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- T-Mobile added 4.4 million customers in 2013
- Its "UnCarrier" approach targets customers of other carriers
- Company still lost money, though: $20 million last quarter
- 2013 saw T-Mobile offer no-contract plans, add iPhone and expand network
T-Mobile got aggressive in 2013, positioning itself as the "UnCarrier" and actively courting customers of other mobile providers to switch.
According to the company, it's working -- at least in terms of adding new customers.
The fourth-largest mobile carrier in the United States was also the fastest-growing in 2013, adding 4.4 million customers, T-Mobile said Tuesday during a quarterly call with investors.
"What a year it's been," CEO John Legere said. "We've been extremely busy."
More than 1.6 million of those new customers arrived in the last three months of the 2013 fiscal year, marking the third quarter in a row that T-Mobile added more than 1 million paying users.
But it was also the third quarter in a row that the company lost money: $20 million, this time. That reflects the money T-Mobile is spending to attract new users and expand its network, as well as some of the less-expensive plans it's offering to lure all those new customers.
Not surprisingly, Legere and other T-Mobile brass weren't emphasizing that part on Tuesday. Instead, they cited the growth numbers again and again. And they do mark a turnaround from the 256,000 customers T-Mobile lost in 2012.
Under Legere's brash leadership, the company has taken some unconventional tacks to lure business.
In January, T-Mobile offered to pay up to $650 towards customers' early termination fees with other carriers if they switch. (Of course, that was a response to AT&T targeting T-Mobile customers with a similar deal).
It rolled out Jump, a program that lets customers upgrade phones twice a year for a small monthly fee, and announced new plans that don't require an annual contract.
And it didn't hurt that, last March, T-Mobile became an approved carrier for the iPhone for the first time.
"We changed the way this industry operates and customers responded," Legere said.
While acknowledging that the highest number of customer defections came from AT&T, the No.1 carrier in the United States, T-Mobile declined to give more detailed figures.
"We're not trying to be too cute about where the customers are coming from," Legere said. "That's not something we're going to get into anymore. As (mobile carriers) are all getting highly competitive, we're not going to give a further road map of where they're coming from."
T-Mobile also expanded its 4G LTE network in 2013. It now covers 209 million people and is in 95 of the top 100 metro areas in the U.S. The company has plans to further expand in 2014, eventually covering more than 250 million potential customers.


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Over 250 authentic artifacts recovered from the wreck site of Titanic, as well as extensive recreations of some of the most famous rooms from the Ship, make this an educational and entertaining experience perfect for all ages.
Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition is a great catalyst for lessons in Science, History, Geography, Language Arts, Math and Technology. To receive your free Exhibition Teacher's Guide, correlated to curriculum standards in Nevada, California, Arizona, and Utah, go to http://www.premierexhibitions.com/exhibitions/3/45/titanic-artifact-exhibition/teachers-guides and submit your request.
The 25,000-square-foot exhibit features numerous items from the Titanic, including luggage, the ship's whistles, floor tiles from the first-class smoking room, a window frame from the Verandah Cafe and an unopened bottle of champagne with a 1900 vintage. In addition, the exhibit features a piece of Titanic's hull, a full-scale re-creation of the Grand Staircase as well as a newly expanded outer Promenade Deck, complete with the frigid temperatures felt on that fateful April night.
These actual artifacts, recovered from two and one half miles below the surface of the North Atlantic, tell the story behind the legendary Titanic's short journey from construction and destruction to eventual recovery. Walk her decks, peer into her cabins and meet her passengers and crew.
Described as a floating palace, the incomparable Titanic was deemed "practically unsinkable" by the White Star Line and its builders. However, on a calm April night in 1912, the massive luxury liner struck an iceberg and slowly sank into the North Atlantic. Since then, many items from the wreckage have been recovered and added to Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition.
The personal artifacts on display offer haunting, emotional connections to the forever-altered lives of those on board the Titanic. Visitors even have a chance to walk through authentically re-created first- and third-class rooms, with furnishings by original manufacturers.

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Oprogramowanie zarządzania drukiem PrinterAdmin
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The dragons were spitting fire today on The View. The ladies interviewed John Ziegler maker of the new documentary "Media Malpractice". Ziegler's documentary takes a look at media bias during the 2008 Presidential election. Ziegler's thesis is that the media's love for Obama won him the election and their dislike and fear of Sarah Palin destroyed John McCain.
Tempers were flaring. I had an extremely hard time garnering any information from the segment. The interview started with some decorum, but quickly degenerated into a tag-team wrestling match, Joy and Barbara on one side, Elizabeth and Ziegler on the other. I've heard arguments between drunken bums that were easier to follow. Things got so fiery that at one point I thought Barbara was going to slap John Ziegler right in the mouth. Whoopi tried to maintain some sense of order and add some actual facts to the jumble of half-truths and conjecture, but when the ladies go off there's no stopping the chain reaction.
There was one fact Ziegler used in his argument that I take issue with; the only one I could discern from the mess. In a poll done by Zogby 6.2% of poll takers could not recall that Palin had a pregnant daughter during the campaign. Ziegler contrasted this with the results from a question of Obama's association with Weather Underground member Bill Ayers. "56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing). Those that could associate Bill Ayers' name/story with Obama voted 52-48 for McCain (We added Ayers name to the "Zogby" question and it significantly increased the rate of correct response, indicating a very superficial grasp of the overall story)."
This really proves nothing and I'll tell you why. First, how can you say that adding Bill Ayers's name to a question and getting more of a response means people did not know more about the story then they did about Palin's. Just because someone knows Sarah Palin's daughter is pregnant doesn't mean that have more than a "superficial grasp" of the story. You can discount that part of the story.
Second, the relevance of Ayers to almost half of those who voted is in question. Ayers was most active in the Weathermen from the late 60s until the early 70s. 47% of all who voted were under 44. Even the oldest of those voters were only 7 or 8 at the end of Ayers involvement. Even when Ayers went to trial in 1980 few of the voters in the 47% would have been able to connect Ayers to his terrorism ten years ago. The pregnancy Bristol Palin was happening right during the election. It had an imedeacy to it that people seem to love these days. The Ayers story was old and moldy by media standards.
The media did treat Sarah Palin a bit harshly during the campaign. Some of the problems were her own. Politics is a rough game. Dirty laundry, relevant to an election or not, has a way of getting aired. Just ask Bill Clinton or John Edwards. Even Howard Dean and his infamous YEEEEAAAAA were so shoved in everyone's faces he lost the Democratic nomination. Stuff like what happened to Palin happens every election season. Is it right? No. Will it continue to influence elections? Yes. It's an unfortunate fact that's not likely to change soon. This is the price of 24-hour news.
Watch the clips all the way through if you dare. Give me your take.
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LegalZoom Attorney Services Division, http://www.legalzoom.com
Legalzoom.com offers online legal document preparation to consumers and small businesses. Historically, the site has required customers to create their own documents without the help of an attorney. LegalZoom has recently created a new division, LegalZoom Attorney Services Division (ASD), to offer more comprehensive legal solutions with the assistance of an attorney either through consultation or actual fulfillment of a legal product.
Our LegalZoom Attorney Service customers are a diverse group of individuals and small businesses. Their needs are generally more complex than the typical LegalZoom customer, both in the nature of their problems and in the products they require (our more complex products have been designed to incorporate the advice of an attorney to answer technical legal questions and to assist in the drafting of any special language requirements).
The site should incorporate the overall look and feel of LegalZoom.com, but with its own identity. Because we are generally dealing with more complex matters and in particular including the addition of an attorney (either directly or indirectly) this group of pages should be identifiable as something different from LegalZoom's core products. We want to provide additional comfort by emphasizing the attorney drafting and consultation included in the product purchase (see: http://www.legalzoom.com/attorneys-…view.html). Additionally, there may be client testimonials placed on the page as well as links to educational content that reinforce the customer's confidence in purchasing the product. While the static testimonials should be easily visible to the customer, links that take a visitor away from the purchase path should be kept to a minimum. There should be a strong call to action on each of the product pages with a button that is easily accessible and prominently displayed for the customer to initiate the purchase path. On lead generation pages, there will be a web form embedded in content rich pages related to the subject matter. For example, a content page that discusses auto accidents will also host a form that a customer may fill out for a Free Case Evaluation from a auto accident attorney (http://lawyer.legalzoom.com/automob…accidents/).


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
For the umpteenth time, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday publicly declared that the primary foreign policy goal of his government is to see the Jewish state erased from the map of the Middle East.
"The Zionist regime [is] a cancerous tumor," Ahmadinejad told millions who took to the streets of Tehran to mark Iran's Quds Day, an angry commemoration of Israel's sovereignty over Jerusalem.
The Iranian leader continued:
"Even if one cell of them is left in one inch of (Palestinian) land, in the future this story (of Israel's existence) will repeat. The nations of the region will soon finish off the usurper Zionists in the Palestinian land... A new Middle East will definitely be formed."
With Iran's increasing belligerence, and intelligence reports warning that the Islamic Republic is moving ever closer to attaining nuclear weapons, Israelis are becoming ever more fearful that war will soon be upon them.
Israel's leaders remain divided over whether or not to launch a preemptive military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. Some argue that such a strike can at best only delay Iran's nuclear arms program, while others say that is enough, and indeed was all that was needed when Israel attacked Iraq's nuclear reactor in 1981.
Others worry that launching an attack without America's prior approval or support would cause rifts between Israel and her greatest ally. But Israeli Ambassador to America Michael Oren told Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom at the weekend that no such rift would form.
"If Israel eventually decides to act against Iran, we will gain widespread support from the American pubic and the American Congress," which would compel the Obama White House to also support Israel, said Oren.
Meanwhile, Israel's Channel 2 News conducted a very special pre-Shabbat interview with an Iranian woman calling from Tehran on Friday.
Identified as "Shaharanz," a fake name used for her own safety, the woman told her Israeli interviewer that Iranians are also scared, mostly of their own regime.
Speaking in Farsi, Shaharanz said that most of the millions who had taken to the streets calling for Israel's destruction "have no idea what Quds Day even is." She explained that Iranians are force-fed highly tainted news by their regime, to the point that many don't even realize there was a major earthquake in Iran last week.
"People believe what they are told," Shaharanz lamented, stating that government authorities regularly fill the Iranian people's heads with "senseless hatred of Israel."
Israel and Iran were once close regional allies, before the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Many Israelis and Iranian still remember fondly the days of warm relations, and, like Shaharanz, have no doubt those ties could be easily renewed given different national leadership.
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Weiss Lake Bassmaster Weekend SeriesApril 15th, 2012 Written By: Dustin King Posted In: Tournament News
Well its Sunday and I just got out of church. I had an absolutely awesome day of fishing yesterday, talk about a blast! I was sitting at home watching TV Friday and my phone rings, the weekend series event on Weiss Lake needed some anglers and wanted to know if I would be interested in fishing. Well, I never turn down the opportunity to fish a tournament so I told them to sign me up. I honestly didn't really know what to expect because I haven't seen Weiss Lake in a year but the Coosa River fishes a lot alike on most of the lakes. So I decided to stick with a Neely Henry pattern and try it on Weiss Lake. Thankfully my grandfather showed me some places a few years ago and we won a tournament there so I had an idea of the general area I would be wanting to go.
The day started off extremely productive and I was able to start culling by 8am and the places I fished with my grandfather were slam loaded with big ol' fat girl spots! Every single fish I caught was on the Go2Bait 4.5 Shaky Worm in Watermelon Candy color on a Tackle Dr. jig head. I ended up the day in 7th place, not to bad for a "spur of the moment" tournament. A big part of my success was also because of Greg's Custom Rods , Trilene 100% Fluro, and my Lews Reels It was EXTREMELY windy yesterday and thanks to the sensitivity of Greg's Rods and the 100% Fluro I was able to stick to my finesse fishing pattern unlike a lot of guys and keep putting fish in the boat! I was also using the high speed Lews Reel so that when them fish hit I could reel the slack out and get a hook in them quick before they dropped my worm. I can't begin to tell you how vital that was yesterday!
Thanks everyone for all the support and give me a call, lets go chase fat girls together!


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This past weekend we went camping and grilled some chicken and made s'mores. We had a fun time and finished most of the food we packed, yet we came back home with a pretty full bag of marshmallows. Aside from making rice krispies treats, I have used marshmallows to make fondant. I'm not a great cake baker, but decorating with fondant is lots of fun! Following is a recipe for marshmallow fondant. I made this two years ago during my Ace of Cakes phase. Marshmallow fondant has simple ingredients and easy steps, but makes an extremely sticky mess. Results are absolutely cute!
Marshmallow Fondant
(makes about 2 lb fondant)
16 oz (1 lb) bag of mini marshmallows
2 lb bag of powder sugar
1/2 c Crisco vegetable shortening
2-5 tb water
Food coloring or flavored extracts (optional)
1. Melt marshmallows in microwave: add 2 tb water to marshmallows, microwave for 30 seconds and stir. Repeat until marshmallows are melted.
2. Grease hands generously. Place shortening in a bowl for easy access when working. (The next step will get very sticky.)
3. Add 3/4 bag of powder sugar to melted marshmallows and knead.
4. Add rest of powder sugar and continue to knead.
5. If fondant is dry, add 1/2 tb of water at a time.
6. Once the fondant forms into a smooth, elastic ball, it is ready to be rolled and shaped. To store for later used, wrap it in plastic wrap and place in a cool room or in the refrigerator. Knead soft when ready to use again. Add food coloring or flavoring to color fondant.
Alright, start to play!
A chocolate cake with butter cream frosting and marshmallow fondant. I didn't have any food coloring and couldn't figure out how to make the Bumbe figure gray. Yip, so brilliantly suggested to use the black sesame powder that we have in our cupboard. So Bumbe is made with sesame and Yun Yun is made with chocolate! Too cute to eat!


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Black Community Is Not Talking Enough About HIV, Activist Leader Warns
Q+A with Carlos Velez, Director of Technical Assistance, Training and Treatment for the National Minority AIDS Council
What do you focus on in your HIV/AIDS advocacy work?
As an organization, NMAC [National Minority AIDS Council] is building the capacity of small- to medium-sized minority community groups to provide HIV prevention and care to African Americans.
What is the most critical AIDS issue facing the African-American community?
Confusion about who is really at risk for HIV, with the result that HIV prevention and education are being focused in the wrong direction.
If you look at the HIV statistics for African Americans, something like 40 percent among men are men who have sex with men [MSM], another 40 percent are injection-drug users [IDUs], and then there is a percentage of heterosexual men. But what those statistics don't tell us is the risk of transmission for those men identified as heterosexual. Those men became infected with HIV from having sex with women. So it's important to recognize the risk of getting HIV from women as well as from men.
But the question is, who are the women infecting the men? The answer is, at least in part, women who are drug users, women who are the sex partners of men who inject drugs, women who are sex workers. But the statistics don't really reflect this reality.
How would you best address that?
That's a tough one. Recognizing the reality of who is at risk requires all sorts of discussion that, as a community, African Americans haven't had. Then, you don't see 40 percent of the prevention and education activities in the African-American community being devoted to the 40 percent of the MSMs who need them. The same with injection drug users, sex-industry workers, and so on.
People want to do prevention and education for young African-Americans teens who are still living at home with their parents, going to school, going to church. I'm like, "OK, they may engage in sex, but is that population at as high a risk as the women who are in the crack houses, having multiple sex partners, unprotected?" All interventions are important, but we should direct our attention to the most at-risk populations.
So you would say that the HIV prevention and education programs for African-Americans are not reaching the right people?
Well, when was the last time you saw in your neighborhood any kind of the HIV prevention or education directed directly to African-American women who inject drugs? For example, there is this popular intervention right now -- the Sista Intervention -- developed by CDC and based on HIV literature about African-American women. It is intended for women at highest risk for HIV, those with a history of incarceration. Some prevention providers, however, have used it for women at little or no risk. They use it to recruit women at a mall on a Saturday. And I'm like, "If you want to work with women who are at a mall on a Saturday with a brochure -- fine. But that's not targeting women who are at the highest risk!"
Where do you think the most progress is being made in combating the epidemic in the black community?
I think a significant sector of the African-American community has acknowledged that there is such a thing as African-American gay men, who don't have a lot of information, who don't have a lot of resources, and who are facing a lot of stigma in the community.
A lot of progress has also been made because a significant portion of the general population in the country has recognized that there is a serious problem with AIDS in the African-American community, whereas 10 years ago, people didn't want to talk about or acknowledge it.
What would you say are the top myths about HIV that you encounter?
"It's not going to happen to me," that's number one. Second one, "You can just say no" -- as far as I know, I don't know anyone who can just say no to sex or drugs. Also, "abstinence is great," and, "injection drug users will never change their behavior."
And what would be the best way to counter these myths?
To create programs that counter the stigma of HIV in communities of color, because all those myths are actually the result of stigma.
Having role models is important. For example, we can all think of injection drug users who have successfully kicked their habit and become productive members of society. Same with people who have been incarcerated.
Another strategy is role-playing -- imagining how you would deal if you had to work with someone from this community. It's a great stumbling block for a lot of us -- including people who do prevention and education -- who think we would never be able to deal with someone who's in prison because they were using drugs. So before we meet a drug addict or someone who's in jail, we can learn to deal with our feelings and reactions in order to get to know and serve these people better.
How is the HIV epidemic different in the black community than other communities?
The biggest difference is that, for the most part, white people with HIV have greater access to resources -- information, insurance, treatment, services, organizations -- than people of color with HIV. Whether they're women or gay men or MSMs or whatever, African Americans with HIV generally don't have anywhere near the same access to resources. So there's a marked difference in terms of time of testing, quality of care, and, ultimately, survival.
What could help African-Americans get tested -- and therefore treated -- earlier?
I went to a consultation with CDC [U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] on that one, and what people said was, "You need to make it a routine part of medical care that African Americans get, in whatever settings." Somebody else said, "You need to do it in the churches" -- that's an overarching theme whenever I go to an African-American meeting, like we have to go to the churches to do everything.
Again, as with prevention and education, both of those approaches may miss a significant portion of African Americans with HIV -- especially the MSMs. If they're not gay-identified, if they've got a female partner, they're going to say, "Well, I'm not going to get tested because people are going to know I'm having sex with men and say it about me, too." Some recent literature says that to really reach these guys, you need to go to where they are having sex, when they are having sex: If you know of a park at 4 a.m., you go and recruit them there. So I think it's not just one or two, but, in fact, many different strategies that are needed.
Do you think the "down low" is as serious a problem as the media has made of it?
No, I think that's been sensationalized. It's something that a couple of people are making a lot of money out of, giving speeches and writing books on being on the down low, and people who know them will tell you they've never been with a woman in their life! I'm not going to say that it doesn't exist, but I think it's blown out of proportion, and I think it's something that exists in all communities. There are white men who do the same thing -- they call themselves "bi-curious." In the African-American community, it's just known as "being on the down low," and that's even become a trendy thing.
There's still a lot of stigma to being gay, no matter what community you come from. Being "bisexual" looks and sounds cooler than being gay. So that's a very big thing, especially among younger people who haven't really decided. Or even among male sex workers who only have sex with men. I'm not saying that's the way it always is, but there's a lot more folds and layers to the issue than just saying there're all these men on the down low out there.
What are your fears and hopes for the next generation of African-Americans as they face the risks of HIV?
Well, you know, the issue of race hasn't been resolved, and won't be resolved in our lifetime. When you hear that every one out of three black men will be in prison by the year 2010, that's scary.
And it's not only these black men who go to prison who will face a much greater risk of HIV. The women who date them when they come out will, too. When it's one out of three, and it's like a revolving door, where the men are going in and out of prison and the women are dating them! That's why we have a program that promotes planning for people with HIV who are in prison, so that they get into care as soon as they get out.
Do you think activism is an effective way to fight the epidemic?
Yes, if it's directed the right way -- not just outward to policymakers, but also inward to the community. That is to say, injection drug users and gay men are a part of our community, and if we ignore them, they're not going to just go away. It's our responsibility to address the needs of all our community members.
Can you recommend one action that we all should take to end the epidemic?
Overcome homophobia. Some people still have a fear that they or their kids are going to be infected with homosexuality. It's not a fear about being infected with HIV -- and dealing with HIV in a rational way as a health issue -- but it's more about "people are going to think I'm gay." As soon as we, as a society, overcome homophobia, it'll be better for everybody.
Click here to e-mail Carlos Velez.
About Carlos Velez
Velez is the former director of technical assistance, training and treatment for the National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC), a Washington, D.C.-based organization founded in 1987 with the aim of building leadership in communities of color to fight HIV. NMAC sponsors three influential annual conferences: the HIV Prevention Leadership Summit, the United States Conference on AIDS, and the North American AIDS Treatment Action Forum.


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WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The Utah Shooting Sports Council said it is holding a free class on concealed carry permits for those working in the education system.
The class, co-sponsored by local company OSPGEAR.com, is open to anyone actively employed by a private or public school, university or vocational school.
Utah law allows teachers and employees to carry concealed weapons on school property as long as they have permits.
The USSC said armed civilians on school grounds helped thwart a number of attacks at schools, including one at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs in 2007.
The USSC chairman, Clark Aposhian, will teach the class, named "Safe to Learn, Safe to Teach."
"The only reason to maintain the right for the law abiding to carry a firearm inside a school is if we are committed to and serious about protecting our children. " Aposhian said.
The class will take place today at 12 p.m. at the Maverick Center in West Valley City.


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toddynho needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 592 designs submitted by 162 freelance designers.
At HubSpot.com we have a series of internet marketing tools that we release for free at *.Grader.com. We need a logo that will work for all of those *'s, please read the full post…
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Maybe you have heard of http://Website.Grader.com, http://Twitter.Grader.com or http://PressRelease.Grader.com We're looking for a new logo that will work for all of our free products at Grader.com. We realize that is asking a lot for a logo to be so versatile, but that's why this contest is $750 – we need an exceptional logo.
So, the core logo is Grader.com, but we should be able to add a prefix to the Grader.com and it should still work. For example:
The goal is that the logo will work (and look nice) with any text before it. YOUR MOCKUPS SHOULD INCLUDE AT LEAST TWO VARIATIONS SHOWING HOW THE SUB-DOMAINS WILL WORK INTO THE LOGO.
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- SouthCreative
Link: http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/18112
Notes: I like the font
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MOORE, Okla. — Students from a suburban Oklahoma City elementary school destroyed by this week's tornado reunited with their teachers Thursday and collected whatever could be salvaged from the ruins.
Some children carried thank-you cards. A first-grader was eager to see her favorite gym teacher and for a chance to say goodbye for the school year.
It was one of many difficult goodbyes for the city of Moore. Family and friends attended the funeral of a 9-year-old girl who died at Plaza Towers Elementary School — the first since Monday's storm, which killed 24 people.
Students who survived the storm's onslaught at the school and those whose parents had pulled them out of class just before it hit gathered with their teachers at another Moore school that wasn't damaged. Seven children died at Plaza Towers.
(MORE: Victims of the Oklahoma Tornado)
Authorities kept journalists at a distance, but Cheryle Dixon, a grandmother of first-grader Crisily Dixon, talked to a reporter about how hard it was for the little girl.
"A lot of tears, a lot of worry about her gym teacher, a lot of worry about a lot of the teachers that she knew, so she just can't believe it," Dixon said.
The father of 7-year-old Crisily had picked her up an hour before the tornado struck when he learned the severity of the approaching storm — a top-of-the-scale EF5 that was on the ground for 40 minutes, according to the National Severe Storm Lab in Norman.
The police and the mayor's office in Oklahoma City both estimate that around 12,000 homes were damaged and destroyed by the storm in the city and to the south in Moore.
After the disaster, when Crisily saw pictures on the news of a car in the hallway that leads to her classroom, "her little face, she just turned pale," Dixon said.
At the same time, Dixon said her granddaughter was looking ahead to second grade in the fall and was hoping a book she needed was fished out of the school's ruins.
"She said, 'What about my book, what about my book? I'm supposed to have it for next year,'" the grandmother said, her eyes filling with tears. "She said, 'I'm supposed to take it to second grade. It was in my desk.' "
Moore Schools Superintendent Susan Pierce said Plaza Towers and Briarwood Elementary schools will be rebuilt. Briarwood was heavily damaged but no one was killed there.
"And we will reopen and we will have school in August," she said.
Also headed to Thursday's reunion of classmates and students was Carly Ramirez, who held her 4-year-old daughter, Kamrin, in her arms. The small, ponytailed brunette shyly buried her face in her mother's neck, tightly holding two thank-you cards she planned to give her teachers.
(MORE: Distraught Mom Becomes Face of Oklahoma Storm)
In each envelope were two notes: One from Kamrin and one from her mother.
Kamrin also was not at Plaza Towers when the storm hit, having already left her morning preschool class. She rode out the storm in a shelter at her grandfather's home.
The main reason they came, though, Ramirez said was so that Kamrin could see with her own eyes that all her teachers had emerged from the school alive.
"She's asked about her teacher and her book buddy, which is a fifth-grader that goes to the library with her on Wednesdays," Ramirez said.
Gov. Mary Fallin said that as the removal of mountains of debris begins "we are also in a stage of healing." A public memorial service would be held Sunday night at a church, she said.
At Thursday's funeral service, relatives and friends gathered in a chapel in Oklahoma City to remember 9-year-old Antonia Candelaria. Mournful country music played in the chapel, which was adorned with flowers and photos of the smiling girl.
An obituary posted on the funeral home's website said the girl loved to sing — she knew the words to most of the songs on the country radio station her family frequently had on and she would sing along, bringing joy to the house.
The family's remembrance also talked of the "gentle and loving spirit" of a girl whose nickname was "ladybug."
The third-grader recently auditioned to sing in a talent show that would have been held Thursday.
"Tonie always danced, not walked, to the beat of her own drum," the family wrote in her obit. "And she banged her drum very well. She would bang that drum so loud that others could not help but to start dancing to her beat as well."


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This Remuneration Policy is aimed at ensuring that any relevant conflicts of interest can be managed appropriately at all times and sets out practices for those categories of staff, including senior management, risk takers, control functions, and any employees receiving total remuneration that takes them into the same remuneration bracket as senior management and risk takers, whose professional activities have a material impact on the risk profile of the Company, that are consistent with and promote sound and effective risk management and do not encourage risk-taking which is inconsistent with the risk profiles, rules or instruments of incorporation of the Company.
This Remuneration Policy is in line with the business strategy, objectives, values and interests of the Company and the investors in the Company and includes measures to avoid conflicts of interest.
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|Means Hermes Investment Management Limited or any other person or persons for the time being duly appointed investment manager of the Company in succession to Hermes Investment Management Limited in accordance with the requirements of the Central Bank of Ireland and where the Investment Manager has delegated responsibility for the management of all or part of the assets of a sub-fund of the Company, the term Investment Manager shall also refer to the sub-investment manager of that particular sub-fund.
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|Means Directive 2009/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the coordination of laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities as amended by Directive 2014/91/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 as regards depositary functions, remunerations policies and sanctions, including its mandatory implementing regulations on an EU or Home Member State level.
3. Identified staff
The UCITS Directive requires the Company to identify the categories of staff whose professional activities have a material impact on the risk profile of the Company.
The Company is controlled and managed by the Board, but does not currently have any staff. Accordingly, the identified staff for the purpose of this Remuneration Policy are the Board.
4. Variable remuneration
The directors who are also employees of Hermes do not receive any remuneration in respect of their services as directors of the Company. The other directors receive fixed remuneration in respect of their services which is set at a level determined by the Board as a whole and which is not performance related. None of the directors are currently in receipt of variable remuneration in respect of their services as directors of the Company. Accordingly, the detailed provisions of Article 14b of the UCITS Directive and the related ESMA Guidelines in relation to variable remuneration are not applicable to the Company. None of the directors are currently in receipt of a pension from the Company.
The Company has determined that the fixed remuneration payable to the directors who are not employees of Hermes is (a) consistent with sound and effective risk management and does not encourage risk-taking which is inconsistent with the risk profile, rules or instrument of incorporation of the Company and (b) in line with the business strategy, objectives, values and interests of the Company and the investors in the Company. The nature of the directors' remuneration, being fixed and not including any variable component and being determined by the Board as a whole, ensures that the Company appropriately manages any conflicts of interest in respect of remuneration.
5. Remuneration committee
The UCITS Directive requires self-managed investment companies that are significant in terms of their size, their internal organisation and the nature, scope and complexity of their activities to establish a remuneration committee. Having considered these criteria, the Company has determined, on advice of counsel, that it is not significant in these respects and has not established a remuneration committee.
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Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dario Franchitti topped the speed chart Wednesday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, turning a lap at an average of 224.236 mph in the fifth practice session for the May 26 race.
The Target Chip Ganassi Racing driver is trying to match the race record of four victories held by A.J. Foyt, Al Unser Sr. and Rick Mears.
Panther Racing's Townsend Bell was second at 223.716, followed by Team Penske's Helio Castroneves at 223.699 in windy and warm conditions.
Andretti Autosport's Marco Andretti remained first overall through the first sessions with a lap at 225.100 in the third practice. Castroneves was second at 225.075, also during the third session.


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PARIS—The French government is discussing how to tax internet companies such as Google and Amazon both at the national and international levels, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
With government finances severely strained across Europe, France, Britain and Germany are intensifying efforts to clamp down on loopholes that allow big international companies to minimize their tax bills.
A Reuters report last month showed coffee retailer Starbucks had paid no corporation or income tax in Britain in the past three years and had paid only 8.6 million pounds ($13.7 million U.S.) since 1998. Over this period it sold 3.1 billion pounds worth of coffee.
"We plan action at the national but also European and OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) level," spokeswoman Najat Vallaud-Belkacem told reporters after a weekly cabinet meeting.
The French government had commissioned a report on value added sales tax from cross-border online sales and was planning action based on its conclusions, she added.
Many companies with big online businesses channel sales in Europe through countries such as Luxembourg, which has low value added taxes, or Ireland, which has low corporate tax.
European Union rules on freedom of trade within the bloc generally allow firms to sell freely into one EU market from another.
"Even if the internet is a zone of freedom it shouldn't be a lawless zone," Vallaud-Belkacem said. "Fiscal rules should be able to be applied to those activities as well."
Evoking taxpayers' right to confidentiality, Vallaud-Belkacem declined to comment on a report last month in Le Canard Enchaine satirical weekly that French tax authorities were seeking to claim 1.7 billion euros ($2.2 billion U.S.) from Google.
On Monday, online retailer Amazon said it had received a demand from French tax authorities for $252 million (U.S.) in back taxes, interest and penalties in relation to the allocation of "income between foreign jurisdictions".
In Britain, a panel of lawmakers criticized Starbucks , Google and Amazon this week for not paying more tax in Britain and invited the firms to give evidence amid mounting public and political concern about tax avoidance.
Last week Britain and Germany announced plans to push the Group of 20 economic powers to make multinational companies pay their "fair share" of taxes following reports of large firms exploiting loopholes to avoid taxes.


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Andy and his family struggle with the aftermath of Colin's surgery.
Bright's poor grades get him kicked off the football team, threatening the scholarship that may be his only chance to get into college.
The entire Abbot family is turned upside down by the return of Dr. Linda Abbott, who has been practicing Eastern medicine around the world.
Andy's concern for Colin's alcoholic father blinds him to Nina's struggles with her divorce proceedings.
When Amy's therapist recommends medication for her depression, Dr. Abbott refuses to write a prescription.
Dr. Abbott fears that Linda and Andy like each other more than they should, so he decides to set his sister up with more appropriate suitors.
When a coal mine collapses, Dr. Brown, along with Edna, Linda, and Harold, rush to the scene to assist their neighbors.
Edna learns the disturbing truth about why her daughter does not want to pursue a relationship with Dr. Brown.
Bright tells Ephram he can win Madison's affections by ignoring her, but the plan goes awry when she breaks up with her boyfriend.
Horrified to discover that Ephram and Madison are involved, Andy debates firing her.
When Andy's relationship with Delia is threatened after he breaks his promise not to date Linda, he takes her on a trip to win her back.
Dr. Brown tries to intervene when a bulimic high school champion wrestler puts his life in jeopardy for an important tournament.
Caught up in her first fight with Tommy, Amy's reconciliation with her father goes awry when she forgets his birthday dinner.
Amy decides she's ready to have sex with Tommy and asks Dr. Brown to write her a prescription for birth control pills.
Ephram is horrified and heartbroken after he impulsively tells Madison that he loves her and she doesn't reciprocate.
Ephram breaks the law to see Madison's band and ends up facing stiff consequences.
Amy contemplates going off her anti-depressant medication while Bright anxiously awaits his college acceptance letters.
When Linda's medical status is accidentally revealed to her patients, Dr. Abbott faces a potential malpractice suit.
Ephram and Amy decide to go to prom together as friends after Amy can't get up the nerve to tell him how she really feels.
Andy struggles to convince his mentor that he needs a risky brain surgery and that Andy is the only person who can do it.
Ephram's college career is put into jeopardy when Amy shares her true feelings and asks that he stay in Everwood for the summer.


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Picture this: The board members of Etsy, the hot Brooklyn-based startup that's reinventing handcrafted e-commerce, are meeting by video conference.
The connection breaks up.
At most companies, the obvious next question is: Who's the CEO going to fire?
Not at Etsy, though. And that's not just because Chad Dickerson is a nice guy with what seems like a permanent smile on his face.
It's because Dickerson instituted a culture of blamelessness across the company since he got promoted from CTO to CEO last July—a culture that's allowed Etsy employees to take more risks and move faster.
As a result, Etsy has delivered results that wowed its investors, including new mobile products and accelerating sales growth last December, during the critical holiday-shopping season. They rewarded Etsy with a new $40 million investment round and a $688 million valuation.
Clearly, no hard feelings over the video-conference snafu.
So how did Dickerson and his team do it?
Mistakes happen. When they happen at Etsy, they're reviewed in what's called a "blameless post-mortem."
Dickerson started the practice in the technology department as CTO, then took it companywide.
This is not some wacky-DUMBO-hipster management idea. It's a management principle known as " just culture" adapted from fields like healthcare and manufacturing, where blameless reporting of medical mistakes has led to better patient care and fewer accidents.
"One of the things I allowed people to do is make mistakes more freely," said Dickerson. "The best way to learn to ride a bike is to ride the bike and fall down."
Holding a blameless post-mortem is pretty simple—once you get people past the natural human instincts of pointing fingers and hiding mistakes: "We have a ground rule that the purpose of a post-mortem is to find out what happened and how to make it better, not to find a person to blame."
As a result, said Dickerson, "what we've seen is a company that's learning and moving faster."
John Allspaw, senior vice president of technical operations, is in charge of Etsy's post-mortems—even the nontechnical ones, like the one where he helped Etsy's information-technology department get to the bottom of the video-conferencing system's failure.
In another example, a developer broke the system which let users favorite, or bookmark, items they were thinking about buying.
"Less-skilled companies name, blame, and shame," said Allspaw.
It's not about avoiding accountability. In a blameless culture, it's easier for people to take responsibility for their mistakes and learn from them.
"Developers already feel quite guilty when they break the site," said Allspaw.
Allspaw and Dickerson contrasted Etsy's culture to others they'd experienced, where blame was a big factor. (Neither named names, but Dickerson and Allspaw both joined Etsy from Yahoo.)
Etsy even had a post-mortem about seating arrangements during a recent office expansion. Seems small, but think about the fingerpointing and grumbling that goes on behind the scenes about such moves. Isn't it better to be open about it—and figure out how to improve
- Assume good will. "Employees are making decisions based on what they think is right for the company," said Allspaw.
- Identify causes, not culprits. Accountability happens naturally as people learn the facts. Focus on exploring what happened—and recognize that in complex systems, there's rarely one root cause.
- Take your time. People used to blaming cultures may take time to come out of their shell and share mistakes and learnings freely.
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The last time Thomas Houseman, winemaker for Oregon's Anne Amie Vineyards, was in Boston, he ran the marathon on Patriot's Day, 2004.
This time around, Houseman tackled Grill 23, not Heartbreak Hill. This time, on Wednesday, April 14, Houseman was more concerned with his pinot noirs than his mile splits.
The wine dinner at Grill 23 last week was no less intense an effort, however, because it's the intensity of Anne Amie's wines that make them work. It's the intensity that enables Anne Amie's pinot blanc and pinot noirs to stand up to Grill 23's award-winning steakhouse cuisine. That's right, pinot noir – not a cab, not malbec, not sangiovese – with steak.
These are not just any pinot noirs. Most of Anne Amie's grapes come from two estate vineyards, which are both certified by Salmon Safe and LIVE (Low Input Viticulture and Enology). These organic practices along with intentionally reduced yields give the remaining fruit extraordinary depth and complexity.
Within an hour's drive of Portland, you find yourself in the Yamhill-Carlton area of Oregon's famed Willamette Valley. The mission of this winery, named after owner Dr. Robert Pamplin's two daughters, is to make memorable wines with a sense of elegance. Grill 23's wine director, Alex DeWinter, and chef Jay Murray set the table to match that mission.
Dinner began with the 2008 Cuvee A "Amrita," a jasmine-scented, white-wine blend of six grapes, offering just enough spice on the palate to complement Murray's fresh California maki rolls and grilled scallop sushi. It's the perfect fruit-forward quaffer to have at the ready for spring and summer.
For the next course, the lightly grilled, smoked salmon atop a velvety cauliflower puree and ricotta blini would have been tasty enough. But it was the flair of lemon mascarpone that brought out the Meyer lemon and crisp apple nuances of Houseman's award-winning 2008 pinot gris.
Next up was a warm Rawson Brook chèvre cheesecake with pistou and a robust olive tapenade. With it, Anne Amie's 2006 pinot noir, bringing berry and mushroom elements that embraced the rich, full flavors of the cheesecake.
Pinot noir is a tempting choice to serve with slow-roasted beef cheeks, especially when they're served with bacon-wrapped salsify on a bed of forest mushrooms. Anne Amie's 2004 "La Colina," from the red volcanic soils of Oregon's Dundee Hills, worked exceptionally well.
The dinner finished with three local cheeses from New Hampshire and Vermont paired with the elegant 2006 "L'Iris" Pinot Noir, followed by an assortment of mignardises, but I kept coming back to those beef cheeks. If you decide to roast your own beef cheeks, Beacon Hill's Savenor's Market will gladly special-order them for you.
Judy Lebel is the guest author for today's Foodie Blog. Read new WGBH Foodie posts every weekday, where we explore myriad ways and places to experience good food and wine.
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Internal report cites 'culture of sexual entitlement' among some BU hockey players
A Boston University task force has concluded that the men's hockey team is detached from the general campus and that a "culture of sexual entitlement'' exists among some players, a mindset college officials say contributed to two alleged sexual assaults on campus during the past season.
"Our assessment has shown that a culture of sexual entitlement exists among some players on the men's ice hockey team, stemming in part from their elevated social status on campus,'' stated the 11-page report, which was released today.
University officials said the culture is marked by heavy alcohol use and casual sexual encounters, and called for a range of reforms to tighten oversight of the team and bring it more into the fold of campus life.
"It's clear we need to do a better job of educating players about sexual assault,'' said Jean Morrison, the university's provost who co-chaired the panel. "They are stars, and they feel they are different.''
University president Robert Brown called for the review of the high-profile program in March after two players were charged with sexual assault in a three-month span, accusations that caused outrage on campus and raised concern that the team was out of control.
One player, Corey Trivino, later pleaded guilty to assault, while rape charges against the second player, Max Nicastro, were dropped. Both players were removed from school.
The report described players' social and sexual interactions in unusually blunt terms, and flatly acknowledged that the university, from administrators to the coaching staff, has not adequately overseen the team.
"It ran away from us,'' Morrison said. "We should have been providing greater oversight and education around their sense of entitlement.''
Supervision of the players too often fell to the coaching staff instead of university administrators, the panel concluded. Coached by Jack Parker, the hockey team perennially ranks among the nation's best and has won five national championships.
"The coaches became their own keepers,'' Morrison said. "These should be university issues.''
Morrison said there was no indication that coaches were hiding student behavior from administrators, but that they routinely handled problems internally.
For example, coaches dealt with players who had been caught drinking on their own, rather than referring them to university specialists, Morrison said.
University officials did not blame the coaching staff for this practice, saying the guidelines were "not sufficiently clear.''
The panel called for Morrison's office to oversee a review of the athletic department and establish new guidelines for players' behavior.
While the report was at times critical of Parker and the coaching staff, it did not recommend that they be disciplined. Parker, who was interviewed by the panel, could not be reached for comment.


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Joe Larson grew up in Seattle, Washington with no aspirations of being a stand up comedian. In May of 2003, realizing his dream of becoming the first person other than Oprah to be on the cover of O magazine wasn't going to happen on its own, Joe decided to try comedy. He wasn't doing anything else that day and was inspired by his parents, who also don't have real jobs. What Joe lacks in work ethic, he makes up for in spite. His father, a comedian, worked 4 hours a week and Joe aspires to someday out do him by working even less than that. In the short time Joe has been doing stand-up he has had the opportunity of performing at The Stardust in Las Vegas, The Icehouse in Pasadena, and the prestigious Buzz-Inn Steak House in Washington (somewhere along the highway). Joe made his television debut on the Spanish Channel where he was muy funny-o despite not being able to speak Spanish. Also, Joe was chosen as College Comedian of the Year at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival where he got to share the Wayne Newton Theater stage with comedy greats such as Norm Crosby, Jack Carter and Tony Danza (they didn't let Mr. Danza talk... who's the boss now Tony?). Although very grateful for the use of his theater, Joe still has no clue who Wayne Newton is.


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District heating is already a very efficient way of supplying heat to buildings, but it can become even more efficient if the temperature in the network is lowered. District heating has been in use in Denmark and other countries for more than a century. Instead of each building having its own heating source, water is heated to a certain temperature in a central location and then distributed to many buildings via a network of pipes, providing scale of magnitude savings. Once the heat has been released in the building, the cold water is returned for reheating via the district heating network.
Turning down the heat
Utility companies have therefore begun to lower the temperature in district heating networks, saving energy by operating with a lower temperature. In turn, this reduces heat loss in the network, reducing costs and CO2 emissions. Until fairly recently, the temperature in the network was lowered incrementally because it was difficult to lower temperatures systematically.
District energy management
One way of managing the temperature in district heating networks is by utilising advanced district energy network simulation software such as the TERMIS software application. Read the interview (click on the tab above "Interview: TERMIS benefits") with Thomas Østergaard, Chief Project and Market Manager at COWI and an expert on TERMIS. This makes it possible to combine information from the SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) system with pipe data for the network and the consumers, providing an advanced computer model that can calculate how the whole network is functioning in real time.
It can also simulate other elements of a district heating system including factors and variables such as:
• Pressure, temperature and flow in the network
• Forecasted outdoor temperature and wind conditions
• The behaviour of large consumers
• Actual electricity prices
• Limits at critical points in the network
With this knowledge available in real time, the operator can accurately forecast energy consumption and lower the temperature in the network to the minimum required.
Knowing the other 80% of the system
Most district heating systems already have a SCADA system to monitor and control temperature and flow data in the system. However, once the hot water is sent into the network, a SCADA system can only monitor the network by tracking the return flow.
The system cannot tell the operator how and why the network performs as it does, and with the distribution network accounting for up to 80% of capital and operating costs, there is an opportunity for significant savings if the operator can accurately model the whole system and its performance.
Other benefits
Providing a real picture of the network also assists operators in developing operational strategies and improving overall efficiency. A TERMIS system lets the operator simulate operational scenarios in pipeline systems ranging from transmission lines to complex looped distribution networks with many energy plants, heat exchangers, pumps, valves and other equipment.
To find out more about TERMIS and district heating, we talked to Thomas Østergaard, Chief Project and Market Manager at COWI. He has extensive experience of installing and operating the TERMIS system for COWI, who are a major Danish consulting group with 6,200 employees that has been in business for more than 80 years.
Click on the tab above (Interview: TERMIS benefits) to read more.
TERMIS has already been installed in more than 500 locations worldwide. Thomas Østergaard from COWI explains the benefits of temperature optimisation in district heating networks made possible by TERMIS.
What benefits does a TERMIS have?
Thomas Østergaard: Traditionally, district heating networks have been operated with a fixed temperature in the network that was high enough to ensure that there was sufficient heating available for all customers at all times. However, as research into energy saving has increased, optimisation of the operation of district heating networks has come into focus. One method for optimising is to reduce the temperature of the water in the network.
Right now TERMIS is both state-of-the-art and the most widespread system for temperature optimisation in the world. From an operational point-of-view, it has a number of advantages because a district heating network is a very dynamic system. No two networks are the same due to are factors including the length and size of the pipes, insulation, types of consumer and their installations, methods of heat generation etc.
With TERMIS the operator can still monitor any system in real time and evaluate how the system functions to find the most cost-effective way of operation. Of course, this is a complex piece of software.
To install it the operator already needs to know a lot about a network, and have an organization capable of monitoring the system, plus good data, a SCADA system and detailed knowledge of the network. But then it is the most advanced way of lowering temperatures in a district heating network.
It provides the most precise overview of the system, so that even in Denmark, where the temperature in the district heating networks has already been lowered over the years, there are still potential savings. In networks outside of Denmark the potential for optimising temperatures and making savings is huge.
"No two networks are the same due to factors including the length and size of the pipes, insulation, types of consumer and their installations, methods of heat generation, etc."
Thomas Østergaard, Chief Project and Market Manager, COWI
It can also be used to locate and understand breakdowns and other problems in the network. For making adjustments in the network, TERMIS can be used as a planning tool for consulting engineers that provides a level of accuracy and insight that exceeds anything else available.
"Traditionally, district heating networks have been operated with a fixed temperature in the network that was high enough to ensure that there was sufficient heating available for all customers at all times."
Thomas Østergaard, Chief Project and Market Manager, COWI
Is there a minimum temperature for the water in a network?
Thomas Østergaard: There are actually two minimum temperatures: a higher one during the winter, determined by the minimum temperature for heating buildings, and a lower one during the summer, which depends on the supply of warm water for other uses. In a modern, optimised district heating network it is possible to lower temperatures to around 55°C (131°F) during the summer.
The minimum temperature is determined not only by the demand for warm water and the structure and flow of the network, but also by water safety regulations. Due to the dangers of Legionella and other bacteria, which grow in temperatures below 50°C, the temperature for producing warm water for bathing and other uses must be kept above 50°C.
How much can heat loss be reduced?
Thomas Østergaard: That really depends on where you start. If you take a district heating network where the temperature has not been optimised at all, then savings will obviously be greater than in Denmark. In Denmark, where the temperature in the district heating networks has been lowered over the years due to regulations, typical savings are around 10%. In other countries there is the potential for much higher savings.
For a large-scale district heating network, TERMIS has a payback time of as little as 1-1.5 years. It will also help utilities in Denmark and other European countries meet increasingly strict requirements for energy savings. And of course, it can also be help reductions for other district energy users such as campuses and the like.
Is there a limit to the size of a district heating network?
Thomas Østergaard: No. The largest network is found in Moscow, which is a city of more than 11 million people. However, there is a lower limit determined by population density. If there are too few people or they live too far from one another, then district heating will be too expensive to make sense in the first place. It is a solution for urban areas.
When it comes to district heating, Denmark is one of the countries that is leading the way. Denmark's first district heating plant was built in 1903 and today 63% of homes in Denmark have district heating. There are 460 heating plants in Denmark using sources of energy including waste incineration, windmills, biomass and geothermal. One of the major advantages of district heating is that is can make use of multiple sources of energy, including renewable energy, and can combine different sources of energy.
District heating other countries as share of citizens served by district heating (Source: Euroheat & Power):
Iceland 99%
Latvia 64%
Denmark 63%
Sweden 42%
Poland 40%
Romania 23%
Germany 14%
Korea 12%
France 8%
In the EU as a whole, less than 10% of heating production is provided via district heating.
Facts about Grundfos and District Heating
Grundfos has delivered many pumps for district heating (and district cooling) networks, not only in Europe but also in North America, Asia and other countries. Grundfos supplies pumps to all levels of district heating networks, from in-line to end-suction pumps and from split case to multi stage pumps, as well as dosing pumps for water treatment. Grundfos also supplies control systems and support tools.


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And We're Back…
Bonjour tout le monde!
Its a little late in the semester, but the French blog is back with exciting new resources to boost your language learning skills.
First of all, those of you fortunate enough to have had a class with Professor Goeury-Richardson (and we all wish her a speedy recovery I am sure) have probably hear about Les Guignols de l'Info. CANAL+ puts out their own claymation version of the news (mockingly) on their website. Listening to French always improves your comprehension, and you may get some laughs out of it as well.
Also, the LLC found this great website for making your own French comic strips. Technically its for English and Spanish, but it works for French as well. You can choose characters, poses, thought bubbles, et plus! This might also be a good teaching tool if any of you tutor.
Lastly, when working at learning a language, sometimes its best to think outside the box and look at something you already know if new ways. Google Earth lets you look at any point on the globe from a satellite point-of-view. That means the Eiffel Tower, New Orleans, Quebec, French Guiana, anyplace! Use it to improve your idea of Francophone geography! There is also a game that exists called Google Earth Wars that lets you set up a military base anywhere and launch attacks. Learning geography by playing games??? I love it!
Thats it for this week. Go forth and love language learning!
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Many of us spend part of every day online – using social media, messaging friends, watching TV or looking up information for school or work. But what happens if you become a target of online abuse?
Being lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual or intersex (LGBTI) is still difficult in many countries and societies. Find out where to turn for help.
There are frequent reports in the media of young people from all over the world being radicalised. Find out how the EU is trying to stop this.
The EU Youth Report 2015, published by the European Commission, gives a full picture of the situation of young people and how policymakers have addressed it in the period 2013-2015.
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An inclusive society is based on mutual respect and solidarity, with equal opportunities and decent living standards for all - where diversity is seen as a source of strength and not as a divider. A European vision or reality?
A new campaign against racism and in favour of tolerance, irrespective of national background, race, age or sexual preference is launched. Support the idea and participate.
Fair treatment is a basic right in the EU but discrimination still exists in many forms, and it's not always easy to identify.
The number of international migrants — persons living in a country other than where they were born — reached 244 million in 2015.
All over the continent, too many people, communities and societies still suffer from the injustice and stigma that racism brings. What can you do?


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St. Louis, MO (SportsNetwork.com) - The Philadelphia Phillies recalled catcher Cameron Rupp from Triple-A Lehigh Valley on Thursday and returned outfielder Aaron Altherr to Double-A Reading.
Rupp, 25, batted .308 in a September call-up last year in his only experience in the majors. He was hitting .167 in 34 games at Lehigh Valley.
Phillies backup catcher Wil Nieves appeared to injure his right quad on a ninth-inning double Wednesday against Atlanta.
Altherr was called up Monday to take the roster spot when Tony Gwynn Jr. went on the bereavement list following the death of his father, Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn.
He made his major league debut on Monday in a game against Atlanta, flying out as a pinch-hitter in the 12th inning.
The Phillies are in St. Louis for a four-game series with the Cardinals.


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Another championed cause that took years to gain the attention it needed began with Bob Fay sending me down an alley in Shelbyville that he said deserved a photo page. What I saw in the short drive down the alley, unknown to most residents along Main Street, brought me to tears.
Houses with front doors resting on rusted hinges and leaving a gap at the top and bottom were crumbling to the ground. Old men sitting on porches that had holes in the floor with weeds growing through them waved shyly as I passed.
Rob Rothenburger was adamant, clacking his spaghetti tongs together as he spoke.
"No, no, I can't give up Mama Rothenburger's secret family chili recipe. But I will tell you this," he said, leaning forward and glancing at the other contestant at the chili cook-off with a mischievous gleam in his eye, "this guy's secret ingredient is road kill!"
After a chuckle as hearty as his chili, Shelby County's Judge Executive excused himself to turn his attention to a question posed by a diner.
We often speak of unsung heroes whose acts of kindness or courage, strokes of genius or divine luck, words of inspiration or encouragement; leave their mark on an individual or even a community. In an era when respect for people of the media is at an unprecedented and unfortunate low, there is one former publisher/editor whose good works even now, over 35 years after his retirement from journalism and departure from Shelby County, benefit our community.
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Hidden deep in the Andes Mountains, situated in a crater beneath man-made Lake Ingenuity, and alive inside the minds of three East Middle School students, lies a futuristic oasis.
The imagined city of Edistyminen was designed for the early 2100s to shelter people from the ravages of a 22nd-century war that was set in motion by a cessation in oil production.
Some of the world's brightest minds created a city that could stay hidden from the violence around it while sustaining itself with clean water, wind and waste energy.
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Visitors to the Shelby County Public Library on a recent Thursday evening would have been very surprised upon nearing its Hudson Room.
The silence that they usually would expect to find had been replaced that night by a cacophony, complete with yelling and loud exclamations.
And that was OK.
A martial arts demonstration claimed the attention of several dozen people who had come hoping to learn how to defend themselves from physical attack.
The men of the 5th United States Colored Cavalry (USCC) buttoned up tight and moved through the snow, half in front, half in the rear of some 900 cattle they were taking to Louisville.
The date was Jan. 25, 1865. It was a cold morning to be out driving livestock across Kentucky. The regiment was made up of around 80 soldiers, most of whom had joined the military as a way out of slavery.
It was winter, the cold was to be expected, but the attack that was suddenly waged on them was not.
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The eCAP Exhibits Level-Dependent Non-Linearities
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The eCAP amplitude is commonly interpreted as a measure of the number of excited nerve fibres. Decreasing amplitudes at high current strengths, usually ascribed to saturation effects and stimulus artefacts, are the subject of the present study.
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eCAP responses were recorded in five guinea pigs implanted with the HiFocus electrode, using forward masking with independently varying masker and probe amplitudes. Experimental results were compared with our computational model of the implanted cochlea, calculating the eCAP from simulated single fibre contributions.
A non-monotonous eCAP I/O-curve is found at high stimulus levels if the probe amplitude is either co-varied with the masker amplitude or varied alone. This is also found in the model. In line with the expectations, however, the model depicts a monotonously growing number of excited nerve fibres. Interestingly, at high levels the fibres located centrally in the excitation area yield an atypical response, without a clear negative peak in the single fibre action potential. The total number of excited fibres increases monotonously, but the number of fibres with atypical responses also increases (and often more rapidly) with stimulus level. Therefore, the overall N1P1 eCAP amplitude decreases above a certain stimulus level. Although our human cochlear model also predicts such an effect, it was not recognized consistently in actual human NRI recordings.
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Mass Effect 3 deals with a race called Reapers hell bent on Earth's destruction on their way to Galactic domination. Playing as a customizable Commander Shepard it will be your task to frustrate their evil ambitions.
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In the second installment of the Mass Effect series for the PC, players were shocked early in story when Commander Shepard was killed. Granted, Shepard was immediately resurrected and the mission to find and destroy the Collectors continued unobstructed, but in that single moment of death, players learned that the Mass Effect series was playing for keeps and that any character even the protagonist was in danger of not seeing the complete story play out. In Mass Effect 3 for the PC, a masterpiece of gaming, players once again assume the role of Commander Shepard and once again, there is no guarantee that he (or she) or any of the series' character will survive until the end.
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While the fate of the universe is occasionally determined within the action portion of Mass Effect 3 for the PC, it is through the series' standard dialogue wheel that most choices take place. These choices are endless. The lives of main characters, the continued existence of planets, and the destiny of life across the universe are impacted by the choices made by Commander Shepard. Never have the choices in the series been so morally ambiguous and unlike the first two parts of the series, the choices made in Mass Effect 3 for the PC are final.
Even when these choices are final and the last credits for Commander Shepard's adventure roll, players still will have countless hours of fun on Mass Effect 3 for the PC. The addition of a multiplayer mode to Mass Effect 3 for the PC is excellent. Similar to other multiplayer shooter games, players are given a variety of objectives, ranging from capture-the-flag to outlasting the enemy. Notable, however, in Mass Effect for the PC is that players are given the opportunity to play as any race or class within the Mass Effect universe. Additionally, the multiplayer component of Mass Effect 3 for the PC enables players to level up their characters and classes, which gives them access to improved armor, weapons, and skills. An added bonus to multiplayer is its impact on the single player campaign. By successfully competing in multiplayer for Mass Effect 3 for the PC, players earn additional allies for the final confrontation with the Reapers.
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I've been involved in a project for the past couple of months hence the sparsity of posts. This project involves responding to 999 calls from people who seem to be one cell up from an amoeba. My service is jumping on us to get there faster, treat more effectively and therefore clear sooner at scene or hospital and to treat (as in listen patiently as some plank rabbits on rather than actually 'treating' a real deserving patient!).
We need to educate the public on when they should call for an ambulance. Only a few years ago it would have been common to anecdotally relate only a few inappropriate calls ie 'need the curtains drawing', 'cant find the remote control' 'I'm lonely' 'cant get the top off a childproof container' etc. But now we seem to be getting so many stupid calls that undoubtably affect our target chasing of ORCON that we are getting penalised financially (for missing the ORCON time) and the general public dont get the full story.
Education should involve self-treatment for minor ailments/injuries and information on what is and what is not a 999 priority. You do not dial 999 because you 'cant sleep' or 'I thought I would get an ambulance to hospital then I can go shopping after my checkup with the A/E being in the city centre'. A lot of people out there need to have a word with themselves!
And the number of calls we get for 'Swine Flu' that turns out to be nothing more than a sniffle….and I mean a sniffle….is staggering! The Ambulance Service is changing culturally and becoming more academically focused and gaining more skills and recognition and starting to have its own voice within the NHS….but nothing is being done to tell the general public (and GPs) when and when not to call for an ambulance!


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The Associated Press says that, according to an Iraqi legislator, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had the telephone numberes of "senior Iraqi officials" on his cell phone:
Waiel Abdul-Latif, a member of former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's party, said Monday that authorities found the numbers after al-Zarqawi, leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, was killed in a U.S. air strike on June 7.
Abdul-Latif did not give names of the officials. But he said they included ministry employees and members of parliament.
Interesting if true, obviously. The same AP report contains a claim by someone who is said to be Zarqawi's first wife that he was betrayed by al Qaeda leaders "in exchange for a promise to let up in the search for Osama bin Laden." This makes little or no sense, and there is no explanation of how she would know it even if it were true, but no doubt the lefty web sites will add this claim to their hodgepodge of conspiracy theories.
Via The Corner.