Dubai police have found at least 3,000 automobiles -- sedans, SUVs, regulars -- abandoned outside Dubai International Airport in the last four months. Police say most of the vehicles had keys in the ignition, a clear sign they were left behind by owners in a hurry to take flight. It is believed that the owners of these vehicles are mostly foreign workers from South Asia who have lost their jobs after Dubai's real estate crash, according to a DNA report.
Dubai and other GCC countries are planning deficit-spending to stimulate their economies in 2009. Dubai will raise its budget by 11% for fiscal 2009. The city-state's finance department estimates the new spending will result in a modest fiscal deficit, Dubai's first ever. Other Gulf governments, including Saudi Arabia and Oman, have announced recently they will risk deficits next year instead of cutting back on spending, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Analysts have raised concerns about the large debt load Dubai has taken on in recent years to finance its explosive growth, mostly in real estate. Dubai is one of seven semiautonomous emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates.
Credit-rating agencies recently have revised downward the outlook -- and in some cases, the credit rating -- for a handful of Dubai-controlled corporations. Dubai doesn't have its own sovereign-debt rating. The city-state doesn't pump much oil itself, so it has depended on attracting foreign investment, especially from its oil-rich neighbors, and borrowing to finance growth.
The contagion that started on Wall Street in 2008 is fast spreading around the globe. The deepening recession in the United States and the end of speculative bubble has brought the oil price down to below $40 a barrel, down from $150 a barrel a year ago. The US consumer price index dropped 0.7% in December, 2009 from the previous month. Consumer prices rose just 0.1% compared to December 2007, the lowest calendar-year increase since 1954 and well below the Fed's 1.5% to 2% preference over the long run. The CPI swelled 4.1% in 2007. The core CPI, in contrast, was up 1.8% last year, though it did fall 0.3% on an annual basis during the fourth quarter.
A large number of families in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal and Pakistan depend on remittances of tens of billions of dollars from workers in the oil-rich states.
Emaar in India and Pakistan are likely to be delayed or scrapped.
While the oil price declines are going to spell significant relief for South Asians, the loss of remittances and foreign investments will also hurt their economies. It's too early to tell if the net effect will be positive, negative or zero.
It is sad to see yet another booming economy going down. It proves the fact that any economy having the foundation of "interest" will go down.
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The United Arab Emirates is delaying or canceling real-estate projects worth more than $260 billion amid falling demand and deteriorating market conditions, according to a new report by investment bank Morgan Stanley (MS).
The bank, citing data from Zawya.com, says $263 billion worth of projects in the U.A.E. have been delayed or canceled, "with all the recently announced mega projects, including Meraas Jumeirah Gardens , valued at about $98 billion and Nakheel's Harbour project, estimated at $38 billion, put on hold."
The report, released earlier this week, says lower oil prices, the global recession, tighter liquidity, job cuts and the absence of speculators have all put pressure on the sector, forcing developers to review project requirements.
"All of these factors have resulted in a worse than expected performance in the U.A.E. property market, especially in Dubai , which is also facing potential oversupply," the report says.
"In the fourth quarter of 2008, property prices corrected sharply downwards,rental rates eased in Dubai and there was an increase in the rate of announced projects delays/cancellations," it adds.
At the end of 2008, approximately $1.25 trillion worth of construction projects were underway in the U.A.E., according to London-based Middle East Economic Digest.
However, as the region's once-booming real estate market slumps amid falling prices and a growing number of layoffs in the construction and financial sector, some of the Emirates' leading developers are being forced to review project requirements.
Morgan Stanley says property prices in Dubai have fallen by an average of 25% and 20% in Abu Dhabi since their peak last September. "The biggest drop has been in the high-end property segment, with average prices down 1% in 2008 and 35% since the peak," the report says.
Last week, HSBC (HBC) said Dubai is delaying or canceling almost 60 projects worth $75 billion, particularly in high-end residential and commercial developments.
In its note on Arabtec Holding , one of Dubai 's largest construction firms, HSBC lists 59 projects that are currently under review, including eight that have been canceled.
palm-tree-shaped islands off the Dubai 's coast.
The report also lists Meraas Development's Jumeirah Gardens City project,also announced in October, on hold.
Five projects at the $110 billion Dubailand development, which was billed to be the pinnacle of the Dubai 's tourism draw, are on hold or canceled,including the $2.2 billion Universal City development that was destined to be one of the world's largest theme parks.
The HSBC report said The Falcon City of Wonders project that was to include a replica of The Eiffel Tower, The Tower of Pisa and The Taj Mahal amongst other "wonders" of the world has been canceled.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Sofia, a 34-year-old Frenchwoman, moved here a year ago to take a job in advertising, so confident about Dubai's fast-growing economy that she bought an apartment for almost $300,000 with a 15-year mortgage.
"I'm really scared of what could happen, because I bought property here," said Sofia, who asked that her last name be withheld because she is still hunting for a new job. "If I can't pay it off, I was told I could end up in debtors' prison."
With Dubai's economy in free fall, newspapers have reported that more than 3,000 cars sit abandoned in the parking lot at the Dubai Airport, left by fleeing, debt-ridden foreigners (who could in fact be imprisoned if they failed to pay their bills). Some are said to have maxed-out credit cards inside and notes of apology taped to the windshield.
No one knows how bad things have become, though it is clear that tens of thousands have left, real estate prices have crashed and scores of Dubai's major construction projects have been suspended or canceled. But with the government unwilling to provide data, rumors are bound to flourish, damaging confidence and further undermining the economy.
Instead of moving toward greater transparency, the emirates seem to be moving in the other direction. A new draft media law would make it a crime to damage the country's reputation or economy, punishable by fines of up to 1 million dirhams (about $272,000). Some say it is already having a chilling effect on reporting about the crisis.
Last month, local newspapers reported that Dubai was canceling 1,500 work visas every day, citing unnamed government officials. Asked about the number, Humaid bin Dimas, a spokesman for Dubai's Labor Ministry, said he would not confirm or deny it and refused to comment further. Some say the true figure is much higher.
"At the moment there is a readiness to believe the worst," said Simon Williams, HSBC bank's chief economist in Dubai. "And the limits on data make it difficult to counter the rumors."
Some things are clear: real estate prices, which rose dramatically during Dubai's six-year boom, have dropped 30 percent or more over the past two or three months in some parts of the city. Last week, Moody's Investor's Service announced that it might downgrade its ratings on six of Dubai's most prominent state-owned companies, citing a deterioration in the economic outlook. So many used luxury cars are for sale , they are sometimes sold for 40 percent less than the asking price two months ago, car dealers say. Dubai's roads, usually thick with traffic at this time of year, are now mostly clear.
"Why is Abu Dhabi allowing its neighbor to have its international reputation trashed, when it could bail out Dubai's banks and restore confidence?" said Christopher M. Davidson, who predicted the current crisis in "Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success," a book published last year. "Perhaps the plan is to centralize the U.A.E." under Abu Dhabi's control, he mused, in a move that would sharply curtail Dubai's independence and perhaps change its signature freewheeling style.
But Dubai, unlike Abu Dhabi or nearby Qatar and Saudi Arabia, does not have its own oil, and had built its reputation on real estate, finance and tourism. Now, many expatriates here talk about Dubai as though it were a con game all along. Lurid rumors spread quickly: the Palm Jumeira, an artificial island that is one of this city's trademark developments, is said to be sinking, and when you turn the faucets in the hotels built atop it, only cockroaches come out.
"Is it going to get better? They tell you that, but I don't know what to believe anymore," said Sofia, who still hopes to find a job before her time runs out. "People are really panicking quickly."
Hamza Thiab, a 27-year-old Iraqi who moved here from Baghdad in 2005, lost his job with an engineering firm six weeks ago. He has until the end of February to find a job, or he must leave. "I've been looking for a new job for three months, and I've only had two interviews," he said. "Before, you used to open up the papers here and see dozens of jobs. The minimum for a civil engineer with four years' experience used to be 15,000 dirhams a month. Now, the maximum you'll get is 8,000," or about $2,000.
"Before, so many of us were living a good life here," Mr. Thiab said. "Now we cannot pay our loans. We are all just sleeping, smoking, drinking coffee and having headaches because of the situation."
Now, faced with crippling debts as a result of their high living and Dubai's fading fortunes, many expatriates are abandoning their cars at the airport and fleeing home rather than risk jail for defaulting on loans.
I hope to god these South Asian will go back to there own country.
Stocks slumped Friday as investors reacted to a debt crisis in Dubai, with more repercussions likely on tap the next few days as traders return from major holidays in both the U.S. and Middle East.
Crude oil touched a six-week low, gold tumbled, and the dollar climbed as worried investors sought safe havens.
The stock market's slide began in Europe, continued in Asia, and then through the U.S. trading session after Dubai said it would delay repayments on $60 billion of debt from its investment company, Dubai World. The decision raised broader questions about the safety of emerging-market debt and the strength of the global recovery The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 233 points at its morning low and ended the shortened post-Thanksgiving session with a 154.48-point decline, off 1.5%, at 10309.92, hurt by declines in all 30 components. The Dow, which entered Friday's session at a 13-month high, ended the week down 0.1%, snapping a three-week winning streak.
Traders and money managers drew some comfort from the U.S. market's recovery from its intraday lows Friday. Many point out that Dubai's main creditors are European banks, not Wall Street firms. But that could still lead to gyrations next week and beyond if investors with exposure to Dubai's troubles continue to unload commodities, U.S. shares, and other assets that have shown hefty gains this year to raise cash.
"We still need to see if there's going to be a domino effect here," with Dubai's credit woes spreading to its neighbors and trading partners, said Kevin Shacknofsky, of Alpine Woods Capital Investors. "The markets are telling us for now that this is a containable problem, but we're not absolutely certain of that yet."
In particular, traders are waiting to see details of possible aid from oil-rich Abu Dhabi to prop up Dubai. Both are city-states within the federation known as the United Arab Emirates, which was the world's eighth-largest oil producer in 2008, according to U.S. government data.
Analysts said such a rescue may have to be hammered out in the coming days, since many key players in the Middle East are away Friday for the Eid Al-Adha holiday marking the end of the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. Trading was light in the U.S. on Friday, with many participants taking an extended Thanksgiving break.
In Asia, Japan's Nikkei stock average slid 3.2%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index tumbled 4.8%. South Korea's benchmark dropped 4.7%.
The dollar rose, with the U.S. Dollar Index, which measures the greenback against a basket of six other currencies, up 0.2%. The euro fell to $1.4960, down from $1.5017 late Wednesday.
Treasurys also gained. The two-year note was recently up 4/32 to yield 0.687%, while the 10-year note rose 17/16 to yield 3.207%.
Friday's moves in the financial markets reverse a recent trend in which investors have generally favored riskier investments, reflecting optimistism that the world was coming out of recession. But now attention is turning not just to Dubai but also to Greece, which is scrambling to refinance its mounting public debt.
default risk faced by Dubai World, Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi said on Saturday.
"There is no need to panic," the minister told media over the phone from Chennai, adding: "I have feedback from our consulate general in Dubai and our embassies there. We are not expecting any kind of exodus of Indian workers to India."
According to Ravi, there was some impact in the Gulf region at the beginning of the meltdown last year but the situation had changed since then. "I even announced this in parliament. About 100,000 Indian workers had returned from Dubai at that time. But many of them have gone back now," the minister pointed out. "India won't be affected by Dubai's debts."
The state-run Dubai World stunned the global financial world Thursday when it announced it would need to restructure its debt, estimated at $59 billion, to pre-empt default and asked creditors for a six-month deferment.
The conglomerate has a host of companies under its fold with interests in a wide range of businesses such as realty, infrastructure, logistics and economic zones. It operates not just in the region but across a clutch of countries, including India.
The total debt of Dubai as an emirate is estimated at $80 billion. There were some concerns in India among the families of expatriate Indians working in the Gulf since the region accounts for nearly half of the country's inward remittances worth $25 million annually.
An estimated five million Indians work in the region. But key policy-makers like Ravi, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Commerce Minister Anand Sharma and Reserve Bank of Governor D. Subbarao have sought to calm the nervous, saying the impact on the Indian economy will be negligible.
There are millions of poor, impoverished labourers from South Asia in the Gulf region. Indeed, the long-enjoyed boom that saw cities such as Dubai carve out a new niche for excess and opportunity was built on the backs of such migrant workers, who are often treated as little more than bonded labour. Drawn from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh and often paying hundreds of dollars to a middle man to secure a job, these workers – on arrival in the Gulf – find conditions are often atrocious and that they have virtually no rights. Many have complained of being prevented from leaving.
The upside of the hardship for the large numbers of South Asians who make their way to the Gulf – Indians are said to make up more than 40 per cent of the population of Dubai alone – is the amount of money that gets sent home in remittances. Figures suggest that in 2007, Indians living in the Gulf sent a total of $27bn to their families.
For some states, the money sent home is a considerable slice of the total economy. In Kerala, for example, such remittances make up around 22 per cent of the state's income.
Speaking from Thiruvananthapuram, the state's finance minister, Thomas Isaac, said he believed that even if the Dubai crisis did not rock India in its entirety it would affect Kerala "very much". "Half of the workforce in the United Arab Emirates are Malayalis [people from Kerala] and it seems certain that the construction activity in Dubai is going to take a hit," he said. "The impact is that the Dubai real estate market will decelerate."
Mr Ravi, the central government minister, did not agree. Having spoken with Indian consulates in the Gulf, he said authorities believed that while the Dubai World crisis would have international implications, it would not lead to large job losses for migrant workers. He said, however, that despite such an assessment, the government was planning to announce a comprehensive package to rehabilitate those Indian workers who do return from the Gulf. "It will take some more time to operationalise the fund," he added.
But for Sajid and his friends in Meerut, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, the harsh reality has already struck.
Another migrant labourer who had lost his job in Dubai, Noor Mohammed, wept as he told the Times of India: "We had wanted to save money to get our families to the UAE. Our dreams lie shattered."


During fall migration, a Bar-tailed Godwit like this one will fly over the Pacific Ocean, making a non-stop flight of 7,000 miles from Alaska to New Zealand. These amazing birds can achieve their epic journeys only after fattening up – along the coast of Alaska in fall, or along the Yellow Sea during spring. However, the food-rich tidal mudflats of the Yellow Sea are disappearing rapidly. Using satellite tags, Nils Warnock of Audubon Alaska studies the godwits' migration routes – and notes the critical importance of the Yellow Sea.
"These godwits are epic migrants. We had a bird, E-7, that we had tagged, and she left New Zealand in the spring. She flies non-stop seven days, ten thousand kilometers, to the Yellow Sea. All of the Bar-tailed Godwits of Alaska, they stop at the Yellow Sea.
However, the food-rich tidal mudflats of the Yellow Sea are disappearing rapidly.
So that really struck…home…the critical importance of the Yellow Sea.
That's their only stopover site between New Zealand and Alaska is the Yellow Sea.
There's a lot more to this story at BirdNote.org. I'm Michael Stein.
Bird sounds provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Calls of Bar-tailed Godwits  recorded by G. Vyn.
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www.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/SSC-OP-047.pdf The IUCN Situation Analysis on Intertidal Habitats in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, Yellow Sea.


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This award provides annual funding to cover tuition fees and a tax-free stipend of at least £15,999 per year. The studentship will be awarded on the basis of merit for 3.5 years of full-time study to commence in March 2022.
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The University of Exeter's College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, is inviting applications for a fully-funded PhD studentship to commence in March 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter. For eligible students the studentship will cover tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend of at least £15,999 for 3.5 years full-time, or pro rata for part-time study. The student would be based in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences at the Streatham Campus in Exeter.
The aim of the advertised PhD programme is to investigate and develop quantum machine learning algorithms based on quantum simulation techniques. The goal of the projects will be solving multisimulation problems, and specifically non-linear partial differential equations (PDE's) on a quantum computer. Quantum computing represents a powerful framework for performing matrix-based operations using the laws of quantum mechanics and highly controllable devices. Yet, despite the tremendous progress, the challenge of developing efficient quantum algorithms for current and future quantum devices remains open.
The main objective of the PhD work is to study differential equation solvers that can be run on a quantum hardware. The candidate will develop theoretical protocols for solving nonlinear PDEs, and apply it to relevant industrial problems. Additionally, the candidate will prepare an overview of existing protocols, and investigate their scaling for large problem sizes. The project is funded by an industrial partner, and regular interaction with industry is expected. The candidate is also expected to prepare publications, participate in conferences and meetings, and disseminate the results of the PhD work.
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Q: How to selectively place items in 2 tables using XPATH (XSLT Template) Im currently stuck in this homework question.
I must create 2 tables one with movies before the year 2005 and a secondary table with movies 2005 and onwards. In my code i created two tables and filled them in with the information. But I can't figure out how to make a conditional statement that places movies of year 2005 onward in one table and moves before 2005 in a second table. Im not sure if i need to create a conditional statement for both table templates or it can be done with one conditional statement that matches the criteria for both tables.
Please see my code below.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl">
  <xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">

        <title>Movies</title>

Movies Until 2005

            ID
            Title
            Director
            Year
            Genres

          <xsl:variable name="counter" select="count(movies/movie/id)"/>

          <xsl:apply-templates select="movies/movie">
            <xsl:sort select="title"/>
          </xsl:apply-templates>

                Number of movies: <xsl:value-of select="$counter"/>

Movies 2005 Onwards

            ID
            Title
            Director
            Year
            Genres

          <xsl:variable name="counter" select="count(movies/movie/id)"/>

          <xsl:apply-templates select="movies/movie">
            <xsl:sort select="title"/>
          </xsl:apply-templates>

                Number of movies: <xsl:value-of select="$counter"/>

Directors

        <xsl:for-each select="movies/movie">
          <xsl:sort select="principalDirector"/>

              <xsl:value-of select="principalDirector"/>

        </xsl:for-each>

  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match ="movie">
    <xsl:variable name="hyperlink">
      <xsl:value-of select="url" />
    </xsl:variable>

        <xsl:value-of select="id"/>

        <xsl:choose>
          <xsl:when test="url">

              <xsl:value-of select="title" />

          </xsl:when>
          <xsl:otherwise>
            <xsl:value-of select="title" />
          </xsl:otherwise>
        </xsl:choose>

        <xsl:value-of select="principalDirector"/>

        <xsl:value-of select="year"/>

          <xsl:for-each select="genre">
            <xsl:value-of select=
         "concat(., substring(', ', 2 - (position() != last())))"
         />
          </xsl:for-each>

  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Here is the XML code
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="Movies.xslt"?>

<movies>
  <movie>
    <id>1000001</id>
    <title>The Avengers</title>
    <principalDirector>Joss Whedon</principalDirector>
    <year>2012</year>
    <genre>Action</genre>
    <genre>Adventure</genre>
    <genre>Sci-Fi</genre>
    <url>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/?ref_=nv_sr_1</url>
  </movie>
  <movie>
    <id>1000002</id>
    <title>Avatar</title>
    <principalDirector>James Cameron</principalDirector>
    <year>2009</year>
    <genre>Action</genre>
    <genre>Adventure</genre>
    <genre>Fantasy</genre>
    <url>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499549/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1</url>
  </movie>
  <movie>
    <id>1000003</id>
    <title>Inception</title>
    <principalDirector>Christopher Nolan</principalDirector>
    <year>2010</year>
    <genre>Action</genre>
    <genre>Mystery</genre>
    <genre>Sci-Fi</genre>
    <url>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/?ref_=tt_rec_tti</url>
  </movie>
  <movie>
    <id>1000004</id>
    <title>Gladiator</title>
    <principalDirector>Ridley Scott</principalDirector>
    <year>2000</year>
    <genre>Action</genre>
    <genre>Drama</genre>
    <url>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172495/?ref_=nv_sr_1</url>
  </movie>

A:
I can't figure out how to make a conditional statement that places
  movies of year 2005 onward in one table and moves before 2005 in a
  second table. Im not sure if i need to create a conditional statement
  for both table templates or it can be done with one conditional
  statement that matches the criteria for both tables.

There's actually no need for any conditional statements - just use predicates. Try this as a guide:
XSLT 1.0
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8"/>

<xsl:variable name="thead">

        ID
        Title
        Director
        Year
        Genres

</xsl:variable>

<xsl:template match="/movies">
    <xsl:variable name="movies-before" select="movie[year < 2005]" />
    <xsl:variable name="movies-after" select="movie[year >= 2005]" />

            <title>Movies</title>

Movies Until 2005

                <xsl:copy-of select="$thead"/>
                <xsl:apply-templates select="$movies-before">
                    <xsl:sort select="title"/>
                </xsl:apply-templates>

                        Number of movies: <xsl:value-of select="count($movies-before)"/>

Movies 2005 Onwards

                <xsl:copy-of select="$thead"/>
                <xsl:apply-templates select="$movies-after">
                    <xsl:sort select="title"/>
                </xsl:apply-templates>

                        Number of movies: <xsl:value-of select="count($movies-after)"/>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="movie">

            <xsl:value-of select="id"/>

            <xsl:value-of select="title"/>

            <xsl:value-of select="principalDirector"/>

            <xsl:value-of select="year"/>

            <xsl:for-each select="genre">
                <xsl:value-of select="."/>
                <xsl:if test="position() != last()">
                    <xsl:text>, </xsl:text>
                </xsl:if>
            </xsl:for-each>

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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HKUST Receives HK$100 Million Donation from Otto Poon Charitable Foundation to Promote Research and Education in Sustainability
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) received a HK$100 million donation from Otto Poon Charitable Foundation (the Foundation), for the enhancement of HKUST's development in research, education innovation and knowledge transfer.
The Foundation's generous gift will be used to set up an endowment fund to boost the work of the University's faculty, as well as academic and research units focusing on environment, technology and innovation. That includes the recently established Division of Integrative Systems and Design – which oversees a transformative new program set to nurture students' problem solving ability and critical thinking through close collaboration with the industry.
The endowment fund will support infrastructures and facilities aimed at advancing research in environment and sustainability, such as the University's Central Research Facilities. It will also sponsor named professorships and scholarships in order to attract talents and promote students' interests in related areas.
Dr. Otto POON, Founding Chairman of ATAL Group and former President of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, said Hong Kong has great potential to become an international innovation and technological hub. "As an entrepreneur raised and grown in this city, I feel obliged to play an active role in bringing about this transformation," Dr. Poon said. "I chose HKUST as a partner as its efforts in pursuing innovation through technology has made it stand out among the others. I hope the donation could further reinforce HKUST's commitment to encourage innovation among students and faculty members, and pave the way for more research breakthroughs in environment and sustainability that are beneficial to mankind and nature."
In an expression of gratitude, HKUST Council Chairman Mr. Andrew LIAO Cheung-Sing said, "Dr. Poon is not only a successful engineer and entrepreneur, but also an untiring advocate of sustainable development. His perseverance and creativity - no matter in running a business or supporting environment sustainability - have been a great inspiration to many. The munificent donation of Dr. Poon will enable HKUST to thrive in its continuous pursuit of research excellence, and to contribute to the environmental development of Hong Kong and the Mainland."
HKUST President Prof. Wei SHYY said, "HKUST is deeply grateful for Dr. Poon's trust and support. Our collaboration over the years has brought about many research projects and facilitated talent development. The University has common goals with Dr. Poon in stimulating innovation, making changes and building a sustainable future, which are what eventually leads to this long-lasting partnership. We will return Dr. Poon's trust and generosity by building a better environment for all with our pursuit in research, education and knowledge transfer."
Founded by Dr. Poon in 1977, ATAL Group has become an industry leader known for its total approach in engineering services, spanning environment, information and communications, building technologies, energy management, big data, security and smart city. Extending his commitment to philanthropy, Dr. Poon established the Foundation last year to further benevolent causes. He has assumed different public roles including former President of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, Chairman of Lift and Escalator Safety Advisory Committee and Life President of Hong Kong Federation of Electrical and Mechanical Contractors.
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The clan are under attack and stakes are high as Jack attempts to save his fellow warriors and continue his quest to find the missing gems.
Jack is invited to a gathering of the clans. There, a magical clue sees him hunt for the third of six enchanted gemstones he must find to break an ancient curse.
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A few weeks ago when I was at my grandparents' house, I could not get rid of my itch to bake. Even though I had just made a Salty Honey Pie the day before, I timidly asked my grandmother if I could bake some scones. I told her that Id' checked and we miraculously had all of the ingredients, and that I would clean everything up after. And she said yes! Excited, I headed to the kitchen to throw together this easy recipe from The Pioneer Woman. They're simple cream scones, elevated to a new height with the addition of vanilla bean and a delicious glaze.
2. Split the vanilla beans lengthwise down the middle and remove the "caviar" inside of it. Add the caviar, along with the scraped bean pods if you like, into the cream and stir. Set this aside for a good 15 minutes to let the flavors sink in.
3. While that's sitting, grab a large bowl and sift together the flour, 2/3 cup of sugar, salt, and baking powder.
4. Cut the COLD butter into cubes and cut it into the flour mixture using A) two knives, B), a pastry cutter, or C) your fingertips. Work it in until your mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
5. Remove the vanilla bean pods from the cream (but keep the caviar in there, of course) and whisk in the egg.
6. Combine this with the dry mixture with a fork until the dough just starts to come together.
7. Transfer your dough to a floured surface and gently press it into a rectangle. Use a rolling pin to roll it until it's about 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch thick.
8. Trim the sides with a knife and cut your dough into 12 rectangles of the same size. Cut each rectangle in half so that you wind up with 24 identical triangles.
9. Line a baking sheet with parchment and bake for 18 minutes, or until they are just starting to get golden brown. Cool on a cookie sheet for around 15 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack.
10. To make the glaze, scrape the caviar out of one vanilla bean and stir it into the milk. Set this aside for a while.
11. Stir together the powdered sugar and milk. You may need to add more milk if you deem it necessary. You'll want to whisk/stir it until it's smooth.
12. Once the scones are cooled, either dunk them in the glaze or drizzle the icing on top. Try to wait for it to set before digging in!


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"The Bone Yard": If Forensic Thrillers Are Your Cup Of Tea…
Today Jefferson Bass, the duo behind The Bone Yard, is probably one of the most well-known names in the sub-genre of Forensic Suspense. The writing team of Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson started out by writing Carved in Bone
, reached # 25 on The New York Times Best Seller list and so far have written six books in a series named Body Farm. The Bone Yard
, the sixth installment in the series is scheduled to be released in paperback edition on March 27, 2012.
A Brief Summary:
Angie St. Claire, a forensic analyst with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, informs Dr. Bill Brockton, the main character of the series, that her sister has been shot by a shotgun and asks to help prove that her death was not suicide, but murder.
Brockton's quick consulting trip takes a long, harrowing detour when bones begin turning up amid the pines and live oaks of the Florida panhandle. Two adolescent skulls–ravaged by time and animals, but bearing the telltale signs of lethal fractures–send Brockton, Angie, and Special Agent Stu Vickery on a search for the long-lost victims. The quest leads them to the ruins of the North Florida Boys' Reformatory, a notorious juvenile detention facility that met a fiery end more than forty years ago.
Guided by the discovery of a diary kept by one of the school's young "students," Brockton's team finds a cluster of shallow graves, all of them containing the bones of boys who suffered violent deaths. The graves confirm one of the diary's grim claims: that one wrong move could land a boy in the Bone Yard. But as the investigation expands, it encounters opposition from the local sheriff, who's less than delighted to find forensic experts from the state capital and the Body Farm digging up dirt in his county.
As Brockton and his team close in on the truth, they find skeletons in some surprisingly prominent closets and they learn that the events that happened in North Florida Boys' Reformatory might not be pure history.
Our Take:
Jon Jefferson, the "writer" half of Jefferson Bass, is a veteran journalist, science writer, and documentary filmmaker and Dr. Bass, the duo's scientific expert, is a legend in forensic circles. So you might already guess that the result of their work is both absorbing from writing perspective and also factual from scientific standpoint.
Fans of Jefferson Bass will find this book up to the standards of his other books. The scenes explained in the story are very graphic but the author balances the disturbing investigation with a sense of humor in the characters. The clues are laid out in the plots in logical order and the details of the investigation process and in particular forensic aspects are intellectually interesting. This book is filled with a lot of forensic details in fact and while we found this very informative, this might not appeal to the readers who are looking for an easy read.
Overall, this is this finest forensic thriller we have reviewed this year and we highly recommend it to all of our readers.
Our Rating: 5.0
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Home Greek news Varoufakis Exposes Tsipras' Plans, While Still in Opposition
Varoufakis Exposes Tsipras' Plans, While Still in Opposition
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"The first thing I will do as prime minister is to demand Stοurnaras' resignation. If need be, I will drag him screaming from the central bank," Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said about Bank of Greece Governor Yiannis Stournaras in June 2014, according to Yanis Varoufakis' book.
This is an excerpt from the former finance minister's book "Adults in the Room" (Penguin, 2017), describing a meeting between key Syriza members in June 2014, when the leftist party was still in the opposition.
At the time, Syriza's popularity was rising based on Tsipras' promises to erase Greece's debt, while Greek people's acceptance of the New Democracy-PASOK coalition was dwindling, due to the harsh austerity measures imposed by Greece's lenders.
In the book, Varoufakis says that at the meeting he was explaining to Tsipras that there were powers trying to strangle the upcoming government of Greece. The plans, he had said, were allegedly masterminded at the level of the European Central Bank.
According to the text, present at the meeting were today's key cabinet members Euclid Tsakalotos, Nikos Pappas, Giorgos Stathakis and Yiannis Dragasakis. Tsipras got irate at Stournaras and said that he will do anything to get rid of him.
"The first thing I will do as prime minister is to demand Stournaras' resignation. If need be, I will drag him screaming from the central bank," Tsipras had said, according to Varoufakis.
The former finance minister further wrote that Tsipras' colleagues not only agreed with his reaction, but Pappas proposed "even more drastic solutions."
Varoufakis then explained to Syriza's leadership the importance of being ready, if the ECB closed the banks, to respond with "a move that could very well break up the euro zone." Pappas and Tsipras showed enthusiasm for such a tough proposal. Tsakalotos and Stathakis also agreed, with only Dragasakis expressing caution.
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Murray's MW rankings: Boise State streaking toward the top
Each week, RGJ sports writer Chris Murray will rank the Mountain West basketball teams. Here are this week's rankings (record and rankings through Monday's play).
1. San Diego State (previously 1)
Record: 18-6, 8-3 MW
Comment: Not a good week for SDSU, which nearly lost at Nevada before losing by 15 at Boise State. Two huge games loom this week when SDSU hosts Wyoming and Colorado State. Win both and SDSU is in a strong position. One thing to note: The Aztecs' awesome defense in nonconference play has been less awesome in league play. It's still played well defensively, but it hasn't be elite.
2. Wyoming (2)
Record: 19-5, 8-3
Comment: Wyoming took two major losses, first losing Larry Nance Jr. to mononucleosis and then losing by 23 to Air Force, a killer to a Cowboys' résumé that has little margin for error when it comes to NCAA Tournament at-large possibilities. The longer Nance is out for, the dimmer those possibilities become.
3. Boise State (4)
Comment: Boise State is playing the best of any MW team right now, and it's not particularly close. The fact Boise State has been better after losing Anthony Drmic, one of the league's top five players, shows how well Leon Rice and his staff have recruited. The depth of talent on this roster allowed it to overcome an injury loss that would have devastated many programs in the league.
4. Colorado State (3)
Comment: Against SDSU, Wyoming, Boise State and New Mexico, the Rams are 2-4 this season, so it has struggled against the league's best teams. Colorado State is still in the NCAA Tournament if it began today, but one bad loss could kick the Rams off the at-large bubble. The nonleague résumé is thin.
5. Utah State (6)
Record: 13-10, 6-5
Comment: Utah State has been terrific on the road in MW play, posting a 3-3 mark in conference games, including wins at Boise State and New Mexico (Utah State also should have won at UNLV). The Aggies should finish above-.500 on the road in league play, which is an impressive feat.
6. New Mexico (5)
Comment: New Mexico has lost four of its last six, including two at The Pit, a place where wins are usually guaranteed. Barring a win in the MW Tournament, the Lobos' run of NCAA Tournament appearances will end at three seasons. In the end, this might serve as New Mexico's "rebuilding year."
7. Fresno State (7)
Comment: Fresno State has the MW's most difficult remaining schedule, with two games against Boise State, plus games against Wyoming, Colorado State, New Mexico and UNLV. Fresno State will have to play exceptionally well to finish the MW season above the .500 mark.
8. UNLV (8)
Comment: UNLV blew an 18-point lead in the loss to Colorado State. It's all about getting ready for the MW Tournament for UNLV, which will host the event again this year. The Rebels have the talent where if they're firing on all cylinders for that tournament, they could win the whole thing and going dancing.
9. Air Force (10)
Comment: Great week for Air Force, which got back its top player, Max Yon, and swept New Mexico and Wyoming, which is about as good of a week as any MW team has had this year in conference play. Prior to last week, Air Force was 2-8 in the MW, with the two wins over SJSU, so this came out of nowhere.
10. Nevada (9)
Record: 7-15, 3-7
Comment: The Wolf Pack's average RPI over the last five seasons is 173, with a high mark of 69 in 2011-12 and a low mark of 297 this season, a number that actually went down after the win over SJSU. During the same period, Nevada has just one win over a top-50 RPI team, that being Boise State (No. 44 in RPI) during the 2012-13 season, when Nevada went 12-19 but crushed the Broncos, 75-59. Nevada is 1-37 versus top-50 RPI teams in the last five years.
11. San Jose State (11)
Record: 2-21, 0-11
Comment: I have nothing positive to say, so we'll just leave it at that.
— Chris Murray/RGJ


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Success reads/writes number – number of successful read/write operations on each data storage device (sda, sdb, sdh, ...). The information is derived from the /proc/diskstats file.
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user_time – rate of CPU utilization by user processes.
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nice_time – rate of CPU utilization by processes with the priority increased by the nice command.
idle_time – CPU idle time.
io_wait_time – rate of CPU utilization by processes waiting for completion of input/output operations.
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To what extent can Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) mitigate the environmental impact of flying?
By Mike McCurdy, P.E. and Angus Reid-Kay
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Sustainable aviation fuels offer an opportunity to substantially reduce CO2 emissions from flying, but they are not yet the universal cure.
The nature of the decarbonization problem, and the opportunity for SAF
Aviation is a particularly difficult form of transportation to decarbonize. In light of this, the global air transport industry has adopted a long-term climate goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, confirming the commitment of many of the world's airlines, airports, air traffic management and the makers of aircraft and engines to reduce CO2 emissions in support of the Paris Agreement 1.5ºC goal. The aviation industry will need to leverage every possible advantage to achieve the goal, including developing aircraft technologies, improving operations and infrastructure, and increasing SAF use. IATA director general Willie Walsh commented the "actual split, and the trajectory to get there" for the carbon abatement effort, will "depend on what solutions are the most cost-effective at any particular time." The Air Transport Action Group's (ATAG) second edition of Waypoint 2050 estimates a significant amount of SAF (330-445 million tons), alongside technological and operational improvements, will be required for the global aviation industry to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Since SAF is operationally identical and certified as "Jet-A1" fuel, no changes are required in aircraft or engine fuel systems, distribution infrastructure, or storage facilities. That allows SAF use as an interim—and long-term—solution to decarbonizing the aviation industry, while electric and clean hydrogen powertrains are developed, tested, and deployed and ground infrastructure is built.
Sustainable aviation fuels
Relative to fossil fuels, sustainably produced, unconventional, jet fuel results in a reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions across its life cycle. SAF is a non-conventional aviation fuel derived from a range of feedstocks—plant oils, used cooking oil, inedible fats, and municipal waste—converted through certified pathways then blended with fossil fuels and used as a synthetic equivalent to kerosene. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) recognizes sustainable aviation fuels as those that have "the potential to generate lower-carbon emissions than conventional kerosene on a life-cycle basis." Emissions reductions from SAF, therefore, consider the carbon absorbed during the growth of the feedstocks, and offset the carbon emitted when the fuels are produced, transported, and combusted.
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SAF is also considered sustainable when compared with a fossil-fuel source because the latter is a finite commodity. The industry has been mindful of the need to identify globally acceptable standards for the sustainability of SAFs. To comply, SAFs must be capable of being repeatedly resourced and can deliver "the three pillars" of economic, social, and environmental objectives without disrupting ecological balance, reducing natural assets, or accelerating climate change compared to business as usual.
SAF feedstocks
While it is generally agreed that SAF feedstocks are less carbon-intensive than fossil feedstocks over their life cycle, there is a certain amount of CO2 released during the production and refinement of the SAF feedstocks. GHG studies of SAF feedstocks include emissions from farming practices and fertilizers, transport of the feedstock to the SAF production facility, and—in certain circumstances—land use changes. Palm oil, for example, has generally been excluded from use as a SAF feedstock due to concerns about deforestation in Southeast Asia to make way for new palm oil plantations.
Waste streams for SAF production
The use of waste streams to produce SAF has been particularly beneficial for the environment. Reusing used cooking oil, municipal solid waste, and other waste materials both reduces GHG emissions and keeps those waste products out of our natural environment. In fact, the aviation industry prefers SAFs to the term biofuels because although SAF can be derived from grown-for-purpose plant material, it can also be derived from waste products that include fossil-derived waste. Plastic, inorganic textiles, synthetic elastomers, and other fossil-derived products comprise a significant—and increasing—percentage of municipal solid waste worldwide.
New SAF products are subject to a rigorous, three-phase American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) International qualification process. That process includes detailed chemical analysis of the fuel properties versus Jet-A1, extensive testing in both test rigs and jet engines, and multistage reviews by OEMs, the FAA, and ASTM technical committees prior to its approval for use in commercial aircraft.
There are currently seven approved annexes for producing ASTM-compliant sustainable aviation fuels. Each of these annexes is distinct, including definition of the feedstock, production method, and final fuel composition. Each fuel has its own set of economic and social benefits and drawbacks, such as the availability and cost of feedstock, carbon and other pollutant reductions, labor requirements, and cost of processing. While some feedstocks may be more suitable than others in specific regions of the world—for various reasons—all seven certified SAF technology pathways have the potential to help the aviation sector reduce its carbon footprint, assuming all sustainability criteria are met.
Today, SAFs are typically blended with conventional fossil fuels for safety and technical reasons. With chemical characteristics and physical properties that are equivalent to that of conventional jet fuel, approved SAFs can be blended into Jet A-1 up to 50% and used within existing aircraft engines without any modifications. However, as blending techniques mature, future aircraft operators may be able to dispense with the fossil blend-stock to enable greater reductions in the carbon footprint and other pollutants.
The critical work of SAFs in meeting the industry's GHG emissions
An ICF report for ATAG Waypoint 2050 estimates the possible contributions of SAF in three scenarios—as outlined in the Waypoint 2050 report—each considering a different future:
Scenario 1: Pushing technology and operations
Scenario 2: Aggressive sustainable fuel development
Scenario 3: Aspirational and aggressive technology perspective
These scenarios provide a range of sustainable fuel volumes (330-445Mt SAF) required to meet the aviation industry's climate ambitions, given the expected level of air travel growth. According to ICF's Fueling Net Zero report, achieving these volumes of SAF is ambitious but possible, as ICF observe aviation can fairly use 20 EJ sustainable bio-feedstock, enough for ~200 Mt SAF. The remainder of SAF will come from renewable electricity (Power-to-Liquid), which will require policies to ensure efficient feedstock allocation, and rapid deployment of renewable electricity generation.
Fueling net zero: How the aviation industry can deploy sufficient sustainable aviation fuel to meet climate ambitions
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Benefits of using sustainable aviation fuels to reduce emissions
SAFs provide a far greater array of value compared to conventional fuels, including environmental benefits, economic benefits, social value, and increased potential for energy security. In the short-to-medium term, the four types of gas turbine engines used in aircraft are well-known, tried, and tested after 50 years of development and refinement. These engines have proven to be dependable, viable, and have an enviable power-to-weight ratio. Therefore, coupling this mature technology with SAFs presents a pragmatic and realistic choice for reducing the sector's CO2 emissions where global aviation is likely to be reliant on liquid fuels for many years to come.
In addition to the environmental benefits outlined above, SAFs usually contain fewer impurities—most notably sulfur and aromatic carbons—such that existing engines produce significantly less sulfur dioxide and particulate emissions compared to operation with conventional jet fuel. Reductions in these contaminants allow land-based power plants using aero-derivative turbines to significantly increase their maintenance intervals. While additional testing is required, preliminary testing indicated that neat SAFs fuels have the potential to notably reduce engine operating temperatures, increasing power while reducing maintenance requirements.
SAFs constitute a more diverse, global geographic fuel supply. ICF's Fueling Net Zero report estimates between 5,000-7,000 global refineries are needed to produce the required volume of SAF to improve energy security and resilience for many nations. That renewable technology presents economic and social opportunities, including rural jobs, associated economic growth, and the potential for poverty and inequality reduction—particularly within developing countries. ICF's report estimates that the SAF requirements will create or sustain up to 13.7 million jobs and will require a total investment of 1.1-1.4 trillion USD, which per year represents 6% of annual oil and gas investment.
Risks and challenges to overcome to increase uptake levels
Lack of commercial facilities: Only one of the seven approved technology pathways, Hydroprocessed Esters and Fatty acids (HEFA), has been used to produce SAF for commercial sale. While technical challenges can be substantial, commercial facilities face challenges with feedstock availability, price volatility of fossil jet fuel, and other traditional business trials. Operating commercial analogs are critical to attract equity investment in the space as well as secure debt financing for the construction and operation of new facilities, particularly in the absence of loan guarantees or other government support for development.
Difficulties in monetizing the benefits of SAF: Feedstock costs and the processing costs of waste feedstocks such as municipal solid waste are generally higher than the cost of crude oil at current market prices. These increased costs result in a product that is generally considered to be between two and seven times more than that of jet fuel derived from conventional fossil fuels. Global blending standards and energy security policies have enabled the construction of several SAF production facilities to date, but construction has been slow given limited commercial opportunity. Recent GHG reduction policies—such as the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard that allow producers to monetize GHG reductions—have been critical in incentivizing the private sector to construct new SAF facilities that are coming online in 2021 and beyond.
Fuel is generally the largest single operating cost for airlines—around a third of their costs—so fuel-saving measures are typically a key focus for airlines. Although SAFs' life-cycle carbon emissions are much lower than conventional fossil-based sources, SAF is currently more expensive and hence the tradeoff airlines face. By 2050, however, ICF estimates the average industry cost will be $760-$900 per ton SAF, which is comfortably within the range of historical fossil fuel prices. Furthermore, although SAFs account for a very minor share of the commercial aviation fuel market to date, the number and size of SAF offtake agreements between airlines and fuel producers is growing. Partnerships include JetBlue and SG Preston, Finnair and Neste, KLM and SkyNRG, United Airlines and World Fuels.
A call for policy support
Strong support is needed to shift emphasis from carbon-based fuels to sustainable, low-carbon options as soon as possible. An International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) paper suggests that a precedent for anticipating some of the immediate challenges might be drawn from the journey taken in switching to advanced alternative road fuels. Potential barriers can be overcome through policies and incentives such as mandates, fiscal incentives, sovereign guarantees, decarbonization programs, and grants. Procurement contracts and associated measures can and have helped improve the feasibility of SAF projects and mitigate some of the risks associated with SAF production. Tax regimes and specific financing should also be considered to help reduce operational costs and boost investment in SAF projects to accelerate projection and deployment.
The incremental gains in technical performance that SAF can offer on their own are unlikely to increase uptake to the level necessary to address global climate change. However, smart policy, regulatory, and economic support for SAF production and use has the potential to provide significant benefits in combating climate change, creating rural jobs, securing our energy supply, and reducing the impact of waste on our natural environment. In all future scenarios, ICF predicts that SAF will be central to the industry's commitment to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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The Raiders now own three No. 1 picks in the 2019 draft — their own, one from the Chicago Bears in the Mack deal and now the Cowboys' top pick. With a 1-5 record and no signs for a turnaround this season, those picks will be crucial for the Raiders' rebuild before moving to Las Vegas in 2020.


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Chinese dad beats kid's dog over vet bill
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A Chinese father tried to kill his daughter's puppy because of the sick animal's mounting medical bills last Tuesday, Oct. 2.
The father bought the dog for his child (names withheld in the report) at a cheap price, but the dog happened to have health problems, as per China Press via AsiaOne on Tuesday, Oct. 8.
After purchase of the animal, it was booked into an animal hospital because it was suffering from a heart disease.
Prior to the beating, the dog received treatment for the said disease for four days, which had cost the man 500 to 600 yuan (around P3,600 to P4,300). Seeing that the animal was in critical condition, the veterinarian agreed to waive the medical fees if the treatments failed to keep it alive.
After initial treatment, the dog's condition improved slightly, as per report. However, additional treatment would amount to 300 yuan (about P2,100).
The man refused to pay the said fee, and insisted on taking the dog from the hospital. He was told that he had to pay the dog's outstanding medical fees before removing the animal from the facility. Upon hearing this, the man flew into a rage.
"If the dog dies, I don't have to pay right?" he was quoted as saying.
Footage from a security camera showed the father grabbing the dog from the veterinarian and throwing it onto the floor. He then began repeatedly kicking the dog. His daughter was evidently against her father's actions as she hit him and pushed him away.
The dog survived the assault, as per HK01 via AsiaOne on Tuesday, Oct. 8, and is currently in stable condition. Ryan Arcadio/JB
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Sterling Silver Tiffany-style heart-shaped pendant with a single hand or foot print engraved on the front. You may choose to have text on the front, back or both. The heart measures approximately 22mm by 24mm and comes on your choice of chain.
When you buy this piece, we will send you an inkless-wipe kit so you can safely and cleanly take the print we need. If you already have the print that you would like us to use, please upload a good quality scan of it when selecting your options.


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Give the Gift of The Street This Holiday Season
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Celebrate the Fourth at The Street!
Summer's here and it's time to celebrate with an American tradition – food! Starting from Thursday July 4th through Sunday July 7th, The Street Food Hall by Michael Mina is s…
Give the Gift of Good Eats This Holiday Season
From now through December 31, 2018, for every $25 in gift cards purchased at The Street Food Hall, receive a bonus $5 gift card for yourself! Visit our newest station, South Shore Swirl, to pu…
50% off for All Military Members!
Every Saturday and Sunday during the month of September, all military members (with a valid Military ID) will receive 50% off food at The Street Food Hall! Experience the unique flavors from a…
Mi Almita Cantina Now Open
Chef Michael Mina proudly announced the opening of Mi Almita Cantina, by James Beard award-winning chef Hugo Ortega and the MINA Group. Located on the 1st floor of the International Market Pla…
An Evening with Michael Mina
Finish Grand Lānai Restaurant Week by spending an evening with restaurateur and James Beard award-winning Chef Michael Mina as he personally walks you through his three current Hawaiʻi creatio…
Join Us For The Ultimate Tailgate Party At The Street
Join us at THE STREET for the ULTIMATE TAILGATE PARTY, on February 4th, and root for your favorite team! Sponsored by ESPN 1420 and your favorite beer – MILLER Lite and COORS Lite, the t…
Happy Hour at The Street
Make The Street your Happy Hour destination in Waikiki. Join us daily from 3pm – 6pm and again for late night from 10pm – close and take advantage of Happy Hour pricing at Beer, Th…
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Michelin-starred chef Michael Mina's second Hawai'i concept restaurant opens
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Slated to open on May 19, highly-acclaimed chef Michael Mina will debut his second Hawai'i eatery in the heart of Waikiki. Occupying the ground floor of the re…
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Food courts have long been the food oasis at crowded shopping malls, offering weary shoppers fast-food fare, Chinese takeout and chain-style desserts. Well, James Beard Award-winning chef Mich…


Join our unique surf & yoga retreat in Cornwall for a weekend packed with energising surf & restorative woodland yoga. Whether it's your first time in the surf or you're looking to improve, our aim for the weekend is to simply have fun and share our surfing knowledge in a relaxed environment. With post & pre surfing woodland yoga sessions our unique space provides an ideal setting to unwind and re-energise whilst surrounded in nature.
After a warm welcome and introductions, we'll jump straight into wetsuits and head for the beach with our surfboards. You'll need your swimming costume, a towel and some shoes for the beach. Once at the beach, we'll cover the basics of surf safety and how best to manage your surfboard in the waves. If it's your first time surfing our aim for the lesson is to pass on enough information for you to feel confident to enjoy surfing safely in the future on your own accord. After your lesson, we'll all gather together and head over to the Sainsbury's over the road for evening essentials before travelling in-convoy up to our woodland wild camp. Once up at the woodland, we'll give you a quick tour of the site before settling into your tents and enjoying a cup of tea or coffee. Your yoga sessions are delivered in our open-sided covered barn.
Sunday: Put Your Skills to Practice After breakfast, there's no better way to start your day than with a yoga session with the morning birdsong as your soundtrack. This morning's session will focus on awakening your body and recharging your muscles for more surf. Energised and focused, you'll head back to the beach to build upon yesterday's surf session and develop your skills to the next level. Whether you're practising how to turn your board or paddling out the back for bigger waves, today is all about progression whatever your level; feel confident in the ocean and recognise how much you've learned. You'll be handed your towel at around 13:00 as a great weekend adventure comes to an end. Note: This itinerary and the duration of the activities are subject to change due to group abilities and preferences, and weather conditions and forecasts.
This is an absolutely classic ride, from one end of the UK to another! Over ten days cycling you'll be covering nearly 1000 miles through some of the most glorious scenery England and Scotland has to offer. This is a fully supported and guided trip, staying in hotels/B&B's throughout.
There is no better way to explore the lands of Cornwall than by mountain bike, riding through stunning forest, cliff, abandoned mines and coastal trails. If this wasn't enough, you'll gett a little workout in the process!
Grab a Stand Up Paddle Board and hit the surf in this exhilarating adventure that combines Stand Up Paddle Boarding and something a bit more extreme - Cliff Jumping and Free Diving!


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#define __HDX_HIP_ENCRYPTED_H__

#include "HipParameter.h"

namespace HDX
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	{
		public:
			CHipEncrypted();
			CHipEncrypted(const TCharArray& aIV,
				const TCharArray& aData);
			TCharArray GetIV() const;
			static MHipParameter* Create();
			void SetIV(const TCharArray&);
			TCharArray GetData() const;
			void SetData(const TCharArray&);

			unsigned short Type() const;
			unsigned short Size() const;
			TCharArray GetBytes() const;
			bool SetBytes(const TCharArray&);
			bool SetBytes(const TCharArray&,
				std::size_t, std::size_t);

			~CHipEncrypted();

		private:
			TCharArray iIV;
			TCharArray iData;
	};
};

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Bridal Artistry is the DC/MD/VA area's premier on-site team of multi-ethnic makeup & hair pros. We strive to enhance your natural beauty through our top-notch services and listening to your vision! We offer in-depth consultations to talk over colors and themes and create custom styling that is authentic and unique to your personality. With over 25 years of experience in beautifying brides,our company features stylists/artists who go above and beyond for you on your wedding day. We are a coordinated team of professionals who can work with the smallest to the largest group, all within good timing!
Hair-makeup lasted through the blizzard... a December to remember!
My entire experience with Bridal Artistry was wonderful! Barbara was very responsive and helpful in working to coordinate both my hair & makeup trial, and day-of hair & makeup services for both me and several women in my family. Jacinda did both my hair and makeup -- she's fantastic!! I really enjoyed my trial with her -- she even gave me four different (great!) hairstyle options to choose from/noodle on between my trial and my wedding day and she took pictures of each hair style with my phone so that I could refer back to them while deciding. My hair & makeup turned out great on my wedding day, thanks to Jacinda! Jacinda also did makeup for another family member, and did a gorgeous job with her, too. Stephanie did hair for my sister and mother-in-law -- they were both so happy with their hair styles! My sister nearly started jumping up and down when she saw what a great job Steph did on her hair. :) Thank you, Bridal Artistry, for helping make my wedding day so great!
Jacinda and Laura were excellent for the hair and makeup for myself and my bridesmaids. The trial was super helpful to finalize what I wanted and Jacinda was flexible to accommodate my last minute changes to the hairstyle.
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I got married on July 22, 2018. When I first met Barbara, she was so easy-going, warm and friendly. My first makeup trial with a different company didn't go well at all, so I was happy when Barbara took her time during the makeup trial to understand what I wanted and then delivered great results. A few weeks before my wedding, I got really tan by accident and was nervous this would make things difficult as she would have to time extra time to match my new shade of makeup. Barbara was very reassuring and on my wedding day she did an excellent job with not only adjusting my makeup but doing all my friends' makeup really well. She was very talented at making us look like a more enhanced version of ourselves but still natural looking! Thanks, Barbara. It was a joy to work with you!
"Fabulous" is all I can say regarding Bridal Artistry! They listen to their clients, do a beautiful and professional job, and are a delight to be with. Always punctual, they love what they do! I can not say enough great things about them.
Barbara and her team of hair and makeup pros do excellent work. They're great at helping their clients find their perfect wedding style, and they do solid work that lasts from the time brides leave the makeup chair until the very last moment of the party. Plus, they're nice people! Calming to have around, professional, and easy to work with. We love working with Bridal Artistry!


Value for money must take into consideration the competitive and legal environment in which the provider performs.
It is the strongest profit lever. Contingency costs is commonly applied to professional offerings like legal services and consultancy offerings. High-low costs denotes the custom of offering things at top dollar00 for a time period, followed by providing the very same goods at an extremely low price for the predetermined moment. Psychological costing is a collection of tactics designed to have a positive psychological results. It is widely used in a variety of merchandising settings. Price reduction pricing certainly is the point where marketer or retailer gives a reduced selling price.
Pricing is actually a significant software issue since it is linked to merchandise positioning. Parity pricing denotes the procedure meant for pricing an item at or perhaps near a rival's cost so as to stay competitive. Transmission pricing is without question an approach which may be considered on the right time of market admittance. Thus, is it doesn't most important strategy in the field of advertising, it is utilized as a a plan decision in answer to contrasting market conditions. Experience contour pricing happens when a supplier prices a service or item at a really low rate so as to obtain volume photos expectation that expense of production can decrease when using the acquisition of manufacturing experience.
You are likely to truly be familiar with reasons behind the strategy and stay in a position to produce your very own assured decision about ways to value in a way which will help you approach your organization forwards. The technique was made to offer broad information to price-setters and helps to ensure the costs strategy is usually consistent with completely different elements of the advertising system. Before you are allowed to determine which usually retail value for money strategy to make use of in determining the most suitable selling price for your products, you must take into account the product's immediate expenses and also other associated expenditures. Many rates strategies exist, and it can be a good idea to experiment once you price tag products right up until you locate a strategy option most effective to your industry.
You either furnish mass special discounts on everything, or perhaps you attempt to keep hold of everyday low pricing intended for so long as possible. Either the best price discounts or the mixture of Compound discounts gets placed on the item, depending on which low cost provides the just about all benefit to the client. Prices are going permit all parties involved, that's the producer, wholesaler and retailer, to earn money from the previous sale. Once you have calculated your cost price, after that you can think of a wholesale pricethat is, the price tag you price retailers or perhaps buyers to your goods. Your wholesale selling price ought to be the friend it should have satisfactory buoyancy to remain to keep your business afloat, not drag you into the depths. High price will often be taken as an indication of quality, especially whenever the solution or service falls short of search features that may be checked prior to acquire. In the end, you will need to choose if you desire bigger prices for your merchandise and a reduce volume purchased or less costly products and higher volumes offered, and which will direction will allow you to attain profits.


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Asia's Globalization Essay
In business today there are many companies and countries conducting global business. The Japanese, Chinese and the South Koreans are all very aggressive in this growing trend among countries and corporations. Whats interesting is the present state of our political relations with the Chinese and our direct investment in them. Its no secret that if we went to war with China over some unforeseen problem that it would be quite a challenge, so weve taken an alternate route. Keep them close and invest. China received just over 45 billion in 1997 but Foreign Direct Investment and has not shown signs of slowing down.
Jiang Zemin (Chinas commander and chief) in a recent press conference with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum reassured the pacific rim CEOs he would continue to open his markets to foreign investments. This way of thinking began in 1978 when the Chinese leadership began to move the economy from a restricted market to more of a capitalist market. The results at the forefront of this movement were small, only about 2. 7 billion between 1985 and 1990 and then exploded in 1997 to a record of 45 billion. (international business-186) Mainland Chinese corporations are acquiring overseas assets with the pace picking up.
Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. said it would pay $60 million for a 10% stake in the revived Daewoo Auto, now led by General Motors Corp. China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) bought a 75% stake in an oil field in North Africa for $394 million. Huayi Group of Shanghai is paying $20 million for the battery-making assets of Moltech Power Systems, a bankrupt company in Gainesville, Fla. Granted, China's investment overseas is tiny compared with the vast amounts of money flowing into the country but its just the begining.
Chinese companies will spend at least $2. billion abroad this year, but that's just a fraction of the $50 billion in foreign investment China is projecting for 2002. The modest numbers, though, hide grand ambitions. One strategy of Chinese companies is to buy into new markets. For example, television maker TCL International Holdings Ltd. paid $8 million for Germany's bankrupt Schneider Electronics. "Their sales and distribution channels are very good," says Connie Lau, deputy director of investor relations at TCL. "This is a key step for TCL to enter the European market. China's expansion follows a pattern set by Japanese companies in the 1970s and '80s and by Koreans in the 1990s.
But those companies grew behind protective tariff barriers and then expanded overseas because domestic markets offered limited growth. With China joining the World Trade Organization, mainland companies are going abroad to acquire technologies and skills they need to survive in the increasingly competitive market at home. Last year, Holley Group, a Hangzhou maker of electricity meters, gained a foothold in China's booming wireless business when it bought the mobile-phone design and software operations of Philips Semiconductor.
TV-component maker Beijing Orient Electronics Group Co. ants to buy Hyundai Display Technology Inc. , which makes liquid crystal displays, to boost domestic sales. China's biggest overseas investments by far have been in natural resources, with surging demand in China forcing Beijing to invest in oil and mining outside its borders. In June, Baosteel paid $30 million for a 46% stake in an Australian iron ore mining joint venture with Rio Tinto PLC's Hamersley Iron unit. And Chinese smelter Jiangxi Copper Co. is looking at deals in the Philippines and Chile. If we want to become stronger, we have to look overseas," says Jiangxi spokesman Huang Dongfeng.
Despite their ambition, Chinese companies have yet to prove their global mettle. Indeed, some say Chinese corporations overpaid for assets in their early oil and gas deals. "My impression is that the Chinese companies buying abroad are getting taken, much like the Japanese with real estate in the '80s," says a Hong Kong investment banker. CNOOC's Qiu agrees that some companies–his own not included–have paid too much. "Buying things isn't success by itself," he says. "We have to learn to play world club; you can't just play domestic league. "
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The World's Best Stories Come To Yoto with Penguin Random House Partnership
Always looking to expand our library of top-notch kids' audio, we've teamed up with Penguin Random House to bring you Yoto cards featuring some of the world's best children's stories. Penguin Random House and its Puffin imprint are titans in the world of publishing, and partnering with them means there'll be a whole new world of excellent stories available on Yoto.
We've already kicked off the collaboration with Roald Dahl and Paul McCartney. Five of Roald Dahl's best-loved stories — Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, The Enormous Crocodile, Revolting Rhymes and Boy — are available now, and we'll be releasing more very soon. Sir Paul's first children's story, Hey Grandude!, read by the legend himself, is also out now.
Here's Richard Lennon, Publisher at Penguin Random House Audio, on the news: "Our audio editions use narration, sound effects and cutting-edge recording techniques to capture the imaginations of children for whom listening is the most natural way to engage with a story. We are excited about the huge potential Yoto has to help even more young readers find their new favourite characters."
Yoto's own Ben Drury, company CEO and Co-Founder, is just as thrilled: "We're excited to be partnering with the world's leading publisher to bring some of their best-loved stories to Yoto in audio form. Starting with Roald Dahl and the brand new children's story from Sir Paul McCartney is a wonderful way to kick off the partnership."
You can read the full press release here, and stay tuned for further first-class stories coming soon to Yoto.
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OPUSING, assists the professionals /students to remain abreast and competitive in their field by offering numerous training and certification programs. Our industry and corporate training area can help you improve professional and vocational practice. Effective learning is achieved not so much from simple 'instruction' but from a broader context that promotes learning. On-the-job training allows students to link theory and practice with relevant experience.
Companies need to adapt, or they will not survive. Training teams in the application of 'lean' principles is an important way of achieving and sustaining business improvements.
OUPUSING Training helps clients improve the skills and productivity of their employees by providing world class training solutions that add real value and can be tailored to suit the specific needs of the business. We partner with industry bodies to ensure that our training complies with current industry standards.
Our mission is to help clients improve the skills and productivity of their employees by providing world class training solutions that add real value. OPUSING objective is to incorporate 'lean' thinking into all programs and consults with clients prior to any engagement about the desired outcomes from the program.
A Customized Program to Suit Your Needs - We work with you every step of the way. We'll help you select the appropriate topics, program length, and delivery model for your needs. A few of our popular topics include strategy, leadership, innovation, technology, management, and communications.
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Q: Partitioning functions into equivalence classes based on running time?
I'm studying for my midterm and doing some practice problems, and I would be grateful if someone showed how to solve this. From my understanding you have to partition the functions into equivalence classes based on their running time. I am confused on the running time of some functions such as the first function listed. Would the running time be $\Theta(n^2)$ or $\Theta(\frac{n^2}{ln^{2}n})$? Are there 15 equivalence classes?