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The Birth of the National Hockey League (NHL)
Article by James H. Marsh
Updated by Tabitha Marshall
Published Online October 18, 2013
Last Edited December 22, 2016
When the National Hockey League formed in late 1917, few could imagine the importance it would have in the fabric of Canadian life.
When the National Hockey League formed in late 1917, few could imagine the importance it would have in the fabric of Canadian life. On 22 November, a group of team owners from the struggling National Hockey Association (NHA) gathered for a meeting in the Windsor Hotel in Montréal. Elmer Ferguson was the lone reporter sitting waiting for news. The first man to emerge from behind closed doors of the meeting was Frank Calder, who would become president of the new league. Ferguson hollered after him, "Hey Frank, what happened?" "Nothing much," replied Calder.
George Kennedy, owner of the Montreal Canadiens, was more forthcoming: "It's like our old league except that we haven't invited Eddie Livingstone to be part of it," he told Ferguson. Five of the six owners of the old National Hockey Association had finally gotten tired of the stubborn and confrontational owner of the Toronto Blueshirts, Eddie Livingstone. So they met without him and made a new league (which officially came into existence on 26 November 1917). Livingstone was "always arguing," Ottawa manager and co-owner Tommy Gorman said, "Without him we can get down to the business of making money."
Professional hockey was barely a few years old but it had already created a familiar landscape: quarrels among owners, soaring salaries, lawsuits and injunctions, salary caps, bankrupt franchises — all the slings and arrows the market is heir to.
The first openly professional hockey team was the Portage Lakes hockey club, founded in 1900 by dentist J.L. Gibson, a Canadian who had relocated to Houghton, Michigan. In 1903, "Doc" Gibson decided to pay for talent, and so team management hired the best players from Canada. The Portage Lakes club was so good that other teams in Canada and the United States had to follow its lead and pay players to compete, regardless of concerns about professionalism in sports. The success of the club also led to formation of the International Hockey League in 1904, with three teams in Michigan, another in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and one in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. (The league disbanded in 1907.) It also contributed to the 1906 decision by the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association to officially allow professional players in the league. Teams began openly competing for players. In fall 1907, Tom Phillips, star of the Kenora Thistles, signed with Ottawa for $1,800.
Professional teams popped up in the most unlikely places, such as Cobalt and Haileybury, Ontario, where wealthy mine owners purchased the best players that money could buy. The George Steinbrenner of his day, mine owner John Ambrose O'Brien assembled a team of superstars to play for him in the town of Renfrew, Ontario, including Fred "Cyclone" Taylor and the Patrick brothers, Frank and Lester. Taylor became the highest-paid player, receiving $5,250, more than twice the prime minister's salary! Renfrew paid Lester and Frank Patrick the lofty sums of $3,000 and $2,000, respectively. In 1909, O'Brien became co-founder of the National Hockey Association, forerunner of the National Hockey League.
However, bidding wars and the escalation of player salaries forced several teams to fold, including Haileybury and Cobalt. For the 1910–11 season, NHA club owners, who had induced players to sign for high salaries (and then all lost money in the 1909-10 season), established the first salary cap, at $5,000 for each team. Players who had been earning up to $1,800 would have to settle for about $500; there was talk of a player union but, in the end, most players accepted the decrease in salary. In practice, though, competition for players within the NHA (and with the Pacific Coast Hockey Association) led club owners to bypass the regulations and negotiate higher salaries and bonuses with top players.
By 1917, some were predicting the end of professional hockey. "'PRO.' HOCKEY ON LAST LEGS," announced The Globe on 6 November. The NHA situation was described as "critical" as the "Public Tires of Money-Chasers and Turns to Fast Young Amateur Teams." Interest was waning as the Association had too many older, slower veteran players — many young men were off to war.
There was no guarantee in 1917 that professional hockey would survive, and no one at the time would have predicted that the NHA's successor, the National Hockey League, would become the premier professional league in the world.
For better and for worse, the professional leagues changed the game of hockey. Once played primarily for fun, love of the game, and local pride, it became part of the culture of business. It was the business class who had the organizational skills and the money to organize the sport, pay the players and get new stadiums built. In return, they wanted ownership of the game. It would not be long before the professional NHL had control of the Stanley Cup, which Lord Stanley had intended to celebrate the values of amateur sport.
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Parents of two New Orleans-area school girls have dismissed their lawsuit against a Catholic school over its policy forbidding hair extensions.
In a notice of dismissal filed in federal court Monday, lawyers for the girls noted that Christ the King Parish School had ended the policy, a decision the school announced two weeks ago after a state judge blocked its enforcement.
The school and the Archdiocese of New Orleans drew widespread online outrage after video spread of sixth-grader Faith Fennidy tearfully leaving school after being told her hair style violated the policy.
Her mother and the mother of another student filed a state court lawsuit, which was moved later to federal court.
Neither school officials nor lawyers for the families immediately responded to requests for comment Tuesday. Both sides have been quiet about the case in recent weeks and neither has said whether either of the girls returned to Christ the King or enrolled elsewhere.
Faith's brother posted a Facebook video that showed the girl, her braids pulled back and hanging just below the neckline, dejectedly leaving school with family members in late August. It included an explanation that there were practical reasons for Faith's use of hair extensions.
The video won her quick recognition and support from, among others, social activist Shaun King on Twitter and rapper T.I. on Instagram. The P&G brand flew her to New York to attend the Black Girls Rock award show on BET.
So, now, exactly how strong is the Catholic presence in New Orleans? A ridiculous question, true. The legendary Leah Chase spoke about it, in more than one television interview. And how many young people of color received a Catholic school education, through the years because of policies that denied them entry into white-only schools? Famous NOLA families, in music, in politics, in the law, who are of the Catholic faith, going back to the early part of the last century. Fast forward to the present. I have seen literally dozens of young African American children and teens of both sexes, their various hairstyles neat, beautiful, and representing a unique, proud heritage. Sadly, white culture still frequently attempts to impose its rules where those rules do not belong. I am a retired teacher. Wearing one's hair in a particular style is not 'disruptive' to a learning environment – in any way that I am able to comprehend. BTW I am Italian, Caucasian. Not even a Catholic. And, a New Yorker.


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Aedes vittatus és una espècie de mosquit, descrit per primer cop el 1861 per Bigot sota el nom binomial Culex vittatus a partir d'espècimens recollits a Còrsega. Classificat successivament als subgèneres Stegomyia (Edwards l'any 1932) i Aedimorphus (Huang el 1977), el 2000 l'espècie fou de novament reclassificada per Reinert al nou subgènere Fredwardsius com a espècie tipus d'aquest subgènere monotípic.

Morfologia
Com moltes altres espècies del gènere Aedes les formes adultes, presenten un color marró negrós, amb alguns motius d'escates de color blanc. La tíbia de les potes posteriors presenta una característica banda blanca central. Els tarsòmers I-III de les potes centrals i davanteres tenen una banda blanca a la base, mentre que a les posteriors també hi ha banda blanca basal al quart tarsòmer i el cinquè tarsòmer és totalment blanc.
Un tret característic visible pràcticament a ull nu d'Ae. vittatus és la presència de dos o tres parells de punts simètrics a sobre l'escut (part dorsal del tòrax). La forma del gonostil engruixida a la part terminal i amb l'espina fortament corbada també és característica
Altres trets de caràcter diagnòstic pel que fa les fases larvàries són la presència de setes a la banda exterior del cap i a l'antena ramificades en forma de plomall.

Ecologia
Espècie de distribució paleàrtica s'ha citat als següents països: Algèria, Angola, Aràbia Saudita, Bangladesh, Benín, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cambodja, Camerun, Illes Comores, Costa d'Ivori, Djibouti, Espanya, Etiòpia, França, Gabon, Gàmbia, Ghana, Guinea, Iemen, Índia, Iran, Itàlia, Kenya, Laos, Libèria, Madagascar, Malawi, Malàisia, Mali, Moçambic, Namíbia, Nepal, Níger, Nigèria, Pakistan, Portugal, República Centreafricana, República Democràtica del Congo (Zaire), Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somàlia, Sri Lanka, Sud-àfrica, Sudan i Sudan del Sud, Tanzània, Tailàndia, Tunísia, Uganda, Vietnam, Xina, Zàmbia i Zimbabwe. Segons la literatura científica actual a Espanya presenta una distribució dispersa potser més extensa del que es creu degut a la manca d'estudis sobre aquesta espècie i als culícids en general; havent-se descrit entre altres a llocs de les províncies de Castelló, Alacant, Barcelona, Girona i també a les illes Balears.

Les etapes immadures desenvolupen en arquetes de clavegueram, forats de petjades d'animals, barques, pous, troncs d'arbre, forats d'arbre, copes de bambú i olles, estris abandonats, forats a les roques, en bassals o llits de riu, i corall, i ocasionalment al cim de l'estació reproductiva, drenatges de formigó. Les etapes immadures s'han trobat associades a les d'Aedes albopictus, Aedes malayensis i espècies del gènere Culex.

Les femelles adultes piquen durant unes poques hores al dia amb una activitat màxima crepuscular entre les 18:00 i 21:00 hores. En un estudi dut a terme al nord de Nigèria no es va capturar cap adult en trampes emprant com a esquer a cabres, ovelles, mones o porcs; el porc espí es va revelar com l'amfitrió més important en l'àrea.

Importància mèdica
Aquest mosquit també pica als humans, Aedes vittatus pot transmetre el virus de la febre groga en mones al laboratori i es sospita de la seva participació com a vector a l'epidèmia del 1940 a la muntanya Nuba al Sudan de la que s'estima que causà uns 15.000 casos humans i que causà uns 1.500 morts. Aedes vittatus és, potencialment, capaç de transmetre el virus del Zika, agent causal de la febre de Zika;  i del chikungunya.

Notes

Enllaços externs
 Aedes vittatus en el río Ter - Desinsectador.com, 2016
 Aedes (Fredwardsius) vittatus (Bigot, 1861), WRBU specimen AEvit, Character descriptions: Edwards,1941:155,APHC Entomological Sciences Mosquito Species

Culícids

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Waves for days. Trash for eternity. That's what photographer Zak Noyle discovered on a recent trip to Java, Indonesia. The waves of Java, always known for being pristine and barreling, were now rolling swells of disgusting trash and debris.
Noyle was shooting Indonesian surfer Dede Surinaya in a remote bay when he and Surinaya discovered the water to be covered in garbage, according to GrindTV. The bay was miles from any town, yet strong currents had carried the trash of the world's most populated island, Java, to its once pure waters.
In addition to the sea of plastic, large objects like tree trunks were being tossed around in the waves.
Indonesia, a country comprised of more than 17,000 islands, suffers from a terrible trash problem that is polluting its waters. Some of the population centers have little to no trash collection infrastructure, leading locals to dispose of their waste in the street or in river beds, after which it inevitably is washed out to sea.
Residents of large population centers are often the ones improperly disposing of their trash, which storms and currents carry to beaches and islands most locals have never even seen. "There is little cultural awareness when it comes to trash," according to Time magazine.
No matter who is to blame, the effects are felt by those who live in or visit Indonesia. Mark Lukach, a writer for the surf website The Inertia, described his first time visiting the island of Lombok.


Inside the cramped storage rooms of Moscow's antidoping laboratory, the crates of blood and urine samples are stacked to the ceiling, each one neatly labeled and sealed with a tamper-proof lid. The lab's acting director, Marina Dikunets, lowers her voice to a solemn half-whisper as she shows a group of journalists around. What makes her especially uneasy is the small refrigerator in a corner of the room. Chained shut and padlocked, it contains the samples of 40 Russian athletes who tested positive for doping during the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi. "I try to stay as far away from that fridge as possible," she says.
It's hard to blame her. In the world of professional sports, these little bottles have come to represent a fundamental flaw in the system designed to guard against doping and, by extension, to maintain public trust in the integrity of sport. That trust has recently been shattered.
In a report released on July 16, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirmed that the urine bottles are hardly tamper proof. During the Sochi Olympics, an agent of the Russian state security service, known as the FSB, was able to unseal these bottles, dump out the urine of athletes who had been doping and replace it with clean urine in order to fool the Olympic drug tests, according to the WADA report.
This trick was at the core of a state-sponsored doping conspiracy, whose discovery has forced the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to rule on July 24 that "all Russian athletes seeking entry to the Olympic Games Rio 2016 are considered to be affected by a system subverting and manipulating the antidoping system," according to a statement by the IOC. That means all Russian athletes are considered tainted by the country's antidoping system and that they would not be allowed to compete in the Rio Olympics unless they could convince their individual sports federations that they were innocent. Though that falls short of the total ban on Russian athletes that many antidoping officials had demanded, no Russian athlete will escape suspicion.
But the implications of the WADA report and the IOC's decision go well beyond Sochi, Rio or even the world of Russian sport. WADA's entire system of safeguards against doping relies on the impenetrability of these little bottles. Under the agency's rules, each country's antidoping authority is obligated to store them for 10 years, so that investigators can go back and check whether athletes had been doping during any of their competitions. Hundreds of thousands of these samples are stored in antidoping labs around the world, providing a legal record that was meant to be inviolable.
The implications of that discovery are hard to overstate. In effect, McLaren's report puts into question every medal ever won at an international competition. It means that athletes are no longer able to prove that their urine samples, locked away in storage rooms for years, had never been tampered with.
That had been clear well before WADA's report on cheating at the Sochi Games. Athletes from Kenya, who have dominated the field of long-distance running for years, are also at risk of being banned from the Rio Games after 40 Kenyan athletes failed drug tests in the last five years.
Even in Brazil, the host country of this summer's Olympics, the official antidoping lab lost its WADA accreditation in June because of undisclosed failures to conform with international standards. The lab was only allowed to resume taking blood and urine tests on July 21, two weeks before the opening ceremony of the Rio Games.
Amid all these scandals, Russian athletes often feel like they're being singled out unfairly. "We're being treated as total outcasts, made fools out of," Yury Borzakovskiy, the head coach for Russian track-and-field team, told TIME in June.
The investigation into his sport, in particular, has brought an endless stream of embarrassment for Russia, forcing the government to admit that many of its athletes had cheated the system while denying any state-sponsored doping program. Asked about the role of the FSB at the Sochi lab, Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko tells TIME that he wasn't aware of any secret agents being present, and he insists that Russia is doing everything possible to keep its athletes clean in the future.


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Roche received U.S. FDA Emergency Use Authorization in June 2021 for the treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalized adults and children.
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Chugai to discontinue development of oral COVID-19 drug candidate AT-527 in Japan.
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Chugai has donated JPY 50 million to The Nippon Foundation and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to support the efforts of healthcare professionals in Japan who are engaged in the treatment and prevention of coronavirus (COVID-19). (June 10, 2020)
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package projects

import (
	"context"
	"testing"

	"go.chromium.org/luci/config/validation"

	. "github.com/smartystreets/goconvey/convey"
	. "go.chromium.org/luci/common/testing/assertions"
)

func TestConfig(t *testing.T) {
	t.Parallel()

	Convey("validate", t, func() {
		c := &validation.Context{Context: context.Background()}

		Convey("invalid", func() {
			Convey("project", func() {
				cfg := &Config{}
				cfg.Validate(c)
				errs := c.Finalize().(*validation.Error).Errors
				So(errs, ShouldContainErr, "project is required")
			})

			Convey("revision", func() {
				cfg := &Config{
					Revision: "revision",
				}
				cfg.Validate(c)
				errs := c.Finalize().(*validation.Error).Errors
				So(errs, ShouldContainErr, "revision must not be specified")
			})
		})

		Convey("valid", func() {
			cfg := &Config{
				Project: "project",
			}
			cfg.Validate(c)
			So(c.Finalize(), ShouldBeNil)
		})
	})
}

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We examine why many consumers privately provide a public good by posting reviews in online forums. Previous literature on motivation has focused mostly on goods with time-invariant quality such as books or movies. There, the primary motivation may be to impact the choices of other consumers. However, in dynamic-quality environments such as restaurants or hotels, consumers may also be motivated by the possibility that their reviews will impact the quality of the service directly. We examine this empirically in a scenario in which reviewers receive a credible signal that the service provider is listening. Specifically, we examine the managerial response feature allowed by many review platforms. We hypothesize that managerial responses will stimulate reviewing activity and that, because managers respond more and in more detail to negative reviews, we hypothesize that managerial response will particularly stimulate negative reviewing activity. Using a multiple-differences specification, we show that reviewing activity and particularly negative reviewing is indeed stimulated by managerial response. Our specification exploits comparison of the same hotel immediately before and after response initiation and compares a given hotel's reviewing activity on sites with review response initiation to sites that do not allow managerial response.


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INTSOS.NO: Denne artikkelen finnes på: http://intsos.no?id=2357
The fact about inhuman treatment in Trandum detantion Camp in Oslo-Norway
The Trandum detantion camp is established as a subdepartment of the immigration department in Norway and operated by the police, under the immigration department. It was primarly designed to detain foreign immigrants who have their asylum application rejected and with unknown identity that are waiting to be sent back to their country of origin.
Observation has proved unusual operation within this police machinery and various human maltreatment.
Detainees in this enclosed camp are fed with bread, juice and tea while hot dinner from packets are served once in a day, in evening time. It is not stated as a prison but the undertake of its operation proves it is a prison with cells and enclosed rooms with maximum isolation.
The main objective of this camp is to give time for investigation to establish clear identity, and obtain travelling document that are used to send the detainees back home. The written rules states the maximum of 12 weeks (three months) is given for an investigation and the deportation out of the country (Norway). The main areas would be in medical, investigation deportation and custody.
In the course of living in the camp there is very poor medical service that most people might have not known. There is a complaint if incompetance with the people suffering of various sickness and recieving non or irrelevant medecine and sometimes 3 minute consultation with a doctor who does not establish any medical record and normal controls as should have been done.
Somebody can die or suffer serious infections while the government and the Norwegian Authority closing eyes carelessy of what a man is suffering from. The government through the juridical personel promises absolute medical care when making decision and never follow up if these medical care are provided or not. One man is suffering from serious dental disorder and has never been exposed to a dentist for a period of one month and two weeks and still nothing hopeful sounds to come.
Three people are suffering from liver disability and have never been referred to any medical assistance despite of the danger of the consequences of their health situation in the future.
People with serious injury are detained and provided no medical attention and exposed to a misserable living while in detaintion. Generally the Norwegian Authority does not care for people in Trandum in the medical ground, given the above proof. The doctor who renders service in the camp proves to ignore many serious conditions, he never takes nessesary tests, instead he uses eyes to prescribe medicine and drugs, there have been two insidents where by two people fell down after taking the prescribed pills and this is a clear danger for the use of irrelevant tablets with respect of their sickness.
The investigation done has shown that when people are detained in the camp they are assigned with an investigation officer whose work is to find where the person is coming from, prove the identity and prepare the travelling documents. But this is not done that way, initially detainess are taken to the court and given four weeks in custody and these investigators do not do any thing more until the day of the court, and in the court they claim that the investigation is not completed and give four more weeks with the same intention.
This is nothing than making detainess suffer the detention and get depressed in such conditions. According to the human rights declaration it is not usual to keep someone detained for five months investigation about his identity while not a criminal it is against the order of conduct and the moral conduct. It has to be understood that applying for asylum is not a crime and being rejected is however not a subject of criminality.
The investigation officers change statements given by the detainees and the police advocate communicate wrong data to the court as a result the most cases are interpreted as lies and even detainees are seen as uncooperative which is not true at all.
All the prosedure in Trandum is primarly ment for either psychological or physical insult and torture to the detainees. The Norwegian Authority does not consider any flow of risk of sending people home neither detaining them and somenore days in case when a person asks for his right while in the camp.
Two people where put in isolation when they asked for consultation about their sickness. This is funny for punishing a person who is first inquering for his basic human right.
In deportation is when the human right is openly breached and deporters are treated as animals and never human beeings, it is as if they are mistaken by asking for asylum in Norway. Norwegian Authority uses incomplete travelling documents to send people away, wether within Dublin area overseas. There are two among these phenomena where by people were subjected by the pilot due to the incomplete or fake travelling documentation.
However there is a clear proof that the norwegian authority sends people to the countries they do not belong. Four people have been sent without a clear establishment of their identity, two nigerians have been sent to Ivory Coast and Ghana people are sent to Nigeria and handled to these countries authority where they will be thrown in jail without charge or other inhuman treatments, since they are not or they have no origin of the conutries they are returned to.
Force is also beeing used for people who do not shov the willingness if going back regardless of the reasons, they produce of the danger they may face in their homecountry or otherwise.
The use of tranqulizing injection which is forbidden has been practised in this camp, where by aggresive deporters are injected to become docile after they have resisted to be deported or when they are showing dissatisfaction of the deportation procedure. In one case here one algerian man who wanted to see and have his document when going home, was returned back in the camp after resisting to return home - when his request was denied and because he resisted he was injected, he became quiet and unnormal and accepted deportation after a few days. This is not good and it is a very bad act, to inject somebody, with these tranqulizers has very hazardious effects of madness and mental instability for a period of time depending on the quantity given.
The use of force or violent deportation, also rise a very confusing situation few days ago. One algerian man known as Benaza Khalid was brought to Norway according to the Dublin regulation. This man was operated two days ago before 9. december and when he was returned to Norway he wanted to have sometime to rest and recover before he is returned back home, but the norwegian police never considered his request. Instead on the 9. december they wanted to deport him, he resisted partially before the police used force, handcuffed him hands and legs, threw him from the top of the upper deck bed to the floor. One police stepped on his back, beat him and carried him violently out of the room to the basement, some detainees heard him crying helplessly and in the camp all the detainees where kept away while doing this. One somalian was mistakenly there and saw what happened.
The police gave an order to the security to make sure no one sees what is going on during their violent evacuation of the poor sick african. After taking him down in the basement three detainees through the windows saw something unususal. They witnessed white long van reversed near the main exit and this man was put in the boot of the back of the van, unconcious and they further saw only one policeman driving the man away. The qustion is if this man is still alive or dead, the eyewitness said this is dead and the flow of the event shows that this man is either in coma or dead.
This is only one event that has been witnessed by people it sounds there are many activities like this that has never been witnessed and hence there is a clear indication that human rights are ignored in Norway, and that detainees' lives are in danger.
Human rights activists may demand to see where this man is treated through the Algerian consulate in Sweden. There is a possibility if this algerian man to be in a confusing situation, due to the environment of deportation and the physical behaviour of the the police officers who tries to see if anyone was in a position to see what would happen before throwing the man in the boot and drove fast with only one police driver. How come that someone is deported with only a driver and put in boot and not in normal seats?
This is the information gathered by antiracist groups in Oslo and the intention to investiagte the general sítuation in the named place because there is a clear indication of inhuman activities going on there and the norwegian authority oversees all this.
We call upon human right organisations to question about the allegation and close this camp, if proved.
With regard
a Human right activist


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Vanarama National League South predicted - latest odds on Bath City, Billericay, Chelmsford, Havant & Waterlooville, Wealdstone, Slough and co for 2019/20
The race to get promoted to the National League starts on Saturday, August 3
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Havant & Waterlooville are clear favourites to be crowned Vanarama National League South champions for 2019/20.
Paul Doswell's side were relegated from the National League in May but bookmakers have them at a best-price 9/2 to take the title and bounce straight back up.
Billericay, who came 8th in South last season, are second favourites ahead of Chelmsford City, who lost in the play-off semis last time out.
The likes of Maidstone, Hemel Hempstead Town and Bath City are all 16/1 for the title and expected to be battling it out for the play-off spots.
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The bookies don't fancy the chances of Oxford City, Eastbourne Borough, Tonbridge, Chippenham Town or St Albans much.
They're all best price 100/1 to win the league and are expected to be fighting for survival. The season kicks off on Saturday, August 3.
As of 10.50am on July 31, here are the best (longest) odds on each club winning the league, according to Oddschecker.com...
Odds to win National League South
9/2 - Havant & Waterlooville
5/1 - Billericay
12/1 - Chelmsford City
16/1 - Maidstone, Hemel Hempstead Town, Bath City
20/1 - Concord Rangers, Dulwich, Welling, Dartford
25/1 - Weymouth, Slough, Wealdstone
28/1 - Dorking
33/1 - Braintree Town
40/1 - Hampton and Richmond
66/1 - Hungerford Town
100/1 - Oxford City, Eastbourne Borough, Tonbridge, Chippenham Town, St Albans
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Internode upgrades broadband networks
According to itWire, Australian broadband operator Internode is planning to enhance and upgrade its international and domestic networks. The operator has announced that it will quadruple the capacity of its bandwidth linking Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide, increasing it from multiple 2.5Gbps links to multiple 10Gbps links. It claims the move comes as it looks to 'meet growing demand from customers.'
Internode has also revealed that, under a separate project, it plans to add an alternative fibre path to Asia by using the Sea-Me-We 3 cable, which connects Perth with countries in South East Asia, the Middle East and Western Europe. Currently it uses the Southern Cross Cable and Australia-Japan Cable, which both land in Sydney. The new links are expected to be in service by March 2009. It has also announced that it plans to form peering relationships in London and Amsterdam for direct connectivity with European ISPs and content providers.
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1853–61 Current Prices of Grain at Dublin Corn Exchange.
This newspaper is published by an unknown publisher in Dublin, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. It was digitised and first made available on the British Newspaper Archive in Jan 25, 2015 . The latest issues were added in Jan 25, 2015.


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Public Consultation for a SSM- Airport Cell Site
Author's Update: I believe that in response to public feedback Bell is moving the proposed Nokomis Beach Road tower location to the area of the Pointe de Chênes campground. (26 Oct 11)
This is a follow-up to my blog of 14 Aug under the heading Is SSM-Airport Deferral Account a Go? concerning the public consultation for Bell Mobility (Bell) cell tower sites in the Sault Ste Marie area.
I attended the meeting held at the Water Tower Inn in the Sault on 24 Aug 11. Unlike the sparse attendance at the Bell public consultation for the Carpin Beach Rd site, nearly two dozen people were in attendance. The audience was a cross section of interested citizens and what I would refer to as resource personnel representatives such as a City Councillor, City Planning staff, Airport Management/Tech staff and personnel from the aviation sector.
Bell had three potential sites on the agenda for discussion – Algoma University Parking Lot, Old Garden River Road and Nokomis Beach Road.
No one in attendance expressed concerns about the first two sites. All of the open discussion centred on the Nokomis Beach site.
While the speakers declared a desire to obtain cellular and broadband (high speed) Internet service, they expressed concern about the actual site of the tower. I noted the following principal concerns as summarized below:
A desire for more details about the site selection process, the consultation process and the timelines involved.
An "industrial" structure located in a residential area and the potential for adverse impact on the aesthetics of the semi-rural residential area and the possible negative impact on real estate values;
The possibility of light pollution if beacon lighting (White strobe or flashing red) became a requirement for the tower;
The creation of another potential hazard to aviation in the area.
The Bell representative explained the rationale as to how and why the particular site was selected. Computer modelling and on the ground survey indicated the site offered the optimum location for area coverage and the prevention of spill over of the radio signal across the international border. He stated that Bell was no longer deploying wireline (DSL or Fibre to the Home) broadband (high speed) Internet service outside high density, major urban areas.
Some attendees suggested a number of alternate locations near the site area that they deemed to be more acceptable. Most involved the use of airport property either at ground level in the areas of the Nokomis Beach/Pointe de Chênes Road or use of the airport water tower as a support structure.
The Bell representative made arrangements to meet with the airport management to discuss possible airport locations later in the week before he returned to his office in Mississauga .
The Bell representative indicated his report to management will identify the concerns raised by the attendees. He will also meet with the network engineering staff to review the impact of using alternate locations identified as a result of his consultations . He indicated that at times the site selection and subsequent consultations becomes reiterative so the possibility of further meetings in still on the table.
No firm plans or dates for follow-up discussions were set.
The impact this need to reassess the site location will have on the roll-out of Deferral Account broadband (high speed) Internet in the SSM –Airport area is unknown at this time. The Bell representative did indicate that research for an another site to cover the Pointe Louise and the Pointe aux Pins areas was on going.
Readers interested in finding out more about the tower siting process regulations and the public consultation process are referred to the Spectrum Branch of Industry Canada site .
COWs Move to Martha's Vineyard
It seems that the residents of Red Rock and selected areas of St. Joseph Island are not the only people who do not have full time cellular coverage. The good folks of Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts, USA usually have limited or no cell service either.
However, according to an article in the NY Times, this all changes in July and August each year when Verizon installs a couple of COWs – Cell On Wheels (1) – to coincide with President Obama's holiday on the island.
AT&T hardware does not work on the technically incompatible Verizon network provided by the COWs. Not everyone is happy with the difference in hardware. (At one time AT&T was the sole source for cell enabled Apple iPhones and many legacy users remain.) This is the similar to the challenge faced by Bell customers trying to access the Tbaytel HSPA network along the Hwy 17 north corridor .
As one might expect, many island residents do not want or appreciate the cell service while others welcome the convenience
Come September, the COWs will head back to the barn and Martha Vineyard will revert to its normal bucolic self.
(1) Cell on Wheels Often referred to as a COW, it is a portable base station, usually a large truck or a van that is used to provide temporary wireless network capacity. COWs are typically used during special events where a larger number of people will converge on one area, or in disaster areas if the base station has been damaged. The COW vehicle will consist of a cellular tower and all the support equipment needed to provide mobile wireless communications.
Tbaytel RIF Project for Algoma Complete
The Algoma District portion of the 4 year Tbaytel Regional In-Fill (RIF) project is now complete. Tbaytel activated the final Canopy fixed wireless equipment at the Goulais (Buttermilk) site on August 15, 2011.
Within the Algoma District, the RIF project resulted in the installation of new cell sites at Sanigra Lake, Michipicoten, Goulais River and Heyden as well as the installation of Canopy fixed wireless broadband (high speed Internet) hardware on the cell sites at Hawke Junction, Batchawana, Goulais River, Bellevue, Heyden and Searchmont.
The RIF project is a separate entity from the agreement between Tbaytel and Rogers to build a 3G/4G HSPA network overlay using the existing Tbaytel CDMA facilities including the new RIF sites. This project remains ongoing with number of sites still scheduled for upgrade.
The RIF project started on May 11, 2007 when the North West Ontario Innovation Centre (NWOIC) issued a public Request for Expression of Interest (EOI). ADnet championed the Algoma District interests throughout the project's duration. The EOI conformed to the NOHFC guidelines for cellular coverage in effect at the time which stated King's Highways in the area were the targeted coverage area.
The EOI asked interested vendors to submit outline proposals to provide increased cellular coverage along the Hwy 17 corridor from Thunder Bay to Sault Ste. Marie and broadband (high speed Internet) with a minimum of 1.5 mbps download[1] capability at designated locales[2] along the same corridor.
After a due diligence review which included input from ADnet, the NWOIC selected Tbaytel as the vendor of choice and submitted funding proposals to NOHFC and FedNor for financial backing to offset some of the project's total $6.3 million cost.
NOFHC came on board the project on September 04, 2007 when they announced funding in the amount of $3.4 million conditional upon a Tbaytel contribution of $2.4 million and a FedNor contribution of $500 thousand. FedNor finally joined the project in the summer of 2008. The project total of $6.3 million broke down into $5.2 million for cellular and $1.1 million for broadband (high speed Internet).
[1] This was the speed the CRTC/FedNor/NOHFC used at the time to define broadband (high speed) Internet. It is now generally accepted that the target speed should be 4 Mbps download. The systems installed under the RIF have this capability.
[2] The principal criteria were population density and broadband (high speed) Internet alternatives.
Is SSM-Airport Deferral Account a Go?
As first reported in my 20 May 11 blog, Bell is moving ahead with building new towers and associated cell sites in the SSM -Airport Deferral Account area. This timeline conforms to the schedule previous published which shows construction start in 2011 for operation in 2012.
As required by federal regulations for new tower construction, Bell Mobility posted a notice of public consultation in the 13 Aug 11 edition of the Sault Star for a tower in the Nokomis Beach area of SSM .
The new Nokomis Beach location, like the previously reviewed Carpin Beach Rd. location, is clearly within the SSM-Airport Deferral Account area. Bell appears to be going ahead with the projects in spite of fact the appeal by Rogers to the Governor-in-Council is still pending and the counter legal appeal by Bell is not scheduled to be heard until mid-September 2011.
As a reminder, the Deferral Account program is 3G/4G HSPA based. While the original Bell submission to and approved by the CRTC had a special tariff provision, it is unknown if the appeal process will impact on the special tariff plans.
Bell also announced two other towers in the SSM area in the same edition of the Sault Star. These are not Deferral Account sites.
Goulais (Buttermilk) Canopy Site Update as of 12 Aug 11
I received written confirmation that the Goulais (Buttermilk) Canopy service will be launched on Monday, 15 Aug 11.
This means all three components of the site – 2/2.5 CDMA, 3G/4G HSPA, and Canopy fixed wireless broadband – will be operational.
Speed Test Sites and Results – 05 Aug 11
Speed Test Sites
A number of people have asked about how to test the speed of their broadband (high speed) Internet connection. The following lists are a few sites that offer a speed test service.
Bell Speed Check - http://206.47.199.107/
Cogeco Speed Test (Burlington, ON) - http://speedtest.cogeco.net
Ontera Speed Test - https://www.ontera.net/myontera/en/bandwidthtest.html
Primus Speed Test(Etobioke, ON) - http://speedtest.primus.ca
Rogers Speed Test - Website link is here
SaskTel Internet Speed Test (Regina, SK) - http://www.sasktel.com/internet/speedtest/index.html
Shaw Speed Test (Sooke, BC) - http://speedtest.shaw.ca
Speed Test Net - http://www.speedtest.net/
Tbaytel Sped Test - http://speedtest.tbaytel.net/
Test My Net - http://testmy.net/
Vianet Speed Test - http://www.vianet.ca/speedtest.php
Videotron Internet Speed Test (Montreal, PQ) - http://testvitesse.videotron.ca/index-en.html
Multi-Speed Test Sites Test
It is important to remember that the results of the speed test only indicate the statistics at the time of the test. It is highly unlikely that the results will be the same the next. To illustrate this point I conducted tests between 11:30 and 12:10 AM on Thursday, 04 Aug 11.
I used a Toshiba laptop with a wireless connection to a Rogers data hub which was receiving a signal by means of an all house antenna connected through a 50 dB amp to an external Yagi aimed at the Bellevue tower. I did three tests as quickly as possible at each test site. Notice the wide range of results both at each site and amongst the sites. You should also note the theoretical best speed for my connection is 7 Mbps download.
Ping in ms
Download in Mbps
Upload in Mbps
N/A*
Cogeco
Ontera
Speed Test Net
Test My Net
Vianet
* Site does not provide ping times
**Stopped Working
Single Speed Test Site Multi-location
Speed Test Net allows you to pick a specific server for each test. Using this option I tested a few Canadian and US locations. Again there was a large range of results.
Clifton, ON
Montreal, PQ
St. Johns, NL
Houghton, MI
North Sault Tbaytel Outlet Situation Clarified – 05 Aug 11
The circumstance surrounding a local Sault Ste Marie Tbaytel outlet is now clarified.
For business reasons, the authorized Tbaytel dealer in Wawa – The Brick – must be the agent of record for all Tbaytel transactions for service in the North Sault area.
However, the Wawa outlet can use The Brick associate store in Sault Ste. Marie as a "pick-up" point. This means a user may either contact the Wawa store directly and the items can be picked up in the Sault Ste Marie outlet, or a user may go the local The Brick outlet to place an order or pick-up hardware. The Sault store keeps a number of data hubs available for immediate pick-up and can have handsets, except Apple iPhones, available within 24 hours.
The authorized Wawa agency and consequently the Sault Ste Marie "pick-up" point can only provide hardware that will be "homed" to the Tbaytel network. Therefore the user must have a home or service address that indicates the primary connection to the network will be through a Tbaytel tower. For all practical purposes, this means the user must live or have business address north of the Sixth Line/ Hwy 17 intersection in the Sault.
All financial aspects will be in accordance with the Tbaytel pricing plans and policies. Details are available at the general Tbaytel website or the 3G/4G HSPA page.
The above does not impact on the ability of Tbaytel hardware to have full access to the Rogers network when the user is away from the primary address.
11 WHITE OAK DRIVE EAST
SAULT STE. MARIE, Ontario P6B 4J7
41 BROADWAY AVENUE
WAWA, Ontario P0S 1K0
A complete list of Tbaytel agents can be seen here.
CRTC Annual Telecommunications Monitoring Report Covering 2010
The CRTC issued their annual Telecommunications Monitoring Report for 2010 in July 2011. The following extract from the executive summary is published without comment. The full summary is available at this link and the download of the whole report is available at this link.
Growth in the telecommunications industry was driven by newer services, including broadband Internet services and wireless services.
The CRTC's report found that 77% of the 13.4 million households in Canada had an Internet subscription, with many subscribers preferring higher download speeds. The percentage of households with an Internet connection featuring download speeds of at least 1.5 megabits per second (Mbps) jumped from 62% to 70% in one year. Additionally, subscriptions to Internet download speeds of at least 5 Mbps rose from 44% to 52%.
A broadband Internet connection allows users to stream and download high-quality audiovisual content, and access online government, health and educational services. With an average of 5.5 Mbps, Canada ranked second only to Japan in an international comparison of Internet download speeds.
During 2010, the average residential broadband user downloaded 14.8 gigabytes per month, which is the equivalent of viewing more than 20 movies.
In 2010, advanced wireless networks that support smartphones and other devices that connect to the Internet extended to 97% of the Canadian population. Adoption of wireless services continued to grow as the number of subscribers increased by 8.5% to 25.8 million. This contrasts with the number of subscribers to home telephone services, which decreased by 0.9% to 12.6 million.
New competitors began making inroads in the major Canadian markets, capturing 25% of new subscribers. Although they offered mostly prepaid subscriptions, their competitive presence contributed to a reduction in the average revenue per user from $58.81 to $57.86 per month.
Local North Sault Tbaytel Agency Placed on Hold – 02 Aug 11
Due to unforeseen circumstances, it became necessary to remove the information about The Brick outlet in Sault Ste. Marie selling the Tbaytel Rocket Hub immediately and handsets in September.
We are hopeful there will be a quick and favourable resolution to the problem.
In the meantime, The Brick outlet in Wawa remains a Tbaytel hardware outlet for both the Rocket Hubs and handsets.
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Wick-born pirate took his revenge on his former master
Thurso's Heritage by a Thirsa Loon
An artist's impression of the hanging of Pirate Gow.
Whenever you think of a castle in Thurso, the most likely will be Thurso East, even though there were several other castles in the parish.
As with many longstanding buildings, they underwent changes with extensions or rebuilds. Some were not the castle that one sometimes imagines.
More like a small fortified house, Haimer Castle was a square building. It contained eight or nine rooms, including a dining-room, drawing-room, tea-room, two "pavilions", bedrooms, sundry closets, cellars, etc.
Its owner, Alexander Sinclair, 9th Earl of Caithness (1705-1765), was the son of John Sinclair of Murkle, who died in 1705. An inventory of plate (silver contents) also suggests that the castle was modest.
Sinclair owned a dozen and a half silver spoons of all kinds, an old tea kettle and lamp, sugar-tongs and spoon, a couple of small salvers, a tankard, and some plated candlesticks, and the likes.
Before building the castle in 1726, the Earl lived at Murkle. He had caused some offence to one of his employees who would take his revenge sometime after. That young employee would later become notorious in history as none other than the Wick-born pirate John Gow.
Born around 1698, Gow was the son of a successful Stromness merchant, William Gow and his wife, Margaret Calder. He had another link with the Thurso parish as he formed some attachment to Katherine Rorieson, the daughter of a Thurso/Scrabster merchant. But this ended when her father arranged her marriage to George Gibson, son of the Dean of Watten and Bower.
When Gow was sailing his pirate ship past the Caithness coast years later, he recalled the exchange with the Earl. Bringing his ship close to the shore, he bombarded the Earl's residence with cannon fire.
This attack led the Earl to build a new residency at Haimer, which "proved only out of range of Gow's guns, for it is said that a cannonball landed at Broynach nearby."
Gow was executed by hanging on June 11, 1725. The first attempt failed. What should have been a reasonably quick kill as he hung from the rope failed. Some of his friends pulled at his legs to ease the suffering, but the extra weight caused the rope to give way, and Gow fell to the ground. He was lifted up, and a second successful attempt was carried out.
After the Earl died, Haimer was abandoned and fell into ruin. In the 1870s, the then farmer was turning up part of the ruins, including a date stone removed from the ruins and built into the farmhouse.
A ladle, belonging to the Earl and made in Murkle before the castle was built, was presented to the Thurso Museum in 1878. Also included in the gift were the glass and asticles from the old parish church.
As this is the last article for the year, I would like to thank all the readers for their interest. I have always made a point of covering a variety of subjects, and hopefully, you may have gained a little more insight into the rich and often untapped history that Thurso has to offer.
Little did I know my efforts would lead to the publications, Thurso: Reminiscing with a Thirsa Loon, of which volume two is available to buy at Jamieson's Bakery, Eye Candy and thursobooks.com
To get in touch contact thursoheritage1@gmail.com
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La station radar de Hantsavichy (en ) est un radar de type Volga 70M6, située près de Hantsavitchy, à 48 kilomètres de Baranavitchy en Biélorussie. Il s'agit d'un radar d'alerte précoce géré par les forces spatiales russes. Il est conçu pour identifier les lancements de missiles balistiques depuis l'Europe occidentale et peut également suivre certains satellites artificiels. Elle remplace en partie la station radar démolie de Skrunda en Lettonie.

Historique
Le Volga est développé par NIIDAR à partir du radar Dunay-3U. La construction commence en 1982 pour contrer l'installation de missiles Pershing II en Allemagne de l'Ouest qui ne sont qu'à 6 à 8 minutes de vol. Ces missiles intermédiaires sont retirés par le Traité sur les forces nucléaires à portée intermédiaire qui est signé en décembre 1987.

Les travaux se poursuivent sur le radar même si les missiles Pershing sont retirés. Le radar n'est pas conforme au traité ABM de 1972 car celui-ci interdit les radars multifonctions. Le Volga enfreint le traité car il est conçu pour guider des missiles anti-balistiques (un "radar ABM") ainsi que pour agir comme un radar d'alerte précoce. Alors que les États-Unis ont réussi à faire démolir le radar Daryal à Yeniseysk pour avoir enfreint le traité, l'Union soviétique retire les capacités radar ABM du Volga pendant sa construction.

Les travaux sur le radar s'arrêtent en 1991 lorsque l'Union soviétique s'effondre. Ils redémarrent en 1993 lorsqu'il devient évident que la Russie va perdre la station d'alerte avancée de Skrunda, et avec elle la couverture des missiles venant du nord-ouest. Des tests ont lieu en 1994, et en 1995 un accord de 25 ans est signé entre la Russie et la Biélorussie, donnant à la Russie un bail de 25 ans sur le terrain et tous les bâtiments sans taxes et sans frais. Le bail est prolongé en 2021. Lorsque les radars Dnestr-M à Skrunda sont arrêtés en 1998, la Russie redémarre la construction du Volga. Les opérations de test commencent en 1999. Il est finalement mis en service le . Le radar est rénové en 2016.

L'un des fabricants aurait déclaré que deux autres installations du Volga étaient autrefois prévues, une à Komsomolsk-sur-l'Amour et une à Sébastopol. Une autre source indique qu'une autre installation du Volga était initialement prévue à Biïsk dans le kraï de l'Altaï pour assurer la couverture de la Chine.

Radar Volga
La station, classée de type "Volga", est similaire à un radar Daryal mais fonctionne sur la bande UHF plutôt que sur la VHF du Daryal. Comme le Daryal, il possède des stations émettrices et réceptrices séparées qui, dans le cas de la Volga, sont distantes de 3 kilomètres.

Le radar est doté d'un réseau à balayage électronique actif, un type de réseau phasé. Il rayonne en continu de sorte qu'il reçoit et transmet en même temps. Le réseau se compose de radiateurs en spirale qui tournent dans des directions différentes sur le récepteur et l'émetteur. Le réseau d'émetteurs mesure 36 mètres de largeur et 20 mètres de haut, et le réseau de récepteurs mesure 36 mètres de haut et de large. Les deux réseaux sont entourés d'un cadre en ferrite qui absorbe les ondes radio.

La Volga a une portée d'environ 2 000 kilomètres et un azimut de 120°, avec une élévation de 4° à 70°. Son indice GRAU est de 70M6.

Site
Le radar se trouve à 8 kilomètres au nord-est de Hantsavitchy et à 48 kilomètres de Baranavichy. Il est situé dans le raïon de Hantsavitchy de le voblast de Brest en Biélorussie. La ville militaire du radar s'appelle Kletsk-2 (en russe: Клецк-2).

Lors de l'ouverture de la station, il est déclaré que jusqu'à 200 Biélorusses locaux pourraient y être employés. En 2007, Kommersant estime que 600 personnes travaillaient au sein de la station.

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FLYi Successful Completion of Financial Restructuring
FLYi, Inc. , parent of
low-fare airline Independence Air, announced today that it has
successfully completed its financial restructuring, providing the company
with greater financial flexibility to execute its low-fare business plan.
The restructuring includes agreements with a majority of the company's
aircraft creditors to reschedule aircraft rent payments and reduce the
total number of 50-seat CRJ aircraft in the company's fleet, while
continuing to add more 132- seat Airbus A319 aircraft. "Today's announcement represents an important step forward in building a
much stronger future for Independence Air," said Kerry Skeen, Chairman and
CEO. "Working together with our creditors, we have put in place a capital
structure that greatly enhances our liquidity as we continue to move
forward with our low-fare strategy. We sincerely appreciate the commitment
and support of our lessors and lenders who have demonstrated their
confidence in our business plan with these agreements."
Highlights of the restructuring include:
—Consensual lease terminations on 24 CRJ aircraft, almost all of which
will be returned during the first and second quarters of 2005. Together
with previously announced changes these lease terminations will result in
the company operating a fleet of 58 CRJ aircraft. Many of the operational
changes resulting from this fleet reduction are already reflected in the
company's February and March service schedule. These lease terminations
will reduce the company's payments during the period from January 2005
through February 2007 by $81 million.
—Deferral of $70 million in CRJ rent payments that would have been due
between January 2005 and February 2007. These deferred payments will now
be repaid on a monthly basis beginning in May 2006.
—Lease termination on 21 of the company's 30 J-41 turboprop aircraft.
These aircraft were previously retired from the company's operating fleet
and are not currently used in Independence Air operations. These lease
terminations will reduce the company's net payments during the period from
January 2005 through February 2007 by $13.5 million.
—FLYi has also finalized and drawn down its previously announced
five-year $16 million secured term loan with GE Commercial Aviation
Services, Inc. and certain of its affiliates ("GECAS").
—In exchange for concessions from aircraft financing parties, the company
agreed to issue approximately 8.3 million shares of FLYi stock, some of
which are issuable under convertible non-interest bearing notes, and
approximately $6.1 million in unsecured notes.
—As previously announced, the company sold four CRJs in December 2004 for
approximately $50 million. In order to complete this transaction, the
company applied approximately $30 million of deposits with Bombardier to
pay down an interim loan on two of the aircraft in order to release liens
prior to the sale of these aircraft.
As a result of concluding its restructuring efforts, on February 18, 2005
the company paid the trustee the interest owing under its 6% Convertible
Notes due 2034, and the note trustee has commenced the process of paying
this interest over to the noteholders.
The company will provide additional details about its restructuring
through filings on Form 8-K with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
Mr. Skeen continued, "This financial restructuring, together with the many
other cost reduction and revenue enhancing initiatives that we are
undertaking, strengthens our company as we continue to offer the benefits
of low-fare service to our growing base of over three million customers.
We are especially excited to roll out transcontinental service to Las
Vegas and five major West Coast cities using our new and growing fleet of
Airbus A319 aircraft. In the eight months we've been operating as an
independent, low-fare carrier, Washington Dulles has become the largest
low-fare hub in America in terms of total departures and we remain
encouraged by the strong customer response to our Florida service." He
added, "Above all, we are so proud of each of our employees, who continue
to receive rave reviews from FLYi customers for providing the highest
level of enthusiastic service every day."
The company currently operates six Airbus aircraft and will take delivery
of six more in the coming months for a total of 12 A319s scheduled for
service by late May. Sixteen additional A319s are on order for deliveries
in 2006 and beyond—for a total of 28. Independence Air currently
operates non-stop Airbus service between Washington Dulles and four
destinations (Orlando, Tampa, West Palm Beach, and Fort Myers) and will
initiate new Airbus service from Washington to six additional destinations
between March 1st and May 1st (Las Vegas, San Diego, San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Seattle and San Jose). Independence Air currently offers non-stop
low-fare service to a total of 40 destinations.
The company will hold a webcast and conference call this morning (February
22, 2005) at 11:00 am Eastern time to discuss its restructuring and recent
changes to its business plan, including; the growing reliance on Airbus
A319 aircraft which allow it to provide transcontinental service and the
use of third party distribution systems Travelocity, Orbitz, Sabre,
Worldspan and Galileo/Apollo—which allow a broader spectrum of
customers to access Independence Air flights, including business travelers
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Q: Intersection of several sets of results corresponding to different events in matlab I have a matrix (5x10000) with the fifth line contains values between 1 and 50 corresponding to different events of an experiment. My goal is to find the columns of the matrix which are the same for different events. In other words, I want the columns results for all possible combinations of different events (subsets of {1,2, .., 50}) (For example: {1,3,7} and {7,1,3} are of course the same combination).
It sounds like a problem of intersection of sets that each contains all possible outcomes for a given event. I hope also that the computation time is reasonable.
example with a matrix (5x20):
A =
20     4     4    74    20    20     3     1     1     4     3     3     3     7     4     1    20     3     3    74
36     1     1    11    36    36     3     3     3     1     3     3     3     9     4     3    36     4     3    11
77     1     1    15    77    77     1     3     3     1     1     1     1    10     3     2    77     4     1    15
 9     4     4    40     9     9     2     4     4     4     2     2     2    40     1     4     9     3     2    40
 3     4     2     6     7     3     4     5     2     7     4     2     7     6     7     2     5     5     1     3

in this case we have seven different events from 1 to 7: line 5
for example:
the intersection of the results of events 3, 5 and 7 is the vector: [20 36 77 9]'
the intersection of the results of events 1, 2, 4 and 7 is the vector: [3 3 1 2]'
the intersection of the results of events 3 and 6 are the vectors: [20 36 77 9]' and [74 11 15 40]'
So what I want is the common columns for a specified number of different events between 1 and 50. For example, how to get the columns common to 20 different events? The problem becomes more complicated for me when I think to find this result for all possible combinations of 20 events in the set {1,2,..., 50}.
I want the common columns for all possible combination for a given number of different events, but I gave the number 20 just as an example on which to base one solution.
I'll rephrase my question that to make it clearer:
the following matrices are sub-matrix of A, each corresponding to a given event:
A1= [3;3;1;2;1]
A1 corresponds to results of the event 1
A2= [4 1 3 1;1 3 3 3;1 3 1 2;4 4 2 4;2 2 2 2]
A2 corresponds to results of the event 2
A3= [20 20 74;36 36 11;77 77 15;9 9 40;3 3 3]
A3 corresponds to results of the event 3
A4= [4 3 3;1 3 3;1 1 1;4 2 2;4 4 4]
A4 corresponds to results of the event 4
A5= [1 20 3;3 36 4;3 77 4;4 9 3;5 5 5]
A5 corresponds to results of the event 5
A6= [74 7;11 9;15 10;40 40;6 ]6
A6 corresponds to results of the event 6
A7= [20 4 3 4 7;36 1 3 4;77 1 1 3;9 4 2 1;7 7 7 7]
A7 corresponds to results of the event
my goal is to find intersection along the columns of the matrix Ai (1:4,:) i = 1,2, ... 7
in other words:
intersection(Ai,Aj)(1:4,:) for i and j different
intersection(Ai,Aj,Ak)(1:4,:) for i,j and k different
intersection(Ai,Aj,Ak,Al)(1:4,:) for i,j,k and l different
intersection(Ai,Aj,Ak,Al,Am)(1:4,:) for i,j,k,l and m different
intersection(Ai,Aj,Ak,Al,Am,An)(1:4,:) for i,j,k,l,m and n different
intersection(Ai,Aj,Ak,Al,Am,An,Ao)(1:4,:) for i,j,k,l,m,n and o different
intersection(Ai,Aj,Ak,Al,Am,An,Ao,Ap)(1:4,:) for i,j,k,l,m,n,o and p different
when I say "intersection (Ai, Aj)(1:4,:) for i and j different," I want the columns common to the matrix Ai(1:4,:) and Aj(1:4,:)
the result for each intersection can be many column vectors, not necessarily one, depending on the columns of the matrix A.
I hope that each result contains the vector column of the matrix Ai(1:4,:) followed by the corresponding values of events, such as: if [3 3 1 2]' is the intersection of A1, A2, A4 and A7, I want to get as a result the vector [3 3 1 2 1 2 4 7]'
for example: intersection(A1,A2,A3,A4)(1:4,:): my goal is to avoid the following loop:
[n1 m1] = size(A1);
[n2 m2] = size(A2);
[n3 m3] = size(A3);
[n4 m4] = size(A4);

k=1;

for i1=1:m1
    for i2=1:m2
        for i3=1:m3
            for i4=1:m4
                if A1(1:4,i1)==A2(1:4,i2) && A2(1:4,i2)==A3(1:4,i3) && A3(1:4,i3)==A4(1:4,i4)
                    intersection1234(:,k) = [A1(1:4,i1);A1(5,i1);A2(5,i2);A3(5,i3);A4(5,i4)];
                    k=k+1;
                end
            end
        end
    end
end

A: Can't tell for certain without an example input and desired output, but I believe this is what you're trying to do:
n = 1e4

tic

% Simulate data
% (Here we've split off the 5th row into a separate variable)
data = randi(5, [4 n]);
exptEvents = randi(50, 1, n);

% Find repeats
[b,i,j] = unique(data', 'rows');

% Organize the indices of the repeated columns into a cell array
reps = arrayfun(@(x) find(j==x), 1:length(i), 'UniformOutput', false);

% Find events corresponding to these repeats
reps_Events = cellfun(@(x) exptEvents(x), reps, 'UniformOutput', false);

toc

Elapsed time is 0.084577 seconds.

A: If I understand correctly, you want to find columns whose events are different. Building on John Colby's answer:
n = 1e3

tic

% Simulate data
% (Here we've split off the 5th row into a separate variable)
data = randi(5, [4 n]);
exptEvents = randi(50, 1, n);

% Find repeats
[b,i,j] = unique(data', 'rows');

% Organize the indices of the repeated columns into a cell array
reps = arrayfun(@(x) find(j==x), 1:length(i), 'UniformOutput', false);

% Find events corresponding to these repeats
reps_Events = cellfun(@(x) exptEvents(x), reps, 'UniformOutput', false);

U = cellfun(@unique, reps_Events, 'UniformOutput', false);
repeat_counts = cellfun(@length, U);
k=20;
rep_data = b(repeat_counts>=k,:);

toc

U in the code above has in every cell a group (or "combination") of unique events. Each cell also corresponds to a unique data column. If you need something else, please give an example. rep_data contains results that repeat in k or more events.


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Network Rail publish action plan detailing future relationships with SMEs
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The plan outlines Network Rail's recognition of the importance of small and medium enterprises and its intention to work closer with them.
Credit: Network Rail
Network Rail has released its plan of action for future relationships with small and medium enterprises (SMEs), including working more effectively and closely and listening better to businesses. The plan also outlines how Network Rail intends to achieve the government target of 33 per cent of its annual expenditure to be spent through SMEs by 2022.
The plan focuses on six areas of improvement: engagement, pre-procurement, procurement, contract management, supplier management and innovation, and is designed to create a more mutually beneficial partnership.
With SMEs providing approximately 16 million jobs nationwide, Network Rail recognises the importance of SMEs to Britain's local communities and economy.
Commercial Director at Network Rail, Ken Blackley, said: "The SME action plan is an excellent opportunity to build on what we've learnt from speaking to businesses in our supply chain and listening when they tell us we haven't always got it right. The steps we are taking will make us easier to do business with, from simplifying our processes and providing clarity on what we want from suppliers, to better supplier management, clearer sourcing pipelines and a move away from zero-value frameworks."
The action plan has been developed in response to feedback from focus groups with SMEs and engagement with working groups including the Rail Industry Association (RIA), Railway Industry Contractors Association (RICA), the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA), the Rail Safety & Standards Board (RSSB), Midlands Rail Forum (MRF), the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
Blackley has been appointed as a central SME champion at Network Rail, and regional SME champions are also being appointed. As well as continued working and focus groups, there will also be future 'Meet the Buyers' events in order to increase face-to-face discussions with suppliers.
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