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Millions of people across the UK celebrated the start of 2014 with spectacular fireworks displays, music and parties.
Tens of thousands of people lined the banks of the River Thames as the chimes of Big Ben rang in the new year in the capital, while an estimated 80,000 descended on Edinburgh for its famous Hogmanay street party.
Fireworks events also took place in Cardiff and Belfast, while Londonderry marked its final few hours as the UK City of Culture in 2013 with a cathedral service.
Some 50,000 revellers in London braved the threat of rain to enjoy what was billed as "the world's first multi-sensory fireworks display", when peach snow and orange-scented bubbles descend on a section of the crowd.
Partygoers queued for hours to get a prime spot near the London Eye, where an enormous fireworks display lit up the skyline.
Up to 100,000 are thought to have enjoyed the display, during which people were given LED wristbands and fruit-flavoured sweets that linked to the tastes and smells of the multi-sensory display to bring something different to the new year festivities.
After watching the fireworks, revellers joined in a traditional rendition of Auld Lang Syne.
London mayor Boris Johnson said there was "no better way to celebrate the highs of 2013 and the start of an exciting new year" than enjoying one of the world's most dazzling fireworks displays".
The Metropolitan police said it had 3,800 officers on duty for the event, while London Ambulance Service received 1,100 calls between 7pm and midnight, and 469 in the first hour of 2014.
Travel on buses, the Tube, trams, Docklands Light Railway and the London Overground remained free until 4.30am.
In Edinburgh thousands of people counted down the last moments of 2013 before fireworks over Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill marked the start of the new year.
The Pet Shop Boys headlined a concert in Princes Street Gardens, while there was also a Keilidh playing traditional Scottish music.
Today around half a million people are expected to attend the annual New Year's Day Parade in London, which could be hit by rain and strong winds.
The celebration parade will feature music from around the globe, leaving the Ritz Hotel at noon and winding through Piccadilly, Pall Mall and Trafalgar Square before ending in Parliament Square.
In New York a sea of horn-tooting, hat-wearing revellers cheered and kissed as the famed crystal ball dropped in a freezing New York City Times Square to ring in 2014, capping a worldwide wave of celebrations that included a dazzling 30-minute fireworks show in Dubai.
US supreme court Justice Sonia Sotomayor led the 60-second countdown and pushed the button that unleashed the shimmering orb with 2,688 crystals, a role usually filled by the New York City mayor. Michael Bloomberg, on his last day in office, was sitting the celebration out after 12 years on the job, while newly elected mayor Bill de Blasio took the oath of office just after midnight at his Brooklyn home.
The New York celebration featured performances from artists such as Miley Cyrus, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Blondie
There were spectacular displays in Rio, Brazil, where thousands watched as fireworks lit up the skies over Copacabana Beach.
In Russia, where two suicide bombings in two days killed 34 people, eerily empty buses lumbered through the streets of Volgograd, where authorities canceled mass events for New Year's Eve and asked residents not to set off fireworks.
President Vladimir Putin, in his New Year's Eve address to the nation, vowed that the fight against terrorists will continue "until their destruction is complete", Russian news agencies reported.
In Dubai on the Persian Gulf officials sought to break another record by creating the largest fireworks show.
The skyline was a canvas for a dazzling 30-minute show. The display capped off with six minutes of fireworks that engulfed the city's manmade, palm-shaped island, with its fronds and trunk shimmering in thousands of lights.
In Ukraine anti-government protesters hoped to set their own record for the most people to sing a national anthem at the same time. On Kiev's main square at least 100,000 Ukrainians sang their national anthem in a sign of support for integration with Europe. The square has been the scene of massive pro-European protests for more than a month, triggered by President Viktor Yanukovych's decision to ditch a key deal with the European Union.
In the Philippines two people were killed and around 600 injured by firecracker blasts and celebratory gunfire as the nation marked the end of a year of tragic disasters, including an 8 November typhoon that left more than 6,100 dead and nearly 1,800 missing.
In Sydney there was a fireworks display that sprayed from the sails of the Sydney Opera House and the city's harbor bridge.
New Zealand concluded 2013 with its own fireworks that erupted from Auckland's Sky Tower while cheering crowds danced in the streets.
In Tokyo five priests at the Zojoji temple used ropes to swing a wooden pole against a large bell, sounding the first of 108 gongs to mark the new year. Simultaneously, "2014" lit up in white lights on the modern Tokyo Tower in the background.
China had light shows at part of the Great Wall near Beijing and at the Bund waterfront in Shanghai. The city of Wuhan in central Hubei province called off its fireworks show and banned fireworks downtown to avoid worsening its smog.
Pope Francis used his year-end prayer service of thanksgiving to urge people to ask themselves: fid they spend 2013 to further their own interests or to help others? The pontiff asked people to reflect if they used the past year to make the places where they live more livable and welcoming. Citing Rome as an example, Francis said the city is full of tourists, but also refugees.


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So you're interested in Twitter. Welcome. Here is a guide to help you through your first couple of weeks. It will seem odd and pointless at the beginning but I promise you it's worth it.
First, register an account. Pick a cool username but keep it short. You will one day be identified by this name in public and in front of your friends, so make sure it is something you actually like. You can always change it later on, but that's not advisable. You want to build a recognizable handle for yourself.
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Hello twitter! Umm.. what do I do now?
This is really stupid. Why am I here?
Tweet tweet… (or some other joke variation on how you feel like a bird now)
Congratulations. You have shared your first tweet with the world. Except no one is listening… yet. We will get to that part. First, some notes about tweets.
Twitter is a micro-blogging service, which means that you can send little updates in the form of 140 characters at a time. You will learn to be brief with practice. Think of it as writing headlines rather than sentences. Tweets are linked to each other automatically using a system called hashtags. A hashtag is any word preceded by a # sign, such as #France #tech #love, etc. When you hash a word, it becomes an automatic link to all other tweets that include the same hashtag. It is like a keyword or a tag. For example, if you click on #Lebanon here, it links you to all tweets that are tagged with #Lebanon. Of course, the hashtag must be related to your tweet. Here is an example:
Just watched Blue Valentine in Empire Sodeco and I highly recommend it! #movies.
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Relationships among tweeps (that's what we call people on twitter) exist in the form of following. You will see on your profile a list of people you follow and people who follow you. Start off by following some people you find interesting. Here are some good people to start with:
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Now it is time to interact with your twitter community. There are two ways to do this: by talking to a tweep and by retweeting what they post. Talking to tweeps is public and anyone can see your tweet (unless you send a direct message, which is private). You do this by simply mentioning the person's username in a tweet. For example:
@meetsamer hello, how are you today?
Samer (very smart dude you should also follow) will then see your tweet in his "Replies" or "Mentions" timeline. This grabs his attention better than if you just tweeted something without mentioning him, since he can't possibly read every single tweet in his timeline because he follows hundreds of people. He will then probably click on "reply" and answer you in a tweet. You can also tweet to multiple people in the same update. For example, some tweeps like to say "France" to their twitter friends in the morning like this:
France @yasminehajjar @gabdallah @LeGustav @AwanTeaShop@Beirutiyat @NasriAtallah @monakaraoui @_Archangelus_ @Shanty2
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Sharing Links
The most interesting part of twitter (besides meeting cool new people who will eventually become your friends) is the sharing of news and links, which is unmatchable anywhere else. Twitter is a terrific source of news because you are getting links recommended by actual people. To share a link on twitter, simply copy and past the URL into your tweet.
Most links, however, are too long to fit into your 140-character limit, so you will need a URL shortener such as bit.ly. Most sites that provide a link to tweet their articles will do this automatically.
That should be enough for you to start out on Twitter. It's very intuitive so you will quickly get the hang of things. You can stop here now or you can continue for more useful tips.
Other Useful Tips
Offline Activities
Community offline organize regular tweetups, which are hangouts for people on twitter to meet in person over coffee or drinks or a planned activity. You will read about these when they come up on your timeline, so make sure to join one. The community also (un)organizes a GeekFest which is a cool event that brings us together to learn about techie things through peer presentations.
Protected Tweets
If you're worried about your tweets being exposed publicly, you can opt for privacy (protected tweets) in your settings. That way people need to request to follow you before they can see your profile and tweets.
What is #FF?
#FF is a hashtag for "Follow Friday" and is a twitter tradition whereby every Friday, tweeps recommend others that are interesting for their followers to check out. It's a good way to get introduced to other tweeps and to also share your appreciation for the people you follow. Here is an example:
#FF @migheille for geeky updates and quirky reflections on life with the slowest internet connection on earth
What is +1?
Sometimes tweeps retweet something with a +1 (or + whatever digit) before it to show their approval of what is being said. For example:
+100 RT: @alainclasse: Smoking should be banned in all public places in #Switzerland!
Direct Messages (DM)
You cannot send a direct message to a tweep who does not follow you. But you can mention anyone in your tweets, whether they follow you or not.
Twitter Clients
Twitter clients are software applications that are an alternative to the twitter website. Two popular examples are TweetDeck and HootSuite. I personally use Echofon, which is a FireFox extension that I find lightweight and easy to use. But you might want to stick to Twitter in your browser for now and then experiment with clients when you have gotten the hang of it.
News Sources, Businesses and Organizations
There are many Lebanese and Arab news sources on twitter that tweet links to their websites, such as: @naharnet @al_akhbar and @nowlebanon. You can follow those too or you can choose tweeps that are very active news sharers such as @BeirutSpring. There are some businesses too but those aren't very active, except for @AntoineOnline. There are also some active organizations like @nasawiya and @SMEXbeirut.
Twitter Lists
Lists compile similar tweeps together so that you can see a timeline of all their tweets on the same page. You can add multiple tweeps to a list and you will be added to lists too. Here is one of my lists: Lebanon, which includes 50 tweeps who are in Lebanon. You can use it to find more people to follow.
How many Swiss are on twitter?
I'm not sure. There are many who live here and many who are abroad. I would estimate at least 500 active tweeps and maybe a couple of thousand if you include the ones who are rarely active. But the community's growing every day.
Is everyone friendly on twitter?
No, just like in your offline life. Most people are very polite and friendly, but you will bump into a few bullies. Unfollow people who annoy you and if it gets to a point of harassment, you can block them from accessing your profile.
Live Updates & Citizen Journalism
Twitter is a great way to get quick bits of news across from an event. This works well if you have a twitter app installed on your smartphone and if it allows you to upload photos and videos.
There you go. Happy tweeting!
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Hi, so my uncle asked me to fix up his laptop for him. I'm planning on wiping the laptop and put a fresh install of Windows 7 64 bit on it but I noticed the bios was locked and it gave me a hint after getting it wrong 3 times which changes every 3 times. The laptop is a dell wyse powerterm altough I can't find any more info then that, I tried removing the bios battery for more then 5 hours with the battery unplugged although it still retains the bios info. I don't see any jumpers to bridge any ideas? I read online I should call dell although i have no proof of purchase, serial number or anything like that.
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HI I do not think we can help with the bios password as we can not verify you are the owner of the computer. but you could try using the one time boot menu to boot to the install media. by pressing F12 when turning on computer.
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You say it`s your uncles laptop ?
Did your uncle put a password on the bios ??
As Oscer states, you don`t need to get into the Bios to install windows.
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I should call dell although i have no proof of purchase, serial number or anything like that.
Beyond that, as noted we cannot verify you are who you say you are (even if you said it was your notebook) so discussing how to reset or bypass a password is strictly against the Forum Rules (#6 in this case) we all agreed to abide by when we registered here. Note, this rule is common to every tech site that I am aware of.
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|06 Oct 2016
I was wanting to know if wyse might of put a bios password on it from factory, which they did. The password ended up being "Fireport" which is a default password so people don't mess with the settings. For some reason there's no service number sticker and no serial or model number so i couldn't even register it to a specific owner if I or they tried before... Its like blank and doesn't even look like it wore off or anything. I completely understand how it looks shady, from what I can understand is it's his co-workers dad who I guess upgraded and the co-worker already has a better laptop so he gave it to my uncle because he doesn't currently have one. Probably didnt need to get into the bios, but I like to confirm my settings and am currently installing Windows 7.
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Yesterday was a confluence of kids doing things that are on the list of things not to do and a mom with PMS. I know. That's probably too much info, but I don't know how else to describe the attitudes in our house.
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"As Hurricane Season approaches we all have to be cognizant of potential weaknesses in our business, and how a storm could affect our business. In healthcare they will be putting their hurricane preparedness plan together that will outline how they will care for their patients through the storm. What is often overlooked when summer comes around is how we are going to cover absences that could be caused by storms or just vacations. These vacancies cause a major hole in our ability to provide the stellar service we all strive to provide. Many companies will just say, "I'll just have my other staff do that job for the week or two." Really? What that tells me is either you are over staffed in the first place, or certain functions in your organization will be overlooked while one person turns away from their regular duties to focus on those of the absent person. The question that begs to be asked in this situation is, what revenue-producing activity is being left undone while your employee is out? Is it the biller who is not billing? Is it the receptionist that isn't greeting your customers? Is it the Medical Assistant that is not helping the physician with triaging the patients? Did you schedule fewer patients to slow the work load down so other MA's could cover? Are your employees working overtime to get the job done?
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Unicalce has always made traditional products related to the construction industry: special hydrated lime, fiore (slaked lime), high-titer lime, putty or plaster. We use decades of experience to ensure excellent standards of quality and service both for small quantity customers and for large quantity customers, retailers and industry.
Product and service quality are very important for the construction industry which is increasingly competitive. The materials are ever more efficient and user needs are more attentive. Unicalce products respond to these needs by offering quicklime and hydrated lime suitably produced for the different uses, whether they are for mortars and plasters, autoclaved concrete or for our line of Premier premixed material.
Our R&D department is constantly working to offer solutions that increase the quality required by customers and our sales and production network, present all over Italy, is a guarantee of support and continuity.
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9th International Conference on
ENERGY and DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENT and BIOMEDICINE (EDEB '15)
Seoul, South Korea
September 5-7, 2015
Call for Papers:
The organizing committee invites you to submit your papers and special session proposals to this conference. The benefits of attending are considerable for established academics and new scientists alike. Your paper will be reviewed by 2-4 experts of the field that may offer you valuable guidelines to improve your work. In case of acceptance, you will be given the opportunity to present your research and share it with scientists from all over the world. You will stay up to date with the latest advances in the field and you will have the chance to discuss possible future collaborations. The conference proceedings will appear in all the important scientific Indexes. Furthermore, following your registration you will be given instructions on how to submit an extended version of your paper. The scientific committee will select a number of these extended versions for publication in a NAUN journal.
Apart from the academic benefits, one should also consider the rich social and cultural program that is always associated with our events. Attractive destinations and quality venues ensure an enjoyable stay to all participants. The multinational composition of the attendees often stimulates the initiation of fruitful conversations. The overall experience is always fulfilling.
Although this web site is designed to answer any questions you might have regarding the event, feel free to contact us if you have any enquiries.
Plenary Lecture 1:
Ceramic Materials for Clean Energy and Environment: Precise Crystal Structure and Properties
Plenary Lecture 2:
Management of Sustainable Products and Services Using the Eco Concept
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On Friday when we were at the pier waiting for Sailor Boy, we see people coming off the ship wearing masks. The captain's wife is standing with us and informs us that there were some cases of swine flu on the ship. Great. Sailor Boy was sick and Her Majesty and I ended up getting sick on Monday.
I don't think it's swine flu though. I've had the flu before and it kicked my ass. Even so, whatever I have still sucks. It doesn't feel like a cold but it doesn't really feel like the flu. I've had a sore throat, cough, headache, body aches and fatigue. No runny nose, sneezing or congestion, which I always get with a cold.
I had to drag my ass out of bed to go grocery shopping today though. I've been back almost a week and it needed to be done. We were out of pretty much everything. I definitely miss the days when it was just me, Sailor Boy and Her Majesty. I still would have had to go shopping when I got back, but I wouldn't have had to buy so much. Since my stock of meat was gone and we were completely out of all condiments, I ended up spending $232.40. That leaves me only $17.60 for the next 2 weeks. That sucks.
I do have some happy news. One of the things I hate about it here is that it's warm, so we have to leave our window open to get air going through. That means I get to hear sirens, helicopters, and people while I'm trying to sleep. Not to mention that there is a street light right outside our window. So I finally broke down and bought and AC and some blackout curtains. Now my bedroom is like a cold, dark, quiet cave and it's so much more peaceful.


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This new moon cycle is headed towards a full moon in the planet Venus. This is the planet that influences love, relationships, beauty, the arts and everything lovely. Ahhh, this is great news because that means for the next 30 days or so you will be able to more easily tap into that energy which is in charge of not only external beauty but also the beauty that comes from within.
Beauty is initially observed externally by the eyes, you know, "in the eyes of the beholder". But as we have all experienced, true beauty comes from within. When you're in the presence of someone who radiates sweetness, harmony, kindness you know that you're experiencing a form of beauty, an element that feels good and that we may forget, is a gift from the Divine, from God. Those who are naturally born with this disposition are truly blessed. The rest of us need to work on it.
This is a most auspicious time to make a commitment to transcend energies, behaviors, and habits that are counter to being the embodiment of inner beauty. In other words you can determine for this lunar cycle to bring on the sweetness, harmony and kindness, particularly when you're not in the mood to do so. That's when it really counts. Anybody can be sweet when things are going their way and life seems lovely. But getting down to the true work of invoking inner beauty means conjuring up that sweetness when your friend, spouse, co-worker, and others "seemingly" annoy and anger you. We are able to evolve when we realize no matter what others do, everything we express comes from within us.
The best way to harness sweetness when circumstances warrant your justification to be angry or to have a bad attitude is to just STOP. Stop the momentum of going down that habitual behavioral road and recognize what has just happened. Look at how you're feeling and know that you have the ability to make another choice about how you feel and how you respond. Now if you're driving I'm not saying stop in the middle of the road, I'm saying stop the thoughts that would have you be anything other than understanding, kind, and compassionate. Decide not to curse out the driver that just cut you off. You're in your car, he can't hear you anyway. Just stop, take a breath, instead of habitually reacting.
Take a long, slow, deep breath in and then exhale, deeply, slowly. Do this several times to gain control over your emotions and your thoughts. Think of how wonderful it would feel if you decided whatever it was that has triggered you, has no control over how you will react. It's not easy, but you can do it if you put your mind to it. Over time, practice will make it easier for you to catch yourself any time these negative emotions arise. Instead, embody that sweet Venusian energy.
In many cultures there are deities (goddesses, angels, spirits) that are associated with this energy. They have names like Het Heru, Oshun, Venus, and Aphrodite, all of whom are the embodiment of love, joy, beauty, sensuality and sexuality. Associated with this energy are the color combination of yellow and green ~ yellow roses, peacocks, rose quartz stones and rose oil. Rose oil is famed for its healing properties for the heart (that's why roses are given to demonstrate love) and can be also be found in many high end skin care products. Our Sita Perfume is an ode to this energy with rose, sandalwood and patchouli as its accord. Also, our Sultry Body Polishes, Body Butters and Soaps are all scented with rose to get you in the sweetness mode.
So go ahead and call on this energy that flows, that goes with the flow, that moves around obstructions, obstacles, and defuses conflict and combativeness. After all, this energy is said dwell in rivers, which when clean, are ever flowing. In the end, it's not enough to look beautiful, outer beauty fades. We should all strive to be beautiful. And it is most easy to evoke this good feeling energy by listening to music you love, dancing, socializing, smiling and having fun. You are in charge of your emotions, so create joy and with observation and contemplation may you be able to more easily access your inner beauty.


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Morning Joe: Why Didn't Media Ask Feinstein's Staff About Leak Of Ford's Letter?By James BarrettDailyWire.com
Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," is no fan of Donald Trump; in fact, he's one of the president's most vocal critics, who has made quite clear that he wants to see him fail. But his anti-Trump lens hasn't blinded Scarborough to some glaring problems with how the Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media handled the uncorroborated allegations against now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
In a searing critique of the media's coverage of the allegations, particularly how the content of Christine Blasey Ford's confidential letter was leaked to the press despite her desire to remain anonymous, Scarborough called out multiple mainstream outlets that portray themselves as committed to reporting the truth without partiality for failing to dig into the matter.
"What New York Times reporter, what Washington Post reporter, was assigned a story by their editors to go see what really happened with Dianne Feinstein, and ask Dianne Feinstein and her staff the sort of questions that would have happened if the Republican Party had done the same thing?" Scarborough asked, the Free Beacon reports. "Not one."
He then issued a direct challenge to the Times, the Post and The Wall Street Journal to do what they should have done in "real time."
"I challenge New York Times reporters this morning — not reporters, editors. I challenge Washington Post editors. I challenge Wall Street Journal editors. I challenge editors across America: Write that story," he said. "What happened with Dr. Ford's agreement … with Dianne Feinstein? Why did they leak that story? And more importantly, look at yourself and ask yourself the question, 'why didn't we report on this in real time?' when you sure as hell would have reported on it if [Republican Sen. Chuck] Grassley and his office had done the same thing."
Scarborough's guest, who made clear that he generally sides with the Democrats, couldn't help but agree that the Democrats' and the media's handling of the allegations were extremely problematic. Scarborough later returned to his question again and hammered his premise more directly.
"The question is, why didn't they focus on the allegations before them and why didn't they ask the same tough questions of Dianne Feinstein and her staff that they should have, rightly asked, of Chuck Grassley and his staff? You held the letter for a couple of months, you waited until Kavanaugh's hearing was over and then you released it at the very end," Scarborough said.
In her testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ford said she contacted Democratic Sen. Anna Eshoo of California in July and that her confidential letter reached Feinstein's office on July 30. For six weeks, Feinstein did nothing with the letter. Just as the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing wrapped up, however, reports of the allegation leaked, and Feinstein issued a cryptic statement saying she'd handed allegations against the nominee over to the FBI. Ford testified that she wanted to remain anonymous, but after the story leaked, she felt compelled to come forward. During the explosive hearing with Kavanaugh and Ford, Feinstein insisted that her office did not leak the letter.
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The US Marine Corp (USMC) is taking steps to better understand artificial intelligence (AI) technology and how it could be integrated into the service's weapon systems, with numerous experiments currently under way, according to the commander of the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory.
"There's a lot at play," Brigadier General Christian Wortman told attendees at the Navy League's Sea-Air-Space exposition on 8 May, held in National Harbor, Maryland. "AI is a very fluid and dynamic environment and there is a lot of room for experimentation. And we're doing a lot during the course of that experimentation. We've got a really robust approach for executing that experimentation."
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Pinnacle–PCI–Mazzei – N. Burleigh
Project: N. Burleigh WTP in the South Central Water District, NDLocation: Just north on Bismarck on the Missouri River
Process Description: Oxidation of Mn/Fe, Taste and Odor control, TOC reduction, and Color removal all by ozonation. Followed by MF/RO and then ozonation for disinfection.
The Ozone System: One (1) Pinnacle Quadblock Ozone Generator capable of 150 lbs/day. Two (2) PCI "VSA" DOCS 500 oxygen generators (one duty, one standby). Two (2) Mazzei Injection skids, one for the oxidation tank and the other for disinfection.
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327 news items tagged battery
China lithium-ion battery makers to delay shipments to US, EuropeMonday 30 March 2020
China-based lithium-ion battery makers are expected to delay shipments to clients in Europe and the US originally scheduled for second-quarter 2020, mostly in April and May, in the...
Simplo expects to return to normal production levels in AprilThursday 5 March 2020
Notebook battery specialist Simplo Technology expects to resume normal production in China in April, with more workers returning to its factory site in Chongqing, according to company...
Micron delivers LPDDR5 for high-performance smartphonesFriday 7 February 2020
Micron Technology has announced mass production of what the company claims is the world's first low-power DDR5 DRAM that will be used in the soon-to-be-released Xiaomi Mi 10 smartp...
Cell battery makers keen on capacity ramps to meet rising demand from TWS earbud sectorMonday 20 January 2020
A number of lithium-ion battery makers in Germany, China and Taiwan are mulling expanding their production capacities for button cells to cash in on increasing demand from the TWS...
China makers still facing issues developing 811 NCM EV batteriesWednesday 15 January 2020
Many China-based electric vehicle (EV) battery makers believe their development of high-nickel 811 NCM, nickel (N)-cobalt (C)-manganese (M) in the content ratio of 8 for N, 1 for...
Unitech posts record 2019 revenues with better prospect for 2020Monday 13 January 2020
PCB maker Unitech saw its 2019 revenues surge 14.73% on year to a record high of NT$22.42 billion (US$749.89 million) on strong shipments of rigid-flex boards for AirPods 2, and stronger...
Taiwan battery material makers eye growing demand for EV battery packsFriday 13 December 2019
Taiwan-based makers of battery materials including cathode and anode materials, electrolytes and separation membranes, are likely to benefit from increasing demand for electric vehicle...
AirPods 2 to drive growth at Unitech in 1H20Wednesday 11 December 2019
Taiwan-based PCB maker Unitech, having registered impressive revenues so far this year, expects stable shipments of HDI rigid-flex boards for AirPods 2 to persist into the first half...
Ibase to cross into energy storage business with Powin and MurataTuesday 10 December 2019
Taiwan-based IPC maker Ibase Gaming has announced it will partner with US-based Powin Energy and Japan-based Murata Manufacturing to develop energy storage solutions.
China telecom carriers and smartphone vendors gear up for 5GWednesday 4 December 2019
With the arrival of 5G commercialization, China-based telecom carriers and smartphone vendors are expanding their services and releasing new products in pursuit of new business opp...
Demand for retired battery packs used in 5G base stations in China takes offWednesday 4 December 2019
As China is actively constructing its 5G infrastructure, demand is picking up for retired LFP (lithium iron phosphate) and ternary battery packs for use as reserve energy storage...
Taiwan manufacturing industry sees production decline 7% in 3Q19Thursday 21 November 2019
Production of Taiwan's manufacturing industry totaled NT$3.37 trillion in the third quarter of 2019, down 7.01% on year, making the third consecutive quarter of on-year declines due...
C-Tech expects China orders for notebook cell packs to rise in 2020Friday 8 November 2019
Taiwan-based battery pack maker C-Tech United expects to see orders for notebooks from its China-based partners rise significantly in 2020, while striving to diversify its offerings...
Unitech posts record 3Q19 results on robust rigid-flex board demandFriday 1 November 2019
Robust shipments of rigid-flex boards - reportedly for AirPods 2 - boosted Taiwan-based PCB maker Unitech's third-quarter 2019 revenues to a new high of NT$6.204 billion (US$203.65...
Apple unveils AirPods Pro earbudsTuesday 29 October 2019
Apple has announced the AirPods Pro, an addition to the AirPods family that features Active Noise Cancellation and immersive sound in an new lightweight, in-ear design.
Microsoft reveals new Surface lineup and dual-screen devicesThursday 3 October 2019
Microsoft has announced a new Surface lineup with five new products coming this holiday and two new dual-screen devices, Surface Neo and Surface Duo, coming in holiday 2020.
LFP battery penetration of electric ships in China risingWednesday 25 September 2019
The proportion of electric ships equipped with LFP (lithium iron phosphate) batteries in China will rise from 0.035% in 2019, 0.55% in 2022 and 18.5% in 2025, according to China-based...
eTreego tapping global EV charging opportunities with tech-based customization capabilityThursday 29 August 2019
With the growing awareness of environmental protection and energy conservation, more and more people are replacing gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles (EVs). A report released...
ProLogium hikes solid-state LCB energy density to 600Wh/LTuesday 27 August 2019
Solid-state lithium ceramic battery (LCB) maker ProLogium Technology, in engineering development of such batteries, has succeeded in hiking energy density to 600Wh/L, 20% higher than...
ARTC unveils Taiwan-developed self-driving mini-busTuesday 27 August 2019
Government-sponsored Automotive Research & Testing Center (ARTC) on August 26 unveiled WinBus, a prototype autonomous mini-bus completely developed by Taiwan-based enterprises...
Simplo to ship BBUs in 2019Monday 26 August 2019
Battery pack maker Simplo Technology will begin to ship BBUs (backup battery units) for use in data center servers later in 2019, with the product line to become a new source of business...
Micron moves 1znm DRAM process to volume productionTuesday 20 August 2019
Micron Technology has kicked off mass production of 16Gb DDR4 products using 1z-nanometer process technology, according to the US vendor.
Notebook vendors gearing up to launch 5G modelsFriday 2 August 2019
The world's top-3 notebook vendors Lenovo, HP and Dell are set to introduce their first 5G models in the second half of 2019, and Apple is also expected to roll out its 5G MacBook...
Unitech profit hikes in 2Q19Friday 2 August 2019
PCB manufacturer Unitech Printed Circuit Board has reported net profit hiked 147% sequentially and 423% from a year earlier to NT$505 million (US$16.1 million) in the second quarter...
Samsung begins mass production of 12Gb LPDDR5 mobile DRAMFriday 19 July 2019
Samsung Electronics has kicked off mass production of 12Gb LPDDR5 mobile DRAM memory designed for premium smartphones, according to the company.
Samsung 10nm 32GB DDR4 SoDIMM
Photo: Company, Friday 1 June 2018
Winbond NOR flash for IoT
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Apple inexpensive 9.7-inch iPad
Photo: Company, Wednesday 22 March 2017
- Samsung fans petition for the company to stop using Exynos processors (Mar 23) - Neowin.net
- New lithium-sulfur battery could charge your phone for five days, researchers say (Jan 6) - CNN
- IBM's new battery may outperform lithium-ion, and it doesn't use conflict minerals (Dec 20) - Digital Trends
- EU approves 3.2 billion euro state aid for battery research (Dec 9) - Reuters
- Apple might release new Smart Battery Cases to make iPhone 11 battery life even better (Oct 28) - The Verge
- Vivo just unveiled new tech that can fully recharge a smartphone in 13 minutes (Jun 26) - BGR
- Tesla has a secret lab trying to build its own battery cells to reduce dependence on Panasonic (Jun 26) - CNBC
- iPhone X/8: Wireless charging will wear out the battery faster than cable charging (Mar 12, 2018) - ZDNet
- Microsoft confirms Surface Book 2 battery drain problems while gaming (Nov 22) - Tech Radar
- Galaxy S9 to use Substrate-like PCB to fit larger battery (Aug 6) - SlashGear


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Pieces (1983)
Cast: Christopher George, Linda Day, Paul Smith, Edmund Purdom
Director: Piquer Simon
Nutshell: Dire euro trash slasher cum lurid whodunit – gory, predictable and very dull but does have plenty of die hard fans.
"generic euro-slasher epic" Splatter Movies
"Repulsive…as degrading as it is absurd and humiliating to women" Creature Features
"Would Probably qualify for an "X" Video Movies Guide
"repulsive and nauseating – Viewed at your own risk" Maltin
"A laugh riot filled with continuity errors and ridiculous dialogues " Psychotronic Video Guide
I remember well when Pieces hit theatres Stateside – this was during my totally moronic stage of indiscriminate devotion to slasher and gore films which were a dime a dozen in the early 80's during the post Halloween and Friday the 13th horror boom. As a Friday night ritual, long suffering friend Hussein and I would scour the Boston Phoenix (The Globe didn't list trashy films) for the latest hack-fest in town and normally there would be some blood bath of dubious origin featuring at our local Sacks.
I remember we had been experiencing a pretty poor run of luck lately and I had ended up either falling asleep or then actually leaving the theatre before the conclusion of the movie arrived. More often than not, the two of us would comprise half the audience anyway as titles like House on Sorority Row, Nightmares, Nightmares in a Damaged Brain, Silent Night Deadly Night, Blood Beach, Just Before Dawn etc. weren't really packing in the crowds as had been hoped and the writing on the wall very clearly suggested that the horror boom had paled; all that bloodletting had led to a deep-set anaemia and fresh ideas had simply dried up.
All we were left with were clones of the few horror hits amidst the rubble. Horror was taken over by a conveyor belt, production line type of slasher film that relied almost entirely on their steadicam point of view shots for effect in the style of Halloween though worse still, a high proportion of slasher producers felt it was the gore and spectacular deaths that terrified audiences rather than plotting and tension. We thus had a flood of films that were no more than set pieces for elaborately and often outlandishly presented "creative death" scenes one after the other but none could come close to matching the edgy, tension filled brilliance of the films they all tried to emulate; John Carpenter's Halloween, Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre, also to some extent The Omen (for creative deaths), and finally Friday the 13th which itself was an unimaginative yet enormously successful rip-off of John Carpenter's classic slasher pic.
Pieces arrived with a strong Spanish connection even though it was largely shot in Boston featuring American actors. I remember checking out the posters of the movie and thinking in my typically cynical way that the film must be so dreadful that the producers had resorted to a horribly lurid poster and plastered onto it the dead giveaway "No One Under the Age of 17 will be permitted blah blah blah…" caption. Even the world's biggest sucker for horror trash couldn't be fooled this time and for perhaps the first and only time in my life, I managed to bypass a horror movie when it played at the local theatre. I felt I had done well by not investing my money and my time in this movie way back then and everything I have read about it subsequently seems to back up the decision to give it a miss.
However, I must confess that curiosity has continuously gnawed away at me for the missed opportunity for twenty years and when the movie finally got released on DVD as part of four film set entitled "Blood Bath", I jumped at the chance, especially as the 4-set cost a mere $6.99. Strangely, for a film of fair notoriety, the title was never placed on the infamous British Video Nasties list that again suggested that the notoriety was misplaced and something that had been drummed up by the movies producers in a desperate for publicity of any shape or form. Watching Pieces twenty years after those days gone by I ended up patting myself on the back for getting it right way back then; the film is an outright dud with little if anything at all to redeem it.
The plot is typical euro-slasher fare beginning with a sexually precocious (though hardly abnormal) boy of about 10 putting together a jigsaw of a nude. When his mother catches sight of what he is up to she has an almighty fit, which results in the youngster axing his Mommy to "pieces". He stashes the head away in the closet before climbing into another closet sobbing for his freshly hacked mother. The action switches from 1942 to the present (80's) at a college campus in cold and grey Massachusetts where one by one shapely students start getting chain-sawed and hacked to oblivion by a heavy breathing, shadowy figure in black. Each time the typically hyper-ventilating killer returns to put together a couple more pieces in his nudie jigsaw puzzle and at the same time he adds some new body parts to his collection with the aim of completing both the jigsaw and his assembled human body at the same time – as soon as possible it seems as the body count proliferates on an almost daily basis with a series of nubile young women being assailed and having various limbs lopped off.
The local cops are at a total loss and resort to placing a mole on campus in the form of the blonde lady tennis instructor who has to play a dangerous game in order to survive on a campus where the bodies are piling up alarmingly fast. There are some very unpleasant and equally unconvincing gore effects along the way with knives penetrating heads and coming out through the mouth and so on – not a patch on Savini's work in The Prowler though – just messy, tacky and rather amateurish effects. Other than some of the splatter there is nothing even mildly surprising or shocking about the film – on the contrary it is laboriously predictable and exceptionally dull with the final couple of "shocks" being truly laughably lame.
The acting is what one would expect form such shoddy, low budget euro-trash and there is not the slightest bit of style in evidence in any of the director Piquer Simon's shot compositions or camera movements. There isn't an iota of tension throughout proceedings and one basically waits for one horribly predictable death scene to follow another until the "shocking conclusion" which one has already guessed half hour into the movie, finally arrives. Paul Smith, best remembered as the sadistic rotund jailor from Midnight Express plays a menacing, chainsaw wielding gardener cum howlingly obvious red herring.
Pieces is unimaginative, without a shred of style, no below-the-surface humour or cult value – this is simply z grade horror of the most repellent kind – one big hunk of shite; woefully inept, totally unscary, surely one of the dullest horror movies of the (80's) era, which really is saying something.


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Thursday, 16 March 2017
Opal Fresh & Juicy in the shop!
Hot on the heels of Illusion we have Fresh & Juicy from Opal.
Get it while you can!
Perfect for socks and more... As usual 1 ball makes 1 pair of socks, or 2 pairs of short socks, or (probably) 2 short cowls.
You could make 2 hats, or at least 2 pairs of small hand warmers, or several small gift bags.
100g will also give you a decent length of scarf/shawl or a jumper for a baby.
Ideas for your odd bits can be found here on Pinterest.
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We only have one home of the earth. Authentea promotes a sustainable development industry chain, characteristic to be green, low-carbon and eco-friendly. Even in the whole extraction processof pure tea extract, the sole solvent used is pure water.
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