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Con Ed can't finish their job at Willets Point
Con Ed has been down in Willets Point for a week now.
They can't get anything done.
Because they can't find the manhole covers.
Because the streets are so bad.
When we spoke to the workers - well, let's put it this way - they are not happy.
Posted by Willets Point United at 5:40 PM
Article from El Diario about Willets Point
The following is a link to the El Diario Feb. 22 front page story about Willets Point tenant businesses demanding answers about relocation, and an English translation of the article's text that was obtained from an online translation engine.
Cover: 'NO NOS MIENTAN' ('DO NOT LIE TO US')
Uncertainty in Willets Point. The city is not taking responsibility for relocating businesses.
Willets Point demands answers
by Claudia Torrens
El Diario La Prensa
Living in constant uncertainty. The 1700 Hispanic workers in the mechanic shops of Willets Point have become accustomed to it, and they fear losing their jobs because of the City's pricey urbanization plan for the area, nearby where CitiField, the new stadium of the New York Mets, is nearly finished.
The mechanics' hopes are now focused on two areas where they expect to relocate their businesses: Rikers Island or College Point, in Queens, each one offering a minimum of 60 acres. Both possibilities were discussed two months ago with the New York City Economic Development Corporation, but since then nothing has happened.
The city has remained silent, and the workers are demanding answers.
"Willets Point is an economic engine. That's why we're calling on them to tell us what's happening with the relocation," said Sergio Aguirre, a spokesman for the Willets Point Defense Committee, which is comprised of some 75 mechanical workshops. "We want them to tell us the truth. Don't lie to us."
Julia Sandoval, from Peru, who is responsible for accounting at WJ Auto Repair and who has worked at Willets Point for more than 15 years, fears for the future of the mechanics at the 250 shops.
"I worry that all of these workers will be on the street," she said. "There are almost 2,000 of them, and the city's workshops aren't going to hire everyone if Willets Point disappears."
Moving to another area is a good option, say the workers, who are eager to keep their businesses open, even if in another place. However, they assert that each workshop will lose between 30,000 and 40,000 dollars if they close now.
"And it's all for the big business interests of the City. So that investors can get in here and make millions of dollars at our expense," said Marcos Neira, president of the Committee.
Neira estimates that between 300,000 and 500,000 cars come to Willets Point every year to be repaired. The economic crisis has caused a sharp drop in the sale of cars and an increase in the repairs of many vehicles. Willets Point has not benefited from this, however, because the City has not maintained the sewer drainage system, provided municipal services, or kept the streets of the area in decent condition, he said.
David Lombino, a spokesman for NYCEDC, said that the City is doing everything possible to help workers in Willets Point, but he cannot discuss the possible new locations for the businesses.
"Until we buy the land we cannot move anyone," said Lombino. The spokesman also said that the move "is not imminent," but refused to specify a precise period of time.
The construction of a hotel, convention center, apartments and offices in the area is to begin in 2010. Right beside the so-called Iron Triangle stands the new stadium, Citi Field, which will include a complex of shops and restaurants, bringing the total project cost to over $600 million dollars.
Lombino added: "We are making an unprecedented effort to assist owners of businesses with the relocation, so they can keep their shops, and the employees who choose to follow them to a new location."
NYCEDC has offered the workers a program of classes at LaGuardia College, to obtain a diploma and also the opportunity to learn English. The idea, however, does not appeal to many.
Harvey Epstein, attorney at the Urban Justice Center, described the courses as "unrealistic," since many Hispanics in Willets Point are undocumented, which will make it difficult for them to later find employment. The city has allocated $2.5 million dollars for the relocation of the businesses, he said.
Many see little good in a project that, according to the City, in 30 years would generate an economic benefit of $250 million dollars.
Posted by Willets Point United at 4:36 AM
A rare event - DOT makes a visit to the Point!
In response to the firetruck getting stuck on Willets Point Boulevard on February 7th, DOT sent out an emergency repair crew on Wednesday, February 11th.
The road was paved in a patchwork fashion along most of Willets Point Boulevard, but the stretch by the "Big Three" was paved contiguously.
However, all along the street, only a strip down the center of the road was paved.
The parking lanes were not touched.
And as for the side streets? Forget about it.
This is the first time that any area of Willets Point has been paved in at least a decade. The City's refusal to perform routine road maintenance puts the lives of workers and visitors to the area at risk. Withholding services from most businesses while providing it for a select few is also not acceptable.
By the way, DOT's maintenance facility is at Willets Point on the other side of Northern Boulevard...
Posted by Willets Point United at 11:16 PM
Firetruck gets stuck on Willets Point Boulevard
From Iron Triangle Tracker:
"An alert Willets Point business owner snapped a shot that speaks to the road conditions in the area. A firetruck from Engine 289 in Corona was unfortunate enough to get stuck in one of Willets Point's many gaping potholes near 38th Avenue and Willets Point Blvd. following last week's snowstorm."
This comes as no surprise. The City of New York has been neglecting the roads at Willets Point for decades. Here are some photos that show the blight they have caused.
These streets are not navigable, and not only is the safety of workers and visitors to the Point put at risk, but so is the rest of Queens when first responders are delayed because of City negligence.
IRON TRIANGLE TO CITY: PUT WILLETS POINT MONEY TOWARD VITAL SERVICES
Willets Point United Against Eminent Domain Abuse is a coalition of Willets Point business and land owners opposed to the taking of private property for private gain. WP United believes that during this current fiscal crisis, the $400 million set aside by the City of New York for land acquisition at Willets Point could be put toward better use.
During his most recent budget announcement, Mayor Bloomberg stated that the City would take Draconian measures to drastically reduce vital services. Here is a partial list of proposed cuts:
Police cuts: $48.9 million
Library cuts: $20.1 million
Fire Dept cuts: $17.0 million
Senior Center cuts: $ 5.3 million
Child protection cuts: $15.5 million
Teacher cuts: $91.2 million
Ambulance cuts: $ 3.3 million
Jail cuts: $ 3.4 million
Foster care cuts: $12.8 million
Homeless service cuts: $ 5.1 million
Parks cuts: $ 5.6 million
This list alone amounts to $228 million and these cuts are unnecessary.
Jerry Antonacci, President of Willets Point United Against Eminent Domain Abuse, stated, "The taxpayer money set aside for property acquisition at Willets Point could easily be redirected toward these agencies to prevent these cuts. There would also be enough left over to install a sanitary sewer system and fix the roads at the Iron Triangle and allow the property owners to stay, expand their businesses and allow the area to redevelop naturally."
Jake Bono, business owner and member of the Willets Point group, agreed. "Why is there $400 million set aside to force business and property owners off their land while jobs for police, fire and teachers are being eliminated? Why in an economic downturn is the city spending money not only to destroy businesses and jobs, but to destroy the American dream of owning property? Government-abetted private land grabs were not what our founding fathers envisioned when they wrote The Constitution."
On November 13, 2008, the City Council approved a plan that would remove existing businesses from Willets Point and redevelop the 64-acre industrial site into a convention center, hotels, shops and housing to be built and owned by a private developer. The City has announced that it will use eminent domain to achieve possession, if necessary, and then turn the property over to the developer, who is yet to be chosen. Willets Point United Against Eminent Domain Abuse represents more than two dozen property owners who are fighting the City's plan to acquire their property.
Willets Point United
Business and land owners dedicated to fighting eminent domain abuse at Willets Point in Queens, NY.
Contact us at UnitedTriangle@gmail.com
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Why is the US Flag displayed Upside Down?
The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
Willets Point Watchdog
"Sunlight is the best disinfectant."
Thomas Jefferson, founding father of the United States:
"The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys."
John Adams (Founding Father & 2nd President of the United States):
"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. Property must be sacred or liberty cannot exist."
Visit Traffic Nightmare to sign the petition.
Jake Bono on Fox News
Private Property Rights Protection Act of 2012
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance
Queens Crap
The Bullpen Shop
Under the plan of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, The Bullpen Shop is to be demolished and its property forcibly acquired via eminent domain, to enable the Mayor's controversial $4,000,000,000.00 legacy development project.
Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Public Hearing - 1/5/10
Mike Rikon on Eminent Domain Abuse
WPU President Jerry Antonacci
Opening Day protest
City to install sewers at willets point
Tour of Willets Point
NY1 report 3-30-09
Independent Sources
lack of contamination
Rep. Nydia Velazquez testimony
Channel 11 Fact Finders Report
Billion Dollar Land Grab
Other sites chronicling eminent domain abuse
Atlantic Yards Report
Broadway Triangle
CastleWatch Daily
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn
End Eminent Domain Abuse
Iron Triangle Tracker
No Land Grab
Noticing New York
Property Rights Foundation of America, Inc.
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This past year saw tremendous moments in human space flight, from the cinematic launch of Falcon Heavy, to the dramatic abort of Soyuz NS–10.
It has also been a big year for South African space projects, with ZACube–2 rounding out the year with a launch on 27 December.
Here is a look at some of the most significant space flight moments of 2018.
SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon Heavy rocket in February, landing the two side boosters. It also succeeded in launching the rocket's payload – a modified Tesla Roadster with a dummy called "Starman" behind the wheel.
China's Tiangong–1 space station burnt up in Earth's atmosphere over the South Pacific after researchers and engineers lost contact with it, resulting in the conclusion that an uncontrolled reentry was inevitable.
Blue Origin, the private space company of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, completed multiple successful launching and landing tests of its Shepard rocket booster, including a test involving a crew capsule.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully landed two rovers on the surface of an asteroid, Ryugu.
Its Hayabusa2 spacecraft deployed rovers to the surface of the asteroid which will take pictures and gather samples.
Soyuz MS–10 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with crew bound for the International Space Station.
Shortly after launch, systems detected an anomaly with the booster and the ascent was aborted, detaching the crew capsule from the rocket and allowing it to fall back to the Earth.
The crew landed safely and Soyuz soon returned to flight when it was established that the issue was isolated.
The NASA Curiosity rover on Mars experienced problems with sending data it collected back to Earth. It was transmitting real-time data normally, but the scientific data was not sending.
Engineers were gathering more diagnostic data from the rover, while preparing to use the rover's backup computer in case they need to use it to troubleshoot the primary computer.
Opportunity entered hibernation after a massive Martian dust storm on 10 June. Engineers believe that a layer of dust may be preventing the rover's solar panels from charging its battery.
A slim chance remains that seasonal winds will clear enough dust from the solar panels to allow the rover's battery to charge enough to start up.
NASA's Voyager 2 probe exited the heliosphere on 5 November 2018, making it the second human-made object that has reached interstellar space.
16 Western Cape schools, with the help of Xinabox, collaborated on building a ThinSat — a small satellite that gathers and transmits data from low orbit.
Their satellite was launched along with several others in a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft, aboard an Antares 230 rocket, in November.
NASA's InSight spacecraft landed on Mars towards the end November. InSight stands for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, and the spacecraft is equipped with instruments to study the interior of the planet.
In December, NewSpace Systems, a company based in South Africa, announced that several satellites launched during the month used its hardware for the control of their spacecraft.
During a successful mission on 5 November, SpaceX failed to land its Falcon 9 launch vehicle when the rocket went into a spin.
This was the first such failure since SpaceX first landed a rocket on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral, and a reminder that the manoeuvre is a significant technical feat.
After several delays, ZACube–2 launched aboard the Russian Soyuz Kanopus mission from the Vostochny spaceport.
ZACube–2 was designed for real-time monitoring of natural and manmade disasters and other emergencies, including veld fires. It will also help monitor ocean traffic, the government has said.


Swim in a mountain lake in the morning, then do a round of rock climbing, visit a museum in the afternoon and round off the evening in a club. In Bavaria, this is no problem.
No Bavarian city or industrial centre is far from untouched nature. The Free State of Bavaria is characterised by vibrant cities bordering romantic landscapes. It has maintained its natural and cultural attractiveness despite rapid economic growth. Work and life, family and recreational time can all be harmonised here perfectly.
Bavarian traditions and customs have survived the economic progress. Young and old, long-time Bavarians and new arrivals celebrate together at fairs and village festivals – including Munich's world renowned Oktoberfest.
One of the traditions that have been passed down is the erection of maypoles, which is celebrated every year on the first of May - an ancient fertility ritual during which the men of a village set-up beautiful maypoles, painted white and blue and decorated with the symbols of their trades. Then, everybody dances their way into May.
There is good reason for Bavaria being among the most beloved travel destinations in Germany - and it stays that way all year long. The nature throughout the entire land is richly diverse, and is appealing for hikers and rock climbers - from the Alpine foothills to the Danube lowlands, in the beautiful Franconian wine hills, the Bavarian Forest National Park and the Upper Palatinate Forest. The great number of pristine lakes offer water sport enthusiasts a wonderful panorama, and fans of winter sports come to enjoy the delights of the Alps and the highlands from December on.
Bavaria is family-friendly. Children can discover the world out in nature, which has remained intact. Be it in a swimming pool or in a lake, on holiday on a farm, in an amusement or fairytale park, at the Bavaria movie studios or at one of the zoos. Children are welcome everywhere and get their money's worth.
The inns all throughout the state pamper their guests with tasty regional specialities. And for locals as well, the village tavern - even in the smallest of hamlets - represents an elementary part of public life.
In addition to white sausage and pretzels, Bavarian beer has also become world famous. The number of breweries and types of beer in Bavaria is unsurpassed: Around one-third of European beer breweries are located in Bavaria.
There is one type of sport in Bavaria you can't get away from: Football is for both the masses and for top athletes, and it is a prime topic of conversation at pubs, in beer gardens and among colleagues at the office. One thing is indisputable: No other Bavarian club stirs up as much emotion as FC Bayern Munich, which is also the best known Bavarian football club internationally.
This is especially true in the Bavarian derbies, where football supremacy in the state is at stake in matches against the other Bundesliga clubs from Nuremberg, Augsburg and Fürth. Additionally, football is also a widespread sport for the masses in Bavaria, accessible to everyone. 1.5 million people train in one of the more than 2,600 football clubs, while others play a round of football in a park with friends on weekends.
Whether traditional or modern - you'll find all kinds of culture in Bavaria: Literature, film and television, museums and theatre, as well as one-of-a-kind architecture.
The broad spectrum of events, ranging from folk culture to internationally renowned museums, theatres, ballets and opera festivals is supplemented by cinemas in the larger cities, as well as numerous small workshops, exhibitions and readings.


Leith is from the Gold Coast, Australia and now calls Winnipeg home. He is a lawyer with Pitblado Law, having been called to the Manitoba Bar in 2012. Leith practices mainly in the area of corporate commercial.
Leith is a volunteer with World Peace Partners, and began his involvement with Rotary International as an exchange student to Washington in 2002. His other current commitments include Model United Nations Assembly and Music for Peace, which he kicked off in 2010 at The Forks with Winnipeg's inaugural International Day of Peace celebrations.
Leith holds a BA (Journalism) and a LLB (Hons) from Griffith University in Australia. In 2008 he studied human rights in Denmark, focusing mainly on the United Nations human rights system. Aside from his legal practice, Leith is acutely interested in international law and diplomacy.
Leith grew up in Durban, South Africa, and immigrated to Australia at age 10. He has lived on four continents and hopes to further both his international experience and commitment to peace initiatives here in Winnipeg.


Real estate specialists and the media who predicted a meltdown of real estate, a plummeting of dwelling value rates and the bursting of the housing bubble ought to be feeling just a bit sheepish now, since none of these predictions have come to pass. Conversely, CoreLogic famous that the most important increase in property costs over the 12 months to October 2018 was in Hobart (9.7 per cent), followed by Canberra (four.three per cent), Adelaide (1.eight per cent) and Brisbane (0.4Â of a percentage point).
Economists and housing consultants broadly agree the adjustments will gradual value increases in costly housing markets – although nobody expects housing values to say no, given the general power of the economic system and the fact that there are relatively few homes for sale in high markets.
Sioux City and Iowa Metropolis are the extra pricey areas to live within the state, with median dwelling values the past couple months of $139,178 and $225,831 respectively. Industrial and industrial properties had been projected to see common will increase of 10 to 20 per cent, with some areas of Metro Vancouver seeing values rise by up to 30 per cent.
With right now's emphasis on environmental consciousness, energy environment friendly houses are fetching larger prices on the housing market, and for good motive. Property tax payments are mailed quarterly for properties with an assessed worth of $250,000 or less, and semiannually for properties assessed at more than $250,000.
The housing bubble has burst! If property values go up, so too should tax revenues. Alexandria and Arlington in Virginia have the best share of homeowners with property taxes north of $10,000, 12 p.c and 10 p.c respectively. While hate is a powerful phrase this is how many real property brokers really feel about Zillow.
From my personal expertise, taking a look at Zillow home values within the area of Massachusetts where I'm positioned they are sometimes off anywhere from $20,000 to $50,000 of the actual market worth.
Many actual estate experts are starting to realize that the doom and gloom predictions about the market from a year or two in the past might have been a bit over exaggerated. According to Zillow's December Actual Property Market Report , nationwide stock has fallen 10 % year-over-12 months — the third consecutive year of annual declines. As with a lot of the country, the family incomes don't rise fairly as quick as residence worth prices do.
Hedonic values might be captured by native governments as elevated property tax assessments or as excise taxes paid on property gross sales.22 The calculated worth throughout all properties influenced by a pure characteristic may be aggregated. Lake Country assessed values additionally increased 17 per cent to an average of $727,000 for a residential dwelling.
For the previous yr you've got in all probability heard all in regards to the crashing of the actual property market, plummeting house worth averages and the bursting of the housing bubble. The brand new DWELLING homeownership value limits for newly constructed RESIDENCE units is 95 % of the median purchase price for the realm based on Federal Housing Administration (FHA) single family mortgage program information for newly constructed housing.
That is significantly better than a few years ago, when rental prices elevated nearly 7% between 2014 and 2015. Concurrently, in those self same markets, home worth appreciation has skyrocketed Median home values in San Jose climbed 21 percent yr-over-year to $1,171,800, whereas Las Vegas residence values grew 14 percent to $246,seven hundred.
With a view to understand industrial real estate values, you could understand how an appraiser professionally appraises a property. Remember the fact that the number one purpose why properties don't promote is due to an unrealistic asking price. Search Texas residence prices and Texas dwelling values for over eight.2 million properties. The most correct method for residence sellers to find out residence values and to discover the optimum asking worth is to get a CMA, or Comparative Market Analysis, from a real property agent.


Much of this is in evidence in Anne MacNeil's intriguing study of the Commedia dell'arte, a book that makes an important contribution to our understanding of musical theatre, gender and genre at the northern Italian courts just before and during opera's gestational period.
Anne MacNeil is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and currently holds a faculty appointment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With an extensive background in both scholarship and performance studies, Professor MacNeil makes appearances internationally as both a speaker and visiting scholar. Her previous academic appointments include the University of Texas at Austin and Northwestern University.
MacNeil narrates the story of the most famous commedia dell'arte troupe of the late Renaissance, focusing in particular on the representation of women on stage and on the role of music-making in their craft. She provides a rich context for the study of musical-theatrical performance before the advent of opera and re-defines our perceptions of women, music and theatre in the Renaissance.
Music and the Commedia dell'Arte narrates the story of the most famous commedia dell'arte troupe of the late Renaissance, focusing in particular on the representation of women on stage and on the role of music-making in their craft. In its thorough integration of the fields of music history, theatre history, performance studies, women's studies and Classics, this is the first comprehensive analysis of the leading actresses of the Compagnia dei Gelosi and their contributions to the Renaissance stage. Including an extensive survey of documents concerning comedians, their patrons, colleagues and audiences, Music and the Commedia dell'Arte provides a rich context for the study of musical-theatrical performance before the advent of opera and re-defines our perceptions of women, music and theatre in the Renaissance.


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Secret #1: Don't spend an excessive amount of World Update Reviews time on a life coverage quote.
Do now not be fooled by way of the low fee fees you get on line – they do not apply to you unless you're extremely wholesome. Statistically handiest 10% of people who apply virtually get the bottom priced policy. The top class you emerge as paying has not anything to do with the preliminary quote you get on line or from an agent. It is notable to me how often I see humans getting dumped through an agent who charges business enterprise X at a lower charge than every other agent.
Life coverage guidelines are the identical price irrespective of who you purchase from! One agent or internet site quoting a lower top rate manner nothing. Prices for any given policy is primarily based on your age and fitness. There are some exceptions to this but this is past the breadth of this text.
Most lifestyles insurance businesses have 10-20 distinctive health/price rankings and no agent or internet site can assure you the quote they give you is correct. You must practice, do a fitness test, and then undergo underwriting (that means you entire a mini-examination with a nurse in your property after which the company assessments you health practitioner facts and evaluations and 'quotes' your health) to get the actual price of the coverage. Remember that a fitness score also elements in your own family records, riding record, and the type of occupation you have. Only use rates to assist slender down your choices to the pinnacle groups. You may additionally need to don't forget any load or low policy. The more which you keep on commissions the more money builds up in your policy. You can even purchase time period coverage no load, and keep plenty of rates. You will now not get the help of an agent, which can be worth something if they are very good.
An essential component figuring out charge is matching your specific health records with the enterprise fine applicable for that area of interest. For instance, corporation X is probably quality for smokers, agency Y for most cancers survivors, Company Z for people with high blood pressure, and so forth.
You can cross crazy analyzing what everybody has to say on shopping for term coverage versus an entire or universal life coverage. Big call web sites deliver advice that I think borders on fraudulent. Simply put there is NO easy solution on whether you should buy everlasting cash price regulations or time period insurance.
But I do suppose there's an easy rule of thumb – purchase time period in your temporary insurance needs and cash value coverage in your everlasting desires. I have studied in diverse journals and run mathematical equations myself which basically display that if you have a need for coverage beyond two decades that you should recall some quantity of everlasting coverage. This is because of the tax gain of the boom of the cash value within in an everlasting policy. I am divorced and feature looked after my children have to I die. I in all likelihood do not need as a good deal insurance as I now have. I even have earned a top notch return on my policies and feature paid no taxes. I now not pay the rates, because there is a lot of coins inside the regulations. I permit the rules to pay themselves. I could not name most lifestyles coverage a terrific investment. Because I bought my guidelines efficiently and paid almost no income commissions my regulations are in all likelihood my first-class investments. I not personal them, so when I die my beneficiaries get the cash both tax unfastened, and estate tax loose.
Since most of the people have short term wishes like a mortgage or kids at home they have to get a few term. Additionally, most people want some existence coverage in a region for their complete lifestyles to pay for burial, assist with unpaid clinical bills and estate taxes and so a permanent coverage must be purchased along with the term policy.
: Consider making Eclipse use Resilience of with businesses Life without delay.
Life insurance companies genuinely don't like this "trick" because it offers them competition and increases their underwriting expenses.
Secret #4: Avoid captive life insurance dealers.
Look for an existence insurance agent who represents a minimum fifty existence coverage companies and asks them for a multi corporation quote displaying the fine costs side by way of a facet. Some human beings try to reduce the agent out and simply follow online. Just remember that you don't shop any money that way due to the fact the commissions usually earned through the agent are just stored by using the insurance enterprise or the internet site insurance organization while not having your top class decreased.
Plus a great agent allow you to maneuver via a number of the complexities of filling out the software, setting up your beneficiaries, heading off mistakes on selecting who should be the owner, the quality manner to pay your top rate, and will also be there to deliver the check and assist your loved ones if the life insurance is ever used.
Secret #5: Consider refinancing vintage lifestyles regulations.
Most businesses may not let you know but the rate you pay on your vintage rules has probably come down dramatically if you are in excellent health. In a previous couple of years, existence insurance agencies have up to date their predictions on how long people will stay. Since we're residing longer they're lowering their rates alternatively dramatically. Beware the agent may be doing this to attain a new fee, so make sure it without a doubt makes the experience.
I actually am surprised at how regularly we discover that our patron's old policies are two times as pricey as a brand new one. If you need new life insurance don't forget "refinancing" your vintage guidelines and the usage of the savings at the vintage regulations to pay for the new coverage – that way there's no extra out-of-pocket charges. We like to think about this manner as "refinancing your existence coverage" – similar to you refinance your mortgage.
Secret #6: Realize existence coverage groups have goal niches that constantly exchange.
One day corporation 'X' is giving good rates to folks who are a little obese and the subsequent month they're superb strict. Company 'Y' is probably lenient in humans with diabetes due to the fact they do not have many diabetics at the books – meaning they will give precise prices to diabetics. At the equal time corporation, 'W' might be very strict on diabetics due to the fact they may be ensuring lots of diabetics and are afraid they've too massive of a danger in that region – that means they'll supply an awful charge to new diabetics who follow.
Unfortunately when you are making use of an existence coverage agency will now not inform you, "Hey, we simply raised our rates in diabetics." They will just thankfully take your money in case you were now not clever enough to store around. This is the number one vicinity a smart agent can are available on hand. Since a good multi-employer agent is continuously applying with more than one businesses he or she will be able to have a good take care of on who is currently the most lenient on underwriting for you precise scenario. The trouble is that that is difficult work and many agents are both too busy or not installation to effectively shop around without delay to distinctive underwriters and notice who would make you the nice provide. This is lots more difficult than just strolling you a quote online.
Most humans shopping for coverage cognizance on groups with the bottom fee and the exceptional financial score. Unfortunately, I recognize of some A+ rated agencies with low fees who I would now not touch with a ten-foot pole in reality because it's less difficult to offer delivery to a porcupine backward then it's far to get customer support from them.
Before I understood this I used a life insurance company that gave a patron an amazing rate but 2 years later the consumer called me and stated, "I have mailed in all my payments on time however just were given a note pronouncing my coverage lapsed." It became out the corporation had been making plenty of lower back office errors and had misplaced the top rate fee!
We were able to fix it due to the fact we caught the trouble so early. But if the purchaser occurred to have died in the course of the fast duration the coverage had lapsed, his circle of relatives would possibly have had a difficult time proving that the top class had been paid on time and that they might not have received the existence coverage cash – a loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars in that case.
Secret #8: Apply 3-6 months ahead of the time you need the coverage if feasible.
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2. Analyze the impact of health care policies on health care delivery systems and the health care needs of specific populations.
3. Utilize information technology to assess, analyze, evaluate, and improve the quality of nursing care and patient care outcomes.
4. Articulate and analyze the ethical, legal, financial, social, and political issues impacting health care, nursing practice, and education and identify and implement strategies for resolution.
5. Collaborate with other health care professionals, consumers, and other key stakeholders to effect needed change in health care delivery systems.
6. Function effectively in the advanced professional nursing roles of leader, advocate, educator, and researcher.
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2. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the link between strategic analysis, integration of theory and practical implementation. Students will demonstrate a proficient or exemplary level of case analysis in a global business environment.
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Richmond, BC: AUGUST 19, 2016 -- BC Premier Christy Clark with BC Environment Minister Mary Pollak at the Carbon Capture Institute in Richmond, BC Friday, August 19, 2016 where she unveiled her government's action plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Jason Payne / PNG
Premier Christy Clark set up a panel of experts to advise her on climate-change policy and now she is conspicuously refusing to follow the panel's advice.
Clark's opponents in the NDP, Green party and the environmental movement are roasting her for going against her own "Climate Leadership Team" which recommended dramatic increases in B.C.'s carbon tax.
But if you think Christy Clark is worried about all the flak she's taking over this, think again.
Getting hammered for NOT raising taxes is exactly the type of criticism Clark and the Liberals don't mind in the run-up to an election this spring.
In fact, when her "leadership team" called on her to raise the carbon tax to more than 35 cents per litre of gasoline by 2030 (it's 6.7 cents right now), Clark and the Liberals were probably celebrating.
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The whole thing smacks of a set-up. There was no way she was going to ramp up gas taxes that high, especially with an election looming.
But Clark and company knew her opponents would take the bait and side with her advisers.
Now here comes the obvious and predictable counter-attack.
"The B.C. NDP would hit B.C. families with higher taxes, with increases year after year," Clark's Liberals said in a news release Monday.
"It's a double whammy for families and job creators."
How rich is this: the Liberals are slamming their opponents for supporting the Liberal government's own experts!
Of course, the New Democrats are being very careful not to say precisely how high they would jack up the carbon tax themselves. But that just gives the Liberals another pre-election talking point.
"The B.C. NDP say that they don't need to tell us the amount," said Liberal MLA Greg Kyllo. "Their refusal to come clean should worry all of us."
The Liberals made their political trap even more enticing by having Clark make her climate-change announcement on a Friday afternoon with the Olympics on TV.
NDP environment critic Geyman Heyman couldn't resist, ripping Clark for refusing to raise the carbon tax "on a Friday in the middle of summer on one of the hottest days of one of the hottest years on record."
Do the New Democrats really think she didn't know what she was doing? Of course she timed the announcement to provoke the angriest possible reaction out of her opponents.
Anyone who thinks there was even a remote chance Clark would accept her own panel's recommendation to jack up the carbon tax has not been paying attention.
Go back to the last election, when she tweeted out a photo of herself holding up dirty hands after she spent an afternoon shaking hands with copper-mine workers in Princeton.
That's been her pitch all along: Let's get our hands dirty digging up copper and coal and natural gas. Let's put people to work and make money. Beware those who would raise your taxes and destroy the province's natural-resource industries.
It has all worked like a charm. Now she has set up a carbon-tax straw man, knocked the straw man down, and her opponents can do nothing but sputter and fuss because she won't raise taxes.
For Clark and the Liberals, that's just fine.
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Considering Fleet Tracking in 2016?
As we put up the Christmas lights and eat the last of the leftover's, many business owners and fleet managers are making decisions on how to reduce costs and increase profits in 2016. One of the ways that many fleetcentric companies have done in the past is to implement GPS fleet tracking from InTouchGPS.
InTouchGPS is the standard in GPS fleet tracking. Combining affordable services, top shelf devices and a dedication to providing incredible customer service, InTouchGPS has become the provider of record for thousands of companies across the United States. We work with companies in every industry and of every size fleet. Whether you have a fleet of one or several hundred vehicles, there are huge advantages to GPS fleet tracking. GPS fleet tracking is an investment that quickly pays for itself.
Utilizing GPS Fleet tracking is becoming a standard across the transportation, delivery and service verticals. With fuel costs, safety and accountability more important than ever, companies utilize GPS fleet tracking to maintain control over their fleets and to be able to make intelligent business decisions based on data they receive. Here are four tips that will help enable you to maximize the GPS fleet tracking benefits that InTouchGPS provides.
1. Define what problem you want GPS tracking to solve.
GPS tracking is not only about knowing where your employees are at all times. Other benefits InTouchGPS clients have realized include improved dispatch planning, reduced fuel costs, time log tracking, location validation and many more!
Many employees feel threatened by the idea of 'big brother' watching over them as they do their job. Introduce fleet tracking as a positive asset to them. GPS tracking gives them proof of location and service, proof that they did their job on time and helps dispatch route them more efficiently-meaning less unnecessary windshield time.
Ensure that you set measurable goals with clear and concise metrics of what is considered a success. Small changes across many vehicles can equal big savings. If every vehicle in your fleet made one more service call per day or saved one gallon of fuel, what would that mean for your business?
The great benefits of automated reports and real-time alerts aren't effective if there is not a plan to review them and a plan on how to utilize the data. Set scheduled meetings and discuss next steps. Once one item is "fixed" identify and move on to the next. Having a goal and a workable plan will make it easier for the success of GPS tracking to speak for itself.
These four tips are just some of the items that will allow you to maximize the great benefits that GPS fleet tracking through InTouchGPS offers. Schedule a no-pressure demonstration to see exactly what our company could do for you in 2016.
Check emails, schedules, voicemails to see who is going to be here and who is not.
See if there are any carry over tasks from previous day or any emergencies that came in overnight that will effect scheduling.
Check traffic and weather to make estimates about fleet activity.
Meeting with senior management to discuss new KPI's and advise on ways to become more efficient.
Meeting with drivers- receive requests for PTO, gather timecards, discover that driver is not here, call cell phone, safety brief reminder to drivers.
Back to office to check email again- inform dispatcher of driver absence.
Receive maintenance report from mechanic – sign off on work completed.
Review inventory and file request for approval for parts expenditure in vendor supplier portal.
Field phone call from person irritated that a service vehicle was speeding in the neighborhood.
Create powerpoint presentation on fleet expansion program.
Create budget forecast and staffing requests.
Schedule meeting with fuel card supplier.
Meet with senior management to discuss hybrid vehicles and fueling policy.
Write op-ed for fleet magazine as requested by marketing department.
Then he breaks for lunch… At InTouchGPS we understand that there are many components of a fleet manager's job. While we can't take everything off of your plate, our application does automate many of the time bearing tasks that you currently manage and helps make your fleet management more efficient. While saving money is a huge benefit to the company, saving you time is equally important.
Contact us to schedule a demonstration and see how we can help you do so.
InTouchGPS has a landmark feature in its application that allows you to create a virtual fence (some call it a geofence) around any specific location. Our landmark features includes an alert capability that notifies you when a vehicle arrives and leaves that specific location. Creating landmarks is as easy as inserting an address or picking a location on a map. Our software even allows you to define customs shaped landmarks exactly where you need it.
Our software runs reports to determine the arrival, duration and departure times of vehicles at the landmarks of your choosing. You can also set up live alerts so you're notified when a vehicle reaches and leaves its destination. If you wish to track vehicles at a landmark individually, in groups, or as a whole, you can. You can track by the landmark (i.e. show everyone who came to this landmark) or by the driver (show me every landmark this driver went to).
Here are three examples that we have seen of businesses using landmarks in an interesting way.
A client owns a lawn service company. They would have their morning meeting to find out their jobs for the current day. The fleet would then disperse and go their way. Well that is what was supposed to be happening. In reality, what was happening was that the fleets were leaving the home office, only to meet up at a large gas station about 3 miles down the road. The drivers would get into conversation with each other and 20-30 minutes per day were spent gabbing when they were supposed to be working. The client sat his fleet down and discussed their policy again and then implemented Landmarks and created one around the gas station. That way he would be notified if a driver was spending too much time there or not doing what they were supposed to be doing.
A client owns a recycling company. One of the problems is that it was hard to provide an exact ETA of when a driver would get back. The team that unloaded the trucks would either be standing around waiting or they would arrive late to unload the truck. The client set up a landmark 2 miles out from his facility. When any vehicle entered that landmark the foreman would receive an alert and muster the unloading team. That way there was no any wasted time and trucks could come in and go much faster. The client said that route efficiency (picking up to unloading and leaving the warehouse again) increased by 3 percent daily. With as many trucks as they have, that is s a huge savings.
A pest company in Orlando has a set of clients that they service on a frequent basis. The company adds each new client as a landmark and prints out the report that shows when and how long his people are there. He attaches this report to his billing and said that past issues of people complaining of no shows or not enough time spent has gone to zero since he implemented this.
Here are just a couple of out-of-the-box ways landmarks can be used. We offer many more features that people enjoy and customize to fit their exact needs. Our GPS fleet tracking expertise allows us to help clients come up with solutions like this to improve processes or generate additional revenue. Learn what InTouchGPS can do for your fleet today.
At InTouchGPS we often discuss the various features and benefits of our services and devices. GPS fleet tracking is a tool that solves many problems. One of the largest and most important issues facing any fleet is safety.
So how do you make things safer than they already are?
Behind cell phone distraction, speed is the number 1 factor in vehicle accidents. While not foolproof, knowledge that the GPS fleet tracking device is in the vehicle reminds the driver that he or she is being monitored and often extra prudence is applied by the driver. You can choose to set up and receive historic or real time reports on almost any factor related to the vehicle- speed, location, time of use and many others. Not only can you receive this information on a scheduled or ad hoc report, but if important to you, the system can also be set up a text or email when your drivers crosses your defined threshold. Some users have also created their drivers as an additional user on the system and scheduled alerts to be sent to them. A real time alert will often stop the problem immediately.
While our application can 't turn the wrenches for you, GPS fleet tracking from InTouchGPS does the next best thing by EASILY allowing you to create, assign and track maintenance tasks through a color coded dashboard. Faulty brakes or overdue maintenance should be a thing of the past. You can also ascribe notes to each task and clone then when complete . Some people even go as far as having an alert sent to the mechanic when the task is about to come due.
When we think of safety, we think first and foremost about the driver. Safeguarding your vehicle is another component to safety. How do you prevent theft with GPS fleet tracking? You set landmarks and times they are authorized to be utilized by the driver. You can instantly be alerted via text or email if that vehicle is being operated outside of authorized times. You can then easily track a stolen vehicle and notify the appropriate parties of location. InTouchGPS has assisted companies and the police in recovering several vehicles throughout the years.
Safety is continuous and there are several other ways that we can show you how InTouchGPS helps make your team of fleet and drivers operate more efficiently. Contact us to schedule a demonstration today.
Companies that utilize automotive fleets have different challenges at different stages of the company's growth. However, at all stages there are certain elements related to the fleet which are important (and factor in how fast the company gets to the next stage)-customer service, fuel cost, driver behavior, vehicle cost.
There are so many moving parts to fleet management that any business owner and fleet manager has a laundry list of tasks and would benefit from fleet automation.
Taking common tasks and using a tool to automate those tasks in order to increase efficiency.
For example- What if there was a way that you could take reports that were once done by hand such as timecards, speeding, landmarks and have them all sent you automatically via email already formatted.
What if instead of worrying about every driver, you had the ability to manage by exception. Set up rules sand thresholds that you define and be alerted via email or text if ANY of your drivers pass that line. No messages received means that the fleet is doing exactly what you need it to be doing.
What if you could control fuel costs by controlling speeding which in turn affects fuel costs?
The GPS fleet tracking application from InTouchGPS allows you to do just that. Our fleet automation software provides a feature rich, affordable control mechanism that saves you time. We offer THE standard in the fleet automation world.
What are your specific issues? What are tasks that take up much of your time? Talk to one of our fleet tracking experts about your SPECIFIC problems or time taking tasks and we will show you exactly how our application can help. What does less time away from those tasks mean to your business? To You?
Technology continues to evolve daily. From smart cars to smart watches and everything in between, our lives are being driven by science. Some habits are hard to break. That's why we still see companies using manual timecards in regards to their drivers and fleet operations.
The challenge with continuing to stay with your manual process is that it makes it difficult to compete with the company that has automated this task. This automation allows the drivers and managers to work on other profit generating tasks while you are still trying to decipher if that is a 1, the number 7 or a blot of ketchup on the timecard you just received.
Fleet Tracking automates your operations and eliminates the potential of human error.
Fleet Tracking allows you to see where your vehicles were at for any given time; adding a layer of verifiability that you didn't have before. More importantly the InTouchGPS application enables you to automate various reports (to include a Timecard Report ) on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
Not only does it negate the potential of human error, but it also takes the tasks away from the drivers allowing them to focus on the service call instead of paperwork.
Since many of our client's customers bill on time, these timecard reports also allow you to send proof if necessary.
How much can be saved if you correct 1 hour per work per driver on their payroll reporting?
While most people are honest , inadvertent mistakes or rounding up are made- this eliminates that human error factor and makes sure the driver is paid fairly, however being fair to the company as well and not paying for what was not worked.
With every company, every unnecessary expense should be minimized. We have seen companies break even on the investment of the fleet tracking devices and services in only a matter of days.
What can fleet tracking do for your organization? Contact InTouchGPS today to find out.
One of the greatest benefits of InTouchGPS is that the GPS fleet tracking we offer allows you to manage by exception.
Management by exception (MBE) is a practice where only significant deviations from a plan or guidelines are brought to the attention of management. The idea behind it is that management's attention will be focused only on those areas in need of action.
One of the ways we do this is by having real time alerts. You define the thresholds and the parameters of the alerts and also the delivery method ( text or email) These alerts are powered by GPS tracking give you some insight into any problems with your vehicles and drivers. While there are many different alerts you can receive, these three can be the most helpful for your business.
The first important alert that you get with fleet tracking is the speeding alert. There are two reasons you want to have the speeding alert for your fleet: safety and fuel consumption. The alert will let you know if your drivers are going over the speed limit and when they are doing so. When your drivers speed excessively it is always burning fuel unnecessarily. Speeding is also bad for your reputation, and most importantly dangerous to your driver and the public.
Our system reports every two minutes when the vehicle is on and hour when the engine is off. If there are three consecutive readings as "engine on" but they all have zero speed our system will report and previous readings as idling. Other a complete waste of fuel, it is horrible on your engine, requiring more maintenance.
Our system allows you to define when that vehicle is authorized to be moving. To prevent or stop moonlighting or theft this alert is great if you have a quick response rate.
There are other alerts that we have. To learn about these and other features that our application has and how those benefit you, contact InTouchGPS today.
What is the ROI of Fleet Tracking?
It is in the combination of reducing costs and increasing profits that the value of our application really shines.We have fleet managers who may have had significant issues with payroll and overtime being abused and GPS fleet tracking saved them several thousand, whereas someone else it didn't make a great difference in that area, but helped extensively with fuel costs.
We threw some low estimates in as examples to show how various companies would profit, but the ROI is dependent on your company and the problem it is solving.
If we look at an individual average annual basis, assuming one driver per vehicle, we use an employee total cost of $30,000 and a vehicle cost of ownership of $12,000. We try to use conservative numbers but when combined, it's $42,000. If we apply that to ten vehicles, it's an investment of $420,000. If we look at twenty-five vehicles, that's over a million dollar investment.
GPS fleet tracking can impact your business in two ways: by increasing your revenue and reducing your costs. We'll look at each of these ways individually.
The first way is by increasing your fleet's productivity. With GPS Fleet tracking, your employees know that they are always on the clock. They're held accountable for every second of the workday. You eliminate all frivolous stops. Ideally you will increase the number of service calls, appointments and stops. If you were to add only two additional service calls, appointments or stops per week at a $50 profit point, that would be up to an extra $2,600 per employee per year.
The second way is to help you win more clients. If you're in an industry where your product and service is similar to others, letting the customer know you utilize fleet tracking is a way to differentiate yourself. You can provide guaranteed service times and appear more professional because you have invested in cutting-edge technology to serve them better. What is the value of adding one additional client every single month due to having GPS?
The next way is by retaining current clients. If you can provide better customer service to your clients through instant and accurate location details of where your employees are and what they're doing, would that be of benefit to you? Would your clients appreciate it you could produce feature rich reports that would provide solid proof of service. Another factor is the reduction of response times for service calls. We can improve your routing through our dispatch tool to help determine what the most appropriate vehicle would be to send. Do you have any clients that would appreciate you providing them with all this information?
Let's talk about how to eliminate or cut your costs. The first way would be to cut your payroll cost. You'll be able to eliminate all the billed minutes that weren't actually worked. There are many times when an employee may be padding their time card. InTouchGPS prevents that. You also can reduce accounting cost, because you can create a virtual time card and set that for automatic creation every week. You can eliminate time spent by employees having to record all their times. You can potentially reduce having to pay expensive overtime wages if they weren't truly earned. Normally 20 minutes per day of payroll savings at $20 per hour – that's savings of $1,620 per employee every year.
Another way is by reducing vehicle wear and tear. You can eliminate all unauthorized driving, use driving tools to cut down on unnecessary mileage driven and use our dispatching feature to find the closest vehicle to a client location. You can also track all your scheduled maintenance required for the vehicles and be alerted when tasks are due, allowing you to minimize out-of-service time and avoid the larger problems that will be caused by late or forgotten service.
InTouchGPS can help you create a green initiative by reducing your environmental impact. Looking at the numbers, only five miles per day or eliminated drive time, with the cost of $0.35 per mile maintenance cost (as well as depreciation), equals the savings of $420 per year per employee. Anytime you're putting less mileage on your vehicles, you're also reducing your total fuel spent. We help you create a speeding policy to realize better fuel economy. InTouchGPS helps you eliminate unnecessary idling, savings gallons of gas. Only two gallons of gas saved per week can save as much as $300 per employee per year.
Let's discuss how we can decrease your overall liability. You can ensure vehicles are not going places that will tarnish your reputation as a company as well as eliminate off-hours liability exposure. For many of the companies we work with, if their drivers are in an accident on the weekend, they're still liable even if they weren't supposed to be driving the vehicle at that time. You can create and enforce speeding policies to possibly reduce accidents and negative attention in the community. Having live antitheft protection on each of your vehicles gives you a peace of mind. You can often reduce your vehicle insurance and workers' compensation premiums– something you can check with your provider.
In the past three years, have you had any company liable accidents or reports of poor driving by your employees? What value would having proof of their driving behavior provide to you?
Another way to reduce costs is by eliminating billing credits. You can provide proof of service and always know when and where your fleet is. There's no way for your clients to say, "You weren't here." You can also eliminate those credits due to customer complaints of lateness, especially if you provide an on-time guarantee. You'll know for sure if your driver was there or if they weren't. And if they were, you can prove it to your clients. You end up gaining customer trust because you can provide that proof of service. Have you ever been forced to give a billing credit that you couldn't verify the validity to claim? If so, how will it help to know who was to blame, whether it be the client or your driver?
So now that you have seen what we can do for you, would you like to see how we accomplish this? Please contact us today to see of a demonstration of our application and understand further how we can specifically help YOUR organization get the best possible ROI.


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Q: How to specify specific disk order in nmon for linux? I'm using nmon in interactive mode for monitoring disk activity on many servers, each with a several hard drives. The order in which nmon displays harddrives varies between different servers, and I want to have the same order on all servers.
Note that I'm using interactive mode (start nmon from command line, then press d).
I've tried using disk groups file (-g starting option) with exactly one disk per line, but it's output is not as easy read to read because it doesn't use the graphic representation of load the way d does.
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Apparently there is no other way than hacking into nmon because nmon uses the same order as /proc/diskparts, which can hardly be changed.
For example, this is output on one server:
┌nmon─12f─────────────────────Hostname=testhost001──Refresh= 1secs ───16:19.38────┐
│ Disk I/O ─────(/proc/diskstats)────────all data is Kbytes per second────────────│
│DiskName Busy  Read WriteKB|0          |25         |50          |75       100|   │
│sda        0%    0.0    0.0|               >                                 |   │
│sda1       0%    0.0    0.0|               >                                 |   │
│sda2       0%    0.0    0.0|>                                                |   │
│sda5       0%    0.0    0.0|    >                                            |   │
│sdc        0%    0.0    0.0| >                                               |   │
│sdc1       0%    0.0    0.0| >                                               |   │
│sdc2       0%    0.0    0.0|>                                                |   │
│sdb      100% 1226.4    0.0|RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR|>  │
│sdb1       0%    0.0    0.0|                                                 |   │
│sdb2     100% 1226.4    0.0|RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR|>  |

and this is on the other:
┌nmon─12f─────────────────────Hostname=testhost002──Refresh= 1secs ───16:19.38────┐
│ Disk I/O ─────(/proc/diskstats)────────all data is Kbytes per second────────────│
│DiskName Busy  Read WriteKB|0          |25         |50          |75       100|   │
│sdc        0%    0.0    0.0| >                                               |   │
│sdc1       0%    0.0    0.0| >                                               |   │
│sdc2       0%    0.0    0.0|>                                                |   │
│sda        0%    0.0    0.0|               >                                 |   │
│sda1       0%    0.0    0.0|               >                                 |   │
│sda2       0%    0.0    0.0|>                                                |   │
│sda5       0%    0.0    0.0|    >                                            |   │
│sdb      100% 1226.4    0.0|RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR|>  │
│sdb1       0%    0.0    0.0|                                                 |   │
│sdb2     100% 1226.4    0.0|RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR|>  |

and this is using disk groups, one hard drive per line:
┌nmon─12f─────────────────────Hostname=testhost002──Refresh= 1secs ───16:30.02────┐
│ Disk-Group-I/O ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────│
│ Name          Disks AvgBusy Read|Write-KB/s  TotalMB/s   xfers/s BlockSizeKB    │
│ sda                1   0.0%       0.0|0.0          0.0       0.0    0.0         │
│ sdb                1   0.0%       0.0|0.0          0.0       0.0    0.0         │
│ sdc                1   0.0%       0.0|0.0          0.0       0.0    0.0         │

Update:
As has been suggested by ewwhite, the order of output is exactly same as /proc/diskstats. So, maybe it's easier to affect the order of diskstats instead, but that looks like an overkill.
df -h on
server 1:
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             895G   30G  820G   4% /
none                  7.8G  212K  7.8G   1% /dev
none                  7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev/shm
none                  7.8G  104K  7.8G   1% /var/run
none                  7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /var/lock
none                  7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sdb1             640G  298G  343G  47% /data_b1
/dev/sdb2             1.2T  510G  684G  43% /data_b2
/dev/sdc1             640G  148G  493G  24% /data_c1
/dev/sdc2             1.2T  361G  832G  31% /data_c2

on server 2:
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc1             895G  257G  594G  31% /
none                  7.8G  212K  7.8G   1% /dev
none                  7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev/shm
none                  7.8G  116K  7.8G   1% /var/run
none                  7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /var/lock
none                  7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda1             640G  156G  485G  25% /data_b1
/dev/sda2             1.2T  511G  684G  43% /data_b2
/dev/sdb1             640G  148G  493G  24% /data_c1
/dev/sdb2             1.2T  362G  833G  31% /data_c2

A: nmon is good for a spot check of activity on a system. For watching multiple servers, would it make more sense to move to a more comprehensive monitoring system?
As far as the order of the disk entries displayed on the system, it seems to be tied to /proc/diskstats and the mount order from boot. I just checked 10 of my servers running nmon and I received the same order of devices.
What does cat /proc/diskstats | grep sd look like on both systems? Can you show the output of df -h or fdisk -l from your two servers?
Edit: In this case, it looks like your device ordering is the root case. /dev/sdc is your boot volume on one of the servers (instead of sda), so it appears first in the device order. I don't believe there's a quick way to modify this for the purposes of displaying data in nmon.

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Vacation on the Beach the Smart Way Almost everyone agrees; there is no more relaxing way to vacation than to take it to the beach. For the vacationer/traveler who hasn't considered a beach house rental before, they represent an affordable and fun family oriented alternative. There is an intelligent way to plan your vacation on the beach. It all starts with thorough good planning, research and flexibility.
This guide will give you a few pointers for vacationing on the beach the smart way. First off, start planning your trip as early as possible. This is the key to experiencing the best possible relaxation. If you want to vacation in August, you really have to start planning as early as September or October. Planning ahead is the best way to ensure you get the exact dates you're looking for. This is especially true for beachfront houses.
At the very least, make reservations BEFORE Christmas because prime booking time for beach houses starts on December 26th. This date begins the heightened pursuit of people wanting to book beach houses and continues all the way up until May. Research your trip thoroughly.
The Internet is an excellent tool for doing this. To get the right location and best accommodations to suit your preferences, there is no substitute for being informed and fully aware of what is available. In the information age, there are huge amounts of travel information available on the World Wide Web. If you are looking for beach vacation rentals, the most comprehensive site, and largest directory I found was http://www.
beachhouse.com. If you're making a decision about a destination you are not familiar with, you should do research on the Internet about the specific location with a particular focus on the weather. It can vary from place to place depending on the time of year.
You'll want to consider travel insurance in case anything goes wrong. Examples of why you'd need travel insurance include hurricanes, sickness, cancelled/delayed flights and lost luggage. Get Everything in Writing. Get a list of amenities from the house owner.
One big reason for this is you need to know what to bring, and what not to bring. For example, you may need to bring linens. Some rentals will provide them, but most do not. You need to know check-in/check-out times, and if you don't want to lose your deposit, leave the place as close to the condition as when you arrived. Make sure the person you are asking the questions to is the beach house owner or manager.
Review the details of the rental agreement. Things to consider are security deposits, damage deposits, who to call in case of emergency. Ask for references of people who have rented the house before. Make sure you have contact numbers for the owner or on-site manager on hand.
Look for off-season and last minute deals. If you are looking for a deal and can be flexible, off-season rates drop dramatically. Some beach house owners who charge $5,000 a week during peak season are willing to go as low as $800 per week in the winter.
Additionally, if you're looking to vacation before Memorial Day or after Labor Day, it can't hurt to ask for a 10% discount. Keep in mind though that during peak season it's highly unlikely rates will be negotiable. You can also save money by not getting beachfront property, say by renting houses not directly on the beach but maybe one to three houses back. These houses are generally going to be a bit cheaper. Beach House rentals are great for larger reunion or family groups.
One of the benefits of renting a beach house is having your own kitchen and saving funds on cooking for the family. Hotels generally have restaurants, maybe kitchenettes for extra. For a family of 4 this may cost a bit, but still be affordable. However, for an extended family, you would have to book a set of rooms.
If this isn't expense enough, a large family eating in restaurants three times a day, plus the cost of all the things they need that isn't supplied by the hotel, and WHEW! That can cost a bundle. Hotels don't lend themselves as well to a larger group of people as beach houses do. To vacation on the beach the smart way, start planning your trip as early as possible.
Research your trip thoroughly and get everything in writing. Look for, and ask for, off-season or last minute deals, but be flexible. And for the most memorable and best possible vacation on the beach, do it in a beach house. .


As a general rule of thumb, it is recommended that you avoid refinancing your home if your credit score is low. This is because it can be harder to find a lender to refinance your loan and you can wind up paying a higher interest rate. However, there are always exceptions to the rules and refinancing can prove to be beneficial, even if you have bad credit, in a few scenarios. Here are a few of the reasons why you may want to consider refinancing your home, even if you have bad credit.
If you could not afford to place a down payment of 20 percent or more down when you bought your home, you likely are carrying PMI insurance as part of your mortgage payment. PMI, or private mortgage insurance, helps to protect the lender in case the value of your home decreases and they have to foreclose and sell the home. This ensures they don't take the loss due to the decreased value. If your home's value has increased since you have purchased it, and you have developed equity in the home, you may be able to refinance the home and stop paying PMI insurance. This lowers your mortgage payment. However, before you do so, check to see how close you are to PMI insurance being dropped by your lender. Many lenders automatically drop the insurance when you owe 78 percent of the purchase price of the home. If they automatically drop it, you don't have to worry about refinancing and paying closing costs.
Interest rates fluctuate. They are currently considered to be fairly low, especially based on what they were 15 to 20 years ago. If you purchased your home and interest rates have since lowered, refinancing my help you to lower your interest rates, which reduces your mortgage payment. However, when you have bad credit it is important to understand that you will not get the best rates out there. As such, you should find out what rates you will qualify for and then determine if they are lower than what you are paying now. If they are, it may be worth it to refinance, even with bad credit.
The last reason you may want to refinance, even if you have bad credit, is because you are refinancing into a conventional mortgage. If you had poor credit when you bought the home and/or a low down payment, the only loans you may have qualified for may have been unconventional ones, like interest only loans or loans with balloon payments. As the price of your home has increased and/or as you have built up equity in your home, you may now qualify for more conventional loans, even with bad credit. Conventional loans help to lower your payment and help you to know what your monthly payment will be from month to month.
Many people assume that they can't refinance when they have bad credit. This is not true. While it is not ideal to refinance with bad credit, it can help put you in a better position. Talk to a lender or mortgage specialist today, such as at Liberty Escrow Inc, to find out what your options may be when it comes to refinancing your home with bad credit.


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No Man's Sky Sci-fi Game Review
Posted Date: 17 Aug 2016 |Updated: 17-Aug-2016 |Category: PlayStation games |Author: Mahesh |Member Level: Gold |Points: 90 |
Who doesn't like playing a space adventure game? Hello games recently released a sci-fi game called No Man's Sky. This game has managed to pull many users due to it's ability to name celestial objects and pursue endless exploration in the game. In this article we review No Man's Sky sci-fi game.
We all have curiosity to explore the unending universe. However very few games and simulations allow us to explore in their gaming scenarios. No Man's Sky gives you a chance to explore the universe. It doesn't stop at that but also gives you chance to name the celestial objects encountered along the way. The game is not limited to exploration and Terra-forming, as it also allows you to do the combat.
The game is currently available for PlayStation and PC. In future updates it may be released for Android and other console platforms. No specific timeline specified for other platforms. However based on some of the rumors, the future version may be released on other platforms.
Game Plot
You start the game by exploring multiple planets in the space. This process is very time consuming due to the game's open space nature. This means that the unending universe scenario is in play here. You come across three different types of races while playing this game. Almost every random planet you come across for battle, has one of the three races in it. There are some of the creatures that you may come across commonly in multiple planets. The language of aliens is not at all understandable. The reason being a lot of it is made up and random. You do however get pointer to make way across them. You may also need to save scenes as you complete them.
The reason being if you get lost across some points, you may find it hard to come back. The game at some of the points does offer you direction on where to go and make your way around. You'll be also impressed with the amount of tech in the game. You get some coolest ships and vehicles. The weapons may not be impressive though but considering the game being an open space system, it's understandable. The procedural way of completing the game makes you explore some of the beautiful places. You can also name the stars, and planets the way you want. There are some puzzles driven by alien dialogue along the way. Some of the puzzles are specific to a planet or place. So there is a lot to explore and check out in this open spaced game.
The best part about this game is graphics. You'll find excellent art of galaxies, alien creatures and planets. The level of detailing being done by the artists is much more than any Hollywood movie. The amount of places you can explore in this game world are endless. So the designers have managed to put things in the perspective. For example, planets without water have different aura and feel to them. This is something you'd also relate with the simulation in most of the space exploration games.
Each planet is of enormous size and you can still notice the level of detail in each one of them. In case of alien planets with life and water in them, those planets are designed with very careful art details. Some of the alien creatures are quite common like most of the games. However you'd find graphic shading and art rendering a lot different for most alien shapes. You may find that there are some rendering issue in space but those can be ignored as the game is yet to get some of the update.
Graphics being the dominant part of this game, I am guessing the developers had to work hard on soundtrack too. You'd find some of the soothing music on unexplored area. There are some of the parts where music is extremely slow and laid back as long as you explore. In case of alien regions and the battle, you may find the change in the music. Some of the music in scenarios is more of industrial genre and remaining being in ambient. If you play it long enough, you'd find that it's very comfortable on the soundtrack front.
Issues in Game
Though game is perfect for those who like open space type space adventure game. However it has its share of issues which you may come across. The most common issue being in some of the parts the game freezes. If you try to pause the game during the flight, you'd end up crashing the visual engine that renders the game. So there are some things that require a lot of testing. Some of the times exploration gets out of hand and requires guidance. It totally makes harder for playing game without getting frustrated. Game is not much attractive to those players who wish to focus more on combat specific scenarios. And the last and the most issue with the game is that game is currently limited to single player. This makes it harder to play the game with friends.
The game costs 60$ for the final version. If you have played the beta online as a tester then it'll remain fixed on that update. The ratings of the game makes it suitable for playing to all age levels. You can use Steam to download and play the game online. It may soon also hit the local stores with boxed packaging.
If you are yet to download or purchase the game from Steam store, then wait for the next version. You'd find a much polished and bug free version in next few weeks. So that would cover most of the game issues over a period of time. However if you can't wait to explore the space then do take a look try this game. No Man's Sky is a sci-fi visual treat and you won't be disappointed on that front.
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Q: Software to switch between OS My question might sound too weired and tricky, but is there any way (software/hardware) that I can use to switch between 2 OS without restarting my PC?
Actually I have Windows 7 and Ubuntu installed in my PC.

A: You can use a virtual machine. One OS (e.g. Ubuntu) hosts another (e.g. Windows) as a guest in a virtual machine. An example is VirtualBox. Your guest OS will be just like another program inside your host OS.

A: If you had two different OS running as virtual machines under a third operating system, you wouldn't strictly speaking have to restart the PC to switch between them.

A: kexec allows you to boot a new linux kernel without rebooting your PC.
Currently, it only runs on linux (So it won't work on your particular setup, but would work to boot, for example, fedora from ubuntu).
This proyect seems to be attempting to port kexec to windows, though I've failed to find how much progress they've made.  It should be an interesting starting point though.

A: Well, i can think of two. One, run one of the OSes in a VM. The second is to get another system, and run the second OS on that. You can't switch between OSes without restarting.
If you wanted to save the state of the system, you MIGHT be able to get away with hibernating windows, and starting linux as long as you do NOT write to the windows drive - as you can tell from the answers, do this at your own risk. The other way seems to be safe, however.
If you wanted to build a system that would do this from scratch  you'd need a model similar to what the PS3 uses possibly on top of xen or another hypervisor

A: The simple answer is no. The only thing close to that is virtualization. You could add a virtualization software to your Windows install (or vice versa), and then convert your current Linux install to a VM (there are tools to convert physical machines into VM's).

A: You could run one of them as a VM in e.g. Virtualbox

A: Simple answer:no. The OS needs to interact with the hardware, or at least it has to think it is. Without a hypervisor or virtualization system running underneath the OS, managing the hardware/OS interation and the switching, this is not possible with x86 architectures.

A: Something like xen or kvm lets you switch between virtual machines very quickly and runs them with little overhead.

A: You can configure a program like Virtualbox or VMware to load your physical XP or Linux install (whichever isn't in use at that time) from within whichever OS you are using.
You can then boot into either OS normally on a reboot.
Ubuntu Forums has a guide on how to boot your physical XP install from within Ubuntu.
VMware Communities has a guide for booting a physical Linux install from within Windows.
Note, you may need to install 2 copies of Grub for this to work.
Also, you will most certainly be required to have different hardware profiles for both operating systems and Windows will most likely have to be re-activated when you switch hardware profiles.

A: There are many ways you can run Windows and Linux distros on the same physical machine without rebooting the PC or notebook, use any of the VMs suggested, including Virtualbox which I am running on my MacbookPro and running both XP and other linux distros, CentOS, Fedora, Mint, Ubuntu, or use KVM or Xen. Check them out and configure your systems to install any one of these as the host and put the guest OS on it.


The state government has issued a notification unlocking over 1,800 hectares of land in Navi Mumbai for residential and industrial purposes. This land was acquired for Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in 2013, and is located in Ulve, Dronagiri and Kamothe in Navi Mumbai.
As per the state government's notification, the government has now improved the SEZ policy. The amended policy will allow the usage of 85 percent of the land for industrial use and 15 percent for residential instead of the earlier 60 percent for industrial and 40 percent for residential purpose.
To prepare the final terms and conditions, and duties and prices, a committee has been constituted under the Chief Secretary. The committee includes the Additional Chief Secretaries from the departments of finance, industries, urban development, law and judiciary, and the managing director of CIDCO.
The state government has also decided to make the land accessible to various firms who had made a memorandum of understanding with the government under the Make In Maharashtra and Magnetic Maharashtra initiative. Once the guidelines are framed and finalized, the approval will be given to developing the SEZ land.


Exciting times here at CleverDude as my post about FREE Software that can save money and headaches was picked up by Money Talks News. I'm always grateful to be picked up by a bigger website for the opportunity to share my posts with a larger audience. Anything exciting happen in your lives this week?
Speaking of exciting, here's some posts to get excited about….happy weekend Clever Friends!


Bad Blood is one of the most recognisable flavours from the Nasty Juice range and is especially popular right here in the UK.
Mixing juicy Blackcurrants with a slight hint of mint, Bad Blood has become a nations favourite.
Now, Bad Blood has been given the Nicotine Salt treatment - giving you a smoother, more pleasant vaping experience. Nasty Salts are more suited to lower wattage devices.


Many car owners keep a lot of items in their vehicles. Some of these are absolutely necessary. For instance, a spare tire, a jack, a first aid and an emergency kit.
Some of these items however are totally unnecessary. A random sample carried out while preparing this blog catalogued a few classic examples. Old unused stationery, old spare vehicle parts, old cans and containers, extra and in some cases excess lubes and fluids, damaged electronics, groceries from the last shoping run, CDs, an old car battery and building materials topped the list of larger items.
These items make your car untidy, dirty and uncomfortable. Some estimates reveal that individuals can get rid of 50kg to 200kg worth of non useful items from their vehicle interiors. This translates to freed up internal volume, better fuel efficiency as your vehicle is not lugging all that dead weight around town as well as performance (acceleration, braking and handling) improvement.
Automakers strive to make their cars as light as possible for performance and efficiency reasons. Dragging so much dead weight around makes nonsense of all the weight saving efforts.
Finally, there is a safefy angle. When you watch vehicle crash tests, you begin to get an appreciation of how these items can cause significant harm in the event of an accident. The sudden halting of a vehicle in a crash or under emergency braking can cause the heavy items to become projectiles which could slam into passengers in your vehicle from behind.
To stay safe while getting the best performance out of our vehicles, we need to shed unnecessary loads the car is saddled with bearing. Next time you step into your car or look into the trunk, ask yourself if the items there are necessary. This is one scenario where less is more.


Modern and stylish 2bed/2.5 bath condo in a great location. The unit features a remodeled kitchen with stainless steel appliances, electronic blinds in living areas and blackouts in bedrooms. High ceilings throughout and closets are built out with simple storage. Immaculately upgraded bathrooms. Coronado at Doral is a sought after Mediterranean style community that includes a swimming pool and a fitness center for the best in Florida Living.
Wonderful unit with porcelain floors. Remodeled kitchen with stainless steel appliances. Beautifully redone bathrooms. Great location near Downtown Doral.
Modern and stylish 2 bed/2.5 bath condo in a great location. Electric blinds in living areas and sunshades plus black outs in bedrooms. Coronado at Doral is a south after Mediterranean style community that includes swimming pool and fitness center for the best in Florida living.


The Steamboat Springs School District Board of Education Wants to Hear from You!
Please watch the 3 minute video on the options at https://buildingforthefuture.ssk12.org/ prior to filling out the questionnaire. Note that information provided via this questionnaire will be considered by the board, alongside other data, in their decision making process in the spring of 2019.
I support the Pre-K-8 school option.
I support the 5-8 school option.
I support the Pre-K-4 replacement school option.
I support all three options.


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package com.actionbarsherlock.sample.plugins.app;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentMapActivity;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.Toast;

import com.actionbarsherlock.sample.plugins.R;
import com.google.android.maps.MapView;

public class MapFragment extends FragmentMapActivity {
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        //MapView for the lose :(
        Toast.makeText(this, R.string.map_warning, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

        getSupportFragmentManager()
        	.beginTransaction()
        	.add(android.R.id.content, new MyMapFragment())
        	.commit();
    }

    public static final class MyMapFragment extends Fragment {
		@Override
		public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
				Bundle savedInstanceState) {
			View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.map_simple, container, false);
			MapView mapView = (MapView)view.findViewById(R.id.mapview);
			mapView.setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
			return view;
		}
    }

    @Override
    protected boolean isRouteDisplayed() {
        return false;
    }
}

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