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The numbers add up for Airbus' A380
In addition to its starring role at events such as the Dubai Airshow, Airbus' 21st century flagship A380 continues to receive high marks in revenue service from operators and passengers alike – furthering its reputation as the new "queen of the skies."
More than 137,000 revenue flights have been performed to date by the 110-plus A380s delivered to 10 customers so far: Air France, British Airways, China Southern, Emirates, Korean Air, Lufthansa, Malaysia Airlines, Qantas, Singapore Airlines and Thai Airways International.
Since entering commercial service in 2007, the fleet of jetliners has logged approximately 1.1 million flight hours – during which over 50 million passengers were carried. The global A380 fleet also has an average daily utilisation that is greater than 13 hours, and services 116 weekly frequencies.
Contributing to the A380's positive operator feedback is its proven ability to attract passengers, according to Airbus Head of A380 Marketing Antonio Da Costa. "The A380 generates very high load factors, with several customers quoting load factors near and above 90 per cent – which is an excellent figure for the industry," he added.
A chief reason travelers seek out A380 services is the aircraft's unrivalled comfort levels – leveraging its double-deck configuration to provide the widest seats in the industry for Economy class passengers, more personal storage, better head room and wider stairs and aisles; while incorporating additional technologies like advanced lighting systems and in-flight entertainment – for a more enjoyable in-flight experience.


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Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Injury Prevention and Safety
Cleaning bottles with bleach
To clean glass wine bottles I poured Javex into the first bottle, then after 3-4 minutes into the next, rinsing each bottle after it was empty of the bleach. I plan to soak the bottles and run then through the dishwasher before bottling the wine. I did not dilute the bleach at all. Are these bottles ok to use from a health perspective?
The bottles are okay to use after your chlorine treatment. Glass is inert and doesn't absorb any bleach, and the follow up dishwasher washing will get rid of any chlorine residue that may have remained on the glass surface.
Sharron Coplin, MS, RD, LD
Former Lecturer
Food & Nutrition
College of Education and Human Ecology
The Ohio State University

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Wow, what a great bizzare stuff! Much better than many movies homemade these days!
Wow, what a great bizzare stuff! Much better than many movies homemade these days!
This was quite the eventful movie and really did please me seeing how lengthy this was and yet still managed to keep me interested throughout the entire movie and kept a fresh sort of feeling. The voice acting was hilarious and made me crack up because it went along so nicely in sync with the flash animation. The quality, by the way, was really outstanding and seeing this with such a high score is not really a surprise seeing the really well put together comedic plot and animation and effort you put into this. Glad to see the pace of timing so long, I wish you made this into a longer series. The sound effects were also mastered quite well.
Certain scenes were sort of dragged out longer than necessary and I didn't find to be all the funny, and since the whole movie is all the same sort of style humor it's only up certain people's alley. While it does excel in every way for people that find great taste in this sort of humor it's probably a shame or a bore for people that don't really find interest or lack taste in your sort of comedic humor. Sometimes the music would kind of over blast over the voices and make it hard to hear the people talking.
A great flash that truly deserves it's unusually yet worthy high score, the animation and everything is just so well put together, it's just not certain people's cup of tea and the music kind of overtakes the voice acting at certain parts making it hard to hear. I wish this was made into a long series, awesome job man!
We can make it, man! I'm pushin' these buttons!
When I was scanning over the flash page I totally did a double take when I saw this. This animation was one of my favorite inside jokes with my roommate back in 2003, and I still quote it to this day. Epic, epic classic. How did this get in the top 50 in 2011, I wonder?
Blast from the Past
How does one review a flash that is eight years old? You can't compare it to flash made today, given changes in the tools available. And what's the point in recommending improvements to skills and techniques? Content is timeless, so I'll go for content.
This is wonderful abstract, dadaist humor. None of it makes any sense whatsoever, and it is delicious eye candy. If there is one thing that really detracts, it's the poor sound quality.
Seeing this ranked so high in 2011 made me go back and realize what a good years 2003 was for flash animation. I'd suggest to everyone reading this review to go back to that era and look.
It is great to see something old that made it into the flash portal history! This was actually not your first submission so I am not sure why it is described as being your introduction. "The Jimmy Pee Program" was earlier and in my opinion, better. The coolest thing about this was the animation. It was an extremely random cartoon that had the funniest dumb voices to move it along. It is amazing that you managed to get professional work on Conan!
Even better is how you are still making cartoons today! Back to this submission, it was wonderfully drawn and the music was great too. I have no idea what is going on, but I know the goofiness just makes it irrestible! The best part is probably the end with the party. That part really shows how well you can animate and show emotions.


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CARACAS, Venezuela — Hugo Chavez's most influential allies are projecting an image of unity while the president recovers from cancer surgery in Cuba, standing side-by-side and pledging to uphold his socialist movement no matter what happens.
But with Chavez's outlook increasingly darkening, some Venezuelans believe power struggles are brewing between ambitious lieutenants long in the president's shadow.
One-man rule has been the glue holding together Chavez's movement, and he hadn't groomed any clear successor until he surprised Venezuelans with the announcement last weekend that if cancer forced him from office he wanted his vice president, Nicolas Maduro, to take over.
The president's diverse "Chavismo" movement includes groups from radical leftists to moderates, and long-hidden divisions could flare, at least behind-the-scenes, if Chavez is no longer in charge.
"In politics, everything is possible," said Gustavo Chourio, a bookseller in downtown Caracas, adding that he expects conflict between Maduro and National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello.
Maduro leads a civilian-political wing that is considered to be closely aligned with Cuba's communist government. Cabello, a former military officer, is thought to have strong ties to the military — a relationship he highlighted when he spoke at a Mass for Chavez held at Venezuela's largest military base.
Analysts agree that political battles are likely, if not inevitable.
"It is almost certain that an intense power struggle is already under way within Chavismo," said Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue think tank in Washington.
Shifter said key figures in the president's camp, including Maduro and Cabello, have long had to suppress personal ambition as Chavez monopolized decision-making.
"With Chavez no longer on the scene, and the power vacuum exposed, the situation becomes extremely unpredictable," Shifter said. "The fact that Maduro is Chavez's designated successor gives him the upper hand for the time being, but that is unlikely to last long. The others vying for power are wily and ruthless. From the outset, the Chavez regime has been about power — including lots of money — and now all of that is up for grabs."
Maduro and Cabello, for their part, showed a united front this week by appearing together at events along with other Cabinet ministers and military commanders. Speaking alongside Cabello and Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez on Wednesday, Maduro said: "We're more united than ever."
The 58-year-old Chavez underwent his fourth cancer-related operation Tuesday after announcing that tests had found the illness had come back despite previous operations, chemotherapy and radiation treatments. The government said Thursday that Chavez suffered complications in surgery but that he was recovering favorably.
If Chavez were to die or be unable to continue in office, the constitution says new elections should be held within 30 days. If that happened before Chavez's Jan. 10 swearing-in, the president of the National Assembly would take over temporarily until elections were held.
Before his surgery, Chavez acknowledged such a scenario. He said on television Saturday night, with Maduro and Cabello seated beside him, that if he was unable to continue as president, Maduro should be elected to take his place and lead the socialist movement.
That appearance by Chavez, during a quick trip home after 10 days of treatment in Havana, was an indication that jostling for power had already begun, said Adam Isacson, an analyst at the Washington Office on Latin America think tank.
"If there were consensus, Chavez would not have found it necessary to fly home from Havana last weekend, in the middle of delicate medical treatments, to publicly name a successor," Isacson said.
In the short-term, he said, Chavez's allies know it's in their best interest to fall in behind Maduro if a new election is called, and the president's endorsement could give Maduro enough clout to lead for months or years.
"Instability could come later, if President Chavez dies and the new leader of Chavismo lacks his charisma and ability to hold the coalition together," Isacson said. "At that point, Chavismo would be likely to splinter."
For now, though, many of Chavez's supporters seem united in their concern and sympathy.
On the streets of Caracas, the government put up new banners on lampposts this week reading: "Now more than ever, with Chavez." The president's supporters wrote and painted get-well messages for him on a giant banner in downtown Caracas on Friday.
Many said that even though he seems to face long odds in his fight against cancer, they still hold out hope he might recover.
State television has been showing a collage of moments in Chavez's life, including appearances alongside Fidel Castro, snippets of his 2006 speech on the floor of the U.N. when he called President George W. Bush "the devil," and images of him rallying supporters wearing the red beret from his days as an army paratroop commander.
Some of Chavez's supporters expressed fears about political battles emerging, while others said the country's people wouldn't stand for it.
Mariana Salas, who sells orange juice and fruit at a roadside stand in the working-class slum of Petare, said she trusts that Chavistas won't turn on each other if the president dies.
"If it turns out that some of them do, they should be expelled from the party because Chavez gave a very clear order: Maduro is the man we should follow," she said.
Maduro, Chavez's longtime foreign minister and a former bus driver, has stepped into the void during Chavez's absence. On Thursday night, his voice was hoarse as he spoke at a political rally, pledging not to give in to the country's "bourgeoisie."
"I swear to you ... we will never betray the Venezuelan people!" he said, adding: "Together we're going to defend the peace, stability and the future of our children, with our own lives if necessary!"
But Maduro will find it difficult to control the various factions in Chavez's socialist party, said Vicente Torrijos, a political analyst at Rosario University in Bogota, Colombia. "Maduro doesn't have that charisma, nor the ability, much less the political capital," he said.
Torrijos expects the fervor inspired by Chavez to continue, but he predicts differences among the president's followers will eventually "disrupt the revolution." The military is likely to "influence political decisions more and more," he said.
Associated Press writers Christopher Toothaker in Caracas and Cesar Garcia in Bogota, Colombia, contributed to this report.


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The latest McClatchy-Marist poll is a tale of two very different political parties: Hillary Clinton has a huge lead among Democrats for the party's 2016 presidential nomination, while the Republicans face a melee with no clear front-runner.
One measure of Clinton's strength: Not only do 63 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independent voters in the July 15-18 poll support the former secretary of state, U.S. senator and first lady, but finishing second is "unsure" at 18 percent. Vice President Joe Biden trails at 13 percent.
As for the Republicans, here's a barometer of the fracas looming for them: "Unsure" tops the field as the choice of one-fourth of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents. Among actual potential candidates, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie leads with 15 percent, followed closely by the party's 2012 vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
In other words, while it's early, there's no true leader of this pack.
"Numerically, Christie is in front," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion at Marist College in New York, which conducted the poll.
But look closely at that roster of candidates, he said: Christie is most prominent moderate. He benefits from a field stacked with conservatives who divide that big Republican constituency.
"Christie does much better if there's a huge crowd," Miringoff said.
In Iowa, traditionally the site of the nation's first presidential caucuses, Republicans add another reason for his stature.
"He's the most known at this point," said Craig Robinson, editor-in-chief of the Iowa Republican, which follows state politics.
Paul is the son of former Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who also ran for president and had a sizable following for his libertarian views. But voters are still looking the younger Paul over. As for Rubio, many conservatives remain uneasy, citing his alliance with Senate Democrats last month to write legislation that would provide a 13-year path to citizenship for most undocumented immigrants.
The Republican who's stirred some buzz so far is Cruz, Robinson said. The freshman senator's blunt conservatism, as well as his eagerness to engage voters, has proven popular.
"He tells it like it is," Robinson said.
Few are ruling out Christie. He is regarded as able to tap an Iowa donor base and has become familiar in party circles.
Christie, though, is no favorite of many conservatives. He angered them just before last year's election when he appeared with President Barack Obama, praising the federal response to Superstorm Sandy. In May, the two appeared together again in New Jersey, as Christie renewed his praise and tossed footballs with the president.
While those appearances might help him win re-election in November, they could prove useful fodder for conservative rivals in 2016. Nearly two-thirds of Republicans said in the McClatchy-Marist poll that it was more important to have a party nominee for president who would stand up for conservative principles. About one-third said it was important to have a candidate who could win.
Being a candidate who could win was Romney's pitch when he sought the White House in 2008 and 2012. But he had a hard time convincing conservatives that he was a true believer and lost the nomination five years ago. Even last year, when he won his party's top prize, Romney struggled to generate enthusiasm among the party base.
Christie, the poll suggests, is the candidate with the best chance of beating Clinton – he trails her 47 percent to 41 percent. Clinton tops Bush 48 percent to 40 percent and has double-digit leads over Rubio, Paul, Ryan and Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
Although Clinton has neither ruled in nor out a second White House quest, she would appear to have a smooth path to the nomination. She has strong majority support from every Democratic subgroup – white, nonwhite, under 45, over 45, men, women, higher income people, lower income people and so on.
"She has two things going for her – a lot of folks who worked in her last campaign are still enamored of her. And a lot of people say, 'We made history once, and this is another opportunity,'" said Wayne Lesperance, a professor of political science at New England College in New Hampshire, which conducts presidential polls.
Clinton won the 2008 New Hampshire Democratic primary but lost the nomination to Barack Obama.
Biden, who ran unsuccessfully for the nomination in 1988 and 2008, lags far behind Clinton and fails to top 20 percent support in any category.
"The difference is in their career paths," Miringoff said.
Clinton spent most of the last dozen years as a senator and secretary of state. Biden was a senator, and since 2009, vice president, making him largely invisible and beholden to White House policy.
And the Obama connection isn't helping. The poll showed the president's job approval plummeting to 41 percent this year, its lowest level in nearly two years. And the survey found Democratic voters virtually split over whether it was more important to have a nominee who will continue Obama's policies or would move in a different direction.


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Corinthians have confirmed they hope to sign Alexandre Pato in the first week of the January transfer window.
The Brazil international has been heavily linked with a €15 million move away from San Siro over the past couple of weeks, with the Brazilian club seemingly the most likely destination.
Club chief Duilio Monteiro Alves has thrown his backing behind the potential capture and said it would be a gift to supporters ahead of the new season.
"A lot of people know about his potential on the pitch," he told ESPN Brasil.
"He is an exceptional player. Our medical department and physiotherapists are already following Pato and are going to work with him.
"We hope that in the first week of January we can give him as a gift to Corinthians' fans."
Pato has been with the Rossoneri since 2007 and has made 151 appearances for the club, though much of his time in Italy has been marred by injury.


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Kissimmee River: Can it quench Orlando area's thirst?
The Kissimmee River was chopped apart by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1960s to prevent flooding. A serpentine waterway of more than a hundred miles, featuring twists and turns called oxbows, was straightened into a channel half as long. Another chapter of that legacy was extensive ditching and draining of surrounding lands for home sites, crops and cattle. Now the river and its wetlands are being restored with a tab of about $1 billion.
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