The Errol Flynn swashbucklers: -Captain Blood: Cheerful adventure. Added Bonus is the first score ( and one of his best ) by Erich Wolfgang Korngold -Charge Of The Light Brigade: Follow-up but much more dour action military picture with legendary final battle scene.
Allegedly mostly staged by second-unit director Breeze Easton.
Although from the book: "Inside Warner Bros",which studies the old Warner Brothers Archives, the writer Rudy Behlmer concludes by looking at the working hours of the employees that Curtiz worked on the set when the battle scenes were staged.
So mr. Easton only served as second-unit director on those scenes.


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Effects of pre- and post-harvest treatments with hexanal formulations on time to ripening and shelf life of papaya (Carica papaya L.) fruits
Nirmalla Debysingh Department of Food Production, The University of the West Indies
Lynda D. Wickham Department of Food Production, The University of the West Indies
Majeed Mohammed Department of Food Production, The University of the West Indies
George Legall Department of Food Production, The University of the West Indies
Gopinadhan Paliyath Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Canada
Hexanal, papaya, pre-harvest, post-harvest
Papaya (Caria papaya L.) cv. Red lady is used as ripened fresh fruit as well as in the unripe state in many processed products. Therefore, for uses other than fresh fruit consumption, maintenance of fruit in the unripe state is extremely important for viable commercial applications. The application of 2% enhanced freshness formulation (EFF) with hexanal as the main active ingredient, has been shown to delay the onset of ripening in several subtropical fruits. This investigation was done to determine its effect on ripening and senescence in papaya fruits. Trials were conducted using 2% EFF applied as a pre-harvest spray and as a post-harvest dip alone or in combination with the pre-harvest spray. Pre-harvest treatments were applied at two week intervals beginning 30-days before expected harvest maturity. For post-harvest treatments, fruits were completely immersed in the dip solution for ten minutes and allowed to air dry at room temperature before storage. Fruits on trees sprayed pre-harvest with 2% EFF developed first colour stripe approximately 75 days after second spraying while fruits on trees sprayed with the control solution developed first colour stripe 15 days after application of the second spray. This was as expected since the pre-harvest applications were timed to be begin within 30 days of expected harvest. Thus, pre-harvest treatment with 2% EFF resulted in a 60 day delay in the onset of ripening in fruits on treated trees. Fruits were harvested on development of the first colour stripe, indicative of the onset of ripening. Following the delayed onset of ripening, fruits harvested from trees sprayed pre-harvest with 2% EFF ripened to full colour change in 15-18 days during storage at 20-22oC / 90-95% RH. Fruits harvested from trees sprayed with the control solution ripened to full colour change in 8-10 days when stored under the same conditions. At full colour change, fruits from trees treated pre-harvest with 2% EFF had a lower incidence of post-harvest diseases than fruits from control trees. The application of 2% EFF as a pre-harvest treatment and as a postharvest dip can be used to increase the time to onset of ripening of papaya fruit in the field, delay the development of full colour change in fruits after harvest, maintain postharvest quality of fruits during storage at 20-22oC / 90-95% RH and reduce the incidence of post-harvest diseases.

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We are all looking for the same thing from our holidays: leisure, relaxation and entertainment giving us a break from our routine. Therefore, hotels have become a key part of the enjoyment of an unforgettable stay.
At Lopesan Hotel Group, we want to become a company able to satisfy the most varied customers. Whether they arrive as a couple or a family; whether they are looking for luxury and exclusivity or if they prefer entertainment; whether they want a holiday by the sea or are fans of the mountains. All options can be accommodated at our hotels.
Present in four countries, the Lopesan Group is able to meet the needs of all its customers. This explains the success enjoyed around the world in recent years. The leisure and accommodation offer at our hotels goes a step further and doesn't just include comfortable beds but a wide range of pools. beauty treatments, gastronomy and sports and activity packages to suit all preferences. Whether you are looking for a solo trip, a romantic getaway as a couple, the adrenaline of physical activity of total disconnection from the world in a relaxing atmosphere, Lopesan can make it a reality.
How many types of Lopesan hotels can you go to?
The history of Lopesan dates back to 1982 with the creation of IFA Hotel & Touristik. Since then, the group's expansion has been unstoppable. Lopesan currently has twenty hotels in four different countries, offering guests high quality and comfort. From the resorts in the Canaries to the complexes in Germany, and the exotic establishments in the Dominican Republic as well as the cosy family hotels in Austria, everything at Lopesan is designed so that anyone visiting has an unforgettable holiday.
At Lopesan, we are not satisfied with being one of the most recognised hotel brands on the Archipelago. We started out as a modest group dedicated to the tourist sector and thanks to our constant quest to improve we became a large international group present in over four countries.
- Adults only hotels: to adapt to one of the most common requests from a large proportion of travellers, we offer adults only hotels where peace and quiet is guaranteed. At these hotels, everything is planned for the enjoyment of adults, who will find somewhere to enjoy peace, quiet and relaxation.
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At Lopesan hotels and resorts, we specialise in making happy memories. Discover our accommodation offer, our pools, restaurants, gyms, gardens, etc, and book with us. You best holiday is closer than you can imagine!


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package file

import (
	"io/ioutil"
	"os"
	"path/filepath"
	"time"

	"github.com/BurntSushi/toml"
	"github.com/golang/glog"
	"gopkg.in/fsnotify.v1"

	"github.com/cnf/stacker/engine"
)

const graceTime = 3 * time.Second

// ConfStore object
type ConfStore struct {
	Config   *Config
	eng      *engine.Engine
	fileList map[string]time.Time
	stopper  chan bool
}

// File represents a single config file
type File struct {
	Path string
	MD5  string
}

// NewConfStore returns a new file ConfStore object
func NewConfStore() engine.ConfStore {
	return &ConfStore{}
}

// RegisterConfStore returns the module name
func RegisterConfStore() {
	engine.RegisterConfStore("file", NewConfStore)
}

// Setup the file confstore
func (cs *ConfStore) Setup(eng *engine.Engine, cfg engine.Config) error {
	cs.Config = cfg.(*Config)
	cs.eng = eng
	cs.fileList = make(map[string]time.Time)
	return nil
}

// Start the ConfStore
func (cs *ConfStore) Start() error {
	if glog.V(1) {
		glog.Infof("starting file configstore")
	}
	// TODO: make this work
	cs.stopper = make(chan bool)
	cs.parseFiles()
	if cs.Config.Watch {
		go cs.watch()
	}
	// TODO: parse files on start
	return nil
}

// Stop the ConfStore
func (cs *ConfStore) Stop() error {
	close(cs.stopper)
	return nil
}

func (cs *ConfStore) parseFiles() error {
	list, err := getFileList(cs.Config.ConfigDir)
	if err != nil {
		// TODO: error handeling
		return err
	}
	for _, v := range list {
		cs.fileOp(v)
	}
	return nil
}

func (cs *ConfStore) watch() {
	watcher, err := fsnotify.NewWatcher()
	if err != nil {
		// TODO: Error handeling
		glog.Error(err)
	}
	defer watcher.Close()

	go func() {
		for {
			select {
			case event := <-watcher.Events:
				cs.fileOp(event.Name)
			case err := <-watcher.Errors:
				glog.Error(err)
			case <-cs.stopper:
				return
			}
		}
	}()

	if err := watcher.Add(cs.Config.ConfigDir); err != nil {
		// TODO: ...
		glog.Error(err)
	}

	<-cs.stopper
	glog.Info("stopping file watcher")
}

func (cs *ConfStore) fileOp(file string) {
	// glog.Info(event)
	// TODO: sanitize
	name := filepath.Clean(file)
	fp, err := os.Open(name)
	if err != nil {
		// TODO: errors
		glog.Error(err.Error())
		return
	}
	defer fp.Close()
	fi, err := fp.Stat()
	if err != nil {
		// TODO: errors
		glog.Error(err.Error())
	}
	if fi.IsDir() {
		return
	}
	ext := filepath.Ext(name)
	if ext != ".toml" {
		glog.Info("not a toml file")
		return
	}
	// TODO: grace time
	// if time.Now().Sub(fi.ModTime()) < graceTime {
	// 	glog.Info("modified less than 3 seconds ago")
	// 	return
	// }
	if _, ok := cs.fileList[name]; ok {
		if fi.ModTime().Sub(cs.fileList[name]) < graceTime {
			glog.Info("modified less than 3 seconds ago")
			return
		}
	}
	cs.fileList[name] = fi.ModTime()
	data := make(map[string]interface{})
	_, err = toml.DecodeReader(fp, data)
	if err != nil {
		// TODO: errors
		glog.Error(err.Error())
	}
	cs.sentEvent(data)
}

func (cs *ConfStore) sentEvent(data map[string]interface{}) error {
	src := &engine.NameSpace{
		Type:   "confstore",
		Module: "file",
	}
	// we take the section heading from the toml file, and add it to _type
	// so for sectiom [[container]], we do _type = container
	for k, v := range data {
		switch v.(type) {
		case map[string]interface{}:
			v.(map[string]interface{})["_type"] = k
			cmd := &engine.Command{
				Name:    "config",
				Source:  src,
				Payload: v,
			}
			cs.eng.Event(cmd)
		case []map[string]interface{}:
			for _, iv := range v.([]map[string]interface{}) {
				// iv.(map[string]interface{})["_type"].(string) = k
				iv["_type"] = k
				cmd := &engine.Command{
					Name:    "config",
					Source:  src,
					Payload: iv,
				}
				cs.eng.Event(cmd)
			}
		default:
			glog.Info("not the right config format")
			continue
		}
	}
	return nil
}

func getFileList(cfgpath string) ([]string, error) {
	var list []string

	// TODO: sanitize paths
	cfgpath = filepath.Clean(cfgpath)

	files, _ := ioutil.ReadDir(cfgpath)
	for _, v := range files {
		if v.Mode().IsDir() {
			rpath := filepath.Join(cfgpath, v.Name())
			rlist, err := getFileList(rpath)
			if err != nil {
				continue
			}
			list = append(list, rlist...)
			continue
		}

		newpath := filepath.Join(cfgpath, v.Name())
		list = append(list, newpath)

		if !v.Mode().IsRegular() {
			continue
		}
	}
	return list, nil
}

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Blue Bloods: Season 11 CBS Release Status
Syed Afzal Ahmad
Source: The Developer Labs
Blue Bloods, the police procedural drama that airs on CBS starring Tom Selleck, that's right Richard from F.R.I.E.N.D.S. It is one of the most viewed shows on CBS with about 13 million viewers on average per season. Moreover, it has finished around 10 seasons and is now going for the 11th one. The first season aired in September 2010 and has been releasing in September ever since without break for the past 10 years. In May, this year it was renewed for the 11th season. So, when will it release?
Blue Bloods Season 11 release date?
Thank you for being part of our #BlueBloods family these past 10 Seasons. We're officially returning for Season 11! 💙 pic.twitter.com/QN35a3ZBs1
— Blue Bloods (@BlueBloods_CBS) May 6, 2020
It was announced on May 6th that Blue Bloods will be coming back for the 11th season. Along with that, sources revealed that production teams had also started working. It is the case of all CBS shows and not just Blue Bloods. Looks like CBS show has started production on several of their projects. However, there is no official news on the release of the forthcoming season.
According to the sources, this season was supposed to begin airing by the end of this month. However, it has not happened yet. We suspect that production might be running slow or perhaps would have been put on hold for some time.
RELATED Netflix's Lost In Space Season 3: Danger Will Robinson! Release Date And Other Updates
We expect the release date to be set in late December or perhaps in 2021. There is also a possibility that the show takes a gap of a year and resumes streaming in September next year. In that way, it would maintain its streak of September release. However, we don't have any official updates regarding that.
Further, the episode count for the next season is expected to be 22 or perhaps a few more than that. As it might also cover the episodes that couldn't be shot due to the pandemic. Therefore, it could be around 25 episodes long
An ambitious writer who prefers quality over quantity. A quick learner and a faster tutor. Skilled in writing and reading. Developing content has now become a hobby. Passionate about photography.
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Q: Setting the console application text before the cursor In Console Applications how do you set the text before the cursor?
For those who may have worked on ArcInfo Workstation a command line application, they had different modules and depending on the module you work in the command line would change to show the different modules. e.g.
GRID:\>[Cursor here.]
GRID:\>TIN [Enter Key Press]
TIN:>[Cursor here.]

The Title property and WriteLine() methods are well known but how do you set the text before the cursor?

A: Console.WriteLine() sets your cursor on the next line, while Console.Write() - doesn't.
Hope that helps!

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Q: Spring GetHibernateTemplate() or GetSession() I am facing an issue due to improper understanding of Spring methods -> GetHibernateTemplate/GetSession.
When I use a native sql query [getSession().createSQLQuery(nativeQuery)] to fetch some records from the database, it seems to me that there is a deadlock kind of situation and after N number of requests, the db connection pool exhausts.
This is a sample of what I see when I check this in db "SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS" :
MySQL thread id 1106, query id 1360 localhost 127.0.0.1 test2
---TRANSACTION 0 19491, not started, OS thread id 2960035840

What am I doing wrong? What is a good way to run native sql queries?

A: Spring transparently handles opening and closing DB connections.  The table at the beginning of the data access chapter of the documentation shows what you handle and what Spring handles, the latter of which includes opening and closing connections.  It seems unlikely that Spring itself is the issue.
Instead, here are two possibilities for why you might be experiencing your situation:

*

*Your connection pool is misconfigured in some fashion

*You don't realize it, but you have some out-of-control, or really long-running/inefficient queries

If you up your logging to debug, that would give more clues.


Before the premiere of their "Meistersinger", director Barrie Kosky and conductor Philippe Jordan talk about Wagner and the aura of Bayreuth. Kosky lives in Berlin and is the director of the "Komische Oper". Jordan directs the "Opéra National de Paris" and is the chief conductor of the "Wiener Symphoniker".


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Incinerators also create a demand for waste to feed their stream and compete with sustainable alternatives, which is the opposite of the solution to too much waste.
The true solution is zero waste, "a goal that is ethical, economical, efficient and visionary, to guide people in changing their lifestyles and practices to emulate sustainable natural cycles, where all discarded materials are designed to become resources for others to use." This means that answering the question of what to do with our waste is a lot deeper than where we should put it. It's about disposing of circulating materials properly and sustainably while also ensuring that that amount continues to decrease until the ultimate goal of zero waste production is reached. Our zero waste hierarchy consists of reducing, reusing, and source separating.
Managing waste looks different depending on the type of material being disposed. In general, the best way to reduce waste is to use and buy less. Products can be redesigned so that they are more durable and environmentally sustainable. This also means reducing the use of toxics in production and replacing them with non-toxic alternatives. What's left once a product has reached its potential should then be easily repurposed or recycled.
Recyclables (metals, glass, plastics, paper) should be source-separated by material so that they are not contaminated and can be easily sold to their respective markets. Organics should be collected weekly to be composted, a biological process that decomposes the matter so that it can be returned to the natural cycle. Since the majority of waste in the U.S. comes from food and yard scraps, composting can divert a large percentage of waste typically sent to occupy space in landfills. Anything that remains in the waste stream after recycling and composting should be researched to find the source and how to eliminate it further upstream. Through bans and accountability for manufacturers, residuals can be reduced even further.
What about the rest? There will still be "leftovers" after all of these steps have been taken. As demonstrated by Ecocycle, the best way to handle such waste is through Material Recovery Biological Treatment (MRBT). Everything remaining should be sent to a MRBT facility where any recyclables that weren't properly separated at the source are mechanically recovered in the "material recovery" stage of MRBT. These recyclables are then sent to the appropriate facility for it to be used.
The leftovers will be things like dirty diapers, toxics and other unusable materials. In the biological treatment stage, this sludge will go through either anaerobic digestion or composting to be further condensed and release any methane that could be produced before landfilling. Anaerobic digestion is a process where the organic matter is broken down by bacteria and chemical processes release the gases from the solid material without the use of oxygen. The finished product is an odorless and less dense, stabilized soil-like substance. However, this substance is highly toxic and should not be treated as fertilizer. The remaining matter should be sent to a properly lined and managed landfill.
Zero waste solutions are not only the best way to manage waste for the environment, but also for people. There are a plethora of jobs involved in every step of the process. With all of these steps taken and a commitment to a more sustainable lifestyle as individuals and society as a whole, we can achieve the goal of zero waste.


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FoundationDB: A NoSQL Database That Does ACID!
Dave Rosenthal, Co-Founder of FoundationDB
Wed. Oct. 24, 2012 6:30pm
Free BEER, swag, chips, snacks, nuts, soda & junk food + raffle for FIVE (5) 128GB SSD drives!
The presentation was super great because it was super technical - I believe that most if not almost all of the mebers of this meetup are technical people.
Dave Rosenthal
Co-Founder of FoundationDB
With the CAP theorem looming and an explosion of different data models what's a database engineer to build? Not what you might think. FoundationDB takes a different approach to solving the problem of state storage. Its ordered key-value core can be adapted to expose a broad range of data models and it's distributed architecture provides both scalability and cross-node ACID transactions. Hear about the challenges and benefits of a building a new kind of database.
Dave Rosenthal is co-founder and engineer at database startup FoundationDB. Dave started his career in games, building a 3D real-time strategy game with a team of high-school friends that won the 1st annual Independent Games Festival. Previously, Dave was CTO at Visual Sciences, a pioneering web-analytics company that is now part of Adobe. Dave has a degree in theoretical computer science from MIT


What I'm trying to say is that my season runs from Oktober-September rather than calendar year wise. Which means that I just entered 2017!
As you may know, I have been managing my own training; planning, performing, analyzing and adjusting, since I started in 2013. Now for the coming season I had planned starting with an external coach. The plan was to put full focus on triathlon with a triathlon specialized coach, but then I realized I won't be able to do those 15-20 hr training weeks that I would want to since I'm going on parental leave (2nd kid) in january. That's one of the reasons why I'm now working with Rubin instead.
The first real block (12 weeks) of training, towards next years big goal, doesn't start until end of december for me. This means I have quite sometime now to build some strength and speed in my running. I'm doing 11-15 hr training weeks at the moment but 50 % of that is weight training/yoga/mobility and the other 50 % is split into running, swimming and a tiny bit of cycling. Runningwise, I'm currently ramping up my volume culminating first week of december at 84 km. I'm guessing I will be running an average of 100 km/week for the better part of next spring in order to be where I want to be in time for competition season.
I'm also swimming a lot at the moment. Some of it is done with Gabriella as I've already written about, but most of my sessions are still done with my super duper crew early mornings before work in Vasalundshallen, Solna. Take this mornings session for instance, main series 5x(200+2×100+2×50 m) with the 200 @1:30/100m, 100 @1:25/100m and 50 @1:20/100m. All done before breakfast with good focus, now that's what make you fast in the water. We were 8 guys in one lane in perfect harmony!
My overall goal for next year is to adjust my training and body for full distance again. Having that said, I'm not aiming to qualifying for Kona next year. I'll break down my separate discipline goals with goal time (on a flat Ironman course) and description here below.
The best (and only) Ironman swim I've ever done is 1:08. Now that was my first year of triathlon and I've improved alot since. At the Ironman 70.3 WC this year I swam 28:59, but even since then my swimming has improved tremendously. I'd say I'm good for a sub 59 swim today, however given the circumstances for the spring I'm being a bit modest about it since swimming was the discipline that was toughest to train last time I was on parental leave.
In November 2015 I set the goal to increase my FTP with 30 %… Looking back, that was bold! I had 284 W and now I'm at around 320 W so I managed a 13 % increase. However that increase was mainly done in winter time on the trainer which makes my goal for this year an increase of 10 % before competition season… in numbers new FTP of 352 W before june 2016. By the looks of it when analyzing in best-bike-split (yes I'm a nerd), that's what I need to do a comfortable sub 4:55 on the bike.
This is where I've struggled the most and also why I've now taken in some professional help. I hope that I will be good for a sub 3 marathon by next competition season and I believe that that's where I need to be in order to do a sub 3:30 Ironman marathon… To be honest this is my number one goal for next year, to actually do a solid Ironman marathon. When I crossed the finish line in Kalmar 2014, I had swum 1:08, biked 5:15 on a road race bike and then run 4:16… There and then I said to myself that I will never do an Ironman again until I can run properly. The best I've done so far in terms of a marathon is 3:15, but I believe that with a solid 9 months 'til game day I'll be where I want to be in my running.
The big one for next year will be Ironman Frankfurt on the 9th of july. I chose this race mostly because of timing, I want to have a proper summer vacation next year. The course is flat and fast, the only thing that can be a bit sketchy is the weather… anything from 10 °C to 40 °C. What's also fun about this race is that we're 9 friends racing it, so there will most definitely be some competition.
Leading up to Ironman Frankfurt, me and my friend Marcus will do the Ironman 70.3 Switzerland in Rappersvil-Jona on the 11th of June. These are the only two races I've planned for 2017. I hope to get a spot for Berlin Marathon in September, but that's up to chance. Other than these I will probably do some sprint/olympic triathlons and shorter run races, but nothing serious.
That's about it. Let's hope it goes somewhat according to plan. In which case I will be set up for a glorious 2018!


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BARRON CHIROPRACTIC & REHABILITATION, P.C. vs. ENTERPRISE RENT-A-CAR COMPANY OF BOSTON, INC.
Present: Driscoll, P.J., Miller, & Poole, JJ.
Insurance, "Personal injury protection" benefits; G.L. c. 90, §34M. Consumer Protection, G.L. c. 93A. Practice, Civil, Summary judgment.
Opinion vacating summary judgment for defendant, affirming denial of summary judgment for plaintiff and ordering remand for further action. Summary judgment motions heard by Baylor, J.
DRISCOLL, P.J. Plaintiff, Barron Chiropractic & Rehabilitation, P.C. ("Barron") , appealed the trial judge's allowance of a motion for summary judgment pursuant to Mass.R.Civ.P., Rule 56 filed by Enterprise Rent A Car Company of Boston, Inc. ("Enterprise") , Defendant. Barton also appeals the trial judge's denial of Plaintiffs cross-motion for summary judgment pursuant to Mass.R.Civ.P., Rule 56. The primary issue on appeal is whether the trial judge erred in granting Enterprise's motion for summary judgment and denying Barron's motion for the assessment of attorney fees. For the reasons stated below, we reverse the trial judge's allowance of Enterprise's motion for summary judgment and affirm his denial of Barron's cross- motion for summary judgment.
Barron filed suit against Enterprise to collect outstanding Personal Injury Protection ("PIP") benefits pursuant to M.G.L. c. 90, §34M. It also alleged that the denial of such benefits was a violation of M.G.L.c. 93A, §11. The action stemmed from chiropractic treatment rendered to one Clairemont Lockhart ("Lockhart"). Lockhart was injured in an automobile accident while a passenger in a rental car owned by Enterprise. The accident occurred on December 3, 2005 in Brooklyn, New York.
having placed the case in suit.
After tendering payment, Enterprise moved for summary judgment on all counts of Barron's complaint. Barron opposed Enterprise's motion for summary judgment and filed a cross-motion for summary judgment. Enterprise opposed Barron's cross-motion. The trial judge allowed Enterprise's motion for summary judgment and denied Barron's cross-motion for summary judgment. Barron filed a timely notice of appeal.
We find that the court erred in allowing defendant's motion for summary judgment on plaintiff's M.G.L. c. 90, §34M and c. 93A, §11 claim. Summary judgment should be granted if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and responses to requests for admission, together with affidavits, show that there are no genuine issues as to any material fact and that, as a consequence, the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. Mass. R. Civ. P., Rule 56(c) .
When the court evaluates the materials accompanying a motion for summary judgment, all inferences to be drawn from the underlying facts must be must be viewed in the light most favorable to the party opposing the motion. Hub Associates v. Goode, 357 Mass. 449 , 451 (1970). When ruling on a summary judgment the court should only "determine whether a genuine issue of material fact exist[s]." Attorney General v. Bailey; 386 Mass. 367 , 370-71 (1982) , quoting H & M Cake Box, Inc. v. Bakery & Confectionery Workers Int'l Union, Local 45, 454 F.2d 716, 719 (lst Cir. 1972).
It is well established that in Massachusetts, automobile rental companies are required by statute to provide personal injury protection (PIP) benefits to guest occupants of its motor vehicles. M.G.L. c. 90, §32E; Enterprise Rent A Car v. Ararella Mut., 451 Mass. 264 ,267 (2008).
M.G.L.c. 93A, §11 prohibits "unfair method[s] of competition or ...unfair or deceptive act[s] or practice[s]." Whether conduct by an insurer constitutes what is unreasonable, or what is unfair or deceptive in the circumstances of a particular case, is a question of fact for a trial court. Spence v. Boston Edison Co., 390 Mass. 604 , 616 (1983); Provenzano v. Plymouth Rock Assurance Corp., 2008 Mass. App. Div. 68 , 70 (2008). It is not a defense to a c. 93A, §11 claim that the Defendant's conduct was negligent (essentially due to inexperienced and unsupervised employees) rather than intentional. Linthicum v. Archambault, 379 Mass. 381 , 388 (1979).
It is not unreasonable when an insurer seeks and relies upon an opinion from outside counsel regarding its liability under the policy. Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. v. Commercial Union Ins Co., 406 Mass. 7 , 14 (1989). M.G.L.c. 93A, §11 has been interpreted to provide a remedy of multiple damages where an insurer forces plaintiff to litigate clearly valid claims. R. W. Granger & Sons, Inc. v. J & S Insulation, Inc, 435 Mass. 66 , 78 (2001).
Barron does not dispute that Enterprise tendered payment before trial began, but it claims that Enterprise, by unfairly and/or deceptively withholding payments, forced it into litigation to collect their PIP payments. Enterprise's position for withholding the PIP benefits was that, at the time of the accident, Lockhart was not a resident of Massachusetts. Enterprise, without consulting with legal counsel, concluded that only Massachusetts residents were entitled to PIP benefits.
benefits, it is uncontroverted that Lockhart was a resident of Dorchester, MA. His residency was established by documents submitted to Enterprise giving an address in Dorchester for Lockhart. Enterprise believed that Lockhart's medical records created a discrepancy in his residence at the time of the accident. These records refer to Lockhart as a "St. Vincent male." [Note 1] No other address except the one in Dorchester, MA is provided. As such, for the purposes of a motion for summary judgment, it is not now in dispute that Lockhart was a Massachusetts resident.
Enterprise claims that its position regarding their interpretation of the statute is analogous to that of the defendant in Boston Symphony Orchestra, supra. We find Enterprise's position distinguishable. In Boston Symphony, the insurer sought and relied upon the legal opinion of outside counsel. The court ruled that its counsel's interpretation of the law was not unreasonable. In the present case, Enterprise did not seek the opinion of outside counsel until after Barron filed its suit. Furthermore Enterprise's misinterpretation was not that of a particularly complex area of law, but rather one very pertinent in the business in which Enterprise engages in on a day- to-day basis.
Enterprise also claims that the court should adopt the same rationale as the recent decision in Provenzano, supra, where the court found the tendering of payment to avoid litigation constituted a business decision and therefore could not be construed as a violation of M.G.L.c. 93A, §11. We find the decision in Provenzano to be distinguishable from the case at hand. In Provenzano, the insurer withheld payment in order to conduct an independent medical examination (IME) and review the medical history records of the patient. Enterprise's only reason for withholding payment in this case was its own unreasonable belief that Lockhart was not a resident of Massachusetts. That misunderstanding arguably forced Barron into litigation in order to recover the PIP payments to which they believed they were entitled.
We are hindered on this appeal because the trial judge did not make written findings in support of his allowance of Enterprise's motion for summary judgment. Nevertheless, after considering the briefs for both parties and the appendix from the trial court, we find that Barron's appeal merits a remand to the trial court for further proceedings. Accordingly, we vacate the order allowing the defendant's motion for summary judgment, but we affirm the order denying the plaintiff's cross-motion for summary judgment and remand this matter for further action consistent with this decision.
[Note 1] Lockhart is apparently a native of St. Vincent in the Virgin Islands.


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It is very apparent that we are just getting underway with construction season all across New York state. In an effort to promote safety in work zones, the New York state Department of Transportation is declaring this week, "Work Zone Awareness Week". Across the state, there is a push to bring awareness to the many construction zone workers and their safety on the roadways. According to News 10 ABC, there are still many drivers who not only do not slow down in work zones, but do not move over for emergency vehicles on the highways.
The New York State Department of Transportation is ramping up their efforts to crack down on drivers who aren't abiding by these laws and putting construction and emergency workers lives at risk.
Work zone awareness week will culminate with representatives at various rest areas across the Thruway on Friday from 10am to 2pm promoting work zone safety and the move over law. On hand will be NY State Police, DOT workers, local emergency workers, tow truck operators and roadside workers. To see the Thruway stops these representatives will be at, click HERE.


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Tracy Man Is At It Again With Crazy Halloween Light Show Set To Skrillex
A former music teacher in the East Bay who has made a habit over the last decade of making elaborate light-show sequences at his home set to music for both Halloween and Christmas is back at it again with a new Halloween display set to Skrillex's "Bangarang."
Tom BetGeorge, who now lives in Tracy, first got on SFist's radar with a Christmas light show in 2014, when he was living in Fremont. That year his home was featured on ABC's "Great Christmas Light Fight," with a display set to a medley of music from Star Wars. He's continued, every Halloween and Christmas, to create new light sequences and displays at his home, the latest being pretty rowdy by comparison to the much tamer "This Is Halloween" from The Nightmare Before Christmas which he did two years ago.
As ABC 7 reports, what started as a hobby for BetGeorge has grown into a business. As you can see from his website, BetGeorge now has clients all over the country, including Disneyland, for whom he creates light displays. (There's also a free download link there for the Skrillex sequence.) The proceeds from the Halloween show at his house, for which he takes donations nightly, go to benefit a local family shelter.
Here's his pre-HBO-documentary Michael Jackson tribute display from Halloween 2018.
And here's the Nightmare Before Christmas display fro 2017.
And here's the equally impressive heavy metal version of "Carol of the Bells" that BetGeorge and collaborator Matt Phipps did for Christmas 2017.
Previously: Video: Bay Area Man Turns Christmas Decorations Into Massive Star Wars Tribute
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One of the interesting and important place of Araku valley is the Borra caves. With its enormous size and depth, Borra caves hold the honor of being biggest cave in India. This cave was first discovered by William King George in the year 1807, and the majority of the cave is made up of karstic limestone with the depth of 260fts making it the deepest caves in india.
There are many interesting legends about this cave like a story in which a cow fell into this cave accidently. Which lead to the owner come looking for it where he found a lingam in the middle of the cave? So he believed that the lingam to be Lord Siva who saves the cows life. This story spread across villagers who built a small temple around this cave. And another legend is the stone formation of a cow above the lingam (Kamadhenu) is the source of the river which originates here. For visiting Borra Caves approach Chennai to Tirupati Car Rental for good tour package.


It's a sad truth and many of us have experienced it first hand. Your life takes a turn for the good. Maybe you get a promotion or an award for meritorious service. Maybe rather sitting around talking about participating in a marathon, you actually participate in one.
Perhaps you set a goal to lose weight or live a healthier lifestyle. To get out of and stay out of debt.
Yet, your overweight, debt-ridden, and unhappy friends, co-workers, and other associates, make little snide comments about you and subtly try to sabotage your efforts or discourage you.
It's a pretty nasty side of human behavior.
So why do some people do these kinds of things?
Well, this type of behavior tends to happen with those in your close social circle and the reason for it is they see that you changing; it threatens to upset in their minds, the social status quo.
They don't want any change in their perceived "hierarchy". If you do "better" than them, in their minds, that means they go down the totem pole. You're not fitting into the role they pegged you in anymore. When you keep trying to get out, they keep trying to push you back in.
A broader reason for them not wanting to see you succeed is that if you do, it makes them start to question their own lives. They start to feel like they're "behind" so rather than do something with their lives, they try to keep you down so you don't get "ahead" of them.
They're trapped in this low-level competitive model of thinking.
There are some pretty twisted actions going on there as a result of that kind of thinking so be careful who you share your success with, but more importantly, who you spend time with.
Here's an easy test to use to see whether or not the people you spend the most time with will support your success.
In everyday conversation, casually mention somebody you both know who's doing pretty good for themselves. See what their immediate reaction is.
If someone you know is doing financially well, they may say that he's greedy, a cheater, brown noses, etc., so anything negatively related, you know best not to tell them about your own goals or better yet, to keep some distance as well.
You can use the same test yourself.
When you hear of somebody doing well, what's your IMMEDIATE reaction?
If you find that it's negative, that's OK.
It means you still got some work to do.
So how should you view somebody else's success?
How do you get out of this low-level competitive model of thinking?
By realizing we are all going on our own separate journeys. That no journey is higher than another. We're all going our separate ways and that other person reaching their destinations doesn't take away anything from our own journey.
In fact, it adds to it because if they can do it, so can you.
You're inspired by them. You congratulate them. You're proud of their hard work.
You use it to fuel your own journey.
Small minded people are the ones who always cut other down for their success.
Mature minded people always build one another up because they know there's more than enough to go around.
Now people always ask – is it ok to use this as motivation to prove to all the haters that they were wrong?
I think in the beginning, if it gets you going, by all means, use it, but I think what you'll find is your motivation will change along the way.
It will come from the process itself, from the benefits that you reap, and the whole "I'll show you" mentality will slowly start to fade away to the point where you don't brag or rub it in and you know what?
That infuriates the haters even more because at least if you bragged, they could then point out how you were all stuck up and everything, but you're past that now.
And the people who try to bring you down don't even register on your radar anymore.
You just do your thing while they get stuck and suffer in their own hell of thinking.
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This article received a post from a reader who has a problem a serious problem with me. I consider this individual a troll and I deleted his comment as I consider it spam.
This individual believes that I am a scammer because I create videos on YouTube on various cryptocurrency ventures that I am involved in and I leave a masternode or affiliate link below my videos. He/she never mentions anything about the many articles on this on this website that do not have affiliate links in them or the 35 lesson crypto-course I wrote that do not have affiliate links in them and do not appear on YouTube.
I believe this individual suffers from "professional jealousy" has he/she has questioned my integrity and accomplishments.
My 42-years of combined honorable military and federal government service made me a success and no one can take that from me and neither will I let anyone minimize this.
Will this individual go away. No. There are too many of them. They are not happy persons. Their fuel appears to be negativity and complaint.
They need objects (persons) to be their fuel. I am someone's object.
This individual does not seem to understand that I am not going to stop what I am doing and love and I am certainly not going to bend to the will of his/her opinion.
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Messaging apps are getting smarter and smarter, but there are several areas where WhatsApp's way of doing things perplexes me a little. For example, the app recently added the option to watch entire videos picture-in-picture inside a conversation, but when you send a link to an image (JPG, PNG, GIF, etc), it doesn't even try to load a preview before sending it. That might be changing though, as we're starting to see hints of WhatsApp offering to download linked GIFs before you send them.
In both the latest WhatsApp stable (2.18.306 - APK Mirror) and beta (2.18.312 - APK Mirror), when you send a link to a GIF, the app offers to download the animated image before sending it. The GIF then opens in its own window, and you can tap to remove the link or insert your own caption, draw on top, and add emojis/stickers or text. When you're done, tap the send button and the GIF gets shared as if you had attached it from your phone, fully expanded.
I tested several other image and media formats, including JPG, PNG, WEBP, WEBM, and MP4, but couldn't get the "Tap to download" option to show up on any of these. Our tipster discovered it when sharing a link to a Google Photos GIF. If he doesn't tap to download the image, a small preview thumbnail gets sent; if he does, the full GIF is shared.
While this is a small improvement, I certainly want to see this feature expanded for more image and video types. If I'm sending a link to an image, it means I want the other person to see it, and the less friction there is in that process, the better.
Developer: WhatsApp Inc.
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So What Does General Counsel Have to Do with Cyber-Security, Anyway?
By Ronald Sarian, VP and General Counsel, eHarmony
Ronald Sarian, VP and General Counsel, eHarmony
eHarmony is big data. We currently have approximately 60 million registrants, each of whom has completed our Relationship Questionnaire (RQ) that contains upwards of 150 questions specifically tailored by psychologists to elicit our proprietary 29 Dimensions of Compatibility. This primary data is used to create what we believe to be unequaled matches. Added to that, the secondary data we obtain—consisting of location, preferences, device, browser, sites visited, and much more—is about 1.6 petabytes to be exact. We take protection of this data very seriously.
"A GC should have a very clear understanding of each and every device and program used to keep the bad guys out"
Though we were utilizing best practices cyber protections for the time, the well publicized 2012 cyber attack on eHarmony caused us to review every aspect of our security with a magnifying glass and up our game to the point where we believe we currently employ industry leading bulwarks. On a macro level, we now have three units within eHarmony responsible for 24/7 monitoring: Technical Operations, Trust and Safety, and Engineering. Tech Ops is responsible for the implementation of data base segregation, firewall, web application firewall (to prevent DDOS bots, SQL injection, cross-site scripting), network layering, encryption (SHA-2 hashing), logging, utilization of Whitehat hacking, two factor authentication/RSA encryption endpoint security and, off boarding when an employee leaves (immediately disabling access to all networks). On top of this, Tech Ops now has in place a robust "off-line" cloud based solution that allows all departments to communicate securely without fear of eavesdropping by hackers in the event of an unauthorized access into the system. This is critical as you don't want them to know you're on to them or to be aware of the mitigation measures you are adopting to address the problem, which would very likely cause them to change their tactics.
Trust & Safety is responsible for our Emergency Response Management System, which uses a bespoke scoring algorithm to escalate matters based upon geo-location/discrepancies, device ID, Hot Files (we scan for certain suspect phrases/entries, phrases commonly copied and pasted, amongst others), and inconsistent/odd answers to the RQ questions (e.g., initial answers suggest one personality type but later answers point in a different direction). They also handle all customer complaints about anything fishy (or phishy for that matter).
Last but not least is Engineering, which is responsible for all application based problems.
Each of these departments, as well as our CTO, is in constant communication with one another–and with me. You may wonder what a GC has to do with any of the foregoing. Well, everything. This is especially true in a smaller company, where the General Counsel (GC) is typically the CSO for purposes of insurance and Board communications. Cyber security is now a board level issue due to the frequency and potential gravity of modern cyber attacks. As such, a GC should have a very clear understanding of each and every device and program used to keep the bad guys out. A lot of questions need to be asked. Its General Counsel's duty to make sure the company is staying, or at least trying to stay, one step ahead of the hackers. I am in constant communication with our Tech Ops, Trust & Safety, Engineering and our CTO. I actually consider them friends in addition to co-workers, quite often having lunch with them. I have their cell numbers. I also spend considerable time on the internet keeping myself up to date with the latest developments in the field so I can engage in intelligent colloquy with my people to assure we remain at the forefront of cyber protection.
Yet in spite of what you have in place, you'd be naive to believe you were invincible. We face an aggressive and relentless foe–and if they get through we face the legal fallout. So if despite all your cyber-security measures your company is hit, the GC must be the one who coordinates with all relevant departments and controls the procedures to immediately identify and mitigate the threat. A detailed recovery plan should be in place and should be rehearsed. The contents of this plan are an extensive topic for another discussion but they rest on the cornerstone that the GC must be involved as early as possible—and to the fullest extent possible. This is not only to afford maximum protection to the company under the attorney client and attorney work product privileges, but to assiduously address the myriad issues that arise separate and apart from the actual attack. For example, General Counsel should immediately formulate the appropriate press release and thereafter coordinate with PR, either in house or outside, to address all media inquiries. Once the extent of the attack has been ascertained, the GC is the one who prepares the requisite consumer notification and disclosures to the various agencies, if the disclosure requirements are triggered. It's General Counsel's duty to know the rapidly developing law in these areas, and the law varies by state. Of course, in addition to the bad press and potential reputation damage, litigation and governmental proceedings (attorneys general, FTC, etc.) are always looming on the horizon. General Counsel's job is to proactively diffuse these potential landmines to the fullest extent possible. And it will be the GC's tail on the line before the Board in the event the cyber protection is not up to snuff or an attack is thereafter not handled properly.
There is so much more, but suffice it to say that General Counsel is a critical and integral part of a company's cyber-security envelope. The GC has virtually everything to do with cyber-security. Better make sure yours is on top of it!
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There are very few building types that will not benefit from the use of some form of large scale water saving technology and we at Aquality have been involved in designing systems for virtually every type of building imaginable.
With such a wide variety of building types and uses, Aquality would look at each project individually and work with the designer or contractor to provide the most cost effective system to meet the specific requirements of the building.
Rainwater Harvesting would generally be the first technology to be investigated in the commercial sector as many of these types of buildings will produce enough water from the roof alone to make the technology a viable alternative to mains water supply only.
However, the ever more popular use of Greywater Recycling technology (often combined with Rainwater Harvesting) will often be a very cost effective long term strategy in buildings that will produce a larger than normal quantity of Greywater (from baths, showers and wash basins) thus greatly minimizing the quantity of mains water taken to carry out tasks such as Toilet Flushing, Irrigation and, in the case of some factories, water for process requirements that do not require a potable standard water.
Rainwater Harvesting & Greywater Recycling will greatly reduce the building's overall water cost throughout it's lifetime.
Aquality have always been at the leading edge in water conservation and have produced mechanical Rainwater Harvesting and Greywater Recycling technology that will provide the building with the water reduction that it requires but, at the same time, will reduce the energy consumption often associated with this technology to a point where we can often demonstrate that the use of Recycled Rainwater or Greywater will be less energy consuming than taking the same quantity of water from the building's mainswater supply.
We have worked with the biggest names in Construction and Building Services and have assisted Councils and Corporate clients with saving millions of litres of expensive mains water in their new build and retrofit projects.
The latest development is to integrate attenuation into the design because new technologies (Aqua-Storm Control) allow to make use of these large, normally unused, structures. This creates significant cost savings for the client as attenuation system are usually mandatory and therefore already a sunk cost.


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Almost two years ago, The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ali Khamenei has acknowledged the failure of the demographic policies which were adopted by the Islamic Republic regime over the past three decades. He called on the government for an immediate freeze for all programs related to family planning and draft alternative laws that encourage early marriage and having children. The new approach faced harsh criticism from opposition, while the government of President Hasan Rouhani has announced late July 2014 a comprehensive plan for the new Iranian demographic policy based on 14 pillars. Those pillars were included in a decree issued by Khamenei to the heads of the three branches of power. It is clear that the objectives of the new Iranian demographic policy have surpassed the strategic, economic, social and cultural aspects to touch upon sectarian and geostrategic dimensions the impact of which will mature in the coming decades. The paper clarifies the most important elements of the Iranian demographic problem, the sectarian dimension for this strategic shift in Iran and its possible impact inside and outside the country.
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The official weigh-ins for "Bellator MMA: Sandro vs. Khasbulaev" took place Wednesday in California.
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By Mikael Ricknäs, Macworld OCT 11, 2010 2:50 am PDT
Nokia has started shipping the C7, its second smartphone based on the Symbian 3 operating system, it said Monday.
Nokia said it has started shipping the C7, its second smartphone based on the Symbian 3 operating system.
At about €335 (US$470) before taxes and subsidies, the C7 will be slightly cheaper than its big brother, the N8. In Nokia's Finnish Web store the difference between the two smartphones is €90.
The C7 may be cheaper, but it still has the N8 beaten in some respects. For example, it is thinner and lighter, and it comes with an AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) display, compared to the standard touchscreen display on the N8. Both displays measure 3.5 inches and have a 640 x 360 pixel resolution, according to Nokia.
However, the N8 comes with more built-in storage—16GB versus 8GB—and a 12-megapixel camera. Buyers of the C7 will have to make do with an 8-megapixel camera.
The C7's better looks could give it an edge over the N8, according to Geoff Blaber, analyst at CCS Insight.
Still, the C7 is fairly expensive phone and like the N8 will face heavy competition from the iPhone 4 and a growing number of Android-based smartphones, according to Blaber. The similarities between the C7 and N8 will also inevitably lead to some "cannibalization," of one another's sales, he said.
It took Nokia longer that it expected to develop its first phone based on Symbian 3. The C7, however, has started shipping well before the end-of-year deadline Nokia set when the smartphone was announced in September.
The fact that Nokia now has ironed out a lot the bugs in Symbian 3 has helped the company pick up the roll-out pace, according to Blaber. Its current strategy of launching fewer phones should make it easier to get phones out the door, he said.
Nokia still has two more Symbian 3-based smartphones to start shipping before the end of the year, the enterprise-centric E7 and the C6-01, which will be the cheapest of the four smartphones at €260.


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Japan obsessed with cleanliness Phobia: In a nation where the word for "beautiful" also means "clean," the populace is exceptionally hygiene-conscious and anything touted as anti-bacterial will sell.
By LOS ANGELES TIMES
TOKYO — TOKYO -- The most fastidious country in the world is becoming even more hygiene-obsessed.
Consider the anti-bacterial calculator, on whose keypad microbes will not multiply. A tsunami-sized wave of consumer interest has created a multibillion-dollar market for such products, which include everything from sheets and towels to watchbands, staplers and ATM cards.
The hyper-clean calculators -- impregnated with a germ-killing agent -- come from Casio, which intended to market them to restaurants and hospitals. But many of the buyers turn out to be "office ladies" who object to their bosses touching their office equipment.
Japan has long placed a cultural premium on cleanliness, a legacy of the ancient Shinto religion's emphasis on ritual purification.
"Before Japanese pray for something very important, they wash the body and dress in a new white kimono," says sociologist Takahiko Furuta of Aomori University in northern Japan.
The Japanese word "kirei" means both "clean" and "beautiful." To be unclean -- or merely slovenly -- is considered a moral transgression.
But over the past decade, young Japanese have become exceptionally hygiene-conscious -- and intolerant of anyone who isn't.
Schoolyard bullies brand their victims "bacteria." Many teen-age girls refuse to allow their clothing to be washed with their fathers', claiming that dear old Dad is dirty.
Stodgy business newspapers report on the swelling ranks of young Lady Macbeths who wash their hands incessantly, are afraid to use their office restrooms and are obsessed with eliminating odors.
"The Tokyo environment has become extremely artificial, and people have begun to view their bodies as artificial," Furuta says.
"This is not an illness; it's a value system shared by an entire generation."
"I just get the feeling that things are dirty," says Rui Konishi, 17, who owns an anti-bacterial toothbrush and socks, hairbrush and towel, uses an anti-bacterial spray to keep her shoes from smelling, wipes her possessions with anti-bacterial wet tissues, and feels the need to wash her hands immediately after touching escalator handles or subway straps.
Germ-killing products "make me feel relieved," she says.
The traditional Japanese equation of cleanliness with godliness has been reinforced by a continuing nationwide food-poisoning epidemic that has killed 12 people and hospitalized hundreds, mostly children poisoned by school lunches.
But the popularity of anti-bacterial products was well established long before the food poisoning scare led to a run on soaps, bleaches and disinfectants. The desire for heightened hygiene seems to span all of Japanese society, but it is particularly marked among young people.
Some date the cleanliness craze to the 1987 launch of a brand of men's dress socks called Commuting Comfort. Woven with an anti-bacterial thread, the socks claim to provide an inhospitable climate for the fungi that cause athlete's foot and for other malodorous microbes.
Smelling feet cause particular social discomfort in a nation where people remove their shoes before entering homes, some restaurants and many other buildings. The socks became an overnight best seller and are a staple of men's sock counters. There are plenty of imitators, including a Calvin Klein brand of anti-bacterial athletic socks.
For the truly germ-ophobic consumer, there are anti-bacterial pajamas, stockings and girdles, pens and notebooks, flutes and piano keys, computer keyboards, drinking glasses, sinks and toilets. Anxious parents can buy their children anti-bacterial toys and treated sand for more sanitary sandboxes.
"If you put the word 'anti-bacterial' on it, you can sell anything," says Tokyo pharmacist Yoshihiro Kagiya.
You can charge more, too.
"In general, 100 yen worth of product" -- about $10 -- "can be made anti-bacterial for 1 yen," by adding various plant-based substances such as cedar, horseradish or green tea, says Kazuhisa Tone, author of an anti-bacterial marketing report for Yamaichi Securities' Economic Research Center.
But the cachet of a "clean" product allows manufacturers to recoup those costs many times over.
Earlier this year, Toyota announced that three popular car models will have anti-bacterial steering wheels and other interior parts. Matsushita introduced what it touts as the world's first anti-bacterial clothes dryer. Hitachi has turned its talents to money-laundering of a literal kind, with an automated teller machine that sterilizes and irons yen notes before dispensing them.
Hitachi did not set out to sanitize the money; its engineers were trying to solve the problem of crumpled bills, which tended to jam machines, a company spokesman says. They solved the problem by running the bills through rollers heated to 392 degrees -- any hotter would singe paper money -- and discovered that the process also killed bacteria.
Another research-and-development brain behind the boom is Shinagawa Fuel Co., Japan's leading manufacturer of zeolites. Its product, a fine white anti-microbial powder called Zeomic, can be mixed into plastics, textiles, resins or coatings and retains its germ-killing properties even at high temperatures.
Meanwhile, changing attitudes toward cleanliness are altering even the hallowed tradition of the Japanese bath.
People used to gather at public baths in the evening for a scrub followed by a long, companionable soak. But now that even the poorest homes have baths, public tubs are seen as unsanitary, and bathhouses are becoming extinct. The communal bathing tradition appears to be fading even among families.
"Dad went in first, then the boys, then the girls and then the mother, and when she was through, she would clean the tub. That's how it used to be when I was a kid," says Toru Matsuyama, a spokesman for Nippon Lever Co.
But times have changed. Now Matsuyama is the one who scrubs his family bathtub. And many girls and young women refuse to enter water in which their fathers have steeped.
"It's not that the father is dirty; it's that he's a stranger in the house," says Inada Nada, Japan's pre-eminent child psychologist.
People tend to harbor the unconscious belief that anyone they dislike is unclean -- a father viewed as an outsider because he is never home, an older boss seen as "slimy," or a member of a despised ethnic group, Nada says.
The Japanese concepts of "yogore," or dirtiness, and "kegare," a spiritual taint or defilement, tend to merge in people's minds.
Fear of contamination has been accentuated by fear of AIDS, by hospital outbreaks of sometimes fatal infections caused by an antibiotic-resistant staphylococcal bacteria, by the food-poisoning epidemic that public health officials have been agonizingly slow to trace, and by the Aum Supreme Truth cult's poison gas attack on the Tokyo subway last year.
Says Nada: "When people don't trust each other, all human contact is uncomfortable -- and that's the kind of age we're living in."
Pub Date: 12/11/96


Hi all I am new to the forum but have been checking them out for a while.
I am heading to Aruba from Philadelphia in a couple weeks and leaving the kids behind. I am going to need to be in contact with them several times during my visit so am trying to figure out the cell phone deals. I spoke with my provider verizon and they have coverage there but it will be $1.99 a minute. I have looked at some of the rental companies and looks too good to be true. Do I really just pay $50 get a rental phone and 84 minutes and not have to pay anything else?
Could someone please let me know what I am missing on these deals.
You're not missing anything. Cell phone rental on Aruba is really inexpensive, and the way to go, and if I didn't own an Aruba cell, I'd rent in a second.
I, too, am leaving from Philly in a few weeks!
thank you Elaine for the info! I will be ordering a phone today!
this is our first trip and I am so excited. Just trying to get the last few thing in order.
Valerie, you're most welcome... make sure to come back and tell us about your trip. We love hearing from newbies.
You and I don't live too far from eachother!!
>>> "Could someone please let me know what I am missing on these deals."
---- If someone calls you from the States they would still have to pay per minute what their service charge for that long distance international call.
So I guess you make all the calls would be the way to go.
---- Mine too. I have the free long distance rate for mine(land line) but didn't get the free international rate and don't know what they would charge for a land line call to Aruba.
Last edited by TomFrederick; Tuesday, January 4th, 2011 at 12:31 PM.
Tom, with Verizon, you can make the call from Aruba but it will still cost $1.99 a minute even if you have the "free" internatioinal calling feature.
I was trying to say that if renting a cell phone in Aruba that price would not cover calls from people in the States calling the cell phone in Aruba. The person in the States would still get charged a long distance charge on their home phone bill.
Those 84 free minutes or whatever any other cell phone people in Aruba give you are not for calls from the States. The people in the States still get charged if they call you in Aruba. So make all calls from Aruba to the States to get the best deal if using an ARUBAN CELL PHONE with free minutes.
Last edited by TomFrederick; Tuesday, January 4th, 2011 at 04:54 PM.
We don't have to call home on a regular basis.
Casa Del Mar sells a phone card in the cologne shop. I think it was 120 minutes for $10.
You call a local number in Aruba to connect to the USA.
Our resort charges for local calls...like 50 cents every 3 minutes.
Putting the two costs together, it wound up being something like 25 cents a minute.
You might investigate something like this.
(Because of a medical emergency, we did this in September 2009).
I had posted this before, maybe it will help.
Like Izzy said, you'll need portable router for the room connection. I bring a credit card size D-link router and that does the trick.
I'm not sure if this is earth shattering news, but during our last trip we discovered the best and least expensive way to call home. I used to stay in contact with home using Skype connecting through my I-phone to the other party when they connected to Skype (application to application) great connection with no delay. The only drawback was both parties had to be signed into skype so we had to do a call/hang up as a signal. (AT&T charges when you do that, not good).
This year I added $10 to my Skype account so I would be able to connect through the Wifi but instead of connecting through the app I could dial phone numbers directly. Looking at their cost charts I figured it would be around .25/min to call home. So I made my first call directly to my son's cell, it worked perfect, same great connection. We talked for around 10 minutes. I figured that would be around $2.50, I checked my account information after the call and my balance was $9.70, only .30 for 10 minutes(actually .023/min). Then it dawned on me, Skype doesn't know where you're at (ip wise) so it thinks you are calling the US from the US since that is where your home number is. After that we stayed in touch with everyone almost every day and came home with around $6.00 remaining in the account.
PS you can also set up Skype to show your cell# as the caller ID, in your account. That way people won't ignore the CID when it shows 'unknown caller'.
Make some time to lose track of.
Breath in, Breath out, Move on.
I was not able to connect to Netflix and US TV networks in September.
Got back messages that said things like "we recognize you are outside the US and its territories" and/or "our license does not cover foreign countries".
If I begin to understand, I guess Skype is different.
exactly, john. skype works both computer to computer and computer to cell or landline in the states. it costs next to nothing. obviously, you aren't taking your computer to the beach so if you need to 'be one with' your cell phone it won't be what you need but if you want to keep in touch with home it is a great way to do it. if you are calling computer to computer it is free. i talk to my daughter in india all the time. with our built in webcams we get to chat and see each other. sunday we spent nearly an hour chatting. no way i could afford that with long distance rates.
During the year I use Skype to call my friends in Aruba on their landlines and cells. It's wonderful!
Some day I will get around to Skype - it seems the best way to go. However, to get back to cell phone use in Aruba. Yes, the "deal" is for you calling the states from Aruba. No deal for those calling from states to you. But if my family absolutely had to reach us, they could call our Aruban cell and we would just call them right back. So they would only pay for the initial minute or so. Still a very good deal.
Of course, the ideal situation is no one having to call you on vacation. We really just have one because of elderly parents, etc. and the chance of emergency only! Most times, the only times we use our Aruban cell is to call local friends, and MOST important, to make dinner reservations without having to leave the beach or pool, lol.
Then back to the answer -- a rented cell is fairly cheap.
Looks like I forgot to mention that I couldn't just take my cell to the beach and call hone for $.023/min I had to be in the room and my I-phone had to be connected to the wireless router then sign into Skype through the APP.
I sure hope I didn't make it sound like there was an easier way. If you need to have instant contact with home and for them to call you anytime, then renting the cell phone is the way to go.
chip, for years i used only skype or emails. i love skype. however, 3 or 4 years ago, visit aruba gave me a phone to use on aruba. i must say it makes life very easy. would i rent a phone if mine broke? maybe i would because it is worth it to me for all of the on island calls i make. for a once a day phone call to the states, i'm all for that card or skype.
I invested about $90 when I bought a cell at Setar about 8 years ago before I knew anything about Skype. I wanted to be able to call home frequently because of family health issues, and I used it to call friends and restaurants on the island. My phone doesn't owe me a penny, and in fact, a friend (I hope) got me a new one this year that's easier to use since mine's really outdated.
Although I use Skype for anything work related that I may need to do, and video chatting with my daughter computer to computer,after all these years, I'm so used to having a cell that I'd be lost without it.
We also bought a cell phone from Setar some years ago. It has been a great investment.
We made a presentation on this very topic and I copy this for you to look at.
As stated in the small piece, we would love to have your business, but it is so much more important that you, the visitor, is happy with the choices you make. Hope that this helps. Take note it is copied and pasted so some of the indents are off.
•	Cell phone carriers make money when you call and not on the hardware they sell.
•	While they pretend to be, carriers are not all that different from each other.
•	Carriers have agreements with other carriers not located in their coverage area or "range".
•	Cell phone carriers have huge expenses with equally as high returns.
•	Cell phone expenses in proportion to other family expenses are out of balance.
•	While many homes will not have a standard land line, almost all will have cell phones.
o	More and more new homes are not having phones installed – ERGO the focus on Cell phones by users and carriers.
•	Recent studies are showing that the dependence on cell phones has grown to the point that many users are uncomfortable not having one in their hand during most waking hours and walk with their cell phone at all times.
Roaming is by far (SATPHONES EXCLUDED) the most expensive way to go. It involves the simultaneous use of multiple carriers and satellites to accomplish a single calling task. Each one of those carriers is paid proportionately for their involvement in the use and for their offered services.
While available with almost all carriers, to date, "Roaming" is not a standard service. Roaming is considered a special service. Like any special service, the carrier takes advantage of the business opportunity by charging extra thus making "Roaming" the most lucrative calling service that carriers offer. Due to this excellent business opportunity, it is not anticipated that Roaming will be done away with soon.
•	Multiple associates know your number.
On the other hand, there are a growing number of travelers that are returning to massive phone bills due to "Roaming". In some cases, these bills can the rates can be as high as four times the normal calling rate.
Up until recently, I roamed when travelling however; I found that the bills were becoming outlandish. My reason for roaming was the stored information. Now I just write down the most important numbers and keep them on a small sheet in my wallet. It solved my problem big time and also allowed me to focus more on my vacation and not on answering calls I did not initiate to begin with.
Following are two examples of real bills (thank god not mine). One is in the $7,000 range. My personal ROAMING bill was about $450.00 for three days.
The conclusion seems to be that: If you plan on travelling and know that you will be using your phone to make INTERNATIONAL CALLS, consider rentals.
SALINITY – Salt is in the Aruba air constantly affecting all aspects of how we handle electronic equipment. An afternoon by the ocean can damage your cell phone. The accidental dip in the water with your phone surely means you will be getting a new cell phone. At FASTPHONE we treat our phones especially to deal with this salinity and air moisture.
CHLORINE – Pool side chlorine vapors can be as hazardous as salinity. Placing a cell phone close to the pool so you can hear the rings is one of the bigger problems. Lastly, jumping out of the pool and answering a call with chlorine wet hands will eventually destroy a phone and certainly start to cause behavior problems.
SAND – Even one grain of sand under the key pad area can have disastrous effects on the cell phone. As you use the cell, that grain under the key pad will grind away at your contact points and the physical damage as well as the salinity released will show its effects when you're back home.
In some cases, visitors feel that placing a cell phone in a ZIP-LOCK bag is a solution. While a clever thing to do, it is definitely not a solution. What we have seen is that the ability to hear the caller is poor and taking the cell phone out with wet hands goes back to the water damage issue.
This culprit is responsible for more "mid-week" rentals than we can remember. Lying by the pool or in the sand and handling your cell phone with hands that have recently been in contact with Sun Tan Lotion is also a killer. There is no need to discuss what this does to the key pad.
NOTE: After each rental, FAST PHONES pulls apart and sanitizes each cell phone and when we do - very seldom do we not find sand or the start of salinity or chlorine damage.
•	What is the condition of the cell phones?
•	Is the airtime new airtime or transferred left over minutes from other customers?
•	Transferred (left-over) minutes have a shorter life time and can run out on you while you still have what seems like plenty of minutes.
•	Choose a company that focuses on cell phone rentals and rents cell phones on purpose and not as a sideline.
Following is a list of mail addresses we have taken off the internet that may be helpful to you. Obviously we would love to be the one you do business with however you should check all possibilities.
Aruba Business Services - Chapeau Aruba N.V.
We purposely do not address the issue of SKYPE or other computer related voice products since these are not comparable (good or bad) with the mobile hand-held unit. They are a different animal all together that serves a similar purpose.
Fast Phone is in hopes that this information has been helpful to you and will assist you in the making of your decision on "IF" you will rent and "HOW" to evaluate your choices.


This makes me consider music in dystopias. Punk bands reference dystopias, but can you think of any dystopias that reference punk? Neuromancer comes to mind because the characters seem punk to me, and yet Gibson makes no musical references. In fact, I fail to think of any dystopian novel when music plays a role; surely art and music wouldn't end in a dystopian world; surely punks would still fill with discontent and rebellion. Where are they all hiding?
Ha, good point and you actually just gave me a very good idea for the dystopian novel that I am writing! Art, especially music, definitely cannot exist as we know it in a dystopian world because it arouses too many emotions and encourages a dangerous type of individualism. It's the reason Orwell's Amplfeforth (minor character — a poet) is jailed in 1984 a world that seeks to make Shakespearian humanity obsolete through the creation of the Newspeak language. In Zamyatin's We, there are poets, but their job is to write poetry that lauds the system.


Creating a sense of drama in a portrait does not need be a difficult task as long as you employ the right tools and techniques. As opposed to the traditional headshot, dramatic portraiture does not follow any prescribed formula.
This lesson demonstrates how to employ a single Starlite with a 3-foot OctoDome NXT to create this moody image of a saxophone player. It then shows how adding a second Starlite head further increases the range of possibilities in lighting a portrait like this.
To start things off, we positioned our main light, a Starlite OctoDome nxt Kit, at a 45° angle and to the left of the subject.
We positioned the light parallel to the subject plane, being careful to spread an equal amount of light from the top of the model's head all the way down to the bottom of the saxophone. The background was a textured muslin backdrop supported with a ProDuty Backdrop Support Kit.
After reviewing our first result, we knew that we were off to a good start. The main light was soft, yet directional, and the 3-foot OctoDome NXT was just large enough to spread the light evenly from the top edge to the bottom edge of the frame. We also thought the deep blue color in the background helped to add to the jazz theme.
Next, we decided to experiment by creating some negative fill on the opposite side of the subject. Negative fill refers to using black material to absorb light from the subject instead of using a white of silver material to reflect light back.
Here, we used a 39×72″ LitePanel Kit fitted with Black/White fabric. We positioned our LitePanel with the black side facing out as close as possible to the model on the opposite side from the main light.
In the result, we can see that the black LitePanel made a very subtle difference. Notice that the shadow side of the subject is a bit darker and that many of the specular highlights on the right side of the saxophone are gone.
Negative fill is a common technique in portrait lighting when the goal is to achieve a dramatic image by using deep shadows. In this case, the result was interesting, but not quite what we were after.
We could have taken this image further in same direction by using carefully placed reflectors to maintain the deep shadows, while accentuating the important parts of the brass instrument. But instead, we decided to go a different route. For the next shot we simply flipped the fabric on the LitePanel so that the white side was facing the subject.
By using the white fabric, we added a reflected fill light to the shadow side of the subject. In the result, we can see that the white LitePanel fabric was effective in adding light to the model's face, as well as in lighting the right side of the saxophone.
Here, the saxophone had a long white reflection on the right side, which separated it from the dark background. This result was getting much closer to what we were after. In fact, this was about as far as we could take this shot using only one light.
With our single light source and reflector positioned just right, we decided that we could take this shot a step further by adding a hair light.
For the next shot, we set up a 500-Watt Starlite with small Silver HalfDome on a Boom and positioned it directly above and slightly behind the model's head.
When positioning a hair light, it's important to pay close attention to how it affects the overall shot. Typically, the goal is to light the hair and shoulders, but not to have any light spilling onto the face.
The hair light worked nicely to separate the model's head from the background and to create a greater sense of depth in this portrait. Notice how the long and narrow shape of the small HalfDome spread the light evenly across both shoulders and even reached the mouthpiece of the saxophone.
Shown below is a side-by-side comparison of the four results we've demonstrated so far.
First, we set up the main light at a 45° angle to the subject.
Next, we tried using a black LitePanel to create negative fill on the opposite side.
Then, we replaced the black fabric on the LitePanel with white fabric to reflect some light into the shadows.
Finally, we added a second Starlite with a small HalfDome, attached to a boom for lighting the hair, shoulders, and top portion of the saxophone.
The results above are just one example of what can be achieved using two Starlites and a reflector. Next, we will explore an alternative lighting solution using more or less the same setup. Stylistically, the previous shot might be considered somewhat on the traditional side of portrait lighting. In the next sequence of lighting setups, our goal was to create a more dramatic lighting style for this musician portrait.
For the next series of shots, we decided to start from scratch and go back to our very first main light setup. Shown here is the same setup we used for the first shot in this lesson.
And, here is the same result that we obtained earlier using a StarLite OctoDome nxt Kit positioned as our main light at 45° to the subject.
Next, we decided to use our LitePanel, this time fitted with white/translucent fabric to create extra diffusion for the main light. Keeping the position of the main light unaltered, we simply placed our translucent LitePanel directly in front of the SoftBox.
By adding more diffusion to the main light, we were able to soften the light more and reduce some of the bright specular highlights on the highly reflective surfaces of the saxophone.
As you can see from the result, the extra layer of diffusion significantly improved the quality of light on the saxophone. Notice the long, graduated reflection on the brass surface of the saxophone. This is a major improvement over the sharp specular highlights we were getting in our previous shot. Also, note that the softer light helps to eliminate some of the bright highlights on the model's forehead, making for a more flattering portrait light.
With our main light in place and modified to our liking, our next step was to add some style to this portrait by using a rim lighting technique. To do this, we set up a 500-Watt StarLite with a small SilverDome on a Background LiteStand and positioned it about five feet to the right and behind the subject.
We aimed the light at model's head and shoulder and made sure that some of the light was reaching the right edge of the saxophone. In this result, you can see the effect of the rim light by itself. When working with multiple lights, it's important to test each light individually to see exactly what each light is doing. In this example, we can see that the rim light was positioned to give us just the right amount of light around the right edge of the model and the instrument.
Upon closer inspection, we noticed that some of the rim light was spilling onto the model's nose. Normally, this would be a distracting element in a traditional portrait. However, in this case we thought it was appropriate. Had we moved the light back slightly to prevent it from spilling onto the nose, we would have lost much of the light that was reaching the edge of the saxophone. We decided that little bit of spill actually worked for the dramatic look we were after.
The main point here is that there are no rules in lighting, only guidelines. Often, good lighting comes down to making decisions based upon experience and experimentation. Here is the result using the main light with extra diffusion together with the rim light.
Shown below is a side-by-side comparison of the three shots we took to arrive at the previous result.
Then, we added a rim light using a 500-Watt Starlite with a Small SilverDome.
To add the final touch to this dramatic portrait, we decided to tone down the background by adding Accessory Grids to both the main and rim lights.
Our goal here was to narrow the spread of both lights in order to minimize the amount of light spilling onto the background. In our final result, you can see the narrowing effect of both lights. In this shot, notice how the background is significantly darker. We felt that this made for a more dramatic, more stylistic interpretation of the portrait.
As mentioned above, successful portrait lighting begins with having the right tools and employing the appropriate techniques to achieve the look you're after. More often than not, a small adjustment or modification to the lighting can make a huge difference in the resulting image.
This lesson is just one example of how a basic two light setup can be fine tuned to create a variety of results based on your own taste. Remember to experiment with your lighting, and above all, have fun in the process!


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Kawhi's Inspiring Words To His Teammates During Their Game 6 Huddle Will Make You Love Him Even More
Kawhi Leonard's game advice is what all of us need to hear.
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Kawhi Leonard was the hero that the Raptors needed on and off the court during the team's Game 6 match-up against the Bucks. According to The Score, Kawhi Leonard shared a rather touching moment with his teammates telling them to "enjoy the moment" during a huddle in the middle of the Raptors thrilling 26-3 second-half scoring run. The team's impressive second half ultimately led them to victory on Saturday and gave the franchise its first chance in history to compete in the NBA Finals.
"The one thing Kawhi really stressed to us was just to enjoy it," Raptor Norman Powell said, according to ESPN's Kevin Arnovitz. "Don't get too out of character, just enjoy the moment and continue to go out there and just lay it on the floor. So, it was an amazing feeling just to be able to battle and chip away at it."
As he always does, Kawhi Leonard gave a stellar performance during Game 6. But, perhaps the most sensational Kawhi moment was his jaw-dropping one-handed dunk over Giannis Antetokounmpo in the fourth quarter. It brought the house down and reminded everyone of what a talented athlete he truly is.
Kawhi's pep talk during the team's Game 6 huddle gave us a little peek into the player's personality. The famously level-headed player even cracked a small smile as he and his teammates basked in the glory of their victory. When it was time to give credit where credit was due, Kawhi really did appear to be bonding with his teammates.
Leonard, a true sportsman, waved off praise from team president Masai Ujiri, who labelled him the best player in the league during his remarks at the post-game trophy ceremony.
"I don't really judge my game like that. I'm more of a team aspect, see what my team is doing," Leonard said, according to CBC. "I just want to win. I don't care about being the best player. I want to be the best team. I've always said that."
So, it seems that Leonard isn't focused on his own accomplishments but rather on the Raptors as a whole. Does that mean he's sticking around? Only time will tell.