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Active Shooter Training: What It Is and Why It's Needed (Episode 6)
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Darcy Grabenstein: Hello from SmartLinx Solutions. In today's podcast, we'll talk about active shooter training, a topic that, unfortunately, is a reality in our society. Our guest is Lieutenant Joseph A. Hendry Jr., a national trainer with the ALICE Training Institute. ALICE is an acronym for alert, lockdown, inform, counter, evacuate. Retiring after a distinguished 27-year career with the Kent State Ohio Police Department, Lieutenant Hendry has been named by the Ohio Department of Homeland Security and the Ohio Attorney General's Office as an expert in civilian and law enforcement response to active threats. He's been trained a crisis intervention team officer in dealing with mental health issues, he served six years in the U.S. Marine Core, and he was an intelligent liaison officer with Ohio Homeland Security. I'm going to keep it informal and call you Joe instead of Lieutenant Hendry. Joe, how did you get involved in active shooter training?
Lt. Joe Hendry: Oh geez, Darcy. Probably in the late 1990s, I was on SWAT then. The Columbine incident actually happened. Right after that, tactics for law enforcement changed in the United States from a SWAT team response to small-unit tactics. I was on a SWAT team when that happened, and we started training obviously more in-depth for it than we had been before. I became an instructor in small-unit tactics, which is the formation of the first three or four road police officers that get to the scene, and go in and deal with an active shooter, active threat, a bomb, a critical accident, however you want to refer to it, inside the building. That was really the very first time where I became immersed in the subject.
DG: Wow, I've got to ask you nationwide, have you seen an increase in this type of training and was there an incident that prompted this interest?
JH: Yes, I think Columbine started down that path. Virginia Tech obviously sped up what was going on in the country. Law enforcement kept evolving tactics. We went from SWAT tactics to team tactics after Columbine to solo engagement tactics after Virginia Tech. Now, based on the incident in San Bernardino about two years ago, actually, we've started doing tactics that involve team tactics, bounding overwatch, which was a military tactic at one time, but now it is a law enforcement tactic. We've changed our response several times in the law enforcement things to try to get faster and respond better.
The civilian end of things, obviously, people really weren't doing anything. I graduated from high school in 1985. There was no lockdown training for active shooter then. It became being used in the early 1990s extensively. That lockdown training that people were getting was actually based on drive-by shooting training from southern California, so it had absolutely nothing to do with an active shooter. It was for a threat that was outside of your building to try and protect people inside it. People tried to use that tactic internally. It failed in places like Columbine, Red Lake, Minnesota, Virginia Tech, and failed again at Sandy Hook. About five years ago, there was a major sea change in how people were viewing this event and how civilians should be responding.
DG: That may be, but Joe, do you think this type of training is usually accepted or have you in your experience encountered resistance to the concept?
JH: ALICE Training is not new. It's been around for ― next year it will be 17 years. It was developed right after Columbine. When I first started doing this, I worked obviously at a university. We started doing the training in 2009 based on the experiences at Virginia Tech, and studying data event about how does one guy shoot 47 people, one at a time, who are all adults in classrooms? When we looked at our response at the university, we decided it was inadequate. We had a lockdown plan on paper. Obviously, Virginia Tech showed us that that plan was unworkable, that there was no response other than people to sit on the floor, not move, and be quiet, while most of them were being shot from just a couple of feet away. We went out and we studied every program in the country that existed. We decided on ALICE Training. It really changed us then back in 2009. I think the failure of the concept of lockdown at Sandy Hook is what exacerbated everything recently. Obviously, Sandy Hook had a perfect lockdown drill the week before they had their event. Then when they actually had to use the response, it collapsed on them.
DG: I know you've mentioned Sandy Hook a few times. I know that you conduct training for all types of facilities such as schools, businesses, government facilities, houses of worship, and healthcare organizations. How would you say training for healthcare such as a long-term care facility differs from other types of organizations? That is, in an LTC facility, you have residents who aren't ambulatory or who may have dementia. How does that come into play in your training?
JH: Number one, the very first thing we have to look at for a facility before we actually even do training is to conduct a physical security assessment of that facility to see what the physical layout of the facility is, to see if it actually is able. That's one of the pieces that's been missing a lot of the times. People were doing lockdown and not even understanding how it worked in conjunction with their infrastructure. One of the things we want to look at is how does the infrastructure in those facilities actually hinder or help the response. We do a lot of training. In fact, the entire month I've been in a hospital system doing some assessment and getting ready to do training in it. Some of the things in medical facilities, in hospitals, work heavily in your favor because of the dementia patients and things like that that are inside facilities. Those areas usually have high-security doors with heavy pulls on the doors, electromagnetic locks, things like that. Those actually could help in an incident keep a threat out.
The interesting thing is we have to train the staff potentially how to move patients to more secured areas from unsecured areas. There have been shootings obviously in nursing homes where patients have been killed in hallways and wheelchairs, in their beds in their rooms. It's to get the staff to realize how to protect those people. How to move them into more secured areas very similar to the way they do for a fire because, obviously, they don't evacuate the facility in many instances for a fire. Those areas that sometimes are used in preventing fire from getting to people are also useful for in getting a threat not to be able to get to those people. Really, how those people respond in conjunction with their infrastructure makes a huge difference in the mitigation of casualties during an event.
DG: Sure, that makes sense. I've got to ask, what about a long-term care facility that also may have a religious component? To me, that's almost a double whammy. Would there be additional elements incorporated into the training or would it be similar to any other facility?
JH: It would be very similar to any other facility. I always tell this: "People are people no matter where you go." Human beings, as far as responding to violence, basically, have three major responses that we do. The number one thing we do is obviously we evacuate from violence. If you do anything with fire training or stranger danger training, or rape awareness defense, all of those are based on getting away from the threat. This is no different.
Now, in long-term care facilities and with mental health patients, things like that, evacuation in some of those facilities isn't an option. Those people aren't able to evacuate. They're unable even to assist in keeping themselves safe, so that requires additional training. Having a religious component do it really other than when I go in and do training, being aware of the religious component as not to offend anybody in anything. Most people get it. I've taught in everything from Native American tribe facilities to Catholic facilities, Jewish facilities. I've had people that follow Islam in class. It's really the same response from everyone as far as you go as a human being. The religious component doesn't really come into play when someone's attempting to kill you.
DG: That obviously makes sense to me. Joe, I think a lot of people will be wondering how much time and effort are involved in a training? In our conversations, you've said it's more than just having a plan on paper. It's more than just one and done. What is involved?
JH: Yeah, we see a lot of training nationally where someone comes in and gives a lecture for an hour and they leave. They leave you a PowerPoint, or emergency operation plan, and you're done. That's not training, that's presentation. Training actually involves doing things. Training, when we implement ALICE and it's done correctly, involves like five separate different steps. It's getting approval. It's getting everything set up. It's doing the physical assessment of your facility. It's actually setting up the training. Doing emergency operation plans, tabletop exercises. That's all done before you actually get to "We're going to run a drill." A lot of people skip steps. They don't do things adequately.
One of the things with the institute is we're actually the only company, I guess even government (organization) that — and we're not a government organization, we're a private organization, but — we're the only organization that insurance companies are partnering with to train their clients. Philadelphia Insurance is a partner of ours. Hanover Insurance is a partner of ours. Church Mutual of Wisconsin, who insures about 4,000 houses of worship in the United States. They're the largest church insurer in the country. They are a partner with us. It's because we don't look at things like we call it one and done. Where someone comes and gives a lecture and leaves and that's the last time you get anything. Or you just get an emergency operation plan in your book and you don't train it. You're not keeping training records. When we're looking at things we're looking at not only how do you defend yourself during an event. It's how do you defend yourself in the aftermath of an event.
DG: I have a question based on that. Do organizations get any kind of discount on insurance premiums if they've had training?
JH: Some insurance companies are actually working with their clients to send them the training, so the client doesn't have to pay for the training. That's with the insurance companies. We don't work with that end of it. That's what the insurance companies decide what their clients want to do. A lot of times they've brought them in — we do presentations, so people understand how to do this correctly. The insurance companies will sometimes pay for their clients to come to those because they're all about mitigation of casualties and risk. When you have an incident in Las Vegas that it looks like the loss insurance-wise from that event is going to be over a billion dollars, one guy with a gun did a billion dollars' worth of damage. It's wasn't to infrastructure. It was largely to people.
DG: Wow.
JH: Just actually yesterday the coroner's office released that every single person that died during the Las Vegas event was shot to death. No one was trampled. No one was injured during the evacuation; well, not injured, but no one was killed during the evacuation. When you're talking about that many deaths from one individual coming back either on the hotel, or the concert promoter, or the security firm, or law enforcement in the city, those lawsuits are all going to get filed. It basically comes down to how you're going to defend yourself. That becomes an issue.
DG: Right, and obviously you can't put a price on life per se. I do have another question regarding the training. Is it a role play? Do you actually have timed sequences? How does that work?
JH: Yeah, we actually set up training with people. We use e-Learning. We like people to do tabletops. The physical drills, though, really is where you learn how to do things. Most human beings learn kinesthetically better than they do sitting in a class and getting a lecture. They learn better when they have e-Learning in conjunction with the lecture, in conjunction with scenarios. We do all of those because we know human beings have better retention when different means are given information to them. We all learn differently.
I know personally that I'm a kinesthetic learner. I see most of the people in my classes are kinesthetic learners. You kind of understand in a lecture what I'm talking about, but until you actually have to put those things into use, you don't understand how they work for you. I've had lots of people in class. You know we train everyone from law enforcement. I've had military personnel including special forces people in class. Down to an administrative secretary in a healthcare facility or a secretary in a healthcare facility. Our classes come from all walks of life.
It is amazing what people say they're going to do and then what they actually do when we place them in a scenario. We actually put them in rooms, and hallways, and buildings with a faux gunman. It's not a real gunman. Obviously, we put them in the facility. The human reaction of people to the threat, and even though it's just a scenario, and we're not going full go with people and tackling, and all that kind of stuff. Really, just the very stress of knowing that the scenario has begun and how your body reacts. I have had people, law enforcement officers, military personnel, literally when the gunman is in contact with them, turn and run into walls.
JH: They did not think they were going to do that, but they'd never been placed in this situation before. Mental stimulation is an okay way of training and thinking about what you're going to do. If this happens, I'm going to do this or I'm going to go here. Actually, being placed in a situation, you do not know what your body's going to do until it actually has to do it. I've had people, not often, but I have had people sporadically fall on the ground and curl up in balls. That is not the normal human response. I see that in about one or two percent in classes. I only see about one to two percent of the people in classes, and some of them that are highly trained in military and law enforcement, actually swarm the gunman immediately. It takes them a few seconds to begin figuring out what to do. Obviously, we want to shorten that time, so that when people process information, they process it quickly.
We have to realize something. The incident in Las Vegas. The sniper type incident has happened before with active shooter. Those are anomalies. Most of the people who commit this crime are not highly trained. The FBI statistical data from the 2014 study that they put out said about two percent of these individuals are considered to have training. When you look at the individual in the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. He had some training, but interestingly, the coroner's office said that most of the victims shot in the Pulse nightclub, there's 99 of them, were shot from a distance of three feet away. That doesn't require any skill set. What those people are doing in that three-foot instance makes a huge difference. The initial incident's always a surprise when it occurs.
What you really want to think about is what's going on after that one second when you do realize something's happening. Now what are you doing? I never could understand — this is over 10 years ago when the Virginia Tech incident happened. I'm a university police officer. I get put on a committee at the university to find something for 110 buildings and 45,000 people to do in my cafeterias, in my gyms, in my auditoriums, in my classrooms, in my offices, outside the buildings, in my stadiums. I had to find something to do in all of those locations. I was stunned when I talked to people who told me that they had been trained only to try to hide and that was it. I was even more stunned because they were only trying to hide in buildings in which every room was occupied. The whole response didn't make any sense.
DG: Joe, I know that you travel a lot for your job. Are you authorized to intervene if you should come across an active shooter situation or would you be held liable? What I'm asking is, are you only authorized for training? Then also, in your training do you address other possible scenarios other than guns such as those involving a different type of weapon?
JH: Sure, I'll answer the first part first. Obviously, anybody is covered if they have to respond to an active shooter regardless of location. When we train tactics, we just don't train you for your healthcare facility. We train so that those concepts are portable, and that you take them with you no matter where you are, whether you're in your house of worship, or you're at the grocery store, or Walmart, or Target. It doesn't matter. All the responses remain the same. What doesn't remain the same is your option. You might have an option to have to use countermeasures, which is for contact with the threat, or evacuation, or you might be able to barricade, lockdown your facility. Those things would apply to me regardless of where I am. I'm in all kinds of facilities from hospitals, universities to businesses, large warehouses. Anyone should be authorized to respond. If I was at a concert, I would still be responding to the active shooter even though I'm not in an official role or anything as far as what my job is or what my job used to be. Does that answer that question for you?
DG: Yes, definitely.
JH: Good. The second question as far as weapons goes. We do not just — as a company, we do not refer to these events as active shooter. That's a catch-all phrase that was developed in the 1990s. We refer to them as violent critical incidents because the suspects do not limit themselves in weapons. They use explosive devices, bombs, fire, knives, edged weapons, bats. There's been incident with chainsaws. Bad guys don't limit themselves, and we should not be limiting our thinking in how we're going to respond to them. Now, the responses in training, regardless of what the weapon is, are the same. It's not any different, so whether it's a firearm or a knife — and actually knives potentially are even more deadly than firearms. We really don't want people just to think that oh, I use this if there's a guy with a gun, but if there's a guy with a knife, I don't know what to do. It's the same response and the same options apply.
DG: Good to know. You also mentioned risk assessments. Could you go into a little bit more detail about that?
JH: Sure. One of the things that we started doing — we used to get asked to do risk assessments, physical security assessments, things like that all the time by clients. We did not do them until recently, and when we decided to do them, we decided to do them correctly. Number one, a facility, you can conduct your own risk assessment, but it's really not a good idea. That's not what your insurance companies want to see. Probably every three or four years they want you to hire outside people to come in, a different set of eyes on the facility to look at it and actually do a formal risk assessment and write things up that they see, review your policies. All of those things should be happening every three or four years. It's because we don't do those — and we've just recently started to really push them in the country because, quite honestly, we've had a lot of events occur, and when you go back and look at policies and you see policies where people were required to sit on the ground, not move, and be quiet when someone was killing them, that screams of an improper risk assessment or no risk assessment. It was just "I have a policy." I've seen stuff where people have downloaded a risk assessment off the internet, and I say "risk assessment" in quotes. Think that if they check boxes on it they have a good plan. They have no idea what they're doing.
You went over my background earlier. I thought I knew a lot about physical security and risk assessment. It was not until I went through ASIS International's board certification process in order to become an international professional in doing this and how to do them correctly. If risk assessment and threat assessment was a bucket, I probably realize now that I knew about an inch in the bottom of that bucket from my career in the military and as a law enforcement officer. There were some things I knew and knew certain sections of things, but I did not realize how in depth the procedures are, how to do these assessments, how to look at things.
DG: What is ASIS?
JH: ASIS International is the largest security organization in the world. It is the gold standard as far as security organizations go. They're not a company or anything like that. They are the organization that writes the standards for security in the world for everything from cameras, lighting, physical security. They have textbooks on how to do this correctly. We decided as a company that there's a lot of — I see a lot of things. As a law enforcement officer, I got confronted with this — and it was one of the, now I realize it was one of the dumbest things I was ever asked to do — was to conduct physical security assessments at facilities as a law enforcement officer. I had absolutely no training anywhere in my law enforcement career how to conduct a physical security assessment. You read documents, and it says work in conjunction your physical security with local law enforcement. I had no clue what I was doing when I went places. People want to recommend gadgets and cameras and all this stuff and everything, and they have no idea what they're even recommending or how it works with other security measures that the facility has.
We were required by the company to go through. We're talking. I'm a little older than 50 years old. I hadn't been studying textbooks for a long time since I was in college. The amount of reading and the amount of studying, I probably ended up studying over 250 hours. It's a board exam, several hours, well over a hundred and some questions, and the questions are like the ones you always loved when you were in school. There's four answers. They're all correct. Choose the best one, that kind of stuff.
DG: Didn't you love it?
JH: Oh, I loved that test. It was great. I walked out of there feeling okay about it. I passed with a fairly decent score, but it was unbelievably hard. I found out later on that somewhere between 40 and — you actually have to apply to study for the test, you just can't say "I want to take the test," you have to apply to study for it, and then you have to apply to take the test. I found out after I took the test that somewhere, dependent where you're at, that roughly 40 to 60 percent of the people who supposedly have been approved to study for the test fail the actual exam when they take it, so it's not easy.
DG: No.
JH: The people that work for the company, there's three of us now that have the board certification to do this. We talk to each other all the time, and learn from each other and things we're seeing in the field. I read other people's assessments that have been done on properties. Some of them are government agencies that went in and did assessments for facilities, and when I walked out, their risk managers and their insurance company are saying, "You found twice as many things as the government agency that did the original assessment that certified us to operate." I'm like, "Well, it's just — it's crazy some of the stuff you see in the field."
DG: Right. Can you share any examples of how your training's actually been used? I know that several years ago a hospital in Bucks County, PA was under lockdown because of an active shooter, and tragically, a police officer was fatally shot. That stuck with me. Do you have any positive outcomes based on your training that you could share with us?
JH: Sure. In fact, this year in West Liberty, Ohio, there was a school district at West Liberty. They had an active shooter. It was a student. He began shooting in their — one of the men's restrooms in the high school wing of the building. This is a K-through-12 facility with different wings in it. They have a high school, junior high, and grade school wing.
That event, when it started, it started in the morning before classes started. A student who ends up being shot and survives goes into the restroom. Actually, he's supposed to be leaving on a bus that day to go to, basically, a forensic speech and debate kind of event. Goes into the restroom to check his hair to make sure his hair is okay and ends up getting shot by the suspect who's loading a shotgun in the bathroom when he walks in. There's a large number of students in the hallway. They hear the gunshots. They either evacuate the building or run in the classrooms. By the time the suspect leaves the restroom, the hallway is empty. Almost the entire high school wing except for one room has evacuated, and they did not do what we would consider normal evacuation where they get out and walk in the hallway and leave. They actually went through their windows they broke.
During the briefing from the principal and superintendent, they had been told by the company that installed their windows that the windows open. That people could get out of them. They found out the windows only opened eight inches, so the high school students broke out the windows, took the glass — basically, raked the glass out of the frames and climbed out the windows. The gunman breached two classrooms that had been locked. Beyond those locked doors, the students and the teachers in the room had barricaded the doors so that he could not gain entry, even though the locked door was breached, and there was no one in the room when he breached it. They were all gone.
Except for the student that was shot and one classroom that could not leave because of their proximity to the door and the window that they had, which they're currently in the process of fixing, they couldn't leave. They barricaded their location and prepared countermeasures inside if the gunman tried to breach their room, but he did not. Three hundred and seventy-five people got out of that school probably in less than a minute and were not contacted by the gunman. That's the kind of thing the training does. That's an ALICE facility. Two staff members at the school ended up swarming the gunman and gaining control of him, and they held him on the ground for five minutes until law enforcement got there.
DG: That's amazing. Thank you for sharing that. I know you've compared this active shooter training industry to the Wild, Wild West. How can an organization that's interested in training vet the training provider? How can you tell that a training provider is legitimate?
JH: That's probably the best question in the entire thing so far. You want to look at things from a realistic standpoint. There's other companies I've seen out there. It was after Sandy Hook. There was just like — all of a sudden, there were all these companies that literally just sprouted right out of the ground that were going to do active shooter training, and recommendations changed from the federal government. All of a sudden, I mean, it turned into — it went from "We shouldn't be doing this" in the argument against ALICE from a lot of people to everyone was trying to do it because there was the almighty dollar involved, which is sad. When you're looking at a provider who's going to give you training, are they just coming in to give a lecture? If you're just getting a lecture, that's not training. Would you like to have surgery from a doctor that sat through a lecture and is now doing brain surgery on you?
JH: Obviously not. No. You would like them to practice what they're doing before they operate on you. This is no different. This is a lifesaving thing. If I told you as a child, if there's fire in this building, this is what you do and I never practiced crawling underneath the smoke, touch the door, stop, drop, and roll, knock your friend on the ground and use your own body to extinguish the flames and how to evacuate the building physically and have you do it, would you know how to respond to a fire from a lecture? Obviously not?
DG: Probably not.
JH: Right. I have seen people go in and give a lecture, and tell people, hey, if this happens, run, hide, fight. They make them watch a six-minute video from the City of Houston about it, which was never meant to be training. It was just supposed to be an exposition what you could do, and then talk about a little bit. Show them how to maybe slide a belt over a door, and the training's over. Companies have done this. They've made people sign off that they've had active shooter training. They've had nothing.
DG: Sure. It reminds me of CPR training. I've taken training, and until you actually do it with the dummies, you really don't get it.
JH: No.
DG: It's similar to that.
JH: I've actually done advanced life — we use to have to do advanced lifesaving training as a police officer, and just a couple months before I retired, I actually had to use an AED on a guy and ended up saving his life. It was real different even putting the AED on a person who I knew was dying rather than just being in the classroom, and that was a lot of stress. If you've done that training before and put an AED on everybody, you always pretty much do it from the side. I suddenly had to do it from the guy's head because of where he had fallen between the house and the vehicle. There was no other way to get to him, and I had to do everything correctly. There was water on the ground. I mean, all the things they tell you to watch out for, and it was all coming back to me from my training what to do.
I mean, it was a high-stress situation, and I had to remember where to put the two pads in reference to being at the gentleman's head rather than next to him on his side. That stopped me for about one second. I had to think. Which way do these go? That's high stress. If I hadn't done that, though, in the class, the physical skillset, and someone had just told me from watching the video or a lecture what to do, that gentleman would probably be dead today.
DG: True. Where are we in terms of security training today in the country, and then where do you see the future of security training heading?
JH: I think we're seeing security training, as far as overall as a population — when Department of Homeland Security after the 9/11 incident came out with "See Something, Say Something," things started to change. There are still a lot of places I go. They're relying on someone else to come save them, whether it's their internal security or law enforcement. An active violent critical incident is not that kind of event. You actually are the first responder. It is not law enforcement. It is not someone else. It is you. You have to start making decisions.
In order for you to make those decisions, you have to be trained. I mean, it's obvious. One of the unfortunate things I saw in law enforcement is, anytime there were budget cuts, training was the first thing that got put on the chopping block. Unfortunately, I think on a lot of the lawsuits we see, after training got axed and people making mistakes, isn't because the person intentionally made a mistake, or did something wrong, or intended to hurt somebody, or whatever in law enforcement. It was because the training was poor. Who's training? What are they training? Is it enough so that you can learn something when you walk out of the room?
I would never expect anybody from a lecture to think that they could stop an active shooter, but I've seen people do it. I've seen training where people tell me that — one of the weirdest questions I ever got — "There's training out there that tells you, if you're in contact with the gunman, gouge his eyes out." I'm thinking to myself: How do you even practice that?
DG: Yeah. Good luck with that, right?
JH: Yeah. I mean, weapons take-away, this is one that is really — it should be a huge red flag for anybody doing active shooter training. If the company is attempting to teach civilians how to do weapons take-aways, it's useless. The skillset required to do a weapons take-away — I was a law enforcement officer and a Marine for 33 years. It is one of the most difficult things you will ever do in the world. Everything has to be perfect. The suspect's moving. You're moving. Doing that for an hour or two in a class gives a totally false sense of security.
We train everything that is already in people's wheelhouses with — "countering" is not just trying to — and I hate this word because it doesn't even make sense. How do you even fight a gunman? When I read policies and it says people are going to fight a gunman, "fight" has a legal definition already in the United States, and it doesn't mean what we're trying to say to do with this. We use "counter." It's actually what's happening. Directed violence against you and you're attempting to counter it. That involves movement, noise, distraction, and swarming techniques.
You see all those being highly used in a location that you don't think about normally. It's called Chuck E. Cheese. There's a ton of movement. There's a ton of noise. There's a ton of distraction. People are pushing each other to get to games and all this stuff, these kids. It's chaos. You actually want chaos, not organizational skills in the middle of an event. It actually disrupts the bad guy who's an individual who can only focus on one thing at a time too, and if he has to focus on 300 different things, it's impossible for them to do so.
All of that makes a huge difference and actually doing things and training people properly, and not making them do things like — I saw one. I had a class where someone asked me when am I going to get to the part of the class where we hit the gunman with a fire extinguisher. I was like, "What are you talking about?" They're like, "Well, we had a trainer come in." I guess he was at this facility three years before I was there. Honest to God's truth, they went out and bought fire extinguishers for every room in the facility. Not to put fires out but to hit gunman with them.
I was like, "I'm sorry. There's no skillset I can train you to hit a gunman with a fire extinguisher or shoot a fire extinguisher at a gunman. I mean, it might be an optional countermeasure in a room or it may not be, but if you're teaching a single object that's going to keep you safe, you're already losing."
DG: Right. I think any single approach is wrong. You need multiple strategies. Thank you so much, Joe, for sharing your expertise with us today. I think this was — it's such an important topic, and to all our listeners, thank you for tuning in. For more information on today's topic, visit alicetraining.com, and if you'd like to learn more about SmartLinx Solutions and our fully integrated suite of Workforce Management Solutions, visit us online at smartlinxsolutions.com.
JH: Thank you so much for having me.
DG: You're welcome.
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Tender to Provide Valuation Services in London
Monday, 4 July 2016, 9:00
Lewisham Homes is seeking a valuation service that will support its business.
United Kingdom-London: Building sale or purchase services
Lewisham Homes
Old Town Hall, Catford
E-mail: Procurement@lewishamhomes.org.uk
NUTS code: UKI12
Internet address(es):Main address: www.lewishamhomes.org.uk
I.2)Joint procurement
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: http://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-London:-Building-sale-or-purchase-services./V8W9ZZ5KB8
Other type: Arms Length Management Organisation (ALMO)
Valuation Services.
LH is responsible for managing around 13 200 tenanted and 4 800 leasehold properties. The stock is widely distributed throughout Lewisham borough and is largely made up of low-rise blocks of flats, as well as some high-rise blocks, street properties and some house conversions.
LH is looking for a provider to undertake valuation services in 2 areas of the business Right to Buy and Property Acquisitions. The scope of work may increase in the future to include valuation services for areas such as, property disposals, land valuations and any other valuation services that LH may require,
Value excluding VAT: 360 000.00 GBP
NUTS code: UKI
Lewisham Homes (LH) was created as an Arm's Length Management Organisation (ALMO) in January 2007. It is a non-profit making company limited by guarantee, and the London Borough of Lewisham Council (LBL) is the sole shareholder. LH is responsible for managing around 13 200 tenanted and 4 800 leasehold properties. The stock is widely distributed throughout Lewisham borough and is largely made up of low-rise blocks of flats, as well as some high-rise blocks, street properties and some house conversions.
Lewisham Homes is seeking a valuation service that will support its business. At the start of the contract there will be 2 areas of the business requiring valuation services:
— Home Ownership Team requiring Right to Buy valuations;
— Development Team requiring Property Acquisition valuations.
This contract is subject to renewal: yes
Description of renewals:
2 year contract with option to extend by an additional year.
II.2.9)Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
Envisaged minimum number: 3
Maximum number: 10
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:
Reference Details Score Weighting
1. Applicant Information Info only n/a.
2. Grounds for mandatory Exclusion Pass/Fail n/a.
3. Grounds for Discretionary Exclusion Pass/Fail n/a.
4. Not used n/a n/a.
5. Economic and Financial Standing Pass/Fail n/a.
6. Technical and Professional Ability Scored 15 %.
7. Additional PQQ Modules
(A1) Quality Management Scored 15 %.
(A2) Experience of Operating Similar Contracts Scored 20 %.
(A3) Organisational structure Scored 10 %.
(A4) Health and Safety Scored 10 %.
(A5) Right to Buy understanding and knowledge Scored 30 %.
7B Insurance Pass/Fail n/a.
7C Compliance with Equality Legislation Pass/Fail n/a.
7D Environmental Management Pass/Fail n/a.
7E Health and Safety Pass/Fail n/a.
Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession
Services must be managed by a Chartered Surveyor with Membership of RICS or equivalent who is to ensure all services are provided in accordance with the RICS Red Book.
Details of any conditions will be set out in the tender documents. These may include conditions relating to environmental and social requirements.
Obligation to indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff assigned to performing the contract
Restricted procedure
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement. Lewisham Homes Limited is the Arms Length Managements Organisation (ALMO) responsible for the management of housing stock owned by the London Borough of Lewisham. The housing stock which is the subject of these services is widely distributed throughout the London Borough of Lewisham and largely consists of low rise flats, although there are some high-rise blocks and street properties.
The right is reserved not to proceed with or not award a contract for the whole or part of this procurement. Neither LHL nor any person on whose behalf this procurement is undertaken is to be liable for any costs incurred by those expressing an interest in tendering for these services.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-London:-Building-sale-or-purchase-services./V8W9ZZ5KB8
To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/V8W9ZZ5KB8
GO Reference: GO-2016628-PRO-8419177.
Lewisham Homes Limited
E-mail: procurement@lewishamhome.org.ukInternet address:https://www.delta-esourcing.com
The contracting authority will incorporate a minimum of of 10 calender day standstill period at the point of information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved, the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No 5) (as amended) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly (generally within 3 months). Where a contract has not been entered into, the court may order the setting aside of the award decision or order the contracting authority to amend any document and award damages. If the contract has followed correctly, declare the contract to be 'ineffective'.
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TfL Framework Contract for Strategic Consultancy Services
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Q: The PHP function filemtime returning a negative value or very large value I am creating a WordPress plugin and can see that on some servers, for certain files, the stat (or filemtime) returning invalid mtime value. In some cases it is a negative value or a very large value (more than 3 billion).
In FTP I can see that the timestamp is correct though.

A: When you get Negative numbers in any PHP timestamp its just the amount of seconds before the Unix Epoch and this is not limited to filemtime
Example A
echo strtotime("1950-1-1"); // Outputs  -631155600
                                        ^------- negative value

Example B
Outputting negative values does not mean you can not format it correctly  if you try
echo date("Y-m-d",-631155600); // Output  1950-01-01

Lastly
FTP I can see that the timestamp is correct though
Your FTP application is definitely not PHP and has its own internal date system .. its Date System might not use negative values in timestamp

A: If I understand you correctly, a very large value is what you're looking for- this is a Unix Time Stamp.
Did you try something like this?
date ("F d Y H:i:s.", filemtime($filename))

filemtime returns the number of seconds that have passed since January 1, 1970, which should be a very large value indeed; it's up to you to convert those seconds into something human-readable, using something like the above example.
If, on the other hand, you're aware of this and you believe your large value is still wrong, it may be helpful to post an example of said value, along with the date you're expecting for it.

A: When your server run a ntp daemon this could be a result of setting the time within a request. This happens e.x. for apache logs and other things that rely on unix system functions, too.

A: What size are the files that return a negative value for filemtime?
It says here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.stat.php that "Because PHP's integer type is signed and many platforms use 32bit integers, some filesystem functions may return unexpected results for files which are larger than 2GB."

A: The current value of the unix timestamp is about 1,356,197,722 so a billion is reasonable.
Though it's unlikely to be the issue, it is worth knowing about http://php.net/manual/en/function.clearstatcache.php and using it before calling filemtime().

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The Red Moose Coffee Hus is a place to gather, to gab, to rejuvenate and reconnect, to tickle your taste buds and bring a smile to you soul. Where a good cup of coffee is just the beginning. See what local artists are doing and awaken your own creativity. We look forward to seeing you!


Improving population health and health equity in low- and middle-income countries is a shared and international responsibility. Improvements in health in low- and middle-income countries can only be effective through research into financing of health care.
ESHPM is working hard towards further expanding its research themes and educational programmes with regard to global health care.
The Rotterdam Global Health Initiative (RGHI) is a Top Service Network of several Erasmus University institutions, the city of Rotterdam, international NGOs and business partners. ESHPM is one of the prominent partners in the initiative. Participants from different backgrounds work together in global health research, education and social valorisation. Innovative input regarding global health is urgently needed to diminish the socio-economic gap in health, improve people's living conditions world-wide and tackle inequities in power, money and resources which impact on health. RGHI contributes to global health through a unique combination of expertise. Main issues within RGHI are public health, building international health systems and international development. Our ambition is to realise improvements in public health, accessibility of health care and health financing. This can be done by working on improving health logistics, by enabling better health service delivery and quality of care and by establishing good governance in health care. Solid monitoring, evaluation and impact studies provide support in achieving these goals. More important, health is a major asset for human beings and it is essential that health is acknowledged as a basic human right. Comprehensive research into the causes of ill health and health inequalities is required to be able to realise health improvements worldwide. Our scope must not be limited to health care only; the focus must also be on historical and cultural aspects and on living conditions. Water management, food supply, sanitary facilities, working conditions and the availability and accessibility of politics and good governance are equally important fields of interest for global health.


Looking for a great family day out?
Looking for a great family day out? Ever wondered how the Tudors built their heavy wooden ship? Want to build up a picture of where the Mary Rose sank in 1545?
This holiday, the Mary Rose is launching an exciting program of Tudor events, and what's more, with every purchase of an adult ticket, Kids go Free (up to three children accompanied by at least one paying adult, children must be 15 or younger. Offer runs 21st July – 2nd September). These tickets are valid for 12 months from the purchase date, so you can also experience the Tudor fun throughout the year!
Whether you're new to the Mary Rose experience, or an old hand, there's plenty of activities planned to beat the summer holiday tedium!
Free to all Mary Rose ticket holders.
£6 for one 8x8cm LEGO® brick plate and get a 'make and take' model. See website for details. Pre-booking essential.
Following Holbein's portrait of Henry VIII that visitors built in May half-term; the Mary Rose is going even bigger! This summer, visitors are invited to recreate with LEGO bricks, the colourful Cowdray engraving, a giant picture of Tudor Portsmouth featuring the sinking Mary Rose. The finished mosaic will be 12 metres wide and 3 metres tall, one of the largest LEGO brick mosaics ever made in the UK. Participants will also make and take home their own mini LEGO brick model. This event is produced in partnership with Bright Bricks, the UK's premier independent LEGO brick building company.
Admission to the castle is free.
Join the team at Southsea Castle from where Henry VIII watched his beloved Mary Rose sink during the Battle of the Solent in 1545. There will be talks about the sinking of the Mary Rose, real Tudor objects to examine, storytelling, games and archery.
Black Knight Historical will host Hobby Horse Jousting where kids can dress up as medieval knights, and ride a fearsome destrier, charging down the jousting field! They also will run St. George's Knight School where aspiring young knights can hone their skills.
As well as these special summer activities, visitors to the Mary Rose can enjoy the immersive experience, a journey into Tudor life all year round. Hold genuine rope from the ship, pick up cannonballs and try pulling a longbow. Be surrounded by the sounds on board as the crew come alive through vivid projections. Their personal items – shoes, games, even nit combs – have been carefully conserved and are presented in stunning, atmospheric displays.


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Dave Matthews Death Hoax
Is entertainer Dave Matthews dead?
Claim: Popular entertainer Dave Matthews is dead.
Status: False.
Origins: No, popular entertainer Dave Matthews (of the Dave Matthews Band) is not dead, nor are the Olsen twins or Britney Spears enrolling at Tufts, Purdue, Carnegie Mellon, or any other university.
The web site at IP address 66.111.43.11 is spo0fed.com, which hosts a number of spoofed CNN pages about such made-up topics as Britney Spears enrolling at Tufts, the Olsen Twins attending Purdue University, Dave Matthews dying of a drug overdose, Trishelle Goodwin (of MTV's Real World Las Vegas) killing herself, etc. All the articles are poorly-written, with numerous spelling and grammatical mistakes that clearly mark them as nothing ever issued by the real CNN. (The site's availability is spotty now that it's been "discovered," and most visitors now see only error messages instead of content.)
Many web surfers have been confused by these spoofs because they're led to the site by URLs such as the following:
https://www.cnn.com@66.111.43.11/reports/2003/WORLD/0194/4448369.html
This link looks like its pointing to a section of World News articles at CNN.com, but everything preceding an '@' character in a URL is generally ignored, so this link actually redirects the user to pages hosted on the site at the IP address 66.111.43.11.
(Try this example: the URL https://www.msnbc.com@198.64.132.113/rumors/msnbc.htm doesn't take you to MSNBC; it takes you to a page about MSNBC on our own web site.)
The use of an IP address rather than a domain name helps conceal the identity of the site to which the user has been redirected and heightens the illusion that the reader is viewing a "real" CNN page.
hoaxes ASP Article
Social Security as 'Federal Benefit Payments'


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La gare de Sirevåg  est une gare ferroviaire norvégienne de la ligne de Jær, située au village de Sirevåg sur le territoire de la commune de Hå.

Mise en service en 1879, c'est une halte ferroviaire de la Norges Statsbaner (NSB). Elle est distante de  du terminus de la gare de Stavanger.

Situation ferroviaire
Établie à  d'altitude, la gare de Sirevåg est située sur la ligne de Jær entre les gares d'Ogna et de Hellvik.

Histoire
L'arrêt de « Store Sirevaag » est mis en service le , il prend le nom de Sirevåg en . Après avoir changé de statut en 1904 et 1969, il redevient un simple arrêt le .

Service des voyageurs

Accueil
Sirevåg est une halte ferroviaire sans personnel, qui dispose d'un abri de quai pour les voyageurs.

Desserte
Sirevåg est desservi par des trains locaux en direction d'Egersund et de Stavanger

Intermodalité
Un parking pour les véhicules y est aménagé.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Transport ferroviaire en Norvège
 Ligne de Jær

Lien externe
  Sirevåg stasjon sur le site de l'exploitant NSB

Gare de la ligne de Jær
Gare du Rogaland
Gare mise en service en 1879

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Over the last few months, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to take 2 trips to China to inspect our brewing equipment as it was being manufactured. Having never traveled to China in the past, it was an eye opening experience. I visited Jinan, a small Chinese manufacturing city that you've probably never heard of, with a population of around 7 million people! It's not very touristy and is pretty much full of factories and business people.
They had good technical knowledge.
They would respond to our emails generally within the same day.
They had very competitive pricing.
Their salesman wasn't just a "yes" man, he worked hard to understand all of the specifics we had requested.
They were happy to custom build any piece of equipment that I wanted and would indulge my personal preferences for certain items.
If you aren't specific about exactly what it is that you want them to build and to what standard, then it's likely that they will build the brewery the way that they know but it isn't necessarily going to be the way you would like it or are familiar with.
[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image="814″ img_size="full" add_caption="yes" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]I personally think that if, as a customer, you are prepared to work closely with the manufacturer and are specific about what it is you want, then you are able to have equipment produced that is of a very high standard and comparable to equipment that is manufactured in western countries.
My first trip to the factory in August was mainly focussed around inspecting fermentation jacket welding and seeing their pressure testing method and reporting systems. I also spent a full day in their office in downtown Jinan designing and reviewing our brewhouse piping configurations with their in-house engineer. At this stage our brewhouse wasn't really much more than being cylindrical pieces of stainless steel so there wasn't much to inspect on this front.The second trip in September was for inspecting our brewhouse before shipping. When I arrived on the first day after roughly 20hrs of travel from Brisbane we went straight to the factory. We spent the day going through all of the brewhouse pipe work. I ended up making around 20 changes to the pipework configuration, mainly for sanitation reasons or to make things easier for the operator. There were some bits of pipe that were too long which meant they were not able to be cleaned sufficiently, etc.
Although I brought it on myself, I also had the incredibly fun task of climbing into each and every one of the fermenters so that I could inspect the internal surface condition. I was glad I insisted on getting into every tank as some of the internals of the tanks were in pretty average condition. There was scratching, pitting and welding spatter in just about all of the tanks. Although Tiantai seemed to be a bit embarrassed, they were very open to going over every surface that I had circled with my permanent marker and re-polishing it.
On the final day we did a complete water brew, testing every valve pump and motor in the brewhouse. There were some small changes I made but these were mainly around touch screen visualisation. Naming things differently and having valves numbered and displayed differently, etc. I'm now confident that we will have a high quality efficiently functioning brewery when it arrives.
The biggest challenge I found when purchasing a brewery from China was completing an independent pressure vessel design verification. As Tiantai are a Chinese company, they don't complete their vessel designs to AS1210 which is the Australian Pressure Vessel Standard. Luckily for us, WH&S in Australia do accept pressure vessels built to other standards including GB150 (the Chinese Standard). The biggest challenge here was finding a local Engineer who works with GB150 and then getting the correct information translated from Tiantai and in the correct format so that our local Engineer could verify the vessel designs against the standard. I began work on this process towards the end of May and only had it completed last Friday, 7th October.
Be specific and go into as much detail as you can about everything!
Don't write-off ideas or suggestions that they have, some are good and can be better than what you have seen before.
Go over everything with a fine tooth comb. And then do it again.
Visit the factory during production (at least once but more if you can) and be involved with process as much as you can.
Stay in regular contact with supplier.
Get spares and lots of them. Spare seals, elements, everything you can think of and more than you think you'll need. Having a critical spare in stock could be the difference between brewing and not brewing for weeks.
Build in redundancies. For example, we designed the pipework of the brewhouse so that both pumps can do any task. If one breaks, then we can still brew using the other.
I've done a very basic list of Pros & Con's that I found from working with a Chinese Manufacturer.
Finally, here's a very basic list of what we purchased from Tiantai.
Massive list of assorted spares for all pumps, manways and electrical elements. Also a heap of cellar gear, t-pieces, valves, elbow, hoses, clamps, sight glasses etc.


Anyone that knows me knows I am obsessed with blue.
Today I have for you some nails I wore for a surprise birthday party that I went to at the weekend.
I was very excited when I popped into Superdrug yesterday and discovered the new Coconut Infusion range from BarryM!


Students take the same courses (and the same number of courses) as those required for the two degrees under the normal sequence, but in a more flexible configuration. All requirements for the M.A. are the same as for other tracks: the principal focus remains ancient Greek and/or Latin (concluding with a comprehensive exam in both languages), and there remains a thesis and non-thesis option and required reading knowledge of a modern research language.
Careful course selection and steady progression through the undergraduate career is necessary to ensure all requirements for both degrees may be completed within the 5-year time frame. All prospective students should discuss their interest in the 4+1 track with the Director of Graduate Studies no later than the student's Junior year (Year 3). Admission standards depend not only on academic record but also on the demonstrated ability to continue with accelerated work, as determined by the department's admissions committee (to include the Chair, Director of Graduate Studies, and Undergraduate Director).
Application to the program requires: three letters of recommendation (two of which must be from KU Classics faculty), a strong writing sample, a statement of purpose, and a KU Advising Report showing a 3.5 GPA in the major (slightly lower would be acceptable with especially strong letters of recommendation).
Candidacy will be reviewed in the seventh semester to ensure the student is on track to complete all requirements for a B.A. degree in Classics from KU by the Spring semester of Year 4. If the committee decides at that time that the candidate is not suited to continue with the accelerated program, or if the student is not on track or no longer wishes to pursue the M.A., the student will be eligible to earn the B.A. when those requirements have been met. Should the student not be able to complete the M.A. in the fifth year, providing good academic standing, the student may continue into a sixth year but can no longer double-count courses completed in Year 4 toward completion of the terminal M.A.
This track allows high-achieving undergraduate majors in Classical Languages at the University of Kansas to move directly into the Master's degree in Classics, completing it within one year of completing the B.A.
Students take the same courses (and the same number of courses) as those required for the two degrees under the normal sequence, but in a more flexible configuration. For especially well prepared students with superior grade-point averages, the M.A. requires 24 graduate hours rather than 30. Students enroll as an undergraduate in six hours of 500-700 level courses that count toward the B.A. but are beyond those required for the Classical Languages major. All other requirements for the M.A. are the same as for other tracks: the principal focus remains ancient Greek and/or Latin (concluding with a comprehensive exam in both languages), and there remains a thesis and non-thesis option and required reading knowledge of a modern research language. See department website for details.
Students enroll as an undergraduate in six hours of 500-700 level courses that count toward the B.A. but are beyond those required for the Classical Languages major. All other requirements for the M.A. are the same as for other tracks: the principal focus remains ancient Greek and/or Latin (concluding with a comprehensive translation exam), and there remains a thesis and non-thesis option and required reading knowledge of a modern research language.
The shift of 6 credit hours from the M.A. to pre-requisites for the B.A. allows students greater flexibility and will ease the burden on their final year of study. More precisely, the flexibility allows faculty to advise students on a course of study that distributes courses across the 5 years of study in the most optimal way for language development.
A minimum of 24 hours at the 500+ level on the graduate program line.
A minimum of 6 hours at the 500+ level on the undergraduate program line beyond what is required of the Classics undergraduate major.
Students may be eligible to co-enroll in their final semester of undergraduate study. This should be discussed and planned during the junior year of undergraduate study.
The requirement that students in the program write an undergraduate honors thesis also provides preparation toward the M.A. thesis. Students who choose the non-thesis option are not required to write an undergraduate thesis.
All students must write a final translation examination prepared by a committee of three members of the graduate faculty, at least two of whom, including the committee chair, must be members of the Classics Department. The members of the examination committee will be selected by the student, with the approval of the graduate faculty of the Department, and the examination will be prepared by the committee in consultation with the student.
One section of this examination will be drawn from material read in graduate classes. The student will present a reading list of no less than 400 pages, according to pagination in the Oxford Classical Text or its equivalent. This will consist of 50-150 pages from at least four of the eight major ares of Greek and Latin literature that form the four-semester cycle of courses (see below). A second section will be a sight passage from one of the major genres of Greek or Latin literature selected by the student.
The Classical Languages major requires 15 hours of advanced language study beyond GRK 108 and LAT 108, beginning with LAT 112 or GRK 301. The student must complete at least 3 semesters in LAT or GRK, and one semester in the other in order to fulfill the B.A. Language Requirement.
Majors must complete 2 courses (6 hours) of electives. Elective courses may include any Classics, Greek, or Latin courses (but not used to satisfy other major requirements), and PHIL 384, PHIL 508, PHIL 605, PHIL 607, PHIL 608, HUM 380, HUM 390, ENGL 308 or other courses in allied fields as approved by the department chair.
Typically KU Core Goal 6 is fulfilled by a major course. If an approved Classical Languages course is not available to fulfill Goal 6, another course will need to be chosen. A free elective may need to be used to meet Goal 6 course pre-requisites.
In Spring of the Senior Year, the student needs to take 6 hours at the 500-700 level beyond what is required for the major (this could be in CLSX, GRK, or LAT). These credit hours are applied to the M.A. once the student begins Year 5.
In the Spring of the Senior Year, it is strongly encouraged for the student to write an Honors Essay (CLSX 496/LAT 496/GRK 496).
During Year 5 (the M.A. year), the student will also take the M.A. comprehensive exam. Additionally, unless the student has taken 2 years of a modern language or GERM 100/GERM 101, ITAL 100, or FREN 100 as a B.A. student, the modern language requirement will need to be satisfied during the M.A. year.


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We contacted NOYO Web Development Inc. to revitalize our online brand and they accomplished everything we wanted. The end result is a beautiful website with a minimal style and large images to tell our story.
Sofa Designers doesn't look like a typical San Diego furniture store. Browse through the homey room vignettes created by our talented designers so you can see just how easy it is to create the space of your dreams using furnishings from such top brands as Flexsteel, Candice Olson, Highland House, Eleanor Rigby, Brownstone, Allan Copley and Orient Express.
Sofa Designers doesn't feel like a typical furniture store in San Diego, either. Each customer is greeted warmly, with a smile, and treated as the special person they are. We are dedicated to your satisfaction and it shows in the way we value every person who walks through the door.
As part of that dedication to your satisfaction, it is their store policy to guarantee the seat cushions, frame and suspension of every item they sell for life. This goes beyond any manufacturer warranty; if you are dissatisfied with any piece you purchase from Sofa Designers, they will make it right, all the time, every time and provide this service with a smile.


This module is intended for graduate students and engineers interested in basic mechanical components used in wide range of mechanical systems. It covers the energy transmission and conversion systems both in the fluidic and mechanical domains. The concept of system dynamic modeling is introduced. At the end of the course, students are expected to know the standard mechanical components and systems well enough for designing mechatronic systems. Major topics of the modules are: Standard Mechanical Components, Mechanical Drive Components, Four-Bar Mechanisms, Classical Mechanisms, Thermal and Fluid System Elements, Pneumatic and Hydraulic Actuation Systems and System Dynamic Modeling.


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2022 ETF Market Outlook
The bull market case remains sound heading into 2022, but investors will need to position for potential peaks in valuations, inflation and supply chain disruptions as fiscal and monetary policy diverge.
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November Flash Flows: Risk-on Focus Remains
Despite the risk-off mood ETFs took in $67 billion and are on track for $847 billion for the year. Matthew Bartolini analyzes the latest data to show this "Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on," mindset from investors.
December 6, 2021 By Matthew J Bartolini
Charting the Market: Prioritizing Profits in the Next Phase of the Rally
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December 10, 2021 By Matthew J Bartolini
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Interest rates rose sharply at the end of September as the US 10-year Treasury yield spiked 31 basis points. Read more about how downward pressure on bond prices is creating tax-loss harvesting opportunities for fixed income positions in a year when most equity exposures have rallied.
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Penang will embark on development project under PDC
Penang will have a development corridor in southern Seberang Prai from Juru to Byram and Changkat, Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said.
He said the 12,140ha project, initiated through the Penang Development Corporation (PDC), would encompass areas in Bukit Minyak, Nibong Tebal and Batu Kawan including the Batu Kawan Industrial Park, the Penang Science Park and the Bukit Tengah Indus-trial Park.
"The concept is also in line with PDC's five-year Strategic Plan 2016-2020 where it will look into the creation of new attractive corridors of growth across the state.
"The development corridor also has the potential to be developed into a manufacturing, services and commercial or residential hub to promote economic and social growth.
"The entire programme will take 20 to 25 years to develop with a concept which will create jobs for all levels of the society," he said in a press conference.
Lim added that PDC would carry out an online poll for six months for the public to suggest a name for the corridor.
The online poll will soon be avai-lable on PDC and state websites. - By The Star


NCAA Pac-12 Football Recruiting: Just did.
It sounds interesting, but it also sounded a wee bit confusing -- but I'm sure if I saw it actually being demonstrated it would make more sense.
Only requiring one guy to run it does sound intriguing, but I suppose there must've been a reason it never caught on.


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Bloodstockfest Announces 2016 Lineup Featuring Slayer, Mastodon And Anthrax
Julia Naman January 23rd, 2016 - 10:48 PM
Anthrax, Fear Factory, Venom, Rotting Christ — though these may sound like the titles of some gruesome horror films, they aren't. They are part of the lineup for the world-renown metal festival, Bloodstock Fest, taking place in the UK from August 11–14. The lineup was announced earlier this week and tickets are available for purchase on the Bloodstock Festival website.
The death metal fest has become a longstanding tradition in Catton Park, Derbyshire, hosting its 11th anniversary festival this year of the world's most leather-clad deathcore fans. The 2016 headliners are Slayer, Mastodon and Twisted Sister. Slayer released their 12th studio album "Repentless" in November, and they are currently on tour around the United States.
Early bird tickets for the three day festival (along with a Thursday evening pre-show) are sold out, though the Standard Weekend ticket is still available for £146 ($208), which includes a three-night camping spot. If that seems a little steep, tickets can be purchased and paid for in five installments for those who sign up by February 29. Surprisingly enough, there's no age requirement, and kids under 4 years old get in for free — though, maybe reconsider that one.
Find more about Bloodstock Festival and buy tickets here.
-Twisted Sister
-Behemoth
-Venom
-Stuck Mojo
-Mastodon
-Gojira
-Paradise Lost
-Fear Factory
-Rotting Christ
-Slayer
-Anthrax
-Symphony
-Dragon Force
-Satyricon
-Metal Allegiance
Bloodstock Fest
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