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In 1838 and 1839, Roberts spent eleven months traveling and sketching throughout Egypt from Alexandria to Abu Simbel and through Sinai to Petra, Jerusalem, Palestine, and Lebanon. The 247 lithographs that Belgian engraver Louis Haghe then produced at the rate of one a month from the drawings executed during Roberts' trip were published in six volumes as "The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia" (1842-1846) and "Egypt and Nubia" (1846-1849).
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Nettlebed Folk Club was started in July 1975 by a group of Folk Song lovers from Maidenhead in Berkshire when the tenant of a local public house moved to the Bull Inn at Nettlebed, nr. Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire.
From a small start in a tiny bar (40 people) the Club progressed to a converted coaching barn holding over 100 and quickly established itself as one of the Folk scenes major circuit venues.
The Club moved in 1991 to its present venue at the Village Club in Nettlebed. This was due to the closure of the Bull Inn by its owners Brakspears Brewery in Henley. However, the opportunity was taken to 'change gear' as the new venue held 200 people.
The Club is a volunteer run, non profit organisation and takes over 12 people to keep it running smoothly!
The acts that are staged encompass the different types of traditional and contemporary music and song from the British Isles with occasional acts from Europe & North America. Most of the major folk acts have appeared ranging from headliners like Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, Ralph McTell, Kate Rusby, Lau, Seth Lakeman, Richard Thompson and Show of Hands to Club Acts like John Tams & Barry Coope, Martin Carthy, John Kirkpatrick, Martin Simpson & our local BBC Award winning Megan Henwood. The Club's Patron is Phil Beer plus we also have three resident acts - Terry Page, Bruce Gomersall & the BBC Award winning Jackie Oates as well as other local regular performers including Rowan Godel and John Spiers.
The Club is also famous for its pioneering special performances such as 'Feast of Fiddles' and Showcase concerts where we mix leading national performers with local artists to provide unique themed evenings.
Nettlebed Folk Club is now one of the top folk venues in the U.K. and is highly regarded by the Country's main Folk Acts - "Probably the best Folk Club in the Country" (Phil Beer from Show of Hands). The Club also won the prestigious BBC Radio 2 Folk Club of the Year Award 2002.
Nettlebed Folk Club holds its concerts on Monday evenings from 8pm at The Village Club, High Street, Nettlebed, nr Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, RG9 5DD. Tel 01628 636620.

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This is you: You pay a company to beam you an invisible signal from outer space or pump a stream of electrons through a wire in your wall so that crisp images show up on your television.
You pay a second company, meanwhile, to beam another set of signals from steel towers placed around town that are, in some cases, camouflaged to look like half-assed palm trees so that you can carry on conversations on your cell phone. Move too far away from the towers, though, and your phone doesn't work so well.
And you pay a third company to send yet another phantom stream of electrical signals into your home so that Internet web pages show up on your laptop computer. But take your laptop more than about 50 feet outside your house and this signal craps out. Which is why you find yourself drinking inordinate amounts of foamy hot beverages so that you can leave your house and still use your computer in the bubble of Internet connectivity that surrounds the coffee shop at the mall.
OK, you three-company-paying, signal-craving tech bitch, now imagine this brave new world:
You're on the road, maybe speeding past swampland on Alligator Alley or crossing the godforsaken Oklahoma Panhandle or winding your way across the Continental Divide on a remote mountain road miles from the nearest speck of a town and suddenly, you get a can't-shake-it need to plug in.
Maybe you have an uncontrollable urge to see what comments have come in after your latest ranting blog entry. Or you're certain your Match.com profile has a couple of dating offers waiting. Or maybe it's just the time of day you normally check TMZ to see Britney's latest bad wardrobe choice.
Whatever the reason, you need your Internet fix, and you can't wait for a Starbucks with a wi-fi hot spot to appear out of the swamp or prairie or pine forest.
So you pull to the side of the road and pop open your laptop, coaxing it back to life.
And BAM! you are online and blazing at high speed, uploading and downloading bulky files like you were hooked up to a T3 connection in a big-city office.
Is that drool on your lip? Wait, it gets better.
With your Internet connection humming, you notice the boyfriend has e-mailed, asking you to call. So out comes the mobile phone. You flip it open and notice that even out here, miles and miles from anything, the signal on your phone is going full blast at five bars of bursting connectivity. In an instant, you're talking to your guy like he's only five feet away. In fact, the sound is so good, you can hear in the background the movie playing on the big-screen TV that he's been watching on the high-definition signal back at the homestead.
So there you have it. One company, one monthly payment, one massive signal delivering all of your electronic needs. There's cell phone coverage coast to coast, including in the remotest of areas. There's a blazing Internet hot spot the size of the entire ever-loving country. You even get that HD signal that's playing back home.
And all of it is courtesy of a high-flying aerial circus, a telecom network built around lighter-than-air platforms hovering at the edge of space, blanketing the nation with an orgy of connectivity and crisp video streams.
Yes, caffeine fiend, it's a lovely dream, a hypnotic dream. And it's important to keep in mind the seductive power of that dream if you want to understand why, for several years, it has lured millions of dollars from the pockets of small investors into the coffers of a Broward County company that promises, some day, that tech utopia.
Retirees with money to burn, college kids playing the stocks from their dorm rooms, average folks with a little extra cash, all hoping to get in on the Next Big Thing before it blows up. The dream is a powerful one.
And it's all built on hot air.
One of the first things you learn about GlobeTel Communications is that the Pembroke Pines company is sensitive about the word blimp.
The technical term for the fleet of 300 floating gasbags it envisions lofting in a grid into the near-space environment of the stratosphere, 13 miles above the surface of the Earth, is high-altitude airships.
And if that's a bit dry, GlobeTel has a sexier name. It calls its not-blimps stratellites.
Get it? STRATosphere saTELLITES. The mashed-up name has a nice NASA-like ring to it that evokes rocket boosters and zero-g gyroscopes. Now, go to the company's website (www.globetel.net) and take a look at a photo of one. We know what you're thinking: Paint Snoopy on the side of that thing and you'd expect to see it floating over the Orange Bowl.
OK, so maybe dirigibles have come a long way since the Hindenburg. Engineers have new space-age materials to wrap around lightweight airship skeletons. Novel technologies make it possible for a lighter-than-air craft to float higher, stay up longer, and be operated remotely. Is it so hard to imagine a squadron of unmanned balloons hovering over the continental United States at an altitude of 65,000 feet, beaming back hi-def reruns of Heroes and blanketing the nation in a warm bubble of next-generation wi-fi coverage?
Plenty of people with money to invest don't seem to think it's so far-fetched.
And so they've held on for a wild financial ride over the past few years as this futuristic scenario has been peddled not by one of the country's major telecom players but by an obscure South Florida company.
Although local media haven't taken note, GlobeTel's fluctuating fortunes have made for dramatic reading in the financial press, which has alternately pumped up the company's blimp enterprise and deflated it.
After a roller-coaster 2005 and 2006, GlobeTel is currently battered and bruised, recovering from the same blunder that brought down Napoleon and Adolf Hitler an unwise Russian gambit. A futile attempt to invade Russia's telecom market fueled months of scathing exposés from financial writers at the Motley Fool and the New York Post. Ultimately, GlobeTel's penny stock was delisted from the American Stock Exchange last summer and now trades over the counter at about 40 cents per share. In addition, the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating GlobeTel's "accounting practices."
But the dream has still not lost its power. Fervent investors continue to burn up Internet forums with defiant defenses of the company they love, even after GlobeTel's stock lost about 90 percent of its value following the Russian debacle, and even though no GlobeTel blimp has floated anywhere near the stratosphere, and even though the company has invested only modest amounts of cash in actual research and development, and even as other, better-known companies like Lockheed Martin spend many more millions on their own blimp dreams.
"I understand what it looks like," says GlobeTel's in-house lawyer, Jonathan Leinwand. "It looks like just another little South Florida scam company."
Well, you said it, Jonathan. But what is a telecom player with these kinds of dreams doing in Pembroke Pines? And could we get a look at a blim er stratellite? And can you do something about our cell phone bill?
The first bad sign: GlobeTel, a communications company, never answers its phone.
The only way to talk to anyone at the company about its plans to revolutionize the world is to make the trek to the best office building Pembroke Pines has to offer.
We know that it's the best cubicle farm in town because the real-estate agents trying to lease empty portions of the building at 9050 Pines Blvd. advertise the Pembroke Pines Professional Center as "Pembroke Pines' most prestigious office building." The selling points: "A four-story atrium lobby, excellent tri-county access halfway between Florida Turnpike and I-75, exceptional building signage opportunities, ample no-cost parking just minutes from many restaurants and retail stores."
Not to mention the heavy aroma of frying chicken wings wafting over from the Hooters just down the street.
But apparently leasing out space to share with GlobeTel has been a hard sell. Jumbo "space available" signs are hammered into the grass out in front of the beige cement building. Current tenants in the four-story suburban bunker include medical labs, a chapter of the Better Business Bureau, a temporary-staffing agency, and an accounting firm.
Just past a funeral services company on the second floor is the door to GlobeTel.
The second bad omen: You ring the bell, walk in, and the receptionist, Jasmine, asks: "Are you another shareholder?"
Uh, why do you ask? The local ones stop by frequently, she says. Some are angry, some have questions, and others are suing.
An avalanche of white office paper stuffed into pressed-wood bookshelves looks like it's about to spill out onto poor Jasmine, who keeps a watchful eye on the door. A few minutes later, Leinwand, GlobeTel's lawyer, emerges, nearly bumping into a copier that is crammed too close to the black vinyl couch and love seat cornered into the front office. Beyond the faux leather seating, you can make out about a dozen or so employees working in cubes and small offices. Leinwand promises to talk later, but now he has to run to a meeting with the board of directors.
Meanwhile, the phone keeps ringing and rolling straight into voice-mail.
GlobeTel executives have already shuttered a suite they had been renting on the first floor, and now it looks as if the company will be moving out of its second-floor space too.
In fact, GlobeTel plans to ditch the Pembroke Pines location entirely. It's looking for classy digs in downtown Fort Lauderdale.
"It's a high-tech company, and it needs to look a bit more high-tech," CEO Peter Khoury says when he gets a chance to sit and talk.
Khoury is of average height. He has a full head of brown, wavy hair; he wears a blue blazer and khakis for a CEO, he's not slick but more like a rumpled professor. A native Australian, he has a faded accent that's a little hard to place, but currently he lives in London and jets to Broward County for a few days at a time.
He says he's running late but then sits and talks for more than an hour. His phone never stops ringing the entire time once he powers down his cell, his office line starts to make noise. Meanwhile, his corner office reflects someone on the go. No photos adorn the walls. There are no papers anywhere. He's an on-the-road type of guy, trying to grow the business, he says.
"I want to turn the company around," he says. He's been with GlobeTel only since October, well after the worst of last year's debacles. And he knows he has a lot of mending to do, particularly in reassuring shareholders who aren't happy.
"I think it's just sad," he says of investors, some of whom are suing the company over its losses. "They had an expectation that wasn't met. We owe it to people to do the best that we can." And he points out that the company has had some recent successes: A wireless contract in Mexico seems to be a step in the right direction.
Khoury won't speak ill of his predecessors. He is the medicine brought in to heal the patient and doesn't want to assign blame. "I wouldn't judge anybody. What I can tell you is what I have today and what I'm working toward... I was asked to come in and fix the company."
And he's got plenty of mending to do if he's going to take GlobeTel up, up, and away.
Before blimps and telecom and high-tech dreams, a company named Terra West Homes was birthed in Nevada in 1979 to build houses in the desert. Later, it peddled shock absorbers, then in the late 1990s sold pharmaceutical and medical supplies, including syphilis detection kits, in places like West Africa. By the end of the century, renamed American Diversified Group Inc. (ADGI), the company had moved to Hickory Hill, North Carolina, and was in the computer business.
But in 2000, ADGI began another transformation, purchasing a couple of small telecom businesses: Miami-based Global Transmedia Communications and NCI Telecom of Missouri. The new, telecom version of ADGI worked out of Miami before moving to the 'burbs.
And in 2002, the company began earning its reputation for, well, inflated rhetoric and gasbagging.
That year, a stock analyst named Paul Taboada at the brokerage house Hornblower & Weeks began releasing sunny statements about ADGI's plans and prospects. It was exactly the kind of thing some investors look for positive news from a reputable trading house about a little-known company about to explode.
But what Taboada didn't mention was that Hornblower & Weeks was also an ADGI client. The company had paid the brokerage firm $30,000 for consulting work, as well as 10 million shares of ADGI stock it valued at $200,000.
Taboada's glowing reports had also failed to mention that ADGI had lost more than $1 million in 2001, had accumulated a debt of more than $20 million, and was hanging on mainly through loans provided by its own executives.
The National Association of Securities Dealers later found that Taboada's reports were such a breach of its practices, it fined him $25,000 and suspended his license for six months.
But the analyst did all right in the end. After the run-in with regulators, he took a new job as a consultant with GlobeTel, ADGI's newest incarnation.
Meanwhile, in Atlanta, a man named Michael Molen was making news for his wild ideas about blimps. In 2002, Molen told the Toronto Star that the "stratellites" of his company, Sanswire, would be working in the stratosphere in "early 2004" at a cost of $36 million. Molen's spiel attracted small investors who wanted in on his scheme.
By early 2004, Molen wasn't any closer to launching blimps, but at that point, he did hire a designer: California garage inventor Vern Koenig, who is something of an enigma. Although he says he has a college degree in naval architecture, Koenig refuses to say where he earned it. He also claims that GlobeTel's competition, Lockheed Martin, which is developing its own set of blimps for homeland security applications, is a front for the CIA. In addition, Koenig recalls that he once sold a model of the Hindenburg to the Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum in Los Angeles for $20,000.
Somehow, in his busy schedule, Koenig stumbled across information about Molen and his stratellite concept on the Internet early in 2004. Koenig made a phone call, "and the next minute, I'm signing an agreement with Mike Molen," he says. "Essentially, that's how I got involved."
Molen wanted progress from Koenig, fast. In August 2004, Molen had promised to fly something for a group of interested investors, including GlobeTel's then-CEO, Timothy Huff.
"They wanted an airship from me to take up a 25-pound payload," Koenig says. But Molen hadn't sent him the money he needed for an August demonstration. "[Molen] calls me up one day and says 'How's the airship coming?' and I told him it's not.
"Apparently, Molen borrowed $10,000 from GlobeTel to buy an ultralight airplane. I got half the airplane built, and I threw it into a rented truck and drove from Redlands, California, to Atlanta. I finished the airplane in Atlanta, and the test was near the airport."
The plan for the test, since stratellites didn't exist yet, was to attach communications gear to the ultralight airplane for a short flight to demonstrate that a craft aloft in the atmosphere could beam down signals the way a satellite in space does. But there was a hitch.
"I told him I can't fly an unlicensed aircraft in commercial airspace. And he said, 'If you fly up there, how much would the penalty be?'"
Koenig told Molen he didn't care how much the fine was; he wasn't going to violate Federal Aviation Administration rules. So Molen wound up attaching wireless cell phone transmitters to a high-altitude helicopter he had rented.
"Molen if he wasn't selling Sanswires, he'd be selling used cars," Koenig says.
Soon after the jury-rigged demonstration, Huff began negotiations to buy Molen's Sanswire. GlobeTel acquired Sanswire's assets at the end of 2004 by paying Molen 6 million shares of GlobeTel stock.
At the time, Molen was in the middle of a personal bankruptcy action. He hadn't paid taxes since 1988 and had debts totaling $2.5 million. He listed a mere $6,200 in assets including $800 in cash, $200 in clothing, and $5,000 in household goods.
Molen also owed several investors personally for loans they'd made to him. Jay Pontrielli, an Atlanta lawyer who represented one of Molen's investors, says it took ten years to recoup a $30,000 loan his client made to Molen and it was Molen's father who settled the debt. The investor, William J. Wager, died during the litigation.
"We had to chase Molen down for several years and then several more years after we got a judgment," Pontrielli says. "It seemed to the people he was able to raise money from that he had a persuasive business plan for this whole stratellite thing... He's left a trail of frustrated creditors chasing after him."
But Molen counters that only a few investors have "made his life miserable." He still thinks his stratellite idea was good. "I wouldn't say that the business plan was a pipe dream," he says in a telephone interview. "In any business, you find investors who believe in ideas.
"We built something from nothing and sold those assets to another company, and they've taken that and run with it. It's not a scam. And it's offensive to hear that."
If GlobeTel's stratellites began life as the helicopter-hoisted concept of a bankrupt Atlanta businessman and his colorful California for-hire inventor, they soon took on a new, glossy corporate sheen, thanks to heaps of GlobeTel P.R. But the company's overheated press releases brought in not only new investors but also the skeptical gaze of investigative reporters in the financial press.
Motley Fool writer Rich Duprey sent up one of the first trial balloons, warning readers in April of 2005 that although GlobeTel's press releases sounded nifty, the company was an unproven one shopping a lofty concept and had no stratellites on the verge of floating to near-space (not to mention the necessary approval of the FAA, NASA, and the Air Force). GlobeTel's blimp army sounded a bit too much like Motorola's failed 1990s plans for satellite phones, its Iridium project, for Duprey's comfort.
The skepticism increased exponentially once GlobeTel announced in July 2005 that the first beneficiaries of its stratellite wireless coverage would be the inhabitants of the jungles of the South American nation of Colombia.
"We just knew it was out there somewhere, like the Yeti, and after all these years and decades of searching, we have found it at last: the ultimate, all-in-one Penny Stock With Everything," mocked former New York Post writer Chris Byron in an August 2005 column. "We're talking about a company that increased its stock price by nearly 500 percent earlier this year by launching itself into a business, 65,000 feet over the snake-infested jungles of Colombia, that looks to be based, both literally and figuratively, on the ultimate marketing tool of Wall Street itself: actual hot air."
Those spikes in stock valuation were really what the company was about, Byron and others warned. GlobeTel, they cautioned, looked like a classic pump-and-dump operation. In other words, a common maneuver in which executives at a company, holding large amounts of company stock, overhype the company's potential for making money in order to bring in investors and temporarily drive up the value of the stock ("pump"). The executives then cash in, selling off large amounts of their stock ("dump") before reality sets in, investors realize the company won't be able to follow through on its grand pronouncements, and the value of the stock takes a nosedive. Byron ridiculed the small investors who had been lured in by the P.R. about blimps over Colombia and the resulting stock inflation.
But Byron and Motley Fool columnist Seth Jayson really aimed their darts at the inflated dreams of GlobeTel when, on December 30, 2005, the company announced that it was taking over Russia.
In typically grandiose fashion, GlobeTel announced that it had entered a binding agreement with a Russian firm named Internafta to provide cell phone service to Russia's 30 largest cities and that Internafta's payments to GlobeTel to provide the equipment for the phone network would amount to $600 million. It sounded like a huge coup for the small Pembroke Pines firm more than half a billion dollars to be a major player in an emerging European market.
The problem was, both Byron and Jayson pointed out, no one in Russia they talked to had ever heard of "Internafta," and there were already well-established telecommunications companies in the former Soviet nation providing cell phone service. How, they wondered, had little GlobeTel managed to leapfrog over the big multinationals like Cisco or Motorola to land such a deal? As the stock price frothed, jumping 75 percent to almost $4 a share immediately after the news release, the two columnists examined every questionable move in the company's past and greeted each delay in Internafta's payments of the huge cash advance with I-told-you-sos.
Since the collapse of the deal in early 2006, some angry investors who watched the company's stock price crash have filed a class-action lawsuit. In their complaint, they lay out what they believe really happened with GlobeTel's Russian maneuver (GlobeTel has asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit). The lawsuit alleges that GlobeTel executives drew up the Russian deal and valued it at $600 million without making any kind of effort to determine what such a system would actually cost, what sort of political or business hurdles might exist in the 30 Russian cities (which were never actually named), or what kind of potential there really was to generate revenue. The company then contracted with a couple of Russian businessmen to find financing, promising them a 2 percent commission ($12 million) to find someone in Russia to provide the $600 million. The two agents in turn contacted a Russian "underground oligarch" named Maxim Vyacheslavovich Chernizov, and the three Russian men formed Internafta a company that manufactured nothing and provided no services. According to the lawsuit, the only reason Internafta was formed was for Chernizov to deliver a line of credit to GlobeTel so the Internafta trio could then split the $12 million commission. And early in 2006, Chernizov provided GlobeTel with a letter of credit for the first $300 million, drawn on a bank in Brazil. But GlobeTel balked, saying that its U.S. banks couldn't accept the Brazilian bank's guarantee. The deal soon fell apart, and GlobeTel's stock price tanked.
Byron and Jayson, meanwhile, called for regulatory action, saying that GlobeTel's shenanigans were exactly the thing the SEC was supposed to be watching for. And in July, the AMEX halted trading on the company's stock.
"Reality has shown that my suspicions were well-founded," Jayson says. "This blimp remains just a 'float-tested' model that's far behind the schedule [GlobeTel] laid out for months. The Russian deal never materialized. They burned cash like crazy. Shareholders got creamed.
"It's pretty easy to figure out who was right about GlobeTel and who was blowing smoke."
Still, there is the dream. And it remains a powerful one. Just spend some time on investor Internet bulletin boards, where you'll encounter GlobeTel shareholders (at least the ones not suing the company) who ridicule naysayers who doubt that GlobeTel can get an army of blimps up to an altitude that blimps have rarely flown.
And about those balloons we never saw any. Although the company is based in Broward County, its airships are being developed in an airport hangar in Palmdale, California.
But GlobeTel fans were excited about a recent test that was held at the California proving grounds. An actual blimp not an ultralight or helicopter standing in for one was lofted carrying communications equipment that created a hot zone for voice and Internet.
The blimp's soaring altitude? One hundred feet. Tethered.
Other groups, however, seem to be having more success. In September of 2005, the nonprofit research organization U.S. Southwest Research Institute managed to keep an airship in the stratosphere for five hours. The craft, called the HiSentinel, carried 27 kilograms of equipment during the demonstration.
GlobeTel's stratellites would need to carry more than 1,000 kilos of equipment for 18 months at a time.
The U.S. government is betting on another company, Lockheed Martin, awarding the longtime aeronautics firm $200 million to build high-altitude ships for homeland security and emergency services. Already, Lockheed airships are working in lower altitudes. (The contract is now in some jeopardy, however, following recent proposed budget cutbacks.)
Government and industry interest in blimps does seem to be growing. It was former President Ronald Reagan's chief of staff, Alexander Haig now a Boca Raton-based infomercial host after all, who was one of the first to float the idea of blimp-based communications in the 1990s. But is GlobeTel the company to make it happen?
For a year and a half, that was the goal of Bob Jones, the NASA engineer GlobeTel employed from 2004 to 2005 to get its stratellites aloft. And during that time, he says, he worked like a dog to get engines, cowlings, and propellers in shape for upcoming tests.
"When I left in September, there were engines in place," Jones says. But in December, Jones received a call from a concerned Michael Sands, who for two years had done contract public relations work for GlobeTel stratellite division and was preparing for a December 14 demonstration for the media.
Sands, who is now suing GlobeTel for allegedly failing to pay him, tells New Times that when he arrived for the test, he was told that there was a problem. The stratellite wouldn't be able to fly.
The demonstration was supposed to feature a blimp powering around on both of its engines, steered remotely. But Sands was told that during testing of the stratellite, damage had been done to a wire harness the electrical wire network that would power things like propellers.
It was a major setback, Sands says, and it was too late to call off the media. So GlobeTel gamely went through with the demonstration, inflating the airship and sending it up on a tether.
"They filled it with helium and sent it up on a rope like a blimp over a car dealership," Sands says in disgust.
Jones says that, based on what Sands saw, it was a sign that things have not gone well since his departure. "Definitely, it's a setback. When I was there, it took around four to six weeks to make the wire harness."
And as for how it bodes for the future, Jones says: "The company will succeed with appropriate funding and appropriate resources. If they don't have appropriate funding and resources, it would be very unlikely that this would happen."
Sands blames GlobeTel's problems on the company's obsession with promoting itself: "They're too busy selling the stratellites to actually make them," he says.
Doug Murch, the retired U.S. Air Force colonel who replaced Jones, disagrees, saying: "We are not making any outlandish claims. We understand the challenges in building these types of airships enough to say that we have confidence that we will build a near-space airship.
"There have been problems, but we've turned a corner."
Perhaps. But it's hard to believe that hot zone utopian dream is going to arrive anytime soon on the research and development budget GlobeTel is spending on its futuristic zeppelins.
In 2005, that budget amounted to a whopping $26,553.
But at least GlobeTel's executives haven't been left out in the cold.
Though the company has never turned a profit, GlobeTel pays big salaries and even bigger bonuses to its executives. In 2005, compensation for the top six executives totaled $12 million an 85 percent increase from the year before, according to the class-action complaint and SEC filings:
Former CEO Timothy Huff earned a $300,000 bonus on top of his $200,000 salary, with stock options and other benefits totaling $2.5 million.
Lawrence Lynch, former chief operating officer at GlobeTel, filed plans to sell more than $1.6 million of GlobeTel stock when it was trading at record highs.
Executive Vice President Steven King, whom the SEC has disciplined in the past for "securities fraud violations," is the sole owner of Investor Source Group LLC, which in turn owns ISG Jet LLC. GlobeTel contracts with ISG Jet for travel services and has paid it with company stock ISG has reported planned sales of more than $2.8 million.
Taboada, the analyst who had worked for Hornblower & Weeks, has been contracted by GlobeTel since 2005 via his company Charles Morgan Securities Inc. to consult and was paid in stock options. Last April, Taboada reported that he planned to sell that stock for $2.5 million.
Leigh Coleman, GlobeTel's former president and director, used an affiliate, Sky China Ltd., to make about $5 million by selling GlobeTel stock given to Sky China. Personally, Coleman reported he planned to sell $1.7 million of GlobeTel stock while it was trading at about $4.
Khoury has replaced Huff now chief of technology as CEO. Lynch and Coleman are gone.
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"I'm not savvy about all this stuff, but when something smells bad, it smells bad," longtime shareholder Frank Buffone says. "I'm just waiting for them to go out of business. But I want to see if they make another P.R. push, and if they do, then I'll get rid of what I've got left."
Like many others, Buffone, 45, of White Plains, New York, bought in small 1,000 shares of Sanswire at 26 cents a share ($260) before GlobeTel bought the company. At the stock's inflated height, nearly $4 after the Russian P.R. bonanza, Buffone could have cashed in for nearly $4,000. But he held on, and his stake is now worth about $400. Others aren't so lucky. New Times heard from one investor, who wanted to remain anonymous, who claims to have lost millions on GlobeTel's fluctuations.
But Buffone, the small-timer, is philosophical. "It was a few bucks to throw in there," he says. "If you lose it, you lose it; no big deal. It wasn't that much money to begin with. A lot of people's money went to waste there. I'm one of the lucky few.
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Drop-in Knitting
Unwind with your knitting and your crocheting at the library! Share tips, conversation, and a love of making. Drop in for a little while or for the whole time. Instruction is provided if needed. Bring your own materials, although we do have some tools to get you started.
Meets every Wednesday and the second and fourth Saturday of the month.


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Adding/Removing a Number to the Blocked Numbers List
Your Fax Thru Email account allows you to add specific fax numbers to a blocked number list. Faxes sent from a number on your blocked list will be blocked provided the sender uses their fax number as their identity. The blocked number list serves as a filter to help you block spam or other unwanted faxes.
Note: If you have a toll-free number account, you will not be charged for any pages due to correspondence from numbers on your blocked list.
To Add a Number to your Blocked Numbers List
- Log in to your GoDaddy account.
- Click Fax Thru Email.
- Click the Blocked Numbers tab.
- In the Fax Number field, enter the number you want to add. You must enter a valid phone number, including area code.
- Click Block. The fax number displays in the Blocked Numbers list.
Note: You can also block international numbers.
Note: You can also add a number to your Blocked Numbers list in two other locations: 1) Via the Send a Fax page, Recent Faxes section, when you hover over a Received fax, and the user is presented with a block number icon. 2) On the Fax History page, the user can click on the block number icon next to a Received fax number.
To Remove a Number from the Blocked Numbers List
- Log in to your GoDaddy account.
- Click Fax Thru Email.
- From the Send a Fax page in the Recent Faxes panel, click View blocked numbers.
- Select delete next to the number you want to remove.


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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Key assignments (was: My next silly question)
From: BlueChip (cs_bluechip_at_webtribe.net)
Date: 2004-02-20
At 18:04 19/02/04, you wrote:
I'll be honest up front and say that I have never actually tried it myself
Group 1: Down, Left, Right, Play
You may detect only one key from each group in a single read.
NB. I am unsure exactly what does happen if you press (eg) F1 & F2
OFF has a special feature which is that if you hold it for about 3 seconds
Think that's all :)
Page was last modified "Jan 10 2012" The Rockbox Crew


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IAASB Staff Issues Q&As to Raise Awareness of XBRL Uses in Business Reporting
Jan 19, 2010 | New York | English
Recognizing the growing international use of Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)--a language for the electronic communication of business and financial data that is changing business reporting around the world--the staff of the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) has developed a new question-and-answer publication. It is designed to raise awareness about how XBRL-tagged data is prepared and how it may affect financial reporting.
Entitled XBRL: The Emerging Landscape, the publication explains that the IAASB's current International Standards on Auditing (ISAs) were not developed with XBRL in mind and, accordingly, do not require auditors to perform procedures on XBRL-tagged data as part of a financial statement audit. It clarifies how XBRL may lead to a demand for various types of assurance and related services engagements, and describes the scope of the IAASB's planned consultations to determine whether to develop a new international pronouncement addressing XBRL.
"As more and more financial authorities begin to require or permit entities to provide financial information in XBRL, now is the time to help educate users about some XBRL fundamentals, and for the IAASB to explore whether and how a related international standard might help address assurance needs," says James Gunn, IAASB Technical Director. "A number of organizations are involved in XBRL initiatives and we look forward to hearing the viewpoints of preparers, users, regulators, national standard-setters, auditors, and others on this important topic," adds Mr. Gunn.
The publication is available to download free of charge from the IAASB section of IFAC's Publications and Resources site: web.ifac.org/publications.
About the IAASB and IFAC
The IAASB (www.ifac.org/IAASB) develops auditing and assurance standards and guidance for use by all professional accountants under a shared standard-setting process involving the Public Interest Oversight Board, which oversees the activities of the IAASB, and the IAASB Consultative Advisory Group, which provides public interest input into the development of the standards and guidance.
IFAC (www.ifac.org) is the global organization for the accountancy profession dedicated to serving the public interest by strengthening the profession and contributing to the development of strong international economies. It is comprised of 159 members and associates in 124 countries and jurisdictions, representing more than 2.5 million accountants in public practice, education, government service, industry, and commerce.


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- Stories expand your point. Stories are the ultimate example, a key part of any presentation. Try making your point, adding a relevant fact or two, then using a story to expand on it. You may start with a universal truth, backed up by national data, and expand on it with a personal tale, bringing the large point down to a human level.
- Stories build connection by adding color, emotion and personal detail about you. The factors that move audiences are often the small, emotive details found in stories. Stories are an easy, natural place for you to talk about yourself, making you more approachable and likeable as a presenter. When you're establishing a rapport with the audience, stories speed the process.
- Stories add drama. You may be describing a hero's quest in your profession or the tale of woe of someone who ignored the facts and paid the price, or a story about a terrible tragedy. In all cases, stories, well told, can add drama and help your presentation progress to a successful finish.
- You can tell stories without using notes--and look more relaxed and spontaneous. Never waste time writing down a personal story or anecdote. The written version will never come across as well as it will if you just look at the audience and tell the story. If it's an experience you know well, you won't need notes and you'll look more confident. If you're a speaker who works from a text, but would like to look more extemporaneous, work in a story or two that you can tell without reading. Then make sure your text says "Tell [name of story] here."
- Stories let you instruct or negotiate without lecturing: You can push your points directly with an audience you're trying to educate, or with parties involved in a negotiation--but only so far. If they harbor not-so-fond memories of school days, they may start squirming rather than absorb your wisdom. If the negotiation's tense, confrontive facts don't always help your cause, even if they are right. But a story to which anyone can relate can carry your points for you and even bring warring parties together, in a non-threatening, non-confrontational way.
- We're used to learning from stories. Whether it's your mother's tales of her childhood lessons learned or parables and allegories, storytelling is an ancient method for sharing information with a broad public audience, and it survives today for a reason. Your audience will respond positively to a good story.
- Stories were made to be remembered and retold. Before we wrote things down, our cultures all used storytelling to convey news and information, because stories could be easily remembered and passed along to the next person. If you want your audience to do the same with your talk, craft a story that gets your main points across briefly, so that it's easy to remember and repeat.
(This post updates and expands on one I published in 2010.)


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Trey Songz Showing His Pantie & Bra Collection For The 1st Time On Camera!
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The Week in Pop: My pop-culture faves
It's time again for my roundup of pop culture that has been keepin' me going all week. Feel free to chime in with your own picks ...
Per usual, these go to 11:
1. Mad Men. While many of us are hoping Don Draper will be on his best behavior this season, it wouldn't be Mad Men if he kept his pants on.
2. Game of Thrones. One of our favorite shows is back — with bigger dragons! That alone will make me tune in.
3. This Is the End. This has to be the funniest trailer of the year. I kind of want to see more, but I also don't wanna be spoiled!
4. Geek and Sundry. Congrats to Felicia Day and her crew on launching their second season. Even though I'm not much of a gamer, I can't deny the strange allure of TableTop.
5. General Hospital. The soap celebrated its 50th anniversary this week with a series of special episodes. Clear your DVR for this weekend's massive 50-hour marathon.
6. GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. If you're in the mood for a fun, not-too-cerebral documentary, I enjoyed this one about the tough '80s ladies. It's now on DVD.
7. The Believer. The hipster-friendly mag celebrates its 10th anniversary with a cool issue that includes interviews with Martha Plimpton and Jeanette Winterson, original comics and poetry and more.
8. By the Way. Once again, I must praise Jeff Garlin, who has hilarious interviews with Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis on the latest episodes of his podcast.
9. AM & Shawn Lee, Steppin' Out. This cover of the Joe Jackson classic is my current jam.
10. VUM, Laura Palmer. Also my jam: Any band that adores Twin Peaks as much as I do.
11. Time Warp #1. And finally, I highly recommend this Vertigo one-shot of short sci-fi comics. Lost's Damon Lindelof contributes, as do beloved artist/writers Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt, Mark Buckingham and Gail Simone. It's on sale now, so grab it physically or digitally.


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Technical partnership with SKF is key to Ducati's racing success
2015 March 27, 14:00 CEST
The technical partnership between Ducati and SKF has produced racing success for over 70 years. New integrated technology is key for the future.
Gothenburg, 27 March 2015: SKF has sponsored the Italian motor cycle manufacturer Ducati for over 70 years, helping the company to achieve unparalleled racing success in the World Superbike Championship.
SKF has been a Ducati Corse Official Technical partner for many years and the relationship between the two companies has been strengthened year after year preparing the way for new technical developments in the future.
SKF designs and manufactures a wide range of high performance bearings that are used by Ducati in wheel hubs, gearboxes, camshafts, clutches and suspension assemblies. These are engineered to meet the ever tougher demands of the motorsport sector.
Luigi Dall'Igna, General Manager of Ducati Corse, explains, "At the moment, we are using the latest technology to gain valuable information, especially about the engine. It is vital to be able to determine, for example, the loads at certain times, in particular situations. We believe that SKF's help is essential to continue this development which will, more and more, integrate mechanical components with electronics. In a small contained system such as a racing bike, the integration between the electronic and mechanical systems is becoming increasingly critical to reduce weight while improving reliability and performance. This is an area where we expect to make real progress with SKF in 2015."
Franco Ferro, Bearing Sales Director, Automotive Market, says, "We're excited to be working again with Ducati for the 2015 racing season. Our latest technology is being used in the new Desmosedici GP15. This is a fantastic bike that factory riders Andrea Dovizioso and Andrea Iannone will compete with in the 2015 MotoGP World Championship. We're expecting great results that will build on Ducati's proud racing heritage."
Aktiebolaget SKF
For further information, please contact: Press Relations:
Monique Turner, +1 267 436 6836; +1 215 801 8722; firstname.lastname@example.com
SKF is a leading global supplier of bearings, seals, mechatronics, lubrication systems, and services which include technical support, maintenance and reliability services, engineering consulting and training. SKF is represented in more than 130 countries and has around 15,000 distributor locations worldwide. Annual sales in 2014 were SEK 70,975 million and the number of employees was 48,593. www.skf.com
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DJ AM's memorial service last week in Los Angeles was kept private, but a leaked tribute video from the ceremony featuring the celebrity disc jockey with friends, family and loved ones has made it onto the Web.
The video shows DJ AM, real name Adam Goldstein, having fun in photographs with ex-fiance Nicole Richie, girlfriend Hayley Wood, fellow plane crash survivor and musician buddy Travis Barker and celebrities like Wilmer Valderrama, Samantha Ronson and Kobe Bryant.
It was played at the 12-step themed remembrance service held at the Palladium in Hollywood Thursday, which honored the life of Goldstein, who died in late August of an apparent overdose.
The video ends with DJ AM quoting his mother's advice -- to spend your life pursuing your passion.
"My mom always said you want to be happy in life, find something you love to do so much, you'd do it for free, then find somebody to pay you for it," he says in the video.
Goldstein was found with a crack pipe near his body and reportedly swallowed OxyContin pills before his death. He was a recovering drug addict who miraculously survived a plane crash last year and had resumed taking painkillers after the accident.


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Paige Fortier's favorite teacher passed away of cancer in April 2011, just before Fortier was to step on stage for a dance competition. "I danced for her," Fortier says of Linda Smiley, her music teacher at Windsor Locks High School, where Fortier was this year's valedictorian.
Performance is where Fortier's heart lies, so much so that she intends to create an individualized major in the subject this fall at Mounty Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass. Currently the college offers dance, music, and theater separately, but Fortier plans to combine them along with a business minor to fulfill her dream of opening up a performing arts center someday.
Fortier landed the female leads in productions of"Grease"and "Bye Bye Birdie." She served as dance team captain and won the Connecticut Association of Schools Outstanding Arts Award and her school's Theater Award.
Fortier's accomplishments encompass numerous other areas as well. She served as president of her school's National Honor Society and was business editor of the yearbook. Other awards include the Society of Women Engineers' Certificate of Merit for math and science, and the Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizenship Award.
As for Fortier's performance that day? It was, she says, one of her best.


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GOES-9 > Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 9
Platform Category:
Earth Observation Satellites
Platform Series/Entity:
GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)
Synonymous Platform Names:
Platform-based Instruments:
Orbit Type
: GEO > Geosynchronous > Geostationary
Related Data Sets
View all 130 records related to this platform
GOES 9 was launched on May 23, 1995. GOES-9, which is currently
partially operational, is being provided to the Japanese Meteorological
Agency to replace their failing geostationary satellite.
I-M represents the next generation of meteorological satellites
and introduces two new features. The first feature, flexible scan,
offers small-scale area imaging that lets meteorologists take pictures
of local weather trouble spots. This allows them to improve short-term
forecasts over local areas. The second feature, simultaneous and
independent imaging and sounding, is designed to allow weather
forecasters to use multiple measurements of weather phenomena to
increase the accuracy of their forecasts.
Each satellite in the series carries two major instruments: an Imager
and a Sounder. These instruments acquire high resolution visible and
infrared data, as well as temperature and moisture profiles of the
atmosphere. They continuously transmit these data to ground terminals
where the data are processed for rebroadcast to primary weather
services both in the United States and around the world, including the
global research community.
The GOES I-M mission is scheduled to run from the mid-1990s into the
first decade of the 21st century. Each element of the mission has
been designed to meet all in-orbit performance requirements for at
least five years.
The GOES I-M system performs the following basic functions:
+ Acquisition, processing, and dissemination of imaging and
sounding data.
+ Acquisition and dissemination of Space Environment Monitor
(SEM) data.
+ Reception and relay of data from ground-based Data Collection
Platforms (DCPs) that are situated in carefully selected urban and
remote areas to the NOAA Command and Data Acquisition (CDA) station.
+ Continuous relay of Weather Facsimile (WEFAX) and other data to
users, independent of all other functions.
+ Relay of distress signals from people, aircraft, or marine vessels
to the search and rescue ground stations of the Search and Rescue
Satellite Aided Tracking (SARSAT) system.
GOES provides the instantaneous relay functions for the SARSAT system.
A dedicated search and rescue transponder on board GOES is designed to
detect emergency distress signals originating from Earth-based
sources. These unique identification signals are normally combined
with signals received by a low-Earth orbiting satellite system and
relayed to a search and rescue ground terminal. The combined data are
used to perform effective search and rescue operations.
The GOES I-M system serves a region covering the central and eastern
Pacific Ocean; North, Central, and South America; and the central and
western Atlantic Ocean. Pacific coverage includes Hawaii and the Gulf
of Alaska. This is accomplished by two satellites, GOES West located
at 135 west longitude and GOES East at 75 west longitude. A common
ground station, the CDA station located at Wallops, Virginia,
supports the interface to both satellites. The NOAA Satellite
Operations Control Center (SOCC), in Suitland, Maryland, provides
spacecraft scheduling, health and safety monitoring, and engineering
Delivery of products involves ground processing of the raw instrument
data for radiometric calibration and Earth location information, and
retransmission to the satellite for relay to the data user community.
The processed data are received at the control center and disseminated
to the National Weather Service's (NWS) National Meteorological
Center, Camp Springs, Maryland, and NWS forecast offices, including
the National Hurricane Center, Miami, Florida, and the National Severe
Storms Forecast Center, Kansas City, Missouri. Processed data are also
received by Department of Defense installations, universities, and
numerous private commercial users.
*The GOES-9 satellite was replaced by GOES-10 in July 1998*
Mission life 5 years, minimum
Main body 2 meter (7 foot) cube
Deployed length 27 meters (88 feet)
Weight 2100 kg (4600 lb)
Orbit Geosynchronous
Altitude 36,000 km (22,000 mi)
Longitude 75W and 135W
Latitude equatorial, within 0.5 degree
Power 1050 watts @ 42 volts, solar array; battery
Launch vehicle Atlas-I/Centaur (GOES-I/K), Atlas-II/Centaur
Communications Imager and Sounder in GVAR format at 2.1
The GOES Imager is a multi-channel instrument designed to sense
radiant and solar-reflected energy from sampled areas of the
Earth. The multi-element spectral channels simultaneously sweep
east-west and west-east along a north-to-south path by means of a
two-axis mirror scan system. The instrument can produce full-Earth
disc images, sector images that contain the edges of the Earth, and
various sizes of area scans completely enclosed within the Earth scene
using a new flexible scan system. Scan selection permits rapid
continuous viewing of local areas for monitoring of mesoscale
(regional) phenomena and accurate wind determination.
WAVELENGTH (um) 0.65 3.9 6.7 11 12
Clouds x x x x x
Water Vapor* x x x
Surface Temp. o x o
Winds x x x
Albedo + IR Flux x o x o
Fires + Smoke x x o o
KEY: * = new operational data
x = primary channel
o = secondary channel
The GOES Sounder is a 19-channel discrete-filter radiometer covering
the spectral range from the visible channel wavelengths to 15
microns. It is designed to provide data from which atmospheric
temperature and moisture profiles, surface and cloud-top temperatures,
and ozone distribution can be deduced by mathematical analysis. It
operates independently of and simultaneously with the Imager, using a
similarly flexible scan system. The Sounder's multi-element detector
array assemblies simultaneously sample four separate fields or
atmospheric columns. A rotating filter wheel, which brings spectral
filters into the optical path of the detector array, provides the
infrared channel definition.
RESOLUTION (km) ACCURACY
Vert. Horiz. Absolute Relative
Profile 3-5 50 2-3 K 1 K
Land --- 10 2 K 1 K
Sea --- 10 1 K 0.5 K
Profile 2-4 50 30% 20%
Total --- 10 20% 10%
Motion 3 layers 50 6 m/sec 3 m/sec
Height 2 layers 10 50 mb 25 mb
Amount total 10 15% 5%
Total --- 50 30% 15%
Motion 1 layer 50 10 m/sec 5 m/sec
IR Flux* total 50 10 W/m^2 3 W/m^2
KEY: * = potential future product
GOES 9 information is available at:
To view a 3D orbit, observe the J Track satellite tracking web page at:
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Borgström, Benedikte (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: With care of writing as a method of inquiry, this paper engages in academic writing such as responsible knowledge development drawing on emotion, thought and reason. The aim of the paper is to better understand emancipatory knowledge development. Bodily experiences and responses shape academic writing and there are possibilities for responsible academic writing in that iterative process. I propose that academic writing can be seen as possibilities of passionate as well as passive writing. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9342
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Assessing network structures within container shipping industryProckl, Günter; Kotzab, Herbert; Kinra, Aseem (frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Purpose - Container shipping, due to its boundary crossing nature, is generally seen as an international business. A first look into the physical networks of the industry has shown that container-shipping companies operate however rather differently, with different motives for internationalization, and infact show different patterns to their international development. However, there are other important transactional and market-oriented considerations, and overall dynamics that need to be examined before concluding on the internationalization levels of container shipping companies, and the industry. The purpose of this paper is to further investigate the patterns of internationalisation by the examination of the more demand-oriented considerations. Design/methodology/approach - In order to answer the research question, the paper focusses on the examination of the front-end activities and structures like sales office networks and the overall extent of market presence. For this the fundamental sales networks of the companies were considered as a key indicator, and the port networks of the 20 largest container-shipping companies in the world (by TEU capacity) were analyzed. Findings - The resulting data set allows an examination on each company's overall network at various geographic levels, and a direct comparison of the networks of the companies. It shows that not all shipping companies are highly international. It also shows that market share and total capacity are not necessarily a good indicator for the worldwide presence of a company. Research limitations/implications (if applicable) - The paper adds yet another piece to the interesting puzzle on internationalization patterns of container shipping companies. However, for a complete picture on the internationalization process further work will be required that is based e.g. on the development pattern of single companies and that may also take more the dynamic aspects and comparisons into account. Practical implications - Preceeding work provides insights that are directed towards the port networks and thus toward the more back office oriented resource architecture and the more geographical aspect of physical coverage. By reorganising the focus on the sales network of the single container shipping companies, this paper presents findings that are also applicable to the front end, towards the customer, The comparison of both views is promising interesting insights such as ownership structures and entry modes along with the specific location commitment as a basis for strategic considerations. Originality/value – In the academic literature there is not much to find on the internationalization process and the dominating internationalisation patterns related to container shipping. The paper makes an important contribution in this regard by considering the different aspects of the international shipping networks and by bringing these closer to extant frameworks on internationalization. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8812
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Exploring the Process of Bringing the Market Inside the FirmFriis, Ivar; Hansen, Allan; Vámosi, Tamás (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Research on relative performance measures, transfer pricing, beyond budgeting initiatives, target costing, piece rates systems and value based management has for decades underlined the importance of external benchmarking in performance management. Research conceptualises external benchmarking as a market mechanism that can be brought inside the firm to provide incentives for continuous improvement and the development of competitive advances. However, whereas extant research primarily has focused on the importance and effects of using external benchmarks, less attention has been directed towards the conditions upon which the market mechanism is performing within organizations. This paper aims to contribute to research by providing more insight to the conditions for the use of external benchmarking as an element in performance management in organizations. Our study explores a particular type of external benchmarks - external suppliers' bids on sub-components (which can be produced either in-house or by the external suppliers) in a Danish manufacturing firm – and we study the conditions that determine the success of the mechanism in the manufacturing firm which include issues related to the calculation of the 'inside' costs of the sub-component, technical specifications of the product, opportunistic behavior from the suppliers and cognitive limitation. These are all aspects that easily can dismantle the market mechanism and make it counter-productive in the organization. Thus, by directing more attention towards the conditions for the use of the external benchmarks we provide more insights to some of the issues and challenges that are related to using this mechanism for performance management and advance competitiveness in organizations. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9223
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Evidence from ChinaSundtoft Hald, Kim (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Sustainable work behavior is an important issue for operations managers – it has implications for most outcomes of OM. This research explores the antecedents of sustainable work behavior. It revisits and extends the sociotechnical model developed by Brown et al. (2000) on predicting safe behavior. Employee characteristics and general attitudes towards safety and work condition are included in the extended model. A survey was handed out to 654 employees in Chinese factories. This research contributes by demonstrating how employee- characteristics and general attitudes towards safety and work condition influence their sustainable work behavior. A new definition of sustainable work behavior is proposed. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8775
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Soffers, Ruter; Meijboom, Bert; Hsuan, Juliana (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Modularity can help address urgent societal needs of cost reductions and improved patient centeredness in healthcare, but has only rarely been implemented in that sector. We propound that this is at least partially due to the lack of guidance on reorganizations of existing healthcare offerings in a modular way. We identify three principles to do so: 1) the service architecture should be decomposable; 2) a proper service specification process should be introduced; and 3) the presence of interfaces should be ensured. Following these principles should help policy makers as well as managers to implement modularity in existing healthcare offerings. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9418
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Or how the natural environment may qualify as a stakeholder in the firm's business environmentJustesen, Lise; Mouritsen, Jan; Tryggestad, Kjell (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In its general form, stakeholder theory posits an extension of the ecology. It claims that there are other stakes and interests than those posited by shareholder value theory (Freeman et al. 2004; Jensen and Sandström 2011), and some stakeholder theory proponents argue that the natural environment is also to be considered as a stakeholder (Driscoll and Starik 2004; Norton 2007). It is a positive claim – there are more stakes and interests – and a moral one – we should look towards more interests in order to complete the analysis. With this framing, stakeholder theory seeks to identify stakes and interests which may be difficult but in principle achievable; it also seeks to make analysis of organized activity such as (global) business into a concern with the relative power of stakes and interests. These concerns are highly relevant but they face the barrier that if stakes and interests are positively there, the analysis becomes static and will pay less attention to both the formation and to power-effects of stakes and interest. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8482
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Representation of Services in Contractual AgreementsHarjo, Ieva; Frandsen, Thomas; Hsuan, Juliana (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper explores how seemingly complex servitized solutions can become tradable in a customer–supplier relationship by objectification and abbreviation. The key argument is that the complexity of product-service solutions can be reduced by abbreviation of the reality in written form of contracts and agreements that allow for customization while making the offer more comprehensible for customers and more manageable for suppliers. Preliminary results from an exploratory case study are presented. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9419
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Algren, Casper; Kotzab, Herbert (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Purpose: We have examined which dimensions are used by the largest Danish manufacturing companies to measure SCPM at operational, tactical and strategic level, how can these dimensions be classified, and how do these empirical results have implications for practice and selected SCPM-theories. Design/methodology/approach: A deductive structure based on a theoretical framework was used to design an empirical investigation of 54 Danish manufacturing companies, which all have revenue of more than DKK 500 million. Furthermore, qualitative investigation was done by analyzing four casecompanies in order to get a more in-depth picture of how SCPM is used in practice. Findings: The four most used SCPM metrics have downstream focus. Companies that use SCPM have a more deliberated split between metrics with focus on operational, tactical and strategic level. While the quantitative data indicates that non-financial measurements are most frequently used, the qualitative data implies that the companies use financial measures as basis for performance measurement and that results from non-financial measures have second priority. Research limitations/implications (if applicable): The model is limited to large Danish industrial companies and we propose to widen the model to upstream and downstream supply chain partners. Practical implications (if applicable): The paper shows the most important and most frequently used supply chain relevant key performance indicators as well as a process model of how to implement supply chain performance measurement in a company. Original/value: This paper closes the gap between theory and practice within the area of performance measurement and management within the context of supply chain management. The proposed SCPM model has been theoretically developed and empirically validated. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8331
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A Systematic Literature Review of Road Freight TransportBenedikte, Borgström; Gammelgaard, Britta; Wieland, Andreas (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Purpose: This article provides a comprehensive review of the strategic management of transport and logistics services and to identify promising avenues for future research in the field. Design/methodology/approach: A systematic literature review is conducted based on articles published between 2011 and 2016 in international peer‐reviewed journals. 55 selected articles deal with strategic elements concerning hauliers, such as service offerings, costs and revenues. Findings: Themes of hauliers' strategizing that are discussed in the literature, namely carrier selection revisited, professionalism, innovation, horizontal collaboration, planned and emergent strategies, and value propositions. Research limitations/implications: The research expands on the previous literature on logistics and transport and adds knowledge about hauliers as part of the transport and supply chain. Social implications: In highly ranked transport journals, only two per cent of the published articles concern haulier strategizing, thus, knowledge development concerning the socio-economic and managerial problems of practitioners and policy makers is delimited. Original/value: The study contributes to a strategic perspective by identifying transdisciplinary avenues of research that are likely to likely to encourage hauliers to be innovative. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9518
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Abstract: Using a combined conceptual and single case-based research methodology, we explore the process connecting a buyers attempt to transfer its sustainability requirements with its suppliers' willingness to participate. We conclude that buyer promoted sustainability practices in the supply chain can be understood as multiple decision problems. The case illustrate how accounting devices play major roles in resolving these decision problems, and how decision criteria apparently unconnected to the sustainability issue affect the outcome of the sustainability transferral process in the supply chain. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8273
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The Narrative Mediation Between Organizational and Individual ParadoxesMajgaard, Klaus (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to enhance the conceptual understanding of the mediatory relationship between paradoxes on an organizational and an individual level. It presents a concept of agency that comprises and mediates between a structural and individual pole. The constitution of this agency is achieved through narrative activity that oscillates between the poles and transforms paradoxes through the configuration of plots and metaphors. Empirical cases are introduced in order to illustrate the implications of this understanding. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9158
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Understanding the Factors that Enable and Inhibit Value Creation in Buyer-Supplier Relationship within the Outsourcing of IT ServicesHald, Kim Sundtoft; Kinra, Aseem; Das, Ajay (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This study contributes to literature on value creation in buyer-supplier relationships as well as literature on IT service provision. It makes a first attempt at building a comprehensive model of the factors that enable and inhibit value creation within buyersupplier relationships. A distinction is made between value drivers with a direct influence on value creation, operational- and strategic performance, and moderating contextual factors that may enable or inhibit value creation from taking place. Initial application of the model to an IT service provision context is provided. Further case based and survey based applications are needed to develop and validate the suggested model. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9374
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An analytic fixation on constitutive dynamicsPlotnikof, Mie (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this paper an analytic scope is elaborated in order to unpack the complexities of constitutive dynamics co-producing managerial subjects in discursive practices of public management work (my empirical field). Such framing is proposed in order to grasp the dynamic complexity of multi-modal, power-infused processes of subject formations, that is, the significant discursive practices through which different enacting forces constitute selves, actions, procedures and/or materials as managerial matters with specific normative effects. In this view managerial subjectivity becomes a question of analysing power-infused processes of active and passive performing subject formations that manage meanings of managerial matter, selves, affect conditions of actions and ways of organizing. Public management work is an interesting field to such; with the rapid changes seen in many OECD-countries, embedded managerial subjects and relating phenomena become in fluxes of binary tensions between shifting modernization discourses (e.g. in terms of 'New Public Management' or 'New Public Governance'). With such the significance of formal managers are often stressed to changing ways of organizing (Bislev et al. 2002, Pedersen & Hartley 2008). But how do certain 'selves', 'doings', 'things' come to matter managerially in everyday management work, managing meanings and conditions of selves, others and actions? By analysing the socially embedded co-productions of managerial work, we can nuance research accounts on the performance of manageability in organizing processes. But grasping such complexity calls for discourse analytics sensitive to social-psychological aspects of constitutive dynamics, a need this paper contributes to. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8556
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Abstract: It starts in a simple question and purpose of what is fair in the transport chain concept, and develops to an abductive reasoning based on critical business ethics research and polyphonic narratives for an understanding of the mess that involves people, ethics in supply chains, interest organizations and EU institutions. Analytical understanding arrives from the Spinozian ethical principles in societies, justice and mercy. Justice as a social pact in order to escape the natural injustice and inequality outside the social system. Mercy as recognizing individuals in collective co-existence. Fairness in fair transport is suggested to be of a dynamic nature and derived from knowledgeable reasoning and found in lived ethico-political relationships. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9516
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According to an analysis of the federal program by the East Central Reporter, 7.97 percent of people in Belleville were receiving food stamps as of April 30.
Belleville is in ZIP codes 62220, 62221, 62223 and 62226, which include a total of 86426 people. Of that number, 12247 (14.17 percent) were receiving food stamps as of April 30, down from 12730 (14.73 percent) in the fourth quarter of 2015.
The Illinois Department of Human Services (DHS) administers the food stamps program, also known as "SNAP," for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
According to DHS, a family of four earning $40,020 per year receives $649 per month.
A family of six earning $53,748 per year receives $925 per month.
An individual earning $19,428 receives $194 per month. A childless couple earning $26,292 receives $357.
Approximately 16 percent of Illinois residents currently receive food stamps.
Nationally, 46.5 million Americans receive food stamps, or 15 percent of the U.S. population and 20 percent of U.S. households.
In contrast, in 2000, 17.2 million Americans (6 percent) received food stamps. In 2008, that number was 28.2 million (9.3 percent).
In 1969, 2.878 million Americans received food stamps, or just 0.014 percent of the U.S. population.


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- MT: our prot warrior
- OT: our resto druid as a dps cat spec
- Healers: our prot pally (in holy kit), our shadow priest (in disc kit), and our resto shaman
- DPS: unholy DK, ret pally, 2x warlocks (afflic and destro), marks hunter
So... we put our HoTs (me) into cat gear/spec and told her to go bear periodically in P3 to taunt it off the warrior (burn every cooldown possible to stay alive, including frost pots), while the warrior dropped his mystic buffet stacks as quickly as he could and taunted her back before the bear-cat-tree got frost burnt.
Me: OMGOMGOMGSAVEMEH O.O;
It worked. Major props go to our offspec healers, and it just highlights the importance of having a geared offspec in such a small raid that is a different role than your mainspec. Even if it means taking a healer and making them dps/ot while taking a tank and a dps and making them heal... because currently, nothing compares to a feral druid's ability to be uncrittable and have survival instincts in a dps spec and armor pen gear!!
We're staring down Arthas on his throne right now and refreshing ourselves on his strat. We're all pretty giddy right now after hurdling Sindragosa... let's see if she turns out to have been harder than the Lich King himself :)


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In e-Parenting Tutorial: Keeping up with your kids' online activities, Alice, a witty and cyber-savvy mom, takes parents on a tour of the many different Web environments and activities that are popular with children and youth.
The Raising Ethical Kids For a Networked World tutorial examines some of the moral dilemmas that kids face in their online activities and shares some strategies to help them build the social and emotional intelligence that's needed to support ethical decision making – and build resiliency if things go wrong.


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CHORLEY'S hard work in mopping up Windsor Park paid a rich dividend on Saturday as they claimed just a third win of the Northern League season thanks to a clinical dispatching of Preston.
Chances of play seemed slim on Friday when the rain poured down – but the water was cleared and skipper Andrew Holdsworth had no hesitation in putting Preston in when he won the toss.
And that decision was rewarded Chris Harty removed Sajid Patel in the second over before Billy Smith sent Preston dangerman Lukman Vahaluwa packing in the thord as he claimed a caught and bowled.
Yasin Patel and Mohsin Mohdi both went for ducks and had it not been for Soaib Dukanwala and Saeed Nalaband Preston's innings would have been over even quicker than it eventually was.
Dukanwala made 23 and Nalaband 17 and they were the only two men who made double figures as the Chorley bowlers were far too good on a testing surface with Smith claimed 4-23 and Harty 2-30.
But the star was Will Moulton, who claimed 3-4 as Preston sunk to 59 all out in 20 overs.
As Chorley replied Vahaluwala removed Holdsworth for four and there was a middle order wobble – but opener Jack Bentham was a model of sense as he made 24, although when he went they were 46-6 and in danger of suffering a shock loss.
But Kieran McCullagh and Alex Weetman steered Chorley over the line for their four-wicket win, Darwen were in the Lake District and given all the rain it was a shock their match at Netherfield actually started on time and skipper John Cordingley chose to bowl first at Parside Road and Chris Wade marked his 23rd birthday by removing Chris Parry in his third over before Niall Burke had Marc Brown caught the hosts were wobbling.
They reached 25-2 in the 12th over before the rain came down – and play was called off at 4pm.
Leyland enjoyed a remarkable day as they crushed St Annes at Vernon Road.
Luis Reece scored a superb 145 not out and professional Brett Pelser made 121 as the pair shared a second-wicket partnership of 233 as they launched an astonishing attack on the home bowling en-route to a 50-over total of 311-2.
St Annes have been struggling all season – and that target was never realistic for them and they were 78 all out with Reece rounding off the perfect day with 5-39.
Terry Hunte made 76 as Kendal beat Lancaster with ease in the only other game to finish at Lune Road.


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Some low calorie dishes
Posted: February 1st, 2014, 4:27 pm
I'm starting the 5:2 diet, and yesterday was our first fast day. These are the dishes we did. As you can see, they may have been a tad over 600 in all for me, (different references give different figures) but the point is that they were delicious and so filling we weren't hungry lunchtime today.
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Moroccan Baked Eggs
1/2 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 medium onion - chopped
1 clove garlic - sliced
1/2 teaspoon ras-el-hanout spice mix
1 pinch ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
400 g tomatoes (concassée)
2 tablespoons fresh coriander - chopped
2 large eggs
salt & pepper
Heat oil in the frying pan, add the onion and garlic and cook over medium heat for 6 to 7 minutes till softened and lightly golden.
Preheat oven to 220°C (200°C fan) Stir in the spices and cook, stirring for a further 1 minute. Add the tomatoes, season well with salt and pepper then simmer gently for 8 to 10 minutes.
Scatter over half of the coriander, then divide the tomato mixture into two oven proof dishes. Break and egg into each dish. Bake in the preheated oven for 8 t0 10 minutes and the egg whites are set but the yolks still slightly runny.
Scatter with the remaining coriander and serve forthwith.
Nutrition (per serving): 310 calories, 155 calories from fat, 17.4g total fat, 372mg cholesterol, 170.1mg sodium, 1251.1mg potassium, 24.2g carbohydrates, 6.7g fiber, 13.4g sugar, 17.3g protein.
Recipe Type: Brunch, Dairy, Vegetables, Vegetarian
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Turkey Ragout
625 g Turkey drumstick
2 cloves garlic -- peeled
15 medium shallots (or grelot onions)
3 medium carrots -- sliced diagonally
300 ml red wine
4 sprigs thyme
2 leaves bay-leaves
2 tablespoons parsley -- chopped
1 teaspoon port wine
1 teaspoon mustard , whole grain
salt & pepper
Preheat the oven to 180°C. Remove the skin (and sinews) from the turkey leg and make a few slashes in the flesh. Finely slice one of the garlic cloves and insert into the slashes. Crush the remaining garlic clove.
Transfer the leg to a large flameproof casserole or roasting pan with the shallots/grelots the carrots, garlic, wine, thyme and bayleaf. Season well with salt and pepper, cover and roast in the preheated oven for about 1¾ hours or till the turkey is cooked through.
Remove the turkey and vegetables from the casserole and keep hot. Bring the pan juices to the boil on the hob, discarding the bayleaves. Add the parsley, port and mustard and boil for 5 minutes until lightly thickened. Correct seasoning.
Carve the turkey, divide into 4 portions and serve immediately accompanied by steamed new potatoes, remembering to count the calories.
Servings: 4
Cooking Times
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 1 hour and 50 minutes
Total Time: 2 hours
Nutrition (per serving): 242 calories, 36 calories from fat, 4g total fat, 131.3mg cholesterol, 168.8mg sodium, 785.7mg potassium, 16.5g carbohydrates, 3.6g fiber, 7.2g sugar, 34.2g protein.
Recipe Type: British, Casseroles, Main Dish, Poultry
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ClimateWatch is a national program developed by Earthwatch Australia, the Bureau of Meteorology, and the University of Melbourne to better understand how climate change is affecting our wildlife. The first project of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, ClimateWatch enables every Australian to be involved in collecting and recording data that will help shape the country's scientific response to climate change.
Climate change is affecting rainfall and temperature across Australia and is consequently triggering changes in established flowering times, breeding cycles, migration movements, and other phenological changes. ClimateWatch is based on phenology, the study of periodic plant and animal life cycle events and how these are influenced by seasonal and longer-term variations in climate.
It's easy to get involved. Simply choose the mammal, bird, insect, reptile, or plant that interests you or that you would like to keep an eye on and start recording what you see online or via the ClimateWatch app. Once you've decided on a species to watch, it's a good idea to think about how you can make ClimateWatch part of your regular weekly activities and to keep a pen and paper handy to make a note of your observations on the spot.
By becoming a regular ClimateWatcher, you can contribute to the real science of climate change.
For more information, visit www.climatewatch.org.au.


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IM NEUWEG is a community-centered coworking space in Lucerne, Switzerland. It's made for creative entrepreneurs who love innovation.
Coworking Status
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What is included in the "Resident" offer?
- You get your own dedicated desk (including table, chair, etc.)
- You get dedicated storage space for private belongings
- You get your own key to enter 24/7
- Coffee for free (2 cups in average a working day)
all inclusive for 500 CHF excl. VAT
Cancellation period: 2 months (by the end of the month)
What is included in the "Coworking Light" offer?
- 1 shared desks (including table, chair)
- You don't get storage space
- You don't get a key (if you book 3 days a week, you'll get one)
100 CHF per weekday + VAT
Cancellation period: 1 month (by the end of the month)
Each offer includes: Three meeting rooms, kitchen, two toilets, whiteboard, flipchart, tables, chairs, wifi, TV, Beamer, fridge, coffee machine, boiler, printer, copy machine, living room, library, cleaning service and a lot more...
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We are passionate entrepreneurs. We do serious business. We love what we do. We are sometimes a little bit crazy.
Current coworkers include Ulrich, Martin, Michélle, Oliviér, Esther, Anna, Lukas & Pascal (www.netnode.ch) and hopefully you soon.
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Liverpool Comedy Club on Saturday 15th December 2018
The Liverpool Comedy Club at The Bentley is Liverpool's new home of live stand-up comedy offering a complete night out for you and your friends to enjoy with food, laughter and music all in the one place.
Situated in one of the city's most stunning venues overlooking the Waterfront and the Three Graces, it hosts the cream of the international comedy circuit every Saturday night and when the laughs stop the Bentley takes over with live music to enjoy into the small hours.
Comedy Tickets: £15
Comedy and meal package: £22 includes a choice of gourmet burger, 1 side of regular fries and the show
Doors 7:30pm, Latest arrival for food 8:00pm, Show 8:30pm
Important Information For Comedy and Meal Package Customers
In order to allow us to manage demand we request that customers make their burger choice at point of booking.
Because we want you to enjoy your evening it is important that all customers who are having our meal deal arrive and are seated by 8:00pm at the very latest.
Please note that doors open at 7:30pm and we regret that we may be unable to serve food to any Meal Deal Customers arriving after 8:00pm. We are unable to offer a refund for any meals not served due to late arrival.
Anyone with special dietary requirements should contact us via our website or by calling the venue 0151 2364001 before making a booking . All dietary requests must be received the Thursday prior to the show. We cannot guarantee that we can accommodate any special dietary requirements for bookings made after this time.
For more details or to contact us please visit our website at www.liverpoolcomedyclub.com or call the venue on 0151 236 4001
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"Much of our business in 2012 came as a result of our reputation for quality, reliable software and excellent customer service, the hallmarks of our corporate culture," says Michiel Ligthart, Verific's president and chief operating officer. "EDA developers continue to select our parsers so that they can focus on their core competencies and get their products to market more efficiently."
In 2012, Verific signed six new licensed customers in a mix that includes both electronic design automation (EDA) companies and integrated device manufacturers (IDMs). Several existing customers added further software to their existing product mix.
Verific's software serves as the front end to a wide range of EDA and field programmable gate array (FPGA) tools for analysis, simulation, verification, synthesis, emulation and test of register transfer level (RTL) designs. The Verific Parser Platform includes support for SystemVerilog, Verilog, VHDL and UPF, and provides C++ and Perl application programming interfaces (APIs). Verific's software is distributed as C++ source code and compiles on all 32- and 64-bit Unix, Linux and Windows operating systems.
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Verific Design Automation, with offices in Alameda, Calif., and Kolkata, India, provides parsers and elaborators for SystemVerilog, Verilog and VHDL. Verific's software is used worldwide by the EDA and semiconductor community in synthesis, simulation, formal verification, emulation, debugging, virtual prototyping, and design-for-test applications, which combined have shipped more than 40,000 copies. Corporate headquarters is located at: 1516 Oak Street, Suite 115, Alameda, Calif. 94501. Telephone: (510) 522-1555. Facsimile number: (510) 522-1553. Email: Email Contact. Website: www.verific.com.
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