text:
TOM PETTY Stanley Theatre Pittsburgh 1980
Poster for Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers performing at the Stanley Theatre in downtown Pittsburgh, PA. The Stanley was re-named the Benedum Center for the Performing Arts after renovation in 1987.
Linda Ronstadt at the Fillmore East May 1971
LINDA RONSTADT at the Fillmore East 8 May 1971
CELEBRATING FOLLIES 50th and BYRD 80th
BLONDIE at the Whiskey a Go Go 3 February 1977
Copyright © 2023 davidedwardbyrdposters


Radio, Music and Parties since 2009.
Rhythm Section is a monthly dance that takes place across a variety of different venues around London. First making roots at Canavans in Peckham. Its a vinyl only dance, with no music policy, no headliners and no set times - its all about the party. Over the past few years we have had the pleasure of hosting some of the best selectors, who have a deep rooted passion for music and just want to make people dance. We pride ourselves on being a community where you can come and dance your troubles away.
We play a bi-weekly radio show on NTS, playing new music, promoting independent labels and paying homage to classics of the past.
We started Rhythm Section International in 2014, putting out 3 stompers alone that year with many more in the pipeline. In January of the following year we were nominated for 'Label of the Year' at Giles Peterson's Worldwide awards (not off to a bad start!). Since then we've released more records from artists across the world for your listening pleasure. We are distributed worldwide by RUBADUB and in the USA by FIT DISTRO.


text:
Rainbow Loom gains new tool in fight against knockoffs
CRAIN'S DETROIT BUSINESS
Catherine Kavanaugh
Cheong Choon Ng
A series of patent infringement lawsuits may finish weaving their way through the courts soon as Choon's Design LLC readies a new tactic for coping with knockoff products.
The Wixom, Mich.-based maker of Rainbow Loom bracelet craft kits, owned by inventor-engineer Cheong Choon Ng and his wife, Fen Chan, won a Feb. 11 ruling from a U.S. International Trade Commission administrative law judge that 10 companies, including six based in or importing goods from China, infringed on Ng's patent.
The matter now goes to the Trade Commission board to sign off on a proposed exclusion order to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, barring such products from the country and authorizing agents to seize them.
"We'd already had a trademark approved to help enforce the name, so we had the power to get customs to look into things that were named the same ... or similar," said Choon's lawyer, John Siragusa of Carlson, Gaskey & Olds PC in Birmingham, Mich.
"But a lot of infringers had stopped using the word 'loom' or anything that obvious, and if it wasn't similar enough there wasn't an argument to help you stop that shipment — before this ruling."
An ITC exclusion order, he said, will allow customs enforcement against knockoffs based on structural or design similarities to Rainbow Loom as well.
Choon's Design has filed 14 federal lawsuits since August 2013 for patent infringement against would-be competitors. Ten have been settled or otherwise closed, while four are pending.
Siragusa said litigation grew when Rainbow Loom sales were rapidly expanding about a year ago but should abate now that sales are normalizing. The company says it has sold more than 7 million Rainbow Looms since the product was launched in late 2011.
"A year ago last holiday season, it was the kind of turnaround where a Rainbow Loom product gained some exposure and became popular in a September-October time frame, and by November-December there were copies in mall kiosks all over the country," Siragusa said.
Ng has said he developed the Rainbow Loom in 2010 after watching his daughters twist ponytail bands into rubber band bracelets. He and Chan invested $10,000 to bring it to market, and the company reported revenue grew to $44 million in 2013.
The company has rolled out several new products, Siragusa said. The travel-sized Monster Tail loom debuted last year, and the company showcased its Alpha Loom and Hair Loom products at the New York Toy Fair on Feb. 14-17.
OSHA: Worker died at plastics firm after duct tape covered safety guards
China-owned parent company of GD Medical Inc. is buying Trademark Plastics for $42M
Eastman posts lower profit, plans job cuts

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


All features, content, specifications, products and prices of products and services described or depicted on this Web Site are subject to change at any time without notice. Certain weights, measures and similar descriptions are approximate and are provided for convenience purposes only. We make all reasonable efforts to accurately display the attributes of our products, including the applicable colors; however, the actual color you see will depend on your computer system and we cannot guarantee that your computer will accurately display colors. The inclusion of any products or services in this Web Site at a particular time does not imply or warrant that these products or services will be available at any time. It is your responsibility to ascertain and obey all applicable local, regional and international laws (including minimum age requirements) in regard to the possession, use and sale of any item purchased from this Web Site. By placing an order, you represent that the products ordered will be used only in a lawful manner.
The Web Site design and all text, graphics, information, content, and other material displayed on or that can be downloaded from this Web Site are either the property of, or used with permission by, Tin Pony and are protected by copyright, trademark and other laws and may not be used except as permitted in these Terms and Conditions or with the prior written permission of the owner of such material. You may not modify the information or materials located on this Web Site in any way or reproduce or publicly display, perform, or distribute or otherwise use any such materials for any public or commercial purpose. Any unauthorized use of any such information or materials may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, laws of privacy and publicity, and other laws and regulations. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account information and password and for restricting access to such information and to your computer. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password.
You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any unlawful, threatening, defamatory, libelous, obscene, pornographic or profane material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense or give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law. In addition to any remedies that we may have at law or in equity, if we reasonably determine that you have violated or are likely to violate the foregoing prohibitions, we may take any action we reasonably deem necessary to cure or prevent the violation, including without limitation, the immediate removal from this Web Site of the related materials. We will fully cooperate with any legal or law enforcement authorities requesting or directing us to disclose the identity of anyone posting such materials.
Tax on Orders Placed Online.
For international orders, your order may be subject to import duties and/or taxes imposed by your country's tax authorities. Payment of all duties and taxes in the sole responsibility of the customer. Contact your local tax office if you have questions about your country's import or tax regulations.
YOUR USE OF THIS WEB SITE IS AT YOUR RISK. THE MATERIALS AND SERVICES PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THIS WEB SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. NEITHER WE NOR ANY OF OUR AFFILIATES WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE MATERIALS OR SERVICES ON OR THROUGH THIS WEB SITE. THE MATERIALS AND SERVICES ON OR THROUGH THIS WEB SITE MAY BE OUT OF DATE, AND NEITHER WE NOR ANY OF THEIR AFFILIATES MAKE ANY COMMITMENT OR ASSUMES ANY DUTY TO UPDATE SUCH MATERIALS OR SERVICES. THE FOREGOING EXCLUSIONS OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES DO NOT APPLY TO THE EXTENT PROHIBITED BY LAW. PLEASE REFER TO YOUR LOCAL LAWS FOR ANY SUCH PROHIBITIONS. ALL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES PURCHASED ON OR THROUGH THIS WEB SITE ARE SUBJECT ONLY TO ANY APPLICABLE WARRANTIES OF THEIR RESPECTIVE MANUFACTURERS, DISTRIBUTORS AND SUPPLIERS, IF ANY. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES LISTED OR PURCHASED ON OR THROUGH THIS WEB SITE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, WE HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL LIABILITY FOR PRODUCT DEFECT OR FAILURE, CLAIMS THAT ARE DUE TO NORMAL WEAR, PRODUCT MISUSE, ABUSE, PRODUCT MODIFICATION, IMPROPER PRODUCT SELECTION, NON-COMPLIANCE WITH ANY CODES, NON-COMPLIANCE WITH GARMENT CARE INSTRUCTIONS (INCLUDING WASHING AND DRYING), OR MISAPPROPRIATION.
These Terms and Conditions supersede any other agreement between you and us to the extent necessary to resolve any inconsistency or ambiguity between them and may be printed and used as evidence in a court of law.


I don't know what this is all about. Can you help?
JotForm is a web application where you can create custom online forms. Many webmasters are using JotForm to build different kinds of forms. You may check our FAQ page for more information, here's the link: https://www.jotform.com/faq.
If you are planning to create an online form, then I recommend you to check this guide: https://www.jotform.com/help/2-How-to-Create-Your-First-Web-Form.
It is possible that the website that you visited are using our service. Upon checking, I can see that you received an autoresponder email or autoreply email from this form (https://www.jotform.us/form/73088333237155).
If you want us to delete your account, please let us know. Thank you.


text:
Q: Creating templates dynamically from JSON in AngularJS I am parsing or reading a JSON file in my AngularApp. I want to create one template for each object inside the JSON file, and then load it with "previous" and "next" in my app.
So i have a JSON file, for example:
{
  "name": "test",
  "objects":[
    {"one": "text here", "id" : "1" },
    {"two": "and text there", "id" : "2" }
  ]
}

So i want to create a template called "template1" and "template2".
I am starting with Angular, so i don't need a whole workaround, just where do i have to dig deeper?

*

*I created a controller for my app

*I've then created a jsonService which injectes the controller

*Now i have the JSON data

But what then? Do i have to create Directives? And how to load them into my main-page? With data-ng-view?

A: See this example which will give you an example of how you can iterate over json and render to html:
https://github.com/eu81273/angular.treeview/blob/master/angular.treeview.js

A: Thanks @Nikos for this possibility. I found a much simpler soultion:
I hard coded a ng-switch on="option" and then a ng-switch-when="optionN" in each div, so i can dynamically adjust one template to fit all options.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Putting on the brakes and taking a brief break from social media. Limiting triggers to ramping hypomania by trying to unplug until next week. I will catch up to comments next week.
Have a full social calendar over the next few days. Tonight out with a couple of friends to the Improv in Irvine. Tomorrow and Friday volunteering at NAMI Orange County. Saturday is my husband's company picnic.
WAY more than I usually can take on. I may have to bail on something. If so, that's okay.
My readers and my therapist helped me make this decision. Thanks!


text:
Law 2. Outliers by Mukherjee, not Gladwell.
"Single patient anecdotes are often dismissed…But here, exactly such an anecdote had turned out to be a portal to a new scientific direction."
In The Laws of Medicine by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, he describes a researcher who noticed an outlier in a clinical trial of a new drug for bladder cancer who responded to the treatment when others had not. Through genetic studies, they were able to find specific mutations in the tumor that conferred a higher likelihood of response, thus opening new avenues for therapy. He argues that you should pay attention to those outliers as much (or more) as you do the rest of the population, because they probably have something very valuable to teach us. I couldn't agree more.
Pediatric nephrology is full of anecdotes that have informed nephrologists about the most basic kidney physiology. Congenital nephrotic syndrome was first described in the 1950s by Finnish nephrologists. While nephrologists were very familiar with typical minimal change nephrotic syndrome, these extremely rare children were different. They presented shortly after birth with massive proteinuria and died usually within the first year of life from infection. With improvements in supportive care, these children survived to kidney transplantation, however they still didn't respond to our now standard treatment of steroids for nephrotic syndrome. It wasn't until 1998, that the gene mutation responsible for this disorder was identified as nephrin (NPHS1), a slit diaphragm protein required for maintenance of the glomerular filtration barrier. This opened up a decade of fundamental research into the role of the podocyte in glomerular disease and helped to inform us about how the glomerular filtration barrier works.
In a less glomerulocentric view of the world (yes, I suppose there is such a thing), children with an unusual form of autosomal dominant hypertension were identified in the 1960s who had early onset disease with hypokalemia, suppressed renin and aldosterone, and responsiveness to triamterene but not spironolactone or dexamethasone. What on earth was going on in the tubule? It was long suspected that there was a defect in a sodium channel leading to salt and water retention, however the exact cause was elusive. Finally, in 1994, mutations in genes encoding the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) [SCNN1B, SCNN1G] were found to be the cause of Liddle syndrome, opening new doors into research on blood pressure homeostasis and sodium handling in the kidney.
Genetic kidney diseases are one of my favorite parts about pediatric nephrology. You can learn so much about normal physiology when just one little thing goes wrong. But, you have to recognize the outlier and start to think about how they got there. Is this a thing of the past? Have all the genetic causes of disease been discovered already? Of course not. Keep your eyes open for that zebra.
Commentary by Michelle Rheault, Minneapolis
Tagged: Rheault, Book club, Laws of Medicine, Law 2
Law 2. Normals teach us rules; Outliers teach us laws
I search for patterns, always have. The logic of symptomatology is Glorious. I suspect this character trait is common in nephrologists. But revelling in the symptoms and signs that lead to a diagnosis and the investigative algorithm that refines the differential into the definite, has meant that I focus on what Siddhartha terms "inliers". As I seek to make a patient "fit" my pre-conceived pathogenic model, I run the risk of missing a deeper truth. Brahe concentrated on the inliers and modelled the movement of the planets into concentric circles, frustrated that Mars wouldn't fit this model. Kepler used the movement of the outlier, Mars, to reveal that all the planets orbit the sun in concentric ellipses. By concentrating on the range of normalcy we can only create rules, whereas "outliers" allow access to deeper laws.
Each outlier represents an opportunity to refine our understanding of illness. Asking why one patient in a thousand has responded to a drug, can reveal new disease pathways. David Solit used this approach to investigate why one woman's advanced bladder cancer had a spectacular response to everolimus, while the drug appeared ineffective for the cohort as a whole. Sequencing that woman's tumour showed multiple mutations, most interestingly in TSC1 and NF2, suggesting that these genes modulated the response to everolimus. The group went on to sequenced the same genes in the larger cohort and were able to segregate the group into responders and non-responders by the mutation in the TSC1 gene. In doing so they opened up new lines of enquiry and broadened the understanding of everolimus, bladder cancer, tuberous sclerosis and neurofibromatosis.
Through seeking to understand the outlier they opened up a deeper understanding of disease.
Now that case reports have fallen out of fashion, becoming almost impossible to publish and dismissed as anecdote, where are we to find our outliers? One option is to conduct "outlier rounds" as Siddhartha suggests, another is to seek out case report posters at conferences. But a further powerful option is to maintain an open dialogue with colleagues, whether in person or online, to tell our stories and to ask the deeper questions.
Cathy Quinlain
Tagged: Law 2, book club, cathy quinlan, Laws of Medicine


Maldives Elections Commission (EC) has confirmed that Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has won the presidential election held last Sunday. EC announced the final result of the election at a press conference today.
It stated that President Abdulla Yameen, the candidate of the ruling party, received 96,052 votes while Mr Solih, the candidate of the opposition coalition, received 134,705.
The opposition had grown increasingly concerned over the EC's delay in announcing the final result amidst speculation that ruling party may file complaints. Former President Mohamed Nasheed, while welcoming the results said the people of the Maldives have endorsed democracy again.


text:
8 Celebrities Who Owe their Hollywood Smile to Cosmetic Dentistry
Often revered as one of the sexiest men alive, George has taken advantage of cosmetic dentistry to lengthen and even out his front teeth. It must be working out well for him as he continues to create and star in feature length films. Not to mention, he was able to convince a Goddess like Amal to marry him, maybe he won her over with his new pearly whites.
Known primarily as Posh Spice of the Spice Girls, this famous English businesswoman, fashion designer, model, and singer is a style powerhouse. Before she shot to fame in the late 1990's, Beckham had her teeth straightened and bonded.
Some of Cruise's most memorable movies star him and his original teeth. Since then he has had several cosmetic dentistry procedures including whitening and straightening. The rumor is he has since upgraded to a full mouth of veneers, but that has yet to be confirmed.
Affleck is no stranger to the flashes of paparazzi cameras. When he was younger, his buckteeth made him charming and adorable, but as the actor aged, he wanted to move into a different demographic, the leading man. Affleck went through several cosmetic dentistry procedures and is now starring in movies like "Batman vs. Superman".
Anyone female in the 90's will tell you that Lizzie McGuire (Hillary's Disney show from 2001-2004) was like an older sister to us all. She vocalized those awkward questions about puberty and socializing in middle and high school. Duff didn't choose to fix her teeth, however, until she transitioned into her singing career in 2009 after chipping her tooth on a microphone. While getting the tooth fixed, she decided to simply do a full smile upgrade with a set of veneers.
Known for his iconic role as Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter films, this TV, film and stage star had a drastic transformation once the Harry Potter cameras finished rolling. At a release party for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1, Lewis explained that the studio asked that he maintain his weight and crooked teeth, which became synonymous with his character, at least through the sixth movie. After that, they would fit him with false teeth and fat suit for the remaining two films.
Former Disney star turned wild child, Miley Cyrus, grew up in the spotlight. Her crooked teeth added wholesome charm to her Hannah Montana character from 2006-2011. After parting ways with Disney and turning her focus to her own singing and performance career, Cyrus had her teeth straightened and whitened.
The famous Rapper was already self-conscious about the gap between his two front teeth, but after another rapper called him out in a song, 50 Cent decided to make a change. When consulting with his dentist, he asked that no additional changes be made (excluding closing the gap) because he still wanted to look like himself in the mirror.


Here is an unboxing and review of the CoilArt Mage Combo RDTA/RDA.
With a 24mm diameter and a 4ml juice capacity, this is a beast of an atomizer.
The CoilArt Mage Combo is a hybrid atomizer tank which can be used in either RDTA or RDA mode, meaning you can use it with the tank or without the tank as just a dripper. That is what gives it the "Combo" name and gives you great flexibility.
You can switch between the clamp/goon (pre-installed) or the velocity (included) style decks and build on them in style as they are 24K gold plated.
The 304 stainless steel top cap features bottom and top airflows for great flavor, massive cloud production and excellent cooling.
The CoilArt Mage Combo RDTA/RDA is a great atomizer which is very well made and of good quality.
It is extremely flexible and big coil builds can be done on the decks without issues. The large juice capacity makes it even better, giving you the room to vape long on it before having to refill.
I would highly recommend it and if you are willing to look past the lack of an easy fill hole, get one.


text:
A Língua de Sinais do Congo (em Portugal: Língua Gestual do Congo) é a língua de sinais (pt: língua gestual) usada pela comunidade surda do Congo. Existem pelo menos 23 línguas gestuais em África, algumas delas sendo distribuídas geograficamente de forma totalmente distinta das línguas orais africanas.

Ver também
 Congo

Congo

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
b. 22/10/1890 Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland. d. 12/04/1917 Barlin, France.
John Cunningham (1890-1917) was born at Hull Street, Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland on 22nd October 1890. His father, Joseph, was a general labourer. He married Johanna nee Smith, a domestic servant on 11th November 1889. The couple had five children including John. Sadly, they would lose two of their children in the Great War.
John was educated at the Christian Brothers School, Thurles and was then employed as a farm labourer. Having enlisted, he went to France on 19th December 1914. Prior to his VC action, nothing significant happened to John. On 12th April 1917, at Bois-en-Hache, France, he was in command of a Lewis Gun section on the most exposed flank of the attack. His section came under heavy enfilade fire and suffered severely. Although wounded he succeeded almost alone in reaching his objective with his gun, which he got into action in spite of much opposition.
When counter-attacked by a party of twenty of the enermy he exhausted his ammunition against them, then, standing in full view, he commenced throwing bombs. He was wounded again, and fell, but picked himself up and continued to fight single-handed with the enemy until his bombs were exhausted. He then made his way back to our lines with a fractured arm and other wounds. There is little doubt that the superb courage of this N.C.O. cleared up a most critical situation on the left flank of the attack. Corporal Cunningham died in hospital at Barlin from the effects of his wounds.
John was buried in Barlin Communal Cemetery, near Noeux-les-Mines, France. As he was unmarried, the VC was presented to his mother by King George V outside Buckingham Palace on 21st July 1917. In addition to the VC he was awarded the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal 1914-20 and Victory Medal 1914-19. The VC was withdrawn from sale at Sotheby's on 21st March 1979. His medals were acquired on loan by the Imperial War Museum in August 2006 and are displayed in the Ashcroft Gallery.
LOCATION OF MEDAL: LORD ASHCROFT GALLERY, IWM, LONDON.
BURIAL PLACE: BARLIN CEMETERY, BARLIN, FRANCE.
John Cunningham VC
John Cunningham's medal collection (displayed in the Lord Ashcroft Gallery, Imperial War Museum, London - image IWM)
PLOT II, ROW A, GRAVE 39
War Illustrated, 30th June 1917
Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin (Brian Drummond)


Turn your choir members into stars with this dazzling new broadway number by Sally K. Albrecht and Jay Althouse! A bouncy 2-beat accompaniment sets the stage for your future headliners to sing the praises of performing, and to show how talented they are! "How we love to be in the light. Turn that spot, and switch it to bright." Great as an opener, then reprise it at the end of your show. It's the title song on this year's choral movement video/DVD. Featured on the new staging DVD/Video "On the Stage!" (DVD #23037, Video #23129).


text:
Have a Question? Call 440.974.2900
Total IT
What is Total IT?
I Don't Have IT
I Shouldn't Be Managing The IT
I Want to Outsource My IT
I'm Not Happy With My IT Provider
Griffin Technology Group takes your right to privacy seriously, and wants you to feel comfortable using this web site. This privacy policy deals with personally-identifiable information (referred to as "data" below) that may be collected by this site. This policy does not apply to other entities that are not owned or controlled by Griffin Technology Group, nor does it apply to persons that are not employees or agents of Griffin Technology Group, or that are not under Griffin Technology Group's control. Please take time to read this site's Terms of use.
1. Collection of data
Registration to receive e-mail announcements require only a valid e-mail address. You are not required to provide any other information if you do not want to. Please be aware that the e-mail address you provide and any other information you enter may render you personally identifiable, and may possibly be displayed on this web site intentionally (depending on choices you make during the registration process, or depending on the way in which the site is configured) or unintentionally (subsequent to a successful act of intrusion by a third party). As on many web sites, Griffin Technology Group may also automatically receive general information that is contained in server log files, such as your IP address, and cookie information.
Data may be used to customize and improve your user experience on this site. Efforts will be made to prevent your data being made available to third parties unless (i) provided for otherwise in this Privacy Policy; (ii) your consent is obtained, such as when you choose to opt-in or opt-out for the sharing of data; (iii) a service provided on our site requires interaction with a third party, or is provided by a third party, such as an application service provider; (iv) pursuant to legal action or law enforcement; (v) it is found that your use of this site violates the site editor's policy, terms of service, or other usage guidelines, or if it is deemed reasonably necessary by the site editor to protect the site editor's legal rights and/or property; or (vi) this site is purchased by a third party, in which case that third party will be able to use the data in the same manner as set forth in this policy. In the event you choose to use links displayed on this web site to visit other web sites, you are advised to read the privacy policies published on those sites.
Like many web sites, this web site sets and uses cookies to enhance your user experience — to remember your personal settings, for instance. Advertisements may display on this web site and, if so, may set and access cookies on your computer; such cookies are subject to the privacy policy of the parties providing the advertisement. However, the parties providing the advertising do not have access to this site's cookies. These parties usually use non-personally-identifiable or anonymous codes to obtain information about your visits to this site.
The site editor might not allow persons who are aged thirteen or younger to become members of this site. For more information, please contact the site administrator.
Changes may be made to this policy from time to time. You will be notified of substantial changes to this policy either by through the posting of a prominent announcement on the site, and/or by a mail message sent to the e-mail address you have provided, which is stored within your user settings.
6. NO GUARANTEES
While this privacy policy states standards for maintenance of data, and while efforts will be made to meet the said standards, the site editor is not in a position to guarantee compliance with these standards. There may be factors beyond the site editor's control that may result in disclosure of data. Consequently, the site editor offers no warranties or representations as regards maintenance or non-disclosure of data.
If you have any questions about this policy or about this web site, please feel free to contact us at info@griffintek.com.
Griffin Technology Group
IT management that keeps promises.
info@griffintek.com
6968 Spinach Drive
Mentor, Ohio 44060-4958
© 2023 Griffin Technology Group | Privacy Policy | Accessibility Statement


Superbugs cultivated in a laboratory. A team led by researchers from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has made an important breakthrough in the battle against superbugs and their resistance to multiple drugs, the council said. The scientists have designed molecules that can break the cellular mechanisms which result in these bacteria becoming unaffected by conventional antibiotics. In recent decades, drug-resistant bacteria, such as Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Clostridium difficile, have become a global health threat, while superbug strains of infections such as tuberculosis and gonorrhoea are now untreatable.


text:
Improving domestic security to combat today's terrorist threats
By Brian Michael Jenkins - 01/30/15 11:00 AM EST
Authorities have been remarkably successful in keeping Americans safe since 9/11, but the changing nature of the terrorist threat puts ever greater emphasis on the need for effective domestic intelligence efforts. There is widespread agreement that the U.S. domestic security apparatus must be improved, although not at the expense of civil liberties and personal privacy. That is the fundamental conclusion of a just-released report, "Domestic Security," by Business Executives for National Security (BENS).
One may understandably ask why, nearly 14 years after 9/11 during which U.S. intelligence programs and procedures have been examined, prodded and reconstructed several times, BENS felt it necessary to conduct yet another study. As a member of the BENS Practitioners Panel, which reviewed the findings and helped shape the final report, the rationale was clear. Intelligence is difficult to do and hard to get right, and while improvements have been made, some stubborn institutional problems persist. More importantly, terrorism has evolved.
Today's threat differs significantly from the threat faced in the immediate shadow of 9/11. At that time, the possibility of further centrally directed, large-scale attacks was what worried authorities most. As al Qaeda's ability to project terrorist power declined, concern about homegrown terrorists grew.
Today, the United States confronts a multilayered threat. The geographic expansion of al Qaeda and the creation of new terrorist safe havens in the Middle East and across Africa offer terrorists new launching pads. The civil wars in Syria and Iraq and the creation of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have attracted thousands of foreign fighters, including several thousand from Europe, Australia and America — a steady flow of eager volunteers with Western passports and "clean skins" for terrorist planners to recruit, train and turn around for operations in the West.
Both al Qaeda and its jihadist rival, ISIS, exhort those who cannot make it to the jihadist fronts to carry out attacks at home, while local jihadists look forward to a competition between the two organizations to carry out the most spectacular terrorist attacks abroad.
Intelligence services must continue to prevent major terrorist assaults dispatched from abroad, head off new shoe and underwear bombers, intercept individuals returning from jihadist fronts with terrorist intentions, while at the same time uncovering and thwarting homegrown plots. The recent spate of deadly attacks in Europe underscores the necessity for ensuring that intelligence keeps up with the threat. France's intelligence services are highly competent but are simply being overwhelmed by the growing volume of individuals they have to monitor.
The BENS report recommends the creation of a national intelligence enterprise that brings together federal agencies and the nation's 800,000 state and local law enforcement officers. This will require enhancing the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Forces and other scaffolds that bridge federal and local efforts. It calls for real-time sharing of information about current counterterrorism investigations and enhancing intelligence analyst capabilities at all levels, which will require training and career incentives.
To bring greater federal focus on domestic intelligence structures, the BENS report recommends that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which has tended to focus exclusively on foreign intelligence, take the lead. A national effort will require establishing a domestic threat framework to assess threats and prioritize intelligence needs.
The report concludes that the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis should focus its attention on border protection and transportation security, aggregating intelligence from its component agencies — such as Immigration and Customs and Border Protection — on the front line in protecting the country against foreign fighters and Americans returning from Syria and on aggregating and disseminating intelligence to and from the private sector.
BENS advises consolidating congressional oversight into a handful of committees — more than 90 now share oversight responsibilities. Of all the recommendations, this one will have the steepest hill to climb.
The report does not recommend that the intelligence community be reorganized. BENS members and the Practitioners Panel, including me, felt that another reorganization would do little more than disrupt intelligence operations. Instead, the report suggests adjustments and enhancements to ongoing efforts, presented in the practical language of corporate executives.
Americans who think counterterrorism is what they see on "24" or "Homeland" will find the report about as interesting as a manual on improving carburetor performance. In the real world, counterterrorism is about organization, coordination, interoperability, information flows, institutional cultures and oversight. The BENS report avoids the headline-grabbing hyperbole that usually accompanies such productions. There are none of the ominous "not if, but when" predictions, no dramatic warnings of the dire consequences that will occur unless immediate measures are taken.
Discussions about domestic intelligence are either technical or philosophical. No single report can answer all the questions once and for all. How do authorities deter violence without discouraging free expression? How can they uncover dangerous conspiracies without destroying privacy? At what point does a fantasizing fanatic become a threat to public safety? It would be so much easier if there were clear lines. There are no clear lines. There always will be debate, as there should be.
Jenkins is the senior adviser to the president of the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation and served as a member of the BENS Practitioners Panel.
Tags al Qaeda Islamic State in Iraq and Syria ISIS Department of Homeland Security DHS FBI Terrorism Homegrown terrorism Counter-terrorism
Contributor's Signup
Sign up to become a Contributor


text:
Human Eye Editing
News bylines
PHOTOGRAPHY – People and events
TRIM Magazine May 7 2012 – James Sowerby (472)
http://trim-mag.com/james-sowerby/
James Sowerby, born in 1757, achieved over the course of his lifetime the almost inhuman feat of singlehandedly illustrating and cataloguing thousands of species of plants, animals, invertebrates, minerals and funghi of Great Britain and colonized Australia. A naturalist, engraver, illustrator and art historian, he bridged the gap between art and science, working closely with botanists to make his drawings as accurate and scientific as possible. At the time when the Rococo style of still life painting was popular, Sowerby was seeking to bring the natural world to a wider audience of gardeners and nature lovers.
His style was so exact and yet so beautifully executed, it suggests a care of attention to subject which must have bordered on obsession. Each of Sowerby's plates is a small wonder in itself. Hand engraved and hand coloured, they reveal with such a sense of importance the secrets of the world at our feet. They are meticulously beautiful; juxtaposing whimsy with precision. His art would be at home on the pages of the finest fairy-tale books, and this is what I think of when I look at his drawings. Each flower, so lovingly reproduced, every seashell drawn with masterful detail, has the power to inspire childlike imagination.
Sowerby's passion for his subject was so deeply rooted that he passed it on to his sons and grandsons, and they formed a legendary family of illustrators of natural history; his descendants completed over 5,000 illustrations among them, focussing on mycology, conchology, and mineralogy. Until his grandson died in 1921, there were Sowerbys working as nature illustrators from the time James first graduated the Royal Academy in the 1780s and started his apprenticeship.
In 1790 he began what became known as Sowerby's Botany; a 36 volume work on the botany of England which took 24 years to complete, and which contained 2,592 of his plates. His next project was the Mineral Conchology of Great Britain, a record of English invertebrate fossils. This volume was so extensive that it was completed by his sons 34 years after it was begun.
Sowerby's most notable accomplishment was his dedication to his craft. What must have driven him to create such a huge body of work? It's as though he was born to give the world his record of England's natural world as it was in his time; it was his life's purpose and he set about it with an unparalleled urgency. The unique combination of skill, technique, aesthetic beauty, and superlative work ethic set him at the forefront of his field. The fact that he had time to curate and build a museum out of his own collection of natural specimens, acquire the first recorded meteorite to land in England, fall in love, marry, and sire an empire while doing it is truly an astonishing testament to the artistic spirit.
May 18, 2012 by Stayctee Art History, arts, illustration, James Sowerby, Naturalism
Catch my Flickr
Get note-ist by me
Even if you're not a Wordpress member.
Dew It
Kitsilano, Vancouver, B.C.
stacythomas99@gmail.com
RT @jacksettleman: Absolutely bone chilling stuff Soccer journalist Grant Wahl who was kicked out of a stadium in QATAR for this shirt ha… 1 month ago
@ntkallday Yup! Back in the 2000s I could afford to rent my own one bedroom apt in Vancouver as a very boozy landscaper. SIGH. 3 months ago
@JulieHChadwick @CaraMcK I have years-old bookmarks for this reason that I never ever opened but there are too many… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 3 months ago
@CaraMcK YES. Also after finishing a paper at school and you can throw all your over-research on dostoevsky into the trash. #satisfaction 3 months ago
@achewood Um it really does though - Robert Smith drawn by Chris Onstad 4 months ago


Meet "Cool Britannia", made in Switzerland and managed by one of the Queen's guards from the center of the dial. This watch for kids combines stylish modern design with durable materials and a right royal color scheme. It's the ultimate gift for mini-majesties everywhere.


Be amazed as you watch dogs jump through hoops and birds talk or fly in a synchronized show! Want the kiddos to get some interaction with animals in a petting zoo environment or learn a thing or two about some slimy and scaly reptiles? Animal shows can be both entertaining and educational at the same time, and they always get the guests engaged. So what are you waiting for? Book an animal show, pony party, petting zoo, or reptile show to watch, cuddle, or learn a thing or two about these great animals! Search for Animal Entertainment in Naperville, Illinois above.
Please note that these Animal Entertainment may also travel to Fox Valley, Warrenville, Eola, Winfield, Lemont, Clarendon Hills, North Aurora, Montgomery, Mooseheart, Oakbrook Terrace, Oak Brook, Burr Ridge, Willowbrook, Plainfield, Oswego, Indian Head Park, Western Springs, Willow Springs, Wayne, Crest Hill, Bristol, Hillside, Berkeley, Hodgkins, Medinah, La Grange Park, Sugar Grove, Itasca, Homer Glen, and Wood Dale.


It is the largest town on the east coast of Tasmania, and like most other east coast towns, is centred around the fishing industry. A deep-sea scale fishing fleet operates out of St. Helens, and Georges Bay (on which St. Helens was founded) has built a reputation for the quality of its crayfish and oysters and scallops. Game fishing is popular with Tuna, Marlin and Mako Sharks the most sought after catches.
The town prides itself in its warmth and sunniness - the result of a microclimate produced by surrounding hills and warm ocean currents. Consequently St Helens is warmer than Melbourne in winter and enjoys an average of 22°C in February.
Fishing from the beaches, sheltered bays and coral fringed reefs attract fisherman from far and wide who boast that St Helens is unsurpassed for its diverse range of fish stocks. Diving is another popular past-time, with crashfish and abalone the prized catches.
Swimming and surfing - The beaches around Georges Bay are ideal from swimming and surfing. The beaches on the southern side stretch from St Helens to St Helens Point. In entire bay has 50 km of shoreline. Such is the popularity of the area that it is estimated the population increases tenfold in summer.
North of St. Helens, Mount William National Park has an abundance of native flora and fauna.


text:
Prose and Khans
Teaching English in Mongolia
Tag: trip
The Gobi Desert
On July 13, 2018 July 13, 2018 By PaquitaIn UncategorizedLeave a comment
Back when I was first googling "Mongolia" after receiving my placement from Peace Corps in 2015, I started a mental checklist of things I wanted to do while here.
High on the list was "ride a camel".
With just two months left in Mongolia, time was dwindling on making it happen, so when my friends Brandon and Godwin started planning a trip through the Gobi Desert and asked James and I if we wanted to go, I jumped at the opportunity.
Godwin planned the three-day trip with the help of Tuya, the woman who owns Gobi Sunrise Tours, and who we knew through word-of-mouth from other volunteers. She put together a reasonably-priced plan and package for us that ticked all the boxes.
The timing of the trip itself could not have been worse, everything in life seems to happen all at once, and it was a frantic week leading up to the trip. Still, we made it to our bus on time and began the journey.
As I have mentioned many times, Mongolia is big, and traveling takes a lot of time. Just getting to the Gobi took an 8 hour bus ride from Our Town to UB, then another 10 hour bus ride from UB to Dalanzadgad, the regional capital of Omnogovi.
The first night in Dalanzadgad we stayed with a fellow Peace Corps volunteer, Kaelynn, and early the next morning, we were off.
If I've learned anything about traveling in Mongolia it's that the right driver and car can make or break your experience. My first clue that our driver, Adiya, was a real pro was that he was half an hour early to come pick us up; this in a country where no one shows up to anything less than twenty minutes late. By the time he showed us a picture of him driving Michelle Rodriguez (you know, Letty, from the Fast Furious movies), I was sure we were in good hands.
Fast Five – Adiya, Brandon, Godwin, myself, and James
By 8:15 we were already in front of the local Natural History Museum and asking around to see if anyone had a key to get in. The museum was filled with taxidermy animals that were by turns balding, misshapen, and unlabeled. As someone who is going back to school to study museums, it was depressing, but as your average museum-goer, it was entertaining.
It is something, that's for sure.
After having a good chuckle, and taking mental notes of which animals to keep a lookout for, we proceeded down to Yolyn Am, the Eagle's Mouth, or Valley of the Eagles. It is a narrow gorge in the Gurvan Saikhan Mountains where an ice field used to stay year round, but thanks to global warming, it now melts around September.
In front of our fancy Lexus.
The hike through Yolyn Am was very pretty and the closer we got to the ice field, the narrower the gorge became and the more difficult the passage.
Hiking down the gorge, getting my boots wet.
When we got to the ice field, we couldn't go any further because the ice was too unstable to walk on. Almost as soon as we took out the camera to take some pictures before turning back around, a huge rush of tourists showed up and starting forming a line behind us. I was shocked.
Someone had to take the picture, so I didn't get to be in it.
Seeing a foreigner in most places in Mongolia is pretty rare, it is truly one of the least diverse places on the planet. Tourists tend to congregate around designated tour-appointed places which are not the places I usually find myself at. As it turns out however, guided tours around the Gobi are very popular, and we were right on the tourist path. Whole buses (I am still not sure how those buses were 4-wheeling across the desert, but in Mongolia everything is possible) full of tourists would pull up to popular attractions in a manner that reminded me of the way buses full of tourists wearing matching tee-shirts show up at the Grand Canyon.
From that point on, we made it our mission to start everything earlier than planned and keep ahead of the crowds.
Back in the car, we drove to a small town's diner where food was waiting for us in a private back room.
After lunch, we drove further across the desert to the sand dunes where we stayed at Ganbold's Ger Camp. Really, it should be called Ukhee's Ger Camp, because it was Ganbold's eldest daughter, Ukhee, who took care of everything. She was a lovely host who seemed very amused by our attempts at speaking Mongolian. Between the four of us, our Mongolian is nearly fluent, but between the heavy regional accent and the speed at which they spoke, we might as well have been utter beginners. At one point, James asked Ukhee for a broom and we discovered that they used a completely different word for broom in the South.
Ganbold, sharing his bottle of snuff, a common greeting, even in the Gobi.
Baby goat!
Home for the night.
We spent our first evening walking around the dunes and having fun jumping around in the soft sand.
Godwin face planted a mere second later.
And the Oscar goes to….
All four of us were up at the crack of dawn, ready for the day. Today was the day we were going to ride camels! Unfortunately no one else was ready so we had to sit around playing cards for a couple hours until the camels were ready.
Camels are such majestic creatures.
Bactrian camels differ from your standard camel in that they have two humps, and grow a thick fluffy coat in the winter to protect them from the cold. Most of the wool is shaved off in the summer, but on most camels they leave the wool between the two humps to act as padding for ridders. Camel wool is soft and super warm: I have my fair share of camel wool socks that are very beloved. They are very comfortable to ride too because their two humps act like a seat with a backrest and something to hold onto in front.
The look of fulfilling a goal. Plus I got the fluffiest one!
I enjoy the occasional horseback ride as much as anyone else, but I'll pick riding a camel over a horse any day. Even though bactrian camels are enormous and I was high off the ground, I felt really secure. My camel knelt down on his knees so I could get on and off comfortably, and once between the humps, I didn't think I was going to fall off easily. The harness was just a carpet draped over the camel's back with some stirrups sewed in. My camel didn't listen to my steering instructions at all, but since it just wanted to follow/race the camel in front of it, I didn't really care. Also unlike horses, the camels never seem in much of a rush, and are very relaxed about the whole wandering around the desert thing.
We rode them around the dunes for a couple of hours and it was everything I thought it would be.
Looking back, I spent a lot of the trip fawning over various animals. That afternoon, I checked another thing off my list when I cuddled one of the baby goats that was roaming around the ger camp. Once I started I couldn't stop, and when we stopped at an "oasis" I became the goat whisperer as Brandon and James herded all the kids around me.
I think this goat thought it was a lap dog.
What an actual oasis looks like.
So much cuteness for one photo.
And one more just for fun.
The oasis was a pit stop on the way Mongolia's highest sand dune, Hongoryn Els, about one hour away from our ger camp. It is part of a series of dunes, called the Singing Dunes because of the sound the sand makes when it is disturbed. We had to wait until the late afternoon to begin the climb to give the sand time to cool down. It doesn't show in the pictures, but it really was very high and very steep. From the bottom we watched people try to climb it like little ants in the distance. Many gave up before the top. We plotted a route, took off our shoes, left everything with Adiya in the car and started up. We risked bringing James' phone to the top because it is in a neigh indestructible water-proof case but I am happy we left everything else because the fine sand got everywhere. It was steep on the top half we had to crawl up on our hands and feet, sinking our limbs into the soft sand to get a grip.
About 3/4 of the way up, we heard a deep rumbling sound and thought there must be a helicopter on the other side of the dune before realizing that we had made the dune start singing. It was a strange experience seeing a sloooow-moving sand avalanche making such a loud sound.
That's me in the way back.
View from the top.
Climbing to the top took us almost an hour and was one of the most exhausting things I have done in a long time (have I mentioned I recently ran a 10k?). It was rewarding though because the views were spectacular. Again there was no camera, so you'll have to trust me on this one.
See those little black dots? Those are people.
Adiya took a picture of us at the end.
We slept especially well that night.
Day 3 was a lot of driving, but that doesn't mean it was at all boring. After saying goodbye to Ukhee and the baby goats, we 4-wheeled through the desert until one of the back wheels on the car separated and we had to stop. Replacing the wheel only took about half an hour and then we were back on the road.
Pit stop.
We got to Khavtsgait right before lunch time. At the top of the mountain are petroglyphs that date as far back as 8000 BCE.
Some of the petroglyphs were elaborate, and all were beautiful. I liked that I had to hike around the mountain to find them, like a scavenger hunt with no clues. It made me feel like I was the one discovering them.
One of many petroglyphs.
From there we drove toward the Bayanzag Flaming Cliffs. Along the trail, Adiya stopped suddenly for a jackrabbit in the middle of the road that would not move.
We got out of the car and walked toward it and still it did not move. Adiya almost touched it before it ran away and I noticed a second rabbit laying down near a small bush. We had stumbled across a rabbit giving birth to three baby rabbits RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF US. The second rabbit looked slightly panicked, but she couldn't move seeing as how she was actively giving birth. After watching the miracle of life three times, we backed away slowly and gave mom some space.
If you look closely you can see a baby down there.
On the road again.
The Bayanzag Flaming Cliffs are striking red cliffs that overlook a vast expanse of desert. It is most famous for its fossils, including the first dinosaur eggs found in the 1920s. There are no fossils left visible, and it is illegal to take them even if you find one, but the terrain and softness of the rock makes it likely there are more fossils underfoot. I could easily imagine velociraptors making their nests among the cliffs.
Queen of Hydration
I can imagine that the cliffs are at their most fantastic during golden hour, but they were still stunning in the mid-afternoon when we visited. We explored the whole area and had some fun taking pictures before we had to head back to Dalazadgad.
Poser.
Since Kaelynn had left to help with a summer camp, we had no place to stay for the night, so Tuya generously let us stay in her house and even drove us to the bus station the next day.
The Gobi is arguably Mongolia's most famous tourist destination. Yes, there are sometimes crowds, but not without reason. The area is gorgeous and you can see so many different sights in a relatively short amount of time. With the right vehicle and driver, even the drive is fun. It was a spectacular trip, and I am glad I made it a priority to visit before leaving Mongolia. Not only that, but I am so thankful that I got to do it with such great friends.
Follow us so you can be updated every time a new post is published.
The Mongolian Road Trip
Close of Service Conference
The contents of this blog, and all links appearing on this blog, do not reflect the policy, positions, views, or intents of the United States Government, Peace Corps, or the Mongolian Government.
Yesterday was world polio day. Polio is a debilitating and life-threatening disease but the good news is that it is 99.9% eradicated. We are almost there. Kids who needed an iron lung to breathe used to fill hospital wards. Today, this iron lung is just a piece of a museum exhibit that I get to talk about @discovergates #vaccinessavelives #lovemyjob
Went to the most fun wedding I've ever been to with the most fun people I know. I wish my cousins a lifetime of happiness and thank them so much for letting me be a part of their big day! 💕🍾😘
A couple of years ago I had the enormous privilege to visit the beaches in Normandy where D-Day took place. It was an emotional and moving week. I'm using today to remind myself of the importance of standing up for what is right and the personal sacrifice that sometimes requires. Happy 75th anniversary of D-Day.
A portrait of a woman and her cat inadvertently living the #pnw lifestyle.
The last six months
Arkhangai's Wild Adventures Camp
The Esterlys take Mo… on Nadaam
The Esterlys take Mo… on A Non-Definitive Guide to Mong…
Babeth on Close of Service Conferen…
Paquita on The last six months


text:
FDOT quiet on updated plans for West Cervantes ahead of public hearing on project
Jim Little
The Florida Department of Transportation isn't saying much about its plans for the West Cervantes Street Pedestrian Safety Improvement project ahead of a public hearing next week.
FDOT will be holding a public hearing on the project at 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Fricker Community Center.
FDOT has remained tight lipped about the project since initial plans for a pedestrian barrier down 2.25 miles of West Cervantes from A to Dominguez streets drew outcry from residents and business owners in the area.
A week before the meeting, FDOT had not published any updated designs or renderings for the project on its website. When asked for an update, FDOT spokesman Ian Satter said the plans were still being worked and will be presented at the public hearing.
The only new information on the project came out of an announcement of the public hearing, which described the project as "reducing the width of the traffic lanes, adding crosswalks and pedestrian-controlled traffic signals, constructing a center median with a combination of plantings and a low barrier, adding new traffic signals, and adding additional lighting."
Initial reaction to the plan that was originally unveiled in July was mixed. Many residents were glad to see improvements, but opposed the fence-like barrier in the median. Opposition to the pedestrian barrier grew in the weeks after it was released.
In September, the Council of Neighborhood Association Presidents of Pensacola printed 50 protest signs calling to "Stop the Cervantes St. Wall," and placed the signs along Cervantes Street. Despite CNAPP officers saying they followed rules for placing signs along the road out of the right of way, the signs were removed just two days later.
FDOT responded to the opposition by posting a video to its YouTube page in September appearing to show residents advocating for the project, an unusual move as most videos the department makes are informational items about ongoing projects. The video was removed shortly after posting.
Pensacola city officials have met with FDOT about the project and most of what is publicly known about the updated proposal has come from Pensacola officials' accounts of those meetings.
Guestview:West Cervantes plan must include narrowed lanes, slower speed limits
Missing:Signs protesting Cervantes Street barrier wall disappear mysteriously
Residents opposed:Does West Cervantes need pedestrian barriers? FDOT says yes. Many residents say no
Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson said in October that the controversial pedestrian barrier had been mostly removed, although many intersections would still be closed by an elevated median.
Robinson said again on Monday that FDOT would not be putting up a barrier except in areas where there wasn't enough room for a landscaped median.
"There are some sections where it is up more than we expected," Robinson said. "That will come out (publicly) and comments will be able to be discussed. But for the most part, it's down except in areas where the median is fairly small, and so they feel like they didn't have a good landscape buffer."
Depending on the location, the medians will have ground-level landscaping or planter boxes in areas without the barrier, said Derrik Owens, Pensacola's Public Works director.
Also included in the plan shown to city officials are "chicanes" or slight curves in the traffic lanes that cause drivers to slow down. The chicanes allow for expanded sidewalks along the road, which Robinson said he supports.
Robinson also said FDOT agreed to add all the traffic lights the city had requested along the route.
"They did agree with us to put in the traffic signals, which we felt was a huge win," Robinson said. "We think the biggest thing that is going to happen is the traffic signals."
'An experiment'
Mike Kilmer, president of the Historic Brownsville Community neighborhood association, said the community has been providing input for the project since 2016.
Tragedy struck in 2018 when a woman and an 8-month-old infant were struck and killed while crossing West Cervantes, and the project took on new urgency.
Markquise Wallace, the driver of the car, was convicted in November of two counts of vehicular homicide and failing to remain at a crash site.
The spot of the fatal hit and run is still marked with fresh flowers more than a year and a half later.
Better lighting was installed months after the deadly incident and Escambia County and Pensacola each committed $1 million to help fund the safety project. The Florida Legislature passed an appropriation that would have allowed construction to begin even sooner than the fall 2020 start date, but that move was vetoed by the governor.
When the initial plans were unveiled at a meeting over the summer, many residents were glad something was being done to improve safety but objected to what amounted to a fence through their community.
"The original plan of disrupting the street grid with a fence is an experiment that FDOT would never do in an affluent Caucasian neighborhood," Kilmer said.
Kilmer said Cervantes Street is the "spine" of the Brownsville community and when the street was turned into a four-lane highway in the 1970s it drove away retail businesses that had called the area home.
"Right now it's uncomfortable to have a conversation on it because the traffic is so loud," Kilmer said. "It's stressful to be on it because the traffic is going so fast right next to you and it's potentially fatal to cross," Kilmer said.
He said he hopes any plan will aid in businesses' efforts to come back into the area, which he said could be done by reinstating street side parking and slowing the traffic to a reasonable residential speed.
Kilmer said he asked FDOT for a view of the plans ahead of the meeting and was told he would be able to see them at the Tuesday meeting.
"What is it going to take for us to actually achieve reinstating some of the parking so that we can again have a thriving business community here on the west side," Kilmer said.
Josh Fields, general manager of Cliff Fields Motors, was one of several Brownsville business owners who objected to the plan as it cut off much of the street grid. He said the barrier cutting off left turns to many businesses would drive potential customers away as it would force drivers to often backtrack on side streets and make it more difficult to get to businesses.
Fields said the controversy seemed to die down among the business community after Robinson made comments in October that most of the barrier was off the table.
However, Fields said he was skeptical over FDOT's willingness to listen to the public after input appeared to be ignored following this summer's public meetings, but he added he hopes he is wrong.
"I'll say I'm cautiously optimistic going in to the meeting that the plan has changed," Fields said.
Robinson said Monday that several intersections that closed off the street grid under the previous plan would remain open under the new plan, but some would be closed, especially around areas that have high incidents of pedestrian injuries.
Those locations will require drivers to use side streets to get to areas they previously could make a left turn to, but Robinson said that is part of improving safety.
"There are things that we'll have to learn, and it will change our behaviors," Robinson said. "Again, it's not a perfect situation, but again our behavior is to drive in that area as fast as possible. … That really has become a wall to pedestrians, and the ones that do end up — we have a lot of pedestrians that end up getting hit. So, I think if we're really serious about changing behaviors, that's one of the things we're going to have to start doing."
Robinson said the city does not agree with 100% of the plan, but he said it begins the process of improving safety in the area.
"We're continuing to make our comments known," Robinson said. "We hope the citizens will show up and make their comments known."
Jim Little can be reached at jwlittle@pnj.com and 850-208-9827.


hello monday! the weekend was full and fun, going out with friends and having some over, good food, a bit of knitting, movie watching, staying in pj's all day. it was good.
on friday we went to our local fair. it is huge, and the first time the little man actually enjoyed the visit (and his little sister, too. although she tends to like what he likes). there were lights and music, a cup of mulled wine and fireworks in the end. on saturday, we took a lantern walk with friends in the light of the full moon. it was perfect timing, because just an hour after we got back home, the stars and moon were hidden behind thick fog.
sunday was lazy, but i baked pumpkin bread and made sauteed brussels sprouts with bacon. today is a typical monday with work, gym class, appointments. i am really looking forward to the end of the year. days and days of doing nothing. well, you know, except for knitting, reading and the likes.
i'm joining karen today. have a good start to your week!
Lovely knitting, I saw it on instagram!
Yay for lazy Sundays with delicious food!
Sounds like you fit in a little bit of everything this weekend...those are always good weekends.
Your lantern walk sounds lovely. Enjoy your week.
Oh a fair, how fun. And taking a walk by the light of the moon is so enjoyable, the moon has been beautiful here too.
I love sauteed brussel sprouts! I wish I was at your house :) A fair right before the holidays? what fun!!
You had me at bacon! We love brussel sprouts! I simply must make them with bacon!


When you start to search for a new car insurance policy, you will soon realize that there are a multitude of companies in Glendale, UT to choose from. Many people believe that they can only get good rates from well-known national companies, but there are actually many other businesses that do not do have a national advertising that can actually offer exceptional rates. Of course, you do need to verify the authenticity of each company that you find as they may not have the best overall rating. However, if you are able to use websites that can connect you with different companies that have already been verified, you simply need to choose one of them that will offer you the lowest price. Here are a few of the cheap car insurance online tips that you can use when searching for your coverage in Utah, regardless of the type of vehicle that you drive or how much coverage you actually need.
The following cheap car insurance online tips are probably ones that you have heard of before, but you may not have used. These strategies are not secret. They have been utilized by people for decades in order to get the best premiums on their auto insurance policies. The Internet has changed many things when it comes to finding cheaper rates for any type of insurance in Glendale, Utah that you may have. It gives you instant access to a multitude of companies that you may not have known about, businesses that can literally save you hundreds of dollars in premiums every month. The goal is to take your time and make sure that you are looking at every possible option. You can actually use multiple tips simultaneously. The goal is to do everything that you can to lower your premiums, especially if they have recently gone up, so that you can have more money to spend on yourself or your family.
These are just a few of the many strategies that you can use when you are looking for cheap car insurance online. Your best bet is to utilize online services that can submit your request for a quote to multiple companies, and use one of the many that send their quote to you. As mentioned earlier, some of these businesses may not advertise heavily so you may not have heard of them before. You can always verify the authenticity of an insurance company by checking the Better Business Bureau, and if they check out, this is a great way to save hundreds or thousands of dollars every year on your auto insurance premiums. Hopefully these low vehicle insurance tips will lead you to the best possible insurance provider that can give you the best coverage at the lowest possible rates in Glendale, UT.
Deciding on the appropriate vehicle insurance coverage for your family is an critical decision. The coverage can aid to protect an critical expenditure, your automobile. The price can influence your price range. With so numerous policies to pick from, it can turn into puzzling deciding which one particular is best for you. In this report we will go over some suggestions that can help in the auto insurance coverage selection process.
If you have a scholar in school who is not driving a single of the family vehicles, converse to your vehicle insurance coverage company about a low cost. Most insurance coverage businesses recognize that a resident college student is not likely to be driving your vehicle really usually even though they are absent at faculty, and will supply a price cut similar to eliminating them from the plan.
If you have a shiny new auto, you will not likely want to generate around with the evidence of a fender bender. So your car insurance policies on a new car should include collision insurance policies as properly. That way, your car will continue to be hunting good longer. Even so, do you genuinely care about that fender bender if you're driving an previous beater? Because states only require legal responsibility insurance policies, and since collision is expensive, after your automobile will get to the "I never treatment that considerably how it seems to be, just how it drives" phase, fall the collision and your auto insurance coverage payment will go down substantially.
Almost each vehicle insurance policies organization is charging you in accordance to the risk you pose, so a excellent way to preserve money is to come throughout as a lower-chance driver to the insurer. 1 way in which you can lower your danger is to attach a GPS system to your motor vehicle. These anti-theft gadgets conserve the insurance policies firms thousands if your vehicle is stolen, and the personal savings are handed on to you.
You can assist your kid out by adding him/her to your vehicle insurance policy as an approved user. If your child is a good driver, not only will he or she be in a position to save cash on future policies, but the "licensed" label on the insurance coverage plan will also bode properly for their credit history score, offering them a fantastic head start in the credit rating section.
As you can see from the over record of guidelines, buying auto insurance coverage is quite critical for safeguarding your vehicle. Right after pursuing these guidelines, you will no for a longer time be new to acquiring vehicle insurance policies, but you will turn out to be capable to make selections in regards to obtaining a plan with much better protection for your automobile.


text:
Meet Toby, the reading dog at a Hinckley school
The Reading Educational Support Dog snuggles up to children and listens intently as they read books out loud
Meet Toby - a young Cockapoo helping children at a Hinckley junior school build confidence in reading.
Pupils at Westfield Junior School have taken a shine to the puppy since he was introduced at the start of the school year - so much so that they have even created a song about him.
The Reading Educational Support Dog (R.E.A.D) snuggles up to children and listens intently as they read books out loud.
Teachers at the school say it helps pupils develop confidence in reading as well as making books more enjoyable.
The pooch can also help pupils who struggle with confidence, low self-esteem and anger issues develop resilience and emphatic understanding through a series of therapy-style games.
Teaching assistant and owner Emily Food said: "The children have completely fallen in love with Toby - he's the talk of the school.
"I bring him into school twice a week and groups of six children take it in turns to read out loud to him while they stoke him and he just sits there good as gold.
"Some students have really come a long way with their reading since meeting Toby because he helps them relax.
"If children are well behaved they are rewarded by spending time with Toby, walking him at lunch time or playing games with him.
"Parents tell me their children talk about nothing but Toby and how they can't wait to play with him again.
"Everyone absolutely adores him, it's amazing the impact he has had."
Toby the reading dog
The seven-month-old cocker spaniel and poodle cross was bought by Mrs Food after researching the dogs online.
She said: "I read loads of articles about the dogs and the big impact they've had in American schools.
"My year six class obviously thought it was a great idea to get a dog so they prepared a speech to the head teacher and managed to persuade her to allow Toby to come into school."
Headteacher Margaret Grieg said: "Research has shown the vast benefits of schools having a reading assistance dog.
"All pupils will get the opportunity to read to our dog to build their confidence when reading out loud."
Year six pupil Jolie Hall said: "It's really good to have a dog in the school because he makes you feel comfortable and relaxed when reading because he doesn't judge if you get a word wrong.
"It really boosts our confidence in reading."
Toby wears a Westfield necktie and his picture is being used on key rings and posters as part of a fundraising drive.


text:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
 Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
 contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
 this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
 The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
 the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at

     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 limitations under the License.
-->
<plugin
   id="parse-html2"
   name="NutchWAX Html Parse Plug-in"
   version="1.0.0"
   provider-name="archive.org">

   <runtime>
      <library name="parse-html2.jar">
         <export name="*"/>
      </library>
      <library name="tagsoup-1.2.jar"/>
   </runtime>

   <requires>
      <import plugin="nutch-extensionpoints"/>
   </requires>

   <extension id="org.archive.nutchwax.parse.html"
              name="NutchWAX HTML Parser"
              point="org.apache.nutch.parse.Parser">

      <implementation id="org.archive.nutchwax.parse.html.HtmlParser"
                      class="org.archive.nutchwax.parse.html.HtmlParser">
        <parameter name="contentType" value="text/html"/>
        <parameter name="pathSuffix" value=""/>
      </implementation>

   </extension>

</plugin>

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Pass CompTIA Linux+ Certification Exam in First Attempt Guaranteed!
anyone who is preparing for the exam should include some of the comptia linux+ exam dumps in his or her preparation. they are very important because they are designed in accordance with the main curriculum. Use the ones available here.


A 300-year-old country pub with rooms set within the rolling hills of the South Downs National Park. Savour the exquisite locally-sourced cuisine on offer and enjoy a drink in the traditional bar before cosying up in one of their 14 bedrooms.
Easily accessible by road and yet seemingly far removed from it all, each of the pub's 14 bedrooms offer a cosy and comfortable resting place. Six rooms are tucked above the pub while eight are in an adjoining building, and features such as exposed concrete, roll-top baths and tartan furnishings add a rustic touch to all.


The Photo Essay posted by Sara Mora Tormo from the Gavarda Telecentre (Valencia, Spain) has been judged with the highest scores for creativity & relevance and for clarity of the captions that explain the story behind the pictures.
Sara Mora Tormo is one of the Top 100 Most Outstanding Telecentre Women listed by Telecentre.org Foundation and now also Europe's winner of the Global Photo Essay Contest. She will receive a goody bag full of gifts and a holiday e-card made from her photo essay, to be disseminated globally through Telecentre.org's website!
How to motivate people unwilling to engage and without any computer skills for taking up a basic course in computing and the internet?"
If you are curious to find out more about her method: watch the winning photo essay and read Sara Mora Tormo's story!
Next year, we hope to receive more submissions for this wonderful campaign...!


Could anyone design a band more impervious to criticism than Imagine Dragons? Formed at Utah's Brigham Young University and graduating to become Las Vegas, and then global, sweethearts, the group combines heartland earnestness with showbiz sheen at such a shameless pitch it's almost innovative. Their sound is a ruthlessly competent concoction of styles: Coldplay-replay mellow melodies, Mumford-y hey-hos, EDM-inflected bass or beats, guitars courtesy of U2, filtered through alt-rock precursors such as Vegas's own Killers. Finally, add some novelty effects -- whistling, mandolins, anything -- and wallops on Arcade Fire floor drums whenever they need to refocus the listener's attention (which is often).
The band's name sums up its ethos -- declaring a stout belief in creative vision, but applying it to a stock "epic" image, as if to say: "Imagine, you know, big imaginary stuff." This knack for radiating ambition, but not for anything in particular, renders ID ideal for TV, movie and ad synchs, including a Target-sponsored $8 million live broadcast in the middle of this year's Grammys.
One could go on in this vein, and many critics have. But none of that jeering will block Imagine Dragons' second album, Smoke + Mirrors, from scoring a slew of hits, just as 2012's blockbuster Night Visions did. And in many ways it will earn them. Five Seconds of Summer and Justin Bieber treat the history of power pop and R&B, respectively, as a vast vault of R&D for reliably ingratiating moves; Imagine Dragons does the same with a wider palette, with bits of dance, classic rock and even Nashville. Note "I'm So Sorry," which breaks up Kid Rock country-rock with a wispy Snow Patrol-ling bridge, or the South Asian, "Get Yr Freak On"-style plucks on "Friction." The band's skillful cherry-picking will make fans of teen-pop listeners ready to get more sophisticated, as well as older ears looking to settle down. It's not as if there are so many dazzlingly original bands among their current modern-rock-format competition.
But the bombast of Night Visions hits like "Radioactive" has been tamped down. "Shots" and "I Bet My Life" -- with a chorus that resembles The Kinks' "Days" -- might convince skeptics that frontman Dan Reynolds' voice can have charm when it's used lightly (or at least when he's not affecting an irksome calypso cadence, as on "Polaroid"). The intermittent restraint reflects themes that are less imaginary and dragon-y than before. In interviews, Reynolds has said he struggled with depression as the band's career took off. Smoke + Mirrors begins with the words "I'm sorry for... everything I've done," and the regrets carry on through other tracks, including "It Comes Back to You," a song for his wife that refers to "things... I think I learned in therapy."
The serious moments are often swamped by the group's anthemic-compulsive disorder, but they're still a relief from ID's usual grandiosity. Smoke + Mirrors may seem too recycled and belabored to entice the unconverted, but the hints of hidden depths are a pleasant surprise. Many doubted Imagine Dragons even had hidden shallows.
This story will appear in the Feb. 28 issue of Billboard.


A Story Retold is an art work by Aalok Sharma. This art piece is Digital on Canvas which is framed with a Brown 1'' flat frame made with Italian wood. The product is also available in Archival matte paper which comes with a glass enclosure and a 1'' Brown frame and mount.


text:
Tail Slate
Indie Flicks
Our Cast & Crew
The Craft of Directing
January 11, 2013 September 10, 2003 by Michael Sheridan
It is up to the director to decide on the visual look of the film, select the framing and deal with the actors. Now, what makes a good director? I think you have to have a good eye for composition and be able to talk and listen to your actors.
When I make a film, generally I've envisioned the entire movie in my head before I even step onto the set. This helps me know exactly how I want the film to look and how I want to compose the shots. If you've got the film shot and edited in your mind, then you've already done half the work. Now all you have to do is get it in the can.
When it comes to developing the shots, the only thing I can say is be imaginative. For example, let me talk about Kenneth Brannagh for a moment. He directed and acted in Henry V, Dead Again, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and the entire play ofHamlet. While I would say that he's a pretty good actor, he's not a very imaginative director. To be fair, I'll point to Dead Again and Frankenstein — because I couldn't watch the entire Hamlet and he intentionally directed Henry V like a stage play, so the lack of imagination had a purpose.
Brannagh is a down to the basics director. Two shots, medium shots, standard coverage of a scene. His angles are standard and his camera movements are repetitive — in Dead Again, he spins around the characters a number of times; in Frankenstein he repeatedly moves the camera past the characters with a Steadicam, especially during the scene where the monster is brought to life. He's what a call a "cookie cutter" director, because his selection of visuals are factory made.
When I think of interesting styles, I have to point to two directors — David Fincher (Alien3, Seven, The Game and Fight Club), and Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Time Bandits, 12 Monkeys).
Fincher — who also directed a number of music videos — has a distinctly dark, moody style. The texture of his films have a softness to them that I find beautiful. He also plays with angles a lot, often shooting from below the eyeline. If I fault him with anything, it's that his visual style doesn't range away from that dark, moody feel. Gilliam's films, on the other hand, each have a different feel, while still baring his distinct style. He uses a combination of textures, angles and visual effects which make his movies a feast for the eyes.
Gilliam's got a visual technique that is singular, adding to his often fantastical stories with intriguing framing and effects. These two are strong examples of making the story interesting both in its content and its context. While you may have a great story, you should try to match it with a great style. This is especially important when making a short or feature with little money. A good visual style will both enhance the quality of the film and make it appear as if you spent more money than you really did.
What You See vs. How You See It…
It has always been my belief that one of the great things about films is that they allow you to look at things in ways you wouldn't normally. They challenge our perceptions of reality. Distinctive framing can heighten the movie viewing experience, because it doesn't mirror what we see in reality.
An example of poor visual storytelling would be, in my opinion, the film The 5thElement. Filled with elaborate special effects and art direction, it completely lacked any distinctive framing or camera work — as well as interesting characters, but that's another discussion. I think Luc Besson, who wrote and directed the film, felt that what the audience was seeing was enough, and how they saw it didn't matter — I think the same logic was used, to an extent, on the film Dark City.
This kind of logic may have been understandable when the digital revolution began, because audiences weren't used to the amazing effects and sights which could be created on computer, but it no longer holds true. Audiences, in general, are not as amazed with what they see in the movies anymore. They're used to it. In order to make strong visuals as beautiful as they can be, they should be complimented with a strong style.
A similar problem could be seen in the Robin Williams film, When Dreams May Come. While the visuals are beautiful, there isn't much style to it. It also lacked a story, but it relied so heavily on its effects that they thought the images would be enough and the audience would eat it up. They were apparently wrong.
Try to find the most interesting way to shoot a scene and find the best way to bring that vision to life. For me, I've never been much for story boarding. Some shots I'll draw up on a few index cards, generally the ones I deem the most stylish, in order to get them across to the people I'm working with. But, you may find that story boarding everything helps, and that's great (P.S. — I am going to story board my next project).
One of the toughest things to find is a way to organize your thoughts the best. There isn't really a right way or a wrong way, it's simply the way that works best for you. I would advise that you do at least some story boarding, if for no other reason then to understand the process. If you make it into the big time, story boarding will be important, so it never hurts to be prepared.
Lastly, I must stress that if you are going to direct a film, you MUST understand the basics of framing. Some time ago, I had an encounter that I will never forget.
I met this guy — I will not name names here — who was making a feature length film. He'd gotten a lot of people to help him, most of which had handed over money to help pay for the film, as well as time and equipment. This was his first feature film, which he wrote, and was playing the main character. I learned that many of the people on the set believed in his talents. They seemed to be a rather capable bunch — I was just there for one day, but that was my impression after talking with them and watching them work. A few months later, I re-encountered this man, talked with him a little more and found that I liked him. He then gave me a copy of his film, which had been shot in black and white, and I took it home to watch. When I slid it into the VCR, I watched in silence. Actually, I found myself wide-eyed and amazed at what I saw. Even though it had a great story, it was a terrible piece of work. The dialogue rambled on with little point, the acting was bad and the framing was completely off. Also, most of the scenes simply consisted of one shot, making them rather dull to watch. There was one scene which looked pretty good — it was the only scene where the actors appeared to be looking at one another. Still, it was clear the film was constructed by a man who had no idea what he was doing. It was this incident that inspired me to make this web site.
Very simply, I will state one rule of filmmaking that everyone MUST understand: "The 180 Degree Rule." Throughout the movie, every time there was a cut from one person to another in a conversation, it never looked as if anyone was looking at one another, an effect caused when a scene is shot incorrectly. While most rules in filmmaking can be broken, including this one, there are times when it must be followed to the letter. Either way, in order to break a rule in filmmaking, you must first understand it, as a former professor at Watkins Film School used to say.
When shooting a scene with more than one character or object, or featuring a character and object, there is always a 180 degree line that exists between them. When that happens, you must chose which side of that line you want to shoot on, then remain on that side in order for the final edited scene to appear properly (please refer to Figure 1.A & B). If you decide to jump from one side of the line to the other, you will have two people who don't appear to be looking at one another when the scene is edited together (refer to Figure 2.A & B).
Guerilla Filmmaking…
The director of the film also chose to shoot many of the scenes with long takes. This is a belief held by a few other filmmakers that I've met. According to them, doing so is the best way to shoot a scene when you want to save money on film. I've never understood that logic. What happens when you get half way through the shot and someone messes up? You're forced to shoot the scene over again from the beginning, wasting precious film.
This is why it's so important to know how you're going to edit the film before you shoot your first roll. Know when you're going to want a close up and or a medium shot or a wide shot, and film it. If you shoot one or two takes that way, the scene will look much better than if you have a static shot.
Still, you can use the "one shot" method if you wish. But if you do, I recommend you also film some cutaways. That way, you break up the shot a little. Plus, if something goes wrong, you don't need to start from the beginning of the scene every time. You can simply start from where you left off, then when editing the scene, just insert a cut away and the two takes will blend together better.
Either way, having a clear idea of how the final edited version will look is important. This will allow you to stay somewhat focused on exactly what you need and also allow you the ability to shoot just what you want, instead of spending time, money and film on coverage.
While big budget films may have lots of equipment, they don't have anything that can't be copied with regular items. A dolly can easily be replaced with a shopping cart, a crane can be supplemented with a ladder. You are only limited by your imagination in achieving the shots which you deem most appropriate for your film. If you don't believe me, I'd recommend that you read Robert Rodriguez's book, "Rebel Without A Crew". He takes you through the process he took when making El Mariachi, the film that broke him into the Hollywood scene. Then watch the film. I'm not saying it's the greatest piece of work ever made, but it's pretty good for $7,000.
In the end, making a film on your own is a lot of hard work, but it's one of the greatest experiences anyone can have. I wish you all luck in your endeavors.
Categories CommentaryTags Michael Sheridan	Post navigation
Making 'Dungeon Dogs' with Don Calabrese
Pen to Paper
© TailSlate 2020


text:
Amata City Chonburi
Amata City Rayong
Back to Location
Amata Industrial Cities - As both Amata City Chonburi and Amata City Rayong are in the Eastern Economic Corridor area, your business may qualify for additional incentives offered under the EEC scheme.
Compare Locations in Thailand
Survarnabhumi Airport
U-Tapao Airport
Laem Chabang Port
Pattaya City Hall
Sriracha City Hall
Chonburi City Hall
Knowledge Intesive Industry Supply To Domestic Market
Knowledge Intesive Industry Export Business
Suitable Industries
EV (Automotive, Electronics), Digital, Robotics, Aviation
Bio Chemicals, Food, Medical, Consumables, Service,
R&D, Design, Engineering etc
Iron Steel, Metals, Rubber, Plastics, Chemicals
Automotive, Electronics, Consumables, Food
About the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC)
The Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) development lies at the heart of Thailand 4.0 scheme.
The EEC is an area-based development initiative, aiming to provide state-of-the-art infrastructure upgrades in the well-known Eastern Seaboard region of Thailand, namely Chachoengsao, Chonburi and Rayong provinces – a key driver of Thailand's economy and competitiveness. The area is already home to long-established automobile and electronics factories and clusters and light industries.
The government with the support of private sector plans to invest in massive infrastructure projects, such as U-Tapao Rayong-Pattaya Int. Airport expansion and aerotropolis, Map Ta Phut port expansion, Laem Chabang port expansion, double-track railway, high-speed rail and Intercity Motorway. And, alongside private sector support, there are plans to build environmentally sustainable smart cities, technology parks and other facilities.
The government aims to attract targeted new industries such advanced technologies as aerospace, artificial intelligence, biosciences, electric vehicles, fintech, robotics and production of sophisticated medical devices etc.
▶ Play Video
"Courtesy by the Eastern Economic Corridor Office"
Why Thailand?
Strategic location at the heart of the 10-nation ASEAN economic community and market of 660 million consumers, it is the second-largest economy in ASEAN with a population of 69 million.
Natural Trade Route Between ASEAN Countries
Thailand forms a natural trade route between ASEAN countries and China, the world's second largest economy, which at its closest point is less than 200 kilometers from Thailand's northern border. To the west, beyond neighboring Myanmar, lies the Indian subcontinent. New high-speed rail lines and roads under construction across the region are connecting the markets
Top ranked with 12th largest agricultural output, 18th largest manufacturing output, 19th biggest economy by purchasing power, 21st largest industrial output, 24th biggest economy according Pocket World in Figures 2022 edition
Excellent Infrastructure
Excellent infrastructure and facilities including digital infrastructure development, quality of life
Quality Human Resources
Low Overall Costs
Investment Incentives
The operative environment for foreign investors in Thailand is very clear-cut. There are two main entities which provide advice and support, the Thai Board of Investment (BOI), an agency under the Office of the Prime Minister, and the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT), a department of the Ministry of Industry.
Their role is to promote foreign investment in Thailand by providing information, services and incentives and accompany foreign investors as they venture into the country. The BOI has a generic purpose of informing foreign investors about eligible activities and criteria for investment promotion, while the IEAT is focused on industrial estates, having a more hands-on assignment of managing and operating both IEAT's own managed sites and industrial estates that are jointly developed by private developers. IEAT therefore imposes specific laws and regulations industrial estates and manufacturers within have to comply with.
The Thai government provides a wide range of incentives and investor-friendly regulations to attract investment from around the world. Available incentives include right to bring in foreign skilled workers and their spouses with visa and work permit facilitation, right to own land by 100% foreign capital.
The BOI has set a focus on innovative sectors for higher incentives, including robotics, medical technology, electric vehicles, digital technology and innovations in telecommunication, eco-friendly petrochemicals and plastics and food innovation, among others to support Thailand 4.0, the government's ambitious 20-year strategy to accelerate the country's development to a more advanced level.
In addition to basic investment incentives such as tax and duty exemptions, the BOI also introduced merit-based incentives for competitiveness enhancement, technology and innovation, human resources development and a series of promotion measures to encourage investments that will reduce impact on the environment and support sustainable development.
As both Amata City Chonburi and Amata City Rayong are located in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) area, your business may qualify for additional incentives with additional benefits and grants, including exemption of corporate income taxes and duties or special visas issued by the EEC office.
Pattaya City
A coastal city with around 300,000 registered residents, popular among foreign expats
Thailand's main airport can handle 45 million passengers and 3 million tons of cargo, and will be expanded to handle 65 million people by 2025
Lifestyle & Freestyle
Coastal and island beach escapes, more than 30 golf courses, sightseeing and activities within a short distance
Laem Chabang Sea Port
Handles around 8.1 million TEUs (twenty-food equivalent units), is being developed to handle 18 million containers annually
Sriracha City
A coastal city and district of around 330,000 people, popular among Japanese expats
U-Tapao International Airport
To be turned into Bangkok's third int. airport including the development of an aviation city
Hi-Speed Rail
A major infrastructure project to be built in the EEC. The 220km railway to link three major airports and cities
10+ international schools available in the region offering primary to secondary school education.