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Colt International Pty Limited has released a new document outlining the advances made by the company in shading systems.
Titled 'Maximising Energy Performance and Productivity with Solar Shading', the document also explains how Colt's shading solutions assist designers with innovative fixed and automatic shading systems to provide aesthetically pleasing facades whilst achieving large gains in energy efficiencies.
The document describes how Colt's solar shading systems provide for lower cooling and heating needs, lower artificial lighting needs, free energy generation using photovoltaic cells, improved ventilation cooling with double facades, greater productivity gains and pleasing aesthetics.
The comprehensive document reviews and outlines the benefits of various Colt products including fixed and operable shading systems such as Grata, Schermo and Ellisse, vertical folding bi-fold shutters and controllable glass systems such as Shadoglass and Shadovoltaic. The Shadovoltaic is a unique sun tracking glass louvre system consisting of integrated solar cells that enable free electricity to be generated whilst shading the building, reducing the heat gain and lowering cooling capacity requirement.
The document also covers various projects completed around the world including the Colt Ellisse sun tracking vertical system installed at an office tower on Waterloo Road, North Ryde, NSW, which works in unison with the building's BMS system to reduce the cooling and heating requirements of the building.


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European cooperation on market surveillance
Application of product directives
The Machinery Directive Working Group and the Personal Protective Equipment Working Group operate under the Machinery Committee of the EU Commission. Both deal with implementing product directives concerning the standards and safety of products within their ambit.
Member states administrative cooperation on market surveillance
Member States and the EU Commission deal with matters related to market surveillance in the Administrative Cooperation Working Groups.
Nordic cooperation
Nordic OSG authorities cooperate on market surveillance issues. They hold annual conferences and conduct joint market surveillance programmes.
European product standards
Products may conform to harmonised European standards (CEN standards) that determine the safety or protection levels of products.
Manufacturers do not have to apply these standards, which set out the technical solutions whereby the requirements of EU directives can be met.
- Finnish Standards Association
- Mechanical Engineering and Metals Industry Standardization in Finland
- MTT Agrifood Research Finland
- Federation of Finnish Textile and Clothing Industries
- Machinery MD - European Standards - Enterprise and Industry
- European Committee for Standardization - CEN
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Warpportal, the team behind Ragnarok and Ragnarok 2, has announced that it will be taking over development of the horror MMO, Requiem: Memento Mori. Warpportal has published the game in the west for some time but will, only now, be taking over creating new material.
"We're extremely excited to finally develop for Requiem: Memento Mori in house, as avid fans of the game and genre, we've spent an exhausting amount of time transitioning in, but in the end it's totally worth it! We hope that all our fans are excited about this change as we are!" says Denny Kwon, Requiem Producer. "When Requiem launched the game was a fantastic world of horror, blood, and terror; we want to continue that tradition and bring it to the next level and make the game truly great."
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VARAZDIN, Yugoslavia -- While a cease-fire generally held across Croatia yesterday, the forces of the embattled breakaway republic were busy distributing a haul of tanks, armored personnel carriers and stocks of weapons abandoned over the weekend by federal army troops.
The federal troops departed hastily Sunday, forced by the terms of their withdrawal to change into civilian clothes on the lawn of their barracks, leaving their pants and boots soaking in a steady rain, before boarding buses for home.
The stores of armor and weapons they left behind -- including 50 tanks and 60 armored vehicles, tons of shoulder-held anti-tank weapons, field guns and anti-aircraft guns -- were already being sent south yesterday. They could help even the military balance in a civil war that has claimed more than 500 lives.


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Why Blogging?
Blogging is the future of earning income online. You do not need any boss any time limit to complete your blog.
In blogging you are your own boss.
In the recent times, blogging has become a lucrative business that is yielding millions of dollars. Most bloggers are making a steady income from blogging through various ways. However, before earning from blogging, you must, first of all, create a blog and post only useful contents on it.
A blogger is someone who writes content for a blog. As the world is changing day by day to a more digital place and with better technology, more and more people are turning to this career. Blogging helps bloggers to interact with the world through expressing themselves about various fields.
Most bloggers do it for passion, as a hobby, as a business or to help promote business. Various bloggers will always vary on how they carry out their online activities and thus differ in the income they get as well.
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F/F Erotica
This version of I Kissed A Girl comes from Black Lace, and is a combination of the original I Kissed A Girl and I Kissed A Girl II anthologies from Ravenous Romance. It contains two of my stories, one from each volume.
Everyone's heard the Katy Perry song but have you ever been tempted…?
An anthology of hot erotic short stories featuring women drawn to experiment with their own sex.
This diverse collection travels the globe proving that women from every walk of life and culture are curious and eager to explore their full sexuality…with each other.
Contributors include: C. Margery Kempe, Louisa Bacio, Inara Lavey, Samantha Jones, K. Ann Karlsson, Kilt Kilpatrick, Nola Erus, Farrah J. Phoenix, Jen Bluekissed, L.A. Mistral, Lucy Felthouse, Regina Perry


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DC offers Education Licensure Graduate Program
February 12, 2013
DEFIANCE, Ohio - Defiance College now offers a Graduate Studies licensure-only program which offers the opportunity to earn an Ohio Teaching license in one of four areas: adolescent to young adult (grades 7-12) life science; life science and chemistry; multi-age (grades K-12) licenses in visual arts; and intervention specialist (mild to moderate).
Through the Professional Education Teaching Licensure (PETL) program (a licensure-only program), students could potentially earn an Ohio Teaching license in any of the four areas in 18 months or less. The programs are approved by the Ohio Board of Regents and the Defiance College Teacher Education Program which is accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).
Summer registration is now open.
To learn more about the Defiance College Professional Education Teacher Licensure Graduate Program, please contact the Office of Graduate Studies and Professional Development at 419-783-2351 or email email@example.com . Those interested in the program can also chat with someone online live or schedule a time for an information session at http://www.defiance.edu/pages/graduate_programs.html .
Defiance College, chartered in 1850, is an independent, liberal arts institution in Northwest Ohio offering more than 40 undergraduate programs of study as well as graduate programs in education and business. Defiance College has received national recognition for its educational experience of service and engagement. The college website is www.defiance.edu.


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SAIRO is currently recruiting students to participate in a paid, 2-quarter-long internship during which interns will work with one or more Student Affairs departments to conduct research and assessment projects.
Students from all backgrounds and all majors are encouraged to apply. You do not need to have had previous research experience to participate. Individual members of the research team will conduct research and assessment tasks based on the needs of the specific project(s) they are assigned to but all URPI interns will receive training in general research and assessment methodology.
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I think there's a stark difference between what our Founding Fathers envisioned for the right to assemble (and protest) and what the WBC is doing. What exactly is the goal of the WBC's protests? Besides just complaining that they feel it is wrong and that God hates soldiers. Is there a defined goal for these protests? To stop wars? Or just hate mongering?
The right to assemble and protest is a fundamental right. Yet, one must consider that there should be an ultimate goal in mind when protesting. What sense is there in protesting something but have no predefined list of greviences that the protesters want fixed. From what I understand they are protesting America itself, and the freedoms which we give to everyone (homosexuals in particular) - which is also a fundamental right.
So you see, they are using one fundamental right (protesting) to remove another fundamental right (freedom and equality for everyone - or in other words protesting in favor of discrimination). Is this what our Founding Fathers envisioned the right to protest being used for? I think not...
Originally posted by beezzer
Well said!
I'm actually shocked that so many here on ATS would espouse a restriction of a freedom!
Originally posted by TKDRL
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That is a ridiculous suggestion.... Sure, lets go around shooting people that may hurt our feelings. I hope you don't own any guns.
Originally posted by babybunnies
Their constitutional right hasn't been stripped. They are limited from protesting 2 hours before and 2 hours after a specific military funeral. If this in your mind is equal to having your rights completely stripped then you need to relax.
Actually, there is no time limit on Free Speech. In order to be truly free, you have to allow the folks that you disagree with to have their opinions and their protests.
While you (and I) may disagree with the Westboro Church's methods, the Constitution of the United States protects their right to this, at whatever time they wish.
If you're comfortable with the US Government saying at which times you can and can't exercise your Constitutionally guaranteed rights, then by all means, let this bill pass without protest. The Constitution is a 24/7 piece of paper, not a paper of convenience.
I actually find it incredible that Americans need to be educated by a CANADIAN as to what their Constitution is all about. Just sayinedit on 4-8-2012 by babybunnies because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by mythots
This law is worthless and an attack on Freedom of speech. I noticed a lot of people saying they are glad. Why would you be glad that americans are being attack by there own goverment? people that think is ok for the government to do thid aren"t any better then WBC in my eyes.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
This was absolutely the wrong time to pick another free speech fight and I can hear Westboro's lawyers laughing hysterically as we sit here reading the story. I almost can, given where they are based. lol....
I hate what these people do and frankly, I hate THEM. Miserable people. Every last sorry one of them. I've made clear at one point in the past that the National Cemetary my father lay in can call me for obstructive counter-protest if they ever show up here. I'd be happy to help form a human wall to block these little haters from making a Military family miserable.
Having said that. Their right of free speech is no less valuable or critical to our overall freedom than mine. If I demand my right, as I did, to stand with Occupy in what I thought to be worth it back then, they have the right to do their thing. .....and people have the right to generally obstruct them in any way that doesn't commit a criminal offense against them personally or their property.
Government has NO place in this. It's an issue among the population, torn in protest over several issues....and this Government did more to CREATE this situation of protest and hate than ANY of the issues ever could have. They can butt out...and let it all settle down over time, is my thinking.


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When Dexter Manley's wife read Lyle Alzado's first-person article in Sports Illustrated last week about steroid use, she had one thought.
"She said to me that people would probably think I was on steroids," Manley said. "Our stories are sort of similar."
Both are defensive linemen. Both are flamboyant. Both had their lives turned upside-down by drug use. But Manley insists steroids weren't his problem.


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i bought the Alphatrack last week and like it very much. Great product.
I use Cubase 5 and try to customize the buttons.
Now i have a problem with the insert plugins. I can choose the plugin of the insert with the rotary knob and it opens. Thats good.
After i closed the plugin with the mouse there is no chance to open it again with the Alphatrack buttons. Thats totally bad.
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Roundworms even more useful than researchers previously thought
Press release
5 October 2016
The one millimetre long roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has been used as a model organism in scientific research, and has therefore been extensively examined. A research group at Uppsala University has now demonstrated that the worm is an even more complete model system than previously thought, which could enable more detailed research into areas such as early embryonic development.
Caenorhabditis elegans (often abbreviated C. elegans) is a roundworm (nematode) used as a model system not only to study human diseases but also for understanding fundamental biological processes. The roundworm has for example been used to study the nervous system and the first cell divisions of the fertilised egg cell.
Sulfated glycosaminoglycans, extended carbohydrate chains decorated with negatively charged sulfate groups, have important functions both during early embryonic development and in adults. Chondroitin sulfate is a glycosaminoglycan manufactured in all animals from jellyfish and snails to humans. The reason why no one has found chondroitin sulfate in roundworms has always puzzled scientists. A new way to isolate the sulfated glycosaminoglycans has been crucial to solve this puzzle.
"Now we know that Caenorhabditis elegans do have the ability to produce chondroitin sulfate. The vast amount of the same carbohydrate without any sulfate groups produced by the roundworm has probably masked the much fewer chondroitin sulfate chains. A previously undiscovered enzyme with the ability to tranfer sulfate groups to the carbohydrate chains has also been identified in the study", says Tabea Dierker, researcher in the group of Lena Kjellén at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology at Uppsala University.
It has previously been shown that blocking the enzymes that build the carbohydrate chains disrupts the ability of cells in the early embryo to divide. Now it is possible for researchers to investigate if the sulfate groups are important for this early cell division. Many other functions related to chondroitin sulfate can now be studied in Caenorhabditis elegans as a results of this discovery.
"It is satisfying to see that our results make Caenorhabditis elegans a more complete model system than previously thought", says Andrea Hinas, researcher at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology.
The study has been performed by researchers at Uppsala University (Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Department of Organismal Biology, and SciLifeLab) in collaboration with researchers at The Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Department of Biochemistry, Boston University Medical Camous, Boston, USA.
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Nematodes join the family of chondroitin sulfate-synthesizing organisms: Identification of an active chondroitin sulfotransferase in Caenorhabditis elegans, (2016) Scientific Reports, DOI: 10.1038/srep34662
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Plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 response to vitamin D supplementation in obese and non-obese men and women
Ahern, Kelly Choi
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<bold>Context</bold>: Obese adults are more susceptible to poor vitamin D status and response to supplementation than lean adults, but explanatory mechanisms remain unclear. Proposed hypotheses include increased degradation or adipose tissue sequestration of vitamin D. <bold>Objective</bold>: The purpose of this study was to investigate how plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 [25(OH)D3] concentrations respond to vitamin D repletion relative to changes in plasma vitamin D3 and the major degradation metabolite, 24,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [24,25(OH)2D3]. We also investigated how obesity and obesity-related adipose tissue inflammation affects vitamin D status. <bold>Methods</bold>: This was a randomized intervention pilot study that supplemented daily oral vitamin D3 doses of either 2,000 IU or 4,000 IU to fifteen vitamin D-deficient, overweight to obese adults for three months. At baseline and 3-month visits, we measured concentrations of vitamin D3, 25(OH)D3, and 24,25(OH)2D3 in plasma and adipose tissue using high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. We also measured gene expression of the pro-inflammatory cytokine, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFα), in adipose tissue. <bold>Results</bold>: Plasma concentration of 25(OH)D3 significantly increased after supplementation (p < 0.001), and increased more in the 4,000 IU/d group than in the 2,000 IU/d group (p = 0.04). Change in plasma 25(OH)D3 was positively associated with change in plasma 24,25(OH)2D3 (β-coefficient 3.7, 95% CI 1.9-5.4, p = 0.001), but not associated with change in plasma vitamin D3. We also computed a multivariable model that included change in plasma concentrations of both vitamin D3 and 24,25(OH)2D3 as independent variables and adjusted for dose. In this analysis, the association between changes in plasma 25(OH)D3 and 24,25(OH)2D3 remained significantly positive, but the association between changes in plasma 25(OH)D3 and vitamin D3 became significantly inverse (β-coefficient -0.4, 95% CI -0.8- -0.01, p = 0.046). BMI was not significantly associated with the changes in plasma 25(OH)D3, 24,25(OH)2D3, or vitamin D3. Adipose tissue expression of TNFα was not associated with changes in plasma 25(OH)D3 or 24,25(OH)2D3. <bold>Conclusion</bold>: Our findings were inconclusive about the sequestration hypothesis and did not support the hypothesis that the obese degrade more vitamin D than the lean due to greater adipose tissue inflammation. Future studies should investigate how baseline vitamin D status affects vitamin D response in the obese population.
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Diamond-hard and dazzlingly brilliant, David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis plays like a deeply perverse, darkly comic successor to Videodrome. Where the earlier film pioneered disturbingly anatomical ways to interface with the televisual, Cosmopolis delivers an excursion into the immersive ubiquity of the virtual, basking in the refulgent "glow of cyber-capital," as one of its resident gurus would have it. Taking on another allegedly unfilmable novel, in this case Don DeLillo's postmodern reworking of James Joyce's Ulysses, Cronenberg accomplishes an almost alchemical transmutation of the source material, indelibly stamping it with his own abiding preoccupations, while still hewing closely to the book's tone and tectonics, even extracting entire exchanges almost verbatim. Cosmopolis may go easy on Cronenberg's trademark body horror (save for a couple of memorably bloody exceptions), but its desire to delineate the language of command and control, as well as its sudden alternations between mannered repression and cold cerebral frenzy, points up a decided family resemblance to his other films, mostly notably in this regard A Dangerous Method. Moreover, the squalor and moral rot on display in the final scenes constitute a direct visual echo of Videodrome's sordid finale, and the broody ruminations on the etiology of pathological violence seem like an explicit reprise of A History of Violence.
Predicated on an absurd whim, Cosmopolis relates 28-year-old financial wunderkind and billionaire Eric Packer's (Robert Pattinson) daylong, cross-town quest to get a haircut. Along the way, there will be time enough for sexual trysts, political demonstrations, a celebrity funeral, and the depredations of the Pastry Assassin (Mathieu Amalric in a hilarious cameo). Meanwhile, Packer's currency speculations turn self-destructive, revealing an urge that will eventually manifest itself in a far more extreme fashion. As his white stretch limo crawls across midtown Manhattan, Packer consults with various advisors and underlings in a series of rapid-fire exchanges delivered in DeLillo's syncopated, ostentatiously stylized patois. The limo's plush interior, fitted with all manner of monitors, readouts, and displays (even a toilet), resembles a sleekly self-contained mission control, a war room in which Packer can wage his losing battle against the yuan. Not all the action, however, is confined to the back of Packer's limo. Cronenberg nicely sidesteps that Aristotelian constriction with side-trips to some choice curbside attractions.
Just as Cosmopolis's varied visual palette allows Cronenberg and DP Peter Suschitzsky to construct an imagistic index of his other films, its episodic structure affords Packer a series of thematic sounding boards. Some, like advisor Vija Kinsky (Samantha Morton), seem tailored for a quantum of philosophical rumination, a buffed-up, abstract sort of speculation on speculation. Others, like fidgety flunky Shriner (Jay Baruchel), supply a modicum of comic relief. There are even moments of inspired surrealism as with the sexually charged discussion between Packer and his chief of finance, Jane Melman (Emily Hampshire), that occurs while Packer submits to a prostate exam. For that matter, the film's libidinal economy definitely favors a bull market. Packer's winsome newlywed wife, Elise Shifrin (Sarah Gadon), crops up now and again as a suitably obscure object of his desire, since she refuses to give in to his amorous advances. Art advisor Didi Fancher (Juliette Binoche) uses a backseat bout of lovemaking to dissuade Packer from acquiring the famed Rothko Chapel and transplanting it in its entirety to his penthouse apartment. And then there's the bodyguard, Kendra Hays (Patricia McKenzie), who, as it happens, has some innovative post-coital uses for her taser.
Packer's asymmetrical prostate, incidentally, comes to symbolize everything that his rigorous economic algorithms cannot quantify, that specter of unpredictability that haunts every system, and that prompts Packer to put it all on the line. From the credible threat on his life in the form of a disgruntled former employee, to a televised political assassination that resembles an exceptionally gory bullfight, instability happens to be Cosmopolis's watchword. At one point, Packer's limo passes through a flagrantly theatrical, Occupy-style protest involving self-immolation, rat-wielding pranksters, and a hijacked stock ticker recalibrated to display the opening line of The Communist Manifesto: "A specter is haunting the world, the specter of capitalism." Nor is this the only manifestly Marxist touch, since Packer responds by paraphrasing the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin: "The destructive urge is a creative urge." The notion that acts of social terrorism can be seen as a kind of twisted performance art, that violence somehow always intersects with the creative urge, is another career-spanning Cronenberg theme, especially reminiscent of similar moments in Videodrome and eXistenZ.
After the breathless forward momentum of its first two acts, paced like the screwiest of screwball comedies, Cosmopolis settles into a conversational groove with a pair of protracted confabulations. When Packer finally reaches his ostensible destination, the family-owned barbershop he and his father used to patronize, we get a glimpse into what amounts to another world, as though Packer's journey had been back in time, and downward through layers of strident upward mobility, arriving at a place of simplicity and generosity evident nowhere else in the film, albeit one tinged with wry, earthy humor, all the better to avoid self-serious complacency. Needless to say, it doesn't last long. Driven on by his own private Furies, half-shorn and fully armed, Packer emerges into a dilapidated, seemingly abandoned warehouse district; this, too, is a far cry from the nouveau riche sheen of tonier settings.
Everything builds to the final confrontation between Packer and his credible threat: shambling, bug-eyed Richard Sheets (Paul Giamatti), who demands to be called Benno Levin, and believes he takes orders from a sentient fungus growing between his toes. The loopy banter between the two could easily have lost traction entirely, and spun off into caricature, but Giamatti and Pattinson keep it grounded. (Levin's crazed spewing, in particular, comes across like wholesale parody of the Lee Harvey Oswald found in DeLillo's Libra.) Not one to be outdone, Packer responds with a shocking act of self-mutilation. Without giving too much away, it's safe to say that Cosmopolis concludes inconclusively, sounding a note that resounds with ambiguity, leaving Packer's fate, if not exactly open-ended, then dangling properly in midair.
Longtime David Cronenberg cinematographer Peter Suschitzky imbues Cosmopolis, the first feature the pair shot on HD digital video, with a diverse visual palette: the blues and blacks of Eric's ultramodern limo interior lit largely by digital displays, the warm earth tones of Elise's hideaway bookstore, a cavernous dance hall laved in multicolored laser beams, and the sickly greens and yellows of Benno Levin's urban squat. Entertainment One's 1080p/AVC-encoded Blu-ray transfer is nearly flawless, rendering colors and flesh tones with perfect fidelity, revealing uncrushed inky blacks, and reproducing fine details vividly. Howard Shore's atmospheric atonal score comes across nicely in the Master Audio track, and dialogue is easily discernible, which is absolutely essential since Cosmopolis is basically a wall-to-wall gabfest.
Cronenberg delivers another distinctive, compulsively listenable commentary track. Per usual, he comes across assuredly articulate, icily intellectual, and dry as a martini. He discusses what interested him in Don DeLillo's novel (above and beyond the book's prescient socioeconomic material, it was DeLillo's mannered dialogue, which the director describes as "Pinteresque," that struck him) and how he put together a script in just six days. Cronenberg covers at length the casting process and the rigors of the studio-bound shooting (combining sets and extensive CGI in order to have Toronto stand in for New York). Funniest bit: Cronenberg advising Robert Pattinson that if a GP ever gave him a prostate exam that lasted as long as the one in the film, that doctor had plans for him "other than medical." Calling "Citizens of Cosmopolis" a featurette is a bit of a misnomer, since this comprehensive making-of doc runs as long as the film itself. Featuring most of the cast and crew as talking heads, it also provides unprecedented, in-depth access to Cronenberg's directorial process. As such, it's essential viewing for fans and film students alike. And if that's not enough, the disc includes another 30 minutes' worth of interviews; some of the material is culled from the documentary, but sufficiently expanded on to make them worthwhile in their own right.
The specter of Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg's latest fuck-all wonder, now haunts home video in this pristine Blu-ray transfer, laden with all the contextual cultural capital you could ever hope for.


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5 Key Secrets To Developing a Game Remotely
I'm John Kearney, lone artist at RetroFist, a small indie games developer that I co-founded in 2013 with Rich Cross, a longstanding friend, colleague and programmer. Rich and I have worked together at various studios in our time, helping to create hit games for the likes of Sony and Konami.
Given our background of working in traditional office environments, RetroFist represented an entirely new challenge due to the fact that Rich and I decided to start-up our company and create our first project whilst in different cities. Our debut game, Fire Fu, was developed from concept to completion without us being in the same room once. It was challenging but we are proof that it can be done with some thought and dedication. Based on our experience, here are 5 things that helped us and we hope that they help you too:
Minimising Risk
Starting a new business is incredibly time consuming and difficult so it's important to assess your strengths and weaknesses and act accordingly. For us, running the business in addition to being creative was always going to be challenging. We looked at ways to alleviate some of that burden and thankfully, that's when we found Creative England's Greenshoots Programme. Securing funding meant that we could focus more on our creative strengths, enabling us to spend more time developing a better game. In addition, the support and feedback we have received has been immensely valuable so we are incredibly thankful to everyone involved.
Organisation and Planning
Being organised is critical to the success of any project, and it's especially true if you're developing games remotely. As the programmer and technical mind behind RetroFist and Fire Fu, Rich wrote our engine from scratch and needed to facilitate a way of elegantly handling data transfers and new builds/updates. Using a cloud based solution proved to perfect for our needs. A combination of SVN and TeamDrive provided a very reliable way of working together on the same project, meaning that it felt very much as if we were developing in the same office.
Game development can be a passionate enterprise and without face-to-face interaction, it's very easy to get your wires crossed and subsequently waste valuable time. Keeping frustration levels down is important so make good use of everything at your disposal. Skype has been essential for us. Text logs that document all brainstorming sessions and conversations can prove to be an excellent resource when needed. In addition, we have used free online tools like Workflowy.com to handle collaborative To-Do lists, enabling us to efficiently track progress and stay organised.
Commitment and Trust
In a typical office environment, you have set working hours and a structure in place to ensure that laziness is out of the question! Working alone really tests your capacity to be self-motivated and productive. Having clear targets in mind and setting regular, short-term deadlines is a good way to avoid complacency. It's all too easy to switch off and make excuses so it's essential that you keep working hard and trust that other members of the team are doing exactly the same.
In a small team, you have no choice but to wear multiple hats and do work that you aren't necessarily comfortable with. We are inherently shy and often find it difficult to sell ourselves, which we have pretty much viewed as a necessary evil! Being willing to do what you can in addition to your development and business responsibilities is arguably as important as the game itself nowadays. Keeping your website up-to-date, writing blogs, interacting with others via social media and generally stepping outside of the sanctity of your personal working environment will prove to be good for you, your company, and your games!
Find out more about RetroFist by visiting their website. Their Greenshoots supported game 'Fire-Fu' is available to download now on Windows Phone.
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Wel you could use windows RPD. But i really like teamviewer. But if you do not want to install any software. But you will have to setup each pc to accept remote desktop
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Inside Goldman Sachs, Gary D. Cohn is the man who is waiting — and waiting — to be king.
He has long been considered the heir apparent of Lloyd C. Blankfein, who has been the chairman and chief executive of the elite Wall Street firm since 2006. But Mr. Blankfein has shown few signs that he is ready to step aside, Goldman insiders say.
After steering the firm through the financial crisis and surviving a firestorm over allegations that Goldman had bet against its own clients, Mr. Blankfein, 58, now appears to be enjoying himself. He has become an elder statesman of finance. But unlike past Goldman chieftains, he is not widely talked about as a candidate for a high-level job in Washington.
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Beijing-based China Railway Rolling Stock has verified that China Railway Corp is leading a consortium which will get involved in the resources firm (AssetsCo) tender for its Singapore-Kuala Lumpur High-Speed Rail (HSR).
Apart from the two above companies, the eight-company consortium comprises CRRC, Export-Import Bank of China, and China Railway Construction Corp, in Addition to China Railway Signal and Communication.
"Judging (by) these companies' size and assets, they'll form the biggest group to construct a high-speed railroad network outside China should they win the bid next season," said Feng Hao, a researcher at the National Development and Reform Commission's Institute of Comprehensive Transportation.
It will also design and run all of its rail assets like, power, signalling, trackwork, and telecommunications for the double-track line with a speed of 350kmh.
In line with this, both government agencies will jointly hold a tender briefing in Kuala Lumpur on 23 January, and interested bidders have until 29 June 2018 to submit their proposals.
The bids will be assessed based on their price, value-for-money, commercial strength, financial sustainability and technical solutions. The last should prioritise reliability, customer focus, safety and security, as well as operational flexibility.
When the HSR starts operating by 31 December 2026, it is expected to reduce the travel time between Kuala Lumpur and Jurong East in Singapore from four hours by car to only 1.5 hours by train.
When the HSR completed, the projects around the region like Jurong to Bukit Timah will get a boost in their property prices and new under constructing condominiums like Daintree Residence Condo, Le Quest, Twin Vew will be some of the first few to experiment property sentimental according to the NY Times.
According to Beijing Jiaotong University rail transportation professor Du Chunbu, the partnership among major Chinese state-owned companies show they have stopped their stiff rivalry among themselves.
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Our family of 6 set off on a road trip recently and had our sights set on Williamsburg VA as one of our stopping points. Williamsburg's rich history and many restaurants, shops and hotels attract visitors year round. It was my husband and myself (both 40somethings), our 15 year old daughter, 13 year old son, 8 year old daughter and 6 year old son. We spent one day at Water Country USA and had a blast cooling off in the many water slides and pools. The second day we hit Busch Gardens and had an incredible day of fun and great food and entertainment. I can honestly say, this was the most enjoyable time we've spent at a theme park ever. The weather was partly cloudy so no worries of getting too sunburned as we meandered through the meticulously kept grounds. My husband, who is an avid landscaper thoroughly enjoyed the designs and combinations of flowers, trees and shrubs that were on display at every turn. We did have an hour or so of rain pouring down, which we used wisely to refuel ourselves with a wonderful meal in the Festhaus. The kids needed a break from the roller coasters and other brain scrambling rides. While dining we watched a very entertaining German inspired musical show with singers, dancers and musicians. The kids loved the music and performers and desserts and the adults loved the German food and beer! Afterall, Busch Gardens is owned by the Anheuser Busch folks so we knew we'd be treating ourselves to a nice cold one at some point that day!
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Thanks for reminder of this great place ! :)
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I love this place. You did a great job telling the pros and the cons about this place. Great job!


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For those in search of a substantial family home in a favoured residential location, this six bedroom plus detached house has a great deal to offer.
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To the second floor there are most useful loft rooms providing additional accommodation (currently used as a bedroom and large wet room).
From the lounge/games room there is access to a teenage suite with large bedroom or sitting room, large wet room and a further bedroom.
Externally there is off road parking and an integral double garage, seating areas and enclosed raised garden to the rear.
Centrally placed, this property is within easy reach of local shopping facilities, schools, public transport and main arterial routes for Halifax, Bradford, Leeds and the motorway network.


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Discussion in 'Transformers Conventions and Get Togethers' started by llamatron, Dec 25, 2008.
What do you think?
I'd say it's probably pretty high. Probably close to 100%. I would guess setting a premiere up was the main reason for the delay in the announcement.
I hope this.
That's my assumption too.
But I thought of a few problems. If it's a month before the normal release I think it's safe to assume this would pretty much be the world premiere (given the location that makes a bit of sense too). I just wonder how logistically they're going to fit everyone from Botcon into a cinema. My only solution was some kind of raffle system similar to what they did for the Hasbro tours at Botcon '07. Which would freaking suck if you missed out. Does this sound absurd?
I would guess that they would do it a lot like they did at the movie showing in 07'. They rented out the whole theater, and had many screens playing it. If I remember correctly it cost something like $20, and that was donated to charity.
I to imagine it will be a similar set up to 2007 as for the premiere thing it really doesn't mean anything. It could be classed as a test screening. Crews generally get a screening prior to the premiere press have screening early to so its not likely anyone will care if we see it at the end of May.
I think (and hope) that chances are pretty high.
IF I actually make it to Cali this year for Botcon, THEY BETTER BE SHOWING THE DAMN MOVIE!
I hope it's a full screening, but I could see it being a test screening with incomplete CGI footage.
I have not check for myself on the tf club boards but It was confirmed that we will see a early cut of the moive It may not be the one that hit theather later.
Shit, this was confirmed? I'm not too hopeful about this.
I just ran through all the recent club threads, and didn't see it anywhere. The closest I can even find that might be taken that way is on the boards here.
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30.10.2012 -- Chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML) is a cancer of the white blood cells. In the EU about 9600 new patients per year are diagnosed and CML accounts for 70 % of all childhood leukaemia cases. CML can currently not be cured, but kept under control with specific enzyme inhibitors. Regular monitoring of the CML patient is needed to ensure optimal treatment of the patient.
For the monitoring the number of specific genetic fragments, the BCR-ABL1 transcripts, is measured. Until now, the calibration of that monitoring method has been differently performed in various laboratories which caused non-comparable results. Therefore, a certified reference material (CRM) has been developed making use of specifically tailored plasmids suitable for the calibration of BCR-ABL1 measurements. The standardisation of the quantification of the copy numbers of BCR-ABL1 and the control gene transcripts will improve the treatment of the patient. In essence, this new CRM is an essential tool to correctly assess the human response to leukaemia treatment and to detect a relapse of individual patient early.
The CRM is a plasmid containing selected desoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) fragments specific for the transcript of breakpoint cluster region gene (BCR), the transcript of the glucuronidase beta gene (GUSB) and the fusion transcript from the BCR gene and the c-abl oncogene 1 (BCR-ABL b3a2). The CRM, coded as ERM®-AD623a–f, has been certified for the copy number ratio of these specific fragments per plasmid and for the copy number concentration of the plasmid per volume of solution. ERM-AD623 was prepared according to ISO Guide 34 and characterised by expert laboratories of demonstrated competence using the most advanced counting method for small DNA amounts, the so-called digital polymerase chain reaction. Uncertainties of the certified values were calculated in compliance with the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM).
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For years I have kept my Excel files on one of my local drives but now I am trying to put them out on OneDrive and am running into a problem.
When I use one of the locally stored files and make a change to it that I don't want to keep if I try to exit it I get a message asking if I want to save it. Sometimes I do and others I do not.
However, If I open one of the OneDrive files and make some changes those changes are reflected in file when I exit.
How can I make the 'OneDrive' files behave like the locally stored files and ask me if I want to save them?
Thanks for any help.


text: MIAMI — Jartran Inc., the nation's third-largest truck rental company, may be put up for sale because it has continued to lose money after emerging from federal bankruptcy proceedings, says Jartran's parent company, Frank B. Hall & Co. Inc. Hall, a brokerage company from Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., says it wants to sell the company because it needs to concentrate on its brokerage business. Jartran, the third-largest truck renter in the nation after U-Haul International and Miami-based Ryder System, was acquired by Hall from company founder James A. Ryder in 1982. It has a fleet of 10,000 medium-size trucks and about 18,000 automobile-size trailers. Jartran emerged last October from reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Act and has been paying off its creditors under a court-approved scheduled.


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PROVIDENCE � A Superior Court judge on Friday struck down disgraced former North Providence police Sgt. Michael P. Ciresi�s bid to have his 20-year sentence for burglary, attempted theft, conspiracy and...
PROVIDENCE � A Superior Court judge on Friday struck down disgraced former North Providence police Sgt. Michael P. Ciresi�s bid to have his 20-year sentence for burglary, attempted theft, conspiracy and other crimes reduced.
Judge Robert D. Krause found that the �enormity of the crimes, the blatant nature of the misconduct, the defendant�s callous disregard of his oath� and other factors demanded that his sentence remain intact.
Ciresi, 46, on May 12 pleaded with the court via video from prison in New Hampshire, where he is serving time.
Ciresi told Krause that he had made significant steps in his rehabilitation over his six years behind bars and was ready to become a productive member of society. He expressed deep regret for his crimes and apologized to his victims.
�I became the very person that I took an oath to protect the public from,� Ciresi, of East Providence, said.
He asked Krause to take into account his upstanding conduct in prison, desire to care for his twin sons and arguments that his sentence was impermissibly long.
Proper behavior in prison does not have bearing on efforts to reduce one�s sentence, Krause said. �Proper inmate comportment � is expected.�
Krause, too, found his family hardship arguments unpersuasive. �This court is not insensitive to the adverse effects that the defendant�s incarceration has visited upon his children, but parenthood is simply not a justifiable excuse for dispensing with meaningful punishment for the commission of serious criminal offenses.�
The judge rejected arguments that Ciresi�s sentence was too long. Ciresi, he said, committed nine offenses, five on different occasions. �He orchestrated not one but two burglaries, and he provided tools of violence to commit both of those capital offenses,� he said.
In addition, he harbored a known criminal from prosecution, received stolen property, and committed attempted larceny as well as �wide-ranging� other instances of misconduct, Krause said.
Sentencing rules advise the court to take into account the circumstances surrounding the commission of the crime, Krause wrote. In Ciresi�s case, he provided his accomplice in a violent break-in with a mask, gloves and firearm. In another instance, he supplied an explosive device used to destroy a window in hopes they would gain access to a house and commit larceny.
�Further, the sheer number and the morally reprehensible nature of all of the offenses for which he was convicted, coupled with the repetitive and contemptible conduct which he additionally engaged in � while wearing the badge and uniform of his department are �substantial grounds which tend to � aggravate� his culpability,� Krause said.
Ciresi made a number of attention-getting arrests before becoming the focus of an investigation after an armed robbery at a suspected drug dealer�s apartment in Pawtucket in 2004. The suspect in the robbery, Mark W. Pine, had Ciresi�s gun and told the police Ciresi put him up to the crime.
According to Pine, their relationship evolved to the point where Ciresi enlisted him to set off an explosion as a pretext for Ciresi�s gaining access to the North Providence home of a reputed drug dealer. Pine said he was out of prison for only a week when he and Ciresi agreed to break in and steal drugs and money from the home of a drug dealer and his girlfriend in Pawtucket, assuming that if they were at home, they would not call the police.
But the couple was at home and did call 911. When the police arrived, Pine told them of Ciresi providing him with the gun, the mask and gloves. (Ciresi would later say the gun was stolen from his glove compartment.)
Ciresi was suspended from the force and later indicted on multiple counts, including burglary, harboring a criminal, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to commit burglary and using a firearm to commit a crime of violence.
A jury found Ciresi, who is the son of former North Providence Town Solicitor Robert Ciresi, guilty of all but one count after a trial in 2008. In sentencing him to serve 20 years, Krause said civilized society could not afford corruption in its law-enforcement agencies. Ciresi chose at that time not to address the court. The state Supreme Court upheld his conviction in 2012.
His father is serving time in federal prison for acting as the middleman in the North Providence Town Council bribery scandal.


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text: Richard Clyne writes: > O2 Wifi do this as well and I'd guess The Cloud do as well. My guess > is that there could be liability issues if a shop offered public wifi > and didn't block some types of pages and hence these services block. But BT know who I am — they have my name, address, and a functioning direct debit mandate. If they're happy for me to make encrypted searches over their network and equipment in my own home, why should they have a problem with my doing that at a bus stop? Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2


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The new whistle (QQF) is very quiet and is no longer useful, as it used to be, to warn teammates of danger (like yelling "turn around!").Can we have the old whistle sound back?
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1990 Nissan 100NX from North America
Great car
The only major job I had on this car was the clutch lining, which I think part of the the maintenance.
Other than that, it was perfect.
General Comments:
This car was the best car I'd ever had.
I had a brand new 1997 Honda Civic and the transmission broke down in just 3 weeks.
Then, before the fourth year, when you start the engine in the morning or whenever it's cold, you could hear the lifters so bad.
When I had this Nissan Pulsar, I was more confident than when I had the Honda Civic considering it was 1990.
Too bad I had to let it go due to the body was too rusty.
I had it for 5 years and I bought it in 1999.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
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Averatec's just outed its super thin, super light, 10-inch netbook, the N1200. Available in silver or black, it's a good looking little with Intel Atom N450 Processor, package which weighs in at just 2.2 pounds.Averatec netbook, this one should find its place in the lifestyle segment and appeal to customers who attach importance to design.
Under the hood we have the N450 integrated GMA3150 graphics chipset together with his NM10. Trigem also installed 1 GB of RAM and a 160-gigabyte hard drive. In addition, 2 USB 2.0 ports come, an Ethernet port, webcam, VGA out, card reader and the connections for microphone and headset. The display is 10.1 inches with 1024 x 600 resolution and is flanked by two speakers.
The display is glossy and should therefore vigorously attract fingerprints. The lid is rocking a metallic look, but it is unclear whether it is actually metal or simply plastic. The two cell lithium-polymer battery with a voltage of 7.4 volts and a capacity of 3200mAh, these numbers seem to plague all Avaratec netbooks as the company can't seem to produce anything with a larger capacity. The Averatec N1200 is 32.7 × 22.8 × 2.5 inches (WxDxH) tall and takes 995 grams and running Windows 7.
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text: "Fészek" ("Nest") is a sand animation made by Ferenc Cakó from Hungary, another country that endured Fascism, Communism, and finally a harsh transition to liberal economics which crippled many of its citizens. Cakó uses his medium to suggest different ideologies slipping into each other in an ever-moving mess of human interaction. One besuited man is surreptitiously replaced by a larger one, who in turn is squashed by a giant functionary too big for the screen, in front of whom microphones spring up in demagogic anticipation.


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text: Hi all, Has anyone in the UK managed to get their hands on a case that provides back cover protection and is compatible with the smart cover? The only sites that seem to have anything suitable are in the US and charge ££££ for shipping. eBay doesn't seem to have anything yet either. Thanks.


text: Alexander, D.E., E. Gong, L.D. Martin, D.A. Burnham & A.R. Falk. 2010. Model tests of gliding with different hindwing configurations in the four-winged dromaeosaurid Microraptor gui. PNAS 107:2972-2976; doi:10.1073/pnas.0911852107 Abstract Fossils of the remarkable dromaeosaurid Microraptor gui and relatives clearly show well-developed flight feathers on the hind limbs as well as the front limbs. No modern vertebrate has hind limbs functioning as independent, fully developed wings; so, lacking a living example, little agreement exists on the functional morphology or likely flight configuration of the hindwing. Using a detailed reconstruction based on the actual skeleton of one individual, cast in the round, we developed light-weight, three-dimensional physical models and performed glide tests with anatomically reasonable hindwing configurations. Models were tested with hindwings abducted and extended laterally, as well as with a previously described biplane configuration. Although the hip joint requires the hindwing to have at least 20Â of negative dihedral (anhedral), all configurations were quite stable gliders. Glide angles ranged from 3Â to 21Â with a mean estimated equilibrium angle of 13.7Â, giving a lift to drag ratio of 4.1:1 and a lift coefficient of 0.64. The abducted hindwing modelâs equilibrium glide speed corresponds to a glide speed in the living animal of 10.6 mÂsâ1. Although the biplane model glided almost as well as the other models, it was structurally deficient and required an unlikely weight distribution (very heavy head) for stable gliding. Our model with laterally abducted hindwings represents a biologically and aerodynamically reasonable configuration for this four-winged gliding animal. M. guiâs feathered hindwings, although effective for gliding, would have seriously hampered terrestrial locomotion. ----------------- A functional and not phylogenetic paper, despite the emphasis of the Ruben commentary already discussed. Basically the technical paper from the Kansas contribution to Nova's The Four-Winged Dinosaur special of a few years ago. Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. Email: email@example.com Phone: 301-405-4084 Office: Centreville 1216 Senior Lecturer, Vertebrate Paleontology Dept. of Geology, University of Maryland http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/ Fax: 301-314-9661 Faculty Director, Earth, Life & Time Program, College Park Scholars http://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/eltsite/ Faculty Director, Science & Global Change Program, College Park Scholars http://www.geol.umd.edu/sgc Fax: 301-314-9843 Mailing Address: Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. Department of Geology Building 237, Room 1117 University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 USA


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What is fascinating to me, now that I armed with a level of knowledge and objectivity, is to read these emails and see clearly, that Mike and his band of minions have hung themselves with both their own admissions and their doctrines.
One such admission can be found here. In it, the writer laments that his prayers just aren't working. Think about that for the moment. Can you imagine Jesus prayer's failing?
The thing is, the Christian, especially the one who truly believes that he is a special kind of Christian, as IWWB do, can never really admit this to him or herself that this really is the case, that their prayers are failing epically for no good reason. No - instead, there MUST be a reason right? What is happening?
Of course, at this juncture, the anguished Christian turns to their resident spiritual guru. In the case of IWWB, Mike Vinson is that man. Yes, I know he says time and again he is not the leader of IWWB but the plain facts are that Mike is the mouthpiece and the figurehead of the movement. Mike, without a doubt, is the go-to-guy when there is a spiritual dilemma on ones hands.
But anyway, here is what the reader says:
Dear Mike,
I am becoming angry at the fact that no matter how many times I pray to the LORD to convert me and make me His follower, I experience absolutely no change in my mind and heart whatsoever. I continue to sin and do things I should not. I continue to blame others for the way my life has gone. I continue to feel depression and constant doubt that anything in my life will ever improve. I resent men who have wives and families and good jobs.The reader blatantly admits that his prayers are failing. And it's not like his motives are for personal gain either; he seems genuinely anguished that he can't attain "conversion." The cognitive dissonance this brother is experiencing is no doubt troubling him, so much so that he felt the need to write a "Dear Mike" confessional.
People tell me that all I need to do is "ask Jesus into my life", but when I try to tell them that I have done that a hundred times and nothing has changed, they always tell me that all I need to do is just "trust and accept Him", as if they didn't even hear what I said the first time. I am tired of living this sinful and unhappy existence, and it kills me inside that there is nothing I can do to change. I am furious at these people who believe this "Sinner's Prayer" nonsense and tell me that I MUST attend a church in order to find "fellowship" (even though they ALL believe in doctrines that are RUBBISH). I am at my wits' end.
Thank you for your time, Sir
This was also one of the reasons I abandoned Christianity. When I got honest with myself - and isn't honesty the basis of truth? - I had to admit that prayer was less than useless and a total waste of effort and emotion. Ironically, it was when I stopped praying that my life began to turn around.
A guru like Mike Vinson can never be that honest though and as such, must spin the rhetoric to make it appear that the acolyte is in-fact, experiencing God's divine favour. This keeps the acolyte in a mode of spiritual receptivity and suspends the persons critical thinking skills from kicking in.
Again, I have to ask - did Jesus' prayers ever fail epically? Did he cry out to God and say "Why are you not listening to me anymore?" I don't recall ever reading that in the bible anywhere.
Here is some of what Mike Vinson has to say:
If we are at peace with this world and in our own household, then we are not going to ever feel any inclination to repent of anything. After all, we are paying our tithes, going to church and fitting in with the world around us. That was Job before God took down the hedge which He has also around us all for a time, before He sends Satan to try our faith and to show us just how ungodly and God condemning we really are. Job was certainly at his "wits end."
You and I feel only the physical and mental pain of life, and we, of ourselves, are not capable of equating any of this with 'pity and mercy'. But in time we will come to repent of contending with, reproving, and condemning our own Maker, and we will then understand that it actually takes trials which cause us to do just that to bring us to see ourselves and come to repent. Only then will we see that the Lord chastens and scourges every son He receives, and we will then understand that it was because of our trials that we were able to come to repent of condemning our own Maker.Sad! Mike Vinson honestly seems to relish in this kind of pathetic drivel - parroting the notion of the author of Ecclesiastes, that life is nothing more than a trumped up vanity, something we must simply endure until we can die. I actually feel sorry for Mike (to a point) but there's nothing to be done by trying to reason with him - it's impossible! His whole mental psyche is built around the sandcastle of the "word of god," so there's no helping a person in his condition.
Once you pull your head out of the bible, you finally start to realize that life is an incredible gift and that it is certainly far too short to spend wasted with ones head buried inside the bible.
You can go around the mountain again and again and again, like I did, and like this "Dear Mike" reader is doing. But at some point, you've got to look yourself in the eye and ask the question: "What do I really believe?"
Truly, nothing fails like prayer.


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|This is my post from this week's Tuesday Blog.
It is our custom during Lent to program organ music, and this year I have two posts (this one, and another next week) where we will explore baroque and renaissance organ repertoire, performed (unashamedly, might I add) with "big organ" bombast.
Before getting started with this week's post, I want to "plug" a blog that I have encountered last year, The Shellackophile, which presents "Recordings of classical music from the 78-rpm era (mostly)". Today's musical shares and some of the commentary come from this fine effort by a like-minded music collector and enthusiast.
George Dorrington Cunningham (1878 - 1948) was an important English organist and teacher, who counted among his students the two other eminent British organists on deck this week, E. Power Biggs and George Thalben-Ball. There is no doubt that there is a long tradition of organ music in Britain, and it probably dates back to one of the great organ composers of the Baroque era, Georg Fredertic Handel, who elected to become a British subject in 1726.
The Handel organ concertos, composed in London between 1735 and 1751, were written as interludes for performances of his oratorios. They were the first works of their kind for organ with chamber orchestra accompaniment and served as a model for later composers.
The Shellackophile writes:
[George Thalben-Ball] turns in a performance of Handel's Organ Concerto in B-Flat, Op. 7, No. 3, as arranged and orchestrated by Sir Henry J. Wood. Thalben-Ball's playing is flamboyant, to say the least, and the Wood orchestration, for full symphony orchestra with brass and percussion, is certainly anachronistic but it's great fun! Handel's original ordering of the movements is also altered, and this performance interpolates not only the Minuet from "Berenice" but also a big cadenza by Thalben-Ball that takes up most of the last side.
[E. Power Biggs'] career at Columbia spanned some thirty years, but before this, he had been at Victor from 1939 to 1946, where most of his work was done on the 1937 Aeolian-Skinner organ built to Baroque specifications and located in Harvard's Germanic Museum. His recordings included collaborations with Arthur Fiedler and his Sinfonietta composed of Boston Symphony players.
Happy Listening!
George Frideric HANDEL (1685 –1759)
Organ Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat, Op. 4, No. 2 [HWV 290]
Organ Concerto No. 4 in F, Op. 4, No. 4 [HWV 292]
G. D. Cunningham (William Hill & Sons organ, Birmingham Town Hall)
City of Birmingham Orchestra
George Weldon, conducting
[Recorded June 4, 1945; English Columbia DX 1358 – 1360]
Source: http://shellackophile.blogspot.ca/20...concertos.html
Concerto No. 13 in F Major ("The Cuckoo and the Nightingale") [HWV 295]
E. Power Biggs (Aeolian-Skinner organ, Germanic Museum, Harvard University)
Arthur Fiedler's Sinfonietta
[Recorded March 17, 1940; RCA Victor set M-733]
Source: http://shellackophile.blogspot.ca/20...ale-biggs.html
Organ Concerto No. 9 in B-Flat, Op. 7, No. 3 [HWV 308]
(arr. Henry J. Wood)
Thomas Augustine ARNE (1710 –1778)
First movement (Allegro moderato) from Organ Concerto No. 6 in B-Flat (ca. 1751)
(Arr. George Thalben-Ball)
George Thalben-Ball (unspecified organ [Handel], St-Mark's Chursch, London [Arne])
Philharmonia Orchestra
Walter Susskind, conducting
[Recorded June 4, Sept. 23, and Oct. 11, 1948; HMV C 3814 – 3816]
Source: http://shellackophile.blogspot.ca/20...concertos.html


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This month, the rate of inflation exceeded the yield on the 10-year Treasury bond for the first time since 2008. That's a negative real yield! Your assets will lose purchasing power with that return. Bill Gross, who manages the world's biggest bond fund, told Bloomberg Television last week: "Savers are being disadvantaged. ... We call [what policymakers are trying to do] pocket picking." Don't let central bankers pick your pocket. Here are a few asset allocation guidelines to avoid just that.
Saving is healthy -- necessary, even. Indeed, during the housing bubble, there was spending on a massive scale, with people borrowing against the value of their home to fund their spending habits. Now that the party is over, U.S. consumers are left licking their wounds ... or balance sheets, as it were.
Avoid cash and government bonds
However, by setting interest rates at zero, the Federal Reserve isn't making it easy for people to save -- that's the idea. With negative real Treasury yields , saving intelligently for the long term means avoiding cash instruments (T-bills, money market funds, etc.) and Treasury bonds (I'm not referring to an emergency fund here). With regard to government bonds, the longer the maturity, the more interest rate risk you take. Steer clear of the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF
If you have money in a corporate bond fund that is run by a competent manager who you are comfortable with, that's an acceptable choice.
Favor real assets -- at the right price
There is only one reason to have your long-term savings in cash right now: because you're waiting for asset valuations to become more attractive. Otherwise, you should be investing those funds -- very selectively -- in real assets (assets that can be expected to provide a return above the rate of inflation, such as stocks or real estate.) In a stock market that looks overheated to me, high-quality large caps are one of the few segments that offer decent value. Two good alternatives to take advantage of that are the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF
High quality, still
Finally, if you have the time and the inclination, you can invest in individual stocks. For the reason I gave in the previous paragraph, I would suggest concentrating on micro caps or special situations (if you have enough expertise) or high-quality large caps (which is easier). It's hard for me to believe that franchises like Cisco Systems
The stock market looks overheated -- "Watch This Before the Market Crashes."
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The need for greater customer centricity is an increasingly high priority for enterprises. Over recent years, there has been a marked shift in how companies interact with their customers. This shift, driven by increasing levels of competition within various industries, has been characterised by a much closer, more personal dialogue with the customer. Industries such as retail have led the way on customer centricity.
Whilst many recognise and accept this as a given, what is less widely acknowledged are the challenges that exist in making this shift -- not least from an IT perspective.
To effectively target customers at this more personal level, businesses have to understand them much better. This requires manipulation of the data that they hold on customers, which can often be spread across multiple, discrete systems. Lack of automation of systems in how data is processed will add significantly to the time taken to process as well as giving rise to data errors. It may also lead to an unwelcome over-reliance on the IT department. After all, IT does not want to spend most of its time cutting and re-cutting customer data to fit the needs of the marketing department.
Beyond this, coordination between the marketing department -- which will drive this closer dialogue - and other internal departments such as sales, customer service and IT is necessary, and requires clear definition around processes to ensure that any outreach activity reaches the right target audience in the right way.
Without this, unpredictability and inefficiency ensues. Another equally important issue that will undoubtedly involve input from the IT department is monitoring and reporting of outreach activity.
Recent discussions carried out by Freeform Dynamics with mobile service providers into this very subject shows that, in this industry at least, these very challenges are endemic, and are significantly impacting their ability to create a more personal dialogue with customers. We often think of the mobile service provider from a supply perspective, however, the provider is a business in its own right, and one that needs to reach out its own customers, in the same way that any enterprise does, and, to achieve this, has to deal with a variety of internal issues along the way.
It is particularly useful to consider the mobile industry, as it provides a good example that business users within other enterprises can easily relate to -- and ultimately learn from. After all, the failure of mobile service providers to adopt a truly customer-centric approach has been a bone of contention for enterprises for many years. What may not be as obvious, however, at least at first glance, is that this shortfall is not just limited to the business market, but is also rife in the consumer space, suggesting that something other than intention is underpinning this.
The reality is that the principle of genuine customer centricity has not historically been central to the marketing activities of most providers. The industry's 'utility' roots are firmly planted in what it takes to deliver a fairly straightforward set of telephony and related value added services on a reliable and robust basis. The idea of 'service centricity', with a focus on the product or offering, is deeply ingrained in this culture.
Our dialogue with mobile service providers has shown that a key barrier for providers in achieving true customer centricity is that their internal systems simply aren't up to the job. True, many have invested considerable money, time and effort in putting 'big footprint' CRM systems into place, which are intended to provide an overall framework for managing customer interaction. However, when we drill down into how well these systems do the job that they need to, it becomes clear that these investments, while necessary and valuable, are not as all encompassing as was perhaps first assumed when the original business cases were made. Stories of problems with integrating data across multiple systems, and clunky, non-customisable reporting are not uncommon. This naturally leads to an undue reliance on manual processing and IT integration workarounds.
So what is the answer? Clearly, replacing current systems that deliver against most of the requirements is not the right thing to do.
The trick is to put historical expectations of existing systems to one side, no matter how hard this might be from a political perspective, and be objective about assessing the current level of capability and the gaps that exist. Those who have done this acknowledge the importance of filling the gaps and have found themselves better able to justify the necessary incremental investment. This may require IT development or integration work, but can also prompt the acquisition of specialist solutions to deal with the issues.
Clearly, the challenge in achieving customer centricity doesn't start and end with internal systems. Other factors such as internal mindset and politics, as well as internal processes, can have a significant bearing, and are discussion pieces in their own right. Internal systems play a fundamental part, however, irrespective of which sector the enterprise is in. Get this right, and you a long way down the road to getting personal with your customer.
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With hundreds of cargo conversions across 26 freighter platforms, including well over 150 Boeing 737-300 and 737-400 freighters, PEMCO is by far the market leader in narrowbody passenger-to-freighter aircraft conversions. The name PEMCO has become synonymous with aircraft modification quality, reliability and value.
Introducing the PEMCO B737-700 FlexCombiTM and Full-Freighter conversion programs. Built on the back of its successful Classics program, 70-plus STCs, and over 350 aircraft conversions, PEMCO brings its Next Generation conversion program to life.
The first of its kind, the PEMCO B737-700FC offers three configurations: a 24-passenger cabin plus a 2,640-cubic-foot cargo hold for up to 30,000 pounds of payload in six pallet positions; a 12-passenger cabin plus a 3,005-cubic-foot cargo hold for up to 35,000 pounds of payload in seven pallet positions; or full-freighter mode consisting of a 3,370-cubic-foot cargo hold for up to 40,000 pounds of payload in eight pallet positions. The available positions will accommodate 88" x 125" or 88" x 108" pallets, with the seventh and eighth positions accommodating smaller pallets.
The B737-700F PEMCO-converted aircraft features nine pallet positions, up to 45,000 pounds of payload, and 3,844 cubic feet of total volume. The available positions will accommodate 88" x 125" or 88" x 108" pallets, with the ninth position accommodating a smaller pallet.
The 300F offers nine pallet positions including eight full-size container or pallets and one smaller container or pallet. The full-featured cargo handling system includes retractable sill plate and over-rideable side restraints, all engineered to withstand the loading and unloading stress of the 737-300's 43,100-pound maximum payload.
The 400F High Yield embodies each of the advanced features of PEMCO's market leading third generation design. Unlike competing products, all of its 48,000 lb. payload and 4,600 cu. ft. main deck volume can be utilized to generate unparalleled profit. Its superior hauling capabilities include position limits up to 11,000 pounds, the ability to handle a wide variety of containers and pallets (e.g. 88″ x 125″, 108″ x 125″, 96″ x 125″, LD-9, military pallets, demi LD-3, AEH, HazMat containers), horses and handlers, relief mission, rapid response and other "special mission" personnel.
The 400F Alternate High Density can be loaded with eight full-size 96″ x 125″ positions plus one 88″ x 125″ positions with advanced floor reinforcements, enabling some of the highest position weights in the industry. Cargo handling system options are operator-configurable.
The standard 400C configuration offers four ULD in the forward cargo area for full size containers or pallets with a 25,000 lb. payload, including capacity for a CFM56 engine and fixed seating for 66 or 72 passengers, distinguish the versatile, multi-purpose mission capability of the world's only 400 Combi.
With the freight hauling capacity of eight full-size containers (due to the retention of the aft galley/lav complex), and the versatility of a 30-minute changeover time to haul up to 147 passengers, the 300QC provides optimum versatility. The QC features a Class E interior and numerous FAA-approved passenger interior configurations (LOPAs).


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RELEASE DATE : 17-03-2009 PROTECTION : Nothing GAME TYPE : Flight Action DISKS : 1 DVD Release Notes: In the year 2012, the era of the nation-state is drawing to a close. The nations of the future increasingly have turned to private military companies, also known as PMCs, to aid in their defense. These elite mercenaries provide clear benefits to the nations that engage them, but they also tend to take a rather lax view of the law. Even so, the Reykjavik Accords have authorized the PMCs' right to serve in every aspect of military operations. As the PMCs' role is further legitimized and their influence grows, concerns have begun to mount. Have the PMCs been granted too much power? And, if so, what will the consequences be for the world? Tom Clancy's HAWX puts you in the pilot's seat for revolutionary aerial combat action in an all-too-realistic world of the near-future. Engage in intense high-altitude warfare, complete with cutting-edge technology and devastating firepower. Become an elite pilot of the future through use of the game's unique Enhanced Reality System, which provides a incredibly realistic flight experience, including radars and incoming missile detection, weapons trajectory control, an anti-crash system and more. Take the throttle of more than 50 authentic aircraft as you prove your skills in dogfights over war-scarred modern landscapes. In HAWX, you're at the controls for stunningly rendered air combat. Take to the air as an elite pilot of the future in a world scarred by years of post-war trauma


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Spectacular ocean views 2, Molokai
Spectacular ocean views 2, Molokai
Our house is located on the island of Molokai with lanais offering beautiful views of the islands of Maui and Lanai. This unit, downstairs in our house, includes one bedroom with queen size bed, full kitchen and private attached bathroom. Also 2 sofa beds and futon.
Alueella maksuton pysäköinti
Kannettavalle tietokoneelle sopiva työtila
Talon säännöt
We expect guests to make themselves at home, and to interact with us as much as they wish to.
.When we are traveling abroad (as may be the case in the spring and summer of 2017) we provide space in the fridge for breakfast items and you can make your own breakfast. You can also use the kitchen to make you lunch sandwiches. We do not expect you to do a lot of cooking. In the home except by prior arrangement with us. You will also have some room in the fridge to keep your beer or wine.
We hope you will enjoy our home and your vacation in Molokai. Best wishes and safe travels!


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The game I would hope for...
Firstly, fixed mechanics such as the Banish Spell, Reinforcement Points and Time are all customisable, and the Realm entrance fee is abolished along with Kudos points. Encounters are simplified with 'Rewards' removed and their role in telling a story gone – they now just for passing on information. Gold & score etc are purely calculated based upon a Realm's Difficulty.
The Designer places the terrain and infrastructure pretty much as they do now but now we have a more componentised approach in places.
Realm Difficulty
The Designer sets the initial Realm Difficulty however every time a player completes a Realm the difficulty increases by +1. Reinforcement Rate, Mana Flux Points etc are now all influenced by the Realm Difficulty setting and the setting is uncapped.
Cosmic Balance
A Realm can be designated as Chaos, Neutral/Natural, Law or None. If Chaos or Law then the Realm Difficulty tilts the Cosmic Balance in that direction at the start of every battle. If Neutral, then the Casting Boost/Mana Cost of Neutral Spells is affected beneficially.
Believer Points
A new points system that represents how much of the population a player has converted to 'their side' (See Towns). Players 'found' & name their belief systems depending upon their social rank. For example:
- Lords can found a Follower of X and have a 1% chance of Converting 1 People to their cause.
- Kings can found a Legend of X and have a 5% chance of Converting 1 People to their cause.
- Demigods can found an Order of X and have a 10% chance of Converting 1 People to their cause.
- Gods can found a Pantheon of X and have a 25% chance of Converting 1 People to their cause.
The number is uncapped and these become proper command and control posts with a two stage fight, outside & inside. Outside the Designer can designate a number of Spell Totems each with a Spell Deck and a range attack capability similar to a Bolt Tower. The Realm Difficulty influences the size of the Spell Deck. Inside the Player can designate the number of enemy Wizard Lords present. A captured Citadel transfers the Wizard Kings Reinforcements Points to the Player who now also has a Reinforcements Points Pool that are used to hire Villagers instead of Kudos. Villagers sent to a Captured Citadel can be sent on again to any tile on the current land mass.
Fog of war
Although the explored map is shown, dimmed, Marauders and Wizard Lords aren't unless in the players LOS which is not unlimited.
Mana Fluxes
Operate as they do now, except the number is again uncapped, and when a player achieves control of a majority of Mana Fluxes the Banish Spell actually goes into reverse.
Mercs, Reputation, and Merc Slots
Reputation is gone and Merc Slots are now unlocked by spending Realm Karma. A Merc is then created by casting a Realm Spell, say Summon Mercenary.
As now but it is now a 2 stage fight. Outside is similar to a Citadel but with additional Spell Totems plus a Wizard Lord. Inside is the Wizard King plus one or more Wizard Lords. Again, all configurable by the Designer. Upon victory the player may loot the Palace, receiving the Bodygear, Staff, and Talismans worn by the defeated Wizard King (See Piracy below).
Towns are now componentised between different types of residential graphics to reflect their populations wealth and social standing. A Wizard Lord or higher can attempt to convert the people to their Belief System by casting a special Realm Spell, Convert Disbeliever (for example). There are 3 types of residential property each taking up a map tile and each containing 10 Mortals; Slums, Town Houses, & Gentry Homes. A battle which takes place in Residential Map Tile risks killing the Mortals who are present on the Battle Map. Upon completion of a Realm the player receives a tribute/tithe from each convert in the form gold; 1 per slum dweller, 2 per converted town folk, and 5 per converted gentry. The portion of each type is of residence that can be placed is linked to the Realm Difficulty.
Operate as they do now except Reinforcement Points are used by the player to hire them. Again, number of fighters etc available should be customisable by the Designer. Villagers sent to a Citadel can be sent on to anywhere on the current land mass.
A player leaving a Realm with loot risks being attacked by another wizard upon return to Limbo. If they have invaders switched on this will be a human player if available. If the player loses then they must select one item from their 'on person' inventory to secede to the winning player.
Anyway, those are my current thoughts on Strategy. I'd prefer RPG but I wouldn't mind playing the above at all, nor designing such Realms.