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Oklahoma GTL plant "go-ahead"
By Stuart Radnedge2014-07-31T10:56:00+01:00
Velocys, the technology innovator for smaller scale gas-to-liquids (GTL), has announced the final investment decision (FID) has been made to proceed with construction of a commercial GTL plant using the company's technology.
The project is being funded by a joint venture (JV) between Waste Management, NRG Energy (NRG), Ventech Engineers International (Ventech) and Velocys, formed to develop a series of GTL plants in the United States and other select geographies.
The plant, which is designed to be profitable on a standalone basis, will be located at Waste Management's East Oak landfill site in Oklahoma, US. It will provide a commercial reference site for the Velocys technology and will deploy a number of the company's full-scale Fischer-Tropsch reactors.
Purchase of major equipment has begun, with construction and commissioning to be complete, and the plant entering full commercial operation, in less than 24 months. The JV has entered into all major contracts needed for the project, including technology license, supply and service agreements with Velocys (at market rates), EPC contract with Ventech (lump sum for the modules), land lease with Waste Management, and gas purchase and product offtakes. Further detail concerning the project will be released during a ground-breaking ceremony scheduled for later in the year.
As a minority interest holder in the JV, the company's investment in the East Oak plant is limited to some $5m, drawn down over the course of construction. This amount, which excludes revenues due to Velocys for the supply of technology and services, can be comfortably accommodated from the company's current balance sheet.
Waste Management is the largest environmental solutions provider in North America, NRG owns the largest and most diverse competitive power generation portfolio in the United States; both are Fortune 500 companies. Ventech is a global leader in the design and construction of modular refineries.
Roy Lipski, CEO of Velocys, said, "Like the four minute mile, this small commercial GTL plant going ahead is a major psychological milestone, for the industry and for Velocys and its customers."
"After 15 years of development, over $300m of investment, and a commercial plant underway, Velocys is now poised at the forefront of the distributed production revolution taking place in this new age of gas abundance."
Smaller scale GTL supply chain strengthened
A manufacturing partnership has been established between Velocys, a developer of Fischer-Tropsch (FT) reactors that enable smaller scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) plants, and Shiloh Industries, Inc., a North American supplier of engineered metal products to the automotive industry.
Velocys in GTL joint venture
Velocys plc (VLS.L), the technology innovator for smaller scale gas-to-liquids (GTL), is pleased to announce that it has entered a joint venture (JV) with Waste Management, NRG Energy (NRG), and Ventech Engineers International (Ventech).
GTL acquisition for Velocys
Both Pinto Energy and the Ashtabula GTL project have been acquired by Velocys – the technology company which focuses on smaller scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) operations.
Approval for Canadian LNG projects
Canada's Environment Minister, Mary Polak, and Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Coleman have issued Environmental Assessment Certificates for three LNG projects in northern British Columbia.
Rapidox 7100 analyser released
Cambridge Sensotec has launched its new generation of Rapidox Multigas analysers, designed and manufactured for the analysis, control and monitoring of emission or process gas.
Gasmet analyser used in space simulation
A portable FTIR gas analyser from Gasmet has recently been used as part of a specialist space sector project to understand the potential issues facing any manned missions to Mars.


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The Enduring Appeal of Being Hot
What is it about sweaty, 105-degree yoga that makes people feel intensely alive?
By James Hamblin
Bikram Choudhury (center, pantsless) leads a class in Los Angeles. (Reed Saxon / AP)
Somehow after enough yoga, sitting perfectly erect and also appearing at ease become no longer mutually exclusive. That's how instructors Elizabeth Glover and Lara Atella sat in the foyer of their studio on H Street in Washington, D.C. this week, where they explained to me the draw of very hot yoga, as a group of soaking wet, barely clad people poured out of their 105-degree Fahrenheit noon Bikram class. Posture is contagious, like yawning or hepatitis, but with your spine. I tried to nonchalantly pull my shoulders back and stick out my chest as we talked.
If these two yoga instructors seemed especially erect and at ease, it may be because the yoga they practice is an especially intense and especially hot form of yoga. Actually, the neon sign on the brick facade still says "Bikram Yoga Capitol Hill," but the studio is now called Hot Yoga Capitol Hill. Glover, the founder and director, declines to comment on whether the name change is a position statement—but it's at least coincidental that, in the wake of multiple recent rape allegations against the guru who created the Bikram yoga method, Bikram Choudhury, some studios are distancing themselves from his name.
That distancing should only increase after Choudhury gave a deeply bizarre defense this month in a CNN interview, saying that he doesn't need to rape his students because he has "millions" of women lining up to have sex with him. And, due respect for his non-native English, that did not appear to factor into his explanation that he has sex with his students only as a public service when they threaten to commit suicide if he does not.
"We love the yoga," Glover said, drawing me away from the guru and back to the reason I came. "We've seen that it works for people with all kinds of mental and physical conditions. It has helped people with high blood pressure, diabetes, chronic pain, autoimmune disorders—"
"I used to have cysts in my wrist," said Atella, who has a neurobehavioral research background and an eye for methodological analysis, "and my doctors told me I had to get surgery to have them removed because they'd been there so long they were calcified. But then I started yoga, and they went away."
These health anecdotes are far from isolated. Choudhury has positioned himself as more of a spiritual leader than as a fitness expert ("I implant my mind into your brain"), but many people turn to hot yoga with an eye to improving health by some unknown mechanism. The practice undeniably tends to make people feel good—even researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital are evaluating hot yoga as an adjunct therapy for depression—but almost no research has been done into whether hot yoga actually is good, or even prudent, as a bodily undertaking. So I was interested in concerns raised this week by the American Council on Exercise (ACE), which released a strongly worded warning about elevations in body temperatures during Bikram classes.
Leading up to the statement, the council studied people's heart rates and core temperatures during the course of a class and found that several people experienced significant elevations in core temperature, up to 104 degrees Fahrenheit. "The dramatic increases in heart rate and core temperature are alarming when you consider that there is very little movement, and therefore little cardiovascular training, going on during class," the researcher Emily Quandt said in the ACE statement.
Bikram yoga, by definition and decree of the guru, consists of 90 minutes at 105 degrees Fahrenheit and 40 percent humidity. The series follows a specific set of poses in a rigid order every time. "Hot yoga," on the other hand, is usually shorter and not so hot, and can be any amalgamation of poses. Even though the practice has been around since the 1970s—breaking into mainstream American consciousness when his friend Shirley MacLaine got Choudhury a spot on Johnny Carson—it has largely gone uninvestigated. But as its popularity continues to grow, along with growing popularity of hot workouts of other types—there are now hot spinning classes, hot kettle-bell classes, hot boot camps—the cumulative hotness drew the attention of ACE.
Body Temperatures During 90-Minute Bikram Yoga Class
American Council on Exercise
"I don't want to raise unnecessary fear and alarm, but I want instructors to be really aware of this, to look for signs and symptoms of heat intolerance," Cedric Bryant, chief science officer at ACE, told me. We had met a couple months earlier when he was in D.C. for a conference on national fitness guidelines. Bryant is a serious and methodical person whose mission at ACE is to ensure that fitness trainers, in yoga and elsewhere, are certified by a centralized body of some kind (ACE or another, but, you know, ideally ACE) before advertising expertise and plying their trade. His takeaway in this case is that Bikram teachers and practitioners need to be attentive to heat intolerance and encourage hydration, not deprivation. "For the majority of people who are presumably healthy, [Bikram yoga] should present no problem," Bryant said, but then added that diabetes, hypertension, and obesity can compromise body-temperature regulation, and most Americans have one of those conditions, so people should be careful.
"We had seven people get core temperatures over 103 degrees, and one was 104.1, which is pretty warm," Bryant's research collaborator John Porcari explained. "In that range you can see heat-related illnesses, dizziness, drops in blood pressure, headaches, vomiting, even seizures." Porcari has lived in the small city of La Crosse, Wisconsin, for 26 years, where he's a professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse—and where the energy cost of heating a studio to 105 degrees in winter raises additional questions of prudence. Porcari himself is not a regular practitioner of yoga, but he wouldn't tell people not to do it.
"People seem to love it," he said with a verbal shrug, the common refrain. He brought up the not-well-understood attraction of warm-blooded humans to saunas: "What's magical about a sauna? What makes you feel good? There's something anxiolytic about saunas, and about exercising in a hot environment." Some people like it for the relief they get after they finish, and some like it more in the moment. There is also something at least slightly misleading about the amount of sweat a person produces, which is not indicative of an intense workout, but can be similarly gratifying. But that's not necessarily bad. "I think when you look at the mental benefits, at the mind-body connection, people feel like they've accomplished something," said Porcari. "They feel better about themselves."
His speculation ended when I asked about the spiritual element of the practice—if a feeling of transcendence or well-being that sometimes comes from hot yoga could be related to the low blood pressure and dizziness. (Porcari: "Transcendence meaning?" Me: "You know, if you're light-headed enough you might be having some spiritual experience?" Porcari: "That's beyond my realm. If you start feeling lightheaded and dizzy, I don't see that as a good thing.")
But Brian Tracy, a neuromuscular-function researcher at Colorado State University, didn't leave me hanging. "There is a pretty distinct sense of well-being that you have after a class," Tracy, who is himself a weekend Bikram warrior, said, "Physically, yes, but mentally also. And it's a real thing. People talk about the exercise high, and this seems different to me. There may be a whole different mechanism where exposure to heat, like going into a sauna, may feed back and have actual positive effects in the brain."
Tracy was not involved with the current study but has done other Bikram research, including the first peer-reviewed study of physiological effects—which was not published until 2008. At that point he found improved balance and strength, and control of the leg muscles, after regular Bikram practice. In 2013, he published another study showing improvement in flexibility and a small decrease in body fat. He was surprised by the new body-temperature findings, and a little suspicious. "My thing about all this concern is, there are thousands of people around the world that practice this on a regular basis and are practically 'addicted' to it, and they love it. So, it can't be that bad. Listen to your body."
If everything that my body told me to do were really good for me, the world would be a different, wonderful place.
Tracy's more tangible counterpoint to the new evidence is his own research, which is forthcoming, which found that the highest body temperatures any Bikram practitioners experienced was 101.5. "That's nowhere near ringing alarm bells about core temperature," he said. It must be noted that Tracy's work at Colorado State has been underwritten by Bikram Yoga College. But he is adamant that the conflict of interest does not compromise his integrity. It's an objection he's heard before over his years of Bikram research, and he was upfront about the funding source. I warned him that readers would be skeptical, even though not all of his findings have been favorable to Bikram. "Well," he said, "they can have my raw data if they want."
That data, like the data used in La Crosse, consists of temperature measurements from an edible thermometer. Tracy describes it as "the biggest vitamin you've ever seen in your life, coated with a rubbery substance." Inside is a transmitter that sends temperature readings to a receiver while the thermometer works its way through a yogi's small intestine. The subjects are not asked to retrieve the thermometer once its intestinal journey is complete. That is what graduate students are for. No, just kidding. The thermometer pill, like the Bikramites whose temperatures it once monitored, gets flushed.
Both core-temperature studies involved a very small number of subjects, so the reason for the discrepancy between the two studies is tough to parse. If more people would like to fund research of hot yoga—not you, Bikram Yoga College—that would be great. It might be especially worthwhile as more cardio-intensive forms of exercising in heat comes into fashion. "I have more concerns about those [types of exercises] with more upright work, with more pooling of blood and lightheadedness," said Bryant.
The most important part of both studies is that no one actually experienced heat stroke, or any symptoms at all. Glover's D.C. studio has been open since July 2006, and she remembers "maybe three times" that there was cause for acute medical concern. "In one case someone was on a diuretic and didn't tell us in advance, so of course, they were dehydrated," she recalled. In Atella's experience, people have developed symptomatic dehydration in class after a night of drinking.
Tracy drinks a liter of water before class, and nearly another liter during. (Actually it's lightly-salted water, because electrolytes prevent hyponatremia and swelling of the brain that can come with drinking too much pure water.) Porcari says water should be fine for most Bikram practitioners, because this isn't a desert ultramarathon. Glover tells people to drink 16 to 20 ounces before class. As long as all practitioners are encouraging hydrating—rather than telling people to push through the thirst and master their bodily desires, which few do—the consensus seems to be that should be sufficient for safe practice.
Jessica Matthews, a senior advisor at ACE, offers a couple other points of advice. "Embrace the process of sweating and encourage students to do the same," she writes, by which she means that because sweating cools the body through the evaporation process, students should be encouraged "to avoid becoming distracted in their practice by constantly wiping sweat from their skin, which, from a safety perspective, can lessen the amount of evaporative cooling that occurs, resulting in retained body heat and an increased risk of dehydration and overheating."
I know in a piece like this, the writer would usually try Bikram yoga and report back on how sweaty they got. But I'm not that writer today. I stepped into the 105-degree room and out of it, and it was very hot and the air was thick and sweaty, and that's all. After talking with so many people about it, though, I'm inclined to try it sometime. Ideally at a place that no longer uses the name of the guy who justifies sex with his students as a public service. It ultimately sounds a little bit like a drug, but one that might even be good for you.
"With every therapy there are risks and side effects," said Atella. "Yes, when you do Bikram, there are risks, especially if you push it too hard."
Usually in exercise, pushing hard is the goal. So maybe "therapy" really is the best way to think about hot yoga, and that heat exposure is best considered apart from exercise. Like a sauna. More is not necessarily better, and nor is hotter. But regular practice provides elements that have very real physical manifestations: ritual, relaxation, and community. The Bikram community is tightly knit and a significant part of many practitioners lives. It provides social support and acceptance. This is a group of people that, no matter where you go in the world, does this exact set of poses in the exact same order, in the exact same environmental conditions. It seems that some of the hesitation of the community to distance itself from Bikram Choudhury comes from a reluctance to drift apart into the nebulous world of "hot yoga," to dissolve the community, and thereby jeopardize the most evidence-based elements of the practice.
Meanwhile people's physiologic explanations for why they benefit from practicing Bikram yoga will remain largely speculative. Atella was a runner before she started Bikram, but she was never much of a sweater. After she took up the practice, she began sweating more, even outside of class, which she believes helps her body thermoregulate. "This makes it possible for people to sweat like they never thought they could," she claims, after 16 years of experience doing Bikram. "We see people leaving here every day looking like they're walking on air."
And, yes, that was exactly what the people leaving the H Street studio looked like. Going off into the normal-temperature world, to sit perfectly upright someplace. They were just smiling for no clear reason, like crazy people.

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If we learned anything from last year (and all the 2017 trend predictions), it's that the future is mobile.
Mobile has already overtaken desktop searches, with 58% of all search queries being made on Smartphones, and now the much-discussed mobile-first indexing has started rolling out.
It means that Google's algorithms will primarily use the mobile version of a site's content to rank pages from that site, to understand structured data, and to show snippets from those pages in their results.
In layman's terms, only mobile pages will be seen in the index, and no desktop pages.
That means that if the mobile version of your site has less content or is stripped-down in some way you should be concerned, as it's that version that Google is going to see.
Pretty big news for website owners and digital marketers. So, it's safe to say that getting your mobile site up to scratch should be top of your do-list this year.
If you're wondering how to get started, below are 5 steps to follow to ensure a happy and prosperous 2017 for your website and your business.
If you want to be mobile-first you first need to get mobile-friendly. You've probably (hopefully) already done this, but it's a good idea to make regular checks and get your mobile friendliness score as high as you can. Get tested here.
When doing your mobile audit, something to note is that Google suggests using responsive design over having a separate mobile website. If you have a separate mobile website, ensure that the primary content (including structured markup) of your desktop and mobile website are the same, if not similar. And, ensure that the appropriate canonical and rel alternate tags are added, to avoid duplicate content issues.
Mobile search is increasingly done via voice. It's quicker and easier than typing, and A.I assistants like Siri, Viv and Alexa have normalised the concept of voice commands and brought it into our everyday lives.
Google announced that voice search is the fastest growing type of search and have previously told us that about 20% of all searches are voice searches. If you want to get the most out of mobile users, optimising for voice search is an important step.
In order to do this, you need to understand the HOW and the WHY of voice search.
The queries tend to include more filler words (i.e are more conversational) than searches made on desktop. For example, a desktop search of "Sushi Manly" is more likely to be "Where is the best sushi restaurant in Manly?" when searched using voice.
Because of the conversational nature of voice search, search queries also tend to be much longer in the tail.
In addition, voice searches generally contain more question words (what, when, where, how and why).
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Google promotes AMPs (Accelerated Mobile Pages) above regular pages on mobile. AMP pages result in much quicker load speeds and, therefore, vastly improve the user experience.
The process for setting up AMP for your mobile pages is different depending on your CMS, but in cases like wordpress it's just a simple plugin. If you haven't looked into it, now's the time.
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As we move through 2017, there's no denying that those who take a mobile-first approach will reap the rewards – will you be one of them?


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Mass Attorney General: 'If You've Received An Eviction Notice, You Do Not Have To Move Out Immediately'
January 7, 2021 January 7, 2021 editor	Coronavirus, Evictions, Landlords, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, Massachusetts Attorney General office
The Massachusetts Attorney General's office issued an advisory for Tenants Facing Eviction of the Financial and Legal Assistance Programs Available and Offers Information about Eviction Court Process. This press release was sent to SOURCE media.
BOSTON – With hundreds of eviction cases piling up in the courts, Attorney General Maura Healey today, January 7, issued an advisory to ensure tenants who are facing financial hardship and are at risk of losing their homes are aware of their rights and know how to access state assistance programs.
"Families across the state are continuing to suffer financial hardship from this pandemic and we want to ensure those who may be at risk of losing their homes know their rights," Healey said. "If you've received an eviction notice, you do not have to move out immediately and you are entitled to a court hearing. This advisory helps tenants and landlords understand the resources available to them, including financial and legal assistance."
Today's advisory follows a sharp rise in eviction cases for nonpayment of rent being filed in the state's housing courts. According to state data, there were more than 4,000 eviction cases filed between November 2 and December 14. In October, AG Healey called on Governor Baker to extend the state's eviction moratorium to give safety net programs for landlords and tenants time to be fully operational. After the expiration of the Massachusetts moratorium, the AG urged the Administration to prioritize the hiring and training of additional legal counsel and mediators, and to streamline housing assistance applications. The AG's Office has been working with Local Consumer Programs throughout the state to help tenants and landlords apply for rental assistance.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, AG Healey's Office has been closely monitoring the housing court docket, responding to complaints from residents and reviewing referrals from partner organizations for violations of the state and federal moratoriums on evictions. Through these actions, the AG's Office handled more than 200 complaints relating to the eviction moratorium and has been able to stop more than 80 illegal evictions.
The AG's advisory offers guidance including the following:
Evictions Must be Court Ordered
Tenants cannot be evicted and forced to move out of their homes without a written court order. During the public health crisis, the AG's Office has prioritized addressing complaints related to "self-help" evictions – where landlords attempt to circumvent the court process and forcibly remove tenants from their homes. It is unlawful to threaten, intimidate, or coerce a tenant to get them to leave the property, including by changing their locks, shutting off their utilities, interfering with their use of the unit, or by threatening to report them to immigration authorities. This protection applies to all tenants, whether they have a lease, a sublease, or no lease at all.
Tenants who have experienced a "self-help" eviction or those whose landlord has threatened to forcibly remove them, should call the Attorney General's Office at 617-727-8400.
Available Financial Assistance
If a tenant is unable to pay their rent because of a COVID-19 financial hardship, they should work with their landlord to seek financial help from the state. Tenants and landlords can apply for Residential Assistance for Families in Transition (RAFT) benefits of up to $10,000 of assistance in a one-year period. Tenants who are unable to pay for rent for a reason other than the public health crisis may seek up to $4,000 in RAFT benefits. Once approved, these payments are sent directly to landlords.
The Emergency Rental and Mortgage Assistance (ERMA) program also helps households who are behind on rent or mortgage payments or are at risk of falling behind due to the pandemic.
Tenants cannot be evicted while a rental assistance application is pending. Specifically, the court cannot "enter a judgment" against a tenant or "issue an execution" before the tenant's financial assistance application has been approved or denied.
State law protects tenants who rely on temporary or emergency rental assistance like RAFT or ERMA from being discriminated against by their landlord. In some circumstances, a landlord who refuses to accept RAFT or ERMA benefits or complete their portion of the application may be in violation of state law.
Landlords who own less than 20 units of housing may apply directly for RAFT/ERMA on behalf of their tenants. They should, however, coordinate with their tenant before applying and they must obtain and submit a signed consent form from the tenant in order to apply. If a tenant has already applied to RAFT/ERMA, the landlord can help expedite the review process of the application by providing requested documentation, including a copy of the lease or a summary of the amount the tenant owes.
Tenants and landlords can also use community mediation to resolve their problems without any court filing, or through court referrals. For more information visit the Eviction Diversion Initiative website.
CDC Moratorium
Households that are financially struggling due to the pandemic and meet certain criteria may also qualify for the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) federal eviction moratorium. To qualify for the CDC moratorium, tenants must have an income of less than $99,000 (or $198,000 if you filed a joint tax return), make their best efforts to obtain government rental assistance, and complete a CDC form, available here, and give it to their landlord. This moratorium has been extended to Jan. 31, 2021.
Tenants who have received a notice to quit, summons or other legal documents from their landlord and cannot afford an attorney may qualify for free legal assistance through the COVID Eviction Legal Help Project. The AG's Office urges tenants who have a court hearing and have not yet obtained an attorney to tell the judge or court mediator that they would like to speak to a lawyer. Tenants can also learn about the court process and how to fill out the necessary court documents through the Court Service Centers, which are available via Zoom Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
The AG's Office will be funding sites across Massachusetts where individuals can use computers to attend their virtual court hearings. The full list will be posted on www.Mass.gov/ago/covid19 or tenants can call (617) 727-8400 for more information.
Small business tenants who have been impacted by the COVID-19 public health crisis and are facing difficulty paying their rent should reach out to the COVID Relief Coalition for more information on the pro bono legal support available to them. The coalition is made up of law firms, nonprofits and government agencies including the AG's Office and led by Ropes & Gray, Lawyers for Civil Rights, and Lawyers Clearinghouse. The coalition's website includes information about the emergency loans available to small businesses.
Defenses to Eviction
Tenants who receive a notice from their landlord about overdue rent may have a defense to eviction that would allow them to stay in their home. Those defenses include if there is a problem with the condition with the housing unit; if the landlord did not provide any written notice required by the lease or by law; if the landlord is retaliating against the tenant for exercising their rights; or if the landlord is discriminating against the tenant based on their race, national origin, religion, familial status, age, disability, source of income, or any other protected status.
The AG's Office urges tenants who have questions about their options to call the state's information hotline at 211or to call the Attorney General's Office at 617-727-8400.
AG Healey's Civil Rights Division urges any tenant who is being harassed, threatened or discriminated against to call the division's hotline at (617) 963-2917. Click here for information from the AG's Office reminding landlords and other housing providers that all tenants have a right to be free from harassment and intimidation.
Visit the AG's COVID-19 resource page for information about how the AG's Office can provide support during this crisis.
To view the AG's advisory in Spanish click here.
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Insight of the Month
Combating insider threat in government
By John Gilroy
Segment 1: Cybersecurity is a matter of national security
Brian Vecci, technical evangelist at Varonis, recently joined Federal News Radio to discuss insider threat in government.
Even appropriate security controls may not be enough after our experiences with people like Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning. Vecci described how a systematic approach using a metadata framework can alleviate many of these issues.
Varonis has deep experience with many financial and insurance organizations where they have seen drastic reduction in events that involve egress and ingress after application of a metadata framework.
Vecci revealed how Varonis can use machine learning to take a look at a person's activities rather than the "check box" controls that are in place. He highlighted many aspects of ransomware that can be prevented with a data security platform. For example, a person may not have any role in anything to do with encrypting and decrypting files. A system can see what is going on for attacks like WannaCry. If the system sees anomalous activity, then it can alert the system administrator before it gets distributed.
Everyone who has been hit likes to say "We'd like to think we don't have any insider threats." This statement is normally refuted after an event where an insider threat acts in a malicious manner.
John Gilroy, Host of Federal Tech Talk, Federal News Radio
John Gilroy has been a member of the Washington D.C. technology community for over twenty years. In 2007 he began weekly interviews on Federal News Radio called "Federal Tech Talk with John Gilroy." His 428 interviews provides the basis for profitable referral business. In 2009 he created a successful breakfast club of previous radio guests called The Technology Leadership Roundtable. He has been instrumental in two of his guests forming their own radio shows: Derrick Dortch with "Fed Access" and Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm with "Women in Washington."
In 2011 he began teaching a course in social media marketing at Georgetown University; in March of 2014, John won the Tropaia Award for Outstanding Faculty. John conducts monthly corporate training for large companies on how to leverage social media to generate revenue.
Brian Vecci, Technical Evangelist, Varonis
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I cannot believe it is already October! This past month FLEW by, but I have to admit, October is one of my favorite months because this is when it starts to feel like fall. Except it's supposed to rain for the next week :( totally not fun. But to brighten these next few rainy days, I found the prettiest fresh cut flowers yesterday in all the colors of fall! Major heart eyes for these beauties (yes they're the ones in the picture above!!) But, without further ado, here are my September faves!
My first favorite is the Urban Decay Naked Skin Illuminating Beauty Balm. I am SO in love with this product! I've been using the regular Naked Skin Beauty Balm for over a year now because it gives the light coverage I need while keeping my skin smooth and breakout free. I finally read the reviews on the Illuminating Beauty Balm and there was not one bad thing said about it, so I decided to give it a try. I honestly love it, almost more than the regular one. The regular one gives a nice matte finish, whereas the illuminating one gives more of a dewy finish. I've always been a fan of a matte finish on my skin, but the subtle glow given by the illuminating beauty balm is perfect and it is slightly tinted so it provides light coverage. It's so easy to pair with a blush, mascara, brow powder, and tinted chapstick for an easy, natural look. Needless to say, I absolutely recommend this product. You won't be disappointed!
My second favorite is the Signature Soy Cozy Nights candle from Target. This candle smells AMAZING, especially for fall! The best part is it's only $10, it lasts for over a month (I still haven't burned all of it yet), and the scent is still as strong as it was when I first burned it. I also have this candle in the scent Vintage Lace, which smells just as good. Next on my list is one with a pumpkin scent, so check back for my October faves to see if I find one that makes the list!
My third favorite (not pictured because I used it all and threw it away, sorry!) is the Not Your Mother's She's a Tease Volumizing Hairspray. You can either purchase it from the link I provided, or at your local Walmart. I love this hairspray because it smells like apples.. delicious! I also love it because it provides a strong hold without making my hair stiff or knotty. My hair is pretty long and thick, so hairspray is essential when I want my curls to last. This one does the job better than any other I had ever tried.. not to mention the price tag is great!
PS. I want to wish my big little brother a happy 19th birthday! I can't believe how fast the time really goes. He's such a young man it's crazy! Love you Gar!
And one more thing.. Tory Burch is having a fall sale now through Monday, October 5. Just use the code "FALLEVENT" to get up to 30% off!! Take advantage of this while it lasts!


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Q: How to connect to MySQL Database through JDBC driver using Robot Framework I tried using JayDebeApi in this case but getting error as "ImportError: No module named JayDeBeApi"
And I want to connect to MySql Db, what steps should i follow?
Please help
Below is the basic test i am trying

*** Settings ***

Library          DatabaseLibrary

*** Variables ***
${DB_CONNECT_STRING} =  'org.apache.calcite.avatica.remote.Driver', 'jdbc:avatica:remote:url=http://135.197.226.119:30000;serialization=protobuf', ['admin','admin']

*** Test Cases ***
Connecting
     Connect

     @{queryResults}  Query  select * from table persons
     log to console  @{queryResults}

     Disconnect

*** Keywords ***
Connect
      connect to database using custom params    JayDeBeApi    ${DB_CONNECT_STRING}

Disconnect
      disconnect from database

A: Do you have the "JayDeBeApi" module installed? The error says no, here's how to install it:
pip install JayDeBeApi

A: As you noticed Robot Framework DatabaseLibrary is compatible with python database modules that support DB-API 2.0. In the earlier linked list JayDeBeApi is not mentioned but it seems to support the DB-API 2.0 specification. So, on paper it should support it. However, it is not installed with DatabaseLibary, you'll need to add it yourself.
On the linked list there is dedicated support for several Pure Python MySQL modules mentioned. For this reason it is a little beyond me why you'd want to prefer JayDeBeApi with it's java dependency if you can use a pure python module. However, all of these modules require an additional installation as well. Even though they are pure python, they are not part of the out-of-the-box python installation.

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The Phone Booth is a spooky ghost story from Japan about two friends who are very interested in urban legends and ghost stories.
There were two teenage boys, named Kenzo and Tatsuya who both shared a keen interest in the paranormal. Whenever they met, they would always have a new scary ghost story or spooky urban legend to share with each other.
One day, Tatsuya was browsing on the internet, when he came across a website that had a lot of Japanese urban legends. He read a story about a certain suspension bridge that was located close to his home. The website had plenty of pictures of the bridge and the surrounding area. As he read the legend associated with the bridge, Tatsuya knew his friend would be interested.
The next time he met Kenzo, he told him about the bridge. It was an old suspension bridge that crossed over a deep gorge. For some inexplicable reason, it was known as a spot that was notorious for suicides. Every year, at least 20 or 30 people would throw themselves off the bridge and plunge to their deaths. Nobody could explain why. They said that the spot was haunted by the ghosts of all the people who had committed suicide there.
When Kenzo went home that evening, he decided that he had to check out the bridge. He desperately wanted to see a ghost. So, that very night, he set out for the mountains where the bridge was located. It took him about half an hour to get there.
It was almost midnight, when he arrived at the bridge and there was not a single person around. It was dark and deathly quiet. The atmosphere was so spooky and ominous that it sent a chill down Kenzo's spine.
"Wow, this place is creepy," he muttered to himself as he cautiously walked to the edge of the gorge and peered down into its depths. He began thinking about all of the people who had thrown themselves down into the inky blackness. The thought of it made his hair stand on end.
It was so fascinating that he felt compelled to tell his friend, Tatsuya about it, so he pulled out his cell phone to call him. However, since he was high up in the mountains, he couldn't get any reception.
Looking around, Kenzo noticed a solitary phone booth standing nearby. He went inside, put some coins in the slot and dialled Tatsuya's number.
"Hello? Tatsuya? Guess where I am right now," he said. "I'm at the suspension bridge you told me about. The view is amazing. You've got come up here and see it sometime."
"Yeah, I'd like to," replied Tatsuya. "I saw all the pictures on the website… Wait a second… What number are you calling me from?"
Kenzo laughed. "Oh, I couldn't get any reception on my mobile, so I'm calling from the payphone up here…"
His friend was confused. "Payphone? There's no payphone up there. I would have seen it in the pictures."
"What are you talking about?" said Kenzo. "I'm standing in the phone booth right at the entrance to the bridge… Hold on, I'd better go… There's a line of people outside waiting to use the phone… I'll call you when I get back home."
As soon as he said this Tatsuya shouted, "No! Kenzo, don't get out of the phone booth! I know that place! I'll be right there in 30 minutes. Whatever you do, don't move!"
"Just promise me you'll stay where you are. Don't move an inch, OK?! And don't hang up the phone. I'm coming!"
When his friend hung up, Kenzo felt a wave of fear envelop him. He stood in the phone booth and kept the phone receiver pressed to his ear. Looking over his shoulder, he saw a line of people standing outside the phone booth, silently watching him. The look in their eyes sent a shiver down his spine.
Half and hour later, when Tatsuya arrived at the suspension bridge, he found his friend standing at the very edge of the gorge. He was holding his cell phone against his ear.
There was no phone booth and no line of people waiting to use the phone. If he had moved an inch, he would have fallen off the edge and plunged to his death.
scarygirlie246 says:
SO NOT SCARY
TerrifiedKiddo123 says:
Is it the same bridge from the 'Suspension bridge' story ? Anyways, great story. 10/10 suicides !
moonlessnight says:
Kinda don't get it? Kenzo is dumb enough to go looking for ghosts…
wtf is ur life says:
ngl he must have been dumb y would ppl have been lining up for a phone at midnight>?
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• How to grow e-commerce sales by driving traffic, improving conversion and customer retention?
There are many metrics that aneCommerce business needs to constantly monitor.At the top line, obviously you look into revenue and profit, and number of orders.Inventory turnover ratio is also an important metrics, it measures the liquidity of your inventory. A high ratio means your business is efficiently managing and selling its inventory. The faster inventory sells, the less cash company would tie up in stock. In contrast, a low ratio can mean you are holding up obsolete inventory that may be difficult to sell. You will need to examine further and plan what to do to move the stock again.On the traffic driver side, you would measure cost per visit, qualified visits, and so on. But the most important aspect is the channel attribution, which let you understand the role and true effect of each traffic source, instead of just the last click conversion. Two other metrics we mentioned earlier are the conversion rate and average order value. The cart abandonment rate is also an important measure on the effectiveness of the site.On the customer acquisition side, the customer acquisition cost and customer lifetime value are the most an important metrics in this aspect. The traditional RFM, which is Recency, Frequency and Monetary, are also useful metric to segment your customer. At the end of the day, customer satisfaction is also critical, especially in the social world full of reviews in your site and offsite, you shall also measure the Net Promoter Score in this front.
9. You know there is opportunity in tapping to eCommerce, But HOW?
19. To Sell in Tmall - Do you have a Chinese entity already? Have you registered and trademarked your brand already?
28. You now have your eCommerce presence, Customers will come?


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In Moscow, the model of the wing "Tadpole" was blown out - a strangely shaped subsonic aircraft
Especially for aerodynamic tests, TsAGI developed a new model of a wing with mechanized
deflected flaps with the best aerodynamic characteristics. The model was placed in a wind tunnel in which you can accelerate the air flow to a speed of about 70 m / s - 0.2 Mach number.
During the tests, engineers tested the operation of the wing for takeoff and landing. Prior to that, the TsAGI had already tested the wing at high speeds.
TsAGI are developing aircraft with a fuselagedrop-shaped "Tadpole" from the beginning of 2010. Its strange form should increase the aerodynamic properties, which will allow speeds of up to thousands of kilometers per hour. The maximum flight range is up to 4.2 thousand km.
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Reading Dr. Michael E. Stoddard's history of infractions, like so many medical board records in Colorado, is a little like reading Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Each disciplinary document focuses on what happened offstage, omitting key details and leaving the real drama, tragedy, or dark comedy to the imagination.
Stoddard was the only MD in the entire state to have his license revoked by the in the previous year (from April 18, 2009 through April 18, 2010, to be precise). Licensed in Colorado in 1998 (License No. 37479), Stoddard was trained as an orthopedic surgeon but made his living treating pain patients.
He was in 2004. This is all the medical board tells potential patients about Stoddard's lapse: He didn't carry liability insurance between July 2002 and January 2004.
How would a doctor be caught without liability insurance? Presumably by being sued for something, but there is no way to know because those details were kept secret. Stoddard paid a $1,000 fine and stayed in business.
Two years later, in April 2007, Stoddard was . This time, the board information was both vaguer and more troubling. The board wrote that it had reviewed information that "raised concerns that [Stoddard] may not be able to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to patients."
Were Stoddard's present and future patients given any clue as to why Stoddard might be a safety concern? No.
They were told only that Stoddard had to have his license temporarily suspended while he underwent an evaluation by the California Physician Health Program. Whether that evaluation took place and when that suspension period ended remains a mystery.
In October 2007, the behind-the-curtain action grew more dramatic still. Stoddard was found to have " in violation of the Medical Practice Act." What he did exactly is never explained. Again, Stoddard had his license temporarily suspended, making one wonder when the earlier suspension had ended and whether Stoddard had been found safe to practice medicine.
Like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Stoddards' patients were left clueless about the machinations that directly affected their fate.
Finally, in May 2008, the Board of Medical Examiners offered a hint of a glimpse of what might be going on. A board document said that the board had reviewed "new information relating to [Stoddard's] " and that Stoddard had continued to practice medicine in violation of his October 2007 suspension.
The board record goes dark once again and says only that Stoddard's license was suspended effective May 30, 2008.
More questions are raised without answers. Didn't the board already fail to change Stoddard's behavior the last two times it suspended his license? Should patients be worried? Scared? Indignant?
Next week: What happens when a doctor starts pinching from his own pill pile?


I woke up this morning and the power was off. I lay there for a few minutes trying to remember what day it was. I panicked a bit thinking there was someplace I was supposed to be. Was there hockey this morning? Was today the day I started my new job? Was I late?
I had good reason to panic. Yesterday I woke to my alarm at 7:00 and fell back to sleep until 9:15. I was supposed to be at the hockey rink at 9:00 to see KD on the ice for 9:30. I jumped out of bed, threw on some clothes I had laying around, washed my face, brushed my teeth and grabbed my favourite ball hat. I made it by 9:30, just in time.
This morning's panic subsided when I realized there was no place to be, time irrelevant. It was my birthday.
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Happy Belated Birthday! Sometimes those are the perfect bdays…nowhere to be!
Will stop back again. I've been belated on lots of stuff the last week or 2! Hope you're having a good week!
Susan, thanks so much. Hope you're week is going well too. I've been very busy with a new job so my online time is limited.
Brahnamin, you're still sick…I'm sorry to hear that…I've been meaning to drop by. Guess I've been a bad blogger friend. Take care.


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FF3 IAIANCAD: Resolutions, 1991-94
FF4 IAIANCAD: Resolutions. Institute of American Indian Arts Foundation: Articles of Incorporation, etc., 1994
FF5 Interviews for autobiography: Wallis/Mankiller, Oct. - Nov. 1991
FF6 Interviews for autobiography: Wallis/Mankiller, Nov. 1991 - Jan. 1992
FF7 Interviews for autobiography: Wallis/Soap (and related correspondence), Jan. - Feb. 1992
FF8 Mankiller Autobiography: Final Draft, chapters 1-7, June 1993
FF9 Mankiller Autobiography: Final Draft, chapters 8 – postscript, June 1993
FF10 Published Articles by Mankiller, (and related correspondence), 1985-88
FF11 Articles on Mankiller, 1991-94
FF12 Correspondence with Marilou Awiakta on Selu, 1993
FF13 Screenplay: "Park Hill" by Gary Beard and Bill Dye, 1990
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Description Indian chief. Official and personal correspondence, subject files, business records of the Cherokee Nation and Wilma Mankiller for the period 1977-1995, including personal correspondence (1993-1995); correspondence (1985-1995) with members of the U.S. Congress and the National Congress of American Indians; tribal council correspondence (1990-1994); Cherokee National Historical Society correspondence (1990-1995); and general correspondence (1982-1995). Subject files relating to Native American Rights Fund (1989-1993); U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs central office (1988-1995); U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs Muskogee, Oklahoma, area office (1989-1995); Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes (1977-1995); the National Congress of American Indians (1993-1995); the Tribal Election Commission (1985-1994); and tribal council meetings (1985-1993). Business and financial records of the Cherokee Nation concerning Cherokee Gardens (1981-1991); the Bingo Outpost (1989-1995); and Cherokee Nation Industries (1977-1995), along with budget, accounting, and audit papers. Education and training records of the Cherokee Nation concerning the Job Training Partnership Act (1993-1995); Head Start (1985-1995); Oaks Mission School (1977-1995); Sequoyah High School (1984-1995); and Talking Leaves Job Corps. Community development and housing files related to block grants (1985-1995); the Community Loan Fund (1987-1994); the Bell Project (1981-1987); the Cherokee Housing Authority (1993-1994); and the Home Improvement Program (1985-1994). Health issue files relating to Indian health services (1991-1995) and the National Indian Health Board (1985-1992). Environmental program records relating to the Arkansas Riverbed Authority (1993-1994) and papers relating to Mankiller's books and other writings, with genealogical materials concerning her family.
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Transcript FF3 IAIANCAD: Resolutions, 1991-94 FF4 IAIANCAD: Resolutions. Institute of American Indian Arts Foundation: Articles of Incorporation, etc., 1994 FF5 Interviews for autobiography: Wallis/Mankiller, Oct. - Nov. 1991 FF6 Interviews for autobiography: Wallis/Mankiller, Nov. 1991 - Jan. 1992 FF7 Interviews for autobiography: Wallis/Soap (and related correspondence), Jan. - Feb. 1992 FF8 Mankiller Autobiography: Final Draft, chapters 1-7, June 1993 FF9 Mankiller Autobiography: Final Draft, chapters 8 – postscript, June 1993 FF10 Published Articles by Mankiller, (and related correspondence), 1985-88 FF11 Articles on Mankiller, 1991-94 FF12 Correspondence with Marilou Awiakta on Selu, 1993 FF13 Screenplay: "Park Hill" by Gary Beard and Bill Dye, 1990
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Posted by Lyette Reback on August 6, 2015.
August 6th was a day that will live in infamy. On that fateful morning in the Wardak Province of Afghanistan, a Chinook helicopter was shot down. The resulting crash killed all 38 people on board—25 American special operations personnel, five United States Army National Guard and Army Reserve crewmen, seven Afghan commandos, and one Afghan interpreter—as well as a U.S. military working dog.
And one among the dead was Aaron Vaughn.
Since he was eight years old, Aaron dreamed of becoming a Navy SEAL. He had overcome several debilitating knee injuries and risen to graduate his BUDS class with the honorary distinction of having completed every evolution first time, every time…and he was also now a member of the DEVGRU SEAL Team Six.
The baddest of the bada$$es.
This was a helicopter full of such warriors and their support crew. So when this bird went down, it took more than a couple handfuls of America's best, including 15 members of the elite SEAL Team Six.
But what the enemy meant for evil, God intended for good.
Because, you see, Aaron was a man on mission. He may have been a member of America's most elite fighting force, but he was on a far greater adventure than what the Navy had in mind. Aaron was a rock solid believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and his momma and daddy were one tough titanium pair. They have since made it their life's ambition to speak out on every veteran's issue and stir up a movement in this country that will turn the temperature from luke warm to red-hot. The first thing Karen and Billy tell every group that gathers to hear them speak is the gospel that Aaron loved and lived so deeply.
The enemy only succeeded in waking a sleeping giant when he messed with the Vaughn family.
Aaron's mother, Karen Vaughn, and I have become more than just friends or acquaintances over the last year…we have become sisters embroiled in a battle not just for the sake of our families but for the faith in the promise this great nation holds. We pray for each other and we fight like hell in the heavenlies over the ugliness that has embittered our nation. On this, the fourth anniversary of Aaron's death, would you share this post far and wide so that everyone you know would stop for a minute, lift their eyes to heaven and say a prayer for Aaron's parents, his beautiful widow Kimberly, and his sweet babies Chamberlain and Reagan? Would you share this post so that millions would know of the dear price that was paid for the freedom of the multitudes, and so that Aaron's name and sacrifice would be honored today? I can not think of a better way to thank the Vaughn Family for all they have endured on our behalf than to never let the world forget that men like Aaron are out there on our front lines, paying and willing to pay with their own lives for our way of life. For our freedom.
And on a far more personal note, let me just share that as our family has walked through some trying challenges over the last year, it's been the photo collage of every fallen serviceman that died with Aaron, the photo of his mother and I together when we first met…that has pushed me to endure, to fight harder. When I think of the combined loss of life just wrapped up in that one crash– those sons, husbands, fathers, brothers…and the catastrophic holes left in nearly two dozen families, I think to myself– what right have I to even contemplate retreat in my own personal struggles? What kind of cowardly existence could I possibly live when faced with such incredible cost on behalf of myself and my family? Those faces greet me every morning as I put on my warpaint (makeup) and continue to fight the good fight of faith in my family, on this website, and through the platform using whatever means God gives us to shine the grace and love of the Jesus that Aaron so loved.
May we all live on mission like Aaron Vaughn. And may we never forget the sacrifice so many precious Gold Star Families have made that such great opportunities may endure in this beautiful country.
God bless you Vaughn Family.
God Bless You loved ones of Extortion 17 fallen heroes.


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On Social Justice and the American Dream
by Justin Stapley
in Conservative, Culture, Libertarian, Opinion, Political
Social justice has not had a consistent definition over the last century. I have found that modern political arguments, especially ones related to social conditions, are often built upon premises that are cantered towards one or another type of worldview while falsely claiming objectivity.
It is easy to see injustice in society and to call for social justice reform. It is far harder to define what social justice looks like and what kind of reform would actually lead to it. I believe that social justice has less to do with the idea of social equality and more to do with social mobility. Government policy and cultural norms which empower individuals are the most effective to help individuals.
Social equality is not impossible. However, it is highly improbable and usually can only be achieved among small communal groups united by a strong religious or ethnic bond in which full participation remains voluntary.
In other words, for a communal society providing social equality to exist, there must be a strong sense of group identity that can override unique individual passions. Its members must be free to enter the community or leave it so that discontents do not disrupt the system (as soon as a member is forced to comply, an inequality is introduced by nature of assigning the power to enact such force).
This reality is largely responsible for failures to enact policies towards social equality at a national level. The force necessary to demand compliance creates positions of power and influence, which leads to graft and corruption. But, while social equality is exceptionally challenging to arrive upon, it is far more feasible to establish the idea of equality in the eyes of the law.
If we choose to not look at equality solely through the lenses of finance but through the lenses of rights and liberties, we can approach the idea that justice has less to do with what is in the pocketbook and more about allowing individuals to be answerable to their hearts and minds and the capacity to receive the just effects of their decisions.
This is the foundation of what was traditionally called the American Dream; the idea that government should simply provide an atmosphere where its citizens maintain equality in rights regardless of financial success and that those citizens can, through their rights, attain for themselves social mobility and gain reward through their own individual industry.
Notionally, the theory was that no matter the circumstance of birth or the situation of our lives, we still maintained the rights and privileges afforded everyone under the US Constitution. A poor man could through force of will rise to whatever heights he desired. While a rich man through foolishness and recklessness could fall to the depths of depravity.
I do not believe the American Dream is dead nor do I think that its foundation of equality in the eyes of the law and upward mobility through individual initiative has fallen out of the grasp of the American citizen.
But, I think a large portion of Americans have been led to believe they stand no chance and have embraced their supposed existence as victims of a society that has left them behind. This mentality often becomes their very identity and the most impactful acculturating foundation they pass to rising generations.
The best and most liberating thing we can do is to combat the growing trend of nihilism and cynicism in our country. Ultimately, too many people have decided their decisions don't matter, and their actions have no real consequence in the direction of their lives and the lives of those around them.
Social justice will not arrive suddenly upon the doorsteps of the downtrodden wrapped in a bow with the best regards of politicians in Washington. It will arrive in the hearts of individual citizens when they once again believe they can seize liberty and justice for themselves.
The best thing for each of us to do for our society is to first believe in ourselves, to shed off the cloak of victimhood which holds so many of us down, and to find success with our own unique talents and understandings. Only then can we can light a way for others to follow and offer hope to those who think all is lost.
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The menu is available Tuesday to Friday at any time. Saturday it is available only at 5.30 or 6.00pm (last order) and the table to be vacated within 2 hours from the time of the booking. Thankyou.
All the dishes in this brochure, from which our menus are selected, are intended as a guide only as they are changed and updated periodically over the four seasons.
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4 Starters – 4 Main Courses & 3 Desserts or Cheese.
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Five Ravens stats that stand out from Week 16
By By Matt Vensel
Dec 19, 2012 | 11:03 AM
Each Wednesday, blogger Matt Vensel will highlight five statistics that really mean something for the Ravens.
133 -- the number of Peyton Manning's 204 passing yards on Sunday that came after play-action fakes.
For the first three quarters of Sunday's 34-17 loss, the Denver Broncos showed the Ravens what a balanced offense should look like. Knowshon Moreno was effective running the ball, opening up the play-action pass for Manning, who picked apart a Ravens defense that had two new starters at inside linebacker and a fill-in at safety. Manning completed eight of his 11 throws after using play-action fakes for 133 yards and a touchdown, according to ESPN Stats and Info. Wide receiver Eric Decker caught five of his six targets on such plays for 101 yards and that touchdown. With a win pretty much in hand in the fourth quarter, the Broncos took the air out of the ball, finishing with 45 carries, the most ever for a team quarterbacked by Manning.
Four -- games this season in which Ravens running back Ray Rice has not touched the ball on a single third-down play.
One week after setting a season-high in rushing yards in the loss to the Washington Redskins, the Ravens struggled to run the ball early and were forced to abandon the running game in the second half after falling behind by four touchdowns. Running back Ray Rice finished the game with 38 rushing yards on 12 carries and just 3 yards on three receptions. It was the fourth time this season and the second time in three weeks that he got 15 or fewer touches. It was also the fourth game this season in which Rice didn't touch the ball on third down, according to ESPN Stats and Info. In related news, the Ravens were 1-for-12 on third down.
64.9 -- percentage of Ravens tight end Dennis Pitta's catches that came when he was lined up as a slot receiver.
I wrote before the season that tight end Dennis Pitta was poised to have a breakout season, one of the few predictions I have actually nailed. His production has been spotty on a game-by-game basis, but if you add up his numbers, Pitta is having one of the best seasons by a tight end in team history. Pitta has seven receiving touchdowns, tying Todd Heap's team record for a tight end. And his 57 catches are second on the Ravens, one behind wideout Anquan Boldin. Pitta has done most of his damage as a slot receiver. According to Pro Football Focus, Pitta has 37 receptions for 409 yards and six touchdowns on routes he has run from the slot.
10.3 -- Courtney Upshaw's run stop percentage, which is second-best among 3-4 outside linebackers in the NFL.
Though he has only played about two-thirds of the defensive snaps this season, rookie outside linebacker Courtney Upshaw has subtly been a pretty impactful run defender for a team that has struggled to tackle running backs. Upshaw is tied for fifth on the injury-riddled unit with 57 tackles, and his seven tackles for a loss lead the Ravens. He has missed just five tackles, according to Pro Football Focus, though four have come in the past three weeks. However, they say he had three defensive stops -- they define that as forcing an offensive failure, like tackling a runner after a minimal gain or knocking down a pass -- against the Broncos, and eight in the past three weeks. With 29 of his 34 tackles resulting in a stop on 281 snaps against the run, Upshaw is second among 3-4 outside linebackers with a run stop percentage of 10.3 percent.
Less than 1 -- percent chance the Ravens had of coming back Sunday after their touchdown made it 34-16 with 4:08 left to play.
Ravens coach John Harbaugh was scrutinized by fans and media -- including this blogger -- after he didn't go for a two-point conversion with just over 4 minutes left in Sunday's loss. After Pitta's second touchdown catch made the score 34-16, Harbaugh had Justin Tucker kick an extra point instead of trying to cut the deficit to 16 points -- and two scores -- with a two-point conversion. I'm standing by my opinion on that one, but the reality is that it probably didn't matter. According to Brian Burke of Advanced NFL Stats, the chances of a comeback were less than 1 percent either way. He said that two-point conversions are successful roughly 50 percent of the time, and that onside kicks in that situation -- where the opponent knows that one is coming -- are recovered about 10 percent of the time. "The chances of coming back were so low with 4 minutes to play, that it would be impossible to make a realistic estimate to conclude one path was better than the other," Burke said in an email. It's a fun topic to debate, though. Well, unless you are John Harbaugh.
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Bloggers note: Have a nifty stat you want to share? E-mail me at matt.vensel@baltsun.com or contact me on Twitter at @mattvensel. If I end up using it, I'll be sure to give you a nice plug on the blog.
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11am-12pm Parents and older children can ask questions in an open discussion in the library with a pediatric allergist.
Later in the day, at 3 pm, Junior Sports will host the annual soccer game at the Jr Sports filed. All ages and levels welcome. Soccer was one of Oakley's passions and we are honored that Quogue and the Junior Sports program will organize this game in his memory. We look forward to having a fun afternoon with the kids!
Just show up no RSVP. We will put teams and levels together.
If any parents are interested in organizing or assisting with the games please contact me directly at 561.252.8603 or robertjdebbs@yahoo.com.
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ECE Charity Fundraising
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ECE prides itself on being a socially responsible Practice with charity being a fundamental part of our culture. We have always been active in our charitable endeavours, but in 2022 we were keen to put in extra effort, especially following two years of legislative restrictions making fundraising challenging.
ECE's charities for 2022 were Chestnut Tree House Children's Hospice and our guest charity for the year, SHOUT WSK, better known as Worthing Soup Kitchen. Both charities presented lunchtime talks to the ECE team at the beginning of the year, giving a real insight into the amazing work they do and how our fundraising would help.
The ECE fundraising effort included a wide range of activities that took place throughout the year. We saw team members take challenges including the Brighton Marathon, Edinburgh Marathon, and the River Arun 3.8km swim. A group from ECE took part in the Chestnut Tree House Children's Hospice Nurses Steps Challenge which involved participants walking 10,000 steps for each day in February. Our Associates organised a client golf day with charity donation forfeits, and studio events organised by the team were included a charity chess night, table tennis tournament, fantasy football league, as well as a World Cup sweepstake.
We were delighted to host our third Charity Cricket Day at Sussex County Cricket Ground, clients and contacts supported the event with 15 teams entered in a day of fun cricket, with amazing weather and the perfect venue.
As well as the donations raised, ECE was able to make regular meeting room space available for the locally based charity Olly's Future. The team have also been donating food to the Worthing Soup Kitchen food bank throughout the year, and made a donation in lieu of sending Christmas cards.
During the year ECE raised just over £8,000 for our charities, a fantastic effort. It was not only the monetary sum raised, but ECE were also proud to raise awareness for the charities.
We are honoured to again support Chestnut Tree House Children's Hospice in 2023. Planning for the fundraising activities for 2023 is already underway and we hope that we can be even more successful in our charity efforts in the new year.
Huw James
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Q: How to get the raid controller make and model on a IBM Server? I currently have a IBM IBM eserver xSeries 346 with Windows Server and according to device manager it has a IBM eserver xSeries 346 IBM ServerRaid 7k controller. How can I get the make and model? to see how many raids it support. Can someone tell how to get this info?

A: You can use Powershell to do this, either on the server or remotely:
Get-WmiObject Win32_DiskDrive -ComputerName server01
Partitions : 4
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Model      : DELL PERC 6/i SCSI Disk Device
Size       : 2097150289920
Caption    : DELL PERC 6/i SCSI Disk Device

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Wood properties (1) Apply Wood properties filter
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Trends in the highway market for wood products
Forty-eight million cubic feet of wood products, about 50 million dollars worth, were used in the Nation's highway construction program in 1972. Expenditures for highway construction increased 2½ times from 1954 to 1972. The volume of wood products used in highway construction changed little during this period because other materials were substituted for...
https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/search?keywords=%22construction%22&%3Bamp%3Bf%5B0%5D=author_facet%3A%22Hargrove%2C%20William%22&%3Bf%5B0%5D=station_historical_full%3A%22Rocky%20Mountain%20Forest%20and%20Range%20Experiment%20Station%22&f%5B0%5D=year%3A%221976%22&f%5B1%5D=year%3A%221975%22
Robert G. Knutson
wood use on highways, highway market, highway construction
Research Note NE-210. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 4p.
Natural dust and acid rain
Atmospheric dust originates from three sources, terrestrial airborn matter, volcanic, and cosmic. Terrestrial natural dust makes up the main bulk reflecting the soil composition to 150 miles away. Soil erosion from flood plains, plowed fields and construction sites are the main source. Quartz, feldspar, the carbonates calcite and dolomite, and clay minerals are the...
Erhard M. Winkler
In: Dochinger, L. S.; Seliga, T. A., eds. Proceedings of the first international symposium on acid precipitation and the forest ecosystem; Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-23. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 209-217
Maintenance and constructive respiration, photosynthesis, and net assimilation rate in seedlings of pitch pine (Pinus rigida Mill.)
Pitch pine seedlins were grown at constant temperature and photoperiod. Net CO2-uptake h-1 g-1 leaves decreased stadily during ontogeny until leaf production ceased. Thereafter, there was no change or a slight increase. Though the 0ntogeneic pattern was the same in populations native to different...
F. Thomas Ledig; A.P. Drew; J.G. Clark
Ann. Botany 40(166):289-300
Exterior structural composite panels with southern pine veneer faces and cores of southern hardwood flakes
One-half-inch-thick, 8tructural exterior composite panels of various constructions were made in a one-step process, with faces of eouthern pine veneer and corea of mixed southern hardwood flakes. The flakes were precisely machined to be 3/8-inch wide, 3 inches long and 0.015 inch thick. Two veneer, cross-laminated on each face over an oriented flake core, yielded the...
C. -Y. Hse
Forest Products Journal 26(7):21-27
Interaction geometry: an ecological perspective.
A new mathematical coordinate system results from a unique combination of two frameworks long used by ecologists: the phase plane and coaction cross-tabulation. The resulting construct combines the classifying power of the cross-tabulation and discriminating power of the phase plane. It may be used for analysis and synthesis.
Rolfe A. Leary
biological interactions, phase plane, coordinate systems
General Technical Report NC-22. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station
Hydromulch: a potential use for hardwood bark residue
Hardwood bark fines and two hardwood bark fibers were compared with wood-cellulose fiber and paper fiber mulch to determine their effectiveness as hydromulches in revegetating disturbed soil. The results showed that either bark fines or bark fibers can be utilized as a hydromulch to aid in the revegetation of strip mines, highway construction sites, and similar earth-...
David M. Emanual
mulching, hardwood bark, revegetation
Performance of Pallet Nails and Staples in 22 Southern Hardwoods
The effectiveness of pointless, helically threaded, hardened-steel, 3 by O.120-inch, pallet nails with umbrella heads and 21/2-inch, 15-gauge, 7/16-inch crown, plastic-coated, pallet staples in 22 hardwoods grown on southern pine sites was determined on the basis of tests on 522 joints. Specific average performance values were derived from the test data for the tested...
E.G. Stern
VA Polytechnic Institute and State University, Wood Research and Wood Construction Laboratory, Pallet and Container Research Center Blacksburg, VA No. 145(20 pp.
Timber resources and the timber economy of Okanogan County, Washington.
In 1972, forest industries in Okanogan County, Washington, accounted for 23 percent of total employment and 29 percent of wages paid. Total forest industrial employment has increased since 1953 but represents a smaller proportion of total employment in the county due to the increase in other industries, mainly construction and trade. Timber harvest has nearly doubled...
Charles L. Bolsinger
forest surveys, employment (forest labor), Washington (Okanogan County)
Low-temperature forced-air drying of Appalachian hardwoods
Low-temperature forced-air drying involves drying green lumber in heated buildings with forced-air circulation and partial control of temperature and humidity conditions. The lumber is dried to about 20 percent moisture content at dry-bulb temperatures of 70º to 110ºF and with air velocities of 300 to 600 feet per minute. Equipment, methods, and...
Donald G. Cuppett; E. Paul Craft
Res. Pap. NE-328. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 10p.
Woody plants selected by beavers in the Appalacian Ridge and Valley Province
The availability of woody plants and the selection of plants by beavers along mountain streams was studied in four areas of the Appalachian Ridge and Valley Province in Virginia. Beavers' choice of woody plants varied between areas. Many species of woody plants were cut by beavers. They climbed slopes with gradients up to 80 percent to cut trees. Large as well as...
Hewlette S. Crawford; R. G. Hooper; R. F. Harlow
Res. Pap. NE-346. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 6p.
Optimum insulation thickness in wood-framed homes.
New design methods must be developed to reduce energy waste in buildings. This study examines an economic approach to the design of thermal insulation in the home and demonstrates graphically that an optimum point of insulation thickness occurs where total costs of insulation and energy over the useful life of a building are a minimum. The optimum thickness thus...
A.E. Oviatt
Wood properties (thermal), construction (wood)
Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-032. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. 37 p.
Organization of long range transport of air pollution monitoring in Europe
In the 1950's a network of stations for observation of the chemical composition of air and precipitation was established in Europe. Analysing these data, Odén in 1968, was able to show that a central area in Europe with highly acid precipitation was expanding from year to year. This was further substantiated by Granat in 1972, and the explanation is the...
Brynjulf Ottar


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We adhere to this principle at every Global InterGold event. After every saturated speech follows a pleasant pause when participants can socialize in the company of their colleagues from different countries.
This year, the event was attended by clients from more than 50 countries. In breaks between the main program of the conference, the guests shared their experience of developing the gold business, gave advices and motivated each other for great achievements. Can you imagine how a businessman grows up when he has the opportunity to communicate with successful business representatives from different cultures?
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