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United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services (UN OIOS) 31 May 2006 report titled "Audit of Togo Emergency - Ghana [AR2005-111-01]" relating to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The report runs to 8 printed pages.Note
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UNITED NATIONS Office of Internal Oversight Services UNHCR Audit Service Assignment AR/2005/111/01 31 May 2006 Audit Report R06/006 AUDIT OF UNHCR TOGO EMERGENCY - GHANA Auditors: Alpha Diallo Humphrey Kagunda ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED NATIONS NATIONS UNIES Office of Internal Oversight Services UNHCR Audit Service AUDIT OF UNHCR TOGO EMERGENCY - GHANA (AR/2005/111/01) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In November 2005, OIOS conducted an audit of UNHCR Togo Emergency Operations in Ghana. The audit covered activities with a total expenditure of US$ 611,000 in 2005. A draft of this report was shared with the Director of the Bureau for Africa and the Representative in March 2006. The comments, which were received in May 2006, are reflected as appropriate in the final report. Overall Assessment � OIOS assessed the UNHCR Operation in Ghana as average, it was adequately run but although the majority of key controls were being applied, the application of certain important controls lacked consistency or effectiveness. In order not to compromise the overall system of internal control, timely corrective action by management is required. Programme Management � For the partner reviewed, National Catholic Secretariat (NCS), reasonable assurance could be taken that UNHCR funds were properly accounted for and disbursed in accordance with the Sub-Project Agreement. Nonetheless, efforts were required to strengthen its internal controls. � NCS, a local NGO, did not have adequate segregation of duties, as the Project Coordinator prepared the financial reports, authorized and approved the expenditure and dealt with cash disbursements. OIOS recommended that the manual accounting and filing system be improved, as although expenditure was analysed according to UNHCR budget structure there were no ledgers or other summary documents showing how the SPMRs had been prepared. The Representation requested NCS to establish appropriate internal control mechanisms and introduce a proper filing system, and indicated that action has been initiated. � OIOS assessed that the emergency response provided by the office was satisfactory, despite some shortcomings, which were attributable to funding constraints and the lack of experienced partners. An appropriate contingency plan had been prepared well in advance of the 2005 political unrest, and was later revised in conjunction with other UN agencies. Supply Management � UNHCR procurement procedures were not always complied with. Under the emergency project, purchase orders and contracts were issued for the local procurement of vehicles of a significant value without the prior approval of the Headquarters Committee on Contracts. The Representation explained that proper procedures were not adopted as ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Land Cruisers were fast moving commodities in Ghana and the supplier would not keep the vehicles without a firm commitment from UNHCR. Security and Safety � Security at the Field Office in Ho needed improvement. While no Minimum Operational Security Standard (MOSS) had been established for the Field Office, OIOS assessed that, on the basis of the MOSS requirements for Accra, there was a need to implement minimal security measures. This should include a perimeter fence, installation of fire extinguishers, metal detectors and electric generators. The Representation indicated that steps have been taken to ensure MOSS compliance. This was not done earlier due to lack of funds. Additional upgrades were still required to make it fully compliant. Administration � In the areas of administration and finance, the UNHCR Office in Ghana generally complied with UNHCR's regulations, rules, policies and procedures and controls were operating effectively during the period under review. � The allocated budget for 2005 was exceeded by some US$ 45,000, whilst the spending authority was exceeded by some US$ 76,000. The Representation explained that budgetary overruns were due to payments made by Headquarters on behalf of the Representation that had not been taken into account in the system by notional vouchers. The Representation stressed the fact that it maintained adequate budgetary controls, and the only reason for the perceived budgetary overruns was the time lag of information sharing from Headquarters. May 2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER Paragraphs I. INTRODUCTION 1-4 II. AUDIT OBJECTIVES 5 III. AUDIT SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY 6-8 IV. AUDIT FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS A. Review of NCS 9-10 B. Other Programme Issues 11-12 C. Supply Management 13-15 D. Security and Safety 16 E. Administration 17-21 V. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 22 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. INTRODUCTION 1. From 24 to 29 November 2005, OIOS conducted an audit of UNHCR's Togo emergency operations in Ghana. The audit was conducted in accordance with the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing. OIOS reviewed the activities of the UNHCR Representation in Ghana and its Field Office in Ho and of one of its implementing partners. 2. OIOS' previous audit of UNHCR in Ghana was conducted in 2003. The review focused on the 2002 activities covering expenditure of US$ 1 million. The main issues raised by the audit pertained to the lack of procedures to obtain systematic VAT exemptions, inadequate procurement procedures by implementing partners and internal control weaknesses over warehousing activities. Prior to the OIOS audit, the Regional Representation in Benin requested a `pre-audit' of activities by the Senior Regional Finance Officer. OIOS noted that most of the recommendations made had been implemented. 3. In early 2005, following social tensions relating to the political succession in Togo, a massive exodus of refugees totalling 40,000 persons took place of which 15,000 were hosted in Ghana, while 25,000 fled to Benin. In Ghana, the Togolese refugees were spread over a vast geographical area in over 200 locations, making it a challenge for UNHCR to provide adequate protection. Assistance was provided in the form of food and non-food items in cooperation with WFP and NGOs. 4. The findings and recommendations contained in this report have been discussed with the officials responsible for the audited activities during the exit conference held on 29 November 2005. A summary of preliminary findings and recommendations was shared with the Representative in December 2005 on which comments were received in January 2006. In addition, a draft of the report was shared with the Director of the Bureau for Africa and the Representative in March 2006. The comments, which were received in May 2006, are reflected in the final report. II. AUDIT OBJECTIVES 5. The main objectives of the audit were to evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of controls to ensure: � Reliability and integrity of financial and operational information; � Effectiveness and efficiency of operations; � Safeguarding of assets; and � Compliance with regulations and rules, Letters of Instruction and Sub-Project Agreements. III. AUDIT SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY 6. The audit focused on the 2005 Emergency project 05/AB/WAF/EM/100 with expenditure of US$ 341,000 concentrating on the activities directly implemented by UNHCR with expenditure of US$ 202,000. We also reviewed activities implemented by National Catholic Secretariat (NCS) - expenditure of US$ 46,000. 7. The audit reviewed the administration of the Representation at Accra under the Emergency administrative budget totalling US$ 270,000 for the year 2005, and assets with an acquisition cost of US$ 1.8 million and a current value of US$ 555,000. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 8. The audit activities included a review and assessment of internal control systems, interviews with staff, analysis of applicable data and a review of the available documents and other relevant records. IV. AUDIT FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS A. Review of NCS 9. For NCS, reasonable assurance could be taken that UNHCR funds were properly accounted for and disbursed in accordance with the Sub-Project Agreements. 10. NCS needed to improve in the area of internal controls. The Project Coordinator was responsible for preparing the financial reports, authorizing and approving expenditure and making cash disbursements. Similarly, the manual accounting system needed to be enhanced. Although the expenditure was analysed according to the UNHCR budget structure, accounting ledgers were not used. Also the filing system was deficient, which rendered the retrieval of supporting documents cumbersome. The Representation has requested NCS to establish appropriate internal control mechanisms and set up a proper filing system. The Representation also indicated that a follow-up verification would be undertaken in coming months to ensure corrective actions have been taken. B. Other Programme Issues 11. OIOS assessed that the emergency response provided by the office was generally satisfactory, with a number of emergency experts deployed from Headquarters and from the region to deal with the situation. The Representation experienced, however, a number of shortcomings due to funding constraints and the lack of expertise by implementing partners. For example, from an approved administrative budget of US$ 571,000 (in May 2005) only US$ 270,000 had been released by the end of the year. Also, due the haphazard nature of funding and the unpredictable nature of the emergency it has been difficult to attract staff of the right calibre to the field. 12. Other difficulties experienced by the Representation in Accra and its Field Office in Ho, included the lack of adequate office and communication equipment. For example the Land Cruisers procured in June 2005 were still not equipped with Codan radios by the end of the year. Also there was a lack of basic security equipment and devices at the Field Office in Ho. The Representation stated that vehicles still do not have communication equipment due to the lack of funds. C. Supply Management (a) Procurement 13. For 2004 and 2005, procurement totalled some US$ 1.4 million. OIOS assessed that UNHCR rules and procurement procedures had not always been adhered to. The Representation issued contracts/purchase orders to procure locally four vehicles prior to obtaining approval from the Headquarters Committee on Contracts (HCC). Though SMS cleared the local procurement, with contractual documents signed prior to HCC approval, it was on the condition that the vehicles would be delivered within two weeks, and no advance payment should be made. Contrary to this, the vehicles were not delivered until 30 days later and despite the advice of SMS, the Representation had made payment in advance. In addition the colour of the vehicles delivered was different from UNHCR standard colour specifications of white or light blue. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 14. OIOS recommended that the Representation comply with UNHCR procurement procedures and that approval be sought from the LCC or HCC when their respective procurement thresholds so require and prior to committing UNHCR funds. The Representation explained that the purchase orders were issued ahead of the approval of the HCC because the Toyota Land Cruisers were fast moving commodities in Ghana. The supplier would not have kept the vehicles without a firm commitment. 15. The Representation further pointed out that it made a great deal of effort during the emergency to ensure adherence to the rules and regulations, but that circumstances made it practically impossible to follow them to the letter. D. Security and Safety 16. Security at the Field Office in Ho needed improvement. A recent security mission by the Assistant Field Security Advisor and the Administrative Officer revealed a number of weaknesses. While no Minimum Operational Security Standards (MOSS) had yet been established for the Field Office, OIOS assessed that, on the basis of the MOSS requirements for Accra, there was a need to implement minimal security measures. This would include a perimeter fence, installation of fire extinguishers, metal detectors and electric generators. Since the audit, the Representation indicated that it has undertaken security measures, which made its Field Office, Ho to be rated MOSS compliant from the previous 30 per cent to 70 per cent, and that some additional upgrades were required to make it fully compliant. The Representation also said that it would not be able to carry out the required upgrades unless additional funding was provided. E. Administration 17. In the areas of administration and finance, the UNHCR Representation in Ghana generally complied with UNHCR's regulations, rules, policies and procedures and controls were operating effectively during the period under review. There was, however, a need to strengthen certain areas. (a) Budgetary overrun 18. The Representation had exceeded its 2005 budget by US$ 45,489 and its spending authority by US$ 76,270. According to UNHCR Manual Chapter 6.3.2 `the total budget amount and the obligation level cannot be exceeded. Increased expenditure against a specific budget chapter necessitates reduced expenditure under another chapter'. OIOS noted, however, that the Representation exceeded its procurement of NEP by 34 per cent and Temporary Assistance by 19 per cent. 19. The Representation explained that budgetary overruns were caused by payments made by Headquarters on behalf of the Representation, which was not taken into account in the system by notional vouchers. This information was not forwarded to the Representation despite a request to Headquarters. OIOS could not be provided with information to support this request. Despite this, OIOS would highlight that it was the responsibility of the Representation to adequately follow up with Headquarters to obtain complete data and hence ensure full control over its annual budget and expenditure. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 20. The Representation stressed the fact that it maintained adequate budgetary controls, and the only reason for the perceived budgetary overruns was the time lag for information sharing from Headquarters. They firmly believed that it was up to Headquarters to keep the Field informed of the expenditure records. They reiterated that the information for expenses recorded by Headquarters was not provided in a timely manner, and sometimes lacked clarity. Also, given that the ABCS produced locally by the FMIS/FOAS did not evidence any over-expenditure. The Representation also explained that it could only be held responsible for the appropriate monitoring of expenses over which it has full control. OIOS agrees that for expenditure incurred at Headquarters on behalf of field offices, appropriate communication mechanism should be in place to timely inform them of such expenditure. OIOS expects that after the roll-out of MRSP to field offices, such problems should not arise. In the meantime, however, it is important that field offices are timely informed of expenditure initiated and incurred on their behalf. (b) Wrong coding of expenditure 21. The expenditure was not always correctly coded to the relevant budget chapter. OIOS found that fuel costs had been charged in various instances to travel. The Representation indicated that it has taken action to reverse the errors in the December 2005 accounts. V. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 22. I wish to express my appreciation for the assistance and cooperation extended to the auditors by the staff of UNHCR and its implementing partners in Ghana. Eleanor Burns, Acting Chief UNHCR Audit Service Office of Internal Oversight Services -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


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We've asked a few more of our employees what's on their personal wishlists. After all, if it's on the wishlist of a WEBS employee you know it's a good choice for the fiber enthusiast in your life!
Hi, I'm Amy S. and I'm a knitter and weaver. Amy is our Mutimedia Assistant and a Sales Associate in our Retail Store.
My holiday wish list includes:
1 Harrisville Designs Cone Holder – My cones are rolling everywhere when I'm winding a warp. This would make it much easier for me to start my weaving projects!
2 Knitter's Pride Karbonz 6" Double Pointed Needle Set – I really feel like I should never need to buy any more needles, but I can never seem to find my smaller DPN's. I love the way the Karbonz feel. It would make it so much easier just to have the whole set. Don't you think?
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5 Large Blocking Board – I can't believe I don't own one of these yet!
Hi, I'm Ping and I'm a knitter. Ping is a Sales Associate in our store and a Valley Yarns designer.
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1 Reisenthal Allrounder Medium Bag – You know that boy scout saying "be prepared", the same applies for knitters. Since I am constantly driving my kids to various appointments and activities, there is always a project bag ready and waiting for me. I love the Reisenthal Allrounder Medium bag. Size of the bag can accommodate a variety of projects, from shawl to color work sweater project – it fits. The hinged satchel is reminiscent of a doctor's bag; no fumbling around something. With plenty of roomy interior pockets, tools, keys and even your phone have a place.
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Hi, I'm Amy G and I'm a Knitter. Amy is our Education Manager.
My holiday wishlist includes:
1 I would love a huge supply of T-Pins because I always seem to have "just enough" and I'd love to not have to worry that I'll run out.
2 I would love a sweater's worth of Madeline Tosh Merino Light in Badlands, a dark, interesting color I fell in love with at Stitches West this year.
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1 Knitter's Pride Nova Special Interchangeable Circular Set — It seems like every time I find a new hat pattern to knit I end up needing one or two new 16″ circular needles. I love using the Novas that I already have – they're nice and smooth and the tips are pointy, but not too pointy. With the Special Interchangeable Circular Set I'd never have to worry about not having the right needles for a hat pattern, and I could have two (or three, or four) on my needles at once!
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Converting corn to ethanol in Iowa not only leads to clearing more of the Amazonian rainforest, researchers report in a pair of new studies in Science, but also would do little to slow global warming—and often make it worse.
"Prior analyses made an accounting error," says one study's lead author, Tim Searchinger, an agricultural expert at Princeton University. "There is a huge imbalance between the carbon lost by plowing up a hectare [2.47 acres] of forest or grassland from the benefit you get from biofuels."
Growing plants store carbon in their roots, shoots and leaves. As a result, the world's plants and the soil in which they grow contain nearly three times as much carbon as the entire atmosphere. "I know when I look at a tree that half the dry weight of it is carbon," says ecologist David Tilman of the University of Minnesota, coauthor of the other study which examined the "carbon debt" embedded in any biofuel. "That's going to end up as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere when you cut it down."
By turning crops such as corn, sugarcane and palm oil into biofuels—whether ethanol, biodiesel, or something else—proponents hope to reap the benefits of the carbon soaked up as the plants grow to offset the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted when the resulting fuel is burned. But whether biofuels emit more or less CO2 than gasoline depends on what the land they were grown on was previously used for, both studies show.
Tilman and his colleagues examined the overall CO2 released when land use changes occur. Converting the grasslands of the U.S. to grow corn results in excess greenhouse gas emissions of 134 metric tons of CO2 per hectare—a debt that would take 93 years to repay by replacing gasoline with corn-based ethanol. And converting jungles to palm plantations or tropical rainforest to soy fields would take centuries to pay back their carbon debts. "Any biofuel that causes land clearing is likely to increase global warming," says ecologist Joseph Fargione of The Nature Conservancy, lead author of the second study. "It takes decades to centuries to repay the carbon debt that is created from clearing land."
Diverting food crops into fuel production leads to ever more land clearing as well. Ethanol demand in the U.S., for example, has caused some farmers to plant more corn and less soy. This has driven up soy prices causing farmers in Brazil to clear more Amazon rainforest land to plant valuable soy, Searchinger's study notes. Because a soy field contains far less carbon than a rainforest, the greenhouse gas benefit of the original ethanol is wiped out. "Corn-based ethanol, instead of producing a 20 percent savings [in greenhouse gas emissions], nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years," the researchers write. "We can't get to a result with corn ethanol where we can generate greenhouse gas benefits," Searchinger adds.
Turning food into fuel also has the unintended consequence of driving up food prices, reducing the access of the neediest populations to grains and meat. "It's equivalent to saying we will try to reduce greenhouse gases by reducing food consumption," Searchinger says. "Unfortunately, a lot of that comes from the world's poorest people."
"We are converting their food into our fuel," Tilman notes. " The typical driver of an SUV spends as much on fuel in a month as the poorer third of the world spend on food."
The studies do find some benefit from biofuels but only when planted on agricultural land too dry or degraded for food production or significant tree or plant growth and only when derived from native plants, such as a mix of prairie grasses in the U.S. Midwest. Or such fuels can be made from waste: corn stalks, leftover wood from timber production or even city garbage.
But that will not slake a significant portion of the growing thirst for transportation fuels. "If we convert every corn kernel grown today in the U.S. to ethanol we offset just 12 percent of our gasoline use," notes ecologist Jason Hill of the University of Minnesota. "The real benefit to these advanced biofuels may not be in displacement of fossil fuels but in the building up of carbon stores in the soil."
Of course, there is another reason for biofuels: energy independence. "Biofuels like ethanol are the only tool readily available that can begin to address the challenge of energy security," Bob Dinneen, president of industry group the Renewable Fuels Association said in a statement. "The alternative is to continue to exploit increasingly costlier fossil fuels for which the environmental price tag will be great."
But the environmental price tag of biofuels now joins the ranks of other, cheaper domestic fuel sources—such as coal-to-liquid fuel—as major sources of globe-warming pollution as well as unintended social consequences. As a result, 10 prominent scientists have written a letter to President Bush and other government leaders urging them to "shape policies to assure that government incentives for biofuels do not increase global warming."
"We shouldn't abandon biofuels," Searchinger says. But "you don't solve global warming by going in the wrong direction."


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Tour of Belgium: As Seen Through Cyclocrossers' Eyes
A Telenet-Fidea jersey tucked in behind Tom Boonen's Quickstep jersey in a sprint. Or a BKCP-Powerplus jersey wedged between Philippe Gilbert and André Greipel's Omega Pharma-Lotto jerseys while shooting through a tight turn at over 30mph. These rarities can only be found in one professional cycling event – the Tour of Belgium, a five day stage race that weaves its way through Belgium's countryside. [More…]
Since 2006, cyclocross racers have been taking the start of this event. Back then, it was only a handful of cross riders such as Sven Nys, Richard Groenendaal, Lars Boom and Sven Vanthourenhout. The cross racer count has since grown to about twenty coming from four teams – BKCP-Powerplus, Sunweb-Revor, Landbouwkrediet, and Telenet-Fidea.


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Front Tagline: Something's fishy...again!
Back Tagline: The Fish Are Biting...Everyone!
Official Book Description:
Billy Deep and his sister Sheena are spending another summer in the Caribbean on their uncle's totally cool floating lab. The weather is beautiful. And there are lots of neat places to go swimming and snorkeling.
Billy and Sheena are great swimmers. But even great swimmers get into trouble--especially this year. This year there's something really scary going on under the sea. The fish all seem to be growing. Bigger and bigger. With monster-sized appetites...
Brief Synopsis:
Deep Trouble II opens one year after the events of the previous book. Billy and Sheena are back on summer vacation with Dr. D in the Caribbean. Seeing as how this is the last sequel in the original Goosebumpsseries to be tackled by the blog, it's reassuring to know that the foundations of the sequels are still upheld: By page two, the entire plot of the first book has been negated. The adventures of the first book now boil down to:
1. How Billy discovered a mermaid and no one believed him.
2. How Dr. D valiantly was opposed to anyone keeping mermaids in cages.
3. How it was all very exciting.
Answer key: 1: F 2: F 3: F
But hey, maybe Deep Trouble II will make up for this early stumble by treating the reader to new thrills! That bit of positive thinking dies a quick death as the book opens with Billy tickling a ferocious octopus. The octopus turns out to be Sheena and the tickling turns out to be tickling. She asks if he's a "tickle-fish." Sweet mother of God, there are over a hundred pages left.
Billy decides to play a trick on his sister. He runs up to the deck of theCassandra and grabs a gray pillow. He's going to swim underwater with the pillow sticking out so his sister thinks he's a shark. This plan backfires when a real shark shows up and chases both kids onto the boat. Then the shark starts attacking the boat. Dr. D runs out and asks about the noise. Dr. D is skeptical about the attack, as there are no sharks in the area. He asks if they're sure they weren't just chased by a kid holding a gray pillow.
Dr. D leads the kids into the office on his boat to look at a new large mystery fish he has captured. Dr. D and the kids thumb through some science books until one of them makes a shocking science discovery: the giant fish is positively identified as a minnow, an animal that, like Hedwig, has a maximum length of one inch.
Billy spots some plankton samples that Dr. D has gathered and snags some to feed his goldfish. Only when Billy prepares to feed his fish, he's shocked to discover that there's a human head inside his goldfish bowl. Sheena reveals that the human head is actually a doll's head and Dr. D explains that the water in the fishbowl made the small doll head appear as large as a human head. I called the local PetsMart to see if this was true and the girl that picked up asked me if I had a real question.
Billy becomes obsessed with getting Sheena back for her 'prank,' though that's really pushing the intended usage of that word. In the water the next morning, the two go swimming and Billy cries out, "Shark!" Sheena fails to fall for this as he's not holding a gray pillow. But the joke's on Sheena, as she gets sucked into a giant jellyfish. No I'm not kidding and yes this book only gets worse.
Billy realizes he must save his sister. He attempts to just reach in and pluck her out but nothing short of diving into the jellyfish will work. Billy plunges inside the giant creature, grabs his sister, and then the two escape as the giant jellyfish scuttles away to fight another giant fish. Oh I hope it's a peanut butter shark! Hahaha, I want to thank seven-year-old me for that joke.
Once safely back on the Cassandra, the kids can't find their uncle anywhere. But as with most things you lose, it's always the last place you look. Billy and Sheena pull their uncle, who is covered in foamy slime, out from underneath a giant snail that has found its way onto the boat. Before everyone can piece together that the giant snail aboard the ship is of course the same tiny snail which once lived in Billy's fishbowl, more things happen.
The boat suddenly jostles to one side as something immense weighs down the other end. When the trio go to investigate, they spy Billy's pair of goldfish who are now the size of small whales and nearly capsizing the boat with their immense weight. Billy makes the following brilliant observation about his fish:
"You could really see them now that they were so big."
Wow, now I'm not sure which character sounds the most like a scientist! The three main characters wrestle with the giant fish and heave them off the boat.
I know what you're thinking: I can't believe it's Monday and the update was on time. Hey, shut up, because I meant the other thing you're thinking, about how this is turning out to be another sequel where the plot is just "Hey you know that thing, let's make it bigger and call it a book."
However, perhaps you, like me, are asking the immortal dramatic question, "Will there be more scientists?" Thankfully the answer is yes, as three unpleasant men show up on Dr. D's boat. The head man introduces himself as Dr. Ritter and asks the trio if they've seen anything unusual. Dr. D says no but then Billy blurts out about the giant goldfish. Dr. D tries to explain that the boy is confused and they were just two pillows, but Dr. Ritter has heard enough. He sends one of his henchmen to investigate the ship and the giant snail is discovered. Way to escargot! Wow, seven-year-old me is contributing a lot of material for this update.
Dr. Ritter lays out his Eight Simple Rules For Discovering My Secret Experiment, the main gist being don't. Dr. Ritter had developed the special magical plankton using science to make fish bigger and end world hunger. Like most scientists, Dr. Ritter follows his humanitarian speech with the attempted murder of children. Billy starts to protest but Dr. Ritter says, "Shut it. Get up. Move along. Move it on the double. 'Cause if you don't you're in deep, deep trouble."
But Dr. Ritter gets homicidetracked when Sheena notices an attack from above: Seagulls! Gull attacks can be thrilling
But not in RL Stine's hands. These gulls ate the enchanted plankton, thus they are so big as to just be ridiculous. While the Rodan-sized birds distract the evil scientist's henchmen, Billy and his family escape on a lifeboat. Then the lifeboat is lost at sea. Then they land a deserted island. Hey, that reminds me of a certain ABC Drama just begging to be evoked and punned: I bet once they get settled on the island, they're gonna relax and get Eli Stoned.
The book engages in every desert island cliche imaginable-- Do you even have to ask if there's a coconut tree? At one point Sheena proudly claims to have caught a giant silverfish, which is disgusting and doesn't say much for the editors at Scholastic that they didn't realize the difference between writing "silver fish" and "silverfish."
At some point during all this, Billy utters the following immortal line:
"I feel like I'm living in some kind of dinosaur world," I said. "Only instead of dinosaurs, we're surrounded by giant sea creatures!"
Which is like poetry for your gag reflex.
Two giant dolphins wash up on the shore and one gets tangled up in a rope hanging from the lifeboat. The three hop in the boat and are taken on a wild dolphin-driven ride through the sea. I like Goosebumps books because they're so scary!
Somehow Dr. D and the kids wind up back at their boat, only to find Dr. Ritter has taken up residence. He greets the family and escorts them into Dr. D's lab. Dr. Ritter reveals that the enchanted plankton has a serious side effect: whenever it is ingested by a human, the human turns into a fish for life. Folks, this is the climax of the book.
Dr. Ritter forces Billy to choose a bottle(?) of plankton and down its contents. Billy attempts to distract him by turning around and fussing with some pillows in order to give the impression of having turned into a fish, but Dr. Ritter forces him to drink the potion. Billy does, but he doesn't turn into a fish.
Dr. Ritter grows frustrated and a fight breaks out between the two scientists. Dr. D tries to hold Dr. Ritter down on the deck of the ship but he breaks free, grabs some plankton, and swallows it before Dr. D can call the police. Dr. Ritter then indeed does turn into a fish and merely swims away. Now that's how you end one of these books.
But the Twist is:
Sheena asks Billy why he didn't turn into a fish. He explains that his revenge against Sheena was that he was going to pretend to drink the plankton-- surely RL Stine knew that plankton wasn't a beverage right? Billy threw out the liquid plankton from one of the bottles and replaced it with iced tea. Sheena begins to laugh because improbably she had done the exact same thing and had planned to prank Billy in an identical manner. So it's hereditary. Sheena then takes a big gulp from another bottle, which is predictably followed by her being unsure she picked the right one.
the Platonic Boy-Girl Relationship:
Billy Deep and his sister Sheena again, who disappears into a jellyfish a third of the way into the novel.
Questionable Uncling:
What kind of crazy man leaves all those dangerous pillows laying around where they could be mistaken for anything but pillows?!
Memorable Cliffhanger Chapter Ending:
Ch. 26/7:
Billy and Shena fall into the claws of a giant crab. Only they actually fall into the sand where there crab was before he left.
Oops I forgot to mention the scene with the giant crab, didn't I? Quick, let me get my red pillow so I can recreate the scene for you in lifelike detail.
Great Prose Alert:
But I felt it. That whiff of danger.
This is what I get for criticizing the first Deep Trouble, which, while not particularly good, at least wasn't abysmally awful like Deep Trouble II. This is the worst sequel in the original series behind Monster Blood IV-- and so of course that means it's one of the books to garner another round in the Horrorland series.
In case you missed the hilarity below, Blogger Beware's new URL isBloggerBeware.com. The old links should still redirect, but it's a good idea to update your bookmarks and start figuring out what to do about your "twistending.blogspot.com" bicep tattoo.


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The Nina has given off no signs of life since early June
The racing schooner built in 1928 had seven passengers on board
Six Americans and one Briton are missing
The ship is equipped with modern tracking and communications devices
A historic racing sailboat and its crew of seven, including six Americans, have apparently vanished on the high seas.
A wooden schooner built in 1928, the Nina, left port in northern New Zealand at the end of May and dropped out of communication a week later, a maritime safety authority said Thursday.
It was en route to Newcastle, Australia.
The sailing yacht is equipped with a tracking device, a satellite phone and an emergency buoy, but none of them have been heard from since early June, according to Maritime New Zealand.
At the time of its last sign of life, the Nina was nearly 400 miles northwest of New Zealand in the Tasman Sea.
Family members alerted maritime authorities in New Zealand in mid-June that the sailboat may be missing. Rescuers issued alerts to vessels in the area. None reported having seen the Nina.
Two extensive sweeps by a reconnaissance plane came up empty.
The Nina was carrying one British passenger along with the six Americans.
Shipwreck survivor recounts drama on high seas


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1 The prophecy that Habakkuk the prophet received. 2 How long, LORD, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, "Violence!" but you do not save? 3 Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds. 4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted. 5 "Look at the nations and watch— and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told. 6 I am raising up the Babylonians,that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings not their own. 7 They are a feared and dreaded people; they are a law to themselves and promote their own honor. 8 Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at dusk. Their cavalry gallops headlong; their horsemen come from afar. They fly like an eagle swooping to devour; 9 they all come intent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like sand. 10 They mock kings and scoff at rulers. They laugh at all fortified cities; by building earthen ramps they capture them. 11 Then they sweep past like the wind and go on— guilty people, whose own strength is their god." 12 LORD, are you not from everlasting? My God, my Holy One, you will never die. You, LORD, have appointed them to execute judgment; you, my Rock, have ordained them to punish. 13 Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves? 14 You have made people like the fish in the sea, like the sea creatures that have no ruler. 15 The wicked foe pulls all of them up with hooks, he catches them in his net, he gathers them up in his dragnet; and so he rejoices and is glad. 16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, for by his net he lives in luxury and enjoys the choicest food. 17 Is he to keep on emptying his net, destroying nations without mercy?
1 I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what he will say to me, and what answer I am to give to this complaint. 2 Then the LORD replied: "Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it. 3 For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay. 4 "See, the enemy is puffed up; his desires are not upright— but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness — 5 indeed, wine betrays him; he is arrogant and never at rest. Because he is as greedy as the grave and like death is never satisfied, he gathers to himself all the nations and takes captive all the peoples. 6 "Will not all of them taunt him with ridicule and scorn, saying, " 'Woe to him who piles up stolen goods and makes himself wealthy by extortion! How long must this go on?' 7 Will not your creditors suddenly arise? Will they not wake up and make you tremble? Then you will become their prey. 8 Because you have plundered many nations, the peoples who are left will plunder you. For you have shed human blood; you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them. 9 "Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, setting his nest on high to escape the clutches of ruin! 10 You have plotted the ruin of many peoples, shaming your own house and forfeiting your life. 11 The stones of the wall will cry out, and the beams of the woodwork will echo it. 12 "Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by injustice! 13 Has not the LORD Almighty determined that the people's labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing? 14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORDas the waters cover the sea. 15 "Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk, so that he can gaze on their naked bodies! 16 You will be filled with shame instead of glory. Now it is your turn! Drink and let your nakedness be exposed ! The cup from the LORD's right hand is coming around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory. 17 The violence you have done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and your destruction of animals will terrify you. For you have shed human blood; you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them. 18 "Of what value is an idol carved by a craftsman? Or an image that teaches lies? For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak. 19 Woe to him who says to wood, 'Come to life!' Or to lifeless stone, 'Wake up!' Can it give guidance? It is covered with gold and silver; there is no breath in it." 20 The LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him.
1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet. On shigionoth. 2 LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy. 3 God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran.His glory covered the heavens and his praise filled the earth. 4 His splendor was like the sunrise; rays flashed from his hand, where his power was hidden. 5 Plague went before him; pestilence followed his steps. 6 He stood, and shook the earth; he looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains crumbled and the age-old hills collapsed— but he marches on forever. 7 I saw the tents of Cushan in distress, the dwellings of Midian in anguish. 8 Were you angry with the rivers, LORD? Was your wrath against the streams? Did you rage against the sea when you rode your horses and your chariots to victory? 9 You uncovered your bow, you called for many arrows. You split the earth with rivers; 10 the mountains saw you and writhed. Torrents of water swept by; the deep roared and lifted its waves on high. 11 Sun and moon stood still in the heavens at the glint of your flying arrows, at the lightning of your flashing spear. 12 In wrath you strode through the earth and in anger you threshed the nations. 13 You came out to deliver your people, to save your anointed one. You crushed the leader of the land of wickedness, you stripped him from head to foot. 14 With his own spear you pierced his head when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though about to devour the wretched who were in hiding. 15 You trampled the sea with your horses, churning the great waters. 16 I heard and my heart pounded, my lips quivered at the sound; decay crept into my bones, and my legs trembled. Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come on the nation invading us. 17 Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, 18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior. 19 The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights.
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We still have a good 9 years of content to go through, but we've been working on the tagging process for months now, and you can see the results on the tags page.
You only want posts about Mozilla, or Web414, or maybe you like a good accident story, or a nice drawing is more your style. Creative Commons? We got that too!
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Are bad shots that go in still bad shots? Not for Shannon Brown who went unconscious in the fourth quarter and rained down six threes without a miss. The early ones were contested, selfish, disgusting attempts that found the bottom of the net anyway. The sixth and final bomb fell on the Bobcats after they wisely left Shannon wide open behind the arc and the ball swung to him on the weak side. Kaboom goes the dynamite.
Overall, this wasn't exactly a text book game for either team. Sure, Marcin Gortat had seven blocks (along with 23 points and 10 rebounds) which is a very nice line against a very bad team. But the Suns managed to turn a 16-point lead into a four-point lead in the final 4:30 of the third quarter. Only the Charlotte ineptitude allowed Phoenix to walk away with the win.
It was more a brawl between two really pissed off drunks than a prize fight between well trained killers.
But whatever. It's a win. Move on and let us all pray together that in a month this team won't look this bad because ugly basketball is UGLY.
Also, the Phoenix bench right now has no clue how to play together which is probably why Coach Alvin Gentry is letting them play together so much. In a season where success won't be measured by wins and losses, you have to take your lumps to make oatmeal into wine pudding.
The Bobcats shot 55% in the second half. This new era of Suns basketball looks a hell of a lot like the old era (minus the scoring and wins and stuff).
The Suns now return home to Phoenix and will host Kyrie Irving and the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday. That should be fun.
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Oh, and Michael Beasley had a very nice all around game. 21 points, 15 rebounds and 7 assists. That was definitely Good Beaz.


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Scottish Mental Health Tribunal Member list, 5 Oct 2009
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The PDF file presents the membership list of the Scottish Mental Health Tribunal (MHT).
The mental health tribunal is a quasi-judicial authority which has the power to detain people indefinitely. The members are paid for by the public.
The list, once publicised at the MHT's own website but subsequently removed, was leaked as background information to a critical article in the Scottish Review titled "Scotland's secret judges". The article can be found at: http://www.scottishreview.net/KRoy149.html
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UBSEC(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual UBSEC(4) NAME
ubsec -- Broadcom and BlueSteel uBsec 5x0x crypto accelerator SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: device crypto device cryptodev device ubsec Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): ubsec_load="YES" DESCRIPTION
The ubsec driver supports cards containing Broadcom and BlueSteel uBsec 5x0x crypto accelerator chips. The ubsec driver registers itself to accelerate DES, Triple-DES, MD5-HMAC, and SHA1-HMAC operations for ipsec(4) and crypto(4). On those models which contain a public key engine (almost all of the more recent ones), this feature is registered with the crypto(4) subsys- tem. On all models except the Bluesteel 5501 and Broadcom 5801, the driver registers itself to provide random data to the random(4) subsystem. HARDWARE
The ubsec driver supports cards containing any of the following chips: Bluesteel 5501 The original chipset, no longer made. This extremely rare unit was not very fast, lacked an RNG, and had a number of other bugs. Bluesteel 5601 A faster and fixed version of the original, with a random number unit and large number engine added. Broadcom BCM5801 A BCM5805 without public key engine or random number generator. Broadcom BCM5802 A slower version of the BCM5805. Broadcom BCM5805 Faster version of Bluesteel 5601. Broadcom BCM5820 64 bit version of the chip, and significantly more advanced. Broadcom BCM5821 Faster version of the BCM5820. This is the chip found on the Sun Crypto Accelerator 1000. Broadcom BCM5822 Faster version of the BCM5820. Broadcom BCM5823 A BCM5822 with AES capability. Broadcom BCM5825 Faster version of the BCM5823. SEE ALSO
crypt(3), crypto(4), intro(4), ipsec(4), random(4), crypto(9) HISTORY
The ubsec device driver appeared in OpenBSD 2.8. The ubsec device driver was imported to FreeBSD 5.0. BUGS
The BCM5801 and BCM5802 have not actually been tested. The AES capability of the BCM5823 is not yet supported; it is awaiting public disclo- sure of programming information from Broadcom. BSD
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Why buy new car speakers?
Great sound has to come from somewhere
If you want your music to sound great, take a look at replacing your current car speakers. Dollar for dollar, it's one of the best ways to improve your car's sound. With good car speakers on board, you'll enjoy brighter highs and beefier lows. Plus, you'll probably hear details in your music that may have been missing before.
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Better design means better sound
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If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.Walt Whitman
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.Aesop
Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.Les Brown
And I do know about body image. About worrying about it. I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous. Victoria's Secret said I sold more bras and panties than anybody else, and I was traipsing down that runway with 30 pounds more booty than the other girls. So it had a lot to do with my success, my weight, but it's also always been an issue for me, so I can relate.Tyra Lynne Banks
Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.Tyra Banks


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Last night over dinner Garrett and I watched To Live and Die in LA. Despite feeling a little ripped off that there was no 2Pac in the soundtrack 🙂 (HELLO, the world can always use more 2Pac) I thought it was awesome. Garrett has been hounding me to watch it since I loved Drive so much and so finally after almost 2 years of persuasion, I sat down to see what it was all about.
Here's the thing with me and movies — I really like going to the movies, seeing good movies, quoting random dialogue from movies — but if you ask me if I want to sit down and watch one? The answer is no – I am never in the mood. They are so LONG and they take so much investment! I'd much rather just watch something quick like a tv show (no commercials, GAH!) or do something entirely different. But there are a few exceptions. I got a chuckle reading this post over on Cupcakes and Cashmere the other day about movies you can't say no to. It made me think of my own list of movies that no matter how busy I was, I would make time for it here. So I thought I'd share it.
In no particular order:
1. Dirty Dancing
2. The Sound of Music
3. Singles
4. Sleeping with the Enemy
5. Top Gun
6. The NeverEnding Story
7. Reality Bites
8. Basically ALL of Tori Spelling + Valerie Bertinelli's Lifetime Movies (what?)
9. Sixteen Candles
10. Teen Witch
(Listen, I never said I was a movie critic. :))
I asked Garrett to make the same list and he rattled off these:
1. Citizen Kane
2. A Christmas Story
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. The Bridge on the River Kwai
5. Die Hard/Die Hard 2
6. Fiddler on the Roof
7. Caddyshack
8. Predator
9. The Great Escape
10. Commando
Visit https://123gofmovies.com/ in order for you to watch the movies mentioned above.
So…Is it any wonder we hardly ever sit down to watch movies together? 🙂 Are you judging us? Although, recently we discovered a good Christian TV app where we watch together as a family. It is called AWKNG TV and we enjoy streaming with its vast list of programs.
I know you must have a few irresistible movies up your sleeve too.


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Navio to clone Apple's iPod DRM
iPod-compatible downloads for all?
iPod compatibility could come to a host of online music and video shops besides Apple's own iTunes Music Store, if US-based start-up Navio has its way.
The company this week admitted it is working on a way to allow third-parties to support Apple's FairPlay DRM system without first licensing it from the Mac maker. That would open the gates to allow the likes of Napster and Yahoo! Music to sell iPod-friendly songs in addition to their existing Windows Media-based catalogue.
Navio is reverse-engineering FairPlay, company COO Ray Schaaf told website Playlist this week. Navio sells media-oriented DRM-enabled e-commerce services, and it's looking to iPod compatibility to drive interest in its offerings.
The tactic is an entirely legitimate one, but it's unlikely to win the company any friends at Apple. In 2004, RealNetworks launched Harmony, an app that converts usage rules embedded in its own Helix DRM technology into a form compatible with FairPlay, in order to allow its Rhapsody music service subscribers to transfer downloaded songs to iPods.
Apple made some bellicose noises at the time, but its efforts to prevent Real from selling iPod-compatible downloads were ultimately limited to a FairPlay fix that broke Harmony. Real responded with a fix of its own, and Rhapsody subscribers have since got their iPod support back. Not that it actually matters - ITMS is far more popular than Rhapsody, and arguably Apple might have been advised to keep quiet and not provide publicity for the rival music service.
Either way, Harmony doesn't appear to have harmed Apple's iPod and iTunes sales, which are up to 30m units and 600m downloads, the company said this week.
Will Apple take a more relaxed view of Navio than it did with Real? Possibly. Even if Navio successfully reverse-engineers FairPlay, it still has to persuade companies to launch online content stores based on its technology. Unless it wins the support of a major ITMS rival, its impact on Apple is moot, and Apple can always tweak FairPlay to throw a virtual spanner in the works. ®


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'Intelligent' BOF represents the next generation of what is an established process but at the moment more traditional methods have restrictions relating to the precision of the product end point.
The main objective of using an intelligent BOF system is to improve end-point prediction ultimately to allow the plant to eliminate the second sublance reading, thereby reducing operating cost and the associated production delays.
The basic oxygen furnace (BOF) is one of the key processes in iron and steel production. It is a typical complex batch chemical reactor with sophisticated thermal and chemical reaction processes, which converts liquid pig iron into steel with desired grade (temperature and chemical compositions, such as carbon, etc.) under oxidation conditions. The BOF steelmaking end point quality control is always managed with the aid of either operator experience or a first principle charge model; therefore, often resulting in a relatively poor hit ratio of the bath endpoint. The accurate prediction of the endpoint quality is vital not only for BOF operation, but also for "steelmaking caster-hot rolling" production balance.
However, due to the imprecision of the BOF charge model, a lack of real-time measurements and process uncertainties, it is difficult to predict the BOF endpoint product precisely. Due to the facts mentioned above, the good news is that modern intelligent control technology is developing rapidly as a BOF endpoint control model provides a new way.
Tenova Goodfellow is currently commercializing the next generation of 'intelligent' BOF (i BOF technology (see Figure 1); designed to reduce GHG emissions while improving yield, productivity, scrap melting capability and operating costs.
It is modular and can be configured in a number of ways to meet the specific requirements of each BOF shop. For example:
The first installation was the end-point detection module on a 165 short ton top-blown converter at US Steel Hamilton Works. US Steel was able to predict end-point carbon to within ± 0.0115% carbon for 90% of heats and within ± 0.0150% carbon for 97% of heats. Table 1 summarizes consumable cost benefits associated with improved endpoint detection as confirmed by US Steel.
i BOF end-point prediction also reduced the standard deviation for end-point carbon on 0.1% carbon heats by almost 60% which has enabled US Steel to successfully implement a 'catch carbon' practice when producing high carbon heats. Ultimately, the objective is to completely eliminate the need for Celox bombs to further reduce consumable costs.
A second installation on a 360t BOF converter with top blowing and Ar/N2 bottom injection included the improved end-point prediction and the slop detection modules. This BOF was equipped with a sublance system with the normal practice being two sublance readings per heat, the first in-blow and the second confirmatory before tapping. The objective was to improve end-point prediction ultimately to allow the plant to eliminate the second sublance reading, thereby reducing operating cost and the associated production delays.
Table 2 confirms that the predicted end-point C and temperature are in excellent agreement with the final in-melt sublance reading, thereby providing confidence for the plant to eliminate this second sublance reading and to proceed with a 'blow and tap practice'. A second objective for this installation was to provide advanced warning of the onset of a slop event to avoid yield and productivity losses associated with metal ejection from the converter. Extensive trials demonstrated an 87% slop detection rate with about 20–40secs of advance warning before the visual onset of metal ejection. This warning provides sufficient time for the plant operators to take preventative action to mitigate the effects of the slop event.
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text: 022818_445_ 02/28/18 Newfoundland, PA The World Peace and Unification Sanctuary holds a ceremony for couples to renew their wedding vows and bless their firearms. Rev. Sean Moon leads the church and advocates for their right to bear arms for protection against evil. Within the church firearms are referred to as the "Rod of Iron" a reference to the book of Revelation in the Bible. "And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as received of my Father." Revelations 2 : 27


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BAGHDAD // Two separate car bomb explosions targeted Sunday morning commuters in Baghdad, killing at least 13 civilians, officials said, amid an continuing standoff between Iraqi forces and Al Qaida-linked militants west of the Iraqi capital.
The blasts came a day after a senior American official wrapped up a three-day visit to Iraq to meet top political leaders to discuss the security crisis in the vast Sunni-dominated western province of Anbar.
The deadliest blast occurred at a bustling bus station in central Baghdad when an explosives-laden car exploded outside the station in the Allawi area, killing at least nine people and wounding 16, a police officer said. Thousands of people use the bus station every day or pass through the area. Last Thursday, a suicide bomber blew himself up among a group of security force recruits nearby, killing nearly two dozen.
Another parked car bomb targeted a gathering of buses and taxis in Baghdad's northern Hurriyah neighbourhood, killing four civilians and wounding 12 others, the same police officer said.
The attacks come as Iraqi security forces and allied Sunni tribal militias have been battling Al Qaida-linked militants in Anbar to recapture strategic territory overrun by militants from the local Al Qaeda franchise, known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
Iraqi forces have yet to militarily try to reassert control over Fallujah, which remains in the hands of the militants and tribal gunmen opposed to the central government. Militants and tribal fighters also control part of the provincial capital, Ramadi. Sporadic clashes there and in surrounding areas continue to take place.
Thousands of families have left the area, fearing a government offensive. Clashes between militants and security forces have left at least 60 people dead since violence erupted after the December 28 arrest of a Sunni lawmaker sought on terrorism charges and the dismantling of an anti-government Sunni protest camp in Ramadi.
The extremist militants, emboldened by fellow fighters' gains in the civil war in neighbouring Syria, have tried to position themselves as the champions of Iraqi Sunnis angry at the Shiite-led government over what they see as efforts to marginalise them.
At least 60 people have been killed since violence erupted in the western province after the December 28 arrest of a Sunni lawmaker sought on terrorism charges and the dismantling of an anti-government Sunni protest camp in Ramadi. The head of Anbar's Health Directorate, Khudeir Shalal, said Saturday that 43 people were killed in the city of Ramadi and other 17 were killed in Fallujah. He added a total of 297 people were wounded in both cities.
In a sign of American concern over the situation in Anbar, the deputy assistant secretary for near eastern affairs, Brett McGurk, wrapped up a three-day visit to Iraq to meet prime minister Nouri Al Maliki and other top Iraqi political leaders, as well as tribal leaders from Anbar, to discuss the security situation.
In a statement, the US embassy to Baghdad said that Mr McGurk emphasised that the US "will provide all necessary and appropriate assistance to the Government of Iraq ... under the Strategic Framework Agreement to help ensure that these efforts succeed."
Washington has ruled out sending American troops back in but recently delivered dozens of Hellfire missiles to help bolster Iraqi forces. It has promised to send more missiles as well as surveillance drones.
Other senior American officials have reached out to top Iraqi leaders too, with vice president Joe Biden speaking to Mr Al Maliki twice last week alone.
Political tensions and violence has escalated in Iraq over the past year. Last year, the country saw the highest death told since the worst of the country's sectarian bloodletting began to subside in 2007, according to United Nations figures. The UN said violence killed 8,868 last year.
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Wembley Park is a major new lifestyle destination being created around Wembley stadium by developer and landowner Quintain Estates. The first phase of this regeneration has now been completed with the creation of a unique combination of attractions which includes London's only designer shopping outlet, a Hilton hotel and, of course, the Wembley stadium itself. The new Red Car Park has replaced a 1970s multi-story car park and is located next to the new London Designer Outlet.
A new 1000 space multi-storey car park at Wembley Park is the first project in the UK to make use of Philips' innovative new FreeStreet pole-free suspended outdoor lighting system.
On the top deck of the multi-storey the FreeStreet luminaires are supported by steel columns that have been integrated into the structure of the building, whereas on the surface car park Philips has provided freestanding columns positioned at the edges of the area.


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