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Cabin quality is pillar of Iberia strategic plan
28th February 2009 - 14:31 GMT | by The Shephard News Team
A new strategic plan announced by Iberia last week contains good news for the cabin systems industry. It pledges an investment of Eur150 million in an economy-class upgrade and a new long-haul business class product, along with other passenger service improvements.
Reporting its 2008 financial performance, the Spanish carrier said it had made a Eur32 million profit, the 13th consecutive positive annual result. The airline stayed in the black despite having to spend Eur1.7 billion on fuel, 46 per cent more than in 2007. The pain was eased slightly by a Eur241 million reduction in non-fuel operating costs as a result of the route rationalisation and other economy measures initiated by the airline's 2006-08 strategic plan.
Iberia says the targets in the plan were met or even surpassed – revenues by eight per cent, profits by 54 per cent – to leave the business valued at a net Eur1.6 billion and well placed to withstand the recession. The new 2009-11 plan aims to restore earlier levels of profitability and achieve 15 per cent growth in pre-tax earnings.
The airline says the plan is focused mainly on growing revenues via improvements in customer service while continuing to trim costs and capacity. A total of Eur150 million is earmarked for "a comprehensive renovation of tourist class, launch of a redesign for long-haul business class, remodelling of VIP lounges at key airports, streamlining of boarding procedures for business travellers, changes in all processes, and a determined effort to improve the treatment of passengers."
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This past weekend, I had an epiphany! After hooping for about 4 years, I am now able to do the reverse 3-beat weave with hoops. Yea, I'm a bit slow at learning, but what really got me excited was how quickly I learned how to do this move in less than 15 minutes! I literally jumped up for joy and almost pee'd my pants. It was THAT exciting for me.
Learn the basics of poi spinning and then mimic those moves using double hoops.
I know I know.... a lot of you may be rolling your eyes right now. This method is not new and I'm sure this day in age, lots of people are multi-prop users, Funny thing is that I have been spinning poi on and off for the last 2 years and never thought to use it as a tool for learning how to use another prop such as double hoops.
For those who are new to this concept and don't currently spin poi, let's just look at some moves for a moment. The following moves exactly translate from poi to hoops. Meaning, the way you're moving your arms and body with these moves when you're using poi, is the exact same way you would be moving with double hoops.
What I found differently and was the most challenging is the actual way you're holding the prop. With poi, you never let go of the ball handle or finger loops, but with double hoops, you have to be ok with letting the hoop go and spin around one thumb or fingers.
Emma Kenna from Hooping Mad explains it SO well!
Want to see more videos on these moves? Just Youtube search the name of the move and add poi or hoop in front of it.
Also, the more I swung the poi around, totally freeform and flailing my arms like a mad woman at times. Oddly enough, I began to feel inspired to move my body and dance a little differently than I would with my hoop. This got my creative juju tingling and the need to play more!
1) Pick up a pair of poi (whoa - say that 3 times fast!) and start swinging around slowly. Practice one move with the poi and repeat at least 10 times and then pick up your double hoops and try the same moves and repeat until you get it. RINSE, WASH, REPEAT! Just keep it at. I promise it will click. ;) It's super helpful to have someone watching you so that they could tell you what you're doing and how to adjust.
2) I'm sure there are tons of moves that can be translated from poi to hoop. If you know any more, please comment and share with us below!
3) If there was a Poi Hoop Play workshop, would you attend? Comment below!
A HUGE thank you to Jilly Bee for visiting the shop last week and showing me this new (to me) method of learning double hoops!! Good luck with your submission to Performance Without Borders! We're rooting for YOU!


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Q: If $a\ge 1$ and $0Let $a\ge1$ and $0<r<1$ be a rational number. I need to prove that $a^r-1\le ra(a-1)$.
Since $0<r<1$ we can put $r=\frac mn$ where $m<n$. Now, we have
$$a-1=(a^\frac 1n-1)(a^\frac{n-1}n+\cdots+a^\frac 1n+1)\ge(a^\frac 1n-1)(1+\cdots+1)=n(a^\frac 1n-1)$$
So, $a^\frac 1n-1\le\frac{a-1}n$ and if we replace $a$ by $a^m$, we get
$$a^r-1\le\frac{a^m-1}n=\frac{(a-1)(a^{m-1}+\cdots+a+1)}n$$
Could someone help me to continue from here? Thanks.

A: Hint: If we put $b=a^{\frac{1}{n}}$, then by the geometric series formula
$$ \frac{a^{\frac{m}{n}}-1}{a^{\frac{1}{n}}-1} = \frac{b^m-1}{b-1} = \sum_{j=0}^{m-1} b^j
= \sum_{j=0}^{m-1} a^{\frac{j}{n}} \leq \sum_{j=0}^{m-1} a = ma,$$
where the inequality follows since $\frac{j}{n} \leq 1$ as $j\leq m-1 \leq m < n$, and since $a\geq 1$. (Note that we should consider the case when $a=1$ separately here, but the inequality is trivial in that case.)
Can you use your inequality $a^{\frac{1}{n}} - 1 \leq \frac{a-1}{n}$ to continue from here?

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A unique municipal sports/recreational facility consisting of three NHL and one Olympic ice rinks, the Amherst Pepsi Center was the solution offered by The CRS Companies to the Town of Amherst to bring their outdated hockey and ice skating facilities into the 21st century without encumbering the town with years of debt and financial burden.
After making a bid announcement for the design, construction and management of a new facility, the Town of Amherst received 7 proposals, most of which came from large, well-known developers.
No general obligation bonds would be issued for this project.
The town's total annual expense for facility management and operation could not exceed the town's current budget for two older rinks.
The CRS Companies was selected as the developer of the Pepsi Center complex based on its development track record, the expertise of the sports facilities design team it assembled, and the revenue enhancement programs contained in its proposal to the Town of Amherst.
The proposal submitted by The CRS Companies was based on seeking a construction bond through the Amherst Industrial Development Agency (IDA), something that none of the other proposers had done. The CRS Companies was viewed by Mr. Jeff Bloom, Amherst's then Recreation Director, as "very innovative about financing with industrial development funds. None of the others thought of doing that. It meant a lot. It meant we didn't have to go for a referendum."
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The CRS Companies arranged the revenue-based, tax-exempt bond financing for the town, allowing the project to proceed with no out-of-pocket expenditures from the town and no tax increase for the town residents.
Complete financing, design and construction of the facility took only 11 months (October 1, 1997 – September 1, 1998).
Now, the Amherst Pepsi Center is being touted as a successful model of public-private cooperation nationwide, as revenues from the Center climb and costs to the town look to be even less than expected. The facility – considered to be so much more than four sheets of ice that the word "rink" isn't even in the name – could well end up being less of a tax burden than were the previous two older rinks.
This project, valued at $18.3 million, is a two-story, multi-function sports facility centered around a four-rink ice skating/hockey complex. The center includes three NHL regulation rinks and an Olympic regulation rink for figure skating. There is spectator seating for 2,300 persons; an off-ice practice area; a second floor, 140-seat restaurant overlooking the rinks; a first floor food court; conditioning and aerobic rooms; concession and sports-related retail shops, and offices and conference rooms.
The CRS Companies' solution to the town's recreation challenges was considered highly creative, showing insight and vision toward solving the town's immediate problems while providing for the town's future needs as well.
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Q: Fastlane screenshot delivery to AppStore I'm using fastlane's deliver to upload screenshots generated by fastlane's snapshot. The HTML preview looks correct and the upload script runs without errors for all the localized versions. Yet, AppStore Connect just shows the english screenshots for the localized versions. Without any error messages and the default configuration, I am a bit lost as to where the issue might be.

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IMCDb.org: 1955 Chevrolet One-Fifty Two-Door Sedan  in "Two-Lane Blacktop, 1971"
Il y a eu,à ma connaissance,trois Chevrolet utilisées pour le tournage.L'une d'elles,apres avoir été repeinte en noir,et quelque peu modifiée,a été réutilisée pour le film American graffiti,dans lequel elle est conduite par Harrison Ford.
vilero wrote Edited this MOZINOR comment due previous pictures are missed.
The 55 in Two-Lane had a big block 454 with aluminum heads, a tunnel ram intake and dual 4bbl Holley carbs. The transmission was a Munci M-22 "rockcrusher' feeding the power back to an Oldsmobile rear axle with 4.88-1 gears.
Ruth fitted the car with a straight axle and four wheel disc brakes. The tilt front end was fiberglass as were the doors and deck lid. Ruth also used plexiglass for the side windows that slid back to front instead of rolling up and down.
The wheels were American mags 200-s, 15x6 front and 15x10 rear. They used M&H Racemaster drag slicks for racing and Firestone grand prix rain tires for street use. In the movie the car is said to run "well into the 12's. However later in the movie he beats "Mr. Bardahl".
I heard the 55 was capable of low 10's at over 130mph! Rumor has it they actually filmed the famed rollover for the end of the movie then cut it out in favor of the movie burning up.
Actually one of the few Bel-Airs used in this movie was the same one used in American Graffiti.
FamousCars.de please post only thumnails instead of fullsize pics.
I'm sorry. Up to now i place litte thumbnail-pics with the link to the big one!
Iv never seen this movie b4, I'm watching it right now. It's actully not too bad, alota sweet cars in this movie.
Today I was out at the car craft summer nationals in stpaul MN and I was talking to the owner of the last remaining 55 from this movie. He told me that there were only three made for the movie. two of them were two-tens that were turned into one-fifty's. the one-fifty was better known as the businessman's coupe. it was a pretty plain jane car it had no rear seat, stationary rear windows, and not alot of chrome, this car started life as a 6cyl. One of the 3 55's was suposedly used in the rollover scene at the end of american graffiti. As far as them rolling one over for this movie I heard from the owner of the 55 that one of the cars was all set to rollover in the scene where the 55 runs off into the ditch but I guess the director decided not to do that seing as that would mean the end of the movie. this car is listed as a bel-air but from what I learned today it is in fact NOT a bel-air but rather a TWO-TEN that has been turned into a ONE-FIFTY.
None of the '55 Chevys used in Two-Lane Blacktop were Bel Airs. Bel Airs have stainless trim around the windshield and on the sides of the car. The particular '55 shown above is from a photo shoot that documented its 2005 return to the old Lakeland Raceway in Memphis TN. It was one of three built for Two-Lane Blacktop and the only one not reused in American Graffiti. Although all three appear to be 150 sedans, only two of the three cars were really 150s. This particular car was originally a 210, but turned into a 150 by removing all the body stainless and filling the holes - documented when the car was restored in 2002. If that's not confusing enough - three cars in two movies - yet another '55 was used at the end of American Graffiti as the "burn" car. It was a non-running '55 hardtop with a piece of wood screwed in to make it look like a 2-door post/sedan.
antp, the car depicted in the movie was a 150 rather than a 210. As stpaulcarguy states, out of the three cars used (one was a 150), two of them were 210s which were converted to appear as 150s (if you can say that seeing the cars were so stripped). It would be more apt to change the model title to a 150 instead of the 210.
Why would they use an Olds rear end with 4.88 gears? The slicks are probably bigger diameter, but with street tires the engine would be screaming at highway speeds and would max out under 100mph. They would have no chance against the GTO on highways. On a 1/4 mile with the big slicks it may make sense but 130mph seems high for those gears. A big block with roller rockers and stiff valve springs may make 7,000rpm but not much more.
Also, I got real nervous watching the car spin cookies in the dirt with no air cleaners.
Would have been funny if they had left the roll over scene. Maybe George Lucas really wanted to see that 55' roll over.
I own a 1955 Chevrolet 4 door sedan that was used for a rollover stunt in a movie. It had a camera mount welded to the frame under the passenger side front fender to shoot the stunt through the headlight. The car had been pretty cut up by time I got it, and I used it strictly for the frame and floor boards in my Nomad, but I kept the camera mount for nostalgia. This came out of a Junk Yard in Arizona, but that's all they told us of her. Wonder if this might have been the 55 rumored to have been rolled here? Would love to see the film shot from under that fender.
Flight Risk wrote Why would they use an Olds rear end with 4.88 gears? The slicks are probably bigger diameter, but with street tires the engine would be screaming at highway speeds and would max out under 100mph. They would have no chance against the GTO on highways. On a 1/4 mile with the big slicks it may make sense but 130mph seems high for those gears. A big block with roller rockers and stiff valve springs may make 7,000rpm but not much more.
The Olds axle was a staple with the gasser crowd back in the late fifties-mid sixties, simply because it took a lot of abuse, was cheap and could be found with good performance gears.
4.88:1 is a tad (ok, maybe more than a tad) on the high side, but it's entirely plausible in a street race car built specifically for short range work (Ruth allegedly set these cars up as one of his 'real' cars).
As for the RPMs... 7k+ in a drag race only engine can be done all day, super stock guys wound 427s past 8, sometimes 9k with stock rods 0_o. Aftermarket pistons (as in lighter), roller cam, good springs and rods/rod bolts will get it done. The 427 would be a better choice, but the 454 can still do it.
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Serbia striker Dushan Vlahovic has held his own press conference in response to nonsensical rumors claiming. He had an affair with his team-mates during the football World Cup.
Serbia striker Dushan Vlahovic has responded to the spread of false claims made by Luke Wilson. That he did not start at the 2022 World Cup. The Serb are fueled by frustration at building a relationship with fellow fans. According to a report from 'Diario Sport' on Thursday.
After a journalist named Wilson published a message via Twitter explaining. That Vlahovic did not start for Serbia due to frustration with the team. It could have been an affair with the girlfriend of Mallorca goalkeeper Predrak Raikovic during the World Cup. UFABET When the Serfs were blocked in their camp.
Vlahovic played only 24 minutes as a substitute, and Serbia coach Dragan Stojovic confirmed. That the 22-year-old striker was not physically fit until Vlahovic decided to issue a press conference to clarify the issue by myself.
'It's a complete nonsense created by people who have nothing better to do,' Vlahovic said.
'I am ready to legally protect my reputation if necessary. What was said was a lie and the atmosphere in the team was very good. Our goal now is a game against Switzerland And it's sad that they talk about something else.'
It's unusual that Vlahovich felt it necessary to publicly deny such stories, but Wilson's subsequent deletion of the tweet may indicate that the information was untrue. Or he might fear legal action or both.
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Illinois Revises Its LLC Act
On July 1, 2017, Illinois amended its limited liability company act ("Act") in an effort to make the Act more in line with the Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. Below is a summary of the more noteworthy provisions.
Under the revised Act, limited liability companies may eliminate fiduciary duties (which are owed by those that manage the limited liability company to the limited liability company and its members), except for the duty of care. Although limited liability companies are prohibited from eliminating the duty of care, it may be altered, but such alterations must not allow for intentional misconduct or knowing violations of law. With respect to the duty of loyalty, the revised Act permits limited liability companies to create procedures to authorize or ratify acts that might otherwise violate the duty of loyalty. Such authority must be exercised by disinterested and independent persons after full disclosure of material facts.
Informational Rights
Members may inspect and copy their limited liability company's records, but a transferee may only do so for a proper purpose. The revised Act provides that a limited liability company may impose "reasonable restrictions and conditions on access to and use of information," including but not limited to trade secrets and information subject to confidentiality agreements with third parties. Furthermore, transferees must show a proper purpose to inspect and copy a limited liability company's records. The concept of "proper purpose" was borrowed from the Illinois Business Corporations Act and has been interpreted broadly thereunder. In addition, it is important to note that the revised Act imposes time limits on the limited liability companies' response to the transferee's request for records.
Conversion and Domestication
Illinois limited liability companies are now allowed to convert into other entities. Prior to the amendment, the Act only allowed partnerships and limited partnerships to convert into limited liability companies, but not vice versa. To "convert" an Illinois limited liability company into another entity, the Illinois limited liability company had to be merged into another entity, with the latter being the surviving entity. The revised Act allows Illinois limited liability companies to easily convert into other types of entities, except for foreign limited liability companies. In order to convert an Illinois limited liability company into a foreign limited liability company, the Illinois limited liability company must go through the domestication process, which very similar to the conversion process.
Statement of Authority and Statement of Denial
The revised Act incorporates new authorization forms: (i) the Statement of Authority and (ii) the Statement of Denial. The Statement of Authority is a publicly filed document that may be filed to define the authority of its members and managers. The Statement of Authority will act as constructive notice as to who has authority to act on behalf of a limited liability company, unless a person giving value has knowledge to the contrary. The Statement of Denial, on the other hand, operates as a restrictive amendment to a Statement of Authority. Those doing due diligence should consider adding these documents to their checklists.
In addition to the above mentioned revisions, the revised Act also provides the following:
judgment creditors may only obtain a charging order against the distributional interest of judgment debtors;
operating agreement may be oral; and
limited liability companies will be member managed, unless the limited liability company's operating agreement provides otherwise.
The above summary is not an exhaustive list of the revision to the Act. Members and managers of Illinois limited liability companies should review the entire Act to ensure that their limited liability companies are operating according to the revised Act. If you have any questions regarding how the revised Act will affect your limited liability company, please contact a corporate attorney at Dykema's Chicago office, or your Dykema relationship attorney.
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"'I see so many kids in this county with horrible-looking teeth,' Schlaudecker said.
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"The report found that more than 50 percent of communities in the state, or 187, don't have a dentist who accepts MassHealth, the state Medicaid program for the poor and disabled. Of the 5,000 active, registered dentists in the state, only about 800 to 900 currently accept MassHealth patients, according to the report."
"'in general, those who have lower income levels, lower education levels and no insurance will have more oral health needs.' "
"Poor and uninsured town children whose families can't afford a dentist are turning out in droves to see a specialist hired by Greenwich Hospital, officials say."
75% fluoridated "Australia has one of the worst dental health records in the world, though children under 12 have one of the best. Australia also has the highest tooth extraction rate in the developed world."


RCOT is the Royal College of Occupational Therapists.
RCOT is the professional membership body for occupational therapists within the UK. All of our occupational therapists are members of RCOT.
The RCOT represent occupational therapists and work to promote the profession to the public, political representatives as well as clinical service commissioners. They also set the standards for professional practice and education standards for occupational therapy. Through working with their members they provide advice and guidance regarding occupational therapy for service users, they also support members research and career development.
If you would like to find out more about the Royal College of Occupational Therapists you can visit their website here.


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Q: How can i Create a Static component in visual studio? am doing some app that has a lots of forms and some components have to access some componets from another form ....when i make my richtextbox public and try to access it from somewhere else it says thread safe error bla bla ...so i made that text box static so that there would be only object that belong to the class and i can access it like this.
Form1.richTextBox.Text

and this works fine but the problem is every time i add a new component to the winform my static object become non static and all my direct access to the objects becomes error.
 my question is how can i make visual studio to stop modifying my code(design code) ? or safely access objects from other form without circular dependency?

A: Try to create some static element like String myStatic and access to this element from other form. In place where you need update this element use some method like
void UpdateMyStatic() {
myStatic = richTextBox.Text;
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A: From your comment "try to access it from somewhere else it says thread safe error"
I believe the issue is a cross thread operation. Is that "somewhere else" executing on a background/worker thread? ie. NOT the thread on which your richtextbox was instantiated.
If so, you MUST test the InvokeRequired property.
From MSDN:
"Gets a value indicating whether the caller must call an invoke method when making method calls to the control because the caller is on a different thread than the one the control was created on."
BTW: Even though you see a C# object (richtextbox), it is merely a facade over a Windows Handle. So, Visual Studio's behavior is correct. A control can have ONLY one parent(ie the Window) If you 'think' you need a static richtextbox then you should rethink your design.


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A Digital Place for Every Plant
By Richard Bryant
Summer intern and statistics grad student Richard Bryant drills down into the details of the plant databases at Matthaei-Nichols. His efforts—for example on the Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden website—have already made the search experience better for students, researchers, and visitors seeking plant information.
Let's say you're interested in a specific type of black-eyed susan you've seen at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Through a Google search, you find its official, botanical name — Rudbeckia hirta. Maybe you're with a design team that thinks one of these beautiful sunflowers would look great overlooking the amazing Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden. Or perhaps you're a volunteer who wants to know the natural history of this particular plant. So you want to go into the field and find it. The first thing you do is visit the Plant Finder on the Matthaei-Nichols website, where you discover that one of these plants lives in "Bioswale." However, this doesn't give you much information. First of all, there are multiple bioswales! Which one is this plant in? Furthermore, the bioswales are relatively large. It would take you a frustratingly long time to go to multiple bioswales, sift through plant labels (if it even has one), and find this plant.
These black-eyed susans are beautiful! Where are they?!
One of the projects I've been working on with the staff at Matthaei-Nichol this summer is a logical system that breaks large zones such as the Bioswales into smaller, digital and physical "Places." Each "Place" will have global positioning system (GPS) coordinates. That way, one can look up the place that a plant lives in, which makes finding that plant significantly easier. Instead of having as many as 200 Bioswale plants to sift through to find Rudbeckia hirta, anyone looking for this information will know that it's in a much smaller "place" within the "Parking lot bioswale." Now there are only 10 plants to look through! Suddenly, the task of finding this plant is significantly less daunting.
This specificity is particularly useful with respect to the Medicinal Garden at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. The garden, which opened on August 2, 2015, features over 100 plants that are or have traditionally been used to treat human disease. For example, let's say a student visits Matthaei while doing medical research and needs to find Ephedra sinica, a plant used for treating respiratory conditions. But the student lacks knowledge of many plants in general and doesn't have more than a few minutes to find Ephedra sinica. But because the Medicinal Garden is organized online into the biological systems the plants are used to treat—a respiratory place, an ophthalmology place, a women's health place, etc.—this makes for a very well organized garden.
To arrive at my system of organization, I meet with our curator and I look at each garden in isolation and not in relation to any other garden on our properties. For purposes of illustration let's look at the Great Lakes Garden. A first point of investigation is determining whether staff members have already created some kind of organizing system for this garden. A search of Matthaei-Nichols' shared network reveals a highly detailed plant list. As it turns out, a Natural Areas team had already broken the Great Lakes Garden into 31 different components, and then identified which plants were in each garden already. This made my job very easy. But what about something like the Perennial Garden? Staff members installing this garden years ago may not have thought about how one "deconstructs" the information about this garden. Thus thinking about the perennial garden for my project in terms of "Places" involves sitting down with horticulturists, their interns, and the curator who oversees the entire record system, and then asking the question: "What is the most logical way of dividing this garden into distinct, useful components?"
Naturally, this project is not always straightforward. People think of gardens in different ways. A horticulturist may look at the Bonsai Garden and see it as, for example, six distinct beds. But a student might see the very same garden as two, or three beds. So each garden must be broken down in a logical fashion that can be agreed upon by all. A field team must eventually go through each place and verify which plants are in it, yet this is arduous when there are so many places to consider. That said, there is a clear end goal which benefits all: a record system that allows anyone, with great precision, to find out exactly where in Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum a specific plant lives.
Richard Bryant
Richard Bryant, from Rochester Hills, Michigan, is a second-year masters student in applied statistics. His primary areas of interest are consulting and multivariate analysis in big data. Richard is working summer 2015 as an intern in plant records and garden plans.


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Retrogram – coming in 2019
Doctor Who: Ages Of Steel
Earl	 August 15, 2009
Released in January 2009 to coincide with the buzz that followed 2008's The Next Doctor Christmas special, the Ages of Steel line (which seems to be an internal designation since it doesn't seem to appear anywhere on the actual packaging) is an interesting experiment in blurring the lines between the classic and modern Doctor Who series. With completely unique packaging to match, Ages of Steel is a mini-series of action figures of Cybermen down through the ages. It's also a thing of beauty. Read More
Action Figures, Doctor Who (Character Options), Science Fiction	Cybercontroller, Cyberleader, Cyberman
Torchwood action figures – Wave 1
Earl	 July 22, 2009
It's only slightly less likely that an actual time-space rift forming in Cardiff that the first wave of Torchwood figures not only exists, but is compatible – more or less – with the Doctor Who action figures. Two different companies handle the two different ranges of products, and the audience is wildly different: Character Options' Doctor Who figures aim for playability first and collectability second, while Scificollector.co.uk was clearly aiming at the collector's market with Torchwood: neither the show nor its gun-toting toys are really meant for the kids, but rather for adult collectors who want the characters from their other favorite show to grace the same shelf space as their Doctor Who toys. Read More
Action Figures, Science Fiction, Torchwood	Captain Jack Harkness, Cyberwoman, Gwen Cooper, Ianto Jones, Weevil
PREVIEW: Star Trek (2009 movie)
Earl	 January 26, 2009
So, via USA Today this week, Playmates Toys has leaked the first product photos of their items from the upcoming Star Trek movie. It's an interesting cross-section to say the least: the figures are in multiple scales (though it seems to be clear that only one of these scales will have any significant number of characters in it). Let's see what's up in the world of Trek toys these days. Read More
Previews, Ships & Vehicles, Star Trek (Playmates), Weapons
Doctor Who: The Sontaran Stratagem Set
Released not too long after the two-parter that reintroduced the classic series villains to the new series' mythos, the Sontaran Stratagem set is, hands-down, my favorite boxed set of Doctor Who figures to date. I was originally a little skeptical of the Sontarans' redesign, but their appearance in the two episodes won me over – and if that wasn't enough, they make great action figures. Read More
Action Figures, Doctor Who (Character Options), Science Fiction	Command Skorr, Donna Noble, General Staal, Sontaran
Doctor Who: The Stolen Earth Set
Released shortly after the climactic two-part finale of the new series' fourth season, the Doctor Who Stolen Earth set is the action figure debut – at least in the new scale used by Character Options – of a major villain with a classic series pedigree. Originally intended to be an exclusive to this set (a decision quickly reversed in the face of what was expected to be a grim 2008 Christmas toy-buying season), Davros is the evil genius behind the Daleks' creation. Horrifyingly disfigured in an incident never chronicled on screen (but dramatized in the I, Davros audio series), the lower half of Davros' body is paralyzed, forcing him to rely on a mobile life support unit – the inspiration for the means of the Daleks' movement. Read More
Action Figures, Doctor Who (Character Options), Science Fiction	Dalek, Dalek Supreme, Davros, The Tenth Doctor
Doctor Who: Classic Dalek Collector's Set #1
Earl	 November 24, 2008
In 2008, the news became official that Doctor Who collectors had scarcely hoped for: Character Options, makers of the roughly-5″ scale action figures from the new series of Doctor Who, would at last be stepping in the past and creating figures of characters from the classic series. While fans may have thought it was a long time coming, Character's long-delayed entry into classic series merchandise was fraught with difficulties to which most of the fans weren't even privy: another company, Product Enterprises, had the classic series merchandise license locked down, forcing Character to sublicense through them with the BBC's permission. And even with the license secured, it wouldn't be an easy road, with many a participant in the original series no longer living – getting likenesses approved or denied would prove to be a headache, as some actors' estates simply didn't consider this merchandise a priority. But one of the earliest assurances, thanks to the BBC's part-ownership of the designs, was that there would be a boxed set of various styles of classic series Daleks. Read More
Action Figures, Doctor Who (Character Options), Science Fiction	Dalek, Dalek Supreme
Doctor Who: The Steven Moffat Collection
Earl	 September 29, 2008
We're doing something a little bit different in this ToyBox review of Doctor Who goodies; rather than focus on a specific season or product wave, we're focusing on figures from the stories written by Doctor Who's future show-runner (and record-breaking three-time consecutive Hugo winner) Steven Moffat. With his uncanny knack for bringing real watch-from-behind-the-sofa psychological horror into the Doctor's family-hour comfort zone, with an economy of post-production trickery, Moffat has more than earned his new gig. Since his first episodes as executive producer don't begin until 2010, now seemed like a good time to pause and look at the collectible characters that have emerged from his scripts. Read More
Action Figures, Doctor Who (Character Options)	Captain Jack Harkness, Clockwork Robots, Dr. Constantine, Empty Child, The Fifth Doctor, The Tenth Doctor, Weeping Angel
Doctor Who: Rose / The End Of The World
Earl	 June 16, 2008
Character Options doesn't seem to have consciously built collections around these specific episodes of Doctor Who, but by coincidence, as their much-loved action figure range grows, the earlier seasons and episodes have been revisited enough that one can put together episode-specific subsets. In the coming weeks we'll more or less randomly sample some mini-collections from the first two seasons of the new Doctor Who that have emerged. Read More
Action Figures, Doctor Who (Character Options), Science Fiction	Auton, Cassandra, Face of Boe, Moxx of Balhoon
Indiana Jones 2008 Action Figures
Philip R. Frey	 May 19, 2008
Two words come to mind when you first see the new line of Indiana Jones action figures from Hasbro: Star Wars. And that's a good thing. Either in an act of synergy or luck of them winning the likely bidding war, by choosing Hasbro, Lucasfilm practically guaranteed that these figures would be of the classic 3 3/4″ variety and not the increasingly common 5″ or 6″ sizes. And, frankly, as they have shown with their mostly excellent new "Anniversary" line of G.I. Joe figures, this is a great time for Hasbro to relaunch a figure line of this size, thanks to years of development of the Star Wars and pre-Sigma 6 Joes. The Indiana Jones line, encompassing original film (Indiana Jones and the) Raiders of the Lost Ark and the new film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, takes some inspiration from both Star Wars and G. I. Joe, but leans more heavily on the somewhat less articulate Star Wars line. (More on that later.) Read More
Action Figures, Indiana Jones, Non-Sci-Fi	Indiana Jones, Irina Spalko, Marion Ravenwood, Mutt Williams
Horrified B-Movie Victims
Rob O'Hara	 January 21, 2008
Every Star Wars diorama I set up in my bedroom as a kid had the same problem — a lack of extras. Ships and starring roles were never a problem — I had plenty of those — but what I didn't have were the dozens of extra Stormtroopers needed to make a convincing scene from the Death Star. Darth Vader didn't look near as menacing with only two Stormtroopers standing behind him, and my cantina scene looked downright sad with only Greedo, Walrus Man, Snaggletooth and Hammerhead hanging around the bar.
For fans of horror films and dioramas, Accoutrements has addressed this problem with the release of their Horrified B-Movie Victims. Read More
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Fun! With the unusually warm weather we've been having here lately, that's exactly where I wish to be! Especially love how you rendered the sunglasses on both!
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With the popularity of "The Hunger Games" movies and books, many have learned about the prospects of coal mining. The Appalachian region may be the region best known for coal mining, but there are other heavily mined minerals and elements across the globe. Sure gold and silver caused a boom of mining towns in the U.S., but did you know about other precious minerals and metals that have been mined for centuries? Read on to learn what other elements people have deemed valuable enough to be mined.
One of December's birthstones, this greenish-blue stone has seen a lot of popularity in jewelry over the past few years. Found across the world and highly prized by many civilizations including the ancient Egyptians, the Aztecs and a few Native American tribes, turquoise isn't just a pretty color that can be painted on bedroom walls. To find this mineral, it must be mined. Turquoise is one of the first gems to be mined. That may be in part because turquoise can be found as a byproduct in large-scale copper mines. In the U.S. the Southwestern states and some of the turquoise found in U.S. mines is considered "chalk turquoise," or a low grade. But there are mines in Nevada and Arizona where some of the highest quality of turquoise can be found.
As turquoise is sometimes discovered as a byproduct of copper mining, it was only fair to include copper on this list. Copper is so prevalent in the United States that the U.S. was ranked number four on the list of the top ten copper-producing countries in 2013. While there wasn't exactly a copper boom as there were the gold rush and silver rush in the U.S., the first instance of mining this metal in the U.S. was in the 1840s in the Michigan copper district. Though copper isn't as common in jewelry as gold and silver, this metal has a myriad of uses. It can be alloyed with tin to make bronze, copper wiring and cables are used in many electronic devices, currency, and it has some uses in sculpting; the Statue of Liberty is made of copper.
As high school students trying to ace their chemistry class know, gallium does not occur in free form in nature. This element is silver in color and is softer than other metals. This is an element, like the mineral turquoise, that isn't necessarily mined on its own, but rather is a byproduct of aluminum and zinc. Because of its ability to conduct electricity, gallium is a good semiconductor, so the majority of its applications are in electronics. Gallium is used in blue LED bulbs, computer chips, integrated circuits, neutrino detection, and even be alloyed with other metals to create mirrors. Next time you catch your own reflection, there is a possibility you're staring at some gallium!
Another precious gem, sapphires are the birthstone for September and actually come in numerous other colors than their classic blue. Sapphire can also be found around in the world, but depending on where the gem is mined, the color and appearance can be different. Different chemical-impurity concentrations make the appearances vary in sapphires. Sapphires that do not undergo heat treatments are the color and appearance that many people recognize and vie for when purchasing jewelry. As it is a gemstone, the first application of sapphires that may come to mind is jewelry, but sapphires are also used in shatter-resistant windows (with other elements), body armor suits, and are used in semiconductor circuits with silicon.
Not everyone is situated near a mine or a mining town, but countless elements and minerals are mined across the globe for different application. Next time you glance in the mirror, peruse new jewelry or need some new wiring done, those components most likely have come from a mine somewhere on this earth.


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Jaroslav Malátek (13. března 1923, Choceň – 12. prosince 2014, Ústí nad Orlicí) byl český malíř. Byl představitelem českého malířského umění z přelomu 20. a 21. století, které vzešlo z odkazu francouzského kubismu, sahajícího až do doby renesance, kdy se malířství snažilo zachytit obrazové zpodobnění, třetího rozměru, hloubky.

Životopis
Narodil se ve starém mlýně v Chocni. Vystudoval gymnázium v České Třebové, kde byl k malířství nasměrován profesorem Bělským, který ho učil kreslení. Zároveň se při studiích zajímal i o atletiku, kde ho jeho sportovní výkony dovedly do Prahy. Tam měl možnost po sportovních mítincích navštěvovat nejrůznější galerie a seznamovat se s díly význačných malířů. Pár let po studiích na gymnáziu byl totálně nasazen na práce do Norimberku v nacistickém Německu.

Po 2. světové válce úspěšně vystudoval Pedagogickou fakultu Univerzity Karlovy v Praze, kde byl studentem profesorů Martina Salcmana, Karla Lidického, Cyrila Boudy a dalších, kteří mu předávali techniku a umění mistrovského malíře Maxe Švabinského.

V 50. letech 20. století, v době komunistických čistek se musel rozloučit s učitelskou profesí. O to víc se věnoval malování. Krajina se mu stala zdrojem mnoha námětů a dávala mu inspiraci k životu. Pohled na krajinu v Zámrsku, či Javornice k horám, místa odkud pocházel malíř Vojtěch Sedláček), Choceň na Lhotách, Běstovická krajina – tak zní jen některé názvy jeho krajin. V době komunismu pracoval jako sklenář, natěrač, horník, dělník v logistice. Bavila ho i práce v reklamě, navrhoval interiéry. V roce 1980 se přestěhoval z Chocně do Brandýsa nad Orlicí. Tam se seznámil s přítelkyní Helenou. V té době opustil původní plošné kompozice a přešel k abstraktním obrazům a malbám. Začaly tak vznikat vrstvené plastické obrazy jejichž základem byl sololit, kov a sklo. Všechny plastické obrazy vznikly nejprve v malých skicách a maketách. Posléze se zvětšovaly za pomoci počítačových programů do stávající velikosti. Plastické obrazy "Metafory prostoru" jsou určeny pro moderního bydlení. Zdobí též prostory ve významných evropských institucích.

Dílo

Výstavy (výběr)
 Galerie výtvarného umění, Náchod
 Cesta k plastickým obrazům, Městská knihovna, Letohrad
 Galerie Skleněná kostka, Pardubice
 Galerie Pod Radnicí, Ústí nad Orlicí
 Malá pevnost, Terezín
 Soutěž uměleckých filmů, Curych, Švýcarsko
 Mezinárodní soutěž v malbě, Osaka, Japonsko

Literatura
 Metamorfory prostoru. Čtvrt století plastických obrazů., katalog
 Richter M.: Metafory prostoru Jaroslava Malátka, Ústecké ozvěny, str. 12-13, březen 2004
 Hudeček Ivan: Příběhy i názor v plastických obrazech J.M., Lilie - zpravodaj města Litomyšle
 Richter Milan: Plastické obrazy jsou plné poezie, Orlické noviny č. 49, 27. 2. 2004
 PhDr. Kmošek Petr: Metafory prostoru v plastických obrazech Jaroslava Malátka, in: katalogový dvojlist k výstavám v Litomyšli
 Janďourková Helena: Výstava obrazů v Hamzově léčebně v Luži, Noviny Chrudimska č. 221. roč. 12, 20. 9. 2003
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Goodwin, a leading Global 50 law firm, announced today that Ian O'Donnell has joined the firm's Private Investment Funds practice as a partner in the San Francisco office. O'Donnell is a highly regarded venture capital fund formation expert, and his addition represents another milestone in the global expansion of Goodwin's private fund formation practice, which includes over 100 lawyers worldwide, and the firm's presence in Northern California. O'Donnell's appointment follows the recent arrival of San Francisco tax partner Jason Vollbracht.
Concentrating on the formation and representation of venture capital, growth equity and private equity funds, O'Donnell's practice also includes the representation of issuers and funds in public and private financing transactions. He focuses on all aspects of the formation and operation of domestic and international investment funds, including venture capital, private equity, fund of funds, secondary market, debt and a variety of other types of funds ranging from multibillion-dollar venture capital and leveraged buy-out funds to much smaller venture capital, angel, pledge and similar micro funds.
"Ian epitomizes the standard of technically sophisticated, client-service-oriented lawyer that we seek in all practice areas," said partner Rob Fore. "He shares our mutual vision of the future for private fund formation," added partner Jerry Chacon.
O'Donnell received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and his B.A. from Yale University. He is admitted to practice in New York and California.
He can be reached at iodonnell@goodwinlaw.com or 415.733.6161.
Goodwin's Private Investment Funds practice handles every stage in the life cycle by providing fund managers with the sophisticated level of counsel required for forming, advising and operating private investment funds. Within fund formation, Goodwin takes a creative approach, starting with not only the specific objectives of a particular fund but also an assessment of how the fund fits within the client's broader business goals. The team understands the issues specific to different types of funds and offers advice that comes from a wealth of experience across industries and global markets.
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When Leigh Lahav decided to make a special video for her hubby, Oren Medezitsky, she really went to town.
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She did something far more creative — and far more likely to become a YouTube phenomenon — than some naughty home movie.
She used her considerable video editing skills to create a birthday video that emulated the opening credits of roughly a dozen hit TV shows, but all cleverly modified to capture elements of her hubby's life.
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Дунгарт ап Кулмин (; 640—700) — король Думнонии (661—700).

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Большинство сведений о Дунгарте имеют полулегендарный характер. Согласно им, он был сыном короля Думнонии Кулмина ап Петрока. После гибели отца в битве с уэссексцами, Дунгарт в 661 году сам взошёл на престол Думнонии.

В 682 году думнонийцы потерпели очередное поражение от Уэссекса, в результате которого граница отодвинулась, предположительно, до Бидефорда и была утеряна столица королевства, город Каэр-Уиск.

Дунгарт ап Кулмин скончался в 700 году и ему наследовал его сын Геррен.

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Philip Hammond To Resign As Chancellor If Boris Johnson Becomes Prime Minister
21 July 2019, 10:54 | Updated: 21 July 2019, 17:24
Philip Hammond. Picture: Getty
Philip Hammond has announced he will resign as Chancellor if Boris Johnson wins the Conservative Party leadership contest.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer said he was going to resign before an opportunity for Theresa May's successor as Prime Minister to sack him.
"Assuming that Boris Johnson becomes the next prime minister, I understand that his conditions for serving in his government would include accepting a no-deal exit on the 31st October and it's not something that I could ever sign up to," he said.
"It's very important that the prime minister is able to have a chancellor who is closely aligned with him in terms of policy and I therefore intend to resign to Theresa May before she goes to the Palace to tender her own resignation on Wednesday."
It comes as Justice Secretary David Gauke says he too will quit the government if the former Foreign Secretary moves into Downing Street.
Mr Gauke, who has served in Theresa May's Cabinet since she took office in June 2016, said he would not be able to serve under Mr Johnson if he pursues a no-deal Brexit.
The Justice Secretary said: "If the test of loyalty to stay in the Cabinet is a commitment to support no-deal on October 31st - which, to be fair to him, Boris has consistently said - then that's not something I'm prepared to sign up to."I recognise that this spell in government is coming to an end.
"Given that I've been in the Cabinet since Theresa May came to power, i think the appropriate thing is for me to resign to her."
Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary David Gauke said he will resign from the Cabinet should Boris Johnson win the Tory leadership contest. Picture: Getty
Margot James, who resigned as digital minister on Thursday, said others may quit to show their opposition to Mr Johnson's commitment to deliver Brexit 'come what may' at the end of October.
Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd is urging her Conservative colleagues to back whoever wins the contest - warning the alternative could be 'Corbyn for Christmas'.
UK faces 'short-term' delay in Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine delivery
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for the last week Quebec has been consumed by the PQ's proposed Charter of Values. The charter has five proposals which meant to respond to, according to the PQ's new values website , the "profound discomfort" caused by high profile religious accommodation cases in Quebec since 2006. They are: amend the Quebec Charter of Rights and Values, establish a duty of neutrality and reserve for all state personnel, limit the wearing of conspicuous religious symbols,make it mandatory to have one's face uncovered when providing or receiving services from the state and establish an implementation policy for provincial organizations. The third and fourth proposals are the ones that have been making the most waves, and with good reason.
The proposals suggested would unnecessarily limit individual rights and freedoms all the while forcing citizens to make impossible choices: my religion or my health? my religion or my employment? my religion or my mobility? Quebec as a province within the Canadian state has no right to ignore the rights and freedoms of its citizens as established by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and this fact has been affirmed by every Canadian federal party, as well as the thousands of citizens who marched through Montreal's downtown core yesterday.
Thousands of citizens, men, women and children, young and old, English and French speaking, wearing religious symbols and not, carried banners proclaiming not only their right to their religion, but their pride in being Quebecois. Quebec is a province that relies heavily on an immigrant population, many of whom are French-speaking Muslims who would be grossly affected by this proposed charter. They chanted primarily in French; "Ce charte des valeurs, on ne veut pas!" "On veut travailler, pas se devoiler!" wearing hijabs adorned by or fashioned with Quebec flags. Although it was Yom Kippur, Montreal's Jewish population was also represented, as well as some religious officials alongside citizens who bore no obvious religious affiliation. The supposed support for this charter is to be found primarily in rural areas, but the bulk of Quebec's religious and cultural diversity is found here in Montreal.
Though I myself do not believe that this Charter will be allowed to be made into law, if not only because of its questionable legal footing but also public outrage, the mere proposal of this Charter has done profound damage to the province of Quebec. This charter, and the notion that it represents the point of view of Quebecers, has and will continue to exacerbate Quebecers and other Canadians and damage the international opinion of Quebec, a reality that will hurt both our economy and our national pride.
For a look at how this issue might just end up playing right into Marois's hand, Contrived Controversy: Why the Secular Charter Furthers the Goals of the PQ by Concordia senior editor Eli Vincent Zivot. For anyone outside of Quebec, media coverage has been focused on the Syrian civil war. The big question over the last couple of weeks has been American intervention yay or nay, for a look at this question and other ones read The Civil War in Syria by Adam Templer. Freedom of the press is an important marker of freedom generally within a country, and a cause that hits close to home at the Bouillon. Despite their noteworthy elections this year Malaysia has lost its footing according to World Press Freedom Index, and media control is an issue. Get the full story by Catherine Ador in Freedom of the press and Independent media in Malaysia.
What I am wondering is how the PQ proposal will differentiate between a normal headscarf to cover my head on a windy day (or as in a desert to protect you from having sand in your hair) and the 'religious ' symbol hijab? Could this particular proposal be the idea of a macho? Next women will be back on the 'rooftops' and out of sight. … L.D.
This is something not even touched in the charter – implementation of such laws. Part of their proposals includes a proposal to create an implementation policy for institutions who would be forced to deal with this charter, but logistically I have no idea what this would look like. Never mind a head scarf, but what about the use of crosses in popular clothing – if a t-shirt is adorned with a large cross can the wearer access public services? It seems to be a matter of "common sense" according to the Charter but how do we govern according to "common sense" ?


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Indonesia recovers first black box from crashed plane
Date: January 12, 2021Author: benedicta10 0 Comments
A black box from the crashed Indonesian passenger jet has been recovered, officials said Tuesday, a discovery that could offer critical clues to explain why the plane with 62 people aboard slammed into the sea.
Divers just off the coast of the capital Jakarta hauled the jet's flight data recorder to the surface, as the hunt continues for its cockpit voice recorder.
Indonesian transport minister Budi Karya Sumadi told a live television briefing that the box had been found — after the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 plunged about 10,000 feet (3,000 metres) in less than a minute before slamming into the Java Sea Saturday.
An AFP reporter on a navy ship said investigators started picking up strong signals from an area where they were searching, with divers able to retrieve the box in about an hour from the wreckage-littered seabed.
So far authorities have been unable to explain why the 26-year-old plane crashed just four minutes after takeoff.
Black box data — which record information about the speed, altitude and direction of the plane as well as flight crew conversations — helps explain nearly 90 percent of all crashes, according to aviation experts.
Sumadi added officials believe the cockpit voice recorder is nearby that of the flight data recorder.
"We strongly believe it'll be found soon," he said.
Some 3,600 personnel are taking part in the recovery effort, assisted by dozens of boats and helicopters flying over small islands off the capital's coast.
The agency deployed a remotely operated vehicle to assist the divers.
– 'Hoping for a miracle' –
Scores of body bags filled with human remains were being taken to a police morgue where forensic investigators hope to identify victims by matching fingerprints or DNA with distraught relatives — some held out hope of survivors.
"We haven't accepted it yet," Inda Gunawan said of his brother Didik Gunardi who was on the doomed Saturday flight.
"Our family is still hoping for a miracle that he is still alive."
Authorities have identified flight attendant Okky Bisma, 29, as the first confirmed victim after matching fingerprints from a retrieved hand to those in a government identity database.
"Rest in peace up there darling and wait for me… in heaven," Okky Bisma's wife Aldha Refa wrote on Instagram.
There were 10 children among the passengers on the half-full plane, which had experienced pilots at the controls as it left Jakarta bound for Pontianak city on Borneo island on a 90-minute flight.
A transport safety agency investigator has said the crew did not declare an emergency or report technical problems with the plane before its dive, and that the 737 was likely intact when it hit the water.
Search-and-rescue agency chief Soerjanto Tjahjono echoed that view earlier Tuesday, pointing to the relatively small area where debris was scattered in about 23 metres (75 feet) of water.
"The size is consistent with the assumption that the plane didn't explode before hitting the water," he added.
"The damage seen on the retrieved fan blade also shows that the engine was still working" at the time of the crash.
The crash probe was likely to take months, but a preliminary report was expected in 30 days.
Aviation analysts said flight-tracking data showed the plane sharply deviated from its intended course before it went into a steep dive.
– Plagued by safety concerns –
Sriwijaya Air, which flies to destinations in Indonesia and across Southeast Asia, has had safety incidents including runway overruns.
But it has not had a fatal crash since starting operations in 2003.
Its CEO has said the jet, which was previously flown by US-based Continental Airlines and United Airlines, was in fit condition.
Indonesia's fast-growing aviation sector has long been plagued by safety concerns, and its airlines were once banned from US and European airspace.
In October 2018, 189 people were killed when a Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX jet crashed near Jakarta.
That accident — and another in Ethiopia — led to the grounding of the 737 MAX worldwide.
The 737 that went down Saturday was first produced decades ago and was not a MAX variant
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Witherspoon, Herbert wĭᵺ´ərspo͞on [key], 1873–1935, American basso, b. Buffalo, N.Y.; grad. Yale, 1895, studied music with Edward MacDowell. He studied both painting and singing in New York City, London, Paris, and Berlin. In 1898 he made his operatic debut, and from 1908 to 1916 he was leading basso of the Metropolitan Opera Company, afterward devoting his time to concerts and to teaching. He was president (1925–29) of the Chicago Musical College, director for a brief time of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, and director (1932–33) of the Cincinnati Conservatory. In 1935 he succeeded Giulio Gatti-Casazza as director of the Metropolitan Opera Company, but he died shortly thereafter.


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New Paint Kills Hospital Pathogens
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Maintaining a controlled, sterile environment in hospitals is vital for both routine and life-saving medical care. One way of fighting hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) is to apply robust paint or epoxy layers on walls and floors that can be easily and repeatedly cleaned to keep bacteria out.
In addition to preventing the spread of bacteria and viruses, paints used in healthcare facilities have low or zero volatile organic compounds (VOCs) so that patients aren't breathing in harmful chemical compounds. But paint manufacturer Sherwin-Williams just upped the ante with Paint Shield, a new paint created in collaboration with microbiologists that kills more than 99.9 percent of "Staph (Staphylococcus aureus), MRSA, E. coli, VRE, and Enterobacter aerogens after two hours of exposure on a painted surface."
Sherwin-Williams claims that the EPA-approved paint doesn't just inhibit growth of pathogens, but kills them. If the paint works as advertised, then this would go a long way in combatting HAIs, which the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports as being one of the top 10 leading causes of preventable deaths in the United States. Approximately 1 in 25 American patients will contract at least one HAI during hospital care, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported in 2011.
"Paint Shield is one of the most significant technological breakthroughs in our nearly 150-year history of innovation," Chris Connor, chairman and chief executive of Sherwin-Williams, said when announcing the product launch. "By killing infectious pathogens on painted surfaces, Paint Shield is a game-changing advancement in coatings technology."
"Continued progress in combating HAIs will require a broad array of measures, including passive methods that are less dependent on human intervention," added Steve Revnew, senior vice president of product innovation at Sherwin-Williams. "By continuing to kill MRSA and other bacteria, even after repeated contamination, Paint Shield offers hospitals and other facilities an important new tool to help in the fight against the spread of HAIs."
While Sherwin-Williams has tested Paint Shield in the lab, and earned EPA approval, the paint still needs real-world trials.
"Obviously hospital epidemiologists are interested in any way to decrease bacterial contamination in that person's room as long as it's cost effective," Dr. Anthony Harris, a professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Maryland, told ABC Radio. "These types of inventions are desperately needed … to prevent transmission [of resistant bacteria] ... [but they] need to be tested in real-world settings before widespread adoption."
Sherwin-Williams will begin offering Paint Shield in 590 colors in the first quarter of 2016.
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