folks waiting for months here will be feeling just a tad frustrated.
It seems UK has a preference for blue, I also see the green peeking through. A pity these colours are not offered here. I especially like the green.
Some of these would also be 4X4, that would be a wonderful addition to the local lineup, they may sell 1 for every 10 but it will be decent sized market.
Marc Nassir must be feeling on top of the world!
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I think the profit on making a car in india and selling it in UK and ireland would be less when compared to indian sales. Isnt it?
There is a huge waiting list for Duster in india. Also the transportation cost will be less rather than exporting to UK. Price of duster in india is also not that cheap. So all in all, Why do they want to export it from india when there is a demand for their product here itself?
So the huge waiting list for Duster in india is either not real or they do not want to increase their volume here.
I dont understand their activities. Would some one throw some more light on this ? please.
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In UK it sells for
8995 British pounds sterling = 786861.0120 Indian rupees
This variant includes airbags and abs etc.
In India, Petrol variants don't have any safety features and the two variants cost between 7.5 to 8.5 lakhs.
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The UK Diesel's sell @ £ 11495 (~ INR 10 L) & £ 12995 (~ INR 11.36 L).
- Only the 110 ps is offered in the UK currently. No 85 ps (yet).
- This is close to the introductory price that was offered here.
Accessories :- (Probably where they may make some money)
- £ 655 : Styling pack : Front styling bars, Side styling bars, Chrome plated rear exhaust pipe, Daytime running lights.
- £ 575 : Protection pack : Rear parking sensors, Door locking alarms, Exterior tailgate protection, Front and rear mudguards, Boot liner.
- £ 555 : Touring Pack : Tow bar, Cross bar (to fit longitudinal roof bars), Front central armrest.
- £ 445 : Adventurer pack : 4 wheel arch protection, 4 door protection side mouldings
- £ 350 : ASR with ESC
(Either) they might followup with a revised price in UK later on
(or) they are making one hell of a profit from the Indian Sales.
I guess for the Renault group : India is a low cost country(for making the Duster), but not a low price country(for selling the Duster).
Should we feel happy that we just got upgraded as a country in terms of spending power ?
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Just got my 85 PS RXL(O) Duster home. Color is Woodland Brown. Boy, is it gorgeous. A guy in Merc stopped me and asked about the car pricing and all the usual stuff. Heh... looks like it pulls string of heart like no other vehicle.
Also, I noticed that 5th spare is *NOT* an alloy on my 85 RXL(O) Model. Can someone with same model please confirm this?
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I cant imagine the cost of exporting so many dusters to UK over sea. The cost amount would be significant. They could have served our market for couple of months till they reach the level of selling 8000-9000 units a month. At this level, the growth in sales will not be significant. And i believe, exporting once they reach this level would be much better as they are exporting the extra which couldn't be sold here.
Yes. India is a low cost country to make duster. Again yes, India is not a low price country too to sell duster. You are correct. So, why the hell are they exporting rather than serving us and make profit? I dont understand this.
GTO: If you have any additional information on why Renault has started exports so early, could you please share the same. I think we are missing some logic over here.
Why not sell a car at a premium as a premium car and make more profit? why sell it as an underdog by spending much on transport and export it to a foreigh country?
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I was told just yesterday by the service in charge that the new cars have only 4 alloys and the spare is a steel rim. I guess the buyers of the first lot got all 5 alloys.
Got my 1st service done yesterday. It's just a general check up and tightening of the body bolts and a wash. The doors sound much better while closing, after the service. These guys have come up with a good 'Jugad'. They are putting wire insulation tape on the part which is on the body of the car and that makes the door closing sound much better.
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3 coffees on the house.
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I think the simple reason for this is they started taking bookings in the UK in July and committed to start deliveries in January 2013.
They did not anticipate the extent of India demand, but they had to keep up the commitment to the UK public who too are waiting anxiously for their Dusters'.
Apart from India this is the only other right hand drive market so the production will have to happen from here.
I have always heard they have a capacity to manufacture 400000 vehicles a year in their Chennai facility, clearly they are not yet at full capacity or the local Duster demand would be a piece of cake.
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Regarding plant capacity, they initially started the duster assembly lines which were capable of making 5000 cars, they are working hard to add more capacity (source : dealer) but never received any info on the plant's actual capacity. Thanks.
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I am shocked about the spare wheel not being an alloy. Renault is really killing the VFM idea here. When Duster started looking doable a year ago, the main attraction was its VFM reputation. In reality now, its being overpriced and the company is cutting corners.
I am expecting to get my car by March next year, i wonder what else will be cut by that time.
Can they really do this? Show a set of specs when booking, and deliver a different spec?
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CHICAGO—Federal regulators appeared divided Thursday over what to reveal about how they would decide which nonbank financial firms should get the "systemically important" label for being big enough to threaten the financial system.
Firms with such a designation would be subject to stricter capital standards and regulations.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair said in a speech at a conference here that regulators needed to "move forward and develop some hard metrics to guide" the designation process. She told reporters that "the more public information we can provide on this, the better."
However, Mark Van Der Weide, a senior associate director at the Federal Reserve, stressed the need for regulators to retain discretion in the process and warned: "Don't expect perfectly clear numerical guidelines from us."
The Financial Stability Oversight Council, set up by Congress last year in revamping financial-oversight laws, is deciding which nonbank financial firms will get the label. The Fed and the FDIC are both members of the council.
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But Republican lawmakers have criticized the systemically important label, saying it would indeed lead to government bailouts of firms so designated.
Nonbank financial firms themselves don't want to be labeled systemically important and are working to convince regulators and lawmakers that they don't qualify. "It's viewed by the market as a bad thing, not a good thing" Ms. Bair said.
Insurers, private-equity shops, asset managers, hedge funds and other nonbank financial firms are eager to figure out what criteria the council plans to use so they can determine how likely they are to get the label. They want advance notice, too, so they will have time to refine their arguments on why they shouldn't be designated systemically important.
Bank holding companies with $50 billion or more in assets are automatically designated systemically important. For financial firms that aren't banks, a draft rule approved by regulators in January provided only broad conceptual factors they would consider. Those factors include a firm's size, interconnectedness, lack of substitutes in the system, and the extent of a firm's leverage, but no specifics.
Congress has become involved in the debate, with many lawmakers responding to complaints from firms in their home districts. "Such a designation will be consequential to affected firms. Thus it is crucial that principled and transparent procedures be put in place to determine which companies should receive this designation," Reps. Randy Neugebauer (R., Texas) and Michael Capuano (D., Mass.) said in a letter to council members Wednesday. The letter asked regulators to issue more detailed decision-making criteria and give the industry another opportunity to comment.
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Reality TV Twist: Sophia Pou Does Not Use Compelling Back Story To Define Her
Sophia Pou was eliminated from Dancing With The Stars last Tuesday and it is only now she reveals the reason behind why she chose Father Chris Riley Youth Off The Streets as her charity.
The former villain on My Kitchen Rules revealed to the Daily Telegraph her brother died of a heroin overdose after a long struggle with drug addiction.
Props for her not using this sad story to gain sympathy or define her while she was on My Kitchen Rules or to garnish votes on Dancing With The Stars. Sophia was very close to him also discovered he had died.
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While Pou has built up a small screen profile – and divided viewers – as one half of the tough-talking "babes" on Seven's other reality hit, My Kitchen Rules, she is reduced to tears when talking about her "soulmate" sibling, David who died of a heroin overdose in 2002.
The painful family secret has not been kept hidden out of any sense of shame, but Pou's determination not to "solicit the sympathy vote."
Now, after her unexpected exit from the dance series last week she said "I didn't want to walk away not giving people the chance to see the bigger picture, because there definitely is one."
Pou revealed she signed up for the series and linked herself to the drugs awareness and support charity for young people as a way to "contribute something … and I did it for him."
Even now, 12 years after discovering her brother's lifeless body in the family's Canley Heights home, in south west Sydney, Pou says like many families touched by the scourge of addiction, she feels his death is "a void that you will never fill."
She also talks about how the death has made her grab every opportunity:
It was this `carpe diem' (seize the day) mantra which motivated her to sign up for MKRand more recently, Dancing With The Stars.
"People like me, where I come from, don't get opportunities like the ones I've been given and of course, I'm going to take them by the horns," she said.
Dancing With The Stars is on SEVEN tonight (Sunday ) at 6.30pm.
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- 1 LB { 11.03.13 at 2:23 pm }
She may not have used it to get votes, but has now used her back story to keep her in the media spotlight. Eliminated last week and in news.com.au today. No doubt a women's mag story will shortly follow.
- 2 Anonymous { 11.04.13 at 3:28 pm }
Good on her
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Good on her
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I feel for her. She will never get to grow old with him. You never get over a losing a sibling. I lost a sister suddenly to an aneurism (the same year).
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Shortness of breath, air hunger, breathlessness, or the medical term dyspnea—all terms trying to capture one of the most unsettling feelings that a person can have. That feeling that you are under water and need a snorkel. The sensation of tightness in the chest and anxiety all wrapped up together. That feeling of being "too aware" of your own breathing. Dyspnea is the medical term for this symptom, and for simplicity's sake, I will use that word to encompass all the different terms. For patients with cancer, this symptom occurs commonly but is difficult to treat and has gotten far too little attention than cancer-related pain. It has been estimated to occur in 80% of patients who have an advanced cancer and in up to 20% of all cancer patients regardless of the stage of their disease.
What causes shortness of breath?
Ultimately, this sensation is a complicated one and still not completely understood. Dyspnea happens because of a mismatch of breathing effort with the body's signals for breath. There are several different types of signals that are at play in dyspnea—chemical, such as levels of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the blood; mechanical, such as the stretch of chest muscles; and neural or vagal, related to the nervous system of the lungs. On a more operational level, there are three major mechanisms for dyspnea that create a mismatch: 1) an increased workload requiring more effort; 2) an increase in the amount of lung muscle needed to achieve a normal workload; and 3) an increase in the need to ventilate unrelated to the lungs. While it is not entirely understood, anxiety and depression both are associated with higher frequency of dyspnea as well, presumably through mechanisms in the brain related to mood.
In patients with lung cancer, there are multiple reasons dyspnea occurs:
Treatment should start with a thorough evaluation for the underlying cause; this could mean imaging (chest X-ray, CT scan, etc) and laboratory tests (blood counts, chemistries, etc) in addition to a doctor's visit. The primary approach should be as follows:
This could mean blood transfusion in the case of symptomatic anemia or drainage of pleural fluid, for example. Then, if that is not working, there are some additional approaches to take.
Non-drug therapy
Pulmonary rehabilitation and exercise have therapeutic benefit by decreasing dyspnea for patients with lung cancer but most of the studies have demonstrated this effect in patients who are functioning well and have disease that can be controlled with surgery. This does make some intuitive sense in that you are training the respiratory muscles to do more work through aerobic exercise.
Oxygen therapy
There has been some evidence to suggest that oxygen therapy can help treat dyspnea in patients with cancer. However, the effectiveness of oxygen for dyspnea is proportional to how low the blood oxygen levels are and tend to be most helpful when the oxygen levels are very low. In general, to qualify for coverage of home oxygen, a patient's oxygen levels have to go below a certain number. There was a recent study out of Duke that compared oxygen therapy versus regular air for patients who had dyspnea but whose oxygen levels were not low enough to qualify for oxygen. This study found no difference in the effect of oxygen versus air, but interestingly, patients had the same improvement in their dyspnea whether they had oxygen or air.
Opioids: Opioids have long been used in the treatment of dyspnea. Why do they work? Chemical opioid receptors, when triggered, dampen the feeling of dyspnea. There is a fear that opioids will cause someone to stop breathing. However, given in moderate doses for dyspnea, they have proven to be efficacious and safe to the point that the American College of Chest Physicians came out with a consensus statement in 2010 on dyspnea in patients with advanced lung or heart disease, recommending that physicians "titrate opioids…for the relief of dyspnea." Sometimes, treating the underlying cause does not resolve the dyspnea, so usage of opioids can be certainly used alongside other treatments targeting the cause.
Anti-anxiety medications such as the benzodiazepines (Ativan (lorazepam) or Xanax (alprazolam)), as well as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) like Paxil (paroxetine) have been used in the treatment of dyspnea. This is based on the fact that patients who have anxiety report more dyspnea than other patients. In light of the "brain component" modulating the sensation of dyspnea, it makes sense that treating the anxiety would reduce the amount of dyspnea experienced, though this has not played out consistently in studies.
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Heliox: This is a mixture of oxygen and helium and has demonstrated some modest benefit in patients with lung cancer to decrease dyspnea. It's expensive and relatively limited in its availability, so it has not been used very much yet. More trials are definitely needed to see if this is worth pursuing further.
Acupuncture has been shown in a few small trials to improve dyspnea in patients with lung cancer as well as patients with emphysema, but not much further than that. Recent reviews have not demonstrated evidence to recommend it routinely.
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Job centre offers teenager brothel job
A German teenager was horrified when she was contacted by her local job centre, and offered a job as a brothel hostess. The Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper said that the job centre in question has issued an apology - not for offering the job to a teen, but for sending her a letter about it before checking in advance.
So is this the strangest job centre offer?
The jobThe 19-year-old was looking for work as a housekeeper. The job centre received details of a vacancy in a brothel, and paired the two up.
The brothel wasn't looking for a prostitute, but for a hostess to serve drinks, so the job didn't strike the centre as inappropriate. However, a spokesman apologised, saying he should have contacted the teenager before sending her the job offer to check she was happy with working in a brothel.
It seems like an unusual decision, but given that he was suggesting a 19-year-old for a job serving drinks (in a country where prostitution is legal so the brothel is entirely above-board) there's nothing technically wrong with what the job centre did.
It simply raises the interesting question of whether job centres should be making moral choices about jobs, or whether it should simply advertise them and leave the moral choices up to each individual.
Not aloneOf course, this assumes that the job centre is entirely aware of what it is going on, and in an age of online job advertisements this isn't necessary the case. Yesterday we reported the story of an advert for a building site labourer that had appeared on two British government websites in Polish without being spotted.
Meanwhile, in December last year, we reported that a host of fake jobs had been submitted to British government websites - including one for an MI6 "target elimination specialist" and "international couriers" for CosaNostra Holdings.
The same report revealed that the government in the UK had also unwittingly strayed into the pornography business, advertising for a female presenter of 'internet babe chat'.
Nowadays you never know what you'll find down at the job centre - except for a well-paid, secure, interesting job doing something for which you are perfectly qualified of course.
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Franklin Mountains Ridgeline Hike is a 10.3 mile moderately trafficked out and back trail located near El Paso, Texas that features beautiful wild flowers and is only recommended for very experienced adventurers. The trail offers a number of activity options and is best used from September until May. Dogs are also able to use this trail but must be kept on leash.
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Hike from N. Stanton St to Trans-Mountain Rd along the Franklin Mountains ridge. NOTE: This hike begins with the Trans-Franklin Mountains South Trail and ends at the Ron Coleman Trail. Study those hikes for information on that part of the trail. At 2.0 miles on the Trans-Franklin South Trail you reach the ridge. When that trail curves right and down look for a dim trail that goes straight along the bluff. At 2.25 miles turn left and climb the arroyo to the ridge. Then go right and up. Follow the dim trail until you reach the TV towers at 2.7 miles. Go left and follow the fence around. DO NOT TRESSPASS, VIDEO CAMERAS! At 2.9 miles begin bushwhacking north on the ridgeline. You will encounter a knife-edge ridge at about 3.4 miles. Go right and down, then back up and left to bypass it. At 3.8 miles you reach the Govt Radio Site. Don't touch, just hike through. The hike gets easier from this point. At 5.6 miles you reach the junction of the Ron Coleman Trail. Continue North. DANGER - read the disclaimer. THIS HIKE IS NOT FOR BEGINNERS!
This hike is not for the faint or weak-hearted. If you are an intermediate or advanced hiker and confident in yourself, then this is for you. I thoroughly enjoyed this hike from start to finish. It is a long hike that takes anywhere from 5-7 hours depending on how many breaks you take. Took me 5:17min. If you plan to do this hike, DO NOT take your dog and go with a buddy. There is some difficult terrain on the trail (if you can see the trail) that require hardcore negotiating. Started from Transmountain pass and finished at the south end. Best advice I can give anyone, besides bringing plenty of water and starting early in the morning, is make sure you stay on the ridgeline. You will be tempted to take the lower parts but there is not trail there, just a lot of yucca and cacti that don't feel great. The ridge, and in some parts (especially after McKelligon Canyon) knife-ridge, is the trail. If you look ahead there will be a semblance of a trail but it's easy to lose like most trails in the Franklins. This hike was very rewarding, especially if you do the entire thing!
Amazing views!!! Very well marked.
My wife and I took our two dogs to the light on the top of the mountain. Luckily I only had to carry one of them back down.
I was dropped off at Transmountain Rd. trailhead and made it to Kern area ( Robinson and Piedmont) in about 6 hours via the ridgline. I had my dog with me and it made some of the northern sections that require mild climbing a bit difficult. I will not bring a dog if I do this trail again. Also, those hiking this trail should keep in mind that the antenna station on the ridge west-south west ( 3148'53.24"N 10629'21.70"W) of the large Cemex mine is gated and there is no friendly trails that bypass this area (that I am aware of / please post if you are aware of a good solution). Overall the trail is very cool. Ridgelines make for nice routes.
Can be tough going at times. Nice hike that is close to town. Great views of El Paso and on clear days you can see into Old and New Mexico.


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An experienced strategic entrepreneur of enterprise solutions companies, Randall Mora, President and CEO of Avum, Inc., founded the company in 1992.
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He is also Avum's subject matter expert (SME) in enterprise application integration and intelligent agent technologies. Government and corporate clients rely on his expertise and guidance in system architecture and design for their extensive organizations. His design work continuously earns the company exceptional past performance.
Mora is a graduate of the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo with dual degrees in Accounting and Computer Science. He also has a Master of Computer Science and has taught Computer Science courses at the senior and master level for several years
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Choose from three levels of cover and protect your income with St George Income Protection.
St George Income Protection Insurance can provide the financial assistance that you require to meet your ongoing commitments if you are suddenly unable to work due to illness or injury for an extended period. Income protection insurance cover is available through St George's comprehensive Protection Plans range and you have the option to choose one of the following plans:
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You can also add optional features to your St George Income Protection Insurance cover, available to all types of plans, which include:
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- Superannuation Contribution Option: St George Income Protection Insurance will pay you a benefit of up to 80% of your regular monthly wage if you are making contributions to your superannuation fund.
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- Policies with benefit period to age 55: when you turn 55.
- Policies with benefit period to age 70: when you turn 70.
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For General Cover Income Protection, the eligibility age varies depending on your employment status and the premium option you select. If you are gainfully employed, the entry age for policies with either stepped or level premiums is 17 to 59. However, if you are not gainfully employed:
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- Level 65 premium policies (level premiums until you turn 65) have an entry age of 17 to 59 years
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With Final Cut Pro X, we work with clip "types" and "timelines". One of the most often used clip types is the basic Compound Clip. Sync Clips and Multicam Clips are flavors of Compound Clips, but those have a specific function. In this article, I'll go through the motions of using a generic Compound Clip (referred to as a "CC") and how it can be advantageous.
I'll use Command-0 to open the Project Library, Command-N to create a new Project. For this example I will leave everything in the Project configuration window to defaults, select an appropriate default Event, then click OK. Then I'll use select that default Event in the Event Library (Shift-Command-1).
In my Event Browser, I'll make sure everything is deselected. Then use Option-G to create a new CC. To access this empty CC I just created, I can simply double-click it and it opens in a timeline.
Alternatively if I highlight one or more clips in the Browser, and use Option-G, I will get a CC with those selected clips inside of the new CC. Again, double-click to open in to a timeline for editing only that CC.
In the Browser, I can click the magnifying glass icon in the search field at the top right of the Browser. Clicking the plus icon at the top right of the custom search window, I will add "Clip Type", set it to "Compound", and turn off the default Text search criteria. By clicking the "New Smart Collection" button, and naming that new smart collection in the Event Library "CC's", I now have all of my CCs in one place I can get to them quickly and easily.
I will go back to that empty Project I created at the beginning of this article, and drop a few video clips into it. In the timeline I can select several clips and use Option-G to create a new CC. This new CC will have a Parent added to the default Event.
To edit this CC, I can simply just double-click it. An important behavior to know: select the second clip in my new timeline CC and use Shift-Delete to remove it and leave a Gap Clip. Back in the Project and in the Browser, you'll see this edit reflected as a blank space in the CC.
This is new in 10.0.6 that the original Parent CC (Browser copy) and all of the Children (copies in timelines) are hard linked. Make changes in one, they all update in realtime to reflect that.
This is also new to 10.0.6, I can select a CC in the timeline, go to the Clip menu, select "Reference New Parent Clip". This creates a copy of the original Parent in the Browser, with the word "copy" appended to the original name. This new copy is initially identical to the original, but is now independent of the original. It is its own original. Since it is a CC, it will also show up in our Smart Collection I created earlier. This is a very important process to remember as it is very handy on many occasions such as wanting different versions of the same basic CC.
One final Thing we can do with CCs is create Auditions. In the timeline I can select my CC, then in the Browser select another CC, then go to the Clip menu, to Audition, and select Add To Audition. The CC in the timeline is now an Audition CC. With it selected I can use "Y" to open the Audition window for it. Very handy and easy!
CCs allow for many possibilities such as applying filters or keyframes to several video or audio clips all at one time. With the enhanced Compound Clip behaviors, Final Cut Pro X is shaping up to be a very powerful, yet deceivingly easy and fast NLE to work with. Being aware of how different clip types work is key.
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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Oct. 11, 2016) - Ellipsiz Communications Ltd. (formerly NXA Inc.) (TSX VENTURE:ECT) (the "Company") announces that the Company has declined to provide shareholder information requested by Tat Lee (Michael) Koh and has directed that its transfer agent, Computershare Trust Company of Canada, also decline to provide shareholder information to Mr. Koh.
The Company was informed on October 7, 2016 that Mr. Koh was requesting shareholder information for the purposes of preparing an information circular in connection with a purported special meeting of shareholders. As previously disclosed by the Company in a release dated October 4, 2016, the Board of Directors has not called a special meeting of shareholders and, acting in accordance with the provisions of the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) ("OBCA"), has declined Mr. Koh's request to call a special meeting of shareholders.
It is the position of the Corporation that in these circumstances Mr. Koh does not have the right under the OBCA to call a special meeting of shareholders and that any such purported meeting of shareholders would be contrary to the provisions of the OBCA, and therefore a nullity.
As the Company previously informed Mr. Koh, in circumstances where the Board of Directors, acting pursuant to s.105(3) of the OBCA, has declined a shareholder's requisition to call a special meeting of shareholders, it is incumbent on Mr. Koh to seek a court order pursuant to s.106 of the OBCA in order to conduct a valid special meeting of shareholders. Absent a court order, it is not open to Mr. Koh to override and ignore the decision of the Board.
As a consequence, Mr. Koh was advised that neither the Company, nor its transfer agent, Computershare Trust Company of Canada, will provide Mr. Koh with the shareholder information he has requested as the Company will not facilitate the conduct of a shareholders meeting which, in its view, would be contrary to law.
Neither the Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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Research analyzed by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center – a national leader in pediatric and adolescent medicine – shows that in the U.S., only 1 in 4 child car seats are properly installed. Other research shows that, for various reasons, Hispanic and African American children are 10 times less likely to be properly restrained in a vehicle. Adding to the tragedy of these stats is the fact that many of the injuries and deaths are avoidable with the use of proper restraints like child car seats, booster seats, and seat belts.
That's why, in 2004, Cincinnati Children's and Toyota teamed up to create Buckle Up for Life. Buckle Up for Life is a community-based passenger safety education program that educates the entire family on critical safety behaviors and provides free child car seats to families in need. To deliver the education in the most effective manner, we work in close collaboration with local hospital partners and churches. Buckle Up for Life is the only national program of its kind.
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Beverly Hills Cop 4 Is A Go; Eddie Murphy Coming Back As Axel Foley
I can't say I'm too excited about this. Beverly Hills Cop III was such utter horse shit, and it's probably one of the worst #3's in any franchise/film series. After he breaks out of his shell in II, they inexplicably turn Rosewood into a shy and nervous wimp again. Murphy just phoned it, and Axel Foley was a watered down version of the character we saw in the first two films. The humor and the plot were horrendous, and the R rating felt so unnecessary.
After Tower Heist, I had some restored faith in Eddie Murphy, but A Thousand Words just reminded me of how shit Murphy's been over the years. Yes, I know the studio (forget which one) wanted to capitalize off of Murphy's success in Tower Heist, so they released A Thousand Words, a film that was sitting on the shelf since 2008. But it was a terrible comedy regardless.
As far as a director goes, maybe they'll choose Brett Ratner? Hell, Murphy and Ratner have become such good buddies in real life, and Ratner can still brag about Rush Hour. I've seen some people suggest Michael Bay in other places, and dear god I hope that doesn't happen. From reading other comments, some people are suggesting Bay's "noisy, senseless barrage of action sequences, and let's blow shit up every five minutes" style would be a perfect fit for a Beverly Hills Cop film, but I can't see it. If I was forced to choose between the two, I'd EASILY take Ratner over Bay any day of the week. Hopefully, we'll see the real Axel Foley from I and II, and not the imitation PG Axel Foley from III.
This would bring up another thread that could be discussed at length, "Which movie was the beginning of the end for Eddie Murphy?" I've always said it was Beverly Hills Cop III. And that depresses me so much that it was Rated R. I had no idea till you mentioned it Mitch. Why? The stupidity was hard for children to handle?
This should not happen. At all. There's no way, given his long history of family entertainment starting in the early 90's, that they're going to make this the way it should be made. Like the first one. Eddie Murphy stopped being funny when he stopped swearing. That's just fact. He's best as a brash, aggressive comedy character. I don't need swearing for swearing. Just like I don't need blood for blood. But Eddie Murphy practically needs swearing and an R rating to be funny. Look at his filmography. All his best movies came in those days. Coming to America, Beverly Hills Cop I & II (though a lot of people aren't fans of II) The Golden Child, Trading Places. I'm sure I'm missing something, but you see my point.
Yeah, I've seen a lot of "well, III happened in 1994, so who's going to remember that?" comments. But III was so bad, it's hard to forget about it, and like it or not, III was the last Beverly Hills Cop film. Plus, as you said, III was the start of Murphy's long and painful barrage of shit films, and III has been panned to death over the years as one the most infamous turkeys in Murphy's career. Another thing that pisses me off about III is, they killed off the one guy (Todd), who still had some spunk from the first two films in the beginning.
So yeah, III was so god awful it's going to be damn near impossible to come up with something that'll be a better film. I'm 99% sure 4 will just be a cash-grab sequel for Hollywood to cash-in on the nostalgia from die hard fans of the franchise. You know they're desperate for new ideas, when they announce a remake for The Butterfly Effect Setting (seriously, the original with Kutcher is only like eight or nine years old). Setting the bar low for expectations, but hopefully they won't tweak or tamper with this classic theme too much.
BTW, I could watch Delirious and Raw at any given moment and still laugh my ass off.
I just don't know how they can be nostalgic to the original film if it's not Rated R. Not to mention, can Eddie Murphy even pull off that kind of character anymore without looking fake as hell?
And of course, Predators was a breath of fresh air, because Predator 2 was garbage, and the AVP films were just as bad. So yeah, when you consider Predators and American Reunion, I guess anything's possible.
I don't have much hopes for this movie. I'm a big fan of the 1st Beverly Hills Cop but thought the other 2 were just awful.
The real question for this movie is how it's gonna be written and who is directing it. Tower Heist surprised the shit out of me in the fact that Eddie Murphy is still capable of being a funny guy so I know he still has it in him. I love Eddie Murphy but family friendly comedies aren't his strong suit (although I'm sure kids love them). I have no doubt given the right script and material Eddie could absolutely kill it out there and make this movie awesome.
I'm hoping they can at least get Rosewood and Taggart (mostly Rosewood) which shouldn't be much of an issue and maybe Charlie Murphy with some sort of role would be great. Overall I'm not expecting much but Beverly Hills Cop is all sorts of awesome so maybe with any luck they will nail it like Die Hard 4 or Rocky Balboa.
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Beyond 2014 Braggot is the first honey-based beer made by Sprecher.
A few beers are made for aging. One of those is the braggot, a brew that falls between a beer, made with malts, and a mead, made with honey. Braggots can take a long time to make and they can be expensive, so not many breweries produce them. Sprecher Brewing has been aging a braggot for nearly two years now, though, and the first bottles just started appearing around southern Wisconsin.
Named Beyond 2014, this braggot's release is staggered in three waves over as many years. This brew is a special treat for those who enjoy big and bold beers that are distinctively sweet and spicy -- not to mention rare.
What is it? Beyond 2014 Braggot from Sprecher Brewing Company of Glendale, Wisconsin.
Style: Braggot, also called bracket or brackett, is closely related to mead, a drink that can be traced back thousands of years as one of the oldest alcoholic beverages. Standard meads are commonly made with only honey. However, some may feature different types of fruits. When a mead is made with malt, it's called a braggot. The earliest braggots were likely made by mixing or blending fermented mead with ale. Modern braggots are made by combining malt and honey during the brewing process.
Braggots are commonly made with a high percentage of honey, sometimes at levels of more than half of the fermentable sugars. Because honey is so easily fermented by yeast, it adds strength and sweetness to the brew. Any type of honey and any style of base beer can make up a braggot. Sprecher's underlying beer recipe has elements of a barleywine, while its honey is locally harvested. Braggots can be quite strong, with a range of 6%-12% ABV. They also age well when cellared.
Background: "This was quite an adventure," says Sprecher brewmaster Craig Burge about the two-year production time for Beyond 2014 Braggot. It is a combination of three different batches of beer. The first was made in March 2012, with a second batch that summer and a final batch later that fall. Since then, it's been sitting in aging tanks for nearly 18 months as Burge waited for the flavor he was looking for.
"I wanted its sweetness to dry out, so I kept it going," says Burge. "I kind of procrastinated on the whole thing, and I'm glad I did." The result is a braggot that's different from most others.
Burge has been making beer at Sprecher for more than 23 years. This is the first braggot ever produced by the brewery. "After all these years of brewing for Sprecher, I wanted to do something different. We've come out with about every style of beer possible," Burge says. "I was looking to make something that not a lot of breweries are making. And braggot is that."
Sprecher's version is based on a barleywine recipe. It starts with two-row pale, Pilsen and Caramel Pilsner malts. But honey is a major element in braggots, something you should sense from the initial aromas to the finish. Burge used a wildflower honey packaged by Indian Summer Honey Farm of Germantown, Wisconsin. It's the same honey Sprecher uses in many of its popular sodas. With each of the three 40-barrel batches of beer, Burge increased the amount of honey he used -- "an absurd amount," he says.
Altogether, Burge added 600 gallons of honey to 120 barrels (approximately 3,720 gallons) of beer. "For a braggot, it's all about the balance of honey you get in the nose and in the flavor," says Burge. Drinkers should perceive the honey first, he adds.
There's a lot of tweaking in Sprecher's braggot. "It's about 50% Belgian barleywine and 50% Wisconsin honey mead," Burge says. There are solid malty-undertones of a barleywine with lots of bready and caramel sweetness. Added to that are three types of hops: Centennial, Cascade and Columbus. "We ended up dry-hopping the whole batch with Columbus hop cones as a last step, which added some really nice layers of complexity," says Burge. The braggot was fermented with four different types of yeast, including a Belgian strain that adds hints of dark-fruit sweetness.
Beyond 2014 Braggot may have taken two years to produce, but it was designed for an even longer life. It can easily be cellared for years, says Burge. That's part of the rationale for the staggered release schedule, complete with corresponding color-coded labels -- bronze in 2014, silver in 2015 and gold in 2016. "I'm really curious, with all the alcohol in there and all the honey, what we'll end up with," he says.
Beyond 2014 Braggot (the bronze label, released this year) finishes at an estimated 11% ABV. It's sold in single 12-ounce bottles for $4.50-$5. Over the next two years, the brewery plans to release only about 400 cases of the silver and gold labels. Beyond will also be available at Sprecher's Restaurant and Pub on the west side of Madison.
The long-term commitment of time and expense to make a honey-based braggot is something that will likely be appreciated by Sprecher loyalists as well as by beer enthusiasts looking for new and different brews. "Even at the prices we sell it at, we are not going to make our money back on a beer like this," says brewery president Jeff Hamilton. "It's done for the passion of making something very special."
Considering the time it took to make, and the special malts, hops and unique contributions from the different yeasts, the name Beyond seemed pretty obvious to Burge. "It totally fits the whole adventure we were on in making it. It was above and beyond," he says.
Tasting notes:
- Aroma: A light floral sweetness with hints of honey and yeast.
- Appearance: Clear, deep copper color; looks like honey. A thin bubbly, tan-colored head.
- Texture: Full bodied and soft. Not much carbonation.
- Taste: Starts with the sweetness of honey. There are layers of dark-fruit yeastiness, light maltiness, toffee, spicy warmth and dry bitterness.
- Finish/Aftertaste: The light mild honey-like sweetness lingers, along with a touch of dryness.
Glassware: A snifter-style glass. Use a couple small ones and share a single bottle. The glass should encourage slowly savoring this rare brew.
Pairs well with: Beyond is a very nice after-dinner drink, and best on its own to appreciate the layers of flavor. Allow it to warm to room temperature, and experience waves of spicy warm sweetness, hints of dark-fruit and dryness.
Rating: Four Bottle Openers (out of four)
The Consensus: Sprecher Beyond 2014 Braggot has not received enough ratings to be evaluated at BeerAdvocate or RateBeer.
The Verdict: Beyond 2014 Braggot really lives up to its name. Overall, it's hard to pin it down between being a sweet braggot and a dry one. There's just so much to it, with its host of flavors. Beyond really maintains a smooth and sweet mead character while allowing layers of sweetness associated the malts, along with spicy-complexity of the hops, the slight raisin and cherry notes of the yeast, and eventually ending with a light yet firm dryness in the finish. There's also some warmth due to the 11% ABV, which complements both the sweetness and the spiciness. This isn't a beer that anyone enjoys more than a bottle at a time. It's definitely a snifter beer, and one that should be sipped to appreciate.
As much as I enjoyed this initial release, I'm even more interested to see how the silver and gold versions will compare with age. I suspect they will be even smoother and sweeter as Beyond matures.


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When your mother asks you to accompany her on a ten-day trip to Peru, there are two natural reactions. The first is: "Wow what a swinging time I'll have going to the Amazon and seeing Machu Picchu as I embrace all the danger, blow darts, malaria and spectacle." The second: "Christ, I'm going to be with my mother for ten days."
You see, from the ages of around five to ten, family trips to places like Disneyworld are magnificent because you haven't discovered friends yet. Not friends like the kids you play kickball with at recess, or fling off monkey bars at Jewish day school. Family takes precedence during these years, because little tykes know no better. And seeing as, my clan is spread out around the world from South Africa to kingdom come, when it came to family excursions, it was my mother and I huffing it alone.
At this age, I think I've come to understand how family relationships work, especially in the context of college. By seeing family less, conflicts are simply reduced. This correlation would be undermined the moment I agreed to travel mono-e-mono with old mommy dearest. So what's a fella going to do? Abandon the opportunity of a lifetime to experience a country akin, in my mind at the time, to a place in The Temple of Doom, just to avoid having to do so with my closest family member.
As immature as it seems, this thought did run through my head at points. Vacations are now predicated on the notion that there will be friends around and with friends comes drinking, mischief, and mishaps. Thinking about being in a foreign country without the opportunity to express myself in the same barbaric manner as I do in my own, sounded like a travesty.
So it was with a degree of trepidation that I decided to whisk myself away to the land of the Incas, where the only certain thing that awaited me was long-overdue heat. Throughout encounters with alpacas, hikes up the Andes, and smoke-ridden 85 mph car rides through the streets of Lima, avoiding deadly crashes at every turn, there were days that tried my patience.
Of all the moments that blurred together from that beautiful whirlwind of a trip, I remember the sounds of jaguars howling in the Amazonian jungle, biting into a hunk of rotisserie guinea pig and racing to the peak of a mountain next to Machu Picchu. But maybe the moments that have lingered longer were those when I forgot I was traveling with my mother, and saw a friend sitting beside me on plane rides throughout the country.
Sometimes it takes a foreign country to see the forest for the trees. As I get older and more cynical, I am still surprised at how some human interactions make me a better man.


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What does a practice nurse do? Typical employers | Qualifications and training | Key skills
Practice nurses work as part of a team of professional staff that includes doctors, health visitors and therapists.
Typical responsibilities include:
- patient consultations within surgeries or health centres
- carrying out physical examinations, investigatory procedures and cervical smear and pregnancy tests
- diagnosing and treating illnesses and ailments
- providing advice about contraception and fitting contraceptive devices
- treating wounds
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- providing emergency first aid and treatment
- giving advice, education and information about health conditions and ailments, stopping smoking and losing weight
- taking patient samples, swabs and specimens, and checking pulses, temperatures and blood pressures
- administering immunisations, vaccinations (for example for influenza) and infant injections
- running well woman and man clinics and clinics for specific ailments such as diabetes and asthma
- liaising with other health care professionals, practice nurses, GPs and/or hospitals
- writing records and keeping patients' notes up-to-date
The job can be tiring but is nevertheless rewarding and highly respected.
Typical employers of practice nurses
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Vacancies appear in newspapers, health authority job lists and publications such as Nursing Times, Nursing Standard and their respective websites.
Qualifications and training required
Qualification requires a degree in pre-registration nursing which then leads to registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). Degree course applications should be made through UCAS, or directly to institutions for postgraduate courses.
Pre-registration nursing degrees are offered in adult nursing, paediatric nursing, learning disability nursing and mental health nursing. You will need to choose one of the four branches of nursing you want to train for before applying. There are a few dual branch pre-registration courses leading to registration in two of the specialisms.
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Previous relevant experience prior to training is not essential, but any gained caring for/working with people can be helpful.
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A cold front rolled across Northern Michigan early Tuesday bringing a few thunderstorms but also cooler/drier weather.
Beneficial rain also fell with a few places such as Traverse City where a quick 1.13" of rain came down early Tuesday morning pushing July's total to 2.24". In fact, in just over an hour, Traverse City picked up 45% of all the rain that has fallen since the beginning of June. Cadillac and Houghton Lake also got in on the rain.
Concerns Tuesday revolve around gusty northwest winds which are leading to hazardous conditions on the Great Lakes, more specifically Lake Michigan and also Lake Superior including Whitefish and Little as well as Grand Traverse Bays. Winds will ramp up Tuesday afternoon increasing to 20 with gusts as high as 35 mph. That will lead to high waves along with an increased risk for rip currents. If you plan on swimming or being out on the Great Lakes be aware of your swimming ability and keep a watchful eye on younger children. If ever caught in rip current which is a narrow channel of water pushing away from shore, the natural instinct is to swim towards shore. However, in a rip current you will quickly tire and make little if any progress. The best advice if getting pushed offshore in a rip current is to swim parallel to the shore to get out of the fast moving current and into an area where you can make it back onshore.
Gusty winds will diminish Tuesday night with cool temperatures. Many spots fall back into the 40's.


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Funded by a grant of £320,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council Landscape and Environment Programme, the project examined how the Indian Ocean has been represented in literary and legal narratives, primarily in English.
When this project was first conceived, it was described as 'following' the 'great will for interdisciplinary learning' prompted by the tsunami of December 2004. By 2010, the global public's idea of the Indian Ocean was captivated by narratives of pirates working off the coast of Somalia. But threats to the environment and threats to commerce have long dominated widely circulating stories about this Ocean. The work of this project engages, compares, and challenges historic and current stories about the region. It does so by delving into ideas about the geography within literary and legal narratives. Key work includes:
This project has generated more imaginatively, historically and ethically aware ideas of the Indian Ocean. It has formed ongoing and expanding networks of scholars, lawyers, poets, and novelists. And it has informed teaching and research practice: maritime literature, piracy and literature and law are now established features of the University of Southampton's curriculum and postgraduate research culture. It promotes the study of the Indian Ocean within the Humanities and Asian and African Area studies across the UK: and in doing so, its outcomes are part of a wider and growing challenge to the dominance of Atlantic and Pacific studies in academia. The work and particularly the publications of this project have helped the inter-discipline of literature and law to achieve greater prominence and value in the UK academic environment.
The relationship between historical and current, literary and legal narratives of piracy in the Indian Ocean continues to be explored through research, publications, and academic and public-facing lectures and events. This work is key to the emergence of the University of Southampton as a significant forum for the interdisciplinary study of piracy, as recently explored through a unique international workshop on 'Piracy and Jurisprudence' supported by the project. The project also continues to update its research agenda in line with the politically sensitive legal issues surrounding the Chagos Islands, including the ongoing exile of the Chagossians, the declaration of the region as a Marine Protected Area, and the use of the archipelago for 'extraordinary rendition' by the US government. And the work of this project has brought the Indian Ocean into prominence within broader research initiatives, particularly through its key support of the 2011 British Association of South Asian Studies annual conference and the ongoing AHRC network 'Subjects of Law: Rightful Selves and the Legal Process in Imperial Britain and the British Empire'.
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ActiveState: What's Next
People have been asking me, "What's happening to ActiveState now, after the sale of Stackato business (our private PaaS business) to HP?" This is an obvious question when you consider that so much of the ActiveState marketing that has dominated the headlines for the last few years has been Stackato-related. But ActiveState is comprised of a number of businesses. We have an IDE business, a Python business, a Perl business, and a Tcl business.


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DES Seminar by Jose Padarian
14 March 2014
Provision of soil information for biophysical modelling.
Soil is an important actor in ecosystem processes and data that represents it, is not always available due to its intrinsic complexity. Several techniques have emerged to try to overcome this issue, including the use of pedotransfer functions (PTFs) and digital soil mapping (DSM).
The aim of this project is to derive a framework for addressing soil data need, using as example water holding capacity of soils: drainage upper limit (DUL) and crop lower limit (DLL).
PTFs with uncertainty assessment are not always available, hence there is a necessity to generate new ones and to identify if a PTF prediction is valid for a given soil domain. We selected Australia as example to generate a set of pedotransfer functions which predict soil water retention properties required by commonly-used biophysical models. PTFs were generated using symbolic regression and the fuzzy k-means with extragrades algorithm was used to estimate the uncertainty of prediction and identify when an observation is within the PTF data domain.
Using DSM techniques, soil avalilable water content was mapped at five depth intervals (0-5, 5-15, 15-30, 30-60, and 60-100~cm) with the help of different combinations of environmental information (topographic, climatic, soils, Landsat imagery, gamma-ray spectrometry) as covariates. The modelling techniques used were symbolic regression (GP), Cubist, and support vector machines (SVM). In addition, two averaging method were used to generate an ensemble model. The main focus was to balance model parsimony (number of covariates), accuracy (numerical performance) and realism of the visual representations (maps).
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Disney's Deluxe HotelsWalt Disney World's range of luxury hotels, each with their own unique design and advantages, are worth exploring if your budget allows
Ahh, the deluxe hotels. They are all beautiful, with different theming and different benefits, so if they are in your price range, you should be able to find one that fits your desires and needs. Unlike the moderates and value resorts, these have interior corridors – what Brits traditionally expect from a hotel. They all offer luxury, are situated close to one of the parks, often with an additional mode of transport and really are Disney at its best.
The real advantage to the Deluxe hotels is their locations and transport. With all of them, you will get to at least one of the parks much quicker than if you took regular Disney transport or drove yourself. Those that are on the monorail system are just a few minutes from the Magic Kingdom and not much further from Epcot. If you stay at one of the resorts on the Boardwalk you can get a quick boat to Epcot and Disney's Hollywood Studios, and you can even stroll to Epcot from some. With young children, this is a particular advantage. It gets you there quicker when they're excited to go, but gets you back quicker when they need naps – and with the amount of activity and the hot Florida sun, they (and you!) will need naps.
If you plan to spend a lot of time at the resorts, it may also be worth the upgrade to Deluxe. Many choose to return to the hotel in the hot afternoons to use the pool etc, and get some rest, before returning to the parks again in the evening. If that's the case, you may want a bigger room and better amenities, and the Deluxe hotels will give you that.
There are 8 Disney Deluxe hotels:
The Magic Kingdom Hotels
Disney's Grand Floridian Resort and Spa – located across the Seven Seas Lagoon from the Magic Kingdom, this has a Victorian feel and is the ultimate in luxury.
Disney's Polynesian Resort – also located across the seven seas lagoon from the Magic Kingdom, this has a South Pacific theme and is relaxed and family orientated.
Disney's Contemporary Resort – a modern resort just ten minutes walk from the gates of the Magic Kingdom – the only hotel within walking distance.
Disney's Wilderness Lodge – based on Old Faithful, this is a short boat ride away from the Magic Kingdom.
Animal Kingdom Hotel
Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge – situated among the savannas, with animals within view, this is a truly unique hotel.
BoardWalk Hotels – near to Epcot and Hollywood Studios
Located between Epcot and Hollywood Studios, the Boardwalk is also a destination in its own right, with restaurants and minor attractions.
Disney's Beach Club Resort – themed as a New England seaside it is a 5 minute walk or boat ride from Epcot and a short boat trip to Hollywood Studios
Disney's BoardWalk Inn – based on a 40′s mid-Atlantic boardwalk, this hotel is about centre – a walk or boat ride from both Epcot and Hollywood Studios
Disney's Yacht Club Resort – connected to the Beach Club, with a nautical feel, this is a short walk or boat ride from Epcot and Hollywood Studios.
The Walt Disney World Swan and Walt Disney World Dolphin are sister hotels also located in this area, but not operated by Disney. They are beautiful hotels and unlike other non-Disney hotels, they do offer the Disney transport and give you access to Extra Magic hours and free parking at the parks. However, they do not offer all the Disney benefits, such as access to the Disney Dining Plan, the ability to charge back to your room from the parks or package delivery and they are not themed (which could be a good thing or bad, depending on your view).


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If you're looking to support a worthy cause in style, then Pasadena's 14th Annual Big Night Out is certainly for you. The dinner event, which consists of meals served at 20 of the area's most historic and architecturally significant homes, is the main fundraising event for the ASC (AIDS Service Center), which provides services for more than 1,200 people in L.A County. The evening will begin with a reception at a central location where the hundreds of guests will convene for hors d'oeuvres, drinks and several auctions before heading off for individual dinner party locations.
Big Night Out
Saturday April 30, starting at 4:30 p.m.
Reception and dinner: $250, Reception only: $100
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SANFORD — Passage of a 2-cent gas tax and hefty impact fee increases could add enough to the transportation coffers to finance Seminole County's top four road needs by 1990, public works director Larry Sellers said Monday.
However, a home builders representative balked at the $1,000 transportation fee proposed for each single-family residence.
Commissioners asked staff members to meet with the Home Builders Association of Mid-Florida representative and return in two weeks with an impact fee proposal.


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