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Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels. It normally takes place in a specialized facility known as a shipyard. Shipbuilders, also called shipwrights, follow a specialized occupation that traces its roots to before recorded history.
Shipbuilding and ship repairs, both commercial and military, are referred to as "naval engineering". The construction of boats is a similar activity called boat building.
The dismantling of ships is called ship breaking.
Archaeological evidence indicates that humans arrived on Borneo at least 120,000 years ago, probably by sea from the Asian mainland during an ice age period when the sea was lower and distances between islands shorter (See History of Borneo and Papua New Guinea). The ancestors of Australian Aborigines and New Guineans also went across the Lombok Strait to Sahul by boat over 50,000 years ago.
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Industry is the production of goods or services within an economy. The major source of revenue of a group or company is the indicator of its relevant industry. When a large group has multiple sources of revenue generation, it is considered to be working in different industries. Manufacturing industry became a key sector of production and labour in European and North American countries during the Industrial Revolution, upsetting previous mercantile and feudal economies. This occurred through many successive rapid advances in technology, such as the production of steel and coal.
Following the Industrial Revolution, possibly a third of the world's economic output is derived that is from manufacturing industries. Many developed countries and many developing/semi-developed countries (People's Republic of China, India etc.) depend significantly on manufacturing industry. Industries, the countries they reside in, and the economies of those countries are interlinked in a complex web of interdependence.
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Industry Metrolink is located at 600 S. Brea Canyon Road in Industry, California. It is owned and operated by the City of Industry. Metro and Foothill Transit provide connecting service at the station with lines 484 and 482, respectively. There are approximately 1,440 parking spaces available. Foothill 482 is a local bus route serving the area There is no rail service to this station on weekends, but connecting buses continue to run with a limited schedule. In 2011, the Industry station had the highest ridership in the Riverside line, averaging 1,378 daily boardings, representing 34.5% of all boardings for the Riverside line.
The City of Industry station opened on June 14, 1993, and built at a cost of $2.4 million. In 1994, the Riverside line, which then ran from downtown Los Angeles to the Industry station, had Metrolink's highest ridership per week, averaging 2,000 passengers. In 2012, 8,000 solar panels were installed to cover 940 parking spaces in an $11 million project that generates 2.2 megawatts (3,000 hp) of electricity per hour. The project also included the installation of 64 electric car charging stations. Most of the funding came from Proposition 1A, although the South Coast Air Quality Management District also provided a $2 million grant.
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Industry was an American new wave band formed in 1978 in New York as Industrial Complex, their name later changing to Industry. In 1981, the band became commercial but disbanded three years later. Their only album was Stranger to Stranger, released in 1984 which included the hit single, "State of the Nation".
Andrew Geyer - vocals, guitar, tape loops
Mercury Caronia - vocals, drums, bass guitar
Sean Kelly - vocals
Jon Carin - lead vocals, keyboards, synthesizers
Brian Unger - guitar, backing vocals
Mercury Caronia - drums, backing vocals
Rudy Perrone - bass guitar, backing vocals
Mercury Caronia - drums, keyboards, vocals
Andrew Geyer - guitar, tape loops, vocals
Sean Kelly - bass, keyboards, vocals
Steven Northshield - guitar
Industry was founded as Industrial Complex in 1978 by Mercury Caronia (drummer, vocalist, keyboard player, composer and studio engineer), Andrew Geyer (guitarist) and Sean Kelly (bass guitarist and backing vocalist). The band's name was later changed to Industry. Caronia and Geyer worked with experimental electronic music, odd time signatures, tape loops, synthesizers and innovative guitar playing into various methods of recording.
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The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, each generally having its own language (or dialect of a language) and culture. The ethnolinguistic groups include various Afro-Asiatic, Indo-European, Khoisan, Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharan populations.
The official population count of the various ethnic groups in Africa has in some instances been controversial because certain groups believe populations are fixed to give other ethnicities numerical superiority (as in the case of Nigeria's Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba and Igbo people). The following ethnic groups number 10 million people or more:
Luba in Democratic Republic of the Congo (c. 15 million)
Mongo in Democratic Republic of the Congo (c. 15 million)
Kongo in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola and Republic of the Congo (c. 10 million)
Kanuri in Nigeria,Niger,Chad and Cameroon (c. 10 million)
Oromo in Ethiopia (c. 30 million)
Amhara in Ethiopia (c. 25 million)
Somali in Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya (c. 16-19 million)
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"Shipbuilding" is a song written by Elvis Costello (lyrics) and Clive Langer (music). Written during the Falklands War of 1982, Costello's lyrics discuss the contradiction of the war bringing back prosperity to the traditional shipbuilding areas of Clydeside (Yarrow Shipbuilders), Merseyside (Cammell Laird), North East England (Swan Hunter) and Belfast (Harland and Wolff) to build new ships to replace those being sunk in the war, whilst also sending off the sons of these areas to fight and, potentially, lose their lives in those same ships. The best known version of the song is the version recorded and released as a single by English singer-songwriter Robert Wyatt in August 1982 a few months after the Falklands War, although it was not a hit until it was re-released eight months later on the first anniversary of the conflict.
In September 2013, Elvis Costello and The Roots released an answer song written in the perspective of the other side of the conflict, called "Cinco Minutos con Vos" ("Five Minutes with You"). The song is a duet partly sung in Argentinian Spanish by La Marisoul.
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Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi said in a televised statement following a cabinet meeting on the disaster the death toll after Cyclone Idai stood at over 200 up from 84.
Winds of up to 170 km/h and flooding swept across south-eastern Africa, including Zimbabwe and Mozambique, affecting more than 2.6 million people, according to United Nations officials.
"This is the worst humanitarian crisis in Mozambique's history," said Jamie LeSueur, leading rescue efforts in Beira for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
The organisation said large areas west of the port city were severely flooded and in places close to the Buzi and Pungwe rivers flood waters are metres deep, submerging homes, telephone poles and trees.
LeSueur said earlier, when the death toll was 84, the full human impact of the disaster remained unclear and the figure was likely to rise.
While the official count increased, it is below the 1,000 deaths Nyusi estimated after flying over some of the worst hit areas, seeing firsthand submerged villages and bodies floating in the water.
The cyclone hit land near Beira on Thursday and moved inland throughout the weekend, leaving heavy rains in its wake. Many rural areas are still inaccessible.
Studies of satellite images suggested 1.7 million people were in the path of the cyclone in Mozambique and another 920,000 affected in Malawi Herve Verhoosel, senior spokesman at the U.N World Food Programme, said. He gave no figures for Zimbabwe.
Telma fa Gloria, a street vendor, had not heard from her mother, who she usually speaks to every day, or her siblings, for days. Her mother's neighbourhood is in one of the worst-hit areas.
Heavy rains preceded the cyclone, compounding problems.
"If the worst fears are realised we can say it is one of the worst weather-related disasters, tropical cyclone-related disasters in the southern hemisphere," said Clare Nullis of the UN World Meteorological Organisation.
Droughts are classed as climate- not weather-related.
In Beira Nullis said water had nowhere to drain.
Mark Ellul, a 31-year-old British doctor from Manchester working at the Beira hospital when the storm hit, was trapped in a hotel room. He said the hospital suffered significant damage.
Beira is home to Mozambique's second largest port, a gateway to landlocked countries in the region.
The control room of a pipeline from Beira to Zimbabwe and supplies the majority of that country's fuel is damaged, Zimbabwe's Energy Minister Jorum Gumbo told state-owned Herald newspaper.
"We have enough stocks in the country and I am told repairs at Beira may take a week," he was quoted as saying.
The European Union announced an initial emergency aid package of 3.5 million euros ($3.97 million) to Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe for logistic support to reach affected people, emergency shelters, hygiene, sanitation and health care.
Britain pledged up to 6 million pounds ($7.96 million) in aid.
Citizens in Zimbabwe are mobilising donations, including cash, food and clothes to help thousands whose homes were wrecked by the cyclone.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who visited Chimanimani, told reporters Tanzania and the United Arab Emirates were sending donations while neighbours, including South Africa, Botswana and Angola, would help.


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An alarm sounds during mass at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The public prosecutor, Rémy Heitz, says later it is unclear whether it was a smoke or a heat alarm. The priest hesitates, then continues with the service, believing it may be a false alarm. But although no sign of fire was found, the 850-year-old building was evacuated as a precautionary measure. At 6.43pm, a second alarm went off: fire declared.
Smoke plume clearly visible from afar. Photos start circulating on social media and crowds gather on left and right banks of River Seine as police seal off Île de la Cité and fire service arrives.
The Paris mayor, Anne Hidalgo, whose office is across river from the cathedral, tweets that "a terrible fire" is under way at Notre Dame. Police urge people to stay away. Firefighters say blaze is "potentially linked" to a 10-year, €150m restoration programme that began last year.
Donald Trump tweets that maybe "flying water tankers" could be used to put out the blaze (fire service later says cathedral's structure would not stand weight of water). Élysée Palace says President Emmanuel Macron has cancelled planned 8pm TV address to nation.
Macron heads to the scene as the Notre Dame spokesman, André Finot, says timber roof beams, dating from 13th and 19th centuries, are ablaze. Minutes later cathedral spire collapses.
Paris city hall says hundreds of firefighters are at the scene. The prime minister, Edouard Philippe, is outside the cathedral as world leaders, including Angela Merkel and Theresa May, express their sorrow.
Macron and his wife, Brigitte, arrive at the cathedral with the culture minister, Franck Riester, and a junior interior minister, Laurent Nunez. Crowds continue to grow in the streets around Île de la Cité. Some pray, others sing hymns, many cry.
Paris public prosecutor announces investigation into cause of fire. It emerges that 16 priceless roof statues were saved from fire, having been removed last week for restoration. Several French media quote a firefighter as saying next 90 minutes will be critical for cathedral's survival.
Fire reaches north tower, according to several witnesses. Authorities confirm no one has so far been killed or injured.
Fire chief Jean-Claude Gallet says despite presence of 400 firefighters, two helicopters and two water tenders (tankers) in the Seine, service is "not sure of being able to prevent the fire spreading to the north belfry. If that collapses, I will leave you to imagine the scale of the damage." Philippe praises "heroic" firefighters and says "sorrow is beyond words".
The rector, Patrick Chauvet, says two of the cathedral's most precious relics, the Crown of Thorns and the Tunic of St Louis, are among many priceless artefacts rescued from the blaze. One firefighter is reported injured.
Nunez says fire is becoming less intense. "We can consider that the edifice has been saved and in particular the north tower." Fire service spokesman confirms "general structure of the cathedral has been saved", although two-thirds of roof has been destroyed.
At the request of the archbishop of Paris, Michel Aupetit, dozens of churches across the city ring bells to invite parishioners to pray for Notre Dame. As individuals launch online calls for donations to restore building, the French Heritage Foundation announces it is setting up a national appeal for funds.
Paris prosecutors say they are investigating a case of "involuntary destruction by fire" and interviewing workers on the restoration project. Fire appears to have started at height of scaffolding on roof. François-Henri Pinault announces his family, one of the richest in France, will donate €100m to the restoration appeal.
Plus tells Agence France-Presse: "All the works of art that were in the 'treasures' area of the cathedral have been saved." The cathedral housed priceless works of art, architecture, musical instruments, statues, woodwork and religious relics. While the north rose window, Holy Crown of Thorns, Tunic of St Louis, Nicolas Coustou's sculpture Descent from the Cross, and the 8,000-pipe great organ are saved, the fate is unknown of the west and south rose windows, Madonna and Child statue and painting of St Thomas Aquinas.
Nunez says the "danger of the fire has been removed" but doubts remain about the stability of structure. Up to a dozen firefighters remain on the scene extinguishing embers.
Reister says the main structure has been saved but "the situation is still precarious". Two-thirds of the roof has gone and the spire collapsed into the nave, he says, leaving a gaping hole in the roof. Large parts of one transept collapsed overnight. "Everything's very fragile; the firefighters and experts are anxious," he says.
The fire service says the fire is entirely extinguished. "The next phase is the examination by experts," says Plus, adding that the "violent fire … spread very rapidly across the whole of the roof, destroying roughly 1,000sq metres". Another of France's richest people, Bernard Arnault, of the luxury goods firm LVMH, announces a €200m donation to the appeal fund.


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LIVE: 2016 Ibrahim Index - A Decade of African Governance
By Ismail Akwei • last updated: 02/10/2016
Our intention with the Ibrahim Index of African Governance is not to name and shame anybody. The IIAG is meant to be a mirror.
The 2016 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) has been launched in London under the theme: A Decade of African Governance.
The IIAG measures the quality of governance in every African country on an annual basis. It does this by compiling data from diverse sources to build an accurate and detailed picture of governance performance.
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation defines governance as: the provision of the political, social and economic public goods and services that every citizen has the right to expect from his or her state, and that a state has the responsibility to deliver to its citizens.
The Foundation does not collect primary data, but rather collates data provided by respected external sources. To ensure a robust and comprehensive analysis, the data are required to cover at least 33 of the 54 countries on the continent and provide at least two years' worth of data for these countries since 2000.
For more on how the Index of African Governance is built, watch the illustration below:
The broad aim of the IIAG is to better inform and sustain the debate on African governance by providing a transparent and user-friendly resource to:
support citizens, governments, institutions and the private sector to accurately assess the delivery of public goods, services and policy outcomes
encourage data-driven narratives on governance issues
help determine, debate and strengthen government performance
Africanews covered the 2016 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) extensively on air and online.
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Rather, we should focus on infrastructure spending that changes the system in ways favorable to us.
I hope this doesn't mean expensive/inefficient solar panels covering all federal building and elsewhere.
If USGOV funds and forces the setup of not ready for prime time stuff, when the production ready stuff finally comes around, adaption will be slow because sadly most infrastructure purchase decisions are made poorly with the sunk cost fallacy full in play.
Example: The poor state of network broadband in the US.
BTW: What wrong with a bridge to Russia? I am only half joking. It would link up both South and North America with Asia and Europe by road and rail. I think businesses and entrepreneurs can find interesting things to do with that.
Also, thanks for the links!
I hope this doesn't mean expensive/inefficient solar panels covering all federal building and elsewhere.
Perhaps not, but the purpose is not short-term cash-maximization but rather building an infrastructure. Photovoltaics are in the early adopter stage, and early adopers typically take the costs of the development the technology. Large-scale federal purchases of photovoltaics transfers the cost of development from the private sector to the public sector, which is appropriate for such a systemic change.
The same is true of ethanol, btw.
What would be the point of such a massive, expensive, and hard to maintain form of transportation between such distant points?
(which is far cheaper) but so time-insensitive that they cannot be sent by plane (which s far faster), with the scalability of neither?
If all else fails, it seems, the one sure way to secure solvency in the private and public sectors is to inflate away debts and buoy up asset prices. That nuclear option is the ultimate bail-out: rescuing the indebted by hurting those with savings. In essence, if not degree, it is not so different from conventional policy. Interest-rate cuts are a salve for debtors and a penalty on savers. Fiscal-stimulus schemes impose a cost on all taxpayers, even those well placed to endure a downturn. But the cost of a prolonged slump, in terms of idle resources, lost income, decaying skills and an erosion in the trust that keeps civil society going, would be far higher.
We should hope that whatever money is borrowed / spent / printed in the coming months, it is done in a relatively wise manner to help us solve (or at least mitigate) long term problems, and not just reward friends of the powerful.


Lion Randy Dent (#23) was absent and Lion PDG Pat Snodgrass (#31) was the winner of the Tail Twister's pot.
We had no guests and our attendance was 20 members present.
The Board of Directors will meet this Thursday, January 10 at 6:30 AM, at Couch's Restaurant.
Remember Lion Ken Stallings in your prayers as he goes in the hospital this week for back surgery. We also have Lion Randy Dent incapacitated with back pain. We hope both of these Lions will be back in our den soon.
Our speaker this week was Joe Little, Interim Chief Building Inspector for the City of Jonesboro. Joe talked about the duties of the Office of Building Inspector and the enforcement of building codes of the city. Joe would make a good member for our club.
Next Tuesday, January 15, will be a business meeting.
Gil Fowler with some of his students will be our program on January 22.
There will be a Car Show Committee meeting on January 22 at Forest Home Church of the Nazarene at 7:00 PM.


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We have all been known to make financial decisions at times and it's what we do to take action and overcome bad financial decisions that will make all the difference.
In fact, this is what makes the difference between perseverance and overcoming vs. an outright failure.
No one said it was an easy endeavour, but the fact of the matter is that sometimes life does happen and you need to be prepared and be the person that says, "I made the mistake, so I'm going to be the one to get myself out of it".
Indeed, the first course of action in remediation of a bad financial decision involves first taking ownership of it. This may have been something that you did or simply you were a part of that can cause financial difficulty.
It will take the resilience and relentlessness of a tiger, but hope is always at the forefront of any bad financial decision, even when you can't seem to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
(3) Take the corrective actions to get you of the hole that you dug for yourself.
You may be wondering if it's not more to it than these simple steps, and I can tell you from experience that these are a perfect way to start.
I don't know of anyone that is financially successful in life that didn't overcome some type of adversity or financial difficulty to finally obtain their current status.
It's how you react and prepare yourself to deal with it is what really matters. Many faced with adversity simply accepts some kind of bad luck that fate dealt them a terrible hand and life just gobbles them up. That's not me or you, we have to take the reins and make things happen.
So, by now you're probably wondering what are some examples of bad financial decisions that can come back to bite someone.
As you can see, the list can go on and on. One of your best financial moves right now maybe to examine your financial situation and actually pinpoint where you might be making a bad move and correcting it pronto.
With a little examination and zest, we can determine and correct bad financial decisions to our advantage and it can only make you stronger and more resilient in the end.


Addicts selling to friends are driving local crime, health hazards.
WISCONSIN RAPIDS - The city has become a hub for heroin dealing in central Wisconsin, which is driving up local crime rates and creating public health hazards, according to police.
A typical dealer in Wisconsin Rapids is a heroin addict who is supporting the habit by selling drugs to friends, which might not fit the common perception of a dealer, Detective Nate Reblin said.
Driving the trade: huge profits to be made, which then can fuel drug habits. A gram of heroin that sells for $75 to $100 in Milwaukee can be resold in Wisconsin Rapids for between $225 and $300 a gram, Reblin said.
That margin makes it good business for a user to make as many as two or three trips to Milwaukee a day to buy drugs for resale and use, Reblin said. One suspect told Reblin of driving to Milwaukee for drugs so frequently that he racked up 15,000 miles on his car over three months.
"They aren't going down there just to pick up a pack of gum," Reblin said.
Reblin said several factors, including the city's location on some major highways, are driving the trade.The result is that Wisconsin Rapids has developed an unfortunate brand. It is known as the location to get heroin in central Wisconsin, just as Marathon County is known as the source for methamphetamine, according to the state Department of Justice.
Dave Dickmann, who oversees four public defender offices in central Wisconsin, said his clients are telling him the same thing: Wisconsin Rapids is a center for purchasing heroin, and the numbers back those claims up. The Wisconsin State Crime Lab processed 12 heroin cases for Wood County in 2012 and 19 cases in 2013, Wisconsin Rapids Detective-Lt. Julie Buerger said. In 2014, the number jumped to 36 cases. Wisconsin Rapids Fire Department paramedics likewise provided a drug used to treat overdoses six times in 2013 and 29 times in 2015, Reblin said.
Even Dickmann is alarmed at what addicts are telling him.
"I talk to clients, and they tell me 'I did it one time, and I was hooked,'" Dickmann said. "Also, when I talk to clients, they're telling me stories of friends dying."
But authorities are concerned that heroin's effects are being felt throughout the community. Last fall, for example, police were called to a local store for a report of a woman shoplifting, Deputy Police Chief Randy Jahns said. When officers arrived, store employees were chasing the woman across the parking lot. The woman collapsed in the lot, overdosing on heroin, Jahns said.
Police also have investigated more than one case of addicts taking pain patches from critically ill patients and using the drug, either to get high or to add to heroin for resale, Chief Kurt Heuer said.
More troubling to police is the possibility that a child could stumble upon another byproduct of heroin use, like used syringes discarded by users.
"The needles themselves are almost an epidemic," Reblin said.
Reblin has found needles hidden in heating vents, laundry detergent tubs and in every possible spot in the homes of users, who may shoot up three or four times in a day, he said. Recently, a person who had just purchased a home contacted police and reported finding more than 300 needles in the back yard.
Dickmann joined Reblin, Buerger and other members of the Wisconsin Rapids Police Department Tuesday evening to present data about the problem to Wisconsin Rapids City Council members. Heuer is asking the city to consider creating a second drug officer position for the department's four-member detective bureau.
Dickmann said he feels comfortable supporting the Police Department's efforts to increase staff for fighting illegal drug activity because the department also supports the county's adult drug treatment court and other programs to get help to drug addicts. Dickmann said about 80 percent of his clients have heroin issues.
"The heroin here is significant and dangerous," Dickmann said. "If it's not an epidemic, it's near epidemic proportions."


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Q: Embedding Yahoo! Video Using IE11 Fails I am trying to embed a video into html via iframe
<iframe width="100%" height="351" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"   src="http://finance.yahoo.com/video/playlist/cnbc-big-data/best-worst-housing-markets-132811012.html?format=embed&player_autoplay=false"></iframe>

This video works fine in Firefox. However, when I am trying to view the iframe embedded video in IE11 it does not work and instead gives me the message "You need Adobe Flash to play this video" -- this does work in IE11 if viewing from the original link though.
I cant seem to understand why this isn't working, I am hoping someone could help me with a solution!
Thanks

A: It looks like when you embed the video into an iframe the source (Yahoo) incorrectly determines the browser type of the embedded frame in IE11.  Looking through the Yahoo source they do some browser checking and even attempt to add a video tag into the markup. If these all fail the code says to use default, which is set to flash.
http://yep.video.yahoo.com/js/3/videoplayer-min.js?lang=en-US

getRendererType: function (al) {
        var am = "html";
        if (f.Lang.isString(al.mobile) || f.Lang.isNumber(al.ios) || al.android > 0) {
            return am;
        }
        if ((navigator && navigator.userAgent) && ((navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSAppHost") >= 0) || (/.+MSIE 10.+Windows NT.+WebView/i.test(navigator.userAgent)))) {
            return am;
        }
        if (this._fallBackTOHTML5(al)) {
            return am;
        }

        function Y() {
            return !!document.createElement("video").canPlayType;
        }
        if (this._preferHTML5 && Y()) {
            return am;
        }
        return this._defaultRenderer;

However changing the browser agent back to IE10, the render type is successful and the video displays.

While its just a guess, but I bet the new user agent strings IE11 uses is somehow telling this video component control to incorrectly render.  Unfortunately, there's just so much code in the video player its really hard to unravel.
Update:
I've tried modifying the navigator.userAgent string to appear as IE10 without any luck
Sample
Update2:
I don't think it's a user agent string. It must be something with adding the video tag inside an Iframe in IE11.  Modifying the user agent does fix it. Maybe it's a bit of both.
Sadly, I think you will just have to wait for them to fix the video control.

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Contact the Dell to check availability of your desired date(s). Availability is limited, so be prepared with alternate dates and a clear sense of your event and its timeline. If your desired date(s) appear open and your performance or event is compatible with the venue, you may place a soft hold while we confirm availability.
Once your date is confirmed, submit a completed application together with the rental deposit (one half of the licensee fee) for approval by the Dell Music Center Management.
Once approved by the Dell Management, we will issue a City of Philadelphia License Agreement. Management further reserves the right to require a deposit to cover all estimated expenses, including but not limited to: rent, ticketing fees, set-up, staffing, damages, advertising, electrical service, and miscellaneous equipment.
The Dell Music Center will provide use of the venue, a full-range of event equipment and personnel including ushers, ticket-takers, security, stagehands, cleaning, operations and technical support.
A Certificate of Insurance is required for all rental activities. Insurance must include Comprehensive General Liability, Workers Compensation & Employers Liability and Automobile Liability. Proof of insurance must be provided no more than two weeks prior to your event.
Although we hope every event is a success and we will do our best to help make it so, The Dell Music Center and the City of Philadelphia is not responsible for promoting events, nor do we take responsibility for the success or failure, financial or otherwise, of a public event. We cannot give advice on how to promote your event.


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Q: How can get Small image for Product? I have this code to show big image
$productImageUrl = $block->getUrl('pub/media/catalog').'product'.$_product->getImage();

but how i can call URL for small img of product

A: If you are getting your $_product object correctly then you can call below code to get Small Product Image.
$_product->getData('small_image');


Ad copy writing is the key element when it comes to making sales online. Improving your ad copy writing can transform your sales pages by smoothly transitioning from ad copy to product presentation. Each page of your website must be focused on achieving one thing—the sale. Effective ad copy writing is essential for your success, especially if your business markets its products or services online. Thousands of online business owners have turned to professional ad copy writing services to insure their ad copy writing is done right; companies such as EditFast will help you turn your online sales conversion around fast.
There is no mistaking the need for solid ad copy writing. When you're doing business online there is nothing more important to getting more website visitors to your web pages other than your ad copy writing. It conveys that all important first impression. Your business must make a good impression to your visitor and you only get about three to four quick seconds to do it. You will find that the professional team at EditFast will be able to work with you to analyze exactly what your business offers and through proper use of ad copy writing will effectively present that to your visitor in that all important four seconds or less.
When you have quality ad copy writing at your disposal potential buyers will arrive at your site. Because the ad copy writing is reflected both in your ad and on your web page your visitors will like what they find and are then more likely to purchase what you have to offer. Professional ad copy writing will make a difference in your online success. Poor ad copy can doom your business because it is just that important to get it right and so destructive when you get it wrong. Many think they know how to write good ad copy, but if your sales don't reflect what you believe your product or service is worth, then it is probably time to give EditFast the opportunity to improve your site's effectiveness.


RE: Tab Panel focus movement with Dynamic content.
Please, please pay attention to the versions of documents you are reading.
implementation of a pattern (assuming no browser bugs).
Subject: RE: Tab Panel focus movement with Dynamic content.
only very confusing, I have yet to find a web page that follows this model.
elemetns, like Buttons, but I feel this is teaching users bad habits.
key responses and confuses the user.
agree a consistent WAI widget keyboard model should be prefered.
Subject: SV: Tab Panel focus movement with Dynamic content.
- Simpler to learn, use and implement.
readers. E. g. Jaws use Ctrl+PgUp/Dn.
because you're able to check panes without selecting (even if forms mode).
for each tab when using arrow keys.
Emne: RE: Tab Panel focus movement with Dynamic content.
edges of the contents but most commonly are found at the top of the page.
focus and activate the last tab in the list.
focus to and activate the first tab in the list.
Ctrl+PageUp/Ctrl+PageDown in Firefox to switch tabs?
browser access it) when the first or last tab was reached.
providing a link for selecting the tabcontent to be rendered to the user.
*	The currently selected tab has the state selected=true.
the keyboard commands until I read the above and what was posted.
examples of exactly this implementation?
most users tend to use Enter and Space as similar keys in web interfaces.
course, it is possible to learn this.
move the focus, and an aria-alert reads the Tab Panel heading as it changes.
the Tab Panel heading and reads it.
Subject: Tab Panel focus movement with Dynamic content.
dynamically updates after the tab is selected?
1.      Should the focus move to the first focusable element?
2.      The focus does not move, leaving it up to the user?
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Cook Medical had humble beginnings in the spare bedroom of the home of Bill and Gayle Cook in Bloomington, Indiana, in the United States. It was 1963 and Bill Cook, a biologist, began building wire guides, needles and catheters for use in medical procedures while his wife took care of the book-keeping and distribution.
The Cook story might have continued in this low-key way if it wasn't for Bill Cook's pioneering spirit and his encounter with the man considered the father of angioplasty, Dr Charles Dotter, in Chicago in 1963.
That meeting marked the beginning of a life-changing partnership with Cook making wires and catheters to Dotter's specifications. On January 16, 1964, Dr Dotter performed the first transluminal angioplasty using a Cook device. In doing so, he revolutionized cardiovascular and vascular intervention surgery.
As Cook Medical expanded in the years that followed, its name continued to be associated with world-first medical procedures, cementing its reputation as a trusted and innovative manufacturer of medical devices.
Dr Michael Harrison used a specially designed Cook Medical "pigtail" catheter when he performed the first successful surgery on a fetus on April 26, 1981, and a specially produced Cook catheter was used to record the blood pressure of two astronauts onboard the Space Shuttle Columbia during a life-sciences mission in 1991.
Today, Cook Medical delivers quality medical devices to the top medical research facilities, teaching hospitals and leading specialists in countries around the world. The legacy of Bill Cook lives on in his original mission and pioneering spirit as Cook Medical seeks new ways to improve patients' lives while remaining a true family company that values people above profit.
© 2019 Cook Medical Hong Kong (Cook Asia Ltd.).


I love, love, love vintage postcards! I have a small collection of vintage dachshund postcards, and also a few postcards from favorite family vacation destinations from my childhood.
Vintage postcards are fun to collect, to frame, to save in a decorative box, or to give for a unique, thoughtful gift (framed or tucked into a special greeting card).
This love of vintage postcards led me to open a postcard department in my store, Birdhouse Books. I have cards featuring dogs, cats, Christmas, Easter, Valentine's Day, and lots of Roadside Americana (motels, restaurants, stores, amusement parks). The postcard above features a swimming pool at the Carriage House Resort motel in Deerfield Beach, Florida. This looks exactly like motels I remember staying at during my childhood!
I'm hosting a vintage postcard giveaway on my blog. It's easy to enter with the Rafflecopter form below. The contest will end on Tuesday, June 10, at 11:59 PM. On Wednesday, June 11 I will use Rafflecopter to randomly draw a winner. The winner will receive a vintage postcard valued under $10 from my shop. (Winner selects their favorite postcard in this range.) You'll see all the great cards in this price range here: vintage postcards at Birdhouse Books.
I love the Vintage Postcard Party Invitation Girls in White Dresses With Blue Satin Sashes. We're having a tea party for my daughter and this would add a lovely touch framed on a table.
I love the Imperial 400 Motel - Sioux City, IA postcard. It's definitely not your typical picturesque landscape photo you usually think of.
I like the old woman who lives in a shoe!
I think I'd pick the giant egg being pulled by chicken 1907 card. I really like some of the holiday cards.
Tough choice but I love Savannah's Juliette Gordon Low birthplace remembering many wonderful childhood memories from that trip!
I like the Vintage Postcard Christmas Holly 1924 Whitney Made Card Holiday PC I think it will look so nice framed.
Pentecost couple walk home http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Postcard-Merry-Pentecost-Couples-Walk-Home-Church-Mailick-/350865810172?pt=Postcards_US&hash=item51b13b62fc.
I think it would be beautiful framed!
I'd love to win the children decorate cart wagon postcard.
I would love to win the Vintage Postcard De Ville Motor Hotel Des Plaines Illinois Motel IL Chrome PC. I lived in Des Plaines for over 25 years and will have to find out where this was. It looks so familiar. Thanks.
The Pirates' House Restaurant is really pretty :).
I especially like the pretty Dutch cards! This one is a favorite: Vintage Postcard Children Decorate Cart Wagon with Flowers Dutch Child Card.
I really like the "Vintage Postcard Little Girl Bathes Cocker Spaniel Puppy Continental Dog Card."
My favorite is the Vintage Postcard Elsie the Cow Elmer Beauregard Borden's Foods Advertising Card on page 13.
I collect all types of advertising signs...this would be perfect! Thanks!
I like the Postcard Longhair Dachshund Puppies Outdoors Dandelions Continental Dog Card. So cute!! kristiedonelson(at)gmail(dot)com Thank you!


Wert: Recorded in many forms including Peaver, Peever, Peevor, Peffer, Pepper, Peckover, Pickhaver, Pickhower and Pickover, this is a highly confusing medieval English surname. It has at least three possible origins of which the first five surname spellings as shown above, could apply to any of the three origins, although the last four spellings are probably relevant only to the last origin. The first origin is occupational from the French word peyvrier and described a pepper and spice merchant. The second is a nickname for a person with a hot temper, also from peyvrier, and possibly given the robust humour of those times, the reversein that it was given to a quiet person, whilst the third is locational from all or any of the villages called Peover in the counties of Cheshire and Derbyshire. The village meaning is 'bright river'. Early examples of surname recordings include Roger Peivre and Alice Peper in the Fines Court rolls of Essex in 1198 and 1241 respectively, and they would seem to have been merchants, whilst John Pepper alias Peyvre, was recorded in the calendar of the Mayor's Court Rolls for Cambridgeshire in 1246. Amongst the interesting recordings is that on August 15th 1635, of Francis Pepper, aged 16 years, who embarked from London on the ship 'Globe' bound for Virginia Colony in the future USA, whilst Nathaniel Pickever married Joane Harrison at St Dunstans Stepney, on September 9th 1649. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Robert Peper. This was dated 1197, in the Pipe Rolls of Norfolk, during the reign of King Richard 1st, known as 'The Lionheart', 1189 - 1199. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was sometimes known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to 'develop' often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.


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Justia › US Law › US Case Law › US Supreme Court › Volume 141 › Patent Clothing Co., Ltd. v. Glover
Patent Clothing Co., Ltd. v. Glover, 141 U.S. 560 (1891)
Patent Clothing Company, Ltd. v. Glover
Argued October 27, 1891
Decided November 16, 1891
Reissued letters patent No. 9616, granted to Rodmond Gibbons March 22, 1881, on the surrender of letters patent No. 178,287, for an improvement in pantaloons are void for want of patentable novelty in the invention claimed in it.
In equity for the infringement of letters patent. The case is stated in the opinion.
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED
STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
MR. JUSTICE BREWER delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York dismissing
the appellant's bill. The suit was for the infringement of a patent. Rodmond Gibbons was the patentee. His original patent was dated June 6, 1876, No. 178,287. This was surrendered, and a reissue obtained on March 22, 1881, being reissue No. 9,616. Gibbons assigned to the appellant. Suit was commenced by the filing of a bill on June 18, 1884. The answer tendered several defenses, among them that the reissue was void by reason of laches in applying for it, the application not being made until nearly five years after the date of the patent; because it was broader than the original patent, and included in it matters not claimed or described therein; that the patent was void for lack of invention and patentable novelty, and also noninfringement. The patent was for an improvement in pantaloons, and the specification in the original patent was in these words:
"My invention relates to a fastening for the crotch in the fly of pantaloons or similar garments, and it consists in bridging said crotch with a check-piece of cloth or other inelastic pliable material, as hereinafter fully described."
"The object of this invention is to prevent that tension at the crotch ordinarily produced either by continued use of the garment or by any undue strain caused by the assumption by the wearer of any posture of the body, or by the removal of the garment, calculated to produce such an effect."
And the single claim was:
"In combination with the fly of pantaloons or similar garments, an inelastic bridge or check-piece, arranged across the crotch thereof, substantially as described, whereby the strain at the crotch, when the fly is opened and spread apart, is received by said bridge or check-piece instead of at the angle of the crotch itself."
The specification in the reissue reads:
"My invention relates to means for strengthening the crotch in the fly of pantaloons, and has for its object to prevent that tension at the crotch of the fly which is ordinarily produced either by continued use of the garment or by some undue strain upon the latter, caused by the assumption of some posture by the person wearing it, or by some mode of removal of the garment from the body calculated to produce such an effect, and which tension
frequently operates to rupture either the cloth or the seams, or both at the vicinity of the said crotch."
"To this end, my invention consists in the use, in connection with the fly, of a check-piece or strip of cloth or other inelastic pliable material, arranged to bridge over and protect from tensional strain the crotch of said fly, as will be hereinafter more fully described."
And these were the claims:
"1. The combination, with the fly of a pair of pantaloons or other similar garment, of an inelastic bridge or check-piece, arranged across the crotch of the fly, and operating substantially as described, to receive any strain occasioned by the spreading apart of the fly, and which would otherwise be exerted upon the crotch of the fly."
"2. In combination with the fly portion of a pair of pantaloons or other similar garment, a check-piece made integral with the button-hole strip of the fly, and adapted to prevent any tension at the crotch that might operate injuriously upon it."
On proofs, the case went to final hearing before Judge Shipman, who, on the 14th of May, 1887, filed an opinion adverse to the appellant and directed a dismissal of the bill. On a rehearing, a further opinion was delivered, the two opinions being found in 31 F. 816, 818, and on August 4, 1887, the decree was entered, which, after reciting the hearing and rehearing, reads:
"Now, upon due consideration of the same, and the court being of opinion that the second claim of reissued patent No. 9,616, granted to Rodmond Gibbons on the 22d day of March, 1881, is invalid unless it is limited to the bridge or check-piece of the original claim, and with that construction there is no infringement, it is ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the bill of complaint in said cause be, and the same hereby is, dismissed,"
etc. It will be seen from this decree, and more fully from the opinions, that the conclusion of the trial judge was that the second claim of the reissue was an enlargement of the single claim of the original patent, and therefore invalid, or if not and it could be properly construed as describing the same thing, that that which was done by the defendant was no infringement.
It is unnecessary to review these opinions, or determine whether there be, as the court found, any such variation and enlargement. There is a more grievous and radical defect in the appellant's case. There is not in the matter described and exhibited in any of the specifications or claims any invention, within the meaning of that word, as developed in recent decisions of this Court, Hollister v. Benedict & Burnham Mfg. Co., 113 U. S. 59; Thompson v. Boisselier, 114 U. S. 11; Howe Machine Co. v. National Needle Co., 134 U. S. 388; McClain v. Ortmayer, ante, 141 U. S. 419, and for that reason both patents, original and reissue, were void.
What is it that the patentee claims to have invented? Formerly the button and button-hole strips in the fly of pantaloons were separate pieces whose lower ends, being placed face to face were sewed together, and thus formed the crotch. Of course, then any strain at the crotch was resisted by only the direct strength of the thread. The idea of the patentee was to add to the strength of the thread the strength of a piece of cloth, and this he did by a strip crossing the crotch as a bridge, and running up along the button and button-hole strips, and fastened to them respectively. The strain, therefore, at this place would be resisted both by the thread and this strip of cloth, or "inelastic bridge," as the patentee called it. A similar result was obtained when either one of these strips, the button or button-hole, was made longer than the other, and the longer one, instead of running downward into the crotch, was turned at that place and used as a bridge across it, and then ran up along the side of the other strip and was fastened to it. By either of these processes, the tension was placed largely upon the strip of cloth instead of solely upon the thread. But this was no new idea -- it is as old as pantaloons themselves. It has been illustrated in the experience of every boy, for in his sports he not infrequently tears his pantaloons, and his good mother, not content with sewing the torn ends together and thus holding them by the direct strength of the thread, is wont to place underneath a piece of cloth and fasten it to the main body of the garment for some distance on either side of the tear. In this way, the whole strain, which otherwise would be solely
on the threads closing the tear, is largely borne by the new cloth underneath. Surely when this idea is so well known, and has been so practically illustrated for generations, it cannot be that there was any exercise of the skill of an inventor in applying the same process to any part of the pantaloons. If it be said that the strengthening of the stay-piece, here applied is not to the closing of a tear, but to a seam at an angle, it may be replied that such particular form of reinforcement is itself no new thing. An illustration is in the seam at the angle made by the fingers and thumb of gloves. As to that, it appears from the testimony that the practice was old of reinforcing the seam by an overlapping piece. Other illustrations are also furnished by the testimony, but it is hardly necessary to refer to these in detail. The matter is familiar to the knowledge of all, and surely the application of this reinforcing strip of cloth to any seam, or in any place where without it the tension would be solely on the threads, cannot be an exercise of the skill of an inventor.
We think, therefore, that the patent sued on was void for want of patentable novelty, and affirm the decree.
MR. JUSTICE BRADLEY and MR. JUSTICE GRAY did not hear the argument or take part in the decision of this case.


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Both candidates painted pictures of the entire country being completely starved of infrastructure spending and, while it is true that much of the US' infrastructure is crumbling, renewal is taking place — just not on the scale of Trump's much-hyped $1 trillion infrastructure spending plan.
Nevertheless, some significant projects started long before Trump took office. One such example can be found in New York's Hudson Valley, about 14 miles north of New York City.
The $3.98 billion new Tappan Zee Bridge, just north of the existing bridge, is nearing completion and likely to partly open to traffic during the autumn and be fully open in both directions in mid-2018. The project was at least 10 years in the making, stuck fast in a quagmire of political ineptitude, before Governor Andrew Cuomo got things moving and contracts were signed and construction began in 2013.
The $3.98 billion new Tappan Zee Bridge nearing completion, to replace the old bridge in the background. Photo by Anthony Poole.
Construction of the 3.1-mile, two-span, cable-stayed bridge, linking Westchester — home of the Clintons — and Rockland counties at one of the widest points on the Hudson will have used nearly 100,000 mt of US-made steel and 270 cu m of concrete when complete, New NY Bridge Project, the formal name of the replacement bridge, says on its website. The construction has employed around 6,300 people on or off-site, including subcontractors, according to Khurram Saeed, a New NY Bridge Project spokesman. Tappan Zee Constructors, a consortium of four companies — Flour Enterprises, American Bridge, Traylor Bros and Granite Construction Northeast — has combined local, national and international experience to design and build the bridge. According to Saeed, Tappan Zee Constructors has had $2.37 billion of commitments to date, including $1.06 billion on subcontractors, $825 million in permanent materials and $494 million of indirect expenses.
The new bridge will have a life expectancy of about 100 years, according to New NY Bridge. It will replace the old cantilever structure, opened in 1955 with a planned lifespan of 50 years and designed to carry considerably less than the 137,000 (2011 estimate) vehicles/day it now carries. Unlike the old bridge, the new structure will have dedicated bus lanes, giving commuters in Rockland County on the west side of the Hudson access to an overcrowded Metro-North commuter railroad in Westchester, on the east side, potentially cutting commute times to New York City considerably. The new bridge will also feature emergency hard shoulders and a 12-ft-wide shared bike and pedestrian lane, both absent on the old bridge.
To fund the new bridge, its owner, the New York Thruway Authority, in December 2013, closed on a $1.6 billion, long-term, low-interest soft loan through the 1998 Transportation Infrastructure Financing and Innovation Act (TIFIA) program, administered by the US Department of Transportation, which explains the large US steel component. It was the largest loan in the history of the program at the time, according to the New NY Bridge Project on its website. A further $2 billion in bank settlement funds have been committed to support Thruway capital improvements over the last two years, including helping pay for the bridge. The remainder of the funding is from Thruway Authority bonds. Thruway tolls are frozen until at least 2020.
While 100,000 mt of US-made steel in a single project may not seem like much in the grand scheme, if a fraction of the nation's dilapidated bridges and railways are repaired or replaced during the lifetime of the Trump administration, that 100,000 mt figure would multiply quickly and significantly, especially if funded through programs like TIFIA.
New York state is also home to another large bridge project — the replacement of the partly opened $1.5 billion Goethals Bridge, replacing an older one between New Jersey and the New York City borough of Staten Island — also involving TIFIA funding. This bridge is due to be fully open before the end of the year.
The new Tappan Zee Bridge, showing a small gap where the final piece of the eastbound span will be installed, with the old bridge behind it. Photo by Anthony Poole.
Use of existing legislation, such as TIFIA, has done more to get US infrastructure moving than any new law or initiative since Trump took office. A look at the TIFIA project map on the US DOT's website shows several projects funded using program loans, including no less than six in close proximity to Washington. These projects are concentrated primarily along the East, West and Gulf coasts.
It is in the power of the administration and Congress to continue to support and fund programs like TIFIA, or come up with something bigger. But actions speak louder than words, whether on the floor of Congress or on Twitter.