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Woman Defies 'No Trespassing' Sign To Feed Dogs Left To Die
After she discovered a pair of trapped, neglected dogs this weekend, one young woman chose to follow her conscience instead of following the rules.
On Sunday, Pia Triviño of Santa Rosa, Philippines, took to social media to share the story of two abandoned dogs she found starving behind a locked gate, allegedly the victims of a shockingly callous bank seizure.
"I was told that this house was taken by the bank from the previous owners and they werent [sic] allowed to get their stuff inside including the dogs because apparently it was considered a 'thing,'" wrote Triviño on Facebook. "Clearly they're no longer fed properly, no more baths and they lie next to their dirt. They're skinny and almost looks that they're going to die soon."
Triviño initially asked nearby residents to help feed the dogs, but later took the task upon herself after an unnamed good Samaritan donated almost 10 pounds of dog food to her cause.
"The dogs hesitated to come at first," wrote Triviño in a followup post Monday morning. "Probably traumatized from weeks of not having anything to eat. But slowly they approached the plastic container of food and fresh water we managed to slip under the steel gates. They ate it all in less than 2 minutes."
Unfortunately, the animal lover was unable to free the dogs herself, but help might still be on the way. According to Triviño, the Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) is now on the case after being inundated with messages on social media.
To learn how you too can help animals around the world, visit Humane Society International's website today.
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Current Status (2/7/2017)
KiwiSAT. All systems are now fight ready.
Final integration - All hardware is complete and KiwiSAT is operational. Final integration to launch ready awaits addition of the flight batteries and fragile solar cells.
Launch negotiation - AMSAT-ZL are in discussion with several agencies. Funding is an important aspect as costs increase and resources are stretched.
Flight Software - Software is developing on three fronts;
Boot loader/Operating System
Clayton (ZL3TKA), well aided by a VNC connection between his QTH (in Canberra) and the clean area then in Massey University in Albany on the Auckland North Shore (See image), developed and wrote the boot loader. A period of
intensive reliability testing has proved the reliability of this import link in KiwiSAT control.
Two ROM development chips contain the code in flash form in sockets on the IHU Main Board. This will then be burnt onto non volatile memory IC's and permanently mounted for flight operation. Pre-flight testing and calibration continue.
ADAC Application Software
Whilst not absolutely essential pre-launch, it is considered highly desirable to complete the (non-ADAC) operational software whilst the satellite is in the clean area and a small team have expressed an interest in a coordinated approach to this activity. Clayton will take the lead and when at least a basic (but totally reliable!) command system is proven, the launch sponsorship campaign will be ramped up to full gear.
AMSAT-ZL volunteer Dr Jon Henderson provided an active supervisory role on Massey University Masters student Kirill Makarov for this activity and progress is now excellent in this area. The NZART Radioscience Education Trust sponsored Kirill who breathed some greatly appreciated extra enthusiasm into the project. (See ADAC Status section for details)
Ground Station Telemetry Decode Program
Terry (ZL2BAC) took on the development of the ground-station telemetry decode software and great progress has been made. The Telemetry update posted on this site provides the basic information and Terry is happy to communicate directly with those having particular interest in this aspect. See Telemetry page for more details.
Regulatory requirements - KiwiSAT is registered with the ITU in preparation for launch.
The Structure. -
From the bottom of KiwiSAT and working up.
Tray No 1.
The Transmitter tray is completed to Flight Ready status. Now integrated into final assembly. System meets all expectations.
Tray No 2.
The BCR (Battery Charge Regulator) is completed and integrated into final assembly system. Currently active in controlling power from Solar cell simulators to the fully integrated KiwiSAT unit.
Tray No 3.
The battery tray. While this tray is completed and ready for flight. A spare set of batteries are being used during the bench testing.
Tray No 4.
The IHU and RAM disk
The IHU (or Integrated Housekeeping Unit) is the essential central satellite system control computer.
This unit is completed and integrated into the final assembly unit now under software development.
Tray No 5 -The receivers.
This completed tray holds the 70cm linear transponder receiver and two 70cm FM receivers, one for the FM transponder, the other a telemetry receiver for control and command.
This completed system is integrated into the final assembly unit and running "on-air" using external antenna while KiwiSAT sits in its clean environment chamber at ponga Road.
The Attic.
Completed and integrated into the final assembly unit.
Looming Up
Wiring of the frame, part of the final integration, was completed early and now forms part of the fully integrated KiwiSAT.
Ground Testing
KiwiSAT, in its flight configuration, is in the AMSAT-ZL clean environment chamber at Ponga Road. A remote antenna system allows live testing via the flight mode.
Auckland is reasonably hilly and with the team spread over a wide area, these good antenna are required to guarantee reliable communications.
Solar Panels
The six flight solar panels are now assembled and tested awaiting final integration. Note the featured picture shows two of the four side panels plus the top and bottom (+Z/-Z) panels, there being the fewest panels on the bottom panel.
AMSAT-ZL Clean Room
With the construction project now complete and with testing well advanced, the need for a Clean Room has passed. KiwiSAT is now housed in its own Clean Box. This will allow for safe transportation, continued testing and easy demonstration to our important launch sponsors.
AMSAT-ZL appreciate the professional assistance of the Fan and Filter suppliers in the development of the Clean Room at Massey University and the AMSAT-ZL Clean Box.

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Richard Boothby viola da gamba
Signum Classics SIGCD544
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t was back in the year 2000, when the paper trail started that was to lead to the unearthing of these long-deemed "lost" fantasias for gamba of 1735, the very same year of publication for the splendid violin fantasias. Amongst the donated material from Schloss Ledeburg near Osnabrück, handed over to the State Library, these intimate and tastefully wrought pieces were hiding. They were premiered by Thomas Fritzsch on two wonderfully resonant gambas in 2016 on the Coviello Label. Now we have a pleasant half a dozen recordings which explore these elegant and befittingly conceived works. Richard Boothby (of Purcell Quartet and Fretwork fame) comes to the fore, with a well-measured and sensitive reading on an "un-named" gamba. These Fantasias were almost certainly released at the rate of two pieces a fortnight from August to October 1735. They are dedicated to the Hamburg merchant and music lover, Pierre Chaunell, who already features in the lists of subscribers to Musique de Table 1733, and Nouveaux Quatuors of 1738; whether he was a competent "dilettante" gambist is not known, but it must have been a thrill to have seen this published dedication, possibly awarded for services rendered as a promoter or distributor. The set opens in the elegiac key of C minor with an aria-like phrase; indeed, many rhetorical effects and devices surface as the music proceeds to give the impression of a gambist exploring free-flowing, musical ideas that arise during the course of intimate solo sessions; the overall intention! Perhaps not as immediately engaging as the flute or violin sets of fanatasias, the material seems perfectly suited to proficient middle-class amateurs and gifted gambists to both be able to tackle and delight in these well-tailored pieces for the instrument, that find a player's path to their personal interpretation and own level of virtuosity. Another perfect example of Telemann's shrewd business and musical acumen. With regards to new "explorers", one has to say the more the merrier, as these various qualities and elements cited are drawn out by more players and instruments displaying their wears and wiles. It would have been interesting to note the details of Mr Boothby's gamba of choice… However, this is a very smooth and elegant reading which might have enjoyed just a touch more dancing élan in well-chosen places, but he does embrace the fantasias with individual flair and charm.
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28 June 2017
Why a Social Media Policy is a Must For Your SME
It can take companies years to build up a following on social media, but only a few seconds to destroy it with a careless tweet, not responding quickly enough to negative comments, or a hack.
This is why a social media policy is vital for SMEs. With a solid policy in place you can minimise the chances of reputational risk and plan for what to do in the event of an emergency.
Your policy should detail how to handle defamatory comments on social media and provide staff who handle your business' social media accounts with a guide on how to deal with complaints.
In a world where customer satisfaction is king, social media provides a forum for people to air their grievances so it's important not to ignore them and to respond swiftly to let them know their concerns are being taken seriously.
Social Media Complaints Response Time
Aim to respond to complaints on your social media channels within one hour and reply to emails or private messages over social media in the same amount of time or within 24 hours outside of working hours. Private messages can quickly become public complaints if the customer feels aggrieved.
How to Deal With Complaints About Your Business on Social Media
If the complaint is legitimate then you should address the issue as soon as possible. Ensure your social media policy details who should handle complaints and at what point serious complaints should be escalated to a manager. If the complaint or negative comment contains misinformation then respond with a gentle correction on the facts. If misinformed posts carry on then you may choose to continue to respond correcting the facts or report the issue to the social media network, depending on the situation.
Your tone of voice should also remain consistent when handling complaints and is something you might choose to detail in a social media policy. If you are under threat, changing to a more formal or even a legal tone when responding to negative comments or criticisms can rile your followers and fans.
Rather than simply deleting and ignoring negative comments or complaints you should try to resolve the situation, for example, by asking them to send you the details so you can fully investigate the matter. To avoid sharing personal details you can ask to receive the complaint 'offline' over private message.
ASA's CAP Code
Many businesses are unaware that what you say on social media is subject to advertising laws. The Advertising Standards Authority's (ASA) Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP) code must be followed and failure to do so can result in powerful online sanctions.
ASA can feature non-compliant companies on a dedicated area of their website so that when consumers search for their website they will find the name of the company along with the details of the problem with their advertising in the search results. In cases where businesses are 'named and shamed' by ASA, the bad publicity can remain associated with the company damaging the brand for a sustained period of time. This is why most advertisers are quick to amend or withdraw advertisements, and by extension social media posts, which break the CAP code.
The CAP code dictates that you cannot share or post anything misleading, harmful, offensive or irresponsible on social media. Your social media policy should reflect the rules set out by the ASA as 'online ads' are now the most complained about advertising medium and the ASA can investigate your content after just one complaint. You can check out ASA's advice and guidance on how to create campaigns that comply with the rules.
How Often You Should Review Your Social Media Policy
With Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, Google Plus and other social media platforms changing so frequently I would recommend that you revisit and renew your social media policy (alongside your IT and HR policies) every year.
Your company social media policy should work hand in hand with your IT policy to help protect your business from social media hacks and avoid being locked out of your accounts.
Your company social media policy should also work hand in hand with your HR policy to dictate how a staff breach of policy should be dealt with. This is increasingly important as it becomes more and more common for employees to associate themselves with their company online. This can be done in a number of different ways. It could be by listing where they work in online profiles, commenting or posting either directly or indirectly about work on social media and being tagged or mentioned in any content relating to the company.
A social media policy should detail what constitutes improper use and specify that social media breaches are not limited to within business hours on business premises. Improper use can include anything that could damage the reputation of the company, its clients or suppliers, disclosing confidential company or client information as well as bullying, harassment and unlawful discrimination.
You can call the media, libel and privacy solicitors at Slater and Gordon on freephone 0800 916 9052 or contact us online.
Steve Kuncewicz is a business advisory lawyer with specific expertise in media and social media law.
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If you can find the small, flat, yellow- or red-skinned onions sold here as cipolline, by all means use them in this recipe, following the method below. Plus: More Vegetable Recipes and Tips
How to Make It
Using a paring knife, trim the root and stem ends of the onions. In a medium saucepan of boiling water, cook the onions over moderate heat until they are just beginning to soften, about 5 minutes. Drain immediately and peel.
Meanwhile, heat the olive oil in a nonreactive medium saucepan. Add the bay leaves and cook over moderately low heat until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add the onions and cook, stirring occasionally, until just beginning to brown around the edges, about 7 minutes. Add the vinegar, sugar and salt and pepper. Increase the heat to moderate and cook, stirring frequently, until the mixture starts to caramelize, about 2 minutes. Remove the bay leaves. Transfer the onions to a bowl and stir gently to coat them with the syrup. Serve at room temperature.


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I had never heard of Schindler's list – that is not until the start of this year. But all of a sudden it was everywhere. The film was being refereed to students by their studio teachers – both of architecture and media.
So it was only curiosity that made me grab the first chance i got to see it. The film started off slow, with your typical hero engrossed in women and parties, but that perspective soon changed.
As i saw the movie – with commentary provided by my mom and sister as the backdrop, claiming that the film is just a propaganda film- i realized that the Jews have come a long way from the days of WW2.
Things that happened to them can never be imagined, their strength in those times, and their hope that they would make me should be saluted, for the truth is that they have survived. Or it should be said that they have not only survived, but that they have made sure that something like that, never happens to them again.
They are a major part of the power play.. but what needs to be realized that today what we see in Palestine is merely a switch of roles.. You have your innocent Jews the Palestinians, as the Jews play the role of the Germans.. not on the same level… but the massacre is there…
A realization has to come.. Many of us – especially in the Eastern World- tend to dismiss Israel as in human bastards. But the truth of that matter is that they do feel for Palestine.
JERUSALEM, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Friday that he wept upon hearing a Palestinian father calling for help live on television after his children were killed during Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip. "I cried when I saw this. Who didn't? How could you not?,
"When you win, you automatically hurt more than you've been hurt. And we didn't want to lose this campaign. What did you want, for hundreds of our soldiers to die? That, after all, was the alternative," Ehud Olmert told the newspaper.
You need to understand the difference too.


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Use Reprehensible in a sentence
Reprehensible ;
Meaning: [adjective] shameful; very bad ;
The administration's handling of Hurricane Katrina was reprehensible .
I find the behaviour entirely disgusting and reprehensible and totally inexcusable .
Keeping remand prisoners in police stations is another matter and is reprehensible .
The Holocaust is the reprehensible and condemnable crime against humanity.
I find this tactic shameful and reprehensible .
Such conduct is severely reprehensible , and should be stopped.
The whole right wing media machine is truly reprehensible .
The decision to make a child marry an adult is reprehensible .
It is inconvenient when important historical figures hold reprehensible views .
This fact makes human actions all the more reprehensible .
Clinton says the film is " disgusting and reprehensible .


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How does it work?
We, at the CPI, cannot know in advance how quickly research findings will translate into improved treatments but we do know it will get faster with more resources to build the process across diseases.
Example of the CPI approach:
The CPI discovered a mutation in a gene called TREX1 in a little girl with severe lupus and this led to too much interferon-alpha being produced that causes inflammation. She is now a candidate for a new drug on the market that targets interferon-alpha.
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Who needs to be barred on WSOP. Also $500,000 Super High Roller…
In his latest (and highly controversial) blog post Daniel Negreanu makes list of players in some way connected in different poker discussions. He gives green light to participate in World Series 2015 to some disproves that to others. And former are the majority.
There is a lot of Negreanu-related news during recent months. Or even more so during recent years. The famous tournament and cash games professional became the voice of poker community. He has to say something on all the topics. His opinion is always being discussed.
Despite how loud Negreanu's sayings are, the often seem one-sided. Mister Negreanu represents PokerStars. And many of his words and expressions could be explained by this fact.
Well, Daniel is totally being himself this time.
To ban or not to ban
The latest post is dedicated to players who were caught on cheating, fraud and other serious misdeeds. Many of these people could be put to jail, not to mention ban from participating in World Series of poker.
First mentioned by Negreanu are Russ Hamilton and Mansour Matloubi – ones of the most famous cheaters in history of poker. Using special software which allowed them to see opponent's cards they stole millions of dollars. Millions!
Negreanu is certainly not OK with them participating in WSOP 2015. He also mentions Dan Coleman and Justin Bonomo. Their crime – multi accounting – is less serious in comparison.
Then there is mode "Yes, they are bad, but not quite" to Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer (those two are connected with money fraud on Full Tilt Poker), also Annie Duke (Howard's sister) and Jeffrey Pollack, who defrauded players out of a "guaranteed" million dollar freeroll of Epic Poker League.
Chris "Jesus" Ferguson
Bold theft is awkwardly led business and absence of necessary information or unwillingness to hold responsibility according to Negreanu.
Strange move. And the whole post is very strange too.
Now let's figure
Should online cheaters be approved to participate in World Series (and othe major tournaments)? They have been bad in whole other sphere. Negreanu goes for unsure "Yes", we answer to that only "No" without excuses.
First online WSOP bracelet will be awarded this year (tournament on Wsop.com), so online and live poker are starting to become equal. But that's not the point.
The point is that if you play unfair, you should not be present at the poker table – no matter where. It's that simple. Imagine someone stole the TV but got away with a warning: "You are a bad boy, don't do that again". Nonsense.
WSOP $500,000 Super High Roller
Tom Hall, one of the last years participants of $1M The Big One for One Drop, wrote in his twitter the following:
«Exciting times. Got my invite to the USD500,000 Aria-Cary Katz high roller in the summer. Got to try and avoid a USD1.4m bubble this time».
This year's WSOP 2014 doesn't have million dollars buy-in event, so super high rollers are playing between them behind closed doors of Aria.
As the name would imply, another regular of Big One for One Drop businessman and high roller Cary Katz is the organizer.
Well, we being the spectators are only winning. Will see who the other participants are and what this idea will turn to. Will guys from Macau join?


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Former President Bill Clinton's recent comments about embryo fertilization and stem cell research have been "confused" and call into question his credibility on the issue, two bioethicists say. The president has made interview remarks incorrectly implying that embryos are not fertilized.
Critics also wondered why Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the medical commentator and former Surgeon General nominee who interviewed Clinton, did not correct the former president in their discussion of human embryonic stem cell research.
Pro-life advocates around the country have been rallying against President Barack Obama's March 9 decision to allow more government funding for controversial human embryonic stem cell research. The research destroys human embryos for their stem cells, which are believed to have the potential for major therapeutic cures.
Clinton has defended allowing government funding of embryonic stem cell research, calling it "a pro-life decision" to use fertility clinics' frozen embryos for medical research. However, he has consistently remarked that human embryos are not fertilized.
In fact, mammalian fertilization takes place when sperm and egg fuse to form a new embryonic organism.
Speaking at a February Virginia Democratic fundraiser, the former president had declared, "We have won the great culture war that has divided America for 40 years. But before we celebrate too much, we have to realize that people hired us to lead."
A week after the Virginia fundraiser, Clinton appeared on Larry King Live to talk about President Obama's plans to fund human embryonic stem cell research. On the program Clinton told Larry King:
"...if [embryos] are never going to be used to be fertilized, to bring a life into being, then I think making them available for medical research is the pro-life position and I honestly don't understand -- I would understand it if we were going and raiding stem cell banks, where these stem cells were going to be used to actually fertilize eggs and have babies."
On March 9, Obama signed an executive order allowing government funding for research that could destroy up to 400,000 embryos "left over" from in-vitro fertilization procedures.
Clinton again appeared on Larry King Live on Wednesday to discuss his support for Obama's embryonic stem cell research decision. Speaking with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent, Clinton incorrectly referred to embryos as "unfertilized" a total of six times.
Dr. Gupta opened the interview by asking "Is this going to be the abortion of the next generation? Or are people going to come around?"
Clinton responded:
"We'll work it through. If—particularly if it's done right. If it's obvious that we're not taking embryos that can under any conceivable scenario would be used for a process that would allow them to be fertilized and become little babies…then I think the American people will support this."
Dr. Gupta did not comment on the president's error.
Clinton further tried to justify his position, saying the research should proceed "because [these embryos] are not going to be fertilized."
He then tried to characterize Obama's decision as a pro-life policy, adding:
"I believe the American people believe it's a pro-life decision to use an embryo that's frozen and never going to be fertilized for embryonic stem cell research…"
Later in the interview, President Clinton advised President Obama and his scientific committees "to be really careful to make sure if they don't want a big storm to be stirred up here, that any of the embryos that are used clearly have been placed beyond the pale of being fertilized before their use."
Clinton's use of words could be explained if he meant to say "implanted" instead of "fertilized." Many pro-life bloggers have raised concerns that Clinton's confusion of the words "fertilized" and "implanted" is a tactical political move, which attempts to alter the meaning of embryo to confuse an already misguided public.
Concluding the interview, Clinton expressed appreciation that President Obama is sending a signal to the scientific community that this issue is going to be less politicized in the future.
Jennifer Miller, a bioethicist who specializes in beginning of life ethics and serves as Executive Director of Bioethics International, discussed Clinton's comments with CNA.
Clarifying that there is no debate in the scientific community about what an embryo is, Miller explained an embryo as "an egg that has been fertilized with sperm." The only way for an embryo to become unfertilized is "if you kill it," she said.
Miller, whose organization educates on medical ethics issues, said she was confused by Clinton's "misguided" comments and suggested that the former President may just be "confused."
"When I work with the general public, I find that they do not understand the difference between embryonic and adult stem cells and that's very problematic," she explained.
Father Thomas Berg, L.C., Executive Director for the Westchester Institute for Ethics and the Human Person, CNA columnist, and frequent contributor to The New York Times, National Review Online, and National Catholic Register also commented on Clinton's comments, telling CNA:
"I'm not sure what to think. I think that it is appalling that Dr. Gupta did not correct him. That's an egregious oversight to let that slip. It does raise very serious questions about the credibility of both of these individuals. It's just nonsense; an embryo is a product of fertilization, whether naturally or through in vitro. At the very least it leaves me scratching my head."
When questioned about Clinton's word choice of "we'll work it through," Fr. Berg expressed concern, but not surprise.
"Maybe it was unfortunate word choice again," he told CNA, said the phrase "work it through" means embryonic stem cell research advocates will work through "the American media and into the American mindset and rely on the media and on the liberal political pundits and massage it into the American mindset. I can definitely see that happening."
Responding to Clinton's characterization of human embryonic stem cell research as "pro-life," Berg said:
"I want to assume this is a terrible gaffe on his part. The only way to describe that as pro-life is to believe that the discarded embryos are not persons, are not living human beings. If you're intellectually honest, you have to admit that what you favor is the sacrificing of certain human organisms for the sake of other organisms. There's nothing pro-life about that."
Miller also disagreed with Clinton's charge that this decision was a "pro-life" decision, and expressed concern that Clinton did not recognize that there have been "a lot of breakthroughs in improving the quality of life with adult stem cells and not one breakthrough, not one breakthrough with embryonic stem cell research."
Berg described this ideological mindset as "part and parcel with the ideological push, whether it is coming from scientists or from President Clinton, to convince Americans that the idea of leftover embryos are somehow different, they don't have moral value because they haven't been implanted in the womb, and now this idea that they haven't been fertilized."
Unsure if Clinton's comments were merely a "slip of tongue" or an attempt to water down the pro-life movement, Berg said "it's part and parcel with this move to coax and cajole Americans into getting comfortable with the idea to sacrificing embryos, as their argument goes 'are going to die anyway'."
Berg further warned of a growing tolerance for using human beings as raw materials for scientific research, "This is certainly setting the stage for the ever more aggressive and scientifically daring use of human embryos and even early fetuses, primarily for growing organs and other useful tissues. There's no doubt in my mind, even though it's hush-hush, the scientific community will be ever more aggressive in using human embryos for research purposes."
Arguments advocating unlimited scientific inquiry, Berg warned, "evoke memories of America and Germany in the late 1930s, the fascination with eugenics, and the idea that if you leave science to itself we can improve the human race. If we're faithful to history, we'll find that often takes us to a place where we would rather not go."
Both Berg and Miller noted that Obama actually signed two executive orders: one allowing federal funding for embryonic stem cell research and another ending mandated funding for alternatives to embryonic stem cell research.
Berg described the action as "an extremely bold move, which in his own jocular, nonchalant way, [Obama] continued to pursue a very aggressive contra-life agenda."
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24 July, 2019
The Prosecutor General's Office has filed charges against the founders of TBC Bank - Mamuka Khazaradze and Badri Japaridze today.
According to the agency, Khazaradze and Japaridze are accused of legalizing illegal money - 16 754 000 US dollars.
According to the agency, they will appeal to the court regarding the measure of restraint after the charge is officially read to Mamuka Khazaradze and Badri Japaridze in the Prosecutor General's Office, where they have to arrive at 17:00 today.
Following the statement of the Prosecutor General's Office, Mamuka Khazaradze shared an article about Eiffage, a French civil engineering construction company, on his Facebook page. The article reads that the company will be in charge of completing the first phase of the construction of Anaklia Deep Sea Port. In his post, Mamuka Khazaradze wrote: "We will build it anyway."
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Hi all,
As announced here the voting phase of the Top 100 Language Lovers 2011 competition will end on May 29 (so soon!).
ProZ.com's page on Facebook has been nominated for the category "Language Facebook Pages" and ProZ.com twitter account is competing in the category "Language Twitterers".
The competition also looks for the best in these two categories: Language Learning Blogs and Language Professional Blogs. So if you would like to participate in the voting and help recognize your colleagues' work remember to cast your vote before May 29, 23:59 hours German time.
And… if you like the content on ProZ.com Facebook page and Twitter account, this is your chance to show it!
Update: Both ProZ.com's page on Facebook and ProZ.com twitter account have made it to the top 25.


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Less Than Half of Psychiatrists Surveyed Practice Psychotherapy
Zoler, Mitchel L., Clinical Psychiatry News
PHILADELPHIA - The practice of psychotherapy by psychiatrists dropped by 20 percentage points from 2002 to 2010, in large part because of low reimbursement levels and the inability of many patients to afford psychotherapy sessions out of pocket, based on results from a 2010 survey completed by 394 practicing psychiatrists.
The survey results did not address the extent to which the psychotherapy that psychiatrists no longer provide has been replaced by sessions with other types of psychotherapy providers, Joyce C. West, Ph.D., said at the meeting "The trend is for psychiatrists to be team leaders" in caring for psychiatric patients, and for psychiatrists to "make referrals for psychotherapy to other team members," said Dr. West, director of policy research at the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education in Arlington, Va.
In contrast, during the same period, psychiatrists embraced pharmacotherapy more tightly, with the use of drug therapy rising to 89% of responding psychiatrists in 2010, up from 81% in 2002 and from 54% in 1988.
Growth in the availability of psychotherapy from nonpsychiatrists helped keep psychotherapy available. "There clearly is a strong evidence base for [the efficacy of] psychotherapy, and patients with resources [to pay for it themselves] are more likely to want psychotherapy," she noted.
The survey results and other recent psychotherapy assessments document a shift in who delivers psychotherapy. The percentage of the population receiving psychotherapy in a year has not significantly lowered," at 3.18% of the U.S. population in 2007, essentially unchanged from the 3.37% rate in 1998.
"However, there was a decline in psychiatrists providing psychotherapy; more patients of psychiatrists received medications, rising from 44% in 2002 to 57% in 2010. It appears that psychotherapy increasingly shifted away from psychiatrists, while other professions provided it," said Dr. John Christopher Perry, a coinvestigator with Dr. West on the survey, and a professor of psychiatry at McGill University in Montreal.
Is it okay if a steady number of patients has access to psychotherapy, but that it increasingly comes from nonpsychiatrists? "Psychotherapy is a core discipline in psychiatry, but it is shared with other professions. Understanding the mind and body, and understanding how intervening with one affects the other is an approach that is unique to psychiatry.
"If psychiatrists shift to mostly being diagnosticians and prescribers, we will lose this and become less knowledgeable about understanding and helping people. When a psychiatrist only manages medications and someone else provides psychotherapy, it limits the view of a patient's symptoms, and may lead to overprescribing. When the psychiatrist is also the therapist, there is better opportunity to deal with life stress, coping, and distress without relying primarily or solely on prescribing," said Dr. …


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Rapsody is a North Carolina emcee signed with super producer 9th Wonder for Jamla Records. With the release of four projects in just a year and a half and a critically acclaimed debut album in August of 2012, she is slowly establishing herself as a major player in today's rap game. The Idea of Beautiful was her debut album and XXL quoted that "it might just be on of the best Hip-Hop debuts of late".
Rhymes: MC Lyte "Poor Georgie", Method Man ft. Mary J. Blige "All I Need (Remix)", and the Fugees "Ready or Not"
Click here to download Rapsody's interview[audio https://archive.org/download/RhymesReasons-Rapsody/RhymesReasons-Rapsody.mp3]
More Info on Rapsody:
Songs from this Interview:
MC Lyte "Poor Georgie"
MC Lyte ft. Missy Elliot "Cold Rock A Party (Bad Boy Remix)"
Luther Vandross "Any Love"
Tina Turner "Private Dancer"
Eminem ft. Royce Da 5'9″ "Bad Meets Evil"
Bubba Sparxxx "Deliverance"
Method Man ft. Mary J. Blige "All I Need (Remix)"
Little Brother "The Listening"
Little Brother "Lovin' It"
The Fugees "Ready or Not"
The Fugees "Fu- Gee- La"
Lauryn Hill "Tell Him"
Rapsody feat. Childish Gambino and GQ "Beautiful Music"
Jay-Z "A Million and One Questions"
MC Lyte "I Cram to Understand U (Sam)"
Nas ft. Anthony Hamilton "World's An Addiction"


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Gosh ladies.. you are so nice to me!! 41!!! comments on my card yesterday??? I can not believe it!! This makes me really happy, that you liked the card. I was barely online the last couple of days, cause the boys have a bad summer cold. My little one takes this always a bit harder than my older son. I have had barely sleep cause they wake up at night and cry. Most of you know how this is.
This card is one of the 8 cards i sent to Sweden. I used a piece of scrap paper (the one with the little roses) I had from a previous card and two Designer Papers (the flower and the script DP) recieved from Magnolia. I had a bit trouble to pick up the wonderful greens from the paper with my Copics but I think it is fine. In the USA i have not found ANY source yet were i can buy such beautiful lace ribbons Magnolia sents me - so i keep every tiny little piece of snip of it :-) I think the solution to use two pieces and in the middle the flower is not too obvious? The circular "Memories" stamp was found at Michaels in a acryl "Travel"themed stamp set (set i think of 10 or so) on clearance for 4.99 :-) If you liked that "Berry" label i used on my "Berry Cute" card the other day, you should go and pick some up. Michaels has discontinued these cause now all the Halloween items are on the shelfes and i had to go to two other stores to find 2 more packages. :-) I used this "Traveler Tilda" set to make this "vintage" style card but she looks so cute in a more contemporary style too - I would like to show you this version tomorrow. I hope it is okay if i show two days in a row a card using the same image??
remember tomorrow i will also pick 5 winners for some Magnolia stamps, DP prima flowers ect.


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Are you a practicing Catholic adult who for some reason was not confirmed. If you would like to be confirmed, classes for adults who are interested in receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation have been scheduled on Sundays in July (7, 14, 21, 28) at Sacred Heart in the church hall. Sessions will start at 6 PM and conclude by 7:30. If interested please contact Fr. Tom or Fr. Greg.
- adult catechized Catholics beyond high school age
- who are regular in the practice of the Catholic faith, or wish to be
- and who now wish to be confirmed.
Such a person needs to:
- contact the pastor of the parish that he/she is registered in
- That pastor will forward the names to Deacon John Stierman (email@example.com) and;
- will make arrangements for the person to participate in the Lenten Confirmation process which Deacon John and other adults will be leading during the Lenten season.
- If a person is not registered in a parish, they need to choose a parish in which to participate, register, and consult with the pastor.
If a person is an uncatechized baptized Catholic he/she should go through the RCIA process.
Overview of Confirmation Program
In the sessions for our Confirmation Preparation we will reflect on the following:
- The gift of faith that we received in Baptism, the meaning of that faith and its implications for our life as baptized people.
- Faith in Jesus as Lord and Savior as well as the possibility of a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus and the means to cultivate that relationship.
- Being a disciple of the Lord.
- Stewardship as a way of life
- The paschal mystery of Jesus and our sharing in that mystery.
We will also reflect on the role of the Spirit in our lives and the significance of the Spirit as we deal with moral choices and decisions. Our reflections will also deal with stewardship and the accepting of our adult responsibility for the mission of Jesus in our life today.
We will spend an evening on the Bible and Holy Scripture. We will explore some basic concepts for understanding and interpreting Scripture, and provide some suggestions for reading, praying, and reflecting on the Word of God.
Finally we will make an immediate preparation for celebrating the liturgy of the sacrament with a retreat evening at our last session. You will have an opportunity for the sacrament of Reconciliation during the retreat evening.
Our program will be in process form, which means that we intend to engage you in small group discussions and also to engage candidate and sponsor in one-to-one interaction. The presentations will usually be short and will be intended to clarify and provide additional input to the sharing that we will do.
- The Program will meet on five Tuesdays: March 12, 19, 26 and April 2, 9 2019. Our sessions will begin at 6:30 PM and run for about 90 minutes. On the fifth Tuesday, March 20, we will have a mini-retreat. This session will run for about two hours.
- All sessions will take place in the Resurrection Church Social Space located inside Resurrection church.
- Candidates are to be beyond high school age. Candidates are to be accompanied by their sponsors for all sessions. The sponsor needs to be a confirmed Catholic who is actively practicing the Catholic faith.
- Content will include the following:
- Personal Faith, Christian Faith, the Lordship of Jesus, Fostering a Personal Relationship with Jesus, and Stewardship as a way of life.
- Discipleship of Jesus, Significant Teachings of Jesus, Meaning and Purpose of Jesus' Life, and Implications of One's Baptism.
- Role of the Holy Spirit, Spirit Gifts, Shared Faith of the Worshiping Community, and Formal Faith of the Institutional Church.
- Christian Morality, Levels of Morality, Conscience, Sin, and Reconciliation.
- Retreat Evening: Jesus a person of prayer, completion of a personal prayer inventory, a guided meditation on the experience of God, reasons for going (not going) to Sunday Mass, what do you ask of the Church, what does the Church as of you, and an opportunity to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
- The program will be facilitated by Deacon John Stierman and a team of lay ministry graduates and individuals who went through the program.


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London, UK – GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server was selected the first runner up in the Content Security category of the ISAserver.org Readers' Choice Awards. GFI WebMonitor is a web monitoring and antivirus solution which allows you to monitor the sites users are browsing and monitor HTTP and FTP downloads for viruses and other malware. It makes use of multiple virus scanning engines to check all user downloads and ensure that downloads are virus free. This enables administrators to block or cancel a current download or browsing session in real time.
"Our Reader's Choice Awards give visitors to our site the opportunity to vote for the products they view as the very best in their respective category," said Sean Buttigieg, ISAserver.org manager. "ISAserver.org visitors are specialists in their field who encounter various solutions for ISA Server at the workplace. The award serves as a mark of excellence, providing the ultimate recognition from peers within the industry."
ISAserver.org conducts bi-monthly polls to discover which product is preferred by ISA administrators in a particular category of third party solutions for Microsoft ISA Server. The awards draw a huge response per category and are based entirely on the visitors' votes. ISAsever.org visitors can submit their votes for the current Readers' Award poll in the site's left-hand bar.
About GFI WebMonitor
GFI WebMonitor for Microsoft ISA Server allows you to monitor HTTP and FTP downloads for viruses and other malware – in REAL TIME. Multiple virus scanning engines, including Norman Virus Control and BitDefender, check all user downloads to ensure that downloads are virus free. In addition GFI WebMonitor can also block access to adult sites. It is the perfect solution to transparently exercise a degree of access control over users' browsing habits, and ensure legal compliance – not only to ensure productive use of the Internet but also to safeguard users from offensive content and to make sure that downloads are virus free – in a manner that will not alienate your network users! Pricing is highly competitive, starting from just USD 395 for 25 users. More information about GFI WebMonitor and a trial version are available at: http://www.gfi.com/webmon/.
About ISAserver.org
ISAserver.org (http://www.isaserver.org) is a Microsoft ISA Server 2004/2000 resource site. It is the leading ISA site, attracting over 170,000 ISA administrators and specialists a month. The site provides the latest Microsoft ISA Server news, articles and tutorials by leading ISA experts, message boards, software listings and product reviews.
ISAserver.org forms part of a group of sites run by TechGenix Ltd., including http://www.windowsnetworking.com - a comprehensive Windows Networking resource site; http://www.msexchange.org, a Microsoft Exchange Server resource site; http://www.windowsecurity.com, a Windows security resource site and http://www.msterminalservices.org, a Server Based Computing resource site.
About GFI
GFI is a leading software developer that provides a single source for network administrators to address their network security, content security and messaging needs. With award-winning technology, an aggressive pricing strategy and a strong focus on small-to-medium sized businesses, GFI is able to satisfy the need for business continuity and productivity encountered by organizations on a global scale. GFI has offices in the US, Malta, UK, Hong Kong and Australia which support more than 200,000 installations worldwide. GFI is a channel-focused company with over 10,000 partners worldwide. GFI is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. More information about GFI can be found at http://www.gfi.com.


text: Personalities Harold Knight Knight & Hale Ultimate Hunting Team member Harold Knight is one of the most well known hunters in the industry. Harold is one half of the Knight & Hale team that redefined the hunting industry with innovative products such as the original Tube Goose Call and the patented inhale-exhale operation of the EZ Grunter Plus grunt call, which allows hunters to create the hyperventilating tending grunt. Harold won many national calling contests during his time on the circuit, including the World Goose Calling Championship. Even though he's retired from the circuit, he remains active as a judge. A lifetime member of the National Wild Turkey Federation, Harold is equally at home hunting turkeys in his home state of Kentucky or taking trophy bull elk in Montana. Harold's Knight & Hale's Ultimate Hunting television program has been one of the most popular hunting programs since its inception as Woods and Wetlands in 1986. Harold remains one of the most admired TV hunters and hosts. Related Shows Ultimate Hunting presented by Sheffield Financial


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Kitsch or classic? Jury out on palace project
An exhibition in Dublin presents controversial plans to reconstruct Berlin's vanished Prussian palace, writes DEREK SCALLY
The unremarkable barracks on Berlin's western outskirts was, in the Cold War era, a repair shop for British tanks. Today it is the workshop for Europe's most ambitious and controversial architecture project.
Sculptors are hard at work chiseling massive lumps of sandstone, while others mould moist clay. Three white Prussian eagles, poised imperiously on a shelf, survey the decorative detritus of Berlin's once and future palace. It is a disorienting, decade-hopping jigsaw of new plaster elements lined up beside the blackened, muscular stone torso of a headless, legless statue.
These old and new elements will eventually be transported to a site opposite Berlin's cathedral on the River Spree and incorporated into a complex that has an eye on the future and a foot in a burdened past.
For 500 years this site at the heart of Berlin's "Mitte" city centre district, was occupied by a royal palace of varying shapes and styles, reflecting the local rulers' eventual rise to Prussian king and Kaiser of the German empire.
East Berlin leaders demolished the structure in 1950 and later erected their own "Palace of the Republic" here. It, too, vanished in 2008 after German MPs voted to create the "Humboldt Forum", a hybrid museum, library and education facility named after the famous German brothers.
Using a wealth of blueprints and old photographs, three facades will reproduce the old baroque palace exterior, while Italian architect Frank Stella has designed one modern facade, as well as an interior including a glazed courtyard.
Long before Prof Stella unveiled his daring design, however, the palace had become a proxy war over Berlin's architectural and historical identity.
Critical reconstruction
The palace is part of Berlin's critical reconstruction movement to correct the more drastic urban modernism decisions taken in the post-war city – particularly in its eastern half.
"The reconstruction of palaces destroyed in the second World War is normality," says Prof Stella. "The singular thing about this reconstruction is the large part of the new building, serving as the Humboldt Forum."
Modernist architectural critics see the palace/Humboldt Forum as a capitulation to the past and its backers as captives to architectural kitsch.
There are historical criticisms, too. Just as East Berlin eradicated the Prussian palace, some see the removal of the East German palace as the second attempt to sideline an out-of-favour regime.
Disagreement rages, too, over whether the project is a timely recognition of the burdened past or part of a wider campaign to rehabilitate the militaristic memory of Prussia and German Kaiser, Wilhelm II.
"It must be possible, in the 21st century, almost 70 years after the disaster of the last war, for Germany to find a new way of looking to one's past – and to the future," said Manfred Rettig, chairman of the Berlin Palace-Humboldt Forum Foundation.
After decades of heated debate the palace proponents won out; their main argument: a Palace 2.0 would restore a missing architectural bookend to Unter den Linden, Berlin's historic boulevard which ends at the Brandenburg Gate.
"Both wars and political decisions . . . saw European cities lose many of their landmarks and, with it, part of their identity," says Prof Stella, who sees his job to restore part of that urban and architectural identity.
UCD professor of art history Kathleen James-Chakraborty, a critic of the project, says proponents have employed nostalgia to distort the historical understanding of the building's importance.
"It was certainly large but it was never one of Europe's great baroque palaces," she says, "and it has never had the popular support of other reconstructions, such as the Frauenkirche in Dresden."
The project raises questions relevant beyond the German capital, such as how much architectural heritage is necessary to secure a city's future.
Can a reconstructed building recreate what was lost and a acquire its own patina of legitimacy over time? Or should architecture move ever forward rather than risk being strangled by the past? Until the Humboldt-Forum opens, expected in 2019, the Berlin jury is out
The exhibition Reconstructing Lost Buildings: the Berlin Palace as a Model for Ireland? runs until February 15th at the Irish Architectural Archive, 45 Merrion Square, Dublin 2. A panel discussion takes place in Trinitity College tomorrow evening.


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WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo full review
If there's one thing faster than a hard disk attached to a Thunderbolt cable, it's two disks attached to the new lightning-speed connector.
That's how Western Digital has managed to garner SSD-like speeds from the WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo, a desktop storage solution sporting two internal 3.5in hard disks.
The unit follows the now-familiar Western Digital book-as-storage metaphor, a broad volume with rounded spine and a series of morse dashes tracing all around the page leaves.
Build quality is not as upmarket as the mock-metal case may first suggest – in contrast to WD's handsome My Book Studio, also pitched squarely at Mac users, the WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo drive is an all-plastic affair sprayed silver in an attempt to match real metal Macs.
By depressing the top of the case, a lid pops open to let you replace a disk when required. We tested a model with two 2TB WD Caviar Green drives inside; it's also available in 6TB total size, made from two 3TB disks.
These disks are not the fastest of SATA drives but run comparatively quiet and cool, and combined with the fanless design ensure that the drive won't drive you to distraction through rumbling operation.
Unlike the G-Tech Thunderbolt drive, which is configured using OS X's Disk Utility for software RAID, the WD My Book Thunderbolt has its own software for Windows and Mac to help setup and maintain the unit.
You can use the WD Drive Utilities software to switch between RAID 0 for 4TB of speed and capacity, RAID 1 for 2TB of data security, or JBOD to just use the two disks independently.
Format options are HFS+ with Journaling, native for OS X; and ExFAT, an updated version of Microsoft's FAT that can address the huge disks available as well as the >4GB files you'll want to store on them.
WD's software can also execute a secure wipe of the disks and give SMART diagnostic information on their health.
Using the drive just requires powering up from the included external 12V mains adaptor plug, and connecting to any Mac or Windows PC with a Thunderbolt port. The required Thunderbolt cable is not included.
WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo: Performance
We first tested the Thunderbolt Duo in JBOD mode to check the performance of a single disk. In the QuickBench test in OS X, read/write speeds were both around 110MBps across a range of file sizes from 256kB to 100MB. Peak speeds were found with the largest files in that range, reaching up to 112MBps.
Another useful gauge to performance is with small file transfers, focusing on sequential and random, where the WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo showed an average of 90/92MBps sequential, and 17/64MBps random transfers for respective read/writes.
Fastest speeds were seen in RAID 0 mode, measuring up to 223MBps sequential reads and 217MBps for writes.
This setup also saw faster small-file performance, averaging 154/158MBps sequential and 46/63MBps random, for datasets from 4kB to 1024kB.
To confirm real-world performance, we copied a Blu-ray film from an SSD-equipped Mac mini to the WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo drive.
The 23.24GB directory of video and metadata transferred in 1 min 46 sec, suggesting an average rate of 220MBps. That's a great result and almost twice the write speed of Elgato's Thunderbolt SSD.
WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo: Specs
- 4TB external desktop drive
- 2x 2TB WD Caviar Green SATA disks
- 2x Thunderbolt
- RAID 0, 1 or JBOD
- 12V DC mains adaptor
- 165 x 157 x99mm
- 2.15kg
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Nickelodeon Hotels & Resorts Punta Cana takes you from laughter to luxury with a full menu of world-class treatments at the 14,000-sq.-ft. Vassa Spa. The Vassa Spa experience is unlike any other. Feel the soothing embrace of the herbal steam room, dry sauna, chromo therapy showers, bubble beds and whirlpool. Plan a pampering play date with the little ones. Or take an invigorating dip in arctic and warm water pools. And don't leave the Dominican Republic before you melt into a luscious massage overlooking the blue Caribbean Sea.
Karisma Hotels has designed Vassa Spa to be a sanctuary of unique wellness experiences. Discover Thai-Atsu, a massage that fuses two ancient arts, Shiatsu and Traditional Thai, to completely liberate you from stress. Feel the healing power of hydromassage at the Sensory Pool, designed for muscle relaxation, stimulation of the circulatory system and more. And with spa rituals ranging from traditional massages and reflexology to alternative treatments including our Rain Dropayurvedic therapy and Sacred Stones, you can discover a different version of paradise every day. Explore therapeutic treatments and more in the Vassa Spa full menu of services.
Vassa Spa features five al fresco treatment areas that invite you to take your relaxation outdoors. Enjoy a massage on our elevated massage decks overlooking the Caribbean Sea. Or elevate the romance with a moonlight couples massage. We've created an unforgettable experience of relaxation amid the natural beauty of Punta Cana and paired with the benefits of our nourishing, naturally derived skin care products. Explore rejuvenating skin treatments and more in the Vassa Spa full menu of services.
A day at Vassa Spa doesn't have to be a solo act. Slip away for some grownup time while our Just Kidding staff watches the kids. From the Soulmate Ritual massage to the Moonlight Romantic Massage, couples can enjoy a multisensory bonding experience. We'll prep you for your Dominican Republic destination wedding with hair, nail and waxing services, as well as serene massage rituals for brides and grooms. Kids and teens can take their pick of pampering designed just for them. From mani-pedis in their favorite color to our Spa Sweet Honey ritual with marshmallow butter massage, they'll always remember this special day. Explore togetherness treatments and more in the Vassa Spa full menu of services.


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Alba - The calciner associated the aluminum production facilities at Aluminium Bahrain was commissioned in May 2001. At full capacity, the coke calcining plant will produce 550,000 metric tons per year, marketing the excess for export around the world.
BP- is the third largest calcined coke producer in the world,owns and operates two refinery integrated calciners in the United States and two in Germany with a combined capacity of 1.4 million metric tons per year.
Phillips66 - operates four refinery integrated calciners, three in the United States and one in England, with a combined production capacity of over 1.1 million MT/yr. In 1Q07, they closed their Santa Maria (California) calciner.
Elsid - is a merchant calciner with two locations in Romania.
GOA Carbon - Goa Carbon Limited was incorporated as a public limited company in 1967. The company has three calcining plants with a total capacity of 240,000 metric tons per year. In 1993, Goa Carbon became the first Indian manufacturer/exporter of petcoke.
Oxbow - a merchant calciner, is one of the world's leading producer of calcined petroleum coke with expertise in raw petroleum coke purchasing, blending and calcining as well as in screening, packaging and technical support from locations in the United States, the Netherlands, Belgium, Egypt, and Mexico. Oxbow has calcining plants in the U.S and Argentina. Oxbow is made up of more than two dozen companies with primary businesses in the mining and marketing of energy and commodities including coal, natural gas, petroleum, metallurgical and calcined coke.
PetroCoque - located in Cubatao Brazil, operates a refinery integrated calciner that produces 300,000 metric tons per year of calcined coke.
Rain CII - a merchant calciner, and a major supplier to the world's aluminum and TiO2 Industry, is the one of the world's largest producer of calcined petroleum coke. In July 2007, Rain Calcining Limited, one of Asia's largest calciner, acquired CII Carbon, LLC, one of the largest producers of calcined petroleum coke in the U.S. Together, both entities, with operations in the United States and India, produce more than 2.4 million tons of calcined petroleum coke per year.
Rio Tinto Alcan- The Canadian Based aluminum producer operates smelter integrated calciners in Kitimat B.C; Strathcona, Alberta; Arvida, Quebec. The plants have a combined calcining capacity of 490,000 MT/yr.
Sinoway Carbon Co. (Sinoway), jointly owned by Sinoway Carbon Energy Holdings LTD and DUBAL Holding LLC, is one of the leading suppliers of calcined petroleum coke to the global aluminum industry. In 2011, Sinoway began the construction of a 630,000 MT/year calciner in Shandong, China. The first phase of the project installed 280,000 MT/year of calcining capacity and was completed in 2013. Phase 2 is expected to be completed by the end of 2015. Sinoway is currently conducting a feasibility study focused on a potential phase 3 expansion which would increase the calciner's total capacity to 1 million MT.
ZCGG - the largest manufacturer of calcined petroleum coke in China, with an annual output capacity of 350,000 metric tons. Other products include carbon raiser, graphitized coke, and foundry coke.
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Four more days and summer's here. I can't wait.
I missed yesterday's update. I've now lost 51 pounds. I looked through my weight log and realized I've either gained or lost what I gained the last two months. ICK. Time to move on.
The retreat was a blast. It's always rejuvenating to just hang out with other writers and veg. We plotted, talked, critiqued, ate and drank. Some of us even went swimming. The hundred degree days warmed the lake perfectly.
I shared my synopsis and the opening of my new work with the writers there. It was intimidating to say the least. This is a whole new direction for me and here were these incredible writers sitting there willing to listen. Two are my normal critique partners, but it was different at the retreat.
I wanted to share. I was excited about what I'd written. I never planned on crying. But I did. A LOT. I was just overcome with sadness and then overwhelming peace and then more sadness. It was so strange. But it was amazing too. I've never really felt this close to a work before. It made me wonder if maybe I'm not a little too close to this story. I'm writing it because I feel like it's the story I'm supposed to write. We'll see what happens.


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Managed services provider Brennan has deployed its infrastructure-as-a-service (Iaas) product for national surf shop City Beach.
The three year multi-million dollar deal sees Brennan host the company's ecommerce platform and provide City Beach with networking, maintenance and support services across 65 City Beach locations.
Compared to an in-house solution, City Beach said it expected to save 30 percent on its total cost of ownership over three years with Brennan.
City Beach wanted to build an e-commerce business in one hundred days.
"To host such a platform internally would mean building a data centre at our head office, hiring new staff and making a sizeable capital investment in hardware, said Paul Downs City Beach chief information officer.
"The case Brennan made for an IaaS offer was much more commercially compelling, outlining a raft of benefits in terms of performance, scalability, speed of deployment and cost."
Downs said the model offered "flexibility to adjust capacity, processing power, or storage to suit demand".
Brennan externally hosts the 14 environments required for the project on infrastructure based on VMware's virtualisation software and IBM's Websphere 4 web application server.
Stephen Sims, Brennan's general manager sales and marketing said the retailer represented a "substantial deal" for the service provider.
"One hundred days was an aggressive time frame," he said.
"The key thing is that it's a cloud based platform. In theory we have the equipment there and waiting. That's why they chose us," he said.
Brennan launched its IaaS product last June but had customers deployed on the platform 12 months prior to that.
"I believe we are in a strong position to capitalise on the growing demand for cloud services as we can offer a complete solution unlike telcos who do not have the IT knowledge to provide the necessary support to help clients," Sims said.


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The network: D3baseball.com | D3football.comD3hockey.com | D3hoops.com | D3sports.com
i think the skyline is one of the most overrated leagues in the country....other than a few decent teams at the top of the league, the rest of the teams are relatively weak. Its unfortunate that a team recieves an automatic bid from this league....whens the last time they had a team win an NCAA tourney game....i cant recall??? Id much rather see 5 NJAC teams go than a skyline team
[I dont want to advocate taking away automatic bids if your conference Champions cannot go far in the playoffs. There are several conferences that have never made the Championship round. Enough in fact to allow all the NJAC teams to make the playoffs.
Wouldnt u rather a conference play with wood bat them metal? it proves what players at a D3 level can do if they got picked for the next level. Its already that D3 players are drafted in the late rounds compared to high school students and D1 players. That may be a reason you feel the Skyline conference for baseball is weak cause young college kids are already hitting with wood, that leave games 1-0 finals. and easier for a possable no hitter.


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This breakfast or brunch dish requires surprisingly little effort. Prepare the streusel up to two days in advance, stirring in the pecans just before baking to preserve their texture.
How to Make It
Preheat oven to 375°.
To prepare streusel, lightly spoon flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife. Combine flour and next 6 ingredients (through allspice) in a bowl. Stir with a fork until mixture resembles coarse meal. Stir in pecans.
To prepare pears, using a melon baller or spoon, scoop out core from each pear half. Spoon streusel evenly into pear halves. Place pear halves, cut sides up, in an 8-inch square baking dish. Pour apple juice and apple brandy into dish. Cover dish with foil. Bake at 375° for 30 minutes. Uncover and bake an additional 5 minutes. Serve pears warm. Drizzle evenly with cooking liquid.


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I was asked this, and it's pretty good question. As I have an MD/PhD myself I figure that I'm fairly reasonably equipped to answer this. Although, I do feel that I need to mention that while having gone to medical school may provide essential knowledge to debunking the popular misconceptions, it won't actually provide the answer we're looking for. I'll explain a bit later where we actually find this elusive little answer. First, the misconceptions.
So why are our veins blue? The first and most common answer that people give is "well, it's deoxygenation. When blood isn't exposed to oxygen it's blue." But despite its popularity, this one is actually quite wrong. The only thing that I know of with blue blood is something like a horseshoe crab whose blood is bound to copper – it clots significantly faster, so it's often used for testing purposes.
Deoxygenated venous blood is actually a dark maroon, while oxygenated arterial blood is bright red. You can debunk this little myth yourself if you look at a thin membrane that has blood vessels. Some examples include: the eyes, eyelids, underside of the tongue, and the scrotum (if you're a boy or happen to have one available). You'll clearly notice that these are indeed red. So that one's out.
Okay so if our blood isn't blue… then maybe our veins are! This is the next most common misconception. Anyone that has ever dissected anything, or even viewed pictures thereof can tell you that veins are most definitely not blue, nor green, nor even purple. Though if you've seen a medical diagram it's a reasonable assumption considering they're almost always colored blue. But they're not. If you google image "open surgery" you can see for yourself, though I warn you… these pictures are not for the squeamish. Veins are red. Though, I do know that veins in the brain can appear blue.
Okay so then if our blood isn't blue and our veins aren't blue, then why the heck do our veins look blue?!
Believe it or not, this actually has less to do with your internal biology and more to do with our perception of light. Though, it does also have to do with the light absorbing properties of our blood and our skin. Specifically, how light is absorbed by our blood and how it is reflected by our skin. And this is where we get into our answer. For this, I go to the expertise of Dr. Alwin Kienle and associates who specialize in the study of optics and photonics.
What it essentially comes down to is that skin generally reflects light rather than absorbs it while blood absorbs all wavelengths of light, albeit less of the red spectrum.
And well, the jist of it is that the blue wavelength isn't as good at penetrating skin as the red spectrum. If you have a very thin membrane like mentioned above, then blue light will be absorbed and the vessel will appear red.
But if we go deeper then not nearly as much light is absorbed and much less of the blue/green side of the spectrum than the red. And thus, blue veins are born. It essentially just comes down to optical properties. If you're more interested in the technical details of, you can grab a pdf on Dr. Kienle and associates research here. I'll quote below for you the summary of their findings:
To summarize, the reason for the bluish color of a vein is not greater remission of blue light compared with red light; rather, it is the greater decrease in the red remission above the vessel compared to its surroundings than the corresponding effect in the blue. At first it seems astonishing that red light is more attenuated above the vessel than blue light, since, as Table 1 shows, the absorption of blood is much less in the red than in the blue. This is the result of the spectral characteristics of light propagation in tissue. Blue light does not penetrate as deeply into tissue as red light. Therefore, if the vessel is sufficiently deep, the reflectance in the blue will be affected to a lesser extent. Deoxygenated venous blood has a greater absorption coefficient than oxygenated arterial blood in the red spectral region, and this difference of two, rather small, values is amplified because of the long path length of red light in scattering tissue. As a result, veins are more likely to look blue than arteries at the same diameter and depth. Often arteries are not seen at all because they are generally smaller than veins and have thicker vessel walls. It has been shown that a small vessel will look red when close to the surface. However, if a superficial vessel is large it can still look bluish, particularly in the case of the vein. On the other hand, if the depth of a vessel is large, even red remitted light will not be influenced by the vessel, and it will not be seen. We note that, for the calculations here, we assumed an oxygen saturation of 50% for venous blood. This is somewhat arbitrary, but other possible realistic values do not change the conclusions.
As shown in Fig. 8, even above the vein more red than blue light is remitted. Thus, for a complete explanation of the perceived color of the vessel one needs the retinex theory. With the retinex theory the color can be determined by the relative intensities at the three wave bands from a particular scene compared to the surrounding area. The intensities of these wave bands are weighted by spectral functions that represent the human spectral vision. In this study we used single wavelengths that are representative of these spectral functions, and, therefore, a retinex color three space based on selected wavelengths should be applied. However, we chose typical wavelengths for the long-wave, middle-wave, and short-wave regions and made qualitative estimates of the colors. Therefore, we believe that we are justified in applying the usual retinex three-color space. In one example, we calculated the remission at several wavelengths and used the spectral sensitivity of the cones to show that the approach of using only three single wavelengths is justified.
It is interesting to speculate whether retinex theory is necessary for other color perception issues in medicine 1e.g., the color of port-wine stains, vitiligo lesions, blue nevi, age spots, eyes, hair2, or whether the perceived color can be simply related to the absorption spectra of hromophores, possibly modified by the presence of light scattering and measured with a reflectometer. If the problem of vessel color is any guide, it seems that retinex theory may provide an essential step in the description of color perception.
What I don't quite understand however is how hypoxia is causing the cyanosis of skin (acute arterial thrombosis for instance).
My only guess was perhaps the onset of necrosis such as seen in ischemia, or perhaps the change to venous blood is enough to alter the optical properties of the entire effected region to a blue hue, as it has a greater optical effect than arterial blood. Or perhaps some combination of the two.
Having had a chance to talk to Dr. Kienle, he acknowledged as much albeit mentioning that for a thorough investigation one would have to look more closely to the haemodynamics (and geometrical changes caused by) of cyanosis. Although, he did laugh in saying that he was Physicist, not a Dermatologist. 😛


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This blog was originally shared as part of the launch of #RoadtoCACUSS 2017, a bike ride from Toronto to Ottawa embarked upon by 19 SA pros from a couple institutions in Ontario.
#RoadtoCACUSS 2017 is a wellness journey that will culminate in Student Affairs Professionals from across the country cycling from Toronto to Ottawa to attend the annual Canadian Association of College and University Student Services conference. The bike trip begins on June 4, 2017 but the journey will start long before that as participants train, prepare, and gear up for the adventure.
Two years ago, 6 Student Affairs professionals took a recreational vehicle and travelled from Ryerson University in Toronto, ON to Vancouver, BC—the host of CACUSS 2015. This group explored six universities in Canada and the United States, spanning three provinces and seven states. The goal in 2014 was to engage in a reflective journey of personal and professional development. We learned about each other, our professional identities, and how connected our field was across the continent as we were faced with many similar challenges regardless of institution type and location.
While on the RV, we looked up the location for #CACUSS17 and jokingly asked ourselves, "Could we ride our bikes to Ottawa?" We talked about how we could expand the project to include anyone from the CACUSS community, with the intention of welcoming others to experience the learning and transformative experience we were engaged in.
#RoadToCACUSS 2017 was born with the goal of multiple participants successfully cycling over 450 km from Toronto to Ottawa, ON. This iteration we decided to focus on a question we believe is paramount to all in our community. We know the work we do to support the student experience outside of the classroom is important, but who do we have to be in order to best deliver this support? Why should students trust us? Is a flourishing Student Affairs professional better able to support the student experience?
With an open invitation sent out across CACUSS, participants from Ryerson, Queen's, and Western University will leave Sunday June 4 from Toronto and arrive in Ottawa on Thursday June 8. Each participant has committed themselves to the physical training and mental challenge it will take to successfully cycle to Ottawa while raising awareness and funds for a cause that touches all of our work: the mental health and well-being of our students.
Participants have committed to bring awareness to their own developments, and connect a personal and/or professional challenge they are experiencing to Martin Seligman's PERMA-V framework. Each week participants will be introduced to a component of the model and an exercise that will help them develop resilience as we experience this journey. In addition, all participants will fundraise for Jack.org, which will allow for student groups to develop anti-stigma initiatives related to mental health and illness across 120 chapters at universities and colleges in Canada.
19 professionals from many areas of Student Affairs and Services—including Student Development & Counselling, Housing & Residence Life, Student Learning Support, Career Education, and Student Life—have accepted the challenge. Along this journey, they will:
- identify a personal and professional challenge they desire to transform;
- identify how two components of Dr. Martin Seligman's PERMA-V (Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Accomplishment, and Vitality) model could be used to transform a personal and/or professional challenge through discussion and reflection;
- connect their experience to the development of one competency from the CACUSS competency model;
- consider how PERMA-V may inform their activities, personal/professional development, and modeling of holistic health through reflection and discussion.
Our work calls us to innovatively solve problems, while maintaining personal well-being, and modeling wellness to colleagues/students. We will put our wellness on the line during this iteration of the #RoadToCACUSS. We invite you to participate with us in weekly flourishing exercises, to donate to the Jack Project, to tell us about your personal journey as you prepare for #CACUSS17, and to become a part of the this dynamic conversation. We're excited to share all our stories as we connect across our various journeys to #CACUSS17!


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Master Photoshoper
- I can't believe the post yesterday was lost on everyone. I'll have to make sure to not try so hard with my photoshop skills. So just in case some of you were left confused still, here is a side-by-side explanation.
- I may need to get a formal gown for a wedding in September at the Copley Plaza. I haven't worn a formal gown since Gemini's wedding and that is actually too fancy (also I probably don't fit in it).
- Come to think of it, Erik is probably going to need a suit :banghead: He says he has a suit but I don't think I've ever seen it, therefore I question whether it really fits.
- I have no plans this weekend, not one. All I know is I'm going to Panera Bread…I'm craving it bad.
- Why do Netflix even have movies listed if they aren't available to rent? Such teases they are.
- Why do I live miles 5 miles away from the closest DD? Why did I not factor this in when we were buying the house??
- Why is it so cold my nipples are about to pop off?
Don't miss my topless debut over at Fab's, it's very life-like :thumbsup:
TaraAugust 11, 2007 at 4:32 pm
I knew it was you! BTW, in that, you look a bit like McKenzie Phillips.
If you can bike ride to the DD, then you can eat whatever you want and work it off on the way back. :thumbsup:
RobinAugust 11, 2007 at 4:35 pm
I'd rather look like Bijou Phillips but thanks :lmao: I'm attempting a seductive face in that picture…it didn't really work.
TaraAugust 11, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Robin, it's damn near impossible to look seductive in that getup, ESPECiALLY the hat. :poke:
RobinAugust 11, 2007 at 4:57 pm
True, but the original picture of me trying to look seductive doesn't work either.
Mr. FabulousAugust 11, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Okay, but YOU actually Do have a penis, right?
RobinAugust 12, 2007 at 8:18 am
Oh yeah, of course!
themuttprincessAugust 12, 2007 at 9:49 pm
I got your mad photoshop skillz…..
I wonder why don't ya just write the DD headquarters… You alone would keep that store in business!!!!
RobinAugust 13, 2007 at 7:57 am
Hmmm…not a bad idea.


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Last week all those lucky Transformer tablet owners learned that they'd be getting the update to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to end the week and over the weekend. Sadly that only turned out true for the Transformer Prime, while the Transformer Pad Infinity (TF700T) update was delayed. Today though the update is rolling out in full force.
For unknown reasons ASUS updated their budget friendly TF300 first, then the Transformer Prime to the absolute latest version of Android, which is 4.1 Jelly Bean. After the formal announcement ASUS later confirmed the Infinity would be delayed until this week, but it's already available now and apparently started hitting users tablets over the weekend.
For those that don't own this awesome tablet. It now rocks the latest version of Android to go along with that awesome 10-inch 1920 x 1200 truly 1080p HD display, an 8 megapixel rear camera, front HD camera for video chat, and of course can use ASUS' popular keyboard dock for even more options.
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean brings Google Now voice search, project butter UI enhancements and performance improvements, general stability improvements, and Google's Chrome browser should also work much better too. We all should know plenty about Jelly Bean, so accept that over-the-air update or head to settings > about tablet > check for updates to pull down the latest firmware right from ASUS. Enjoy that Jelly Bean folks!
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— Thanks to all who sent this in!


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UPPERCASE, lowercase, camelCase
- Tuesday, 02 July 2013, 13:16 @ CEST
- Contributed by: remy
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When Cobol was conceptualized, computer characters were mainly uppercased. Functions like ignoreCase were not available and did not even circulate the minds of IT professionals. And there is no need, nowadays, to stick to UPPERCASE.
While in the originating years (70's) of Cobol's growth, the programs were large and often monolithic. That did not change much over the years, but today's demands are for relative short programs that can be used as building blocks of complete systems. In short: callable subprograms, or subroutines, that can be fit in a control structure embedded in a OLTP queueing system of choice.
Matching todays demands needs a proper attitude to the language itself, to programming as a disciple and some means to apply generic structures. The Cobol language -- as is -- deserves respect when the volume of use is conceived, when the volume of processed data is considered, when its age becomes clear. It certainly looks like that the available crowds of IT specialists don't have the power to redo Cobol projects within time frames their language of choice would allow for. A similar prose can be expressed on "discipline". Matching todays demands means simply to deliver correct programs that excel in readability and scale well. This is not to be confused with the demand to be productive, which is heard along time lines now and than.
With CoCoS there are simple but restrictive rules. Once one sticks with them, i.e. decides to follow them, it is possible to produce clean, readable, scaling and correct programs in Cobol Text. Some of these rules do introduce control structures and implicit support for large architectures.
The most restrictive rule is on casing, i.e. using upper-, lower-, camel-, snake- and other -case.
In short, the usage of various casing methods can be tied to programming languages, sometimes also to individuals. This is no different with Cobol, which lives at large out there in UPPERCASE. This is a good method and signals a mainframe that processes EBCDIC.
This rule says that you either use lowercase, either use uppercase for all of your productions. Exceptions can be found in uppercasing Cobol reserved words (i.e. all syntax) within a lowercased text. But that is all.
On certain maturity levels a need for syntactic sugar arises. This is mostly found in camelCase (Java) or snake_case (C, C++). This type of casing comes along with naming your variables, dataFields, paragraph names. For those addicted to such, the following rules (with reference to WikiPedia on lettering case) are suggested:
Cobol has a lot of reserved words; the complete syntax consists of reserved words. And these words are in the English Language. Which makes it sometimes tricky to name data fields properly. Using lowercase for them won't change that, though it could be anticipated that this could change in the future.
So, while naming a data field MOVE is illegal since it is a reserved word, naming it move is illegal too.
CoCoS advises to never use any camelCase in syntax. Stick to lower- or uppercase, for 100%.


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"Unique and precious pieces of movie art." That's what Lomography is promising to deliver with the LomoKino Super 35 Movie Maker -- the company's very first movie camera. Announced earlier this month, the LomoKino is hardly a technological game changer. In fact, it's anything but. Much like every other camera to come off of Lomography's assembly line, the Movie Maker is entirely analog. Users must spool their own 35mm film and manually operate the device's crank to capture images at a frame rate of three to five frames per second, with a shutter speed of 1/100 second. From there, you can either send the film off to get developed and digitally formatted, or cut it yourself and scan it into your movie editing software of choice.
You won't find any sound, many frills, or, for that matter, a ton of convenience, but that's also the idea -- to return filmmakers to the roots of early silent cinema, with a pared down device that reignites some of the photographic mystery lost with the dawn of the digital age. For those too young to remember the analog era, just think of it as a physical manifestation of Instagram, minus the "insta" part. And the results can be pretty stunning, as many in the Lomography community have already demonstrated with collections of hauntingly silent, washed out shorts. With our curiosity piqued, we decided to stop by Lomography's boutique in Paris to learn more about the LomoKino. Check out our hands-on gallery below, and click past the break for our initial impressions.


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A Turkish league match between Manchester United's Champions League opponents Bursaspor and Gaziantepspor was abandoned yesterday after a linesman was struck by a missile thrown by a spectator.
Champions and league leaders Bursaspor, who host Manchester United at the Bursa Ataturk Stadium in November, scored the only goal of the match following a controversial decision by the officials that angered the home crowd in the 57th minute.
An object was thrown from the stands and the linesman Muharrem Yilmaz suffered a cut to the head, causing the referee to abandon the game six minutes later.
The Turkish Super Lig is notorious for its passionate crowds and the Turkish Football Federation, or TFF, has had to deal with crowd problems before. Bursaspor were awarded a 3-0 default win over Diyarbakirspor for a match suspended in March after Diyarbakirspor fans threw objects at opposing players.
The vice-president of the TFF, Lutfi Aribogan, is expected to announce a similar decision after yesterday's incident. The default win would put Bursaspor on 15 points, stretching their lead at the top of the table over second-placed Besiktas by five points.
The Bursaspor-Diyarbakirspor game was suspended in the 17th minute after Diyarbakirspor supporters threw objects on the field. One object struck and knocked down an assistant referee.
Another game was cancelled last season between Istanbul Municipality and Diyarbakirspor at Istanbul's Ataturk Olympic Stadium after Diyarbakirspor players stormed the pitch.
Bursaspor are making their Champions League debut this season and lost their opening Group C game 4-0 at home to Valencia last week. They play Rangers at Ibrox next Wednesday before a double-header with Manchester United.


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No more turning off mobile phones during flight
Travelers can use their smartphones and even connect to a Wi-Fi in the new Boeing aircraft
Boeing has improved the connectivity of its commercial fleet. Users of the Boeing aircraft will be able to use their mobile phones normally or connect to a Wi-Fi to surf the Internet without imposing any problem.
What of "we remind you that during flight is prohibited from using mobile phones" have the hours counted. The Boeing Company offers airlines new connection possibilities. Thus, air travel for several hours will not cause any inconvenience for those who want to make the long trips internet browsing or have to take calls.
The new Boeing 747-8 and 777, which will be ready in late 2013, will expand its wireless coverage, providing passengers to use their mobile phones to connect to a Wi-Fi , Internet access using so-called entertainment flight (IFE, for its acronym in English) and live TV broadcasts.
Moreover, these additional connectivity systems are being evaluated for the Boeing 737 and may be available in the near future, the company says. The 737 already includes wiring provisions for connectivity systems. By the end of this year, the company is working for the Boeing 787 in flight provides a full set of connectivity offerings as part of their standard catalog. "Passengers want the option to stay connected to your email, internet and other online deals in flight. We have partnered with several suppliers of system connectivity for our entire family of aircraft, "says the company.
The first connectivity systems currently under development at Boeing are the Panasonic Global Communication Suite and Thales TopConnect system. Wireless media streaming system is expected to be available in all new Boeing aircraft in 2014.