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Here's your GoFundMe scam of the day out of Haverhill.
This is what we're dealing with here.
This twastsicle has nicer things than I do, no kids, and still wants me to pay her for her own alleged stupidity. Hard pass fam.
And what in tarnation does this dog have to do with anything?
I guess when you don't crotch fruits to elicit sympathy for your GoFundMe scam, you have to use your dog.
So let me get this straight. She bought Patriots tickets on eBay, spoke with an eBay representative through their online support, who told her that she was buying from a trusted seller, was promised a refund by eBay if not, and she took pics of this conversation to prove it. Then it turned out to be a scam and she has no recourse whatsoever and is panhandling on GoFundMe instead.
Sounds legit.
Of course if you really purchased something on eBay they're such a large company that they can afford to offer money back guarantees. If what she is alleging is true, that she got scammed by some eBay pirate, this is an easy fix.
Yet in the same breath she's saying that she has since spoken on the phone with someone from eBay (for 2 hours nonetheless), and they said there was nothing they could do about it. Except their policy says the exact opposite.
It's almost as if none of this is true.
But even if it was true, how is this Haverhill 411's problem? Why would you expect strangers to recoup the money you lost because you're a vapid poon brain?
Nevertheless she did raise $300 before conveniently shutting down the GoFundMe as soon as the questions started getting tough:
Wait…..what? You didn't use your credit or debit card to purchase on eBay? These are the only options for purchasing stuff on eBay:
PayPal and credit cards. Both of which are extremely easy to cancel purchases for. If PayPal knows that the person you sent money to never provided the service that you paid for then they can take actions to get your money back and shut down the other person's account. PayPal also requires accounts to be attached to real bank accounts, with real names, so you'd be able to find out who your money went to pretty easily.
But wait, it gets better. According to her, eBay told her that a "separate screen popped up and pretended to be eBay for the transaction."
Whatever that means.
Where are the pictures by the way? Seems like that would be a pretty important thing to show, so that people can see exactly how you got conned by a guy who created a website that looked just like eBay, and somehow managed to get it to pop up on your computer, offering the exact thing you wanted to purchase.
This was the only accurate thing she said in the GFM:
"I want to remind people that there are scammers EVERYWHERE this time of year."
Yes, there are. And they look like this.
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I'm not sure what the problem is here. It isn't like she is asking for that much money. My son was scammed. He bought meet and greet tickets for Russ and eBay wouldn't pay him back because Russ felt bad for him for getting scammed and let him in anyway. It happens all time.
Alicia Mambro is 26 years old and was born on 11/19/1992. Currently, she lives in Haverhill, MA. Sometimes Alicia goes by various nicknames including Alicia Paige Mambro and Alicia Page Mambro. Her ethnicity is Hispanic American, and religious views are listed as Christian. Alicia is now single. She has a reported annual income of $70,000 – $79,999 and a current net worth value of $25,000 – $49,999.
Who knows how accurate that is.
How dumb does somebody need to be to think this dizzy broad's "plight" was worthy enough to money? Just goes to show the stupidity of the general population. GoFundMe is just like an ATM machine that anyone with 10 minutes and zero dignity can withdraw from. I am creating an account asking for donations to help me buy moistened wipes for my explosive diarrhea. Guarantee I make at least $20 from it.
I'm sorry but this is worse than all the usual shitbags who use gofundme or fb yard sale groups to scam people. She's trying to raise money so her grown ass fiancé is happy on christmas morning? At least other people are asking for things so a child can have a good Christmas. Dumb bitch, if you're reading this… donate that money you raised to a family with small children because nobody gives a fuck if a grown man has a disappointing Christmas. Especially since it's a complete bull shit story. How do you buy things online without a credit/debit card or PayPal??
Obviously she has no clue how Ebay works. I have bought something from there before and it turned out to be a completely different item than advertised, a cheap Chinese knock-off using a real picture, and eBay gave me my money back and I got to keep the item (not that I wanted it, it ended up in the trash.)
I call BS on her.
Even if she ends up getting tickets how will it be a big surprise to her boyfriend after she plasters it all over social media.I feel bad for the sad looking heterochromia dog, he's got his own issues. He shouldn't have got dragged into her swanky Gofundme scam.
More holes than the Titanic. Pay Pal or any card will get you the money back, Ebay guarantees it. Nobody at Ebay has time to talk for 2 hours about hogwash. They deal with it everyday and can direct you almost immediately to where you need to be. IF this happened at all, her boyfriend probably beat her home, took the tickets and sold them for some instant gratification. The world is full of these douche canoes…
It must be the Russians. Or Aliens? The scammers went through all that trouble to get her $300 that she magically paid with no sort of record of it. Call the FBI. The world might ending. Please just come out and admit you made the whole thing up and return the money that you conned people out of before this is viral. -
This would be international news if true.
"Scammers able to redirect Ebay payment screens to their own by hacking into Ebay servers".Yeah I can see someone doing that for a fucking $300.
Hackers steal information. Social engineering to targeted people to give up their user id and password. But, even then you steal info.I've never heard of a hacker redirecting web pages from INSIDE a companies database of web pages. Might be true for international espionage run by governments but not some clown who's going to do all that for $300.


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The Study Day hosted by Teacher's Branch will be held on Tuesday 10 September prior to the main conference and registration for this is via the main conference website.
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You've probably heard that local SEO is one of the most effective marketing channels for small businesses. But, the question is, why?
One of the key issues facing small businesses, especially those in the early stage, is limited budget.
You've probably heard that local SEO is one of the most effective marketing channels for small businesses. But, the question is, why?
One of the key issues facing small businesses, especially those in the early stage, is limited budget.
The local online marketing landscape is constantly evolving, and what's working in 2016 or 2017 might no longer work now in 2018.
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It is no secret that videos have overtaken the internet, and so video SEO is now a thing.
More people now have access to fast internet to stream videos, and video streaming platforms -especially YouTube- are maturing. No wonder, more and more businesses are now attempting video marketing, but that also means it is now more competitive than ever.
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Big news theater fans. Hamilton the film release date has been confirmed! The Walt Disney Company, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeffrey Seller, and Thomas Kail are bringing the 11-time-Tony Award®-, Grammy Award®-, Olivier Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning stage musical to cinema screens.
When will Hamilton the film be in theaters?
Hamilton the Film will be released by The Walt Disney Studios in the United States and Canada on October 15, 2021.
Will the original cast of Hamilton be in the film?
Yes! So if you saw them on stage or missed out, you will get to relive the experience of Hamilton with the regional broadway cast. I was one of the people who missed it so I am so hyped for this. The musical theatre nerd in me is bursting.
That means Tony Award® winners Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton; Daveed Diggs as Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson; Renée Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler; Leslie Odom, Jr. as Aaron Burr; Tony Award® nominees Christopher Jackson as George Washington; Jonathan Groff as King George; Phillipa Soo as Eliza Hamilton; and Jasmine Cephas Jones as Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds; Okieriete Onaodowan as Hercules Mulligan/James Madison; and Anthony Ramos as John Laurens/Philip Hamilton will be back!
The cast also includes Carleigh Bettiol, Ariana DeBose, Hope Easterbrook, Sydney James Harcourt, Sasha Hutchings, Thayne Jasperson, Elizabeth Judd, Jon Rua, Austin Smith, Seth Stewart, and Ephraim Sykes.
"Lin-Manuel Miranda created an unforgettable theater experience and a true cultural phenomenon, and it was for good reason that Hamilton was hailed as an astonishing work of art. All who saw it with the original cast will never forget that singular experience," said Robert A. Iger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Walt Disney Company. "And we're thrilled to have the opportunity to share this same Broadway experience with millions of people around the world."
Producers for Hamilton, the film of include Miranda, Seller, and Kail, who also directs.
"I fell in love with musical storytelling growing up with the legendary Howard Ashman-Alan Menken Disney collaborations – The Little Mermaid, Beauty and The Beast, Aladdin," said Lin-Manuel Miranda. "I'm so proud of what Tommy Kail has been able to capture in this filmed version of Hamilton – a live theatrical experience that feels just as immediate in your local movie theater. We're excited to partner with Disney to bring the original Broadway company of Hamilton to the largest audience possible."
"We are thrilled for fans of the show, and new audiences across the world, to experience what it was like on stage – and in the audience – when we shot this at The Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway in June of 2016. We wanted to give everyone the same seat, which is what this film can provide," said Thomas Kail.
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the united states: mba'ing ourselves out of an economy
with the united states' 2012 presidential election season picking up momentum (obama's campaign has already changed his twitter avatarand backgroundfor the upcoming re-election bid), more and more of the discussion is falling back onto the topic of jobs.
it was reported some months ago that the united states was in a jobless recovery — where macroeconomic indicators showed progress while the jobs market remained stagnant. a lot of people have wondered where are the jobs?how can businesses be making so much money, but at the same time adding such few new hires to 'fuel the furnaces'?
unfortunately things don't work that way anymore.
manufacturing doesn't happen that much in the united states — we just don't make many things now a days. no, we're an information and knowledge based economy now, and that's exactly where the issue comes in at…
enter the mba graduate.
we're graduating an ever increasing amount of mbas every year and application numbers continue to rise. and what are we teaching these graduates to do? with pressure to keep wall street happy, we're teaching optimization: how can you manage your resources properly to get the most utility with the least amount of cost? how can you drive your profits up while using less? that's a dangerous position for us to be in as a nation when you consider what it is we're building… information.
in an information economy the people are the resources, and just so happen to be the largest cost drivers for any organization. in order to keep costs down, we have to keep the number of people down — or at least the cost of those people. anyone who has been working for 20 years and suddenly found themselves out of a job because they were replaced by a freshly minted college graduate knows this very well. why would a company, looking to maximize profit, choose to keep or hire an experienced professional with a higher market salary when they can pay a fraction of that for someone much younger?so, joe america, if you're reading this during a break in between your job searching — understand that the fact that you haven't been hired isn't because you're old, but because you're expensive!
so where are the jobs at?
technology has increased drastically, we've gotten really good at doing certain things, and — believe it or not for all the problems with our primary schooling systems — our education system is pumping out more and more college graduates each year. where are the jobs? in short: we don't really need them. not with the focus of the economy right now: bigger profits and happier investors. we're mba'ing ourselves out of an economy. with no one at work, there's no money at home to spend on those things which keep our economy afloat. no houses, no cars, no $100 cell phone bills, etc.
so how do we fix this? you can't just take the billions of dollars that organizations' c-level executives are making right now and reinvest that money into growing the workforce because you're going to blow up the system. you're going to have a lot of people getting paid to do nothing because they won't have any work to do. we've already optimized what it takes to turn a profit; we can't get any better than we already are.we need an economic revolution. we have to fundamentally change the way that we think about business. we have to embrace risk again (and reward it). we have to invent. we have to innovate. we need companies and organizations that are focused on helping people and improving the quality of life in our communities rather than being focused on turning a profit.


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Closure to my service year in the form of popcorn chicken
Emily Wasek served on the Comcast Universal Team at Jean Ribault Middle School in Jacksonville, Florida. She now works just down the street from our office, as a Nonprofit Fellow at the Jacksonville Speech and Hearing Center! Read how she came to realize that she is an integral part of a collective movement to improve our students' futures.
I have always craved closure. I've never been particularly gifted at saying graceful goodbyes to people who I've grown to love, nor have I ever found a perfect way to express my thoughts to such loved ones. In May 2018, I had exactly a month before my year of service would close—concluding one of the most challenging yet rewarding years of my life. As I pondered how to appropriately say goodbye to the more than 90 students who I'd laughed with, struggled with, grown with throughout the school year, no easy solutions arrived.
Despite all of the ways students had made gains in academic growth and proficiency, all of the ways students had grown their emotional intelligence, and all of the ways that students had improved their attendance throughout the year, there was still more to be done. There were students who were only beginning to grow in their academic progress, students who still required guidance when navigating the complicated emotions that come with growing up, and students who still struggled to make it to class on a regular basis.
I had joined City Year to make a difference, but wondered if I really had made a difference when there was still so much left to do? For the next month of service, this question followed me in every interaction that I had with my students. Every time a student gave me an early morning hug or high five during Power Greetings. Every time a student asked me a question in class. Every time a student excitedly told me about all of the plans that they already had in store for conquering the next school year. Had I really made a difference when there was still so much left to do?
Clarity came, strangely enough, later that month during a visit to a Popeye's. Several City Year Teams on Jacksonville's Northside were planning to help host an after-school fair for students in the area. With a brief lag between event setup and the event's start, our Team Leaders had given us permission to grab a quick bite in the area. Always a fan of some popcorn chicken, other AmeriCorps Members and I decided to make a quick trip to the nearby Popeye's while still in uniform. And when we arrived inside, we were greeted by two welcoming sensations. First, the smell of fried food, and, second, a jubilant cry of someone shouting, "Hey! It's City Year!"
We looked around, and quickly found the source of the excitement—a young man who was grinning from ear-to-ear from behind the cash register. Taking in our confused expressions, he laughed and explained, "I love y'all! Without City Year, I wouldn't have graduated from high school." As we ordered our food, he went on to share how as a child he'd always struggled in school, but during his final years of middle school everything had changed. From that time into his final days of high school, various AmeriCorps Members from City Year had worked with him, believed in him, and given him the confidence to graduate high school on time. Now, he was working at Popeye's to save money for a higher education, and seeing our red jackets had brought back fond memories of all of the AmeriCorps Members who had helped him discover his passion for learning.
My teammates and I congratulated him on his successes, saying "Thank you," as he rang us up. "No, thank you," he replied, winking at us as he punched in his employee discount. As we started to protest, he simply responded. "I'm paying you back for all of the times that City Year's helped me, and I'm paying it forward for all the kids I know you're going to help in the future." And just like that, I realized that I'd been approaching my final month of City Year from the wrong perspective. As an AmeriCorps Member, my purpose was not to be the sole source of change in improving my students' lives, but to be the one of many AmeriCorps Members in my students' long academic careers who would provide a foundation of support for them to succeed. City Year's mission to serve my students would not conclude when I said my farewells, and my mission to create positive change within the community would not conclude when I completed my service year. Just like the laborers in City Year's founding story of Cathedral Building, I was one of many building a future for others that was greater than just myself.
On June 1, 2018, I graduated from City Year Jacksonville—officially crossing the threshold between my service year as an AmeriCorps Member and the undisclosed years of service that I would continue to have as a member of the community. Surrounded by a sea of my colleagues dressed in red jackets, I was no longer afraid to say goodbye. Although I would miss City Year, I was excited to say hello to a new opportunity to create a positive change—just as I knew that although my students would miss me, they would be excited to welcome new AmeriCorps Members and new opportunities to grow in their academic journeys.
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by Leon Levinstein
Provenance: Howard Greenberg Gallery, Gerd Sander Collection //// American street photographer Leon Levinstein is much admired within the photographic community, but little known outside of it. He was influenced directly bei Sid Grossman and the Photo League New York. Solo exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada in 1995 and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2010 brought him to the attention of many, but his dynamic and original work is yet to achieve the recognition it deserves. Levinstein's fearless and unsentimental black and white images, whether shot in New York City, Coney Island, Haiti, Mexico or India, possess in Metropolitan Museum of Art Curator of Photographs Jeff Rosenheim's words, "graphic virtuosity – seen in raw, expressive gestures and seemingly monumental bodies – balanced by an unusual compassion for his off-beat subjects". (Source: Steidl Books)
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Released By : Lonelytone Records
Genre : Blues Rock, Latin Rock
Links : http://loslonelyboys.com
01. American Idle
02. Fly Away
03. Love In My Veins
04. Road To Nowhere
05. 16 Monkeys
06. Rockpango
07. Smile
08. Baby Girl
09. Change The World
10. Porn Star
11. Believe
Shortly after the 2004 release of the LOS LONELY BOYS breakout single HEAVEN it seemed as though they were destined for super-stardom, especially after being awarded a grammy for best pop/rock song of the year. This accolade had only been won once before by a Latin artist, none other than Carlos Santana for MARIA, MARIA. Unfortunately for the three Garza brothers the novelty soon wore off and the band basically faded into oblivion. Sure they have their fair share of loyal followers, and still garner rather large crowds whenever they play live, but as far as mainstream or commercial success goes they have been quite unfortunate.
This new album ROCKPANGO (which loosely translates to ROCK PARTY) sees the band trying a few new things while still retaining that insatiable tex-mex feeling that gained them their success in the first place. There's a load of SANTANA inspired Latin rock to be found on the disc, while some funk rock, Texas blues and even some alternative rock also flows throughout. The guitar work is as great as ever and the boys natural vocal harmonies are still something special, but for some reason it just doesn't click together well enough to get me excited. Sometimes too much variety is a bad thing, and on ROCKPANGO it almost feels as though LOS LONELY BOYS are throwing their hat into too many different genres trying to find something that sticks.
Even though this makes the album as a whole somewhat of a dud, that shouldn't stop you from enjoying a handful of the songs here that actually are pretty good. AMERICAN IDLE for example is guitar-heavy funk rocker with some great lyrics about the state of America and one of the better songs they have released since HEAVEN. ROAD TO NOWHERE is a country-tinged ballad that works well with the constantly excellent vocal harmonies of the Garza brothers. 16 MONKEYS is an interesting tune that sounds a bot like alternative group CAKE, certainly a new avenue for the band but it works quite well. CHANGE THE WORLD finds the band hitting a more serious note but really cruises along nicely.
Unfortunately there's not enough good songs on here to be classed as a good album, but the few highlights that there are deserve and command respect and should certainly please fans of the bands earlier work. Maybe next time we could have a more consistent effort without the filler….
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Debate revives Merkel's rival as credible challenger
BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Social Democratic challenger, Peer Steinbrück, returned to the campaign trail on Monday, with neither triumphant after their sole television debate, a mostly decorous 90-minute exchange that restored Steinbrück as a credible candidate but yielded a rhetorical draw.
Perhaps reflecting the flickering interest stirred by the largely predictable positions taken by both leaders, commentary focused on what the Berlin tabloid B.Z. called the two winners in the TV duel: Raab and Merkel's necklace.
The reference was first to Stefan Raab, a television entertainer whose inclusion in the normally serious lineup of four moderators at the debate on Sunday night was much remarked and delivered the liveliest exchange of the evening. Raab pushed Steinbrück hard for guidance for those Germans — and polls suggest their number is considerable — who want to see a "grand coalition" of the Social Democrats with Merkel's center-right Christian Democrats after the Sept. 22 elections.
Steinbrück, 66, who served as finance minister in Merkel's first government, a grand coalition from 2005 to 2009, has already said he will not head up the Social Democrats in such a Cabinet now. Flustered, he eventually told Raab that voters should go with the center-left.
For her part, Merkel, 59, has carefully ducked controversy so far on the campaign trail, even over the allegations that U.S. intelligence spied on the communications of millions of Germans. And until the debate, she had studiously ignored Steinbrück by not mentioning his name.
So perhaps the most overt excitement she garnered on Sunday was for her necklace, consisting of long beads of black, red and gold, the colors of the German flag.
In the European mold of politicians who hone their skills and policy knowledge over decades, Steinbrück, a Social Democrat for 44 years and a former governor of Germany's largest state, and Merkel, in politics since 1990 and now seeking a third four-year term as chancellor, found support in their own camps on Monday.
For Jakob Augstein, a Merkel critic who writes a column for Der Spiegel, Steinbrück, who stumbled early after his nomination last autumn over disclosures that he had received large fees for lectures and writing, showed that "he can do it."
"On Sunday," Augstein wrote in an online commentary, "we saw a tired chancellor who looked somewhat uninterested."
By contrast, he said, the Social Democrat was "a lively challenger, eager to attack."
Reflecting the maxim that all politics is local, it took more than an hour before the candidates discussed international issues like the allegations of U.S. spying or the Syrian government's possible use of chemical weapons against thousands of civilians.
Merkel's government has ruled out participation in any military response.


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Is Indian Startup Ecosystem Ready to Meet The Massive Demand for Vernacular Content? Vernacular content user base is expected to grow 3-fold in coming 5 years but is India armed with enough resources to meet the massive demand?
By Aastha Singal •
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In a diverse nation like India where every other individual speaks a different language, comes from a different culture and has a different mindset, the future of vernacular is without a doubt bright. The power of technology has prompted a plethora of new users, speaking over 22 major Indian languages recognized by the constitution to join the internet every day.
Digital literacy and high-speed internet combined with cheaper smartphones availability have contributed to a massive shift in the patterns of online content consumption. A recent Google-KPMG survey had revealed that India already has more than 234 million Indian languages online users in comparison with 175 million English users.
The study further revealed that Indian language user base on the internet is expected to reach 536 million by 2021 at CAGR of 18 per cent whereas English users will reach only 199 million with mere 3 per cent growth. Major platforms have started recognizing the shift in trends and are coming in support of non-English languages. Google supports Telugu, Hindi, Bengali and Tamil for its advertising products.
Technical Improvisation
Majority of Indian startups are yet to be abreast with the technical aspects of vernacular. Every vernacular platform wants to be at the forefront of innovation by using tools like artificial intelligence but very little technology has so far been used for the same so far. In the process of catering to the multilingual audience, the startups are required to come to terms with the time's need.
Platforms are playing hard to understand and identify the customer needs and experimenting with multiple aspects. Pratilipi has recently started Alpha launch for Audio stories and is planning to publicly launch Audio stories on the platform in next few months whereas vernacular knowledge sharing platform Vokal has already introduced interactive videos in the form of live expert videos.
"Usually people start off with information, knowledge, entertainment, gaming and news as their initial use cases and move on to more sophisticated things like e-commerce. We see entrepreneurs attacking all these use cases with their solutions and this will get accelerated even more when growth in the English-speaking segment starts to stagnate," said Vokal founder Mayank Bidawatka.
Vernacularization of Social Media
On an average, internet user consumes 2 hours of content daily, a majority of which is video-based with a networking aspect. Youngsters are highly active on social media with the major purpose of interacting with the like-minded people and on the way, coming across the ones who share common interests with the individual, in terms various terms including language.
"English speaking users have Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat etc. How comfortable vernacular users feel on this platform is much more nuanced than just the language. Do they feel connected to the people on these platforms? Do they relate to the kind of content being posted?" asked Darshit Vora, Principal, Kalaari Capital, adding that some global platforms have cracked the code.
Through social media or other platforms, a massive opportunity is present for aspiring startups to create platforms for solving specific content needs of the vernacular user base. While India is catching with China in terms of population, it is far behind the country in terms of digitally active users who are actually consuming content. Time has come for platforms to dive into vernacularization and serve the mass population.
The Rise of Vernacular
While YouTube already supports 11 major Indian languages, Google and Facebook are also expected to offer all of their services in major Indian languages soon. With the increase in demand for vernacular content, multiple gates have opened for new players in the market to cater the needs of 132.42 crore Indians by offering distinctive services in regional languages.
Global and content-based companies like Quora, In short, UC Browser and PopXo have started putting their bets on vernacular by introducing services in Hindi on their respective platforms. In India, only a small percentage of the population is English speaking so vernacular space opens a whole new market opportunity with a wider reach, believes Shalini Prakash, a Venture Partner at 500 Startups.
The influx of massive regional audience has created a great demand for Indian language content and "the fastest and quick way for vernacular platforms to meet demands of regional language content is by generating high-quality video and audio content appealing to niche target groups that drive high engagement with consumers- but the key to success also lies in the distribution strategy," Prakash said.
Attracting the Right Audience
In the recent times, a massive demand has been noted for Indian language content online but only a handful of players dedicated for providing the niche services have been able to garner audience's interest. "Building platforms for a niche and focused target audience will help emerging firms attract the right audience quickly," Prakash added.
Given that almost 90 per cent of Indians can only speak, read and write in Indian languages, less than 1 per cent of the online content is in Indian languages, which has pushed the emerging startups to focus on serving a particular audience instead of targeting the entire lot.
A self-publishing platform Pratilipi is focused on providing content in eight Indian languages to their millions of readers. "We intend to differentiate from other players by focusing entirely on meaningful stories told by people directly. We are a completely UGC platform with most of the content medium-to-long form content," Pratilipi's founder Ranjeet Pratap Singh said.


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- Product: Hyperloop
- Sector: Logistics
- Founded: 2015
- Amount invested: € 300,000
- Status: Follow-up financing secured
Hyperloop: travelling as fast as an airplane with the convenience of a train
A world without traffic jams that doesn't require constant planning and rushing. A world where you can decide to grab your coat and go shopping in Paris at any time. A world where you can live and work where you want. In effect, a world without boundaries, a 'global village'. This is Hardt's vision and ambition. The company aims to achieve its goal by developing a new transport system that is as fast as an airplane and as convenient as a train but at a fraction of the traditional cost.


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By Sangeeta Saxena
New Delhi. 10 April 2018. For a journalist who was there seeing the inception of the engine MRO industry in India when, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) signed a MOU with French engine maker Safran, to form a joint venture company for maintenance , repair and overhaul of the 500 plus strong fleet of Safran engines used by the Indian defence and para-military force, it is exciting to know that the venture is up and about. It was with real fanfare that the two companies signed at the 2016 Farnborough Airshow at the HAL chalet and the same enthusiasm is evident in the JV two years since.
At present HE-MRO is providing Level 1 & 2 support services to the armed forces for their TM333 and Shakti engines. The first maintenance center of the JV will be operational in Bangalore over the next quarter. Going ahead, HE-MRO will begin construction of its Level 4, repair facility at Goa and this state of the art infrastructure should be up and running in 2019.
"The Indian military rotorcraft market is poised for massive growth and reliable MRO services will be the need of the hour. The creation of HE-MRO is a step in this direction. With almost a 1000 engines already in operation, the JV is rapidly gaining the relevant experience and credibility with the end user. Once the 'deep repair' facility will be operational in Goa, the end user will be exposed to the entire gamut of world-class services that this JV is capable of bringing to the table," said Ankur Gupta Vice President- Commercial & Business Development.
HE-MRO, an Indian company, is an equal stakes JV of M/s HAL and M/S Safran Helicopter Engines, France. This JV was formed in 2016 and is backed by the experience and investments of both OEMs. M/s HAL is the largest supplier of rotorcraft and M/s SAFRAN Helicopter Engines has over 1,000 engines in use with the Indian Armed Forces. The main aim of the JV is to enhance the reliability and availability of the military rotorcraft fleet and hopes to bring world-class learning from other geographies to India.
Looking into the future, the addressable market for the JV is going to grow exponentially. Some of the prospective programs on the horizon are the Ka-226; the indigenous LUH; and the twin naval programs, NUH and NMRH. In each of these programs, HE-MRO is uniquely positioned to not only add value to these programs but also contribute towards the indigenous content requirements.
Not limiting itself to the military domain, HE-MRO is also actively pursuing MRO opportunities in the civil aerospace market as well and this represents a potential export market.
This is not the first partnership between the two aerospace majors. In 2005 Safran Aircraft Engines and HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) teamed up to create an equally-owned joint venture in Bangalore, southern India, to produce pipes for aero-engines.The plant includes 2,000 square meters of state-of-the-art machine shops, plus another 400 square meters of offices. It deploys a wide range of manufacturing processes, including bending, flaring, orbital TIG welding, induction brazing, EDM drilling, X-ray and dye penetrant inspection and testing.
The then Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar inaugurated Helicopter Engines Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) Pvt. Limited (HE-MRO) at Sattari District, North Goa, in October 2016.
The JV definitely promises to be the cynosure of all eyes at the upcoming Defexpo at Chennai.


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FDA OKs first reversal agent for Pradaxa
The FDA has granted Accelerated Approval to Praxbind (idarucizumab) for use in patients who are taking the anticoagulant Pradaxa (dabigatran) during emergency situations when there is a need to reverse Pradaxa's blood-thinning effects.
"The anticoagulant effects of Pradaxa are important and life-saving for some patients, but there are situations where reversal of the drug's effects is medically necessary," said Richard Pazdur, M.D., director of the Office of Hematology and Oncology Products in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. "Today's approval offers the medical community an important tool for managing patients taking Pradaxa in emergency or life-threatening situations when bleeding can't be controlled."
The FDA approved Pradaxa in 2010 to prevent stroke and systemic blood clots in patients with atrial fibrillation, as well as for the treatment and prevention of deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. Praxbind is the first reversal agent approved specifically for Pradaxa and works by binding to the drug compound to neutralize its effect. Praxbind solution is for intravenous injection.
The safety and effectiveness of Praxbind were studied in three trials involving a total of 283 healthy volunteers taking Pradaxa (i.e., people who did not require an anticoagulant). In the healthy volunteers who were given Praxbind, there was an immediate reduction in the amount of Pradaxa in participants' blood (measured as unbound dabigatran plasma concentration) that lasted for a period of at least 24 hours. In that study, the most common side effect from use of Praxbind was headache.
Another trial included 123 patients taking Pradaxa who received Praxbind due to uncontrolled bleeding or because they required emergency surgery. In the ongoing trial, based on laboratory testing, the anticoagulant effect of Pradaxa was fully reversed in 89% of patients within four hours of receiving Praxbind. In that patient trial, the most common side effects were low potassium (hypokalemia), confusion, constipation, fever and pneumonia.
Praxbind and Pradaxa are both marketed by Boehringer Ingelheim of Ridgefield, Conn.
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Dr Jackie Glenn, the founder and CEO of Glenn Diversity Inclusion & HR Solutions, has joined the company's board of directors.
As the former VP, Global Chief Diversity Officer at technology giant Dell EMC, Glenn brings more than 25 years of experience creating inclusive corporate cultures that attract and retain top talent and diverse workforces globally.
She is the best-selling author of, "Lift as I Climb: An Immigrant Girl's Journey Through Corporate America," her instructional biography on how she journeyed from a nanny to a Global Chief Diversity Officer of a Fortune 100 company.
"With Jackie's unique business experience, I look forward to the fresh business perspectives that she will bring to me, our board, and ultimately our SmartBear employees," says Frank Roe, CEO of SmartBear.
"Given the pace of our growth and scale, Jackie's expertise will guide us in continuing to build a diverse workforce while creating an environment that will ensure we retain top talent from around the globe."
In addition to consulting, executive coaching, and helping corporations implement strategies and best practices, Glenn is a dynamic speaker, Harvard University instructor, hosts national and international conferences, and participates on industry panels.
Her love for community advocacy and civic leadership includes service on the Board of the Museum of African American History (MAAH) in Boston and the Board of Overseers of Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital.
"My life's work is helping companies to create corporate cultures that reflect our diverse world, breaking down culture and gender barriers and defying industry trends," Glenn says.
"I am thrilled to serve SmartBear as I continue working to empower organisations to build world-class employee experiences."
The company also recently announced the promotion of Christina McCollum to Head of ESG & Diversity, advancing the company's ESG and diversity mission


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ROYAL ENFIELD as its name depicts the image of bike in our mind the ride of the pride.In 1909 Royal Enfield surprised the motorcycling world by introducing a small Motorcycle with a 2 ¼ HP V twin Motosacoche engine of Swiss origin & in present it has rocked the whole Automobile world with its powerful bikes.Service centre in Hassan is located nearest in your home place.Contact number,product services,timing and other details regarding any other service related matter of Royal Enfield bike is mentioned below .Royal Enfield Manufactures various Models of Bikes i.e.- Bullet 500, Bullet Electra, Bullet 350, Thunderbird 500, Thunderbird 350, Classic desert storm, Classic battle green,Classic chrome, Classic 500, Classic 350, Continental GT.For servicing of your Royal Enfield two wheeler just call at the contact no mentioned below to avoid long rush or waiting time at the service centre.Make Advance booking for maintenance/servicing/Repairing of Royal enfield bikes. Service centre details in Hassan Mentioned below .
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Burbank Woman Detained For More Than 10 Hours For Painting Nails On Southwest Flight
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A Burbank woman was detained for 10 hours for painting her nails on board a Southwest flight headed to Houston.
Jeanie Daniels was on the flight on Feb. 26 to see her boyfriend, Jimmy Hauser, who lives in Houston. Daniels asked the passengers on both sides if they would mind her painting her nails. They said, 'No, go right ahead.'
But a flight attendant wasn't so obliging.
"I thought it was all going well until the attendant came over and was very upset I was painting my nails, saying it was offending everyone around me," Daniels told CBS2's Randy Paige.
Daniels went into the bathroom to finish and a second angry flight attendant was waiting for her.
"She said, 'Weren't you just told not to paint your nails?' and I said, 'Actually, I wasn't. I was just told it was offending people around me so I did the right thing and went to an enclosed area,'" Daniels explained.
The passenger went back to her seat and was confronted by the first flight attendant.
"She said, 'You just blatantly didn't listen to my rules,' and she just kept carrying it on and on," Daniels said.
"She was getting so loud when I was sitting in my seat. I was like, just stop, and I was loud when I said...(expletive) because she wouldn't end the conversation," she added in a phone interview.
Daniels' slip led to her arrest at Hobby Airport. A Houston Police spokesman says the officers interviewed the flight attendant and a witness, then called the District Attorney's Office to ask if they would accept the charge of "abusive profane language."
The passenger said as she was leaving the plane she turned to the first flight attendant and said, while raising her hand, "High five -- no hard feelings."
That prompted a police officer to grab her raised arm, and ask, "Are you trying to hit her?"
The charge was later dismissed by a judge. After more than 10 hours in jail, Daniels was released.
Southwest Airlines released this statement about the incident.
"The Customer in question was taken into custody upon arrival in Houston for behavior she displayed while onboard a flight from LAS - HOU on Feb 26th. The airport police became involved because of the passenger's behavior and a verbal altercation with a Southwest Airlines crew member. Southwest Airlines is responsible for the safety of all of our passengers and Employees"
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Key contests in Lok Sabha election 2019: Akhilesh Yadav vs Dinesh Lal Yadav 'Nirahua'
In a constituency previously dominated by Ramakant Yadav and won by Mulayam in 2014, it is a battle between former CM Akhilesh Yadav and Bhojpuri superstar on political debut Dinesh Lal Yadav 'Nirahua'.
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Not many were surprised when Akhilesh Yadav chose to contest the Lok Sabha 2019 election from Azamgarh - a constituency father Mulayam had managed to win easily in 2014 despite a Modi wave painting Uttar Pradesh saffron. Azamgarh may have indeed been a no-risk choice for the former state CM who now faces a man with no prior political experience but a fan following second to none.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has decided to put up actor-turned-politician Dinesh Lal Yadav, aka Nirahua, against the SP giant in a contest that may or may not be close but would certainly be entertaining. Nirahua had joined BJP on Wednesday (March 27) and exactly a week after his political debut, the Bhojpuri superstar was chosen to take on Akhilesh from Azamgarh. "When I saw a leader like PM Narendra Modi and how people are coming together just to remove him, I thought I need to come and tell them what is right and what is wrong. It would be a matter of pride for me if my party chooses to field me from Azamgarh," Nirahua had told Zee News previously.
Now, the BJP would perhaps hope that the former Big Boss contestant can dent as much of Akhilesh's votes as possible. A win, in all probabilities, would be a surprise too sweet.
While Nirahua does command a huge fan following courtesy blockbuster hits which include patriotic films like Border and Sher-e-Hindustan, Akhilesh could be quite at home in Azamgarh.
In 2014, Mulayam had managed to defeat the then sitting MP Ramakant Yadav of BJP (formerly SP and BSP) by over 63,000 votes. In the state election in 2017 as well, BJP had swept the state but had failed to make any mark at all in Azamgarh. At the time, SP had managed to secure three assembly seats while BSP had cornered the remaining two.
And while Akhilesh may be contesting from here for the first time, he could benefit big time from his party's alliance with BSP. That is because Azamgarh has a sizeable Muslim and Dalit population which could side with SP (and therefore BSP) in the upcoming election.
Can Akhilesh push over Nirahua en route to a win in Azamgarh - making BJP miss the services of Ramakant? Or will Nirahua stage a stunning surprise to claim the honours on debut?
Azamgarh votes in the sixth phase - on May 12.


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2011 Kawasaki Teryx 750 FI 4×4
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2011 Kawasaki Teryx 750 FI 4×4
Work or play, the incredibly adaptable Teryx delivers
In an increasingly specialized world, it's nice to know some products can still do a lot of jobs. And in the powersports industry, there's perhaps no better example than Kawasaki's V-twin powered Teryx™ 750 FI 4×4 recreation utility vehicle. Whether you're hauling bricks to the construction site, firewood and supplies to the campground, or just going for a blast on the local trails, the Teryx has you covered, with a range of abilities that'll have you grinning like a kid inside your helmet.
It all starts with the Teryx's smooth and powerful fuel-injected V-twin engine and sport-tuned wide-body chassis, designs that boosted it to the front of the Recreational Utility Vehicle pack when first introduced. Upgraded last year in several ways, including new front-end styling, a forward-tilting hood, improved engine cooling, an even sturdier tilting bed out back and a host of detail improvements, the Teryx is sure to stay atop the RUV heap.
Durable and reliable power is the name of the RUV game, and nobody can touch the Teryx's 749cc 90-degree eight-valve V-twin. This engine is not only plenty powerful, its also supremely smooth thanks to the 90-degree configuration's perfect primary balance. This design offers unmatched smoothness at any rpm – and a great exhaust note that sets the Teryx apart from lesser RUVs. Cooling system mods made last year – a larger cooling fan for more airflow and a larger diameter hose for more coolant flow – make the engine even more reliable.
The Teryx's advanced digital fuel-injection system includes functions for automatic altitude compensation, automatic idle adjustment and easy, choke-free starting via a sophisticated array of sensors for inlet air pressure, throttle position, crankshaft position, rpm, water temperature and a vehicle down sensor. Also, an ignition cut-out won't allow the Teryx to be ridden away when the parking brake is engaged. The clever braking system protection complements the Teryx's CVT Belt Protection System, which, among other good things, automatically retards ignition timing if the system detects engine operation at high rpm for more than two seconds while the rear wheels are motionless (i.e., the belt is slipping), and warns the rider via a flashing belt warning lamp on the dash.
All that electronically enhanced performance is packaged within an advanced chassis that's narrow enough to navigate most trails (and fit in a standard pickup bed), yet wide enough to offer a roomy cab and an excellent ride. The wide-track design frame uses large-diameter, thin-walled tubing to combine tremendous rigidity with light weight. The upper frame adds roll-over protection, and there's enough room inside to fit two full-sized adults in a comfortable but supportive pair of bucket seats with retractable three-point seat belts.
Once comfortably strapped in, the rider can choose two-wheel drive or four-wheel drive with the flip of a switch, and Kawasaki's super-efficient continuously variable transmission takes it from there, taking you practically anywhere you want to go. A cockpit-adjustable variable front differential control even lets you fine tune front-end traction for slick or tricky terrain.
Long-travel four-wheel independent suspension, adjustable Kayaba gas-charged shocks at all four corners, a rear stabilizer bar and mid-ship engine placement all work together to tame tough trails, with a high-performance long A-arm double-wishbone suspension design that reduces camber changes for sharp steering and excellent wheel control at all times. When it's time to slow down, dual discs up front and a high-tech sealed oil-bath braking unit out back get the job done with power to spare, while Kawasaki Engine Braking Control uses clever electronics to assist with engine braking while driving down hills. Specially designed 26-inch Maxxis tires designed specifically for the Teryx are the final ingredient in its amazingly agile and stable handling characteristics.
A large selection of authentic Kawasaki Accessories are available through Kawasaki dealers for the 2011 Teryx 750 FI 4×4. As with all off-highway vehicle recreation, Kawasaki encourages RUV drivers to drive responsibly and to respect the environment.
Key Features:
749cc V-twin
o Teryx's liquid-cooled, 749cc SOHC, fuel-injected, 90-degree V-twin engine cranks out class-leading power and offers unmatched smoothness
o Prodigious torque is available from the oversquare (85 x 66mm) engine design, while four-valve heads contribute to the Teryx's superb acceleration
o The 90-degree V-twin configuration offers perfect primary balance, resulting in low engine vibration
o Aluminum cylinders are electrofusion-plated for light weight, long wear and excellent heat dispersion
o Engine can be started in any gear, as long as the brake pedal is depressed
o Electronically controlled Kawasaki Engine Brake Control helps to slow the RUV when traversing down hills
o The engine is positioned mid-ship, providing optimum front/rear balance and superb traction
o Ducts located by the cargo bed direct cooling air to the engine, while a heavy-duty liquid-cooling system keeps temperatures under control in the harshest conditions
o Large-capacity radiator is compact and placed high in the chassis for protection against mud and debris; a large cooling fan maximizes cooling capacity in slow going
o Ignition cut-out feature protects the brake system by preventing riding with the parking brake on
Digital Fuel Injection System
o Digital fuel injection enhances throttle response and automatically adjusts for changes in temperature and elevation for optimum performance in a wide range of environments
o The fuel injection system is controlled by a 32-bit ECU and continually monitors coolant temperature, air intake temperature, throttle position, air intake pressure, vehicle speed and crankshaft angle to automatically meter out the ideal amount of fuel via two 34mm throttle bodies for extremely stable power delivery – regardless of the conditions
o FI system permits easy engine starting at low temperature and utilizes an Automatic Idle Speed Control and Automatic Fast Idle function to ensure smooth engine warm up
o High-pressure fuel pump located inside the tank features a unique reservoir chamber at the bottom of the fuel pump to ensure air does not get into the fuel system
o Specific Teryx-sized throttle bodies and optimized ignition timing maximize low and mid-range power and high rpm response
Kawasaki Automatic Power-drive System CVT
o Featuring high and low ranges, plus reverse, the continuously variable transmission provides a direct feel from the engine and instantaneous acceleration – ideal characteristics for sportier riding
o Transmission utilizes a high-grade, super-durable Kevlar-impregnated belt designed to handle the engine's prodigious output. The drive converter shaft is hard chrome-finished for durability
o The CVT Belt Protection System prevents tire freewheel, improves rocky terrain performance and reduces belt overloading by adding Throttle Position Sensor (TPS) data into the system
o Unnecessary belt wear is minimized by a system that reduces engine speed if the engine operates at high rpm for more than two seconds while the rear wheels are motionless
o A large CVT intake duct, located to keep water and debris out, provides plenty of cooling air to the transmission
o Heat shielding on the exhaust pipe below the intake duct minimizes intake temperature
Snorkel Air Intake
o Voluminous air cleaner box containing an oval filter with lots of surface area feeds the engine plenty of clean air while minimizing intake noise. Easy maintenance design promotes long engine life
Selectable Four-wheel Drive / Variable Front Differential Control
o Selecting two
o or four-wheel drive is as easy as pressing a switch located on the dash, as the electrically selectable 2WD/4WD system engages instantly
o Limited-slip front differential reduces steering effort under normal four-wheel drive operation, while Variable Front Differential Control permits the rider to distribute torque equally to left and right front wheels for maximum traction via a hand lever located between the seats
o Rear gear case keeps wheels locked and turning together for maximum forward thrust
Wide-body Chassis
o Large-diameter thin-walled tubular steel frame combines high rigidity, light weight and mid-engine placement – a perfect combination for performance riding
o Tubular cab frame meets SAE J1194, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.4, and 7.5, requirements as a roll-over protective structure (ROPS)
o Performance-focused suspension is designed with high-performance driving in mind
o Wide track helps provide a great ride, but the unit still fits in a standard pickup truck bed
o Chassis has 11.6 inches of ground clearance – a perfect compromise between great, low-CG handling and the ability to clear tough off-road obstacles
o Narrow frame design maximizes the length of the front and rear suspension's lower A-arms for excellent road handling performance and minimal geometry changes throughout the suspension's travel
o Chassis serves up a near-perfect balance of bump absorption and steering control
o The tilt bed's frame is highly rigid for added durability
o Inset headlights complement the modern, aggressive styling
o Hinged, forward-tilting front hood enhances aggressive styling and allows quick access to the radiator and front suspension components for easier maintenance and suspension tuning
Sport-focused Suspension
o High-performance, single-chamber, preload-adjustable gas-charged Kayaba shocks provide excellent fade-resistant damping performance in the toughest conditions, while providing 7.5 inches of plush, controlled wheel travel
o Independent rear suspension provides the best balance of rider comfort and handling at high speeds, along with 7.5 inches of sport-tuned wheel travel
o The preload-adjustable gas-charged Kayaba rear shocks feature piggyback reservoirs, further reducing the tendency of oil to froth under hard conditions, while a torsion bar out back helps keep body roll to a minimum
High-performance Brakes
o Dual front 200mm disc brakes gripped by rigid-mount 27mm twin-piston calipers provide powerful, fade-free braking and solid feel. Discs are tucked inside the wheels where they're protected from debris
o Kawasaki's sealed, oil-bathed multi-disc rear brake system provides maximum stopping power in almost any condition along with reduced maintenance thanks to being completely sealed from outside contaminants
o The rear brake system's compact design contributes to excellent ground clearance
Large, 26-inch Tires
o Custom 26-inch Maxxis tires specially developed for the Teryx™ RUV maximize performance
o Mounted on 12-inch rims, the largest tires available in the RUV category provide outstanding rough terrain performance and obstacle clearance
Tilting Cargo Bed
o With 500-pound capacity, tie-down hooks in all four corners, tilting bed, standard cargo net and generous dimensions, the Teryx is a highly functional and massively fun ride
o Gas-assist struts keep the bed up for easy maintenance
o Reinforced bed frame offers substantial durability
o Making maximum use of its cockpit space, the Teryx provides plenty of shoulder and legroom to comfortably accommodate two adults
o Form-fitting bucket seats and retractable three-point seatbelts serve up a comfortable ride
o Padded steering wheel is positioned low for optimum control when sport riding, and provides additional driver protection
Multi-function Digital Display
o Standard on all models, the Multi-function Display includes a digital speedometer (mph or kph), clock, dual trip meters plus 2WD/4WD indicator, water temperature and fuel-injection warning indicators, digital fuel gauge, hour meter, parking brake indicator, CVT belt warning, neutral, reverse and low oil-pressure warning lights
o Thermoplastic Olefin bodywork has a great-looking high-gloss finish that's more scratch-resistant than polyethylene so it stays great
o looking longer
o Engine and undercarriage guards provide maximum protection from rocks and debris
o Teryx's battery and electrical parts are located higher and further away from water and harm's way
o Dual 40W headlights and 8/27W dual taillights mean you'll see and be seen
Range / Transportability
o Large, 7.4-gal. (28L) fuel tank and excellent fuel efficiency provides the range campers and hunters need to get deep into the bush and back again
o Even with its wide track and large tires, the Teryx is compact enough to fit in the bed of most full-size pickup trucks
2011 Kawasaki Teryx 750 FI 4×4 – Specifications
American MSRP $11,299 USD
Canadian MSRP $14,499 CDN
Engine: Liquid-cooled, 90-degree, four-stroke V-twin
Valve System: SOHC, four valves per cylinder
Displacement: 749cc
Starting System: Electric
Bore x stroke: 85 x 66mm
Compression Ratio: 8.8: 1
Fuel System: 2 x Mikuni 34 mm throttle bodies
Ignition: Digital DC-CDI
Transmission: Continuously variable belt-drive transmission with high and low range, plus reverse, and Kawasaki Engine Brake Control
Final drive: Selectable four-wheel drive with Variable Front Differential Control, shaft
Frame type: Large diameter, thin-walled, high-tensile tubular steel
Front suspension / wheel travel: Adjustable dual A-arm with gas charged shocks / 7.5 in.
Rear suspension / wheel travel: Adjustable Independent Rear Suspension (IRS) with gas charged, reservoir shocks / 7.5 in.
Front tires: Maxxis 26×8-12
Rear tires: Maxxis 26×10-12
Front brakes: Dual hydraulic discs with 2-piston calipers
Rear brake: Sealed, oil-bathed, multi-disc
Overall length: 116.3 in.
Overall width: 58.5 in.
Overall height: 75.8 in.
Wheelbase: 76.0 in.
Ground clearance: 11.6 in.
Lighting: (2) 35W headlights, (2) 8W taillight, 27W stoplight
Cargo Bed Capacity: 500 lbs., 44.2 W x 32.7 L x 11.1 in. H
Towing Capacity: 1,300 lbs.
Curb weight: 1,395 lbs.
Fuel capacity: 7.4 gal.
Instruments: Multi-function Digital Meter with speedometer (mph or kph), fuel gauge, clock hour meter, odometer, dual trip meter and parking brake, CVT belt, R/N/P/4WD, water temp and oil pressure indicators
Color: Sunbeam Red
Warranty: 6 months
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Tennessee head football coach Jeremy Pruitt officially announced the hiring of Kevin Steele as a defensive assistant on Tuesday afternoon.
"Kevin is someone I have respected and admired for a long time on and off the field," Pruitt said in a press release. "I had the opportunity to learn and work with him during our time at Alabama and our friendship grew from there. He has outstanding knowledge of the game and understands what it takes to be successful in this conference.
"Having coached under the great Johnny Majors, he has a sincere appreciation for what it means to be a Tennessee Volunteer. We are thrilled to welcome Kevin and Linda back to Rocky Top."
It is unclear what exact role Steele will have on the Vols' defensive staff. In his 38 years of coaching, he has coached linebackers and defensive backs, as well as serving as defensive coordinator for multiple teams. He has also served as an interim head coach and director of player personnel.
Steele played linebacker at Tennessee under Johnny Majors from 1978-79 after transferring from Furman. The former Vol also coached at UT, serving as a student assistant in 1980, a graduate assistant in 1980-81 and the outside linebackers coach in 1982. It was the first of two previous coaching stints on Rocky Top for Steele, as he returned to coach the defensive backs in 1987-88 following stops at New Mexico State and Oklahoma State.
"Linda and I are excited to be coming home," Steele said. "Tennessee is a special place to me personally. I am truly grateful to Coach Pruitt and Coach Fulmer for this opportunity, and I am eager to get to work alongside them once again. I look forward to helping create an environment where our players are successful and truly embrace what it means to be a Volunteer."
OFFICIAL: Kevin Steele named defensive assistant coach.
Welcome #HomeSweetHome! ?
— Tennessee Football (@Vol_Football) January 12, 2021
The 62-year-old most recently served as Auburn's defensive coordinator from 2016 up until this past season. Steele served as the Tigers' interim head coach after Gus Malzahn was fired, but was not retained by new Auburn head coach Bryan Harsin.
Steele was a finalist for the Broyles Award as the top assistant coach in college football during the 2017 season. His defenses finished in the top 20 nationally in scoring defense in four of his five seasons at Auburn.
A familiar face in the SEC, in 2015, Steele served as defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at LSU. He went to Baton Rouge from Alabama, where he spent the 2014 season coaching the Crimson Tide linebackers and served as a special assistant to the head coach. In 2013, he served as Alabama's director of player personnel.
Steele served as defensive coordinator at Alabama in 2007 and then held the same position at Clemson for three years from 2009-2011. While at Clemson, the Tigers won the 2011 ACC title, their first since 1991. Steele's 2010 Clemson defense led the ACC and ranked No. 13 nationally in points allowed, surrendering 18.8 points per game.
Before he joined the Alabama staff in 2007, Steele coached with Bobby Bowden at Florida State for four years (2003-06), serving as the executive head coach for the Seminoles. He was named the Rivals.com National Recruiter of the Year in 2005 at Florida State after helping the Seminoles sign the top class in the country.
Steele joined Florida State after serving as the head coach at Baylor from 1999-2002. He was 9-36 during his time as head coach of the Bears.
Steele coached linebackers for the Carolina Panthers in the NFL from 1995-98. Under head coach Dom Capers, the Panthers reached the NFC Championship game in their second season (1996). After four years with Carolina, Steele was hired as head coach at Baylor in 1999.
From 1989-94, Steele coached the linebackers under Nebraska legend Tom Osborne. During his six years in Lincoln, the Cornhuskers went 60-11, appeared in six bowl games, won four conference championships and captured the 1994 national championship with a 13-0 record.
Steele is a native of Dillon, South Carolina.


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The physicist and inventor George Carruthers, known for inventing the ultraviolet camera and spectrograph, was born on October 1, 1939 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Carruthers is the oldest of four siblings. Carruthers's father, George Carruthers, Sr., died when Carruthers was only 12 years old. However, before his death the senior Carruthers, a civil engineer in the United States Army, played a significant role in Carruthers's budding interest in science. For example, Carruthers had built his own telescope from cardboard tubing and mail-order lenses from the money he had made as a delivery boy at the age of 10 years old.
Following the loss of his father, Carruthers's mother, Sophia Carruthers, moved the family to Chicago, Illinois in search of employment. She eventually worked for the U.S. Postal Service. Carruthers's love for science remained strong, eventually becoming one of only a handful African American students to attend Chicago's Englewood High School. During his time at Englewood, Carruthers won three science fair awards.
In 1957 Carruthers enrolled at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, a school known strongly for its engineering and science. Carruthers earned his Bachelors of Science degree in physics in 1961 and remained at Illinois to complete his Master's degree in Nuclear Engineering in 1962, and his Ph.D. in Aeronautical and Astronautical engineering in 1964.
Following graduate school, Carruthers began work at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory as a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow. Two years later, in 1966, Carruthers began work at the E.O. Hurlburt Center for Space Research at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. as a full-time research physicist. By November 11, 1969, Carruthers had patented his invention of the first "Image Converter for Detecting Electromagnetic Radiation Especially in Short Wave Lengths." Additionally, Carruthers was the principle inventor of the Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph in 1972 which later resulted in his providing the first proof of the existence of molecular hydrogen in space during the 1970s Aerobee-150 rocket launch from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
Carruthers' UV camera and spectrograph would be used during Apollo 16's famous 1972 lunar landing. The camera and spectrograph would be the first moon-based observatory. Carruthers's new device allowed scientists to examine UV images of more than 550 stars, nebulae, and galaxies, as well as research the earth's atmosphere for the first time for concentration of pollutants. Because of his inventions, Carruthers received the Arthur S. Flemming Award in 1970, NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 1972, the Warner Prize in 1973, and the Black Engineer of the Year Award in 1987. In 2003 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2003. In 1983, Carruthers became Chair of the Editing and Review Committee and Editor for the Journal of the National Technical Association. More recently on February 1, 2013 Carruthers was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation for 2012 by President Barack Obama at a White House Ceremony.


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Aalavandhan (2001)
Suresh Krishna;
Kalaipuli S. Thanu;
S. Thiru;
Kamal Haasan, Raveena Tandon, Manisha Koirala, Kitu Gidwani, Shri Vallabh Vyas, Milind Gunaji, Vikram Gokhale, Naveen Nischol, Smita Jaykar, Anuradha Hasan, Riyaz Khan, Mayilsamy, Major Ravi, Sarika, Yashpal Sharma
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Vijay Kumar, an army commando in Delhi, is due to marry his girlfriend Tejaswini "Teju", a TV news presenter. Vijay's twin brother, Nandu, is a paranoid schizophrenic mental patient who has spent most of his life in an asylum for killing his abusive stepmother. Vijay cares about Nandu and looks forward to his release, but a doctor tells him that Nandu has developed into a psychopath. He is now a danger to society and should not be released.
Vijay and Teju visit Nandu to share the news about their impending marriage, which turns disastrous as Nandu begins to see Teju in the image of his stepmother. Seeking to save Vijay from Teju, Nandu manages to escape custody after killing two other inmates. He later meets his maternal uncle, who was responsible for incarcerating him. The uncle dies of choking upon seeing his nephew. After their marriage, Vijay and Teju are shocked to learn of Nandu's escape. Nandu's doctor believes it was another patient who escaped, but Vijay is convinced that it was Nandu. Nandu visits Vijay's home when he is not there and leaves a message about wanting to kill Teju. He keeps hallucinating about his deceased mother in his imagination. While searching for Teju, Nandu meets socialite Sharmilee and they both develop a liking for each other. Upon being drugged, Nandu hallucinates about Sharmilee as his stepmother and brutally murders her. Regretting his actions, he burns her corpse before exiting the room, but leaves behind evidence through which Vijay deduces him as the murderer. Vijay and Teju leave for Vijay's ancestral home in Ooty to stay safe from Nandu, but he secretly follows them. Vijay and Teju find Nandu's old diary in the house through which they read his past: Vijay and Nandu's mother committed suicide after finding out that Santosh, their father was having an affair with Jayanthi, who later becomes their stepmother. Both brothers hate her and Nandu becomes violent at school. The teacher complains about this and Nandu justifies that he is only reflecting the home environment. Enraged, Santosh beats both his sons for disliking his new wife. One day, the brothers learn that Jayanthi is having an affair with another man and Nandu tries telling this to his father who pays no heed, and instead beats him. Nandu pleads to his maternal uncle to take him along with him. But as he is suffering from throat cancer, he refuses and suggests a boarding school. Eventually, Vijay leaves with his uncle to a boarding school while Nandu remains home.
The situation gets worse at home with Nandu and Jayanthi turning violent and Santosh gets a heart attack. Nandu overhears a conversation between Jayanthi and a lawyer, and realises that she is only after his father's wealth. Seeing this, Santosh dies due to another heart attack. Nandu now starts to see both his deceased parents in his hallucinations. His mother gives him the mission of killing Jayanthi, which Nandu does. Nandu stays with the corpses in the house before being incarcerated at the asylum. In the present, Vijay learns from his old friend Thenkoshut that Nandu has reached Ooty. Vijay reaches on time to save Teju from Nandu, who entered their hotel room and leaves with her. Nandu chases the car in which they escape. After a long chase, Vijay manages to push Nandu's car into an abyss and assumes he is dead. However, Nandu escapes and continues his trail. Vijay plans to leave the city and notices Nandu coming to the hotel secretly. Vijay and his commandos try to nab him but he takes on everyone and kills many. Finally, the brothers have a fight where Nandu overcomes Vijay. He corners Teju who starts whacking him with a belt in self-defense, reminding Nandu of Jayanthi's manner of punishing him. Vijay reaches by then and there is another fight between the brothers. Nandu visualises his mother asking him to join her as Jayanthi is torturing her up there. He realises his mistake and apologises to Vijay for chasing Teju. To kill his stepmother, he lights up some cylinders which explode, killing him. Teju is later revealed to be pregnant with twins.


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by Sylvia Pamuk
We met in Zamalek, on a cool February night at an expat party full of drunk Americans. The way he told it to our friends later is different from what I remember: He saw me with a friend on the apartment balcony, he tells them, and was determined to talk to me. So he did. The story is suave and controlled, and everything he is not.
It was the early months of 2012, and the fuss surrounding the first anniversary of the Egyptian revolution had just died down. I was studying abroad at the American University of Cairo and had been living in Egypt since August. The second semester students were fresh from America and drunk on the power of having come to such an exotic locale while their friends flew to Europe for the semester. My girlfriend and I counted the number of State Department wannabes and laughed, deciding that we refused to take anyone present seriously.
I saw my girlfriend meet someone's eyes over my shoulder. I turned. His words tumbled out suddenly as if he had been holding his breath.
"Can I borrow your lighter?"
I looked up at him. I agreed to exchange my lighter for his name.
"Layth," he said. He lit his cigarette. His face was thrown in sharp relief by the flame: strong brow, aquiline nose, a handful of springtime freckles tossed carelessly across high cheekbones.
"Oh?" His eyes flickered when I met them. "Where's that from?"
"Palestine," he said and handed me my lighter.
Palestine, he explained, via Washington D.C. He'd been coming to Cairo since he was about 12 when his father took up a teaching post at the university. He played the drums and guitar, he loved to dance, he said he was back in Egypt indefinitely to improve his Arabic. We talked for hours, and I brought him home.
My roommate was talking up someone cute in the kitchen, so he kissed me in the dark on the balcony. I twisted my fingers in his tawny curls as strains of music from felucca boats on the Nile drifted up from the riverbank ten floors below. It wasn't until I met him in the light of day that I realized how high he had been that night.
Tongues tied, hands twisted, we met for coffee on a bright terrace at the university. I should have known it was over then, but it took several weeks and another drunk conversation at another crowded party for him to tell me that he actually wanted to see someone else. I held my head high, stayed at the party, and refused to cry until I was in the middle of the Eastern Desert the next morning, driving with friends to Ain Sokhna for the weekend.
One month later, he came back to me.
Your first mistake: You don't ask why. You take it as it comes, his pleas for forgiveness and his elation at being taken back, because by now it's the beginning of the end, during your last six weeks of studying abroad in Cairo.
You are ravenous, you are desperate, you want everything before it ends, and so you take everything he has to give: the city's madness and noise, sweat, and traffic and springtime dust storms, the call for the dawn prayer ringing in your ears as you tumble into bed together. The warmth of the afternoon sun on your skin as you sit in one of Zamalek's sidewalk cafes, dodging Tahrir sit-ins on the way home from the university bus stop, drinking coffee on your balcony and admiring the way the sun glitters on the Nile before eight in the morning. You skip over dogshit on sidewalks, smoke inside cafes and bars, and breathe deeply of the night air during the long cool drive down the Corniche to Ma'adi after a night of sweaty dancing at Cairo Jazz Club. You kiss hungrily in dark elevators, yet are unable to hold hands in the street. You meet strangers outside the famous downtown 'ahwa Horriya and end up dancing in someone's dirty living room two hours later, the bottoms of your bare feet collecting fallen ash from the hashish and your blood pulsing to the beat of the drum beneath Layth's palms.
Whenever I think I miss Layth, I realize I'm longing for the life he showed me how to live in Cairo: the paradox of ease and adrenaline, the long nights and lazy afternoons, the music from delivery boys' mopeds, the cheap cigarettes, the cane juice from streetside kiosks, nearly getting hit by cars while crossing the street and cats wandering the night, weaving between beggars on littered streets. I miss not worrying about the price of rent or taxis, I miss the smell of the Nile in April when it's not yet too hot in the city. I miss steamier May nights on the rooftop terrace at the Greek Club, my favorite restaurant in Midan Talaat Harb. We drank ouzo and ate stuffed grape leaves that weren't as good as his aunt's and people-watched, laughing as our group of friends found itself joining parties with the next table over.
I miss Layth's golden moments — when he was comfortable and relaxed, sweet and open. I'll always remember how everything about him was like shirts left too long on the line, bleached by the sun: washed-out pale blue eyes, gilded tips of otherwise dark lashes, tawny hair the color of a lion's mane. How his flannel shirts smelled of Marlboro Reds and Egyptian laundry detergent, how the fine lines around his eyes disappeared in peaceful sleep.
I left Cairo during the presidential elections of 2012 to work as a translator at a small news station in the West Bank for the month of June. I left my luggage at Layth's apartment and when I returned five weeks later, it was with too many photos of weekends spent with old friends in Tel Aviv for us to go back to the way we were.
We haven't spoken in over a year. I assume he's still in Cairo, waking to the cry of the muezzin each morning and watching the sun glint blood orange off thousands of skyscraper windows each afternoon, but Cairo is a different world now. If one day we meet again, I don't know if we'll be friends. That brief life we had has vanished, the friends we knew have come and gone, and the Cairo we loved — blissfully tucked between the reigns of Mubarak and Morsi — has disappeared.
Sylvia Pamuk is a pseudonym for a graduate student and writer who divides her time between London, Istanbul, and Chicago.
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HOUSTON – At KPRC 2, we're dedicated to keeping Houstonians informed. As part of our Ask 2 series, the newsroom will answer your questions about all things Houston.
Question: Connie asks, "Is it illegal to park your car in front of someone else's property?"
Answer: Parking a non-commercial vehicle on public streets, even in front of your neighbor's home, is not illegal. It is illegal when the vehicle remains parked for more than 24 hours without moving. This addresses vehicles that no longer work or are abandoned.
For vehicles parked on public streets for more than 24 hours, citizens may call the City of Houston's 311 Help and Information Center at 3-1-1, 713-837-0311, or email firstname.lastname@example.com, to report an abandoned vehicle. ParkHouston or HPD will visit the location for three days and issue a citation for parked more than 24 hours on each instance. If the vehicle does not move within those three days, it is eligible to be towed by HPD.
Residents who live outside the city of Houston should contact their police department for these situations. Click here for the Harris County non-emergency report page. In Harris County, you can call 713-221-6000 and press 6.


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Rawalpindi (Staff Report/ Agencies): A delegation of journalists from Gilgit-Baltistan, Azad Kashmir and Hazara Division visited Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
According to a statement issued by the military's media wing, the delegation interacted with DG ISPR Major General Asif Ghafoor.
The journalists shared their feedback on security situation and development work under taken by Pakistan Army.
The DG ISPR apprised the newsmen about situation along Line of Control and Indian Ceasefire Violations (CFV) deliberately targeting innocent civilians.
Major General Asif Ghafoor said that despite restricted liberty of action for response to Indian fire due to presence of our Kashmiri brethren on both sides of LOC, Indian fire is always effectively responded focusing on Indian posts only being a professional and responsible Army.
The DG ISPR said that Pakistan looks for peace yet any misadventure shall be responded befittingly, the statement added.


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on Nov. 7, 2019, during the Joint Strike Fighter integration exercise U.S. Army ground artillery units recently conducted a test in which they destroyed a mock air defense system based on targeting information from a U.S. Air Force F-35A Joint Strike Fighter.
The tactic allowed the joint force to destroy a mock threat while allowing the F-35 to remain in its most stealthy mode and not reveal itself by engaging it directly.
This particular scenario was part of a larger Joint Strike Fighter Integration experiment that took place at one of the Doña Ana Ranges in New Mexico, which are part of the Fort Bliss Training Center that is headquartered in neighboring Texas.
M109A6 Paladin self-propelled 155mm howitzers from the Army's 1st Armored Division Artillery and an F-35A from the Air Force's 59th Test and Evaluation Squadron took part in the test, along with a host of supporting units.
As F-35s have entered operational service across the U.S. Marine Corps, Air Force, and Navy, the U.S. military as a whole has been exploring a variety of new concepts of operation for integrating the stealth jets into regular operations.
"The F-35 is a very capable aircraft executing against numerous targets. We can use its sensors to identify multiple targets, and we can use the Army to take them out," U.S. Air Force Captain Charles Humphrey, assigned to Air Combat Command acting as the exercise director for the test, said in a subsequent statement. "We can start shaping the battlefield faster because when we start fighting bigger opponents, we are needing to be able to do that."
This is a concept of operations that could be extremely valuable for U.S. forces in a future large-scale conflict against an opponent with dense integrated air defense network and one that could easily expand to include other assets, including unmanned aircraft and new, longer-range artillery and tactical missile systems.
What the Army and the Air Force have now done in New Mexico is take this one step forward and show how an air-ground team can work together to perform the suppression of enemy air defenses/destruction of enemy air defenses (SEAD/DEAD) mission, something that aircraft have primarily done in the past.
This could offer the U.S. military an extremely important new capability for dealing with these threats depending on the exact situation.


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We all know the importance of gut health, especially as it relates to our overall health and your skin.
And finding the right probiotic can have a huge impact on a person's journey to health and wellness. We know there's hundreds of probiotics out there – on store shelves, ones in the refrigerator, in yogurts. Yet, many don't seem to have much benefit from them at all.
Researchers discovered that the body's naturally harsh stomach acid, which is necessary for digesting all types of foods, kills off 99.99% of the probiotic strains in the major sources of probiotics…long before those products could even get to the small intestine. Yogurts, Greek yogurts AND the majority of probiotics in the retail market do not survive passage through the harsh stomach environment and so, are dead on arrival to the intestines.
After researching many sources of probiotics on the market, we finally found one that survives!
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These strains are known as Bacillus endospores – they are environmental organisms that are a normal part of the human microbiome. These are nature's true probiotic strains!
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