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Sam Veasna Center for Wildlife Conservation
Sep 1, 2010 | Cambodia, Simon and Baker Travel Review | 0 comments
I will recommend this tour to friends wishing to experience birding and visit a nature reserve near Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Overall Impression After exploring the central area of Siem Reap and enjoying visits to several of the world famous Angkor Temples that draw millions of visitors to Cambodia every year, I was eager to see a little of the country off the beaten path. When I heard that there was a conservation area within easy reach of Siem Reap (90 minutes) I jumped at the opportunity even though it was birding low season. I went on a Sam Veasna Center for Wildlife Conservation Bird Reserve and Floating Village Day Trip.
The daylong visit to the Tonle Sap Lake, classified in 1997 by the UNESCO as a natural wonder, the 23,000 hectare Prek Toal Bird Preserve and the nearby village of Prek Toal, one of 170 floating villages on the lake, was interesting and fun although the migratory birds had not yet arrived. The lake, fed by the 15,000 year old Tonle Sap and Mekong rivers, is the nineteenth largest lake in the world according to my guide. Although the densely populated lake area is the home and source of income for an estimated three million Cambodians and Vietnamese refugees scattered across the hundreds of floating and lake fronting villages, other than at the departure dock and when we were in the village area, all we saw was nature and birds soaring overhead.
While making our way to the village of Prek Toal in a 10-meter long wood motorboat we saw some birdlife and part of the core bird reserve flooded forest where we climbed atop a tree canopy observation platform for a panoramic view. At the village, located at the mouth of the Sangke River, we had locally prepared lunch at a family floating house while we watched a sun shower in dry comfort. After lunch, a young villager showed us around the area in a shallow rowboat.
What I enjoyed about the day tour was the beautiful unspoiled scenery, friendly guides and welcoming locals, and the opportunity to see more than 30 birds. I enjoyed the tasty lunch prepared especially for foreign visitors' sensitive stomachs and the precarious yet fun rowboat ride around the Prek Toal floating village. The next time I have an opportunity to visit Cambodia I hope to explore some of the other Sam Veasna Center reserves. I will recommend this tour to friends wishing to experience birding and visit a nature reserve near Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Established The Center was started in 2003 and registered in October 2006.
Handicapped Access The Center welcomed handicapped visitors although the staff clarified that visitors should keep in mind the practical issues of traveling to remote locations. Handicapped access was dependent on the level of disability of the travelers and the location of site. An example of the center's capabilities, according to a spokesperson, is that the former Wildlife Conservation Society Asia director who has traveled to all the Center sites is paraplegic.
Location The Center main office is in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Managed The Center was managed by Nick Butler, coordinator, Sam Veasna Center for Wildlife Conservation, with the support of a board of directors which was chaired by Mark Gately, country director, Wildlife Conservation Society, and other members of the board: Ashish John, Technical Advisior, WCS, Hong Chamnan, Project Manager, WCS, Im Sokrithy, Director, Apsara (the Cambodian Temple Super Ministry) and Van Sophanna, director, Forestry Administration.
Size The Center, with the support of seven employees and nine guides, provided tours to eight Wildlife Conservation Society sites in Cambodia covering tens of thousands of hectares, representing a significant percentage of Cambodia's remaining wilderness.
Description The four year old conservation non profit organization was named after Sam Veasna, a pioneering Cambodian naturalist who discovered breeding populations of the critically endangered species of birds that Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) protects and Sam Veasna Center takes visitors to see. Sam Veasna died in 1999 of malaria after being administered fake drugs. The Center, according to a spokesperson, was built in his honor by his friends and peers from WCS so that his work in conserving Cambodia's natural heritage could continue. The Center is based in a house built by Sam Veasna's friends when he died and donated to his widow.
The only way to visit the Wildlife Conservation Society Cambodian conservation sites was by taking a tour from the Sam Veasna Center. The Center donated any profit made from eco-tourism towards the direct costs of conservation by WCS to the sites, according to the spokesperson. The Sam Veasna Center mission was "Sustaining Cambodian Wildlife and Communities through Eco-tourism." At the time of my visit, the Center was supporting the WCS ranger program at Prek Toal and Ang Trapaeng Tmor.
The Center organized day trips around Siem Reap and itineraries to eight Wildlife Conservation Society conservation sites across Cambodia chosen for their unique biodiversity in particular for their bird life. The Center, located in Siem Reap had a small library specializing in Cambodian natural history. Only 300 visitors annually reached the eight reserves, including 150 that traveled to the lake area and its seasonal flooded forest, one of only two such ecosystems in the world.
In past years the Center trained the local communities adjacent to the sites where they offer tours in the provision of eco-tourist services (food preparation, accommodations, lodge management, and local guiding) so they can earn a sustainable living linked to conservation. The Center also organized environmental education for local orphanages and schools. It started a program of environmental education with a local orphanage Green Gecko (greengeckoproject.org).
Birds We Saw-Heard Comb Duck, Green-billed Malkoha, Lesser Coucal, Greater Coucal, Blue-tailed Bee-eater, Asian Palm Swift, Red- collared Dove, Oriental Pratincole, Wiskered Tern, Brahminy Kite, Oriental Darter, Little Cormorant, Indian Cormorant, Little Egret, Intermediate Egret, Pond Heron, Little Heron, Common Iora, Brown Shrike, Southern-jungle Crow, Pied Fantail, Oriental Magpie-robin, Common Myna, White-vented Myna, Barn Swallow, Yellow-vented Bulbul, Dark-necked Tailorbird, Pin-striped Tit-babbler, Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker, Olive-backed Sunbird, Eurasian sparrow, Gray-headed Fish Eagle, and Plain Prinia.
Tours In addition to the day trip to the Prek Toal Bird Reserve I went on there were several options available. Day trips: Phnom Khulen bird watching, animal rescue and Kbal Spean river carvings about one hour away from Siem Reap; Ang Trapeng Tmor Sarus Crane Reserve and Banteay Chma Temple 120 kilometers away or about a two hour drive from the city (day trip and/or overnight); Tmatboey Ibis site 160 kilometers or about three hours by car requiring a minimum two night stay although three nights were recommended; Chhep Vulture Restaurant 200 kilometers away or six hours by car requiring a minimum two night stay (usually included with Tmatboey); Seima Protected Forest in Mondulkiri for Black-shanked Douc monkey and mixed evergreen specialists (birds) sightings about 350 kilometers and eight hours by car (minimum trip two nights); and Kratie for Irrawaddi Dolphin and riverine specialists 350 kilometers and eight hours away by car (minimum stay is one night, usually included with Siema Protected Forest). Some tours included a stop at a number of sites near Kompong Thom in the Tonle Sap Lake floodplain to see the Bengal Florican, a critically endangered member of the Bustard family, en route to Seima and Kratie or on the return from Tmatboey and the Vulture Restaurant.
Other In 2009, the Center was recognized by the Cambodian Minister of Environment as an outstanding example of Community Based Eco-Tourism. The lake water we saw during the tour was clean except near the villages where it was murky.
Date Of Visit September 2010
Would You Visit This Attraction Again? Yes
Near Angkor Village Hotel,
Watbo Road
+855 (0) 63 963710
http://www.samveasna.org/
mailto:info@samveasna.org


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Pakistan's only female fighter pilot
Pakistan's only female fighter pilot becomes role model for millions of girls.
If border sniping should ever descend into all-out war between India and Pakistan, Ayesha Farooq will be one of the first pilots into the air.
Ayesha Farooq completed her training to become Pakistan's first war-ready female fighter pilot, flying the F7-PG, a Chinese version of the MiG 21 jet Photo: REUTERS
By Rob Crilly, Islamabad
5:13PM BST 01 Sep 2013
She has already made history by becoming the first woman assigned to one of Pakistan's front line dogfighting squadrons. Now at the age of 26 Flight Lieutenant Farooq says she is ready for the ultimate test.
"If war breaks out, I will be flying on my senior's wing as his wingman, well, wingwoman," she said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph at the headquarters of the Pakistan Air Force in Islamabad.
India and Pakistan remain locked in a stand-off over the disputed territory of Kashmir. It has twice since partition been the cause of all-out wars and the dispute is flaring once again. Both sides have claimed they have been attacked with artillery and small arms. Last month, India accused Pakistani forces of killing five of its soldiers, stoking anger among Hindu nationalists of the BJP, although the killings were denied by Islamabad Read more...
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Elinor Otto, 93, in the living room of her home in Long Beach. If she were younger, she jokes, she would look at herself now and wonder, "What's that old bag still doing here?" (Genaro Molina, Los Angeles Times)
Elinor Otto picked up a riveting gun in World War II, joining the wave of women taking what had been men's jobs. These days she's building the C-17.
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Q: How to add an "Item" object to an Object ArrayList in kotlin I have the following class
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On my main activity I have declared this:
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When I try to do this
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The compiler complains about type mismatch (Object -> Item) which is obviously true but since Item is also an Object, shouldn't this be fine? I'm pretty sure you can do this in Java, whats the alternative?
I need the list to be of type object because I have to store different stuff in there, so changing it is not an option.

A: The supertype of all types in Kotlin is Any, not Object.
Other things you can improve in var list: ArrayList<Object> = ArrayList<Object>():

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*make it a val because immutability is preferred

*If you need an explicit type declaration, use the interface List<Any

*use Kotlin's collection builders listOf()
val items: List<Any> = listOf()`

Also, the class definition can be reduced to
class Item(val name: String) //could even be a data class

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Robert Bransby Zachary (1 March 1913 – 1 February 1999) was an English paediatric surgeon who spent the majority of his career at Sheffield Children's Hospital. He was an expert on the treatment of spina bifida and hydrocephalus.

Career
Robert Zachary was born in 1913 in Pudsey to Samuel John Zachary, a dentist, and Priscilla Mary (née Owen). He earned a Bachelor of Pharmacy in 1935 before completing a medical degree at the University of Leeds in 1940. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1943, originally working on orthopaedics at Oxford's Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. He changed specialties in 1945 to paediatric surgery and received a grant to train at Boston Children's Hospital. In 1947 he became a consultant paediatric surgeon at Sheffield Children's Hospital, making him the only consultant paediatric surgeon in Britain who had not been trained by Denis Browne at Great Ormond Street Hospital. He was the first full-time surgeon employed by Sheffield Children's Hospital.

Zachary was an expert on neonatal surgery, and campaigned for all surgery on newborns to be done by specifically trained paediatric surgeons. He developed an international reputation for his expertise on surgical management of spina bifida and hydrocephalus, and founded the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida. With paediatrician John Lorber and orthopaedic surgeon John Sharrard, Zachary showed that if babies with spina bifida were operated on within hours of birth, the survival rate could be improved from less than 10% to almost 90%. Zachary suffered from severe scoliosis and wrote of his connection with spina bifida patients: "In my own small way I feel a common bond with all those who have spina bifida when I say, 'We who were born with a deformed spine...'"

Zachary was a founding member of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons and served as president in 1962–63. He received numerous awards and honorary appointments; these included a personal chair in paediatric surgery at Sheffield University, the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons' Denis Browne Gold Medal (1977), and Knight Commander with Star of the Order of St. Gregory the Great.

Later life
In 1943 Zachary married Faith Alice Stewart, a theatre nurse whom he worked alongside at Leeds General Infirmary; she died from cancer in 1981. After retiring, he moved to Australia and married his second wife, Winifred. Following her death in 1990, he moved to Canada and married his third wife, Janetta. Zachary died in 1999 in Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland.

Selected publications
"Survival and Paralysis in Open Myelomeningocele with Special Reference to the Time of Repair of The Spinal Lesion", co-authored with W. J. W. Sharrard and J. Lorber, Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, February 1967, Vol.9, Issue.s13, pp. 35–50,

References

Further reading
"Selective Treatment", Our Heritage

1913 births
1999 deaths
British paediatric surgeons
Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons
Knights Commander with Star of the Order of St. Gregory the Great
People from Pudsey
Alumni of the University of Leeds
Academics of the University of Sheffield
English surgeons
Medical doctors from Yorkshire

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"You take holiday in Russia. You are crazy…but welcome." The man who uttered this to me in a St. Petersburg café wasn't the only one who thought I was crazy visiting St. Petersburg, Vladimir Putin's home city. Indeed, all but one person in my social circle questioned my sanity.
It was a series of subliminal coincidences which prompted me to visit Russia. A local production of Chekov's The Bear had me hooked and over the subsequent days the passion and musicality of the performers' accents in my head were joined by an unusual amount of Russia-themed songs played on radio stations, most notably Boney M's disco classic Rasputin. I took it all as a sign and began making travel arrangements.
As I had already planned a holiday to Estonia, St. Petersburg was the obvious destination of choice in Russia. Time-rich and cash poor, I could afford to take the six-hour €35 return LuxExpress bus journey from Tallinn, although the inward journey back to Estonia took nine hours when the Russians closed their border for no apparent reason. Lesson: Bring plenty of patience, sandwiches and accept the unexpected.
Given that Russia has eleven time zones, its climate will be equally varied. With the exception of the summer months, St. Petersburg's weather can be anything from cold to frozen-over. Do your research when it comes to appropriate clothing although one item universally embraced by women regardless of weather is make-up. I discovered that there is no such thing as too much lipstick in Russia.
Wearing half the contents of my luggage to keep warm outside the Winter Palace.
It appears the more connected your country is to the US the more expensive your Russian visa will cost, hence why mine cost twice as much as applicants from other EU countries. St. Petersburg was the first place I've visited where I didn't meet a German tourist. I also noticed that the bulk of visitors were from countries with a communist past or present. Lesson: Geopolitics matters.
The visa process is laborious, firstly requiring an invitation letter from your host or accommodation provider. I found the Way to Russia website excellent in explaining the visa process and in providing an invite letter although the instructions of the Russian Embassy of the country you are based in will ultimately dictate the process.
Safety is always my number one travel concern and boy, do the Russians take their security seriously, and rightly so. Crossing the border from Estonia took an hour and a half with everyone ordered to leave the bus with their entire belongings for visa, customs and security check whilst the bus was thoroughly examined by army-clad officials and a sniffer dog. My pathetic attempt at writing my name in the Cyrillic alphabet perplexed the border official whose acrylic nails and vivid red lipstick was my first introduction to administration inside Russia.
Places with large gatherings such as the Mariinsky and the railway stations have airport-like scanners for both bags and people at entrances. Security personnel are widely visible with St. Petersburg standing as one of the safest places I've visited.
St. Petersburg is one of Europe's largest cities and will not be easily walked. Thankfully, there's a clean, efficient, architecturally stunning, safe metro system with tickets costing 35 rubles (approx. €0.50) at the time of visit. One could write a comedy sketch based on my first experience of purchasing a metro ticket but at once I figured out the token system post-hilarity/awkwardness I grew fond of it as a method of travel. Lesson: A sense of humour will come in handy. For non-metro travel knowledge of the Cyrillic alphabet is essential.
The stained glass window at the platform exit of Admiralteyskaya metro station, the second-deepest metro station in the world.
It pays handsomely to follow currency fluctuations when it comes to the Ruble. Thanks to the economic sanctions imposed on Russia following the Crimea crisis the ruble fell to its weakest in years. I capitalised on this although finding rubles in Ireland was my difficulty as regular commercial banks don't buy or sell the currency (why?). Killorglin Credit Union came to the rescue thanks to their currency arrangement with local finance company FEXCO.
Despite the weak ruble, imported goods were still relatively expensive. And whilst there is no such thing as too much lipstick in Russia, the popular brands are imports so it may pay to bring your own.
And now for the P issue. To my surprise, and to the disappointment of western leaders and policymakers who will read this, Vladimir Putin is well-received in his own constituency. Portrayed by most in the EU/NATO sphere as an international badass, Putin is perceived by those I spoke to as the strong, shrewd leader required to protect Russia's vast resources, in other words, their badass.
Post-communist Russia experienced economic and social chaos and Putin is praised for overseeing stability since coming to power in 2000. Bear in mind that Putin's predecessors range from Ivan the Terrible to Stalin the Even Worse so to paraphrase Harold McMillan, Russians have never had it so good. Then again, was I ever going to find a Putin critic amongst the constituents of his home city?
Smolny Institute – Russia's first educational institute for women, later becoming Lenin's HQ until 1918. Vladimir Putin worked here as Deputy Mayor in the early 1990s.
And finally, to those constituents, the surprise part of my trip. As the Estonia bus edged towards St. Petersburg Rasputin began playing on the radio. When the driver turned up the volume and began tapping the steering wheel to the rhythm of the tune, I knew I was visiting a place where I'd get the sense of humour.
Helpfulness and friendliness were the other personality traits I encountered. Throughout my visit, I was in a pleasant state of shock when men held doors open and helped me with my luggage. My surprise at such chivalry probably says more about the decline in courtesy in my own country than it does about Russian hospitality.
When I recounted my positive experiences to those who initially questioned my sanity not only did I regain psychological credibility but proved, once again, the positive force that travel can be.
Books and media coverage can inform/misinform us about a destination's history and political situation. But only through travel can the narrative focus on those that history and politics affect the most, those being the people who have to live through it, whilst helping us discover the common ground and values we have with others.
The essential Russia Kit – Warm clothes, Rubles, Visa & lipstick!
St. Petersburg has an extensive history. The city's imperial history is dealt with in my St. Petersburg: From Peter the Great to February 1917 Revolution blog post. St. Petersburg's 20th Century is examined in my Red October 1917: From Petrograd to Leningrad blog post.
St. Peterburg was the epicentre of Russian culture during the Tsarist reign and the city's extensive cultural history is summarised in my St. Petersburg: Russian Culture Capital blog post.
A general travel guide can be found in my Russia Travel Tips post.
This is a very correct article about Russia, thank you! You looked very accurately.
Thank you, George, for your kind comments. St. Petersburg exceeded my expectations. I have wonderful memories of my visit.


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The House Tax Cuts: Trillions for Corporations and the Rich; Losses for Low- and Middle-Income People Now and Later
Editor's note: The following is a statement released by CHN Executive Director Deborah Weinstein in response to the House GOP tax proposal, unveiled Thursday, Nov. 2. To learn more about the proposal, please see CHN's latest Human Needs Report.
"The full analysis is not yet in, but the outlines are clear. The corporate tax rate drops from 35 percent to 20 percent. Companies that have avoided taxes by sheltering income in overseas tax havens will get increased incentives to keep doing so. Millionaires get multiple breaks. Their gains are in the trillions of dollars. Who pays? The rest of us, and especially low- and moderate-income people.
"Some low-income people will pay because they lose benefits. Five million children in immigrant families will lose the Child Tax Credit. Other low-income college students will lose assistance. Families seeking to adopt children, including children with special needs, will lose a tax credit to assist them. Millions will lose out because services they need shrink – education, health care, child care, nutrition, housing, and more.
"The tax cut legislation introduced in the House is a plan to disinvest in our people. Support for public education is reduced in multiple ways and at all levels, while tax savings for higher income people who use private schools will increase. The looming deficit opened up by tax cuts benefiting the rich and corporations will be the excuse for new rounds of cuts to vital programs. And all to pay for tax cuts for people who don't need them, and to businesses that will not invest in jobs. The proposed tax cuts will weaken us and make us less able to respond to meet our needs, whether emergency or long-term. Congress should reject them and turn its attention to greater investment in services that really help people."
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ScanSource Announces Third Quarter Results
ScanSource, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCSC), a leading provider of technology products and solutions, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended March 31, 2020.
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(1) A reconciliation of non-GAAP financial information to GAAP financial information is presented in the Supplementary Information (Unaudited) below.
(2) Non-GAAP results exclude amortization of intangible assets related to acquisitions, change in fair value of contingent consideration, the impact of Planned Divestitures and other non-GAAP items. A reconciliation of non-GAAP to GAAP financial information is presented below.
"In March, companies around the world, including ours, immediately shifted to work-from-home," said Mike Baur, Chairman and CEO, ScanSource, Inc. "I am proud of how our ScanSource employees made the transition to work-from-home and delivered the same level of customer service. During the quarter, we saw an accelerated decline in our sales of premise-based communications products. However, we had a significant increase in sales of headsets, cameras, speakers, keyboards, displays, back-up power supplies, IP desk phones, and connectivity to support remote workers. Overall, we are pleased with our results delivering on our sales expectations."
Net sales were $872.5 million for the third quarter of fiscal year 2020, down 2% year-over-year, principally from the negative impact of foreign currency translation. Excluding the foreign currency translation and net sales from the Planned Divestitures and acquisitions, organic net sales growth for third quarter of fiscal year 2020 totaled 0.5%. Net sales grew across most of ScanSource's diversified technologies in North America and Brazil. In addition, the sales growth reflected accelerated growth for work-from-home solutions from the immediate move to remote workforces in March.
Operating income for the third quarter decreased to $6.3 million year-over-year, and non-GAAP operating income decreased to $14.8 million from the prior-year quarter. This decrease includes a $4.5 million expense for inventory charges following the conversion to a new inventory management system. This charge increased cost of goods sold, which lowered gross profit for the third quarter of fiscal year 2020.
On a GAAP basis, net income for the third quarter of fiscal year 2020 totaled $1.7 million, or $0.07 per diluted share, compared to net income of $11.7 million, or $0.45 per diluted share, for the prior-year quarter. Non-GAAP net income totaled $9.3 million, or $0.37 per diluted share, compared to $20.6 million, or $0.80 per diluted share, for the prior-year quarter.
As of March 31, 2020, ScanSource had cash and cash equivalents of $35 million and total debt of $321 million. In the third quarter of fiscal year 2020, the Company generated $32 million of operating cash flow.
Plan to Divest Certain Businesses Outside of US, Canada and Brazil
On August 20, 2019, ScanSource announced plans to divest its physical products distribution businesses outside of the United States, Canada and Brazil. ScanSource continues to operate and invest in its digital distribution business in these geographies. These plans are part of a strategic portfolio repositioning to align investments with higher-growth, higher-margin businesses. The Company has identified potential buyers for these businesses and is in due diligence and purchase agreement negotiations. There can be no assurance that this sale process will result in a transaction or regarding the timing of any transaction. The Planned Divestitures, comprised of physical product businesses in Europe, UK, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru and the Miami-based export operations, had net sales of $127.9 million for the third quarter of fiscal year 2020 and at March 31, 2020 had working capital of $155.5 million.
Our top priority during the COVID-19 Pandemic is protecting the health and safety of our employees. We have implemented travel restrictions and moved quickly to transition our employees, where possible, to a fully remote working environment. Nearly all office-based employees around the world are working remotely. We have taken a number of measures to ensure our teams feel secure in their jobs and have the flexibility and resources they need to stay safe and healthy. We expect higher costs from these safety measures to protect our employees. We are continuing to provide the high level of customer service our partners expect from us.
Update on Forecasts
Given the uncertainties related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the changing economic environment, we are not providing our expectations for net sales or earnings per share for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2020.
Webcast Details and CFO Commentary
At approximately 4:15 p.m. ET today, a CFO commentary, as a supplement to this press release and the Company's conference call, will be available on ScanSource's website, www.scansource.com (Investor Relations section). ScanSource will present additional information about its financial results in a conference call today, May 11, 2020, at 5:00 p.m. ET. A webcast of the call will be available for all interested parties and can be accessed at www.scansource.com (Investor Relations section). The webcast will be available for replay for 60 days.
This press release contains "forward-looking" statements, including the Company's Planned Divestitures and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which involve risks and uncertainties. Any number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from anticipated results, including, but not limited to, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations and financial condition, the Company's ability to complete the Planned Divestitures on acceptable terms or to otherwise dispose of the operations, changes in interest and exchange rates and regulatory regimes impacting the Company's international operations, the impact of tax reform laws, the failure of acquisitions to meet the Company's expectations, the failure to manage and implement the Company's organic growth strategy, credit risks involving the Company's larger customers and suppliers, termination of the Company's relationship with key suppliers or a significant modification of the terms under which it operates with a key supplier, the decline in demand for the products and services that the Company provides, reduced prices for the products and services that the Company provides due both to competitor and customer action, changes in the Company's operating strategy, and other factors set forth in the "Risk Factors" contained in the Company's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2019 and quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2020, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as may be required by law, the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
Non-GAAP Financial Information
In addition to disclosing results that are determined in accordance with United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP"), the Company also discloses certain non-GAAP financial measures, which are summarized below. Non-GAAP financial measures are used to understand and evaluate performance, including comparisons from period to period. Non-GAAP results exclude amortization of intangible assets related to acquisitions, change in fair value of contingent consideration, acquisition costs, restructuring costs and other non-GAAP adjustments.
Net sales on a constant currency basis, excluding Planned Divestitures and acquisitions: The Company discloses the percentage change in net sales excluding the translation impact from changes in foreign currency exchange rates between reporting periods and excluding the net sales from Planned Divestitures, as well as acquisitions prior to the first full year from the acquisition date. This measure enhances the comparability between periods to help analyze underlying trends on an organic basis.
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Supplying green energy to half a million homes
Merkur Offshore Wind Farm, Germany
Development of a large-scale renewable energy project in Germany
The backdrop
In August 2016, a consortium that included InfraRed reached an agreement for the construction and operation of Merkur, a large scale 396MW offshore wind farm in Germany.
With a capital cost of €1.6bn, the project involves the design, construction, and installation of 66 Haliade 150-6MW turbines, plus an offshore substation to collect the electricity and feed it into the German grid.
The hub height of a single turbine is more than 100m above sea level, with one of the largest rotors in the industry covering an area equivalent to three football fields.
The construction and commissioning activities have been successfully completed in the summer of 2019.
€1.6bn
Capital cost
The project came with a very challenging history.
Windreich, the original developer, became insolvent in 2013. Hochtief, the main contractor, sold its offshore business in 2014. Finally, Areva, the turbine manufacturer, also left the project.
A complete restructuring effort was led first by DEME and then GE to safeguard Merkur's grid permit. The other shareholders, including InfraRed, joined the effort early in 2016, raising $1.2bn of senior debt to ensure the project would go ahead.
A unique dual contract structure was developed to mitigate delivery risks during the construction phase and avoid unallocated interface risks.
Such complexity required a unique combination of specialist legal expertise and financial engineering covering insolvency law, M&A and project finance.
Creating Real Value
Merkur is one of the largest German Offshore wind projects benefitting from a long term tariff support under the German Renewable Energy Act ("EEG").
It is also the first large scale commercial deployment of the innovative new GE Haliade turbine. As such, it offered a leading turbine manufacturer the opportunity to establish itself in the offshore wind sector. GE will provide full scope operation and maintenance services under a long-term performance contract incorporating availability guarantees and a robust security package.
The sponsors collaborated efficiently and transparently as part of a cohesive approach to stakeholder management. This included engaging and negotiating with the representative of the creditors impacted by the Windreich bankruptcy; with the Public Authority managing the permit process; and with senior lenders undertaking detailed due diligence on project risks.
The project was successfully refinanced in July 2018 on improved terms and with the opportunity to optimise the capital structure at completion. This breaks new ground, with the refinancing secured during the construction period - a first of its kind in the offshore wind sector.
"In the early days of the project, when the interests of the shareholders were still less aligned than nowadays, InfraRed's sharp analyses, their negotiation skills and a goal-oriented approach were crucial in bringing all the parties together towards financial close.
During the 3 years construction period, InfraRed kept a very good balance between leaving the operational business with the management of Merkur and voicing their suggestions or concerns whenever the business case was influenced or could be improved. Their reflections were always productive and pragmatic which made it easy to find consensus in the board meetings with the other shareholders in Merkur."
Arjen Schampers
Managing Director, Merkur Offshore GmbH
"Merkur is one of the largest Offshore Wind projects in the world and was critical for GE in the development of its offshore wind strategy. InfraRed has been a very supportive and professional partner through all phases of this project, providing value-added insights and supportive feed-back at all stages". Jérôme Pécresse
Senior Vice-President, GE & CEO, GE Renewable Energy


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Qell Acquisition Corp.
Qell Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: QELL) is a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company ("SPAC") with a focus on next generation mobility, transportation and sustainable industrial technologies. We have announced a merger with Lilium, a leader in sustainable high-speed regional air mobility. Further information is available through the links below.
Analyst Day Key Relationships Investor Presentation Lilium Website Merger Filings
Our team has extensive operational and investment experience in the next generation mobility, transportation and sustainable industrial technology sectors. We believe the growth in these global, interconnected markets will be driven by fleets and individual consumers demanding increased connectivity, along with more sustainable, efficient and smarter transportation solutions.
We aim to partner with an exceptional, highly entrepreneurial, technology-oriented company in our target markets that has strong growth prospects, a defensible competitive position and appeal as a public company. By assisting our partner company to scale, grow and achieve their profit metrics, we can create value for all stakeholders.
Our management team has deep experience and networks across both incumbents and emerging technology companies in our target markets. We also have a collective set of experiences in growing businesses, strengthening operations, expanding globally, raising capital and creating long-term value that could help our partner in a business combination to realize their full potential as a public company.
Barry Engle, CEO, Founder and Director
Founder Barry Engle serves as our Chief Executive Officer and a Director of the company. Mr. Engle has experience in operational, financial and managerial roles within the international automotive sector, as well as growth-oriented companies across various industries. He has spent the past five years serving in senior executive roles at General Motors Company ("GM"). From April 2019 through August 2020, Mr. Engle served as President of GM North America, which is GM's largest segment with $100+ billion in 2019 revenue. Under his leadership, GM frequently beat Wall Street research analysts' consensus operating income expectations, including during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. During his tenure, GM also achieved significant retail market share gains in the important full-size pickup segment. In addition to his responsibilities for GM North America, Mr. Engle was Global Head of Chevrolet and served on the board of GM's China joint venture. Before this, Mr. Engle served as the President of GM International, where he significantly restructured its Asian operations, including driving a rapid turnaround in its Korean business by working with unions, the government and suppliers. Mr. Engle joined GM in September 2015 as President of GM South America, leading the business unit through the region's economic recession and achieving market leadership in Brazil, the region's largest market, for 50+ consecutive months while reorganizing the business to improve its profitability. Prior to joining GM, Mr. Engle spent time leading high growth, private equity and venture capital backed companies, serving as Chief Executive Officer of Agility Fuel Solutions and of European electric vehicle manufacturer Think EV. Before joining Think EV, Mr. Engle spent two years as President and CEO of New Holland Agricultural Equipment in Turin, Italy. Mr. Engle also spent a number of years with Ford Motor Company where he served as President & CEO of Ford Canada, President of Ford Brazil, and led U.S. Marketing for the Ford brand. During his early career with Ford, Mr. Engle also spent time living and working in Mexico and Japan, where he was responsible for Mazda's global brand strategy. Finally, Mr. Engle has previously led an entrepreneurial endeavor of his own. During the period 1997-2000, he sourced and executed an acquisition, purchasing and operating a retail automotive dealership in the Salt Lake City metro area, Barry Engle Chrysler-Plymouth-Jeep. Mr. Engle holds a BA in Economics, with a minor in Spanish, from Brigham Young University as well as an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Engle has also served on the National Advisory Council for the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University since 2006.
Sam Gabbita, CFO, Founder and Director
Founder Sam Gabbita serves as our Chief Financial Officer and a Director of the company. Mr. Gabbita has held a variety of positions across financial and managerial functions within the financial services industry. Until September 2020, Mr. Gabbita led OGCI Climate Investments' ("CI") San Francisco office. CI is a $1 billion dollar fund that invests in solutions to decarbonize pollutant sectors such as energy, industrials and commercial transportation. Prior to that, Mr. Gabbita served as Managing Director and Operating Partner at Element Partners, a sustainability-focused private investment fund that managed $850 million of capital and over 25 portfolio companies. At Element, he made venture and growth investments in sustainable technology companies in the clean transportation arena, including Agility Fuel Solutions where he and Mr. Engle worked together on various strategic and value enhancing initiatives, and where he served as Chairman after the sale to Hexagon Composites. In addition, he has served on boards of several high growth companies including XL Fleet, Qnergy, Kairos Aerospace, Soleras Advanced Coatings, Five Cubits and others. Mr. Gabbita spent the early part of his career working at various financial services firms: at Lazard Freres as an associate focusing on advising transportation and energy companies; at Nautic Partners, a private equity firm, as an associate focusing on growth, buyout and venture investments; and at Salomon Brothers, as a financial analyst covering firms in the industrial sector. Mr. Gabbita graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BA in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles, and earned an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of Young Presidents Organization.
Kathleen Ligocki, Independent Director
Kathleen Ligocki, is a Director of the company, and a serial CEO, having led four innovative early to growth stage venture capital backed companies (Agility Fuel Solutions, Harvest Power, Next Autoworks, GS Motors) and one Fortune 1000 public company (Tower Automotive). Ms. Ligocki also served as an Operating Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's top venture capital providers, working with the firm's sustainable industrial technology ventures on strategic challenges, scaling operations and commercialization. She brings 40 years of experience including Ford, United Technologies and GM where she led operations in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Russia, India and China. Ms. Ligocki currently serves as an Independent Director on three public boards (Lear Corporation, PPG, and Carpenter Technology) one private board (Farmers Business Network) and the Indiana University Foundation. Ms. Ligocki earned a BA with highest distinction from Indiana University Kokomo and holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where she was a GM Fellow. She has also been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Indiana University Kokomo and Central Michigan University.
Joseph Walker, Independent Director
Joseph Walker, who is a Director of the company, was an investment banker and a Vice Chairman and Managing Director with JP Morgan Chase & Co. ("JP Morgan") before his retirement in June 2018, and provides expertise in operations management, corporate finance, capital budgeting, transaction execution and restructuring. He currently serves on the board of Immplecate, Inc., a privately owned early stage medical research company, and has prior experience serving on the boards of Hertz and Liquid Environmental Solutions. In addition to these corporate boards, Mr. Walker currently serves on the Advisory Board of Columbia University Medical Center and of Applied Innovation at the University of California Irvine. Before re-joining JP Morgan as a Vice Chairman in 2012, Mr. Walker co-founded KW Advisors, a strategic advisory partnership which advised a variety of major and start-up corporations, including Dana Holdings on a major restructuring, after spending 5 years as a senior adviser to General Motors. While there, he counseled GM on a variety of corporate finance, capital budgeting, M&A and restructuring issues. From 1998 to 2000, Walker served as the global head of Technology, Media and Telecommunications Investment Banking at JP Morgan. Mr. Walker also co-led JP Morgan's mergers and acquisitions ("M&A") group after helping the firm build their global M&A practice. Additionally, Mr. Walker was a member of the firm's Investment Banking Management Committee as well as the firm's Global Strategic Advisory Council. Mr.Walker spent the early part of his time at JP Morgan working in various capacities, including assignments in South Korea and Japan. Mr. Walker earned both a BA in Political Science and an MBA in Finance and Public Administration from Columbia University in New York.
Steve Adams, Independent Director
Steve Adams, who is a Director of the company, is the Chief Operating Officer at North American Holding Company ("NAHC"), a privately held investment company and family office based in Brentwood, TN. NAHC makes early stage and venture investments, and manages a family office and charitable foundation. In addition, Mr. Adams served as a Director of Agility Fuel Solutions from 2010 to 2019, serving on its Audit and Compensation Committees. Before serving as a director, Mr. Adams served as Chairman and President of FAB holdings, an Agility Fuel Solutions predecessor company, from 2005 to 2010 and from 2000 to 2005, respectively. Before his roles at Agility, Mr. Adams held strategic and financial roles in the healthcare industry after beginning his career with Deloitte in 1982. Mr. Adams is a graduate of Drake University, and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Ryan Popple, Independent Director
Ryan Popple, who is a Director of the company, has served since April 2016 as a partner at the venture capital firm R7 Partners and a director at Proterra, a leader in the design and manufacture of zero-emission electric vehicles, since May 2014. Mr. Popple has served on the board of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group since April 2016 and is currently a member of the executive board. Before his current roles, Mr. Popple served as CEO of Proterra for over five years beginning in October 2014, leading the company through technology development, exponential revenue growth and the establishment of its Tier-1 EV component business unit. Before that, he was a partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, from April 2010 to October 2014. Mr. Popple was also an early employee at Tesla Motors where he served as a senior director of finance and was focused on strategic financial planning and corporate and business development. Mr. Popple served as an officer in the U.S. Army and has a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from the College of William & Mary and earned his MBA from Harvard University.
David Cozzens, Independent Director
David Cozzens, who is a Director of the company, has served on the boards of revVana since January 2019 and Kareo since July 2018, each of which are venture and growth-stage technology companies seeking to revolutionize established markets. He was also an advisor and served on the board of Digital Map Products from January 2019 until its acquisition by Lightbox in June 2019. Prior to his current roles and from May 2007 to August 2016, Mr. Cozzens served as the CEO of Telogis, a global enterprise Software-as-a-Service company. Under his leadership, Telogis grew from a start-up to become one of the largest players in the connected vehicle/smart mobility market leading to its acquisition by Verizon Communications. Before joining Telogis, Mr. Cozzens served as Vice President of Operations for Novell Americas. Prior to this role,Mr. Cozzens held a number of senior executive positions at Novell including area vice president and general manager for the Midwest and Federal businesses as well as vice president of North America Consulting. Before joining Novell, Mr. Cozzens was the Vice President of Consulting at Cambridge Technology Partners before its acquisition by Novell. Mr. Cozzens earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tennessee and a dual MBA degree in International Business from the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business)/University of South Carolina.
David Gluckman, Board Observer
David Gluckman is a senior vice president, portfolio manager, and investment analyst for PIMCO's Global Credit Opportunity Strategy where he focuses on credit relative value opportunities and special situations. Previously, he was a credit analyst responsible for the automotive and metals & mining industries. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2014, he worked for Ares Management, where he focused on senior loan and mezzanine investments. Previously, he was an analyst at Houlihan Lokey in the financial restructuring group. He has 11 years of investment experience and holds an MBA in finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Palmer Scholar. He received a BA in Business Economics, summa cum laude, from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Corporate Governance and Disclosures
2020 PFIC Annual Statement
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Nominating Committee Charter
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Qell Acquisition Corp. shareholders approve business combination with Lilium
Qell and Lilium Announce Sept. 10 Special Meeting to Vote on Business Combination
Lilium holds Capital Markets Day, announces plan for $1 billion commercial deal & strategic alliance with leading Brazilian airline Azul and the appointment of new board members following business combination with Qell
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819 F. 2d 185 - McBryde v. Carey Lumber Co
819 F2d 185 McBryde v. Carey Lumber Co
819 F.2d 185
William C. McBRYDE, Appellant,
CAREY LUMBER CO., Appellee.
Eighth Circuit.
Submitted Nov. 11, 1986.
G. Alan Wooten, Fort Smith, Ark., for appellant.
Jerry Lee Canfield, Fort Smith, for appellee.
Before McMILLIAN and ARNOLD, Circuit Judges, and HUNTER,* Senior District Judge.
McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge.
Dr. William C. McBryde appeals from a final judgment entered in the District Court1 for the Western District of Arkansas on a jury verdict in favor of Carey Lumber Co., in a diversity action arising out of a traffic accident. For reversal appellant argues that the district court erred in denying his motions for a: (1) directed verdict, (2) mistrial because of a prejudicial and improper question, and (3) new trial based on a jury verdict contrary to the weight of the evidence. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm.
Appellant, a medical doctor, testified to the following sequence of events which are disputed in part. On September 18, 1984, a clear dry day, appellant drove his pickup truck onto the entry ramp of U.S. highway 71 and preceded in a northerly direction on the two-lane paved road. As he entered the highway, appellant "noticed some distance to the south" a fully loaded 40-ton lumber truck driven by George Endinger, an employee of Carey Lumber Co. The lumber truck, which belonged to Carey Lumber, was also going in a northerly direction on the highway. Appellant accelerated his pickup truck "from the point where he entered" the highway, but soon decelerated to make a right turn into the entrance of a restaurant. As he decelerated, appellant looked in his rear view mirror and saw the lumber truck directly behind him. The lumber truck hit the pickup truck in the rear and knocked it off the highway; the pickup truck then crashed through a fence and spun around in a restaurant parking lot. The lumber truck was unable to stop for several hundred feet beyond the point of impact.
Although appellant appeared to be unhurt at the accident scene, shortly afterwards he developed stiffness and soreness in his neck and shoulders and began to experience severe and frequent headaches. Because of these injuries, appellant has limited his activities as a family practitioner. He no longer performs office surgery, and often must cancel appointments with patients because of severe headaches.
Carey Lumber disputed appellant's version of the accident. George Endinger testified that appellant entered the highway and initially slowed his vehicle, then accelerated, initiated a turning movement into a driveway near his point of entry onto the highway, pulled back onto the highway, accelerated to approximately 40 miles per hour, and then, without signaling and without apparent reason, slowed his vehicle to 10 or 15 miles per hour at a point at least 208 feet short of the driveway into which he intended to turn. The impact then occurred.
Originally appellant filed suit in state court; Carey Lumber subsequently removed the case to federal district court. The case was heard by a jury on March 17 and 18, 1986, and was submitted to the jury on interrogatories. The jury was asked to determine whether either or both parties were at fault and, if both were at fault, then the relative proportion of fault. The district court did not submit damage interrogatories to the jury because the jury found each party equally negligent and equally responsible for the occurrence and any resulting injuries or damages. Judgment was entered for Carey Lumber. McBryde v. Carey Lumber Co., No. 85-2080 (W.D.Ark. Mar. 28, 1986). Appellant's timely motion for a new trial was denied, and he now appeals.
Initially appellant argues that the district court erred in denying his motion for directed verdict. The district court submitted the issue of negligence to the jury on the following instruction:
The vehicle in front has the superior right to use the highway for the purpose of leaving it to enter an intersecting roadway or driveway, and the driver behind must use ordinary care to operate his vehicle in recognition of this superior right. This does not relieve the driver of the forward vehicle of the duty to use ordinary care and to obey the rules of the road.
Appellant contends that under this standard, there was no question of fact on the issue of comparative negligence and thus the district court erred when it submitted the question to the jury. We disagree.
Whether the evidence is sufficient to create an issue of fact for the jury is a question of law to be determined by the court. Mulholland v. Schneider Service Co., 661 F.2d 708, 711 (8th Cir.1981). In considering a motion for a directed verdict, "[t]he evidence must be viewed in the light most favorable to the party opposing the motion.... The motion should not be granted if reasonable persons could differ as to the conclusions to be drawn from the evidence." Jackson v. Prudential Life Insurance Co., 736 F.2d 450, 453 (8th Cir.1984).
Resolution of the comparative negligence issue in this case depends on a determination of the credibility of the two accident participants, who gave conflicting accounts. The jury apparently accepted some elements of the testimony of both participants because the jury found each was equally at fault in the accident. Because reasonable persons could differ as to the conclusions to be drawn from the testimony of appellant and George Endinger, the district court did not err in denying the motion for a directed verdict.
Appellant next argues that the district court erred in denying his motion for a new trial. Prior to trial, appellant filed, and the district court granted, a motion in limine to exclude any reference to a disciplinary proceeding against him. In 1977, the Arkansas Medical Society suspended appellant's federal permit to prescribe certain controlled substances. Appellant contended that evidence of the disciplinary proceeding was irrelevant and that he would be unfairly prejudiced by admission of the evidence. Nonetheless, the following question was asked during the cross-examination of appellant: "Have the levels of these medications which have been prescribed for your migraine condition created any difficulties with your governmental authorities regarding your licenses and medication permits and that type of matter?" Appellant's objection was sustained, but his motion for mistrial denied. The district court stated that the reference to the disciplinary proceeding was inadvertent and it "would not at all be obvious to the jury the specific nature of the 'problems' that [appellant] had had, and ... [appellant's] case was not materially prejudiced by the question in view of the quick objection ... and the court's equally quick ruling thereon." McBryde v. Carey Lumber Co., No. 85-2080, slip op. at 3 (W.D.Ark. April 15, 1986) (memorandum opinion denying motion for new trial). The district court offered to give an appropriate cautionary instruction, but appellant declined the offer because he feared that the instruction would unduly draw attention to the question.
A question by counsel that improperly places prejudicial information before the jury " 'generally entitles the aggrieved party to a new trial.' " Williams v. Mensey, 785 F.2d 631, 637 (8th Cir.1986) (Williams), citing Harris v. Zurich Insurance Co., 527 F.2d 528, 531 (8th Cir.1975) (Harris). The trial court, however, has discretion in determining whether a question is so prejudicial as to require a new trial because " 'the trial court is in a far better position to measure the effect of an improper question on the jury than an appellate court which reviews only the cold record.' " Williams, 785 F.2d at 637, quoting Harris, 527 F.2d at 531. Appellate review of the denial of a motion for new trial thus is limited to abuse of discretion. Harris, 527 F.2d at 531.
In the present case, appellant alleges that a single question was so prejudicial that it aroused the sympathy or prejudice of the jury and influenced the verdict. The improper question here, like the question in Harris, was an isolated incident and the district court acted promptly to cure the negative effect on the jury. Also it is doubtful that the jury would have been able to discern from the improper question alone the problems referred to. We thus conclude that the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion for a new trial.
Appellant lastly argues that the district court should have granted his motion for a new trial because the jury verdict was contrary to the weight of the evidence. A motion for a new trial on the basis that the verdict is against the weight of the evidence should only be granted when the verdict is against the "clear weight, overwhelming weight, or great weight of the evidence." Goldsmith v. Diamond Shamrock Corp., 767 F.2d 411, 416 (8th Cir.1985). In considering a motion for a new trial, the district court is to consider whether the first trial resulted in a miscarriage of justice. Id.
In the present case, the jury had to determine whether the two participants in the accident, Dr. McBryde and George Endinger, were negligent. It was the proper function of the jury to consider the conflicting testimony and to resolve the credibility question. The verdict was not contrary to the "clear" weight of the evidence nor was there a miscarriage of justice. We hold therefore that the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion for new trial.
Accordingly, the judgment of the district court is affirmed.
The Honorable Elmo B. Hunter, United States Senior District Judge for the Western District of Missouri, sitting by designation
The Honorable H. Franklin Waters, Chief Judge, United States District Judge for the Western District of Arkansas


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Q: Does PHP *have* to serialize/unserialize session data between each HTTP request? Or is there a setting just to keep sessions in memory? I think I understand why sessions are evil but for snappy client user experience I don't want to have to re-query the database on each HTTP request.  (As a comparision, Java servlets can effortlessly keep tons of session objects in memory.)
Can PHP be set to do this or does it have to serialize because it runs from CGI/FastCGI and therefore by definition is a new process each time a request comes in?  I will be running PHP using LAMP.

A: Actually, the way PHP handles sessions is much better than your Servlet example.  Let me explain.
With PHP (by default) a session is represented by a file on the filesystem.  When you call session_start(), it checks to see if a file exists, and loads it if so.  If not, it creates one and then locks it.  This has two primary benefits.  First, it is allows many processes on the same server to "share" the session data.  Second, if someone attempts to DDOS your site, session data won't take it down (your bottleneck will be elsewhere, you don't need to worry about swapping or running out of memory space because you have a lot of sessions).
The serialization/deserialization methods in php are actually quite efficient as they are written in C and hence compiled.  So that's not the bottleneck.  The reason PHP's sessions are often called evil is that they are blocking.  When you open a session file, it gets an exclusive lock on the file (or blocks until it is done).  It keeps that lock until the session is closed (Either by end of script, or by session_write_close().  This is desirable since it prevents concurrency problems.  But realize that if you have a long running request and try to make another one while it's executing, you'll block.
Now, the true beauty of the PHP method, is that you can replace the session handler with a userland session handler (Store session data in a database, memcached, NoSQL db, etc).  Why is that good?  Because then with the exact same code you can migrate from a single server to many.  All you need to do is call session_set_save_handler()...
Now, as for your "I don't want to re-query the database on each request", I ask why not?  All you're doing is a simple PK lookup.  Unless you really mangle the schema, even the update/write/delete statements should be REALLY efficient.  I'd suggest going with a Memory table (in MySQL) as it's faster and you don't really care about maintaining the data if the server restarts.  If you're that concerned, install memcached and let it handle the storage of sessions (so you don't need SQL)...


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Disputes That Divided Team Owners And Players
Lesson 9 Essay 2: The 1990s held a incidental of disputes that divided team possessors and p articipants, all over different issues. During this sequence owners continued to find irritating the recently won shammer rights of salary arbitration and free agency. But rather than like a shot assaulting these fermenter gains, strategies which had misfired forward, the owners rallied behind a new strategy. By art for a salary cap and a redistribution of money from big to small market teams, the owners sought to halt or play back the escalation of player salaries while at the same have words addressing the financial problems of small market teams. Neither proposal genuine a warm welcome from Donald Fehr, the executive director of the MLBPA. He reasoned that a salary cap would reduce the innate revenues available for player salaries, and a redistribution of team revenues would reduce owner enthusiasm for signing new free agents. According to beat law, if both parti es bargained in good faith and no concordance had been reached by the end of the 1994 season, the owners could then declare a talk terms impasse and impose a salary cap unilaterally.
conjecture this situation, the players concluded that they had no choice but to call a strike, and decided to halt play on August 12, 1994, before postseason play, as to inflict the heaviest damage on the owners pockets. In November 1996 the players and owners finally reached a new agreement. The new cartel kept salary arbitration and free agency in place; however the players did agree to a team payroll tax. In the end, after the strike, nor did the payroll tax, expansi! on in the aim of franchises, creation of a new divisional system, new stadia, interleague play, or efforts to speed up the pace of the games solve any of baseballs care problems or player/owner problems. And after the Great bug of 1994-1995 attendance never fully recovered, so all in all the strike seemed to prove inconsequential.If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com


If an entrepreneur has to file for corporate bankruptcy whether voluntarily or involuntarily, they will need to seek out a bankruptcy trustee. Businesses located in the province of New Brunswick, Canada would need to deal with corporate bankruptcy trustees that are authorized to work in New Brunswick. The initial step is to find all of the trustees then review each one individually, to make sure the one that is selected is the best choice overall. While every corporate bankruptcy trustee in New Brunswick must meet certain qualifications, the ones with the most experience are usually the best choice so get the names of all the bankruptcy trustees that have more than five (5) years' experience. As the names of these trustees has been gathered, the entrepreneur can reach out to each one individually and assess them based on their abilities.
Find out whether the bankruptcy trustee is bilingual, since New Brunswick is the only officially bilingual province in Canada the trustee should be able to serve their client in either French or English. After establishing the names of all the officially bilingual bankruptcy trustees in New Brunswick, the entrepreneur should find out what kind of track record the firm has.
One of the easiest ways to establish the track record of the bankruptcy trustee is to visit their website and click on the testimonial link. There should be testimonials left by former clients who hired the trustee to handle their corporate bankruptcy but if there, are no testimonials on the website it would be prudent to contact the firm and ask them to provide testimonials before moving forward and scheduling an interview with them. The preliminary consultation is free and will give the bankruptcy trustee the opportunity to explain the process in detail. While explaining the process the trustee is also going to explain the fees associated with the services. A bankruptcy trustee will charge whatever he or she wants for their services, so the entrepreneur should make it a priority to shop around.
Going through a corporate bankruptcy may seem intimidating but with these suggestions, the entrepreneur should be in a position to make a better-informed decision. There is no shame in going bankrupt and the sooner the entrepreneur begins the process the faster they can regain control of their financial well-being. For more information visit Powell Associates Ltd.


Fashion Rocks, the music-meets-fashion event part-backed by fashion entrepreneurs Angus Morrison and David Douglas, will throw open the doors to its first retail store in Meadowhall shopping centre, Sheffield next week.
The shop, called FR by Fashion Rocks, will stock a selection of men's and women's premium brands including Angomania, Bologaro Trevor, M by Missoni, Twenty Eight Twelve, See by Chloe, Alice by Temperley, J Brand, Pretty Green, Luke, McQ, Heritage Research and British Khaki.
FR by Fashion Rocks, which will launch next Thursday, will feature a state-of-the-art video wall showcasing Fashion Rocks events and exclusive videos developed solely for the FR concept.
It will also feature touch-screen stations, which enable shoppers to browse and purchase exclusive items both from the store and from the FR by Fashion Rocks online store, also due to launch imminently.
The Meadowhall launch is a pre-cursor to a large-format Fashion Rocks shop, which is planned for later this year.
Fashion Rocks was founded in 2003 as part of an initiative to raise money for the Princes Trust. The concept was to bring together big-name designer catwalks with live music performances - in fusions such as Armani and Beyoncé, Lily Allen and Chanel, and Mariah Carey and Versace - in high-profile cities such as London, Miami and Rio de Janeiro.
The idea to turn the Fashion Rocks franchise into a retail concept was first mooted 12 months ago.
The retail subsidiary of premium young fashion business Fashion Rocks has been placed into administration by its new owners, forcing the closure of its two standalone stores and etail business.


The Environmental Health Division licenses and inspects public swimming pools, spas, and special use pools. A public swimming pool is defined as any indoor or outdoor structure, chamber, or tank containing a body of water for swimming, diving, or bathing, but does not include a private residential pool. The rules establish minimum standards, applicable throughout Ohio, for the design, installation, operation, and maintenance of these facilities in order to (1) protect the bathing public from injury, (2) minimize the potential for disease transmission, and (3) provide a safe and healthy aquatic recreational environment.
The swimming pool program is concerned with the overall safety and health of bathers as they relate to the operation of the facility. This includes assurance of water quality, maintenance of filtration and recirculation equipment, the presence of necessary safety equipment and warning signs, lifeguard requirements, record-keeping, and overall facility operation. Some requirements relative to the design of a pool or spa will be dependent upon the date of construction. All operators are required to keep records of water quality testing results and accidents on a Weekly Operation Report.
Anyone initiating certain renovations to an existing pool or spa or the construction of a new pool or spa is required to submit plans or a notification report to the Ohio Department of Health for approval.
Services rendered by Geauga Public Health are subject to fees. Please refer to our current fee tables.


Linksys WRT54G, WRT54GS & WRT54GL Antenna setup: When using the Super Cantenna with Linksys routers, you must set your Antenna Selection option within the router settings to use either the left or right antenna.
Step 1: Determine the current Model and Version of your Linksys router. The Model number is located on the front and bottom of the router (eg: WRT54GS). The Version number is located on the bottom of the router above the serial number (eg: WRT54GS v1.1).
Step 2: Download the correct firmware upgrade depending on your Model and Version #. Click on correct link below and Save to your desktop. Unzip the file.
Step 3: Go to http://192.168.1.1 and enter your username and password (default is admin/admin).
Go to Administration—>Firmware Upgrade, browse to the .bin file on your desktop and flash it.
Set both the TX (transmit) and RX (receive) pull down menus to the left or right antenna.
*LINKSYS WRT54G & WRT54GS (version 5.0 to 7.0) - The firmware on version 5.0 to 7.0 is not upgradeable at this time. In order to use your Super Cantenna with these versions, you must REMOVE BOTH ANTENNAS AND CONNECT THE CANTENNA TO THE RIGHT CONNECTOR WHEN LOOKING AT THE REAR OF THE ROUTER.
Avoid upgrading over a wireless connection since they can drop out.
If you're using DHCP on your computer, renew the lease early or reboot your computer to make sure it doesn't try to renew (and possibly unbind) in the middle of the upgrade. In Windows, you can renew the lease by running "ipconfig /renew".
Do not hit stop, or navigate away from the upgrade page. Do not reboot, or unplug the router. Do not do anything to interrupt the upgrade or you may end up with a dead brick.
It will take a few minutes for the firmware to upload. Upload progress bars are based on time, not the amount of data uploaded so don't worry if it goes past 100% and loops back again, or if it doesn't reach 100% at all.
Once the upgrade is finished, you will see a page indicating the result and then router will reboot on its own. If the page appears broken or empty, wait for one minute, make sure the router doesn't have a flashing diag or power light, then load http://192.168.1.1/ manually.
If you upgraded from a different firmware, erase any left over settings and restore the defaults by going to Administration:Factory Defaults and choosing Clear NVRAM. Manually re-enter the settings, do not use the Restore feature.
If for any reason a firmware upgrade fails, you have to reboot the router before trying again.


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The color of black had always been the shade that had retained its position along the front rows in men's fashion. This had been a legacy for generation. Adding a classic piece of black suit to the wardrobe had been a matter to rejoice. In instances that an individual desires to segregate his appearance from the crowd, nothing would handhold in the accomplishment of his aspiration that the suits in black that can impart a unique, compelling and a striking look.
Coming to the pursuits of men for styling and fashion needs, black is the shade that stands for power, authority and professionalism. None other shaded comes as good as the black to uphold the masculinity in a gracious style. The black suits had got an iconic place in men's fashion the legacy of which had been flowing for times and thus it had been truly a times classic. Black suits stands as a symbol of the dignity and the class that the wearer might hold. It reflects a sober and matured taste. Thus black shaded suits had secured its position at the top ends to be the most appropriate dressing solution across formal and serious environments. Though, in present times black shades suits of various styling and design makes the perfect of dressing for the casual events too. The black suits can enhance the personality of the wearer and impart a gorgeous appearance when it gets wearied in suitable combinations. These suits offer the widest of the variations and form the base for a colorful dressing for men.
In its present standing, men's fashion had gone highly robust and vivid. The market has the availability of several of varieties of suit lines for men, each of which is exotic and exclusive by its own terms. Though, the black shaded italian suit conventionally make the formal and business dressing, yet the trendiest of the traits involves the availability of casual dressing in black shades too. These casual suits give the wearer a completely different look that can be separated from the crowd just with the first glimpse of it. While the contemporary fashion styles had added varieties to the domain of men's fashion, on the other hand, it had worked upon the classic pieces too by presenting them with a complete trendy appearance, retaining its classic nature and appeals. Thus, in present times, the market has the availability of the classic black suits that had been enriched further with the incorporations of the trendiest fashion traits upon it.
Black suits stands out to be exceptionally classy and luxurious and men had made a great use of these attires to get the desired crafted perfect look. These suits are probably the most sought after range in men's fashion, the popularity of which had stretched for centuries. All the persisting styling of suits had worked on the black shades that had enriched the overall portfolio significantly.
The luxurious black suits were available for premium price ranges only. As such it was procurable for the the rich peoples only. But the evolution of the online merchandising system had thrown off the practice to the bins. Just like any other commodities or products, the online stores offer inexhaustible collection on premium black suits that one can approach with the minimum of search. As the availability of the products had been multiplied, automatically the prices had dropped significantly to raise a complete new category, the cheap black suits for men.
The online stores frequently offer great shopping deals on their regular products for which the buyers get a chance to procure these premium quality goods for the least of the price. Thus, the cheap black suits for men comes with optimized cost only and not compromises upon the quality of the product thus become evident.
The cheap black suits for men had made men's fashion to get more universal wherein the strength of the pocket is not a determinant of the fashion pursuit. The optimization of the costs on these premium suits had enabled men to get more oriented to fashionable dressing and they have got the best of the solution within their budget range to get an appearance that would make their presence to be felt and appreciated.


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Solana Beach's Solis appointed to horse racing board
By City News Service
Hall of Fame jockey Alex Solis, a Solana Beach resident, was appointed April 30 to the California Horse Racing Board by Gov. Jerry Brown.
The panel, according to its website, works to ensure the integrity, viability and safety of the California horse racing industry by regulating parimutuel wagering for the protection of the public, and promoting horse racing, breeding and wagering opportunities.
The board also fosters safe racing through the development and enforcement of track safety standards and regulations.
Solis, who is still an active jockey, is one of fewer than 30 riders who have won more than 5,000 races. The 51-year-old native of Panama was inducted into the National Racing Hall of Fame last year.
Solis spent four years in New York before returning to Southern California last year.
The appointment of Solis, a Democrat, requires Senate confirmation. Compensation is $100 per diem.
No decision made to permanently close Del Mar Horsepark, board president says
The president of the board that oversees the state-owned Del Mar Fairgrounds and the nearby Del Mar Horsepark sought to reassure the public on Tuesday, Jan. 12, that the board has made no decision to permanently close the popular horse park, which is home to stables, horse shows and riding schools.
New PHR park to feature public tennis, pickleball courts
Pickleball and public tennis courts are coming to Pacific Highlands Ranch as the Pacific Highlands Ranch Recreation Group approved plans for the newest community park on Jan. 12.
San Diego County Supervisors approve Fletcher's 'Framework for the future'
A new board majority took several actions to shape county policies in their first meeting Tuesday
Not guilty plea from woman accused in death of Butterfly Farms co-founder
Jade Janks, 37, is accused of killing Thomas Merriman in his Solana Beach home. He was found New Year's Day
Best Bets for the Break: A quick guide to online entertainment and virtual experiences
This is a continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet during your quarantine quandary.
CCA's Amy Villanova to receive California's top honor as 2020 CMEA Band Educator of the Year
Canyon Crest Academy's Amy Villanova will be honored with the 2020 California Music Educators Association (CMEA) Byron Hoyt/Don Schmeer Band Educator Award, the top award honoring excellence in instrumental education and performance in the state of California.


You may be thinking that it's time you did something about your crooked or misaligned teeth. We hear a lot of misconceptions about orthodontics and would like to set the record straight about some common myths.
Does Your Smile Make You Happy?
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This information and advice published or made available through this website is not intended to replace the services of a dentist or a dental care professional acting under a dentist's supervision, nor does it constitute a dentist-patient relationship. Each individual's treatment and/or results may vary based upon the circumstances, the patient's specific situation, as well as the health care provider's judgment, and only after further discussion of the patient's specific situation, goals, risks and benefits, and other relevant medical discussion.
Testimonials or statements made by any person(s) within this site are not intended to substitute for this discussion or evaluation or as a guarantee as to outcomes. Examples of treatment outcomes in this websites are not intended to convey and warranty, either express or implied, as to outcomes, promises, or benefits from treatment. Whether to accept any treatment by a patient should be assessed by the patient as to the risks and benefits of such procedures and only after consultation with a dental care professional. Some links within this website may lead to other websites, including those maintained and operated by third parties. These links are included solely as a convenience to you, and the presence of such a link does not imply an endorsement or approval of the content of the linked site. Use of this site constitutes acknowledgement and acceptance of these limitations and disclaimers.
Everyone that works in that office is nothing but a professional. Extremely helpful and always polite. Moved to Maryland a few years ago and I found the best Dentist I've ever been to. Every procedure I've ever had done Dr. Holsinger has always called me personally to ask how I'm doing afterwards. Their attitude and the way I'm treated makes me look forward to going to the dentist.
I love everyone here. From the dentists and hygienists to the front desk staff. They are all super friendly and knowledgeable. They run a tight ship as far as appointments go and it is much appreciated. There is very little wait time if any and the technology used is always up to date if not ahead of its time. Very cutting edge.
Dr. Higgins and the entire staff were very professional and caring during my appointment yesterday. It was an extremely good experience for me. I would strongly recommend them.
This is truly a professional, family practice. Every time I go they explain everything clearly and go out of their way to make sure I am comfortable. I have been a patient for 15 years and will continue til the doors close!
I have had wonderful service from all employees for many years. Everyone is very nice & professional. I highly recommend this dental office.
Extremely professional. Truly exceede my expectations every time. Thoughtful and considerate combined with up to date knowledge about everything going on with my oral health. Love love Dr. Hollinger and Tara and Megan And well the whole team. They make going to the dentist ROCK!
I have never been a fan of the dental community. Only going if ABSOLUTELY necessary. It had been at least 6 years since I had even seen a dentist. My teeth have been failing for a few years and now that I have a good dental plan I started seeking out a local dentist. I deceided to give Holsinger & Higgins a try. When I met the staff I instantly felt at ease and and welcome. I cannot say enough good things about them.
I am impressed each time I have treatments. Courtesy all around & excellent medical care. The front desk is always welcoming & attentive.Easy 5 star rating!
Have been a patient for over 20 yrs. Always a positive experience. Caring, professional service and personnel. Knowledgeable in all new dentistry innovations and techniques. Recommend them highly. Will never go anywhere else.
Excellent service. Always on time with appointments. Staff is pleasant and very helpful. Dr. Holsinger is up to date with all his patients. I have been a patient for almost 20 years.
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Shiela Sojak was booked on 2017-11-01 10:15. Sojak was arrested by STONE CO (MO) S.O. in Galena, Missouri. Sojak was 33 years old at the time of the arrest.
Shiela Sojak may not have been convicted of the charges or crimes listed and are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Please contact the STONE CO (MO) S.O. for more information regarding arrest records.


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Book Awards | Book Reviews | Literary Arts
Robert H. Van Wagoner's "The Contortionists" wins the 15 Bytes Book Award for Fiction
By 15 Bytes on December 28, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )
Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner's evocative, disturbing, dark novel, The Contortionists, has won this year's 15 Bytes Book Award for fiction. The novel, which the author has described as a "literary crossover," injects the tension of a suspense novel into the world of fully fleshed characters, deep context and richly described settings of a literary fiction.
The novel is propelled forward by the disappearance of a five year-old boy who goes missing on his way to a birthday party. His tight-knit community on the prosperous east bench of Ogden, Utah is thrown into panic and disarray as a grizzled detective investigates the case.
The core of the novel's rich development is the examination of the Latter-day Saint family at the heart of the drama. Pivotal to the story are the lives and marriages of two sisters: the boy's aunt, who left her LDS mission in Norway to live with a man she met there, and the boy's mother, who stayed close to home and married a lost sheep everyone was eager to bring back into the fold. While tensions build towards the novel's disturbing climax, the narrative shifts back and forth in time and perspectives to examine the lives of these troubled individuals, exploring issues of substance abuse, sexuality, religious excess and mental illness.
The Contortionists is both a page-turner and a deeply moving — and frequently disturbing — examination of a family that must come to terms with the fissures at its core.
Published by Signature Books, this is Van Wagoner's second novel. The first, Dancing Naked, was published in 1999 and won the Utah Book Award. Van Wagoner, who lives in Washington, grew up in Utah, where his father, Richard Van Wagoner, was a professor of painting and drawing at Weber State University for many years.
UTAH'S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 Bytes is published by Artists of Utah, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Patrick Madden's Impressive, Vital Collection of Essays Wins the 15 Bytes Book Award for Creative Nonfiction


Action star Philip Salvador teams up with comedian Vic Sotto in this hilarious action film about two souls brought together by fate. Salvador plays a renewed ex-convict who has just been released from prison. Sotto plays a desperate man who needs money for his blind child. One bank robbery and the two are forced to stick with each other to save their lives. This is the start of a friendship that has given them both a lesson…whatever happens even when the world starts falling down, friends will always be there no matter what.


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Q: Can an named restriction exist in OWL? Can we define a restriction as a named class? I mean, instead of using this:
:myclass owl:equivalentClass
         [ rdf:type owl:Restriction ;
           owl:onProperty :hasAge ;
           owl:cardinality "2"^^xsd:nonNegativeInteger ] .

to use this:
:myclass rdf:type owl:Restriction ;
         owl:onProperty :hasAge ;
         owl:cardinality "2"^^xsd:nonNegativeInteger.

Is that ok?

A: Yes, that's absolutely fine. It's a bit unusual perhaps, but AFAIK there is nothing in the OWL specs that forces restrictions to be anonymous. In fact, naming them like you suggest makes reuse of restrictions in multiple classes a lot easier.

A: Yes, you can give names to restrictions, just declare that a named class is equivalent to the restriction. There are plenty of examples in the OWL documentation, see e.g.

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*http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-primer/

*http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-syntax/
where you find examples like
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EquivalentClasses(
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EquivalentClasses(
    a:DogOwner
    ObjectSomeValuesFrom( a:hasPet a:Dog )
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