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Best of Web: William and Kate at the zoo
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Published Monday, May 02, 2011
Brazilian zoo name new regal tigers William and Kate
BRAZIL: A Brazilian zoo Friday signed off on their two new Bengal tigers and in a nod to their regal bearing named them William and Kate in honor of the royal wedding in England.
The big cats, a four-year-old male and five-year-old female, were acquired in a deal with an amusement park and are expected to arrive at the Rio zoo on Monday.
Authorities at the institution will be hoping the pair mate when they arrive at their new home, according to local press.
Rio's zoo, which at 66 years is the country's oldest, sprawls over an area of 138,000 square meters and houses over 2,000 reptiles, mammals and assorted birds.
Meanwhile, half a world away, Prince William and Kate Middleton were married at London's Westminster Abbey watched by some two billion viewers around the world.
Bunny gets tiny cart to cruise in
US: After discovering a teeny tiny baby rabbit abandoned by its mum in their garden, an American family realised it was paraplegic and set about crafting it an appropriately small cart-type contraption to help it get around. Cue copious quantities of cuteness.
Joe the Easter Bunny, as he was soon named, was found curled up alongside his sibling by the the O'Rourke family in Tucson, Arizona.
Clocking that the little fella didn't have the use of his hind legs and would therefore struggle to get on in the wild, the family decided to take action.
While looking after the rabbits, son Liam got to designing an ATB (All Terrain Bunny) support system, a delightful red and yellow wagon to be strapped onto the rabbit's rear.
With the help of his dad, a sketch of the contraption became a reality and Joe set about getting used to his new wheels.
'Awwwwwwwwwwww but sad also,' commented YouTube viewer LiteralGaming below video footage of Joe.
'You should just put a Superman cape on him so it looks like he's flying all the time,' said another viewer (who is now officially our hero).
'Such an brave lil bunny, I don't give a s**t if he is paraplegic or not I would still adopt him,' was the response of MrGodOfWarful, while BeaKerXD posted simply: 'CUTEST BUNNY EVER'.
Some viewers questioned the efficacy of Joe's wagon, however, with Smudge4C musing: 'This is cute and all, but this doesn't seem to be doing anything but impinging on mobility.
'He was getting around just fine before. Where can his wheels take him that he couldn't go by dragging his back legs behind him like he was doing before?
'If anything, this is preventing him from overcoming certain obstacles because there's a large, cumbersome appendage behind him.
'I'm concerned that you have not helped this rabbit at all and are, in fact, hindering him!'
TheAntiPixel then weighed in with this response: 'That is a very good point, but also if he dragged his legs everywhere he could rub them raw which can then cause an infection which could make him VERY sick or even kill him.
'You don't want a sick bunny now do you?'
Once Joe and his sibling were back on their feet, so to speak, the O'Rourkes took them to a wildlife rescue centre.
Sunny delight warms Chelsea hearts, says Ancelotti
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Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti believes his team's push towards the defence of their Premier League title has been powered by the sun.
"I don't want to joke, but when the sun comes out and the temperature is hotter, for us it's better. We suffer in the winter temperatures," said Ancelotti after Saturday's 2-1 win over Tottenham at Stamford Bridge.
"It could be a good reason to explain this. Last year, this moment was very good for us. Good home form."
Chelsea are three points behind leaders Manchester United who have a game in hand and will face Arsenal on Sunday.
Is 26 minutes the ideal length of a nap?
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US: Air traffic controllers in the US have been advised to take 26-minute naps, after a string of incidents involving workers falling asleep. So is 26 minutes the ideal length of time for a nap?
Five cases of air traffic controllers falling asleep on the job have been revealed since March.
In three of those cases, disclosed by the Federal Aviation Association, workers have been fired.
Now the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is calling for "controlled naps" to be built into night shifts.
Referring to a 1995 study from Nasa, which he co-authored, NTSB member and fatigue expert Mark Rosekind said that a 26-minute nap would improve performance by 34% and alertness by 54%.
His call for work naps is supported by the controllers' union, which wants naps to be allowed in both overnight and day shifts.
Beyond the aviation industry, combating fatigue is an issue that affects many people across all professions, working day and night, although it carries obvious risks in jobs that involve motoring or machinery.
But other experts are doubtful that 26 minutes is the optimum napping time.
It's a bit too long and risks you falling into a deep sleep, says Jim Horne, director of the Sleep Research Council in the UK, which advises the government on guidelines for drivers.
"What we recommend is that a nap is combined with a cup of coffee so you have some caffeine, and that takes about 20 minutes to kick in.
"Have a cup of coffee and get your head down. Done together it has a more powerful effect."
It probably works out that a nap of about 15 minutes is best, he says, because once you get beyond 20 minutes, you risk a deep sleep and you can be much more groggy when you wake up.
"A lot of people take caffeine after they wake up, but you have a window of opportunity of 20 minutes, so it will help you wake up. It works, there's no doubt about it."
People can't instantly fall asleep, so it's impossible to exactly time how long you will be asleep, he says. But even 15 minutes of dozing is beneficial.
"At least by having caffeine, you know that in 20 minutes you will feel more alert."
If you haven't had a wink of sleep the night before, then this tactic won't be enough to refresh you, says Mr Horne, but for those that have had merely a poor night's sleep, it will work.
Title celebrations go to Germany star's head
BERLIN: Kevin Grosskreutz had his head shaved in front of 80,000 people on Saturday as he made good a promise to undergo a first haircut since October as soon as Borussia Dortmund were crowned German champions.
After his side won their seventh league title, their first since 2002, with a 2-0 home win against Nuremberg, Grosskreutz, 22, allowed Brazilian team-mate Dede to shave his head on the pitch in front of 80,000 fans.
"I'm happy, I've never had my hair so long," said German international Grosskreutz as his side celebrated at their Signal Iduna Park stadium with the traditional beer showers.
"When I think back that three years ago I was still in the stands among the spectators and now we are German champions."
Husband poisoned by wife with antifreeze finds love...
UK: A husband who was left blind after being poisoned with antifreeze by his former wife is to marry the woman who nursed him back to health.
Lee Knight, 41, suffered liver failure and was left fighting for his life in a five-month coma after wife Kate laced his curry with the liquid in April 2005.
But love blossomed in hospital as dialysis nurse Jackie Evans spent hours each week caring for Lee after he emerged deaf and without his sight.
Jackie was among the team who looked after Lee during the long hours on a dialysis machine in the University Hospital of North Staffordshire as he waited for a transplant to replace the kidney destroyed by the attempt to kill him.
At first Jackie was only able to communicate with her patient by tracing the outline of words with her finger on the palm of his hand.
However a friendship developed between them -and their unusual way of talking to one another soon became their language of love.

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I was the bag carrier and chief organiser of getting her to the start of the race in time. The transformation of a couch potato into an athlete was driven by the cause for which she was running – her Grandmother had spent the last few months of her life being cared for in a hospice before her life was taken by cancer, so Sarah had decided to run the London Marathon to raise funds for "Help the Hospices"1. My job, apart from getting her there and home again, was to dash around the course and pop up at various places to shout encouragement – along with what seemed like tens of thousands of other supporters all crowding onto the London Underground with the same intention.
If you have never attended the London Marathon or any other big city run, you will have no idea of the logistics involved and the hugely important part played in them by the printing industry. I was to see lots of examples of different print technology during the day.
For a start, my daughter, along with 36,000 other runners had received their joining instructions the week before. A well laid out, lithography printed pamphlet with everything she needed to know. As a supporter I picked up a supporters pack, again lithography printed, because every runner had at least one supporter; most quite a number. Again the lithographic process was the optimum choice.
The team from "Help the Hospices" had about 160 runners to look after, so of course digital print was used for their communications and for the flags with the runners' names on that we frantically waved around the course. Screen printing was used for their running vests and wide format inkjet for large banners, under which we gathered at the start and at three other places around the course.
Of course "Help the Hospices" was not the only charity using the marathon to raise funds. Each of the other good causes had also put a lot of money into print in order to get their runners to the start and the money coming in from donations. Some of the communication was done with social media such as Twitter and Facebook, but without the printing industry, the event would never have got off the ground.
With such a lot of very good causes benefiting, it was great to see that print still has a major part to play in our lives and I expect it will do for some time to come.


dealership say they are still on the hook for trade-ins that were supposed to have been paid off months ago.
MESA, AZ — Customers of a Valley car dealership say they are still on the hook for trade-ins that were supposed to have been paid off months ago.
Chris Haskins traded in his SUV for a brand new Dodge Ram pickup truck from Heggs Chrysler Dodge Ram in Mesa.
According to the contract, Heggs would pay off the remainder of his loan and roll it into a new deal with them.
That was in August of 2018. He says they made a September payment. But by November he says he started getting phone calls from the lien holder about being past due.
"In a couple a days (it) dropped my credit to over 100 points," he says.
He started called the dealership but says calls were "either transferred or dropped." Haskins says messages and e-mails went unanswered until he filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau (BBB).
"They probably responded about three weeks later saying they thought they sent the check," he says.
But he says nothing changed. "No letters. No phone calls. No emails," he says.
Jody Ladd in Kingman also traded in a vehicle. She turned over her Jeep to Heggs in November of 2018.
"The December payment came and went, and came out of our checking account--still no payoff," she says.
"(We) contacted our salesman he was very blunt in saying that he doesn't do licensing and he doesn't do payoffs," she explained.
Ladd stretched her budget to pay both payments for her new truck and the Jeep that she gave to Heggs.
"I felt like they stole my Jeep," she says.
We've heard from several Heggs customers around the state who say their payoff was either extremely past due or just never happened.
We contacted the dealership and a few days later we received a call from Heggs Automotive Group owner Alvin Heggs.
He explained that he received a "lucrative offer to sell the dealership," and the decision was made to "put certain things on strategic payment." He did not elaborate on what that means but said that out of the 3,500 vehicles the dealership sells each year, "less than 60 people need to be paid off."
Heggs also said that the contract gives the dealer 30 days to payoff and it could take 60 days to show up. Let Joe Know could not find that language in the sales contract.
There is no law to specifically protect consumers in this case. Consumer attorneys tells us the industry standard is a 10-day payoff. But to enforce any part of a sale contract consumers will likely have to spend even more money and sue.
Heggs agreed to sit down with Let Joe Know for an on-camera interview to answer our questions. The next day he canceled citing advice from his attorney. We showed up hoping he'd change his mind and give customers answers to the questions they've been asking for months. He was not there.
"As we look to secure adequate financing for the dealership, my hands have been tied while I work alongside Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) in search of the ideal solution. As you can imagine with manufacturer agreements, floor plan financing, and other numerous, complex agreements - this is a tall order. In doing so, we are looking for a solutions based result that does not simply fix the "now" but ultimately better positions Heggs Auto Group for many years to come. This pains me because ultimately, I know the hurdles the dealership has faced has resulted in difficult situations for a few of our customers - the lifeblood of our business. Heggs Auto Group will work tirelessly to address each issue as it comes to our attention and resolve the matter as efficiently as possible."
After Ladd filed a dispute with her credit card company for the amount that she spent on her down payment, she says Heggs started moving.
"They needed to do some back tracking pretty quick," she says.
Heggs sent her a check for the two payments she made on the Jeep she traded-in and for registration fees she paid for but never received. The payoff would come a few weeks later.
Chris Haskins hasn't been as lucky. His trade-in was paid off more than 4 months after the deal and his credit score has dropped by nearly 200 points.
"I'm kinda stuck. I mean I don't know what to do," he says.
So how will Heggs completely restore customer's credit scores? He tells me the company has retained a credit counseling law firm to help with that. That firm was not able to confirm to ABC15 whether or not Heggs is paying for any clients to use them. Also it is unclear how a credit counseling firm would correct these particular credit problems.
Haskins is still deciding what his next step will be.
"I could sue but a $5,000 retainer fee, couple hundred dollars an hour, and it could go on for a while," he says.
When buying a car if you can't payoff the loan yourself, make sure to turn over the vehicle after your most recent payment. That will give the dealer another month to come up with the cash. You may also want to use a credit card for a portion of the down payment to give you some leverage like Ladd had.
Are you waiting for a payoff or have had your credit ruined while waiting? Let me know.


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Firestone Tires: A Complete Brand Review
October 14, 2022 March 25, 2022 by Niklas
When it comes to tires, the Firestone brand is a household name, and for good reasons. The brand has built a reputation in the mid-range tire segment for having a high standard of quality.
Firestone has earned the trust of drivers everywhere by offering several reputable options for passenger, SUV, OTR, and performance tires at competitive prices. The brand's tires offer a perfect blend of affordability and performance.
✔Durable
✔Affordable
✔Good treadwear warranties
✔Good quality for the price
❌Lower review ratings on tire models accross all categories
Tire Variety
Overall Quality
Industry Standing
In this brand review article, we will examine Firestone Tires in-depth, including the brand's history, the types of Firestone tires on the market, popular Firestone tire models, pricing, the brand's industry reputation, and customer reviews.
Firestone Tires Brand History
The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company was founded in Akron, Ohio on August 3rd, 1900 by Harvey Firestone. The company's initial focus was the production of solid rubber side-wire tires for firefighting vehicles, and later, pneumatic tires for wagons and other forms of wheeled transformation common in the early 1990s.
The company began manufacturing tires for automobiles for the first time in 1903, and within a year the company developed the first mechanically-fastened, straight-sided pneumatic tires. By 1908, they introduced the first automobile tires to feature non-skid tread designs.
Firestone is part of a group of five tire manufacturers including Goodyear, General Tire, Cooper, and BFGoodrich that originated from Akron, Ohio in the early 1900s, and eventually grew into global brands.
Harvey Firestone, the founder of the company, had a personal relationship with Henry Ford, and this led to the company becoming an OEM (Original Equipment Supplier) to the Ford Motor Company in 1906. The company delivered the first 2000 sets of tires to Ford that year, establishing a business partnership that has lasted for more than a century.
In 1988, Firestone was acquired by Bridgestone—the Japanese tire company. Now part of the Bridgestone family, Firestone remains one the largest tire manufacturers in the world with a wide variety of tire models for different types of vehicles.
Compared to its parent company Bridgestone which primarily markets premium tires, the Firestone brand is focused on the mid-range tire market. This is why Firestone tires tend to have lower tread-life warranties compared to the higher-performance, premium Bridgestone tires.
Firestone Tires Brand Values
Firestone states that its driving mission is to offer the best to its customers and society not only in terms of the quality of its products but also in all of the company's corporate activities.
The brand's mission can be summarized under the following overarching topics:
Firestone strives to utilize innovative technology to provide easier, safer, smoother, and more seamless mobility for its customers.
The company believes in creating a workplace that fosters a culture of acceptance of people from all backgrounds because it understands the importance of seeing the world through the eyes of many.
Waste Free Industry
Firestone's parent company Bridgestone runs a Tires4wardTM program for all the tire brands in the group to ensure that every spent tire that has been removed from a vehicle is recovered and put to valuable new use.
Types of Vehicles Firestone Offers Tires For
Firestone produces a wide range of tires for several vehicle brands that are meant to complement almost any driving style or road condition. Whether you are looking for tires for highway cruising, fuel efficiency, motorsports, off-road handling, and even run-flat capabilities, the brand has got you covered.
The company offers its tires for cars, trucks, and SUVs in different trim levels depending on the vehicle brand, year, make, and model. Trim denotes the name-based classification that a vehicle is marketed and sold with.
A vehicle's trim level is often branded with chrome lettering or badges on the trunk or tailgate fascia of a car or truck. Alternatively, you can enter the VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) of your car in a VIN decoder tool to find out what the trim level of your vehicle is.
Below are the different types of vehicles that are compatible with Firestone tires:
Firestone tires for passenger cars and minivans are designed to blend comfort with performance, and to hold up well over time. They also drive comfortably in wet and dry conditions.
Light trucks
Firestone truck tires are designed to be resilient enough to handle whatever you throw at them, and there are numerous options to align with your vehicle and driving style.
Freight transport vehicles
Agriculture vehicles
Fast Cars
Firestone performance tires offer exceptional sports grip, improved wet performance, and responsive handling that do justice to the company's prestigious racing heritage.
Traditional sports cars
Electric sports cars
Custom sports cars
Different Firestone Tire Types You Can Choose From
The Firestone Tire Company engineers its tires for the specific performance needs of its customers and there are six different types of Firestone tires for you to pick from. There is a perfect tire for every type of driver, and all the tires listed below are available for cars, SUVs, trucks, vans, and semi trucks.
Firestone Destination (on or off-road tires)
Firestone Destination tires will keep you moving in comfort on city streets just as they would on dirt roads. There is in-built noise reduction technology for a quiet, comfortable ride, and ultimate traction to handle wet and dry road conditions on any type of terrain.
You get the smoothness and quiet you desire on the highway and aggressive traction for the backroads that ensure you can leave tire tracks anywhere you want.
Firestone Destination tires pack the following features:
Hydro-grip technology for enhanced water evacuation in wet conditions
Mud and stone rejecter technology
Firestone Weathergrip (tires for any weather)
This all-weather touring tire is designed to keep the driver in control no matter the weather. The tires give you command of the road whether there is rain, snow, or shine.
Its features include:
Open shoulder slots that improve water evacuation
3D full-depth sipes for even wear throughout the tire's service life
Snow traction claw technology for enhanced snow traction
Firestone Firehawk (performance tires)
Firestone Firehawk performance tires are built with the company's proprietary Pulse Groove technology to provide all-season sports performance, giving you impressive control on wet roads and strong handling in snow. The tread compound used in Firehawk tires and its wide shoulder blocks provide impressive handling and cornering in dry conditions.
Wide shoulders to facilitate dynamic cornering
Pulse Groove technology to reduce the risk of hydroplaning
Improved tread design that provides 20% shorter stopping distance on wet roads
Firestone Transforce (resilient tires)
Firestone Transforce tires are built to handle heavy loads with ease. They are tear-resistant and designed with deep tread features that ensure you can keep on the road in any weather.
Chip and tear-resistant tire compound tough enough to deal comfortably with gravel roads
Innovative tread pattern that optimizes tread-to-road contact footprint to help retain optimal performance over the course of tire service life
Deep tread features for improved wet and snow traction
Firestone Champion (fuel-efficient tires)
Firestone Champion tires are built with the company's Fuel Fighter technology that enables improved rolling resistance which leads to better fuel economy.
Optimized contact footprint to evenly distribute tire pressure
Unique tire tread compound for maximum grip when breaking
Low rolling resistance for optimal fuel efficiency
Firestone All Season (durable tires)
Firestone All Season tires are designed with a balance of capabilities that ensure optimal performance in wet, dry, and snowy conditions. This is a tire you can rely on all year round.
Unique tread design for excellent traction all year long
Deep sipes for optimal performance in wet conditions
65,000-mile limited warranty
Firestone Winterforce (winter tires)
Firestone Winterforce tires are designed to handle the very worst winter weather conditions. This tire ensures you can ride comfortably in snowy, icy, and slushy conditions.
Studded tire that is pinned for 15 studs for extra grip during winter driving
Directional tread design for optimum traction
High-sipe density for reliable braking on snow and ice
Most Popular Firestone Tire Models
Firestone tires are among the most highly rated and widely available brands in the mid-range tire segment of the market. The company has multiple options from its six tire models and a few of them have emerged as the most popular Firestone tires in their categories.
We scrutinized customer reviews on sites like Simpletire.com, Tiretrack.com, and Consumeraffairs.com to arrive at the most popular firestone tires on the market.
Here are the most popular Firestone tires in three categories:
Most Popular Firestone Passenger Car Tire
Firestone All Season
The Firestone All Season passenger tire was designed to be used on coupes, sedans, CUVs, and minivans.
It is for owners that need reliable tires on the vehicle they use for commuting to work, taking kids to practice, or simply running an errand.
The tire has a 4.5/5 rating on Simpletire and Tirerack. Happy customers comment that the tire rides smoothly and quietly, and that it has great wet pavement traction.
Firestone offers 55,000-mile limited manufacturer tread life warranty for CUV intended sizes, and 65,000 miles for other sizes.
You can learn more about the Firestone All Season tires by pressing the button below
Most Popular Firestone Light Truck and SUV Tire
Firestone Destination LE2
The Destination LE2 was designed as an all-season highway tire for use on SUVs and light trucks.
The tire was built with a symmetric tread design that ensures optimum grip in dry, wet, and wintry conditions.
It is the tire you put on your vehicle when you spend a lot of time on highways or use your vehicle for hauling materials locally.
It has a 4.4/5 rating on Simpletire, and customers describe the tire as a great all-around daily driver that is quiet on the road and very good in dry and wet conditions.
The company offers a 60,000-mile limited tread life warranty on the tire.
You can learn more about the Firestone Destination LE2 tires by pressing the button below
Most Popular Firestone OTR Tire
Firestone Destination A/T
This all-terrain off-the-road tire is designed to be used on vehicles like jeeps, pickup trucks, and SUVs that require maximum traction.
The tire will keep you going whether you are driving on rocky terrain or a muddy surface.
The tire tread is built with special materials that can withstand the wear and tear that comes with off-road driving.
The tire has a 4.6/5 rating on Simpletires, and most of the customers commented about the tire's long service life (up to 60,000 miles), great tread depth, and impressive traction on wet/dry roads.
The company offers a 50,000-miles limited tread life warranty on the tire.
You can learn more about the Firestone Destination A/T tires by pressing the button below
If you're interested in checking out more Firestone tire models, their specs and reviews, you can do so here.
Average Cost of Firestone Tires
Firestone tires can be a bit more expensive than other tires in the mid-range segment of the market because of the company's established reputation for quality, but they are still much cheaper than premium tires.
Here is a list of the average Firestone tire cost for four categories:
Tire Type Average Price (range is from the smallest tires in the category to the biggest)
Passenger $87 to $288
Light Truck and SUV $149 to $389
OTR $189 to $2,659
Farm $74 to $2,000
Firestone Tires Industry Ratings
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) developed a Uniform Tire Quality Grading (UTQG) system that helps buyers rate tires on treadwear, traction, and temperature. All tires are measured against the government's standard on all three metrics.
You can find the rating for each tire on its sidewall, and it is usually a three-digit number plus two sets of letters.
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Here is an explanation of the metrics in the grading system:
Treadwear
This is the three-digit number and it compares the wear of the tire in question against a Course Monitoring Tire (CMT) that has a rating of 100. A tire with a 500 rating will last five times longer than the CMT tire.
This is the first of the two sets of letters and it measures a tire's grip on a wet surface. Tires can be rated C, B, A, and AA. Most tires are rated A.
This is the second of the two sets of letters and it measures a tire's heat resistance. Tires must be able to withstand different temperatures or tire failure could occur. Tires can be rated C, B, and A.
In the table below are three of the highest-rated, popular Firestone tire models:
Tire Model Tire Type Treadwear Rating Traction Rating Temperature Resistance Rating
Firestone All Season Passenger tire 560 A B
Firestone Destination LE 2 Light Truck/SUV 520 A B
Firestone Firehawk Indy 500 Performance tire 500 A B
Do Firestone Offer Warranties?
Yes, Firestone offers limited tread life warranty on all its passenger tire models, except for winter and other specialty tires. You can get more information from the company's warranty manuals for tires by year of purchase on the official website.
The company also offers a buy-and-try 90-day guarantee on most of its tire models. You are allowed to buy Firestone tires and test them for free for a 90-day period. If you are not satisfied with your tires, the company will replace the tire or refund you for the full cost of the tire.
Firestone Tires Customer Reviews
Customer reviews help you clarify how the tires you want to buy actually perform in real-life conditions and whether the manufacturer's hype is justified. We have compiled a few customer reviews of Firestone tires from Consumerreviews.com and SimpleTires and most customer reviews are positive.
A happy customer from Brooklyn, NY
"I bought Firestone tires for two vehicles for about a year and they drive smooth on both city and off-road terrains. The tires are a must-buy and I recommend it very much."
A happy customer from Kennewick, WA
"The tires were in my price range and I will gladly recommend them. They have been wonderful in all types of weather from hot sunny desert weather to pouring rain. Great tires from a great company."
Negative Review
Reviewer on Tiretrack
"The Firestone Champion Fuel Fighter tires were rated for 70,000 miles but became noisy after 20,000 miles and hard to keep balanced. They will never make it past 50,000 miles. I really wanted to like these tires."
We give Firestone Tires a 4.5 out of 5 rating because they are an excellent mid-range tire brand with a well-earned reputation for quality and a wide range of tires for different customer needs.
The brand doesn't match up to the reputation of Michelin, Goodyear, and other high-performance, premium brands, but it offers solid tires at competitive prices and with decent tread life warranties.
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Environmental and Isotope Geochemistry at TAMU encompasses the study of Earth's current environment, its past environments, and its chemical and isotopic make-up and geochronology. Research projects vary from studies of hypoxia in Texas coastal waters to studies of anoxia in Earth's early atmosphere. The program boasts six faculty members and four laboratories.
Graduate students from this program have lead successful careers in academia, industry (petroleum and environmental), and governmental and non-governmental agencies.


Sunderland have completed the signing of striker Stern John from Coventry.
The 30-year-old Trinidad and Tobago international has signed a two-and-a-half-year deal with the Black Cats.
John, who passed a medical and agreed personal terms this morning, becomes the sixth signing made by Roy Keane this month.
He follows Marton Fulop, Carlos Edwards, Anthony Stokes, Jonny Evans Danny Simpson as arrivals since the transfer window opened.
Past clubs: Malta Carib Alcons, New Orleans Riverboat Gamblers, Columbus Crew, Nottingham Forest, Birmingham City, Coventry City, Derby County (loan).


We had the great pleasure to welcome artist Isobel Williams in the studio during The Suspended Body workshop by Miss Eris and Maya Homerton. She spent the day on Sunday making beautiful dynamic drawings of the participants learning and doing rope.
Check out the full blog post and all the images on her blog: Boulevardisme.
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Hate it or love it, it's art. A beautiful creation.
Although it is in limited release and hard to find in cinemas, this is a film that needs to be experienced on the big screen. Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life is his 5th film in 40 years, and like his other meditative and ponderous masterpieces (The Thin Red Line and The New World), this one requires your full attention. Not because it's hard to understand, but because it's most effective when you allow the film to envelop you. To let your mind run free amongst the frames of the beautiful images and music presented to you.
The Tree of Life is a slowly paced film about a grown man (Sean Penn) who begins to reflect upon his childhood after the anniversary of his brother's death. The scenes involving Penn are merely the bookends and the bulk of the film are the memories he has of his upbringing in a nondescript 1950s American home. These are the scenes that are most effective as we experience his views of his strict but respectful father (Brad Pitt), his loving mother, his playtime with brothers and friends and his dissecting of life's questions and values. Yes it sounds pretentious and tediously boring. I can guarantee there are many who see it as so (I had about 10 people walk out of my theatre about 30 mins in). But rather than it coming off as preachy, I felt that the naturalistic approach to the filming and acting allowed for it to speak with innocence. The child actors in particular are authentic, well..children. You believe everything they say or do; every mannerism. Malick's typical camera movements and photography project a sense of documentary feel to the film. Mere glimpses of moments evoke a true sense of the memories.
The most controversial moments (when people got up and left) where the documentary BBC Planet Earth moments. There are a couple of parts (some lasting for 15 minutes), when we are just watching nature exist. Whether it's the flora in our backyard, the solar system expanding or the evolution of life in prehistoric times. In these moments, there is virtually no dialogue, only beautiful classical music sprinkled with a sentence or two of a character's thoughts. These sequences are what allows this film to be compared to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Extended moments with beautiful imagery allowing for your mind to wander and think about the themes being presented.
Summary: This film is long and requires your receptiveness and patience. The Tree of Life is not mind-blowing, but mind-encouraging; it gives you time to sit back and think. The naturalistic approach makes the memories seem like they are your own, as if you are experiencing your own past. There are many themes at work here and you have time to meditate on them all. This is a film that demonstrates how movies can be art, and much like art, you will either hate it or love it. A good film is one that allows you to be a part the experience and become lost within the presentation; it should inspire you to think. It will probably rise with another viewing, but for now this is my #179th favourite movie [on flickchart.com].


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Famous People » Alexander Nevsky
Alexander Nevsky Biography
Alexander Nevsky was the Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Kiev and Grand Prince of Vladimir during some of the most trying times in the country's history. Commonly regarded as the key figure of medieval Rus', Alexander was the grandson of Vsevolod the Big Nest and rose to legendary status on account of his military victories over the German and Swedish invaders while agreeing to pay tribute to the powerful Golden Horde. Source: Wikipedia
Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox Christianity
Alexander Nevsky Timeline
A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats Teutonic Knights in the Battle of the Ice
The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by the empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
Alexander Nevsky. (2023). The HistoryHop.com website. Retrieved 6:41pm UTC, Jan 27, 2023, from www.historyhop.com/famous-people/alexander-nevsky/bio.
Alexander Nevsky. [Internet]. 2023. The HistoryHop.com website. Available from: www.historyhop.com/famous-people/alexander-nevsky/bio [Accessed 27 Jan 2023].
"Alexander Nevsky." Bio. The HistoryHop.com website, 2023. Web. 27 Jan 2023.
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Nobody Needs to Find Armstrong a Cool Pear
While watching the two-part documentary Lance, the question constantly arises: what did Lance Armstrong actually want to achieve by opening the door to the makers over months? Was he hoping for some understanding of the mechanism that had rudely made him a seven-time winner of the Tour de France, the victories took for doping? Did he want to show how he is doing now, with his girlfriend and two children? Or suffice it: look, this is who I am?
After three hours and twenty minutes – the first part was seen on Saturday at Fox Sports, next week, on June 13, at 9 p.m., the remaining more than an hour and a half follows – you lean towards the last. Armstrong never wanted to be found a cool pear and even now he is not angling for a high ranking in the popularity poll. Even without real revelations, Lance is a magnetizing ESPN production.
Documentary maker Marina Zenovich tries patiently to gain insight into the character of her subject. She meets former teammates, managers, friends, his son, his mother, his ex and comes across a difficult to understand personality. Who he is He has so many faces.
He is blunt when he reports that Floyd Landis, the rider who released US Postal doping stories in 2010, wakes up every morning as 'a piece of shit.' "I don't think so, I know." Arrogant too. "I know it will sound terrible, but I'm relevant." Polished. When Zenovich inquires about his relationship with the now-deceased chairman of UCI cycling federation, Hein Verbruggen, he responds: 'If the question is whether I had Hein Verbruggen in my pocket, many answers are possible.
Financial? Zero. Do I believe that Hein wanted to protect the sport? Yes. Protect me? Yes. Because it protected the sport. " Disgusted. He is persona non grata, destroyed just like Marco Pantani. "And he's dead. Fucking dead! '. Other well-known packers are just welcome in the cycling world. "Fucking bullshit!"
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The course of life is still the largest part of the first part of Lance. His mother is 17 when she gives birth to him. His biological father quickly disappears from view. His stepfather raises him with a hard hand. He already hits it with a board when little Lance leaves a drawer open. Terry Armstrong admits that love fell short. "I hunted him up like an animal."
At the triathlon, 15-year-old Lance wins from refined pros. Then he already plays with the truth: he cheated with his age to be able to participate. When he first reports in the American cycling selection, he immediately drives the great talent, Bobby Julich, into destruction. He is 21 when he first uses doping. A year later, he becomes a world champion in Oslo. The following season, Jan and everyone drives past him. A miracle cure is circulating in the peloton: EPO. He yields. Italian physician Michele Ferrari handed it over. "It was rocket fuel."
The sporting career ends when testicular cancer is diagnosed. He heals after brain surgery and chemotherapy. It was a competition, he says. "With cancer as the enemy against me, the good guy." Later, he successfully founded Livestrong, an organization that collects money for cancer patients. The logo is the yellow wristband. Eighty million have been deposited.
In the second part of the documentary, the dismantling of his empire dominates and the resentful and complacent Armstrong really becomes visible. From his comeback in 1998, it immediately went back to a crescendo, with those uninterrupted Tour victories from 1999 to 2005. Gradually, the suspicion about his achievements grew and he resorted to lies, threats, and intimidation.
His statement: "No one who uses doping is honest. You are lying. In my case maybe 10,000 times. Then you think, "fuck you, don't ask me about it anymore." Betsy Andreu, the wife of teammate Frankie Andreu, who both testified that Armstrong admitted doping as early as 1996, puts it like this: "It was all about protecting a brand: Lance Inc., a cancer survivor."
Zenovich asks what he regrets most. An all-embracing excuse remains, which in his view is already quite a few. Calling his caregiver Emma O'Reilly a "whore" was "totally unacceptable." She had to throw away his syringes and apply makeup to his arms to cover up injection sites.
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At HS. our companies are always looking for the best talent to grow and scale. If you are not yet ready to found your own health-tech startup, want to intern, get some more experience in health-tech or apply your awesome skills to a growing company in the health-tech space the HS.Jobs Board lists current available positions and hires. Occasionally there is also the opportunity to come and work for HS.
HS. builds, scales and invests in the best health-tech startups. We're on a mission to tackle global health issues through technology by getting the best founders tackling the world's biggest problems.
The HS. Talent Acquisition Lead offers an enormous opportunity for immediate impact on our business, a large amount of responsibility, and a steep and continued learning curve. This isn't a conventional talent acquisition role - you'll be recruiting founders of some of the world's most important health-tech companies.
We are looking for an experienced leader in talent acquisition, with a demonstrable track record of building and managing high-performance recruiting teams and creative implementation of talent strategy. The Talent Acquisition Lead will be solely responsible for leading the team who ensure the best talent from across the globe is found, attracted and applies to HS. We'll train you on the HS. way of doing things and specialised knowledge, but very soon you will be the expert locally.
Manage and grow the Talent team, responsible for the delivery of the talent acquisition pipeline end-to-end.
Localise and implement overall Talent strategy. You'll continuously transfer knowledge and sharing learnings on what requires local adaptation.
Work directly with the Exec Team to execute local talent strategy according to company goals.
Direct and track both high and low touch recruitment efforts to measure effectiveness.
Conduct weekly check ins with Talent team members, set quarterly team goals (OKRs) and lead weekly goal-setting meetings.
Report weekly on key metrics and team performance.
Build a strong talent brand stemming from HS.'s overall brand vision.
Lead and manage Partner Programmes with universities, students and communities.
Lead bi-annual review cycle for the team.
Hiring and growing the team.
Drive for results - you create focus, consistently measure performance against goals and evaluate results.
Pipeline Management - you're analytical and think in terms of pipelines. You dig deep to make improvements at every stage.
Upward management/reporting - you create tight feedback loops and can present clear headlines to important stakeholders. You know when the detail is needed.
Problem-solving and planning - you instinctively anticipate and adjust for problems and roadblocks. You solve them with logic.
Influencing and closing - you know how to set specific goals which lead towards desired outcomes and have a good sense of timing.
Building and managing high-performance teams - you've had experience setting stretch goals for multiple direct reports and proven experience delivering results.
You're great at giving continuous feedback and getting the best out of your team and share wins.
Pipeline-driven workflows - you're familiar working with high-volume pipelines, leads, pass rates, and engagement metrics. You're familiar making short-term and long-term ROI decisions.
Senior Sales or Talent role - you have been a manager in either a sales or recruitment team in a high-growth organisation.
Tech talent insights - you have an understanding of the tech talent landscape and know who the big players are.
Startup knowledge - you've worked with or for startups and have a good view of the local ecosystem.
A strong network to universities corporates is a bonus.
Motivating others - you enjoys developing people and purposefully connecting their work to the larger mission.
Proactive - you don't delay action pending instruction or permission.
Data-driven - you're obsessed with data and making decisions based on empirical information.
Creative - you can come up with new and unique ideas, and make connections among previously unrelated notions.
Storyteller - you can sell a vision and get people bought into our strong beliefs.
You're driven to solve problems and make a real impact.
Excellent interpersonal skills, be comfortable engaging in conversation to a high technical bar and be a confident public speaker.
An interest in technology and startups is essential.
'Hands-on' work ethic - we are looking for people who just get things done and actively seek ownership.
This is an important role for HS. You will receive a base salary of circa £50k/year + options, on top of significant upside via returns in our funds' profits. We want you to live comfortably, but be incentivised by great outcomes for the portfolio of companies.
Supercharge your learning - you'll have a very steep learning curve and work in a talented, ambitious, and committed team of specialists.
If you are interested in this role apply here by submitting your CV alongside telling us why you're the best person for the position.
The HS. Talent Team is responsible for finding and selecting the world's best talent and health-tech founders. We are looking for someone to help us attract the top computer science and engineering researchers, both from academia and industry. You will help the next generation of health-tech founders realise why they should start a health-tech company.
You'll get to work side by side with the HS. team, our Venture Partners, our Science Partners and be able to make a huge impact in tech, business and health.
Some of our best companies have been built by PhD students and postgraduate researchers turning their work into commercial ventures or utilising their unique skill set on novel hard problems. It takes a deep understanding of the academic sphere to engage researchers in the idea that starting a company is an attractive career path to maximise the impact of their research. In this role you'll be spending a lot of time talking to the world's best computer science and engineering PhD students about their ideas and research.
Sometimes though, the work won't be glamorous - there will be times when we all have to mop up beer stains after an event. What we can guarantee however, is that no two days will be the same and every small task is a crucial puzzle piece in HS.'s growth and success. You'll help to build out critical parts of the business; we have big plans and we need high-performance ambitious individuals to help us get there.
Sourcing and engaging postgraduates - one of your main research tasks will be to help us identify top postgraduates who we should talk to. You'll be responsible for building a funnel of promising PhD students and postdocs who thinking about startups. This involves setting up meetups, organizing dinners and events, going to conferences etc.
Customer development - to make sure we give postgrads who join us the best experience, we expect you to become an expert in their specific wants and needs. Customer development should be data driven - we expect you to be comfortable shaping a recruitment strategy based on previous data points.
Selection and interviews - we interview hundreds of EF applicants over the course of the year. You'll be involved in the selection process and help us select the best candidates.
Relationship management - we've built relationships with Europe's leading universities, research institutes, journals and academics ranging from our Science Partners, CERN, Nature, MENSA and many more. You'll own these relationships and make sure they help us find the next group of founders with exceptional research careers.
Data analysis - we're a data-driven organisation, and we'll look to you to pull out the most interesting insights for our postgraduate outreach strategy.
An outstanding academic track record and an armour of impressive achievements.
Familiarity with basic data science, as you'll do a lot of analysis.
Startup experience, either as founder or early employee.
You'll become an expert in commercializing research. You'll gain in-depth knowledge of what kind of research is ready to go to market, which emerging technologies are ripe for commercialization, and how the investment landscape works. You'll be at the edge of technical research as you'll be in close contact with leading professors in fields ranging from robotics to cybersecurity.
The opportunity to deepen your knowledge of what great founders look like, and what makes early-stage deep technology companies successful.This role is especially interesting if you're looking to start your own company in the future.
Training, mentoring, and feedback from the start; your development matters to us. We'll help you draw out what this looks like from the start and adapt if needs be along the way. There are a multitude of career growth options that this role could lead to.
Exposure to a very large, credible network (including some of Europe's top startup founders, investors, and officials).
Regular opportunities to travel around Europe.
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Newswise — A microencapsulation method, developed by OIST researchers, can help to overcome major challenges in pancreatic islet transplantation.
Production and secretion of insulin occur in the pancreas — an endocrine gland in the digestive system. Cells secreting insulin are clustered in pancreatic islets. Despite their crucial role in organismal wellbeing these islets comprise only a few percent of the pancreatic tissue. The islet transplantation does not require major surgical intervention and is often done under local anaesthesia. It is also cheaper and might be safer than transplantation of the entire pancreas. Unfortunately, so far, only human islets can be transplanted and their supply is but a trickle.
The novel technique employs a droplet microfluidic device to encapsulate pancreatic islets in hydrogel made of alginate, a natural polymer extracted from seaweed. These capsules have a unique microstructure: a porous network and considerable amount of non-freezable water. There are three types of water in the hydrogel: free water, freezable bound water, and non-freezable bound water. Free water is regular water: it freezes at 0°C, producing ice crystals. Freezable bound water also crystallises, but the freezing point is lower. Non-freezable bound water does not form ice due to the strong association between water molecules and the hydrogel networks. Hydrogel capsules with large amounts of non-freezable bound water protect the cells from the ice damage and reduce the need for cryoprotectants — special substances that minimise or prevent freezing damage and can be toxic in high concentrations.
The microencapsulation method can help to overcome some major challenges in pancreatic islet transplantation, including the scarcity of available islets and the lack of simple and reliable control methods, especially for individual islet assessment. It offers hope to patients suffering from type 1 diabetes to return to a "normal" life, free of insulin injections.


A minor departure from our normal topics today but one that bears some investigation. Our European visitors will doubtless have heard of Ryanair's current flight cancellation drama, with pilots seemingly abandoning the airline for greener pastures (Norwegian seem to have been fishing for Ryanair's pilots with a rather large net) and their leave being mismanaged by the company. Several people found out their flights had been cancelled, by text, while they were at the airport waiting to board! The company says that there's a backlog of holiday to be taken and they've made a mess of sorting it out, but here's the thing – it's a problem entirely of their own making.
Here's the kicker – it's not all what you or I would call leave. Ryanair's pilots are often not employed by the airline….they're effectively self employed through another company with the effect that under Irish law they cannot work for 12 months continuously. This forces each pilot to take an unpaid month off so that Ryanair can claim they're self employed and the airline doesn't have to contribute to the tax, pension, healthcare and welfare systems in the countries that person lives and works in. Sound familiar?
Oh, and have a listen to this conversation between a radio presenter and a former Ryanair pilot. It sounds astonishing. Do you still think this is a good way to fly?
*Notices to Airmen – it's how they know if a runway is out of use or there's an airshow, for example.
Next Monarch Airlines on the edge…again!


Time For Mom Retreat is operated by Moms Achieving Purpose [MAP]. These terms and conditions, together with the sales page form the agreement between you and Moms Achieving Purpose. By booking a retreat ticket, you accept these terms and conditions.
2.1. Participants on a Mom Retreat should be 18 years or over.
2.2. An application by you for attendance on a Moms Achieving Purpose Retreat may be subject to written acceptance by MAP. MAP reserves the right to refuse an application for attendance.
2.3. In order to get the most from the MAP Retreat, you should ensure you arrive promptly and attend each session in full.
2.4. Where your conduct is unacceptable (in the reasonable opinion of MAP), we reserve the right to request that you leave the MAP Retreat. No refund of fees will be made.
2.5. MAP will be entitled to change the venue and make minor changes to the timing and content of any MAP Retreat. In the unlikely event we have to replace our speaker, we shall make every effort to ensure the replacement speaker has similar expertise to the one advertised.
3.1. Deposits are non-refundable except as set out under Refunds and Cancellations or where your application to attend a Moms Achieving Purpose Retreat is not accepted by us.
3.2. Following acceptance of your application, you must pay the full amount of the fees in accordance to the automated payment plan before the start of the Moms Achieving Purpose Retreat.
3.3. If fees are not paid by the due date, MAP will be entitled to reallocate your place. You shall remain liable for the fees although we may, at our discretion, refund you a proportion of the fees where we have been able to reallocate your place.
3.4 Any extra drinks or food bought, and extra fees incurred at the retreat will be covered by you and not MAP.
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In November 1941 around 5,000 Roma mainly from the Austrian federal province of Burgenland were deported to Łódź (Litzmannstadt), where a separate 'gypsy camp' was set up within the 'Jewish ghetto'. Within a matter of weeks more than 700 people fell victim to the atrocious living conditions and the outbreak of a typhus epidemic. In December 1941 and January 1942 the remaining inmates were all taken to the Chełmno extermination camp and asphyxiated in gas vans.


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Chemins de Castor

               Ajoutez 614 flèches au diagramme pour que :

Castor puisse aller à tous les autres cercles.

Castor passe au maximum par deux flèches pour aller à un cercle.

Castor passe au maximum par trois flèches pour aller à un cercle.

Chaque cercle a au maximum deux flèches qui en partent.

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Solution

Il y a beaucoup de solutions possibles. En voici par exemple deux :

Il y a beaucoup de solutions possibles. En voici par exemple deux :

Il y a beaucoup de solutions possibles. En voici une :

C'est de l'informatique !

Ces questions introduisent une notion fondamentale en informatique : les arbres binaires.

Il s'agit d'une structure dans laquelle, en partant d'un cercle
            appelé la racine le d'arbre (et placé en général tout en haut du schéma),
            on peut rejoindre tous les autres cercles en suivant des chemins où à chaque
            étape on a exactement deux directions possibles.

La solution que nous proposons pour la version simple n'est pas un arbre binaire. En revanche, c'est le cas des solutions des 2 versions plus difficiles, car les règles proposées obligent à dessiner un arbre binaire

Regardez l'arbre représenté dans la solution de la version difficile.
            En partant de la racine (le cercle avec castor), on peut atteindre les 14 autres cercles en suivant 3 flèches ou moins.

Si on avait le droit de suivre 4 flèches, on pourrait atteindre 30 cercles différents. En gros, à chaque fois que l'on rajoute une flèche, on peut atteindre environ deux fois plus de cercles.

Cettre structure d'arbre est très utilisée en informatique, car elle permet de ranger des données selon une certaine logique et ensuite d'accéder très rapidement à toutes ces données.

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The current President of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), Dr. Alan Trounson, will be leaving the agency in the near future to have more time with his family back in Australia.
As a result, CIRM will need a new President at a critical juncture in its history with only about 4 years of funding left. This new leader ideally will guide CIRM not only in the present but also during its transition to become whatever its identity will be in 2017 and beyond. There are probably only a handful of people in the world who are qualified for this job.
CIRM is in the process of scheduling the first meeting for this committee.
Any thoughts on who the top candidates for the new CIRM President might be?
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Crucial decision as the choice will set policy and procedure in place during the tenure of the appointee and probably beyond. Besides, obviously, the know-how and wherewithal, it is essential that the person have top-notch communicative skills as getting the message out there and winning over hearts and minds is paramount to the stem-cell movement – in terms of policy and in terms of funding.


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REFORM IS ТО BE.
1) In November 2000 there was established the Interagency Commission, which developed a project of "The Railway Transport Structural Reform Program". Recently presented for discussing, this project includes three phases of the industry structuring that will last up to 2010. First phase - 2001 to 2002, second - 2003 to 2005, and the third - 2005 to 2010. Now it is clear to everyone that government and economic functions (currently both realized by the MRS of Russia) must be separated as soon as possible. Hence it is need to establish an economic unit, which would be able to meet the challenge related with building up the competitive environment in the industry during next phases.
2) For the reform the railway industry can have four financial sources:
• cost reducing due to increasing the efficiency of the industry;
• state supporting;
• private investments;
• direct railway rate increasing.
3) At the first phase, it is more effective to establish a one and indivisible company - RAS " The Russian Railways". Then there will be examined issues of extracting from the company some individual units of the competitive environment. All changes, e.g. operation cfficiency, must be in favour of rolling stock owners who are not railway workers. More than a half of cars must be property neither the MRC nor the RRW. ( the MRC - the Ministry of the Railway Communications)
4) We often try to compare effectiveness of Russian railway transport with performance of American and European railway administrations and systems. Quite often mentioned figures are unlikely. Yet in reality, a service price (i.e. revenue rate per unit of completed task) at railways of Russia is very low. Working with profitability, incurring enormous social load (which, for example, U.S. railways not incur), we have prices 3.5 times as less as they do. Carriage by our rail is even lower than by China or India ones.
Though operation conditions in those countries and Russia – with our winter frost weather and changing it in summer hot one – are noticeable not the same.
5) So we should like to increase labour productivity and strive to the level of American railways. By the end of 2005 it will increase as much as two times.
6) Also we shall increase the rate of wagon turnover more than by a day (turnover must be less than seven days), increase a locomotive run up to 2000 km.
*7) Today the industry works in intricate conditions. Up to 30 per cent technical facilities outlived their lifetime. Along with it the wear-out of diesel locomotives is more than 70 per cent, elcctrical locomotives - 60 per cent, and motorcar sections - 50 per cent. Communications and blocking systems are physical aged and their wear-out is 56 per cent.
8) Elefctrification and power supply system wearing-out is more than 51 per cent. There are track facilities; their wearing-out is up to two thirds of the lifetime. So railways have to provide more and more increasing flows of passenger and cargo traffic without increasing in rolling stock fleet and cutting down their operation quotas.
9) By this time, current native trunks system of traffic management and existing infrastructure do not allow to come on optimal performance characteristics to succeed self-supporting both operation costs and rolling stock. The same concerns to locomotive crews.
10) Thus, in new environment, an immediate task of the quality traffic management is increase of rolling stock and infrastructure productivity due to push aside from traffic technology all obstacles concerned with present department, railway line, and region bounds.


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Q: Multiple (top) custom axes I'm discovering TeeChart for .Net winform; very good product.
I want to compare two or more sets of values for different periods. For example the temperatures of February and those of April. Thus I use my left axis for the temperature and want a x-axis for each month, z-stacking the charts. It actually works pretty "straightforwardly" except that the custom horizontal axis (for the dates) are drawn over each others. I would obviously like them to stack vertically.
I saw in some screenshots related to other problems on forums that it is possible. I am wondering if there is an already implemented parameter for this or do I need to override an axis event and do it myself?
PS: here is an illustration of what I currently have:

A: I'm not 100% about what you need to achieve here but probably you need to customize the position for each axis. You'll find some basic information about this in Tutorial 4. The All features\Welcome !\Axes section in the features demo may also be of help. Tutorials and features demo are available at TeeChart's program group. For a more complex and advanced example you can look at this forums thread.
If this doesn't help don't hesitate to let me know.


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