These clips will be on sale, on club nights, to members only for £2.50.
First come, first served. NO ADVANCE ORDERS.
Initially, we will have 50 clips for sale, so we will only sell one per member to start with.


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The 2018 Korea National League Championship was the 15th competition of the Korea National League Championship.

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage

Bracket

Semi-finals

Final

See also
2018 in South Korean football
2018 Korea National League

References

External links

Korea National League Championship seasons
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According to specification, "...constructor is a special non-static member function of a class that is used to initialize objects of its class type". In addition to basic concepts, C++11 introduces move constructors, initializer list type and brace-enclosed lists of comma-separated initializers.
Russian translation published in "Open systems" magazine N°2-2018 "Об Agile по гамбургскому счету"
Some citations (I completely agree according to my experience).
SQL Server Profiler has the template "locks" that is intended especially to trace deadlock. Let's try to simulate and catch a deadlock situation.
Suppose the test database is named test. Create two tables and feed them some data.
In a linked circular list you need to add some checks to avoid memory corruption.
Make error "Fatal: Command arguments too long"


CITIC Telecom CPC requires a wide range of skills to deliver advanced ICT solutions to large, multinational clients – including networking, information security and cloud computing solutions. There is shortage of quality candidates for such roles, and many young people who do show an interest in the sector have limited awareness of opportunities beyond programming and mobile apps. It is therefore necessary both to raise awareness of the opportunities and to develop the skills needed for those roles.
CITIC Telecom CPC's awareness-raising activities comprise three aspects targeting secondary school students: workplace visits, job shadowing and job exploration. Workplace visits provide approximately 20 students per visit with a half-day introduction to the industry and company, a tour of the premises and demonstrations of core products such as video-conferencing. CITIC Telecom CPC employees share insights into their roles, qualifications and career paths in group talks, followed by Q&A.
Job shadowing placements last a full working day, with each student observing one employee in a technical role such as networking or cloud computing, or in a more generic role such as customer service or sales. Students are required to submit a report afterwards summarising the role they have observed, the responsibilities and tasks involved, and the skills needed. These reports are shared with their classmates to act as a reference point and motivator as they continue with their studies.
Job exploration provides a further way for students to learn about specific careers such as computer programming or accounting. Interviews for around 20 students are held after school and typically last up to an hour. Students choose which interviews they would like to attend and are invited to put forward their questions throughout the session.
To develop the skills of graduates, CITIC Telecom CPC offers training programmes in both technical and sales skills. The Technical Trainee programme involved monthly workshops and three-month job rotations in engineering, cloud computing, IT security, product development and customer service. Trainees are then required to pass relevant external exams. The Sales Trainee programme involves a week's intensive training followed by on-the-job training and mentoring by senior sales executives.
The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups manages the student activities on behalf of CITIC Telecom CPC. It regularly meets with company managers to discuss their requirements and tweak the programme accordingly. The Federation acts as a bridge between CITIC Telecom CPC and schools, handling recruitment and logistics on its behalf. This allows colleagues to focus on shaping the structure and content of the workplace visits, job shadowing and job exploration.
CITIC Telecom CPC works with local universities to recruit students to the graduate training programmes. Careers centres help arrange on-campus recruitment talks and career expos, while professors in relevant degree subjects, such as computer science and computer engineering, encourage their final year students to attend. Opportunities are also advertised to students from all schools via public job portals.
The programmes recognise that young people need the right knowledge and experience to make informed decisions at each stage of their development. For example, the awareness-raising activities take place while students are at secondary school, to assist them in choosing their degrees. The Technical Trainee programme allows graduates to experience a range of different roles to help them decide which are best suited to their particular skills and interests.
Within CITIC Telecom CPC, the programme is supported and championed at the highest level. The company's CEO, Mr Stephen Ho, has stated that recruiting and training talented graduates is not only a business imperative, but part of its corporate social responsibility. In Mr Ho's view, it is not only beneficial to the company, but also to the wider ICT industry, to nurture well-trained graduates who will become the valuable manpower of the industry, or even future industry leaders.
In the competitive field of ICT, graduates often prefer to work for big, global brand names. CITIC Telecom CPC seeks to enhance its attractiveness to prospective and existing employees by providing a high quality work culture and environment, including work-life balance and an attractive salary increase upon successful completion of the Technical Trainee programme.


The electronic system may not function correctly even when the engine room and internal fuse box's individual fuses are not disconnected. In such case the cause of the problem may be disconnection of the main fuse (BFT type), which is located inside the positive battery terminal (+) cap. Since the main fuse is designed more intricately than other parts, please visit the nearest Kia dealer and service center.


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Kingswood is a suburb of the Australian city of Adelaide in the City of Mitcham.

Kingswood is bounded to the west by Belair Road, to the north by Cross Road, to the south by Princes Road and to the east by Unley High School and the western boundaries of properties fronting onto Smith Dorrien Street.

Kingswood was established in 1945 as a formal proposal by the City of Mitcham to "eliminate superfluous subdivisions names" as requested by the Surveyor General of South Australia. At establishment, it consisted of the sub-divisions of Kingswood Estate, Kingswood Park, Mitchemville and a portion of Old Mitcham.  In February 2003, it was enlarged by the addition of portions of the adjoining suburbs of Netherby and Mitcham.

The suburb is the home of Mitcham Primary School and Mitcham Girls High School.

References

Suburbs of Adelaide


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Last One In
Nicholas Kulish, Author . Ecco/Harper Perennial $12.95 (261p) ISBN 978-0-06118-939-5
Kulish, a journalist who was embedded with a Marine attack-helicopter unit for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, draws on that experience for this satirical debut novel. Facing dismissal over an erroneous story of celebrity infidelity, New York Daily Herald gossip reporter Jimmy Stephens is given a second chance. The country is about to go to war in Iraq, and the paper's veteran war correspondent is laid up after being hit by a delivery truck. To save his job, a reluctant and clueless Jimmy assumes the position. In Kuwait, Stephens joins a Marine infantry company and hitches a ride in a Humvee with four typical Marines: profane and irreverent, but thoroughly professional when necessary. The tough Marines, of course, tease the "sissy-ass civilian reporter," but sharing privation and sporadic combat affect Stephens and his Marine companions in unexpected ways. Though the war has changed dramatically since the initial invasion—lending a strangely dated feeling to the narrative—a steady flow of Yossarian-flavored absurdity ("We're the pro-Iraqi forces, and the anti-Iraqi forces are the Iraqis") smoothes out the bumps in Stephens's odyssey. (July)
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(Crain's) — Boeing Co. won a three-satellite telecommunications services contract with the Mexican government, a "turnkey" deal worth more than $1 billion.
After Boeing decided to pursue more non-government work about a year ago, it's the second big win this year for the Chicago company's satellite division, which also sold three of its largest satellite model, the 702HP, to London-based mobile broadband provider Inmarsat PLC last August.
In addition to providing defense and national security communications for Mexico through two Boeing-made 702HP satellites, Monday's deal also has a civil element, bringing Internet access to 20 million people living in remote, rural areas using a smaller satellite made by partner Orbital Sciences Corp., based near Washington, D.C.
The Mexican government initially discussed the work with six satellite firms but chose Boeing over New York-based Loral Space & Communications.
"The only company able to provide the type of solution (needed) was Boeing, so we selected Boeing," said Juan Carlos Leal, director general of spectrum, technology and social programs for Secretarias de Comunicaciones y Transportes de Mexico.
In addition to satellites, the contract includes two ground sites, network operations and user terminals. The cost of launching and insuring the satellites was not included.
Boeing's satellite business has in the past been about 90% government and 10% commercial, but the company decided to seek a 70%-30% split after the Pentagon last year canceled development of a next-generation family of advanced telecommunications satellites. Investing in development of civilian satellites makes sense because they can also be used by the military, but not vice versa.
Orbital's smaller satellite will be launched first, in the third quarter of 2012. Boeing chose to subcontract the work to reduce risk and accelerate delivery. "It was a strategic relationship we thought could be very valuable to the Mexican government," said Steve O'Neil, president of Boeing Satellite Systems International Inc.
Mr. O'Neill called it "a very important win" to increase backlog and support jobs at Boeing's satellite production plant in El Segundo, Calif., although additional hiring is not anticipated.
Boeing shares closed down 2.7% Monday at $63.27, even as the company said Monday it was increasing the production rate for its 777 aircraft again in response to strong demand. Last week, Boeing said customers canceled orders for three 777s and one 787.


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namespace CGAL {

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------
// the filtered Traits class
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------

template<class CK_t,
	 class CK_MTag = Integral_domain_without_division_tag,
	 class EK_t    = Simple_cartesian< MP_Float >,
	 class EK_MTag = CK_MTag,
	 class FK_t    = Simple_cartesian< Interval_nt<false> >,
	 class FK_MTag = CK_MTag,
         class C2E_t   = Cartesian_converter<CK_t, EK_t>,
         class C2F_t   =
         Cartesian_converter<CK_t, FK_t, To_interval<typename CK_t::RT> > >
class Apollonius_graph_mixed_filtered_traits_2
{
private:
  typedef Apollonius_graph_mixed_traits_2<CK_t, CK_MTag>    CK_traits;
  typedef Apollonius_graph_mixed_traits_2<FK_t, FK_MTag>    FK_traits;
  typedef Apollonius_graph_mixed_traits_2<EK_t, EK_MTag>    EK_traits;

  typedef
  CGAL_APOLLONIUS_GRAPH_2_NS::Apollonius_graph_kernel_wrapper_2<CK_t>     CK;

  typedef
  CGAL_APOLLONIUS_GRAPH_2_NS::Apollonius_graph_kernel_wrapper_2<FK_t>     FK;

  typedef
  CGAL_APOLLONIUS_GRAPH_2_NS::Apollonius_graph_kernel_wrapper_2<EK_t>     EK;

  typedef
  CGAL_APOLLONIUS_GRAPH_2_NS::
  Apollonius_graph_cartesian_converter<CK, EK, C2E_t>   C2E;

  typedef
  CGAL_APOLLONIUS_GRAPH_2_NS::
  Apollonius_graph_cartesian_converter<CK, FK, C2F_t>   C2F;

#if 0
  // the following typedefs have been made in the direction of
  // providing filtered constructions; however, there is a problem,
  // namely, the Construct_Apollonius_site_2 functor has two
  // different operator()'s with two different return types; this
  // functor should be split in two (along with the appropriate
  // changes in the spec/concept); see also changes needed for the
  // filtered construction below.
  typedef Cartesian_converter<FK, CK, To_double<typename FK::RT> > F2C_t;
  typedef Cartesian_converter<EK, CK, To_double<typename EK::RT> > E2C_t;

  typedef
  Apollonius_graph_cartesian_converter<FK, CK, F2C_t>   F2C;
  typedef
  Apollonius_graph_cartesian_converter<EK, CK, E2C_t>   E2C;
#endif

  // Types for the construction kernel
  typedef typename CK::Point_2                CK_Point_2;
  typedef typename CK::Site_2                 CK_Site_2;

  typedef typename CK::Line_2                 CK_Line_2;
  typedef typename CK::Ray_2                  CK_Ray_2;
  typedef typename CK::Segment_2              CK_Segment_2;

  typedef typename CK::FT                     CK_FT;
  typedef typename CK::RT                     CK_RT;

  // Types for the exact kernel
  typedef typename EK::Point_2                EK_Point_2;
  typedef typename EK::Site_2                 EK_Site_2;

  typedef typename EK::Line_2                 EK_Line_2;
  typedef typename EK::Ray_2                  EK_Ray_2;
  typedef typename EK::Segment_2              EK_Segment_2;

  typedef typename EK::FT                     EK_FT;
  typedef typename EK::RT                     EK_RT;

  // Types for the filtering kernel
  typedef typename FK::Point_2                FK_Point_2;
  typedef typename FK::Site_2                 FK_Site_2;

  typedef typename FK::Line_2                 FK_Line_2;
  typedef typename FK::Ray_2                  FK_Ray_2;
  typedef typename FK::Segment_2              FK_Segment_2;

  typedef typename FK::FT                     FK_FT;
  typedef typename FK::RT                     FK_RT;

public:
  //-----------------------------------------------------------------------
  //                  TYPE DEFINITIONS
  //-----------------------------------------------------------------------

  // BASIC TYPES
  //------------
  typedef CK_t                          R;
  typedef CK_MTag                       Method_tag;

  typedef CK_traits                     Construction_traits;
  typedef FK_traits                     Filtering_traits;
  typedef EK_traits                     Exact_traits;

  typedef CK_MTag                       Construction_traits_method_tag;
  typedef FK_MTag                       Filtering_traits_method_tag;
  typedef EK_MTag                       Exact_traits_method_tag;

  typedef typename CK::Point_2          Point_2;
  typedef typename CK::Site_2           Site_2;

  typedef typename CK::Line_2           Line_2;
  typedef typename CK::Ray_2            Ray_2;
  typedef typename CK::Segment_2        Segment_2;

  typedef typename CK::Object_2         Object_2;
  typedef typename CK::FT               FT;
  typedef typename CK::RT               RT;

public:
  // OBJECT CONSTRUCTION & ASSIGNMENT
  //---------------------------------
  typedef typename CK_traits::Construct_object_2     Construct_object_2;
  typedef typename CK_traits::Assign_2               Assign_2;

  // CONSTRUCTIONS
  //--------------
  // vertex and dual site
protected:
  typedef typename CK_traits::Construct_Apollonius_vertex_2
  CK_Construct_Apollonius_vertex_2;

  typedef typename CK_traits::Construct_Apollonius_site_2
  CK_Construct_Apollonius_site_2;

  typedef typename FK_traits::Construct_Apollonius_vertex_2
  FK_Construct_Apollonius_vertex_2;

  typedef typename FK_traits::Construct_Apollonius_site_2
  FK_Construct_Apollonius_site_2;

  typedef typename EK_traits::Construct_Apollonius_vertex_2
  EK_Construct_Apollonius_vertex_2;

  typedef typename EK_traits::Construct_Apollonius_site_2
  EK_Construct_Apollonius_site_2;

public:
#if 0
  // the following typedefs have been made in the direction of
  // providing filtered constructions; however, there is a problem,
  // namely, the Construct_Apollonius_site_2 functor has two
  // different operator()'s with two different return types; this
  // functor should be split in two (along with the appropriate
  // changes in the spec/concept); see also changes needed for the
  // filtered construction above.
  typedef Filtered_construction<CK_Construct_Apollonius_vertex_2,
				EK_Construct_Apollonius_vertex_2,
				FK_Construct_Apollonius_vertex_2,
				C2E, C2F, E2C, F2C>
  Construct_Apollonius_vertex_2;

  typedef Filtered_construction<CK_Construct_Apollonius_site_2,
				EK_Construct_Apollonius_site_2,
				FK_Construct_Apollonius_site_2,
				C2E, C2F, E2C, F2C>
  Construct_Apollonius_site_2;
#else
  typedef typename CK_traits::Construct_Apollonius_vertex_2
  Construct_Apollonius_vertex_2;

  typedef typename CK_traits::Construct_Apollonius_site_2
  Construct_Apollonius_site_2;
#endif

private:
  // PREDICATES FOR THE TWO KERNELS
  //-------------------------------

  // Predicates for the filtering kernel
  typedef typename FK_traits::Compare_x_2        FK_Compare_x_2;
  typedef typename FK_traits::Compare_y_2        FK_Compare_y_2;
  typedef typename FK_traits::Compare_weight_2   FK_Compare_weight_2;
  typedef typename FK_traits::Orientation_2      FK_Orientation_2;
  typedef typename FK_traits::Orientation_new_2  FK_Orientation_new_2;
  typedef typename FK_traits::Is_hidden_2        FK_Is_hidden_2;
  typedef typename FK_traits::Vertex_conflict_2  FK_Vertex_conflict_2;

  typedef typename FK_traits::Oriented_side_of_bisector_2
  FK_Oriented_side_of_bisector_2;

  typedef typename FK_traits::Finite_edge_interior_conflict_2
  FK_Finite_edge_interior_conflict_2;

  typedef typename FK_traits::Infinite_edge_interior_conflict_2
  FK_Infinite_edge_interior_conflict_2;

  typedef typename FK_traits::Is_degenerate_edge_2
  FK_Is_degenerate_edge_2;

  // Predicates for the exact kernel
  typedef typename EK_traits::Compare_x_2        EK_Compare_x_2;
  typedef typename EK_traits::Compare_y_2        EK_Compare_y_2;
  typedef typename EK_traits::Compare_weight_2   EK_Compare_weight_2;
  typedef typename EK_traits::Orientation_2      EK_Orientation_2;
  typedef typename EK_traits::Orientation_new_2  EK_Orientation_new_2;
  typedef typename EK_traits::Is_hidden_2        EK_Is_hidden_2;
  typedef typename EK_traits::Vertex_conflict_2  EK_Vertex_conflict_2;

  typedef typename EK_traits::Oriented_side_of_bisector_2
  EK_Oriented_side_of_bisector_2;

  typedef typename EK_traits::Finite_edge_interior_conflict_2
  EK_Finite_edge_interior_conflict_2;

  typedef typename EK_traits::Infinite_edge_interior_conflict_2
  EK_Infinite_edge_interior_conflict_2;

  typedef typename EK_traits::Is_degenerate_edge_2
  EK_Is_degenerate_edge_2;

public:
  // PREDICATES
  //-----------

  typedef
  Filtered_predicate<EK_Compare_x_2, FK_Compare_x_2, C2E, C2F>
  Compare_x_2;

  typedef
  Filtered_predicate<EK_Compare_y_2, FK_Compare_y_2, C2E, C2F>
  Compare_y_2;

  typedef
  Filtered_predicate<EK_Compare_weight_2, FK_Compare_weight_2, C2E, C2F>
  Compare_weight_2;

  typedef
  Filtered_predicate<EK_Orientation_2, FK_Orientation_2, C2E, C2F>
  Orientation_2;

  typedef
  Filtered_predicate<EK_Orientation_new_2, FK_Orientation_new_2, C2E, C2F>
  Orientation_new_2;

  typedef
  Filtered_predicate<EK_Is_hidden_2, FK_Is_hidden_2, C2E, C2F>
  Is_hidden_2;

  typedef
  Filtered_predicate<EK_Oriented_side_of_bisector_2,
		     FK_Oriented_side_of_bisector_2, C2E, C2F>
  Oriented_side_of_bisector_2;

  typedef
  Filtered_predicate<EK_Vertex_conflict_2,
		     FK_Vertex_conflict_2, C2E, C2F>
  Vertex_conflict_2;

  typedef
  Filtered_predicate<EK_Finite_edge_interior_conflict_2,
		     FK_Finite_edge_interior_conflict_2, C2E, C2F>
  Finite_edge_interior_conflict_2;

  typedef
  Filtered_predicate<EK_Infinite_edge_interior_conflict_2,
		     FK_Infinite_edge_interior_conflict_2, C2E, C2F>
  Infinite_edge_interior_conflict_2;

  typedef
  Filtered_predicate<EK_Is_degenerate_edge_2,
		     FK_Is_degenerate_edge_2, C2E, C2F>
  Is_degenerate_edge_2;

public:
  //-----------------------------------------------------------------------
  //                  ACCESS TO OBJECTS
  //-----------------------------------------------------------------------

  // OBJECT CONSTRUCTION & ASSIGNMENT
  Assign_2
  assign_2_object() const {
    return Assign_2();
  }

  Construct_object_2
  construct_object_2_object() const {
    return Construct_object_2();
  }

  // CONSTRUCTIONS
  //--------------
  Construct_Apollonius_vertex_2
  construct_Apollonius_vertex_2_object() const {
    return Construct_Apollonius_vertex_2();
  }

  Construct_Apollonius_site_2
  construct_Apollonius_site_2_object() const {
    return Construct_Apollonius_site_2();
  }

  // PREDICATES
  //-----------
  Compare_x_2
  compare_x_2_object() const {
    return Compare_x_2();
  }

  Compare_y_2
  compare_y_2_object() const {
    return Compare_y_2();
  }

  Compare_weight_2
  compare_weight_2_object() const {
    return Compare_weight_2();
  }

  Orientation_2
  orientation_2_object() const {
    return Orientation_2();
  }

  Orientation_new_2
  orientation_new_2_object() const {
    return Orientation_new_2();
  }

  Is_hidden_2
  is_hidden_2_object() const {
    return Is_hidden_2();
  }

  Oriented_side_of_bisector_2
  oriented_side_of_bisector_2_object() const {
    return Oriented_side_of_bisector_2();
  }

  Vertex_conflict_2
  vertex_conflict_2_object() const {
    return Vertex_conflict_2();
  }

  Finite_edge_interior_conflict_2
  finite_edge_interior_conflict_2_object() const {
    return Finite_edge_interior_conflict_2();
  }

  Infinite_edge_interior_conflict_2
  infinite_edge_interior_conflict_2_object() const {
    return Infinite_edge_interior_conflict_2();
  }

  Is_degenerate_edge_2
  is_degenerate_edge_2_object() const {
    return Is_degenerate_edge_2();
  }

};

} //namespace CGAL

#endif // CGAL_APOLLONIUS_GRAPH_UNCERTAIN_FILTERED_TRAITS_2_H

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Last week my car decided to provide me with an all out rave. An actual disco party.
We got into the car after we went to a pub quiz, with my husband really taking advantage of my designated driver status, and the lights on my dashboard then proceeded to put on a little show.
Flickering on. Flickering off. We were in the car checking the headlights worked. Out the car checking the indicators worked. And from the outside the car looked fine and dandy. Inside? The disco.
We drove around the car park, a couple of loops as you do, just to check it wasn't us being crazy. It wasn't. They were definitely on the blink. Then just like that they came back to life and we drove home pondering why we were subjected to a dance party.
The next day we had realised that we had a battery fault. Easily solved by popping to the garage where they confirmed our suspicions with a handy little pack thing. I know, my technical know-how is astounding. Leaving the bonnet up as I wandered across to the cash point to get cash, the new battery was in place by the time I got back to the car.
Hey presto, jobs a goodun.
Yet it left me thinking about my lack of car knowledge and general know how. I've played the complete damsel in distress when my car had a flat tyre calling my dad to the rescue. And I've gleefully instructed my husband that he was doing it all wrong as he changed a tyre at Dublin Airport.
With the advent of Google and YouTube to make things easier for me I wondered how much I actually knew.
So I took the Kwik Fit #TYRECHALLENGE quiz for drivers old and new to see how I would do.
And on the face of it – not too badly at 8 out of 10.
Though if I am being honest if anything went wrong with the car I would be the first person onto Google, onto YouTube, onto my husband, and most likely onto the garage. Though this has given me some comfort in the fact that if any warning lights come on, any further discos, or any tyre issues then I would know to pull over and get the help I need.


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Q: How to read protect Amazon S3 folder/object? I have a situation in which I want to read protect an Amazon S3 folder
I am calling a batch job from my API to read  an Amazon S3 folder. The API will run on multiple instances.
When a batch job is reading the folder contents and processing it, in the mean time if any other batch job wants to read the same folder, the 2nd batch job should not be allowed to read the folder. (as it is read protected). After the processing is done there should option using which the folder can be readable again and read lock should not be there.
How can achieve to read protect the Amazon S3 folder/object?
Thank you for your time.

A: There is no concept of "read protecting" Amazon S3 objects.
You might want to take a different approach so that the batch jobs do not overlap. For example, messages could be sent to an Amazon SQS queue with the name of a folder to process. Each 'worker' then takes a message off the SQS queue and processes that folder. This way, the workers are being assigned specific work rather than trying to "protect" them from each other.
As an example, think of multiple people trying to clean a house. Each person could be 'assigned' a room to clean from a central list. This is better than having each person attempt to go into every room to see whether it needs cleaning, and then needing to lock the door of a room while it is being cleaned.

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I was surprised and impressed recently to hear ads promoting a career as an HVAC technician on a major local radio station.
A recent survey of 1,300 U.S. construction firms by the Associated General Contractors of America and Sage Construction and Real Estate found that 73 percent of construction firms plan to expand their payrolls in 2017 as contractors expect private and public sector demand to grow in all markets.
Until 2011, roofing contractor KPost Co. was figuratively — and often literally — on top.


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Iraq: Series of bomb blasts kills at least 20 in Baghdad
Shortly after the bombs hit, the extremist Islamic State claimed responsibility for two of the explosions.
By: AP | Baghdad |
The attacks came amid a key Iraqi military operation to dislodge IS militants and retake the city of Fallujah. (source: AP)
Militants unleashed a wave of bombings targeting commercial areas in and around Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 20 people, officials said, as Iraqi troops poised to recapture the Islamic State-held city of Fallujah, west of Iraq's capital.
Shortly after the bombs hit, the extremist Islamic State, which has been behind recent deadly attacks in Baghdad and beyond, claimed responsibility for two of the explosions, both in the Iraqi capital. Such assaults are seen as an attempt by the militants to distract the security forces' attention away from the front lines.
The attacks came amid a key Iraqi military operation to dislodge IS militants and retake the city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, which has been in IS hands for over two years. The operation was launched a week ago, with Iraqi forces teaming up with paramilitary troops and backed by aerial support from the U.S.-led coalition.
The deadliest of Monday's attacks took place in the northern, Shiite-dominated Shaab neighborhood of Baghdad where a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a checkpoint next to a commercial area, killing eight civilians and three soldiers.
The explosion also wounded up to 14 people, a police officer said.
A suicide car bomber struck an outdoor market in the town of Tarmiyah, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Baghdad, killing four civilians and two policemen, another police officer said, adding that 19 people were wounded in that bombing.
And in Baghdad's eastern Shiite Sadr City district, a bomb motorcycle went off at a market, killing three and wounding 10, police said. Medical officials confirmed casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information.
In an online statement, IS claimed responsibility for the attacks in Shaab and Sadr City, saying they targeted members of Shiite militias. The Associated Press could not verify the authenticity of the statement but it was posted on a militant website commonly used by extremists.
Fallujah is one of the last major IS strongholds in western Iraq. The extremist group still controls territory in the country's north and west, as well as Mosul, Iraq's second largest city.
On Sunday, Iraqi Maj. Dhia Thamir said troops have recaptured 80 percent of the territory around Fallujah since the operation began and are currently battling IS to the northeast as they seek to tighten the siege ahead of a planned final push into the city center.
In a televised speech Sunday to parliament, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi called on Fallujah residents to either leave the city or stay indoors. Government officials and aid groups estimate that more than 50,000 people remain inside the center of the Sunni majority city.


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Minera IRL Announces Positive Drilling Update Minapampa Far East, Ollachea Project, Peru
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The outcome of this application will not affect Inovio's listing on the NASDAQ stock exchange nor its reporting obligations with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Scorpio Gold Q3 2016 financial results
Scorpio Gold {TSX.V: SGN} have reported their Q3 2016 financial results.
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These will result in good newsflow in the next couple of months. Continue reading →
Range Energy receives $1.1-million loan
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Cascadero Copper to raise up to $1 million in non brokered private placement
Cascadero Copper Corp {TSX.V: CCD} announced a non-brokered private placement of up to 10,000,000 Units at C$0.10 per Unit for gross proceeds of $1,000,000.
Each Unit consists of one Common Share and one Common Share Purchase Warrant. at C$0.15 per share. Continue reading →
Barkerville Gold Mines Announces C$10,070,000 Million Flow-Through Share Private Placement
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Inovio's Chair of its Scientific Advisory Board Selected as a Top 20 Translational Researcher
Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. {NASDAQ: INO} announced that Dr. David B. Weiner, its co-founder, board member and chair of its scientific advisory board, has been selected as a "Top 20 Translational Researcher" for the year 2015 by the editors of Nature Biotechnology magazine.
The selection is based on the number of medical innovations that led to patents a researcher was granted in a calendar year. Continue reading →
Condor Gold "buy" rating confirmed by Numis Securities
Condor Gold PLC {AIM: CNR}s stock had its "buy" rating reaffirmed by equities researchers at Numis Securities Ltd in a research report issued on Friday
They currently have a £1.30 ($1.62) price target on the stock. Numis Securities Ltd's price target would indicate a potential upside of 124.14% from the company's current price. Continue reading →
Strongbow South Crofty Water Treatment Trials Commence
Strongbow Exploration Inc. {TSX-V: SBW} provided an update on its 100% owned South Crofty Tin Project:
Water treatment trials have now commenced and all surface planning pre-commencement conditions were satisfied on time. Continue reading →
Inovio Wins Deloitte's Prestigious "Fast 500" Growth Award
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Scorpio Gold Reports High Gold Values in Phase 1 Soil Sampling at Goldwedge, Nevada
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Inovio's Cancer (INO-3112) Generates T Cell Immune Responses in Tumor Tissue in Patients with HPV
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Minera IRL – More shenanigans, and now a news release is due this week
Minera IRL {BVLP: MIRL} previously listed on the TSX Venture, AIM, and Lima Stock Exchanges is currently trying to list on the Canadian Stock Exchange (CSE).
Following the management civil war last year resulting in the de-listing on all exchanges, it was thought all was now moving forward, but rumours began to circulate of another boardroom coup last week. Continue reading →
Barkerville acquires additional Crown land in B.C.
Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. {TSX.V: BGM} announced that it has entered into a Mining Claim Acquisition Agreement pursuant to which Barkerville can acquire a 100% interest in Crown Grant 35F located in the Cariboo Mining District, British Columbia, in exchange for (a) an aggregate of CDN$300,000; and (b) an aggregate of 254,237 common shares of Barkerville issuable to the vendor of the Property. Continue reading →
Inovio Pharmaceuticals Zika Vaccine Protects Animals from Infection, Brain Damage and Death
Inovio Pharmaceuticals, {NASDAQ: INO} today announced that Inovio and its collaborators have published results in Nature Partner Journals (npj) Vaccines demonstrating that its Zika DNA vaccine (GLS-5700) protected animals from infection, brain damage and death.
Condor Gold Starts Scout Drilling Work On Nicaragua's La India Project
Condor Gold {AIM: CNR} on Thursday said it has started scout drilling work on the La India gold project located in Nicaragua, Central America.
The programme is designed to demonstrate the upside of the entire project. Continue reading →
Inovio Pharmaceuticals presentation well received by investors in London
Inovio Pharmaceuticals VP of IR and Communications Bernie Hertel presented to the City Investors Circle last night in London, and his presentation was very well received by a knowledgeable audience.
The format was a boardroom dinner. Continue reading →
Avalon Completes Non-Brokered Private Placement for Gross Proceeds of $1 Million
Avalon Advanced Materials Inc. {TSX: AVL} announced that it has completed a non-brokered private placement today consisting of 4,545,454 flow-through shares at a price of $0.22 per share for gross proceeds of $1,000,000. Continue reading →


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Burton Copeland explains the new coronavirus laws
The health protection (Coronavirus) regulations came into force in England & Wales on the 10th February 2020 as statutory instrument no.129 of 2020. It was introduced by Matt Hancock the Secretary for State, Health & Social care and made under the emergency procedure set out in section 45R of the Public Health (Control of Diseases) Act 1984.
Burton Copeland explains the reasons for the new laws, what they mean to individuals, how they will be enforced and consequences of failing to comply.
Why were the new laws introduced?
The Government introduced the powers for two major reasons:
.To enable government to take all reasonable steps to limit the transmission and spreading of the disease.
To ensure that government retains public trust in its public health protection measures which is critical in ensuring that the public continues to engage and comply with interventions.
What do the new powers mean?
In summary, the powers allow for the detention of individuals in order that they can be screened for the virus, assessed or subjected to "any other restriction or requirement [which is] considered necessary for the purposes of removing or reducing the risk of infecting or contaminating others".
Who is affected by the new powers?
These can be imposed where the Secretary of State or an authorised Public Health Consultant are satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to believe that:
Condition A –the individual is or may be infected or contaminated and that there is a risk that the public may be infected or contaminated.
Condition B – an individual has left an infected area and within 14 days arrived in the United Kingdom, either directly or via Scotland, Northern Ireland or Wales.
Where the conditions are met above, the individual could be detained for a period of 48 hours ino order to be subjected to a screening or testing for the virus.
In accordance with Section 6 screening requires that the individual must if required:
Answer questions about their health or other circumstances such as travel history and contact with others.
Produce documents which might assist in assessing their health.
Allow a public health officer to take a biological sample
Provide contact information
In the case of a child, the responsibility for the above requirements passes to the accompanying responsible adult.
Can individuals be detained indefinitely?
Section 8 of the regulations allows the authorities to detain for isolation providing that conditions A & B above are met and there is a reasonable belief that the individual is contaminated, and it is considered necessary and proportionate to do so.
Section 9 determines the length of time that a person can be detained as a period not exceeding 14 days and that detention must be reviewed every 24 hours.
What are the restrictions that can be imposed?
Once released from detention for screening (Section 6) or detention for isolation (section 8) a number of restrictions and requirements that can be imposed on individuals under the regulations such as restrictions on;
Contact with specified persons.
What other restrictions can be imposed?
Regulation 11 allows that a Part2a Order can be made by a Magistrates Court in accordance with S45(m) Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 on application to a Justice of the Peace by
A registered public health consultant (in accordance with S45G (2)) where:
a)A person is infected or contaminated,
b)It presents or could present significant harm to human health,
c)There is a risk that P might infect or contaminate others, and
d)It is necessary to make the order in order to remove or reduce that risk.
The order can require that the individual is to:
a)submit to medical examination;
b)be removed to a hospital or other suitable establishment;
c)be detained in a hospital or other suitable establishment
d)be kept in isolation or quarantine;
The Secretary of State (in accordance with S45K (2)) where there is a requirement for:
"Any other restriction or requirements as the justice considered necessary for the purpose of reducing or removing the risk in question"
Can I appeal any restriction or requirement?
The short answer is yes you can. Regulation 12 allows that any person to whom a restriction or requirement is imposed under the regulations may appeal to the Magistrates Court against the decision to impose the requirement or restriction. The same applies in the case of a child whereby a person with parental responsibility is able to appeal on their behalf. If you are affected by any issue or wish to appeal, then please contact us.
Who enforces the Coronavirus Regulations and how?
Where there is a requirement is imposed in relation to detention or isolation, a police constable may use reasonable force in order to take the person to a designated place, keep them there and take them into custody (for the purposes of returning them to the place of detention or isolation) should they abscond.
Can you be prosecuted under the Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020
Yes, regulation 15 creates a number of offences if an individual
Fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a restriction or requirement imposed – (1) (a)
Absconds or attempts to abscond from detention or isolation – (1) (b)
Either intentionally or recklessly provides false or misleading information to any person carrying out a function under these regulations – (2)
Without reasonable excuse obstructs any person carrying out a function under these regulations – (3)
What is the punishment for offences under these regulations?
At the time of commencement the punishment for any of the offences specified in regulation 15 is a fine up to £1000.


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CORRECTIONS HOUSE – 'Hoax the System' video
There is quite a buzz around this "supergroup" CORRECTIONS HOUSE. I even got a phone call asking me for more info but all I had at the time was the press release. I couldn't find any other info online or anywhere else. Rumor had it that they weren't going to release anything before the live shows and even then you would only be able to purchase it at the show. Kind of a cool move, especially today when everything is "leaked"… But that no longer seems to be the case. They made a video! It's spooky, a regular mind-fucker. And the tunes are sinister! They kind of remind me MINISTRY… Like early 90's punk/metal/ industrial stuff. I dig it. What do you think?
CORRECTIONS HOUSE Premiere New Song/Video On Pitchfork.TV
"Hoax The System," the first track from CORRECTIONS HOUSE — the new collective featuring Mike IX Williams (Eyehategod), Sanford Parker (Nachtmystium), Scott Kelly (Neurosis), and Bruce Lamont (Yakuza) — has debuted on Pitchfork.TV. The video, created by Mortichrome Productions, can be seen HERE.
As previously announced, the band will kick off a stretch of rare live shows on January 21, 2013 in Brooklyn, New York. Shows will feature each of the four members doing solo sets of spoken word, acoustic and experimental music with an end times collaboration as CORRECTIONS HOUSE to close out the night. Full dates are below.
CORRECTIONS HOUSE recorded one additional track — "Grin With A Purpose"– that will be released with "Hoax The System" as a limited edition 7" and will be out on Parker and Lamont's own label, War Crime Recordings, soon. Further details to be revealed soon.
CORRECTIONS HOUSE Winter Tour 2013
1/21/2013 Saint Vitus Bar – Brooklyn, NY
1/22/2013 Great Scott – Boston, MA
1/23/2013 BAR – New Haven, CT
1/24/2013 DC9 – Washington, DC
1/25/2013 Metro Gallery – Baltimore, MD
1/26/2013 Strange Matter – Richmond, VA
1/27/2013 Kings Barcade – Raleigh, NC
1/28/2013 The Atlantic – Gainesville, FL
1/30/2013 Churchill's – Miami, FL
1/31/2013 Crowbar – Tampa, FL
2/01/2013 529 – Atlanta, GA
2/02/2013 Bottletree – Birmingham, AL
2/05/2013 Spanish Moon – Baton Rouge, LA
2/06/2013 Siberia – New Orleans, LA
2/07/2013 Walter's Downtown – Houston, TX
2/08/2013 Korova – San Antonio, TX
2/09/2013 Red 7 – Austin, TX
2/10/2013 Bryan Street Tavern – Dallas, TX
2/11/2013 Opolis – Norman, OK
2/12/2013 Hero's – Fort Smith, AR
2/15/2013 Moon Room – Denver, CO
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The Tony Dungy Seal Of Approval
Filed to: Michael VickFiled to: Michael Vick
The most fascinating element of the Michael Vick saga is the role of Tony Dungy, who has leveraged his credibility to get Vick a new job. Is this the future of PR management for "troubled" athletes?
Within the first minute of today's press conference, Andy Reid, the actual coach of the Eagles, turned the proceedings over to "Coach Dungy," who did most of the talking. It seems clear that he was the broker of this deal, not because Vick needed an agent, but because he needed a stamp of approval from a respected private citizen. He didn't have to make a pitch. The league's coaches came to Dungy for answers. Can he play? Can we trust him? Will you vouch for him? The Tony Dungy Rehabilitation Program has done a tremendous service to Michael Vick, one that few other athletes have ever been given.
But as much as he benefits Vick, Dungy helps the team even more. He provides the Eagles with cover, because Dungy is the one who signed off on this problem child. A pro football team just hired a player who hasn't touched a football in 2 years, without even giving him a workout. They have no idea what kind of player they're getting. When does that ever happen? And if it goes south? "Well, Coach Dungy gave us his word! How were we supposed to know he'd rob a bank?"
If this works—and really, it already has—this could be the path to respectability that more and more athletes choose, for both honest and cynical reasons. Will Dungy become like the Jesse Jackson or Bill Clinton of sports, rushing to the scenes of crimes to give voice to the voiceless? (The difference being that Dungy sincerely wants to help other people, not just Tony Dungy's Ego. Dungy has even wondered aloud if he could have stopped the dog fighting from even happening, if only he'd known sooner.)
Will other respected sports figures follow his lead and start lending their name and support to controversial athletes? How many other people could have even sat at that podium today, like the wife of a politician who has committed infidelity, and been able to lend Vick the necessary credibility to keep critics at bay. Few sports figures command that level of respect.
Because he's not an agent, a lawyer, or even a boss, Dungy is in a unique position to offer his unbiased stamp of legitimacy. He had nothing to gain from helping Vick, except the blessings of his Lord. (So selfish!) I'm guessing football's Dr. Phil should expect plenty of phones calls in the near future.
Tony Dungy, A Good Influence in Michael Vick's Life [Examiner]
Former Colts coach Dungy backs new chance for troubled Vick [Rochester Democrat and Chronicle]
Former Indianapolis Head Coach Tony Dungy mentors former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, but Dungy too loyal? [Washington Post]


I received my Samsung S5 yesterday and I put my SD card from my Evo 4g into it and from there I logged on to my gmail account and was able to have many of my contacts and pictures transferred, but not all of them. Is there an easy way of transferring every thing from my Evo to the Samsung? I know this seems like a simple thing to do but I am pretty much a novice when it comes to things like this. Thanks for any help.
I don't know if that is a supported model phone, but Samsung has an app specifically designed to make it easy for new users to move their files over to Samsung.
Can my rooted Sprint Galaxy S5 900P be unlocked or flashed to another carrier??


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Adam Lambert and Kris Allen is LOVE!
Top 5 - Jazz Week, they will be singing songs from the Rat Pack like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. Taylor Hicks will be there performing on the result show.
Top 4 - Rock Week according to Slash, guitarist for the bands Guns and Roses and Velvet Revolver just tweeted the following: "American Idol has asked me to do the mentor bit for Rock Week."
Im going away to HK.
Keep visiting my blog while im away K.
Ill reply as soon as possible.
Uhh i just learned how to play Bigcitydreams by Nevershoutnever on an acoustic guitar. Going to look for a guitar strap in HK. Hopefully i can find a really cool one.
step 4----have fun and don't use the internet to search for these songs!
leaving friends and the place that I call home.
18.I heard your footsteps this morning.
20.Do you know who i am?
but if you pay me, i can play the fool.
I don't wanna say goodnight.
Try to make you see the light.
24.Now I'm of consenting age to be forgetting you in a cabaret.
I'm seated and sweating to a dance song on the club's P.A.
Now please can we leave?
Seriously he's like a little boy man.
Aww, you just want to pinch his cheeks although he is 3 years older than me.
LOL i've never seen David so confident.
OMG the trouble i went through to get the tickets were worth it. David James Archuleta certainly didn't let his huge amount of fans down.
My sista and I bumped into a few old classmates who said it was too crowded and that you couldn't get in. We were really upset so we ran and ran down the hill. When we got there it was like WOW. The amount of people already there. We found a spot in the middle which was a pretty good view if not too far. It took forever til David arrived. JJ and Ean asked a few really silly questions.
JJ: because your the healthier one.
lol every time Ean climbed up JJ would say okay don't grab Ean okay.
Harum? ya the first performer had some skilled dance moves. The one in a million guy was kind of boring. I felt bad when everyone didn't support him. But it's not our fault we were all restless waiting for the arrival of David.
Daniel Lee at least had a little more support than the second guy.
JJ brought this little girl up on stage. Shannon. OMG she's tiny and she can actually remember the lyrics to crush. Aww, so cute!
The crowd went wild when David came out. DAMn i loved his hair. It gave him a more mature look.
David Backstage. Such a cutie!
But then we realize the speakers weren't that loud so we went silent to try to hear him.
OMg everyone just loved him, we all sang along. Even the adults. You should see the way he performs. He may not be a good dancer but his hopping skills just made everyone want to go awww! After the show everyone wanted to wait for him but the security shooed everyone away. I tried getting a pic with Ean but all the girls just grabbed him so we left. Everyone was pulling the poster thing down , we couldn't find anymore after :(. Saw JJ walking towards us so I asked him for a pic as he walked away. I was disappointed. But then 5 secs later he turns around and was like omg sorry he looked back and forth then was like okay a hurry hurry.
My sista tried to join in but got cut off. JJ saw my green fingernails and was about to say something about it before rushing off. Haha jj is officially my fav radio announcer now. He's so nice.
Bye David, we will always love ya. Come back soon plss!
He sang an extra song for us, awww!
JUST GOT NEWS THAT KDU DIDN"T ACTUALLY WIN the David Archuleta challenge. A friend/insider told me that her school 'Convent bukit Nanas' were the winners but their principle declined. KDU actually got 2nd.
CAUSE I'VE GOT MY TICKETS!
and MEl thx for the advert, Love ya!
Want to get the inside scope of David in KDU?
NewtonianS! I used to be one.
Ever watch JUST FOR LAUGHs?
I laughed at the part when they had to back up and come up with a plan cause there were so many fans.
Poor passengers that didn't know what was going on.
OMG OMG OMG My friend got an autograph.
Im seriously going to cry right now.
OMG I never remember him being this Cute!
not saying i never thought he was cute.
He just look so much cuter in KL!
Trying to contact my friends from KDU but none are picking up.
I'm really determined to find out all about it.
He hasn't updated on his pacmee.
I know this is an annoying post.
But read the next post and I know you'll love it.
So tell me who you think is better and why?


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Barred Spiral Galaxy in Centaurus
A galaxy in the central regions of Centaurus with a loosely barred spiral form, C83 has a structure comparable to that of the Milky Way Galaxy, though with a diameter of some 77,000 light years it is somewhat smaller. C83 lies at a distance of 11.7 million light years from the Milky Way.
As viewed from Earth, the galaxy is almost edge-on and so appears as a narrow ellipse, though its spiral structure is still clearly visible, as is a dark lane of dust running around much of its outer edge. The galaxy's nucleus is unusually active, implying that C83 hosts a supermassive black hole at its core.
C83 is one of the most prominent of a group of about forty galaxies that span the sky northward from Centaurus, known collectively as the Centaurus A/M83 Group. C83 belongs to the southern lobe of this group, associated with Centaurus A, the most massive of the group's galaxies. Indeed C83 and Centaurus A are relatively close together, on a galactic scale. They lie about two million light years apart, a distance comparable with the Milky Way's distance from the Andromeda Galaxy.


Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 229 – musical medial conditions from http://www.songfacts.com.
Sheryl Crow is singing about her experience undergoing treatment. What condition did she have and what treatment was she having?
Breast cancer. Crow was diagnosed in February 2006 and underwent surgery with 33 sessions of radiation therapy over two months.
But what was this in reference to?
This song was inspired by MC Chas Smith's father's repeated heart attacks. It tells the story of a workholic who dies of a heart attack.
This was banned by BBC Radio 1 because of its lyrical content. Such lines as "gasping for the hot air, but the chest pain it won't go" were deemed unsuitable for its national audience.
Gonorrhoea.The Jack, is an Australian term for the clap. We could have also had Frank Zappa's "why does it hurt when I pee".
Often blamed in Australia for multiple skin wounds, what "blank" are the Flamming Lips singing about?
Spider bite. Drummer/guitarist Steven Drozd from the Flamming Lips came close to having to have his arm amputated due to a spider bite. It turned out that Drozd's arm had a large abscess as a result of his heroin use rather than because of a spider bite.
The unparalleled Leonard Cohen, from "You Want It Darker". Of course all Leonard Cohen fans want it darker.


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Exeter mourns loss of city's most 'legendary' landlady
Joan Ballman was the landlady of The Locomotive Inn for 33 years
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Anita Merritt
18:27, 2 DEC 2021
Updated 18:29, 2 DEC 2021
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An end of an era is being mourned in Exeter following the death of the city's most 'legendary' landlady.
For the past 33 years, Joan Ballman has been the proud landlady of historic city centre pub The Locomotive Inn in New North Road.
Despite her family advising her it was time to retire, the 82-year-old refused to stop pulling pints behind the bar but she finally had to call it a day at the end of June after being diagnosed with cancer for the second time.
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Even then Joan, who lived at the pub, would come down and sit with locals who affectionately know the pub as 'The Loco'.
Sadly Joan lost her battle with cancer last Saturday, November 27.
Her youngest daughter Jackie Willis, who has worked at The Locomotive since 1997 looking after its bed and breakfast accommodation, has taken over the reins of running the pub.
Joan Ballman was the face of 'The Loco'
However, it is only a temporary measure and the future of the pub remains uncertain.
Paying tribute to her mum, Jackie said: "She was a one-off and a legend. She was very kind and very considerate and would give anything to anyone."
Joan's funeral is to be held on Monday, December 13, at 12.30pm at Exeter and Devon Crematorium. The funeral cortege will depart from The Locomotive where the wake is also being held afterwards.
The Locomotive Inn, Exeter
Jackie said: "We are expecting a lot of people to attend the funeral. We are having the wake back at the pub as we feel that's what mum would have wanted.
"The last three weeks of her life she really went downhill and couldn't make it downstairs anymore into the pub which really upset her as she liked sitting at the bar.
"I'm keeping the pub going for the moment as we wanted to have the wake her and we will then go from there. It will be an end of an era.
"I don't think I will continue running the pub as it's a lot of hard work."
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Pub regular Keith Baker added: "She was old school, the likes of which you won't see again. If you were naughty she would tell you once and that was it. If you were wise you would only need telling once.
"Joan loved darts, so much so that if there had been a fire here the one thing she would have saved would be the dartboard. The pub has eight darts teams.
"She was a great landlady."
Joan Ballman, the landlady of The Locomotive Inn in Exeter has passed away (Image: Jackie Willis)
Joan was born in Lympstone and didn't get into the pub trade until her late 30s. She started off at what was then called The Bystock in Queen's Terrace and then moved on to The Mitre in Mary Arches Street where she was the landlady for six years.
Her last move was to The Locomotive and it is believed she was Heavitree Brewery's longest-serving landlady.
Joan was diagnosed with breast cancer three years ago which was treated with radiotherapy, and then this summer she was told the devastating news that the cancer had returned and had spread to other parts of her body.
Joan was interviewed by Devon Live in February 2019 for a story about the pub and it's loyal local following.
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She joked at the time: "I can't say it's a working man's pub as half of them don't go to work. It's really just a normal pub.
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"I think you've also got to be a little bit firm; there's no good being too easy going, not in a pub like this anyway.
"My daughter said I should think about giving it up, but I like it. It's hard work mind. This is a big place."
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Comparing Orchestrators
If you're managing a large number of containers, or expecting to do so in the near future, the options for container orchestration tools — from major players such as Amazon and IBM to startups and open-source solutions such as Kubernetes and Docker — may seem overwhelming. The common feature sets for these tools include container provisioning, launching and discovery; system monitoring and crash recovery; declarative system configuration; and mechanisms for defining rules and constraints about container placement and performance.
Not all orchestrators are created equal, and some have particular strengths and functionalities that are worth considering. We've evaluated several here to help you find the Docker orchestrator that's right for you.
Docker Swarm is Docker's own tool for cluster management and orchestration, and was recently introduced into Docker Engine as "swarm mode" with the Docker 1.12 update, which added support to the Docker Engine for multi-host and multi-container orchestration. Administrators and software developers can create and manage a virtual system known as a "swarm" that is composed of one or more Docker nodes. You can connect directly with the Docker API, giving you access to native tools such as Docker Compose. Container deployments are typically handled via Docker Compose or the Docker command line. Docker claims that the software can handle up to 30,000 containers and clusters of up to 1,000 nodes, without suffering any dip in performance.
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Microsoft's container orchestration solution for its Azure cloud computing platform, Azure Container Service, has only reached general availability as of April 2016. ACS is based on the open-source Apache Mesos cluster manager and lets users to choose between three container orchestration tools: Apache Mesos, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes. The standard API endpoints for their orchestrator is exposed, so the software is then capable of speaking to those endpoints. Azure allows for portability by only using open-source components in its orchestration layers.
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Chapter 1: Introduction and Background
Managing the demand for automobile use is becoming increasingly important as a strategy to address the negative consequences of traffic congestion. Managing peak-period demand has been used successfully in other consumer areas such as electricity, with strategies that are voluntary (such as the "Flex Your Power" media campaign in California) or mandatory (such as rolling blackouts during periods of peak energy demand). Managing demand on roads during congested periods is increasingly vital as the growth in travel far outpaces society's ability or tolerance to add more road capacity.
Scan Context
Managing travel demand was the subject of an international scan designed to explore innovative techniques used in Europe to manage demand. The International Technology Scanning Program is sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) of the Transportation Research Board (TRB).
Of particular interest to the scan team were the roles and benefits that traveler information, advanced technology applications, and financial mechanisms play in managing traffic congestion and demand for both passenger and freight movements on highway systems, arterial road networks, public transport services, parking facilities, and freight centers.
The lessons learned could assist U.S. planners, engineers, and policymakers in addressing the distinct role that demand management might play in alleviating some of the negative effects of congestion, including air pollution, noise, depletion of energy resources, and travel delay, which can result in lost workforce productivity.
Panel Composition
Traditionally in the United States, efforts to manage demand have been initiated at the regional and local levels, especially when it comes to commuters. However, policies developed at the Federal and State levels, especially resource allocation guidelines, will affect the types of strategies used at the regional and local levels to manage demand and address congestion. The managing travel demand scan involved representatives from FHWA and State transportation agencies in Florida, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Utah. Representatives from a metropolitan planning organization and a private consultancy were also included in the scan.
Scan Itinerary
The scan team visited five countries and several cities (shown in figure 2). The scan originated in Rome, Italy, in part to enable the scan team to learn about automobile restrictions in the historic core. The scan team then traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, to investigate the pending cordon charging scheme. Next on the itinerary was Lund, Sweden, a moderate-sized university town, where the team learned about an integrated program to decouple travel growth from economic growth. The scan team then traveled to Cologne, Germany, to examine parking management and traveler information programs. The second week of the trip began in Rotterdam and Delft, Netherlands, where the team learned about Dutch research projects on travel time prediction, traffic management, and mobility management. The scanning trip concluded in London, England, where congestion charging was examined along with national programs to influence travel behavior by promoting smarter choices among travelers. Before the scan trip, the scan team sent the host organizations a set of amplifying questions (see Appendix C) to clarify the types of information and case examples desired.
Figure 2. Map of scan on managing travel demand.
Purpose and Organization of Report
The purpose of this report is to describe the innovative demand management measures examined in each city, summarize the findings from the scan trip, suggest lessons that might be applicable to the United States, and recommend activities that might increase awareness and knowledge of the need to and means for managing demand in light of this European experience.
The remainder of this chapter provides a conceptual framework for understanding the U.S. and European perspectives on managing demand. It also provides a European policy context to assist U.S. audiences in understanding the reasons that some of these demand management strategies are being undertaken. Chapter 2 presents case studies on the cities (Rome, Stockholm, Lund, and Cologne) and countries (the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) visited both to provide a context for implementation and to reveal the full range of strategies and techniques explored. The key findings from the scan are presented in Chapter 3, organized by four types of demand management measures. Lessons for the United States are enumerated in Chapter 4 and a summary of implementation recommendations is provided in Chapter 5.
This report also serves as a companion to the FHWA report Mitigating Traffic Congestion-The Role of Demand-Side Strategies (FHWA-HOP-05-001), which provides an overview and case studies of demand-side measures in the United States. The report is available at www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/mitig_traf_cong/index.htm.
Figure 3. FHWA report on Mitigating Traffic Congestion-The Role of Demand-Side Strategies.
Background and Conceptual Framework
The Need for Demand Management
Traffic congestion is often one of the top concerns Americans cite in surveys covering metropolitan issues. Annual rankings of the most congested U.S cities are now headline news. The causes and impacts of congestion are well documented, yet there is no widespread agreement among planners, engineers, and politicians on solutions.
Traffic congestion in the United States has worsened significantly in the past 20 years. Two-thirds of all peak-period travel is in congested conditions, compared with one-third 20 years ago. Sixty percent of the urban freeway system is congested and travelers in the largest U.S. cities spend 3.76 billion hours a year stuck in traffic (compared to 0.72 billion hours in 1982). The average commuter spends 46 hours stuck in traffic each year. This costs the United States more than US$68 billion per year in lost productivity and excess fuel consumption.
Congestion lasts longer as well, with travelers subject to delay for more than 7 hours per day today, compared to 4.5 hours some 20 years ago. Recurring congestion accounts for over half of the delay-too many cars trying to use too few lane miles of highway at the same time.
The capacity of the Nation's road system clearly has not kept pace with this tremendous growth in travel demand. While the amount of vehicular travel in the United States has increased by almost 90 percent since 1980, the supply of roadway capacity has increased by only 5 percent. Vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT) have increased by 4 percent a year, while new road capacity has increased by only 0.2 percent.
Figure 4. Challenges of congestion.
Likewise, traffic congestion is a prevalent and growing issue in Europe. A survey of Europeans revealed that 80 percent of urban dwellers believe traffic congestion, crashes, and pollution are very serious problems that need to be addressed urgently. Europe experiences 7,000 to 10,000 kilometers (km) of congestion daily, even though the rate of increase in travel is somewhat less than that in the United States. In Sweden, volumes on the road system have been increasing by 1.5 percent per year for the past several years, and in Stockholm they are increasing by 4 percent annually. In the United Kingdom, 85 percent of all travel is by car, compared to 79 percent some 20 years ago. Since 1980, vehicle use has risen by 80 percent in the United Kingdom.
So why manage demand? If road capacity cannot keep pace with growing demand, we need to use the infrastructure we have more efficiently. One way is to reduce the number of vehicles using the road network at the same time, while maintaining the ability of people and goods to travel and information to be exchanged. One way to accomplish that is through alternative modes of travel, such as public transport and carpooling. Another way is to induce travelers to use other, less congested routes and times of the day. In some cases, the need to travel at all can be reduced through various means, including telecommuting and home shopping. Demand management just makes good sense to encourage better use of what we have and to influence the way we travel, especially during congested periods.
Defining Demand Management
Traditionally in the United States, transportation demand management (TDM) has involved strategies to induce commuters to shift to higher occupancy modes, such as carpooling, vanpooling, and public transport. However, this view is no longer consistent with the broad variety of measures being implemented in the United States and Europe to manage demand. According to the FHWA report Mitigating Traffic Congestion-The Role of Demand-Side Strategies, demand management is designed to better balance people's needs to travel a particular route at a particular time with the capacity of available facilities to efficiently handle this demand. A contemporary understanding of demand-side strategies is broader in scope than prior, more traditional views of TDM. Managing demand in the 21st century is about providing travelers, regardless of whether they drive alone, with travel choices, such as work location, route, time of travel, and mode.
In its broadest sense, demand management is defined as providing travelers with effective choices to improve travel reliability.
The purpose of the managing travel demand scan was to investigate European experience with managing the demand for vehicular travel, both for passenger and freight and for commuting as well as other trip purposes. Traveler choices might also include a priced option that provides a more reliable travel time. As the next section discusses, many European transportation professionals also differentiate "demand management" from "traffic management."
This broader view of demand management goes beyond traditional commuter markets to include other travel markets and situations, including the following:
Road construction traffic mitigation
Tourist and visitor accommodation
School and university travel (student and employee)
Employment centers and economic development areas, including airports
Intermodal transfer facilities for passengers and freight
Incidents and emergencies of a long duration
Types of Demand Management
When assessing European experience with demand management, the scan team categorized four types of demand management strategies:
Operational (such as dynamic route information on highways)
Physical (such as auto restrictions in city centers)
Financial/pricing (such as congestion charging)
Organizational (such as sustainable travel planning)
This typology serves as the basis for summarizing the key findings of the scan and is used as a means to organize the case studies and overall findings in this report.
In looking at various ways to manage demand, the scan team was also keenly interested in assessing how their European counterparts measured success. Thus, during the course of the scan, the issue of performance measurement was identified as a key aspect of efforts to manage demand, more efficiently operate the transport system, and enhance travel time reliability. Performance measurement includes defining objectives, data requirements, and evaluation methods and determining how results are used and reported to policymakers. A 2004 International Technology Scanning Program scan report, Transportation Performance Measures in Australia, Canada, Japan, and New Zealand (FHWA-PL-05-001), focused on performance measurement.
European Perspectives on Demand Management
During the scan, several unique and intriguing European perspectives on demand management were presented. These perspectives focused on the concepts of accessibility versus mobility, traffic management versus demand management, and the need to plan for sustainable travel. They are discussed here to provide an understanding of how different perspectives on the issue of congestion essentially all lead to a philosophy of managing demand. These evolving perspectives on managing demand are a principal finding of the scan and the basis for an evolution in thinking. Therefore, it is useful to introduce some of the unique features of these perspectives to illustrate the differences in how Europeans interpret the role and impact of demand management.
Definitions-Before presenting these new perspectives, it is important to define several terms used in Europe when discussing demand management. The term "mobility management," as used in Europe, is more narrowly focused on measures such as information, marketing, partnerships, communications, and promotion of sustainable modes. In a sense, mobility management might be viewed as a subset of measures within the broader U.S definition of transportation demand management. In addition, many Europeans use the term "measure" when referring to a demand management strategy or technique, such as congestion pricing or improved public transport information. It is helpful to recognize the use of these terms when exploring the European experience with demand management. A glossary of European terms is in Appendix D.
Swedish Perspective-In Sweden, one researcher encouraged the scan team to consider and assess its definitions of "accessibility" and "mobility" when considering demand management. The researcher suggested that mobility relates to moving (the possibility to move oneself), while accessibility involves the possibility of reaching something desirable (which does not necessarily involve moving cars or even people). Within this context, demand management includes measures to assure accessibility by influencing travel needs and decisions before trips are made.
The Swedish presented a conceptual framework titled "TOAST" (Temple Of A Sustainable Transport System, figure 5), which includes six tenets to a more sustainable transport system:
Plan for the long-term, more sustainable future.
Develop the bicycle as a primary mode.
Develop public transport to serve many types of travel.
Work with companies on employee and business travel.
Make car traffic more sustainable.
Support the process with mobility management to influence travel before it starts.
Figure 5. Temple of a Sustainable Transport System (TOAST).
These activities are viewed as leading to less congestion, less noise, better health, and cleaner air. This framework to support accessibility has encouraged, in part, many Swedish cities to develop comprehensive, sustainable transport plans and institutionalize demand management into planning activities, as described in Chapter 2. The most recent transportation infrastructure legislation in Sweden (2001) challenged the Swedish Road Administration (SRA) to do the following:
"Work with measures influencing the demand for transport towards a sustainable transport system, i.e., travel that is more effective, more environmentally sound, and more safe than travel by car."
Dutch Perspective-Researchers in the Netherlands provided a more targeted conceptual framework, one that differentiates demand management from traffic management (see schematic in figure 6). This schematic differentiates travel demand from traffic demand and capacity (network) demand. In between these types of demand are choices that travelers can make, such as mode choice between transport demand and traffic demand, route choice between traffic demand and capacity demand, and even lane choice once the user is on a given facility.
Figure 6. Demand versus traffic management: Dutch model.
According to the Dutch framework, demand management measures (in green) include special facilities (e.g., HOV lanes), on-trip or invehicle information, pretrip or near-trip information from work or home, and pricing. Traffic management measures include dynamic road signs, incident management, and intelligent vehicles. Data and information to manage these systems flow through control centers.
This perspective helped the scan team differentiate demand management measures from certain traffic or network management techniques by providing a litmus test of travel choice. If travelers are presented with a choice of mode, route, time of day, or even destination before they choose to get into their cars, this is considered demand management. If, however, users have no choice in their travel (for example, they are diverted around congestion via closures, directional signage, or enforcement), then this is deemed network management. In between these forms of management is traffic management, where choices on when or where to travel can be affected, but mode and destination choice are often already determined. In fact, the Dutch clearly delineate pretrip, near-trip, and on-trip decisions, based on traveler information needs for each.
British Perspective-The British government has launched an initiative to encourage citizens, businesses, schools, and other government agencies to "do their bit" by "making smarter choices." At the heart of the campaign is the notion of influencing travel decisions that people make to help cut congestion. In its new brochure, "Making Smarter Choices Work," the government acknowledges that "persuading people to break the habit of simply getting in their car for almost every journey is not easy." However, measures have been developed to influence behavior toward more sustainable modes, including walking, cycling, public transport, carpooling, and new options to reduce the need to travel at all. The measures are applied to work, school, shopping, and other trips.
Figure 7. "Making Smarter Choices Work" brochure.
These European perspectives are interesting in their emphasis on sustainability, accessibility, demand versus traffic management, and smarter choices. They all, however, are founded on the same underlying notion that we need to manage demand to more efficiently use our transport system, enhance travel time reliability, and provide travel choices, be they mode, location, route, or time of travel. This is at the heart of demand management. These new perspectives on demand management may foreshadow a new way of thinking in the United States, an evolution that moves us from simply accommodating vehicles on an increasingly congested road system to managing the demand for travel-for some trips, perhaps before people even get into their cars.
European Context
During the scanning study, it became apparent that many of the plans and programs being implemented were, in part, influenced by the European Union (EU) and other international perspectives. This European context is important to understanding the motivations for many of the specific demand management strategies observed on the scan. All of the countries visited are EU members, although two (Sweden and the United Kingdom) are not part of the euro zone (i.e., countries that have adopted the euro as their currency).
The European Commission (EC) is the administrative body of EU and one of the three main governing institutions; the other two are the European Council and the European Parliament. Europe is a very urbanized region of the world and it is in these urban areas (which comprise 80 percent of Europe) that transportation, environmental, and energy policies meet. EC desires comprehensive, coordinated solutions to these problems and has set policies and developed programs to accomplish this. EC is also committed to improving safety on roads. European transport policy set two crucial targets: freeze modal split at 1998 levels by 2010 and reduce road fatalities by 50 percent (toward a goal of zero deaths). In energy policy, EC desires the substitution of 20 percent of transport fuels by alternative fuels. Environmental policy sets new air quality standards, in part to assist member states in fulfilling their commitments to the Kyoto Protocol (an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gases) and to address the long-term health effects of transport-related pollution. The overall objective of EC's 2001 Transport Policy is to do the following:
"Meet the demand for accessibility, while minimizing the negative effects of transport, with an expectation of strong economic growth that should not be minimized."
This policy, contained in the 2001 White Paper on Transport, was undergoing a midterm review in 2005, after which more results on progress toward these objectives were expected to be available (www.europa.eu.int).
At the heart of this policy is the concept of decoupling traffic growth from economic growth. Historically, growth in transport use has paralleled economic growth, since transport demand is generally derived from the economy. However, some economists have forwarded the notion that this consistent relationship does not need to occur. Indeed, transport demand (in terms of demand for vehicles and roads) can be decoupled from economic growth if appropriate measures are in place to assure accessibility without restricting mobility of people and goods. This concept of decoupling is central to the notion of sustainable growth and transport. The long-term aim of the internalization of external costs for all modes of transport, and particularly road pricing, is one central strategy to induce users to pay for a higher share of the negative impacts of traffic. While transport growth (i.e., VKT) is still increasing in the EU at a rate close to gross domestic product (GDP), there are early signs that decoupling may be occurring.
One concrete way in which the EC is working to fulfill its transport, energy, and environmental objectives is through extensive research and the dissemination of findings and technology transfer. EU spends a significant part of its budget on research and development. A comprehensive research and development "framework programme" is in its sixth iteration and has funded large-scale pilot programs on advanced traveler information, marketing, mobility management, pricing, ITS, and many of the other topics of interest to the scan team. These initiatives mainly come from the Directorate General for Transport and Energy. A critical part of these European research projects is evaluation. For example, project MOST ("MObility STrategies for the next decades" found at http://mo.st) produced a standardized monitoring and evaluation toolkit for mobility management projects, and it has been customized for use in Sweden (see Chapter 2).
One example of EU-supported research is the CIVITAS (CIty VITAlity Sustainability) Initiative, which tests integrated strategies for clean transport (www.civitas-initiative.org). CIVITAS supports the packaging of technology and policy measures in the area of energy and transport. This results in packages of strategies implemented at the local level, including clean vehicles, public transit innovations, demand management, pricing, traveler information, etc. CIVITAS initiatives are being implemented in 36 cities in 17 countries, using local partners and independent evaluators. The program aims to test and evaluate new policies and packages of measures in real-world settings to assess the technological as well as political issues involved in the adoption and use of cleaner and more sustainable modes. These programs also allow EC to perform benchmarking for other localities. Two CIVITAS projects, in Bristol and Winchester, England, are discussed in Chapter 2. CIVITAS projects are also underway in Rome, Stockholm, and Rotterdam, and are linked with the strategies described in the case studies that follow.
Figure 8. CIVITAS logo.
Information on other European research projects and findings is available at www.cordis.lu and www.eltis.org.
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