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In Fiscal Year (FY) 2013, Maryland collected $31.6 billion in state and local taxes. While this is an impressive sum of money, it tells us little about whether or not the average Maryland taxpayer can afford this level of taxation.
As shown in Chart 1 below, Maryland's state and local tax burden (tax collections divided by personal income) was the twenty-fifth highest in the nation for FY 2013 at 10 percent—this is -3 percent below the national average of 10.3 percent. As shown in Chart 2, Maryland's tax burden has grown over time by 51 percent to 10 percent in FY 2013 from 6.6 percent in FY 1950.
Maryland's slightly lower than average state and local tax burden is driven by a low property tax burden (2.7 percent, 35th highest), corporate income tax burden (0.3 percent, 31st highest), sales tax burden (1.3 percent, 43rd highest), and all other taxes burden (1.9 percent, 27th highest). However, Maryland does have a significant individual income tax burden (3.8 percent, 4th highest) that offsets the other lower taxes.
#Maryland #taxburden has grown 51% between FY 1950 to 2013 to 10 % from 6.6%. (click to tweet)
Of course, the tax burdens for local government can vary just as much as they do among the 50 states. As such, we have also calculated the local government tax burden for every county in Maryland—this includes every taxing jurisdiction within the geographic county borders whether it is a city, a special district, or county government itself.
The Maryland counties with the highest local government tax burden include: Garrett County, MD (9.2 percent), Worcester County, MD (9.1 percent), and Calvert County, MD (5 percent). The Maryland counties with the lowest local government tax burden include: Somerset County, MD (3.4 percent), Talbot County, MD (3.4 percent), and Allegany County, MD (3.4 percent).
Click here to view tax burden data by state, county, type of tax, and for years 1950 to 2013.
Scott has nearly 20 years of experience as a public policy economist. He is the author, co-author and editor of over 180 studies and books. His professional experience also includes positions at the American Conservative Union Foundation, Granite Institute, Federalism In Action, Maine Heritage Policy Center, Tax Foundation, and Heritage Foundation.


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The Piercing Truth
May 11, 2008
Eye Poll is Back with a Burning Question
Apparently the Dee Johnson Clean Indoor Air Act that bans smoking (a legal activity) just about everywhere humans can go except outside, isn't enough for the fiery councilor who has tried no less than five times to remove any kind of designated smoking areas in "public" places. We have a problem with this concept of a "public place" being anywhere the public is invited to do business in a private establishment. In our opinion the definition is just another way for government to regulate private property and transactions, but I digress.
Since Councilor Cadigan is attempting to insert his legislative nose in private businesses yet again, it's time to let everyone know what your thoughts on the issue are. Don't forget to vote!
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The difference between Michael Cadigan and a majority of the citizens of this state is he thinks the public can't think on their own. We know where we like to do business without needing a special permission list from city hall saying what is good or bad for us. Some of the businesses I don't promote, are sellers of porn, casinos, dirty restaurants, etc, I just don't go there (I would rather have the choice, but I'm not in the business to regulate, or close any business; that is not my desire). Yet, our government still approves of places I don't support to operate freely. Because of government regulations, I feel the Dee Johnson Indoor Air Act restricts businesses from serving ALL of its customers equally. Smokers are generally better tippers, happier people, a lot more fun, better candidates to stimulate the economy, and they complain less than non-smokers. Our leaders need to start respecting all of its citizens rather than looking upon us merely as their personal servants. It used to be the elected officials role was to serve the public. Things sure have changed!
- May 12, 2008 at 8:17:00 AM MDT
CUCK FADIGAN AND MUCK FARTIN CHAVEZ!!!! All the way baby!
- May 12, 2008 at 10:18:00 AM MDT
After hearing from a number of constituents, I have decided to remove the prohibition on smoking in retail tobacco stores from the bill. The bill now will simply make city and state law consistent and will maintain the status quo regariding smoking regulation. Thank you for your interest in this issue.
Michael Cadigan
- May 12, 2008 at 4:16:00 PM MDT
Cadigan probably had good intentions. I just don't think he thought it through-it's just another Big Brother tactic is all. But at least he's not one of Marty's Minions.
- May 12, 2008 at 4:40:00 PM MDT
I believe that when Cadigan sponsors a bill he actually has the publics best interests at heart. He is truly one of the council members I trust and is an independent thinker.
- May 12, 2008 at 6:16:00 PM MDT
That last post about "Cadigan sponsors a bill he actually has the publics [sic] best interests at heart" had to have been written by his wife or his secretary (it's tough to tell them apart).
Cadigan is crazed with his supposed Council power and abuses his position on the Council every single day.
The Councilor has no respect or understanding for private property (talk to developers and property owners in Volcano Cliffs); carries that smug, liberal 'I know how YOU actually ought to live' attitude to the extreme (hence the smoking bans, construction moratoriums and restrictions, water restrictions, etc) and usually gets away with bullying people like the Montes.
People sometimes overlook his controlling tendencies because he doesn't get along with Chavez. That's only because (believe it or not) he doesn't think Chavez goes far enough in dictating how everyone should live.
Good for the Eye forcing him to respond and back down. Please continue to watch this aspiring tyrant.
- May 13, 2008 at 7:42:00 AM MDT
To the above poster, Cadigan is a self serving pompus arrogant asshole who shoots from the hip before he has gathered facts.
- May 13, 2008 at 7:44:00 AM MDT
Come on Cadigan, don't stick your nose too far up that ass....Independent thinker...NOW THERES A GOOD ONE!!!! public's best interest....THATS REALLY LAUGHABLE!!!! I agree with the dude who said "cuck fadigan"
- May 13, 2008 at 12:12:00 PM MDT

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Normalize deployment tools usage and definitions by putting into one place instead of sprinkling them out over many disjoint files. This is a follow-up to achieve the same goal in an incomplete rev.348521.
#!/bin/sh set -e WAREA="`mktemp -d /tmp/bootools.XXXXXXX`" cleanup_warea() { sudo chflags -R noschg "${WAREA}" sudo rm -r ${WAREA}/* } for t in installworld distribution installkernel distrib-dirs do if [ ${t} = "distrib-dirs" ] then cleanup_warea fi sudo make DESTDIR="${WAREA}" ${t} done sudo rm -r "${WAREA}" echo "All looks good, have a wonderful day! :)"
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I am not really keen on adding yet another top level .mk file that sets command names, much of this is caused by scatering etc/Makefile contents and rules about the tree when it was and should of been maintained as the one place for all of this and simply called as a submake. Perhaps it makes since anymore, perhaps not. But certainly having INSTALL and INSTALL_CMD default to and 99.999% of the time be "install" is not a good idea, same for MTREE and MTREE_CMD, they are being used in mixed manners, this needs to be sorted out asap and just use
MTREE_CMD and untwist some of this MTREE overload that should really overlaod MTREE_CMD.
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I repeat again, this should just be ${INSTALL} and so far ngie has made no valid assertion that it should be otherwise.
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Anyone having recersion issues with this? I know it well work but now we are overloading what MTREE_CMD is to mean. Is it the command only "mtree", or is it the command with the flags?
I am also pretty sure this IMAKE_foo and all the related DESTDIR/WORLDTMP stuff should be pushed back down in etc/Makefile and not be in this Makefile.inc1. That would also push and cleanup much of the related stuff here.
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Please no, MTREE is used elsewhere, the original source of this stuff here infact, and is the list of etc/mtree/* files that are to be processed. And again 2 variables that end up being "mtree" should always be colapsed to 1 variable. MTREE was already taken, the correct variable for this is then MTREE_CMD and MTREE has another meaning.
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MTREE_CMD= should be used here to be properly consistent
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MTREE_CMD in these two
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Why do we need to add a level of indirection here? Having 2 variables, INSTALL and INSTALL_CMD that are install seems very odd.
bootools is a terrible name, so bad I'm ticking 'request changes'.
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This is a terrible name. src.tools.mk is fine. We don't use 'boo' elsewhere in the tree and I don't see it adding any value at all, only confusion, because these aren't boot tools.
Also, this file needs a proper copyright / header
I agree here, but did not have a better name so opted to say nothing.
Also, this file needs a proper copyright / header
Actually Makefile and .mk files generally fall under the rule of "receipes" and are not copyrightable, though it seems as sjg/Juniper has asserted copyrights on some of them, which could be challenged and possibly removed. This new file could still use a header.
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Well, unlike original commit this change deliberately added INSTALL_CMD for consistency with other tools. The expectation is that XYZ_CMD might be something one can fiddle with, while XYZ could be whatever build system needs to do its magic.
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@rgrimes in our use case we pass arguments into _CMD override already, in fact we rely on it. So distinction is pretty much nil in practice. Could be either. This might look bit odd, but it works.
I would not really feel comfortable touching IMAKE_foo with a six-foot pole. Someone with better understanding of the build system and way more time available is needed to tackle that.
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No other src.xxx.mk file has a (c) in them. Most are much more beefier in terms of number of code/logic. Rename's done.
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@rgrimes Well, it's not that we need indirection, it's just I think because sys.mk is kinda self-contained (or pretends to be anyway), so it contains its own (re-)definition of pretty much every tool under the sun. It's probably for a good reason to allow compiling out-of-the tree kmods. I did not feel brave enough to add .include src.tools.mk in there, so this is a quick way to make it obey and use proper override when we are doing installkernel.
Well, my fear is that we just call it src.tools.mk people will make a dump out of it by throwing more unrelated stuff in there. But well, I have been in absolute minority on this it seems.
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I respectfully disagree with this. The whole point of having MAKE_CMD is that it should never be thrown away, especially in a file that might be included into other places. If the build system needs to use something else for a particular target (${WORLDTMP}/legacy/usr/sbin/mtree) at some point, it then should construct a new variable out and use that. I've renamed variable to clarify its scope.
I will keep it at reviews for 1 week and then it will land unless major objections are received. Thanks!
I need to think through the sys.mk change, and I've got no time today to do that. I'll try to articulate something coherent (one way or the other) by the end of the day tomorrow since I know what I've said so far isn't actionable.
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This gives me heartburn. Give me a day or so to articulate why please.
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Perhaps because it won't work?
sys.mk is read before anything else, so ?= is often meaningless unless a makefile read by sys.mk has already set a value, or a parent has exported a value to environment.
Please make the change that bapt suggested.
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Yea, that's why... I just came to that conclusion after looking at something else. I concur: let's change this to babt's one liner because it could work because it isn' until ${INSTALL} is expanded do we also expand ${INSTALL_CMD:Uinstall}.
@imp any chance you can review and see if the change can land or indicate what other changes are necessary. Thanks!


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The Letchworth Chorale is an amateur chamber style choir. We perform a wide range of choral music, including classical and modern works.
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The Cambridge Security Initiative (CSi), chaired by Sir Richard Dearlove, former Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, provides a unique link between the worlds of business, government and academia. With unrivalled expertise in security and intelligence issues, the organisation integrates long-term historical trends with the experience of security professionals to deliver prescient analysis of current and future threats to a range of clients and to its signature 'International Security and Intelligence' (ISI) programme and Conference.
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Richard Dearlove is the former Master of Pembroke College Cambridge. He served as Chief (known as 'C') of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) from August 1999 until his retirement in July 2004. For the preceding five years he was Director of Operations and, from 1998, Assistant Chief. As Director of Finance, Administration and Personnel he also oversaw the move of SIS into its Headquarter Building at Vauxhall Cross in 1994. He is a career intelligence officer of thirty-eight years standing and has served in Nairobi, Prague, Paris, Geneva and Washington as well as in a number of key London-based posts.
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From a background in business history, Dr Martland specialises in intelligence and security studies. He is the author of six books and has contributed to many more, latterly in the field of intelligence and security history. He was part of Professor Andrew's research team which produced the authorised history of MI5 Defence of the Realm (2009). He edits the Boydell and Brewer intelligence and security series. He has supervised generations of Cambridge undergraduate and graduate students and taught history, intelligence and security related courses at Pembroke College, International Programmes Department. He is a co-sponsor of the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar.
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After my kiddies have gone to bed and I have a few moments (literally moments) before I feel the sandman getting near I love to sit on our couch and read through one of my cookbooks or pull out a stack of printed recipes to browse through. I always keep a pen and paper near and a stack of post-it tabs to mark the recipes that make my mouth water.
I've read through these cookbooks and stacks of recipes too many times to
count (adding new ones here and there), but it seems there is always a
handful that jump out at me depending on the season, time of year, and
what meal I will be eating next.
Last Wednesday night I sat on my couch looking through the
pages of Tara O' Brady's stunning cookbook Seven
Spoons (again) when a recipe for her roasted peaches caught my eye. In
that moment I knew what I wanted to eat for breakfast the next morning.
(My decision was made easy because I currently have a large box of peaches
that is occupying a good portion of my fridge and we've been eating peaches for breakfast,
lunch and dinner.)
So while my chocolate chip cookie was warming in the oven (I have a serious
weakness for a night time treat) I quickly made the glazed sesame oats for the morning.
That night as I lay in my bed I felt twinges of excitement and
tightness thinking about a bowl of cold yogurt, a warm spiced peach, and a
scatter of glazed sesame oats. Sweet dreams.
Roasted Peaches with Glazed Sesame Oats
Glazed Sesame Oats
2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
2 tablespoons light brown sugar
1/4 cup mild olive oil or melted coconut oil
2 tablespoons water
1/4 teaspoon fine-grain sea salt
2 1/2 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
1/2 cup sliced almonds
1/4 cup sesame seeds (I used a mixture of black and white)
Roasted Peaches
4 firm but ripe peaches, halved and pitted
1/4 cup pure maple syrup
1/4 teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder
Seeds scraped from a vanilla bean or 1 tablespoon vanilla bean paste
Pinch of salt
Serving Options
Yogurt, greek or regular, plain or vanilla (I use this one), or fresh ricotta
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F and line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment
To make the sesame oats, in a large bowl, stir together the maple syrup,
brown sugar, olive oil, water, and salt. Fold the oats, almonds, and
sesame seeds into the syrup mixture until coated. Pour oat mixture onto
parchment lined baking sheet and spread in an even layer. Bake until the
oats are golden and lightly toasted, 15 to 20 minutes, turning the pan once,
and stirring occasionally to ensure even toasting of the oats. Cool on
baking sheet for at least 20 minutes before serving. Once the oat mixture
is cool, transfer to an airtight container.
To make the peaches, preheat oven to 375 degrees F and line a rimmed baking
sheet with parchment paper. Arrange the peaches on the pan, cut side up,
with spaces between each. If the peaches are too cozy they will
steam, not roast.
In a small bowl, mix together the maple syrup, five-spice powder, vanilla
bean seeds, and a pinch of salt. Brush the peaches with about half the mixture-let
some collect in the hollow left by the pit, but don't drown the flesh.
Place pan in the hot oven. Bake the peaches until they look soft, juicy,
and singed at the skin, 20 to 25 minutes. Remove the fruit from the oven
and let cool for a few minutes before serving with yogurt, a handful of sesame
oats, and a spoonful of spiced maple syrup.
(The next day I ate a leftover cold peach with yogurt and oats and it
was still delicious.)
Recipe from the beautiful and mouthwatering cookbook Seven


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I tend to have to do timezone conversions quite a bit in my line of work. It seems like every time I to process timezones I need I have to search and I tend to come up with a different solution in PHP each time. Well i decided to post this solution on my blog so i'll have one consistent way of doing it.
This method is pretty easy with PHP 5 and it taken directly from the php.net reference manual.
$date = new DateTime('2000-01-01', new DateTimeZone('Pacific/Nauru')); echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n"; $date->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('Pacific/Chatham')); echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n";
Here is the expected output
2000-01-01 00:00:00+12:00 2000-01-01 01:45:00+13:45


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I'm standing in one of the satis&fy complex's halls surrounded by silence, engulfed in darkness. "Countdown to the show – three, two, one." Tens of thousands of LEDs ignite in a whirling explosion of light. They converge, gradually congealing into the contours of a human body. Enormous, luminous and as agile as a living creature, this radiant vision sends goose bumps down on my back.
This is not just a fiesta for the eyes; there is also scrumptious candy for the ears. The deep thump of bass-heavy music hits my body with a force that vibrates the viscera. A soft voice emanating from everywhere and nowhere attempts to explain to the awestruck author what's happening here. It's all down to a fusion of Holoplot and Dragon, a symbiosis of two technologies that were not intended to go together. The former is a one-of-a-kind audio system that uses wave field synthesis to personalize sound reinforcement. The latter is a volumetric LED lighting system. A unique medium for 3D imagery was born of this pairing – Dragon O. The appended O is short for organic. An apt choice, for its renderings are not static or matrix-like. The images 'feel' alive, so much closer to being animatedly existent than artificial renderings are wont to be.
The lights break formation only to instantly regroup. Suddenly a magnificent steed gallops in place, kicking up kaleidoscopic puffs of dust when the creature's virtual hooves graze the poly floor. The luminous horse collapses into itself, morphing first into a ball, then a skull, and finally into an abstract object.
This bewitching display comes courtesy of 144,000 LED lights strung tightly on countless, three-meter strands spaced across a two-by-three meter cube-like frame. It renders any moving imagery in unprecedented ways. Equipped with Microsoft Kinect, its motion-sensing-and-capture capabilities extend to real-world objects. It tracks their movements for the strands inside the extensible cube to mimic.
Dragon O featured prominently at satis&fy's first staging of LIFT, an elevating consumer experience for visiting customers, fellow industry professionals, family, friends and other interested parties at the company's Karben headquarters. Debuting on April 2 and 3, 2019, this new event format presented a cross-section of the company's daily activities to some 500 visitors. Some chores are mundane, other just plain crazy, but all are done with the same credo in mind: Give it all you got to make even wildest of customer wishes come true.
Sometimes satis&fy achieves this ambitious goal by developing entirely new technologies. At others, the company takes legacy tech to the next level. And at still others, it combines familiar things in fresh ways, putting it into a new context to create something unprecedented for customers and their events.
The date for the first LIFT was well chosen to coincide with Prolight & Sound, probably the most important international convention for event technologies and services – that is, all the stuff that makes shows and entertainment fun. Many satis&fy customers and partners trek to the Main River metropolis for this fair anyway, as do agencies' head honchos and creative types, so a brief excursion to Karben would be an exercise in convenience.
Higher, faster, further
Impressing industry insiders is not quite so easy. The people in this line of business are by no means jaded – it's just that you need an army of creative minds, inventors, techies and nerds to win the entertainment wars. Their numbers are legion in this game. Many have wonderful ideas of their own. Others are eternally on the prowl, hunting for new inspiration all over the world. This is a tough audience, but satis&fy managed to wow it at the company's homecoming event with high-tech gear and gimmickry, the wonderful Dragon O, and a handful of other highlights:
Shop Window 2.0
satis&fy doesn't usually play favorites, but Shop Window 2.0 is definitely the pick of the litter, one reason being that it was born of the company's ideas. The name is misleading. The only thing it has in common with ordinary window dressing is that it displays goods. The similarities end there. Developed by satis&fy, Shop Window 2.0 tech turns a ho-hum store display into a sparkling product showcase with a screen for product info and advertising tailored to fit, charm and delight the viewer.
Its growing pains are a distant memory, Shop Window 2.0 is available now. It is particularly well-suited for upmarket stores that sell premium products such as jewelry.
A shop window is coated in milky, opaque white, its featured products unrecognizable behind the glass. Instead, product information and oversized images flickers across the hazy window as sparkling points of light dot the surface. Then the shop window parts in places to afford tunnel-vision views of the treasures behind it. Exquisite rings, elegant necklaces, and exclusive ladies' watches are illuminated, framed and featured under a glittering shower of stars. It's breathtaking – just wow. Merchants may also equip their personalized windows with AirXTouch technology. Like a touchscreen, it lets shoppers operate a monitor behind even the thickest glass to transform the showcase into a sales case. Navigate, select, click, buy – it's a 2.0 consumer experience at the window shopper's fingertips. Exclusive, unique and very pricey, it's worth every penny.
More than a gimmick
Visitors were welcome see, touch and try this and so much more during the two days of the event. It would take an epic novel to describe each of the 22 showcases. This is a short story, so here are just a few highlights:
Magical: The Ultrasphere, an interactive spherical projection system, now serves up even higher definition images.
Fascinating: The Vennetilator conjures king cobras, lettering, Spiderman and other free-floating images.
Astonishing: If you want to create the illusion of dinosaurs and life-size Lego men stomping through your garden, DeepFrame is the way to go
Colorful: Living Building maps animated illuminations to facades.
Playful: You need sunglasses to play the king-size Tetris on a wall of 420 ultra-bright AX5 Astera LED luminaires.
Delightful: The Diamond display case from the Danish development team RealFiction reflects logos, product images and other info into its interior using mirrors and a special coating.
Exciting: Monitors beam a laser sword battle fought in the virtual realm into the real world. The fighting entertained gamers equipped with VR glasses. And the flailing players' strange, silent dance was no less entertaining for spectators.
Refreshing: The unique satis-Cooler refrigerators' doors serve as screens for any kind of imagery.
Unbreakable: The titanium fiber-optic cable developed by satis even holds up to the knot test.
Not a vanity fair
Open-house exhibitions and similar customer events are a popular and effective way of showing a company's chops off to interested parties, partners, customers, employees and families. The first LIFT was indeed an elevating consumer experience. An in-house showcase can be a vanity fair, an exercise in cheap navel-gazing, but this was none of that. Inspiring, informative and innovative, it was a (non-psychotropic) mind-expanding event.
LIFT is a great format for staging a smallish demonstration of what we can do together with our capable innovation partners. It's an event worth repeating and bringing to other locations to ignite the same fires of enthusiasm we saw burning at the Dögelmühle. The excitement is merited – this showcase affords insight into what satis&fy can do today and an outlook on what will be possible tomorrow.
Devoid of gung-ho speeches by executives and persuasive pitches by sales staff, this was purely about products and impressions. The sound and lighting effects spoke for themselves. That's all it took, apart from the heart and soul that the satis&fy people poured into LIFT. In that respect, this gig was like any other, small or large. That's the only way satis&fy knows how to do what it does best – create unique, jaw-dropping effects and installations. And that's why customers value and trust these specialists for live communication.
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Busy gym! I had to go with the flow and mostly work in with and around other people.
Atlas Stones: work up to a heavy single (3-5 min rests)
170 stone to 48″ platform
210 to 48″
240 to 48″
270 to 48″
a little hitch on the 270, but otherwise good. 300 feels close.
Farmers Walks: go as far as possible before dropping it
130 per hand for 120 ft, then did a 180, made it 10 feet and had to set it down. the turn took too much out of me
180 per hand for 120 ft
220 per hand for 60 ft
220 per hand for 90 ft
notes: much happier with the 4th set. The pick was awkward on the 3rd set, and it cost me some grip strength, and ultimately distance.
Yoke Carry
340 for 60ish ft, put it down, pick it back up, take it back 60 ft
520 for 60 ft, put down, pick back up, back for 60 ft
notes: I had the 2nd lap of the 520 timed, and it was 17 seconds. I just wasn't able to bring it with the speed, so I called it there.


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January 25, 2018
Dredging at Outer HarborDredging will again be carried out in the Outer Harbor shipping channel and the swing basin next winter. The EPA has recommended that Flinders Ports use a smaller dredging vessel than what was used 13 years ago. In 2005, dredge spoil spread down Gulf St Vincent, reducing visibility and smothering seagrass. Environmental groups have called for all dredged silt to... Read more
Posted in Coastal activities, Conservation, Education, intertidal zone, Marine Protected Areas, Pollution, Stormwater | By Steve Reynolds
January 15, 2018
More About Tropical Fish Cleaners (esp. re Manta Rays as hosts)A couple of things this week have spurred me on to write a couple of additional things about "Tropical Fish Cleaners and Their Mimics". It started with a photo of a Bluestreak cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus, cleaning in the mouth of a giant moray, Gymnothorax javanicus, in Egypt (the Red Sea) on The Global Diving Community Facebook page. It had... Read more
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Joining him on this party is special guest Kip Moore.
Keith will tour in support of his current album "Hope On The Rocks."
Tour dates are:
June 8 Ozark AR Thunder On The Mountain *
June 14 Cincinnati Riverbend Music Center
June 15 Pittsburgh First Niagara Pavilion
June 22 Philadelphia Susquehanna Bank Center
June 28 Oshkosh, WI Country USA *
June 29 Cadott, WI Country Fest *
June 30 Chicago First Midwest Bank Amphitheater
July 19 Cleveland Blossom Music Center
July 20 St. Clairsville, OH Jamboree In The Hills
July 21 Buffalo, NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
July 27 Cheyenne Frontier Days *
July 30 Davenport, IA Mississippi Valley Fair *
Aug. 2 Sweet Home, OR Oregon Jamboree
Aug. 6 Sturgis, SD Buffalo Chip *
Aug. 14 Springfield, IL Illinois State Fair
Aug. 24 Washington, DC Jiffy Lube Live
Aug. 25 Hartford, CT Comcast Theatre
Aug. 31 Allentown, PA The Great Allentown Fair
Sept. 1 Essex Junction, VT Champlain Valley Fair
Sept. 7 Indianapolis Klipsch Music Center
Dates with * = Kip Moore does not appear.
Prior to the start of the tour, Keith will headline the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, a night at the four-day festival Country Thunder in Florence, Ariz., and a night at the blockbuster Stagecoach festival in Indio, Cal.


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- For other uses, see Overlord (disambiguation).
Overlord Ramtusk is a level 27 elite (32 elite prior to Patch 2.3) quilboar mini-boss found in Razorfen Kraul.
- [Battle Shout]ω ϖ—Increases the melee attack power of nearby party members for 2 min.
- [Battle Stance]ω ϖ—Assumes a balanced combat stance that generates rage when the warrior is hit, as well as when the warrior strikes an opponent. Lasts until canceled.
- [Thunderclap]ω ϖ—Inflicts Nature damage to nearby enemies, increasing the time between their attacks and slowing their movement for 10 sec.
Ramtusk has two elite ranged guards by his side. If your party has the ability, keep the two guards sheeped, sapped, or seduced, so your group can take Ramtusk down first. Otherwise, Ramtusk should be tanked while all other members focus on the adds first. Ramtusk is a powerful warrior type boss with Thunderclap and Battle Shout, anyone other than a well geared tank will not last long against him.
"For Victory! For Agamaggan!"
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Pinion Watches
British watch company, Pinion watches was founded in 2013 by a professional designer, Piers Berry.
With over twenty years experience in digital design, Piers has produced numerous award-winning products and acclaimed mobile apps that have been downloaded millions of times across the globe.
Having admired all forms of product design, about ten years ago, Piers developed a keen interest in simple, hand-wound watches. The design and operation of these pieces were in many ways the world apart from Piers' daily routine of dealing with pixels and code. After five years of collecting watches, Piers furthered his passion and design experience by working independently with some luxury watch brands, providing digital design solutions and product photography.
Driven by a desire to design a watch he could call his own, Piers left Redberry, a successful Henley-based digital company he had co-founded with two childhood friends to conceive British watch company, Pinion. He began by designing a debut watch collection, called 'AXIS' – a trio of automatic wristwatches that referenced instruments from the World War II era.
Pinion was launched at British fine watch exhibition, SalonQP in November 2013, showcasing the Axis collection in some different case finishes and metals, including the Axis Bronze – which was the first British built watch to have a case made entirely from Bronze alloy.
Following this success, Piers went on to design two new watch collections in 2014; the Pure and the Revival 1969, both of which utilized hand-wound mechanical movements. The Revival 1969 took its name from the rare 'new-old-stock' Valjoux 7734 movement that powered the watch.
2015 saw Pinion mature and grow and become known as one of the leading British watch brands, plus forming creative and commercial partnerships with companies such as the Japanese denim manufacturer, Iron Heart and Manchester based clothing company, Private White V.C.
In 2016, Pinion revisited its original Axis line with a redesigned and re-engineered Axis II plus additional models were added to the hand wound Pure watch family. This year also saw Pinion being featured on TV, with it being worn by the leading cast of the hit NBC Universal show, TAKEN for its debut season which aired in early 2017.
This year has seen Piers design a new watch, called ATOM which features a Japanese automatic movement. The Atom inherits all of the design and production qualities seen in the previous collection of watches and like those is built in England, but priced at £790 (£658.33 ex.VAT) signals it as the new entry-point to the Pinion family.
Pinion will follow the Atom with the release of its first titanium cased GMT watch, called TT in early 2018.
Website: https://pinionwatches.com/


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Innovation Abroad: Nuclear Energy
Development and Innovation Canadian companies have an impressive record and reputation when it comes to innovation in the global energy sector, and nuclear power generation plays a significant part in that success.
There is a long history of demand for Canadian experience and expertise when it comes to safe and reliable electricity generation.
"The development of alternative and flexible fuel cycles is another aspect in which Canadian expertise is being utilized abroad. "
Demand overseas
Nuclear may just be Canada's most successful and sought-after energy technology export, with Canadian-designed CANDU nuclear reactors operating successfully in six different countries around the world.
"The role of Canadian nuclear suppliers in the creation and success of nuclear projects abroad is extremely important," explained Ala Alizadeh, who is the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Candu Energy.
"When Canadian nuclear suppliers first entered the international market in the 70s, we used the experience that we had gained in building many reactors domestically. Large international projects would utilize a diverse supply chain of up to 150 small and medium-sized companies."
Between the mid 90s and 2007, Canadian nuclear suppliers were responsible for building seven CANDU reactors overseas — three units in South Korea, two in Romania and two in China.
"The so-called Nuclear Renaissance did not really take off in the way that was projected five years ago," explained Alizadeh. "This is mainly due to lower gas prices, the discovery of shale gas and, in the last couple of years, Fukishima has created a bit of a pause as countries reviewed their nuclear programs."
"Reactor life extension projects — refurbishing and retubing units that are reaching the end of their first half of life — are big business in the nuclear supply chain."
Diversified expertise
This slow down in global production hasn't halted Canadian activity abroad. Reactor life extension projects — refurbishing and retubing units that are reaching the end of their first half of life — are big business in the nuclear supply chain. The refurbishment of the Wolsong 1 plant in South Korea has recently been completed, and work on refurbishing the Embalse plant in Argentina has begun.
The development of alternative and flexible fuel cycles is another aspect in which Canadian expertise is being utilized abroad.
Over the past three years, Candu Energy has been working with Chinese partners to develop an efficient closed fuel cycle, a process in which the waste from light water reactors (recovered uranium) is used to power the heavy water CANDU units, creating new electricity.
Recovered uranium still has a fissile content of around 1 percent, making it powerful enough to power the Candu reactors installed in China.
"As a first step, we targeted the CANDU reactors in Qinshan, developing a recovered uranium fuel that we then tested in 2010," noted Alizadeh.
"The tests were successful and they are now manufacturing recovered uranium fuel for the existing CANDU reactors in China. The licensing agreements will be completed in the next 6 months, so in 2014 the plan is to convert Qinshan completely, full core, to a recovered
uranium fuel cycle."
Global focus
Candu Energy is also working with the UK to devise a plan to dispose of, and utilize, their stockpile of civilian plutonium. Internationally, holding a large amount of plutonium is not looked upon very positively, but, because it's such an effective fissile material, there is an opportunity to create a huge amount of electricity.
"We have demonstrated to the UK that we can burn their plutonium efficiently and safely," said Alizadeh. "It would be a combination of creating energy for the grid on one hand, and getting rid of their plutonium on the other."
Candu has completed its work on assessing the commercial feasibility of its proposal and is working with the UK to further the project, which could see four new CANDU reactors built to burn the plutonium over a period of 30 years.


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Episode Profile
Season: 5 Network: CBS
Genre: Crime, Drama
Genre: Crime, Drama
Episode: 4 Director: Jonathan Glassner
Rating: TV-14
Rating: TV-14
Episode Synopsis: The team investigates the puzzling death of a woman named Ann Steele. To solve the case, the team must look for a life size silicone doll. When the team runs into the factory that makes them, it prompts some amusement for some of the team. Meanwhile, Hawkes meets up with an old college friend who later asks him to compromise some evidence in the case.
Gary Sinise,Sela Ward,Carmine Giovinazzo,Robert Joy,A.J. Buckley,Emmanuelle Vaugier,Claire Forlani,Anna Belknap,Hill Harper,Eddie Cahill,Vanessa Ferlito,Melina Kanakaredes,
Episode Guest Stars
Mykelti Williamson,Amber Mead,Andrew Walker,Stephen Sowan, Devon Gummersall,Christopher Stapleton,Kelly Noonan,Brian Poth,
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75" Veranda Outdoor TV - Full Shade - 2160p - 4K Ultra HD LED TV - SB-7574UHD-BL
4K UHD screen designed for fully shaded areas such as installing an outside TV on a screen porch.
Veranda comes standard with a premium direct-lit 4K UHD screen - brighter than indoor televisions, and specifically designed for outside full-shade viewing areas. Indoor TV manufacturers specifically prohibit outdoor use (just check the manual). Don't risk safety and your warranty by using an indoor TV outdoors.Outdoor viewing
Up to 30% brighter than indoor TVs for improved viewing in brighter outdoor environments.Don't put an indoor TV outside
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|Powder-coated aluminum
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Product Questions
The most common issue is when the TV EDID is set to receive 4K content, but the content source (cable box/media player/DVD player, etc.) is not 4K.
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For SunBriteTV Veranda 4K UHD Models
1. With the TV powered on and fully booted up press the Menu button on the SunBrite remote.
2. Scroll down and click on "Input Settings"
3. Scroll down and click on "Set HDMI EDID"
4. Change desired input to the correct format of 1.4 or 2.0
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1. With the TV powered on and fully booted up press the Menu button on the SunBrite remote.
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3. Scroll down and click on "EDID Switch"
4. Change the value to either "1.4" or "2.0"
HDMI EDID 1.4 is for 1080P HD source input resolution.
HDMI EDID 2.0 is for 4K UHD source input resolution.
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All current SunBrite Veranda Series 4K Outdoor TVs have a viewing angle of 178° x 178° (out of a 180° maximum for a flat, one-sided screen)
This is a very wide viewing angle, and the picture looks great even at off angles.
The Veranda Series is designed for permanent outdoor installation in full shade areas. If your install location receives partial or full sun, we recommend the Signature or Pro Series.
Here is some additional information on viewing angle from Wikipedia, and you also may consider reading some of the 3rd party expert product reviews on our home page. Thanks!
In general, a mantle installed between the fireplace and TV can help reduce heat exposure to the TV. An evaluation by a professional Audio Visual integrator/installer is always a good idea, especially in more challenging installations. Thanks!
Sound should not be limited using external speakers. Let's check out a few possibilities.
The audio outputs for this Veranda TV are:
- Digital TosLink Optical Audio(fixed) and
- RCA L+R (variable)
With the Digital TosLink option, audio signal is output at full volume, and would then be controlled by the amplifier.
With the RCA option, the volume is variable, so will need to be set at the correct level using the TV volume control.
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Winchester is the kind of polite place where the local disaffected youths relinquish their customary perch on the steps of the ancient Buttercross monument so that a man in a frayed band uniform can entertain passers-by with a musical saw.
With its prosperous, property-owning population, Winchester is also the sort of place that should be Tory territory, but it's not. Oddly, it is a safe-ish Lib Dem seat, thanks largely to Tory incompetence. In May 1997, two general elections ago, Mark Oaten, a young Liberal Democrat with little political experience, edged Conservative incumbent Gerry Malone by just two votes. After a series of recounts and legal challenges, Malone, who had moved out of Winchester and rarely visited the constituency, forced a revote six months later, at which point Oaten trounced him with a majority of 21,556. Since then, he has held on to the seat by earning a reputation as an MP who takes great care of his constituents: endlessly communicating with residents, publishing an annual report—an idea since taken up by several other MPs—and involving himself in the minutiae of community life. In a district with very few Labor supporters (in 2001, Winchester registered the lowest Labor vote in the entire country), it comes down to a choice between the Conservative and Lib Dem candidates, or, for some residents, the Tory or the anti-Tory.
For Oaten, canvassing in Winchester's High Street Saturday morning seemed a bit of an empty ritual. Although Oaten's enthusiastic volunteers pleased mothers by offering balloons to tots in strollers, the candidate himself seemed distracted by the task of keeping his two young daughters in check. Still, it's an essential stroll. In a city where most people patronize local shops rather than suburban megastores, the high street is a great place to meet voters, especially women. More crucially it's a cheap form of campaigning.
Parliamentary campaigning looks very different than American congressional campaigning partly because the British Electoral Commission tightly controls campaign spending. Locally, this means that each candidate's expenditures are capped at £13,500—a little less than $26,000—for the four weeks of the official election campaign. This has to cover leaflets, office expenses, venue rental, the candidate's agent (the British equivalent of a campaign director, more or less)—the whole shebang. Winchester has 85,000 registered voters, which means British candidates spend one-fourth or less per voter than American congressional candidates. George Hollingbery, Winchester's high-energy Conservative candidate, told me he would like to be able to spend enough to run a professional campaign, though he recognizes that the British system will always have limits preventing rich candidates from taking an unfair advantage. (Click here for more info on national limits.)
Financial restrictions may be behind some of Hollingbery's goofy stunts: When you can't buy attention, you have to grab it any way you can. On April 23, St. George's Day, he marched through Winchester accompanied by a volunteer in a dragon suit. More controversially, he gained national attention early in the campaign by cybersquatting. Hollingbery set up a redirect from the URL www.markoaten.co.uk, taking visitors to www.georgehollingbery.com (his Lib Dem rival's real site is markoaten.com). Hollingbery soon handed the .co.uk domain name to Oaten, but only after the Lib Dem had called the prank "pretty pathetic." Hollingbery apparently felt the wrath of the Tory establishment—in his campaign blog, he maintained that it was intended to be a "cheeky" stunt rather than a "dirty" trick, but he apologized to "people who have helped me a lot over the last two or three years … who feel let down."
Before he headed off for more campaigning in a neighboring town Saturday, Hollingbery told me that he didn't think it was essential for MPs to live in the constituency they represented; in fact, he said, it might even be better not to, to avoid geographic favoritism. (Another stark difference between American and British politicians: Can you imagine an American politician saying several days before the election that it would be better not to live in his district?) Since Hollingbery lives in a particularly beautiful part of the Winchester constituency, I took that to be an early indication that he's hoping to run in a safer Tory seat somewhere else next election. I hope his attention-seeking ploys in this campaign don't hurt his chances next election. Fast-talking and sharp, Hollingbery is the kind of candidate the Tories need more of. He also enjoys the most valuable asset of any male politician: a charming and intelligent spouse.
Janette Hollingbery is a Floridian who met her future husband at a Latin-American dance class at Wharton business school, where both were students. After 14 years in the United Kingdom, she's now used to the British style of campaigning and knows that although people may scowl rather than smile when she asks, "Would you like a leaflet on Conservative policies?" they'll generally take one, and that while Brits are even more cynical than Americans about politics and politicians, more of them go out and vote. She also knows firsthand the political impact of a major third party. As Janette sees it, the Lib Dems can be all things to all people, making promises they won't have to keep knowing they won't be in government.
Arthur Uther Pendragon, who's standing as an independent in Winchester, has no complaints about campaign spending limits. His biggest problem is finding £850 ($1,600) to print up his election leaflets and the £500 ($950) deposit required of all candidates (the deposit is returned to contenders who take 5 percent or more of the vote). A full-time Druid and environmental campaigner when he's not fighting elections, Arthur Pendragon has a virtuous manner that makes it all but impossible to laugh at his ambition. He told me that he's running for Parliament rather than a more modest position because as a senior Druid, he's sworn to fight corruption in high places, no matter what the cost, at the highest level possible. For a man who fought and won a 14-year battle for the right to attend solstice celebrations at Stonehenge, he seemed a little nervous and sweaty, but perhaps he would've been more comfortable robed and bearing a sword.
In a race where all the major candidates encourage tactical voting—Oaten's literature reminds voters that with Labor's pathetic showing in Winchester he's the only one who "can beat the Conservative," and Hollingbery's claims "Only a Conservative vote can get rid of Mr Blair and Labour"—Pendragon has the look of a knight in shining armor.


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In the midst of a typhoon,Hong Kong's Government Flying Service pulled 91 people from raging seas in rescues that tested the capacity of its helicopters and the mettle of their crews.
AUG. 3, 2006 ALMOST SEEMED LIKE AN ORDINARY DAY AT the Government Flying Service base at Hong Kong International Airport on Chek Lap Kok Island. One pilot, Capt. West Wu, was in a meeting. Another, Capt. Eric Leung, was doing paperwork.
But Typhoon Prapiroon loomed about 100 nm (185 km) to the south-southwest and was moving north and west. Soon enough, its effects were felt. Within 20 hr, the service's crews would rescue 91 people from raging seas.
At 1018 local, the siren sounded for a long-range search-and-rescue mission. Wu excused himself from the meeting. Leung hit "send" on the e-mail he'd just finished. Both rushed to the Air Command and Control Center.
The call was to evacuate 23 seamen from a disabled vessel, the Wing On IV, that had run aground and was taking on water about 90 nm (167 km) southwest of Hong Kong, very close to Prapiroon's track.
Ground crews checked out the fixed-wing Jetstream 41 turboprop and the Eurocopter AS332-L2 Super Puma and loaded SAR equipment. On the ramp, winds were gusting to 43 kt and the rain was heavy.
With limited information, Leung boarded the J41 with his crew — Keith Kwong, Ken Wong, and K.H. Ng — and headed for the vessel. The weather had grounded a lot of the commercial airliners at the airport, but the J41 crew had to brave the wind and rain. Their role was to be first on scene, locate the vessel, and lead the helicopter to it. They launched at 1049. The Super Puma took off at 1051, with Wu and Capt. Dickens Lam in the cockpit and Winch Operator Edward Li and Winchman Jason Chan in the cabin.
The weather deteriorated en route. The crews encountered fierce turbulence, wind shear, rain, and winds up to 85-95 kt (160-175 km/hr), with their severity increasing as the aircraft approached the typhoon's track.
On scene, the J41 found the rescue helicopter was not responding to radio calls. Back at the command center, everyone was scrambling to locate the Super Puma. But there was an uneasy silence.
After some 15 min, Leung in the J41 heard a transmission — "Conducting winching, standby." It was Lam, the AS332 copilot.
On scene, winds gusted to 97 kt (180 km/hr). Visibility was less than 1/3-mi (0.5 km). Seas were very rough, with waves nearly 40 ft (10 m). The helicopter spotted the vessel. Her hull was on rocks, her bow pitching with the waves. A cliff was close in, and the superstructure and rigging made rescue difficult.
Unaware some radio transmissions hadn't gotten through, the crew proceeded, opting for a "high-line" rescue. Li, the winch operator, lowered Chan onto the deck to assist survivors with the double-strop method. To do this, Li had to lean out. The rain pounded him; he could hardly keep his eyes open at times.
Chan's cable became entangled in the rigging as the ship was tossed by the waves. A misstep then could drop him to the deck, or worse, into the raging water. But he disentangled himself and made it to the deck.
Steadying himself against the wind on the slippery deck of the rocking vessel, he assisted the survivors in putting the strop on and they were hoisted in pairs. After each transfer, Chan had to fight his way on that deck to retrieve the strop for the next pair.
In the aircraft, Li had to control the swing of the cable as the survivors were hoisted. After a total of 12 transfers, Li and Chan were simply exhausted. Chan was the last to be hoisted up.
With Chan on board and the door closed, Wu headed the Super Puma back toward Hong Kong. The weather had worsened, there were 23 more lives in his hands, and there was less fuel. The helicopter was blown off course by extreme crosswinds and was flying on the typhoon's edge most of the time. Its turbulence created up- and downdrafts of 1,000 fpm (300 m/min).
With the help of civilian air traffic controllers, Wu found the shortest route back to base and stayed away from high terrain.
The helicopter finally touched down at 1350. The return flight from the scene, which takes 45 min on an ordinary day, took 75 min.
While the command center anxiously awaited the return of Wu's ship, it received another call. Sixty-eight crewmembers were on the barge Hai Yang Shi You 298. Returning from an oil rig, it had activated its emergency beacon 71 nm (132 km) southwest of Hong Kong.
The J41 was diverted to search for the barge. On the ramp at Chek Lap Kok, ground crews readied a second Super Puma for the mission. The three AS332-l2 are the service's long-range rescue fleet. They are fitted with search radar, forward-looking infrared, a TV camera and an auto-hover/letdown system.
Having three helicopters means two are always available, allowing for maintenance.
At the command center, Capt. Michael Chan and his crew — copilot James Yuen, Winch Operator Kenny Cheng, and Winchman Jack Chak — boarded the helicopter. The weather then was very poor. Winds were gusting at 54 kt (100 km/hr) and visibility was less than 3/4 mi (1 km). They had to make an instrument departure, uncommon for helicopter takeoffs and particularly demanding. En route, the crew also faced high winds, heavy rains, and near-zero visibility.
"Radar use did not work," said Chan, who attended this year's Heli-Expo. "It was all red on my radar screen."
The helicopter reached the scene after a hard battle of 40 min and made contact with the J41. They spotted the barge quickly; it was pitching up to 45 deg and rolling violently, pounded by 70-ft (21-m) waves.
After assessing the situation carefully, the crew agreed to lower Chak to its helideck. But Cheng couldn't open the door. Chan checked his instruments; the airspeed indicator read 72 kt (133 km/hr).
"That is quite unusual," he said, "for an aircraft sitting in a hover."
He repositioned the aircraft and Cheng opened the door. Chak stepped into the ripping wind and Cheng lowered him to the deck, quietly promising himself he would retrieve Chak unharmed.
Once on the deck, Chak immediately had to lie flat lest he be thrown overboard as the barge pitched. On the helideck there was nothing to hold on to.
This crew also used the "high-line" method, lifting survivors in pairs in quick succession. There were several times when the returning strop landed far from Chak, who had to crawl to the deck's edge and drag it and the 20-lb (9-kg) weight attached to it back to the helideck.
"Sitting in the hover at the rear end of the barge," Chan, the aircraft commander, said, "at times I was unable to see the bow because of the heavy rain."
Cheng and Chak continued hoisting until there was no more room; 28 survivors were on board. Chan called an end to the mission. Seeing the disappointment of the remaining survivors and knowing a second helicopter was on its way, Chak shouted, "We will see each other in Hong Kong," and gave them a thumbs-up signal. Chan flew on instruments on the return, cutting through extremely heavy rain and violent turbulence. "I flew the slowest instrument landing of my life — 30 kt on the ILS," he said.
Capt. Cody Wong reported for duty at 1310, well aware he would be launched because one helicopter could not pick up all 68 survivors.
The wind remained at 45-65 kt (80 – 120 km/hr) and visibility was still less than 3/4 mi (1 km). The rain was so heavy that Cody and his crew — Capt. Bruce Wong, Ivan Chan, and Mason Ng — had to wait in the helicopter for 30 min. before they could take off.
The wind and rain on scene had relented slightly, but the sea was still very rough.
The crew had the advantage of having better information on the situation and hence were able to effect the rescues relatively quickly. In the midst of the operation, the rain was so heavy that they had to stop hoisting temporarily.
After taking in 28 survivors, that crew also had to return to base.
At the command center, running out of daylight and facing worsening weather, the controller (or commander) of the service, Capt. Brian Butt, had to make the difficult decision that another rescue mission that day was unacceptably risky.
Rescues would continue at first light on the next day, when Capt. Ardis Tang and his crew — Capt. Bowie Fung, Benny Chan, and Stanley Lam — reported for duty.
Ardis humbly described the rescue as uneventful compared with the previous ones.
In fact, he and his crew still faced heavy rain, strong winds, and low visibility. They successfully recovered the last 12 survivors, who were battered and very seasick, but overjoyed at finally being taken to safety.


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Understand and Agree to the Contract
Be sure to include the necessary UCSF approved clauses in your contracts, but more importantly - personally make sure your vendor understands, agrees to and is able to fulfill them. You, your team and vendor all need to understand and agree to deliver the requirements set out in:
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Once everyone understands and agrees, follow through to ensure your vendor delivers a product that meets your accessibility requirements.
Remember: addressing issues early in the design process saves a lot of time. Product accessibility is not simply a box you check off nor is accessibility something that can be fixed or jerry-rigged at the end of the project without a lot of time and effort.
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Metropolitan Tikhon's address to the faithful
The address was recorded on Monday, November 26, 2012 at the OCA Chancery in Syosset, NY.
"I have chosen to first address you in this direct way because it is important for Christians to communicate with one another with honesty and with clarity," Metropolitan Tikhon said in his introductory remarks. "The medium of our communication is never as important as the message but, in this age of multimedia, it is good for us to make sure that our message is always a simple one, coming from a heart that is as free from passions as possible. I ask for your help in this so that all of us together might make the effort to purify our hearts, to pray for one another and to work together to communicate the glad tidings of salvation to the world around us."


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New Delhi-based Duronto Technologies Pvt Ltd, the company that owns and operates TravelKhana, an online food delivery service for Indian Railways' commuters, is close to raising $3-5 million in its third round of funding, the company's founder and CEO Pushpinder Singh informed Techcircle.com.
While Singh did not reveal the names of the investors, he mentioned that all of them are VC funds, and not HNIs or private equity players.
The funds will be invested in improving the back-end technology, including the analytics team and the mobile app, which will now have a notification system that will notify customers of discounts, new menus and restaurants added.
"We also need to ensure that the mobile tracking becomes more accurate," said Singh.
The company also plans to set up regional offices in eight cities in the country, including Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Vijayawada, Chennai, Nagpur and Kolkata. Currently, it has a single office in Hyderabad, while its employees travel across the country for deals.
TravelKhana also plans to set up delivery points at railway stations. "We have identified 80 different stations and plan to begin with 20 stations first. These include stations in the metro cities and other large stations across the country," he added.
The startup was founded in 2012 by Singh, a BITS Pilani graduate who also holds a B.Tech in Engineering from IIT (Banaras Hindu University). Prior to setting up this venture, he was CTO at INCA Informatics. In the past, he had worked with Lotus Interworks and Sopra Consulting in various positions. Singh had started the company with an initial personal investment of Rs 22 lakh, with a further funding of Rs 25 lakh from startup investor Matteo Chiampo.
Last year, we had exclusively reported Google India head Rajan Anandan's and Palaash Ventures' investments the company.
TravelKhana enables railway commuters to order food online or over the phone. Passengers can select the food of their choice from restaurants along the route they are commuting. The restaurants are selected and verified by TravelKhana personnel, while the platform tracks train status, and coordinates food preparation time with the restaurant to ensure that the passengers receive meals on their seats. TravelKhana claims to have served more than four lakh railway commuters to date.
Singh mentions that while there are about 1.5 crore daily long distance train travellers, just 300 of the 5,000 trains have pantry cars available in them. And even the pantry cars do not deliver standard food. The startup covers over 160 stations and has tied up with 600 outlets across the country. It works on a commission basis with the restaurants, and had recently also partnered with OTA MakeMyTrip to offer food on buses.
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Relationships offer tremendous opportunity for healing, growth and change. Also, they can be a great source of sadness, fear and conflict. Common obstacles to a more effective, meaningful, joyful life involve our beliefs about ourselves in relationship to others. Therapy can help expand ones self-awareness and personal growth. Whether you are experiencing difficulty interacting with others at work or home, struggling to manage frustration or other overwhelming emotions, working to eliminating problem behaviors, wanting more motivation to accomplish life plans or dreams, or simply searching for better relationships or family life, therapy can help you. You can speed up your personal growth and start to make choices to create the life you want rather than repeating old patterns based upon coping skills you have outgrown. Even if every single negative thing has happened to you, there is hope. I look forward to working with you in your search for growth and happiness.
Individual psychotherapy helps us gain greater self-awareness and understanding about our own actions. It helps us begin to identify and explore how our unconscious emotions and motivations can influence our choices and the way we relate to others. I provide psychological treatment to help you find solutions to the underlying causes to problematic situations, life patterns or relationships so you can create more of the life you want. I provide psychotherapy or counseling services for those facing many different kinds of problems.
Relationship and marriage counseling can be useful to couples who are experiencing repetitive arguments, emotional disengagement or feelings of emptiness in the relationship, ongoing feelings of anger, resentment or unhappiness, lack of physical affection or sexual interest in one another. The therapy process focuses on emotions, building skills, managing conflict, improving friendship, establishing a better connection and developing a shared meaning of life experience together.
Therapy I provide for teens is based on the idea that improving communication patterns and the ways adolescents relate to others will effectively treat the symptoms of depression, anxiety or other emotional or behavioral conditions.Typical goals for therapy include helping teens to identify, label and verbalize their experience of conflicting emotions. Learn to communicate effectively and interact appropriately with peers and adults. Learn to problem solve and to manage or regulate strong emotions and make healthy decisions.
Whenever I see that someone is stuck, repeating unhealthy patterns of thinking, feeling or behaving, I incorporate alternative forms of treatment. Some of these might include tapping, (Emotional Freedom Technique,) or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) as well as mindfulness based strategies to speed the therapy process. These forms of energy psychology build upon traditional psychotherapy methods to help people overcome self defeating emotional patterns and behaviors.
I am a Clinical Psychologist licensed in Pennsylvania and offer more than 22 years of experience and expertise in clinical psychology and psychotherapy. I earned my Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Immaculata University, a Master of Arts degree from West Chester University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Gettysburg College.
Prior to establishing my practice in Nazareth, I worked for many years in a hospital setting, helping people adapt to physical changes relating to aging, illness or accidental injury. I have worked with people recovering from a wide range of health concerns, including accidental injury, chronic pain, cancer, stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury, cancer, and surgical recovery of all kinds. Additionally, I have assisted people in reclaiming self awareness during their recovery from substance abuse and addiction, both in outpatient and inpatient settings. I have worked with all forms of mental illness and personality disorders in psychiatric facilities, outpatient mental health settings as well as correctional facilities. I have provided assessment services within nursing home settings for seniors who are concerned about dementia and other cognitive disorders. I have provided school based mental health services.
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The body the many animals bound, the mind the leash.
The furred monster in your throat that snores in its cave
of dark sleep, and the sedate pigeons of your ruffled,
ordinary hands. The wolf, two large cats, the flamingo.
The desert of your back, my dry mouth, your face an oasis.
Your mouth a neon sign that says Enter. Some nights
you are a safari, by day a petting zoo. I wander through
the brush, surrounded by your beasts, they watch as
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Lab activities at IEEE VIS 2015 in Chicago include paper presentations by Maoyuan Sun and Haeyong Chung at VAST 2015 and Caleb Reach at LDAV 2015. Xin Chen and Jessica Self conducted a MeetUp on Embodiment in Visual Analytics.
Identifying coordinated relationships is an important task in data analytics. For example, an intelligence analyst might want to find three suspicious people who visited the same four cities. However, existing techniques that display individual relationships, such as between lists of entities, require repetitious manual selection and significant mental aggregation in cluttered visualizations to find coordinated relationships.
We present a visual analytics tool, called Spectrum, to analyze the movement and communication log data from VAST Challenge 2015. Spectrum has two views: MoveView and SpectrumView. MoveView gives an overview of the movement logs at a certain timestamp by synthesizing time, location and identity information. It replays movement logs over time and demonstrates communication logs with dynamic links. SpectrumView shows the status of all visitors' activities within a period of time. Each stay of visitors in a location is visualized as a line segment.
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Is Vertical Cultivation The Cannabis Growing Trend?
A cannabis growing trend that could save you money and space, sounds almost too good to be true. We explain why vertical cultivation could be the way forward for everyone from large to small scale growers.
Cannabis leaf t-shirts, gas mask bongs, and fluorescent weed memorabilia are just some of the trends that have culminated from the world of marijuana. However, just like our cliched cannabis leaf t-shirts, not all trends should have taken off. What if there was a trend that was worth some attention and interest?
Vertical cultivation could be just that. On paper, it sounds almost too good to be true. Often one of the major blockers for growing cannabis is the sheer volume of space required to establish a well maintained growing environment. Even more so if you wish to branch out from just a few plants. Instead of spreading out the idea is to stack your cannabis plants on top of each other. Like a holy pillar of weed. Ideal when limited by space or even ideal if space is a virtue, vertical cultivation can help cut costs of growing indoors. With this increasingly popular method of growing catching on amongst amateur growers, what does the logistics of vertical cultivation look like and how does it work?
Simply put, you are stacking cannabis plants on shelves above each other. Each plant is fed and watered in a similar way to a hydroponic system. Essential nutrients and oxygenated water are supplied via a series of pipework fed by pumps. Each plant is supported using an inert medium like clay pellets or perlite. With nearly all the basic requirements of your cannabis plant covered, one of the most important factors is light. This is where vertical cultivation excels.
Cylindrical hydroponic-based systems are proving to be one of the most popular choices when adopting this growing style. With the plants stacked around a central light, you can provide this much-needed component with significantly lower costs. In a cylindrical set-up, one light can feed a larger number of plants saving you energy and space. With inspiration taken from the sea of green method, clones are used, although the key to large yields lies in using a large number of cuttings.
Despite what sounds like a complicated setup, even small-scale growers can take advantage. The first and most immediate benefit to this grow setup is the cost. Whilst setting up a hydroponic system may take an initial outlay, the reduced "running costs" of this growing environment make up for it. By running costs we mean the energy used throughout the growing cycle. Lighting even just a few plants and ensuring they have the correct coverage can be a costly experience. By stacking the plants and suspending a light, you can supply this vital source to more plants with fewer bulbs.
Not only is there an energy saving to be had, but a space saving too. It can be built in a way that an area only large enough for a few plants could double or even triple in capacity. With a return on investment an obvious focus for small-scale growers this can make cannabis significantly more profitable and worthwhile. Not only that but even if you are only growing a couple of plants for personal use, even the most cramped of apartments could be suitable. Whatever your scenario there are certainly some key benefits to adopting this emerging growing environment.
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PETA Provides Free Personal Advice To Al Gore
Until today, we had not even realized that the organization known as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) had a serious interest in climate change policy. But apparently they do. Close on the heels of several personal criticisms of Al Gore for his home energy use by...well, we'll just call them denialists... PETA has sent a letter to Mr Gore, promoting a strict vegetarian agenda. PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk signed the cordially worded letter, which is available at the PETA blog (pdf file). The technical substance of PETA's argument is described here. We can easily imagine Mr. Gore's personal secretary handing him the PETA letter. Al reads it, looks up, and says 'Darn...I I thought it would enough for me to tear down my megawatt hungry mansion and live in a FEMA trailer so I could continue my work. Now, it looks as if I'll also have to eat soy burgers.' PETA has a point, of course. But, we have a feeling that the ten years within which the world must take dramatic steps to prevent climate catastrophe does not include nearly enough time to leverage that idea. Think, for example, how the marine mammal-eating Inuit People might respond? Argentinian cattlemen? Middle Eastern goatherds? If PETA members would just point out their fondness for petrochemical based clothing and shoes, perhaps at least the actual President and the US Congress would listen. Image credit:aerobic hog waste slurry tank, USDA


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Nepal Police arrested chairman of Human Rights Organization of Bhutan (HUROB) S. B. Subba on Friday afternoon on suspicion of his link in Belndagi I murder case.
Police Inspector Kamal Thapa at Thana Police Post Damak informed that Subba has been arrested from Damak as part of investigation of the incident. 'Interrogation with Subba is underway," said Thapa.
Confirming the arrest, HUROB in a statement said Subba is kept under the custody of Damak Police post, Jhapa.
On April 21, a resident of Belgangi I Santi Ram Nepal was murdered by unknown gunmen. The police arrested six other exiled Bhutanese refugees in this connection.
HUROB said no one is allowed to meet them in custody.(Ap)
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