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A Model of Strategic Entrepreneurship: The Construct and its Dimensions
Strategic entrepreneurship (SE) involves simultaneous opportunity-seeking and advantageseeking behaviors and results in superior firm performance. On a relative basis, small, entrepreneurial ventures are effective in identifying opportunities but are less successful in developing competitive advantages needed to appropriate value from those opportunities. In contrast, large, established firms often are relatively more effective in establishing competitive advantages but are less able to identify new opportunities. We argue that SE is a unique, distinctive construct through which firms are able to create wealth. An entrepreneurial mindset, an entrepreneurial culture and entrepreneurial leadership, the strategic management of resource and applying creativity to develop innovations are important dimensions of SE. Herein we develop a model of SE that explains how these dimensions are integrated to create wealth.

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By Sab Osuji:
Striker Gbolahan Salami is a major doubt when Warri Wolves visit a resurgent Shooting Stars of Ibadan Wednesday in a rescheduled Glo Premier League match, Completesportsnigeria.com reports.
Salami is Wolves'leading scorer in the current campaign with six goals.
Checks by Completesportsnigeria.com reveal that the Super Eagles striker did not travel with the Wolves team to Oghara for last Sunday's match day 16 clash with Bayelsa United, on account of one match suspension following two yellow card offences.
"He used that opportunity to ask for permission to travel to Lagos but since that time, he has not shown up in the team," Etu Moses, manager, media and publicity of the club disclosed.
"The team travelled out to Ibadan on Tuesday without him, so that's the situation on ground," he lamented.


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MSI has launched a new X370 notebook, and this new X370 notebook features AMD's E-350 processor which is designed to use less power and it also features what MSI calls its ECO Engine which is designed for power saving.
The MSI X370 Notebook is designed to be an ultra thin notebook, measuring less than one inch thick and weighing in at just 1.4KG, and it reported to have battery life of up to 10 hours.
The MSI X370 Notebook features a dual core AMD E350 processor, and a 13.4 inch HD backlit LED display with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels, graphics is provided by an AMD Radeon HD 6310 discrete graphics card, and there is also DDr3 RAM, although MSI didn't specify how much in the press release.
Other specifications include a choice of either a 320GB, 500GB or 640GB hard drive, there is also one HDMI port, and one VGA port plus two USB 2.0 ports and a card reader.
The MSI X370 also features a 1.3 megapixel card reader, plus 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR, MSI have not released any details on pricing and have yet to announce when it will be available.
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So, paying that kid to stake out Foxglove's townhouse is a success, I suppose. Instead of getting news that Foxglove had left his estate, I was informed of an armed band breaking into his home. It turns out these adventurers are the Heroes of Sandpoint that we've heard so much about.
It turns out that the Alderns in the townhouse were shapeshifting demons. The Sandpoint band had already dealt with Foxglove – he was indeed a cultist, and he's very much dead. Luckily, I had a chance to interrogate one of the faceless stalkers before it died. Apparently the Seven Sons Sawmill is a cultist meeting spot. Which, of course, adds to the evidence I'm collecting against Justice Ironbriar. With any luck, I'll finally get a solid enough case to bring him down. For now, I work with these new arrivals. They may prove to be useful to me.


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The flexibility of running of small fleet of Merlo telescopic handlers gives Melbourne work form contractor, Oak Park (Tullamarine) Pty Ltd, the power and reach it needs to deliver large projects on time.
Having completed some major projects, such as the Victorian Desalination Plant, Peninsula Link (Frankston Bypass) and the Springvale Level Crossing Removal project, Oak Park recently won a three-year contract for concrete and runway work at Melbourne Airport. Construction Manager for Oak Park, Renee Bell, says the company has 35 years of experience in construction and chooses to use Merlo telehandlers as a cost-effective approach to manage workflow and productivity.
A central part of the company's operation is using five Merlo telehandlers to load and unload trucks, including a 38.13, 36.10 and three 40.17 models. "The Merlo telehandlers with the 17 m reach are better for us," Renee says.
"We like the versatility of having the forklift tine and the crane jib. They give us so much flexibility in what we can do, whether it be loading and unloading trucks with reinforcing steel, formwork and plant or performing construction duties, such as lifting formwork and reinforcement into position."
"Sometimes you can't get into tight places, but using the longer jib with the 17 m reach on the Merlo telehandlers, our operators can reach over and grab what they need, and then get it out of there."
Oak Park's contract at Melbourne Airport keeps Renee's team busy. Since starting a previous contract in October 2011, the company has poured more than 43,000 m3 of concrete. The Merlo telehandlers are used daily, and Renee says their operators are licensed for the different models.
"We have half a dozen operators who are licensed for the non-slewing mobile crane and then we have about 10 people licensed on a lesser 'telehandler' ticket, where they can lift up to 4 tonne, which is sufficient for the Merlo machines," Renee says.
Oak Park staff are trained how to use the machines and complete a four-hour course to obtain a Certificate of Competency that complies with Work Health Safety regulations.
Renee says the Merlo machines are safe to operate and manoeuvre, and that changing attachments is a straightforward task. Her team finds the Merlos easy to use with good visibility, an important feature at any busy work site. "In terms of both fuel efficiency and time to complete tasks, the Merlo telehandlers are a lot cheaper to run than cranes, and they are much more flexible," Renee says.
"In construction, we find the ground can be quite unstable underneath the machine, which makes it difficult for cranes and front end loaders; whereas these Merlo machines can pretty much go anywhere. It provides an accessibility advantage."
The good backup and support Oak Park receives from its Merlo dealer, Victoria Construction Equipment (VCE), is critical to maintain high productivity.
"They're great. Whenever I ring, it's always, 'Ah, I need you now', and we get a pretty good service from VCE. They have people on site within 24 hours; if it's not that same day then it's definitely the next morning. The machines are rarely out of operation," Renee recalls.
"We get the Merlos serviced regularly on RDOs so that scheduled downtime doesn't stop our productivity. We're using them every day, and with so many staff, you see a lot of green machines running around at the airport."


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|Viva la France! Charlotte 49ers' Spaulding jumps to pro soccer
|Cary resident with 4th division Stade Briochin
|Published Wednesday, February 14, 2018 4:47 pm
|Former Charlotte 49ers midfielder Ryan Spaulding is learning a new language and culture with French fourth-division team Stade Briochin.
Ryan Spaulding's soccer story has gone French.
A 19-year-old midfielder from Cary, Spaulding spent two seasons with the Charlotte 49ers, but while others returned to campus for the spring semester, he made his professional first team debut on Jan. 20 for Stade Briochin, a club in France's fourth division. They're second in National 2 Group D with 33 points.
"A very good friend/mentor named Dario Brose was very instrumental in making this happen," Spaulding said in an email interview. "He played at this club back in the glory days in 1991-1995 when the club was Ligue 2 in France. He has a great relationship with the club still and was able to set up a trial period for me at the club and it was a great match immediately with coach Guillaume Allanou and the players."
Spaulding started 12 of 32 appearances for the 49ers, scoring three goals and tallying two assists. His studies concentrated on communication, but have been tabled in pursuit of professional aspirations.
"The thought process I went through while deciding whether to stay or go was to look at where I could be in the next two years," Spaulding said. "If I stayed at Charlotte I'd be just like every other senior in the country trying to go to the MLS, having only played about eight months of competitive college season in two years because of how NCAA soccer works. We were only allowed minimal spring practice with the ball and only five or so decently competitive games. I then compared that to the possibility of being 21 with two years of first-team experience in France, learning the language and lifestyle of a professional athlete with massive clubs like Stade Rennais and EA Guingamp right next door. Being in season 10 months out of the year, playing league and cup games every week it was clear to me which one would help me achieve my dreams."
Spaulding, who is not fluent in French, attends language classes twice a week to cope with that barrier.
"I have been working hard to learn the language since about mid-November, I have seen some big improvements with it since mid-January when I got here," he said. "On the field there are no problems, my coach speaks a great amount of English, and a couple of my teammates speak enough English to have a broken conversation. I would say that ordering food in my French is probably my specialty, and then it gets harder with conversations where a person could be saying anything."
On the pitch, Spaulding is still utilized on the wing.
"I am playing the same positions I have in the past, either left midfield or right midfield," he said. "So I still have to get up and down the field and work on both sides of the ball, offensively and defensively. We play a very composed style of football we enjoy keeping the ball, but when we do attack we go fast and deadly."
Spaulding's debut came against Boulogne Billancourt, which Stade Briochin won 3-1. Spaulding was tackled in the box late in the match, which led to a penalty. His performance led to his inclusion in the quarterfinals of the Coupe de France tournament against second division RC Lens.
"The play leading up to it was I forced the right back on the other team to make a sloppy pass that was stolen by a center mid on our team, who sprung me on the counter attack," Spaulding said. "I was then 1 v 1 against the center back and I took a touch to one side of him and ran on the other side and met the ball about 2 yards into the box with an outside of the left foot shot. Immediately after I shot I was taken out by the covering center back, as I got up I realized the ball had deflected off the defender as he fouled me and the ball scored. However, it didn't count because the ref blew the whistle for a penalty before the ball crossed the line. I did not take the following penalty because by the time I realized what was happening my teammate was already lining up for it, but the play created enough buzz for me that I was on the squad for the following French cup game against RC Lens a Ligue 2 team" in a 1-0 loss.
While these are the early days of Spaulding's professional career, his international experience dates back to his academy days with North Carolina F.C.
"The Brazil trip was with my u16 NCFC academy team (formerly Capital Area Railhawks Academy)," he said. "We trained and stayed at a local academy called Desportivo, and played a range of teams, some as good as Fluminese. Germany was around the same age, this was also through Dario Brose, but that was me going on trial with a club called VFL Osnabruek, who is third division in Germany. In that trip, I had the opportunity to play a game in front a scout from Bayern Munich and have an evaluation after the game."
Spaulding's experiences abroad have given him an appreciation for the technical and tactical emphasis in France.
"As a whole, French soccer utilizes the technical and tactical side of the game much better than the NCAA, which as a whole is very focused on the physical side," Spaulding said. "I think that going from Charlotte to this French style was a better transition that it would've been if I were at a different school because Charlotte had a very strong focus on offensive and defensive tactics."
Spaulding's end game is top division play and country representation.
"I want to reach the highest levels of world football, whether it's here in France or another country," Spaulding said. "I also want the opportunity to represent my country on a big stage like the Olympics or World Cup."
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Why do we still believe in Fairytales?
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by d time we learn d game
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put our minds in d sky
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neither 1
stay 2 long
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men & women play
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lies & miseducation
preachers in d pulpits
hands out
4 dollars & change
nobody breaking down a Unity Plan
Long Range
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we in d hot pot
our children
never getting real education
mental rot
lies thrown in they face 4rm day 1
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guys glorified
4rm Bunny & Clyde–2 Scar Face–2 Al Capone
this Hell Right Here
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ain't glorified
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year after year
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Electronic Grading for Long Vegetables
New sorter for elongated products with manual or automatic loading (cucumber, zucchini, eggplant and peppers).
If the product is loaded manually on the grader is provided a 220 mm transporter tray with a special shape to carry, weigh and select the product.
An operator will manually load each single product, the sizer will provide calibration and selection by weight, minimum and maximum diameter, length, curvature and colour.
In case a fully automated loading is preferred the machine will be developed with special transport systems with a smaller pitch, so that the product can automatically be loaded on the sorter.
For the discharge in the various outputs, the vision system according to the length of each individual product will open the outputs necessary for the complete exit of each fruit and vegetable.
The selection can be done according to:
- Weight
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- Length
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The discharge of the sized product is provided through a brush system that with extreme care ensures that each product is separated. At this point the operator only needs to place the perfectly calibrated, selected product into the apposite boxes and crates.
Is also possible to include a scale for each operator for a further weight check of the box/crate, so that it can pass on to palletizing and shipment.
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Solomon "Bud" Saylor was born on August 11, 1937 into a small impoverished Appalachian coal mining community.
In 1954 he graduated from high school with honors and shortly thereafter enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. During that enlistment, Bud became the youngest person ever to be fully certified as an airport/approach controller at a moderately busy civilian airport. After being honorably discharged, Bud became a Federal Civil Service employee where he advanced quickly earning numerous awards including a Special Presidential Commendation.
Following federal retirement, Bud and his wife, Louise, traveled the world from Hawaii to the Amazon jungle, to Europe, the Alps, to Asia and the Great Wall of China, followed by many other beautiful countries. It was during that period Bud began his years-long battle with cancer.
Bud and his wife, Louise, enjoyed nearly sixty years of happiness but their greatest accomplishment is their four children, Ernest G., Daniel A., Shawn E., and Deborah L., all now adults. They're very supportive of their families, their communities and their faith. Their marvelous wives are Patty, Jarita and Vicky. Bud and Louise have two grandchildren, Kelly and Adam. Bud is also survived by his treasured sister, Mary Sue of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Bud's long battle with cancer ended March 9, 2018. Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, March 22, 2018. Burial will be at Pine Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, with a reception following the interment. The family will receive friends from 5-8 p.m. on March 21, 2018 at Carl J. Mowell & Son Funeral Home, Fayetteville, Ga.
In lieu of flowers, Bud sincerely asked that donations be made to St. Jude Children's Hospital, www.stjude.org.
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Wet patch in the middle of downstairs floor - spring?!
The floor is ground floor and near no pipes.
I can only think that maybe a spring has sprung?! It's definitely coming up from the ground.
There is a river 200m away, stream 40m away & water meadows on the other side of the road.
The house was built around 1990 & the damp proof course surely should have stopped any water coming up?!
Any suggestions, help, advice, experience?!
Our boiler broke today so I'm using electric heaters to warm the room & avoid too much damp within the room!


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I grew up on a small dairy farm in Central Wisconsin – we milked about 40 cows and had 110 acres where we grew mostly corn and forages. Our forages were always a mix; alfalfa-grass mixes (seeded with an oat covercrop that was turned into oatlage that first year) in our "good" fields, clover mixes in our wetter fields where alfalfa didn't do as well. In some years maybe even some sorghum sudangrass (often in a hayfield that winter killed that we had to tear up or that corn field that didn't get planted because it was too wet).
So why an I reminiscing about perennial forages? The Iowa nutrient reduction strategy (Reducing Nutrient Loss: Science Shows What Works - https://store.extension.iastate.edu/Product/Reducing-Nutrient-Loss-Science-Shows-What-Works) says that adding 2 years of alfalfa to a 4 or 5 year rotation can reduce nitrogen loss by 42% and it will help reduce soil and phosphorus loss as well. It provides perennial ground cover for periods of the rotation after all. So the questions that has been on my mind is what would motivate farmers to raise more alfalfa (or actually any perennial forage)? Has it been replaced by another forage like corn silage? I ask these questions because at least one way of potentially getting more alfalfa on the landscape is to encourage more ruminant animal production as they can use the forage to make human food – meat and milk.
To get us started on this conversation I looked at survey data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service. The first thing I pulled was alfalfa acres by year from 1950 through 2015 in both Iowa and Wisconsin. Back in 1950 there was about 4 million acres of alfalfa in each state, now there is a little over 1 million in Iowa and 1.6 million acres in Wisconsin. When I look at this graph I see some similarities – both states have seen pretty drastic reduction in alfalfa acres over the 60 years shown, but one big difference. Iowa started losing alfalfa acres before Wisconsin did. Iowa alfalfa acres have been on the decline since about 1955, while Wisconsin stayed pretty steady in alfalfa acres until about 1990. So why have these acres been on the decline?
To supplement this I also took a look at corn silage acres, hypothesizing that if we were going to grow less alfalfa perhaps corn silage was replacing it in rations. It was interesting to me that I didn't really find this at all – Wisconsin corn silage acres today are almost the same as they were back in 1950, and while Iowa's corn silage acres are also similar to their 1950s levels they are still well below the levels we saw throughout the 60's, 70's, and early 80's. Apparently that wasn't the missing piece to the puzzle, but then I looked at total corn silage production (tons raised per year), and it held a partial answer – for Wisconsin at least. Though corn silage acres haven't increased, corn silage production had, especially since 1990 (when we started seeing less alfalfa acre). If you plot alfalfa acres in Wisconsin versus corn silage production you get a petty strong relationship of alfalfa decreasing with more corn silage - a pretty good indication that corn silage is replacing alfalfa, maybe not on the landscape but in our dairy rations. Better corn silage yields are freeing up land that had been used for alfalfa to grow other crops. So this answers part of my question – more ruminants won't necessarily lead to more alfalfa on the landscape – but also says it could, we just have to understand what drives the decision of alfalfa versus corn silage a little better (another topic for another post though).
However, it did not answer my question about alfalfa production in Iowa; but if we look at cattle on feed and corn silage production in Iowa we can see that they do trend together. As cattle on feed peaked in the early 1970s corn silage production was growing and peaked shortly after was well. Indicating that corn silage and cattle were linked. This doesn't explain where our alfalfa acres went, but it does show that more ruminants won't necessarily lead to more alfalfa. There are other important factors in deciding between alfalfa and corn silage.
So where do we go from here? Adding alfalfa (or other perennial forages) to the landscape can have numerous water quality benefits and could potentially open additional opportunities for feeding more ruminants. However, based on history it appears the opposite approach, getting more ruminants on the landscape may not have the same effect. That is just because we have more ruminants doesn't guarantee more perennials for forages. If we are going to strive for more perennials, ruminants can be part of the answer, but it will also require a conscious decision to choose the perennial instead of corn silage.


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The famous UK video game store known as GAME has announced a new event. During this event, fans of The Order: 1886 and Bloodborne will be able to get their hands on both titles. Only limited tickets are available and the fans who want to participate have to be at least 18 years of age.
Those players who just cannot wait to play either of these games and live in UK should see if their local store is participating to dive into the action. To see the list of stores included in this event, visit GAME's official website.
There are a total of 30 stores participating in the event, but not all of them will allow you to play today. Only one store allowed players to participate yesterday, but today three stores in the different parts of UK will be participating. After that, there will be a break of weekend and the event will return on Monday.
That's not all though! GAME has also revealed a giveaway. Those players who will get a chance to play at the event will just have to take their selfie and tweet it online with the hashtag #GAMElogin with either #TheOrder1886 or #Bloodborne.
There will be two winners, one will win The Order: 1886 copy while the other one will get his/her hands on the standard edition of Bloodborne.
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First, I want to digress into an explanation of the Twisted methodology,
Ultimate Quality Development System. The name sounds fancy, the methodology is straightforward. It starts with a clear ticket describing the issue and perhaps how it is going to be handled. A patch, in the form of a patch file or an SVN branch is written. It is reviewed, where it might be rejected or accepted. If it is rejected, the patch is rewritten to address the concerns, and then reviewed again. If it is accepted, it is merged into the trunk and the ticket is closed. Among the issues addressed in reviews are test coverage, documentation and coding style issues, as well as functional issues.
The UQDS is well documented on Twisted's site. The short explanation above is by no means exhaustive, but the documentation on the Twisted wiki is. It is especially geared to new contributors wanting to help out.
Twisted has many subtle issues. However, it also has many straightforward
issues that nobody in the core development team has had the resources to address yet. We maintain a list of easy tickets through a keyword, and this list is accessible through one of the reports on the Twisted site.
However, for those not comfortable delving into the code base right in, there are also other ways to contribute. One of the bottlenecks that the project experiences is tickets which are waiting for review. While the final review can only be done by a committer, a review of pending patches is still something a newcomer can do. Those which have not gone through any review cycles are unlikely to be perfect — something was probably forgotten. Finding those issues and pointing them to the originator of the patch frees up resources from the core team, and allows them to move faster. For those cases where a patch is up to current standards, a review which does not remove the "needed review" flag but that explains what the reviewer has gone through and which checks the patch passed makes the job of the final reviewer that much easier.
There are two big advantages to help with Twisted. Twisted is a project with high visibility, so help with it is a useful merit badge. For programmers wanting to have their name visible in the Python world, this is a
straightforward path to untold fame and riches. The other advantage is that
this is a way to con the Twisted core team into free mentoring. The team
is nice and considerate, and will point out any issues that the code has, thus giving a valuable lesson in Python programming.
There is a report called "Review tickets in the order they should be reviewed". Opening this report, and reviewing the tickets, is one of the most useful ways to help Twisted. Another way is to choose a module, look at which Python 3 compatibility warnings it gets when ran with Python 2.6 with 3 warnings turned on, and fix all of those. This is straightforward work which deals with one of the biggest Python 3 acceptance hurdles.


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A group of teenage boys who are suspected of overdosing at a Gold Coast school, allegedly filmed themselves taking the unknown substance and sent it to their peers.
Six boys aged 15 and one boy aged 14, all believed to be in Year 10, were taken to Gold Coast University hospital after they were found to be unwell at Saint Stephen's College at Upper Coomera before 1pm (AEST) yesterday.
Six of the seven students remain in hospital, a Gold Coast Health spokeswoman confirmed.
Four of the boys are believed to be fighting for life in a critical condition - one is in a serious condition and two others are stable.
"We continue to treat six patients and they are all steadily improving," the spokeswoman said.
9NEWS understands the drug the boys ingested at lunchtime may have been GHB, or "fantasy", in a powdered form.
It is believed the students took the drug and then recorded their experience, posting it on social media app Snapchat, the Courier Mail reports.
The school's principal, Dr Jamie Dorrington, has since sent an email to parents and students urging them to not share any of the footage if they received it, the newspaper said.
"If your child receives any messages or film footage or audio files relating to today's incident they MUST NOT forward to any other person," the email requested.
"This is not a request from my office but from the Queensland Police Service."
Queensland Ambulance Service spokesman Stuart Cutajar told TODAY this morning that the school called emergency services after a number of students were in a condition where they were reportedly "going to pass out".
"We are not able to confirm (what drugs were taken) but are waiting for the toxicology report to come back," he said.
"The information we have on hand at the moment is six of the seven students are in an unstable condition and the seventh child is in a stable condition."
At least one boy is understood to have struggled to remain conscious.
"It would appear from an initial QAS response that it was an overdose," he said, adding it was unclear what substance the boys ingested.
Police have taken a number of phones and electronic devices as they investigate the incident.
They said they were treating the incident "very seriously" and the focus of the investigation would be how the students obtained the substance.
Police said they were awaiting toxicology reports from the hospital.
"There is a number of types of drugs that it could be," regional duty officer Tony Wormald said.
The families of the students involved have been notified.
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:: Eriez Cross Belt Sampling Success
The addition of Birtley cross belt sampling technology to the Eriez product portfolio in early 2000 has been signalled as a major success in terms of securing new business, particularly in the coal and power generation industries. Orders have been placed by new and existing clients in UK and export markets.
One of the more recent orders was from existing customer Burrows Brothers (Sales) Ltd for installation on a mobile conveyor for operation at their Moorhouse Coal and Fireclay site, nr Wakefield (UK). The Cross Belt Sampler will be taking a representative sample of coal from a moving conveyor belt and discharge this to the side of the conveyor into a collection chute.
The Eriez Cross Belt sampler was chosen because of its ease of installation, particularly within a mobile plant, and its cost effectiveness to operate and maintain relative to the importance of its role in monitoring the quality of the conveyed coal. Site operators will use this sampling technology to verify that quality parameters and customer standards are being met.
The Eriez Cross Belt Sampler features an uncomplicated design. It has a specially designed cutter blade wiper which moves in one direction only and a cam activated limit switch to regulate the speed and stopping positions of the cutter. The sample cutter is of stainless steel construction and comprises parallel side plates and a back plate positioned to prevent material being retained inside the cutter at the discharge point. The speed of the cutter is always in excess of the conveyor belt speed but will be set to suit the individual location.
The Eriez Cross Belt Sampler is suitable for most types of trough belt, including deep trough types. Installation is simple with minimal work required, particularly in retrofit installations. The Cross Belt Sampler is suitable for open and enclosed locations as well as mobile cross belt sampling.
Eriez cross belt and rotary sampling technology applies to plants handling particulate solids and slurries and can be supplied as individual units or as turnkey systems. The technology is simple, reliable and cost effective to maintain. Whatever the requirement, Eriez will advise on the best and most comprehensive solution for a particular application where quality control and analysis of product or material flows are essential.
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Solution Integration Architect$ 60k/Year ($ 30/Hour for 40 hours of productive work per week) Remote Position Long-term
We are looking for skilled architects with the ability to work aggressively to identify, analyze, research, and resolve challenges on all aspects of an IT solution being deployed in a customer environment.
Architects have aggressive daily and weekly targets set for them and are required to work a standard working week with us. Your output of work is measured daily, both from a quantitative as well as a qualitative aspect. You will receive daily and weekly feedback on your performance which will help you resolve blockers and ensure you are meeting your targets.
Solution Integration Architects work with the newest IT products in a demanding environment.
You should have already worked as a Solution Integration Architect in various projects and this will be the next step in your professional career.
Be a team player
Willingness to learn
Be able to work remotely and also on-site
A hiring event is a scheduled online event where all our relevant testing relating to a role is conducted on the same day. Submissions received during the event are graded the following week, and successful candidates notified if they have progressed to the next round which is an online interview with a Hiring Manager.
Execution of on-site and remote integration for complex BSS architectures including internal products and ecosystem of new or already installed applications, interfaces configuration & integration
Executing modeling of customer tariff structure
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Continual Improvement: With our culture of setting SMART goals, you will receive candid feedback weekly instead of waiting for quarterly or annual reviews to help you take timely corrective actions for your overall learning and development.
You will learn how we manage our teams through metrics and how we deliver business value through our goal management techniques.
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Lukasz, one of our Software Engineering Managers, talks about our testing processes and hiring needs in Crossover
Mircea Strugaru, VP of Engineering, talks about his role as a VP of Engineering at Crossover.
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I heard you have a tracking tool to monitor your teams, why do you use it?
One of the key objectives of our productivity tracker is for it to be used by our Crossover partners to log time and eventually get paid. We also log information about our Crossover partners to understand what tools and applications they are using. This helps us to build work patterns of our people and identify best practices which we can share with all our teams.
Do you use Agile?
Like most organizations, we make use of subsets of Agile. The one key difference though is that our teams are highly specialized in the task they do. For example, we have a maintenance team whose only task is to fix bugs on our products. Rather than being product specialists they are process specialists.
How can I get promoted to new roles?
In order to move across roles you need to apply through our crossover portal. You should also be ensuring that your manager is always knowledgeable about any active applications you may have.
How do you measure the productivity of a team?
Every team has a metric which they deliver against; by default, every person within the team is measured by the same metric on a weekly basis. For example, the metric for our maintenance team is "number of bugs fixed". The cost per unit of the maintenance team on a weekly basis is the total headcount cost of the team for a week divided by the number of bugs fixed during the same week.
What are the key things I need to do to ensure I am successful as an Engineer?
Besides the obvious technical knowledge required to do the role, and keeping yourself up to date with the latest technology updates, you should also have a comfortable and quiet environment to work from. You should set a good calendar for your week which is repeatable and which allows you to dedicate long blocks of time towards your work with Crossover.


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Sorry guys but i'm winning this.
Bracket: http://challonge.com/TBTournies
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Oof. Speaking to the man I think is gonna take home the gold.
Goodluck to you all! (Kick some ass Submerge ;) )
Just to be sure. it's only the winner of the very last game that matters on record right? like we could put that person up against the person we think is the worst but as long as they win the tournament, we get the event prize? or is there more prizes for how close you get your entire prediction to the actual result of the tourney. (i.e. This player beats that player but then loses to this player. etc.)
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Saturday, 5 May 2007
The Chilli Farmer
Images for a book "Kaelo - Stories of Hope", published by Macmillan
Camera Nikon D2X.
3 comments:
- Taylor A said...
I really enjoy the photos you have posted up here. They make me at the same time nostalgic for my time in Africa and more and more cognizant of the continuing problems throughout the continent...
I was wondering if I could nominate you for Best Photography Blog over at the Blogger's Choice Awards
Once nominated, the best way to win is to make sure you promote your
nomination to your readers and ask them to vote for you. It's pretty
easy because you can grab an embedded code block to cut-and-paste into your blog to make it easier for folks to vote for you; then, you can rally your entire readership, friends, and family to vote!
Good luck and I hope you rightfully win Best Photography Blog!
- 6 May 2007 at 19:22
- Peter Bendheim said...
Thanks. I feel most honoured. Please go ahead and nominate...Thanks so much for you kind words.
- 6 May 2007 at 20:17
- Taylor A said...
You've been nominated and got your first vote:
Be sure to grab that embed code and you can put a button here to direct your readers to vote for you as well.
Good Luck!
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Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a form of depression that people experience at a particular time of year or during a particular season. Most of us are affected by the change in seasons it is normal to feel more cheerful and energetic when the sun is shining and the days are longer, or to find that you eat more or sleep longer in winter. However, the change in seasons will have a much greater effect on your mood and energy levels, and lead to symptoms of depression that have a significant impact on your day-to-day life.
patients with SAD become depressed in the winter, at least in part because of a phase delay in circadian rhythms relative to the sleep/wake cycle. The cause of this 'phase delay' and why it has such a pronounced effect on mood and behaviour, is likely to be multifactorial, involving abnormalities at various levels along the retino-hypothalamic tract, its links with the pineal gland, and the metabolism of melatonin and serotonin.
The fluoxetine group had lower depression scores at termination than the placebo group, but these differences did not achieve statistical significance. However, the rate of clinical response in the fluoxetine group (49%) was superior to that in the placebo group (68%). Post hoc analyses showed that the greatest fluoxetine responses were in the most markedly depressed patients and that overall response was greater for patients studied later in the season. Fluoxetine was well tolerated, and few subjects dropped out because of adverse events.


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|Comfort Class on the Star
|Backing out of Tallinn in the early morning fog
|Burger King on board the Star
|Our cabin on board the Viking XPRS
|Safety instructions on the Viking XPRS
Upon arrival in Tallinn we split up, as I wanted to visit my parents (and kitty!) and Sverre met up with Nelly and Christoffer who happened to be in Tallinn that day, too. Unfortunately I returned to the harbour just mere minutes too late to meet them myself. In any case, soon enough it was time for us to get on board the Silja Europa.
|But I finally got to meet my sweet kitty Tilla!
Back in 2014, when the Silja Europa left for Australia, I honestly don't think anyone believed that she would ever be seen around here again, let alone serve a route. She's far from the youngest ship out there and apparently her machinery is in bad condition from running on the restless Turku-Stockholm route for so many years. And yet, in January her return was announced and we planned to get on board as soon as possible.
By now she has served a season as a daycruise ferry, first from Helsinki West harbour, and then Olympia terminal; on the 29th of August she stopped and currently she's laid up in Muuga harbour near Tallinn for a refit. In December she will replace the Baltic Queen, doing 22h cruises from Helsinki to Tallinn. The Baltic Queen will then replace the Romantika on the Tallinn-Stockholm route, and the Romantika will go to Riga-Stockholm. So, just like it was back in 2014.
On her first crossing we met quite a few of our friends and fellow ship enthusiasts, and for that reason we hadn't booked a cabin. I ended up cursing that decision to hell, being very tired from the day; we ended up spending most of the time sitting in Windjammer Bar. The most fun (or not, depends on what you like) part of the evening was perhaps the disembarkation. First of all, it was about half an hour of waiting at the usual exit, until all passengers were asked to proceed to the cardeck for disembarkation.
|Disembarkation through the cardeck
|At least it wasn't snowing
That big, still and relatively deep pool, with view to the helicopter deck, is the one and only reason why I consider Silja Europa to have one of the best spas on the Baltic Sea. I do find it nice if for once I can choose to not have water splashing all over my face while I struggle not to float away.
|Embarkation through the cardeck
|Our Deluxe cabin nr. 11112
|My waterproof camera case sure came in handy
|Baltic Queen departing as we arrived
Upon arrival I had to go ashore again to take the chance and run some errands, as it was a Monday. It was then that I got a bit of a "shock", having got so used to the public transport in Turku that runs like a Swiss watch (almost), and then using the public transport in Tallinn which is much, much more chaotic.
In the meanwhile Sverre had gone ashore too, and we met up in the center and soon headed back to the ship, to discover that she was moving to a different spot. Nonetheless, we were let into the gangway all the way to the entry, and waited there with a small group of people, watching her approach. During the return journey we both got nice haircuts and then had a dinner in Maxime à la Carte. We were actually supposed to dine in Buffet Europa, but since it was only booked by just a small handful of people (as I realized when we were all called through the public address system), the seating was cancelled.
Upon arrival it was the same story as the day before, disembarkation via cardeck and straight back to the hotel.
|Deckies on duty
|Our room in GLO Hotel Art
The same evening we dined in Oscar à la Carte, and the next day we chose to just enjoy the suite and do a little bit of shopping. After disembarking we checked in to good old ship hostel Bore. The next morning I sent Sverre off to the Amorella as he started his journey home, and returned to the hostel for a nap.
|Ocean Suite, nr 7826
|Ocean Suite, nr 7826
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|Our cabin on the Bore


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Horticulture student Caroline Power, who is working at Hillsborough Castle, has been awarded Student Scholarships of £1,000 by the David Colegrave Foundation (DCF).
Caroline, together with fellow student Emma McFarline who also received a scholarship, is studying for a Foundation Degree in Horticulture at College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) at the Greenmount Campus in County Antrim.
Caroline, who is interested in plant identification and plant science, and also working for Historic Royal Palaces - Hillsborough Castle as a Skilled Gardener says, "I am delighted to be a receiver of the DCF Student Scholarship. This scholarship will provide me with not only financial support to help fund my studies but also an exciting opportunity to explore equipment possibilities for my investigative project in production horticulture. I would like to thank the David Colegrave Foundation for their support and consideration and encourage other horticulture students to apply for a scholarship."
Emma, who is interested in organic growing methods, sustainability and hydroponics, and also a volunteer gardener at the National Trust, says, "I am so grateful to the David Colegrave Foundation for their generosity. This scholarship means a lot to me as it will help me to pay for my college fees and invest in equipment that will allow me to pursue my horticultural interests further and expand my knowledge."
As part of the DCF Scholarship Season, six students have received Student Scholarships and two Sponsored Scholarships were also awarded.
Jeff Colegrave, DCF Trustee, says, "This year's Scholarship Season drew in applications from students studying at 19 colleges across the UK. Those awarded are all a great investment with interests that include pests and diseases, organic growing methods, sustainability, hydroponics, plant pathology and crop management."
Over £57,000 worth of scholarships has been awarded in the past five years to students studying at 14 UK colleges. The next Scholarship Season runs from September 2017 to January 2018.
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So this is like a Twitter post? Done.
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Musíš se nejprve přihlásit. Pokud nemáš účet, tak se zaregistruj
Obsessed by reason
Condemned by treason
In the fait of evil you now lie
Hand on the trigger
I'm no forgiver
So into purgatory you shall burn
Burn the last flame in my eyes
Enchant my verses
Solute my curses
You are the protagonist in my tale
so don't forget
This shall be our last kiss
Then into purgatory you shall burn
You shall burn
With the power to release our empathy
Our devil's getting closer and closer
Right until he reaches a point where you know
He's got something to offer
I see you loose the fight against stupidity
and you reach out yor hand
To recieve the terms of your life
Which is now longer up to you to decide.
As the possibilty of tribal
Releases through my fingers
Like the sand from the broken hourglass
Which always surrounds our reality
Sick and wounded
Through the gates of sanity
Only to find that the one
In the end of the hall
Getting closer are just a reflection
Of yourself
We're torn and twisted in our pale crib
filled with empty words
And as we're making death together
Life from poison pours
Dead from torture laid in earth
So bid me now farwell
Your storms of rage are winds of silence
I'm forever yours
- The Final Thrill
- Left Behind As Pieces
- Enchanted
- Ballet
- And Innocence
- Born
- Lullaby For The Dying
- Closing A Memory
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- 2. Ballet
- 3. Infamia
- 4. 222
- 5. Left Behind As Pieces
- 6. Beautiful Pain
- 7. Born
- 8. Closing A Memory
- 9. I Am Dirt
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Seeing as it's Valentines Day, I'll start with my favourite poem this year:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
This is a knife,
now get in the fucking van.
Aaaah, so sweet.
The week, I mostly be being busy
So anyways, over the past two days I've been doing a lot of alt playing. I've tanked a few heroics on my warrior, done a few heroics and Ulduar (which was AWESOME - more on that later tho!) on the shaman and have done a few raids (not so awesome - more on that later too) on the rogue. I've also been messing around on some lower level alts, taking in the sights, dressing them up in end game gear to see how cool they'd look if I actually had to motivation to level yet another character...y'know, the usual stuff.
So my trips into heroics on my warrior have been largely un-eventful, mainly because they were with guildies. Which was cool, although I'm kinda worried about where Wulfy learnt to heal using only one hand...
My weekly trip to the land of free loot, often called VoA was a little eventful, some people really dont understand the simplist of loot systems. I shall explain.
I almost lost my T10 resto shaman gloves to someone who's main specc was elemental - why? Because "he needed them for offspecc." I was a little pissed off at the raid leader for not setting it to master looter, but it's not hard for people to understand how it works - If it's for your class and there's no one else there of the same class as you, hit "Need," if it's for your class and there's someone there also of the same class as you, see what specc they are, if the peice of loot is for your specc, hit "need" if it isn't, and it is for their specc, pass. If it's for neither of your speccs, (after asking before doing so) hit "need." It's pretty much common sense, although I am well aware the way I just explained it then doesn't really make it sound it. This shaman didn't do that, and followed the "If the hat isn't red, it belongs on your head" rule.
The other members of the raid started to kick off - I actually remained calm. The other shaman wasn't very good with english and for me to start insulting him in my broad, northern tones would only confuse him and with confusion comes anger and with anger comes raid quits and that doesn't solve anything. So, after everyone else whined, I just told him nicely, he traded me the item and I breathed a sigh of relief.
Hardmodes are still hard
The almost weekly trip into Ulduar was fantastic. I'm getting the hang of this healing lark now and was quite confident to say that myself and the other healer could take on the challenge, and boy did we! Flame Leviathon went off without a hitch and we confidently strolled onwards to XT. I wasn't exactly aware we were going to do hardmode, so as per usual, I validated my raid spot by making everyone massive and roar and proceeded to heal. I only became aware of this hardmode plan when I saw the "heart has severed from his body." I have to admit, I paniced, just a little. It was a wonderful challenge. The tanks were at the same level of gear as the guilds main tanks were back when we attempted Hardmodes for the first time - they were squishy, but not TOO squishy. The dps were a little over-geared and my disco-dancin' priest partner in healin' crime is vastly more geared than my little noob-aman but we managed, and what a feeling it was! The Ulduar raids that get run have been christaned "Tardraid" but everytime I go in there, we do better, go further and die a lot less, it's great to see people who hadn't raided before improve, in both dps and spacial awareness and it's wonderful to see the raid leader improve as a leader and try harder things, pushing the members of the raid. We cleared up to Mimiron last night and had a few solid attempts, each time getting him well into Phase 4.
The only downside to these raids is that I cant join people on Vent, due to the stupid universities internet. Makes me feel like a prick whenever I suggest things after a wipe as I sound like I'm nit-picking and probably repeating whatever's been said over vent.
Where have all the axes gone?
So since Vorla made me a red lumberjack t-shirt, I've been after an axe.
My rogueout is getting less and less, which is wicked, I'm enjoying raiding again but I cant bring myself to do heroics until I've got combat as my dual specc and before that can happen, I need to get myself a nice, slow, main hand weapon. Preferably an axe, so I can wear my lovely red flanal t-shirt.
So yesterday, I had a poke around in ICC10 to get the last 7 emblems for my new shoulders (which are AWESOME) and we did quite well, no axe dropped from the Gunship event but I didn't hold out for much, I mean, it'll never drop when I'm on my rogue but will (and has) dropped everytime I've set foot in there on my 3ft cannon. We had an attempt on Festergut, where our best attempt was a 2% wipe. Which we'd prolly had done if our hunter hadn't pulled aggro (seriously, how do you do that as a hunter, they have this special button and everything...). We carried on but realised, after a stupid wipe that our non-guilded tank was a complete tool, who didn't think it was good enough to have the Taunt glyph when main tanking in ICC10. Y'know, the glyph that stops you needing 11-million-trillion-gazillion hit to make your hits not miss and something manageable, like 150 something or other. She also used annoying smilies. Bitch.
Then today, I tried ToC10, where I had to kick a shaman because they were so annoying I had people spamming some pretty imaginiative macro's to tell him just how annoying he was. So, in the end, I asked him if he knew what Karate was, to which he replied "What?" - Thanks a fucking lot for spoiling my amazing way of kicking you - I asked him again and got the same answer...
"Kung fu?" I say
"YEAH" says he, with added caps lock to show he actually knew.
"Dodge this kick then" I reply, a smirk spreading over my behind-keyboard face
BAM one less annoyance.
I grabbed me another dps and we "smoothly" cleared ToC10. No axe from Anub. QQ.
However, having my new found love from shamans, I took a look at the shaman healer we had in the raid, I said "smoothly" above because the two healers struggled and after looking at this shamans healing, I could definitly see why...75% of his healing was from Chain heal. It doesn't work that way, you've got more than one ability...He'd use Earth Shield about 4 times, it was terrible. The poor priest had effectivly solo healed up until the last boss. Poor bugger...
I definitly think that having a tank, healer and many a dps in this game has opened up more doors. I can help out a lot more, especially since people are usually short a tank or healer, organise more stuff and understand the game a lot better having looked at it from all three view-points. Even if it's made me a right synical bastard when people are completely crap :D
Sunday, 14 February 2010
3 comments:
GO GO TARDRAID!!ReplyDelete
I had a blast - I feel guilty being so over-geared for it but I think it compensates for the slightly under-geared tanks (Chas still has a bunch of blues - and I know it's possible to do Ulduar in blues etc. etc. but maybe not when so many of us are learning).
Definitly does and I'm pretty sure everyone in the raid had a wicked time.ReplyDelete
- Taunkeeotah15 February 2010 at 17:30
Thoroughly enjoyed myself and almost died on XT when I saw your macro... and was laughing too hard to gtfo out the way of the black pools of dooooom :)ReplyDelete
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