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Terms & Conditions
Registered Company Number: 5387022
1. In these Conditions "SMS " means Southern Maritime Services Limited and unless
a contrary meaning is given:-
1.1. "Authorised Person" means SMS's Managing or other Director from
time to time or any person specifically authorised in writing by one of them.
1.2. "Container" means any inter-modal freight container whether or not
conforming to ISO Standards.
1.3. "Contract" means the contract for the provision of Services by SMS.
1.4. "Inspect" or "Inspected" means a cursory, external visual inspection
done in the available light for any obvious defects.
1.5. "Goods" means any cargo, baggage or merchandise whatsoever
whether or not within a Container.
1.6. "Services" means the services agreed to be provided by SMS in
writing at the beginning of this agreement and shall not include any
additional services agreed from time to time between SMS and the User
unless such additional services are agreed by SMS in accordance with
clause 2.5 below.
1.7. "Ship" means any vessel in respect of which SMS provides, or is to
provide, Services.
1.8. "User" means any person, firm or corporation to or for whom or in
respect of whom SMS is to provide Services and shall include the shipper,
receiver, consignor, consignee, holder of documents of title (including
ship's agents, forwarding agents and hauliers), owner or handler of Goods,
registered ship owner, ship manager, line operator and charterer including
their respective employees, agents and sub-contractors.
1.9. "Docks" and "Docks Premises" shall have the same meanings as in
the general regulations and conditions currently in force upon which
services and accommodation are provided at or within the dock at which
SMS provides the Services to the User;
1.10. Words in the singular shall include the plural and vice versa.
1.11. Any reference to any statute or statutory provision shall be deemed
to include any amendment, replacement or re-enactment thereof for the
time being in force and to include any by-laws, statutory instruments, rules,
regulations, orders, notices, directions, consents or permissions (together
with any conditions attaching to the foregoing) made thereunder.
2. Basis of Contract
2.1. All Users, Goods, Containers and Ships are subject to these
conditions. The contractual terms between SMS and the User are contained
exclusively within these conditions and in no circumstances will SMS be
bound by any purported addition to, or variation of these conditions, whether oral or in writing, unless any such addition or variation is signed on behalf of SMS by an Authorised Person.
2.2. SMS's employees, agents and sub-contractors are not authorised to
make representations unless confirmed by an Authorised Person in writing.
The User acknowledges that it does not rely on any such representation not
so confirmed.
2.3. SMS may perform Services by its employees, agents or
2.4. The terms of any SMS quotation shall be valid for 30 days from the
date of the quotation form. Any extension to this must be agreed in writing
by an Authorised Person.
2.5. Any service additionally requested by the User which was not
included within the Services at the beginning of this agreement shall be
undertaken at the entire discretion of SMS on these conditions or on such
other terms as may be agreed in writing between the user and an
authorised person.
2.6. The benefit of these conditions shall apply in relation to any act or
default whatsoever of any employee, agent or sub-contractor of SMS . No
User shall proceed against any such employee, agent or sub-contractor in
respect of such act or default and shall indemnify SMS in respect of any
liability SCH may incur arising from the User not complying with such
3. Price and Payment
3.1. The price for the Services shall be as set out in the SMS quotation
and (if applicable) the Contract. The price is exclusive of VAT which shall be
due at the rate ruling on the date of the relevant invoice. If there is any
conflict between the terms of the SMS quotation and the terms of the
Contract the Contract shall prevail.
3.2. Payment shall be made to SMS within 28 days of the invoice date.
3.3. The Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 will apply
to all payments due under the Contract.
4. User's Obligations
4.1. The User shall comply with and be bound by all statutes, statutory
instruments, rules, regulations, orders, notices, directions, consents or
permissions including (without limitation) those relating to health and
safety and dock operations from time to time in force and the conditions of
any applicable regulatory or statutory body.
4.2. The User shall provide to SMS in writing, prior to arrival of the Goods
within the Docks:-
4.2.1. sufficient details of the Goods to enable SMS to identify them,
details of all hazardous features and actual or potential hazards
involved in handling the Goods, any special lifting required for the Goods, any stowage, storage or delivery requirements for the Goods, and any other information with which anyone providing the
Services might reasonably expect to be provided;
4.2.2. where Goods are to be unloaded from a Ship, instructions as to the
onward transport forwarding or dispatch of the Goods;
4.2.3. where appropriate, instructions in relation to any activity to be
undertaken in respect of the Goods while at the Docks
4.2.4. and shall further provide to SMS notification in writing of any change
to such details, instructions and/or information which arises during
the provision of the Services.
4.3. The User shall immediately upon arrival of the Goods at the Docks
provide SMS with evidence in writing of their arrival and allow SMS to
Inspect the Goods.
4.4. The User warrants that all information provided as required under
condition 4.2 was accurate at the time it was provided to SMS and
continues to be accurate throughout the period during which SMS provide
the Services.
4.5. Notification required under clauses 4.2 and 4.3 shall be made by the
User to the e-mail address specified in SMS's quotation or to such other
e-mail address as SMS may specify from time-to-time.
4.6. The User is responsible for checking, or arranging the checking of,
the state and condition of the Goods at the time the Goods are loaded onto
or unloaded from a Ship (as the case may be).
4.7. If the User requires secure or special storage at the Docks for the
Goods, or any of them, the User shall make all arrangements for secure or
special storage with the owner or operator of the Docks, shall clearly
identify the Goods for which secure or special storage has been arranged
and provide SMS with written details of all such arrangements.
4.8. SMS shall not be obliged to comply with any instructions given
pursuant to clause 4.2.3 unless SMS has agreed in writing prior to the
arrival of the Goods within the Docks to carry out such instructions.
4.9. If the User requires any externally hired plant or equipment or in the
opinion of SMS externally hired plant or equipment will be required to
perform the Services SMS may request that the User shall contract directly
with the owner to hire the equipment. In the event that SMS contract
directly with the owner for the hire of the plant and equipment SMS s
liability shall be limited as set out in clause 6.9.
5. User's Warranties
5.1. The User warrants to SMS that:-
5.2. all Goods are properly packed, labelled and if stuffed in Containers
are properly stowed and secured therein;5.3. all Goods, packages, cartons, drums, pallets and Containers are fit for
their intended purpose and are in a fit and proper condition to be handled
or otherwise dealt with in the normal course of business by the equipment
and operational procedures employed by SMS;
5.4. all Containers and Goods comply with and all hazardous or
potentially hazardous Goods are labelled in accordance with all applicable
laws, orders, regulations, codes of practice or requirements of Government,
Customs and Excise, municipal or other authorities.
5.5. all Goods and Containers are insured to their full replacement value.
6. SMS Liability
6.1. The following provisions set out the entire financial liability of SMS
(including any liability for the acts or omissions of its employees, agents
and sub-contractors) to the User in respect of:-
6.1.1. any breach of these Conditions; and
6.1.2. any representation, statement or tortious act or omission, including
negligence, arising under or in connection with SMS's performance
of the Services.
6.2. All warranties, conditions and other terms implied by statute or
common law (save for the conditions implied by section 12 of the Sale of
Goods Act 1979) are, to the fullest extent permitted by law, excluded from
the Contract.
6.3. Nothing in these conditions excludes or limits the liability of SMS for
death or personal injury caused by SMS's negligence, or fraudulent
6.4. SMS shall not be responsible for any loss, damage, liability, costs
and/or expenses suffered or incurred by the User or any loss, damage or
deterioration to the Goods:
6.4.1. prior to written evidence of the Goods arrival on the Docks being
delivered to SMS and SMS having Inspected the Goods in
accordance with clause 4.3; and/or
6.4.2. where goods are delivered outside SMS's normal working hours and
working areas at the Docks, or in circumstances where SMS has
instructed that Goods should not be delivered on certain dates or at
certain times
6.5. SMS shall be under no obligation to receive evidence of arrival of
Goods at the Docks or Inspect Goods outside SMS's hours of normal
business at the Docks.
6.6. Subject to conditions 6.2 and 6.3, SMS, its employees, agents or
sub-contractors shall be liable for any fault or negligence on their part
resulting in physical loss or damage subject to the following limits for any
one incident or series of incidents arising out of one event:-
6.6.1. £5,000,000 in respect of damage to a Ship, including its gear.6.6.2. £150,000 in respect of loss of or damage to any Container.
6.6.3. £2.50 per kilo with a maximum limit of £150,000 in respect of loss
or damage to any Goods(but not to exceed in any event the liability
of the User with respect thereto under the relevant Bill of Lading or
other contract of carriage) and only to the extent that such loss or
damage exceeds £100.
6.7. Subject to conditions 6.2 and 6.3 SMS shall not be liable to the User
for any loss of profit, loss of business, depletion of goodwill or any indirect
or consequential loss or damage, costs, expenses or claims for
consequential compensation whatsoever (howsoever caused) which arise
out of or in connection with SMS's provision of the Services.
6.8. SMS (including its employees, agents and sub-contractors) is not
responsible for any loss, damage, liability, costs and/or expenses suffered
or incurred by the User or any loss, damage or deterioration to Goods by
reason of any matter not within the control of SMS in the performance of
Services including (without limitation) any loss, damage, liability, costs
and/or expenses suffered or incurred by the User arising out of or in
connection with:-
6.8.1. defects in or inadequacy of any equipment not owned or leased by
SMS which is used by SMS in connection with the provision of
6.8.2. faulty slinging or the improper loading of any Goods or luggage by
persons other than SMS its employees, agents or sub-contractors;
6.8.3. any equipment or load colliding with any part of a Ship or any
equipment of a Ship resulting from the drifting or movement of the
Ship or any part of its equipment howsoever caused;
6.8.4. the Ship having been improperly or insecurely moored;
6.8.5. using lifting points and/or lifting equipment specified by the User.
6.9. SMS's liability for loss damage costs and/or expenses suffered or
incurred by the User or any loss damage or deterioration to Goods by
reason of any defect in or failure of or unavailability of any equipment
leased by SMS and which is used by SMS in connection with the provision of
the Services shall be limited to the liability which the owner or lessor of the
equipment owes to SMS.
6.10. SMS (including its employees, agents and sub-contractors) is not
responsible for any loss, damage, liability, costs and/or expenses suffered
or incurred by the User or any loss, damage or deterioration to Goods or
baggage arising out of or in connection with:-
6.10.1. SMS operating under the direct supervision or on the express
instructions of the User;
6.10.2. any act, omission, neglect or the fault of any person not employed
by or under contract to SMS;6.10.3. any misleading, ambiguous or inadequate orders or particulars
given by any person to SMS;
6.10.4. any inadequate or incorrect address or destination information for
the Goods, or any imperfect, illegible, misleading, ambiguous,
defective or incomplete labelling of any Goods or baggage;
6.10.5. any errors by SMS, its employees, agents or sub-contractors in the
sorting or selecting of any Goods or baggage or the separating of
damaged from sound Goods or baggage except where (subject to
clause 4.7) such errors are due to the failure of SMS, its employees
agents or sub-contractors to follow written instructions regarding
such sorting, selecting or separating;
failure by the User to comply with any of these conditions;
6.10.6. any leakage, loss of weight or measure that may be sustained
where the receptacle of any Goods or baggage is in a defective or
leaky condition, (except upon proof that the receptacle was in a
sound condition when delivered to SMS, that it was suitable to
contain the Goods, and that such defective or leaky condition was
negligently caused by SMS, its employees, agents or
6.10.7. fire;
6.10.8. vermin, moths, worms, weevils or insects;
6.10.9. natural causes (including, without limitation, weather conditions and
atmospheric effects);
6.10.10. want of proper packing or improper packing;
6.10.11. stowage or storage of Goods and baggage or Containers
contrary to SMS's advice;
6.10.12. any deterioration of grain, seed or goods whatsoever through the
omission on the part of the User to give orders in writing to SMS to
turn or air them, or to take any other precautions in relation to
6.10.13. movement or deviation or late arrival or departure of any Ship;
6.10.14. vermin, insects, fungal attack, rot or corrosion affecting Goods;
6.10.15. heat or cold, including heat within Goods and unintended
exposure to natural or artificial light;
6.10.16. improper or insufficient packing, marking, documentation or
6.10.17. any act of SMS its servants or agents which, though deliberate,
are reasonably necessary for the safety or preservation of persons,
the Docks or any Goods;
6.10.18. late receipt of Customs Entry or Delivery or Landing Orders,
disputes in respect of documents or declarations made for entry
purposes by or on behalf of any person, delay in passing Customs Entries or obtaining clearance of any Goods or omission of
information from or a statement in any order to SMS relating to the
Goods or baggage;
6.10.19. theft or wilful damage unless proved by the User to have been
committed by the servants of SMS ;
6.10.20. inherent vice of the Goods;
6.10.21. any loading or discharging of any Goods or baggage during the
hours of darkness except that which resulted from the wilful
misconduct or negligence of SMS, its employees subcontractors or
6.10.22. any failure of or interruption to or delay caused by any electronic
systems used to send, receive or process documentation, including
(without limitation) loss of power supply, loss of network access,
breakdown of systems or act or omission of any Internet Service
6.11. Where the Goods or any part of them are timber:
6.11.1. Users shall supply SMS with a specification of the timber prior to it
being landed, and deposit with SMS, immediately upon the arrival of
the ship at the Docks, any delivery order which SMS may be desired
to execute; and
6.11.2. SMS will not be liable for any loss or damage to the timber
howsoever caused including without limitation by fire, waste,
shrinkage, erroneous remeasurement of timber or any
misdescription of quality whether upon the instructions of the user
or otherwise.
6.12. SMS shall not in any event be responsible for any loss from, or
damage to, Goods unless s notified in writing of the nature and amount of
the claim made:-
6.12.1. in the case of damage, deficiency or partial loss, before the Goods
are removed from the Dock Premises (whether for import or export);
6.12.2. in the case of total loss or misdelivery of import Goods, within thirty
days of collection of the Goods from the Dock Premises;
6.12.3. in the case of total loss or misdelivery of export Goods to the Dock
Premises or where such Goods are due to be exported within 60
days of such delivery by the date of export, whichever is the
6.12.4. within seven days of the event giving rise to the claim in any other
6.13. Any claim not made in accordance with the terms of this condition
shall be deemed to be waived, extinguished or absolutely barred.6.14. The User must satisfy itself as to the appropriateness and nature of any storage facility to be used for the Goods or baggage. SMS shall not in
any event be responsible for any loss, damage, liability or expenses caused
by or arising in connection with the deterioration of Goods or baggage
stored in accordance with the instructions of the User
7. SMS's Rights
7.1. SMS reserves the right to postpone performance of Services if, in
SMS's absolute discretion:-
7.1.1. additional or alternative resources, personnel or equipment are
required to carry out Services;
7.1.2. Containers or Goods are improperly or insufficiently packed or
7.1.3. Containers or Goods are unsafe whether due to their inherent
nature, stowage or movement during transit;
7.1.4. the weather or light make the conditions for the provision of
Services unsafe or may cause damage or deterioration to Goods or
Force Majeure
7.2. SMS reserves the right to defer the performance of the Services or to
cancel the Contract (without liability to the User) if it is prevented from or
delayed in the carrying on of its business or in the performance of Services
due to circumstances beyond the reasonable control of SMS including,
without limitation, acts of God, governmental actions, war or national
emergency, riot, civil commotion, fire (and acts to extinguish it), smoke,
ionising radiation, radioactive contamination, impact by aircraft or objects
dropped or falling from them, scarcity of labour, plant, machinery, fuel or
power, act or omission of any internet service provider, war, revolution, riot
or civil commotion, restrictions imposed directly or indirectly by HM
Government or any person, body or corporation acting under statutory
powers, explosion, flood, epidemic, lock-outs, strikes or other labour
disputes (whether or not relating to SMS's workforce), or restraints or
delays affecting carriers or inability or delay in obtaining supplies of
adequate or suitable materials.
8. Disposal of Goods
8.1. Goods and Containers handled by SMS remaining on Dock Premises
or any other premises which SMS has been required to use on instructions
of the User or Portsmouth City Council may be removed, warehoused or
otherwise dealt with if they have not been removed from Dock Premises by
or on behalf of the User within thirty days of their delivery to the Dock
Premises. Such removal warehousing and dealing shall be at the entire risk
and expense of the User and SMS reserves the right to sell the Goods and
apply the proceeds to payment of all charges in connection with the Services provided under this Contract or any other contract between SMS and the User under which payment by the User is outstanding.
8.2. Without prejudice to condition 9.1 SMS may in its absolute discretion
dispose of:-
8.2.1. perishable goods which are not immediately collected on arrival at
the Dock Premises;
8.2.2. hazardous goods, or deal with them in such manner as would render
them harmless;
8.2.3. Goods and Containers which can not be delivered in accordance
with the instructions of the User for whatever reason provided that
SMS shall give at least twenty-one days written notice to the User
of its intention to dispose of such Goods and Containers.
9. SMS's Lien
9.1. All Goods, baggage, Containers and documents of title to those
Goods and Containers in possession of SMS shall be subject to a particular
and general lien for all sums owed by the User to SMS on any account, and
unless payment or security is given within ten days of notice of the exercise
of the lien, SMS may sell the goods by auction or otherwise as it thinks fit
in its absolute discretion in satisfaction of its lien.
10. Application of Bill of Lading
10.1. The User shall include in its Bill of Lading a provision that SMS, its
employees, agents and sub-contractors shall have the benefit of any terms
in such Bill of Lading excluding or limiting the liability of the User in respect
of the Goods.
10.2. In any event SMS, as stevedore and/or sub-contractor, shall be
entitled to benefit from the provisions of any Bill of Lading (including all
defences and limitations of liability) to which Goods and/or Container or
Containers are subject as if SMS were a party thereto.
11. User Liability
11.1. The User undertakes that it will indemnify SMS against all
proceedings, costs, expenses, liabilities, injury, death, loss or damage
incurred or suffered by SMS arising out of:-
11.1.1. the User's failure to comply with these conditions or the Contract;
11.1.2. all acts or omissions of the User.
11.2. The User further undertakes that it will indemnify and hold harmless
SMS against all proceedings, costs, expenses, liabilities, injury, death, loss
or damage incurred or suffered by SMS consequent upon any claim against
SMS by any third party arising out of the negligent provision of the
Services to be provided to the User (for example the owner of the Goods or
Ship or Container or vehicle) insofar as such costs, losses and liabilities
(when aggregated with any liability of SMS to the User arising from the same occurrence or circumstance) exceed the potential liability of SMS to
the User as limited by the terms of clause 6.
12. General
12.1. No waiver of any default or breach of these conditions by either party
shall be deemed to be a continuing waiver or a waiver of any other breach
or default no matter how similar.
12.2. These Conditions shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance
with English Law and the User submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of
the English Courts.
12.3. Any notice required to be given hereunder shall unless otherwise
specified be sufficiently given if sent by registered or recorded delivery post
or left at the principal or registered office for the time being of the party to
be served. Any such notice shall be deemed to be served at the time the
same is handed to or left at the address of the party to be served and if
served by post on the third day (not being a Sunday or Public Holiday)
following the day of posting.


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Obamacare is an imminent threat to people with life-threatening medical conditions.
People with serious medical conditions often achieve miraculous results in the U.S. thanks to a private health care system that gives them the freedom to track down and go to doctors with the right knowledge and experience. These people, who have the greatest and most urgent health care needs, will be stymied by Obamacare's new layers of bureaucracy. Instead of swiftly obtaining the right diagnosis and treatment, they will lose precious time submitting forms and filing appeals.
As every physician knows, it's important to arrive at a correct diagnosis as soon as possible because medical conditions are most treatable in their early stages.
A recent article in The Wall Street Journal illustrates the point. "Facing Lifesaving Heart Surgery, Twice" bemoans the plight of people who had heart surgery as children only to experience further heart problems as adults. Doctors were often baffled because their hearts had been reconfigured during childhood. In some cases, the best course of action proved to be going back to the pediatric hospitals and surgeons who performed the original operations. This is possible in a private health care system because patients are correctly viewed as customers. Under Obamacare — a system that perceives people with serious medical conditions as financial burdens to a government already deeply in hock — these patients are more likely to find themselves boxed in by rules designed to contain costs.
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We are a group of volunteers who seek to participate in and promote the conservation of
bats and their habitats in Warwickshire.
We are a Partner group of the national organisation, the
Bat Conservation Trust (BCT)
On this website you will find a range of information and resources, for example:
What to do if you have found an injured or grounded bat.
Information for householders who have bats in their property.
Information for builders and roofing contractors about their legal responsibilities
when working around bats.
Plus information about the group and our activities,
and lots of general information about bats.
If you think you might be interested in joining us, you will be very welcome,
either as a member or as a visitor at one of our events.


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A résumé provides a well-thought-out, concise picture of you, the job seeker, as if it were a personal sales brochure. It needs to communicate quickly, clearly, and accurately a summary of your skills, qualifications, experience, credentials, and accomplishments. It is generally the first impression of you a potential employer gets.
Seek assistance from others who will be honest, yet complimentary. Ask people who review resumes in their job.
Writing your résumé
The following are things that you definitely need to include in your résumé.
A résumé provides the opportunity for a personal employment interview. For that reason, the development of a quality résumé is one of the most important aspects of a job search.•


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Site Pages
Additional Site Resources
Please contact us at email@example.com with any questions and/or comments about this website or treatments for hepatitis C.
Please also contact us with any suggestions for new webpages or blog posts. The much longed-for-and-awaited day of new hepatitis C treatment is upon us – and with it an avalanche of information about the wide array of new hep C drugs and drug combinations. We welcome this growing knowledge and want our website to grow with it.


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Administration Division
Administration Division (AD)
The Group of Institutes has two important components: The student and the teacher, in that order. The intellectual interaction between these two makes an academic institution. And to make this interaction possible, a third component is required. And that component is administrative support. The role of administration, thus, has to be understood in the above perspective.
Statutory Bodies
The Group of Institutes is an academic institution; the primary function of Administration in a Group of Institutes system is to provide support to the academic activities of the Group of Institutes. The Group of Institutes combines within it the legislative, executive and to some extent quasi-judicial functions. The processes involved in the legislation and decision making are carried out through the following statutory authorities:
v The Board of Management: The principal executive body of the Group of Institutes
v The Academic Council: The principal academic body responsible for academic policies of the Group of Institutes
v The Planning Board: The principal planning body of the Group of Institutes which is also responsible for monitoring the developments of the Group of Institutes on the lines indicated in the objects of the Group of Institutes.
v Programs Council: The basic academic units responsible for formulation of academic programs.
v The Finance Committee: Advises the Board of Management on all matters concerning financial management of the Group of Institutes
A unique feature of the ICMind is that it also functions in various segments. Separate statutory independent body has been created to perform task related to each segments. It is responsible for the promotion and coordination of the Group of Institutes and it's Education System and for determination of its standards.
The processes involved in formulating proposals for consideration of these bodies, organizing their legislation and implementing the decisions taken by these bodies form the core responsibility of Administration. The other major responsibility is to provide support to all functional and operational Divisions, including, by providing the required manpower as also other necessary infrastructure facilities. In effect, Administration functions as a facilitating mechanism so that the Group of Institutes can adequately meet the objects as set out in the Act and Statutes.
v Governance Section: Deals with Constitution of various authorities, processing proposals for placing before various authorities, follow- up actions on the decisions of the authorities, correspondence with important outside agencies like the Department of Education, UGC etc., formulation of statutes, ordinances etc. and dealing with Parliament Questions.
v Establishment Section: All service matters, from recruitment to retirement, of non-academic employees of the Group of Institutes.
v General Admin Section: All housekeeping activities like transport, Tele-communication, guesthouse facility, hospitality arrangements, leasing of accommodation.
v Central Purchase Unit: Purchase of equipment and furniture.
v Security Unit: Headquarter / Campus Security including Regional Centres located at various cities.
v Public Relations Unit: Liaison with general public and media.
v Hindi Cell: Matters relating to implementation of the official language policy of the Govt.
v Legal Cell: Deals with legal matters and also defends the Group of Institutes in various courts of law on any legal dispute.
v Coordination Section: Personal Claims (such as Medical Advance, LTC, TA/DA) including loans and advances to employees.
v Recruitment Cell: Recruitment of all non-academic posts (Group A, B & C)
v RTI Cell: Implementation of the RTI Act, 2005.


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Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo fired a shot across the bow of Celtics management with a historic performance yesterday afternoon. He also crushed a Knicks comeback in the process.
Much of the hype leading up to Sunday's showdown — between the last two teams currently in the Eastern Conference playoffs — surrounded the future of both clubs.
Are the Celtics too old to compete for a title? Are the Knicks on the ascension to being a title contender?
At least for one day, the two teams played their familiar roles in a 115-111 overtime win by the Celtics.
Rondo, who has been mentioned in trade rumors for weeks now, put on a spectacular show. He had 18 points, 20 assists and 17 rebounds to become the first player to accomplish the 17-17-17 barrier since Magic Johnson in April 1989, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Current Mavericks guard Jason Kidd, who faces the Knicks tomorrow night in Dallas, has reached 15-15-15 twice — most recently on Feb. 26, 2010, when he went for 19 points, 17 assists and 16 rebounds against the Hawks.
Celtics head coach Doc Rivers said before the game that the team was not actively shopping their point guard, but that they were listening to offers like they would with every player.
Expect a lot more calls and a lot more hang-ups after Sunday.
"Rondo is the smartest point guard I've ever been around," Rivers said after the game. "He knows plays from three years ago. He's a brilliant player."
The same old story for the Knicks means they still can't get over the hump against Boston. They've lost two-of-three this season and were swept in the playoffs last season. That is losses in six-of-seven if you're keeping track at home.
After Sunday, Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni may be chiding some opposing general managers into making a few more calls about Rondo's availability.
Lin stumbles in return to Boston
No one knew who Jeremy Lin was on Feb. 3 when he played six minutes against the Celtics in a 91-89 loss by New York.
One night later, against the Nets, the Linsanity began.
Lin, who played four years at Harvard, returned to Boston for the first time as a starter and didn't exactly wow a crowd that included his former Crimson coach Tommy Amaker.
He finished the game with 14 points, five assists and six turnovers. He shot just 6-of-16 from the field and was in early foul trouble.
The Knicks don't travel to Boston again this season, unless they meet in the playoffs.
Follow Metro New York Sports Editor Mark Osborne on Twitter @MetroNYSports.


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Protect Your Identity
- Never provide your personal information in response to an unsolicited request, whether it is over the phone or over the Internet. E-mails and Internet pages created by phishers may look exactly like the real thing. They may even have a fake padlock icon that ordinarily is used to denote a secure site. If you did not initiate the communication, you should not provide any information.
- If you believe the contact may be legitimate, contact the financial institution yourself. You can find phone numbers and websites on the monthly statements you receive from your financial institution, or you can look the company up in the phone book or on the Internet. The key is that you should be the one to initiate the contact, using contact information that you have verified yourself.
- Never provide your password over the phone or in response to an unsolicited Internet request. A financial institution would never ask you to verify your account information online. Thieves armed with this information and your account number can help themselves to your savings.
- Review account statements regularly to ensure all charges are correct. If your account statement is late in arriving, call your financial institution to find out why. If your financial institution offers electronic account access, periodically review activity online to catch suspicious activity.
- Report all suspicious contacts to the Federal Trade Commission through the Internet at www.consumer.gov/idtheft, or by calling 1-877-IDTHEFT.
Protect Your ATM / Debit Card
- Never disclose your PIN number and reset it regularly. Only you have your PIN - not even the bank or card processors know your PIN. It is best to memorize your PIN. If you write it down, store it in a safe place that is not accessible to others. Protecting your PIN is your first and most important line of defense.
- Carefully select your PIN. Do not use obvious codes when selecting a PIN. If you suspect someone knows your PIN, then reset it.
- Protect your PIN. Use your hand or body to shield the PIN pad to prevent "shoulder surfers" from observing your PIN.
- Monitor your account activity regularly. Access your account via your Grand Bank of Texas Internet Banking account to monitor your latest account activity.
- Swipe your card yourself. If you have your card, a thief does not. Insist on retaining physical control of your card to prevent skimming. Always safeguard your card and never lend it to anyone.
If you discover fraud on your card, report the fraud to the police as soon as possible. Then, inform the bank. The bank will cancel your card and issue you a new one (with a different number, of course) immediately. You may also call the Federal Trade Commission at 877-FTC-HELP.
Your personal financial security is important to Grand Bank of Texas. Please take these precautions to protect your family's and business' financial well being. We appreciate being your hometown bank.


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The Genius Brand supplements are high-quality and affordable supplements. Although the Genius Brand has created an extensive line of awesome products, in my Genius Brand Review and we'll just talk about the Genius Pre and Genius BCAA.
Personally, I consider the Genius Pre to be the best stimulant free pre workout supplement. Along with that, the Genius BCAA is easily one of the best supplements for weight loss and muscle gain!
There are a lot of quality supplements out there that stimulate your muscles, mind, and body to work, however, I have not found many as complete, and useful, as The Genius Brand Products!
You can read 100 product reviews if you want, but in my opinion Genius Pre and Genius BCAA are as good as it gets!
The Genius Brand – Genius Pre Workout Review
When I am looking to purchase any supplement on the market, my initial concerns are not just the working ingredients. If the product is not natural, and is going to clearly do more harm for my body than good in the long run, I will not use it!
To this effect, The Genius Pre does not contain any:
- Fillers
- Dyes
- Artificial Flavors
- Artificial Sweeteners
- Proprietary Blends
- Banned Substances
There might be a few of you who brush this fact off, but it is a big deal to me!
Over time, no matter how useful a product is, if it contains ingredients detrimental to your health your body will not benefit!
Aside from not containing any "bad" ingredients, The Genius Pre is loaded with good stuff that is going to power you through any workout, no matter how tired or worn out you are.
Believe me, this product is powerful!
I use this product before my 6 A.M. swims, and all my weightlifting sessions!
What is most impressive to me though is that this is a stimulant free pre workout product!
You might never have heard those words together in a sentence before, but The Genius Brand makes it work!
The reason for this is simple, they rely on powerful natural energizers.
Personally, I still back this up with a cup of coffee or strong tea, but I feel much more in control than from a high-stimulant pre-workout.
Below I will discuss a few of the main ingredients in the Genius Pre.
Citrulline Malate
I have written about L-Citrulline and Citrulline Malate in the past before a few times, so anyone who reads my site knows how strongly I feel about this ingredient.
Most people also know that I hate the fact a lot of company's under-dose their Citrulline Malate, and you normally do not get all the benefits you should from this product!
However, The Genius Brand Pre contains 6g of Citrulline Malate per serving, which is exactly how much you need to feel a strong pump!
At this dosage, Citrulline Malate can help you get that amazing pump feeling we all crave, while also helping to reduce muscle soreness and recovery time from training.
Compared with other pre-workout products which regularly only dose about 3g of Citrulline Malate in their products, this pre-workout knocks them right out of the park!
Beta-Alanine is another one of my favorite ingredients in a good pre-workout supplement, but it is also another criminally under-dosed ingredient in most pre workouts.
Clinical studies on Beta-Alanine showed effectiveness at 3.2g per day, and The Genius Brand Pre contains 3g.
Less than this will not be effective, since Beta-Alanine needs to build up in your body over time.
Luckily, this product gets it right!
Beta-Alanine is not only responsible for that awesome tingling feeling from pre-workout products that we all love, but it is also incredibly effective for improving your training capacity and stamina.
Consistently using a pre-workout supplement with the correct amount of Beta-Alanine can have lasting beneficial effects for your body and athletic function ability!
Amazingly enough, The Genius Pre includes beneficial ingredients I had never heard of!
Generally speaking, I feel like if I haven't heard about the ingredient at this point in my life, it's probably useless.
ElevATP® is a
"clinically researched combination of a water extract of "ancient peat" (fossilized plants) and apple extract that works with our natural energy-producing mechanisms to stimulate production of ATP, the energy currency of the body."
If you understand the effect of Creatine Monohydrate, then you'll understand this product is somewhere in the same range of benefits.
This product can help support you and your training in a wide array of ways including:
- Improving Athletic Performance and Body Composition
- Promoting Increased Power and Training Volume
- Reduce Performance Decrements Due to Overreaching
- Increases in Lean Muscle and Overall Strength
The creators of this ingredient certainly make some bold claims, but after a few of weeks of using The Genius Brand Pre I can honestly say this product makes a difference!
Additional Ingredients in The Genius Pre:
- L-Tyrosine
- L-Arginine
- Taurine
- Betaine
- Theobromine
- Astragin
- Rhodiola Rosea
- Alpha GPC
Overall, this pre-workout is loaded with stimulant-free energy! I was surprised that within 20 minutes of taking your first serving, you honestly feel clearer in the head and ready to train!
I was pleasantly surprised to find a pre-workout product that does not make you jittery, but does increase your energy and strength for your workout.
I have tried quite a few pre-workout products over my training career, but I can happily say this is one of my all-time favorites! Not only does it work great as a pre workout product, but I am confident it would be great in any cutting stack as well.
I will be getting another bottle soon!
The Genius Brand – Genius BCAA Review
Have you ever tried a BCAA product which is made from vegan protein sources, and is made without all the bad-stuff that is going to wreak havoc on your stomach 15 minutes after you drink it?
Well, you need to try the Genius BCAA!
Just like the Genius Pre, the Genius BCAA does not contain:
- Unnecessary Fillers
- Dyes
- Artificial Flavors
- Artificial Sweeteners
- Proprietary Blends
Each serving of the Genius BCAA contains 5g total of BCAAs, in the clinically proven ration of 2:1:1 L-Leucine, L-Isoleucine, L-Valine.
This BCAA product contains:
- 2.5g Vegan L-Leucine
- 1.25g Vegan L-Isoleucine
- 1.25g Vegan L-Valine
Along with this, it also contains:
- 3g L-Glutamine
- 1g Citrulline Malate
- 1g L-Tyrosine
- 1g Taurine
BCAA products are excellent to be taken intra-workout, and Genius BCAA is especially useful for this because it also contains 100mg of caffeine sourced from coffee beans!
If you don't know the difference between using a stimulant-based product which contains caffeine from coffee beans, compared with caffeine anhydrous; literally one try will show you.
Caffeine anhydrous, in my opinion, is the worst form of caffeine.
All it does is make me jittery, shaky, and sweaty.
However, caffeine from coffee beans seems to give me a nice, controlled energy.
Coupled with the amino acids in this product, this is the perfect boost before training, or during!
BCAA products are also useful for taking in between meals, and this product can perfectly serve as a replacement for your mid-day coffee. Not only will you get a nice controlled jolt of caffeine, but you will also get a solid blast of amino acids in your body!
Keeping a steady stream of BCAAs is crucial to sustaining muscle growth, avoiding muscle-wasting, and improving your physique as a whole.
Whether you are looking to build muscle, or lose fat, this is an excellent product for you!
Related Reading: Best BCAAs for Women
Concluding Thoughts – Genius Brand Products
I am honestly surprised how much I enjoy both the Genius Pre and the Genius BCAA.
I can't wait to try the rest of The Genius Brand products!
Hopefully, I have made it very clear how to use both in your routine.
If you like what you hear, and want to try them for yourself, you can easily and affordably order these products off of Amazon today!
Read Next: RSP Nutrition Review


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S2E3 [013] Logistics of a Virtual School Counselor- COVID 19 School Closure Pt. 1
ASCA Virtual FAQ Page
ASCA Ethical Standards
ASCA Webinars
App/Tech Tip of the Week: Adobe Lightroom for editing, Trello task manager
Book of the Week: It Won't Be Easy: An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching by Tom Rademacher, Hacking School Discipline: 9 Ways to Create a Culture of Empathy and Responsibility Using Restorative Justice by Maynard & Weinstein
Wellness Item of the Week: Pedialyte Popsicles
Quote / Affirmation of the Week:
Get in touch with Jaimie:
Instagram: @schoolcounselingspot
App/Tech Tip of the Week: Airtable and The Calm App for Educators- FREE
Book of the Week: Motivational Interviewing by Reagan North, The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, Hacking School Discipline: 9 Ways to Create a Culture of Empathy and Responsibility Using Restorative Justice by Maynard & Weinstein
Wellness Item of the Week: Natural Vitality Calm, The Anti-Stress Dietary Supplement Powder and Simple Modern 22oz Slim Cruiser Tumbler with Straw & Closing Lid Travel Mug
Quote / Affirmation of the Week:
Get in touch with Olivia:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/counselorcarter/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CounselorCarter
Episode #9: Resources for Developing your Leadership Skills as a School Counselor- a Bonus Minisode
Part 1: ASCA U Specialist Training
School Counseling Leadership Training
This course is meant to be transformative. It doesn't focus on how leaders behave but how leaders think, not what leaders do but what leaders are. At the completion of this course, you should not only know what makes a good leader, you should be a good leader – in your school building and district as well as in your state school counselor association. Completion of the course also fulfills training requirements for leadership positions in ASCA at the national level.
CLICK HERE to read more about the course, find details about how to register, and to obtain the materials list with books, webinars, and articles.
Part 2: Recommended Book List
App/Tech Tip of the Week: Clean out your inputs! and Evernote
Book of the Week: The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig and Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them by Ross Greene
Quote / Affirmation of the Week:
Get in touch with Rebecca:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/counselorupblog/
Twitter: twitter.com/counselorup
Blog: www.counselorup.com/
App/Tech Tip of the Week: Sleep Cycle and Newsify
Book of the Week: Girls Without Limits: Helping Girls Achieve Healthy Relationships, Academic Success, and Interpersonal Strength by Lisa M. Hinkelman
Wellness Item of the Week: Manicure Collagen Gloves
Quote / Affirmation of the Week: "Do your thing. Do it without fear or apology. Infuse your essence into everything. No-one can deny the unvarnished truth of a woman" - Stripped, by Cara Alwill Leyba
Get in touch with Katherine:
Twitter: @katpastor1
App/Tech Tip of the Week: Smore and Mentimeter
Book of the Week: Motivational Interviewing for School Counselors by Reagan North
Wellness Item of the Week: Zenni Optical online Glasses Service
Quote / Affirmation of the Week: "What if everyone around you is going the best they can?" (Unknown)
Get in touch with Scott:
Twitter: @newarkcounselor
Facebook: Newark High School Counseling Department
Why You Matter Campaign- http://www.whyyoumatter.org/
Drug Free Clubs of America- https://drugfreeclubs.com/
App/Tech Tip of the Week: Using Powerpoint to Create Social Media Images
Book of the Week: Hatching Results for Elementary School Counseling: Implementing Core Curriculum and Other Tier One Activities by by Trish Hatch, Danielle Rosa Duarte, and Lisa K. De Gregorio
Wellness Item of the Week: Peppermint essential oil (I use YoungLiving)
Quote / Affirmation of the Week: Michelle Obama's Remarks at ASCA's 2018 National School Counselor of the Year Award Ceremony: "You all have the power to teach our kids what it means to go high when others go low. You have that power. Every day you all have the power to shape and mold these kids; to inspire them when they feel discouraged; to remind them that they belong; that no matter how much money they have or where their family comes from, this is their country too. You have that power. You have the power to show them that no matter what their race, or faith, or walk of life, they are valued for who they are...and no matter how alone or afraid they might feel, they are seen, and they are loved."
Connect with Kirsten:
Episode #4: Brian Linhart, Counselor from Buffalo Grove High School in Illinois
App of the Week: Headspace App & Google Forms
Book of the Week: Option B by Sheryl Sandberg, Motivational Interview for School Counselors by Reagan North
Wellness Item of the Week: Four Sigmatic Mushroom Coffee & Drink Blends, Nike Run Club app
Quote / Affirmation of the Week:
Connect with Brian:
Episode #3: Steve Sharp
App of the Week: Appy Pie and Calendly
Book of the Week: Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram Kendi and Crucial Conversations by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, and Switzler
Wellness Item of the Week: Powerblock Stackable Weight System
Quote / Affirmation of the Week: "People built this." - DeRay McKesson
Other Things Mentioned:
Free Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Course
Buffer- Social Media Management & Sharing Website
Pennsylvania Counselors 4 Computing
Connect with Steve Sharp!
Steve in Hershey, PA at the PSCA 2017 Conference,
where he was named Middle School Counselor of the Year in Pennsylvania!


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Justin, Cole and Aaron report back about their ongoing adventures in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. They try their best to avoid puns about fate in regards to making recommendations on who may or may not enjoy the game. Will their loot lust win out?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 34:45 — 15.9MB)
The Cursed Checkpoint is a topical video game podcast focused on discussions and interviews about a single video game, genre, news headline, or industry story. It features a rotating cast of up to 3 members of the Horrible Night writing staff and/or video game industry professionals.
Episode Background
With a game as big and as open as Reckoning, we knew that just one perspective would not do. Large RPG's are an investment and the choices made within them can bring about varied experiences. We brought together 3 different gamers to get 3 different opinions on the game as they tried to not only decide if it is worth it to spend more time in Amalur for themselves, but for anyone who is on the fence about the game.
This episode is for anyone who is interested in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, and is intended for those who are unsure about playing or sticking with the game.
Show Notes
Cast: Justin L, Cole, Aaron
Runtime: 34:44
Games: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Subscribe to The Cursed Checkpoint – Multiple episodes a month.
- iTunes
- @HorribleShows – For Horrible Night Media
Reflex Review – Like a memorable meal, some games make a big enough impression that you've got to tell other people about them before they're fully digested.


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In analyzing the nonfiction works of writers such as John Wilson, J. S. Mill, De Quincy, Ruskin, Arnold, Pater, and Wilde, Jason Camlot provides an important context for the nineteenth-century critic's changing ideas about style, rhetoric, and technologies of communication. In particular, Camlot contributes to our understanding of how new print media affected the Romantic and Victorian critic's sense of self, as he elaborates the ways nineteenth-century critics used their own essays on rhetoric and stylistics to speculate about the changing conditions for the production and reception of ideas and the formulation of authorial character. Camlot argues that the early 1830s mark the moment when a previously coherent tradition of pragmatic rhetoric was fragmented and redistributed into the diverse, localized sites of an emerging periodicals market. Publishing venues for writers multiplied at midcentury, establishing a new stylistic norm for criticism-one that affirmed style as the manifestation of English discipline and objectivity. The figure of the professional critic soon subsumed the authority of the polyglot intellectual, and the later decades of the nineteenth century brought about a debate on aesthetics and criticism that set ideals of Saxon-rooted 'virile' style against more culturally inclusive theories of expression. Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Language Acts
brings together twenty provocative essays on the state of English-language poetry in Québec since 1976. Born and raised during this historically resonant period of Trudeauism, organized Québecois nationalism, language legislation, and profound demographic and cultural change, Anglo-Québec poetry has come of age in the 21st century as a literature with its own distinct arguments about itself, and its own poetical acts in language. Language Acts features essays on many important, even canonical, figures such as Robert Allen, Anne Carson, Leonard Cohen, Louis Dudek, D.G. Jones, Irving Layton, Michael Harris, Erin Mouré, David McGimpsey, Robyn Sarah, and Peter Van Toorn, and on a wide range of poetry activities including those of the Véhicule Poets and the Montreal Spoken Word scene. This is the first critical collection of its kind to appear in over forty years and will set the terms used to discuss English language poetry in Québec for years to come. Publisher: Vehicule Press
Jason Camlot's fourth full poetry collection, a Kaddish for the post-google age, explores the meaning of ignorance in the face of death—ignorance of how to practice sadness and rituals of mourning, and of how properly to experience longing and loss. Camlot manipulates a wide range of forms to mine the relationship between the most intimate kinds of grief and the impersonal flood of discourse that the world pours upon us. Publisher: Mansfield Press
The Debaucher
The Debaucher, Jason Camlot's third collection of poetry, walks an oscillating lyrical tightrope between realms of cosmopolitan sophistication and ribald hilarity.
In these surprising poems high art and low art gather together, sometimes on the battlefield, sometimes at lover's leap. Camlot's poetry always maintains an evocative connection to the tender absurdities of our daily lives.
Publisher: Insomniac Press
Lewis Carrol meets Allen Ginsberg…. This is poetry about an angel-poet, wings paper-clipped, seeking spiritual food in the modern office cubicle. He pecks away at office-machinery (à la Dilbert) and dreams among his fellow stick men and women of being a Wordsworthian visionary — or at least an "action figureen". Jason Camlot is a scholar of Victorian nonsense and humorous verse and these poems are a 'howl' amidst the "slithy borogroves" sort of affair, a wild, brilliantly refitted variety theater act. Other pieces, equally wan, hilarious, noir, plumb nineteen thirties Hollywood (and present day movieland) hijinks, Hemingway's war-with-booze style, and the dark obsessions of Important Men. The writer and his writing is 'past' conscious, but completely versed in contemporary Canadian and American poetry. This is an immensely funny, witty, up-to-date collection — zany, zippy, and zine-y! Publisher: DC Books
Jason Camlot's father was a furrier and he grew up in a world where, inevitably, "baby fur gets in your eyes" or in "your mouth." In dreams, the poet becomes a whale corpse "washed up/ on a very pale beach/ and hundreds of flies came,/ and people,/ to see the tusk,/ spun like coral glass." And as the boy grows up, images, at once curiously literal and yet surreal — images of being devoured or skinned alive — stay with him. The beauty of this collection is one of themot juste, a concreteness and precision, coupled with a superb sense of rhythm.— Marjorie Perloff Publisher: DC Books


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With the Goodwood Festival of Speed Sale and the Artcurial Motorcars Sale in Monaco, two important auctions in the field of classic cars took place last week. Of course we observed the events for you and are happy to share our impressions and our highlights of the auctions with you:
30.06.17 – Goodwood Festival of Speed Sale (Bonhams)
Within the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Bonhams celebrated their 25th anniversary of the "Festival of Speed Sale". With a few exceptions, their main focus was on real classic cars. This pre-selection was rewarded with a good sales quota (80%).
Overall, the market seems to have stabilized at a high level. Jaguar E-Types, Mercedes 300 SL as well as cars from the brands Porsche and Aston Martin claim their status as genuine classic cars – in which to invest is still worthwhile. They've consistently been in demand for over 10 years and are still achieving above-average prices – despite critics, who only see a speculative bubble in the historic automobiles market. Exotical cars – among others Ferraris – currently do not seem to be experiencing any further increase in value.
The highlight of the auction was certainly a 1973 Porsche 911 RS 2.7 Lightweight – being one of the first 500 ever made. Estimated at a price range between 800,000 and 970,000 Euros, it finally changed owner for 945,618 Euros.
02.07.17 – Artcurial Motorcars Sale in Monaco
"To all car enthusiasts looking for something special" – is how the French auction house Artcurial labeled its automobile auction in Monaco. Presenting a wide range of qualitative and historical diversity, classic vintage cars, they additionally exhibited some special vehicles to be admired.
With an alleged sales quota of approximately 60%, the auction appears clearly weaker than the current market average as well as – and in direct comparison to – the auction house Bonhams at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on the same weekend. It was conspicuous that even distinct beauties such as the Maserati 3500 GT Spyder or the Lamborghini 350 GT were not sold at all.
The majority of auctioned cars were offered at a range of 20,000 to 120,000 Euros. Of particular interest was the price that a Mercedes-Benz 190 E 2.5-16 Evolution II (EVO II) achieved. Estimated at 50,000 to 80,000 Euros, it finally swapped its owner for 138,000 Euros. A blockbuster of a special kind, on the other hand, was the price achieved for the 1974 Porsche 911 Carrera RSR 3.0. Estimated at between 1.4 million and 1.6 million Euros, it actually achieved a whopping price of 1.77 million Euros! This proves once again that Porsche's special series produced in limited editions still seem appealing to collectors who are willing to pay high entry prices.
Even Porsche "modern classics" (youngtimers)", such as the 964 Jubilé Model, have already achieved prices of 138,000 Euros.


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As an avid "cheerleader" for social enterprise throughout the Thompson Nicola Cariboo region, United Way was excited to witness the unique donation of a forklift made by Domtar to United Way Funded Partner, ASK Wellness.
The donated forklift will be key in ASK Wellness' new mattress recycling program which will give employment opportunities to those looking to break into the mainstream workforce, while providing a service to both the City of Kamloops and TNRD.
"We employ people who have largely never been in the workplace, or have been away from work for quite some time," says Bob Hughes, Executive Director of ASK Wellness.
Participants in the program can be employed for up to a year while working alongside an employment counsellor from Open Door Group to create a plan for the future. A critical aspect of the initiative is also the niche service provided since limited options for mattress recycling are only available in the Lower Mainland.
"When we started to see the number of mattresses being discarded into the landfill, it was astonishing…You are looking at close to 1000 mattresses a month in the regional district," says Hughes.
Between the cost of approximately $15 per mattress covered by the City of Kamloops and TNRD, and the sale of bulk recycled goods, this program will sustain 4 full-time employees.
"It's about sustainability, it's providing a public service, but fundamental to our mission is the idea of helping people get back to work,"
Domtar has a long-standing history of supporting the community through unique ways including one of the largest United Way workplace campaigns in the regions, raising $124,300 through employee and corporate pledges in 2016. This mattress recycling initiative was particularly of interest to Domtar's EarthChoice Ambassador team who embodies the belief that informed choices lead to better, more sustainable lives and a better world.
"Our local team and our Maintenance Department saw this as a unique opportunity—to recycle a forklift by donating it to a project designed to help people get back to work," said Stephanie Blier, leader of the Domtar EarthChoice Ambassadors at the Kamloops pulp mill. "Our team is focused on finding creative ways to support our community and this was a great fit. We are so pleased to have been able to help."
United Way is helping to meet the basic needs of our community's most vulnerable people, giving every Canadian the opportunity to realize a better future.


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Hello everyone!
It's actually been a few months since my last post on this site, but I do have a good excuse. I've been trying to move Sitzman ABC to a different internet domain, but it's taken a lot more time than I imagined. When that is finished, I'll tell you, but I wanted to let everyone know I'm still alive by writing this post today.
Today is Valentine's Day. Love it or hate it, it's a very well-known holiday in many parts of the world. So I decided to talk about 5 good phrases that you can use today, even if you're not romantic.
1. to flirt
The verb "flirt" means to talk romantically to a person that you're interested in. It could be to start a relationship, or it could just be for fun. Sometimes this action is also called "hitting on." Note that "to hit on" is very different from "to hit"! For example, you can say:
"Tony got in trouble with his girlfriend Jenny last night. Jenny saw him talking to Sally, and Jenny thought he was flirting with her."
"Maria doesn't like to go to bars because guys always try to hit on her, even when she's not interested in them."
2. to date, to go out, to ask out
The verb "date" indicates that two people are in a relationship. It usually indicates a longer period of time:
"Tommy and Gina have been dating (each other) for about a year."
"Date" can also be a noun, as in:
"Tommy and Gina are going on a date tonight."
A very similar phrase is "to go out," as in:
"Tommy and Gina are going out."
Finally, "to ask (out)" means that one person asks another to go on a romantic date, or to an event like a dance:
"Tommy met Gina at the gym. She was flirting with him, so he asked her out on a date."
3. to be in love
This phrase is usually used when two people love each other. For example:
"Romeo and Juliet just met each other last week, but they both already say they're in love."
If you start to love a person, you "fall in love." Fall is an irregular verb, conjugated fall-fell-fallen. If people fall in love immediately, it's called "love at first sight":
"Romeo and Juliet fell in love immediately. It was love at first sight."
"I don't really believe in love at first sight. I think people need to spend time together before falling in love."
If the romantic relationship is very short, not very serious, or immature for some reason, it's sometimes called "puppy love" (a puppy is a baby dog). For example, you can say:
"Romeo and Juliet say they're in love, but I think it's just puppy love. Both of them fall in love with new people all the time, so I don't think it's serious."
4. to break up, to dump
Sometimes love doesn't last forever. When that happens, here are some phrases to use when a relationship ends. If both people decide to stop the relationship, you can say that they "broke up" ("broke" is the past form of "break"):
"Did you hear the news? Melissa and her boyfriend John broke up last week."
However, if only one person makes the decision, you can say that he or she "dumped" the other person. With this phrase, one person dumps, the other person gets dumped. Note: "dump" is also a verb used with trash, so be careful using this phrase around a person with a broken heart!
"Did you hear the news? John got dumped last week! Melissa said she saw him hitting on a girl in the park, so she dumped him!"
Well, that's a lot of vocabulary to remember, so let's list the words one more time just to review.
Can you explain what each of these phrases means and give an example of how to use them?
-love it or hate it
-to flirt (with someone)
-to hit on (someone)
-to be interested in (someone)
-to date, to be dating
-to go on a date
-to go out
-to ask (someone) out
-to be in love (with)
-to fall in love
-love at first sight
-puppy love
-to break up
-to dump
-to get/be dumped
That's all for today. If you're in a relationship, then have a happy Valentine's Day. If not, then you may enjoy this Queen song (turn the volume all the way up before starting the video):
Thanks for reading, and have a great day!


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Elections were held in Seville over the weekend and Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba has been elected as the new leader of the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE).
The 60 year old politician beat his only rival, Carme Chacón, by only 22 votes.
Outgoing prime minister José Luis Zapatero had controversially appointed Rubalcaba to lead the party last August, just before the national elections that saw the party's worst ever result.
Mr Rubalcaba was a minister in the days of Felipe González's huge majorities during the 80's and he has almost always held a cabinet post since then
Supporters attribute the end of ETA's terrorist campaign in the Basque Country to My Rubalcaba while he was interior minister, while others say it was coincidence that he was in that position at the time and the outcome was inevitable.
Ms Chacón may have had youth on her side but her leftist rhetoric lacked substance and some say this cost her the vote that many expected her to win.
The PSOE is the only national party to have lasted through Franco's 40 year dictatorship and has been a leader in Spanish politics since his death. The party has been in government for 22 of the last 30 years and is responsible for much of the country's advances and modernisation.
Rubalcaba will face his first challenge in Andalusia in March when elections of the autonomous parliament will take place. This would not have been worrying for former party leaders as Andalusia has been traditionally left-wing but Zapatero's awful handling of the economic crisis saw the party lose popularity across the country
Recent polls show the PSOE is trailing behind the PP by 12 per cent in Andalusia.
Seville was selected as the location for the election in the hope of improving regional party support but the outcome may have the opposite effect as the Andalusian party leadership backed Ms Chacón. Both candidates have appealed for unity although Ms Chacón has already told Rubalcaba that she will not join his team.
Internal disputes aside, the main problem the party might now face is that neither candidate seemed to present anything new to an already disenchanted electorate.


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Suppose we are given an infinite list of positive, pairwise-prime integers $n_1, n_2, n_3,\cdots$ and a second infinite list of integers $a_1, a_2, a_3, \cdots$. Can we find a solution to the following system of congruences:(1)
We could try to apply CRT to this problem, but we would run into problems with our system being infinite: we would get an infinite lcm as our modulus and our solution would be an infinite sum.
We can alternatively try an inspection method: if there is a solution $X$, then there must be some $N$ such that for all $i \geq N$, we get $X \equiv a_i \mod n_i$. Thus, we could try to look far ahead enough into the system to find such a solution. Aside from the fact that this is rather infeasible, the following system has no solution:(2)
Using this method, we would look at this and say "ooo, the solution must be 2" and be wrong. Thus, we could try to truncate the system after finding such a bound and apply CRT to it, then check the solution it gives against the supposed solution.


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PIRAEUS, Greece (Reuters) - In the port of Piraeus, dozens of young men with shaven heads and black t-shirts packed a small room one evening to hear Golden Dawn's dream of a Greece purged of foreigners, its borders sealed with landmines.
"We want all illegal immigrants out, we want to take their stench out of this place," said Frangiscos Porihis, an election candidate for the ultra-nationalist and highly secretive party.
"They shouldn't be here and they will leave one way or the other - the good or the bad way," he told the Piraeus meeting.
With Greece deep in economic and social crisis, the party is promising voters in next month's elections to start by expelling illegal immigrants - before moving on to the legal ones.
Nevertheless, Golden Dawn denies it is neo-Nazi, although its leader Nikolaos Mihaloliakos did introduce himself to Athens city council last year with a Nazi salute.
With its anti-foreigner message plus some welfare parcels for a few of Greece's many needy, Golden Dawn has emerged from obscurity in the last few months and now seems certain to enter parliament comfortably when the nation votes on May 6.
Flanked by bookshelves lined with books on Aryan supremacy and nationalism, the Piraeus audience listened in rapt attention. Leaflets declaring "Not a single unemployed Greek, not a single illegal immigrant in Greece" lay on tables, alongside manifestos proclaiming "Greece belongs to Greeks".
Outside, the group's flag - with an ancient Greek symbol that resembles the swastika set against a red background - fluttered in Piraeus, 10 km (six miles) south of central Athens.
Opinion polls suggest that Golden Dawn could win around 5 percent of the vote, comfortably above the 3 percent threshold for entering parliament. This would be a staggering feat for a party considered until now by many Greeks as little more than a rabble-rousing fringe group which took 0.23 percent in the last general election three years ago.
Linked to racist, anti-immigrant attacks, Golden Dawn is set to become the most extreme right-wing party to sit in parliament since Greece returned to democracy after the fall of a military dictatorship in 1974.
Golden Dawn's rhetoric resonates with Greeks who blame rising crime on the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants flocking to the country's porous borders.
Nine out of 10 illegal immigrants entering the European Union in 2010 arrived in Greece, largely from Turkey by land or sea. Last year Italy took the top spot due to a jump in arrivals of people fleeing the Arab Spring upheaval.
Nevertheless, Greece has more than one million immigrants, legal and illegal, in a country of 11 million people.
West African hawkers are a common sight on the streets of Athens, playing a game of cat-and-mouse with the police. However, many are also from Afghanistan, Pakistan and North Africa, hoping to make their way to more prosperous EU countries to the north where work is available.
The party's community-based efforts and anti-politician talk have also won fans among Greeks bristling with anger at an entire political class which they see as corrupt and self-serving, analysts say.
With repeated waves of wage and pension cuts to save the country from bankruptcy, Greece has sunk into its deepest recession since World War II.
"It's not that Greeks became right-wing overnight," said Thomas Gerakis, head of the Marc pollster group. "They just want to send a message to the political system as a whole."
Golden Dawn's candidates are not career politicians; they include farmers, shepherds, workers and retired army officers.
The party has no recognizable names apart from its leader Mihaloliakos, who served in the Greek special forces and was elected to the Athens city council in 2010 - giving the Nazi salute on his first appearance there last year.
"Golden Dawn has the advantage of being invisible," said a political analyst, who declined to be named. "Apart from Mihaloliakos, even I don't know any of the other faces in the party and I'm in the business. That works as a protective shield for them."
Polls show the party taking between 4.1 and 5.7 percent next month. Much of that has come at the expense of the nationalist LAOS party, whose ratings plummeted after it joined the outgoing coalition government last year. It later quit after refusing to accept the austerity conditions of Greece's latest bailout.
In working class neighborhoods of Athens, Golden Dawn has been quietly building itself up as a friendly, reliable face among hard-hit Greeks that the state has failed to help.
For over a year, party members have given needy families bags of rice and pasta, olive oil and clothes in cartons labeled: "I vote for Golden Dawn to clean up the place" and "For Athens to become Greek again".
Former Socialist voter Katerina Karousi, a 76-year old cancer patient, broke down in sobs when party members showed up at her doorstep with large bags of food on Friday morning.
"I hear they are doing nice things for people. Why not vote for them?" said her husband, 79-year old Andreas Karoussis.
On their way out, a Golden Dawn member bade the couple farewell with: "Call us if you need anything - I mean anything."
At another stop, 41-year-old Constantina Tassiou looked bewildered and overwhelmed as Golden Dawn members piled clothes and supermarket bags at her doorstep.
"It's the first time someone has brought us clothes and food. Only the church has helped us so far," said Tassiou, an epilepsy sufferer whose family lives on her welfare benefits. "I'll vote for Golden Dawn, maybe it's time for something new."
Elsewhere, Golden Dawn escorts the elderly who are wary of immigrants to bank ATMs, said spokesman Elias Panagiotaros.
Golden Dawn's manifesto is less benevolent than the good-neighbor image its food drive has helped to cultivate. Illegal immigrants must be immediately arrested and deported, and legal immigrants eventually expelled as well, the group says.
It wants crimes committed by immigrants to fall under a special category, with their sentences carried out in special detention centers where the immigrants are put to work.
"There are people who have been living in a building for 40-50 years and they suddenly realize that it's only them and maybe another family and that the rest are third-world foreigners who live in groups of 30-40 in one apartment," said Panagiotaros.
The group has little sympathy for the political class. Politicians behind Greece's crisis must be hauled before a special court, jailed and their property seized, the group says, while any Greek refusing to join the conscript army will be stripped of their citizenship and exiled.
Despite the comparisons with neo-Nazism, Golden Dawn has paradoxically tapped into anti-German sentiment by attacking the bailout package from the EU and International Monetary Fund and what it calls German domination of Europe.
Set up in 1992 and relaunched in 2007, the party admires Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxas, who refused to surrender to the Axis powers in 1940.
It calls itself nationalist and insists its logo is the ancient Greek Meander symbolizing bravery and endless struggle.
The group remains enigmatic. Its leader Mihaloliakos declined to be interviewed and ruled out in a campaign speech on Monday any cooperation to forge a coalition government.
"We will never, ever make a deal with the powers of the bailout. A war to the end! We will win our homeland back!" he told cheering supporters.
Members say discipline and years of unwavering dedication are required to win acceptance. One said it can take up to three years to become a member - starting first as a supporter, then as trial-members before joining the "family".
"For the Communists we are Nazis, for the Socialists we are fascists and for the conservatives we are extreme right," said Nas, a Golden Dawn member who declined to give his last name. "Let them call me what they want. I do what I do with honor."
Writing by Deepa Babington; editing by David Stamp


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The Future of Medical Device Manufacturing
By: David Oeters June 25, 2014 at 8:13 AM
As companies work to comply with changing regulations in the Medical Device industry, there is an opportunity to improve production and revenue for the savvy manufacturer.
By Anthony Cuilwik, CEO of CIMx Software
Change is happening across the Medical Device Manufacturing industry.
Additional standards are being implemented at an accelerated pace across the industry. There is a push for electronic medical records to increase collaboration and improve patient care. Hospital facilities and medical treatments are under increased scrutiny. In addition, globalization of medical device production, the rapid development of new treatments, and a focused push to lower the cost of treatment are just a few of the reasons the industry must adapt and adjust to new regulations, standards and processes.
In fact, in a recent survey, 43.3% of medical device manufacturers reported changing regulatory environment as the biggest challenge they face in the future. Companies are looking at cost efficient ways to, "… navigate the increased regulatory burden," according to another industry report. New standards require more detailed and careful labeling, dating, use-by dates, sourcing, detailed manufacturing records, and accountability, resulting in tightened production constraints and record requirements. To comply, manufacturers must adopt new processes and utilize new tools.
At the same time, changes in the medical device industry are pushing manufacturers to lower cost and standardize production for a global market, while absorbing a new tax on medical devices. As the population ages and the cost of healthcare increases, everyone must look at ways to make healthcare cost effective and more available. To meet these goals, manufacturers must adjust their operations to improve production, lower cost and increase quality, while accommodating new regulations.
Market Pressure Driving Solutions
The current paper-driven manufacturing shop floors in the medical device industry simply cannot efficiently comply with the new regulations while increasing production, improving quality, and lowering cost. Research has shown paper-driven processes increase costs, introduce errors, and create compliance issues. In fact, 75.9% of companies reported significant business risks due to inefficient document-driven processes, including paper-based processes.
More than increasing risk, paper-driven processes significantly increase costs for businesses. As reported by Oracle, a study by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) found businesses, "spend $20 in labor to file a document, $120 in labor to find a misfiled document, and $220 in labor to reproduce a lost document," (www.aiim.org).
Paperless Manufacturing or MES (Manufacturing Execution System) is a software solution used to manage, control, and document manufacturing operations. A successful MES project improves productivity and profit by managing all the information needed during the manufacturing process, collecting and documenting all production data and ensuring real-time access to the production information. No other manufacturing solution can have the profound and beneficial impact of paperless manufacturing.
MES systems have been used (successfully) in aerospace and other regulated manufacturing industries for many years, helping manage and collect the information necessary to comply with standards and regulations, while helping make production more efficient, less costly and faster to market with higher quality product. Paperless solutions are delivering the same results and benefits to the Medical Device Manufacturing industry. For example, these solutions offer electronic sign off, automatic data collection, process control, parts traceability, and use electronic record management, among other tools, to alleviate the regulatory constraints challenging the medical device manufacturing industry.
Adding Value to the Medical Device Manufacturing Industry
The 21 CFR Part 11 regulations from the FDA specify how to create and manage quality production records in an electronic system, providing clearly documented accountability for quality checks and production methods that meet all specifications for a product. Similar regulations exist in the aerospace industry where MES and paperless manufacturing systems ensure regulation compliance. The ability to complete work more efficiently and accurately, and provide continual process improvement through monitoring and analysis of collected data adds to the value of the software solution. In aerospace companies it has been proven that a paperless solution provides regulation compliance, process improvement and quality improvement at significantly lower cost than using a paper-driven process.
The current Universal Device Identification (UDI) regulation provides standards for the barcode labeling and dating of medical devices and products in general. Because barcoding standards are different worldwide, any system that provides labels must be flexible enough to meet requirements in each country the product is shipped. In a paper-driven shop, meeting these requirements can be costly, resulting in a number of potentially disastrous errors since there are small differences in standards that are easy to miss through quick visual inspection. A paperless system will help ensure compliance with these regulations by managing data in production and eliminating these errors.
Global competition and a push to lower medical and healthcare costs are also pushing change in the industry. Medical device manufacturers are increasingly looking toward platform manufacturing to reduce cost and speed time to market. Platform-based manufacturing uses the same base frame or core parts in a variety of products to meet different requirements or price points in different countries. Precise control of parts used in production can be accomplished more accurately and consistently using a paperless solution that validates all parts and verifies processes throughout the production process.
Value of Paperless Manufacturing
While each manufacturing operation is different, paperless manufacturing has been delivering increasing value to aerospace production for years by ensuring all production records are accurate, complete and available for analysis in real time. Quality issues can be identified and fixed immediately. Specification deviations are recorded and repaired or replaced immediately. Shop floor management uses the system to monitor and control work processes, and enforces and promotes process improvement. On the other hand a paper-driven shop floor is restrictive, error-prone and an increasingly costly way to deliver products. Paper records or PDFs hinder the ability of a company to analyze shop floor work flow data for continuous improvement, making it almost impossible to fully implement modern process improvement programs.
When looking at shop floor solutions to ensure compliance with regulations, take the opportunity to find solutions that do more than simply meet immediate needs. See it as an opportunity to significantly improve your current production and position your business for future growth. Ask yourself, can you afford to continue manufacturing in a paper-driven environment, or is it time to examine paperless solutions?


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Sunday, 20 May 2007
Comets - The Ugly Ducklings of a Young Solar System
Image: Wikipedia
Joel Kontinen
Hans Christian Andersen (1807-1875) wrote a fascinating tale about a swan that was born on a farmyard and thought it was a duck. The other ducks despised this ugly brown bird and chased it away. One day, however, Ugly Duckling saw some big white birds swimming in a pond. It expected them to drive it out, but they did not. Then the bird looked into the water and saw the reflection of itself: it was not a duckling after all but a beautiful white bird like the others, a swan.
Most of the time comets are like Ugly Duckling. The comet's nucleus is a small dirty rock usually 1-10 kilometers in diameter consisting of ice, gas and dust. In some comets, this nucleus is surrounded by a huge hydrogen cloud, which may be up to 3 million kilometers wide. [1]
As the comet comes near the sun, a dramatic metamorphosis seems to take place: The sun's heat "vaporizes some of the icy nucleus or head and sunlight reflects from the vapor. Solar wind pushes the vapor in a direction away from the Sun to form the comet's tail. For this reason, comet tails generally point away from the Sun."[2]
Comets can be roughly divided into two categories: long-term comets, which orbit the sun in more than 200 years, and short-term comets, with an orbital period of 200 years or less. Some of them are so spectacular that they were though to augur doom. For instance, in 1066 Halley's Comet preceded the Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror defeated England's Saxon king Harold.[3]
Many comets have elliptical paths that bring them very close to the sun. A comet loses much of its material each time it approaches the sun.[4] It has been estimated that a comet will loose all its mass in under 100 000 years.[5] This is a serious problem for the secular view of a 4.6 billion year old solar system. If the solar system were that old, we should not see any comets.
But this has not caused believers in million of years to discard their theory. They have set their hopes on a hypothetical stretch of space called the Oort Cloud.[6] They believe that this spherical "cloud", which is supposed to extend up to three light years from the sun,[7] houses millions of frozen comets that eventually find their way into an orbit that brings them closer to the sun to replace the ones that have been destroyed.[8] The Oort Cloud is thought to provide long-term comets. The biggest problem with this explanation is there is no observational evidence for the existence of this cloud.[9] Creationist astronomer Dr. Danny Faulkner suggests that the whole idea of the Oort Cloud "is not bad science, but non-science masquerading as science. The existence of comets is good evidence that the solar system is only a few thousand years old."[10].
The Kuiper Belt has been proposed as a potential reservoir for short-term comets. It extends from Neptune's orbit (ca 30 astronomical units or AUs[11]) to about 50 AU from the sun.[12] However, most of the objects in this area which lies beyond Neptune's orbit, are tens of times bigger than comets.[13] These so-called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) include the recently discovered Eris (2003UB313) and Sedna (90377), which might be classified as dwarf planets. However, when compared to comets, they are giants. In order to replenish the comet supply, there should be millions of them but only 1026 TNOs have been found.[14]
There is not enough material in either the Oort Cloud or the Kuiper Belt to supply the solar system with the number of comets that old earth supporters desperately need. Genesis 1:14-19 records that the heavenly bodies we see in the night sky were created on Day Four. The genealogies of the Bible indicate that this occurred about 6000 years ago.
The Ugly Ducklings of the solar system are not portents of doom. The message they bring is altogether different. Together with other celestial objects they "declare the glory of God" (Ps. 19: 1). They are amazing evidences for a young solar system.
1] Anatomy of A Comet. http://www.nasm.si.edu/ceps/etp/comets/comet_anatomy.html
[2] Ref 1.
[3] Sarfati, Jonathan. 2003. Comets: Portents of Doom or Indicators of Youth? Creation 25:3, 36-40, June 2003. http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/141.
[4] The loss can be tremendous. For instance, "More than 1000 tons of this dust escaped from the head of comet C/1973 El (Kohoutek) every second, and formed a 'dust tail' ". Ref. 1
[5] Lisle, Jason. 2005. What Does the Bible Say about Astronomy? Answers in Genesis booklet.
[6] Faulkner, Danny. 2001. More problems for the 'Oort comet cloud'. TJ 15:2, 11, August 2001.
[7] Ref. 3.
[8] The gravitational impact of other stars is occassionally thought to disturb these sleeping comets and knock them into orbits closer to the sun. (Faulkner, Danny 1997. Comets and the Age of the Solar System. Technical Journal 11:364–273, December 1997).
[9] While some astronomers have suggested that the dwarf planet Sedna, discovered in 2003, is too far from the sun to be a Kuiper Belt Object, they argue that it is actually the first object to be discovered in the Oort Cloud. (Wikipedia. 90377 Sedna. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90377_Sedna). But Sedna comes to within 76 Astronomical Units from the sun, so such a classification would involve stretching definitions quite a bit since Oort Cloud objects were not expected to be so "close" to the sun.
[10] Ref. 6.
[11] One Astronomical Unit (AU) is the average distance from the Earth to the sun or approximately 150 million kilometers or 93 million miles.
[12] Kenyon, Scott J and Benjamin C. Bromley. 2004. Stellar encounters as the origin of distant Solar System objects in highly eccentric orbits. Nature 432, 598-602 (2 December 2004). http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v432/n7017/abs/nature03136.html
[13] "The biggest surprise of the Hubble search is that so few small Kuiper Belt members were discovered. With Hubble's exquisite resolution, Bernstein and his co-workers expected to find at least 60 Kuiper Belt members as small as 10 miles (15 km) in diameter — but only three were found." (Farthest, Faintest Solar System Objects Found Beyond Neptune News Release Number: STScI-2003-2. http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2003/25).
[14] They include Pluto and its three moons. See http://www.boulder.swri.edu/ekonews/issues/past/n050/ekonews050.pdf.
For more evidence for a young solar system, read here.
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Caves in Crisis: A Photo Exhibit
When: Month of October, 2007
Where: Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center, 11715 Cragwold Road, Kirkwood, MO 63122 (St. Louis), (314) 301-1500, http://mdc.mo.gov/areas/cnc/powder/
Further information: (314) 301-1500 or William R. Elliott, Missouri Department of Conservation, (573) 522-4115 ext. 3194, email@example.com
This educational exhibit will contrast the beauty of caves and their wildlife to the vandalism that occurs there too often. Some of the top cave photographers have contributed their photos for this exhibit: David Bunnell, Jim Huckins, Rickard Walk, William R. Elliott, Michael Carter, Eugene Vale and others. Visitors will see how cavers try to restore damaged caves by scrubbing graffiti and repairing damaged cave formations. Conservationists team up with landowners to protect important caves with rugged cave gates. Hundreds of hours were spent on these conservation projects, and the public is becoming interested in the methods that were developed. The best protection for caves is an informed public, which we hope will result from this exhibit. Free admission to the public, open 8:00 AM-5:00 PM all week.
During October Powder Valley will also exhibit free videos about caves on the weekends, during the regularly scheduled video hours of 10:00 AM-4:00 PM. Included is the new "Caves: Life Beneath the Forest" about cave life in Hoosier National Forest, Indiana. No reservations required.
This exhibit will coincide with the National Cave & Karst Management Symposium, October 8-12, at the nearby Holiday Inn Southwest/Viking Conference Center. More information is at http://www.utexas.edu/tmm/sponsored_sit ... nckms.html
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