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Chase Carey
Chase Carey
|Alma mater
|Colgate University
Harvard University
|Vice chairman of 21st Century Fox
Executive Chairman & CEO of the Formula One Group
Chase Carey (born 22 November 1953) is an Irish-American executive. He is the chief executive officer and executive chairman of the Formula One Group.[1][2] Carey is the Vice Chair of 21st Century Fox. He has previously worked for News Corp, DIRECTV and 21st Century Fox and Sky plc. He has been married for over 27 years and has a son and a daughter. He is the new head of the Formula One Group, succeeding Bernie Ecclestone.
Carey received his bachelor's degree from Colgate University and an MBA from Harvard, where he was a member of the Harvard Business School Rugby Club. While attending Colgate he joined the Delta Upsilon Fraternity and was a member of the Colgate University Rugby Football Club. Today, Carey is a Trustee Emeritus of Colgate University.
Early career with Fox[edit]
Carey first came to work with Fox, a News Corporation holding, in 1988.[3] Over the course of the following decade he served as COO of Fox, Inc., and CEO of Fox Broadcasting Company. During this time he helped launch both Fox Sports and Fox News. He also served as co-COO of News Corporation, along with Peter Chernin.
During the time that Carey was working for News Corp, the company purchased a 34% controlling interest in Hughes Electronics, which at the time owned DirecTV, a satellite TV provider.[4] Carey had already served on the DirecTV board of directors,[5] and in 2003 he was appointed CEO.
At DirecTV, Carey had plans to add 1 million new subscribers a year,[6] and had met that goal when he left the company six years later.[7] Carey's tenure at DirecTV was widely considered successful, and the company returned to profitability.[8]
In 2006, News Corporation sold its controlling interest in DirecTV to Liberty Media, in exchange for News Corp shares.
Return to News Corporation[edit]
In June 2009, it was announced that Carey would be leaving DirecTV and returning to News Corp. He assumed the posts of President and COO that had been held by Chernin,[9] as well as the post of Deputy Chairman.
In August 2011 Rupert Murdoch tipped Carey to be his successor as CEO of News Corporation. It was previously assumed that Murdoch's son James would succeed him.[10] In 2013, Carey was announced as the COO of 21st Century Fox, the legal successor of News Corporation and the owner of most of its film and television properties, News Corporation's print media and Australian assets being spun off as News Corp. In 2015, Carey was re-assigned as executive co-chairman,[11] while James Murdoch became CEO. Carey resigned this position in July 2016 to become a consultant to Fox.[12]
Formula One[edit]
On 23 January 2017, Carey was installed as CEO and Executive chairman of Formula One Group after Liberty Media completed their $4.4 Billion acquisition of Formula One Group.
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- ^ "Liberty completes F1 acquisition". Formula1.com. 23 January 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
- ^ http://www.newscorp.com/news/news_420.html
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- ^ https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/10/us-newscorp-idUSTRE77967X20110810
- ^ http://www.businessinsider.com.au/fox-news-boss-roger-ailes-demoted-2015-6
- ^ https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=393707&privcapId=91031
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External links[edit]
- Executive profile at Bloomberg Businessweek
- Profile and collected coverage at Forbes
- Collected coverage at The Wall Street Journal
- Chase Carey on IMDb
- Campaign contributions at Newsmeat.com and at FundRace
- Forbes Profile
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- On Saturday, Kurt Angle celebrated his four year anniversary of remaining sober. Regarding this, the Raw General Manager posted the following on Instagram.
Angle's struggle with addiction is well-documented. Prior to the 1996 Summer Olympics, Angle fractured two of his cervical vertebrae but was able to wrestle by receiving Novocaine injections in his neck. Angle eventually became addicted to Vicodin and was taking 65 extra-strength Vicodin a day at the height of his addiction. After he moved from WWE to TNA in 2006, he began mixing his medication with alcohol and his life spiraled out of control.
During a Reddit AMA in March, Angle said his wife, Giovanna, threatened to leave him if he didn't clean himself up.
"[She said], 'Listen, I love you, but you have had 4 DUI's already. I love you but I can't stay with you. I can't live like this. You pass out every night at 7 o'clock and you don't spend any time with the kids,'" Angle recalled when asked about his lowest moment.
That's when Angle realized he had to turn his life around.
"She wanted me," Angle said. "She wanted the Kurt Angle that she knew. So I decided to check into rehab. That's where my rock bottom came."
- At tonight's WWE live event in Ottawa, Ontario featuring SmackDown LIVE talent, Baron Corbin came out to a new theme song. You can hear a snippet on WWE's Snapchat.
- In John Cena's latest "Hard Nocks South" video documenting his various workout routines in his gym of the same name, the WWE Superstar increases weight on cleans and squats.

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William Barr, PhD, is the Chief of Neuropsychology at the NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and an Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine. Among his clinical duties include neuropsychological assessments, Wada tests, and brain mapping procedures on patients undergoing surgical treatment for epilepsy.
He also specializes in neuropsychological assessment of patients with memory disorders resulting from brain injury, dementia, psychiatric disorders, and medical illness.
His primary research interests include memory and other aspects of cognitive and behavioral functioning in epilepsy.
VIDEO RECORDINGS OF PAST LECTURES ARE AVAILABLE ON THE FACES WEBSITE: http://faces.med.nyu.edu/
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AgentSpeak is an agent-oriented programming language. It is based on logic programming and the BDI architecture for (cognitive) autonomous agents. The language was originally called AgentSpeak(L), but became more popular as AgentSpeak, a term that is also used to refer to the variants of the original language.
In 1996, Anand Rao created a logic-based agent programming language based on the BDI architecture and named it AgentSpeak(L).[1] This became a highly cited paper in the multi-agent systems literature. In its original conception, AgentSpeak was an abstract agent programming language aimed to help the understanding of the relation between practical implementations of the BDI architecture such as Procedural Reasoning System (PRS)[2] and the formalisation of the ideas behind the BDI architecture using modal logics.[3]
Various authors contributed to the further formalisation of the AgentSpeak(L) language, for example.[4] In recent years, the language has been revived both in research and development. In terms of research, there has been work both on extensions of AgentSpeak[5][6][7] as well as on formal verification of AgentSpeak programs using model checking.[8][9] The language is also one of the most popular agent-oriented languages because of the development of the Jason platform.
AgentSpeak(L) is also the most prominent means for developing the solution for the Multi-Agent Programming Contest from the beginning of the competition up to the recent edition.
See also[edit]
- Autonomous agent
- Software agent
- Cognitive architecture
- Multi-agent systems
- Jason (multi-agent systems development platform)
- Distributed Multi-Agent Reasoning System
- Procedural Reasoning System
- ^ Anand S. Rao, 1996. AgentSpeak(L): BDI Agents Speak Out in a Logical Computable Language. Proceedings of Seventh European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World (MAAMAW-96).
- ^ Michael P. Georgeff, Amy L. Lansky: Reactive Reasoning and Planning. AAAI 1987: 677–682
- ^ A.Rao and M.Georgeff. Decision Procedures for BDI Logics. Journal of Logic and Computation 8(3), 293–343 (1998).
- ^ Mark d'Inverno, Michael Luck: Engineering AgentSpeak(L): A Formal Computational Model. J. Log. Comput. 8(3): 233-260 (1998).
- ^ R.H.Bordini, J.F.Hubner, M.Wooldridge. Programming Multi-Agent Systems in AgentSpeak Using Jason. John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
- ^ Rafael H. Bordini, Álvaro F. Moreira: Proving BDI Properties of Agent-Oriented Programming Languages. Ann. Math. Artif. Intell. 42(1–3): 197–226 (2004)
- ^ Renata Vieira, Álvaro F. Moreira, Michael Wooldridge, Rafael H. Bordini: On the Formal Semantics of Speech-Act Based Communication in an Agent-Oriented Programming Language. J. Artif. Intell. Res. (JAIR) 29: 221-267 (2007)
- ^ Rafael H. Bordini, Michael Fisher, Willem Visser, Michael Wooldridge: Model Checking Rational Agents. IEEE Intelligent Systems 19(5): 46–52 (2004).
- ^ Rafael H. Bordini, Michael Fisher, Willem Visser, Michael Wooldridge: Verifying Multi-agent Programs by Model Checking. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 12(2): 239–256 (2006)
External links[edit]
- AgentSpeak on SourceForge.net is an interpreter for an extension of AgentSpeak.


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I hate feminism sometimes. One of the problems is that women characters create a huge number of problems, especially if the writer happens to be male. The big issue is the equality issue; on one hand, we are expected to treat all characters equally. This means that, to my mind, I should be able to have something bad happen to all my characters, regardless of race, gender, philosophical stance, or whatever qualifying trait applies, as long as there is a good reason for it. If I want a character to die, I should feel absolutely no remorse killing that character. If I want the character to be tortured, I should enjoy coming up with a great torture for that character. If I want…well, you get the idea.
On the other hand, however, I need to be aware that there is a site out there that tallies anything bad that happens to women. If anything bad happens to a female character, it is treated as some sort of singling out of that character, not because she happened to draw the short straw of suffering that day, but because she's a woman. It doesn't matter if it's a hangnail or she ends up with an iron bar through her chest, she'll end up on the list.
This is a ridiculous constraint.
If you look through the list posted, it makes for some fun reading. Admittedly it's a partial listing, and the issues are summarized, but there are some interesting injuries. My personal favorite has to be Captain Marvel II, who "ceded code-name to male hero"; the person she ceded it to was the original's son after he tried to give it to her (yes, Monica just has that much class). I also feel sorry for those that were sent to Limbo due to Crisis on Infinite Earths, or replaced by a male character in order to develop a gay romantic subplot (Shvaughn Erin, we were just getting to love you!). Yes, there are also prostitutes, brood mares, and even turning really ugly, and turning evil seems to be a major occupational hazard. Yes, it sucks to be a comic book heroine.
But let's get real here: If we threw everything on the list into one character, for some guys it would be an average week; if it was Spiderman, it would be an average afternoon. Sterility? How many cyborgs have replacement from the waist down? And that's including guys turned into sterile monsters or other substances, like Wildfire (energy) or Simon Williams (The Vision, sort of). There are a couple of non-80's heroines that were abused as kids; okay, that's only happened to few on either side of the fence, but it has happened to guys (poor Spiderman). Cancer? Really? Addicted to drugs shows up a few times, yet I see no reference to Demon (Justice Machine) or Speedy. Impregnation is something men can't suffer from as much as women, but I'd like offer to castration in its place, such as that done on every male captured by the Amazons on Flashpoint. And that's ignoring embarrassment scenes (seems like every male character has been forced to strip in public, and we won't talk about a certain lost bet by Hulk and Iron Man, or the Ultimates Giant Man), forced sex, and any number of weird problems (poor Prime; he's thirteen, his girlfriend is thirteen, but he looks 30; makes for some interesting discussions).
I think it's very reasonable to say that if men haven't suffered in the same quality as women, they've more than made up for it in quantity.
I am not by any stretch saying that either gender is suffering the most. What I am saying is that if women are to be used as characters, then they need to suffer just as much as the guys. If we are going to be allowed to have women in comics, there are going to be some times when women will suffer, and it's not necessarily going to be pretty. We, as writers, need to be able to kill off women with reasonable impunity, or we may as well as not use them. It makes no sense to have characters that are just tokens and not be able to make their lives just as much as hell as the guys. If we want to kill off the girlfriends to raise the emotional stakes we need to be able to do that as well. Trust me; the guy s will suffer just as much; with more women characters come more boyfriends in danger; just ask Steve Trevor about his oh-so-safe life as Wonder Woman's beau.
I'm not asking for much; I'm just asking for the right to kill off a few people for dramatic effect now and then. Is that so wrong?


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What Wasn't Discussed
So the debates are over and the race is where it was several months ago. The president has between a 60 percent and 7o percent chance of being re-elected. And the debates did include real exchanges on important issues like the nuclearization of Iran, our mounting debt, and growing inequality (sort of). But I'm somewhat shocked that two issues that may be more important than any of those weren't discussed. Here are two questions I wish were asked:
1. For the past year, Europe has teetered on the brink of economic disaster. Governor Romney, you've invoked Greece several times as a warning to the United States. But what would each of you do if Greece leaves the Euro zone and precipitates a depression in Europe?
2. This is one of the warmest years in the past century. It comes in the midst of the warmest decade in centuries. Wildfires and droughts are becoming more common and scientific consensus is that carbon emissions are to blame. If you win this election, what would each of you to do combat (or adapt to) climate change?
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The Google Pixel 2 and 2 XL are expected to be announced today as the follow up to last year's Pixel phones. Most of the specs about the phones have leaked ahead of the event. Google partnered up with HTC and LG to make the phones this time, but they'll be similar in design as the original Pixel devices.
Google will be offering financing options to pay monthly, where you can pay for the device over 24 months.
Here's what the leaks have told us so far. Of course, some of this could be out of date or incorrect. We'll get the definite specs at today's event.
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The main difference between the two devices is the screen size. The Pixel 2XL will have an inch on the original Pixel. Neither of the phones are expected to launch with a headphone jack, which is a surprising move since Google poked fun at Apple for removing its headphone jack in last year's Pixel Commercial. The devices are expected to have minimal bezels surrounding the screen.
Features expected for the devices include Ambient Display Always On as a setting, allowing the phone's screen to display information even when it's locked.
The devices are also expected to launch with water resistance and two front speakers.
Analysts expect low sales for the devices because of the underwhelming technology compared to competitor phones releasing this year.
The main advantage that Google has had over competitors is the fact that they don't build anything over the Android operating system, which allows phones to get updates and security patches faster. Essential, Lenovo and Nokia are now also adopting that strategy and can sometimes be quicker with updates than Google.
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The comedian will perform at Park Community School, in Middle Park Way, Havant on Friday, September 25.
The notorious prankster recently hit the headlines after he got into a Fifa press conference at the footballing body's headquarters in Zurich.
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Issue #51, October 2000
The computer, the collapse of communism, and the millennial anniversary of the birth of Christ are all topics of much discussion in recent years. The fact that these subjects arise at the same historical moment presents an opportunity for us to examine how they are connected and what these connections mean.
We are constantly reminded that this is the "Age of Information." But after many such ages -- the Machine Age, the Atomic Age, and so on -- one is tempted to call this era the "Age Age" simply because we seem to have become so fond of giving the particular time in which we live a name that sounds important. To speak of Ages is to speak of a spans of years. Because in recent centuries the world has had to accept (in many cases unwillingly) the Christian dating system, it would be more accurate to call this the Age of the Messiah. Further, there is more to this name than superficial chronological significance. The concept of a redeemer, a liberator, or a deliverer is much closer to the state of mind that is prevalent today than is the innocuous and ambiguous term information. Whether or not one accepts Jesus as our savior, the idea that we need to, and will, be saved has been the fundamental idea of Western society since long before Christ. In fact, the idea began with Zoroaster and was refined by the Jews but only came to global dominance with the conquest of most of the world by Christian countries.
This idea of redemption contains within it many assumptions that most of us make without question. Redemption means there is a future. It means there is change. It means that awaiting us there is a better world in which the suffering of the present is eliminated. In the Enlightenment, the worship of Christ as bringer of redemption was supplemented by humanist conceptions of redemption that led to the French and American revolutions and their designation of the "People" as the highest earthly authority (beneath God). In Enlightenment thought, the People would deliver themselves from the inequities and iniquities of monarchy, autocracy and religious dogma.
Subsequently, Marxism took this humanism to its logical conclusion and specifically identified the redemptive future as a classless, stateless society in which all humanity shared the wealth it produced in common. This vision is not unlike the vision Christ is purported to have preached. But regardless of these developments of form -- as significant as they are -- the substance of Messianic thinking remained the same. And now it is embedded in the contemporary discussion and promotion of the computer.
The promises made by the apostles of these new electronic devices bear a striking resemblance to the promises made by religious and political leaders. They can be reduced to two basic visions: freedom from work, and a better life. It takes a real leap of faith to believe that computers, or the Internet, have the capability to make these promises true. But such a leap of faith is precisely what we are all being cajoled and entreated to make every day. The skeptics are offered a carrot: the temptation of acquiring vast riches in the stock market; and a stick: the specter of being 'left behind', a condemnation that implies poverty, social ostracism, and personal irrelevance. Following a century that witnessed the horrors wrought by the Atomic Bomb, the Holocaust, and massive environmental destruction, people can be excused if they have become less than enamored with science and technology. It is hard to argue the unambiguous good of 'progress' in a world where the results of virtually all such claims have been -- without exaggeration -- catastrophic. The fact that tools are useful does not necessarily make them liberating. No device automatically, by itself, guarantees freedom from work or a better life. The fact that the new tools (computers, the Internet) are useful does not make them an exception in the history of tools. But the sales pitch is an exception to those that have come before, and it is far more insidious than the pitch made by washing machine manufacturers and vacuum cleaner salesmen (although the housewives of America were promised an end to the drudgery of their lives in advertising campaigns in the '50s).
This is where the three-way relationship between the collapse of communism, technology, and liberation becomes evident. First of all, the computer and the internet were both developed by the US government long ago with taxpayers' dollars. Initially, their main application was in military use. But later they were used by business, science, academics, and specialized fields such as graphic design and music and film production. Their ideological and propagandistic function was secondary. This function was developed during the eighties when Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were promulgating policies designed to address the West's stagnant economies and falling rates of profit. Vast transfers of wealth were engineered at the governmental level whereby these problems could be, at least temporarily, alleviated -- at the expense of the masses, of course. These policies were implemented in the name of the free market, and were full of rhetoric that had been largely discredited during the sixties regarding the liberatory character of the capitalist system. It was capitalism, we were reminded, that gave the workers leisure time and the wherewithal to travel and enjoy the good life as opposed to the drab, gray, gulag of the communist east. Though the Soviet and Chinese revolutions had long since ceased to be beacons of light for the world's oppressed, they still played an important role in the tenuous balance of power worked out in the wake of World War II. The unexpected collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 left the US and its G7 partners in the embarrassing position of having to deliver on their promises of freedom from work and a better life that they had dangled in front of the populace to mobilize them as producers, consumers, and soldiers. This was a tough task made tougher by the fact that every evil necessitated by this system is justified by the promise of JOBS! Now the world was safe for democracy. But for most of us in the triumphant West things didn't look much different than they had before the eighties. In fact, since the Reagan era more and more of the US has looked like a third world country, with poverty and despair bursting from the widening cracks in the edifice of opportunity. This is where computers begin to play their role in the ideology of capitalism.
Along came these new gadgets that are manufactured for peanuts in Malaysia and sell like hotcakes in America. Around the time of Clinton's reelection the hype promoting computers' liberatory promise got hot. Just to keep up appearances, we were originally promised the 'information superhighway,' inherently democratic, available to all and more or less for free. (One of the peace dividends -- remember them?) But who says 'information superhighway' any more? Now it's all about e-commerce. And it's expensive. But regardless, the underlying theme of the public dialogue about computers is that this technology will mean liberation. Even more, liberation is this technology! Because in the absence of an enemy, or rather, without another world war to fight, capitalism is faced with a classic crisis of overproduction. Lacking a massive destruction that our society can busy itself rebuilding from, some other kind of huge infrastructural project must be substituted. This is the liberation represented by all the technological ramifications of computers, the Internet, telecommunications, and digitalization in general. A complete, worldwide infrastructural retooling. But how to enlist the masses in this project when the benefits will all accrue to the giant corporate entities that own virtually everything? We need to be convinced that among the many marvels offered by these new things is the magical quality of happiness. As the market is 'freed,' so will we be freed. As the communications revolution expands, so will our lives be revolutionized.
From a historical perspective, such assertions are absurd. We are therefore given a choice (this is a free country, right?) to reject history or reject such assertions. It is America's gift to the world that the past can simply be put behind us with a wave of the hand and an enthusiastic, "Westward Ho!" Because there is no more "Westward" to "Ho," we now have cyberspace. Because there is no freedom from work we have jobs -- more than we could ever want. Because there is no better life, we have endless entertainment; fantasy lives that allow us to escape the real lives that are not getting better. And this is not mere rhetoric. This is exactly what is happening.
In a moral sense, the perversity here is the Lie. This liberatory promise of computers is a deliberate falsehood that is being broadcast night and day in every conceivable format and medium. Advertising itself is a kind of lying, so this should come as no surprise. But what becomes of a society that is so thoroughly saturated with deception? How can relations between actual people in such a society be clean and healthy? How can young people form the ideals with which to envision a different kind of social relations? How can their parents advise and guide them?
In a political sense, there will be a reckoning and it will not be too far off. Because liberation still does mean to set free from imprisonment or oppression. Because revolution still does mean to overthrow rulers. Because the vision of social justice and an egalitarian distribution of the fruits of human labor is what the Messiah promised, and people still invest their hopes and aspirations in that promise. Because no machine ever liberated anyone anywhere.
In spite of the awe that new technologies may inspire, they cannot, in and of themselves, change the way people treat each other. That is the real task before us. Tools can be useful if the purpose of their use is clear. But as Bob Marley once sang, "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds."
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A Systems Reliability Approach to the Safety of Steel Connectionsby Janice J. Trautner, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States,
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A methodology is presented to determine the probability of failure of steel connections using a systems approach. Results indicate that connection safety evaluations which do not use this approach may not be conservative.
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Discussion in 'HTC Droid Incredible' started by armeddroid, Apr 19, 2010.
Wow, better then the Droid?!
Droid Incredible review - Engadget
thanks for the link... engadget put up a decent review... but maybe they could've tested the phone for an extra day... seems like they wrote that up a few hours after getting the phone, haha
Better than a stock Droid? I would guess maybe due to the tighter integration and tweaks in Sense UI + Android 2.1. As for better than a Droid after the Droid is rooted? I would have to say no to that. In any case both phones stand on their own merit and the Droid still has a ton to offer as well when compared to the Incredible.
Man i have been having problems trying to log in. WTH?
Anyways, on this post I was actually kinda surprised that they did such an review after just a few hours.
And to make such bold statements right off the top?
they said they had it for a "few days" but i call BS...
Also they said in this review that this AMOLED display is hard to read in the direct sunlight vs another review saying that the can read it well..
Reviews like that make me think 'payoff'. I didnt see one negative remark on the thing at all and I can always find at least one thing.
looks like a good review to me. it shouldn't really take that long to review this phone seeing as they have extensive experience with android 2.1 via the droid, nexus, desire, and legend. maybe not completely objective, but they are contrasting it against all the aforementioned phones which also got very good reviews...
the things they did point out that may become more glaring issues...battery life is worse than the nexus? which already has questionable battery life (ugh)...screen viewing in bright sunlight, a known issue with amoled...lack of dedicated camera button (a convenience on the droid)...the contoured back may be a love or hate, they say it actually is a bit functional, guess we'll see...they didn't mention if the camera glass was flush with the camera bezel, if so that will be a problem with scratches and/or dings.
all in all it looks like the incredible will be a very good android phone worth taking a look at. the nexus is more evenly paired when it comes to form factor and features, but the droid has a few features that it just can't match. the droid has a keyboard, automatic launch of navigation when in car dock, dedicated camera button, and solid build quality. looking forward to trying out the incredible though.
Not seeing it is better (ATM), due to a few key issues that are common in other reviews of Inc:
1. Two bars less signal than Droid & dancing bars (the phone function is important, of course)
2. Battery life is significantly less than Droid
3. Internal space can not be read by apps
The signal issue is a killer for me. I may get the Droid, especially since will likely be free with two year contract, at end of month.
You might want to try re-reading the review.
"...Because these displays are the same, it means they share the same issues; we disliked the color intensity on the Incredible just as we did on the Nexus One. Reds and oranges, in particularly, look overwhelmingly saturated here, and other colors aren't truly represented. It's just too colorful, if you can believe it. Another somewhat major issue that we struggled with on the Incredible (just as we did on the Nexus One) was the awful screen visibility in bright daylight. We had numerous occasions where we simply could not answer a call or take a picture due to the AMOLED display's poor showing outdoors. In overcast settings (such as the one above) it was usually bearable, and If you crank the brightness all the way up on sunnier days you can get some visibility, though once you're outside and can't see the display, that's a bit of a challenge. In all honesty, we love certain aspects of these screens, but we're perplexed as to why HTC continues to use this same display when it's clear the daylight performance is hamstrung..."
i don't think this was a "pay-off" review either; i just felt it was rushed for the sake of beating out other tech sites (*Ahem* gizmodo, etc)... but it was a good read nonetheless
In my opinion, I think what's happening is too many of these new phones are being created in each others vision more or less, so there are only slight differences that usually come down to user preference. I also call bs on this thing being way ahead of anything else. The only thing that stands out about it is the internal storage which apparently has quirks, and the 8MP camera. These two characteristics wont allow it to hold the top spot for much longer as all the new Android phones will likely include these things as well. We were all blown away to hear the Nexus One would have a 1Ghz processor, now all the new ones have that pretty much. I'd rather wait until my contract is up in like 15 months and get the next "milestone" in mobile technology vs. a small step forward today.


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I think big businesses benefit from donating to any type of charity, period. They are showing the public, which is full of potential investors, customers, and employees, that they care about something more than their own profits. They are helping better the world by donating something that they can afford to part with. A charity that helps the poor get back on their feet has the added bonus that the business is directly helping people better their lives.
Contributing to charities that make quality of life upgrades available, even to the poorest of people, would likely make those people more productive, healthier and longer lived. The more money and better quality of life the poorest people have, the more money can be spent on the things those companies offer.
When poor people become able to participate in the global economy, they remain loyal to brand names and companies that helped them have a better life. I saw this, myself, in South Korea. To this day, Sanka is the coffee of choice there. Some was donated during the initial conflict. Even when donating products and services that a company doesn't sell, this same benefit could be had. By associating their company with the support of a charity, generations of loyalty could be established. These types of humanitarian gestures aren't lost on consumers of influence, either. Even with minimal publicity, consumers often become aware of charitable donations by large companies. I know people who shop on the basis of how giving large businesses are.
Big businesses that give to charities that help make quality of life upgrades affordable to the poor can benefit by these actions. I believe that they can use that to help with their public image, and in the big world of public opinion. It also sets an example for others to follow, and sets them as leaders with heart and compassion for others. It is also a nice tax break, and large companies are always looking for a tax break.
Many large businesses and corporations donate to charities to help the poor. This is because these businesses also receive a benefit in the form of good public relations. People, for example, may go out of their way to do business with a corporation they see as also helping out the poor. In addition, by donating to the poor the businesses reduce the need for government to provide assistance, which is usually paid for by taxes that can hurt business.
Many big businesses lose all concept of relationship. Individuals become dollars and they lose a relational level, but at this point big businesses are not helpless to gain back a feeling of relationship with individuals. Contributions such as the one mentioned here can be a great way to secure again a relational connection with individuals, communities, etc.
While charitable work should never be done with an ulterior motive, this type of charitable behavior would likely pay dividends for big business. If they are helping to reach down and pull people out of the slums, then those people are likely, in turn, to be able to consume things that these big businesses create for their consumption to a much larger degree. In this scenario, everyone wins.
In purely financial terms, big business can make charitable donations which can then be written off against their taxes. It makes them appear "human", and would help create a positive image for the company. On a wider scale, by contributing to charities and improving the quality of life, everyone benefits in the long run when people become better off and better educated. There is a parallel with the philanthropic industrialists of the industrial revolution who believed that providing amenities for their workers would make them happier, and therefore improve productivity.
It has been shown that when someone (in this case, a business) does something good for the less fortunate, it is returned to them tenfold. The Bible even tells us that doing good for others will be returned to us 100 fold. We are also taught to help the "least of our brethren". Treat those as we would want to be treated.
If a person or a family is worried about how they will be able to eat their next meal or where they will sleep that night, they will not have the money that is necessary to purchase items that are not completely necessary. If big businesses relieve some of that pressure they would create a customer who would be loyal to them because of their help and a customer who would have more of the funds needed to purchase items that are not completely necessary for life.
Big businesses would not benefit from contributing to charities that make quality of life upgrades for the poorest people in the world. This is because most of the poorest people in the world are located in places that have poor infrastructures and policing. This makes these places dangerous for a company to come in and sell goods because nobody can afford them and theft is rampant.


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We are planning to visit Kenya on 18th August, my wife has given birth to a baby on 16th Feb 2014,just want to see if it's still necessary for her to get vaccinated as the doctor suggests no vaccination till she is breast feeding .. please suggest.
No Vaccination till at least the baby is 6 months old, and preferably 9 months old.
At this age, vaccination can be administered to the baby.
Vaccination of breastfeeding women should be avoided where possible. Ideally, the mother should postpone her visit to a yellow fever area so as to avoid the risk in herself & the baby to get yellow fever disease. However, if the risk of YF during travel is considered sufficiently high they may be vaccinated. Where an infant less than 9 months of age is breastfeeding, and the mother needs YF vaccination for personal protection, one option is to discontinue breastfeeding and replace feeds with formula on the day of vaccination and for a further two to three weeks (minimum 10 days) (expressing and disposing of breast milk during that time). Breast feeding can be recommenced after this time.
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O'Henry's Data Services Unjusted Trial Balance Sheet
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Benjamin O'Henry has owned and operated O'Henry's Data Services since its beginning ten years ago. From all appearances, the business has prospered. In the past few years, you have become friends with O'Henry and his wife. Recently, O'Henry mentioned that he has lost his zest for the business and would consider selling it for the right price. You are interested in buying this business, and you obtain its most recent monthly unadjusted trial balance which follows:
O'Henry's Data Services Unadjusted Trial Balance November 30, 20XX
Cash.................................... $9,700
Accounts receivable........................... 7,900
Prepaid expenses............ 2,600
Furniture, fixtures, & equipment 151,300
Accumulated depreciation $15,600
Accounts payable............ 3,800
Salary payable..................
Unearned service revenue 6,700
Benjamin O'Henry, capital 137,400
Benjamin O'Henry, withdrawals 2,000
Service revenue............ 14,300
Rent expense...............
Salary expense............ 3,400
Utilities expense......... 900
Depreciation expense
Supplies expense......
Total................................................. $177,800 $177,800
Revenues and expenses vary little from month to month, and November is a typical month. Your investigation reveals that the unadjusted trial balance does not include the effects of monthly revenues of $2,100 and monthly expenses totaling $2,750. If you were to buy O'Henry's Data Services, you would hire a manager who would require a monthly salary of $3,000.
The most you would pay for the business is 20 times the monthly net income you could expect to earn from it. Compute this possible price. The least O'Henry will take for the business is his ending capital. Compute this amount. Under these conditions, how much should you offer O'Henry? Give your reason.© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com October 25, 2018, 1:24 am ad1c9bdddf
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Income Statement for Benjamin O'Henry
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Sales Revenue 14,300 16,400 adjusted for unrecorded revenues of $2,100
Salary Expense 3,400
Utilities Expense 900
Total Expense 4,300 7,050 adjusted for the unrecorded expenses of $2,750
Net Income 10,000 9,350
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Sales Revenue 16,400
Salary Expense 3,400
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's budget watchdog forecast on Friday that the government will have a smaller-than-expected deficit in the current fiscal year, largely as a result of higher revenue from corporate income taxes and a lag in planned infrastructure spending.
Canada will see a deficit of C$20.5 billion ($15.74 billion) in fiscal 2016-2017, the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) said, smaller than the deficit of C$25.1 billion the government forecast in its fiscal update last November.
The report is based on data up to the end of January. The fiscal year ends in March.
PBO forecast revenue of C$293.7 billion, exceeding the government's forecast of C$291.1 billion. While revenue from personal income taxes has lagged the watchdog's projections, it has been offset by higher-than-expected revenue from corporate income taxes and other sources.
Canada's Liberal government, which is expected to release its latest budget in the coming months, has forecast deficits for the next several years as it spends on infrastructure in order to boost the economy.
Elected in 2015, the government has been criticized by the opposition for not having a plan to balance the budget.
The PBO report forecast slightly lower total expenses of C$314.2 billion, compared to the government's expectation of C$316.1 billion. Program expenses in the first eight months of the fiscal year have been weaker than expected due to delays in implementing new infrastructure investments, the report said.
PBO said it does not expect the government will spend all the money for housing and infrastructure investment it had anticipated. The watchdog on Thursday said the government has found projects for only a small amount of its planned infrastructure spending.
PBO also forecast the Canadian economy grew 1.3 percent last year, slightly higher than the government's forecast for 1.2 percent growth. The improvement was due to Statistics Canada's upward revisions to figures on exports and government spending in the first half of 2016.
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Hey ladies! This is my first cycle of temping and charting. Last month I did use OPK's and monitored CM and think I was pretty accurate on when I O'd.
I started temping yesterday, first full day without AF... CD7.
I have done a lot of research. I think I now understand how to determine a possible pregnancy from a chart. But I'm sill stuck on how you know whether you O or not based on the chart.
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Extra-statutory concessions: Scope of collection and management
Interpreting the taxes legislation is part of the duties of the HMRC. Where the legislation is unclear or has minor gaps HMRC can be purposive when interpreting the legislation - this means HMRC can interpret it in the way that gives effect to what Parliament intended. Such a purposive interpretation is strictly not a concession from the law; rather it is HMRC's understanding of what the law is. HMRC's ability to make ESCs stems directly from the managerial discretion of C&M. There is no other power or discretion that allows the Commissioners to refrain from applying the law as enacted by Parliament. We cannot 'untax' by concession what Parliament clearly intended to tax.
This discretion can be exercised only by the Commissioners or those to whom they have delegated policy ownership; it cannot be exercised by Ministers or HMT colleagues.
The Commissioners must balance the duty to collect the taxes which Parliament has decided shall be paid with the principles of good management. They therefore have discretion to not collect the full amount of tax due in law where that would obtain the highest net return that is practicable having regard to the costs of collection and resources available.


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There are two ways to treat lumbar spondylosis and stenosis: surgical and nonsurgical treatments. Nonsurgical treatments include anti-inflammatory medication; epidural injections; physical therapy involving exercise, massage, heat or ice packs; and electrical stimulation. The surgical methods are decompression and stabilization procedures such as spinal fusion or laminectomy, as detailed by SpineUniverse.
Spondylosis describes any degeneration of the spine in the cervical neck, thoracic and lower lumbar back, and the legs. Spinal stenosis directly refers to narrowing of the spinal canal or neural foramen and exertion of pressure on the spinal cord, space and nerves, states Patient.co.uk
Treatment options depend on the severity and duration of symptoms. Diagnosis is done using a lumbar spine X-ray, MRI and CT scan. A neurological examination is also carried out to check reflexes, muscle strength, other nerve changes and pain load. Nonoperative methods often work, and patients do not require surgery. Other surgical methods are foraminotomy, laminotomy or invasive spine surgery.
The prevalent symptoms of spondylosis and stenosis are numbness, tingling, weakness and cramping in the leg, neurogenic claudication, and bladder and bowel problems, including the inability to control urination, as detailed by Spine-health.
The significant cause of spondylosis and stenosis is old age, as most patients are 60 years and older. It can also be congenital or when a person suffers from osteoarthritis or related diseases such as hyperparathyroidism, according to Patient.co.uk.


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NYC Advice on Servicing PTAC Units?
Q: A previous owner of my pre-war NYC apartment ripped out the good old steam radiators and replaced them with forced air units — PTACs to the trade — that blow hot or cold air. Whatever the wisdom of that decision, a year after I moved in the units decided to go on strike — and now I have to deal with one on the fritz and another that makes a disturbing clicking sound:
Retrofitted PTACs are not that common in pre-war buildings, so my super won't go near them, and I have never felt so vulnerable dealing with tradespeople, who seem only to want to sign me up for yearly servicing contracts and otherwise will charge me over $100 just to diagnose the problem. The only semi-firm estimates I've gotten so far are (1) a total of $500 to replace one $8 thermostat wire, and (2) $1,000 to fix the compressor on a unit that I can buy new for $800, but will cost $1,500 in labor to replace. This all sounds nuts to me.
Does anyone in a New York coop have experience dealing with PTACs, or a vendor recommendation based on personal experience?
Apartment Therapy community, you are the only ones I can turn to for this very local and very time-sensitive question — please help!
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Artists have been interpreting the Cape landscape for so many years that there is an easy vocabulary of iconic images that many fall back on or infuse with their own aesthetic.
"Find a Better Dream," by Sarah Hinckley
Sarah Hinckley at CCMA
Artists have been interpreting the Cape landscape for so many years that there is an easy vocabulary of iconic images that many fall back on or infuse with their own aesthetic. There's all that famous light, of course, and a seemingly endless fascination with the places and the ways where land and sea meet. There are boats and lighthouses, rose-covered cottages and empty beaches. Add a heron or a gull, children playing or a lonely walker and well, you get the picture.
What if you are an artist who grew up on the Cape but left to study art and painting elsewhere and thought you'd left all that iconic landscape behind you? What if it began to creep into your work when you weren't looking and began to fill canvases with sea-drenched bits of longing and reminiscence just outside your consciousness? What if it was only when fellow city dwellers asked you where your images were coming from that you began to see that the sea really was creeping into your work. The sea, the sand and the huge expanses of marsh you grew up wandering followed you down all those city streets and right into your studio. Then what?
Sarah Hinckley grew up in Cummaquid and spent many years wandering the Cape landscape and yet it took her many more years to understand the visual and emotional impact of the familiar landscape on her work. You won't find any lighthouses or roses in Hinckley's abstract paintings now on exhibit at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis in a show called "Stillness of Remembering," but you may find some subtle hints of color and horizon that will bring a feeling of recognition.
The paintings aren't about the beach, the marsh or the sky, however. They are about the paint, the marks made with the paint and the ensuing conversation silently held between the painter and the painting.
"I might be inspired by a white rock shape," said Hinckley, "but in the process of painting I may use just the white or just the shape and its placement may have nothing to do with the context of where I saw or found it."
A student at Barnstable High School in the early 1970s Hinckley credits her art teacher, Ed Bolton and her Shakespeare teacher, Alice Williams with encouraging her and inspiring her to follow her own inspirations and aspirations.
"Mr. Bolton inspired me," she said. "He saw something in me and encouraged me and that's what I'd go home to do. Those black sketchbooks he gave us were my salvation back then. He helped me apply to art school, photographed my work and cheered me on. Alice Williams knew intuitively that I learned in a visual, not a linear, way and helped me through that Shakespeare class by giving me assignments geared to my way of learning."
Hinckley got her BFA from Tufts University and went to Columbia University in New York for her MFA. Once in NYC Hinckley knew she'd found her new home, especially artistically. Like many art students she was glad she'd learned some typing and bookkeeping skills as well and worked part-time for some architectural firms while working on her own paintings the rest of the time.
"The dialog with other artists in NYC is like constantly being a grad student," said Hinckley. It was during these times in New York that Hinckley's fellow students and other artists began questioning her about the inspirations for her paintings. They knew they were not city-inspired and were curious about where the fields of green or blue were coming from. It was then that Hinckley began to really examine where her inspiration was coming from and when she realized that the Cape landscape was still with her, however subconsciously. Hinckley's studio in New York, by the way, is at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Hinckley's parents still live in Barnstable and she comes and goes from the Cape frequently. Being able to show her work here, especially in such a lovely setting as the CCMA, is very exciting for her. She feels her work is "kind of a bridge from realism to abstraction" and hopes that viewers "can find their own way in to looking at the paintings."
"For me," she said, "I can take a walk on a beach but the major discussion back in the studio is about the formal qualities of the painting. I may come to the studio inspired by a big view of the water or the sky but once I begin making marks with paint on the canvas, the conversation changes. The original inspiration is left behind as one mark leads to the next mark. It becomes more about the vocabulary of and in the painting than the actual inspiration."
Hinckley does yoga and meditates daily, believing it helps clear the chatter in her mind so she can go into the studio more focused. As a viewer. one can easily see the inner calm and serenity that has seeped into her work from this practice. "Stillness of Remembering" is an apt and descriptive title for this beautiful exhibit.
The public is invited to an opening reception with Hinckley to be held at the museum on Friday, July 26, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The exhibit will be up through Sept. 8. Museum hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Sundays, noon-5 p.m. You may learn more about Sarah Hinckley and her work at www.sarahhinckley.com


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SEATTLE — When the final whistle sounded on Major League Soccer's Western Conference final Sunday, it was hard to tell the victors from the vanquished.
On one side of the field the Seattle Sounders, 2-1 winners, saw their livid captain Osvaldo Alonso charge the officials, earning a red card. On the other side, Galaxy players embraced, pumped their fists and generally went wild, celebrating a title and collecting a trophy they won despite losing.
Welcome to the MLS postseason, where things aren't always what they seem. Because despite being outplayed, outhustled and outclassed on a rainy, bonechilling night at CenturyLink Field, the Galaxy is going on to the league championship game and the Sounders are going home, Seattle having lost the two-game series on aggregate goals, 4-2.
"We didn't play particularly well, there's no question about that," said Coach Bruce Arena, whose team won the first leg of the playoff, 3-0. "But we did what we came here to do, advance into the MLS Cup finals. We won this competition and deserve to move forward."


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03:05AM, Wednesday 01 May 2013
Health services delivered across the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead will be influenced by a newly implemented health and well-being board.
The board will be formed of 10 core members to include councillors, council officers and chairmen of GP Clinical Commissioning Groups, who will be purchasing healthcare services for residents.
They will meet four times a year and produce an annual report for the Royal Borough cabinet as part of their duty to oversee the work of the provision of health and social care services in the borough with a particular focus on life expectancy and reducing inequalities in health.
The board was established as a result of changes made by The Health and Social Care Act 2012 which transferred responsibilities for public health to local government.
An update of the board's statutory guidelines were given at a cabinet meeting on Thursday at The Guildhall in Windsor.
Strategic director of adult and community services Christabel Shawcross is determined the board will help to improve health for residents and close the six year difference in life expectancy between the borough's most and least deprived wards.
She added: "The board will state clear priorities with an exact aim that residents will see progress quickly."
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friction....inclined planes....this is a high school physics course, but I
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I have a few quick things that I have done to modify what is in physics
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Book of Saints – Faith
FAITH (Saint) Virgin Martyr (October 6) (4th century) Born at Agen in the South of France and arrested in the same city by the notorious Prefect Dacian under the Emperor Maximian Herculeus. She was burned to death A.D. 303. A number of bystanders (chief among whom was the Martyr Saint Caprasius) inspired by her example, bravely declared themselves to be also Christians, and were on that account beheaded. The relics of Saint Faith were enshrined at the Abbey of Conque, but a portion of her ashes were taken to Glastonbury. Hence probably her place in the Sarum Calendar and the Dedication to her of certain English churches.
- Monks of Ramsgate. "Faith". , 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 22 February 2013. Web. 14 December 2018. <>


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Goods handled by rail rise by 26.6% to the highest level for 23 years
1.1 million tonnes of goods handled by inland barge and rail at bayernhafen Aschaffenburg
Aschaffenburg, 19 March 2015 - At bayernhafen Aschaffenburg, which forms part of the bayernhafen Group, a total of 1.1 million tonnes of goods were handled in 2014 by the more environmentally friendly modes of transport of rail and ship, an increase of 5.9% (previous year: 1.04 million tonnes). The volume of goods transported by ship (781,636 tonnes) was at roughly the same level as the previous year (787,502 tonnes in 2013). There was a considerable increase in the amount of cargo moved by rail: having already grown by more than 21% in 2013, it rose by a further 26.6% to 319,421 tonnes. This is the highest figure since 1991.
In 2014, the cumulative volume of goods handled by rail and ship was also better than the long-term average: with a figure of 1.1 million tonnes, bayernhafen Aschaffenburg handled 4.3% more goods by ship and rail combined than the average for 2005 to 2014, which was around 1.05 million tonnes per year.
The number of containers handled at the intermodal transport terminal continues to grow: it rose in 2014 by 153% to 18,642 TEU (1 TEU is a 20-foot container). The reasons for this are the container train line to Germany's North Sea ports and the inland barge link, which started in February, via Mainz up to the sea ports of Zeebrugge, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp.
The total volume of goods handled, including by truck, rose by 10.2% to more than 3.5 million tonnes - a sign of the successful economic development of the companies that are based at bayernhafen Aschaffenburg and the customers in the region.
"Our aim is to move the shipment of long-distance consignments onto ship and rail," says Wolfgang Filippi, divisional director of bayernhafen Aschaffenburg: "By efficiently linking together the three modes of transport of rail, ship and truck, we want to offer our customers based at our site and in the wider region optimum links to the transport infrastructures and excellent transport services. To be able to deliver this, we are making specific investments in our infrastructue and in areas for development and we are committed to improving the integration of the port into the national transport networks. The purpose of all this is to transport more goods by rail and ship. The truck will of course continue to be used for collecting and distributing goods."
Inland barge scores points for its transport capacity
The extent of the modal shift becomes even more apparent if, instead of looking at the quantity of goods handled in tonnes, the transport capacity of the individual modes of transport is considered in tonne-kilometres:
For instance, according to information provided by the Research Information System of Germany's Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI), in 2013 the railway in Germany transported its goods over an average distance of 303 kilometres, the inland barge over an average distance of 263 km, and the truck, which is responsible in particular for the precarriage and oncarriage legs of the journey, transports goods for just 97 km on average.
Wolfgang Filippi: "We calculated the tonne-kilometres in 2014 for the inland barge at the Aschaffenburg site: As the majority of barges travel to us from Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp, our average transport distance of around 503 km is almost twice as much as the national average. This means that we achieve around 394 million tonne-kilometres - and this is just for the inland barge."
Variety of goods at bayernhafen Aschaffenburg
The number one when it comes to goods transported by ship are mineral oil products accounting for around 262,000 tonnes, rocks and earth accounting for around 254,000 tonnes and coal accounting for around 108,000 tonnes.
The main factor responsible for the increase of 26.6% in goods handled by rail is the transshipment of wood (+30% compared to the previous year) for two customers - Europe's most productive sawmill at the port and the neighbouring paper mill. The increase in containers (+54% compared to the previous year) thanks to the container train line, which transports goods by container to and from the German North Sea ports four times a week, also had a positive impact.
The success on rail was also helped by the recycling business, whose handling of scrap iron, steel and other scrap materials (around 115,000 tonnes of them) accounted for the lion's share of the goods moved by rail (36%). For example, the recycling businesses at the port send the different types of scrap metal collected in the wider region by rail to the steelworks in the Rhine/Ruhr region, where it is melted down and then processed further to produce steel.
Sustainable investments in bayernhafen Aschaffenburg
bayernhafen Aschaffenburg sees itself as a site architect, an active facilitator for the development of logistics solutions and networks - across different companies and locations. For example, space is being created for new businesses and future-oriented industries to establish themselves and the position of the port as a hub for the international exchange of goods is being strengthened. It was only logical that in 2014 bayernhafen Aschaffenburg invested around 390,000 euros in the preparation of areas for business development and 800,000 euros in the modernisation of the existing infrastructure and business facilities.
In order to continue to be able to offer optimum links to new businesses and companies in the region, bayernhafen Aschaffenburg commissioned a feasibility study on the electrification of the port railway. The plan for 2015 is to make investments of around 2.5 million euros - in modernising the infrastructure and in a mobile transshipment machine for moving goods to and from barges.
Site development thanks to strategic land management
In the western port area, following the completion of the new power switching station the removal of the old station to the north of Waldfriedhof is well underway. Thanks to the allocation of the areas of the port for a fixed period of time, the land which is freed up can then be prepared for subsequent use: For example, from 2016 an area of 10 hectares will be turned into space for businesses to expand and for new companies to settle at the site. Thanks to this revolving use of the plots of land, bayernhafen Aschaffenburg guarantees a responsible approach in handling land, a resource which is in short supply. In doing this, industry structures are also modernised in a sustainable way and the available areas of land are utilised efficiently.
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Lynwood, Perth, Western Australia
May 22nd 2006
UFOINFO Sighting Form Report
Location: Lynwood, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Date: 05/22/06, 10:45pm local time (GMT +8)
Approach Direction: North
Departure Direction: South
Witness Direction: East
Description: I saw a bright red and orange flickering light move overhead. At first I thought it was a flare or a firework, but it moved steadily and did not change colour or shape before it went over the horizon. It made absolutely no sound.
It looked quite similar to a flare (i've seen them before), but I followed it as it moved north to south at a similar speed to an airplane.
There was quite low cloud around (i saw this just before it began to rain) and I could see it moving beneath the cloud.
I live quite near an airport, and it is usally quite easy to hear planes as they fly overhead, but I heard nothing. And planes generally approach my house from the south, not the north. It was moving perpendicular to the wind.
Color/Shape: A bright, flickering (like it was on fire) red and orange light. There were no other lights near or around it to suggest it was a plane. it was quite large.
Height & Speed: Just below cloud level, and it held this height the entire time. It moved fairly slowly, and kept the same speed the entire time I could see it.
TV/Radio/Press: No, but it happened just moments ago.


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dan greer of brisbane married to carter family in 2000
greer are my relatives ,a niece . still living . privacy required . looking for currie in geddes + gebbie gedcom connection to carter dunstall connection. also jolly to dunstall taylor symons connection. johnstone taylor symons carter connect.
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our family so far are from london to hindmarsh sth australia, on the thorpe side of family carters mainly stayed at garston childwall + wavertree lancashire eng. to footscray victoria aus. also mary jones, alice davies, jane knowles, pembertons + smith. from england schofield + cotton. on mother side of family was dunstall - M - to carter . dunstall to taylor to symons , -M - drummond to drysdale, taylor has mary wilson married to father of william taylor who -M- mary symons. her mum janet drummond - M - james symons. her mum + dad hugh drummond -M anne Drysdale-


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May and June brought sunshine and friends.
One of my oldest and closest friends took two weeks off from her busy life to fly from Toronto to Rome. I couldn't wait to see her and greet her on Italian soil. I was also excited because I now had an excuse to return to Rome.
I had visited Rome as a University student and much to my surprise, I wasn't impressed. Yes, it is beautiful and full of rich history and culture, but something was missing. I wasn't blown away like I have been so many times with other parts of Italy. Maybe it was the annoying abundance of tourists, maybe it was the fact I arrived hours after a deadly earthquake or maybe it was the fact I spent my first 15 hours in Rome sick in a dirty hostel bed! Regardless of whatever it was that didn't impress me, I was feeling optimistic this second time around would blow me away.
I had visited Rome as a University student and much to my surprise, I wasn't impressed. Yes, it is beautiful and full of rich history and culture, but something was missing. I wasn't blown away like I have been so many times with other parts of Italy. Maybe it was the annoying abundance of tourists, maybe it was the fact I arrived hours after a deadly earthquake or maybe it was the fact I spent my first 15 hours in Rome sick in a dirty hostel bed! Regardless of whatever it was that didn't impress me, I was feeling optimistic this second time around would blow me away.
Angela and I spent the weekend walking, eating and catching up as we soaked in the Roman sunshine and vino! It was a lovely weekend away, but I still left wondering what it was that I was missing. I just can't seem to fall in love with Rome the way so many others do. Maybe trip three will light that spark!
Upon returning to Milan, I was back into work mode and Angela took advantage of the sights and Milan's close proximity to other beautiful parts of the country like Tuscany and Venice. We spent the following weekend in Cinque Terre. A beautiful coastal region a few hours away from Milan. Cinque Terre translates to 'Five Villages'. We found a quaint little hotel on the water in the village of Vernazza. From here we took a beautiful (and painful) hike to one of the neigbouring villages. We rewarded ourselves with treats from a local lemon festival and we relaxed our tired bodies with a day on the beach and refreshing dips in the sea. This is absolutely my favourite part of Italy! Colourful villages emerge from cliff sides along the ocean. Olive groves and lush hiking trails run parallel to a deep blue sea. This has got to be one of the most picturesque places on the planet! If you have ever read a Rick Steves guide or watched an episode of his show, you will know he agrees with me on the beauty of this region. In fact, after a whole train mishap and ending up traveling in the wrong direction and sitting at the wrong train station, we happened to bump into Mr. Steves himself as we waited to board a train. A great and (hilarious) end to a fabulous weekend!
June approached and summer vacation was so close I could taste the coronas and poolside waiting for me! Unfortunately, I still had a very busy and hectic month of work before I could relax. Well, this waiting for summer to come to me wasn't going to cut it... so, I went to summer!
My friend Clarice who lives in Rome met me on the Island of Sardinia. We spent three days in the South in the small and quaint city of Cagliari. After boarding a rainy flight in Milan and spending ninety minutes traveling through turbulence, it was finally time to reconnect with my love of Island life. This weekend was incredibly relaxing. We spent a great deal of our time here tanning on white sandy beaches, swimming in crystal clear waters and checking out the local culture. We took sailing lessons and had dolphins swim alongside our boat, we ate an abundance of local cuisine (we avoided the traditional horse dish as well as cheese with worms), we took a trip to visit the flamingos and we let ourselves get lost on narrow side streets. It really was the perfect weekend..... until.... the hostel incident. This incident was so intense that it needs a separate blog post. Sneak peak highlights: Clarice and I running for our lives down dark hallways at three in the morning - police called - paramedics called - not a wink of sleep the rest of the night - convinced this could be the end of me - thoughts of "my Mom is for sure going to tell me to stop staying in hostels". Stay tuned!
My final Italian adventure before I left for the summer was spent with two amazing friends that I met while I lived in London. Kelsey and Mary were my people! The type of girls you just connect with immediately. We were missing the rest of our London crew, but we were happy to be reunited after two years apart. I brought them sightseeing in Milan, which is always fun for me. Each time I bring a visitor sightseeing I end up exploring something new as well! We walked to the top of the Duomo and had gorgeous views of the city, we spent time in Navigli (da Vinci's canal district in Milan) and we took a train to Lake Como. While at Lake Como we decided to venture further. We hopped on a ferry and made our way to Bellagio. Once we arrived we were on a mission to find the beach. It wasn't exactly the most organized trip (I may have dropped the ball on this one!). We eventually found a pebbly beach and had a nice dip in the ocean with snowy capped Alps as a backdrop. Moments like this I pinch myself and whisper "I live here! You did it! Your dream came true". I smile and I make sure not to take a moment of this experience for granted!
June ended as did the school year. My first year in Italy came to an end. I had so many incredible adventures and visited so many new parts of the world. I visited 12 countries during the year, 7 of which were new countries for me. With my first year of teaching in Milan and my fifth year of teaching in total behind me, I was ready for a long summer holiday!
A trip across Europe and back to Canada is up next! Check back to read about my time in:
Czech Republic, Netherlands, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Greece.


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Hello friends, I need some assistance.
I have two requests for a photoshop guy...
1. I want to see what it would look like with all greens. Helmet, Jersey pants. I just want to see and I cant find any fan photos online of this.
2. Project old snorty- I need someone to try and put the old snorty logo onto the green helmets. My guess is that its going to look pretty damn good.
Who can help me out?