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Our DENIM navy harness is trendy, and we are sure that it will become an inseparable element of your joint trips.
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Have you checked the spark plugs? What's your mileage?
I replaced mine last week (and air filter) with 118,000 KM and it fixed the stumble/hesitation leaving a stop.
(15-04-2019 08:05am)carlos50 Wrote: Tried the reset, it didnt cure the problem. I also changed the MAF sensor last week, its helped, as has the new air filter, 99 octane fuel, a bottle of Techron fuel treatment etc. but still have a definite problem with anything but the lightest throttle use.
If you're using 99 octane fuel in a SD4 engine or changing spark plugs, you've got a major problem!
Santorini SD4A Dynamic Lux with shadow chromes, ebony leather and privacy glass.
He doesn't Tim. In fact, this was his last post.
(29-07-2013 12:20am)Stufrost Wrote: OK -Useful feedback. I'm going to buy the 'chip my diesel' chip at A$400. Don't feel I should have to given its a problem that shouldn't be there and the car's just a year old but I'll do it anyway and let you know the results on these pages.
Edit: Ah, just read the whole 'SD4 Engine flat spot' thread. Just seen Carlos 50's post. He wasn't the OP but jumped in on the thread later. I didn't see his first post in this thread stating what engine he had.


GreenAlloys™ have extremely low lead content, often as low as .05%. Concast produces a wide selection of these alloys, which offer exceptional lubricity, tightness, wear, strength, hardness and machinability — without the health risks commonly associated with lead.
It may come as a surprise to some consumers, but lead is commonly used in household plumbing and water service lines. Lead in fixtures, especially those made of brass or chrome-plated brass can leach into drinking water.
Naturally, because of the pressure to keep pace with the safe health and environmental demands, the switch to lead-free alloys is gaining momentum around the world. For nearly a decade, the electronics, plumbing, and construction industries have been switching to safer alternatives, rather than using lead-based alloys. Most recently, California adopted legislation stating that all plumbing fixtures installed in the state by 2010 must be lead free. Additionally, other states are considering whether to follow in the same path as California.
Always ahead of the curve, Concast's current product lines meet the 2010 legal requirements. A group of alloys, which include C89831 and C89844, are produced using a patented process in which lead is replaced with bismuth to create pressure-tight plumbing fittings and fixtures. It also has excellent machinability. Concast is one of the few continuous cast foundries in the nation that produces this series of lead-free copper alloys.


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Customs seizes 300 bags of imported rice in Borno
March 13, 2019 Business, News
By Hamza Suleiman
The Borno-Yobe Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), on Wednesday said it seized a truck conveying 300 bags of imported rice in Borno.
The Zonal Controller of the Command, Abdullahi Biu, made the disclosure in an interview in Maiduguri.
Biu disclosed that the truck was intercepted by men of the command along Bama-Banki Road on March 5, following intelligence report that it was conveying imported rice concealed with animal feeds and charcoals.
He added that the driver was arrested while trying to escape.
The commander listed other seized items to include; smoked fish, soap, rice, maize, sesame seeds and soya beans, noting that the items were used for to conceal the rice.
Biu also said that that the command recorded significant progress in securing the land borders in spite Boko Haram insurgency in the region.
"The command generated more than N136 million representing 99.1 per cent of the 2018 revenue target, in spite of Boko Haram insurgency.
"We also recorded nine seizures with cumulative duty paid value of N283 million within the period, only three of the 15 border posts were operating on skeletal, " he said.
He, however, said that activities of insurgents on trades, businesses and security agencies in Gamboru-Banki and Gaidam axis, had negatively affected revenue of the command.
Biu said that the ban imposed on importation of dry fish and livestock also led to the drop in revenue.
He said that the command was working in collaboration with the military, police, other security agencies and trade associations to secure the borders and improve revenue. (NAN)
11 killed in Gamboru bomb blast
January 4, 2018 News
By Ahmed Miringa, Maiduguri Eleven person including the suspected suicide bombers weree killed at a Mosque in Gamboru Ngala about a hundred and forty kilometres from the capital.away from Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.. According […]
NSCDC discovers $144,000 counterfeit currencies in Borno
September 28, 2018 News, Security
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Maiduguri Command, says it discovered counterfeit currencies, amounting to 144,000 US dollars in an uncompleted building at Shagari low cost in Borno. The Commandant of the Corps, […]
APC warns against hijack of Buhari's campaign in Borno
December 27, 2018 Politics
The Borno state chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Ali Dalori, has warned against hijack of President Muhammadu Buhari re-election campaign activities by some individuals in the state. Dalori gave the warning while […]

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Oxford Maintains Research Excellence Framework Leadership
University of Oxford maintained its position at the top of the Research Excellence Framework league table following the first results in six years.
Funding your UK Studies
ASIS has reached agreement with Credila Financial Services, a part of HDFC, to provide educational loans to students wishing to study at ASIS Schools in the UK or British Universities.
University of Oxford tops New York Times Employability Index
Five UK universities placed in the Global Employability University Rankings for 2014, with University of Cambridge finishing first!
Wales and Scotland University Guide 2014-15
More and more students are choosing to study in Wales and Scotland because of the high class universities and beautiful landscapes. Find out why.
Four Scottish Universities in World Top 200
Scotland continued to perform excellently in the THE World University Rankings for 2015 with four universities placed in the top 200.


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Q: Can I make requests from an extension without requesting  permission? I am generally wary of extensions that request the <all_urls> permission.
I've had to reluctantly use it in my own extension as I couldn't find any other way to do a simple web-request without being hit by CORS restrictions.
I don't understand why these restrictions apply to extensions?
Presumably there's a good reason.
But I don't need to snoop on requests in transit - this extension is a devtools-extension, and in terms of observing requests, it gets what it needs from chrome.devtools.network API and doesn't need the <all_urls> permission for that.
I had to enable <all_urls> solely so I could make an outgoing request here.
Is there a different way to avoid the CORS restrictions for a simple outgoing web-request?
A less "drastic" permission that doesn't seem as scary to end users?

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Événement sportif international en Équateur
Compétition multisports en 1998
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Video Games Gave Him The Chance To Prove He Is American
Video games aren't what kept José Muñoz in his parents' basement for much of the past seven years, slipping into…
My first job out of college, I was fired. I used two words with my editor that proved career limiting. I have quit…
Guacamelee! is coming to the Wii U, PS4, Xbox One and Xbox 360 as Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition. This version includes all previous DLC for the game and adds some new levels and boss battles. No word yet on a release date, other than "coming soon."
Kids' 'Call of Duty Bomb' Gets Their Neighbors Evacuated at 3 a.m.
Some kids in Pennsylvania made a prop bomb they were using when they played a real-life game of Call of Duty out in…
Titanfall Will Add Paid DLC—and a Season Pass to Get It All
Titanfall will get both free and paid downloadable content, and the latter will be available through a season pass…
Peggle 2 launches on Xbox 360 on May 7, Popcap said this morning. This version of the game will add a multiplayer Duel Mode.
The maker of Battlefield 4 has posted another long account of what it is doing to fix problems in the game. "We are working on fixing glitches in your immediate interactions with the game world: the way you move and shoot, the feedback when you're hit, and the way other players' actions are shown on your screen."
Carmen Sandiego and Myst Among Huge Collection Donated to Museum
The original publisher of household names such as Myst, Prince of Persia and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego…
Fez is coming to all PlayStation platforms on March 25. Polytron's indie hit is a cross-buy offering, meaning the copy you buy for PS3, PS4, or PS Vita is good on all the other devices, and save files may be shared among them.
Cortana has a Different Look on the Windows Phone
Cortana, the digital consigliere coming to Windows Phone 8.1, won't be represented by the light blue apparition of a…
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The Week in Games: Humble Folks Without Temptation
This week we're going down to South Park to have ourselves a time. Other releases include the next episode of The…
Jon Bois of SB Nation, famed for his "Breaking Madden" series, tried to create a basketball game with Garry's Mod. You can see the ... results here.
Imagining Lyrics to Metroid
Video games comedian Brentalfloss has had a long-running "What if video game songs had lyrics?" gag. His first, Mega…
Twitch Plays Pokémon is back, and now they're playing Pokémon Crystal. I know the feeling, and the need to keep your friends together and a good thing going. But it's never as good as the first time. Still, if you want to watch, here it is. Read more
Here's a Song Made From Jeff Goldblum's Ridiculous Jurassic Park Laugh
So, first, watch this, which is Jeff Goldblum (as chaos theory mathematician Ian Malcom) snickering? chortling?…
Danish Firm Buying Duke Nukem's Original Studio [Update]
3D Realms, the beleaguered original developer of Duke Nukem Forever, will be acquired by a Danish firm that had been…
Reminder: No 'Shop Contest today, if you're looking for that. Owen's not here next week.
Sunday Comics: Served With a Smile
Welcome to Kotaku's Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the…
Kotaku 'Shop Contest: Sonic Bust 2: The Winners
My final Kotaku 'Shop Contest began with a rehash of Sonic and it ends with my two favorite artists, sciteach (left)…
Take the Bloody Shot with Skyfall Recreated in Grand Theft Auto
Over on the subreddit GTA Adventures there's a weekly challenge to film a recognizable scene from a movie. Up this…


The ease and accessibility of starting an online business is everywhere these days.
While there may be a million reasons to start an online shop, it seems like there are also about a million things that need to go right in order for it to become at least mildly profitable.
Here are some of the ugly lessons that I've learned on my way to designing my website, YourSwimBook.com.
1. Test across every device. Especially mobile.
One of the problems I had when putting my website together was that it was done on a desktop. Every time I hit preview on my site, it was done on a large, wide monitor.
As you can see, a wild majority of the traffic coming to my site is on a mobile device, over 70%.
When designing, creating and building your site and checking functionality through the sales funnel don't lose sight of the mobile mindset. This means checking how it looks and functions across all the popular mobile devices and browsers, and not just your designing browser of choice on your desktop.
2. No matter how devoted your fan base, trust signals matter.
How many times have you gone to a website, looked around, and thought twice about punching in your payment details? If you are like most customers, often.
Some research done by Actual Insights found that 76% of participants said trust logos affected their sense of trust in a particular website.
Adding trust logos to your sales page, cart page, and checkout page. For larger websites and businesses this isn't much of an issue, as there is some ingrained trust along with the brand name, but for smaller online stores this kind of trust (or lack thereof) can be a serious difference maker.
3. Make checking out a breeze.
The ease and access that the internet provides has spoiled us in a lot of ways. When we see something we want we expect to be able to purchase it right away, so when you are prompted to fill out a series of fields that don't seem immediately applicable to your purchase, it creates needless resistance and friction in the purchasing process.
I'm not a fan of registering for things online, so why would I ask customers to do so as well?
Not forcing customers to register an account before purchasing something. Allow them to check out as a guest, or pitch them an account sign-up after they have purchased.
Giving them a visual representation of how far along the checkout process they are. This one is super easy–throw together a couple quick graphics that give customers a "you are here" bearing when they are checking out. As mentioned, the ease of the internet has made people weary of hoop-jumping, so make usability seamless and without surprises.
"You are here" checkout graphic. Easy as 1-2-3!
Adding a radio button to subscribe to the newsletter is easy enough, and exceptionally unobtrusive.
By the time I had put together my first long form sales page it was 3,000 words of highly charged copy. It had all the guarantees, multiple CTA's, testimonials, and (eventually) the aforementioned trust signals.
Additionally, there were lots of high quality images of the product itself.
Because people can't physically touch it, or go to a local store to put their hands on my product, it was important to load the sales page up with vivid images. The only thing I didn't think about when doing this was that photos, when not properly optimized, increase the page size very quickly. Oops.
Google has hinted that page speed matters (evidenced by the fact they encourage developers and web builders to test and improve on it with Google PageSpeed Insights). How much of a role it plays in rankings is a matter of speculation, but even intuitively we know that slow websites stink.
The numbers on slow sites aren't very forgiving, according to research done by Akamai and Gomez.com showing that 79% of web visitors won't come back to a website that is experiencing speed issues, with users tending to abandon the site altogether if it takes longer than 3 seconds to load.
We want page speed, and we want it now!
Despite how easy a lot of online retailers and marketers make it look, building and maintaining an e-commerce shop is hard work.
After all, it's not enough to have a great product and a great pitch–you need to have the technical and UX fundamentals in place in order to insure a smooth purchasing experience for customers.


In Martin Limón's The Wandering Ghost, it's the early 1970s and a female MP is AWOL from the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Or is she? Maybe she's been kidnapped. Maybe she's been raped and murdered. Nobody knows for sure, but Sergeants George Sueño and Ernie Bascom aim to find out. Oh, and while they're at it, they're looking into another soldier's supposed suicide, a stripper on the run, an overactive black market and the wandering ghost of a schoolgirl killed by a speeding army truck.
The fifth in Limón's Sergeants Sueño and Bascom military mystery series, The Wandering Ghost has been racking up some heady praise. The Wall Street Journal says it's "full of sharp observations and unexpected poignancy." The New York Times says "Limon writes with … wonderful bleak humor, edged in pain, about GI life." Fans don't usually bother with such flowery praise, they just gobble up the books as soon as they hit the shelves.


Two of three men snowmobiling west of Faro fell through the ice this week and one man did not resurface.
A 36-year-old Alberta man is missing after a snowmobiling excursion west of Faro.
Ross River Faro RCMP were notified around midnight on Tuesday two of three men snowmobiling on Drury Lake 60 kilometres west of town had fallen through the ice.
One of the men could not be found.
Yukon Search and Rescue, alongside ice rescue technicians from the Whitehorse Fire Department were dispatched and searched the lake a few hours later.
After aerial and water searches of the area, there's been no sign of the missing man.
Police are calling the situation a presumed drowning.
More attempts at recovering a body will be made later this week, with the assistance of the BC RCMP Underwater Recovery Team.
RCMP are warning residents to use caution around all bodies of water this time of year, as it may seem the ice is frozen, but is not.


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By the late 1920s Lanchester's finances were not in the best of health, so much so that in January 1931; the company's bank left Lanchester the limited options of either bankruptcy or amalgamation with Daimler. Not surprisingly the latter course was chosen, one favoured strongly by Daimler which was keen to expand sales at the lower end of the automobile market. Lanchester duly moved location to Coventry where low level production of the Lanchester Straight 8, the last of George Lanchester's designs for his own company, continued until 1932. The previous year, however, it had been joined by the 2 1/2 litre, straight six engined 15/18 saloon, the first new model following this merger of two of England's most respected motoring marques. This was a comprom


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Murdock: "I love it when you're angry."
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Episode Guide - S01E12 - The Beast From The Belly Of A Boeing
S01E12 - The Beast From The Belly Of A Boeing
Original Air Date: 03-May-1983
Director: Ron Satlof
Writer: Patrick Hasburgh
Cast: Jackson: Andrew Robinson. Thomas: Alan Stock. Hertzog: Jim McKrell. Trigg: Michael Swan. Phillips: Jesse D Goins.
Review: I love this episode. A plane is hijacked and the plane company hire the A-Team as they have warned not to get the FBI or police brought in. The A-Team try to retake the plane. Again another funny episode with B.A. actually having to accept he is on a plane, but at least Murdock is not flying!
Rating (Out of 10): 10
B.A. "I thought you said you wasn't crazy any more?"
Murdock "Only on paper."
Murdock "Well make up your mind. First i'm crazy, then i'm not, then i'm crazy, then i'm not. She loves me, she loves me not."
Murdock "No good sire, this doctor has released me because i am sane. I have the papers and everything. Let me show you my release papers. You see, sane, S.A.N.E, sound, sensible, wise, rational, useid, prudent, reasonable!"
BOOKS » A-Team War Stories
A collection of four action-packed standalone prequel stories to this summer's most anticipated movie! Co-written by Chuck Dixon (G.I. Joe) and Erik Burnham (Nanovor: Game Day), A-Team: War Stories gives fans a look at the team before it was a team, showcasing individual wartime adventures of Hannibal, B.A., Murdock, and Face. Together or alone, one thing is guaranteed when these four are involved: high-explosive excitement!


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"No. 1 Giants Fan" Shows Off "The Hat"
By Emily Bockian and Christina Loren	• Published April 13, 2015 • Updated on April 13, 2015 at 12:00 pm
A baseball fanatic who describes herself as the "No. 1 Giants fan" came out before the sun rose on Monday morning to show off her 7-pound hat covered in buttons she's collected over the last 50 years.
A woman who identified herself only as "Clark," arrived at Willie Mays Plaza on the day of the Giants' home opener against the Colorado Rockies to show off her heavy hat to NBC Bay Area meteorologist Christina Loren.
Her current hat, which she's been using for the past 15 years since she retired two others, weighs slightly less than a small cat.
The orange sunhat is covered with memorabilia, including a piece of confetti from the 2014 World Series victory parade. There are also pins from various opening days throughout the years, a few from Candlestick Park where the Giants used to play before moving to AT&T Park in 2000 , one commemorating former record-setting slugger Barry Bonds' 400th home run, and one that looks like a miniature Willie McCovey jersey, number 44.
Despite the increasing weight of her standout good luck charm, Clark has no plans to watch any Giants game without it, especially if her team is going to take home a fourth World Series trophy.
"I keep thinking I need to retire it," she said. "But it's become such a big winner for me, I just gotta keep wearing it!"
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Meet the man in person! We are so thrilled to announce our special guest for 2018 is Paralympian Don Elgin, who has truly overcome barriers in remarkable ways.
They don't come any livelier than the boy from the bush that took on the world. Entertaining, motivational and all round larrikin he represented Australia at 4 World Championships and three Olympic Games over 14 years. A triple Paralympic medalist from Athens 2004, Team Manager for London 2012 and a career comeback to compete in the Commonwealth Games in 2014.
Randall Bourchier interviewed Don for an article in the latest Living Today in Mooroolbark.
How did Don Elgin—a boy from Tocumwal, an amputee at three—go on to become a world champion athlete, and later manage the Australian team at the London Paralympic Games? "If I answer this, they might be onto me and they may have made a mistake, so maybe we'll move to the second question!" Donnie joked.
Head on over to the Living Today edition online for the rest of the article and then come along to Celebrate Mooroolbark to hear Don at the main stage around 10.30am after the parade arrives. He'll then be able to meet in person at the Mooroolbark Umbrella Group stall in the Community Hub.


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Here's the first situation that came into my head after the NFL owners passed the new overtime rule.
New Orleans wins the overtime toss in the NFC title game -- I'm using last season as an example -- and drives to the Green Bay 20, where the Saints face fourth and three. Do they kick a relatively easy field goal and take a three-point lead? Or do they go for a first down, hoping to get the six points that will win the game and NOT give the ball back to Brett Favre?
I suppose the change that requires the team that wins the coin toss to score a touchdown is good because it's good for fans and for television. But it's not so great for the coaches, because they don't want any more decisions to make, especially those that can be second-guessed.
In fact, most NFL coaches opposed the change. That's why commissioner Roger Goodell decided to vote on it in an executive session -- one representative per team, most decidedly NOT a coach.
It's an old trick first used by Pete Rozelle and especially effective at March meetings, which usually are held in resorts with PGA Tour quality golf courses. "Send the coaches to the golf course,'' Rozelle used to say.
When this thing first came up, I felt like a coach. I didn't want change. I thought about the Falcons-Giants game this year. Neither team could stop the other -- you knew as the Falcons drove down the field down seven points late in the game they would tie it. They did and then you knew the team that won the coin toss would win the game. That was the Giants and, of course, they went through the Atlanta defense as if it weren't there, stopping finally to let Lawrence Tynes kick a 36-yard field goal to win it 34-31.
The problem is that the new rule probably wouldn't have made a difference. Eli Manning threw for 384 yards and three touchdowns. If Matt Ryan had the ball in OT, the same thing would have happened.
That may be less likely in a playoff game -- neither of those teams played much defense last season. But in that case, there's another built-in problem: the team getting the ball first has to score a touchdown. If it doesn't, the other team only has to kick a field goal. And the defensive team can also win on a safety.
I was at a game like that in Minnesota on Nov. 5, 1989 when the Vikings beat the Rams 23-21 on an OT safety. That game was odd for another reason -- the Vikings didn't score a touchdown, getting all their points on seven Rich Karlis field goals and that safety, which came when Mike Merriweather blocked Dale Hatcher's punt, which rolled out of the end zone. Oddity number three? Merriweather didn't realize the safety ended the game.
But back to the new rule, which applies only to the playoffs although it could be extended to the regular season.
Now that it's passed, I don't mind it.
But it's still an advantage for the team that wins the coin toss. Defenses tire more easily than offenses and a Peyton Manning or a Tom Brady (or an Eli Manning or Matt Ryan) will simply go all the way instead of stopping at the 20. Fairer? Perhaps. But not by much.
On the other hand, soccer World Cups -- played every four years -- have been won by penalty-kick shootouts.
Now that's a silly way to decide a title.
By Dave Goldberg | March 24, 2010; 12:00 AM ET | Category: Competition Committee , Dave Goldberg , NFL , NFL Rules , Overtime Save & Share:
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I'm not sure why 'fairness' needs to be a factor...both teams have 60 minutes to win a game, and if they can't do it in the allotted time, then you can make the argument that both teams have lost the right to a 'fair' resolution. I would hate to see this new rule implemented for the regular season...I tend to think the team getting the ball in OT will still play conservatively so as to not turnover the ball in their own territory, and going for a relatively easy FG might be the strategy. Then you just have to defend against a TD. If you give up a FG, well, you get the ball back with a chance to end it on the next possession.
I'd like to see the NFL eliminate OT in the regular season...just have tie games. Ties, ironically, would act as a natural tiebreaker in the standings at the end of the season. Gone would be the days of 5 teams at 9-7 and having to go thru the myriad tiebreak procedures (which for some odd reason nobody complains about...) A 9-7 team with 2 OT losses would then be 9-5-2...a solid playoff squad while a 9-7 team with 2 OT wins would be 7-7-2...big difference and a more true reflection of each teams efforts over the course of the season.
I say, if you can't win it in 60...you don't deserve to win or have things be 'fair'...
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The student ambassador program enlists high school students from around the world to give presentations about dynamic biotechnology topics in their communities and school to inspire others to get involved. In 2015, each science center had a rigorous application process to select their ambassadors, some ranging from presentations in front of a panel of judges to written essays about biotechnology. Students selected for the program chose a specific biotech topic that interested them, ranging from agriculture to medicine. Ambassadors were matched with mentors who guided them through research and communication. In the process of preparing their topics, many of the ambassadors were able to:
Meet and interview researchers, scientists, journalists, Biogen employees, and museum staff members
Tour research laboratories
Participate in professional science communication training
Design and execute experiments
Meet with policy makers at the European Parliament and Commission
Organize science workshops and pop-up labs at schools and community centers
Exchange ideas and experience with ambassadors from other international sites
Pavilion of Knowledge
Ambassadors Beatriz, Filipa, and Tomás organize a popup lab at Vasco da Gama School in Portugal.
Ana Raquel Saramago
Ana often participates in scientific stages and school activities such as science clubs, science days and open laboratories. It was through these activities that she became aware of her ability to communicate to audiences of various ages. Ana practices ballroom dancing and in her free time she also likes to enjoy nature and to visit museums and historical places.
WBT topic: Recombinant proteins
Beatriz Barata
Beatriz founded the Association of Ecological Students for the Environment (AEEA), which promotes environment-related actions and the Eco Schools project. She loves science because it allows her to understand how the world works. In her free time, Beatriz practices ballet and contemporary dance. Beatriz advocated for the WBT at the EP and EC in March, 2015
WBT topic: Biopolymers for biodegradable plastics
Filipa Melo
Filipa considers Biotechnology one of the most important and fascinating scientific fields. She has already participated in several projects related to science, such as the Radiation-Environment project, and the Olympiads of Biology, Physics and Chemistry. Filipa is a federated competitive swimming athlete and also plays tennis.
Francisco Marques
Francisco is very interested in the field of technological innovation and also likes to communicate science. He has already participated in several scientific stages aiming at secondary education students. In his free time, he likes to play sports (tennis, cycling, running), to read, to computer programming and to watch TV series. Francisco advocated for the WBT at the EP and EC in March, 2015
WBT topic: Liposomes for drug delivery
Jéssica Soares
Jéssica considers herself curious and persistent, and wants to be a researcher. She participated in EUSO - European Union Science Olympiad, in Athens. She often participates in science clubs and scientific stages. In her free time, Jéssica likes to read and to play sports.
WBT topic: Plant DNA extraction and electrophoresis
João Peralta
João has a great interest in Biotechnology, but also in Mathematics and Physics. He participates in the projects Delfos and Quark!, which are, respectively, the schools of Mathematics and Physics from Coimbra University (Portugal). João plays football in Sport Clube Beira-Mar (Portugal) since he was 6 years-old and, in his free time, also likes to play chess.
WBT topic: Bioactive compounds with pharmaceutical and ecological application obtained from marine organisms
Ambassadors Maria Margarida and Francisco help a visitor collect a cheek cell sample for the "Take a Cellfie!" activity.
Maria Margarida Brites
Maria considers scientific research a fascinating activity and has a passion for science. She frequently participates in scientific stages and summer schools. Maria also likes theatre and reading.
WBT topic: Nano-alchemy in Biotechnology
Marisa Ferreira
Marisa loves to research and to develop experiments in the laboratory. She also enjoys team work. Marisa had already participated in environmental clubs and science competitions. She is in a school theatre group and in her free time also likes to dance.
Tomás Velez
Tomás loves science and enjoys triggering in other people the interest for this field. He believes that science and Biotechnology can contribute to a better Portugal. Tomás often participates in science championships, from Mathematics to Astronomy. In his free time, Tomás likes to visit museums and science centres. Cooking is one of his favourite hobbies.
WBT topic: Somatic embryogenesis in Pinus pinaster – cloning agriculture that have huge ecological and socio-economic impact
Tomás will represent Pavilion of Knowledge at SCWS2017!
Ana Sofia Correia
Ana Sofia loves Biotechnology and also Genetics. She had already participated in the Olympiads of Biotechnology, Biology and Mathematics. Sofia is in a youth music association from Vila Real (Portugal) and also practices swimming and plays the piano.
WBT topic: Myocardial and bone regeneration
Miraikan - The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
Ambassadors visit the Biogen office in Japan.
Mao Hattori
Mao is a second year student in high school. She has learned classic ballet since she was four, so her standing posture is beautiful! Recently her science activity is extracting Penicillin, an antibiotic from blue mold.
WBT topic: Relation between enteral (intestinal) environment and our heath – How do the kinds of foods we eat affect our intestinal health?
Mao will represent Miraikan at SCWS2017!
Masanobu Higashino
Masanobu is a second year student in high school. He belongs to the chemistry club and researches water and atmosphere. Recently he is very interested in food additives, railway technology, and forest dams. He loves not only science but also playing guitar. He is really full of curiosity!
WBT topic: Functional effect and new usage of tea catechin (an ingredient in tea) to benefit health
Tomoe Kaba
Tomoe is a second year student in high school. She is a big fan of rock music. She is also concerned about food problems. Each country has own food problem, some countries have nutritional deficiency; others have lifestyle-related disease.
WBT topic: Producing fertilizer from algae and euglena to help solve food problems in places like Africa.
Yuki Yanagida
Yuki is a second year student in high school. He is very interested in science communication, so he started as a Miraikan volunteer last year. He is researching vaccines so as to be able to talk with the public about its efficacy and safety. He is also adept at drawing illustrations of prehistoric life.
WBT topic: Communication on information about influenza vaccine – Speaking to the public about its efficacy and safety.
Yusuke Aketa
Yusuke is a university freshman. When he was in high school, he tried to purify water with euglena. He was so creative that he tested many kinds of purifying systems. At the university he studies engineering so he can create his original purifying system. He loves riding a road bike.
WBT topic: Seawater purification using Euglena, a type of algae.
Ambassadors enjoy a group photo in front of Technopolis after their Science Slam competition.
Clara Samyn
Clara wants to study bio-engineering at university. She is very interested in health and nutrition. Teamwork is a favourite of hers. Apart from science she loves art, music, and food.
WBT topic: 3-D bioprinting
Francois Grimaldi
François has been fascinated by nature and science for as long as he can remember. Since Santa brought him a laboratory kit at the age of 6, he's been experimenting with everything from molded bread to blood drops, and he firmly believes science can contribute to solving many world problems. In his free time he takes drama and diction, and he currently trains to be a youth leader with "Nature & Science", a youth organization which aims to bring youth and science closer together.
WBT topic: Genetically modifying algae to produce biofuel
Freja Vandeputte
Freja has a great interest in science and mathematics. She loves to travel and discover the world. In her free time, Freja likes to read and play theatre. She also plays the flute, solo and in an orchestra, and she has been practising volleyball since she was 6 years old.
WBT topic: Lab-on-a-chip
Gilles Verbinnen
Gilles feels that biotechnology will become one of the most important sciences in the future. He doesn't only love science but also kayaking, because he can empty his head and forget everything. He has so many books that his mother is afraid that the ceiling is going to collapse.
WBT topic: Antibiotic resistant bacteria
Gilles will represent Technopolis at SCWS2017!
Lise Cleys
Lise has a broad interest in anything biology-related, including plants, animals, … She is very crafty and loves to draw, and spends many hours watching YouTube documentaries.
WBT topic: Spirulina: superfood and biological purification
Stina Van Huffel
Stina is currently finishing her last year of Technical Sciences. She is extremely curious, loves to read, and practices both athletics and cycling. Apart from sports, she also has a strong interest in science, more particularly biology, the workings of the body and genes, and biotechnology.
WBT topic: Gene doping
Ambassadors Willem, Stina, Gilles, and Clara show visitors how to play the Virus Slayer game.
Willem Volckaert
Willem has a big interest in all branches of science. He loves to find answers to questions in science, learn about new discoveries, and debating about them. Willem also breakdances, which taught him that with the right amount of power and the correct technique, you can achieve things that looked impossible at first.
WBT topic: Algal biofuel


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Bad Things – Jace Everett
Posted on October 10, 2013 by Kneeknee
Terra Rosa is Jace Everett's most ambitious album to date, a raucous, revelatory song cycle exploring tales and themes from the Old and New Testaments. "The truth is, all of these songs are about me," he says, "trying to figure out what I believe and don't believe. It's me going back to my closet and pulling all the skeletons out, looking at the bones and seeing what's there." The Nashville-based singer/songwriter's deconstructs and re-imagines the Book through his own unique perspective, examining matters of love, death, faith, and contemporary America via these most primal of metaphors. There are allusions to such Biblical greatest hits as Sodom & Gomorrah, Jonah and the Whale, and Peter the Rock, alongside deep cuts like "Sapphira," a righteous romp through trials, tithing, and divine judgment. Everett's musical approach is as daring and wide-ranging as his subject demands, a hallucinatory hybrid of blues, country, boogie, gospel, and rock – in short, the span and spectrum of American music in all its glory. Yet despite its epic scope, Terra Rosa is at heart an intensely intimate album, its invention and irreverence all reflecting Everett's own struggles with sin and spirit.
The old time religion is forever embedded in the very fiber of Everett's being, as much a part of him as his distinctive baritone and gift for deeply personal song-craft. Born in Evansville, Indiana and raised in Grapevine, Texas, he began life as an Episcopalian but his folks eventually "decided they wanted some peppier music" and found their way to an Evangelical church. "Riddled with sin at 12 years old," Everett was compelled to come forward for the alter call and was, oh yes, saved. Pious to a fault through most of his teens, he avoided secular culture as best he could until his guard began to fall.
"By the time I was 18, I was trying really hard to not be an atheist," he says. "By the time I was 19, I was trying even harder to be an atheist. That didn't pan out either – apparently, I lacked the faith."
Everett soon made his way to Music City USA and scored his first #1 co-writing Josh Turner's RIAA platinum certified 2006 country smash, "Your Man." He officially became an overnight sensation two years later when "Bad Things" – the spooky, sultry highlight of his self-titled 2006 debut album – was featured as theme song to HBO's blockbuster series, True Blood. "Bad Things" proved a worldwide hit single, as well as a multiple BMI Cable Television Music Award winner, and helped propel the show to its extraordinary long-running success. A series of albums followed, each more adventurous and acclaimed than its predeccessor, including 2010's Red Revelations and 2011's Mr. Good Times. Everett further tightened his gritty, groovy sound with frequent international tours, raising up a fervent fan following at every turn.
"I'm a lucky dude, that's for sure," he says. "Every time I start to complain about my life i just remember that I was literally a ditch digger at one point and this is better than that. No offense to the ditch diggers out there – I salute their work, ditches need to be dug."
Widely celebrated in songwriting circles as a master craftsman, Everett was teamed with Stephany Delray in winter 2011 and together they penned the haunting "No Place To Hide." Co-writing the saga of Cain and Abel lit a spark inside Everett, stirring him to try his hand at another Genesis story, "In The Garden." Then, just like in the Book itself, the flood came…
"Within a few weeks I had written eight or nine songs," he says. "I got really into it. It was the first time, in a long time, that I'd been really excited to write songs, because I knew what I was writing them for. To have a real purpose and a goal for what I was doing, that was inspiring for me."
The Bible indeed proved a "fecund swamp of material" for Everett, who began recording the new songs at his own home studio before joining up with longtime producer Brad Jones (Josh Rouse, Hayes Carll, Chuck Prophet) at Nashville's Alex the Great Recording in June 2012. Everett led his crack band – multi-instrumentalists Dan Cohen and Chris Raspante, bassist James Cook, and drummer Derek Mixon – through a 7-day session in which they tackled and traversed a span of sonic stylings, from Appalachian folk ("Pennsylvania") to Zappa-esque psychedelia ("Lloyd's Summer Vacation").
"I don't really feel like I have a responsibility to a genre," he says. "What is really important to me is my responsibility to my writing and my performing, not dependent on some pre-ordained genre that I have to sit in for market reasons or whatever. Country is part of who I am, just like rock 'n' roll is, just like pop is, it's all just part of who I am."
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Cute Amimals Doing Cute Things
Posted on July 1, 2013 by Kneeknee
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How can we teach them to get along? Cesar decides to investigate, and brings in an expert to help us understand…
Are dogs and cats born to fight with each other—or can they get along peacefully? They are the two animals who have shared our homes for the longest time—but as I thought about this I realized they have very different histories, and they see the world in very different ways. Dogs, it's been said, see themselves as one of us, but cats see us as one of them. I decided to do some research to try to understand better.
Man started domesticating the dog's wolf ancestors at least 15,000 years ago, and, as pack animals, they responded to training from their new human pack leaders. Cats, according to recent studies, chose to live with humans and in effect domesticated themselves. When humans began growing grain in the Middle East around 10,000 years ago, their stores of wheat attracted rats and mice. Wild cats found a ready food source and moved in. Since there was food, it was comfortable, and they were protected from other predators, they stuck around. And because it suited the humans to have the rodent problem solved, they let the cats stay. The earliest known domestic cat is a kitten discovered in Cyprus that was buried with its owner 9,500 years ago.
Cats have done well. They spread across Europe, Asia, and Africa and came with Europeans to the Americas. In the USA today, almost half of domestic cats live in a household where there is also a dog. So it's pretty important that they're able to get along.
Dogs and cats have become so much a part of our domestic scene that we sometimes forget how much of their DNA they share with their wild ancestors. Cats—like their big relatives, lions and tigers—are among the most effective hunters on the planet. One reason is that for cats, hunting was always a matter of life and death because they need meat to survive. Dogs, on the other hand, evolved to be able to supplement meat with plant matter when they couldn't find prey.
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Dean Martin And Nancy Sinatra – Things
Posted on April 23, 2013 by Kneeknee
This legendary singer was christened Dino Paul Crocetti, and was the younger son of two Italian immigrants; his older brother was called Bill. Being born into an Italian immigrant family, Dino only spoke Italian at home and was teased a great deal at school on account of his poor English and strong Italian accent.
Young Dino wasn't hugely gifted academically and dropped out of school at the age of 16, when he went to work in the local steel mills. As a teenager, he tried his hand at boxing, and fought several amateur bouts under the sporting name of "Kid Crochet". He also turned his hand to several part-time jobs that weren't totally legal. This was also the era of Prohibition, and young Dino supplemented his income by delivering bootleg liquor! Eventually, he found work as a croupier in a local nightclub and began to make connections with the network of club owners throughout the Midwest.
Martin began his singing career at the age of 17, singing in local nightclubs near his home town in Ohio. He dreamed of making the big time as a stage singer, just like his showbiz idol, Bing Crosby. Whilst he was singing with a local group called the Ernie McKay band, a bandleader called Sammy Watkins noticed him, and hired him to be his own band's lead vocalist. Martin began touring with Watkins in 1938, changing his name to Dean Martin in 1940. By 1943, he'd moved to New York and had been given an exclusive contract singing at the Riobamba Room. Before long, he'd also secured his own fifteen-minute programme broadcasting from Radio City, entitled 'Songs By Dean Martin'. New Yorkers warmed to Martin's relaxed, mellow singing style and laid-back charm, and by 1946, he'd recorded four songs with Diamond Records.
Despite his good looks and undoubted singing ability, major success and the "big time" still lay beyond Martin's reach. His early years as an entertainer were arduous and tough. In 1946, he succeeded in releasing his first single, 'Which Way Did My Heart Go?', and he also met up with another young wannabe showbiz star, a comedian called Jerry Lewis. The two performers soon became friends.
Later that same year, Jerry Lewis was playing at a club called The 500 in Atlantic City when another act on the programme suddenly dropped out. Jerry Lewis suggested that his new pal Dean Martin should step in and the manager agreed. To begin with, Martin and Jerry performed separately, but one night they decided to abandon their normal routine and teamed up in a kind of Mutt-and-Jeff-style twosome that proved to be wildly popular with the club's clientele. News of their act spread like wildfire through Atlantic City's Boardwalk, and within weeks, their salary had risen to $5,000 per week. By the end of the 1940s, Martin and Jerry had become the most popular comedy team in America, and a movie offer from Paramount in Hollywood was the next exciting offer in the pipeline.
Read more: http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/dean-martin.html
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Q: New column value from column name indicated in a different column I have been banging my head against the wall all day on this one, so I'm hoping someone can help with this.
Here is some test code:
test = pd.DataFrame(data={'A': [1, 2, 3], 'B': [-1, -2, -3]})
test['C'] = pd.Series(['A', 'B', 'A'])
for index, row in test.iterrows():
    test.loc[row.name, 'D'] = row[row['C']]

Essentially I need to create a new column in my pandas dataframe, but I need the value stored in each row to be determined by a string value contained within another row. This would mean it pulls the value from a different column for each row. The above code works, however it needs to iterate through the rows, meaning as my data size increases over time so would my runtime.
Ideally I would like to use a vectorized approach, but so far I haven't been able to crack this one.
So the input dataframe looks like this:
   A  B  C
0  1 -1  A
1  2 -2  B
2  3 -3  A

And I'd like the output to look like this
   A  B  C   D
0  1 -1  A   1
1  2 -2  B  -2
2  3 -3  A   3

Notice that each value in column D comes from the corresponding row in the column indicated in column C. So the first value in D is the first value of columnA because the first value of column C is "A"
Thanks in advance

A: Use the values in C as column names. So you won't need to iterate over the rows at all:
In [149]: df = pd.DataFrame(data={'A': [1, 2, 3], 'B': [-1, -2, -3]})

In [150]: df
Out[150]:
   A  B
0  1 -1
1  2 -2
2  3 -3

In [151]: df['C'] = pd.Series(['A', 'B', 'A'])

In [152]: df
Out[152]:
   A  B  C
0  1 -1  A
1  2 -2  B
2  3 -3  A

In [153]: df['D'] = None

In [154]: for val in df.C.unique(): df.loc[df.C==val, 'D'] = df[val]

In [155]: df
Out[155]:
   A  B  C   D
0  1 -1  A   1
1  2 -2  B  -2
2  3 -3  A   3


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Time Takes Time
After All These Years
Paroles "After All These Years" - Ringo Starr
We didn't have the time to think things over,
We had a lot of fun, we had some tears.
Stepping out of loneliness,
Now the road don't seem so long,
After all these years.
Rock and roll has got a reputation,
Bad boys cause a lot of fear.
But i never meant to really hurt you, oh no, no,
Traveling the world in a rock and roll band,
It's in my blood, it's in my blood.
Ooh, but you know, it's good to be back home.
Dancing with your sister on a saturday night,
It's understood, it's understood.
When every boy and girl,
Ooh, was rocking all over the world.
Travelling the world in a rock and roll band,
Now the road don't seem so long, long, long, long, long,
After all these years,
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG Rights Management
RICHARD N STARKEY, JOHNNY WARMAN
Ringo Starr - Les dernières vidéos
You Don't Know Me At All
Only You (And You Alone)
It Don't Come Easy
ROSE LAURENS


Cracked Agate is a member of the quartz family. It is an excellent bead for harmonizing or re-balancing and it comes in the most wonderful of colors! It is called cracked agate because it is treated to give the stone a cracked look.
The deep blue in this bead just seems to keep going...deep, dark and mysterious..


Hi my name is Liam and I'm back with the daily news.There has been sightings of an creature who at every full moon he jumps into a pond and absorbs the moss and water.After that the creature gets bigger each time it absorb the pond.People are naming the suspicious creature names like the hog,the creeper and the sadist.Many people have spotted the creature trying to damage the water supply to make everyone his minions.Numerous of people say that they put an pool at there backyard then a day later it was gone.So please if you see this mythical creature please email us."Daily News have a nice day".
Hi Ben. Well done on using the prompt to give a news report. I have to admit I didn't like the prompt at all this week as I find it too weird. However, you've done a great job with it. I really like the idea of a mythical creature.


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Today God is First daily devotional from Os Hillman is a popular daily Bible devotion. Today God is First daily devotional from Os Hillman offers wisdom and insight for applying Biblical truths to the ups and downs of everyday life. Reading daily devotions provides strength and encouragement in your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
"So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities you did not build; and you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant" (Josh 24:13).
God called the people of Israel to leave Egypt and come out of slavery in order to enter their own Promised Land. It meant they had to change a way of life they had known their whole lives. Instead of being told what to do everyday by a taskmaster, they were now being led by the cloud of God that led them into the desert with the ultimate goal of entering their own Promised Land.
Every believer has a Promised Land in their lives. It is the place where you receive all God intended for you to receive. However, many of us are still living in Egypt where we sweat and toil in response to the taskmaster of production dictated by our workplaces and our lifestyles of busyness.
We will know when we are beginning to experience our Promised Land when we experience God's rest at the same time we are fulfilling our work life call. We will begin to give testimony to what Joshua says in the above verse. We will begin to receive things we never built or planted. We begin to experience a level of rest in our working lives that is not characterized by sweat and toil. Things become easier because we are receiving them as a fruit of our call instead of a goal.
I began to experience this new way of living as I began to be obedient to doing things based on His direction versus my perceived outcome. Provision began to follow obedience. Projects began to get done with little sweat. God brought the people to me to get things done. There was no longer a tendency to manipulate outcomes that I wanted to have happen. God was giving me my Promised Land as I yielded to Him.
Are you living in your Promised Land? If not, release the goals of your life to the Lord and simply be obedient to His voice. Ask Him for the steps you are to take to receive your Promised Land.


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Ма́ршалл () — округ в США, штате Алабама. Официально образован 9 января 1836 года. По состоянию на 2010 год, численность населения составляла 93 019 человек. Получил своё название в честь американского политического деятеля Джона Маршалла.

География
По данным Бюро переписи США, общая площадь округа равняется 1 614 км², из которых 1 466 км² суша и 148 км² или 9,2 % это водоёмы.

Соседние округа

Население
По данным переписи населения 2000 года в округе проживает 82 231 жителей в составе 32 547 домашних хозяйств и 23 531 семей. Плотность населения составляет 56,00 человек на км2. На территории округа насчитывается 36 331 жилых строений, при плотности застройки около 25-ти строений на км2. Расовый состав населения: белые — 93,38 %, афроамериканцы — 1,47 %, коренные американцы (индейцы) — 0,53 %, азиаты — 0,24 %, гавайцы — 0,04 %, представители других рас — 3,24 %, представители двух или более рас — 1,09 %. Испаноязычные составляли 5,66 % населения независимо от расы.

В составе 32,40 % из общего числа домашних хозяйств проживают дети в возрасте до 18 лет, 57,80 % домохозяйств представляют собой супружеские пары проживающие вместе, 10,70 % домохозяйств представляют собой одиноких женщин без супруга, 27,70 % домохозяйств не имеют отношения к семьям, 24,60 % домохозяйств состоят из одного человека, 10,90 % домохозяйств состоят из престарелых (65 лет и старше), проживающих в одиночестве. Средний размер домохозяйства составляет 2,50 человека, и средний размер семьи 2,96 человека.

Возрастной состав округа: 24,90 % моложе 18 лет, 8,50 % от 18 до 24, 29,00 % от 25 до 44, 23,40 % от 45 до 64 и 23,40 % от 65 и старше. Средний возраст жителя округа 37 лет. На каждые 100 женщин приходится 94,80 мужчин. На каждые 100 женщин старше 18 лет приходится 91,50 мужчин.

Средний доход на домохозяйство в округе составлял 32 167 $, на семью — 38 788 $. Среднестатистический заработок мужчины был 30 500 $ против 20 807 $ для женщины. Доход на душу населения составлял 17 089 $. Около 11,70 % семей и 14,70 % общего населения находились ниже черты бедности, в том числе — 17,90 % молодежи (тех, кому ещё не исполнилось 18 лет) и 19,30 % тех, кому было уже больше 65 лет.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт правительства округа Маршалл, штат Алабама
 Совет экономического развития округа Маршалл, штат Алабама
 Бюро съездов и посетителей округа Маршалл, штат Алабама

Округа Алабамы


Your dryer vents in Lake in the Hills can save you from the threat of a house fire. In fact, the U.S. Fire Administration reports that around 15,600 house fires in the United States from 2002 to 2004 were due to complications with dryers, which makes the role of dryer vents in Lake in the Hills incredibly important. But here's the thing: you must keep them clean. Dryer vents can become clogged or unkempt often and without proper cleaning, it can cost your entire home.
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Some businesses want a non-exec to advise them where to find new money while others need technical advice or business skills. Ideally, a non-executive director should complement rather than simply duplicate the knowledge and skills of the executive directors. Non-executive directors should bring their business acumen, experience, a wide range of valuable contacts, insights and objectivity to the executive table. It's significant to hire somebody you trust and respect. This might be somebody you already know, but can also be someone you have never worked with before.
Outline everything you expect the non-executive director to accomplish upfront. If you need the NED to make accompanied visits to suppliers, customers or business partners, tell them. If there are any black holes in your accounts, any pending legislation or acquisitions, let them have a clear picture of what is happening behind the scenes. The right candidate should be open to all your requirements.
It's usually easy to tell how professional a potential NED is by the questions they ask you. A non-executive director is seen by the law as bearing the same level of responsibility as other directors and should therefore demonstrate a deep understanding of how your business works. Try to answer the NED's questions as honestly as possible; otherwise you risk a failed relationship. On the other hand, if the non-exec fails to ask any relevant questions, take that as a red flag to indicate a general lack of understanding of their job or even lack of enthusiasm for the job.
What Is The Appropriate Level Of Compensation For A NED?
Most NEDs work on a part-time basis. Non-executive directors are usually given contracts that clearly define the number of hours they are required to work, their responsibilities and the period of notice for termination of their engagements. NEDs are paid a fee, for their expertise and time. In general, it's strongly recommended that the level of remuneration for a NED as a proportion of their total income should not be too high since this can easily imperil their impartiality and independence.
Even though in many cases it would be wasteful to engage a NED for just one year, on the other hand it's also recommended not to keep a NED forever. A NED-relationship that stays for too long risks becoming too cosy and unchallenging, which can produce a sense of unhealthy dependency. It's usually a good idea to agree on an initial period of appointment, 3 or 5 years, with the possibility of a mutually agreeable extension.
As a NED, you need to understand that the company did not hire you to become second boss but rather for your independent counsel, strategic objectivity or even moral counsel with no vested interest. Always remember that NEDs are hired for what they know, but many end up getting fired for how they behave.
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I think that being adaptable and able to evolve in ever-changing industries is important, not mentioning regulation.
From my experience, it's necessary for an NED to have a high level of confidence and not second guess themselves in their decision making.


This bike is my daily commuter and all year around trusty overaller.
This setup is a short phase between spring cleaning/maintenance and trip to Berlin.
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Such a character! For how long have you had it?
I don't do dope. but thanks anyway!
lovely, love talk bikes and the track plus commuter look is right up my street (check my bbbb).
Yes the chain is maybe a bit slack, but doesn't jump off. I'm going to take this to parts tomorrow and deep clean everything and build to a bit different setup for few weeks and then return it to the rainy day settings.
And yes.. nice big block indeed, but so much spacers, such short stem and low saddle. It's opposite to my preferences.
Yep the low saddle, that's why I'm about to downsize to a 56. Spacers just... feels right, I'm too old to be bent over all day, but agreed, it does look a bit too much.
The main thing is the bike feels good when riding. I like to have a drop from saddle to bars to get the right position.


A public realm installation by German artist duo Sebastian M. Kretzschmar and Jan Thomaneck who work together as FAMED. The work is formed from a series of consecutive illuminated letters which are set into the floor of one of Longbridge's new walkways which stretches between Austin Park and the Beefeater restaurant. After multiple visits to Longbridge between 2014 - 2016 FAMED were keen to develop a work that would be directly embedded into the ground in Longbridge – one that has a literal and physical connection to the strata of the earth within this place and all the changes that have taken place here. The artist's experiences, conversations, research and observations have been distilled into one work made from LEDs, toughened glass, acrylic and steel installed on site.
As you walk along the length of the work, the narrow bright white letters spell out a sentence which for the artists, is indicative of their experiences of and research into the varying nature of the Longbridge site. The sentence reads: 'WE RESEMBLE OUR TIMES MORE THAN WE RESEMBLE OUR PARENTS' and it is revealed and read only by walking backwards, tracing the line of the work that mirrors architectural site lines. The arrangement of the letters thereby begins to introduce ideas of history and the passing of time, while the words themselves equally call upon ideas of the role of living history in the shaping of our identities, favouring the influence of the present moment above the impact of what has taken place before.
The sentence itself comes from a line by the French philosopher and Situationist Guy Debord, whose works are of great importance to the artists. The openness of this statement aims to ensure that the work will remain critical, poignant and relevant to Longbridge in the years to come.
'This is the Spot' is a digital site-specific museum. Six red heritage plaques designed by the artist physically demarcate different areas of the former car factory. The plaques have QR codes embedded to enable access via smart devices to real time photographic archives of the area that the viewer is stood in.
The design of Burke's plaques are based upon a red plaque recovered from the former factory site now displayed in the British Heritage Motor Museum. The six plaques physically punctuate former factory locations which are now lost, such as K Gate, North Works, Foundry and No 5 Machine Shop. The plaques enable access to a digital archive relating to the individual sites by scanning the unique QR codes that have been set into the plaque moulds. This archive will not only include additional factual data but also quotations, memories and stories from Longbridge residents and former workers that describe aspects of that place. The webpages can be accessed anywhere in the world and a comments section invites further contributions from members of the public to the dialogues about these places.
Thirteen individual signs for platforms 1 & 2 at Longbridge Train Station, Longbridge, Birmingham U.K.
Part of the Longbridge Public Art Project launch event in 2013.


Born in Rouen, Frank le Gall published his first works in Pistil in 1977-78. Shortly afterwards, he joined Spirou magazine with 'Valry Bonpain', a series about a jazz musician, which he made with Alain Clement. A few years later, he started his most famous series, the mysterious 'Théodore Poussin'. In addition to his work for Spirou, Le Gall made 'Yoyo' for Circus with Yann in 1985 and 'Les Petits Contes Noirs' for Schtroumpf in 1992 (in cooperation with his brother Pierre).


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Lufthansa-Flug 527 war ein Frachtflug der Lufthansa, der am 26. Juli 1979 von Rio de Janeiro in Brasilien ins senegalesische Dakar führen sollte. Kurz nach dem Start in Rio flog die Boeing 707 im Steigflug gegen einen Hang und zerschellte. Alle drei Besatzungsmitglieder kamen bei dem Unfall ums Leben.

Unfallhergang
Das Frachtflugzeug startete um 21:27 UTC vom Flughafen Rio de Janeiro-Galeão und bekam vom verantwortlichen Lotsen die Anweisung, das Drehfunkfeuer (VOR) Caxias anzufliegen und auf eine Höhe von 2.000 Fuß zu steigen.

Auf Anweisung des Lotsen beschleunigte die Besatzung, bestehend aus dem Kapitän, einem Ersten Offizier und einem Flugingenieur, das Flugzeug auf über 300 Knoten; regulär waren unterhalb einer Flughöhe von 10.000 Fuß lediglich maximal 250 Knoten erlaubt.

Gleichzeitig war der Lotse damit beschäftigt, weiteren Luftverkehr im Großraum Rio zu kontrollieren, sodass er LH527 zunächst aus den Augen verlor.

Als der Lotse sich wieder LH527 zuwandte, war das Flugzeug aufgrund der hohen Geschwindigkeit bereits weiter nördlich als vom Lotsen vermutet. Er gab der Besatzung daraufhin den Steuerkurs 140 Grad und die Anweisung, die Steigrate zu erhöhen. Kurz nach dem Funkspruch ertönte im Cockpit die Warnung des Ground Proximity Warning Systems. Um 21:32 UTC kollidierte die Boeing 707 in einer leichten Linkskurve mit Bäumen und stürzte in einen Hang, wobei sich die Trümmer auf über 800 Meter verteilten.

Ursachen
Als Hauptursache wurde das Versagen der brasilianischen Fluglotsen festgestellt, jedem Flugzeug die nötige Aufmerksamkeit zu schenken und damit sowohl die Flugzeuge untereinander zu staffeln als auch die notwendigen Abstände zu ansteigendem Gelände zu gewährleisten.

Beitragend zum Unfall war aber auch die – durch den Lotsen angewiesene – hohe Geschwindigkeit der Boeing 707 und dass die Crew eine fehlerhafte Freigabe der Lotsen akzeptierte. Normalerweise enthält diese eine Abflugstrecke zu einem sogenannten clearance limit, bis zu dem die Maschine maximal fliegen darf. Auch auf Nachfrage der Piloten gab die Flugsicherung nur eine unklare Antwort. In der Freigabe für LH527 fehlte diese Angabe, so dass die Crew auf dem eingestellten Kurs weiterflog, statt bei der Flugsicherung um neue Anweisungen zu bitten. In den letzten fast zwei Minuten fand keinerlei Kommunikation zwischen LH527 und der Flugverkehrskontrolle mehr statt.

Einzelnachweise

Flugunfall in Brasilien
Flug 0527
Flugunfall 1979
Verkehr (Rio de Janeiro)
Boeing 707


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Xiaomi to release third-gen under-screen selfie camera in 2021
by Shreyansh
in Technology, Uncategorised, Xiaomi
No one loves a notch or cutout in a cell phone's display. Xiaomi, specifically, wants to dispose of those gaps and it has thought of an approach to do as such. Through a recent tweet, Xiaomi has unveiled that the company will be launching its new third-gen under-screen camera technology in 2021. While Xiaomi affirms a dispatch date of 2021, the ZTE Axon 20 5G is set to be the first smartphone to ship with in-screen camera technology. ZTE's phone will be launching next week on September 1.
Xiaomi has implied that its third-gen Under-screen camera technology will match the performance of a regular front-facing camera, which it infers ZTE's innovation can't yet present.
While explaining the technology further, Xiaomi stated, "the self-developed pixel arrangement used in Xiaomi's 3rd Generation Under-Display Camera Technology allows the screen to pass light through the gap area of sub-pixels, allowing each single pixel to retain a complete RGB subpixel layout without sacrificing pixel density. Compared with other common solutions on the market, Xiaomi has doubled the number of horizontal and vertical pixels, achieving the same pixel density above the camera as on the rest of the display area. Thus, the area above the integrated camera demonstrates the same brightness, color gamut and color accuracy as the rest of the display.
Based on the brand new pixel arrangement solution, Xiaomi's 3rd Generation Under-Display Camera also adopts a special circuit design to hide more components under the RGB sub-pixels to further increase the light transmittance of the under-screen camera area. Combined with Xiaomi`s self-developed optimization algorithm, the new under-display camera offers a fully updated photography experience, matching the imaging performance of conventional front cameras".
With the announcement tweet, Xiaomi also shared a video of the prototype device along with a comparison with its latest Mi 10. Though Xiaomi only showed the device from a distance, with the under-screen camera technology, the smartphone looks similar to the ones that come with a pop-up camera.
Tags: Xiaomi
New leak suggests that No Custom AMD Radeon GPU for Exynos 100
Huawei to release the latest EMUI 11, HARMONY 2.0, HMS CORE 5.0 in the upcoming HDC 2020.
Shreyansh


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The symbol for Scorpio is the scorpion. This creature was chosen because it typifies many of the characteristics of this sign. The scorpio person is not necessarily aggressive on its own, unless provoked and in general would rather be contemplative. They crave alone time and often become extremely annoyed when they don't get it. Scorpio people are great secret keepers and feel each emotion more intensely than other signs.
Brave and stubborn, you're a true fire sign. Scorpios never back down from a fight — in fact, they relish some good sparring — but you tend to hide your vulnerability under all that fiery passion. This year, try to let people in on your rich inner emotional life. Your loved ones will value your strong opinion even more.


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A nice gift from a friend: the rare "Lantern" by Jean Paul Gaultier (limited edition, year 2001).
Contains both JPG Classique and JPG LeMale.
(Jean Paul Gaultier is a French fashion designer whose first collection was presented in 1976. Having no formal training in fashion design, he began his career at a young age by sending his sketches to famous couture designers of the day. Pierre Cardin and Jean Patou are among the designers who recognized his talent and helped him get started in the business. Known as the enfant terrible of fashion, Gaultier's designs run the gamut from street wear to haute couture. He introduced skirts for men in the 1980s and designed the distinctive cone bra worn by Madonna in the early 1990s.
The first perfume of the Gaultier house was launched in 1993—the famous Jean Paul Gaultier EDP for women, whose name was subsequently changed to Classique. Classique was followed by Le Male in 1995, and Fragile in 1999. All of them were known for their peculiar packaging and unusual compositions. Limited edition flankers have been released for many of the fragrances, featuring new "fashions" for the bottles.)
Etichette: vintage perfumes
Ubicazione: Italy Roma, Italia
TERRE D'HERMES: 9-batches review (2009-2014)
"My Terre d'Hermes is no longer the same as before!
...the scent seems different!"
TERRE d' HERMES, EdT: reformulated or not?
Many loyal followers asked for a comparating-review of "TERRE d'HERMES" EdT, since apparently there are many differences between years. If you read something about it (on websites such as Fragrantica, Basenotes, Parfumo, etc.), you will find plenty of arguments in favor and against a reformulation, and differences apparently due to amounts of "Iso E Super" contained in the mixture.
So, what about "reformulations"?
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Etichette: Hermes reformulations batch codes, perfumes


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Before we get to the graphics, there are a few important updates to the new Palmere V2 frame that need to be pointed out. Of course, the frame is constructed with heat-treated 4130 chromoly, and just like JJ, is only built for brakeless riding. Gone are the investment-cast head tube gussets; now, front-end reinforcement comes from internal gussets inside of the tubes and an ovalized double-butted downtube, which increases stiffness and dent resistance. The headtube angle (75 degrees), seat tube angle (71 degrees) and bottom bracket height (11.5") have all remained the same, and the frame is still available in a variety of top tube lengths (20.5", 20.75", 21", 21.25"). Fiend made a point of offering progressive geometry with longer frames; on the V1, this meant jumping from an 8.5" standover to 9" if you rode a 21"+ frame, but with the V2, 9" is the standard. The Palmere V2 frame smartly offers a longer rear-end as the top tube size increases, meaning shorter guys get a 13.25" rear end and those riding 21" or 21.25" bump up to 13.5", which should add a little more stability to your hop. As we said before, JJ loves his raw, organic food, and unlike most American candy you can find at the convenience store, JJ only eats naturally produced chocolate made with Cacao beans. You see, all chocolate is derived from Cacao, but the stuff you find next to the checkout counter has a composition closer to candle wax than pure chocolate. Cement Face's Eben Fischer used JJ's love of all things Cacao based to draw up the trippy Wonka-themed decals, but rather than dipping into a gross chocolate river, the Oompa Loompa's are getting down to business with the finest Cacao beans. Remember, real chocolate has health benefits, such as providing natural antioxidants, so skip the candy aisle and get down to your local farmers market for the real stuff.
The Fiend Palmere V2 Frame is available everywhere soon. Keep your peeled on Fiend's and JJ's Instagram… @fiendbmx and @jjpalmere for availability updates. The frame retails for $314.99 from your local Fiend retailer, which of course includes Dans Comp. Choose from Cacao Bean, Cacao Butter or traditional Flat Black. You'll likely find other signature Fiend parts such as JJ's V3 Pivotal seat or new top load stem, but if you're looking for a shirt featuring the frame graphics, you can only find that at www.fiendbmx.com.
Top Tube: 20.5", 20.75", 21", 21.25"