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Ramjet est un personnage de l'univers de fiction des Transformers.

Transformers: Génération 1
Nom: Ramjet
Affiliation: Decepticons
Protoform: Decepticon
Arme: Canon lasers
Mode Alternative: Avion de chasse
Tué par: Unicron

Ramjet est le chef des nouveaux Seekers. Il forme une équipe avec Thrust et Dirge. Ils sont impitoyable. Même si au bout de quelque épisode les Autobots vont comprendre comment les vaincre. Ramjet participera à la bataille d'Autobot City. Après la mort de Mégatron, Starscream va être couronné Empereur des Decepticans. C'est lui qui couronna Starscream. Il meurt quelques heures plus tard lorsque Unicron attaque Cybertron.

La Trilogie Unicron

Nom: Ramjet
Affiliation : Unicron
Protoform : Unicron
Arme : Canon prototype
Mode alternative : Jet
Tué par : Vector Prime

Dans cette version Ramjet est un allié d'Unicron. Ramjet ne peut être tué que par un fils de Primus (ou Primus lui-même). Ramjet apparaît dans le comic de Transformers : Cybertron.

Avant sa mort dans Armada il faisait équipe avec Nemesis Prime. Ramjet était le plus dangereux des allié d'Unikcron durant la trilogie Unicron. Lorsque Unicron fut mort, Ramjet obéit alors à Mégatron (car c'est lui qui a les pouvoirs d'Unicron) sans faire des Decepticans. Mégatron se servit de lui pour tuer de nombreux Autobots. Après le sacrifice de Vector Prime, Mégatron (devenu Galvatron) lui demande de se débarrassé du Spark de Vector Prime en allant dans la Matrice du commandement car elle est un passage vers le monde des Transformers disparu. Cette fois, Ramjet n'était pas bien car c'était le premier combat qu'il allait livré sans être immortel puisque Vector Prime est un fils de Primus. Ramjet alla affronté son Spark. Ramjet et Vector prime avait la même puissance mais Vector reçut l'aide de Primus. Primus qui fit perdre ses pouvoirs à Ramjet. L'épée de Vector Prime le transperça ; son spark et son corps furent détruits.

Transformers: Animated
Bien que jamais nommé dans la série, un des clones de Starscream dans Transformers: Animated possède un schéma de couleur identique à celui de Ramjet apparaît à plusieurs reprises. Il est considéré comme étant Ramjet par la plupart des fans, et des sources officiels semblent confirmer ce fait.

Ramjet apparaît dans le final de la saison 2, construit et amené à la vie par Starscream grâce à son fragment de la Matrice. Il accompagne les autres clones durant l'assaut contre Mégatron, mais, après la défaite de Starscream, se soumet avec Slipstream et Sunstorm à Mégatron. Il est présumé tué par Oméga Suprême, juste avant que ce dernier disparaisse après l'explosion de la Porte Stellaire.

Mais il est revu plus tard, libérant Lugnut dans l'épisode Le Troisième Constructicon.

Il est plus tard capturé dans Les 5 Pièces du Destin, et embarqué avec les autres prisonniers (Sunstorm, Swindle, Lugnut et Blitzwing) par la Garde d'Elite. Ils réussissent à s'échapper et emprisonner la Garde d'Élite dans Air Decepticon, mais sont vite replacés en cellule ensuite, à l'exception de Swindle, qui réussit à s'échapper, et de Lugnut, qui est perdu dans l'espace et qui plus tard retrouve Mégatron. Durant ce bref moment de liberté, Sunstorm et Ramjet reçoivent de nouveaux casques, différents l'un de l'autre, offerts par Swindle afin de mieux les distinguer.

Sa dernière apparition est dans l'épisode 10 de la saison 3 Decepticon Air où il finit en prison en compagnie de Blitzwing et Sunstorm.
Comme tous les clones, Ramjet a hérité d'une caractéristique précise propre à Starscream : son hypocrisie. Cependant, elle atteint chez lui un niveau bien supérieure à celle du modèle : techniquement, tout ce qu'il dit est un mensonge, même s'il contredit ce qu'il a dit juste avant. Naturellement, cela implique que ses mensonges ne sont pratiquement jamais crus, voir crédibles, et tourne même au comique, faisant échouer un plan à une occasion (Les 5 pièces du Destin). Ramjet est devenu l'un des personnages les plus populaires de la série par ce trait de sa personnalité.

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Personnage de Transformers
Personnage lié à Unicron
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Q: if relation R(A,B,C,D,E) with FDs {AC->B, AC->E, B->C}. What is highest normal form satisfied Here in FDs Attribute D is not included in any of FD so should we ignore it ? is there any rule which specifies that all attribute should be part of atleast on FDs?
As per my understanding this is looks 3NF.

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Here in FDs Attribute D is not included in any of FD so should we ignore it ?

No, you can't. Simply it is not present in any non-trivial FD (it is in many trivial FDs, like D → D), and it must considered for the key, for example. In fact the (only) candidate keys of the relation are ABD and ACD.
The fact that the it is part of the key means for instance that the dependency AC → E violates the 3NF (since E is a not a prime attribute and AC is not a key), so the relation is not in 3NF.
A possible decomposition in 3NF can be found by applying the synthesis algorithm:
R1 <(A,B,C,E)>
R2 <(A,C,D)>

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The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation or IRCTC has a special wing called the IRCTC tourism, a part of IRCTC next generation that offers different packages that are mostly covering the religious pilgrimages undertaken in India. Not only railway packages are available in IRCTC next gen but flight and land packages are now offered by IRCTC as well. The flight packages cover exotic tourist destinations apart from religious spots. Places like Goa, Kerala, Ladakh, Andaman are available on a variety of packages to suit the needs of everyone. Railway packages are available from cities like Kolkata and Chennai to places like Tirupati, Kanyakumari, Jagannath Dham, and other religious hotspots. Special religious pilgrimage packages like Bharat Darshan, Dakshin Bharat Yatra, Mata Vaishnodevi Darshan are also available.
For every tour package, you can use the IRCTC login and check out a short description of the package is provided along with the details of the destinations covered. The list of boarding points and deboarding points are also available so that you can choose according to your convenience. IRCTC takes care of the transport, lodging, and meals of the tourists for the entire duration of the journey.
These packages are cheap, to begin with, and most of the packages have different options like comfort and standard so one can choose according to their economic preferences. The price details are available along with the tour details. These packages from IRCTC are soon becoming popular among the Indian masses due to their cost-effectiveness.


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Why was Gainsborough the capital of England?
What is Gainsborough famous for?
Did Gainsborough get bombed in ww2?
Was Lincoln the capital of England?
How rough is Gainsborough?
What country is Gainsborough?
When was Lincoln capital of England?
Gainsborough Old Hall is one of England's biggest and best-preserved manor houses. On October 10, 1483 It is believed that King Richard III stayed the night at Gainsborough. 5. Famous painter Karl Wood taught art at the Gainsborough Grammar School in the early 1900s.
Gainsborough suffered its only large-scale air raid of the war on the night of 10 May 1941. High-explosive bombs and incendiaries were dropped, but many fell harmlessly on the surrounding countryside.
It held that title until 1549 when the spires collapsed during a storm. The city was of great importance at this time, being the capital of England's largest diocese at the time stretching from the Humber in the north to the Thames in the south.
Gainsborough is the second most dangerous small town in Lincolnshire, and is among the top 10 most dangerous overall out of Lincolnshire's 599 towns, villages, and cities. The overall crime rate in Gainsborough in 2020 was 126 crimes per 1,000 people.
Gainsborough, town, West Lindsey district, administrative and historic county of Lincolnshire, east-central England. It stands on the River Trent, bordering Nottinghamshire. River Trent, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Eng. The Old Hall, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England.
THIS IS FUN: Is Kent UK safe?
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City status 1072
Incorporated 1 April 1974
Administrative centre Guildhall and Stonebow

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Thirty-some odd years ago when he first began moving graphite on paper Justin Gibbens was rendering the boyhood standards: dinosaurs, creepy crawlers and other freakish fauna. Not much has changed in three+ decades. Trained in both scientific illustration and tradition Chinese painting, Gibbens uses this skill set in his subversive zoological drawings.
Justin Gibbens received his BA in painting and drawing from Central Washington University in 1998 and a Scientific Illustration Certificate from University of Washington in 2003. He is a founding member of PUNCH Gallery, an artist-run gallery located in Seattle, WA. Gibbens was the recipient of a 2006 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award and a 2008 Artist Trust Fellowship Award. He has shown nationally and internationally and lives in rural Thorp, Washington. He is represented by G. Gibson Gallery in Seattle, WA and Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, OR. His work has been collected by Grinnell College, Microsoft, 4Culture/King County Portable Works Collection, City of Seattle (Seattle City Light: Portable Works Collection) and the Washington State Arts Consortium. In addition to his studio practice, Gibbens has begun adapting his images for larger-scale public mural projects.


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Celebrating its 20th birthday in 2013, the CNSO has gained a position among both Czech and Europe's top symphonic ensembles. Renowned for its versatility, the orchestra presents annually a broad program ranging from classical music concerts through contemporary genre, film scores, jazz, or musicals. In its new era, The Czech National Symphony Orchestra is also organizing summer Prague Proms Festival which annually attracts the audience for presenting greatest international performers. Such composers, conductors, and performers as Ennio Morricone, Lalo Schifrin, James Morrison, Pino Donnagio, Giuliano Taviani, or Steven Mercurio repeatedly come back to Prague to either record with the orchestra in its studio or perform in the beautiful Smetana Hall of Prague´s Municipal House, the home concert stage of the orchestra.
Besides concerts in auditoriums and concert halls, the CNSO has accompanied some of the most important pop artists of our time, among them Andrea Bocelli, Sting, George Michael. Successful tours have taken place over the British Isles, France, Spain, Dubai, Japan, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand. Among the highlights of the current concert season undoubtedly belongs the collaboration with Vince Mendoza, one of the best contemporary crossover conductors, and world renowned trumpet player Randy Brecker. On the classical field the orchestra will renew its long-time cooperation with Andrea Bocelli, and in a new project the CNSO will be accompanying Rolando Villazon on a prestigious European tour.
Recorded in orchestra´s studio and famous Prague´s music halls, The Czech National Symphony Orchestra's recordings are on sale in the United States and Japan, and the orchestra takes pride in several Gold CDs (for more than 30 000 copies sold) which it has produced. Other accolades include Gustav Mahler Prize, awarded for the interpretation of Mahler's works, and the prestigious agreement that the orchestra signed with IMG Artists London for worldwide representation. The achievements also include the long-standing recording project in association with Tokyo media company Victor Entertainment.
The Czech National Symphony Orchestra was established in 1993 by trumpet player Jan Hasenöhrl. A spiritual father at the birth of the CNSO was the legendary conductor Zdeněk Košler. In the year 1996, the American Paul Freeman took over as Chief Conductor, and remained in this position for fantastic ten years. At the beginning of the year 2007, Maestro Libor Pešek was named the Chief Conductor and he still remains at this position today.
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The Last of Us Part II gets a performance patch for PlayStation 5
Posted 2 years ago by Eric Van Allen
Revenge at 60 frames per second
Naughty Dog has announced another good reason for PS5 owners to clear a game off their backlog. The studio announced a performance patch is out today for The Last of Us Part II on PlayStation 5.
Once The Last of Us Part II owners have installed the latest patch on their PS5, they'll be able to access a toggle in the Display options allowing them to target either 30 or 60 FPS. Though it's already a pretty nice-looking game, a bump in framerate sounds like a good reason to jump onto this one.
In today's PlayStation blog, Naughty Dog also teases that this patch is "just the first step" of working on the PS5, and they'll let us know when they have more news to share. Reports have said the studio is looking into a remake of the first game, but even if it's just more enhancements to fidelity, I'm down for that.
Either way, seems like a good time to finally get around to The Last of Us Part II. Hopefully all that revengin' and guitar-playin' looks even nicer running at higher FPS.
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Bargain-Hunting Robocars Could Spell the End for Downtown Parking
Corey Harper and Constantine Samaras
Imagine a scene from the near future: you get dropped off downtown by a driverless car. You slam the door and head into your office or appointment. But then where does the autonomous vehicle go?
It's a question that cities would be wise to consider now. Self-driving cars may be on the roads within the next decade or two.
Automakers and specialized startups alike are aggressively developing automated vehicles (AVs), while government agencies explore ways to reduce regulatory barriers. Ride-hailing companies such as Lyft and Uber plan to operate some AVs, but others could become private robotaxis that drop owners off wherever they like and pick them up later.
Without policies to encourage sharing, it's possible there could be many private AVs on the road. We are civil and environmental engineers who collaborated with Chris Hendrickson, director of Carnegie Mellon's Traffic21 Institute, to examine the potential effects of private AVs on cities.
Using Seattle as a case study, our analysis suggests that one of the biggest effects of AV technology may be on parking, as AVs leave expensive downtown spots behind in favor of cheaper parking outside the city center.
Parking Has a Big Footprint–and Brings Big Bucks
Parking takes up a lot of land in cities.
Researchers at UCLA estimated that about five to eight percent of urban land is devoted to curb parking. They estimated that the parking coverage, the ratio of parking area to total land area, in downtown Los Angeles and Houston are about 81 percent and 57 percent, respectively.
A 2018 parking study done by the Mortgage Bankers Association found that Seattle's parking density of 29 parking stalls per acre of land is twice its population density of 13 people per acre.
Because driverless cars could park outside urban cores to avoid the higher parking charges downtown, they might considerably affect urban land use.
And there are potentially big fiscal consequences. Many cities gather a substantial amount of money from parking-related activities, with the 25 largest cities collectively generating US$1.5 billion in total revenue from parking fees and taxes in 2016.
In Seattle, for instance, annual revenues from parking meters total about $37 million. In addition, Seattle also collects $39 million and $21 million in annual revenues from commercial parking lot taxes and parking fines, respectively.
Lower demand for parking could mean these funds, traditionally used for city operations including education, cultural resources, and libraries, will need to be replaced through other sources of revenue.
Simulating a City With Driverless Cars
To gauge the potential effects of private AVs on parking, we used Seattle as a case study because data on all its off-street parking lots is available. We looked at factors including energy use, emissions, parking revenue, and vehicle miles traveled (VMT), a key statistic used by traffic engineers to measure travel demand.
Our team obtained data from the Puget Sound Region Council on the daily occupancy and parking prices of all paid off-street parking garages and lots in downtown Seattle. We went on to identify areas outside of the downtown area with many unrestricted parking spaces, where vehicles can currently park free of charge during the day.
The model assumed AVs would rather travel long distances for free parking (green) than park in a paid parking lot (red), since this minimizes cost to the user. Image Credit: Harper et al (2018) / CC BY-ND
Then we modeled privately owned AVs searching for cheaper parking, where each vehicle makes parking decisions based on availability and total cost, including both parking fees and all operational costs of the round trip to the parking space. Each AV's objective is to minimize cost. An AV would not become frustrated sitting in congestion or cruising to find an open curb space, whereas a human driver would.
We varied the operating costs of AVs per mile across a range of values to understand how future changes either in improved technology or imposed per mile taxes might affect the results.
More Miles Traveled, Fewer Parking Garages?
We considered a range of possible adoption rates for private AVs, from a point when few high-income early adopters have AVs to total market penetration.
At low penetration rates, where anywhere from 5 to 50 percent of all cars traditionally parked downtown become automated, AVs are usually able to obtain their choice of parking space. In most cases, these are in free parking zones closest to where they drop passengers off downtown.
As more AVs come online, these free parking spaces closest to the downtown area fill up and cars must travel longer distances to obtain cheap parking. As market penetration rates rise, each vehicle would travel additional round trip miles in its quest for inexpensive parking.
With lower numbers of AVs on the road, this would have negligible impacts on the overall total miles traveled by cars in the Seattle region. But if all private cars parking downtown were AVs, the total daily miles traveled by cars in Seattle would increase by about 2.5 percent, with each AV traveling an additional 8.5 miles each day on average. That change, even if it sounds small, could cause congestion along heavily-traveled routes depending on the time of day and the mix of human-driven vehicles on the road.
Our simulation shows that there is enough free parking just outside downtown Seattle that AVs would no longer choose to park in downtown lots. At current prices it's more economical to travel for free parking than to park in a paid lot.
Some private AV owners may rent out their car during the day as a ride-hailing service, but for others it might make financial sense to send their car home during the day and have it pick them up later. That would further increase overall vehicle miles traveled.
No More Parking Downtown?
As AVs leave downtown, parking lot revenues could decline to the point where owning a parking lot or garage would no longer be economically viable. This presents both challenges and opportunities for cities. Cities could lose a substantial amount of annual parking revenue in a future with more AVs.
We see a few ways that cities could strategically adapt parking requirements to prepare for additional travel by self-driving cars.
For example, cities could implement congestion pricing: a fee or tax paid by users to enter the urban core of the city. They could encourage more public and active transportation, like biking and walking. They could also change the rules for parking in areas where it's now unrestricted and free, or try a combination of these options.
Cities could experiment with what's called a scaled VMT tax: a fee for an AV to enter a downtown zone based on the number of miles it's already traveled that day. This option might discourage an increase in housing sprawl with AVs and reduce the number of people using AVs to get downtown. In addition, encouraging AVs to be powered by electricity rather than gasoline would reduce the environmental impact of any additional travel.
Much of the land devoted to parking lots in today's cities could be converted to parks, housing, or commercial spaces, and reducing curb parking could allow for wider bike lanes or sidewalks. To take advantage of changing parking demand, cities could build adaptable parking garages that can be converted to other uses if they're no longer needed. Garages with flat floors and exterior ramps, rather than interior ramps, can more easily be converted to commercial uses or housing.
Cities would need to look for other sources of revenue to supplement the money lost from parking taxes, revenues, and tickets. Some of these resources may be recovered through VMT and congestion fees, or by replacing underutilized parking structures with new denser uses.
While robotaxis are not here yet, preparing now for changes in downtown parking and infrastructure could help cities respond when privately owned AVs start to hit the streets.
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Corey Harper, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University and Constantine Samaras, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
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Dr. Corey Harper is a Post Doctoral Presidential Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also Young Member on the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences' Standing Committee on Vehicle-Highway Automation, a position held by experts who can contribute valuable perspectives on transportation issues. His research and consulting are in the general areas of transp...
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It is more likely than you might think it is that one day you'll face the task of restoring a lost Excel password. The types of passwords used in Microsoft Excel protection system are quite manifold ranging from the simplest passwords to edit to hard cracked passwords to open.
Once you lose or forget any of those you may be sure that before long you'll need exactly the lost password in order to edit a report or a VBA macro. Seemingly a trifling operation soon grows into a real splitting headache killing your nerve cells.
Things can get even worse if it's a corporate file you are dealing with. As is often the case with employees who, due to some persecution mania or a burning desire to prove how computer savvy they are, apply all kinds of protection to the files they work with. Then that James Bond leaves the company. Of course he can't find time to tell anybody the passwords beforehand especially since he no longer remembers any. Or he may say so from sheer bitchiness. Doesn't matter.
But what does matter is the following. There's an Excel file blocked with an unknown password which is to the boss is like a red rag to a bull. And the scapegoat is an innocent rookie who replaced the saboteur. That's where you need the Excel password remover.
But there's none. In order to get an Excel password remover you'll have to become one. There's no such thing as a ready-made Excel password remover on the market. All you can find is a number of password recovery tools i.e. password searching solutions. Thus removing Excel passwords can only be done by users themselves.
There's a wide range of password recovery tools for MS Excel. And all those solutions feature approximately the same number of functions instantaneously recovering easily cracked passwords and supporting several attack types aimed at restoring hard-to-crack passwords.
Obviously the dream is easily cracked passwords. Such passwords are amply used in Excel documents. Firstly, this concerns sheet-protecting passwords applied to sheets of an Excel file. Secondly, it is a VBA password protecting VBA macros. Thirdly, it is a password to edit securing all changes applied to the document. This even concerns passwords to open Excel 95 files. All those types of passwords are recovered in no time.
It's that easy! One click and here's your password. Is this not a dream of the user who had the bad luck and had to remove an Excel password?
The nightmare is about passwords to open Excel 97-2003 files. The recovery process takes time. A lot of time actually. The process involves so-called attacks or password searching methods. They include the brute force attack consisting in successive searching of all possible combinations; mask attack searching only within the number of variants that meet the preset parameters – mask; dictionary-based attack searching only within the range of variants that are stored in special files - dictionaries.
You can and must make the right choice while choosing your mate – software tool that will recover passwords.
All such tools are quite similar to one another. But devil's in the details.
If comparative functional check of solutions as to searching easy-to-crack passwords sheds no light at which one is the best then comparing their handling of hard-to-crack passwords does make the task of choosing much simpler.
The best contenders realize the dictionary-based attacks with password transformation. In case the register of characters was changed or any symbol omitted or transposition of adjacent characters took place this all will be taken care of and all combinations will be checked during the transformation procedure. Some software developers intentionally accentuate such features of their products by giving them high-sounding names. For example, Advanced Dictionary Manager.
The mask attack pursues some of its own objectives. One of its features is mask creation convenience. Mask attack – a variation of brute force attack checking only those passwords that meet the specified parameters – mask. That's where an Excel password remover would need a convenient, preferably visual, tool for specifying a mask - the one that would help set possible parameters for each position in the password to be generated. No doubt software developers are well aware of this problem and do offer their solutions. One example is Advanced Mask Composer.
And finally, the most important for users, the primary criterion - speed performance while working with hard-to-crack passwords. The working speed determines how soon the actual result – recovered password - will be obtained. If a software developing company announces ten-fold acceleration as AccentSoft has done referring to one of its products - Accent EXCEL Password Recovery – then every Excel password remover simply must at least try it out and assess the claimed speed.
So, in case of lost Excel passwords you should remember the following: Excel passwords can be recovered by the best-quality software but still not removed. To remove them you'll have to become an Excel password remover!


An interesting single cask whisky that was produced for Oddbins as part of their 'Against the Grain' series. Distilled in 1996 and bottled under the name Borratollis, to protect the identity of the distillery in question, likely to be Caol Ila, in 2008. This was matured in a single refill sherry hogshead and is one of just 376 bottles.


Ever wonder what's inside the building that's just south of the Rogers Centre?
We were invited on a tour, put on by Enwave, to find out!
Enwave pulls the coldest deep lake water from Lake Ontario. The water is 4ºC when it's pulled.
The "chill" in that water is transferred to 72 buildings in the downtown core, keeping them cool.
Once the "chill" is transferred to Enwave, the deep lake water goes directly from this plant to the City's drinking water supply.
Up to 70,000 gallons of water per minute is pumped through this large pipe. Compare that to the 1 gallon of water per minute from most faucets.
Deep lake water cooling provides energy savings of up to 90%!
FUN FACT: The network began as a way to get steam to Toronto's hospitals in 1969.


The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) has set a course towards practice without referral of a physician (direct access).
Direct access involves both legislative and reimbursement authority from third party payers to practice without a doctor's referral. The DPT will allow APTA to argue for direct access more effectively.
DPT is a clinical doctorate like that in dentistry (D.D.S.), podiatry (D.P.M.), osteopathy (D.O.), pharmacy (Pharm.D.), clinical psychology (Psych.D.), and medical doctor (M.D.).
DPT is not a research Ph.D. Thus, no doctoral dissertation is required.
With direct entry as a freshman, Marquette's DPT is 6 years including 2 summers.
Marquette freshman admission students earn a bachelor's degree of choice and DPT in the 6 year time frame, with guaranteed admission to the professional phase as long as minimum standards met.
At Marquette, there is a great diversity of undergraduate majors that may be chosen (Athletic Training, Biomedical Sciences, Business, Exercise Physiology, Spanish, and many other majors offer some additional marketability, dual certification, or dual skills in the 6 years.
Marquette has both internal and external transfer windows.
For entry as a transfer student with an undergraduate degree, Marquette's DPT is 3 years including 2 summers.
Marquette's DPT program offers specialty areas of emphasis in sports medicine, orthopedics, neurologic PT, pediatrics, geriatrics, integumentary, pelvic floor, Spanish, acute care, pediatric sports medicine, and management.


Q: Why is Benjamin the size of a newborn at his birth and death?
Q: Is 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' based on a book?
Daisy has been on her deathbed for quite some time and her daughter Julia is determined to be there as she leaves this world. As they sit together, Daisy asks Julia to read from her from the diary, postcards and letters of Benjamin Button, a man she had known her whole life. His life begins by being abandoned by his father on the doorstep of an old people's home where he is taken in and pitied for appearing to be older than many of those at the end of their life. So it continues as the child Benjamin starts his life as an old man but appears to be younger physically as he ages. His story tells of love and loss, war and peace, life and death.
Benjamin Button comes to the UK on a wave of Oscar hype and nominations and many critics here have given it an unquestioning five out of five stars and lavished praise on it. Of course I was keen to see it and went to see a preview as soon as I could – not expecting brilliance but just out of interest to see the film that is wowing them. The truth about the film is as to be expected these days about many "big" films, which is that it doesn't really deliver on all the things you hear about it. Fortunately this is not a dull summer blockbuster that had all the money shots in the trailer and Benjamin Button is an engaging and enjoyable film – it is just not the "soul-filling" "visionary piece" or "modern classic" that some have hailed it as. In the broad story of a man's life, the film is engaging and has plenty going on – as others have said the film doesn't feel as long as it is and in essence I was interested in what was happening and what was going to happen.
The problem is that I was rarely that interested in what had happened and I didn't really feel myself being that engaged by the lives I was watching. In a way this is a positive thing because the film doesn't ever go for the easy emotions and it stays away from the sweeping musical scores and grand emotion that some directors would have milked as hard and as often as possible. This restraint is to Fincher's credit as it creates a more adult and worthy feel as opposed to the feel of someone frantically pushing "cry" or "laugh" buttons but it does leave me with the problem that I ended the film feeling like I had watched a "nice" film – not a great one. Within the context of the narrative, the ageing backwards concept didn't produce what I would have liked. Here and there it gave me pause for thought due to putting a slightly different spin on a common situation but I'm not sure how much I was doing versus the film. Outside of the odd moment, the film follows birth to death and the direction of ageing isn't really that important in terms of the story being told, it makes it feel unusual sure, but doesn't actually deliver much with it. I was looking for a new perspective on things, something to justify the concept but it never really came. What this left me with was an OK film and I am left looking on at those weeping and proclaiming it to be one of the finest films ever and wondering, really, what am I missing? Technically I have no qualms with the film because the special effects are so good that you barely notice them. The "old man" effects are one thing but it is really impressive to see Pitt looking younger than I've ever seen him but still unmistakably be Brad Pitt. This is true of the whole film as it just feels pretty real, whether it be the "show piece" effects or just the way everything convinces as being of the period. Indeed in this area the film excels and I think it deserves the many technical etc Oscars I'm sure it will pick up. The performances are good but perhaps not quite as heartfelt as I would have liked. I do not mean I needed them to be obvious or weeping at the drop of a hat but they didn't have as much inside consistently as I wanted. Pitt is solid and has easy charisma but I didn't feel for him, I didn't think he put anything into his character's heart as a result of ageing backwards. Likewise Blanchett was only strong in a few specific scenes and didn't have much to work with beyond that. The support cast are good though as we have turns from Ormound, Flemyng, Henson, Swinton, Koteas and others all doing solid work.
So perhaps it is just me. I suspect I will have the votes and the PM's to assure me how wrong I am but I cannot see this film as being more that "pretty good". No matter how impressive the technology is or how interesting the concept is, it just doesn't have enough about it in the material to really be engaging, insightful or particularly moving. It is in no way "bad" – I liked it and time moved quickly despite the length but it is just now the classic that many are calling it. A good film that could and should have been much better – don't expect more than that.


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Out of sick teen's cancer ordeal, Haiti doctors find a new way
by The Haitian Times Dec. 19, 2018 Apr. 01, 2021
Djooly Jeune, the Haiti teen who is battling Burkitt's lymphoma in a poverty-stricken country where there are few treatment options for cancer, began a new round of chemotherapy Tuesday just as two of the country's leading cancer treatment programs have agreed to collaborate on future pediatric cases.
"We are working on [an agreement] with Nos Petits Frères et Sœurs to take care of Djooly and the many Djoolys who are coming our way," said Loune Viaud, executive director of Zanmi Lasante, the Haitian medical nonprofit that runs the University Hospital of Mirebalais, where Jeune has been hospitalized since Dec. 2.
Nos Petits Frères et Sœurs, French for "Our Little Brothers and Sisters," is the nonprofit that runs St. Damien Pediatric Hospital in metropolitan Port-au-Prince, where Haiti's only childhood cancer program is housed.
Diagnosed in May with advanced cancer, Jeune, now 18, spent eight months struggling to get treatment in a broken Haitian healthcare system with poorly trained doctors, limited chemotherapy options and treatment that is many hours away on a public bus.
When his tumor failed to respond to chemo and began growing again aggressively in November, none of the medical professionals Jeune saw, including nurses at a wound care center in Port-au-Prince where he went at least twice a week to change his bandages, noticed that the large mass had ruptured and had become infected.
Jeune's plight was chronicled last month in the Miami Herald's Cancer in Haiti series, along with that of Djonsly Alcin, another Haitian teen who was fortunate enough to come to South Florida, where he's being treated for free by Baptist Health South Florida for an advanced brain tumor. The project was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.
In a country where there are only 10 pediatric hospital beds devoted to cancer — and those who have the disease often are shunned — Jeune's case had come to illustrate how the poor and powerless pay the price in Haiti for the reluctance of the country's leaders to invest in their medical system.
Today, it's also illustrating a new opportunity for Haitian doctors to collaborate on complex childhood cancer cases.
"There are many Djoolys who are dying and we don't even know them," said Dr. Pascale Yola Gassant, Haiti's leading pediatric oncologist who in 2004 founded the childhood cancer program at St. Damien.
After initially turning down Jeune's case because at 17 he was too old for St. Damien — the hospital treats children up to age 14 — Gassant decided to not only lend her expertise to his care at the University Hospital of Mirebalais, but help the teaching hospital better equip its oncology center to treat similar cases among Haiti's 11 million inhabitants.
"It's the debut of a collaboration that will allow us to start to care for those who are between the ages of 15 and 21 with cancer," Gassant said.
She noted that with 35 percent or 3.85 million of Haiti's population under the age of 15, the country can expect to see hundreds of new childhood cancer cases annually.
But with only a limited number of pediatric cancer beds for the whole country, and an age limitation at St. Damien, many of these children, especially those between the ages of 15 and 21, will have no place to go.
"If they go to Mirebalais, which isn't prepared for them, they get treated as adults. But adult treatment plans do not work for children," Gassant said.
Last week after making the two-hour trek to Mirebalais to visit Jeune, Gassant worked with the hospital's staff on how to properly care for him and mix the chemotherapy treatment she uses for Burkitt's. She returned the next day to perform several tests to see if Jeune's cancer had spread. It appears that it has not, and remains localized on the left side of his face, she said.
On Tuesday, after spending two weeks on a protein and nutrition-filled diet to strengthen him, Jeune was moved to an isolated area of the hospital to begin the new round of chemotherapy. The treatment was administered by two Mirebalais doctors under Gassant's supervision. He will need to remain hospitalized for the rest of December and possibly into January, Gassant said, to manage any possible complications.
Jeune's ordeal has rallied many to his cause. Scores have given to a GoFundme, launched by two South Florida health professionals who met Jeune during a mission trip to Haiti earlier this year. Also a U.S. pharmaceutical company, contacted by Zanmi Lasante after a similar request was turned down by a hospital, donated a cancer drug that was hand-delivered to Haiti.
In Haiti, two entrepreneurs have also come to his aid. One provided money to purchase other cancer drugs not readily available at the hospital, and another has been helping Jeune's mother, Angena Altidor, take care of three younger children by donating groceries. Altidor, an unemployed widow who has been unable to send her children to school while caring for Jeune, said she is grateful for all the support.
Gassant decided to help after becoming alarmed when she read on Twitter that Jeune was preparing to undergo surgery to "debulk" the tumor. Surgery and radiation used to be treatment options for Burkitt's lymphoma in the U.S. But in the 1980s, they were replaced with aggressive chemo and other treatments.
At the time doctors made the decision to operate, Jeune's tumor was growing aggressively, and the swelling prevented him from swallowing. He was malnourished, could barely walk and had lost a lot of weight. Meanwhile, efforts to get pro-bono cancer care for him in the United States and to get a hospital to fund a $40,000 second-line chemo treatment, were proving unsuccessful.
Refusing to accept that they had no other option but to send Jeune home to die, Viaud, with the Haitian medical nonprofit, and Dr. Maxi Raymonville, the Mirebalais executive director of the hospital, convened a meeting. They invited Jeune and his mother. Also in attendance were Dr. Joseph Bernard Jr., from Innovating Health International, another medical nonprofit involved in cancer care in Haiti; and Dr. Roger Mixter, a Wisconsin plastic surgeon who volunteers at Mirebalais and has been Jeune's biggest advocate after being asked to consult on his case earlier this year.
It was decided that Innovating Health would order the chemo from India, using the GoFundme donations., and surgery, followed by chemotherapy and possibly radiation in the neighboring Dominican Republic, were the teen's best options.
Surgery, however, never came. Jeune's ruptured tumor required immediate antibiotics to prevent him from dying from septic shock. Gassant, seeing the Dec. 4 tweet, balked and offered her Burkitt's lymphoma protocol to the hospital, which was built after Haiti's January 2010 earthquake by Boston-based Partners In Health.
Though the doctors debated which chemo protocol would be most effective given how advanced Jeune's disease is, Gassant believes that Haiti lacks the structure to manage the complications that come with some of the stronger cancer drugs. She isn't promising any "spectacular results" with Jeune, whose prognosis remains guarded.
"This is a patient who has already spent more than nine months with this disease," Gassant said of the teen, who will be administered chemo every 21 days in the hospital. "We are going to try and give him chemotherapy. Even if we don't end up saving him, we will at least improve the quality of his life."
Last week, as Raymonville visited St. Damien with some of his oncology staff, Gassant gave a tour of the hospital where the names of young cancer patients are taped to the wall above their cribs, and a waiting room doubles as the outpatient chemotherapy treatment room. Downstairs, chemo drugs are kept under lock and key, and some in quarantine after the health ministry blocked them from being used because the donated medication came with a black mark on the back of the sealed boxes.
"In cancer care, you cannot work by yourself," Gassant stressed. "It's team work. You have the doctor, nurse, social worker; there is a psychologist."
Trained as a pediatrician in Cuba, Gassant, who is Haitian, studied pediatric oncology in Guatemala. The Guatemala program was financed by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, which after Haiti's earthquake decided to support the fledgling St. Damien program. St. Jude helps with staff and cancer drugs, and pays for radiation treatments in the neighboring Dominican Republic for some young patients.. Continue reading
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Tagged: University Hospital of Mirebalais
by The Haitian Times, The Haitian Times

Out of sick teen's cancer ordeal, Haiti doctors find a new way

by The Haitian Times, The Haitian Times
December 19, 2018

Djooly Jeune, the Haiti teen who is battling Burkitt's lymphoma in a poverty-stricken country where there are few treatment options for cancer, began a new round of chemotherapy Tuesday just as two of the country's leading cancer treatment programs have agreed to collaborate on future pediatric cases.

"We are working on [an agreement] with Nos Petits Frères et Sœurs to take care of Djooly and the many Djoolys who are coming our way," said Loune Viaud, executive director of Zanmi Lasante, the Haitian medical nonprofit that runs the University Hospital of Mirebalais, where Jeune has been hospitalized since Dec. 2.

Nos Petits Frères et Sœurs, French for "Our Little Brothers and Sisters," is the nonprofit that runs St. Damien Pediatric Hospital in metropolitan Port-au-Prince, where Haiti's only childhood cancer program is housed.

Diagnosed in May with advanced cancer, Jeune, now 18, spent eight months struggling to get treatment in a broken Haitian healthcare system with poorly trained doctors, limited chemotherapy options and treatment that is many hours away on a public bus.

When his tumor failed to respond to chemo and began growing again aggressively in November, none of the medical professionals Jeune saw, including nurses at a wound care center in Port-au-Prince where he went at least twice a week to change his bandages, noticed that the large mass had ruptured and had become infected.

Jeune's plight was chronicled last month in the Miami Herald's Cancer in Haiti series, along with that of Djonsly Alcin, another Haitian teen who was fortunate enough to come to South Florida, where he's being treated for free by Baptist Health South Florida for an advanced brain tumor. The project was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.

In a country where there are only 10 pediatric hospital beds devoted to cancer — and those who have the disease often are shunned — Jeune's case had come to illustrate how the poor and powerless pay the price in Haiti for the reluctance of the country's leaders to invest in their medical system.

Today, it's also illustrating a new opportunity for Haitian doctors to collaborate on complex childhood cancer cases.

"There are many Djoolys who are dying and we don't even know them," said Dr. Pascale Yola Gassant, Haiti's leading pediatric oncologist who in 2004 founded the childhood cancer program at St. Damien.

After initially turning down Jeune's case because at 17 he was too old for St. Damien — the hospital treats children up to age 14 — Gassant decided to not only lend her expertise to his care at the University Hospital of Mirebalais, but help the teaching hospital better equip its oncology center to treat similar cases among Haiti's 11 million inhabitants.

"It's the debut of a collaboration that will allow us to start to care for those who are between the ages of 15 and 21 with cancer," Gassant said.

She noted that with 35 percent or 3.85 million of Haiti's population under the age of 15, the country can expect to see hundreds of new childhood cancer cases annually.

But with only a limited number of pediatric cancer beds for the whole country, and an age limitation at St. Damien, many of these children, especially those between the ages of 15 and 21, will have no place to go.

"If they go to Mirebalais, which isn't prepared for them, they get treated as adults. But adult treatment plans do not work for children," Gassant said.

Last week after making the two-hour trek to Mirebalais to visit Jeune, Gassant worked with the hospital's staff on how to properly care for him and mix the chemotherapy treatment she uses for Burkitt's. She returned the next day to perform several tests to see if Jeune's cancer had spread. It appears that it has not, and remains localized on the left side of his face, she said.

On Tuesday, after spending two weeks on a protein and nutrition-filled diet to strengthen him, Jeune was moved to an isolated area of the hospital to begin the new round of chemotherapy. The treatment was administered by two Mirebalais doctors under Gassant's supervision. He will need to remain hospitalized for the rest of December and possibly into January, Gassant said, to manage any possible complications.

Jeune's ordeal has rallied many to his cause. Scores have given to a GoFundme, launched by two South Florida health professionals who met Jeune during a mission trip to Haiti earlier this year. Also a U.S. pharmaceutical company, contacted by Zanmi Lasante after a similar request was turned down by a hospital, donated a cancer drug that was hand-delivered to Haiti.

In Haiti, two entrepreneurs have also come to his aid. One provided money to purchase other cancer drugs not readily available at the hospital, and another has been helping Jeune's mother, Angena Altidor, take care of three younger children by donating groceries. Altidor, an unemployed widow who has been unable to send her children to school while caring for Jeune, said she is grateful for all the support.

Gassant decided to help after becoming alarmed when she read on Twitter that Jeune was preparing to undergo surgery to "debulk" the tumor. Surgery and radiation used to be treatment options for Burkitt's lymphoma in the U.S. But in the 1980s, they were replaced with aggressive chemo and other treatments.

At the time doctors made the decision to operate, Jeune's tumor was growing aggressively, and the swelling prevented him from swallowing. He was malnourished, could barely walk and had lost a lot of weight. Meanwhile, efforts to get pro-bono cancer care for him in the United States and to get a hospital to fund a $40,000 second-line chemo treatment, were proving unsuccessful.

Refusing to accept that they had no other option but to send Jeune home to die, Viaud, with the Haitian medical nonprofit, and Dr. Maxi Raymonville, the Mirebalais executive director of the hospital, convened a meeting. They invited Jeune and his mother. Also in attendance were Dr. Joseph Bernard Jr., from Innovating Health International, another medical nonprofit involved in cancer care in Haiti; and Dr. Roger Mixter, a Wisconsin plastic surgeon who volunteers at Mirebalais and has been Jeune's biggest advocate after being asked to consult on his case earlier this year.

It was decided that Innovating Health would order the chemo from India, using the GoFundme donations., and surgery, followed by chemotherapy and possibly radiation in the neighboring Dominican Republic, were the teen's best options.

Surgery, however, never came. Jeune's ruptured tumor required immediate antibiotics to prevent him from dying from septic shock. Gassant, seeing the Dec. 4 tweet, balked and offered her Burkitt's lymphoma protocol to the hospital, which was built after Haiti's January 2010 earthquake by Boston-based Partners In Health.

Though the doctors debated which chemo protocol would be most effective given how advanced Jeune's disease is, Gassant believes that Haiti lacks the structure to manage the complications that come with some of the stronger cancer drugs. She isn't promising any "spectacular results" with Jeune, whose prognosis remains guarded.

"This is a patient who has already spent more than nine months with this disease," Gassant said of the teen, who will be administered chemo every 21 days in the hospital. "We are going to try and give him chemotherapy. Even if we don't end up saving him, we will at least improve the quality of his life."

Last week, as Raymonville visited St. Damien with some of his oncology staff, Gassant gave a tour of the hospital where the names of young cancer patients are taped to the wall above their cribs, and a waiting room doubles as the outpatient chemotherapy treatment room. Downstairs, chemo drugs are kept under lock and key, and some in quarantine after the health ministry blocked them from being used because the donated medication came with a black mark on the back of the sealed boxes.

"In cancer care, you cannot work by yourself," Gassant stressed. "It's team work. You have the doctor, nurse, social worker; there is a psychologist."

Trained as a pediatrician in Cuba, Gassant, who is Haitian, studied pediatric oncology in Guatemala. The Guatemala program was financed by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, which after Haiti's earthquake decided to support the fledgling St. Damien program. St. Jude helps with staff and cancer drugs, and pays for radiation treatments in the neighboring Dominican Republic for some young patients.. Continue reading

This article first appeared on The Haitian Times and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.


I don't have a saying or a wise introduction. Nothing dramatic. Just, here's how to grow up.
In my family, growing up was always different from maturing. Maturing was becoming an adult at an age of a teen (my sisters). It was about not pointing at what we want at the age of eight (my brother). It was about keeping to ourselves, wishing only to have what we want- a chocolate bar. It was about having good manners and being expected to be at our best behavior at age four (me). It was about never having a true childhood while growing up was searching for our independence. It was about making our own decisions for our lives. It was about doing laundry on our own time and pace. It was about whether we can keep our computers plugged in or not. It was about when can we finally set our own curfew. It was about being able to control our diet.
And today is the day I learned the difference between the two. I finally understood completely why at this moment in time, my siblings are in the same situation I was in when I first started my journey. We're all looking to live our lives in different directions and it can't be together all the time.
I believe, for the bigger part of this conversation, it'll be my parents who grow up the most with a lot of maturing along the way. It'll be about reacting like an adult. It's about not placing their expectations and needs over their child's expectations and needs for themselves. It's about being understanding to the wishes we've long wished for- a chocolate bar. LOL. It'll be about having good manners and being at their best behavior. And maturing? It'll be about being able to let go of all the control they ever had on us.
They've done it before… somewhat with the eldest. What's one more for the second eldest? And then later for me? And when my brother's ready, him too.
Growing up is accepting that not all things will remain the same while maturing is knowing that change will happen.


• Promoting peace as a prerequisite for integration, sustainable development and social progression and; • Integrating a culture of peace in public dialogues at local and international levels.
Peace has been engrained in the UN's mission as well as its Charter, various resolutions and more recently, through the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which Namibia has agreed to and localised.
The United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 72/130 on 8 December 2018 to declare 16 May the International Day for living together in Peace. The declaration recognises the importance of the Declaration and Programme of Action on Culture and Peace. It also emphasises the importance of the promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence for the benefit of humanity and future generations.
The day was observed for the first time in Namibia and recognises the need to promote peace, tolerance, inclusion, understanding and solidarity. Furthermore, it promotes reconciliation to help ensure peace and sustainable development, including by working with communities, faith leaders and other relevant actors, through reconciliatory measures and acts of service and by encouraging forgiveness and compassion among individuals.
This entry was posted in Latest News and tagged compassion, forgiveness, harmony, International Day for Living together in peace, Peace, reconcilliation, Social Justice, solidarity on May 23, 2018 by Mouton.
The International Day of Yoga, commemorated annually on 21 June, celebrates yoga as a holistic approach towards both mental and physical well-being. This year, the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) Windhoek joined over 400 people in celebrating the day by learning about yoga and performing various poses.
Both H.E. Mr. Kumar Tuhin, the High Commissioner of India and Hon. Bernadette Jagger, a Parliamentarian, emphasized the importance of yoga and the need to expose more Namibians to its extraordinary benefits at the event, which took place in Windhoek on 25 June at the Eros Primary School's sports field.
This entry was posted in Latest News, Outreach Activities and tagged exercise, health, mental health, Peace, Yoga on June 26, 2017 by Anthea Basson.
On the International Day of Peace, commemorated each year on 21 September, the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) Windhoek Team created building blocks of peace with Hermann Gmeiner Primary School grade seven learners.
This entry was posted in Latest News, Outreach Activities and tagged building blocks of peace, International Day of Peace, Peace, Peace Day, SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals on September 24, 2016 by Anthea Basson.
The International Day of Peace, or #PeaceDay, is celebrated each year on 21 September and is dedicated 'commemorating and strengthening the ideals of peace both within and among all nations and peoples'. In order to promote a culture of peace on an international scale, the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) Windhoek taught grade 7 learners at Ruimte Primary School in Rehoboth, Namibia about peace, and the students wrote letters to students in South Africa, serving as #PeacePals.
Diving into the presentation, UNIC Windhoek asked what peace means, and together, the learners provided a multidimensional definition. The learners raised their hands and mentioned that it means 'non-violence', 'love' and 'when people get along'.
Then, the topic switched to why peace is important. The learners listened intently as the UNIC Windhoek team explained that peace prevents unnecessary disputes and conflicts from happening and with that, ensures that people are not put in danger. Peace also promotes development and creates long-lasting, friendly relationships.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged #PeacePals, International Peace Day, Peace, peace pals, rehoboth on September 14, 2016 by Anthea Basson.
The Women Scholarship for Peace: Global South is an initiative coordinated by the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs at Vienna within the so-called Disarmament and Non-proliferation Partnership (DNP) of 27 organizations, all working in the field of disarmament, non-proliferation and development.
The online and in-person courses will introduce participants to key conceptual and practical aspects of topics such as weapons of mass destruction, conventional weapons, disarmament and development, gender and disarmament, as well as peace and development-related technologies.
This entry was posted in Latest News and tagged Disarmament and Non-proliferation Partnership (DNP), Peace, scholarships, United Nations, UPEACE on August 22, 2016 by Anthea Basson.


Could GM Build a Better Tesla?
The article posted at CNN Money made me chuckle.
GM says it wants to develop a car that can match Tesla's 200-mile range for less than half the price.
The goal was laid-out Monday as the company announced a $20 million investment in its battery lab in Warren, Mich. But the company didn't give a specific time frame for achieving it.
GM's car would go 200 miles between charges and cost $30,000.
It seems as though that's exactly what the Volt was supposed to do… which is only where the humor begins.
General Motors is afraid of Tesla. Maybe not to the point of being concerned that the small automaker will immediately steal sales, but scared enough to start an internal task force to study the possible impact of alternative automakers. Namely, Tesla.
The Model S costs over $60,000 and can easily go 200 miles on a charge. The General wants to provide the same range at half the price and say it has a Model S killer.
Even if GM succeeds in making an EV that goes 200 miles on a charge and costs $30,000, it won't be a Tesla killer in the same way a Chevy Cruze isn't a BMW 3 Series killer. I admire the ambition from GM, but a cheap Chevy that's on par with the Tesla?
The thought makes me laugh.
Can GM build a better Tesla than Tesla?
This entry was posted in Car Industry News, Car Minded, Domestic Cars, Electric Vehicles, General Chat, United States and tagged General Motors, GM electric car, GM Tesla killer, Tesla Model S. Bookmark the permalink.
While it wouldn't compete with the Model S, an electric Chevy that goes 200 miles and costs $30,000 would probably sell. GM is about volume, not precision. If anyone can make the volume happen on an EV like that, it's them.
Anyone who has worked R&D at GM knows that R&D is a PR tool. GM is best at mediocrity, and never leads in anything.


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Dave & Buster's Entertainment Inc. stock plummeted 21.4% in Wednesday trading after the company reported an earnings miss and negative same-store sales, and was subsequently downgraded. Dave & Buster's shares have slumped 9.2% for the year to date as the S&P 500 index has rallied 14.7% for the period. SunTrust Robinson Humphrey moved Dave & Buster's stock down to hold from buy and slashed its price target to $47 from $64. "We continue to expect a same-store sales headwind of ~400 basis points from competition and cannibalization, but no longer expect Dave & Buster's efforts to offset it," analysts wrote. Dave & Buster's attributed the same-store sales weakness to the shift in the Easter holiday, but SunTrust analysts note the launch of new attractions heading into the earnings, including a virtual reality game. "Same-store sales turned negative (~-1.8%) in the last six weeks of 1Q19, driving a same-store sales miss despite the launch of a new VR game, and remain weak ahead of lapping the VR launch last year (June 14). Without positive same-store sales, we no longer expect multiple expansion, despite strong development." Raymond James analysts acknowledge heightened competition, challenges in food and beverages, and lower margins at new, smaller format locations. But they call the stock decline "overdone" and say performance at new locations and returns are still strong. "[W]e'd suggest patient investors resist the temptation to throw in the towel on this still high margin, 10%+ unit growth story," Raymond James wrote. Analysts rate Dave & Buster's stock outperform with a $50 target price, down from $60.
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Shares of Dave & Buster's Entertainment Inc. fell more than 14% in the extended session Tuesday after the retailer reported first-quarter sales and profit that missed Wall Street expectations and tweaked its guidance lower. Dave & Buster's said it earned $42.4 million, or $1.13 a share, in the quarter, compared with $42.2 million, or $1.04 a share, in the first quarter of 2018. Revenue rose to $363.6 million from $332.2 million a year ago. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected GAAP earnings of $1.15 a share on sales of $372 million. The company said its same-store sales fell 0.3% driven by a decline in walk-in sales. Dave & Buster's said it expects fiscal 2019 revenue between $1.365 billion and $1.390 billion, versus a prior guidance of revenue between $1.370 billion and $1.400 billion, and net income between $103 million and $113 million for the year, compared with a previous expectation of profit between $105 million and $117 million. The stock had ended the regular trading day up 1.9%.
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Outdoors It's Not the Destination that Matters, But the Movie You Watch on the Way Much before I was spoilt for choice by in-flight entertainment options, I've enjoyed a dubbed version of The Transporter with a Hindi-speaking Jason Statham just as much as a double-header of Hungama and Hulchul on bus rides. As a broke college student with adventurous dreams but limited means, the movies played in the bus quickly became my favourite part of travel. Add to list
Outdoors It's Not the Destination that Matters, But the Movie You Watch on the Way
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