The local market expansion takes place as a result of the merger with The Estate, the local company specialized in property management, with an experience of over 5 years and over 160 active contracts currently.
As the segment Buy-to-Let has grown, the context is favorable. Also, 15 percent of the overall market transactions' objective is the acquisition of an apartment to invest in for a following rental, the yields exceeding in some cases 9 percent/year. The acquisition volume for renting is higher on new apartments segment from residential assemblies in areas with rents over the average market level.
"After the growth of our portfolio with a series of new projects, a natural step that followed in the company's development is to expand our services to become a complete real estate agency, which offers the entire range of services, from business consultancy to property management, a growing niche in this period," says Andreea Comsa, CEO Premier Estate Management (photo).
"The partnership with Premier Estate Management team is a natural step in The Estate company' development. We are working for over 5 years with private investors and real estate developers to which we offer management services of rented properties," said Laura Baciu, co-founder The Estate.
The expansion of company's services focus on the consolidation of acquisitions segment for investment. The Property Management services will include the permanent relation with the tenant. The communication with the landlord takes place through a specialized soft developed for this kind of services developed by The Estate team.
"Also within the property management services packages offered by Premier Estate Management, The estate team will be in charge of the apartments rentals. The main difference compared with the services of the real estate agency in this case is that we carefully choose the tenant and agree a collaboration beneficial for all the parties," said Baciu.
The average rent requested for the residential properties for property management services is slightly higher than the market average, as there are new apartments.


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Finding an artistic outlet can help you immensely on your journey to recovery. Find clarity and release through an artistic practice like dance, music, martial arts, writing, or drama.
A few years ago, I was lost. I didn't know who I was anymore, and I was so numb to emotions that I couldn't even see how miserable my life was. Drugs worked their magic on my mind, and I convinced myself that I was happy. I was enjoying life, unlike so many people who lived like robots; they did the same thing every day, and I didn't. Then, one of my addict friends sought out treatment, and I laughed at her. I looked her straight in the eyes and laughed. She thought she could quit? Ha! I assumed she would endure months of pain and tears, and then she would fail. Of course, that didn't happen, and she proved me wrong.
While she had plenty of moments of pain, she grew into something amazing. She was excited about life and happily welcomed each week. She started taking piano lessons as a way to release emotions and find clarity in her darkest moments. Her recovery was not how I imagined it should be, and my eyes were opened to how beautiful it can be when you use an artistic practice as a way to thrive. Here are five common ways an addict can embrace recovery and find the experience enjoyable and worth it.
When people decide to quit their addiction, they are often faced with a stumbling block they weren't expecting. This stumbling block is boredom, and it is dangerous. Using dance classes as a way to fill time is healthy and fun. There are many types of dance, and it is your time to find the one that inspires you the most. It will keep you busy while boosting self-esteem and confidence.
Music has been known for years to have an effect on people's emotions and growth. It has been proven that those who play an instrument while going to school, on average, do better overall in academic classes. It teaches responsibility, passion, and trying again despite mistakes. When thoughts of your addiction begin to overwhelm your mind, working on the artistic practice of music passionately can alleviate the cravings and motivate you to continue on your chosen path.
When I picture martial arts, I automatically picture someone dressed in white kicking and punching their opponent. But while martial arts teach defense skills, they are not all about violence or fighting. Martial arts are about teaching yourself self-discipline. This is one skill every addict must achieve during the recovery process, and gaining it while learning martial arts is doubly beneficial.
I often mention writing on this blog as a way to release feelings and work through problems. Whenever I begin struggling, I take a pencil and a notebook and write. I write down every single feeling. I write down hatred, agony, love, happiness, defeat, and heartbreak. Once it is all out on paper, I breathe. The weight and stress pressing on my chest lifts, and I feel like I can move again. Then I rip up that sheet of paper and move on. Writing is one thing I spent hours doing in the first few months of recovery, and it helped me overcome moments of weakness.
Acting is an incredible way to vent out grief and pain from addiction. You have the chance to be someone else, and it can be one of the best ways to overcome cravings. Drama takes time, and in the recovery process, you want no empty hours. When you find boredom creeping in, grab your lines and practice them. An even better idea is to practice your lines with another cast member. You will grow friendships, skills, and confidence.
The recovery process doesn't have to be miserable, but it can be a time in your life when you feel alive, happy, and like a part of something.
At Morningside Recovery, we offer many alternative addiction therapy services to help clients find peace in new hobbies and learn new coping mechanisms. From experiential therapy to adventure therapy, we have many options to help our clients achieve recovery. Call Morningside Recovery today at 855-631-2135 to find out how artistic practice and alternate therapy can put you on the track to sobriety.


The International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank, announced it plans to double its investment in China to about US$500 million within two years, the Financial Times reported.
The company also aims to spend US$700 million on stakes in and loans to Asian companies this year, a 20% rise on 2003.
The IFC said it had been asked by the Chinese government to help broaden and deepen the country's financial sector and that State-owned companies in the industrial northeast would be a focus.
The IFC helps companies in developing countries by purchasing shares and providing loans and financial advice and has about US$4 billion invested in Asia.


In a few minutes, Bro. Geinrre will be here to pick us up to start the long trip home. What a rewarding trip this has been! Last night's service was the icing on the cake. We had a good service, and thought we were ready to leave. But they weren't finished! First, the young people that Bro. Geinrre has been working with got up and they sang several of our songs! He's changing me, I will follow thee, and He's given me life for my soul. Then people began one by one to get up and express their appreciation or what they had learned while we were here. All of the young men got up- Bro. Rigo, Luis, Gustavo, Sis. Nancy, and several others= some whom we didn't even know were really recieiving anything! Bro. Misael said very kind words of thankfulness of what we had all done for his church; the family training, the example of the young people, it has all been so important this trip. This is something that has never happened before, In fact, most of these people had never stood in their church to say anything! It was such evidence of what God is going in this little church. Your financial donations are not in vain! Our time is not in vain! They are all begging us to come back soon so they can hear more. We took a picture of several men in the church who had worn their white shirts and ties that you all donated! When service was over, many of the women came up to me in tears- again something that has never happened. They know that we love them, and they are beginning to love us as well. Bro. Misaels's wife told me she felt like I was her real sister! Truly they are beginning to understand the family of God. We pray that they can all apply what they have heard, and that the Lord will continue the work in them that He has started, just as He has done in all of us.
See you soon! We love you all.


What do New York's Fifth Avenue and Paris' Champs-Élysées have in common? They are all crowded with people trying to get their last-minute Christmas shopping done.
Despite the decline in consumer confidence in countries from Australia to Spain, the retailers' busiest season – Christmas – is in its final stretch, and goods from luxury brands such as Gucci and Louis Vuitton seem to be doing well.
In this post we share trends in luxury brands' never-ending quest to capture consumers' hearts and minds, and possible effects on how they will advertise their wares for Christmas 2011.
The logo on your handbag or sports car may say far more about your social status and social aspirations than the brand name itself.
The second category was called parvenus (from the Latin perveniō, meaning arrive or reach), and included affluent people who also crave status and use Vuitton's distinctive 'LV' monogram since the more subtle details of a Hermès bag's price tag may not be recognized.
The third class of consumers are 'poseurs' (French for a person who pretends to be what he or she is not). Like the parvenus, they are highly motivated to consume for status' sake, but because they do not possess the financial means, these consumers are likely to turn to cheap substitutes for the originals.
The last group are proletarians, those that are simply not driven to consume for status' sake and either cannot or will not concern themselves with signaling by using status goods.
You can download the paper below – it is definitely worth reading!
Beyond patricians preferring the quiet label and poseurs going for brash and flashy logos, brands are trying to improve customer relationship management in the hopes of creating brand loyalties.
Recent research suggests that brand attachment is predicated on a brand/self-relationship and can better explain what drives consumer behavior, loyalty and commitment than brand attitude. This could explain consumers' devotion to iPad, fans' intense reaction to celebrity deaths like Michael Jackson or a teenager's devastation at not receiving the brand of jeans they crave.
The stronger the consumer's attachment to a brand, the more willing they are to invest time, money and energy to maintain a relationship with it. A stronger relationship may result in defending it on social networks in case of a public relations disaster (see GAP logo – debacle or publicity stunt?).
Highly attached consumers are more motivated to devote their own resources in the process of self-expansion, including paying more, defending the brand, deriding alternatives, and devoting more time to the brand through social media communities, including Facebook fan pages, and promotion.
Can a patrician or parvenus consumer's attachment to a brand be increased with provocative advertising?
It probably depends on the ambassador used and under what circumstances (e.g., Richard Branson or Tony Howard – and the winner is…).
Last week, watchmaker Hublot published an ad featuring Formula One Group CEO Bernie Ecclestone's beaten face and the tagline, "See what people will do for a Hublot". Ecclestone received the injuries during a mugging in which his own Hublot was stolen, and while the image is striking, presumably intending to emphasize the value and prestige of these watches, does the chance of getting beaten up for a watch not put you off buying one?
Critics said it was in poor taste, forcing Hublot and Bernie Ecclestone to do some damage-control (2010-12-13).
Based on the above studies, it is clear that ads that appeal to guilt instead of hope might not convince wealthy brand afficionados.
Parvenus consumers may love such advertising, and in turn, flaunt their logo and devotion to the brand. Patricians surely abhor it and consider the Hublot ad in poor taste, and bad marketing.
This suggests that marketers are well advised to build stronger brand attachment and refrain from turning off their clients with aggressive advertising. Attachment represented by both brand/self-connection and prominence is a significantly better predictor of actual behaviors than brand attitude.
By the way, patricians were once defined as members of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome, aristocracy or hereditary ruling class of medieval Italian and German free cities. The researchers' operationalization of the term focuses on money and wealth.
Are you with me on these advertising issues? Should companies use sensitive events in their advertising? What do you think? Please leave a comment; the floor is yours!
And since this is our last post before Christmas, we would like to wish you and your family a safe and happy holiday!


You will find that the availability of gluten-free items is increasing around the parks and there are new offerings every time I visit. On my recent visit I noticed that the bakeries, confectionaries, and shops all carried several gluten-free lines including the yummy Rocky Mountain brand caramel corn and Enjoy Life life products in all shapes and sizes. In addition, there are a few Minnie's Bake shop options that are gluten free.
Looking for something a little more exciting? You'll definitely want to pay a visit to Baby Cakes Bakery over at Downtown Disney. They specialize in over-the-top cookies and cupcakes for those who can't have products with gluten! Everything in the case is beyond delicious!
For a detailed list of all of the Gluten-Free options in each park, you can send a request to specialdiets@disneyworld.com. They will be able to send you a very informative with lots of fun options!


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The 'Avengers' Directors Are Certain That Deadpool And X-Men Will Join The Marvel Cinematic Universe
Josh Kurp
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe is about to enter Phase 4, but that's not the biggest change coming to MCU. It took $71.3 billion, but Disney recently acquired 21st Century Fox (or at least it will be completed on January 1, 2019), and with the deal comes the rights to Deadpool and X-Men. Does that mean we'll see Captain Marvel teaming up with the Merc with the Mouth and Cyclops?
Avengers: Infinity War directors Joe and Anthony Russo seem to think so.
"I'm sure of it," said Joe Russo at Business Insider's IGNITION Conference when asked if characters like X-Men and Deadpool could appear in Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe. "I'm certain, with [president of Marvel Studios] Kevin Feige, who also has been on an historic run in the business, that he is going to incorporate those characters under the large Marvel umbrella." (Via)
His brother Anthony added, "We haven't spoken to [Feige] specifically about when he's going to do it, but I'm certain that that acquisition created great value in dimensionalizing Marvel and the stories that they can tell going forward." Feige has stated that he's eager to bring X-Men to the MCU, and that he has ideas for potential crossovers. But don't get too excited yet. "The truth? I really haven't given it anymore thought than I did in my normal daydreaming over the last ten years," the Marvel Studios boss told us. "Until it's done and until we are told, 'Okay, proceed,' we have enough storylines and characters and expectations to try and meet, or exceed, without thinking about that."
In other words, for now, the closest Deadpool will get to Thanos is Cable.
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HomeBusinessEurope vs. America
Europe vs. America
January 14, 2010 Scott Sumner
Matt Yglesias has a post arguing that when comparing different economic systems, growth rates matter more than levels. This is usually not the case, but sometimes it is. First a brief quotation:
Was this also due to the job-killing impact of universal health care and cap-and-trade? In general, rich countries normally stay rich and poor countries normally stay poor. When you're asking about policy, you're either going to be asking questions about growth rates or else you're going to find very little of interest to say. In particular, the United States has been richer than France or Germany since at least 1820. This fact, on its own, doesn't have much to say to us about policy.
I think this misses the point. Right-wing economists aren't arguing that those specific policies explain the difference, but rather that America is richer because it has been more capitalist for a long time. Has it been more capitalist since 1820? It is a long time since I read Tocqueville, but my impression is that the answer is yes. The statism of Europe took many forms. There were trade barriers between German states. The French government has always been more interventionist. UK was pretty capitalist in 1820, but then it was also pretty rich. For a while Europe could use the destruction of WWII as an excuse, and indeed when I was young they were growing faster than us in a "catch-up." But it is obvious they have plateaued about 25% below us. (As an aside I would distinguish between the North and the South in 1820. Because of slavery, I doubt that average Southern living standards were as high as the GDP data might show.)
Here's why growth rates are misleading. Once you move to the technological frontier, it is hard to grow faster than about 2% per capita. But poorer countries can grow much faster as they borrow advanced technology. Nobody in their right mind (and Yglesias is very smart) would think India has a superior policy regime to Switzerland because India grows at 8% and the Swiss grow at 2%.
On the other side growth rates can be important, if understood in the proper context. Suppose you have one country with 30% of US income per capita and another with 40% of US income per capita. And suppose the slightly poorer country in growing at 10% and the richer at 3%. Then I'd say the poorer country probably has the better model, and will soon surpass the richer country. An example would be a few decades back, when Korea and Taiwan were still slightly poorer than the big Latin American economies. Today I'd compare Mexico and China in a similar fashion.
So where does that leave US. As I said in a previous post, I agree with many of the complexities that Tyler Cowen mentioned. He recently linked to a very interesting post that compares Europe and the US and shows that Americans of European descent are much richer than the European countries they came from. This is a comparison I've always wanted to make, and I'm glad someone did it. Indeed in some ways it's even worse. Our large Italian-American community came mostly from southern Italy, which is far poorer than Italy as a whole.
But ethnicity also raises a lot of uncomfortable issues for both liberals and conservatives. The comparisons I just referred to could be viewed as conservatives saying; "Heh, don't blame our system for all the poverty we have, we are stuck with a lot of African Americans, Native Americans and Latinos." I'm not sure that conservatives want to make that argument. On the other hand liberals would need to ask themselves why southern Italy is so poor. Doesn't it sort of fit the Thomas Sowell "cultural" explanation? If you say that firms are afraid to invest in Sicily and Naples because of all the crime, then why isn't that also true of inner city America? And most importantly, unlike inner city America, southern Italy is part of a very high spending European welfare state. One that has poured massive amounts of money into the "Mezzogiorno." So I don't see either side gaining much from delving deeply into ethnicity. I try to avoid these issues as you are likely to offend someone (perhaps I've already offended all my readers whose name ends with a vowel.)
On balance I slightly prefer the US system. But I don't see the gap as being nearly as large as the PPP GDP per capita numbers show, for reasons like this:
1. Europeans have longer vacations.
2. Europeans tend to have better public infrastructure (but remember that much if it is now privatized.)
3. Yes, Krugman picked three very misleading cities in Paris, London and Frankfurt, but even an average German city looks richer than a deep south state in the US with the same per capita income. This partly reflects our greater inequality.
One final comment, I think many liberal intellectuals think America is poorer than it really is, partly because they think about the issue from the perspective of a resident of NYC/Boston/DC/SF/West LA. As big as these cities are, they are a very modest share of the US population. I just stayed a few days in a house in Katy, Texas (near Houston); a city that is far more typical of America. It was valued in the high $300s, so let's call it a middle to upper middle class house. It was very large and very attractive (sandstone facade, etc) and would have been well over a million dollars where I live, maybe close to $1.5 million, They have extremely good schools, attractive commercial zones without tacky signs, great highways, etc. In my view their living standards (for families making $100,000 or so) are far higher than for similar families in the areas where the coastal elite lives. A European occupying the same economic position couldn't come close to touching that lifestyle in purely materialistic terms. But then they'd just say we're too materialistic.
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Scott Sumner has taught economics at Bentley University for the past 27 years.
He earned a BA in economics at Wisconsin and a PhD at University of Chicago.
Professor Sumner's current research topics include monetary policy targets and the Great Depression. His areas of interest are macroeconomics, monetary theory and policy, and history of economic thought.
Professor Sumner has published articles in the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and the Bulletin of Economic Research.
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Unlike the normal case of the simple conic, the polar case of the Azimuthal Equidistant, or the normal case of any cylindrical projection, the meridians and parallels do not cross at right angles in the Polyconic. This was felt to be a defect, and thus, in 1853, a version in which the scale along the parallels was modified to obtain this property, known as the Rectangular Polyconic (or the War Office projection) was devised. Usually given with constant scale along the Equator, this projection could in fact have constant scale along any standard parallel.
the difference becomes more apparent.
the actual radius of the parallel being cos(lat), and the radius of the arc being 1/tan(lat), or cos(lat)/sin(lat), it follows the radius of the arc is 1/sin(lat) times the radius of the parallel, so angles on the parallel have to be multiplied by sin(lat) to obtain angles on the arc.
The chief use of the Rectangular Polyconic is in making very large scale maps; thus, it can be made with other standard parallels than the equator. For another standard parallel, the scale along the standard parallel is true, and therefore as in the simple polyconic, but the meridians are represented by the same curves as in the rectangular polyconic with the Equator as standard parallel, in order to retain the property that they cut the parallels at right angles; they merely represent different longitudes.
and then simply use the pseudo_longitude instead of the longitude to draw the rectangular polyconic with standard parallel at the Equator to obtain the rectangular polyconic for another standard parallel.
it would be the rectangular polyconic that is the larger one if both were drawn to the same scale.
In 1921, G. T. McCaw devised a further modification of this projection; apparently, he worked out how to increase scale along the standard parallel away from the standard meridian so that the projection would be conformal along the standard parallel as well as along the standard meridian. Somewhat later, he explored the possibilities offered by the polyconic class of projections more fully.


Artist statement about the exhibition: "The content of this show derives from the influence of heirlooms, gifted to me at different stages of my life, safely kept and carried through many relocations between two continents. I consider them treasures pulsing with nostalgic sentimentality, responding to my stylistic values and adding to my trove of materials. These gifts reached me through women I was surrounded with during childhood, women of extraordinary strength and courage."
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So I changed my caliper paint because, I have so much F-Sport stuff I figured I might as well change the color to F-Sport blue. I will post pics later, I also wanted to know if I should replace all my wheel studs as one was broken so wondering if I should get them all done over or just replacing that one was fine.
I'll try to take better pics tomorrow, it was snowing here.
What paint did you use? Seems like u didnt mask good, you can see the painted shims and brake pads.
I would have painted the shims and brake pads as well. It looks better.
I decided not to mask off shims, planning on getting new ones. The brake pads are not painted. Dupicolor.
1wheel stud is fine. I did a DIY for this, check my thread.
Ok, yeah found pretty good write up. Thanks.
A better full pic, the blue really sticks out.
PS: The hood is popped because I was about to check my coolant fluid level.
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« Previous Game: "Circle Dodgeball"
This game consists in shooting or hurling through a rolling hoop a stick or gymnasium wand. The hoop may be from six inches to two feet in diameter. The smaller hoop is adapted only to expert players it is well to begin with a hoop the size of a barrel hoop.
Where there are numerous players they are divided into opposing teams which alternate in throwing at the target (hoop). These players take places at intervals of about five feet along one side of the playground each holding a spear (stick) to hurl at the hoop as it passes him. Another player stands at one end of the ground and sends the hoop rolling the full length of the space covered by the playing team its course should be from ten to twenty feet distant from the line-up of the team and parallel to the latter.
As the hoop passes him each player in turn hurls his spear at it. This is best done with the spear held horizontally at a height of about the middle of the hoop. Each spear that successfully goes through the hoop scores one point for its team. Each team has three rounds and then gives place to the opponents. The team first scoring one hundred points wins the game.
When there are not enough players to put into teams each player scores independently the first to make twenty points winning.
For obvious reasons of safety no player should be allowed on the side toward which the spears are hurled. This game may be played capitally with bean bags instead of sticks.
This is an adaptation of one of the hoop and pole games played by the North American Indians.


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Q: How can I copy the DynamicData templates from another site? I'm attempting to start using DynamicData functionality in a previously existing website.  Basically I'm following this tutorial.  When I got to the part about creating the Field Templates I decided I could probably create a new site with the Dynamic Data stuff built in, and then just copy the folder over.
Unfortunately when I do that and try to compile I get the error "Could not load type..." for just about every .ascx file in the DynamicData directory.  I named the "new" project the same as the pre-existing site so that the namespace would be the same... but I can't think of what else I could be missing.
Everything looks ok, except that the *.ascx.Designer.cs files are showing inside the Solution Explorer.  I tried deleting one and then copying that file back into just the directory but it didn't work.  I'm assuming I need to do something special with those so that Visual studio handles them properly and can compile?
Here is one of the .aspx files:
<%@ Control Language="C#" CodeBehind="FilterUserControl.ascx.cs" Inherits="EService.FilterUserControl" %>

<asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList1" runat="server" AutoPostBack="true"
    EnableViewState="true" ontextchanged="new">
    <asp:ListItem Text="All" Value="" />
</asp:DropDownList>

Here is the matching .cs file:
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using System.Web.DynamicData;

namespace EService
{
    public partial class FilterUserControl : System.Web.DynamicData.FilterUserControlBase
    {
        public event EventHandler SelectedIndexChanged
        {
            add
            {
                DropDownList1.SelectedIndexChanged += value;
            }
            remove
            {
                DropDownList1.SelectedIndexChanged -= value;
            }
        }

        public override string SelectedValue
        {
            get
            {
                return DropDownList1.SelectedValue;
            }
        }

        protected void Page_Init(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (!Page.IsPostBack)
            {
                PopulateListControl(DropDownList1);

                // Set the initial value if there is one
                if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(InitialValue))
                    DropDownList1.SelectedValue = InitialValue;
            }
        }
    }
}

And here is the .ascx.designer.cs file:
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// <auto-generated>
//     This code was generated by a tool.
//     Runtime Version:2.0.50727.1433
//
//     Changes to this file may cause incorrect behavior and will be lost if
//     the code is regenerated.
// </auto-generated>
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------

namespace EService
{

    public partial class FilterUserControl
    {

        protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.DropDownList DropDownList1;
    }
}

EDIT:  If I create the file in the website, then copy the contents from the temporary site I created it seems to compile just fine.  Really have no idea what the issue is here... I tried manually modifying files to match the results of copying and they still wouldn't work unless I actually created them in the site.  It's just bizarre...

A: The problem was due to the temporary site creating the <%@ Control > definitions with the CodeBehind property instead of the CodeFile property.  For some reason pages in the actual website will only compile when CodeFile is declared...

A: DD will work with Either Website or Web Application. however when copying in from an other project the types need to be the same otherwise it's lot of editing to convert swee my article here Getting Dynamic Data Futures filters working in a File Based Website.

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Veena Saharan
Sqn.Ldr. Veena Saharan D/o Col. H.S. Saharan is the first woman co-pilot selected to run heavy aircraft in Indian Air Force.
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Veena Saharan did her B.Sc.from Delhi University securing First position in her class. Then she was selected as Pilot in Indian Air Force in December 2002.
She was declared as best Lady pilot officer at the time of passing from Air Force Academy.She flew AN -32 Air craft in Siacheen & eastern sector.Based on her performence,she was selected for IL-76,haviest Air Craft called as 'Gajraj'.She is the first & only lady pilot selected for Gajraj in Air Force in Jan.2009.
Squadron Leader Veena Saharan became the first woman pilot to fly one of the mightiest and heaviest aircraft of the Indian Air Force - the Russian-built Illyushin-76 (IL-76).She will first co-pilot IL-76, renamed by the IAF as Gajraj (Elephant), and after 40 hours of flying she will become the pilot.
Saharan, 27, hails from Jaipur and is a second-generation defence officer. Her father is a colonel in the Indian Army.
She completed her two-month ground training for the aircraft at the Agra air base last month and has now moved on to Nagpur for further training.
After flying IL-76 for 40 hours Saharan will complete her conversion from AN-32 transport aircraft to the largest transport aircraft of the force.
Commissioned in the IAF in December 2002, Saharan's story is of hard work and sweat. The opportunity to fly IL-76 was always there for the women pilots since their induction into the IAF a decade and a half ago but it is only the best who get a chance. So far Saharan has flown four types of aircraft.
She started with the two-seater HPT-32 aircraft and then moved on to Dornier transport aircraft.She has also flown AN-32.
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Wassail! Carols of Comfort & Joy was performed by massed choirs of United Learning schools, the Call Me Al quintet and Alexander L'Estrange (conductor) in London's Southwark Cathedral on November 27th and the next day in the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.
Wed 29th Nov 2017 Missouri, USA. Performed by Vanguard Chorale at Allen Park Presbyterian Church, Allen Park, Missouri, USA.
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GIFTS & TITHES
The church was built and paid for by Dr. and Mrs. Isaac A. McCarty, who had traveled widely in the United States and Europe "studying church architecture against the time when they were ready to further the Kingdom of God." The church was dedicated in May 1932 on the McCartys' 45th wedding anniversary. The Los Angeles Times reported that the church was "built and furnished at a cost of $250,000 on a $30,000 site." Dr. McCarty imported many of the interior features from Czechoslovakia. The Times called the church, designed by Thomas P. Barber and Paul Kingsbury, "one of the finest examples of pure Gothic architecture in America." The dedication ceremony was attended by Los Angeles Mayor John Porter and Charles C. Chapman. Dr. McCarty died two years later in May 1934, and his funeral was held at the church he built.
The founding pastor at McCarty was Dr. Bruce Brown, who served as the pastor until 1942 and died in 1957. Brown was succeeded by Dr. O. James Sowell, who was pastor from 1942 until 1952, when he left the church to become an evangelist. He was next followed by the Rev. James Clark Brown, who served as pastor for seven months from 1952 to 1953.
Integration under the Rev. Kring Allen
The Rev. Kring Allen was credited with successfully integrating the McCarty Church. Interviewed by the Los Angeles Times in 1967, Allen, who had been the pastor at McCarty since 1954, noted: "Our neighborhood is 85% Negro. So's our church, I would guess, although I don't know. You lose your color sense when you stop thinking about it. I lost mine." When Allen arrived, the church's membership had dropped to 370 members, down from 1,500 in the 1930s. McCarty Church in 1954 was a faltering congregation, plagued by urban problems in a "changing neighborhood." Allen brought plans that were considered "radical" at the time. He recalled, "I came with the understanding with my board here that this church was going to integrate or I wouldn't stay. ... When some of the board wanted to go in a segregated way, I said: 'I won't go that road, and if you go it, you go without me.' I spent most of the first six months in the public library, reading up on Negro history. ... We get brainwashed. We downgrade the Negro and upgrade the white. We fix our stereotypes. That's the trouble with most white people like me. I wrote a lot of churches asking for advice. The Riverside Church at New York ... told me to 'go slow, or you'll tear your church to pieces.' But I didn't want to go slow." Things were difficult at first, but Allen recalled that things started to gel when he took 70 parishioners, black and white, to a camp in the San Bernardino Mountains where they "housed together, worked together, studied together." They came back from the camp as "a completely integrated nucleus." He became an advocate for integration of churches, noting, "Integration is basic to the Gospel. ... The church is either going to pass through this fire, or the church has had it. There can be no more segregated churches. The whole movement of history is against it."
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Presentation - Identifying Socio-Economic Characteristics Affecting the Happiness in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, CRRC Armenia
Caucasus Research Resource Center (CRRC) - Armenia
October 21, 2014, 14:30 - October 20, 2014, 16:00
Caucasus Research Resource Center (CRRC) - Armenia invites you to a presentation on
"Identifying Socio-Economic Characteristics Affecting the Happiness in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia"
Speaker: Sona Telunts (CRRC-Armenia Junior Fellow)
To identify the household socio-economic characteristics influencing the happiness in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, a logistic regression model for each country was estimated using the data from the Caucasus Barometer survey conducted by the regional offices of the Caucasus Research Resource Centers in 2013. The results of estimation showed that health status, marital status, religion, and personal debt were statistically significant determinants of happiness in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Income was a significant determinant of happiness in Azerbaijan and Georgia. Age and household size variables were statistically significantly impacting happiness in Armenia. Believing in the presence of democracy in the country and education were found to be statistically significant determinants of happiness in Azerbaijan.
Sona Telunts holds Master's degree in Agribusiness and Marketing from Agribusiness Teaching Center (collaborative program between Texas A&M University and Armenian National Agrarian University). Before joining CRRC-Armenia as a Junior Fellow, Sona worked at Armenian Harvest Promotion Center CJSC as a financial analyst for 2 years. Her research interests include financial analysis for a firm, developing business plans, applied consumer demand analysis.
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It really is amazing how the Mets went from years of "there isn't a problem here with our training/medical staff" to "Yes. There was a problem." Hopefully this works out. Besides the "High Performance director", I wonder what the other two positions being filled are.
"Alderson indicated the team will add a "high performance director" at the top of the medical department.


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Noise Reduction Filter
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Fighting noise is a very old problem because noise cannot be eliminated. All electronic devices, resistors and other passive components generate noise. In audio systems all these can be kept below the audible level but ambient noise may not be avoided even if the audio system is designed according to the best practices. In these cases some noise reduction technique can help. Here we discuss two types of noise reduction techniques:
Noise reduction filtering (NRF) is a "blind" method. A signal processing method is called "blind" if the statistical properties of the involved signals are known but the actual values of them are unknown.
Noise cancellation (NC) is a reference based method. In this case we have access to the noise source but its actual effect on the signal is unknown.
These two approaches work in different manners and incur significantly different costs. NRF is essentially "free" in that it is an integral part of the signal processing chain on every input channel. NC, on the other hand, is a significantly more complex method that requires additional signal processing resources to implement, therefore, it is much more expensive than NRF. See Table 1 for a more detailed comparison of the two techniques.
Since ASPEN processors apply settings immediately, the amount of NRF applied to any one or more inputs can be adjusted in real time as the system is operating by a control device connected via ethernet, USB or RS-232 ports, using macros, or directly adjusted using the command terminal interface included in the ASPEN software.
Noise Reduction Filtering
The theoretical background of this method is optimal or Wiener filtering after Norbert Wiener who researched this area in the 1940's and published his results in 1949.[1]
The signal model of optimal filtering is shown in figure 1.
The signal of interest (X) is contaminated by an additive noise (V). In order to improve the signal integrity, the observed noisy signal (Y) is passed through a filter. The output of the filter (Z) is an estimate of the unknown signal (X). The estimation error, the difference of X and Z, has the lowest possible power if the frequency response of the filter (H) is given by:
In ASPEN we use a 30-band 1/3-octave filter bank to implement the noise reduction filter. Figures 2 and 3 on the next page show an example in which the noise (cyan) has equal power in every band, i.e. it is a pink noise and the signal (blue) concentrates its power in the mid-audio range. Figure 2a and 2b show the signal and noise before and after the filtering, respectively. Figures 2 and 3 differ in that in figure 2 the signal is plotted on the top of the noise and in figure 3 the noise is on the top.
We can clearly see the benefit of the filtering. The attenuation is negligible in those bands where the signal has much more power than the noise, i.e. the signal-to-noise ratio is high; and the attenuation is high in the bands with poor signal-to-noise ratio. The result is an improved overall signal-to-noise ratio at the cost of some linear distortion of the signal.
There are two reasons why the Wiener filter cannot be used in its original form as a noise reduction filter in audio systems:
The signal and noise spectra are unknown therefore the equation for the frequency response of the optimal filter cannot be evaluated.
We may assume the noise spectrum to be quasi stationary (changing slowly), but the audio signals (such voice signals) are highly time variant.
To implement a noise reduction filter we made some assumptions and complemented the Wiener filtering algorithm with an adaptation method that automatically separates the signal and noise spectra and continuously changes the filter parameters (see figure 4). Proper operation of the noise reduction filters in ASPEN requires that:
The noise be quasi stationary but its spectral distribution can be arbitrary.
The audio signal changes its spectral distribution rapidly. Stationary components will be misidentified as noise hence they will greatly be attenuated.
Main features of the NRF in ASPEN:
Every audio channel has an NRF so it scales with the size of the system.
The depth of the noise reduction is adjustable in a wide range: 6 dB - 36 dB.
30 frequency bands all have 1/3-octave bandwidth.
Zero latency, minimum phase.
Optimal (Wiener) filtering algorithm.
Fast adaptation.
Follow these simple rules to use the NRF:
Enable the NRF only if it is necessary (the noise is distracting).
Enable the NRF only for the noisiest microphones.
Use the minimum noise reduction depth that effectively attenuates the noise. This may greatly vary depending on the characteristics of the noise and the acoustical properties of the environment as well as on personal preference.
Noise cancelers (NC) use an adaptive filter to reconstruct the noise that effects the original signal. In this case a reference signal is needed which usually is a microphone placed close to the noise source. In this case an adaptive filter is necessary because the relationship between the noise source and the actual noise that contaminates the audio signal is unknown.
Note the difference between NRF and NC. While the NRF is placed directly in the signal path, the NC predicts contamination and subtracts it from the observed signal. Therefore the signal is unaltered resulting in a higher sound quality. The computation burden of NC is comparable to an acoustic echo canceler which usually requires a dedicated DSP for every one, or at least every two, audio channels.
Table 1. Comparison of FRF and NC


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As part of a 25-year contract to 2024, SUEZ recycling and recovery Surrey works on behalf of Surrey County Council to manage the household waste that's generated daily across the county.
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Our team in Surrey
SUEZ works in partnership with Surrey County Council and other local organisations to manage the household waste that's generated daily across the county.
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In the spirit of openness and transparency, we work to keep local residents and businesses informed in a range of ways.
Community and environmental improvement projects
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Home > What we do > Developments
We are working through a programme of modernising the waste and recycling facilities throughout Surrey to help process waste more effectively and provide a more efficient service to residents.
Since the start of the contract, we have redeveloped ten of the fifteen community recycling centres to provide Surrey residents with modern, accessible and convenient facilities.
Currently in progress
Surrey Eco Park
The Eco Park is a brand new facility comprising of a community recycling centre, recyclables bulking facility, anaerobic digestion plant and a gasification treatment facility. The site, near Shepperton in North Surrey, is our busiest site. For more information on the development, visit ecoparksurrey.uk.
Slyfield community recycling centre and transfer station
Plans are in development to look at relocating and developing the site at Slyfield Industrial Estate in Guildford. The existing facility currently includes a community recycling centre and waste transfer station on a small and busy site. Proposals for the new development suggest relocating both facilities to a new site on the industrial estate to provide a larger waste transfer station, with a separately-accessed community recycling centre and a Revive re-use shop for local residents. This would improve the amenity for local residents and businesses, and reduce waiting times.
Completed developments
Here are some of the redevelopment projects we have completed on behalf of Surrey County Council.
Earlswood materials bulking facility
Working with Surrey County Council and Reigate and Banstead Borough Council, we improved and extended the municipal depot on the A23 at Earlswood and built a materials bulking facility.
The facility comprises an enclosed building with outside bays for storing garden waste and street sweepings. Waste collection vehicles bring recyclable materials, food waste and general waste from households in Reigate, Banstead and Tandridge. We bulk the waste into larger loads before it's transported off site for recycling, energy recovery or disposal. No processing or treatment takes place at the Earlswood site, and waste is usually moved on within a couple of days.
Leatherhead community recycling centre
We redeveloped the community recycling centre and transfer station to make it more modern, accessible and easy-to-use.
Upgrades included:
Better parking and road layout to reduce queuing and help people move around the site more easily.
Separate entrances for public vehicles and site service vehicles to help reduce congestion.
Separate drop-off area for garden waste that's delivered in trailers.
Witley community recycling centre
We redeveloped and extended the community recycling centre to make it more modern, accessible and convenient. The year after the completion of the project, the site won the prestigious 'Civic Amenity of the Year 2013' award by industry body letsrecycle.com
Better parking and road layout to reduce queueing and help people move around the site more easily.
Separate entrance and exit to help reduce congestion. Residents now enter the improved site via Rake Lane instead of Petwork Road.
A split-level site to remove the need for steps.
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How do you get more kids to get better grades at GCSE, so they can go on to take A-levels or technical qualifications, go to university and/or get a good job?
The answer – shockingly – is that you can't. At least not as things stand. And here's why.
The doorway to success in almost any field has for many years been a clutch of GCSE passes – crucially including maths and English – at a grade C or higher. That's what employers look for on CVs and it's the very first box to tick in applying to university. Anything lower than a C and you are likely to be written off.
In recent years, around two-thirds of teenagers in England have been getting C or higher in maths and English.
But – and here's the rub – the grade boundaries are actually set so that two-thirds of the cohort do get C or higher and one-third get D or lower.
This is done by a complicated process which really boils down to comparing students with each other rather than with fixed criteria. It's known as norm-referencing or, more accurately, cohort-referencing. It's not like taking the driving test or the UK citizenship test, where, if you are good enough, you pass, regardless of how well others do.
In other words, a third of kids are destined to fail – if by 'fail' we mean, as we usually do, getting below a C. The exam results are deliberately fixed to ensure that.
Under the new grading system being introduced from this year, the A* to G scale is being replaced by a 9 to 1 scale, with 9 the highest. The exam regulators, Ofqual, have decreed that 4 will be roughly equivalent to C and that the same proportion of students will achieve that (though some suspect that 5 will soon become the new standard of success).
But the principle remains the same. Two-thirds will get over the hurdle. One-third won't.
Let's go back nearly 30 years. I remember reporting on the introduction of GCSE exams in 1988. They were hailed as the exam for all, merging the old GCE O-level and CSE exams and offering nearly everyone success at some level on a single scale.
But the new order was soon hi-jacked by the demands of league tables. The new trend in accountability required schools to be measured and compared, and counting passes at A*-C (roughly equivalent to the old O-level) was the way to do it.
For a long time, national results improved year-on-year. Many in education thought this was a fair reflection of better teaching and students' harder work, and to a large extent it was. But the sceptics continued to shout foul, accusations of dumbing down abounded and politicians got nervous.
The annual improvement in results stalled around six years ago, coinciding with a move to norm-referencing. Some quality assurance was needed and the obvious way to do that was to keep results roughly stable from year to year. Two-thirds is where it had settled at the time and where it now sticks.
So, once again this year, a third of kids won't reach the desired standard. They'll be at the bottom of the pile for everything that comes afterwards.
Tough, you might say. That's life. Not everyone can have prizes. But the fact is that the bottom third are deemed to have failed. Those not too far from the boundary are expected to try again – but the pass rate for resits is much lower than for those taking it first time round. Some teenagers go on to retake the exam several times, with ever-wilting hopes.
This affects all subjects, but it's a particular issue in maths, where many young people fall behind badly in secondary school, where low skills are widespread among adults and where levels of confidence are often dismal.
That's why National Numeracy is developing proposals – supported by funding from Cambridge Mathematics – for a new benchmark assessment in essential maths, open to everyone from the age of 14. Like a driving test, this would be within the grasp of anyone who's mastered the necessary theory and practice.
Based on the 'Essentials of Numeracy' that inform the National Numeracy Challenge for adults, it would set out the sort of realistic maths problems that all students should be able to solve in their future lives – such as deciding whether it's worth buying a season travel ticket.
This is not an alternative to GCSE – most students would use it as stepping stone towards GCSE. But it is an alternative to nothing, which is what an awful lot of teenagers currently get.


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Data needed for improving the health of minorities
Manning Feinleib
Identified needs for minority health data, obstacles in obtaining the data, and potential solutions are reviewed. Vital statistics for whites and blacks have been available by states for many years. Recent revisions provide data on Hispanics, and new resolutions will provide data on Asian and Pacific Islander subgroups. But limitations persist in providing accurate statistics for minority subgroups. A major obstacle is the inadequacy of census denominator estimates, due to differential undercounts, paucity of postcensal estimates for states and localities, and the validity of the race and ethnicity data. Important issues revolve around quality, comparability, and intraperson variability of self-identification in determining race and ethnicity, versus external assessment. National survey data have oversampled for black and Hispanic minorities, but not others. The Disadvantaged Minority Health Improvement Act of 1990 provides some solutions, including an extramural grants program to strengthen minority statistics, which the National Center for Health Statistics has implemented to improve minority health assessment at all levels.
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According to a recent study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NTHSA), vehicular fatalities account for nearly 95 percent of transportation related fatalities. Drivers often think that warmer weather means safer road conditions, but the effects of winter weather often make for difficult spring road conditions. As March 20th marks the first day of spring, CURE Auto Insurance provides tips on how drivers can stay safe on the road this season.
1. Watch for potholes. Snow, ice and rain from the winter months often leave roads in bad shape. The repeated freezing and thawing of moisture seeps through road surfaces causing potholes. It is best to avoid potholes entirely. If that's not possible, apply brakes before hitting a pothole and release them just prior to impact. Additionally, keeping your tires properly inflated will help reduce damage from potholes and other road hazards.
2. Spring showers bring May flowers–and wet driving conditions. Rain water that mixes with oil on the streets can result in slippery conditions that may cause unexpected skidding. Stay alert and avoid driving through large puddles ¬-the splashing water may affect your brakes.
Citizens United Reciprocal Exchange, (CURE) is a not-for-profit reciprocal exchange headquartered in Princeton, N.J. Founded in 1990 by New Jersey Insurance Commissioner James J. Sheeran and award-winning insurance expert, Dr. Lena Chang as an answer to the insurance crisis in New Jersey.


"The great war is here."
The first full trailer for Game of Thrones' seventh season has been released. "The great war is here," Jon Snow ominously says in the background. And he's right.
The nearly two-minute-long preview teases an array of intense scenes from the upcoming season: Daenerys and her ships land in Westeros; Cersei and Jaime plot to keep Lannister legacy alive; Jon Snow takes the helm as King in the North; Littlefinger plays with Sansa's emotions; Arya Stark travels in an unknown snowy land. Grey Worm, Melisandre, Theon, Tyrion and the armored Gregor Clegane also make an appearance.
GOT Season 7 premieres on July 16. Watch the new trailer below.


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The government's fuel poverty adviser has warned the prime minister that cutting the Energy Companies Obligation could land the government in court.
The Energy Companies Obligation (ECO) sits alongside the government's flagship Green Deal and provides funding for retrofit work in poorer communities and households, funded by the energy companies.
The scheme is estimated to be worth £1.3bn a year and has so far provided more work to the construction sector than the Green Deal.
However, in recent weeks reports have emerged that the government is considering extending the deadline for energy companies to meet their carbon cutting obligations under the scheme as a way of easing the pressure on consumers' fuel bills.
Extending the deadline for energy firms would effectively slash the amount of carbon they would have to cut through to 2015, which would mean firms would need to spend less money on retrofit work over the period.
The move is understood to be a response to Labour leader Ed Milliband's pledge to freeze fuel bills if Labour is elected to government in 2015.
This morning, business secretary Vince Cable said there this was a "continuing argument" between the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives over the green targets, while the prime minister's spokesman did not rule out the possibility of cuts to green targets as part of a "look across the board" at how to ease the cost of living pressure on families.
"In a context where people's budgets are squeezed, people are feeling the pressure, they would expect us to look across the range of what can be done," he said.
According to reports in the national press, the chair of the Fuel Poverty Advisory Group (FPAG), the government's own advisor, has now written to David Cameron to warn that any such delay to the scheme would leave it open to legal challenge.
He added any cut would be open to judicial review.
The debate over the issue has been intensified by a price hike by energy supplier SSE yesterday that will see customers pay an extra 8.2% on average for their energy. Other energy firms are expected to follow suit.
Will Morris, group managing director of retail at SSE, said he was "sorry we have to do this" but wholesale costs, green levies and transmission costs had forced the firm to raise prices.


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5 Most Dangerous Computer Viruses of all time
When we talk about a computer virus, we usually mean any kind of code that's designed to do harm and spread itself to more computers.
They're created by malicious programmers who might want to use your computer to attack other targets, or make money by stealing your personal information. They could also just be trying to see how far their virus will spread.
Different viruses can affect Windows, Mac and Linux computers, and even the data servers that keep companies, and the internet itself, running.
Antivirus programs help, but they can have trouble dealing with threats they've never seen before.Over the years, there have been thousands and thousands of viruses spread online, and they've caused billions of dollars of damage from lost productivity, wasted resources, and broken machines.
A few dozen of those viruses stand out, some spread especially quickly, or affected a lot of people, or created a ton of damage all by themselves. Some did all of the above.
Since a lot of viruses were very bad, in a lot of different ways, it's hard to pick out which ones were objectively the worst.
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Here are five most dangerous computer viruses of all time:
1. ILOVEYOU
Perhaps the most virulent computer virus ever created, the ILOVEYOU virus managed to wreck PCs all across the world. Infecting almost 10% of the world's PCs connected to the Internet, the virus caused a total damage of around $10 billion.
The virus apparently got transmitted via email with a subject line "ILOVEYOU," which is a radical human emotion that no one can ignore. To make it even more alluring, the email contained an attachment that read something like this: Love-Letter-For-You.TXT.vbs. The moment someone opened the file, the virus emailed itself to the first 50 contacts available in the PC's Windows address book.
2. Melissa
Melissa became the breaking news on March 26, 1999, after hitting the new age of emailing. Built by David L, Melissa was spread in the form of an email attachment by the name "list.doc."
When a person clicked upon the attachment, the virus would find the Microsoft Outlook address book and email itself to the first 50 contacts on the list having a message "Here is that document you asked for…donot show anyone else." Later on, FBI arrested David L and slapped him with a fine of $5000 for creating the wildest virus of its time.
3. My Doom
My Doom hit the malware world in 2004 and spread exponentially through email with random addresses of senders and subject lines. Infecting somewhere around two million PCs, My Doom smashed the cyber world by instigating a tremendous denial of service attack. It transmitted itself via email in a specially deceitful way that a receiver would first consider a bounced error message that read "Mail Transaction Failed."
However, as soon as the receiver clicked upon the message, the attachment executed and the worm transmitted to email addresses found in the user's address book. It is easy to believe that this mass mailer worm caused a damage of almost $38 billion.
4. Code Red
Taking advantage of the Microsoft Internet Information Server's flaw, Code Red spread on the network servers in 2001. Here is an amusing fact about this dangerous virus—it didn't need you to open an email attachment or execute a file; it just required an active Internet connection with which it ruined the Web page that you opened by displaying a text "Hacked by Chinese!" It's no surprise that this virus devastated nearly $2.6 billion dollars by hitting almost one million PCs.
And in less than a week's time, the virus brought down over 400,000 servers that included the White House Web server as well.
5. Sasser
Sasser was a Windows worm that was discovered in 2004. Apparently, it would slow down and crash the PC, making it even hard to reset without cutting the power. And its effects were surprisingly troublesome as well, with millions of PCs being infected and crucial, significant infrastructure affected.
The worm played on a buffer overflow susceptibility in Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) that monitors the safety policy of local accounts causing crashes to the PC. The devastating effects of the virus were massive resulting in over a million infections. This included critical infrastructures, such as new agencies, hospitals, airlines, and public transportation.
Computers are amazing, but they just do what they're told, and when viruses tell them to do bad things, it can create a lot of damage.
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Would Sonic the Hedgehog Be Able to Survive His Own Speed?
by Robert Lamb Nov 12, 2018
Does super speed come at a price, Sonic? Andrew Toth/Getty Images for Sega of America
When it comes to fictional animals capable of breaking the sound barrier, there's no beating Sonic the Hedgehog, but would he be able to survive his own super swiftness?
Sonic's the star of the long-running Sega video game franchise, where he spins and rolls at breakneck speeds in order to defeat the evil Dr. Robotnik. How fast does he go? As his name implies, he reaches sonic speeds, meaning that he can travel as fast as a soundwave through Earth's atmosphere: roughly 767 miles (1,235 kilometers) per hour, depending on air temperature. He also becomes "Super Sonic," so it's safe to assume he exceeds the speed of sound as well.
That's incredibly fast! Consider that the world's fastest organism, the peregrine falcon, only reaches a maximum speed of 200 miles (323 kilometers) per hour. For sustained speeds, the cheetah is Sonic's closest rival at a mere 70 miles (113 kilometers) per hour. Sonic smokes them both.
So could Sonic realistically handle supersonic speeds? Let's think about it. Humans routinely break the sound barrier in supersonic aircraft. Aboard the now-discontinued Concorde, passengers could even enjoy an in-flight meal. But this is all within the artificial confines of an airplane. All Sonic has is his incredible body.
Because his body WOULD have to be incredibly strong and durable to achieve and survive the wear and tear of supersonic speeds – even if he's rolling through smooth tubes and chutes half the time. As "The Physics of Superheroes" author James Kakalios points out, a super-fast organism like The Flash would need super-healing abilities to rapidly recover from the physical damage of each acceleration – to say nothing of smashing into things. The same goes for Sonic.
But then again, if we're to assume Sonic's species evolved to reach such high speeds, he must be sturdy enough to survive it — at least in the short term. So perhaps he does have the sort of enhanced healing speeds necessary to keep all his bones and ligaments from snapping.
Or are we being too hard on Sonic? He's a hedgehog that chases coins across a pinball landscape and, in later games, achieves faster-than-light travel. Plus, he's still going strong after more than 27 years.
Now That's Interesting!
As pointed out by Duke University's Patek Labs, various animals are capable of incredible speeds when it comes to parts of their anatomy, such as the mantis shrimp's 3-millisecond club strikes. There's even a hypothesis that prehistoric sauropods could have whipped their tails at sonic speed like a bullwhip, but it remains rather controversial.
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Today sees the release of the new government advice on CSE.
The DfE document is adapted from an extended advice for practice document written by the University of Bedfordshire and Research in Practice, under commission from the Department for Education. The full text of our extended version, whose length allows for exploration of some of the more nuanced challenges of responding to CSE, can be viewed here – with thanks to DfE for their consent to publish this extended version.
Between them, the DfE document and the UOB/RiP document respond to the varying requests from practice for (a) a short essential info document around what CSE is and what is expected in response and (b) an advanced exploration of some of the complexities of responding to CSE in practice.
In writing the document we drew on a widespread review of the existing evidence base, seeking to identify issues that have proved challenging to address in practice and to draw out lessons learnt in relation to this. The aim was never to provide a 'step-by-step' approach to addressing CSE, but rather to provide a framework for building a locally informed response that is evidence-informed, and creates space for the exercise of professional curiosity and professional judgment within this.
Of course there are no easy answers to these issues. And indeed, wider questions remain as to how we could more helpfully conceptualise the forms of harm we currently label as CSE or CSA and the implications this has for identification and response. Whilst this was beyond our remit within this practice guidance (which was commissioned to align with the new government definition) we consider these bigger questions in a forthcoming chapter in a new edited collection from the IC.
We are incredibly grateful for the extensive stakeholder feedback that we received on this document. In our view, the inter-disciplinary nature of the feedback has enhanced the relevance of the document – a lesson that equally applies in practice in terms of enhancing our understanding of, and response, to this issue. Similarly, the involvement of young people in sense-checking our messages and bringing these alive with reference to real life experiences has been invaluable, as we know it is in practice when making decisions about their lives.
We were delighted to partner with Research in Practice on this document and to avail of their extensive understanding of the practice environment in considering the application of learning within this. We are also incredibly grateful to Prof Julia Davidson for her input around the relevance of our messaging for online abuse.
We are not so naïve as to think that the production of this document is what brings about change – we know it is the passion and commitment of the sector that brings this about – but we do hope that our document and the messages within it prove to be a useful tool for you in this endeavour. Both the IC and RiP are committed to this issue in the long term, so please do send us your feedback on the text (international.centre@beds.ac.uk) and look out for future publications and events around these themes.


Join us for our Founders Week Celebrations!
See below for program description.
Sermon by the President, Rev. Micah L. McCreary, Ph.D.
Remembering New Brunswick's Role in Making Missionaries!
These words are part of New Brunswick Theological Seminary's "school song," the hymn written on the occasion of its centennial in 1884. The creation of the main student governing group at the Seminary, now called SSIM, was as the Society of Inquiry into Missions in 1812. The Bussing Museum, housed in Sage Library, was begun as a collection of artifacts sent from missionaries in the field to seminarians to encourage them to join in spreading Christ's Good News to every land.
On Friday, October 5, from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm, as part of the Seminary's Founders Weekend, the Reformed Church Center will host "Send Them, Apostles: NBTS as the Birthplace of RCA Missions". Three scholars will look at origins and effects of the school's missionary fervor. Someone who has been working in the mission field will help us consider the future of missions in the RCA and beyond, so we might all reflect on how this cradle of missions can cooperate with the larger church in this work.
Derrick Jones is the supervisor of RCA mission in Africa and Oman. He has served in this role for over ten years and is passionate about holistic mission principles, partnerships and opportunities that advance the missio Dei, and he will be sharing a Vision for Twenty-First Century RCA Missions.
Eri Kitada is a third-year doctoral student who studies Women's and Gender History and US History at Rutgers University. Her presentation, "Rutgers Foreign Missions and the Scarlet and Black Project", discusses the ties of Rutgers students and alumni (many, if not most, NBTS graduates) to foreign missions and the Scarlet and Black Project, an effort to explore the African-American and Native American experience at Rutgers.
This program is free and open to everyone. Responses to jbrumm@nbts.edu are welcome, but not required.
Professor Goatley is a constructive theologian whose scholarship and practice is at the intersection of ecclesiology, missiology, Black Theology and leadership strategy. A globally recognized missiologist, he emphasizes cross-cultural experiential learning with indigenous communities to deepen understanding, broaden horizons, and strengthen Christian discipleship and leadership formation through his 21 years of service as the Chief Executive officer of the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Society. He also worked for the Baptist World Alliance and the World Council of Churches. Goatley is editor of Black Religion, Black Theology: Collected Essays of J. Deotis Roberts (2003) and authored Were You There?: Godforsakenness in Slave Religion (1996, 2007), A Divine Assignment: The Missiology of Wendell Clay Somerville (2010), and Missions Is Essential (2011).
Dr. Angelita Clifton, associate minister at Fountain Baptist Church in Summit, N J, serves in several Trauma Informed ministerial initiatives, at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, Northern State Prison and the Morris County Jail. As 2nd Vice President of Lott Carey Women's Department, she empowers churches to mobilize their efforts against human trafficking, both domestically and abroad including Ghana, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Ethiopia, and South Africa. She presented the Lott Carey Ministry Model at the United Nations in 2014.
Rev. Gregory Jerome Jackson, Pastor of Mount Olive Baptist Church in Hackensack, NJ where he has labored for nearly 35 years presently serves as the newly-elected President of the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Missions Convention. He also serves as part of the Baptist World Alliance and the Baptist-Islamic Taskforce and is the Moderator of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary Board of Trustees. He is the President of the Hackensack Fellowship of Black Churches.
Dr. Jacqueline E. Madison-McCreary, Pastor of First Baptist Church in Piscataway, NJ and Learning Coordinator with the Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention's Thriving In Ministry Program which is designed to support women pastors and young adult pastors to strengthen their personal and contextual intelligences that can lead them to thriving in ministry. She also completed the Pastoral Excellence Program with Lott Carey where she spent time partnering with and learning from pastors in Guyana, Jamaica, South Africa, and the U.S. through mission immersion experiences.
Please contact Ramona Larsen for more information: rlarsen@nbts.edu.
Kindly RSVP by September 28, 2018 to events@nbts.edu or call 848-237-1707.


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