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For your car to have more romantic sound and ambiance while you drive, especially in the evening with your sweetheart in tow, a speaker system with a 12-inch subwoofer will graciously render the passionate music. Some of the world's best 12-inch subwoofers are easily available online which you can order with free shipping.
But why do 12-inch subwoofers the preferred choice by most car owners? While you mix it with the best car speakers (2), you can blend them together to assemble the best sound possible. We tackle here 5 of the leading brands of 12-inch subwoofers in the market and know what the best one for your needs, but first, take a look at some facts about this well-loved piece of an audio system.
Benefits of Using Subwoofers
Utilizing a 12-inch subwoofer puts you on the edge over other sizes. This type of subwoofer is universal which could provide you with diverse music having heavier bass. The sub woofer (also called "sub") is part of the speaker system that is designed to produce the lower end of frequencies, commonly known as "bass". You may opt for a 6.5" car speaker (3) and the best car amplifier (4) as perfect combinations with a subwoofer.
The subwoofer is primarily designed to reproduce bass which when hearing along with music, creates a realistic low-frequency base of recorded sounds providing unimaginable excitement. Additionally, a component subwoofer increases the level of power to your sound and music when other speaker systems can't recreate.
Here are some other benefits of using subwoofers:
- Allows for the suitable bass range.
- Aids in preventing distortion.
- Averts potential damage to the speaker system.
- The bass functions without direction.
- The bass could enhance optimal performance for your speakers.
- Subwoofers create a sensible sound sensation.
How to Choose the Best 12-inch Subwoofer
If you want the best 12-inch subwoofer, you have to decide on what kind of bass you are looking for. It's not always ideal to have bigger sub woofer because different sizes and make have different sounds to a variety of music. The key to finding the right 12-inch subwoofer for you is to find the right match for your preferred music and sounds.
Here are other criteria to consider in choosing the best 12-inch subwoofer for your needs and a brief explanation on each benchmark.
Note: These criteria are made simple for non-technical people so they may easily understand the basis for choosing the best sub for them. For a more technical car owners who want detailed information, they may check out the technical descriptions of each product within this article and their links.
The wattage is the unit of power usually used to measure the capacity of the sub. The wattage range for a common subwoofer is from a low of 100 watts to as high as 2,000 watts. The wattage is also the measure of power into how high a subwoofer will emit sound at any given time.
2. Materials of enclosure
One of the finest materials that the modern sub boxes are made is fiberglass because of its flexibility. Fiberglass is also proven to produce unique sound quality and deeper bass enhancement. The other great material for sub enclosure is wood. The box enclosure though is usually not included in the purchase of a subwoofer, the box is sold separately.
3. Sound quality
This is what separate other brands from each other. Although all subs are almost made with the same materials, wattage, and with similar RMS power ratings, sounds vary from every manufacturer. Furthermore, every listener has his/her own preference of a great sound. If you think a particular brand has a sound that suits your taste, go for it.
4. Cost
Try not to be intimated by the price of your choice. Whether it's the cheapest or the most expensive subwoofer in the planet, take down its qualities and use your instinct to decide, while also asking your pocket if you could go deeper.
5 Best 12-inch Subwoofers In 2017- a Review
It is also crucial that you search for the right brand that possesses these qualities which will give your preferred bass sound. That is why we assembled these 5 best 12-inch subwoofers from an array of dozens of brands, and we arrived at this finest list that we firmly believed have the most distinct bass sounds among other brands.
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The Pioneer Ts-w3003d4 is a 2000-watt, 12-inch Professional Subwoofer that has a nominal power range of 300 to 600 Watts RMS on top of the max power of 2,000 Watts. Being made by Pioneer, the world's leading brand in audio systems, the Pioneer TS Champion Series Subwoofer has a sensitivity of 96dB and frequency response of 20 to 80 Hz, an ideal frequency range that will produce dramatic bass inside your car.
The Pioneer Ts-w3003d4 Professional Subwoofer only needs a small space to be more productive (only 0.85 to 1.75 cubic feet will suffice), so it is not in any way obstruct anything inside your car. This sleek sub has a more appealing surface which enhances the beauty of your car's interior.
- Power handling capacity: 2,000 Watts, Peak; 600 Watts RMS.
- Terminal posts are spring-loaded.
- Mounting depth is just enough at 11.10 inches.
- Ideal for sealed enclosure.
- Any ported or vented enclosure will not alter quality.
- Woofer cone is seamless IMPP composite.
- Comes with a one-year warranty against defective parts.
- Can also be used in home theaters and other home applications.
- Requires 1 piece of a 12V battery (each sub) to operate.
- The depth reaches 12 inches.
Coming in with Max Power of 2700 Watts and RMS rating of 1350 Watts, the Power Acoustik MOFO 12-inch Subwoofer is one of the leading brands in the market today. The MOFO Series Car Subwoofers have their motors refined and enhanced efficiency from MOFOs of 6 years ago while the cones are non-pressed pulp for added durability and truly smooth and low bass. The heat cap is now made from aluminum and at the same time coupled to the coil former, which acts as a heat extractor (or a heat sink).
- With new generation aluminum dust cap, coupling the voice coil former.
- With fins bracing the cone (made from a composite of cloth paper) that eliminates cone flex.
- Has superior performance compared to old MOFOs.
- With 90-day warranty against factory defects.
- Comes with accented blue hue that serves as an interior design for your car.
- Has UV cover foam surround for a more distinguishable bass sound.
- Medium price subwoofer.
- Depth of mounting is only 6.5-inch.
- Enclosure not included, sold separately. Power Acoustik recommends their proprietary vented enclosure available with the purchase, just add less than $50
- The product is non-returnable when already purchased, you can consult warranty certificate for further details.
- One of the heaviest subs (27lbs weight).
The Rockford Fosgate P3D4 1200-Watt Peak Subwoofer is a 4-Ohm, 12-Inch and a 600-Watt RMS sub that comes with many other functional features other brands fail to deliver. The Rockford Fosgate Punch Series have flex fit plastic design and much greater appearance for your dashboard. This product still delivers 1200 Watts of maximum power handling (on a 600-Watt RMS) creating one of the most admirable bass sounds you will ever hear.
The Rockford Fosgate P3D4-12 is boosted with VAST (Vertical Attached Surround Technique), a proprietary technology that increases the area where sounds emanate. This technology allows for a more distinct tone perfecting the sound quality.
- With copper clad aluminum voice coil (2.5-inch in diameter).
- Ideal to use in cars and trucks.
- With dual linear spider embedded with 16AWG tinsel.
- Has dust cap and aluminum cone which are anodized for durability and longer lifespan.
- Magnet cover is made from textured PVC.
- Nomex brand reinforced collar, this enables the sub to withstand vibrations and high temperature from prolonged use.
- Un-equalled sound quality as attested by various users.
- Increased cone area without expanding the diameter which adds up to more bass sound.
- Comes only in a single unit.
- One of the products on our list that has a higher price tag.
If you are looking for a mineral-filled and polypropylene cone sub for added durability and efficiency, you may opt for one of car owners' favorite, the JL Audio W0V3 12" Series Subwoofer. This brand has a large roll surround for an ample amount of excursion not readily found with the competitions. This sub is also a space-saver and can fit in a mid-size ported box without the hitch.
Believed to be JL Audio's finest audio equipment on the 12-inch sub category, the JL Audio 12W0V3-4 amazes most of its users because of its terrific sound quality. Although priced higher than the nearest competitors, this bass intensifier is quite a relief from your amplifier. It is not surprising that this product is highly popular among SUVs and light truck drivers.
- With voice coil that has a proprietary Elevated Frame Cooling system bring more air to the coil for maximum cooling.
- Compact and sleek, perfect for sedans and other compact cars.
- Lightweight at only 8.82lbs.
- Peak Power handling is 600 Watts, while RMS rating is 300 Watts.
- Material is Nitrile Butadiene Rubber.
- Surface is smooth finished and has seamless exterior.
- Material is Nitrile Butadiene Rubber.
- Has an ideal free air resonance of 28.43Hz.
- Metallic silver frame finish is classic in style.
- Highly recommended by the auto industry.
- Also one of the most expensive brands, but has distinct qualities.
- Comes only in one piece sub.
This 12-inch subwoofer makes it perfect for a reliable bass inside your vehicle. The sound of the Kenwood KFC-W3016PS 2000-Watt Subwoofer brings justice to every romantic music you want to hear. It comes in at only 4.4lbs and is sleek and a true space-saver for small vehicles. This sub is rated at 2,000W Peak Power and an RMS rating of 400W. A gem of a sub that brings you closer to more bass sound that is truly relaxing to the ears.
This stunning subwoofer has an 8 AWG push terminal so it can be easily installed once you have a perfect enclosure to mount. The KFC-W3016PS is one of those products that add up more life (literally and figuratively) to your amplifier without harming the system. The bass sound it makes is unlike any other which suits more on pop and romantic music.
- One of the cheapest models of Kenwood.
- Comes in various tint and colors.
- Lightweight at only 4.4lbs.
- Slim and sleek, don't need big space to mount.
- Cone is made from heavy-duty polypropylene, reinforced with rubber surround, expecting a longer lifespan than any other brand.
- Kenwood is one of the most respectable brands in a car and home audio systems.
- Also equipped with an elastic polymer surround.
- Single 4-ohm voice coil and an oversized diaphragm.
- Made in the USA
- Increased cone area (but no adjustment in diameter) that enhances low-frequency output (perfect bass enhancement).
- Requires 1 piece of a 12V battery to operate.
- Comes in one piece.
- Requires 8 screws to install.
If we are to choose the best 12-inch subwoofer for 2017, we certainly pick the JL Audio 12W0V3 Series Subwoofer (number 4 on our review). This remarkable sub is not an ordinary one compared to other brands on our review. The cost is out of the question, we can surely add a little bit more in exchange for an ideal performance (undeniably, it has an astounding sound quality).
Although we can manage to purchase its perfect enclosure, the RMS rating (300 Watts) is just flawless for our regular-size car. It's immense features also leave us speechless. Finally, JL Audio is one of the world's finest makers of quality audio equipment and they are proven to last longer than other brands. Really, no doubt about it!


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I'm thinking you might like a feat of analysis?; a brainstorm of reasoning?; or maybe just a mash-up of somewhat related thoughts? In any case, for a random essay, I will now attempt to explicate the relationship as I see it between business, work and community (if you think I'm crazy, don't - I'm having a good time with this). I think about this quite a lot, as I am passionate about combining these three concepts into my daily life. That said, you would be correct to assume that I have a hard time in the current economy, which seeks to divorce work life from home life.
Communities arose over time and are able to adapt to fulfill fundamental needs: companionship, protection, food, clothing, housing, child care, senior care, health care, education, transportation, entertainment and utilities. Communities generate the businesses and services necessary to accommodate these needs; communities also provide the workforces that businesses need to open and thrive. The people, the businesses and the labor are a self-sustaining system - in a word, the economy. I suppose that seems like an obvious conclusion, but this is the first time I've spelled it out for myself logically. I find two things about this intriguing: first, the idea that the larger "economy" started out as a small "community" which relies as much or more on social interactions as it does on fiscal transactions; and second, the revolutionary changes that the corporate form of business has had on both the community and the economy. Business used to exist for the well-being of community, but in the present world takes advantage of community - especially as urban populations swell and rural ones shrink.
The last three years wreaked havoc on my creative ambitions due to an exhausting and unfulfilling job. Three months ago, however, I started working at a brand new coffee shop/cafe/art gallery in Northeast Minneapolis called Mojo, with a very vague suspicion that here I would find the kickstart I was seeking for my creativity. I work at restaurants & cafes; I always will - I'm in the industry for life, but I have an inherent (from my dad) need to derive a deeper satisfaction from my work than just fulfilling the job duties. I desire to work in an environment that fosters creativity and genuinely accommodates meaningful, humanitarian interaction. This all seems a bit philosophical, but when put into practice requires only the social skills we all learn (hopefully) while growing up combined with the specific skill-sets we learn during grade school, college and job training. Work and life need not be mutually exclusive, and I believe there was a time not long ago when the predominant business model encapsulated these two aims: to be a part of the fabric of community; and do so by offering goods and/or services aimed at augmenting that community. I understand, however, that working for someone else most often takes one's own goals and dreams out of the equation, separating them from the work day. Because of this, if you work forty hours a week, you spend about one-third of your time awake accomplishing your employer's goals. Two-thirds of your time remain to achieve your own goals, and raise a family, and dedicate time for free-time, romance or recreation. The full-time work schedule was not established with your best interests in mind... it was created out of a nefarious scheme to render the workforce subservient to the corporate leaders, which has led to a change in our spending habits. Full-time employees, especially if they are also parents, have less time and energy off the job to shop for and cook food (much less grow their own), make their own clothes, fix their own cars and houses, or fellowship with family and friends. We now strive to achieve a certain level of disposable income in order to buy the goods and serves we no longer view as attainable on our own. The attitude of Americans becoming rampant and unwitting consumers has been a hot topic for a decade, yet the cultural penchant to consume has been meticulously calculated by the business sector.
Now I'll step off the soap box and come back to Mojo Coffee Gallery. You might initially think of the song lyric "mojo risin'" from The Doors, or the groovy connotation of the word used by Mike Meyers in the "Austin Powers" movies. In this context, however, the word mojo is used quite spiritually to conjure an image of passion and a desire to affect people through the performance of art and the immediacy of good food. I've perused the definitions of "mojo" and learned that the original word means a small cloth bag worn around the neck that carries a magical charm in it used to attract good luck or love, or to ward off evil spirits. Newer meanings of mojo relate more to personal charisma or confidence; having a quality that distinguishes a person apart from others; the essence of one's style. This is the idea that Mojo Coffee Gallery is built on: that a business can still have a soul. The story of how Mojo came to be involves a group of people attempting to create a space to reconnect community, art and business. I'm excited to see Mojo develop and I'm hopeful that this kind of place can still exist and thrive.

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On January 18, 2017, Archer & Greiner had the rare distinction of appearing before the Supreme Court of the United States. A team of three of our attorneys - Ronald D. Coleman, John C. Connell (argued), and Joel G. MacMull - represented Simon Shiao Tam in his defense of the ruling of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals that the United States Patent and Trademark Office's denial of Mr. Tam's trademark, "The Slants," under the disparagement clause of §2(a) of the Lanham Act was unconstitutional for violating the First Amendment. The Archer team had enlisted the collaboration of Professors Stuart Banner and Eugene Volokh of the UCLA Law School and its Supreme Court Litigation Clinic in researching and drafting the Respondent's brief and strategizing the argument. Professor Banner is the Director of UCLA's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic and a legal historian who has written about a wide range of topics in American and British legal history; Professor Volokh is a nationally renowned First Amendment scholar and the author of "The Volokh Conspiracy", the First Amendment blog of the Washington Post. We are grateful for their significant support and contribution.
This appeal was considered by many as one of the most important matters before the Court this term, as well as one of the most significant First Amendment cases in many years. Given the novelty of the issues involved in this appeal, the Court subjected both parties to vigorous questioning. A report of the argument may be found at SCOTUSblog Case Updates http://www.scotusblog.com/2017/01/argument-analysis-justices-skeptical-federal-bar-disparaging-trademarks/. A decision is expected by June 30. The ruling will have a direct bearing on a case involving the Washington Redskins football team currently on appeal before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. In July 2015, a federal judge in Virginia upheld the government's cancellation of the NFL team's trademarks on grounds the term "Redskin" was disparaging to Native Americans at the time the marks were registered decades earlier.
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Greek-Australian photographer Isaac defies his father's wish that none of his family ever sets foot in Europe. In a fit of pique, his dad drives his car into the back of a truck. But his son gets the last laugh by packing his dad's ashes for the flight, to scatter in his home village.
Isaac travels to Athens, Paris and Budapest and finds only depression, decadence and violence, which suggests a poor choice of guidebook. Europe is full of desperate refugees, and the face of one of them, Josef, haunts Isaac on his travels, embodying the family secret that Isaac's dad was so anxious to hide.
Isaac's elusive brother Nico has answers but he's played by Marton Csokas, doing his Lord-Byron-reincarnated-as-a-Kiwi-and-pretty-pissed-off-about-it schtick.
Dead Europe is competently made but lacks narrative drive, engaging characters and plot twists. Which is quite a lot. 5/10
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I chose the issue of stress because it interested me at how many people were claiming to be "stressed". I also chose this as it has affected many people including myself. This issue is relevant to me because I have felt stressed at many times when there was a lot of homework and projects to be completed. This is important because stress can become a serious issue if one is feeling too much stress, it can lead to various unhealthy effects on the body. This affects many other teenagers because they have felt stressed at various points throughout the year because of schoolwork.
What I learnt about this issue is that various people are affected by it including teenagers and adults. Even though adults are stressed, it is more common in teenagers. On a recent survey conducted by the Washington Post, 83 percent of teens said that school was "a somewhat or significant source of stress." Twenty-seven percent reported "extreme stress" during the school year. My thinking about stress is that it could be very dangerous to a person's health, and have effect their lives unhealthily. My thinking has change about this issue as many people claimed to be very stressed, and now I have realised that too much stress can be a very dangerous thing.
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The death of Dr. Channing at Bennington in Vermont, on the 2d October, is an event of great note to the whole country. The great loss of the community is mitigated by the new interest which intellectual power always acquires by the death of the possessor. Dr. Channing was a man of so much rectitude, and such power to express his sense of right, that his value to this country, of which he was a kind of public Conscience, can hardly be overestimated. Not only his merits, but his limitations also, which made all his virtues and talents intelligible and available for the correction and elevation of society, made our Cato dear, and his loss not to be repaired. His interest in the times, and the fidelity and independence, with which, for so many years, he had exercised that censorship on commercial, political, and literary morals, which was the spontaneous dictate of his character, had earned for him an accumulated capital of veneration, which caused his opinion to be waited for in each emergency, as that of the wisest and most upright of judges. We shall probably soon have an opportunity to give an extended account of his character and genius. In most parts of this country notice has been taken of this event, and in London also. Beside the published discourses of Messrs. Gannett, Hedge, Clarke, Parker, Pierpont, and Bellows, Mr. Bancroft made Dr. Channing's genius the topic of a just tribute in a lecture before the Diffusion Society at the Masonic Temple. We regret that the city has not yet felt the propriety of paying a public honor to the memory of one of the truest and noblest of its citizens.


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You have to read Holland with some attention. Her writing is almost like a film script, it is up to you to wonder ":Why would he say that?" or "Why would she do that?". She has a writing style that makes the reader do some work.
In this book the main character is VERY intelligent but very inarticulate, even to himself. He does not question why he does things but simply lives in the moment. You have to check the reaction of the people around him to see the profound effect he has on them.
I enjoy historical fiction, I like books about Vikings and I am also very interested in Byzantine history and culture, all of which can be found in this novel. That said, I didn't find the characters or the situations all that compelling. I realize now I probably should have read the earlier books in the series, which may (or may not) add depth and enjoyability to an otherwise sterile and straightforward narrative.
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As Turkey shoots down Russian plane NATO is at least indirectly involved as Turkey is the alliance member. What could/should be role of NATO (if any) in the current situation when probably first all we should find the way how deescalate? Read few comments.
John R. Deni*, Research Professor of National Security Studies, Strategic Studies Institute
NATO isn't very involved in this incident, at least not yet. The alliance conducted a so-called 'extraordinary' meeting of the North Atlantic Council, at Turkey's request, which seems very appropriate. After all, it seems clear from the flight data presented by Turkey that Russia did indeed — and yet again — violate Turkish sovereignty, apparently flying into Turkish airspace 10 times within a five-minute period along the Syrian border. If the Russians lack the ability and/or the willingness to avoid such violations — recall that the they've previously apologized for 'navigational errors' when they've flown into Turkish airspace — then Turkey is completely justified in defending its territory and airspace.
Do occasional violations add up to an Article 5-like 'attack' on a member? That's in the eye of the beholder and will depend on many factors such as the amount, frequency, and scope of the violations. At this point though, even though Turkey appears fully justified in doing what it did, it does not seem to me that what has occurred to date has crossed an Article 5 threshold, or that the alliance is anywhere close to invoking Article 5.
Instead, the most appropriate action for the alliance right now is standing shoulder to shoulder politically with Turkey. NATO solidarity in the face of Russian aggression is critically important, and needs to be the focus of the alliance for the moment. Meanwhile, I would be surprised to see either side escalate this very much, at least militarily. Both states face a host of security and foreign policy challenges, and it would seem illogical for either Moscow or Ankara to add things to the plate.
What is perhaps most interesting at this time is the effect this incident will have on European attitudes toward easing up sanctions on Russia over Ukraine. There were already media reports indicating that the EU was leaning toward renewal of the sanctions at year's end. Repeated Russian violations of Turkish sovereignty could stiffen the resolve of many in the EU who want to maintain the sanctions, providing a countervailing impetus to those that wanted to loosen sanctions in the wake of the ISIS attacks against the Russian airliner and Paris in recent weeks.
* These views do not necessarily reflect those of the U.S. Government.
Stanley Sloan, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council of the United States, Visiting Scholar in Political Science Middlebury College, Author of book Defense of the West: NATO, the European Union and the Transatlantic Bargain to be published in 2016
This soon after a new development it is no surprise that some reports are misleading concerning important "technical" details. One of those details is that, even though Turkey is a NATO member, the Turkish F-16s that engaged the Russian aircraft were not operating as part of a NATO mission. They were not being managed by NATO's Integrated Command Structure, and therefore this was not a NATO use of force against the Russian aircraft. Russia may well attempt to shift some of the onus to the alliance, but NATO needs to make it clear that the incident did not grow out of a NATO activity.
Just as President Obama has done in his press conference with President Hollande, NATO has already backed Turkey's right to defend its territory against foreign intrusions. This is true even if a Russian aircraft intruding in Turkey's airspace while attacking anti-Assad forces in Syria does not constitute an "attack" on Turkey and therefore does not come close to warranting invocation of NATO's Article 5 collective defense provision. The emergency NATO meeting on 24 November requested by Turkey ended, in fact, with Secretary General Stoltenberg making it clear that, while backing Turkey's actions, every attempt should be made to avoid escalation of the conflict between Turkey and Russia.
NATO allies should, on a bilateral basis, re-double their efforts to convince Russia that its military activities in support of President Assad need, at the very least, to be de-conflicted with those of the US-led anti-Daesh coalition. Going beyond de-confliction, the allies should continue to try to convince Russia to cooperate in finding a path toward new leadership in Damascus while directing its military efforts only at Daesh, not at other opponents of the Assad regime. These are concessions not to be expected from Russia in the near term, but remain arguments that NATO allies should continue making to President Putin.
Finally, while trying to calm the waters with Moscow, the allies should be firm in pointing out that the incident can be seen as a consequence of the provocative activities of Russian military forces in the past few years, to say nothing of their aggressive use against Ukraine. Russia is playing a dangerous game, and now perhaps is when we will learn whether Putin the risk-taker will give way to Putin the realist. Perhaps President Hollande can use his bilateral talks with President Putin to move him in this direction.
Sean Kay, Professor, Department of Politics and Government, Ohio Wesleyan University
Overall, NATO's role is to support the principle of respect for airspace and do what it can to help de-escalate the situation. I do not see much likelihood of additional NATO involvement in this, though Turkey could request additional support for its defensive position, especially near the that border with Syria. Russia has been doing a wide range of irresponsible things with its air planes – at that border, but also around Europe and the U.S. It is not conducive to a country wishing better relations. On the other hand, the NATO allies also would understand well that their is not going to be a solution to the Syria crisis that does not involve the Russians and so how to get to that diplomatic endgame, is at the end of the day, the key question. But Turkey too has serious interests in seeing any additional tensions with Moscow de-escalate and fast, given their deep dependence on Russia for energy supplies.
The NATO Secretary General did a good job of signaling this support for principle on airspace while emphasizing the importance of de-escalation. Probably the key meeting is between Holland and Putin, later this week.
Garret Martin, Professorial Lecturer, School of International Service, Editor at Large at the European Institute, American University
In my view, NATO only has a limited role to play in this incident and it will try to maintain a balancing act. On the one hand, NATO will want to reassure Turkey and to express general solidarity, especially over the question of the violation of Turkey's airspace. On the other hand, there is no desire to see this situation escalate further, since Russian cooperation, despite its differing goals in the region, could be an asset in attacking ISIS and ending the Syrian conflict.
Bill Park, Senior Lecturer, Department of Defence Studies, King's College, London University
It seems to me in what is still an unfolding situation that Erdogan has met his match, that his NATO allies don't trust him so much and are reserved in their support, and that Putin is using the opportunity to destroy Turkey's proxies in Syria. The fear is that there is another incident. The likelihood is that if Russia is reckless enough to provoke one (a possibility) Turkey will be more cautious next time around.
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Published : 14 Mar 2018, 16:47
Bangladesh is to observe "State Mourning Day" today in view of the Monday's aviation tragedy when the private US- Bangla craft crashed in Nepal claiming over 50 lives.
"A high-level emergency meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair took the decision to observe the State Mourning," PM's Principal Secretary Md Nojibur Rahman told a press briefing emerging from the meeting at the PMO.
He said according to the decision national flag would be kept half mast throughout the day while mosques and places of worships like temples, churches and pagodas across the country were asked to stage prayers on Friday to seek eternal peace of the of those who died in the crash and for early recovery of the injured.
The principal secretary said the premier asked authorities concerned at the meeting to take preventive measures to avoid such air crashes in future and particularly asked the ministries and divisions concerned and the airlines operators to follow properly the international aviation safety regulations.
"She also put emphasis on further strengthening the capabilities of all to tackle such situations," Rahman said.
The principal secretary said the prime minister requested the countrymen to have patience at this time, describing the crash as a big "accident for us".
She mourned for the passengers, the pilots and crew of the craft and two Planning Commission officials saying they were part of "our meritorious community" and directed the authorities concerned to ensure proper treatment of those who were admitted to different hospitals in Nepal.
The premier, he said, also directed authorities to extend assistance for the burn wounded Nepalese nationals of the craft as Bangladesh has better facilities for burn injury patients.
Rahman said the prime minister was deeply shocked at the loss of life and property and it was reflected in her video message that she sent from Singapore ahead of returning home cutting short her overseas tour.
The principal secretary said arrangements were underway to bring back the bodies of the dead from Nepal.
The US-Bangla Airlines aircraft crashed and burst into flames while landing at Trivubhan International Airport in Kathmandu on Monday afternoon killing at least 50 passengers.
"A complete presentation over the situation after the crash was made before the premier at the meeting," Rahman said.
The principal secretary said the premier's talks earlier with her Nepalese counterpart created a field for authorities of the two countries to jointly carry out the required post-crash tasks enabling Bangladesh's foreign ministry and civil aviation ministries active involvement.
Besides, he said, a police expert team would go to Kathmandu to identify the victims' charred bodies of the victims through DNA tests.
He said the meeting also decided to send a medical team from Bangladesh for better treatment of the injured while the US-Bangla authorities pledged to send two critically wounded passengers to a third country for their better treatment.
The airlines, he said, by now sent an aircraft carrying relatives of the dead and injured passengers to Nepal. The principal secretary said civil aviation minister Shahjahan Kamal was now in Kathmandu to coordinate different matters keeping and "providing us information on various matters and we will be able to know details after his return".
Rahman said the prime minister asked her ruling Awami League leaders to stand beside the families who lost their near and dear ones in the crash and accordingly, he said, the Awami League general secretary was taking various measures.
Health Minister Mohammad Nasim, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, PM's Adviser HT Imam, chiefs of army, navy and air force, secretaries of the ministries concerned, the civil aviation authority chairman and senior PMO officials were present at the meeting.
At the meeting, the prime minister was apprised of various initiatives of the foreign ministry, the civil aviation ministry, the health ministry, the PMO and others concerned.
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HEINRICH FRIEDRICH WILHELM GESENIIJS (1786—1842), German orientalist and biblical critic, was born at Nordhausen, Hanover, on the 3rd of February 1786. In 1803 he became a student of philosophy and theology at the university of Helmstedt, where Heinrich Henke (1752—1809) was his most influential teacher; but the latter part of his university course was taken at Gottingen, where J.•G. Eichhorn and T. C. Tychsen (1758—1834) were then at the height of their popularity. In 18o6, shortly after graduation, he became Repetent and Privatdozent in that university; and, as he was fond of afterwards relating, had Neander for his first pupil in Hebrew. In 1810 he became professor extraordinarius in theology, and in 1811 ordinarius, at the university of Halle, where, in spite of many offers of high preferment elsewhere, he spent the rest of his life. He taught with great regularity for upward of thirty years, the only interruptions being that of 1813—1814 (occasioned by the War of Liberation, during which the university was closed) and those occasioned by two prolonged literary tours, first in 1820 to Paris, London and Oxford with his colleague Johann Karl Thilo (1794—1853) for the examination of rare oriental manuscripts, and in 1835 to England and Holland in connexion with his Phoenician studies. He soon became the most popular teacher of Hebrew and of Old Testament introduction and exegesis in Germany; during his later years his lectures were attended by nearly five hundred students. Among his pupils the most eminent were Peter von Bohlen (1796—1840), A. G. Hoffmann (1769—1864), Hermann Hupfeld, Emil Rodiger (1801—1874), J. F. Tuch (18o6—1867), W. Vatke (1806—1882) and Theodor Benfey (1809—1881). In 1827, after declining an invitation to take Eichhorn's place at Gottingen, Gesenius was made a Consistorialrath; but, apart from the violent attacks to which he, along with his friend and colleague Julius Wegscheider, was in 183o subjected by E. W. Hengstenberg and his party in the Evangelise/se Kirchenzeitung, on account of his rationalism, his life was uneventful. He died at Halle on the 23rd of October 1842. To Gesehius belongs in a large measure the credit of having freed Semitic philology from the trammels of theological and religious prepossession, and of inaugurating the strictly scientific (and comparative) method which has since been so fruitful. As an exegete he exercised a powerful, and on the whole a beneficial, influence on theological investigation. Of his many works, the earliest, published in 1810, entitled Versuch fiber die maltesische Sprache, was a successful refutation of the widely current opinion that the modern Maltese was of Punic origin. In thesame year appeared the first volume of the Hebrdisches u. Chaldaisches Handworterbuch, completed in 1812. Revised editions of this appear periodically in Germany, e.g. that of H.Limmern and F. Buhl (1905). The publication of a new English edition was started in 1892 under the editorship of Professors C. A. Briggs, S. R. Driver and F.. Brown. The Hebraische Grammatik, published in 1813 (27th edition by E. Kautzsch; English translation from 25th and 26th German editions by G. W. Collins and A. E. Cowley, 1898), was followed in 1815 by the Geschichte der hebraischen Sprache (now very rare), and in 1817 by the Ausfuhrliches Lehrgebaude der hebraise/ten Sprache. The first volume of his well-known commentary on Isaiah (Der Prophet Jesaja), with a translation, appeared in 1821 ; but the work was not completed until 1829. The Thesaurus philologico-criticus linguae Hebraicae et Chaldaicae V. T., begun in 1829, he did not live to complete; the latter part of the third volume is edited by E. Rodiger (1858). Other works: De Pentateuchi Samaritani origine, indole, et auctoritate (1815), supplemented in 1822 and 1824 by the treatise De Samaritanorum theologia, and by an edition of Carmina Samaritana; Palaographische Studien fiber phonizische u. punische Schrift (1835), a pioneering work which he followed up in 1837 by his collection of Phoenician monuments (Scripturae linguaeque Phoeniciae monumenta quotquot supersunt) ; an Aramaic lexicon (1834–1839); and a treatise on the Himyaritic language written in conjunction with E. Rodiger in 1841. Gesenius also contributed extensively to Ersch and Gruber's Encyclopadie, and enriched the German translation of J. L. Burckhardt's Travels in Syria and the Holy Land with valuable geographical notes. For many years he also edited the Halle Allgemeine Litteraturzeitung. A sketch of his life was published anonymously in 1843 (Gesenius: eine Erinnerung fur seine Freunde), and another by H. Gesenius, Wilhelm Gesenius, ein Erinnerungsblatt an den hundertjahrigen Geburtstag, in 1886. See also the article in the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie.End of Article: HEINRICH FRIEDRICH WILHELM GESENIIJS (1786—1842)
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(a) Stainless steel
(b) Brass
(c) Lead
(d) Cast iron
2 ACSR (Aluminium Conductor Steel Reinforced) are used as
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(B) super conductors.
(C) fuse
(D) underground cables.
Ans: A
2. At steady state, the temperature variation in a plane wall, made of two different solids
I and II is shown below:
Then, the thermal conductivity of material I
(a) is smaller than that of II
(b) is greater than that of II
(c) is equal to that of II
(d) can be greater than or smaller than that of II
3.Brass is an alloy of
(A) copper and zinc.
(B) copper and iron.
(C) copper and Aluminum.
(D) copper and tin.
Ans: A
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(a) 30
(b) 50
(c) 60
(d) 74
5.Property of material which allows it to be drawn out into wires is
(A) Ductility.
(B) Solder ability.
(C) Super conductivity.
(D) Malleability.
Ans: A
6.In n type semi conductor added impurity is
(A) pentavalent.
(B) divalent.
(C) tetravalent.
(D) trivalent.
Ans: A
7.Air enters an adiabatic compressor at 300 K. The exit temperature for a compression ratio of 3, assuming air to be an ideal gas ( = CP /CV = 7/5) and the process to be reversible, is
Answer: (a) For reversible adiabatic process PV = constant.
8.Phenol and Formaldehyde are polymerised to a resultant product known as
(B) bakelite.
(C) polyester.
(D) teflon.
Ans: B
9.The percentage of carbon in mild steel is
(A) 0.08 to 0.3 %
(B) 0.5 to 1.4 %
Ans: A
10. A rotameter, through which air at room temperature and atmospheric pressure is flowing, gives a certain reading for a flow rate of 100 cc/s. If helium (Molecular weight 4) is used and the rotameter shows the same reading, the flow rate is (GATE-1996-2.02)
(A) 26 cc/s
(B) 42 cc/s
(C) 269 cc/s
(D) 325 cc/s
Answer: (C)
11.Crystal size in a continuous crystalliser depends upon the
A. rate of heat transfer.
B. degree of turbulence.
C. degree of supersaturation.
D. all (a), (b) and (c).
12.When vaporisation takes place directly at the heating surface, it is called
A. film boiling
B. nucleate boiling
C. vapour binding
D. none of these
13.Fourier,s law applies to the heat transfer by
A. convection
B. radiation
C. conduction
D. all (a), (b) & (c)
14.Convective heat transfer co-efficient in case of fluid flowing in tubes is not affected by the tube length/diameter ratio, if the flow is in the __________ zone.
C.both ,a, & ,b,
D. highly turbulent
15.In a solution containing 0.30 Kg mole of solute and 600 kg of solvent, the molality is
16.In batch distillation with constant reflux, overhead product composition __________ with time.
C.does not vary
D.may increase on decrease, depends on the system
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A. Lewis number
B. Schmidt number
C.Prandtl number
D.Sherwood number
18.Which of the following process sequences is correct for melt blown process?
A)preparation, extrusion, quenching, attenuation, lay-down, winding.
B)preparation, extrusion, drawing, attenuation, lay-down, winding.
C)preparation, extrusion, quenching, lay-down, attenuation, winding.
D)preparation, quenching, extrusion, attenuation, lay-down, winding
19.Which of the following bonding methods is generally following in spunbond process?
B)Thermal calendar bonding
C)Chemical bonding
20. Which of the following polymers is least likely to be optically transparent
A. Atactic polystyrene
B. Isotactic polystyrene
C. An ethylene/propylene random copolymer (50/50 composition)
D. A styrene/butadiene random copolymer
21.Styrene is almost a unique monomer, in that it can be polymerized by practically all methods
of chain polymerization.
A. Free radical
B. Anionic
C. Cationic
D. Co-ordination (i.e., with a catalyst)
22.What method would you use to synthesize a triblock copolymer?
A) Free radical polymerization
B) Anionic polymerization
C) Using a Ziegler Natta catalyst
D) By putting it into a bloody great pot and spitting on it to initiate polymerization
E) Condensation polymerization
23.In emulsion polymerization, the principal place where the monomer polymerizes is
A) Monomer droplets
B) Aqueous phase
C) Surfactant micelles
D) Surface of reactor
E) Air-liquid interface
24.Polypropylene produced commercially using a Ziegler-Natta catalyst is predominantly
A) Atactic
B) Isotactic
C) Syndiotactic
25.Which pairs of monomers would you use to make an ethylene/propylene random copolymer?
26.The Tromsdorff effect is
A. When the Swedish Bikini team drops from the sky with cases of Old Milwaukee beer.
B. When the rate of initiation increases as the nature of the polymerization mass (i.e. all the stuff in the pot) changes from the initial conditions
C. When the rate constant for propagation, kp, increases due to an increase in viscosity of the reaction mass
D. When the rate constant for termination decreases due to the same increase in viscosity.
27.The pressure of 20g of an ideal monatomic gas is tripled while the volume is halved. What happens tot he internal energy?
a)It stays the same
b) Increases
c) Decreases
28.Area on a p-v diagram has units associated with
a) energy,
b) momentum
c) temperature
d) change in temp
29) The Pressure inside a commercial airliner is maintained at 1 atm(10^5 Pa). What is the net outward force exerted on a 1m x 2m cabin door if outside pressure is equal to .30 atm?
b) 1,400,
c) 14,000
d) 140,000
30.A system acted on by surroundings receives 50J of heat while doing 20J of work. What is the net change of internal energy?
a) 70
b) 30
c) 0
d) -30
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have regularly requested local authorities to hold immigrants living in the country illegally beyond their normal release date in order to facilitate their deportation.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement Monday that the report's findings demonstrate a "clear and ongoing threat to public safety". It is meant to "highlight jurisdictions that choose not to cooperate with ICE detainers or requests for notification, therefore potentially endangering Americans", the agency said in a news release.
Inquiring about a person's immigration status could discourage people from calling on police in emergencies and to report crimes, he said.
Some jails and police agencies around the US have opted in recent years not to cooperate with immigration authorities on detainers. The right-leaning, Libertarian Cato Institute reported on March 15 that "all immigrants are less likely to be incarcerated than natives relative to their shares of the population". Many jurisdictions within Washington state have declared themselves to be "sanctuaries".
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This, from Fox News: "Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez, a Democrat, was elected last fall after campaigning on refusing to comply with immigration detainers in cases where people were arrested on minor offenses unrelated to their being in the country illegally".
"We have tried to be cooperative and it's unfair and misleading to suggest that we're not - especially in these times", Capt. Michael Golio told the New York Times, adding that ICE told him it would remove the county from its next report. The grant money was for programs for veterans, children, women and families.
"We must resist divided actions of so few to dictate how we define the thousands who have come to the U.S.to Colorado to build a life here", said Denver Mayor Michael Hancock. Abbott called the DHS report "deeply disturbing" and used it to rally his call for a statewide ban on so-called "sanctuary cities" in Texas.
"The Sheriff's office has no statutory or constitutional authority to enforce immigration laws, nor do we seek it", Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle said in an emailed statement.
Under the policy, announced in late January, the Travis County sheriff's office will not hold suspects for ICE unless ICE gets a warrant or the detainee is suspected of committing serious crimes like murder, aggravated sexual assault, or human trafficking. The percentage was significantly higher than in other cities where officials conducted similar operations: Atlanta, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles.
According to the report, seven detainers were issued in Washington County during that time.
Immigration detainers are not limited to people with convictions.
In Texas, Williamson County's sheriff said the same thing. In the past, most arrests were prompted by immigration checks on Travis County jail inmates.
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IBM v Apple – The Ironic Twist
By John | November 7, 2008
I can't help it, I get caught up in these kinds of stories. I guess it's because I have wasted so much money on bad legal advice over the years and have been forced into a "Do it yourself lawyer" many times. Ok, by now most people have heard of Mr. Mark Papermaster, the ex-IBM'r who IBM is suing over a non-compete. Papermaster has taken a job with Apple and IBM is suing him for breaching a non-compete agreement. The ironic part is that Papermaster is replacing a guy (Tony Fadell), who Apple is planning on paying $300k a year for the next two years, plus stock options, because Apple doesn't think his non-compete is enforcible.
In my opinion, this is another clear case where Apple has one up'd IBM. Although, I believe IBM has every right to purse their suit against Papermaster, the fact is that Apple's actions have a far better appearance. Philosophically, if you don't want an ex employee to work for a year, you should pay them a fair market price to stop them from working (as in the case of Apple/Fadell). Unfortunately , philosophy and law have not been dance partners for many years now. In the case of IBM, Papermaster signed an awards agreement that had a non compete clause in it. That is far different, legally speaking, from an employment agreement with a non-compete clause. In other words, it is sometimes difficult to enforce a non-compete if the sole benefit to the employee is getting the job. However, in the case of Papermaster, he did not sign a non-compete as part of his employment contract. He agreed to get special award compensations in return for signing an awards agreement with a non-compete clause. There is a huge difference between the two types of agreements when it comes to non-compete enforcement. Another huge factor in the difference between Papermaster and Fadell, is that Papermaster's agreement jurisdiction is NY and Fadell's is California. California is very friendly to employees with non-compete "Employment" contracts. Not so sure about awards contracts.
In the end I agree that Papermaster should get an equal compensation to Fadell if IBM really wants him to not work for a year. Unfortunately the LAW doesn't work that way. The truth is that IBM is more likely on a fishing expedition to find out what Apple is up to more than anything else. However, the lesson learned on all of this is , always understand any contract you sign and don't be fooled by the "non-compete" is not enforceable myth. Sometimes it is and sometimes it's not.
Also see…
IBM v Apple in the Law-o-Sphere
Non-Compete Agreements and the Abyss
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2 Responses to "IBM v Apple – The Ironic Twist"
John Says:
November 7th, 2008 at 4:24 am
btw… just in case you are in the mood to flame, the picture is a joke. If there is any doubt please read my 'Nick the IT Plumber" post.
November Roundup | IT Management and Cloud Blog Says:
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:21 am
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When the last war in Chechnya began nearly five years ago, President Boris Yeltsin slipped out of public view as Russian generals plunged disastrously into a ground war in the rebellious southern region.
For two weeks, Yeltsin was hospitalized for what aides described as a routine nose operation. Now, as an estimated 50,000 Russian troops have advanced cautiously into northern Chechnya, Yeltsin has again all but disappeared.
Leaving the matter entirely in the hands of his generals and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Yeltsin failed to show up this week for a meeting of the Kremlin security council, which he chairs and which approved a revised national security document calling for increased defense spending.
His absence is just one of the echoes of 1994 that has raised questions here about whether Russia has learned the bitter lessons of the last conflict, which left tens of thousands of civilians dead. Yeltsin has called the two-year Chechen war his gravest mistake.
Yeltsin has been in and out of view for years as he struggled with ill health and sought to keep his distance from painful and unpopular developments here. He has been sidelined, often for months at a time, with a heart condition, and sources say he still suffers from circulatory problems, although he claimed recently to be feeling well.
His low profile also may be driven by a desire to avoid difficult situations and let cabinet ministers take the heat. He has fired five prime ministers in the past 18 months, often waiting in the wings and then acting abruptly. There are also big political stakes -- fallout from another military failure in Chechnya could reverberate into next year's election to choose Yeltsin's successor.
Analysts and politicians here say the latest advance into Chechnya -- to create a "security zone" across the region and bar Chechen guerrillas from promoting rebellion in adjacent Russian territories -- carries the risk of a drawn-out battle against seasoned Chechen defense forces. And, they said, Moscow will find it more difficult to arrange a negotiated settlement than in the last war because Chechnya is more fragmented and weaker than it was three years ago.
"We have a Catch-22," said Vladimir Averchev, a member of the centrist Yabloko faction in the lower house of parliament, the State Duma. "While in principle everyone agrees we should do everything to find a political solution, it's unclear how to do it, and with whom."
On paper, Yeltsin sits atop what Lilia Shevtsova, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace here, has described as a "super-presidential regime," in which he has exercised power as the hands-on arbiter between key interest groups. But Shevtsova noted in a recent book on Yeltsin that the political structure is breaking down because of Yeltsin's ill health and because others no longer respect his decisions. The leader of the upper house of parliament said recently that Yeltsin controls nothing in Russia beyond the Kremlin walls.
Yuri Korgunyuk, an analyst with the Indem Center for Applied Political Studies, a research organization here, said that Russia is using a carrot and stick approach with Chechnya, what Russians call the whip and gingerbread. "It is more or less understood what is meant as a whip," he said of the military's measured advance into Chechnya. "It is so far completely unclear what is meant as gingerbread. There is no concrete plan here. They are not raising the question -- `All right, we will seize, occupy Chechnya. And what is next?' How is this problem going to be resolved next?"
The latest fighting broke out in August after Chechen guerrillas crossed into the neighboring Russian region of Dagestan, seized several towns and declared their intention to establish an Islamic state there. Russian troops repelled the guerrillas but a string of deadly bomb attacks on Russian apartment buildings that the Kremlin blamed on Chechen militants led Moscow to order airstrikes on key Chechen installations and to deploy troops at the border. Thousands of civilians have fled the fighting, and Russian troops now occupy the northern third of Chechnya.
In some ways, the mistakes of the last war still reverberate here. Putin suggested installing a pro-Russian puppet government in the region, a comment redolent of the reliance Moscow placed on unpopular surrogates in the earlier conflict. Military leaders also have spoken of a quick "surgical" strike and a quick victory, much as they miscalculated before.
But in other ways, this Chechen conflict is different from the last. Averchev recalled that the earlier war was seen by the Chechens as a brutal attempt by Moscow to impose its will and crush independence sentiment there. This time, he said, Russia is on the defensive, reeling from the attacks in Dagestan and the apartment house bombings, in which nearly 300 people died. He said Russian public opinion has "changed very seriously" in part because of what happened in Chechnya after the first war, when the region sank into a state of lawlessness in which kidnapping and the slave trade have thrived.
In field tactics, too, the Russian advance has been different from that of 1994, when army commanders threw into battle ill-trained conscripts who were unprepared for the terrain, the foul weather and the ferocity of their foes. This time the army has advanced cautiously.
Averchev said the military now realizes that public "support for this operation is conditional" on mitigating losses among Russian troops. Korgunyuk said that the military learned a lesson from the public resentment over the last war "that is necessary to at least prevent the rise of anti-military moods inside Russia itself and to try to bypass the issue of human losses among the soldiers, including new recruits." He said the army had accomplished this so far by "strict military censorship and by cutting off other sources of information about the military operation."
Politicians and analysts also worry that Moscow has no strategy for a negotiated settlement of the conflict. Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov has been severely weakened by internal opposition, while the leader of the Dagestan incursion, guerrilla commander Shamil Basayev, has vowed more attacks on Russian territory.
Yeltsin is also politically weaker than ever, and his disappearance from view may signal his uncertainty, Korgunyuk said. "Yeltsin indeed has this trick," he said. "When he does not know how to solve a problem and hesitates between this or another variant, it is sometimes impossible to drag him out with pincers. He keeps silent for a long time."


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- Carbohydrate 2g
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Five-Spice Flank Steak
Photo: Caitlin Bensel
This quick spice rub lends robust flavor and helps achieve delicious charring on the surface of the meat. Flank steak is a lean cut that's relatively inexpensive; be sure to slice thinly across the grain for tender bites.
How to Make It
Step 1
1. Combine five-spice powder, brown sugar, salt, garlic powder, and ground red pepper in a small bowl. Rub spice mixture over both sides of flank steak.
Step 2
2. Heat a large cast-iron skillet over medium-high. Add olive oil to pan; swirl to coat. Add steak to pan; cook 4 minutes on each side or until desired degree of doneness. Remove steak from pan; let stand 5 to 10 minutes. Cut steak across the grain into thin slices.


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Sunday, October 31, 2010
Behind enemy lines in the NFL
Yo, this is Nicky and we took the gift the books gave us yesterday with Iowa only laying a touchdown at home. If they're going to continue to present "gifts" like that, we're going to take them. Unfortunately there is nothing that obvious on the board in the NFL , but we've won our last 2, so we have to work a little harder but let's get to it. Ok, one rule I have always implemented is that I never bet on a dog I don't think can win on the field. In the NFL you very rarely will see a spread over 2 tds and if you do that's a big red flag to stay away. We don't see anything like that this week but we are going to take a road dog in a strange game that you wouldn't have been surprised if the line was the other way and that's what I like. In a late game I like the over (41 buy the hook) between the SeaChickens and the Nasty Raiders at home. The stats don't favor Seattle because they're not a good cover team, and I was one step away from taking the field goal, but the number scared me off. Seattle is 0-5 straight up and ATS on the road against Oakland their last 5 games and I just can't stand in front of that train and stop it. So more attractive is the over (41) as 7 of Seattle's last 10 games have gone over as well 4 of the last 5 against Oakland. The Raiders themselves have gone over in four of their last five, so that's where the strongest trend is. That's the chowder, I'm Nicky, stay in the ring and keep your gloves up!
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Microsoft is pleased to announce the release of an MCSA: Windows 10 certification for IT professionals. This credential demonstrates expertise to configure, manage, and maintain a Windows 10 enterprise system.
The new certification incorporates the recently released Exam 697: Configuring Windows Devices, which helps Windows 8 administrators upgrade their skills to Windows 10. The complete MCSA certification is earned by passing all three of the following exams:
- Exam 687: Configuring Windows 8.1
- Exam 688: Supporting Windows 8.1
- Exam 697: Configuring Windows Devices
The MCSA: Windows 10 certification will be available starting December 14, 2015.
With the continuing importance of Exams 687 and 688 to earning the new credential, the MCSA: Windows 8 credential will also remain active until July 31, 2016.
For more details on the new MCSA: Windows 10 credential, please visit the Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate landing page on December 14, 2015..
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Flu vaccination is available every year on the NHS to people at risk of becoming very ill with flu to protect against flu and its complications.
Flu can be unpleasant, but if you are otherwise healthy it will usually clear up on its own within a week. However, flu can be serious, and every year flu kills.
Flu is likely to be more severe in certain people, such as:
Anyone in these risk groups is more likely to develop potentially serious complications of flu, such as pneumonia (a lung infection), so it's recommended that they have a flu vaccine every year to protect them.
The annual flu vaccine is given free on the NHS as an injection to:
Find out more about who should have the flu vaccine.
The annual nasal flu spray vaccination is routinely given this flu season to:
How effective is the flu vaccine?
Every year the World Health Organization (WHO) predict what strains of flu will be circulating the following winter. Most years it is well matched and there is good protection. Flu vaccine is the best way to protect against flu.
Protection against this unpredictable virus is important as it can cause unpleasant illness in children and sometimes severe illness and even death, this is most likely among at-risk groups, including older people, pregnant women and those with an underlying health condition.
Studies have shown that the flu vaccine is still the best way to protect against flu . It won't stop all flu viruses and the level of protection may vary between years, and between people, so it's not a 100% guarantee that you'll be flu-free, but if you do get flu after vaccination it's likely to be milder and shorter-lived than it would otherwise have been.
It's important to have the vaccine every year as over time, the protection from flu you get form your flu vaccine decreases and flu strains often change. So new flu vaccines are produced each year which is why people advised to have the flu vaccine need it every year.
Flu vaccine side effects
Serious side effects from flu vaccines are very rare. You may have a slight temperature and aching muscles for a couple of days after having the vaccine, and your arm may be a bit sore where you were injected.
Read more about the side effects of the flu jab.
When to have a flu vaccine
The best time to have a flu vaccine is before flu starts to circulate. Ideally this is in the autumn, from the beginning of October, but don't worry if you've missed it, you can still have the vaccine later in winter if there are stocks left. Ask at your GP surgery or community pharmacy.
The flu vaccine for 2017/18
Flu vaccines contain 3 or 4 strains. Each year, the viruses that are most likely to cause flu are identified in advance and vaccines are made to match them as closely as possible. The vaccines are recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The WHO has announced that the vaccines for use in the 2017-18 influenza season (northern hemisphere winter) contain the following
Some flu vaccine contain four strains, and in those vaccines there will be the above three viruses and a B/Phuket/3073/2013-like virus.
Is there anyone who shouldn't have a flu vaccine?
Most adults can have a flu vaccine, read more about who shouldn't have the flu vaccine.
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Anyone use pershing for trades?
2 RepliesJump to last post
Dec 16, 2006 6:02 pm
If so, do they offer online capabilities for res/clients from our home pc to do trades. I work in a credit union and they don't open till after 9am(west coast), so I need online trading options from home.
Appreciate all good/bad experiences w/pershing.
You can log on to NETXPRO(pershing) from home, do trades etc. No hassles, decent bond inventory etc.
No new issue preferred's and you can't mark up on a trade, must show commision.


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Student Restaurant
With their student card (passo) activated by the International Relations Office Erasmus students can have free meals (3 per day) in the Student Restaurant.
Working Hours daily (weekends included):
Breakfast: 08.00a.m. - 09.30 a.m.
Lunch: 12.30p.m. - 15.30 p.m.
Dinner: 19.30- 22.30 p.m.
The Student Restaurant is closed during Christmas & Easter Holidays as well as in July and August.
Address: 2nd Noemvriou & Vernardaki Street ( Bus no 1).


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Nola4Women Modular Website
A modular design for a charity's website, allowing for easy integration of new features and content rearrangement.
Sonderence Website
Clean, stylish design for a travel and lifestyle magazine.
Nola4Women Newsletter
While managing the charity's email marketing campaign, I designed this template to improve audience engagement and deliver insight into the different aspects of the charity.
The Boatshed Music Website
Designed and built an online music magazine, with a focus on readability and a clean aesthetic.
Tom Zinovieff Carpentry Website
A minimalist, easy-to-manage website, built to the client's design brief.
Crate a Party Flyer
Eye-catching promotional material for children's parties.
Crate a Party Logo
Logo design for a company catering children's parties. The brief was for a friendly, fun and energetic brand.
London Scene
An extract from the set design of a riverside music festival in London.


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The system I'm assembling resembles iXsystem's FreeNAS mini. The main difference is that I went with the Supermicro motherboard instead of the ASRock motherboard. I'll compare the two motherboards later and/or in a separate blog post. However, I'll summarize my decision as The ASRock is better if you are going for a pure storage (NAS) box. I went with the Supermicro as a better general purpose system with USB 3.0 ports and 4 x GbE ports.
- Supermicro AISAi-2750F Motherboard
- Supermicro Chassis and 250W Power supply 721TQ-250B
- 16 GB: 2 x 8 GB Crucial SO-DIMM with ECC
Case and Power SupplyOne of the most difficult decisions was trying to find a good case and power supply. There is a lot of poorly designed cases. There aren't many reviews for mini-ITX NAS-style cases. Through the reviews that are available I found one good choice which is also the same case that iXsystems uses for the FreeNAS Mini, the Ablecom CS-M50. Unfortunately the Ablecom isn't sold in the US directly. It is primarily sold to OEMs in large quantities. I stumbled around for a while until a kind person clued me in that Supermicro sells the Ablecom CS-M50 as the Superchassis 721TQ-250B. It is even linked from the page for the A1SAi-2750F motherboard and I didn't notice it or assumed it would be yet another crap case.
The summary is the Ablecom CS-M50, aka Superchassis 721TQ-250B is a very nice case with real hot swap drive support. The most detailed reviews are actually for the FreeNAS Mini. You can also find some reviews searching for the Ablecom CS-M50.
The one problem so far is that the front panel USB ports are USB 2.0. The A1SAi motherboard has header connectors for USB 3.0, which use a different style header connector. Currently, I've got no front panel USB ports. I've emailed Supermicro support.
Other People's BuildsHere are some of the sources that I used in making my decisions:
- My FreeNAS Build with The Supermicro A1SAi-i2750f (reddit, billakay)
- /My FreeNAS Build with Supermicro A1SAi-2750F (FreeNAS Forum)
To Do
- Determine what combination of hypervisors and operating system
- Linux Host + VirtualBox
- Linux Host + KVM
- VMware ESXi
- FreeNAS native FreeBSD
- Solve Front Panel USB port connectivity problem:
- Ideally there is a board from Ablecom, Supermicro or someone else that will give me USB 3.0 front panel ports.
- Alternatively, an adapter cable that gives me USB 2.0 ports would be preferred.
Things I've Learned
- The Supermicro 721TQ-250B case is the same as the Ablecom CS-M50 and is available at retail in the US.
- The AST2400 IPMI BMC controller with fully integrated keyboard, video, and mouse, iKVM is very nice. I could have configured the system out of the box without ever attaching a monitor to.
- The Supermicro/AST default Username and Password for IPMI is UPPER CASE and CASE SENSITIVE. I mistakenly thought I couldn't access the BMC until I configured it through the BIOS. The whole problem was the the default username and password were both all upper case.
- As a result, the system is INSECURE out of the box. Change your IPMI/BMC username and password from the default as soon as possible.
- IPMIView from Supermicro/AST is pretty nice. It is a standalone Java Application. However the web browser interface is just as good or better for a single system.
- The BIOS watchdog feature causes the system to be reset every 5 minutes. Nothing is logged to the event log. Don't set it, at least until you understand how to use it. I think the Linux kernel is setting the hardware watchdog.
- An improperly seated SO-DIMM, caused the system to hang at BIOS POST, with the code B4. However there were no beeps and I couldn't find a description of text error codes. The manual only gives the beep codes.