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Divided Attention – Chapter 10
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It was freezing cold outside, and Ayala's kitchen was a mess, but she spoke decisively into the receiver. "Okay, Pessy, let's go."
They bundled up and went out into the cold Jerusalem winter night. Ayala hoped that whatever it was that Pessy wanted to discuss, the conversation would be short and would require no more than one round around their cluster of buildings. She didn't dare say anything abut her tired legs, lest it lead to another evening rendezvous tomorrow night.
"So, Ayala, it's like this," Pessy said calmly, sidestepping the puddles in her way. "A girl named Frankel has been suggested for my nephew from Bnei Brak."
Ayala had a student named Frankel but she hardly assumed that that was whom Pessy was referring to. So what did she want from her?
"They heard that her younger sister is in your school. I made some inquiries. She's your student, right?"
"I have a student by that name," Ayala said, feeling the biting wind despite her coat. She shivered.
"So that's it. The question is: what's her problem?"
"Why is she by you?"
"Because Hashem sent her there," Ayala replied simply. Uh-oh, that was not a good answer, because Pessy stopped in her tracks.
"I understand she wasn't accepted to the good schools. Why?"
"Who said such a thing?" Ayala protested.
"Yes. If I ask you why she's in your school, and you tell me because Hashem wanted or something like that, then that means you're hiding something, and that something can be that she was just not accepted anywhere else."
"Absolutely not," Ayala replied. "I mean, I don't know about it. I don't know the reason why any of the girls are in our school."
Pessy stared at her skeptically, and inadvertently stepped into a small puddle. "Impossible," she declared. "You don't know if she was one of the girls transferred from your old school or one of those not accepted anywhere else?"
"My sister will think you're being evasive," Pessy said snippily. "And to tell you the truth, I think so, too."
Ayala was cold, but she was afraid that if she would tell Pessy that, it would be further "proof" that she was trying to avoid the subject. So she continued walking and just said with a small smile, "Nu, nu."
"So am I right?"
"No," Ayala replied, and then continued with uncharacteristic assertiveness. "I'm telling you again, Pessy, I specifically asked that I not be told the reason for each girl's attendance in our school; it's not only Zahava Frankel. I think that is the girls' basic right."
Pessy continued clucking with her tongue with obvious disapproval, but to Ayala's relief, she began to head back home. "So what should I tell my sister?" she asked, somewhat coldly, after two minutes of silent walking.
"That if it's so important to her to know, she should try and find out somewhere else. I can't help her." Ayala hoped that it wouldn't take long for Pessy to get over this. "What I can tell you," she added with an appeasing smile, "is that the Frankel in my class is a wonderful student. You can tell your sister that, if it interests her."
"How much time have we been walking?" was Pessy's response.
"Something like fifteen-twenty minutes."
Pessy wasn't satisfied. "Not enough," she said disappointedly. "I heard from the instructor at the exercise class I go to, that for the first forty minutes you walk, you don't even burn any calories. So we didn't really do anything."
Ayala suppressed a yawn. But just then Pessy added, "But it's too cold for me, so let's go back in."
That night was equally as cold and as dark on another Jerusalem street.
Rafi was able to see the little window above him. He raised his leg, and a second later he was seated on the top branch. He held onto it tightly and carefully inched towards the dark square ahead of him. Almost automatically, he stuck his hand out and grabbed the window sill, while the second hand tried to get in deeper. But his hand hit something hard, and it blocked him. He squinted and noticed, for the first time, that something was soldered in the inside of the window frame: bars.
Rafi looked at them again, and then rested his forehead against a nearby branch as he allowed himself a small smile. That was it. This torture was over. No more scary dark hallways and their countless doors.
"Ronny can say what he wants; I don't care. I went enough times for him," Rafi said quietly to himself, and carefully began to descend, his legs groping for the big branches. Going down was more frightening than going up, but he definitely preferred it to the darkness in the building.
Down at the bottom, under the leafy shade of the tree, Reb Nechemia Paksher and Mr. Cooperman waited. The former stood near the trunk, while the latter friend waited about a yard away, next to another broad branch.
Until ten minutes earlier they had been waiting inside the first grade classroom, whose window directly faced the tree and the entrance gate to the courtyard. They had noticed the two figures approaching the tree, and had seen how one of them had climbed up while the other had waited at the bottom, staring down at the ground.
"As I thought," Mr. Cooperman said. "Wait here, Rabbi Paksher. I don't want to leave the tree unobserved for even a minute. I'm going out to the big kid."
"Be careful. He's no kid," the principal whispered. True, the window was closed and mostly covered by a curtain, yet he still felt it appropriate to whisper.
"I'm armed," his companion said with a laugh. "Don't worry; I'm not afraid of him. And don't take your eyes off the tree. I'll call you soon."
But the second he opened the front door of the building a crack, the boy waiting at the bottom of the tree leaped in surprise and began running frenziedly. By the time Mr. Cooperman reached the tree, the boy was gone without a trace. Cooperman's eyes sought out the first grade window, and the principal peeked out from behind the curtain.
"There!" Rabbi Paksher whispered, his finger pointing to the left. Mr. Cooperman sprinted in that direction and was just in time to see the retreating figure on the other side of the fence; the boy crossed the street and disappeared into one of the yards. There was no point in trying to pursue him further.
Cooperman turned back to the building and signaled for the principal to come out. Reb Nechemia silently opened the door and joined the private investigator, whose eyes were fixed on the upper part of the tree. They heard quiet rustling and then silence; after a pause, the rustling resumed, this time growing steadily louder.
The two men waited. Mr. Cooperman puffed air into his unlit cigarette, looking thoughtful. Reb Nechemia shifted his weight from leg to leg, and every few seconds, took out his cell phone to make sure he had turned it off. Silence. That was the name of the game. The rustling was very close now, and Mr. Cooperman sucked harder on the cigarette.
Just above them, Rafi was inching his way down cautiously. He didn't know how many branches still remained, and he hoped there weren't too many. The branches were wet and cold, and leaves kept getting stuck to his face. "Last time," he murmured quietly, but he knew that if Ronny would demand that he climb up again to check something about the bars, or anything else, he wouldn't be able to say no. As much as Ronny tried to play it like he was a friend, he also reminded Rafi constantly that Rafi had no choice but to obey him.
The child's legs dangled in the air as he clung to the bottom-most branch with his hands. As he swung in the air, he was surprised to feel Ronny's hands grab his legs. "Thanks, Ronny, I'm okay," he said a bit testily. He didn't want Ronny to think he was a little kid.
"I know that you're okay here; a little too okay, but I was afraid to see you fall."
Rafi bit his lips hard. It wasn't Ronny. It was a different voice; they were someone else's hands. He didn't let go of the branch. Then Rafi heard footsteps, and he released his hands. Well, the game was up anyway, and Ronny wouldn't be able to say he was a weakling and let go of the tree so fast. The branch was cold and wet and really fat, and his palms ached from the effort.
Rafi squeezed his eyes shut, and let himself be led by the person who had caught him. He was scared and nervous, but at the same time, a feeling of warmth began to creep up from his feet to his shoulders. It was a cold night and the man had warm hands.
"Now, let's take a look at you," the voice near his ear said, and Rafi suddenly felt the hard asphalt under his feel. The hand did not let go of his wrist. "Mr. Cooperman, please bring me your flashlight."
Rafi squeezed his eyes even tighter in an attempt to keep them closed. No one could force him to open them, right?
"It got left inside," the second voice said.
"So let's do our best to see him without it," said the one whose name was not Cooperman. "A kid about a meter twenty tall, with wet clothes full of leaves, a small hat that covers long, wet hair, and look at your face—" Rafi felt his chin being lifted with a warm finger, and suddenly, without knowing why, he felt an urge to cry.
"Well, at least I can breathe a sigh of relief! I was really worried!" the one who had raised Rafi's chin said. "Baruch Hashem! He's not one of my students!"
Rafi suddenly felt deeply curious to see who the voice belonged to, but he knew it was better to keep his eyes closed. The more he could hide right now, the better it was.
"Reb Nechemia, shall we go into your office?" the second voice asked.
"Yes, we need to have a few words with him, don't we?" The grip on his wrist eased a bit, and Rafi knew that this was his opportunity. Now, before they went inside.
With a sudden, wild jerk, he broke free of the person holding his arm, who emitted a cry of surprise. The boy began to run, but he didn't get more than three feet before two strong hands grabbed him, hands that were stronger than the first ones. "Oops!" the man said. "You're in a bit of a hurry, aren't you, young man?" He spoke like one of Rafi's teachers, Mr. Pierre, and Rafi knew that meant that this man was also born in France, but that hardly interested him at that moment. He just knew that things were getting more and more complicated.
"Mischievous kid, isn't he!" the first one said, and Rafi—whose eyes were open by now—saw black pants approaching them. "Did you see how he ran away from me?"
"I'll take him now, Rabbi Paksher," the Frenchman said. "You're too gentle for him."
Reb Nechemia didn't respond. "We'd better hurry, Mr. Cooperman. He's shaking from the cold."
The three entered the office. Rafi's eyes remained glued to the floor and his mind was blank. The light went on, the door closed behind them, and the key turned in the lock. Rafi lifted his eyes a little and saw the hand of the man with the black pants pocketing the ring of keys. He bit his lips hard again and tried to think what he could do. Was there any way out of this mess? He wondered what had happened to Ronny. He probably ran away.
The man named Cooperman led Rafi to a desk—which Rafi was most familiar with—and sat him in a chair. Finally, Cooperman let go of his shoulders and sat down beside him. The black pants walked around to the other side of the desk. A chair squeaked; the man must have sat down. Rafi could not restrain himself any longer and raised his eyes a bit more. He saw a gray sweater, a medium-brown beard, and a white collar that peeked out from behind it. The boy raised his eyes even more and saw that the man's brown eyes were fixed on him. Rafi quickly closed his eyes again.
"You start, Rabbi Paksher," the Frenchman beside him said.
"Me?" The man on the other side of the desk sighed. "I have no idea how to deal with a vandal of nine or ten years old."
"Fine," the Frenchman replied, and Rafi heard some papers rustle. Oh, he was probably a policeman. "I see you prefer to keep your eyes closed, young man, but when we came in, they were open. You saw exactly where we are, didn't you?"
Rafi didn't move. He was cold in his wet clothes, and every move caused another wet piece of fabric to stick to his body. Of all the nights he had been here with Ronny, this was the worst. It had been cold and rainy all the way here, the wet leaves had bothered him in the tree, and now, he had been caught.
The voice on his right continued speaking. "This is not the first time you're here, is it?"
"Just a moment, Mr. Cooperman. I'm going to turn up the steam."
Rafi opened his eyes again—just two tiny cracks—and noticed the principal speaking with his back to them.
"Soon you're going to offer the kid tea, too," Cooperman grumbled. "I see that the fact that he is a boy has softened you. Don't forget, he's not just a kid. He's the one who made this mess!"
"I think not," the principal said, and Rafi looked at his moving hands. "The big one is the responsible one. This boy just came in and came down to open the door for that shameless hooligan. Isn't that right, young man?" Rafi looked at the principal, but didn't move. "But the idea of tea, Mr. Cooperman, is not a bad one. How much sugar do you take?"
"One teaspoon, Rabbi Paksher, thank you." The man beside him smiled and Rafi turned his head to look at him. He was a broad man, dressed in a short, green jacket, and his eyes, with the light eyebrows, were shielded by a large pair of glasses. He was busy with a yellow pencil, humming slightly under his breath. The boy utilized the time that the man was distracted to study the room. The message he had painted on the wall was still there, although it was obvious that someone had tried to clean it. The alumni photograph was not on the wall, and Rafi saw it lying on its side near the desk, black as he had left it. The only window was barred, of course, and the unit above the principal's desk emitted a steady stream of warm air.
A cup suddenly appeared beside him. It was steaming hot. Two more cups were set on the desk with a slight clink. The principal sat down again.
"Nu, take a drink," he said to Rafi. Then he muttered a few words and began sipping from his own cup. The other man took a sip of his tea, too. Rafi hesitantly moved his hand towards his cup. But then it occurred to him that perhaps, they had put something that would put him to sleep, or even worse, poison, in the drink. He pulled back his hand and stared at the vapor rising from the cup.
"Drink, my dear, drink. Why don't you want it?" the principal asked.
Cooperman coughed next to Rafi. "Rabbi Paksher, you've given him tea and raised the steam and now you're calling him 'my dear'. Now, just before you escort him to the door, I want to tell you that he's the culprit."
"You think so?" The principal looked at the boy. Rafi removed his hat, the only garment that was still wet. He wasn't cold anymore.
"I assume that the idea to break in was probably the other guy's," Cooperman continued, "but the actual job was carried out from beginning to end by this little fellow right here."
Rafi swung his legs. Let them talk till tomorrow; he didn't care. Now it was warm and pleasant in here, and it didn't look like either of the two men planned to do anything bad to him. All he wanted to do now was sleep.
Sleep!
His eyes were drawn, like a magnet, to the cup in front of him. There certainly wasn't poison in there. The principal didn't look like the type to want to poison him, but if there was something that would help him sleep in that cup, he wouldn't mind at all. He wished he could sleep! He took the cup and brought it slowly to his lips. This was the first time he was tasting tea. It was so sweet and warm, and so much better than chocolate milk or coke. It was tea that this man had prepared for him.
The principal didn't take his eyes off him, and then suddenly he said, "Wait a minute! Maybe he's deaf?"
Cooperman laughed. "I doubt it. Kid, are you deaf?"
Rafi's neck was no longer stiff from the cold, and he shook his head in the negative. He continued to drink until he emptied the cup, which he then placed on the table. He leaned back and his gaze shifted between the two men looking at him. They'd seen his eyes anyway already.
"Good, so I see we have a smart boy here who understands what we're asking him," Cooperman said. "First of all, it's important for you to know that we're not going to do anything bad to you. We just want to ask you a few questions, and afterwards, you're going to get a ride home to your nice warm bed, either in my car or the principal's."
Rafi placed a finger on the edge of his cup. He knew that his bed at home was very cold. Here it was much warmer.
"Tell me," the principal said. "Is Mr. Cooperman right? Did you do all this yourself?" He was surprised, and that really got Rafi annoyed. He nodded vigorously in the affirmative. He didn't want them to think he was a baby.
"I knew it," the Frenchman said. "The drawing outside was on the level of a child this age, approximately, not more."
"How much can you learn already from that doodle?" the principal asked.
"Oh, a lot, Rabbi Paksher. So, do you hear us, kid? We're talking about that silly red picture you drew in the hallway. You drew it, right?"
But if he hoped to anger Rafi and make him talk, he was disappointed. Rafi didn't care in the least if they insulted his picture. As though he wanted to come here and draw it in the first place!
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Ralf Eggert ist der Name folgender Personen:

* Ralf Eggert (Politiker) (* 1970), deutscher Politiker, Oberbürgermeister von Calw
 Ralf Eggert (Triathlet) (* 1971), deutscher Triathlet

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You know if you've read the post below that I am not exactly tech-savvy. Well what happened to me this morning is almost embarrassing to reveal, but what the heck. In the name of diabetes it may offer you some solace.
A month ago I cancelled an interview I was going to do with a patient, as I continue to collect all our stories of living with diabetes. I cancelled because my tape recorder didn't work. Kaput! When I pressed the on button, nothing went on. I am reliant on it to record, and although there are 2 other recorders in the house, I don't know how to use them.
I was disappointed I had to postpone the interview, and even worse, felt bad that someone had set aside time for me and I had to reschedule. Of course she was very kind and we rescheduled for four weeks later – after my husband would be back from Holland to fix the recorder or help me work one of the others in the house. You know I've heard of couples becoming co-dependent and in the past actually felt sorry for them. Yep, here I am.
I lifted the battery cover to discover, to my dismay, there weren't. He laughed like a hyena. His six foot, 128 pound frame shook from head to toe. I immediately pulled two batteries out of the drawer, put them in the recorder, and presto, it powered on. I'm sure what happened was the last time I used the recorder I pulled the battery cover off to take out the memory stick, took out the batteries as well that were likely running low, got distracted with any of a million things, came back to the recorder and forgetting I was going to change the batteries, closed the empty battery tray and put the recorder away.
I disclose my error, foolishness, absentmindedness, laugh-inducing mishap for one reason. Since life has become so increasingly fast, busy, frantic, chaotic, multi-task-demanding, haven't we all noticed some lapses and spells of absent-mindedness? Now ponder: how are we expected to perfectly fulfill the multiple and constant requirements of good diabetes management?
and on, and on, and on, day after day after day after day after week after month after year after year after year after decade after decade after decade.
Now tell me what we do every day isn't miraculous. And I'll tell you when you falter, it's human nature, like forgetting to put the batteries in your recorder.
When you notice you're out of juice, just put your batteries back in, and turn the power button back on and let it be.


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Preliminary investigation plans and related comments:
Please refer to the Japanese Tsunami Warning System at: http://www.seisvol.kishou.go.jp/eq/eng/fig/tsunamiinfo.html
Hokkaido †
2011/03/11: Here is a damage survey for the southern coast of Hokkaido Island along the Sea of Japan (ports of Yoichi, Iwanai, Setana, and Esashi). A Tsunami Alert* was temporarily announced in these regions after the main earthquake. Water level rises were observed in these ports early in the evening, but the tsunami did not surge over the quays. There were no victims, nor any damage reported to vessels. The heights of the quays are known.
Aomori Pref. †
Iwate Pref. †
2011/03/14 (reported by Dr. Ogasawara, Iwate University):
Traffic restrictions were placed on roads connecting to coastal areas from the inland (passage allowed only for rescue operations and disaster support teams).
Repeated transportation between coastal areas and the inland is done by helicopter.
Morioka City †
Infrastructures (water, power, transportation, etc…) have mostly recovered, but food and fuel is in short supply.
Major shopping centers will be closed tomorrow until further notice (03/15).
Coastal Areas †
Catastrophic devastation.
No prospect of recovery for infrastructures.
Rikuzen-Takada City area †
15,000 people are missing (city population: 23,000).
The whole town of Otsuchi is devastated; no communication with the town is possible.
The headquarters for disaster control is not functioning.
Miyagi Pref. †
Sendai City †
2011/03/13 (reported by Dr. Koshimura, Tohoku University):
(Situations in the city) Electrical power network is recovering, but the water system is still not working. There are long lines of people in front of convenient stores. Similar situation with gas stations, but fuel is scarce. Conducting damage surveys are very difficult. National Route 4 is congested but passable. However, the access from National Route 4 to coastal areas is very poor. 2011/03/13? (reported by Dr. Sakai, Iwate University):
According to a staff member who was staying in Sendai and came back a little while ago, rental cars were not available (suspended). Long lines were seen at gas stations along national routes connecting Sendai and Morioka. The staff member had to hitch-hike back to Morioka.
Natori River and Sendai Airport †
The area between the southern bank of the Natori River and the northern part of Sendai Airport was surveyed. This area is a flat plain, and the tsunami invaded it through an underpass of the Sendai-Tobu Road. The tsunami reached 3 to 4 km inland. The plain was still flooded by muddy water, with the depth being about 1 meter at approximately 3 km from the coast (the only measurement made in this survey). Approaching the coast through this water is impossible.
Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai †
The tsunami reached the Sendai Tobu Road near Arahama in Wakabayashi-ku. Damage is very serious. The search for the missing is ongoing. 2011/03/13 (reported by Dr. Koshimura, Tohoku University):
Afternoon near Okada, Wakabayashi-ku: Entering from Prefectural Route 23 via the Sendai-higashi Interchange of Sendai Tobu Road. The tsunami reached Rokuchonome-higashi on Prefectural Route 23 (4.5 km from the coast). Water depths were measured along the road (about 1 m at 3 km from the coast). However, we returned to the university after hearing reports of an increase in radiation at the Onagawa Nuclear Plant.
Izumi-ku, Sendai †
2011/03/14 (reported by Dr. Minoura, Tohoku University):
Electrical power network has mostly recovered. Gas stations have been re-opened, but long lines for refueling were observed (one line of cars was around 2 km long).
Food is scarce. I could only get some snacks and one bottle of drink after waiting in line for 2 hours. Drinks in vending machines are also mostly sold out.
Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sindai †
In the morning, had discussions about damages in the university and disaster control systems.
The laboratory was completely destroyed, and everything is inoperative. Servers were also destroyed.
Electrical power is available only in the first floor of the Sougou-Kenkyu Building, where our activities are presently being conducted.
2011/03/14 (reported by Dr. Minoura, Tohoku University)
The laboratory and my home are in terrible shape. It will take a long time to clean up.
Commodities such as gasoline are extremely short. The fuel is being reserved for emergency vehicles, so I cannot refuel my car.
The coastal area cannot be accessed because of rescue operations and heaps of debris. Also, thick, waist-high sludge covers some places, which are too dangerous to enter.
Electrical power network is starting to recover.
Tohoku University has decided to close the school until the end of April. Students were ordered to return to their parents' house.


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Ethnic Surf Suicide, Volunteering lets Canberra waste more
Another ethnic swimming outside the patrol flags drowns – this time a Punjabi at night at Wollongong
by John Hood AC, editor writ large (acting) • March 24, 2016
Didn't have to wait long. A day after two ethnics went for a dip pissed in a rip off Coffs Harbour, a punjabi was seen swimming at night outside the beach patrol flags at North Wollongong.
The 21-year-old wannabe Sikh was last seen bobbing off North Wollongong Beach on Wednesday night at around 7:20pm, wearing a pair of blue swimming shorts and a friggen turban!
The import resided in Queanbeyan near Canberra, a quiet Aussie town but recently being taken over by increasing ethnic Indians and Punjabis.
Rescue crews searched up until 10pm on Wednesday, but being warm the tiger sharks probably got him. Bit a curry burley for them.
So mandatory curry sea marker dye was thrown into the area where he was last seen bobbing from the shore as a gesture to the current and shark gods.
Police are urging anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000. Crap! Why?
Perhaps he was a 457 visa cook at KT Bee's Kitchen on Bungendore Road, Queanbeyan East, the dodgy curry house on the books of the NSW Food Authority for having a disgusting kitchen. The owner Jasbir Singh was fined $440 back on September 1 last year.
Buoyancy?
But ya can't tell these ethnics.
As soon as the surf picks up they come down to the beach like magnets. They wanna avoid the pounders and the foam so head straight for the flat rip away from the patrolled beach. They take selfies and head out in groups. Some get pissed. Some even wanna swim at night. Down in Victoria they luv swimming in the kelp.
Don't the fools see the red and yellow flags. The flags aren't there for some cultural Buddhist blessing.
Most can't swim to save themselves. Most can't even speak Engrish.
There needs to be two rules added to Customs clearance when applying for a visa to Australia – no beards, must speak English and must be able to swim 100 metres.
Last January 2016 down in Victoria over summer, four ethnics had to be pulled from the sea at Cape Woolamai beach on Phillip Island after getting caught in a rip at night. They were in one of those big monocultural ethnic groups. They were all asian and a couple of indians – all here on 457 visas taking Australian jobs at a local nursing home Banfield Aged Care in Cowes. There were 15 of them on the beach. The group were in shallow water just up to their knees taking selfies at about 7pm.
It was getting dark, the beach was unpatrolled and the warning signs were posted.
Woolamai Beach SLSC could have done no more
It was dusk. The local life savers had long finished their patrol, but had even warned the group about the rip and had told them to get out of the water. The current is strong, the beach is steep, and it's getting dark. Hello!
But typically ethnics ignored the explicit warnings, and they were soon pulled out to sea by a powerful rip.
Off-duty lifeguards and a surfer went to their rescue and pulled two people from the water, while two others were reportedly seen face down up to 60m off shore.
Why bother? Job done. Turn the radio up and head home.
One of the swimmers, a 34-year-old asian woman died in hospital on Monday and a 27-year-old overweight Indian man is still fighting for his life at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne.
Just days before the tragedy in Victoria, two men were pulled from unrelenting surf conditions at Hawks Nest in the NSW Hunter Region. The body of a third man, 20-year-old from Sydney, was found on Tuesday.
The trio were swimming at an unpatrolled part of Bennett's Beach, when they became caught in a rip. The beach was closed at the time due to horrendous conditions following a week of high rainfall and storms.
In 2015, 12,690 rescues were recorded across Australia, including 102 drowning deaths. 34 of those drownings were swimmers and waders who decided to take a dip outside the red and yellow flags. This is 19 more than in 2014 because there are more ethnics living here.
They're a bloody menace.
Got another one for ya!
Sydney beaches are the worst for offenders swimming outside the flags. The most common age demographic of drowning were foreign men aged between 45 and 49. More ignorant ethnics, simple – despite all the warning signs, advising swimmers of the 'strong currents' and 'hazardous conditions' were planted along parts of the beach.
And instead of heeding the wise advice from experienced life guards to swim inside the flags, the arrogant ethnics will return the bird.
It's a foreign unAustralian arrogant culture.
Message: let 'em drown. Rock fisherman are an even bigger problem. Seriously who gives a toss?
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Science Explains Why Sex With Your Ex Feels So Damn Good
So, let's be honest for a moment. You broke up with your boyfriend or girlfriend in the past for some reason? They are your ex for good reason! I think there are very few couples who broke up, and then realized that they had made a big mistake.
While this is true, some people tend to return to their ex occasionally, even if it's just for one night, if you know what we mean. So, why is this so? Why are people going back to person they know that is not good for them? Well, it seems that science has the answer to that.
The good news is that it is not your fault that you are drawn to do that. The bad news? There is absolutely nothing you can do or change the way you feel when it comes to re-check. Here's what neuroscientists had to say ...
The neuroscientists who did the study are from with Northwestern University. Here's what they said, "Orgasms feel so good because sexual stimulation sends the brain into an altered state of consciousness; it blocks everything else, and allows us to solely focus on the sensation." Good to know, good to know ...
They said, "Sex releases neurochemicals that forge emotions, feelings of attachment, and even love, according to Psychology Today. The level of pleasure we feel is connected to the release of the chemicals, which can be used to measure the intensity of our orgasm."
It is said that good sex feel so amazing and comfortable, because "the connection is already there. You know how women are known to say, 'sex is so much better when you love someone'? " Well, they ain't wrong, fellas and science says so.
They said, "Just because you will feel great, doesn't mean you should do it! Fight those instincts as much as possible." You've heard them ... fight those instincts! The study continued by saying: "A 2009 study in the journal Personal Relationships found partners who stay broken up were more likely to report greater clarity in their lives than those who hook up with their exes."
"Researchers at Kansas State University noted that pairs in cyclic relationship tend to be more impulsive about relationships shift and move in together, buying a pet together or had children together, as compared to their peers."
So, that's it. Now you know why you want to connect with those checks you have not seen in 10 years. Science is to blame for this! Good luck to fight these urges!
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Linking Metropolises: Linguistic and Geographic Connections in Los Angeles and Mexico City
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PST: LA/LA
Michelle Marie Robles Wallace
Michelle Marie Robles Wallace is an arts writer living in Mexico City. She is working on a memoir and a novel set along the Mexico-U.S. border.
This is produced in partnership with Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles.
Los Angeles and Mexico City are both sprawling metropolises that are the center for arts, culture and business but they are linked in more ways than this. For example, there is an ongoing cultural exchange between the two cities, collaboration between universities, and, with migration, an on-going Mexican influence on LA culture.
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Taniel Morales takes these similarities and connections between the two cities a step further in his interactive art piece, "Palabra Viva (The Living Word)" at Talking To Action: Art, Pedagogy, and Activism in the Americas at Otis College of Art and Design (September 17, 2017 through December 10, 2018), an exhibit that explores contemporary social art practices throughout the Americas.
While Morales was teaching a workshop on mixed-media radio and the creative community at Otis, he felt that the neighborhood he was in was similar to his neighborhood of Tlapan, in the southern part of Mexico City. At the same time, he began biking through Los Angeles, riding nearly 35 miles a day, always recording the routes he took. When he returned to Mexico City, he mapped out routes that were as close as possible to the ones he had ridden in Los Angeles, and rode those, noting the geographic similarities of the two cities.
These interactive maps are part of "Palabra Viva," an example of "radio expandida" or radio that includes web pages with video, images and text. These maps presented on an app where "they occupy the same time and place," Morales says. Through these maps, viewers can explore what Morales calls "geographic coincidences," between the two cities. The overlaid and interactive maps are the foundation of the project, hosting the vibrant center of "Palabra Viva," a glossary of words that Morales defined through interviews he did with people on the street during his bike rides.
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A still of Taniel Morales's "Palabra Viva" explaining the word "pueblo." | Courtesy of the artist
Much of Morales' social justice artwork has been a reaction to violence, which he deems comes from a desire for "control and power. …Violence is only to establish power." He often refers to the increasing violence within Mexico, and notes that right now, "Mexico is in one of the most terrible times in its history." This specter of violence, combined with two political events, inspired "Palabra Viva." In 2005, the Zapatistas issued their 6th Declaration Of The Selva Candona, in which they shifted the focus of their resistance from the Mexican government to global capitalism, noting the violence and destruction that comes from this system. At this time, Morales notes that "Mexico had a very organized social resistance." In the following year, the Mexican government declared war against the narcos. Morales believes that this war against the narcos, "was the seed of destruction in Mexico, that this war was able to destroy the web of social organization…the war was a government strategy against the 6th Declaration of the Selva Candona." After the government declared war against narcos, Morales, who had worked in radio since the 1990s, shifted his focus towards the relations between the US and Mexico. From these events and his experience in trans-border radio, Morales' glossary was born.
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The glossary itself is the center of "Palabra Viva," as Morales believes that "language is part of our geography…each word is a space that we have to work to realize." For this reason, he searched out words and definitions from people he encountered on the street, in each city, allowing the definitions that these people gave him of words to realize the culture of the place in which he worked.
12 words make up the glossary, and each one of them is associated with a year, from 2005, the year of the 6th Declaration, to 2017. During his bike rides through Los Angeles Morales conducted interviews with people on the street, first, to establish what the words would be. He proposed the first one: territorio/territory and then following an interview, asked whomever he was speaking with to propose the next word to initiate the next interview. The twelve words proposed are: territorio/territory, pueblo/town, frontera/border, communidad/community, violencia/violence, gentrificación/gentrification, popular/popular, politica/politics, dinero/money, realidad/reality, tiempo/time, vida/life. These words, says Morales, "are very heavy with significance and immediately we begin to understand that, although we say the same word… we mean different things when we speak of territory, of community and we compare the natural space of the word. It creates a cultural crash that I find very interesting."
Once he had established which words would make up his glossary, Morales began to interview people on the street about the meanings of the words. He did this in both Los Angeles and then in Mexico City, always tracing similar routes through similar parts of the cities. "I am not interested in how a linguist would define the words; more, I want to know what the significance of the word is on the ground," says Morales in Spanish.
Within the art piece, Morales juxtaposes the definitions of the same word from Los Angeles and Mexico City within the dual, interactive landscape of his maps, revealing the similarities and contrasts between the cultures of Los Angeles and Mexico City. Each word is linked to a specific location on the maps and users are able to upload text, links, videos and music that they think contribute to defining the word, further expanding the impact of the radio app.
Ultimately, "Palabra Viva" lives up to its name: in the same way that Morales noticed how we all carry slightly different definitions of the same words, colored by our cultural experiences and personal biases, as viewers add to "Palabra Viva," they can broaden and shift the meanings of the words and the definition of the cultures.
Listen to Angelenos define the word "violence:"

Listen to Mexicans define the word "violence:"

Listen to Mexicans define the word "violence:"
Top Image: A still of Taniel Morales's "Palabra Viva" explaining the word "popular." | Courtesy of the artist
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Eagle Creek is a consulting and technical services company delivering Oracle CRM, business intelligence and enterprise software development that leverages North American-based computer science, MIS, CIS or other computer-related graduates and other qualified candidates through its unique "Career Development Program." Boardman outlined Eagle Creek's key differentiation: delivering on-site consulting and technical resources linked to off-site, but on-shore development in CRM and BI.
Eagle Creek's solution addresses the industry challenge of finding and retaining skilled professionals and is centered in the idea of domestic "rural sourcing." In concert with the state governments of North and South Dakota, the program works with regional colleges, professors, career centers, job boards, and media outlets to identify and then train the company's consultants in these states. Each recruit is required to complete a rigorous training course including a substantial "shadowing" phase in their area of specialty within the areas of Oracle CRM, BI, or enterprise software development lasting 9-12 months. This training program drives consistency in delivery, enables Eagle Creek to offer scalability in the projects it takes on, and solves the long-term talent issue for its customers.
The result of this investment in North American training in consulting, skills, and hands-on training is that Eagle Creek can offer "high touch" on CRM and BI projects for very large organizations through its asset base of more than 200 U.S.-based on-shore BI consultants. Eagle Creek has been extensively resourced by large organizations with complex challenges for a range of assignments from upgrades to "elaborate" consulting engagements including web-based commerce, and provides CRM-on-demand where required as well. While the company's breadth means it offers solutions in a wide range of industries, Boardman noted that where BI is heavily customer-focused, such as in healthcare, the company is building its list of engagements.
A 2011 market study produced by DBTA's Unisphere Research division on the "IT Skills Gap" identified this disconnect in IT skills and suggested an approach by the industry for closing the divide. (See "IT Skills Gap: Undergraduate Skills Falling Short and 'What to Do About It' ") The rural sourcing model developed by Eagle Creek addresses this challenge directly, while offering customers the kind of business value and time-to-market required to leverage big data and to emerge as a data-driven enterprise.
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Q: Why is apache rewriting the URL twice? I am having a scenerio, in which there is 3 servers:

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*Apache (web server) on port 8080

*Tomcat (Application server) on port 8083

*NodeJs server (for url prefetch) on port 8084

My requirement is, if the request comes to 8080, redirect all requests to 8083, except the ones which has "_escaped_fragment_=" in it.
So i wrote two proxies as
<IfModule mod_proxy_http.c>
  ProxyPass /makeSnapshot http://[IP]:8084
  ProxyPassReverse /makeSnapshot http://[IP]:8084
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_proxy_http.c>
  ProxyPass /site http://[IP]:8083
  ProxyPassReverse /site http://[IP]:8083
</IfModule>

Now I have written some rewrite rules directly in the configuration file as follows:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
        LogLevel alert rewrite:trace3
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^.*lib/(.*)$ /site/lib/$1 [NC,L]
    RewriteRule ^.*uploaded_files/(.*)$ /site/uploaded_files/$1 [NC,L]
    RewriteRule ^.*assets/(.*)$ /site/assets/$1 [NC,L]
    RewriteRule ^.*app/(.*)$ /site/app/$1 [NC,L]

    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*_escaped_fragment_=(.*)
    RewriteRule ^.*$ /makeSnapshot?url=%1 [B,P,L,S=1]

    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /site/$1 [L,P]
</IfModule>

My expectation was that all the server calls will be redirected to tomcat including the static files, since I mentioned it in the rewrite rules.
The node server is to generate the static page querying from tomcat server, and after parsing the javascript.
Now the issue is, all the redirection happens just fine, but when the page is rendered from nodejs server, it agains redirects to tomcat automatically.
I tried many approaches to resolve this, but am not sure why apache redirects it twice.
Help is really appreciated.

A: When you use the P flag, that is as if you are calling a ProxyPass. So you don't need the ProxyPass lines in your vhost config (those directives won't work in htaccess anyways) and try this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
        LogLevel alert rewrite:trace3
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^.*lib/(.*)$ /site/lib/$1 [NC,L]
    RewriteRule ^.*uploaded_files/(.*)$ /site/uploaded_files/$1 [NC,L]
    RewriteRule ^.*assets/(.*)$ /site/assets/$1 [NC,L]
    RewriteRule ^.*app/(.*)$ /site/app/$1 [NC,L]

    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*_escaped_fragment_=(.*)
    RewriteRule ^.*$ http://[IP]:8084/?url=%1 [B,P,L,S=1]

    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://[IP]:8083/$1 [L,P]
</IfModule>

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Q: Relationship between a closed operator and an operator with dense image. Let $T: X \to Y$ be a linear map. We say that $T$ is $\textbf{closed}$ if $x_n \to x$ and $Tx_n \to y$ implies that $y=Tx$.
Loosely speaking, (hopefully not incorrectly speaking), the closeness of an operator is a weaker condition than continuity.
Suppose now that the image of $T$ in $Y$ is dense. Is there a relationship between this and the closeness of the operator?
i.e, does $T$ having dense image in $Y$ imply that $T$ is closed?

A: The answer to your question is no. You can take any non-closed operator $T$ and restrict its codomain to the closure of $\text{ran}\,(T)$. The image of this new operator is dense, and it is easy to verify (according to your definition) that it remains non-closed.


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Ms. Flor de la Rosa: Untold Story of a Sacrificing Woman of Tacurong City
Despite her advancing age, beauty could still be discerned on her calm face. After more than fifty years, not only was I fortunate to meet her but had an intimate conversation with her at close range after a hearty breakfast hosted by Nita and Nito Bernardo at their home, and to whom I am so gratified for such opportunity. It was my first time to hear her speak with the typical melodious Visayan tone and delicate voice.
Her family used to live in New Iloilo, a sitio of Tantangan which was then part of Tacurong. Today, it is occupied by Jaime, a younger brother, and his second family. The late mayor of Tacurong, Jose Escribano was always around when there were affairs in Tantangan. During the time, Flor, who at 19 was a student and about to finish a course in education. It was during one of the occasions in Tantangan that the mayor could have noticed the pretty Flor who was always invited during public occasions. While she was studying in Cotabato city, a bodyguard of Escribano discreetly followd her to make sure that no guy would attempt to court her. The mayor also resorted to "courtin" Flor's mother and enticed her to put up a business in Tacurong. She was a dressmaker in New Iloilo, then and her husband was managing the logging company of a rich relative in Parang, but on a meager wage.
A building was put up then in Tacurong with the ground floor occupied by the Dainty Refreshment which Flor's parents managed and the second floor was allotted for the whole family. The establishment became famous for its halo-halo and cake which competed with those of the Angelita's. And, to ensure that it would earn much as expected, the bus terminal was relocated in the vicinity, from its former location in front of the Tacurong Pilot School. For 24 hours, the Dainty Refreshment was open and that was how the de la Rosa family was able to earn substantially.
The late mayor had the reputation of getting what he wanted by all means, but not in the case of Flor, for it took him 4 long years to finally get what he wanted. Courting went as far as Manila where Flor continued her studies. When she finally graduated, she taught at the New Iloilo Elementary School, moving on to Tantangan, and when the Dainty Refreshment was opened, she was transferred to Tacurong with the instigation of the late mayor. The principal then of the Tacurong Pilot School was Mr. Abadilla and the District Supervisor was Mr. Llavore. At the Tacurong Pilot School she taught Science and Pilipino subjects. Out of gratitude, Escribano built a building that was later used by the Home Economics pupils.
Flor confided that due to emotional pressure, she resigned from her job and went to Manila, although, she feared for the safety of her family who might earn the ire of the late mayor. But as she could not stop him from courting her, she finally softened a bit and accepted her fate…finally, going back to Tacurong to be with her family. While in Tacurong, she would occasionally show herself up in public to assist the mayor during special occasions. That was how she got to be known as the "mayor's secretary".
When she went back to Manila again, she finally told Escribano once and for all, that she wanted to end their affair and threatened to enter the convent if he won't concede. It was at this juncture that she saw the good side of the brusque mayor…who begged her not to proceed with her plan, but for them to maintain a platonic relationship. She agreed and the arrangement encouraged her to be with her family in Tacurong again to help manage the Dainty Refreshements, the earnings from which practically sent her siblings to school.
During one of her trips to Manila, she met Gregorio Aragona but who used the family name, "Soncuya". They eventually got married and settled in his hometown, Sara (Iloilo). At one time, her sister, Bernardita who was living in the United States, had a need for a trusted caretaker of her child. Flor viewed it as an opportunity to visit the United States, so she asked Bernardita to let her do the job. In no time, she flew to the States as a tourist and took care of her niece. When she was no longer needed to take for her niece, she took jobs discreetly as she had no legal papers. For 18 years of her stay in the United States, her status did not change as she declined to bite the options to become an American citizen, beside her passport indicated her status as "married".
Meanwhile, her husband took in a lover which came to the attention of Flor only much later. What triggered their separation was the reply of her husband to one of her queries if he had been missing her to which he replied, "please come home and bring the bacon". Such blatant reply immediately made Flor decide not to go home, as she felt that her husband was just after her earned dollars. Despite her decision, she could not hold herself from sending money to him when he got sick.
In year 2000, she went back to the Philippines but dropped by Iloilo to visit relatives and also surprised her late husband's lover. As she did not harbor any hatred in her heart, she even gave the widowed lover of her husband, three thousand pesos…her gift to their two children. She then, proceeded to New Iloilo in South Cotabato to be with her mother. But not long after, she decided to buy a house in Tacurong City where she now lives with a trusted aide.
While in the city, she faithfully attended the early morning Mass every day. Later, she was enticed to join the Marian Movement of Priests (MMP) which prays the Holy Rosary after the Mass. She was in the middle of this hectic devotion when she met a friend who introduced her to another spiritual passion, and this time, as a member of the Servants of the Holy Trinity, a healing ministry and prayer group whose main base is in Negros Occidental. She joined her friends, Lina Lacanafrancia and Margie Calansag during their pilgrimage to the movement's base on what the pilgrims consider as the "holy mountain" of Escalante where a "prayer house" is located, and where an image of the Holy Child Jesus in enshrined. She was also brought to the "holy mountain" of Calinog to visit another shrine. From then on, her small group would make an almost monthly visit to Escalante, while that for Calinog, they do during the Holy Week. The two shrines have become beneficiaries of her benevolence, as with the shrine of Our Lady of the Holy Candle in Tacurong.
Ms. de la Rosa is the eldest in the family raised by hardworking couple, Salvador and Fe. Her siblings are Elsie, Salvador, Jr., Manuel, Rodolfo, Aurea, Bernardita, Corazon, Jaime, Ricardo, and Lorena. Their grandfather on their mother side had a German blood, while their grandmother had Chinese. On their father side, their grandfather was an Ilocano who married a mestiza, and who belongs to the Navarro clan.
She has no regrets for not having a child of her own, for she presumes that her being in such situation prepared her for motherly missions – for her family and other people. Before we parted our ways, she confided that during her high school days in Notre Dame of Marbel, she was often chosen to play the role of the Virgin Mary during Marian processions.
Up to the time that I was writing this blog, I could not believe that I had been talking to Ms. Flor de la Rosa and even kissed her check…..she, who was the misunderstood woman in my youth, although, with a celebrated status, and whose life today is devoted to Jesus and Mary.
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Daniel Junge & Johnny Knoxville's Sundance Film "Being Evel" Shot On Blackmagic Cameras
by Jake Fruia January 26, 2015, 3:16 pm 10.8k Views
Yesterday, Oscar winning documentarian Daniel Junge and Johnny Knoxville's film "Being Evel" made its world premiere at the Sundance film festival. "Being Evel" was shot on Blackmagic Cinema Cameras, and post production completed with Teranex 2D Processors and DaVinci Resolve.
"Being Evel" chronicles legendary daredevil Evel Knievel's life and "his impact on culture". Director Daniel Junge (Saving Face, Beyond the Brick: A Lego Brickumentary) and Co-Creator Johnny Knoxville (Jackass) used four Blackmagic Cinema Cameras for the shoot in which they take a "…candid look at American daredevil and icon Robert "Evel" Knievel, while also reflecting on our voracious public appetite for heroes and spectacle."
As we know from personal experience, the Blackmagic Cinema Camera is perfect for interviews. Junge and his team seemed to agree, as they chose the camera to shoot over 60 interviews in ProRes to run alongside their archival footage. The price point is also a big draw as well, something Junge reflects in his sentiments:
"With Evel Knievel, most people know his name, but many people do not know his life. When making this film, we wanted to capture the spirit of Evel in a way that would do him justice. Blackmagic's products let us bring to life the vision we had for the film and do it in a way that was efficient and within our budget," said Junge.
Beyond being just simple interviews, many were done across the globe in front of green screens for compositing later with the archival footage and effects. As Blackmagic explains, "Each interview was shot from various angles using four Blackmagic Cinema Cameras, which were then composited into a single unique backdrop for the film". Junge expands on that by praising the cameras' color space, as well as the level of detail captured that they were able to work with in post.
Blackmagic's Teranex 2D Processor allowed the crew to convert all of their footage so as to help marry the freshly shot interviews with the older footage from the 50s. This let them utilize footage from numerous sources, "…everything from high end digital to Super8 and VHS tapes," says Milkhaus compositor James Durée, who handled the films post production. The Teranex also allowed them to not only color balance the footage, but up convert the older footage to 1080p. Finally, DaVinci Resolve was used to color correct the whole film, as well as help create LUTs during production to keep a consistent feel throughout the shoot.
"Being Evel" premiered just yesterday at Sundance, and is Directed and Co-Created by Oscar winning Daniel Junge and popular actor/entertainer Johnny Knoxville. For more information on the film, see Blackmagic's press release below and visit www.Sundance.org/projects/Being-Evel
Sundance Film "Being Evel" Completed Using Blackmagic Cameras, Teranex and DaVinci Resolve
Fremont, CA – January 23, 2015 – Blackmagic Design today announced that the film "Being Evel" was shot using Blackmagic Cinema Cameras, and post production was completed using Teranex 2D Processors and DaVinci Resolve. Co created by "Jackass" star Johnny Knoxville, along with director, co creator and Oscar winner Daniel Junge, the documentary will make its world premier at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Millions know the man, but few know his story. In BEING EVEL, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Daniel Junge (Saving Face) and actor/producer Johnny Knoxville take a candid look at American daredevil and icon Robert "Evel" Knievel, while also reflecting on our voracious public appetite for heroes and spectacle.
To capture the life of one of the most colorful celebrities of the 20th century, director Daniel Junge, who won a 2012 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short and a 2012 Emmy for Best Documentary for his film "Saving Face," shot over 60 interviews to compliment a host of rich archival materials. To accomplish this, Junge and the film's producers at HeLo chose to use Blackmagic Cinema Cameras as the main cameras for the production, as well as Teranex 2D Processors for extensive conversions and DaVinci Resolve for color correction.
Shot with Blackmagic Cinema Cameras in ProRes, the film's interviews were done in various locations across the country in green screen studios so that compositing on each shot could be done later with archival footage and effects. Each interview was shot from various angles using four Blackmagic Cinema Cameras, which were then composited into a single unique backdrop for the film.
"We needed four cameras with the same high latitude, that could shoot in ProRes and be easily packed up as we scrambled from interview to interview. Most of the shots had multiple composites in them, and we had a large number of different types of environments with each set," said Junge. "With the Blackmagic cameras, the color space of each was great, and we were able to get beautiful images. The cameras captured a huge amount of information which came right out of the camera ready to use in post. Having four cameras performing at that level and at that price was amazing."
Once the interviews were captured, newly shot and archival footage going back to the 1950s had to be converted using the Teranex 2D Processor. All footage was sent through the Teranex 2D Processor, where an initial color balance was completed, and then footage was converted to 1080p. Final color correction was done using DaVinci Resolve, which was also used prior to shooting interviews to create LUTs to ensure that all of the interviews had a specific look and feel.
"Every piece of footage we used went through the Teranex. The Teranex was quick and we easily pushed our way through footage no matter what sort of format we were working with. And we got footage in everything from high end digital to Super8 and VHS tapes," said James Durée, compositor of Milkhaus, who provided post production services for the film. "In particular, being able to color balance in the Teranex saved a lot of time down the line and made final color correction with Resolve much more efficient."
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Primoris Services Corporation Announces Electric T&D Award Valued at $25 Million
DALLAS, March 12, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Primoris Services Corporation (NASDAQ Global Select: PRIM) ("Primoris" or "Company") today announced a new Master Service Agreement ("MSA") valued at approximately $25 million. The contract was secured by Primoris T&D, part of the Transmission & Distribution segment.
The award is a two year agreement for electrical distribution services in North Carolina. While the agreement does not obligate the customer to award Primoris a specific dollar amount, our discussions with the customer and our history with similar customers form the basis for our anticipated value.
Work performed under the MSA includes construction and maintenance services for the client's Electrical Overhead Distribution Infrastructure. Under the MSA, Primoris T&D will also provide outage and emergency restoration services as needed.
ABOUT PRIMORIS
Founded in 1960, Primoris, through various subsidiaries, has grown to become one of the largest publicly traded specialty construction and infrastructure companies in the United States. Serving diverse end-markets, Primoris provides a wide range of construction, fabrication, maintenance, replacement, water and wastewater, and engineering services to major public utilities, petrochemical companies, energy companies, municipalities, state departments of transportation, and other customers. Growing both organically and through acquisitions, the Company's national footprint now extends nearly nationwide and into Canada. For additional information, please visit www.prim.com.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including with regard to the Company's future performance. Words such as "estimated," "believes," "expects," "projects," "may," and "future" or similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward looking statements inherently involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, including without limitation, those described in this press release and those detailed in the "Risk Factors" section and other portions of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2018, and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on forward looking statements. Primoris does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.
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Las Casita Del Colca is a luxury lodge, situated in the midst of the Colca valley, between 2 small towns. It is more comfortable than the Colca Lodge, but without the spectacular setting. There are twenty individual casitas in all with plenty of space, and each room has a breakfast terrace. A lot of the food that is served in the restaurant is grown within the hotel grounds which gives this rustic property a 'home cooked' family feel. This is luxury in a rustic setting.
Las Casitas del Colca is Peru's hidden gem, a collection of luxurious cottage villas with a fabulous spa, set in the peace and serenity of the remote Colca Canyon.
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Today we want to borrow the words used by the CEO of Microsoft Italy, Alessandro Purassanta, during his speech at #FutureDecoded, two days dedicated to digital innovations that took place on 6 to 7 October last.
"Ever as the digital time is crucial for growth. And in the revival of GDP, information technology is central".
With this statement, which may now seem obvious in the digital age, however, you may remember a few key points for the new challenges of small and medium Italian businesses. As they are in step with the times SMEs in IT and digital level?
A few days ago, we talked about Industry 4.0 adventure. But how to translate into practice, these new technological needs?
Word Alessandro Curioni, vice president and director of IBM Research Lab in Zurich. In an article in the online edition of Il Sole 24 Ore, the expert points out how it is changing the management model of the incredible amount of data generated in the web nowadays. "Every minute, each person generates two Mbytes of information", continues. Of course, his words also apply to unstructured data generated by millions of users on social networks, but in any case the information produced by the large amount of cloud applications and platforms are not going neglected.
And yet, in the life of every day, we are in close contact with a medium-small company that looks askance at cloud technology. But the world of computing has been going fast in this direction, which becomes more and more available to everyone, not just the prerogative of large multinationals.
The special commissioner appointed to improve the digital quality of the offer of the Public Administration, Dario Piacentini, recalled that in 2010, when Amazon landed in Italy, everyone shouted to the scandal, because Italians not buy online. But the story of Amazon instead emphasizes that demand is lacking when it is scarce quality of supply. Today, especially in Italy, there is a chasm between the digital evolution of users / consumers and that of businesses.
Quality is the weapon to win the distrust of new technologies.
We at Iride Progetti years we develop solutions designed for companies with a high quality professional team, always looking to the future. We offer cloud services to enable companies to Save on infrastructure costs, improving performance and helping them to develop the multi-device work. You think you can follow the progress and schedule of your work conveniently from your tablet, at any time, while your employees deal with it at the time, from their PCs. All without spending a blunder in cross-platform use licenses and, last but not least, made by skilled developers who care about the safety of your data.


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The U.S. lost 6.1 million manufacturing jobs between March 1998 and Jan. 2010, the nadir for manufacturing employment in the Great Recession (Figure A). Over the past 21 months, 500,000 manufacturing jobs have been recovered due to the recovery of net demand domestic for manufactured products. The great bulk of the jobs lost (4 million of the net decline of 5.6 million) disappeared between March 1998 and Dec. 2007, the last business cycle peak.
Despite widespread claims to the contrary, productivity growth was responsible for only a small share of the manufacturing jobs lost since 1998. The U.S. maintained roughly stable manufacturing employment between 1970 and 1998 despite high manufacturing productivity growth (Figure A). Rapidly growing demand for domestic manufactured goods offset the effects of rapid productivity growth in that period. Between 1990 and 2000, labor productivity growth in manufacturing averaged 4.1 percent per year, but manufacturing value added (VA) grew 4.2 percent per year (Figure B), and employment was roughly constant. Manufacturing productivity growth declined slightly after 2000, but the growth of real VA in manufacturing (demand for domestically manufactured products) fell dramatically to only 1.7 percent per year from 2000 to 2011.
The U.S. trade deficit in manufactured goods increased dramatically, especially after 1998 (the year after the Asian financial crisis), when U.S. manufacturing employment reached its last peak. The manufacturing trade deficit reach a peak of $559 billion (4.2 percent of GDP) in 2006, declined sharply in the recession, and increased again, to $449 billion (3.0 percent of GDP) in 2011. The growth of net manufactured imports reduced demand for domestic manufactures over the past two decades. The growth of the trade deficit in manufactured goods since 2009, in particular, shows that trade has been a net drag on the manufacturing sector during the recovery.
The growth in the trade deficit over the past two decades is responsible for the vast bulk of all manufacturing jobs displaced in that period. Between 2001 and 2011 alone, the growth of the trade deficit with China was responsible for the loss of 2.7 million U.S. jobs, and 2.1 million of those jobs (76.9 percent) were in manufacturing. Also, U.S. and foreign multinational companies are responsible for the vast bulk of the overall U.S. goods trade deficit (78 percent in 2009).
Conversely, elimination of the U.S. trade deficit in manufactured goods could recover most or all of the lost market share and employment in U.S. manufacturing. Between 2000 and 2011, as the growth of real VA in manufacturing slowed, the manufacturing share of U.S. GDP fell to 12.6 percent ($1.7 trillion), (black line in Figure D). If manufacturing VA had grown at 4.2 percent per year, as it did between 1990 and 2000, rather than the 1.7 percent rate experienced since then, manufacturing value added would have reached 16.5 percent of GDP ($2.2 trillion) in 2011 (red line in Figure D). This would create millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs, stimulating the economy and helping to end the current jobless recovery. Eliminating the trade deficit (green line in Figure D) would eliminate nearly three-fourths of this "VA gap" in 2011. As the U.S. and global economies recover, the potential demand for U.S. manufactured goods will grow, further shrinking or eliminating the U.S. VA and manufacturing employment gaps. Eliminating global currency manipulation is the most important policy needed to reduce U.S. and global trade imbalances. The shortage of demand for domestic manufactures is the most important barrier to the recovery of U.S. manufacturing output and employment. Greatly enhanced U.S. workforce and industrial policies are also needed to help rebuild U.S. manufacturing capacity and output.