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Aguri Suzuki is the man behind the new F1 project revealed by Honda executives during the season-ending Japanese Grand Prix weekend.
The Japanese former F1 driver and IRL entrant said his team would operate out of the former Arrows HQ in Leafield, England, where its technical director is expected to be former Arrows engineer Mark Preston. The team will use Honda's new-for-2006 V8 engine and Bridgestone tires.
However, the new entrant faces a tough challenge to make the starting grid in '06: Suzuki guessed wrong that the FIA would rescind the rule that stipulates teams must own the intellectual property rights to the cars they race, and his original plan to simply buy BAR chassis and rebrand them Super Aguri is no longer viable.
"We must abide by the rules, and we're exploring all possible options," Suzuki said. "There's no way we can compete unless there's help from BAR-Honda, but I submitted the application on Oct. 26. I won't know if it's approved until early December. If it is, I plan to have an entry confirmation presentation at the end of January or beginning of February."
Suzuki made no secret of ongoing title sponsorship negotiations with Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son, the founder of Japanese internet service provider Softbank.
Who will drive the cars? Suzuki confirmed that talks were under way with Japanese favorite Takuma Sato. Former BAR-Honda test driver Anthony Davidson has also been mentioned, as has Kosuke Matsuura, who races for Super Aguri-Fernandez Racing in the Indy Racing League.
Record attempt is on
BAR-Honda still intends to set a 250-mph Formula One speed record on the Bonneville Salt Flats, even though the surface is still too wet. The team ran its adapted (but F1-legal) V10 race car for the first time Friday, Nov. 5, on the 10,000-foot Mojave Airport runway in California. Driver Alan van der Merwe broke the 248-mph barrier several times, on his way to a best speed of 257-plus mph, as he tested various systems developed for the record-run car. The team acknowledges, however, that it may have to wait until next year to conduct the official speed run.
Formula One briefs: New qualifying format for next season; 2006 schedule released
Formula One qualifying next season will follow the new format suggested by Formula One group CEO Bernie Ecclestone, who has succeeded in getting the unpopular 2005 system dropped in favor of three short sessions. The F1 ringmaster hopes the new format will provide more entertainment for a one-hour TV broadcast.
At the end of the first 15-minute period, the slowest five cars will be eliminated, and will take the last five grid positions in the order of their lap times.
The remaining 15 cars will start over in a second 15-minute period, after which the slowest five will again be parked, and allocated positions 11-15. Finally, the 10 remaining cars will qualify in a 20-minute session. As they are now, all the cars will be placed under parc fermé conditions after qualifying until the start of the race, but teams will be allowed to add fuel.
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The 2006 F1 calendar, approved by the World Motor Sport Council, contains no surprises, listing the same 19 races as in 2005. Bahrain will start the season and Brazil (subject to a new contract at Interlagos) will end it a couple of weeks before the date that was published on the provisional calendar.
The Grand Prix of Europe at the Nürburgring and the British Grand Prix at Silverstone have both been moved forward, while the U.S. Grand Prix will take place at Indianapolis on the holiday weekend before July 4th.
Here's the whole schedule: March 12, Bahrain; March 19, Malaysia; April 2, Australia; April 23, San Marino; May 7, Nürburgring; May 14, Barcelona; May 28, Monaco; June 11, Great Britain; June 25, Montreal; July 2, Indianapolis; July 16, France; July 30, Germany; Aug. 6, Hungary; Aug. 27, Turkey; Sept. 10, Italy; Sept. 17, Belgium; Oct. 1, Japan; Oct. 8, China; Oct. 22, Brazil.


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Bantwal, March 15, 2016 : Harish Acharya, a lecturer of a college in Mangaluru, who was accused of sexually harassing one of his girl students about a year ago, has reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself at his residence at Kalladka on March 14, Monday night.
Harish who was serving the St Raymond's College of Vamanjoor had reportedly plunged into depression and was undergoing treatment for the same at Manipal Hospital.
The College management had however stood in support of Harish though students had staged a protest against the lecturer.
He was staying at Kalladka along with his brother and had ended his life when his brother was away.
|Comments on this Article
|Balakrishna Pai, Mumbai
|Tue, March-15-2016, 2:33
|His shameful act made him guilty and end life. Taking the extreme step is not the solution o all the problems. Time heals everything
|Haneef Shah, Mangaluru
|Tue, March-15-2016, 2:17
|The lecturer's guilt forced him to end his life. have respect to your work and do not spoil your image and reputation unnecessarily.
|Bhagya, vamanjoor
|Tue, March-15-2016, 2:15
|How can the college support when the teacher is behaving so? We should always take a stand to the right and not wrong?
|Gangadhar S, Mangaluru
|Tue, March-15-2016, 2:13
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Producers of the film hope that The Legend of Ben Hall will be the first in a "proposed trilogy of bushranger feature films, that will see many cast members reprising their roles as well as introducing all-new stories and characters."
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Why This Matters: On November 5, Mecklenburg County voters will have the chance to vote on the proposed quarter-cent sales tax to stabilize and transform the arts and cultural community and ensure cultural equity, as well as support parks/greenways and education.
By Valecia McDowell
ASC Board Chair
In November, Mecklenburg County residents will vote on a quarter-cent sales tax to support arts and culture, parks and greenways and education.
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If we want these benefits for our children and ourselves, how do we fund them?
Using dedicated tax revenue to fund the cultural sector is common in communities across the U.S., including Cleveland, Denver, San Francisco, Kansas City, and San Antonio. If Mecklenburg County residents vote yes, the amount of new tax revenue going to the cultural sector in Mecklenburg County will represent approximately one-half of one-percent of our total city and county spending, leaving 99.5% of our public resources available to address other important community needs such as education, health and human services, and affordable housing.
If we vote yes, together we can stabilize our existing arts organizations and greatly expand the cultural sector's work in building community, addressing racial disparities and ensuring geographic equity — all top priorities for Mecklenburg County. Together we can deliver on the promise of "Culture For All." A yes vote would provide culture for all residents, regardless of what they can afford. That means free museum days, free and reduced-fee programming, and festivals across the county. "Culture For All" also means providing programming where our residents live — not just Uptown but in neighborhoods north, south, east, and west, and in the towns of Cornelius, Davidson, Huntersville, Matthews, Mint Hill and Pineville.
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The unbelievable snaps appear to show a flying saucer-style craft floating above the ground with a helicopter hovering close by.
The five images, taken in the Californian desert, have been decribed as "the most controversial UFO photos on record".
The man – known only by the pseudonym 'Keith Bradshaw' – has released the images in a bid to discover the truth about aliens.
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Enhanced grain refinement and microhardness by hybrid processing using hydrostatic extrusion and high-pressure torsion
Piotr Bazarnik , Yi Huang , Małgorzata Lewandowska , T.G. Langdon
AbstractAn investigation was conducted to examine the microstructure and mechanical properties of an Al-5483 aluminium alloy subjected to a hybrid severe plastic deformation (SPD) process consisting of hydrostatic extrusion (HE) followed by high-pressure torsion (HPT) for up to 10 revolutions. The results are compared with those for samples processed separately by HE or by HPT. Microhardness measurements were taken on cross-sectional planes of the HE billets and on the HPT disks and in addition the microstructures were examined using transmission electron microscopy. The results demonstrate that the hybrid process of HE+HPT induces additional grain refinement when compared with HPT with average grain sizes of ~ 60 and 90 nm, respectively. Also, a significantly higher fraction of high-angle grain boundaries (HAGBs) was present after HE+HPT and the beneficial role of HE pre-processing was also apparent in the microhardness measurements. After the hybrid process, the microhardness saturated at Hv≈255 which is higher than after either HPT (Hv≈235) or HE (Hv≈160). A linear Hall-Petch relationship was maintained for coarse-grained and SPD-processed samples with high fractions of HAGBs (above 70%) while samples with higher fractions of low-angle grain boundaries showed a significant deviation from linearity.
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Have systems reforms resulted in a more efficient and equitable allocation of resources in the Ugandan health sector?
One of the claims of the sector-wide approach (SWAp) in the health sector is that improved coordination mechanisms should lead to a better allocation of resources within the sector. In particular, it is argued that the pooling of financial resources, in order to fund a coherent sector-wide plan, should lead to improved efficiency. This paper explores whether or not there is any evidence to support this assertion in the case of the Ugandan health systems reforms since 2000. It also asks if the reforms are addressing another vital performance measure, that of improving the equitable allocation of health care resources.
In: Tashobya, C.; Ssengooba, F.; Oliveira-Cruz, V. (eds), Health systems reforms in Uganda: processes and outputs, London: Health Systems Development Programme, LSHTM, chp 7 pp 109-119, ISBN: 0 902657 77 1, 2006.


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A: Jinan Shine International Trade Co.,Ltd. have been in this field for many years, our company is constantly improving the service quality to provide excellent service for customers according to the [client first" principle. We always do our best to solve all the problems and put our customer's interests in the first place. Since 1968, 50 years ups and downs, Our cooperative factory Shaanxi Automobile has developed into leader of heavy duty trucks in China!Products have been sold to more than 90 countries and regions with market network covering Africa, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East, Central and South America and other regions.
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Jinan Shine International is located in Jinan city, Shandong Province, P. R. China which is engaged in exporting forklift, heavy duty truck parts, construction machinery parts and automobile parts service. With sound accessories service system and strong support based on Ro-Ro shipment keep us moving forward constantly.
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- Product/Service: Dump Truck , Trailer Truck , Forklift , Truck Spare Parts , Construction Machinery Parts , Car Spare Parts
- Capital (Million US $): 6000000RMB
- Year Established: 2008
- Total Annual Sales Volume (Million US $): Above US$100 Million
- Export Percentage: 91% - 100%
- Total Annual Purchase Volume (Million US $): US$5 Million - US$10 Million
- No. of Production Lines: About 20
- No. of R&D Staff: Above 100 People
- No. of QC Staff: Above 100 People
- OEM Services Provided: yes
- Factory Size (Sq.meters): Above 100,000 square meters
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PORT ELIZABETH - The Makana Local Municipality in the Eastern Cape said on Thursday that Gift of the Givers had undertaken to do work entirely "on risk" in water scarce Makhanda.
The statement by the municipality comes after Gift of the Givers withdrew its services this week after it emerged that emergency funding provided by national government would only be paid to private contractors not to the relief organisation which rushed to the region's aid in the midst of a crippling drought crisis.
The Makana Municipality said it had, on a number of occasions, engaged Gift of the Givers around possible solutions to find another funding mechanism whereby the organisation could be compensated for the work they had done, "cognisant of the fact that their work was undertaken entirely on risk".
The municipality said that work undertaken by Gift of the Givers was done without thorough and rigorous due diligence that the municipality required of an outside contractor.
Gift of the Givers founder Imtiaz Sooliman had earlier said the organisation was advised that only companies from Makhanda would be paid for drought intervention work despite Gift the Givers undertaking huge emergency relief projects including the drilling of boreholes.
Meanwhile, the Department of Water and Sanitation said it had lived up to its responsibility by transferring an amount of R22 million to Makana Local Municipality for the sole purpose of assisting the municipality to deal with drought challenges.
DWS spokesperson Sputnik Rau said the department would not involve itself in any agreement between the municipality and the organisation.
On a matter of principle, Sooliman said they would leave the town, along with its Jojo tanks and filtration systems they had brought in to relieve the municipality's water crisis.
Thus far the intervention had cost them R15m, Sooliman said.
He added that R10m of taxpayers' money would now be handed out by government to other parties as remuneration for work that Gift of the Givers had already done.
In February, the organisation brought in a specialist hydrologist who struck liquid gold when he found drinking water at his first drilling attempt into a rock formation. The organisation went on to drill 15 boreholes.
Gift of the Givers arrived at the municipality at a critical time after the drought had left dams on the west critically low and some residents had been without water in their taps for weeks. On a daily basis clean drinking water was delivered to local and rural communities, the water quality of the boreholes was tested, and Jojo tanks were installed in communal areas.
Sooliman said that when they arrived on site, the organisation drew up a rescue plan and commenced the process of "saving the city" immediately.
"We advised the municipality that the cost to solve the problem will be in the region of R23m and that this will require government funding. They said the area has been declared a disaster in the government gazette and they will receive emergency funding with which they will remunerate Gift of the Givers."
According to Makana Municipality, it agreed to a deviation on the basis of the immediate and pressing need being experienced by the town. But the metro said it needed to ensure that fairness and diligence was exercised in the awarding of tenders.
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No, They Are Not Courting Gay Voters…
The Washington Post asks…
What's up with all the gay rights shout-outs at the Republican convention?
We have more questions than answers about why gay rights is a recurring theme on stage in Cleveland this week. Is this a way to try to counter GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's unpopularity among minority groups? Are Republicans trying to expand their base after the Orlando shooting, which targeted the LGBT community? Is this another signal that cultural views about gay rights are shifting in conservative circles? Does this even resonate with an LGBT community that has spent the past year batting down Republican-led policies like a game of whack-a-mole?
What you need to understand about this, about Trump's claim to be a protector of LGBT lives against Islamic violence and Newt Gingrich's amen, and the sudden burst of convention talk about LGBT people, is they are not talking to LGBT people. This is not the republican party reaching out, finally, even in a small insignificant rhetorical way, to LGBT people. They said everything they wanted to say to us in the platform.
There's nothing new about this. They are talking to heterosexuals, who might feel ashamed about voting republican, given the party's hostility to LGBT people. Perhaps they have LGBT family members, or friends, or co-workers, who they love and respect. Perhaps they just don't feel comfortable walking with bigots. What all this talk about LGBT people now is for is giving those people an excuse to vote for a man and a party that wants to take away every hard won civil right LGBT people have gained since Lawrence v. Texas. A party that, by its own enthusiastically endorsed platform would put us back into 1950s America of anti-gay witch hunts in government and the military, police raids on gay bars, censorship of gay books and newspapers, arrested for sodomy, or even just for dancing with a same-sex partner in public. On the stage last night, Trump gave them a way to vote for all of this, and still see themselves as decent people.
That's what this is about. Trump and the republicans are giving them a way to hold onto their self respect, while putting a knife in the back of their LGBT neighbors. He's giving them a way to look in a mirror and still see themselves as loving the LGBT people in their lives, not someone who sold them out in exchange for a strongman's promises.


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After years of dedicating their lives to working with students, these four faculty members will be leaving CHS. The Globe Staff has created this feature to pay tribute to our beloved staff members.
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Students revere CHS history and government teacher Debra Wiens for her energy and passion, as well as her dedication to bettering the world around her.
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Sher is retiring this year after working in the Clayton School District for a total of 13 years, five at the middle school level and eight at CHS. Before moving to St. Louis, Sher taught students of varying ages at several K-12 schools in Seattle, Washington.
Morrison has spent the past three years cultivating a relationship with the current CHS sophomores, and is preparing for a bittersweet goodbye as she prepares to retire at the end of this school year. As she approaches her final weeks, she asserts with no uncertainty that her love of the job has not dwindled in the slightest.
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Memphis May Fire is a band from Nashville, Tennessee. Their sound is a diverse, uncompromising blend of hardcore music. The group's influences combine a wide range of genres and styles, ranging from post-hardcore, to alternative music, and even emo and metal-core, just to mention a few.
The group released a well-received album titled "Broken" in 2018. With its 10 tracks, this release channels the sound and feel of artists like Circa Survive, Glassjaw. Slipknot, or The Used, combining raw energy and melodies in equal parts.
The band's balance between power and melodic sophistication definitely stands out in a live setting as well. A lot of groups in this genre tend to manufacture their tones in the studio a lot. As a result, they simply cannot recreate that same energy and big tone that fans get used to when listening to the band's studio material. Thankfully, this does not appear the case with Memphis May Fire! They can definitely hold their own and provide plenty of punch, without compromising the integrity of their songs. These musicians are talented and knowledgeable about what they are doing with their work.
The melodic vocals allow more room to breathe, and the screaming parts have enough raw power to easily stand above the pounding drums and the walls of guitars. What really strikes me about this band's performance is definitely the fact that they are so precise. Their sets are carefully organized, and they really hit it big in terms of dynamics throughout the show.
The band's songs are generally quite aggressive, with a slight progressive vein. However, there is also room to experiment with softer textures and cool ambient drones here and there, bringing a lot more depth to the band's sound. This allows the audience to experience a more cinematic connection with the band's music, adding more flame to the fire. Memphis May Fire's live show has multiple layers, which you won't normally find in a band like this.


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Tame your brain to keep your cool
IT SEEMS that emotional self-control really does come from within.
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Niels Birbaumer and Ranganatha Sitaram from the University of Tübingen in Germany found that by showing healthy volunteers the activity levels of the insula, a brain region important in emotional processing, represented in real time as a thermometer bar on a screen, the volunteers could control their …
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The PASE implementation on IBM i is not the easiest to work with! I just posted about the setting of the environment to allow the Node.js package manager and Node.js to run from any directory (On first installation you have to be in the ../Node/bin directory for anything to work) and mentioned that I was not going to add the set up to my .profile file in my home directory. First of all make sure you have the home directory configured correctly, I found from bitter experience that creating a profile does not create a home directory for it…
Once you have the home directory created you are going to need to have a .profile file which can be used to set up the shell environment. If you use the IFS commands to create your .profile file ie 'edtf /home/CHRISH/.profile' be aware that it will create the file in your jobs CCSID! So once you create it and BEFORE you add any content go in and set the *CCSID attribute to 819, otherwise it does not get translated in the terminal session. When you are working with the IFS the .xx files are normally hidden so make sure you go in and set the view attributes to *ALL (prompt the display option '5') or use option 2 on the directory to see all the files in the directory. I personally dislike the IFS for a lot of reasons so my experiences are not always approached with a positive mind set.
Once you have the file created you can add the content to the file.
export PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Again care has to be taken, if you use the edtf option you will not be able to get around the fact that IBM's edft always adds a ^M to the end of the file which really messes up the export function! I am sure there is a way to fix that but I have no idea what it is? So if you know it let everyone know so they can work around it!
Here is an alternative approach and one which works without any problems. Sign onto you IBM i using a terminal emulator (I used putty) and make sure your in you home directory, in my case '/home/CHRISH'. Then issue the following commands.
> .profile
echo 'PATH=$PATH:/QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/Node/bin' >> .profile
echo 'export PATH' >> .profile
echo 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/Node/bin' >> .profile
echo 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH' >> .profile
cat .profile
You should see output similar to the following.
export PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
When you check the IFS you will see that .profile has been created with CCSID 819. The content is correctly formatted.
Now simply end the terminal session and start it again, sign on and you should be able to run the npm -v command and see the version correctly output. If you see junk or error messages being sent when your terminal sessions starts you have done something wrong.
Now onto building a test node.js app with IBM i content 🙂


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A destination wedding reception is your chance to come together and celebrate your new marriage with your friends and family. You can take the opportunity to thank them for making the journey to attend your destination wedding by hosting a wedding reception everyone will remember.
There are many important things to consider when planning your destination wedding reception. These are a few points to think about before you begin your planning.
1. Knowledge is power.
It is important to research your destination. Understand the weather patterns and cultural differences you might encounter at your destination. Wedding experts at Brides.com insist that researching your destination before beginning to plan the reception is key.
Brides.com destination wedding experts insist, "Research your destination before booking and make sure to share any information about pertinent health, safety, accessibility and political issues with your guests. It's a little bit of extra leg work – but it not only shows guests that you care about their wellbeing, it also avoids awkwardness during your wedding weekend."
2. Understand your guests limitations.
We can all agree that your wedding day is focused on you and your S.O.; however, before you start to plan the destination wedding reception of your dreams it is important to make a list of restrictions of your guests.
Maybe you need to provide a different option that the meat buffet for your vegetarian cousins or a shellfish bar would mix badly with your mother-in-laws allergies. Offering different options to accommodate your guests demonstrates your appreciation for them and the fact that they have traveled so far to attend your wedding.
3. Serve local food to enhance the destination wedding experience
Every country has its specialties and a great way to incorporate some of the local culture is to serve food at your wedding that is popular at your destination. For example, if you decide to get married in Spain serving your guests a high quality jamon pared with Spanish wine or sangria would not only be tasty but it would allow your guests to learn more about the country you are getting married in.
An added bonus: nine times out of ten local food will be cheaper to transport to the wedding and it will taste fresher than food that has been imported from far away.


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A young woman's devotion to a childhood fantasy kingdom has taken over her entire life and causes her endless pain and degradation. Placed in a mental hospital, she has the great good fortune to have a truly caring therapist who tries to help her accept reality.
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When Paris Was Dark
The story of a young French boy during the WWII German occupation.
When five-year-old Alain, a little boy living in Paris, is strafed by German planes at the onset of the German invasion in 1940, his world is instantly turned on its head. During the next four years, like the children who fight to survive today's many conflicts around the world, he grows up fast and must be mentally strong and alert to stay safe. With limited parental support, Alain and his young friends face increasing deprivation, devastating hunger, and constant fear of the occupying Germans soldiers, with their intimidating rules and random street blockades and checkpoints. He also dreads the Allies' air raids, although he knows the bombers are on his side.
After being silent for four years, one day all the churches of Paris ring their bells to celebrate the end of the occupation, and Alain welcomes the American GIs who fought bravely to liberate him. His story—of fear and courage, despair and determination—is laced with the realism only an author who lived through the occupation himself can provide, bringing this bittersweet, beautifully rendered novel to vivid life.
About the Author: Born in Paris, as a young boy Yves Masson experienced the hardships of German occupation. After serving in the French army during the Algerian war, he left France for New York City in 1965 and became a United States citizen in the early seventies. He lived in New York, Georgia, and California, and has made Florida his home state since 2011. After working as a marketing executive in Corporate America and running his own consulting firm, Yves turned to the arts. He is an accomplished portrait artist, but he feels it is more important to share his life experiences with his readers. Yves knows what war does to people and especially to children. His ability to describe the daily fears, the devastating hunger pains, and the despair of deprivation and coercion draws his audience into the struggle for survival of his young characters.
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UPDATE: FEMA agrees to consider Missouri disaster assistance expansion
COLUMBIA — The Federal Emergency Management Agency agreed to consider expanding Missouri's initial federal disaster aid Thursday.
FEMA agreed to conduct new damage assessments in counties where newly identified damaged homes have been found, according to a press release from the governor's office.
It has also agreed to use ground teams for evaluating areas previously reviewed by helicopter, and to reevaluate the impact of insurance levels and income levels on recovery ability.
Today, the Federal Emergency Management Agency @fema agreed to our request to consider expanding last week's federal disaster declaration. FEMA agreed to reevaluate the request for inclusion of 21 counties that were denied federal assistance on July 9.— Governor Mike Parson (@GovParsonMO) July 18, 2019
The agreement comes in response to a request from The Missouri State Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday.
They requested expansion in two ways: making FEMA assistance available in 21 additional counties, and providing assistance to public agencies in 68 counties to help with infrastructure repairs.
We requested that FEMA consider including residents and businesses in Adair, Barton, Callaway, Christian, Clark, Cooper, Dallas, Douglas, Gasconade, Grundy, Harrison, Hickory, Howard, Jefferson, Laclede, Lewis, Macon, Polk, Saline, St. Louis, and Ste. Genevieve counties.— Governor Mike Parson (@GovParsonMO) July 16, 2019
"Many Missouri communities have been hit hard this year by flooding and severe storms that have damaged and destroyed homes and businesses. Public agencies have also been impacted by severe damage to roads, bridges, and public buildings," Governor Parson said. "Expanding the disaster declaration is warranted due to the extent of the damage across these additional counties and the high cost of repairs."
The request comes one week after President Trump approved FEMA assistance to the following counties: Andrew, Atchison, Boone, Buchanan, Carroll, Chariton, Cole, Greene, Holt, Jackson, Jasper, Lafayette, Lincoln, Livingston, Miller, Osage, Pike, Platte, Pulaski, and St. Charles.
SEMA said that the counties they requested help for today were previously denied in the July 9 federal disaster declaration, but new information gathered shows an increased need for assistance.
In the request, SEMA said that it, FEMA and other local agencies had identified $26 million in infrastructure damage and emergency response costs. It also cited $23 million in expenses for Missouri related to damages and other expenses.
SEMA also requested joint damage assessments for the counties of Cape Girardeau, Marion, Newton and McDonald. These assessments are being requested with the expectation that it will later request for the counties to be included in the disaster declaration.


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my first point is when we went to the Forrest behind erindale when we went we were looking for animals and different kinds of leaves and things like that taking notes on what we saw heard. we saw birds and different kinds of animal tracks. we also looked at the bark of trees seeing the different patterns of the tree bark.
burning a magnesium strip during this lab we burned a small strip of magnesium when we did this it emitted a very bright light. i learned that when some metals burn they can have some interesting results. me and my lab partner Josiah found this to be mesmerizing that such a unassuming metal would have such a violent reaction
the last point astrology specificity the formation of the universe (big bang theory) and that all mass in the universe came from one infinitesimal dying star with almost incalculable density and all at once it expanded reaching hundreds of millions of light years away in one hundredth of a second and just kept expanding still to this day although at a massively slower rate


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Fast Track worked with us extensively throughout the early stages of their relocation project, which was triggered by the fact that their building was being converted to residential apartments, so staying put was not an option. Fast Track had a set budget to work with, and we were able to partner with them to achieve the optimum solution, as well as stay within their strict budget allowance.
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Qualified auditors like you are in demand. You know that (your inbox is probably full to the brim with recruiter messages). And so do we. But we're a bit different, you see. And here's why you should choose us.
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Former Cleveland Indians player Luis Valbuena and former major leaguer José Castillo were killed in a car accident in Venezuela, Major League Baseball has confirmed.
Valbuena played infield for the Tribe from 2009-2011. He was acquired in the three-team, 11-player trade between the Indians, Mariners and Mets in 2008. After his tenure with the Indians, he went on to have a long career with the Cubs, Astros and Angels.
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Katie Couric visited Sanford "Sandy" Markowitz, MD, PhD, professor and researcher of cancer and genetics, and his research team in his lab to gain a better understanding of the day-to-day research necessary for advancements in colon cancer.
The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric anchor and managing editor received a warm welcome from the researchers, who provided Couric with hands-on training. They also informed her of the various research projects being conducted in the Markowitz lab at Case Western Reserve University Department of Medicine.
The touching visit brought together Couric and Markowitz, who have been working together for years to improve colon cancer screening, and ultimately the disease. Couric's late husband, Jay Monahan, succumbed to the disease in 1998.
Couric went on to help co-found The Entertainment Industry Foundation's National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance, which has raised awareness and funding for colon cancer research.
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CHICAGO, IL, Feb. 18, 2009--As the economy continued to slow, Cambridge Realty Capital Companies reports processing 27 loan origination requests totaling $364.6 million in January.
Chairman Jeffrey A. Davis (top right photo) said the company processed about the same number of loan requests in 2008, but the dollar volume for the current year was substantially below the $538.4 million tally for the same month last year.
Cambridge is one of the nation's leading senior housing/healthcare lenders, with more than $2.75 billion in closed transactions since the mid-1990s. Davis points out that lenders close a relatively small percentage of origination requests received but believes it's useful to track this information as an indication of market directions.
"What the data tells us is that borrowers haven't lost interest. But its obvious there's been a drop in transaction size, with fewer new construction mega-projects in the mix to skew the volume total," he noted.
"This trend has begun to settle in place over the past six months," he added.
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Ambiguity as a Resource for DesignPosted: May 6th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Gaver, B., Beaver, J. and Benford, S. Ambiguity as a resource for design. in Bellotti, V., Erickson, T., et al. eds. Proceedings of CHI 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, ACM Press, New York, NY, 2003.
In HCI ambiguity is often perceived as the nemesis of usefulness and usability. Instead of regarding ambiguity as a problem, the authors suggest that it can be sees as an opportunity in the context of emerging application for everyday life (alternatives to task-oriented forms of ubiquitous computing). Indeed, ambiguity can make a virtue out of technical limitations by providing the grounds for peoples interpretations to supplement them.
Ambiguity is an attribute of the interpretation of fuzziness or inconsistency. Things themselves are not inherently ambiguous. However, they may give rise to multiple interpretations depending on their precision, consistency and accuracy on the one hand, and the identity, motivations, and expectations of an interpreter on the other.
The authors distinguish three principal kinds of ambiguity: ambiguity of information, of context and of relationship. Ambiguity of information is of prior interest with my focus on spatial uncertainty. Gaver et al. provide an example of Bystander, a mixed reality game in which mobile player's location is tracked using GPS data, which is prone to errors:
Thus the issue is not 'What does this display mean?' but 'Do I trust it?' – that is, how does the display correspond with reality?
The traditional response to ambiguity of information in interactive systems like Bystander is to improve the technology, use statistical methods to set certainty thresholds, or ignore it and hope for the best. Bystander, in contrast, passes the ambiguity directly to players in the form of fuzzy avatars that hint at locations without specifying them. Rather than seeing uncertain GPS information (in this instance) as a flaw, Bystander treats this ambiguous information as a challenge to users, forcing them to join their knowledge of people and cities to the clues offered by the system to play the game.
There a different tactics to use ambiguity and compel people to join in the work of making sense of a system and its context:
- Use of imprecise representation to emphasize uncertainty: display information that is physically or conceptually blurred.
- Over-interpret data to encourage speculation: draw attention to possible truths rather than simple untruths
- Cast doubt on sources to provoke independent assessment: Over-interpretation and inconsistency are special cases of increasing ambiguity by casting doubt on sources of information.
- Expose inconsistencies to create a space of interpretation: the juxtaposition of incompatible elements require viewers to build their own meanings form the display.
Exposing inconsistency between sources of information (e.g. external sensors) can also be a powerful alternative to trying to resolve or hide it. For instance, just as the uncertainties of GPS tracking in Bystander are shown to participants, so are inconsistencies revealed between GPS and spoken information. By crafting the inherent limitations of the technology into the user experience, they become a means to heighten narrative intrigue by opening a space of possibilities that participants must navigate.
Relation to my thesis: The traditional response to ambiguity of information is to improve the technology. Enhancing ambiguity of information is a design tactic is a step beyond seamful design, because it challenges the users to participate in making meaning. It focuses on creating or reflecting uncertainties about information that are noticeable to people. In my context, I try to understand how uses can cope with inaccurate sensors, inexact mappings and low-resolution displays. Encouraging them to supplement uncertainties with their own interpretations and beliefs raises questions on in what context and how much workload can we transfer to the users. How much transfer can be imposed and how much can be suggested? Nevertheless, I share the approach of using ambiguity to leverage immersion in the task while keeping a certain independence (doubt) to the system.


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In another video described in the research a girl aged about 10 is "crying and clearly extremely distressed" as she repeatedly shakes her head at an unknown individual communicating with her over the internet, before she strips naked.
"Comments made in relation to this video on the site on which it had been posted say this video is an example of a 'sextortion' video, whereby a child is blackmailed on the basis of sexual content they have shared with the blackmailer," said the report.
"However, an analysis of the devices used to create the content depicting children aged 15 years or under showed that 573 (85.9 per cent) of the images and videos had been created using a webcam." Susie Hargreaves, IWF chief executive, said: "Far removed from 'selfies', taken and shared between young people in relationships, this shows children and young adults displaying sexual behaviour via web cam to one or many individuals.
"We've observed children doing this often from a bedroom or bathroom.
One video described in the report featured a girl aged about seven who was heavily made up and dressed in underwear exposing herself.
The girl says: "Mum might see it and get worried and you know, like, delete my account." Another video of "extremely sexually explicit" acts featured a girl aged about 12.
But an IWF spokesman said in some cases the material was secretly recorded on internet video calling services and then posted by a third party.
"Of particular concern is that the young people depicted took no steps to conceal their identity or location, even in many cases using their real names "In some instances, it is apparent that this content is being knowingly created to appear on public websites." Nine out of 10 of the explicit videos and images were created using a webcam, usually on a home computer, which the study said challenged the traditional view of such content being produced on mobile phones.
"Traditional definitions of 'sexting' and 'self-generated sexual content' have focussed on the use of mobile devices such as phones as being the primary method for creation and onward distribution of the content," it said.
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