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Finland Travel Guide
The most easterly of the Nordic countries, Finland is a land with incredible nature, pragmatic and good hearted people, and a surprisingly robust history stretching back almost 1,000 years. With castles dating back to the 13th century and having one of the world's most northerly medieval fortresses, Finland has a backstory that proves that there is more to this place than reindeer and suicide sauna runs to the ice cold lake and back.
Indeed, those two things figure greatly in this countries' appeal, as the cuisine offers up some tasty reindeer stew (you may want to cover your children's eyes when you get to that part), and 10% of the entire landmass here is made up of lakes.
But as you will see in the coming paragraphs, the Finnish people have a land that they have largely kept to themselves for so long – and they are eager to show it off to anybody who wishes to discover it for what it really is.
Languages: Finnish, English, Swedish
The first place that you'll be urged to see upon arrival in Helsinki is Suomenlinna, an island fortress that was intended to defend the city from a land invasion that was feared by Russia during the 18th century. As it turned out, it wasn't enough, as the Russians took it and Finland as a whole away from Sweden, which controlled this part of Scandinavia, in 1808.
After breaking away from Russia during the Communist Revolution in the early 20th century, it fell back under Finnish control, where it has remained to this day. The common use in the present is for picnics by the locals, but it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, so it will be of paramount interest to foreign travelers for its historic value.
One of the best examples of how Finland was back during medieval times can be found at Turku Castle, one of the oldest and best remaining remnants of that period. Built in the 13th century by the Swedish that had recently conquered that part of Finland, it has endured many sieges over the years, mainly from Russian incursions, from the 14th century straight through to World War II, when it was hit by a Russian fire bomb.
These days, it is wonderfully restored, from the stately courtyard, to the decadent dining room, which has an ultra-long table where guests of royalty regularly broke bread together.
That isn't it for castles in Finland though, as this country has one of the most northerly medival period fortifications in the world … its name is Olavinlinna. During the political chaos following the conquest of the Novgorod Republic by Ivan III, this castle was built to re-define the border between the two kingdoms, in a much more liberal manner for the Finns.
It held all the way until the 18th century, thanks to geographic advantages that allowed the Finns to repel invaders over that period. The Russians finally took it in 1743, and Finland had to wait until the Russian Revolution to get it back.
If you enjoy winter, Lapland is an excellent place to check out during that time, as it offers many ways to enjoy the colder, darker parts of the Finnish calendar. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced on many hundreds of kilometres of trails, both groomed and ungroomed, which is a choice way to exercise and connect with the wilds of this remote country.
Finnish saunas allow one to experience the bliss of sweating out all of one's troubles, only to be shocked back to your senses after being cajoled to jump in a lake where the water hits sub-zero temperatures. The practice of running back into the hot air of the sauna is said to encourage circulation through your body, improving one's vitality.
Finally, with long hours of darkness and more favourable stratospheric conditions at this high latitude, getting in a viewing of the Northern Lights is virtually guaranteed at this time of year. The mystifying green glow will be a trippy experience that will remind you that nature and space is a force with powers that we can only begin to comprehend.
As the Finns traditionally could only grow green foods for three months out of the year, the backbones of Finn cuisine tend to be dominated by the heartier root vegetables, such as potatoes, with bread and various meat and fish dishes rounding out dinner plates across the nation over the years.
Karelian pasty is considered to be the national dish of Finland, which is typically eaten for breakfast. It is made with rye dough and is filled with rice in the centre. Before serving, many will top it with a mixture of butter and boiled egg before digging in.
For those with adventuruous taste buds consider the astringent Finnish salty licorice known as Salmiakki.
With the Lapland frontier teeming with Santa's favourite ungulate, reindeer stew has long been a favourite lunch/dinner time meal for many Finns. Simmered with butter and beer for up to three hours, it is then served alongside lingonberries and potatoes, the former of which is also a common side in meals here.
With countless waterways where one can catch dinner via a rod and a reel, it should not be a big surprise perhaps that Finns really enjoy a good feed of salmon from time to time. Smoked, cooked and served with cucumbers, mushrooms, and potatoes, in a creamy soup, or even raw, Finns love salmon anyway they can get it, it seems!
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Trail of the Lion King
It's about going to the match.
Posts Tagged 'India Super League'
Kerala Blasters v Delhi Dynamos, Saturday 27th January 2018, 8pm
I've seen a couple of Indian Super League games on the telly and I'd kept an eye on one of the teams, Bengaluru, because they have an ex-Boro player, John Johnson, turning out for them. My interest cranked up a notch this season when another ex-Riversider, Andre Bikey, found himself a club in Jamshedpur. As India is reasonably close to Malaysia and well-served by the budget airlines I added it to my list of places to take in a game.
In a perfect world the match would have featured Johnson v Bikey, but I was limited to Saturday games involving teams with convenient flights. When I checked the fixture list none of the games involving either of the ex-Boro lads were do-able. The best option was to head for Kochi, home of the Kerala Blasters.
We stayed in quite a touristy area, just around the corner from Jew Town. It was a pleasant enough place for a wander around and we popped into a museum showing the history of the area and then stopped to watch some fellas trying to catch fish with hand nets. Whilst they failed miserably, the watching birds were pretty good at taking a steady supply of the little silver fish.
The local shop keepers were keen to entice us in but there's a limit to how many key rings, fridge magnets or sacks of brightly coloured spice that I'd want. None actually. The streets were busy with coach-loads of tourists, schoolkids on some sort of trip, a rat or two and the odd goat just moseying along.
I did pop into a barber's shop, much to the wide-eyed surprise of a small kid waiting in there. I don't think he'd ever seen an old white bloke having a trim. It wasn't bad for a quid, or at least it wasn't until the barber started violently knuckling my skull under the pretence of a 'head-massage'.
The fellas in our hotel had been extra helpful and had made things much easier for us by ordering our tickets for the game in advance. We took a taxi to the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium and among the bedlam were able to be dropped about ten minutes walk from the ground.
We were politely accosted by people wanting to sell us tickets, exchange money or just inquire where we were from. Pretty much standard for most Asian football games we attend really. Getting to the ground meant a trek over some wasteland and then passing through security scanners.
Our seats were in the 'Owners Box' section. This is as posh as it gets, or at least as pricey as it gets at 5,000 rupees a pop. That's sixty quid or so and, as you might expect, about fifty times the price of the cheapest ticket.
There were pre-match popadoms available in the lounge and a variety of sugary drinks. Kerala is pretty much a dry state. You can get alcohol from some official outlets but can't legally buy it in bars, restaurants or hotels. Nor football stadiums.
We made our way out to the seating area which was full of settees. Cool. I've never watched a live game from a settee before. I still haven't actually as the comfy seating was reserved for the actual Owners and their guests. Us ticket buying plebs had regular seats around the edges of the box. The best-known owner of the Blasters is none other than Sachin Tendulkar who I think could probably also be considered to be the best known Indian, full-stop. Maybe ever.
The Little Master made his entrance just before kick-off and was treated to a few choruses of his name from the fans below us. I've seen Shearer subjected to the same adulation at the boxing up in Newcastle and I imagine it must get pretty tiresome, particularly when you are just nipping out for a pint of milk.
Kerala had recently re-appointed David James as their manager. He'd had a stint as a player-manager with them before, but as he's knocking on fifty he understandably didn't bother bringing his gloves with him this time. I can't help but remember his appearance in that game at Man City back in 2005. The one where the Big Aussie saved Robbie Fowler's penalty to clinch a second successive season in Europe for the Boro.
The penalty was partly caused by the distracting presence of David James in our box after Stuart Pearce had taken the brave, if somewhat unorthodox, decision to bring a new keeper on, take an outfield player off and stick James up front. It so nearly paid off for them but I suspect didn't do much for Pearce's managerial credentials.
The visitors took the lead in the first half through a penalty and very nearly got a second after a Wes Brown mistake. Yes, that Wes Brown. Fresh from his part in Sunderland's decline he now gets his feet tangled up in the India Super League. I can only assume he's short of cash, although wouldn't it be great if he was doing it for the love of the game or to experience new cultures? Who knows.
At half-time there was a buffet with a few different curries. Very nice. There was decent air conditioning too which gets extra marks from me. There must have been a secret lounge for the Owners though as I didn't see Sachin in the queue for a korma.
The settees were still empty as the second half kicked off and so the Owners all missed the Blasters banging in an equaliser straight after the restart. The tempo picked up after that in what was quite a niggly game. A coach from each side was sent to the stands, with David James' sidekick heading up our way and settling into one of the sofas. Doesn't seem like much of a punishment to me.
As the half went on the ref evened up the penalty count and Kerala were able to take the lead. Dehli applied a lot of pressure but couldn't force an equaliser, whilst the frustration resulted in one of the visiting players receiving a red card for dishing out an elbow to the chops. The sending off seemed to cause the stadium announcer to call the result which was celebrated for a couple of minutes before the mistake was realised and everyone settled down again for the final few seconds.
We didn't stay for any post-match nosh and were soon in a tuk-tuk heading back to Jew Town. I think there is definitely potential for the India Super League to grow in popularity. The fan base seems to be there and if the success of the IPL is any sort of indication it could do very well indeed.
Tags:Andre Bikey, Dehli Dynamos, India Super League, ISL, John Johnson, Kerala Blasters, Sachin Tendulkar
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My Spanish sporting blog
Lynchburg Hillcats v Wilmington Blue Rocks , Friday 14th June 2019, 6pm
New York Mets v Colorado Rockies, Saturday 8th June 2019, 7.15pm
Gimnastica Segoviana v La Granja, Sunday 24th February 2019, 5pm
Getafe v Rayo Vallecano, Saturday 23rd February 2019, 1pm
Selangor Horse Racing, Saturday 19th January 2019
Dead people and stuff
Elbow in the chops
Hound Trailing
Pigs in polythene

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PhD candidate wins Provost's Graduate Research Award with soft robotics research
David Staudacher | Posted on December 18, 2019
Erina Joyee, a PhD candidate working under the direction of Professor Yayue Pan in the Additive Manufacturing Laboratory, has been named a winner of the UIC Provost's Graduate Research Award (PGRA).
The PGRA supports multidisciplinary scholarship and provides a way for students early in their studies to develop new research directions for their PhD dissertations or terminal degree thesis/capstone project. This seed money, a stipend of $5,000, will help her develop stronger applications for funding from external sources.
Joyee's research is focused on additive manufacturing of soft robotics. She's developing soft or partially soft-bodied robots that utilize the motion and control system of various living organisms in nature. These tiny robots have the potential to be robust and versatile, and even safer for human interaction compared to traditional rigid robots. Soft robots based on biomimetic principles are being designed for real life applications by paying attention to different shape, geometry, and actuation systems in organisms that respond to surrounding environments and stimuli. Especially, creatures such as caterpillars or inchworms have garnered attention due to their soft compliant structure and crawling locomotion system, making them ideal for maneuvering in congested spaces as a transport function.
"I published one paper on the basic movement and the basic printing process of the robot," she said. "We already successfully showed that it can crawl like an inch worm. It mimics the same movement of the inch worm."
The research was recently published in the journal Soft Robotics and titled "A Fully Three-Dimensional Printed Inchworm-Inspired Soft Robot with Magnetic Actuation."
The work is an interdisciplinary collaboration with UIC's Bioengineering Department since it will be a bio-compatible robot to work inside the human body. Joyee and Pan did some test on seeding the cells in the robot to see if it's bio-compatible.
"They will be used for the drug delivery in the human body in the future," she said. "We are in the preliminary stage of designing the primary design and prototyping of the design and how it will work and move."
Joyee spoke about her research passionately and sees it as the next wave of robotics.
"I really like working on the additive manufacturing and 3D printing because now 3D printing has a great future in each and every field of engineering. It's really exciting," she said. "In terms of manufacturing process, additive manufacturing has emerged as an effective tool for obtaining structural complexity with high resolution, accuracy, and desired geometry."
The student also expressed her appreciation for Pan's leadership in the laboratory.
"She is a great mentor and I learned a lot from her," she said. "When I started, my undergrad was in mechanical engineering and I didn't know much about manufacturing, and she helped me a lot to grow."
Research in the Additive Manufacturing Laboratory is based on a class of new fabrication processes that can directly yield physical objects from Computer Aided Design models. Pan's research objective is to advance additive manufacturing through exploring the science in physics and materials, to transform how we create and work by developing and applying novel additive manufacturing technologies in a wide range of applications. The main research focus includes multi-material additive manufacturing, additive manufacturing of electronics, soft robots, medical devices, and thermal energy management devices.
Learn more about the research in professor Pan's laboratory at Additive Manufacturing Laboratory.


This term, one of my friends is the TA for a course about algorithm trading. Then she needs historical data for the course project. However, querying data from Yahoo api ichart.finance.yahoo.com always failed. It is said Yahoo closed the api on May 18th 2017, but leave a download button on its webpage. For example, https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BIDU/history?p=BIDU, you can find the download link like https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/download/BIDU?period1=1506780002&period2=1509372002&interval=1d&events=history&crumb=NbjLKgotcao for "BIDU". Then we can build a similar url to download the historical data as CSV file.
I found a post, NEW YAHOO FINANCE QUOTE DOWNLOAD URL, which clearly explained how to build the download url. Here, I just present the brief review.
The B values is what we need, we can store this value for later use.
From bottom to top, we enter the symbol we want to download the data, then call the download_quotes() function. It sets the dates range, get cookie B value and look for the crumb parameter, then download it through requests. Then, we get the CSV file of the historical data saved in the symbol.csv file. If Yahoo updates its api later, we probabaliy could doing this in the similar way.


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PeraHealth's Rothman Index Identifies High-Risk COVID-19 Patients
by Business Wire August 17, 2020 January 4, 2021
COVID-19 research by PeraHealth, Inc., Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS), and LifeBridge Health's Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, has found that the Rothman Index score, a measure of patient acuity, helps identify COVID-19 patients with high risk of mortality, including those who may not be obvious or in a known high-risk category. A study of 1,669 COVID-19 patients across four hospitals in Connecticut and Maryland demonstrated that Rothman Index (RI) score, which can be calculated upon patient admission using the patient's current health characteristics, accurately groups the majority of COVID-19 patients into high-risk (43% mortality rate) and low-risk (less than 5% mortality rate) categories.
A subset of COVID-19 patients experience sudden and severe deterioration which can be a challenge for front-line clinicians to judge using standard metrics. The Rothman Index offers a real-time, objective clinical tool for hospitals to rapidly identify COVID-19 patients that are at the highest risk of expiring. The Rothman Index's patented algorithm uses machine learning/AI to calculate a patient's health score using vital signs, lab results, and nursing assessments of a variety of bodily systems.
With COVID-19 cases in the United States surging to their highest levels, many hospital ICUs are starting to reach capacity and care providers are looking for a rapid, automated, and objective measure to help triage COVID-19 patient risk. Using the Rothman Index, high-risk patients can be assigned to the ICU or higher levels of care, while low-risk patients can be treated in lower levels of care or from home. While providing the appropriate level of care can help improve quality outcomes for COVID-19 patients, understanding the volume of high-risk patients can also help predict and plan for ICU capacity, ventilator requirements, clinical staffing and other resource requirements.
When discussing unmet medical challenges for COVID-19, Dr. Jaime Barnes, chair of the Department of Medicine at Sinai Hospital and Northwest Hospital and a critical care medicine physician at LifeBridge Health states, "One of the challenges with COVID-19 is the identifying of patients who have a higher risk of subsequent deterioration. With these research results, we are interested to see how having validated predictive analytics can play a role in how we manage these complex cases of people with COVID-19."
Up until this point in the COVID-19 pandemic, efforts to identify "at-risk" patients have frequently focused on the patient's age and pre-existing conditions. The Rothman Index goes beyond this by directly capturing the patient's acuity, regardless of their age or condition. Recent analysis shows that the Rothman Index can segment out the 20-25% of admitted COVID-19 patients who are at significantly elevated risk for deterioration and most likely to need ventilation, ICU level of care, or who may ultimately expire in the hospital. These are the patients who need extra attention and may warrant placement in a higher level of care from the time of admission. Those decisions can improve a patient's chances of survival.
Thomas Donohue, MD, Cardiologist and vice president for Medicine Services with Yale New Haven Health states, "At our peak, we had more than 800 COVID positive patients throughout our health system all with varying levels of patient needs. A tool like this, that can help risk stratify these patients and facilitate appropriate levels of care, can have a significant impact on outcomes."
"We are very encouraged by the results of the COVID-19 patient analysis at YNHHS and LifeBridge Health," said PeraHealth CEO Greg White. "The dedication these institutions show through their continuous innovation and research to combat COVID-19 is remarkable. We are standing alongside them to use the best technology we have to improve a patient's chances of surviving this disease. Our collective efforts will no doubt save lives, as well as help plan for required resources as the Rothman Index solution is expanded in clinical practice."
Would you like to connect with the research team? Join us for the upcoming live webinar, "How to Identify High Risk COVID-19 Patients upon Hospital Admission."
The scientific article detailing the COVID patient analysis can be found in the following link: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.13.20171751v1
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Alida Capital International Ltd (ACI) is a successful syndicate of business angels who provide capital and practical assistance for emerging biopharmaceutical companies.
Collectively, ACI members make investments ranging from £500,000 to £2,000,000 in start up and early/mid-stage life science companies.
Since it was established in 2009, ACI has injected over £15 million investment into Scottish life science companies.
ACI's smart investment in Scotland generates opportunities for talented entrepreneurs to succeed in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. Our aim is to accelerate emerging companies to significant value inflection points and, in so doing, secure outstanding financial returns for our members.
ACI has an exceptional network into innovation centers around the world. As such, ACI's deal pipeline is continually supplied and creates a high quality pool of potential investment for our members.
ACI is also a co-investment partner with the Scottish Investment Bank which helps facilitate matched funding where necessary. In addition, the international scope of ACI facilitates the channeling of inward capital investment into Scotland.
ACI is a private, not-for-profit company limited by guarantee. The syndicate is comprised of over 20 private individuals with extensive experience as entrepreneurs, CEO's, venture capitalists and business leaders who have successfully founded and developed world-class enterprises. Its members are drawn from a wide range of industries and together form a comprehensive network of entrepreneurial support. In addition, the ACI management team has a reputation for delivering some of the best returns for investors in the healthcare industry.
The Board of Directors is formed from its members and Hugh S. Griffith is ACI's CEO and Gatekeeper.


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The ITT IDEAL COLOR 3471 is A comfortable (BIG) television with 22 inches color screen and superb pictures (Won't see again today !!)
First model series introducing sophisiticated ITT PLL and TRD Tuning search system frequency synthesizer tuning search system which allows perfect automatic search and automatic AFT tuning of each channel for all bands and special channels VHF + S + UHF.
Channel selection is controlled by a frequency synthesizer a sweep of available channels is made by a channel selecting arrangement and this sweep is arranged to be stopped when a signal is received. When the sweeping is stopped a fine tuning arrangement takes control to respond to the frequency of the received signal and to compensate for any drift of that signal, a frequency synthesizer controlled channel selection means which includes a fine tuning arrangement; means for initiating a sweep of available channels by the channel selection means; means for stopping the sweep on reception of a signal and means, operable on cessation of sweeping and responsive to the frequency of the signal, and arranged to control the fine tuning arrangement to compensate for frequency drift of the signal, all even from remote control plus a basic OSD with programs and channels displaying.
It is several years since Nordmende, Philips, ITT and other fabricants introduced TV sets incorporating simple ultrasonic remote control, enabling sequential channel changing, sound muting and switching the set off from the comfort of one's armchair. As is so often the case however, the European setmaking = industry tends to lag behind its Japan counterparts when it comes to introducing new ideas and technology. A number of continental sets have been imported (notably from Germany and Scandinavia) which have taken the principle considerably further - direct (non sequential) channel selection, proportional control of colour, volume, brightness (and contrast in some instances), an `ideal' command which sets the brightness, colour and volume to preset values giving a 'normal' display. In addition there is an 'off' facility, although this is normally treated as 'standby' - the set is virtually switched off except for the remote control receiver section and is switched on again when any one channel is selected. For reception of teletext, this type of remote control becomes almost obligatory, since the number of customer controls is considerably increased - page selection, TV/text switching, auxiliary function switching, e.g. newsflash, update, mixed display, etc. ITT and Nordmende have recently introduced up-market sets with 30 channel remote control systems based on two i.c.s manufactured by ITT Semiconductors. Although Philips and others are in the process of offering alternative remote control systems to setmakers, this is the only one currently employed and is therefore the one I have chosen as the basis for this post.
The set has tone controls and headphones din jacks and audio outputs for recorders.
Last models with VIDOM CHASSIS Technology (Going To compact types).
The set is build with a Modular chassis design because as modern television receivers become more complex the problem of repairing the receiver becomes more difficult. As the number of components used in the television receiver increases the susceptibility to breakdown increases and it becomes more difficult to replace defective components as they are more closely spaced. The problem has become even more complicated with the increasing number of color television receivers in use. A color television receiver has a larger number of circuits of a higher degree of complexity than the black and white receiver and further a more highly trained serviceman is required to properly service the color television receiver.
Fortunately for the service problem to date, most failures occur in the vacuum tubes used in the television receivers. A faulty or inoperative vacuum tube is relatively easy to find and replace. However, where the television receiver malfunction is caused by the failure of other components, such as resistors, capacitors or inductors, it is harder to isolate the defective component and a higher degree of skill on the part of the serviceman is required.
Even with the great majority of the color television receiver malfunctions being of the "easy to find and repair" type proper servicing of color sets has been difficult to obtain due to the shortage of trained serviceman.
At the present time advances in the state of the semiconductor art have led to the increasing use of transistors in color television receivers. The receiver described in this application has only two tubes, the picture tube and the high voltage rectifier tube, all the other active components in the receiver being semiconductors.
One important characteristic of a semiconductor device is its extreme reliability in comparison with the vacuum tube. The number of transistor and integrated circuit failures in the television receiver will be very low in comparison with the failures of other components, the reverse of what is true in present day color television receivers. Thus most failures in future television receivers will be of the hard to service type and will require more highly qualified servicemen.
The primary symptoms of a television receiver malfunction are shown on the picture tube of the television receiver while the components causing the malfunction are located within the cabinet. Also many adjustments to the receiver require the serviceman to observe the screen. Thus the serviceman must use unsatisfactory mirror arrangements to remove the electronic chassis from the cabinet, usually a very difficult task. Further many components are "buried" in a maze of circuitry and other components so that they are difficult to remove and replace without damage to other components in the receiver.
Repairing a modern color television receiver often requires that the receiver be removed from the home and carried to a repair shop where it may remain for many weeks. This is an expensive undertaking since most receivers are bulky and heavy enough to require at least two persons to carry them. Further, two trips must be made to the home, one to pick up the receiver and one to deliver it. For these reasons, the cost of maintaining the color television receiver in operating condition often exceeds the initial cost of the receiver and is an important factor in determining whether a receiver will be purchased.
Therefore, the object of this invention is to provide a transistorized color television receiver in which the main electronic chassis is easily accessible for maintenance and adjustment. Another object of this invention is to provide a transistorized color television receiver in which the electronic circuits are divided into a plurality of modules with the modules easily removable for service and maintenance. The main electronic chassis is slidably mounted within the cabinet so that it may be withdrawn, in the same manner as a drawer, to expose the electronic circuitry therein for maintenance and adjustment from the rear closure panel after easy removal. Another aspect is the capability to be serviced at eventually the home of the owner.
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ITT Corporation (NYS E: ITT) is a global diversified manufacturing company with 2008 revenues of $11.7 billion. ITT participates in global markets including water and fluids management, defense and security, and motion and flow control. Forbes.com named ITT Corporation to its list of "America's Best Managed Companies" for 2008, and awarded the company the top spot in the conglomerates category.
,ITT's water business is the world's largest supplier of pumps and systems to transport, treat and control water, and other fluids. The company's defense electronics and services business is one of the ten largest US defense contractors providing defense and security systems, advanced technologies and operational services for military and civilian customers. ITT's motion and flow control business manufactures specialty components for aerospace, transportation and industrial markets.
In 2008, ITT was named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) for the tenth time in recognition of the company's economic, environmental and social performance. ITT is one of the few companies to be included on the list every year since its inception in 1999.
The company was founded in 1920 as International Telephone & Telegraph. During the 1960s and 1970s, under the leadership of its CEO Harold Geneen the company rose to prominence as the archetypal conglomerate, deriving its growth from hundreds of acquisitions in diversified industries. ITT divested its telecommunications assets in 1986, and in 1995 spun off its non-manufacturing divisions, later to be purchased by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide.
In 1996, the company became ITT Industries, Inc., but changed its name back to ITT Corporation in 2006.
ITT was formed in 1920, created from the Puerto Rico Telephone Company co-founded by Sosthenes Behn.[1] Its first major expansion was in 1923 when it consolidated the Spanish Telecoms market into what is now Telefónica.[2] From 1922 to 1925 it purchased a number of European telephone companies. In 1925 it purchased the Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company of Brussels, Belgium, which was formerly affiliated with AT&T, and manufactured rotary system switching equipment. In the 1930s, ITT grew through purchasing German electronic companies Standard Elektrizitaetsgesellschaft (SEG) and Mix & Genest, both of which were internationally active companies. Its only serious rival was the Theodore Gary & Company conglomerate, which operated a subsidiary, Associated Telephone and Telegraph, with manufacturing plants in Europe.
In the United States, ITT acquired the various companies of the Mackay Companies in 1928 through a specially organized subsidiary corporation, Postal Telegraph & Cable. These companies included the Commercial Cable Company, the Commercial Pacific Cable Company, Postal Telegraph, and the Federal Telegraph Company.
International telecommunications
International telecommunications manufacturing subsidiaries included STC in Australia and Britain, SEL in Germany, BTM in Belgium, and CGCT and LMT in France. Alec Reeves invented Pulse-code modulation (PCM), upon which future digital voice communication was based. These companies manufactured equipment according to ITT designs including the (1960s) Pentaconta crossbar switch and (1970s) Metaconta D, L and 10c Stored Program Control e xchanges, mostly for sale to their respective national telephone administrations. This equipment was also produced under license in Poznań (Poland), and in Yugoslavia, and elsewhere. ITT was the largest owner of the LM Ericsson company in Sweden but sold out in 1960.
1989 breakup
In 1989 ITT sold its international telecommunications product businesses to Alcatel, now Alcatel-Lucent. ITT Kellogg was also part of the 1989 sale to Alcatel. The company was then sold to private investors in the U.S. and went by the name Cortelco Kellogg. Today the company is known as Cortelco (Corinth Telecommunications Corporation, named for Corinth, MS headquarters). ITT Educational Services, Inc. (ESI) was spun off through an IPO in 1994, with ITT as an 83% shareholder. ITT merged its long distance division with Metromedia Long Distance, creating Metromedia-ITT. Metromedia-ITT would eventually be acquired by Long Distance Discount Services, Inc. (LDDS) in 1993. LDDS would later change its name to Worldcom in 1995.
In 1995, ITT Corporation split into 3 separate public companies:
* ITT Corp. — In 1997, ITT Corp. completed a merger with Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, selling off its non-hotel and resorts business. By 1999, ITT completely divested from ITT/ESI; however, the schools still operate as ITT Technical Institute using the ITT name under license.[1] Also in 1999, ITT Corp. dropped the ITT name in favor of Starwood.[7]
* ITT Hartford (insurance) — Today ITT Hartford is still a major insurance company although it has dropped the ITT from its name altogether. The company is now known as The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.
* ITT Industries — ITT operated under this name until 2006 and is a major manufacturing and defense contractor business.
o On July 1, 2006, ITT Industries changed its name to ITT Corporation as a result of its shareholders vote on May 9, 2006.
Purchase of International Motion Control (IMC)
An agreement was reached on June 26, 2007 for ITT to acquire privately held International Motion Control (IMC) for $395 million. The deal was closed and finalized in September 2007. An announcement was made September 14, 2010, to close the Cleveland site.
Purchase of EDO
An agreement was reached September 18, 2007 for ITT to buy EDO Corporation for $1.7 billion.[12] After EDO shareholders' approval, the deal was closed and finalized on December 20, 2007.
Purchase of Laing
On April 16, 2009, ITT announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Laing GmbH of Germany, a privately held leading producer of energy-efficient circulator pumps primarily used in residential and commercial plumbing and heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems.
On January 12, 2011, ITT announced a transformation to separate the company into 3, stand-alone, publicly-traded, and independent companies.
HISTORY OF Standard Elektrik Lorenz AG IN GERMAN:
Die Standard Elektrik Lorenz AG (heute Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG) ist ein Unternehmen der Nachrichtentechnik (früherer Slogan: SEL – Die ganze Nachrichtentechnik) mit Hauptsitz in Stuttgart. Zur Nachrichtentechnik zählen auch Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik, Telekommunikationstechnik (SEL war für die Röchelschaltung bekannt) und früher Fernmeldetechnik oder Schwachstromtechnik. Einen weiteren Geschäftsbereich hatte das Unternehmen in der Bahnsicherungstechnik, so wurden für die Deutsche Bundesbahn Relaisstellwerke und elektronische Stellwerke mit den dazugehörigen Außenanlagen (Signale, Gleisfreimeldeanlagen, Weichenantriebe) sowie die Linienzugbeeinflussung entwickelt und gebaut, welche auch bei ausländischen Bahnen Abnehmer fanden. Der Bereich gehört seit 2007 als Thales Transportation Systems GmbH (seit 02.2011 vorher Thales Ra il Signalling Solutions GmbH) zum Thales-Konzern. Die bereits 1998 ausgegliederten Bereiche Alcatel Air Navigation Systems und SEL Verteidigungssysteme sind ebenfalls heute in Thales Deutschland beheimatet.[1]
Fernseher Illustraphon 743 von 1957
"Goldsuper Stereo 20" (1961)
Das Flaggschiff der erfolgreichen Schaub-Lorenz Kofferradios der sechziger Jahre: Touring 70 Universal
Erster Digitalfernseher der Welt (1983)
Bis 1987 gehörte SEL zusammen mit anderen auf dem Sektor Telekommunikation in anderen Ländern tätigen Schwesterfirmen zum US-amerikanischen Mischkonzern International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT). ITT verkaufte die Aktien-Mehrheit an den ITT-Telekommunikationsfirmen an die französische Compagnie Générale d'Electricité (CGE), die nach der Zusammenfassung mit den eigenen Telekommunikationsaktivitäten daraus die Alcatel N.V. bildete.
Die Standard Elektrik Lorenz AG wurde 1993 in Alcatel SEL AG umbenannt. Die Aktienmehrheit liegt mit über 99 % bei der Alcatel. Mit der Fusion von Alcatel und Lucent zu Alcatel-Lucent am 1. Dezember 2006 und der Neu-Firmierung beider Unternehmen in Deutschland zur Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG entfiel der Zusatz SEL.
Die beiden Stammfirmen des Unternehmens, die Mix & Genest AG und die Telegraphenbauanstalt von C. Lorenz, wurden 1879 bzw. 1880 gegründet. Das erste Patent von Mix & Genest datiert von 1883, das erste Patent von C. Lorenz ist aus dem Jahr 1902.
Das Unternehmen Mix & Genest war wesentlicher Teil der Standard Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (SEG), in die auch die Süddeutsche Apparatefabrik (SAF), die 1875 von F. Heller als "Friedrich Heller, Fabrik Elektrotechnischer Apparate" gegründet wurde, integriert wurde. Der technische Schwerpunkt von Mix & Genest bzw. SEG sowie der C. Lorenz AG war der klassischen Fernmelde- bzw. Funktechnik zuzuordnen. Die C. Lorenz AG baute in den 1920er und 1930er Jahren Großsender für den neu gegründeten Rundfunk.
1930 übernahm die International Telephone and Telegraph Company (ITT) die Aktienmehrheit der Mix & Genest AG und der C. Lorenz AG. [2]
Die C. Lorenz AG positionierte sich mit der Übernahme der G. Schaub Apparatebau-Gesellschaft mbH im Jahr 1940 in der Entwicklung und Herstellung von Rundfunkempfängern. Ab dem Jahr 1950 wurden alle Geräte bei Schaub in Pforzheim gefertigt. 1952 wurde das Typenprogramm beider Unternehmen verschmolzen und der Lorenz-Radio-Vertrieb in die Firma Schaub integriert. Ab 1955 wurden die Geräte unter dem Namen Schaub-L orenz vertrieben.
1956 wurde das Unternehmen SEG in Standard Elektrik AG umbenannt. Ebenfalls 1956 wurde ein Kabelwerk gegründet. Wesentlicher Motor für das 1957 gegründete Informatikwerk war Karl Steinbuch, der von 1948–1958 dem Unternehmen, zuletzt als Technischer Direktor und Leiter der Zentralen Forschung, angehörte.
1958 erfolgte die Vereinigung der Standard Elektrik AG mit der C. Lorenz AG zur Standard Elektrik Lorenz AG (SEL).
Die Standard Elektrik Lorenz AG übernahm 1961 die Graetz KG. Die Firmenteile Schaub-Lorenz und Graetz waren zusammen mit einem Bildröhrenwerk Bestandteil der Unternehmensgruppe Audio Video der SEL AG, die 1979 als Audio-Video-Elektronik in die ITT ausgegliedert wurde. Die Produkte, die unter anderem Fernsehgeräte, Radios, Autoradios, Kassettenrecorder, Weltempfänger und Lautsprecherboxen umfassen, wurden fortan unter dem Namen ITT Schaub-Lorenz vertrieben.[2]
Versuche, auf dem neuen Gebiet der Raumfahrt-Elektronik Fuß zu fassen, waren auf folgende Produkte beschränkt:
* AZUR: Telemetrie/Telekommandogeräte
* Spacelab: Datenerfassung/Kommandoterminal.
SEL entwickelte zu Beginn der 1970er Jahre das Präzisionsanflugverfahren SETAC. Dieser Unternehmensbereich wurde im Jahre 1987 von der finnischen Firma Nokia übernommen.
1976 hatte SEL ein Grundkapital von 357 Mio. DM bei 33.000 Beschäftigten und einem Umsatz von 2,6 Mrd. DM.
1983 stellte SEL auf der Internationalen Funkausstellung Berlin 1983 mit dem ITT Digivision den weltweit ersten Fernseher mit digitaler Signalverarbeitung vor.
2003 wurden die Markenrechte am Namen Schaub Lorenz an die italienische General Trading SpA verkauft. Die neugegründete Schaub Lorenz International GmbH vertreibt seitdem unter dem alten Markennamen Schaub-Lorenz importierte Konsumelektronik aus dem unteren Preisbereich.
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Articles Sightseeing El salamlek palace
In a charming spot, located on the eastern edge of the city of Alexandria, settled one of the four royal palaces built within the Montazah gardens, which is the "Al-Salmalek" Palace, whose name is derived from the Turkish language, and means the place designated for the reception and meeting of men.
After the Khedive "Abbas Helmy II" admired this spot, he decided to erect the first palace within the park gardens, and actually commissioned the architect of the Greek palaces, "Dmitri Fabricius", to build it on the model of the Austrian palaces, to satisfy the desire of his wife, Countess, "Marie Turk von Zendo", and he finished It in 1892 AD. After the couple separated, the palace turned into the royal summer residence of the Khedive and his new wife, "Iqbal Hanim", and for those who succeeded him after that in ruling Egypt, and until the end of the rule of the family of Muhammad Ali Pasha in Egypt with the outbreak of the July 1952 Revolution.
The palace was distinguished by its revival of the historical styles of Gothic architecture and Renaissance architecture, the use of multiple towers and domes, and its surroundings with spacious gardens, estimated at about 370 acres, and overlooking the coast of Alexandria. The palace contained three floors and a basement, with the ground floor containing the Khedive's office, reception and dining halls, and the rest of the floors containing bedrooms and private living rooms for the residence of the family.
It is reported that during the First World War, the palace was turned into a field hospital for the English soldiers, and during the reign of King Fouad, a team of European engineers was called to form what was known as the "Department of Engineering of Royal Palaces" to restore what was destroyed by the First World War from the palace facilities, in addition to incorporating Many European models, and the construction of the clock tower, which is similar to the most famous clock towers. After King Farouk assumed power, the Egyptian architect, Mustafa Pasha Fahmy, was commissioned to establish the king's office, add an external cinema, as well as construct a bridge linking Tea Island with the royal palaces. After the revolution of July 1952, the palace was opened within the royal palaces and gardens to the people. In 2018, it was registered in the list of Islamic and Coptic monuments.
Nowadays, Al-Sarmelek Palace is one of the most luxurious and most beautiful tourist hotels in the Mediterranean.


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Player awards (NBA)

Regular Season MVP

 Larry Bird, Boston Celtics

NBA Finals MVP

 Larry Bird, Boston Celtics

Slam Dunk Contest

 Larry Nance, Phoenix Suns

Collegiate awards
 Men
John R. Wooden Award: Michael Jordan, North Carolina
Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award: Ricky Stokes, Virginia
Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year: Michael Jordan, North Carolina
NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player: Ed Pinckney, Villanova
Associated Press College Basketball Coach of the Year: Ray Meyer, DePaul
Naismith Outstanding Contribution to Basketball: Ray Meyer
 Women
Naismith College Player of the Year: Cheryl Miller, USC
Wade Trophy: Janice Lawrence Braxton, Louisiana Tech
Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award: Kim Mulkey, Louisiana Tech
NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player: Cheryl Miller, USC

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
Class of 1984:
Jack Gardner
John Havlicek
Sam Jones

Births
May 28 — Carmelo Anthony

Deaths
January 30 — Lloyd Sharrar, All-American college player (West Virginia) (born 1936)
March 3 — Jack Moore, American college player (Nebraska) (born 1959)
May 30 — Tex Gibbons, American Olympic gold medalist (1936) (born 1907)
November 21 — Ben Wilson, American high school player (born 1967)
December 11 — Nate Bowman, American NBA/ABA player (born 1943)

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Das Gebiet Westlicher Riesrand ist ein im Jahr 2005 durch das Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart nach der Richtlinie 92/43/EWG (Fauna-Flora-Habitat-Richtlinie) angemeldetes Schutzgebiet (Schutzgebietskennung DE-7128-341) im Osten des deutschen Bundeslandes Baden-Württemberg. Mit Verordnung des Regierungspräsidiums Stuttgart zur Festlegung der Gebiete von gemeinschaftlicher Bedeutung vom 30. Oktober 2018 (in Kraft getreten am 11. Januar 2019), wurde das Schutzgebiet ausgewiesen.

Lage
Das rund 417 Hektar (ha) große Schutzgebiet "Westlicher Riesrand" gehört zu den Naturräumen Albuch und Härtsfeld, Östliches Albvorland und Riesalb. Seine fünfzehn Teilgebiete liegen auf einer durchschnittlichen Höhe von  und erstrecken sich am westlichen Rand des Nördlinger Rieses in den vier Kommunen
 Bopfingen – 87,65 ha = 21 %
 Kirchheim am Ries – 179,47 ha = 43 %
 Riesbürg – 104,35 ha = 25 %
 Unterschneidheim – 45,91 ha = 11 %

Beschreibung
Das Schutzgebiet "Westlicher Riesrand" wird als "kleingegliederte, hügelige Kulturlandschaft mit vier Höhlen, markanten Heidebergen am westlichen Rand des Nördlinger Rieses, enger Verzahnung von Wacholderheiden, Äckern, Wiesen und Hecken und Balmen am Goldberg" beschrieben.

Schutzzweck
Wesentlicher Schutzzweck ist die Erhaltung der Griesbuckellandschaft des Meteoriteneinschlags Nördlinger Ries mit großflächigen Vorkommen von Kalk-Magerrasen, Wacholderheiden, Kalk-Pionierrasen, Kalkfelsen mit Felsspaltenvegetation und Flachland-Mähwiesen, Höhlen sowie dem Süßwasserkalkfelsen Goldberg.

Lebensräume
Die Vielfalt von trockenen und feuchten Lebensraumtypen im Schutzgebiet wird unter anderem mit "Wacholderheiden", "Kalk-Pionierrasen", "artenreichen Borstgrasrasen", "Kalkfelsen mit Felsspaltenvegetation", "Höhlen" sowie "mageren Flachland-Mähwiesen" beschrieben.

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Zusammenhängende Schutzgebiete
Mit dem FFH-Gebiet "Westlicher Riesrand" sind die Naturschutzgebiete "Blasienberg" (1.179), "Goldberg" (1.034) und "Riegelberg" (1.172) sowie die Landschaftsschutzgebiete "Ipf mit Blasenberg und Reimersbergle" (1.36.001) und "Landschaftsteile am Riesrandbereich" (1.36.039) als zusammenhängende Schutzgebiete ausgewiesen.

Flora und Fauna
Folgende Art, gemäß Artikel 4 der Richtlinie 2009/147/EG und Anhang II der Richtlinie 92/43/EWG beschrieben, ist zur Beurteilung des Gebiets von entsprechender Bedeutung:

Fauna
 Großkrebse (Astacidea)
 Stein- oder Bachkrebs (Austropotamobius torrentium), die kleinste europäische Flusskrebsart

Siehe auch
 Liste der FFH-Gebiete in Baden-Württemberg

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks
 Verordnung, Datenauswertebogen und Karte im
 Standarddatenbogen für das FFH-Gebiet "Westlicher Riesrand"

FFH-Gebiet im Ostalbkreis
Schutzgebiet in Bopfingen
Schutzgebiet in Kirchheim am Ries
Schutzgebiet in Riesbürg
Schutzgebiet in Unterschneidheim
Schutzgebiet (Umwelt- und Naturschutz) in Europa
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Georgia to Test Connected Vehicle Tech on Stretch of Highway
A new living lab on a stretch of interstate aims to incubate connected highway technology.
Intelligent transportation systems built on sensors help municipalities respond to extreme weather events, improve traffic flows and enhance vehicle and pedestrian safety. But where will connected roadway technology go from here? Georgia wants to find out.
In August, the Georgia Department of Transportation announced a plan to turn an 18-mile portion of Interstate 85 in southern Georgia into a test bed for connected vehicle technology, including vehicle-to-infrastructure connectivity.
The highway is known as The Ray, named after Ray C. Anderson, a Georgia businessman and environmentalist. There are several goals for the pilot, including using the data collected to help develop traffic management platforms. Another is to create the foundation for future connected highway technologies.
A press release notes that the technology used in the tests will potentially be "implemented across the state to improve roadway safety, reduce traffic congestion, and improve organizational efficiency."
GDOT is leveraging Pansonic's CIRRUS data management platform for the tests, which Panasonic describes as a "V2X" (or "vehicle to everything") system already being used in Colorado and Utah.
Georgia Aims to Develop Connected Highway Infrastructure
GDOT will deploy six roadside units on the highway, which will send information from the connected vehicles to the CIRRUS platform, according to Government Technology. Four department vehicles will be loaded with onboard technology to send speed, location and direction data, and other vehicle data, such as when windshield wipers are used or when there is hard braking.
"That data, by itself, doesn't really tell you a whole lot," Andrew Heath, a state traffic engineer for the GDOT, tells Government Technology. However, some of that data, such as when drivers are using their windshield wipers, could be used to send alerts to emergency responders or other drivers about road conditions, Heath says.
"In Georgia, we're starting small with a trial of the platform capabilities to demonstrate functionality and benefits — in effect, turning The Ray into a learning lab to educate jurisdictions throughout Georgia (and the nation) about connected vehicle technology," Chris Armstrong, a vice president for Panasonic USA and lead for the company's V2X business efforts, tells Government Technology.
The pilot could help Georgia develop the next generation of connected highway technology. By 2022, according to a press release on the project, it is estimated that there will be 105 million connected vehicles on the road communicating to each other and the roadside infrastructure, producing up to 150 petabytes of data per year.
GDOT has already installed hundreds of roadside units across the metropolitan Atlanta region, and has secured Federal Highway Administration funding allowing it to bring connected vehicle technology to 1,700 of the most heavily traveled intersections in metro Atlanta.
"By 2022, V2X-enabled vehicles will be rolling off assembly lines and onto roads," Armstrong tells Government Technology. "If through this program, Panasonic is able to help GDOT plan for a future where they are benefiting from statewide deployment of this technology and the actionable information it provides, we've achieved our goal."
As part of the project, The Ray is working with the city of Peachtree Corners, which plans to unveil a 1.5-mile autonomous vehicle test track as part of its Curiosity Lab on Sept. 11, according to GCN. The city's lab will explore vehicles traveling at slower speeds and their encounters with pedestrians.
"We're building an intermediate living laboratory for technology that graduates from the closed, isolated, controlled environment and integrates that into the real world but in a way that is manageable," Peachtree Corners City Manager Brian Johnson tells GCN.
The entire lab is supported by 5G and 4G LTE wireless infrastructure. "All of it is going to be tied in through the city's own fiber-optic network that we own into a network operations center so all of this will be and under video surveillance," Johnson tells GCN.
"[From] one point you can watch the entire track, you can control different technology, you can collect data, you can integrate with other testers all at one location, which happens to be a large room inside of our technology incubator."
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African-Wide Study of Antibodies for Coronavirus
An Africa-wide study of antibodies to the coronavirus has begun, while evidence from a smaller study indicates that many more people have been infected than official numbers show, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. https://t.co/WTk4Nhnw0V
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The world's first iron bridge was erected over the River Severn at Coalbrookdale in 1779. In 1986 the Ironbridge Gorge was one of the first locations to be designated as a World Heritage Site within the U.K.
In 2017, a major conservation project began to repair the Iron Bridge, which is suffering due to stresses in the ironwork dating from the original construction, ground movement over the centuries and an earthquake at the end of the 19th century.
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has requested a judge to not allow an author and investigator to bring up the fact that it has ties to the Islamic terrorist groups Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.However, the favor of concealing such information pertaining to CAIR's parent groups is not likely to be granted.CAIR – which has been exposed as a terrorist front organization under the guise of a so-called "civil rights" group championing tolerance and fighting "Islamophobia" – has been caught red-handed trying to destroy evidence pointing to its origins deeply rooted in globally recognized Islamic terrorist groups.
"Serving as a CAIR intern, Chris Gaubatz gathered some 12,000 pages of documents that were headed for a shredder at CAIR's national office in Washington…."The information published in Muslim Mafia, co-authored by David Gaubatz and investigative journalist Paul Sperry, documented CAIR's founding by members of the Muslim Brotherhood – the group that spawned al-Qaida and Hamas and stated in writing its intent to undermine Western civilization and ultimately bring America under Islamic law."
In order to avoid the reputation of having connections to Islamic terrorism, CAIR has resorted to much legal repositioning over the past decade. "CAIR filed suit in 2009, claiming – among other things – breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, trespass and violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, but in the lawsuit, CAIR does not allege libel or defamation, and has never defended itself against the book's claims," Moore recounted. "A trial has yet to be scheduled in the case – which has been delayed for a decade by numerous CAIR legal maneuvers."
CAIR's legal team has some major issues to contend with in court as it tries to win the lawsuit.
"In the response to CAIR's attempt to squelch any discussion of its radical ties in court, the Gaubatzes' legal team argues the defense is partly based on whether or not CAIR is a criminal entity – upon which no intern would form a 'fiduciary relationship' of trust," Moore pointed out. "CAIR contends Chris Gaubatz's collection of documents and recording of conversations amounted to a breach of his duty to the organization, but in the brief, attorney Daniel Horowitz argues CAIR's claim is based on the assumption that it actually is the 'human rights organization' it purports to be."
But Horowitz is confident that CAIR's days of pulling the wool over Americans' eyes regarding their support of jihad are coming to a quick end.
"The defense, Horowitz says, will demonstrate to the jury that CAIR's 'public face' as an heir to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. is 'a veneer and a subterfuge,' noting the refusal of CAIR leaders to renounce violence," Moore noted.
(Haverluck, "CAIR to judge: Conceal Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood ties," OneNewsNow Online, 7/20/18).
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I completely agree, Rebecca. I am one of those 'hobbyists of old' you mention, and although I have bought some mesh templates I could use for my products, I consider them too 'cookie cutter' to do so, preferring to wait until I can climb that ladder a little further. As you rightly surmise, moving up those rungs requires a lot of time, effort, learning, some 3rd party software and arguably better hardware on my part, so I'm not wildly enthused about the idea, preferring instead to potter around on the first rung.
As with RL, I foresee a time where a few giant producers rule the roost and everyone else is a tiny indie boutique. I'm happy for Piper Moda to be the latter if I can co-exist somehow.
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One of the leading, prestigious events in the global Travel Trade calendar.
The QTA stand showcased a strong delegation of leading private sector partners including hotels, destination management companies (DMCs) and other hospitality suppliers, providing a comprehensive one-stop welcoming service to the international travel trade. 'Qatar Welcomes the World' is a result of the recent visa announcements that Qatar is to become the most open country in the region. Sherbet Media's prestigious First Class QTA branded taxis hugely complemented whole stand and brand's presence at the event.
QTA's presence at WTM comes at a significant time in the country's tourism development. To showcase this development, QTA's branded taxis creative have distinguished itself form others by most eye-catching and 'FLAGTASTIC' full livery so far. Mix of 80 colorful flags of visa-free countries have been chosen for display on Sherbet London taxis.
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