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Hello, if you are reading this you have either downloaded or are thinking about downloading Silent Beacon, the number one safety app on the iTunes app store (and soon to be Android). Here are instructions on how to setup the app along with an explanation of each feature. Please keep in mind both Location Services and Push Notifications need to be turned on for this app to function properly. Check your general phone settings to turn these on.
Register – Step 1
- Name – Enter your name, this information is used to let the people you save as Emergency Contacts know who is alerting them.
- Phone Number – Your phone number is the root of how this App works. Enter your cellular number, this is how the app interacts with your Contacts and sends alerts.
(Country Codes can be selected from the left hand side by touching the +1)
- Email – This field is not necessary but will help you if you need help or send out emails to your Contacts during an alert.
Register – Step 2
A 4 digit code is going to be sent to your phone, please make sure you have enabled text messages. You can type in directly or cut and paste from the text. Save the number that shows up so you will know it is Silent Beacon if your Contact goes into alert mode.
Blue Alert Button
This button is the heart of the safety app. When faced with an emergency press this button. It will then send the alerts to loved ones and the emergency personnel you have selected in the Contacts page.
The button will turn red and chime (if your audio is on) letting you know the emergency alerts have been sent.
Top Main Menu Button
Here is the section where you can find the settings that customize your user experience.
- My Information- Allows you to edit your name, phone number and email address. This page also shows you, your current GPS location in case you need information on where you are.
- Message Setup – Here is the area where you can customize your emergency Text, Email and nudge messages. This is what your Contacts will see when you are in alert mode.
- Instructions Page – If you are reading this, you are on the Instructions Page!
- Logout- This feature allows you logout of the app, just incase you want to delete it from your phone or re-install once you receive a new mobile phone number.
- Mute Sounds- Gives you the freedom to turn off the sounds associated with this application.
This is the page where your Emergency Contacts are stored. You can see who needs help, who is connected and you may edit each listing by clicking the right side icon. Below is information on each part of this page.
Top right plus sign +
Pressing the plus sign will bring you to the add contact page. This is where you can add a new contact manually or from your phones address book.
Left side Beacon Icons
On the left side of this screen you can see a gray/blue or red beacon icon. Below is the meaning of each.
Right side info Icon
On the right side of this screen you can see a white outlined icon. Each Contact will have the (I) symbol in the icon. If you have set Call Feature on within the Contacts Detail screen the icon will have a 'phone ringing' symbol which lets you know this Contact will be called when you press the alert.
This section fills in the Contacts personal details. First and Last name, their phone number and email address. The email address field is not required but will help if your Contact does not have phone access at work. The Contact can be emailed when you alert them and sent your GPS location. Your country code is selected using the scroll wheel.
This portion of the Contact page allows you to toggle on and off the notification methods. The toggle is on when it is in blue, off is in white.
- Call Number – Sets this Contact as the number dialed when the Silent Beacon is in alert mode.
- Text Messaging – Allows this Contact to receive an alert via text that you need help. This is good for older phones and non-smart phones.
- Push Notifications – When activated this feature allows your Contact to receive notifications of your alert (user must have a smartphone).
- Email Notifications – This will allow your Contact to receive an email with your alert and GPS location. This feature helps if your Contact is in a workplace where their phone is not readable available.
- Nudge – This feature allows your Contact to be nudged. Nudge is a non-emergency alert that is sent to 'check in' or let someone know you are OK.
Actions are clickable functions within the app.
- Show Map – This allows you to view the Contact's map if they themselves are in an emergency.
- Resend Instructions – An email will be sent to the Contact allowing them to setup the app in their own phone or finding out more about Silent Beacon.
- Delete Contact – Pressing this will delete this Contact from your Silent Beacon safety app.


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The Wholesale Portal is a place in the Poshmark app where qualified sellers can buy inventory from brands, in bulk, to sell in their Poshmark Boutiques.
You can find the Wholesale Portal by following these steps:
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Dear Fellow Convert,
My name is Aasiya Victoria Walling Qasim. I am two identities intertwined into one. My names and their meanings have contributed to somewhat of an identity crisis over the years, and perhaps you can relate. It's been around fifteen years since I've converted so I have grown to become more comfortable with my name(s). I've used all the different combinations. But all together, they represent who I was, who I am, and who I want to become.
Victoria Walling is who I was as a child. This represents my past. An era in my life filled primarily with the unconditional love of family. It is special and close to my heart because it was a gift from my mother. I will probably always pause for a moment when someone asks my name because I am still Victoria deep down.
Aasiya Qasim is who I became when I converted and got married, both within a few years. The pressures of western society dictated I change my last name, while the pressures of the Muslim community dictated I need to have a 'Muslim' name. But it wasn't for a few years that I realized there isn't really such thing as a Muslim name, rather an Arabic name, and so long as it doesn't mean sun-worshipper or the like, it's OK to keep it!
Anyways, my judgement was clouded and I changed my name legally. My passport now matches my husband's and kids' and I did what I was supposed to do. However, the awkwardness of choosing between names remains.
Those who met me post-conversion, know me as Aasiya, and that makes up for the majority of people in my life now. But to my family I am still Victoria and I'd never ask my family to call me Aasiya, or for those who know me as Aasiya, to call me Victoria. It would just be weird.
Names are important. They are a huge part of our identity and I think only those who have gone through this journey of name changing can really get it. I have friends who have changed their names only to change them back a few years down the road. I have friends who have changed their names and insist that everyone (parents included) completely drop their past identity. And I have friends who never changed their names at all.
I understand that some people want to change their names because of the past they want to leave behind. But look at Umar (RA)! Pre-conversion, he intended on killing the Prophet (SAW), yet it was never brought up for him to change his name based on his past. He was Umar when he was an enemy of Islam, and he was Umar when he became a hero of Islam, and there are dozens of stories like his.
It is such a personal decision, and one that outsiders should not get too involved in. There is no right or wrong way. Looking back, maybe I would have kept Victoria had I known better. For me, Victoria represents the love of my family. But I felt I had a chance to name myself after a hero of mine, so I did. Aasiya represents a woman of faithful strength. Someone who stood up to the Pharoah of all people, it doesn't get much more inspirational than that!
Love and strength. The two things my names represent. I need them both and I want them both. People will probably always ask what my name was before I converted, when I introduce myself as Aasiya. Had I never changed my name, I know I would have always been asked when I would get a Muslim name. So really, there will always be questions and concerns from perhaps well intentioned community members, but in the end your name is yours. Whether it be Khadijah or Kathy, Nusaibah or Nichole, wear your name, be proud, and own it!
With duas,
Aasiya Walling
PS. What issue shall we address next? Perhaps with Ramadan around the corner, something related to that? Let me know!


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Rupert GrintActor
British actor Rupert Grint rose to prominence with admirable performance in the franchise "Harry Potter". The release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 2001 was Grint's debut screen performance, which transformed him into an international celebrity and helped him win a Satellite Award in the category of "Outstanding New Talent", and a Young Artist Award for "Most Promising Young Newcomer" and be nominated and voted fifth place in Portrait Magazine, Top 30 Under 30 2009 Listin 2009. Besides, he involved in and stared in some works such as Thunderpants and Cherrybomb.
Before fame
Actor Rupert Grint was born to a racing memorabilia dealer Nigel Grinta, and a homemaker Jo Grint. While in primary school, he took an interest in theaters, participated in several school productions/plays, and started performing in the Top Hat Stage and Screen School. Despite not having experience in acting from being small but only previously acted in several school plays, he won the casting team attention by a self-made audition video due to being an avid fan of Harry Potter.
Personal life
He has a close friend: Harry Potter co-star Tom Felton. Although growing rich, he has not embarked on any serious real-life romances yet but prefered to keep things casual instead.


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On Wednesday, the State Security Committee of South Ossetia made a statement warning about possible provocations by the Georgian special services to wreck the presidential elections scheduled for March 25, said in the press service of the Ministry.
The Supreme Court of South Ossetia recognized the results of the elections held on November 27, 2011 invalid due to the violations.
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University of North Texas at Dallas President Robert "Bob" Mong is leading UNTD's efforts to help students blaze a pathway toward social mobility. Named the third president of UNT Dallas in 2015, the University has achieved record enrollment numbers under Mong, as it transforms into a residential campus and deepens its role as a community-changing force in South Dallas and beyond.
Perched on a hilltop, overlooking the Downtown Dallas skyline, UNTD is the only public, accredited 4-year university in the City of Dallas. Serving a city and region that is the fastest-growing job market in America outside of New York is a huge responsibility, but UNT Dallas and its President dream big and the University hasn't backed down from a challenge since its establishment in 2010.
Under Mong, who previously served as Editor in Chief of the Dallas Morning News, the University has set lofty strategic goals for growth, fundraising and community involvement in a traditionally underserved area. UNTD has a diverse student population (41% Hispanic, 35% African-American, and 17% white) and offers its students the opportunity to earn bachelor's degrees and master's degrees, as well as a juris doctor degree from its Downtown Dallas law school.
The President and his leadership team have made steady progress toward these goals while fulfilling the university's mission to empower students, transform lives and strengthen communities. UNT Dallas announced record enrollment in Fall 2016 of more than 3,000 students. The enrollment increase went from 2,488 last fall to 3,026 in the fall, a 17.78 percent change. Enrollment has increased since Mong's arrival at UNTD and is projected to exceed 5,000 students by 2021.
UNT Dallas isn't just growing its enrollment under Mong, its tree-lined 264-acre campus is transforming physically as a strategic campus master plan gradually fills out. The university's first residence hall is set to open in August, 2017, and a new $63 million student center is also under construction. The main campus in South Dallas is now served by DART light rail, making UNTD more accessible than ever. Future projects include an amphitheater that will look out on UNT Dallas' beautiful wooded campus, as well as a recreation center and arena that will be accessible to students and the public, while also serving as home to a new intercollegiate athletics program.
In Downtown Dallas, the UNT Dallas College of Law's historic, soon-to-be home – the former Dallas City Hall at 106 S. Harwood St. – is undergoing $56 million transformation to house the City's only public law school. This historic renovation will be completed in 2018 and comes on top of a recently-completed $15 million exterior renovation of the building by the City of Dallas.
As part of Mong's vision, UNT Dallas is broadening its offerings in health care, business, arts and science, education and human services management. Community partnerships for the University – including those with school districts and community colleges – are at an all-time high, and a record number of grants are in the pipeline to help fund new, innovative programs at UNTD.
When asked what drew the UNT System to Mong, Chancellor Lee Jackson pointed not only to a successful track record in journalism, but also in business while leading the Morning News.
"Bob's been not only a journalist, but a business leader for the Belo Corporation in a changing industry that has some similarities to higher education," Jackson said. "He's a thought leader and is known and respected by community thought leaders."
Before joining UNT Dallas, Mong worked as a journalist for 44 years, most of it at The Dallas Morning News where he served as the paper's Managing Editor and later as Editor in Chief. During his time in news leadership, the paper won nine Pulitzer Prizes and named Pulitzer finalist 16 other times. He also gained significant business experience as the paper's general manager and before that as CEO and publisher of the then company-owned Owensboro (Ky.) Messenger-Inquirer.
Throughout his business and journalism career, higher education was Mong's principal outlet for volunteer activities. He developed volunteer ties to UNT Denton, UT-Arlington, UT-Dallas, SMU, Austin College, UT-Austin and LSU – among other institutions. Since 2000, Mong has chaired the board of visitors at the Manship School of Mass Communication at LSU. He has been active at UNT Denton since the presidency of Al Hurley in the late 1990s and helped start the Mayborn Literary Non Fiction Conference at UNT.
While serving as The News' managing editor, Mong chaired the Minorities Committee of what is now the American Society of News Editors. He also chaired the society's Human Resources Committee. In 2014 Mong attracted a $250,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to create the Hispanic Families Network. The network trains Hispanic parents in three Dallas neighborhoods to report on early childhood education issues. The News partnered with SMU to train participating parents.
Mong served as chairman of The Dallas Morning News Charities from 1998 to 2015, raising money for the hungry and homeless in North Texas. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Dallas Regional Chamber's Southern Dallas Task Force, a group that engages in specific projects intended to promote the Southern Sector as a business location.
A 1971 graduate of Haverford College in Pennsylvania, he attended on a Scott Paper Company scholarship. He received the Archibald Macintosh Award for scholarship, integrity and academic achievement. He captained both the school's football and baseball teams and his .357 batting average ranks 10th all-time at Haverford.
Mong attended Stanford University's Executive Program in the Graduate School of Business. He is married to former Los Angeles Times reporter Diane Reischel, and they have two adult children – Eric, who attends medical school, and Elizabeth, a divinity school student.


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Abrupt, near-term impacts to rival dinosaur extinction seen in climate study
Not to seize on the sensational, but when a report from the National Research Council suggests that a wave of extinctions rivaling the dinosaurs' demise might well be coming within the century — and that the time has come to set up early warning systems to detect this and other imminent climate catastrophes — it tends to capture one's attention.
The report, "Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change: Anticipating Surprises," came out on Tuesday to remarkably little press attention, for reasons I can't explain, except maybe it's just too god-awful grim for the holiday season.
But it's important work, the kind of enterprise that might actually be able to change some conversations about climate change, and it deserves a higher profile.
You can think of the NRC as the applied-science and policymaker-advising arm of the National Academies of Science and the National Academy of Engineering, which should be credentials enough for any doubters and deniers who have read this far before preparing a flaming riposte.
In this case, the report was also sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and unspecified agencies in "the U.S. intelligence community."
Tuesday's report is an update, in some ways, of the council's 2002 report that termed some abrupt consequences of climate change as "inevitable" — chiefly because the earth's climate record showed signs of sudden upheavals, or tipping points, at which the pacing of gradual processes shifted from centuries or even millennia to just a few years.
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But the arrival times and even overall probabilities of future surprises were highly indistinct back then. A little over a decade later, the report says, scientific advances have now somewhat clarified the likely time scales for certain sweeping changes. Taking the better news first:
...[P]otential abrupt changes in ocean deep water formation and the release of carbon from frozen soils and ices in the polar regions [that] were once of serious near-term concern are now understood to be less imminent, although still worrisome as slow changes over longer time horizons.
By longer time horizons, the authors mean beyond this century. On the other hand:
In contrast, the potential for abrupt changes in ecosystems, weather and climate extremes, and groundwater supplies critical for agriculture now seem more likely, severe, and imminent. And the recognition that a gradually changing climate can push both natural systems, as well as human systems, across tipping points has grown over the past decade. ...
In addition to a changing climate, multiple other stressors are pushing natural and human systems towards their limits, and thus become more sensitive to small perturbations that can trigger large responses. Groundwater aquifers, for example, are being depleted in many parts of the world, including the southeast of the United States. Groundwater is critical for farmers to ride out droughts, and if that safety net reaches an abrupt end, the impact of droughts on the food supply will be even larger.
These are the kinds of impacts that are commonly included in discussions of climate change, usually on the supposition that the really bad stuff is at least a few generations off in the future. But in a particularly poignant comment to the phys.org Website, one of the report's authors, Anthony Barnosky, distinguished the new report in this way:
Tipping points within this lifetime
"Our report focuses on abrupt change, that is, things that happen within a few years to decades: basically, over short enough time scales that young people living today would see the societal impacts brought on by faster-than-normal planetary changes." (emphasis added)
The report references two rapid and sweeping changes that are already apparent, and a third that is invisible to a worrisome degree:
- The disappearance of late-summer sea ice in the Arctic, with predictions that it may be gone entirely within decades, which "would have potentially large and irreversible effects of various components of the Arctic East Coast system including disruptions in the marine food web, shifts and habitats of summary mammals, and erosion of vulnerable coastlines."
Because the Arctic region interacts with a large-scale circulation systems of the ocean and atmosphere, changes in the extent of sea ice could cause shifts in climate and weather around the northern hemisphere. The Arctic is also region of increasing economic importance for diverse range of stakeholders, and reductions in Arctic sea ice will bring new legal and political challenges this navigation routes for commercial shipping open and marine access to the region increases for offshore oil and gas development, tourism, fishing and other activities.
- Rapidly increasing extinction of plant and animal species at a rate already "probably as fast as any warming event in the past 65 million years, and it is projected that its pace over the next 30 to 80 years will continue to be faster and more intense." Speaking of the forces driving these extinctions, it says:
If unchecked, habitat destruction, fragmentation, and over-exploitation, even without climate change, could result in a mass extinction within the next few centuries equivalent in magnitude to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. With the ongoing pressures of climate change, comparable levels of extinction conceivably could occur before the year 2100; indeed, some models show a crash of coral reefs from climate change alone as early as 2060 under certain scenarios.
- Destabilization of the west Antarctic ice sheet, an "abrupt change of unknown probability," carries the threat of sea-level rise "at a rate several times faster than those observed today. "
Because the probability of reaching this tipping point within the century is "plausible" though "probably low," its impact on coastal populations across the globe would be so enormous that the report gives it special focus as a doomsday risk that is not yet well understood.
In the face of these threats, the report urges development of an Abrupt Change Early Warning System (ACEWS) to closely monitor signals of tipping points drawing near, digest the data and feed it into the best predictive models that can be developed.
This may seem a no-brainer, or something that's already been done, but in fact the amount of instrumentation devoted to measuring and recording climate data on this planet remains embarrassingly small.
"We watch our streets, we watch our banks," the report's chief author, climatologist James White of the University of Colorado at Boulder, told the Los Angeles Times. "But we do not watch our environment with the same amount of care and zeal."
And in a bit of notable understatement, White told the Boulder Daily Camera that "the planet is arguably our most valuable asset. We need it for clean water, clean air, energy, food. We don't monitor that with the same kind of zeal as we do other places that we think are precious."
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Notable understatement, indeed
I've yet to see an industrialist propose a viable alternative to the only environment we have. So far, at least, I've also yet to see a public official, or other media-centric personality who's in fervent denial about climate change, alter their opinion based on facts in front of them. It's characteristic of true believers that facts are ignored at best, and at worst simply serve to *increase* the strength of the true believer's view.
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October 2013 was the globe's 7th warmest October since records began in 1880, according to NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). NASA rated it the 8th warmest October on record. The year-to-date period of January - October has been the 7th warmest such period on record. October 2013 global land temperatures were the 8th warmest on record, and global ocean temperatures were also the 8th warmest on record. October 2013 was the 344th consecutive month with global temperatures warmer than the 20th century average. Global satellite-measured temperatures in October 2013 for the lowest 8 km of the atmosphere were 11th or 6th warmest in the 35-year record, according to Remote Sensing Systems and the University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH), respectively....
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If you have the slightest knowledge of statistics, do you know how improbable it is that there have been 344 consecutive months of global temperature being higher than the 20th century averages?
But hey, someone will pipe up with "no warming recently" and then someone will pipe up with "how nice weather we've been having"
For that, check out the growing list of billion dollar (and up) weather disasters this year at the same link as above. As of the Haiyan super-typhoon, there have been 36 so far--adding up to over a $100 billion in damages.
Enjoy the oncoming tipping points! They're coming faster than expected, particularly in the Arctic. Very large methane releases are coming from a thawed Siberian tundra, where 90 degree temperatures were had on the Arctic shores.
10 years or less.
It will be entirely obvious.
What Can We Do About This Mess?
Two Little Words:
Carbon Tax
Not only that
Nothing would make a bigger difference than encouraging and facilitating alternatives to driving, whether it's better public transit, better infrastructure for bicycles and pedestrians, a moratorium on building or widening new roads (to discourage sprawl).
Motor vehicle emissions are responsible for 25% of all the CO2 produced by our modern industrial life.
Yes, sad to say the Third World countries are "motorizing," as the jargon has it, but in international conferences, they have said that they will not stop doing this unless the developed countries lead the way. Otherwise, it seems to them that the First World is just trying to hold them back.
Facts vs Politics
It would be nice to think that data and warnings from august bodies such as the NRC would be enough to carry the day with "skeptics" ("denialist" is often a more accurate label), but they haven't so far and I see no reason to think this will change, at least within the United States.
There is also the undeniable fact that the developing world, especially impoverished areas such as sub-sahara Africa and parts of Asia, need affordable energy just to start to climb out of poverty, so simply telling them not to burn coal or oil is going to fall on deaf ears, environmental costs notwithstanding.
I'm completely pessimistic that mitigation/emissions reduction is going to be enough to avoid catastrophic consequences. We're probably already past that point anyway. I'm afraid that more direct, and radical, geoengineering solutions are going to have to be tried.
I recall that, about the time that "An Inconvenient Truth" came out, Richard Branson announced an "X prize" contest for development of a practical method of directly removing CO2 from the atmosphere and sequestering it. I don't know if he still offers it or if anyone has tried to make a claim on it. I also recall seeing an episode of a show on t.v. (can't remember which one, something on the order of Mythbusters but I think it was something else) where a team demonstrated a machine that in fact did remove more CO2 from the atmosphere than it emitted while running, though the gain was modest.
I do believe that something along those lines is going to be necessary, and then watch the political fighting begin over who will control such machines, how much carbon should be removed from the atmosphere, what should be the target average global temperature, etc.
There will be no end to the politics of any of this. But we need to do something, and be aggressive about it, because Neal is right, the danger is extreme and imminent.
Public attitudes
I recently watched a short videoclip comparing climate change denialism to the denialism of cancer being caused by tobacco and smoking. Down to the surprising reminder that one of the leading denalists of tobacco-cancer causation was "Smokey Joe" Barton also one of the leading denialists in the House today. The point of the clip was to show how quickly public opinion changed not so many years ago to where tobacco-cancer denialism is completely banished from thought and discussion today.
I'm confident we are near a tipping point on climate change denial as well and the danger I think is 1) to avoid falling into despair and 2) to avoid the inevitable scams and hoaxes that will be perpetrated to solve the problem. I think a carbon tax is an unavoidable necessity but there will be a lot of pressure by the powerful finance industry-well, the military-industrial-Congressional complex- to adopt a cap and trade system that will resemble something like the tax farming of 18th century France. Our present finance system is beginning to look like that to me already and none of us should be surprising if Goldman Sachs and their ilk already have something in the works to "save the planet" while permanently fixing their hold on most of the wealth and resources in the country.
A fate for misdirected alarmists?
"Not to seize on the sensational," as Ron Meador would say, but . . . when four people die of hypothermia in previously mild California "it tends to capture one's attention."
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So are you implying that a single news story about a couple of people dying from hypothermia is proof that global warming is a hoax? That would be silly to ignore the thousands of peer reviewed articles on the subject that point in the opposite direction.
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The wind rushed through Gwen's hair as she fell. With a fluid, practiced movement, she pulled up her grapnel gun, sighted, and pulled the trigger. The line shot through the night air. In an instant, the hook caught its target and the line pulled taut.
Gwen grabbed hold of the gun with both hands and swung forward with her momentum. Building windows whipped past. At the height of her swing, the hook snapped itself loose and the rope began to retract rapidly. She continued to fly upward, until she flew over the roof of the building. She landed on the roof in a crouch, making no more noise than a gust of wind.
Gwen clipped the grapnel gun back to her belt as she strode to the opposite edge. There, fifty feet down, was her target: Warehouse 10.
The warehouse belonged to Bartolo "The Breaker" Esposito. Thirty percent of the city's illegal goods passed through this warehouse. And she was going to raid it.
Arms pressed to her sides, Gwen drew a deep breath, then leapt off the precipice. She fell a few feet, then pried her arms off her body. Thin, but strong fabric stretched between her arms and body, attached to her suit through magnets and some complex computer coding. She used the wings to turn her fall into a controlled dive as she aimed for one of the large windows in the roof of the warehouse.
A few feet above the window, Gwen swung her legs underneath her. Her heavy boots slammed into the glass, causing it to shatter and rain to the floor.
Gwen dropped with it, but halfway down, she snapped open her wings again and her descent slowed. She again landed in a crouch. In one slow, deliberate movement, she drew herself to her full height. All around her were mobsters, frozen in the midst of activity.
A quick scan of the room showed her that none of the mobsters were armed.
They're certainly making this easy for me, she thought.
One stepped forward, his arms spread in an inviting gesture.
"Bluejay," he called. "How nice of you to, heh, drop in!"
Bluejay didn't respond.
"Listen," the mobster continued "Not that I don't appreciate your visit, but where's your boss?"
"I could ask you the same thing, Rossi," Bluejay answered coldly. "Esposito home sick?"
Rossi shook his head. "The Breaker don't do day-to-day business."
"Shame," the vigilante replied. "Guess I'll have to settle for you."
The cocky grin faded from Rossi's face. "Get her, boys!" he barked.
Four of the grunts immediately ran toward her. The first to reach her swung his right fist in a roundhouse punch. She caught it with her left, then jabbed at his face with her right. Once, twice. The goon fell.
The next one leapt at her. She rolled beneath his feet, taking herself into a neat front hand spring. She sailed into the third goon, knocking him to the floor. The final two mobsters rushed her. She took out one with a swift kick to the kneecap, then punched the final man in the jaw, sending him to the floor.
Above her on a catwalk, one of the smarter mobsters wast trying to get one of the giant automatic rifles from a crate.
Bluejay drew, sighted, and fired her grapnel gun. In an instant, the line drew her up toward the man. She twisted midair, sending herself feet first into the man's side. He crumpled to the catwalk.
Further along the platform, one goon had managed to fumble a gun into his hands. He twisted toward the terrifying figure and squeezed the trigger. The gun kicked and the bullets sprayed wildly.
Bluejay heard the gunfire and launched herself back to the floor. She rolled to absorb the landing. The majority of the thugs had now armed themselves, either with crowbars and bats or with some sort of firearm.
Bluejay reached behind her back for the metal cylinder she knew rested there. With a quick squeeze, the cylinder shot to its full six-foot length.
Bluejay brandished her weapon. No one moved. Then Rossi shouted from the other side of the warehouse "C'mon, you idiots! It's just one girl with a stick!"
The mobsters still didn't move. They knew more than a few guys that had ended up in a hospital for weeks because of that "girl with a stick."
"Get her now!" Rossi screamed. Propelled by their boss the mobsters on the floor began to surge forward, while the few on the catwalk sighted their guns.
Bluejay prepared herself. Despite the odds, she wasn't scared.
Then another of the giant windows shattered. A shadow fell over one of the mobsters with a gun.
"Holy crap!" the man screamed. Then he went down. The newcomer rose to face the mobsters. The Condor had arrived.
"It's him!" one goon whispered.
"The Bird!" another muttered.
Dad, Bluejay thought.
Without a word, Condor leapt from the catwalk, his cape trailing behind him. Then the warehouse erupted into chaos.
Bluejay spun and twisted and leapt through the fray. Her staff slammed into jaws, elbows, knees, hips and any other exposed body part. Occasionally she saw her father, throwing punches and mobsters in equal measure, sometimes flinging one of his razor-sharp projectiles that Bluejay had dubbed "wingers."
In a matter of minutes, the battle was over. Only the two vigilantes were left standing. The unconscious forms of tens of mobsters arrayed around them.
Both were unharmed. Neither were even breathing heavily, but Condor still asked: "Are you hurt?"
"No, I'm fine," Bluejay answered.
"You shouldn't have come here alone," Condor admonished her.
"I had the situation under control!"
"Oh, really? Is that why you were surrounded with guns trained on you?"
"I was fine!"
"You most certainly were not fine! If I hadn't gotten here when I did – " Condor stopped, a grim look on his face. "I didn't want to bring it up under these circumstances, but it seems I have no choice. There is a school –"
"Okay, seriously?" Gwen interrupted. "I act out once and you ship me off to boarding school?"
"Let me finish!" her father snapped.
"What school is it? St. Mary's School for Young Women? St. Margaret's College Prep?" Gwen taunted.
"The Academy of Super Heroes," her father replied, annoyed.
"Ooooh, I get it." Gwen said "You don't think I'm ready for the big leagues, so you're sending me to study up with all the other little wanna-be sidekicks."
"That's not what it is at all," He answered, "I'm trying to give you an advantage I never had when I was training."
"Wow, that's a little cliché even for you."
"Bluejay, I am your father, and my word is final."
"Seriously, did you watch like six crappy teen movies before patrol?"
"Why is it always an argument?!"
"Because you can't have a conversation unless you're yelling at me!"
"That's it! Return to the nest immediately, you're on probation until you leave for the Academy," Condor barked.
"Seriously?!" Bluejay replied.
"Nest. Now," Condor affirmed.
Without another word, Bluejay drew, sighted, and fired her grapnel gun. In an instant, she was racing home through the night air.


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I have a question:
Company Code B with Plant B create STO to get stock from Plant A under Company Code A
The STO at plant B has to be with account assignment of cost center as the user needs to direct charge to cost center upon receiving from plant A (and not to inventory then GI).
The GI from plant A is GI from stock.
In the STO from B, it needs to do this:
Dr AR account (Company B) - 105
Cr Stock Plant B - 100
Cr VAT output - 5
For A, it needs to be:
Cr AP account (company A) - 105
Dr Expense - 100
Dr VAT input - 5
Please advise how to set it up step by step from config and master data without using SD delivery or billing


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It was late August and still warm out, and my wife Robin and I had begun planning our annual trip to Barber Vintage Motorcycle Festival in Leeds, Alabama in October. I recently had the privilege of purchasing this beautiful 77 KZ1000 from the original owner. We had serviced the bike for the last 10 years and we had planted a seed in the customer's ear for quite some time. He finally decided to sell the machine and we were in the right place at the right time. The bike had only ~24,000 miles and we had just serviced it earlier in the year. I jumped at the chance to purchase the bike.
We did a few changes to the machine, as it had a Kerker header on it and K&N air filters, and our friend gave us the stock, mint original exhaust as part of the deal. I had taken my son with me and explained to him that it is very seldom that we can purchase an original motorcycle with a nice, original exhaust.
Our mechanic Hilo began to prepare the machine to be 100% original as he replaced the exhaust and stock air box. The machine had an LTD seat as well as a Dyna ignition. Our customer liked the LTD look and shortened the original turn signal stems. He had chromed a few of the covers and since we were starting to make the bike all stock, we changed out the chrome carburetor covers for nice polished ones as well as installing a brand new set of Avon Tyres. Our intentions were to bring the bike back to 100% and leave it on the showroom floor. The paint was the original Kawasaki Diamond Sky Blue, but had faded at the top to a brownish color and feathered out to the original green. A nice effect, really. Everyone thought it was a custom paint job, and it actually started to grow on us.
Hilo decided to give it a quick tune-up, put 4 quarts of Spectro oil in it out of the drum, and I went for my first road test. I took my son to a local high school football game and the police let me up front because I was on a bike and most people who saw the bike were floored by the condition. Most have stories to share. Keep in mind this is at a football game! We later met up with some friends and stopped to have a pizza. We couldn't stop bragging about the bike so my buddy and his boy had to take it for a spin. They were both in awe after riding the 37-year-old classic. We wound up storing the machine for another month or so before deciding to put the bike through it's paces – and ride it to Barber Vintage Motorcycle Festival in Alabama the second week of October.
We were also celebrating our wedding anniversary. My wife and I took off that Wednesday morning after tying up some loose ends at the shop. I was lucky to have Robin with her 1994 BMW K75 RT with hard saddlebags to carry most of our gear and clothing, and a 5.5-gallon capacity fuel tank. We eyeballed the fuel level on the KZ before leaving figuring we'd get at least 100 miles behind us before stopping. To our surprise, the KZ sputtered to a stop on I-71 just north of Columbus, the first tank out. I had inadvertently left the petcock on reserve when we left the shop. With this motorcycle you must always be on the lookout for a gas station. At a range of roughly 29 mpg, the tank holds just over 3 gallons so we got a little nervous every 75 miles.
The ride was brisk at times, as I had no windshield and pretty mediocre gear. We made it to Munfordville KY the first night, stopping around 8:00 after traveling about 389 miles hitting traffic and some construction. I had no real complaints about anything with the bike except for the gas mileage. Because the bike had the LTD seat, I was able to move around and stretch my legs. At times I'd move to the passenger seat and move from front to rear pegs to offer more positions. We ran into zero rain the first day and life was good. It was always nice to be able to take the time to stop and talk to people who would share their stories of the Kawasaki experience growing up.
The second day we headed into a near monsoon south of Bowling Green KY. We stopped to put my rain gear on and when the rain started it came down hard and steady, yet we managed to keep a good pace of between 70 and 75 mph through it all. Sometimes it's nice to have a naked bike, and sometimes it's not. My wife was enjoying her ride on the BMW with the fairing through the rain, smirking in her helmet, watching the rooster tail off my rear tire fill my hood with water. Through it all, we made it to Leeds on Thursday afternoon, totaling 724 miles one-way by my speedometer, and 702 by Google Maps.
I have to say, having the new Avon Tyres gave me peace of mind traveling in the rain and keeping the pace at 70 mph or better.
We arrived at Barber at around 3:00 pm after gaining an hour from Eastern to Central time zones. The shopping at the swap meet and sightseeing soon began. While at Barber, we had many people come to the booth and admire our little stable of Kawasakis. I had also brought along a very nice 1976 KZ900A on the company truck transported by our mechanic Hilo and store manager Marie, along with some hand-selected inventory. The four of us camped at the swap meet, made deals, cooked and ate, and it was a nice time.
Robin talked me into signing up with the Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club for the parade lap on the famous Barber Speedway to take place on Sunday morning. It was a treat to look at and ride with all the vintage motorcycles at the VJMC event and meet fellow Vintage Japanese motorcycle enthusiasts. I mentioned earlier we were celebrating our wedding anniversary, as we were married in the Barber museum 5 years before, and what better way of commemorating the event than to take a few laps together around the track on two vintage Kawasaki KZs. Robin on the KZ1000 that I rode down, and I on the KZ900.
Immediately afterward, in the interest of time we had to exit the track and head back to the motor home to pack and load up, then head toward the Cherokee National Forest. Our plan was to take the long way and ride the Dragon at Deals Gap on our return trip. It had begun raining soon into the trip, and continued the rest of day once we left Leeds. As we headed through Chattanooga then into Cleveland TN we headed East into the Appalachian mountains. The sun had set, it was getting cool, I was getting pretty soggy from riding the naked bike and I wanted to find a room. Hotels AND gas stops were becoming fewer and farther in-between and I was getting nervous and pretty testy. Nothing was open in the forest; our first attempt at a Ma 'n Pa place with a cruelly-lit "Vacancy" sign was not successful. To our disappointment our knocks on the office door remained unanswered as we sat bitching at each other in the parking lot, deciding what to do.
Continuing on route 64 in Ocoee, we followed the first sign suggesting gas and lodging, which took us even further into the darkness past Greasy Creek. The trail was getting more winding and narrowed as we went. Had it been daylight, and me with a full tank, it would have been an entirely different experience. I had visions of pushing this bike into the next town, getting hit and killed on the way. Robin had visions of leaving the KZ in the bushes and going 2-up into town for another gas can. It actually seemed like survival mode more often than not. I was NOT enjoying this part of the trip. We finally found a convenience store (no gas here) and got directions to the nearest town of Etowah. We made the gas station just minutes before it was lights out at 9 pm! We both breathed a very heavy sigh of relief. That night it didn't matter if the hotel room was clean or if the dinner was warm. It was All Good. We were safe. Disaster averted. That situation could have become pretty ugly, pretty quick.
The next day after a huge breakfast and interesting conversation at Scotty's Diner, we headed through more curvy and mountainous roads to Cherohala Skyway and pulled over at a scenic overlook. There we started noticing photographers set up on the curves to capture motorcyclists maneuvering their way through the mountain passes. They would later upload these photos to a website after time-stamping them and you could log on and purchase your photos. This shot of me on the filthy KZ1000 is testament to what we had ridden through earlier. The bike had quite a patina on it from the road grime.
The Dragon was a cool ride. The cars and some of the bikes would even pull over and motion for you to pass as you approached from behind. As long as you downshifted a couple of gears, the Kawasaki had plenty of power coming through the turns. The brakes never faded. The famous Dragon, route 149 between North Carolina and Tennessee boasts 318 curves in only 11 miles. It's short, but it's a workout. I would highly recommend a nice set of tires and good brakes before attempting to conquer this road. And going during off-season helps avoid the crowds and daredevils for the most part.
After "Taming the Dragon," we proceeded to Knoxville, where we stopped for sushi and a look at the weather map. Flash flood warnings were surrounding us. We had planned to spend the rest of this travel day on some back roads, but once we saw the path of the storm, decided it best if we got as far North as possible on the slab that night. We wound up staying in Lexington KY and rode home through a steady downpour that next day.
All in all, my conclusion of the KZ1000A: Great power, good brakes, fair suspension, fantastic character; dismal gas mileage.
The vintage naked bike is not meant for everyone on a 1,500-mile trip. If you have to explain to someone why you are riding this bike, there's a good chance most will just never understand. I have to give the KZ1000 a two-thumbs up, however. The character this bike possesses makes it very easy to make friends everywhere you stop. If you have time for this social interaction, I would highly recommend taking some nice back roads. I promise you'll always find someone with a heartwarming story to share about the old Kawasaki.
My socks are just about dry now. Stay tuned for more road tests…
John Bova
Don Best of St. Augustine, Florida is the proud winner of the 1976 Kawasaki KZ900 Raffle Bike. Don says he saw the ad for the raffle in Walneck's Cycle Trader and just had to get in on it. Don has been purchasing 5 raffle tickets each week from the Team website. Don himself had visited Cooperstown as a boy and said he knew that his efforts would be well worth the experience the players will have this coming summer at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. Well done, Don!
Photo L to R: Marie Waisner, Hilo Ito, Don Best, John Bova, Robin Bova
Our sincerest thank you to all who participated...
Johnny's Vintage Motorcycle Co Receives 2013 Best of Wadsworth Award
Wadsworth Award Program Honors the Achievement
WADSWORTH September 5, 2013 -- Johnny's Vintage Motorcycle Co has been selected for the 2013 Best of Wadsworth Award in the Motorcycle Dealers category by the Wadsworth Award Program.
Each year, the Wadsworth Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Wadsworth area a great place to live, work and play.
Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2013 Wadsworth Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Wadsworth Award Program and data provided by third parties.
About Wadsworth Award Program
The Wadsworth Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Wadsworth area. Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value.
The Wadsworth Award Program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in our community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to recognize the small business community's contributions to the U.S. economy.
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Johnny's VMC was recently featured on "What's In The Barn", hosted by Wheels Through Time Museum curator, Dale Walksler.
Airing on July 23, episode 6 told the horrific tale of a double murder over money and motorcycles. About a year ago, Dale approached Johnny about coming to his shop to look at a collection of parts. He brought a camera crew to help put together a documentary, tracking what happened to an inventory sold at auction in Richmond IL about seventeen years ago. Johnny was at this auction, and still has part of this collection still inventoried.
As luck would have it, the day of the filming, a 1916 Harley belonging to one of Johnny's customers happened to be sitting on the floor waiting to be received by the owner. This customer graciously gave Dale permission to get the bike started and ride the bike into town with a camera attached. Part of this footage of Dale riding into Wadsworth that day on the old Harley can be seen on the show trailer!
The online clip does not include what was filmed at Johnny's shop that day, but gives you a good idea of the story. Check out Dale's awesome show on Velocity Channel, Monday nights 10:00 pm EST
Fortunately, our mechanic, Eric, had experience with these motorcycles and he highly endorsed the performance, handling dependability and rideability that this motorcycle offered. The bike only had 14,000 miles on the odometer, and we figured we'd give it a try.
Eric pulled the bike into the shop, pulled the carbs and went to town with it. The collapsed forks were just an air pressure issue, and the carb cleanup was routine for Eric as well as the general maintenance performed.
Eric started working on the motorcycle on a Thursday. I wasn't sure if he was going to finish the bike before our upcoming Labor Day trip, but he did. We had ordered some new Avon Tyres for it which hadn't arrived, however we used the trusty old Dunlops for the trip. I rode the bike in town a little. It seemed very awkward at the beginning as I am more used to riding Z1s, H2s, KZs, and some vintage BMWs. My heart was not into this motorcycle.
After the bike preparation, Robin and I departed for Watkins Glen, NY, taking the back roads on Route 6 across PA. It was a treat for me to ride a bike fitted with a tour pack and hard saddle bags, including liners, as well as AM/FM cassette tape player, cruise control, fairing vents, etc. Deep down inside, I am a true "naked bike" rider at heart. When we were young, we used to laugh at people who rode with windshields, as this was the first thing that came off the motorcycles. Now I'm singing a different tune...
So my wife and I were heading down I-80 to get to route 66 just West of Clarion PA. I started checking the mileage on the bike and we were getting a true 44-mpg through all types of traffic, a few bursts of speed through the hills and forests.
We had been riding 150 miles or so to Coudersport, I was getting accustomed to the feel of the heavy bike. I loved the brakes, the power, and the radio was really turning me on. It started getting old with my wife reminding me to "turn that radio down!" when we pulled into a quiet area with it blasting away. It was a real novelty for me to enjoy a radio while riding. On the radio that night they were talking about Neil Armstrong being laid to rest earlier that day. Ironically, the full moon was huge that night, practically lighting our way through the mountains. It was almost surreal and I had never seen the moon like that before.
We stopped at Coudersport PA after several hours of night riding, and checked into a motel West of town where we happened to meet 6 or 7 gentlemen gathered for a cross-country dual-sport ride. They rode everything from KLR650 to KTMs to Suzuki's and came from as far South as TN to MI, meeting in the middle for a week-long off-road adventure.
After our conversation with the off-road guys, we ventured down the road about 3-4 miles and discovered a unique café and bistro, the only place open for dinner at around 8:30 at night in Coudersport. "Olgas," opened fairly recently, is situated in a stone storefront, featuring big windows, and a beautiful big wooden bar. What a find. You ordered off of a pretty extensive menu offering healthier and gourmet dishes, and while you waited for your food, you were encouraged to shop in their art gallery. The owner, Olga, is a young woman who does her painting and crafts right on site, and her wares decorate the entire building, several floors, along with the works of other artists. It was a nice find in an otherwise low-key town. http://eggdecorator.com/cafe_bistro.php
We rode two-up to dinner and back to the hotel, where we found our off-road buddies outside enjoying themselves, kicking tires in anticipation of the week's adventures in the wilderness. Robin thoroughly envied them.
The next morning we set out toward Finger Lakes, heading toward Wellsboro PA, which is near the Grand Canyon of the East, then from Route 6 caught route 15 N, a new highway heading into Horseheads NY. As we were going through, all of a sudden it hit me, this bike is really growing on me. It was such a pleasure to be riding with my wife through this beautiful area. As we all know it is great to ride with a friend, but when you can ride with someone who is your friend, partner and wife, it is an experience that is hard to explain.
As we were riding our motorcycles, we were always looking for Kawasaki dealers, old stuff on the roads, etc. We fell short on that quest this time, but needless to say the riding was great.
Once we got close to Finger Lakes, winding up route 54 into Hammondsport we stopped at the Glenn Curtiss Museum. This is a real, must-see for anyone into airplanes and motorcycles and history. "Dedicated to the memory of pioneer aviator, Glenn Curtiss, the museum contains a priceless collection relating to early aviation and local history." Glenn Curtiss began his career as a builder of bicycles and then, motorcycles. In 1907 he became the "fastest man on earth" when he attained a speed of 136.4 MPH on his V8 powered motorcycle. An exact reproduction of this bike is one of several Curtiss motorcycles that are on display. http://www.glennhcurtissmuseum.org/
Within a mile or two of the museum, you get your first eyeful of the Finger Lakes, heading up County Rd 87 toward Watkins Glen. This is a beautiful part of the country. This is where the Voyager really started to "gel" with me, thinking of past racing experiences, thinking about what you see on TV with the moto GP, we were riding some of the roads where the old Watkins Glen Grand Prix race took place before the actual track was built. These roads take you right past where the BMW rally has been held for over 25 years, on Labor Day Weekend.
I just couldn't believe the horsepower of the Voyager as well as the brakes and the handling. For a truly vintage rider, this was really a treat for me.
We hung around at the BMW rally in Watkins Glen, met a lot of old friends, and met some new friends. Everyone has a story to tell at these rallies, and sharing these stories is really a fond memory. We rode around Seneca Lake, which is the largest of the Finger Lakes, about 38 miles in length. Our trip circling around the lake would be around 100 miles. Looking for photo-ops, these roads are lined with wineries and restaurants catering to the wine enthusiast. There are over 80 wineries in the area.
We also managed to fit in a charter boat ride on Saturday on the 1926 John Alden Malabar VII Schooner. "True Love," was featured in the 1956 movie "High Society" with Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra. http://www.schoonerexcursions.com/
The rally always has a nice little flea market, and we did a little buying while there. We wound up buying some Buco saddlebags and some Wixom bags, and our friends from Toledo graciously offered to haul them back for us in their car. We stayed on the campground on Sunday night at the Connecticut BMW Club cabin, then said our final goodbyes. We then set sail back to Ohio. We were prepared for the rain as we left, but ended up shedding the Frogg Toggs partway into the trip, being reminded of how much protection these big bikes offer.
Although I have done very little touring on modern motorcycles, after I got used to the weight and maneuvering this large bike it became almost automatic. With the wonderful horsepower, instant throttle response, overdrive transmission, good brakes, and totally functional luggage, this is the best touring bike I've ever straddled. Our total mileage for the weekend was a little over 1,000 miles. We got a constant 40+mpg, and I would highly recommend a bike like this to anyone wanting to travel cross-country, once you learn how to manage the weight. There is something about a Kawasaki in-line 4 cyl that will grow on you. This is basically the great-grandson of the Z1 if you really think about it.
Now that we are back in Ohio sitting down to write this article, I realize how much I'm riding this bike as a daily rider to run errands for the shop, etc. The Avon Tyres finally did arrive and got mounted; in one month, we'd already put another 1,000 miles on those tyres!
Perhaps it will be difficult now to return to my Z1 roots.
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