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New 2019 VolvoS60 T6 Inscription Sedan
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- Fuel Economy
- 21.0/32.0 mpg City/Hwy
- Exterior Color
- Denim Blue
- Interior Color
- Blond/Charcoal
- Body
- Sedan
- Transmission
- Automatic with Geartronic
- Drivetrain
- All-wheel Drive
- Engine
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Volvo S60
Detailed Specifications
- 12.3" Digital Driver Display
- 600W Harman Kardon Premium Audio w/ 14 Speakers
- 9" Integrated Sensus Connect Touchscreen feat.;
- AM / FM / HD Radio
- Bluetooth Hands-free w/ Audio Streaming
- Clean Zone Air Quality System
- Incl Mobile App w/ Remote Start & Send to Car
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- Sensus Navigation Pro with Road Sign Information
- Smartphone Integ (Apple CarPlay/Android Auto)
- USB Ports, 2 Front
- Volvo On Call with 4-Yr Complimentary Subscription
- WiFi Hotspot and Complimentary Trial Subscription
- 10-Way, Power Front Seats & Front Seat Memory
- 4-Way Power Lumbar, Front Seats
- 4-Zone Automatic Climate Control
- Auto Dimming Interior & Exterior Mirrors
- Driftwood Inlays
- Dual Integrated Tailpipes
- Heated Front Seats
- High Level Interior Illumination
- HomeLink Garage Door Opener
- Keyless Entry & Drive
- Power Cushion Extensions, Front Seats
- Power Foldable Rear Head Restraints
- Tailored Dashboard
- 18" Inscription Alloy Wheels with All-Season Tires
- 2.0L Super & Turbo-Charged, Direct Inject Engine
- 316 HP @ 5700 RPM and 295 lb-ft Torque @ 2200 RPM
- 8-Speed Geartronic Automatic Trans w/ Start-Stop
- Adjustable Drive-Mode settings
- Advanced Electronic Stability Control (ESC)
- All-Wheel-Drive with Instant Traction
- Anti-Lock Braking Sys (ABS) w/ Hill Start Assist
- Double Wishbone Front & Integral Link Rear Susp
- Electronic Power Steering Personalization
- Blind Spot Information System w/ Cross Traffic Alert with Autobrake
- Collision Avoidance by City Safety Detects Vehicle/Pedestrian/Cyclist/Large Animal
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- Lane Keeping Aid & Oncoming Mitigation by Braking
- Lower Anchors and Tethers for Child Seats
- Power Child Lock, Rear Doors
- Rear Park Assist & Rear Park Assist Camera
- Run-off Road Protection & Run-off Road Mitigation
- Side Impact Protection System (SIPS)
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By meAV on Tuesday, October 22, 2019The S60 is a real looker, but, update, as of today Oct 22 2019. 1805. Garlyn Shelton and Volvo, have had my car so many days, i am not sure of the total, i believe we are now at 15/18 days total. I have not had any response or update from Garlyn Shelton or Volvo. Have left at least 2 messages, with NO response. Seems like No Response is good customer service. Navigation issues x4, vibrating door and blown speaker (alleged), hood release trim x2, TPMS, Full reinstall of computer system, Brakes fluttering, Navigation still unresolved. Sales Team at Garlyn Shelton Volvo has treated me well enough during the sales experience. Sadly enough, since the begining of September my Volvo S60 t6 has visited the shop almost weekly. And has now stayed in the shop for 11 of the past 14 days. It seems that silence is the preferred response from Garlyn Shelton and Volvo "care" team. I am supposed to accept this situation with no complaint or resolution to the amount of time frustration and stress lost due to this situation. Im paying for a vehicle.im not using, and driving a loaner, at least that. One thing for sure, i wont be back.
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Starting next month, the Village of Lewiston Board of Trustees will have two new members. Democrat Dennis Brochey (197 votes) and Republican Nick Conde (129 votes) bested incumbents Ernie Krell (Republican, 79 votes) and Therese Mudd (Democrat, 74 votes) in Tuesday's election.
"I'm surprised," said Brochey, owner of Brochey's Automotive on Center Street. "I expected a close race. I actually expected it to be a lot closer than it was. But I'm happy with the outcome. Raring to go."
It was a quiet election day in the village, with less than 500 total votes cast. All four candidates ran cordial campaigns, with nary a negative word spoken.
"I feel good about it," said Conde, the former village zoning officer. "It was closer than I thought it was going to be. I feel bad for the people getting out.
"I'm ready to start and get going on it."
Both men are eager to begin serving their four-year terms.
"We've got to dig into it," Conde said.
"I have some plans that I'm hoping, if the board listens to me, that I think we can actually lower the taxes a little bit here and there," Brochey said. "There are other plans; I'll get into those later on as I get more accustomed to how things work with the rest of the crew there.
"I think it's going to be a bigger and better board than ever before."
Brochey and Conde will be sworn in on Monday, July 2. They will join Mayor Terry Collesano and trustees Bruce Sutherland and Vic Eydt on the Village of Lewiston Board.

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This morning, the Big 12 Conference officially announced a 13-year media deal shared between ABC/ESPN and Fox. But the news had already been reported earlier, yesterday afternoon, by ESPN.com college football reporter Brett McMurphy. That meant, given ESPN's attempts to keep its programming and editorial departments completely separate ("church and state" is how a SportsCenter producer describes it), that McMurphy wasn't just handed a preview version of the press release. Instead he had to do what any reporter would when looking for a statement: reach out to ESPN's PR guy.
That led to the delightful sight of an ESPN flack giving a no-comment to an ESPN reporter on an ESPN story about an ESPN media deal.
ESPN spokesperson Josh Krulewitz declined comment.
The rabbit hole wasn't deep enough yet. So we reached out to Josh Krulewitz, to ask him if he could comment on Josh Krulewitz's decision not to comment on the Big 12 deal. Here's what he told us.
"I was tempted not to comment on your question for thematic justice.
"I'm sure it's ironic that I actually commented on something like the potential existence of John Clayton's ponytail, yet declined to speak on the Big 12 last night. The fact is our newsgathering team operates separately from our programming team so my 'no comment' as a corporate spokesperson would have been the same for any outlet that asked."
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1. I'm afraid of deep water. Not so much the swimming pool but I'm terrified of unfathomable water. I hate not knowing how deep it goes. I'm fine swimming at the beach as long as I can see the shore and/or my toes but I will never be one of those people who jump off boats and go swimming. Never.
2. It snowed heavily on the day I was born. That's why... "I'm as cold as ice" ;)
3. I had a pet ladybird when I was a kid. I kept her in a tupperware box with pin pricks in the lid. She died after two weeks because I didn't know what to feed her.
4. I have a huge barbie collection and they still all live in my parent's loft.
5. My favourite dish is pasta, cheese and bacon but I don't eat it very often. Alas.
6. I've been in 3 car accidents and Lauryn Hill was playing on the stereo during every single one of them. What did I ever do to her!? Still love her though and the song below makes me cry.
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And I'm suppose to understand all of that ? The only part I understood was Windows XP But your comment on the warm factor would scare me as how would something like that survive in the south's hot and humid enviroment. Heck we can even keep cool puters from getting hot. Anytime I hear warm I think about wiring to small to handle the current going throught it. Since CPU's are finely connected dios then it would be a concern for a short life.But I like the Ideal behind the concept. Something like that would fit well in a whole house cat 5 wiring set up even if it does have wireless.But... whaata I know Buggy
Any fan options is the bios?I'VE been waiting one of those ee pcs for a while money is to tight here though. I worked on one the version of linux was apin couldn't get a usb cam to work with for my flie.oh well
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Exhibition: Future Perfect
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Future Perfect is a fictional, future city. A think tank of scientists, technologists, designers, artists and science fiction authors have collectively developed this imaginary place, the landscapes that surround it and the stories it contains. The exhibition is a stage set for a collection of fictions, emerging infrastructures and design experiments that can be inhabited as large-scale districts of the future city.
It is a speculative urbanism, an exaggerated present, where we can explore the wonders and possibilities of emerging biological and technological research and envision the possible worlds we may want to build for ourselves. For the future is not something that washes over us like water, it is a place we must actively shape and define. Through fictions we share ideas and we chronicle our hopes and fears, our deepest anxieties and our wildest fantasies. Some of us will be swept up in what the city could be, others will be reserved and look on with caution. We have not walked these streets before, what things may come, in a Future Perfect.
The Schematics
The Future Perfect Think Tank
Emerging in the shadows of the decaying towers of a post oil Dubai, geo engineered by climatologists and influenced by the imminent economic boom of the Indian subcontinent it is a terraformed urban island. A city that is grown rather than built, a creature, living, breathing and computing, a seething ecology that has become a new metropolitan megaform. Bots drift across this inhabited geology, a dense accumulation of crevice rooms, and public valleys, slowly printing and reprinting, endlessly as demand requires. Through the strata are threaded the tendrils of a complex circulatory system that feeds the moist surfaces of a vibrant endemic ecology where nature and technology intertwine and biology becomes a new economy. Supercomputers whistle and whir; there is a virtual city, a parallel city overlaid directly onto the physical that turns everything into interface, everything into program. It is an imaginary landscape extrapolated from the wonders and possibilities of emerging biological and technological research. The city watches on, breathing, blinking.
The Supercomputer
Pushing Boundaries
Marshamallow Laser Feast (UK)
Laid across the physical city is a virtual doppelganger, a ghost landscape of hyperlinks, geo tags, digital maps and satellite scans. The air is thick, charged with bits, bytes, electrons and energy fields. A network of tracking cameras follows us as we wander across this data city, our gestures and movements, translated and then beamed as dynamic forms of light that animate around us. Like flamboyant conductors, the audience interacts with an array of high powered projectors that give life to a luminous terrain of mountains, clouds and particles. By employing directional audio technology, a synthetic soundscape feels almost real, conjuring a visceral experience of a world currently hidden in screens, circuits and hardware. Follow paths of sound, listen for the edge of a surface, see it shimmer, and drift right through, like a rock falling in the sea. It is a new model for interfacing with technology and the invisible world that completely envelopes us- an inhabitable visualisation of the digital that glows in the haze and then flickers into darkness.
The Garment District
Bart Hess (NL)
Our bodies are endlessly photographed, monitored and laser scanned with millimetre precision. From this context of surveillance, facial recognition, avatars and virtual ghosts, we imagine a near future where digital static, distortions and glitches become a new form of ornament. For the youth tribes of Future Perfect the body is a site for adaption, augmentation and experimentation. They celebrate the corruption of the body data by moulding within their costumery all the imperfections of a decaying scan file. Shimmering in the exhibition landscape is a network of geometric reflective pools of molten wax. Their mirrored surface is broken by a body, suspended from a robotic harness, plunging into the liquid. A crust of wax crystallises around its curves and folds, growing architectural forms, layer by layer, like a 3d printer drawing directly onto the skin. Slowly the body emerges, encased in a dripping wet readymade prosthetic. It is a physical glitch, a manifestation of corrupt data in motion, a digital artefact. They hang from hooks like a collection of strange beasts and frozen avatars. Body prints, imperfect and distorted and always utterly unique
The Wilds
And Nowhere a Shadow
Cohen Van Balen (UK)
There is no nature anymore. We are wandering a new kind of wilderness, where the line between biology and technology is becoming increasingly indistinguishable. Through genetic modification, engineered meat, cosmetic surgery and geo-engineering we are remaking our world from the scale of cells to the scale of continents. The woods, wild and mysterious from afar, appear as a stage on which every element is considered. Genetically engineered plants, artificially sustained, are hanging from the trees, embedded in the ecology yet detached from it. Their scaffolding systems of gleaming steel and neon light sway in the wind, waiting. Grey wolves approach the structures during the night to scratch their body on the steel branches. In an intricate arrangement of devised symbiosis, the contraption takes on the role of host organism. The wolf's movements generate electricity for the system, while the blueberries are engineered to contain rabies vaccine in its fruit to protect the animal from self-destruction. Cameras transmit footage of the wolf's presence around the globe, adorned in invisible garlands of electric display, to be enjoyed by those whose passion for the spectacle of wilderness sustains its survival.
The Looms
Bots of Babel
Mediated Matter Group, MIT Media Lab (US)
The biblical story of the Tower of Babel involved a deliberate plan hatched by mankind to construct a platform from which man could fight God. The tower represented the first documented attempt at constructing a vertical city. The divine response to the master plan was to sever communication by instilling a different language in each builder. Tragically the building's ultimate destruction came about through the breakdown of communications between its fabricators. In this part of the city we redeem the Tower of Babel by creating its antithesis. Above our heads, in a canopy of wires, a virtuous, decentralized yet highly communicative building environment of cable-suspended fabrication bots build together structures bigger than themselves. Inspired by multicellular reef-building coral polyps the bots grow a complex skeletal frame, additively manufactured, extruding material in asynchronous motion. They feverously zip and buzz back and forth, forms emerge; they build everywhere, all the time.
The Lookout
Chupan Chupai
Factory Fifteen (UK)
From a clearing in the mist we scan across the city in luminous detail. A film is projected from the lookout that follows a group of children as they play a game of "hide and seek" in Future Perfect. Shot on location in India we see through their eyes a near future heavily influenced by the imminent boom of the Indian subcontinent, an emerging technology and economic superpower. The control systems that now run traffic systems, power grids and financial networks sit in the shadows, out of sight but silently organising our lives. Deep in the substrate of Future Perfect is a supercomputer that regulates the city and everyone within it. Reminiscent of an exaggerated silent film, everyone interacts with their digital city through intricate signs and gesture control. As the children play they learn to hack the augmented streets evading their friends but getting lost in the hidden spaces they have unlocked. They must escape from a sentient city that no longer recognises them.


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The New York Times reports that Congressman Anthony Weiner has told friends he will resign. His wife Huma Abedin returned yesterday from traveling with Hillary Clinton.
Update: He's now telling House leaders the same; a press conference is scheduled for 2pm EDT. It is unclear at this time whether or not Andrew Breitbart will be crashing the event.


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APRALO 15 March 2011 Meeting
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Participants: Fouad Bajwa, Pavan Budhrani, Edmon Chung, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Charles Mok, Sivasubramanian, Hong Xue
Staff: Heidi Ullrich, Seth Greene, Matthias Langenegger
Summary Minutes: APRALO Summary Minutes 15.03.2011
Action Items: APRALO Action Items 15.03.2011
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2. Review of Summary Minutes and [Action Items|] from the 25 January 2011 call (5 minutes)
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- Upcoming election for Chair;
- Budget;
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Drawing fur is often seen as overly complicated and difficult so I will try to make this tutorial understandable and useful. I chose a lion for this tutorial to make it easier to see the big concept of drawing fur. You should be able to apply what you learn in this tutorial to any furry animal that you wish to draw.
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Please take the time to check out BARC's site and read the resident animals' stories. If you are looking to give a cat or dog a loving home, I hope you will consider adopting. Miku was adopted, and her kitty siblings were rescued straight off the streets, and since my animals are the best ever, that should tell you how awesome adopting can be. Pretty darn awesome.


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The T&I Solutions range of vertical cat ladder systems is a completely new way to solve a vertical access problem. Supplied as a pre-drilled set of parts ready for on site installation (all you need is a spanner!) the T&I Solutions vertical ladder range comply fully with BS4211:2005 + A1 2008.
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S. Sanders necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 210 diseños de 56 diseñadores freelance.
Now that we have chosen a new logo, we need an upgraded new image for our website home page. I am looking for a clean, professional, high-quality design. I am hoping for something distinctive, much different from the template based website we have now.
Northpointe Veterinary Hospital
Northpointe Veterinary Hospital is a full service pet hospital providing complete medical and surgical care for cats and dogs. We are looking for a home page that is clean and professional, and gets across the image of competent, high tech medical care, but with a caring and compassionate feel. I am thinking of using a tag line with the new logo along the lines of "High Tech with a Soft Touch." At any rate, I want to stay away from cute, cartoonish or clipart style illustrations in this project, and set a high-quality, serious professional tone.
The winning logo design for this page can be seen at: http://99designs.com/contests/21201 While I want to keep the icon, its color can be changed, and the font and color and layouot of the text ("Northpointe Veterinary Hospital) can be changed if the designer prefers.
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On the Home Page we should have navigation buttons in one form or another for: Home, Meet Our Staff, Virtual Hospital Tour,Hospital Policies, Boarding, Prescription Refills, Photo Gallery and Contact Us.
On my current website, I have some text - about a paragraph or so - on the homepage which introduces the hospital. I am thinking that I should probably keep this or something similar on the new homepage, but I could be persuaded not to if your design does not accomadate the space. The current website is http://npvethospital.com. My current site, like most veterinary websites, is built on a template that looks clunky and "boxy." This is not the appearance I want with your new design.
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A "Speciale" day at Ferrari Racing Days in Sepang
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The first ever Ferrari Racing Days to be held in Malaysia got underway today at the Sepang circuit. As for yesterday, that was definitely a "Speciale" day with attention centred on the pits rather than the track with the press and customer launch of the Ferrari 458 Speciale. The car is born out of Ferrari's philosophy of innovation and avant-garde technical research and has resulted in a completely new, stripped, no compromise sports car concept, in terms of its power unit, aerodynamics and vehicle dynamics.
As for the track action, the tropical sun was perfect for the demonstration runs from the Formula 1 Clienti cars – two F2001s that took the world title with Michael Schumacher and an F2007 that helped Kimi Raikkonen to the title – which thrilled the crowd, while the drivers benefited from the advice of Scuderia Ferrari test driver Marc Gene.
In the Asia Pacific Ferrari Challenge, it was time for free practice, in preparation for tomorrow and Sunday, when the first races of the season take place. Competitors in both categories, Trofeo Pirelli and Coppa Shell seemed very pleased with the handling of the 458 Challenge Evo on the Sepang track, with its corners testing the effectiveness of the new aero kit, produced specifically for these cars taking part in the one-make series.


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When things are going well teams find ways to win, especially in games where they aren't their best, or don't deserve to win, this is the opposite of that. The Mesa Solar Sox are beyond struggling and this latest loss pretty much sums up the first 13 games this season. Things were going well enough for the first seven innings as the Solar Sox held a 3-0 lead heading to the 8th inning. The Scorpions scored once in the 8th and three times in the ninth to walk away with a 4-3 victory, what's worse is the blown save and loss were registered to Cubs prospect Kevin Rhoderick. Rhoderick pitched the ninth inning and didn't have anything working as he allowed three runs on two hits while walking one and striking out one. On the bright side Nick Struck had a dominant performance, he worked two innings and struck out three without allowing a base runner. Matt Szczur had a decent day at the plate going 1-for-4 with another walk and a run scored. Rubi Silva was the only other Cubs position player to get into this one as he went 1-for-4 in the loss.
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As part of our Healthy for Life® initiative, we are proud to be working with the American Heart Association to improve the health of Americans 20% by 2020. Healthy for Life 20 by 20 introduces a unique health impact partnership model where a preeminent health advocacy organization and a leading food company work together to leverage their combined reach and resources as part of a multi-year collaboration designed to help millions lead healthier lives.
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- Improve the health and wellbeing of Aramark employees and their families through extensive workforce wellness programs.
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We're committed to providing you a broad selection of great tasting, healthy foods and beverages.
Our menus are created by experienced chefs who have a passion for food.
Our recipes are freshly prepared and made as close to the meal time as possible.
We feature fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins and low or non-fat dairy options.
We provide a vegetarian-friendly environment, with a variety of vegetarian or vegan choices.
We provide calorie conscious choices and make nutrition information available for all the food we serve.
When available, our menus include seasonal selections with local and sustainable products.
We're proud to serve culturally diverse menus, featuring traditional favorites, ethnic dishes and international flavors.
We are reducing the amounts of sodium and unhealthy fats in our recipes, and working with our suppliers to do the same in their ingredients.
We recognize and accommodate special dietary needs in a personalized, sensitive manner.
Our chefs and dietitians help take the mystery out of healthy eating with nutrition education programs and wellness events.
Individual support and attention for customers with food allergies.
We recognize and accommodate your dietary needs in a way that's personalized, sensitive and supportive. In fact, we pride ourselves on working with you to make sure you can find the food that fits YOUR life. For more information or special dietary needs, please contact your food service director.
Find the Food that Fits your Life
Brightly-colored, leaf-shaped messages make better-for-you choices easy to find. It's a simple way to find the food that can help you be Healthy for Life®
- All Eat Well selections have great taste, wholesome ingredients AND good nutrition. They provide at least a full serving of nutritionally dense whole foods, and are lower in calories, saturated fat and sodium
- Our dietitians assure that selections paired with this nutritional highlights message have whole grains as one of the leading ingredients in the recipe.
- Vegetarian and Vegan selections now make up 30% of our menus. Our culinary team and dietitians assure that vegetarian selections contain no meat, fish or poultry.
- Our vegan selections contain no animal products of any kind. In addition vegan items can not include dairy, eggs, or honey.


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Karla's Kars Auto Sales4279 E. Lake Mead Blvd
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Looks & runs great.
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Runs & drives great.
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At Karla's Kars Auto Sales, we are here to make purchasing your vehicle as easy as possible. We partnered with some of the leading financing institutions to make it happen.
Go ahead and fill out your credit application and we will send them on to our lenders. We will contact you as soon as possible to inform you of approvals and the next steps in the financing process.
Of course, if you need further help, do not hesitate to contact us and we will do everything we can to get you approved.
We inspect our vehicles thoroughly before we've purchased them.
However, for your peace of mind, we offer extended warranties on top of manufacturer warranty (when still in effect).
Understand that a third party provides these extended warranties for an extra cost.
Please, inquire about them. Our team is here to help you make your purchase as smooth as possible.
We offer 3 different companies for warranty protection.
Those 3 companies are: ALPHA Warranty Services, GWC and Preferred Warranties Inc.


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ExecProducer necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web codificada y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 2 diseños de 1 diseñadores freelance.
BigCrawl.com is a pay per click search engine that needs to have the homepage re-designed with a nicer logo. The design will not only be made up of different sections but RSS or Ajax feeds of videos, links, news, entertainment, new movie releases etc, so that will really 75% of the design. So I need someone who can put the feeds in. The news feeds are already done: see site.
Obviously I would need the search box coded to the rest of the site after the contest is over. The search box is pretty much the only thing on the homepage that links to the rest of the site other than the PPC Client login which should be better promoted on the new design.
open to suggestions
Desired Color Scheme:
open to suggestions, currently uses black and red
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see description
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Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png)
ONE PAGE ONLY: However, I added an html page that you may use to link from the homepage if you need to in order to add flare and greatness to the site. The index is at http://www.bigcrawl.com and the extra page is http://www.bigcrawl.com/videos.html
I am looking to keep the news feeds, add video feeds for news, entertainment, online games/videos or let the user select which feeds to view using a menu or dropdown. I want an array of constantly updating content all over the page. Another great script to install would be a weather and local news box that can tell where the user is and display their stats for local weather etc.
Good examples are yahoo and msn.com, but my site is turnkey so I want auto updated information, videos, the latest big movie, concerts, sports etc on my home page. I want advertising space at the top, bottom, inset as a square like on yahoo and most of all I WANT TO BE ABLE TO SELL ADVERTISING THAT WILL SHOW FLASH ON BOTH SIDES OF THE WEBPAGE like MySpace!
There are a lot of scripts out there with a lot of different kinds of content so I cannot be real specific. I just want the homepage to jump out at people with interesting content, I want them to be able to see that its a search engine, look at Yahoo, you can see the search box easily and I LOVE the way the logo is near it and they can change their logo for holidays etc. I would like to be able to to that but would have to have the logos made with flash and hired out.
Quite the challenge so I am listing the normal prize but will double it for the winner if you astound me. The web is competitive these days so we need sites that people will actually stay at for a while and look around AND COMEBACK.


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Retirement marks the end of two decades of leadership. By Liz Getman '09
Howard Erlich has closed the chapter on his 20 years as dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, but his life in academia continues. He will spend this year on sabbatical while completing his term as chair of the American Conference of...


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Q: I know herons are a common pond problem, but I think I have a raccoon around. Will it eat my fish, too?
Matt – Burton, MI
A: Bandit-masked raccoons are a familiar sight just about everywhere because they will eat just about anything, including your fish. Found in forests, marshes, prairies, suburbs and even cities, raccoons can be a nuisance around ponds and lakes. Here's what you need to know to keep them away from your pond – and your garbage cans.
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With the exception of 75-pound Bandit that holds the world record for "World's Fattest Raccoon," these nocturnal foragers are typically between 15 to 23 pounds and 30 to 37 inches long, or the size of a small dog. They sport heavy fur streaked in brown, black and gray, and have black eye stripes that resemble a mask. Raccoons have bushy ringed tails that grow up to a foot long, and their dexterous paws and long fingers make distinct prints in the mud or snow.
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Though raccoons love to eat mice, insects, and tasty fruits and vegetables (particularly sweet corn) plucked from your garden and garbage can, the opportunistic water-loving critters will happily take a dive in your lake to hunt for crayfish, fish, turtles, frogs and worms. They'll use their lightning-fast paws to grab both aquatic and terrestrial prey.
Tracking a Bandit
Raccoons aren't exactly stealthy. If they're prowling around, they'll leave telltale signs around your home and property – like knocked-over garbage cans, overturned rocks and flower pots, rooted-through plants and disheveled yard decor. They'll also leave tracks in the wet soil around the pond. And, if you're lucky, you may even find a shelter or den made in a hollow tree, culvert, woodchuck burrow or under a building.
Evicting Raccoons
Mother Nature provides her own raccoon control in the form of coyotes, foxes, great horned owls and bobcats, but you can give her a hand in several different ways.
- A live-animal trap baited with cat food or tuna will allow you to capture and relocate your problem raccoon.
- The Nite Guard Solar® deterrent keeps raccoons away with its solar-powered LED lights. Activated at dusk, the red lights resemble a predator's flashing eyes flash and cause the critter to run away.
- Keep garbage cans securely sealed and manage other easy-access food sources, like cat food bowls and compost bins.
With hundreds of thousands of raccoons traipsing across the countryside, you'll likely discover one or two (or an entire family!) living on your property near your lake. But if you use some wildlife management tactics like these, you can keep them under control. Good luck!
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Welcome to RFT
Keeping People Safe for over 30 Years
RF Technologies is a leading provider of safety and security solutions for the healthcare, hospitality, and education markets, leveraging radio frequency identification (RFID) and real-time locating system (RTLS) technologies. The RF Technologies brand family includes CODE ALERT® call and wander management systems, SAFE PLACE® patient security systems, HELP ALERT® mobile panic alarms, EXACTRACK® equipment location systems, and SENSATEC® fall management products.
Why RFT?
Our comprehensive and customizable personal safety alert systems are designed to help ensure the safety of residents, patients, staff, students and guests. With a 30-year company history and more than 10,000 installations nationwide, you can rest assured your investment will be supported for years to come. RFT manages your complete experience including sales, install, go-live and life cycle support.
Safety & Security
RFT sets the standard in state-of-the-art RFID and RTLS personal safety alert systems that help keep residents, patients and staff safe and secure while also enhancing staff and facility efficiencies.
Enhance Workflow
Software captures and stores alarm and event data that can be used to plan staffing utilization and document events to help protect your accreditations and meet Joint Commission standards.
Strong History
Since 1987, we've led the way designing and delivering customized, integrated radio frequency identification (RFID) and real-time locating system (RTLS) safety and security solutions for the healthcare, senior living, hospitality, education and related markets. RFT was the first in the industry to offer remote monitoring, RF consulting, 24/7 technical support by internal staff specialists, and a nationwide service team.


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The EnvironmentPolitical Theory
Central planners cannot calculate the costs and benefits of environmental policy.
Book ReviewsHistory of the Austrian School of Economics
The social, political, and economic conditions of our world today give Ludwig von Mises's treatise a refreshing relevance matched by few other works written over the last century.
Big GovernmentSocialismU.S. Economy
C Jay Engel Reviews The Socialist Manifesto, from the Editor of Jacobin.
Socialist regimes have long gone to great lengths to replace all the independent institutions of civil society with the omnipotence of the state in all things.
The EntrepreneurEntrepreneurship
Just as unilateral free trade results in a more solid economy for the countries that adopt it — even within an international economy of protectionism in other countries — so would a commodity-money based economy surrounded by fiat-money economies.
Liberty can be lost and so can the benefits of capital accumulation. The well developed capital structure is not a given. It can be eroded by central banks and by government policies and regulations.
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A literature review published last month in Annals of Emergency Medicine suggests that physicians in the United States should join those around the world in following recommendations of multiple specialty organizations to use PCCs as the first line of defense in this common and life-threatening emergency ("Rapid Reversal of Warfarin-Associated Hemorrhage in the Emergency Department by Prothrombin Complex Concentrates").
"The typical remedies for hemorrhage caused by warfarin are slow and unpredictable," said author Kenneth Frumkin, PhD, MD of the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Va. "By contrast, prothrombin complex concentrates reverse warfarin anticoagulation in minutes rather than hours. Its relative underuse in the U.S. compared to other countries seems to derive from lack of familiarity and infrequent availability."
PCCs (products made from pooled human plasma) were initially developed to treat hemophilia. They can be infused rapidly and generally reverse anticoagulation three to five times faster than fresh frozen plasma, which must be thawed. Recombinant Activated Factor VII (Factor rVIIa), while approved in the United States only for surgery or bleeding in hemophiliacs, has been used to reverse warfarin-associated bleeding. Factor rVIIa works faster than fresh frozen plasma, but carries more risk and costs much more.
"The April 2013 approval by the Food and Drug Administration of a form of PCC specifically intended for warfarin reversal should expand the use of these life-saving products," said Dr. Frumkin.
The views expressed by Dr. Frumkin are his own, and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Navy, Department of Defense, or the United States Government.
Annals of Emergency Medicine is the peer-reviewed scientific journal for the American College of Emergency Physicians, the national medical society representing emergency medicine. ACEP is committed to advancing emergency care through continuing education, research, and public education. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, ACEP has 53 chapters representing each state, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. A Government Services Chapter represents emergency physicians employed by military branches and other government agencies. For more information, visit www.acep.org.
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We all know how important it is to make a good first impression. It's important when meeting new people, and it's also important when building experiences on the web.
On the web, a good first impression can make the difference between someone becoming a loyal user or them leaving and never coming back. The question is, what makes for a good impression, and how do you measure what kind of impression you're likely making on your users?
On the web, first impressions can take a lot of different forms—we have first impressions of a site's design and visual appeal as well as first impressions of its speed and responsiveness.
While measuring how much users like a site's design is hard to do with web APIs, measuring its speed and responsiveness is not!
The first impression users have of how fast your site loads can be measured with metrics like First Paint (FP) and First Contentful Paint (FCP). But how fast your site can paint pixels to the screen is just part of the story. Equally important is how responsive your site is when users try to interact with those pixels!
To help measure your user's first impression of your site's interactivity and responsiveness, we're introducing a new metric called First Input Delay.
What is first input delay?
As developers who write code that responds to events, we often assume our code is going to be run immediately—as soon as the event happens. But as users, we've all frequently experienced the opposite—we've loaded a web page on our phone, tried to interact with it, and then been frustrated when nothing happened.
Consider the following timeline of a typical web page load:
The above chart shows a page that's making a couple of network requests for resources (most likely CSS and JS files), and, after those resources are finished downloading, they're being processed on the main thread. This results in periods where the main thread is momentarily busy (which is indicated by the red color on the chart).
Now let's add two other metrics: First Contentful Paint (FCP), which I mentioned above, and Time to Interactive (TTI), which you've probably seen in tools like Lighthouse or WebPageTest:
As you can see, FCP measures the time from Navigation Start until the browser paints content to the screen (in this case not until after the stylesheets are downloaded and processed). And TTI measures the time from Navigation Start until the page's resources are loaded and the main thread is idle (for at least 5 seconds).
But you might have noticed that there's a fair amount of time between when content first paints to the screen and when the browser's main thread is consistently idle and thus reliably capable of responding quickly to user input.
If a user tries to interact with the page during that time (e.g. click on a link), there will likely be a delay between when the click happens and when the main thread is able to respond.
Let's add FID to the chart, so you can see what that might look like:
Here, the browser receives the input when the main thread is busy, so it has to wait until it's not busy to respond to the input. The time it must wait is the FID value for this user on this page.
Why do we need another interactivity metric?
Time to interactive (TTI) is a metric that measures how long it takes your app to load and become capable of quickly responding to user interactions, and First Input Delay (FID) is a metric that measures the delay that users experience when they interact with the page while it's not yet interactive.
So why do we need two metrics that measure similar things? The answer is that both metrics are important, but they're important in different contexts.
TTI is a metric that can be measured without any users present, which means it's ideal for lab environments like Lighthouse or WebPageTest. Unfortunately, lab metrics, by their very nature, cannot measure real user pain.
FID, on the other hand, directly represents user pain—every single FID measurement is an instance of a user having to wait for the browser to respond to an event. And when that wait time is long, users will get frustrated and often leave.
For these reasons we recommend both metrics, but we recommend you measure TTI in lab and you measure FID in the wild, with your analytics tool.
In fact, we plan to do the same with our performance tooling here at Google. Our lab tools like Lighthouse and WebPageTest already report TTI and we're exploring adding FID to our Real User Monitoring (RUM) tools like the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX).
Also, while these are different metrics, our research has found that they correlate well with each other, meaning any work you do to improve your TTI will likely improve your FID as well.
Why only consider the first input?
While a delay from any input can lead to a bad user experience, we primarily recommend measuring the first input delay for a few reasons:
- The first input delay will be the user's first impression of your site's responsiveness, and first impressions are critical in shaping our overall impression of a site's quality and reliability.
- The biggest interactivity issues we see on the web today occur during page load. Therefore, we believe initially focusing on improving site's first user interaction will have the greatest impact on improving the overall interactivity of the web.
- The recommended solutions for how sites should fix high first input delays (code splitting, loading less JavaScript upfront, etc.) are not necessarily the same solutions for fixing slow input delays after page load. By separating out these metrics we'll be able to provide more specific performance guidelines to web developers.
What counts as a first input?
First Input Delay is a metric that measures a page's responsiveness during load. As such, it only focuses on input events from discrete actions like clicks, taps, and key presses.
Other interactions, like scrolling and zooming, are continuous actions and have completely different performance constraints (also, browsers are often able to hide their latency by running them on a separate thread).
To put this another way, FID focuses on the R (responsiveness) in the RAIL performance model, whereas scrolling and zooming are more related to A (animation), and their performance qualities should be evaluated separately.
What if a user never interacts with your site?
Not all users will interact with your site every time they visit. And not all interactions are relevant to FID (as mentioned in the previous section). In addition, some user's first interactions will be at bad times (when the main thread is busy for an extended period of time), and some user's first interactions will be at good times (when the main thread is completely idle).
This means some users will have no FID values, some users will have low FID values, and some users will probably have high FID values.
How you track, report on, and analyze FID will probably be quite a bit different from other metrics you may be used to. The next section explains how best to do this.
Tracking FID in JavaScript
Refer to the library's README for full usage and installation instructions, but the gist is you:
- Include a minified snippet of code in the
<head>of your document that adds the relevant event listeners (this code must be added as early as possible or you may miss events).
- In your application code, register a callback that will get invoked with the FID value (as well as the event itself) as soon as the first relevant input is detected.
Once you have your FID value, you can send it to whatever analytics tool you use. For example, with Google Analytics, your code might look something like this:
// The perfMetrics object is created by the code that goes in <head>.
perfMetrics.onFirstInputDelay(function(delay, evt) {
ga('send', 'event', {
eventCategory: 'Perf Metrics',
eventAction: 'first-input-delay',
eventLabel: evt.type,
// Event values must be an integer.
eventValue: Math.round(delay),
// Exclude this event from bounce rate calculations.
nonInteraction: true,
Analyzing and reporting on FID data
Due to the expected variance in FID values, it's critical that when reporting on FID you look at the distribution of values and focus on the higher percentiles. In fact, we recommend specifically focusing on the 99th percentile, as that will correspond to the particularly bad first experiences users are having with your site. And it will show you the areas that need the most improvement.
This is true even if you segment your reports by device category or type. For example, if you run separate reports for desktop and mobile, the FID value you care most about on desktop should be the 99th percentile of desktop users, and the FID value you care about most on mobile should be the 99th percentile of mobile users.
Unfortunately, many analytics tools do not support reporting on data at specific quantiles without custom configuration and manual data processing/analysis.
For example, it's possible to report on specific quantiles in Google Analytics, but it takes a little extra work. In my article The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build, I have a section on setting hit-level dimensions. When you do this you unlock the ability to filter and segment by individual event values as well as create distributions, so you can calculate the 99th percentile. If you want to track FID with Google Analytics, I'd definitely recommend this approach.
Who should be tracking FID?
FID is a metric that any site could benefit from tracking, but there are a few types of sites that I think could particularly benefit from knowing what kinds of first input delays their users are actually experiencing:
Server-side rendered (SSR) JavaScript apps
Sites that send a server-rendered version of their page to the client along with a lot of JavaScript that needs to get loaded, parsed, and executed before the page is interactive are particularly susceptible to high FID values.
The reason is because the time between when they look interactive and when they actually are interactive is often large, especially on low-end devices that take longer to parse and execute JavaScript.
To be clear, it's absolutely possible to build a server-side rendered app that also gets interactive quickly. SSR in and of itself is not a bad pattern; the problem occurs when developers optimize for a fast first paint and then ignore interactivity. This is where tracking FID can be particularly eye-opening!
Sites with lots of third-party iframes
Third-party ads and social widgets have a history of not being particularly considerate of their host pages. They tend to run expensive DOM operations on the host page's main thread with no regard for how it will affect the user.
Also, third-party iframes can change their code at any time, so regressions can happen even if your application code doesn't change. Tracking FID on your production site can alert you to problems like this that might not get caught during your release process.
The future
First Input Delay is a brand new metric we're experimenting with on the Chrome team. It's particularly exciting to me because it's the first metric we've introduced that directly corresponds to the pain users experience with real-life interactions on the web.
If you have feedback on the metric or the current implementation, we'd love to hear it! Please file issues or submit pull requests on GitHub.
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Reports that the Peugeot family is willing to hand over its struggling automotive business to General Motors or China's Dongfeng Motor may have an ulterior motive.
The thinking goes like this: Peugeot family sources are briefing the media about a possible GM or Chinese takeover of PSA/Peugeot-Citroen to frighten the French government and the French public into accepting the cuts in jobs and production capacity that are needed to stop the automaker's huge cash burn.
The reports may be a "stalking horse" to show that unless some sacrifice is made by the employees, GM could come in and remove PSA's manufacturing presence in France, Barclays said in a note to investors.
A GM deal to acquire PSA at a bargain price similar to Fiat's acquisition of Chrysler is unlikely because merging the Peugeot and Citroen brands with GM's Opel/Vauxhall division would mean unpalatable job cuts in France and in Germany, where national elections take place in September, industry watchers say.
GM, which paid 320 million euros ($423 million) for a 7 percent stake in PSA, likely sees the alliance as a mistake and a further cash infusion could be viewed as "throwing good money after bad," Barclays says.
Morgan Stanley, however, sees merit in combining the money-losing European automotive divisions of GM and PSA into a spun-off joint venture. Such a move could provide the trigger for the type of capacity exit that saved the U.S. auto industry in 2009, it says.
Morgan Stanley expects PSA to burn 1.4 billion to 1.5 billion euros in 2013. The automaker will likely need a cash investment for a new turnaround plan and with few assets left to sell, the company needs a partner. "A closer tie-up between GM and PSA is a viable idea," it said in a note to investors on Thursday.
The most likely rescue for PSA will come from the French government or a state-owned investment vehicle taking a stake in PSA, Reuters quoted unnamed officials as saying.