Sometimes it seems like Star Trek guided my entire life. It ebbs and flows from my memories, oozing out of my childhood and spurting in fits and starts through college and even affecting my marriage. It's like a big box around my existence. Sometimes I can touch the edges, sometimes they remain out of sight. But it's always there.
And before you ask: Kirk. Definitely Kirk. Always Kirk.
Now, to be a bit more clear, while Star Trek definitely weaves a web through my existence, I am not one of these guys. Sure, I spotted right away the "wrong" placement of certain figures on this cake, I'll admit that. But it didn't bother me. Well, not enough to say anything out loud.


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Expansion plans at out-of-town retail park at Inshes in Inverness are inappropriate and should not be supported, say Highland Council officers
By Val Sweeney
- val.sweeney@hnmedia.co.uk
Permission is being sought for a three-year extension of planning permission to expand the retail park at Inshes.
Renewed plans for a multimillion-pound expansion at an out-of-town retail park in Inverness are inappropriate and should not be supported, according to Highland Council officers.
Proposals to develop shops, a public house and restaurant, community allotments plus car parking and new access roads next to Inshes retail park were first put forward eight years ago.
Aberdeen Standard Investments is now seeking a three-year extension of planning permission in principle – given in 2017 following a public inquiry – to enable further applications regarding conditions to be approved.
But the council's development plans team says there have been major changes since planning permission was given and the development would be against existing council policy.
The officers' submission comes in the wake of concerns raised by the owners of the Eastgate Shopping Centre about the development's potential impact on the city centre which is still dealing with the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In its submission, the development plans team states: "The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has been widely acknowledged to have accelerated the decline of town and city centre retail, which has been the dominant land use.
"Consequently, there are many vacant retail and other commercial spaces in the city centre."
It says a recent appraisal for another planning application identified 16,760sq m of vacant retail space in the city centre.
The statement continues: "Highland Council has declared a climate and ecological emergency, meaning all future development proposals have a role to play in achieving net zero.
"It is considered that this large-scale retail park expansion proposal is remote from the city centre, is dominated by private car use, and is of a scale and design that is inappropriate and should therefore not be supported."
They contend that based on the information submitted, the layout and design of the site is for "big box" retail units, which offer little to the quality of the built environment and represent an outdated offer for the city.
"Coupled with the principal elevations and active frontages of proposed buildings being dominated by an expansive car park the design and layout is of a poor quality, which is inappropriate to the local setting," they state.
They cite neighbouring sites, such as Inverness Campus which demonstrate locally distinctive high-quality design, with services, parking and other ancillary functions incorporated sensitively, and a clear people-centred approach to public realm.
They add the proposed community uses for food growing are inappropriately located between the A9 trunk road and rear services of large retail units.
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Бад Грьоненбах () е град в Швабия, в Долен Алгой в югозападна Бавария, Германия с 5548 жители (към 31 декември 2016).

Бад Грьоненбах се намира на ок. 13 км южно от град Меминген. От 1954 г. Бад Грьоненбах е държавно признат курорт (Kneippkurort/Kneippheilbad).

Грьоненбах е споменат за пръв път в документ през 1099 г.

Външни препратки

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Градове в Баварска Швабия
Курорти в Германия

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package org.gradle.platform.base.internal;

import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
import org.gradle.api.Action;
import org.gradle.api.DomainObjectSet;
import org.gradle.api.Task;
import org.gradle.api.UnknownDomainObjectException;
import org.gradle.api.internal.DefaultDomainObjectSet;
import org.gradle.api.internal.TaskInternal;
import org.gradle.model.internal.core.NamedEntityInstantiator;
import org.gradle.platform.base.BinaryTasksCollection;

public class DefaultBinaryTasksCollection extends DefaultDomainObjectSet<Task> implements BinaryTasksCollection {

    private final BinarySpecInternal binary;
    private final NamedEntityInstantiator<Task> taskInstantiator;

    public DefaultBinaryTasksCollection(BinarySpecInternal binarySpecInternal, NamedEntityInstantiator<Task> taskInstantiator) {
        super(Task.class);
        this.binary = binarySpecInternal;
        this.taskInstantiator = taskInstantiator;
    }

    @Override
    public String taskName(String verb) {
        return verb + StringUtils.capitalize(binary.getProjectScopedName());
    }

    @Override
    public String taskName(String verb, String object) {
        return verb + StringUtils.capitalize(binary.getProjectScopedName()) + StringUtils.capitalize(object);
    }

    @Override
    public Task getBuild() {
        return binary.getBuildTask();
    }

    @Override
    public Task getCheck() {
        return binary.getCheckTask();
    }

    public <T extends Task> T findSingleTaskWithType(Class<T> type) {
        DomainObjectSet<T> tasks = withType(type);
        if (tasks.size() == 0) {
            return null;
        }
        if (tasks.size() > 1) {
            throw new UnknownDomainObjectException(String.format("Multiple tasks with type '%s' found.", type.getSimpleName()));
        }
        return tasks.iterator().next();
    }

    @Override
    public <T extends Task> void create(String name, Class<T> type, Action<? super T> config) {
        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") T task = (T) taskInstantiator.create(name, (Class<TaskInternal>) type);
        add(task);
        config.execute(task);
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}

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Vogeli, K.M., Jin, S.W., Martin, G.R., and Stainier, D.Y.
Vogeli, K.M., Jin, S.W., Martin, G.R., and Stainier, D.Y. (2006) A common progenitor for haematopoietic and endothelial lineages in the zebrafish gastrula. Nature. 443(7109):337-339.
It has been proposed that haematopoietic and endothelial cells share a common progenitor, termed the haemangioblast. This idea was initially conceived as a result of the observation that these two cell types develop in close proximity to each other within the embryo. Support for this hypothesis was provided by studies on single-cell-derived colonies that can produce both haematopoietic and endothelial cells in vitro. Although these data point towards the existence of a common progenitor for these two lineages, the presence of a bipotential progenitor cell has yet to be demonstrated in vivo. Through the construction of single-cell-resolution fate maps of the zebrafish late blastula and gastrula, we demonstrate that individual cells can give rise to both haematopoietic and endothelial cells. These bipotential progenitors arise along the entire extent of the ventral mesoderm and contribute solely to haematopoietic and endothelial cells. We also find that only a subset of haematopoietic and endothelial cells arise from haemangioblasts. The endothelial descendants of the haemangioblasts all clustered in a specific region of the axial vessels regardless of the location of their progenitors. Our results provide in vivo evidence supporting the existence of the haemangioblast and reveal distinct features of this cell population.


Each elementary school has a Learning Center staffed with special education certified teachers and paraprofessionals. Specialized instruction is provided to eligible students and these services may take place in a regular education classroom and/or in a Learning Center. Many students work with special education staff in small groups where they receive support and strategies that enable them to access and progress in the regular education curriculum. These centers provide services to students with a wide range of special education needs and varying disabilities.
Co-teaching is currently offered in all elementary buildings. In this program children on IEPs who need support are integrated with children who are not on IEPs. Two classroom teachers, a general educator and a special educator, instruct the class. In this program students are provided with additional scaffolding and increased individualization due to the support of two teachers.
This classroom is designed for a small cohort (maximum of 8 students) of children with language-based learning disabilities who are currently in grades 3-5 and require a substantially separate language-based program to maximize learning. This highly structured, language-based program provides intensive specially designed instruction that is individualized based on student needs.
In addition to providing instruction to maximize learning, the development of a positive attitude, and the enhancement of self-esteem and self-confidence are major goals for each child. Providing each child with many opportunities for success academically, socially and emotionally are essential components to this developmental program. In order to ensure this success, students are grouped academically according to their strengths and areas of need as well as their learning levels.
This program is housed in the Jenkins Elementary School.
The Primary Learning Center and the Intermediate Learning Center. These two programs service students within the district, grades K-5, who present with severe special education needs. The program consists of one special education teacher and paraprofessionals to create 1:2 ratio of adult to students. Should a student require more intensive 1:1 supports, the IEP Team will make that recommendation. These programs are housed in the Hatherly Elementary School.
The program staffing is one Special Educator, one School Adjustment Counselor and paraprofessional supports. The students require supports in the area of social and emotional skills. Students will work on individual academic and social/ emotional IEP goals. Academics will be based off the elementary curriculum. The use of the natural setting in the elementary school and activities to reinforce the social and emotional skills of the students is implemented. The program will be for students in grades K-5 who receive special education services related to an emotional disability. This program is housed in the Jenkins Elementary School.


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Q: LXML can't parse transitional XHTML 1.0 schema I use the latest version (4.1.1) of lxml library to validate XHTML documents against XHTML Transitional Schema, but I'm getting a strange error as lxml is throws a strange error while parsing the XML schema which is clearly valid.
Does anybody have any ideas about why this error could be happening?
Here is my code:
In [1]: import lxml.etree

In [2]: schema = lxml.etree.XMLSchema(file='xhtml1-loose.xsd')
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XMLSchemaParseError                       Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-2-d29a13bdd5f3> in <module>()
----> 1 schema = lxml.etree.XMLSchema(file='xhtml1-loose.xsd')

src/lxml/xmlschema.pxi in lxml.etree.XMLSchema.__init__ (src/lxml/etree.c:204036)()

XMLSchemaParseError: Element '{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}complexType': The content is not valid. Expected is (annotation?, (simpleContent | complexContent | ((group | all | choice | sequence)?, ((attribute | attributeGroup)*, anyAttribute?)))).

p.s.
I took xhtml1-loose.xsd file from the official source from w3.org.

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Whenever I speak to an advertiser or a group of people that are not familiar with "True View" and you tell them that YouTube gives the user the ability to skip and the advertiser does not pay until after thirty seconds and you get the face of WTF. Everyone knows the WTF face. So then, I go into it a bit deeper, I take the views (after 30 seconds) divide it by the impressions (before 30 seconds) and create a view rate which they (casual audience) start to conceptualize.
I don't think people understand it, specifically marketers, until I say that the most valuable impression on the web is the one on YouTube before 30 seconds leveraging the TrueView model. Think about it. 30 seconds to entertain, educate, and inspire before you ever paid a cent while offering the user to skip at any point. The first 5-10 seconds is crucial to your view rate and overall success of the video and the one point where it is recommended to provide value through entertainment, education, or an inspirational strategy. This area is also called the hook spot which should lead either to an introduction of the product/service or an illustration of the problem that a user might have that your product or service solves. Regardless whichever comes first or after, both are crucial and an important part of the first thirty.
Reason's to believe in an advertiser are important statements, show and tell, demonstration acts that facilitate a differentiation about the brand. Moreover, the thought here would be positioning. How does the brand make the user a better user with the product or service? Next, we must qualify our audience and probably one of the biggest tools for creative only available through the YouTube TrueView format. Because you don't pay until after 30 seconds, you have a significant opportunity to qualify your audience within the particular video and usually before thirty seconds. This area also is known as the free impression area and when filtered correctly can cause the targeted audience of a broader audience that could be delivered the message after 30 seconds maximizing spend, audience delivery, and watch time metrics which have an additional benefit in the algorithm as it coincides with the YouTube channel page. Moreover, an example would be to try and reach a mom with a dog by serving an ad to a moms only segment and applying a qualifier of "do you own a dog?". Qualifying the audience segment, an advertiser delivers a highly targeted creative without making one single optimization inside the AdWords UI.
Did I mention all of this happens before you even pay a few cents, what broad audiences are going for at the moment on the platform?
At this point, most savvy marketers get it. But they don't know where to start. How to start? Here is where the hard work comes in or does it? It depends on where you are on the advertising spectrum. Regardless, it's time to get your feet wet. You'll probably hear this here. First, there will be a day when the YouTube revenue makes up more than search and searches will be more on YouTube than google.com. This day will come, and as a marketer, you owe it to yourself and educate yourself on video advertising and how to take advantage of the True View platform at scale.
Optimize – Video engagement metrics like watch time, view rate, the percentage of video viewed, and click type influence to help evaluate audience and creative performance.
Environment – Have a clear picture of how people will see your ad on each device (computer, tablet, mobile, OTT). Understand users usually have headphones on for sound but might not be looking at their screen.
Placement – Pull a placement report to better understand which video's your ads are running in front of and the type of engagement associated.


Stack Bower's Hong Kong Auction will take place from 2nd to 4th April. A Chinese Dollar featuring Yuan Shih-kai, wearing a tall high-feathered military hat, in Superb Gem condition is going to be offered. Yuan Shih-kai is in his complete military regalia. His jacket displays his medals; a sash is worn across his chest. The design highlights his power in the Chinese Republican military and government.
Yuan Shih-Kai was an important general and politician. He undertook many important military reforms. He was responsible for replacing monarchy to form a republic in China. His military reforms also gave space for rival warlords who competed for power after his death. The army started getting divided. Yuan also tried to restore the monarchy by declaring himself as emperor. This tarnished the ideals of the Republican movement.


Remember the awe you felt when you turned on your new computer and it loaded in a flash? Your computer was the envy of your friends and you weren't afraid to bathe in that glory. Button on, ready to go, those were the days!
For example, iTunes helper loads in the background to speed things up when you connect your device – but if you can't even remember the last time you ran iTunes on your computer, then it can go. Programs like that are holding onto a portion of your processing power and adding to your speed issues. The average home computer automatically loads around 75 programs at start-up!
Temporary junk: Computers are kind of messy. They leave temporary files and snippets of information all over your hard drive, each action leaving a trail rather like a roaming toddler with a sticky sandwich. Every webpage, every image on that webpage, every program you run and every game you play leaves something behind.
It may be the tidbits of information called "cookies", saved game files, auto-restore files or even a log so that you can hit the undo button 100 times while it remembers your actions for you.
The more junk your computer builds up, the slower it gets.
Viruses and malware: These infections sit in the background consuming resources while doing various nightmarish things. They may be spying on your actions, stealing your information or reaching out through your network to infect others. Occasionally, the impact is limited to seeing your computer slow to a crawl, however the flow-on financial costs of an infection can easily reach into the thousands.
Bloating: With every new version of software comes a new set of features, introductory sequences and design improvements. The problem with this is the application becomes larger and larger with each new version, requiring more system resources to install and run – and slowing your computer down.
Just like a car, computers need regular maintenance - we offer a Tune-Up service to bring your computer back to its original speed and extend its life.
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Jaguar F-Type Replacement Could Be Mid-Engined and Electric: Report
Jaguar's spicy coupe could reportedly be modeled after the C-X75 concept car.
By Chris Tsui September 23, 2019
Based on comments made by Jaguar's former designer Ian Callum, the iconic automaker might be "pulling a Corvette" with its next F-Type, going for a mid-engined layout with its next flagship sports car.
According to Autocar, the British automaker is still mulling over whether to stick with the front-engined, rear-drive setup for the next-gen F-Type or make the switch to a mid-engined and possibly electric layout. The publication reports that people "close to the project" are leaning towards the latter.
In terms of design, Callum told Autocar that he and current Jag design boss Julian Thomson had already done the groundwork on the Mk2 F-Type.
"We could get quite close [to the C-X75]," said Callum, referring to the mid-engined Jaguar concept car probably best known for its appearance in 2015's Spectre Bond movie.
Jaguar C-X75
"There's still a formula within Jaguar for a front-mid-engined car. I have a preference for mid-engined cars. It's certainly something I would like to see," he added.
That said, a traditional, long-hood, front-engine F-Type sequel with an internal combustion engine still remains a possibility.
"For an electric sports car, you could make a shape like [the C-X75] with the batteries in a T or H-shape through the middle," said Callum. "Or you could make it as a longitudinal internal-combustion mid-engined car. It would be short enough. So the style won't dictate the drivetrain, but the drivetrain may dictate the style."
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When The Drive reached out to Jaguar for comment, a company spokesperson declined to "comment on future product plans." But with the current F-Type said to remain on the market for another three years, development on its successor would have to kick off soon.
A previous report pegged the next F-Type to be a 2+2 powered by a BMW-sourced V8 making 560 horsepower and presumably positioned in front of the passenger compartment. Perhaps that's the fallback motor Jag has in mind if the whole mid-engined electric thing doesn't work out.
Jaguar Challenges Oxford Dictionary to Change Definition of 'Car' on Behalf of EVs
The book's current definition doesn't make any specific mention of battery-powered cars, and the maker of the I-Pace is petitioning to fix that.
Jaguar Will Give You $3,000 to Dump Your Tesla and Buy an I-Pace Electric Crossover
Jaguar has gone on a mission to lure EV buyers to its newest offering with a "Tesla Conquest" discount—no, really.
Jaguar F-Type Successor Could Be Fully Electric: Report
'Despite sports cars not being a great growth area, there will be a future for the F-Type,' said Jaguar designer Ian Callum
Jaguar Wants Buyers to Pay an Extra $10,000 for Checkered Flag Badges On an F-Type
The F-Type 'Checkered Flag Limited Edition' celebrates Jaguar's rich sports car pedigree.
2020 Jaguar F-Type Will Be a BMW-Powered 2+2: Report
Taking a page from Aston's playbook, the next F-Type will reportedly get a 4.4-liter, twin-turbo V8 from BMW.


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Chairman Brady Opening Statement at Hearing on How Tax Reform Will Grow Our Economy and Create Jobs
May 18, 2017 — Opening Statements — Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today delivered the following opening statement at a Committee hearing entitled "How Tax Reform Will Grow Our Economy and Create Jobs."
CLICK HERE to watch the hearing live.
"Good morning and thank you all for joining us. Today, our Committee is focused on a top priority for the American people – pro-growth tax reform that will create jobs, increase paychecks, and strengthen our nation's economy.
"America now has one of the most costly, unfair, and uncompetitive tax systems in the world. The need for pro-growth tax reform is urgent.
"Today's high tax rates on American businesses drive good-paying jobs overseas and make it more difficult for our job creators and workers to succeed here at home.
"America's burdensome international tax system destroys U.S. competitiveness and discourages investment in our communities.
"Scores of loopholes give favored treatment to Washington special interests while millions of hardworking Americans haven't seen a real pay raise in years.
"Here's the good news – President Trump is leading the charge for bold tax reform that will unleash the growth of jobs and paychecks nationwide. And, he's calling on the House and Senate to put forward our best ideas.
"Our Committee is ready to answer the call.
"Over the past several years, we've held roughly 40 full committee and subcommittee hearings on all aspects of tax reform. All of our members – no matter what side of the dais you sit on – know that tax reform is an economic imperative. Now is the time to go bold and deliver real results for the American people. We welcome all serious solutions that will help achieve that goal.
"While there is no perfect way to tax, there are proven solutions to grow our economy and improve the lives of all Americans.
"Let's take a look at the numbers.
"Currently, we have the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world at 35%. For small businesses, the rates can be as high as 44.6%.
"To unleash job creation and increase paychecks, we know these rates must come down. Washington must take less from America's job creators so they can invest more in their businesses, their workers, and their futures.
"In addition to lowering rates, we also know that bold policies such as full and immediate expensing are incredibly pro-growth for jobs, paychecks, and our economy as a whole.
"According to estimates from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, this provision alone would grow our economy by more than 5% over the next decade, create 1 million full-time jobs, and raise wages significantly.
"Finally, the numbers show us that businesses of all sizes are eager for tax reform. They're ready for the opportunity to innovate, grow, and hire new workers.
"Recently, the Business Roundtable surveyed a group of more than 120 CEOs about tax reform. Eighty-two percent of them said tax reform will prompt companies to increase business investment, and 76% said they will increase hiring.
"These CEO responses make clear that tax reform will create jobs, increase paychecks, and grow our economy. But, make no mistake – there are also consequences if we fail to act.
"Ninety percent of the CEOs said that delaying tax reform will harm the U.S. economy by causing slower growth, slower hiring, and slower capital investment.
"And more than that, we will force all Americans to continue to live with a tax code that works against them, not with them.
"Take it from Roger and Natalie Goertz, constituents of mine who own and operate a 'Mr. Rooter' plumbing franchise in Montgomery County.
"Roger said: 'As a small business owner, I'm scared to death each year on how much I'm going to have to pay into the government.'
"That uncertainty is devastating. Roger says, 'It's kind of like trying to operate your business with one hand tied behind your back. Sometimes you feel like both hands are tied behind your back.'
"In today's hearing, we'll hear from more business leaders about exactly what "is needed to get jobs, paychecks, and our economy moving again.
"Our witnesses are top-level executives from American companies of all sizes. Their expertise will help us understand how different proposals will impact America's job creators, workers, and families.
"Since releasing our Blueprint for tax reform last June, we've received thousands of comments from businesses and thought leaders – feedback we take very seriously. We look forward to the expert guidance our witnesses will provide today. Thank you all for being here.
"Again, there is no perfect way to tax, but there are proven ways to grow our economy. And with today's hearing, we will take a critical step toward putting those ideas into action for the American people.
"With that, I'll now recognize Ranking Member Neal for his opening statement."
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The week of April 18 - 24, 2005, 256 new businesses were established, including 20 joints-tock companies, 202 limited liability companies and 34 private enterprises. The businesses have total capital of more than VND391 billion. The Ben Thanh joints-tock company operating in Advertising and Stationery, had the largest capital with VND30 billion.


Infinix recently launched the Infinix Note 5 in Kenya and the device is already selling on Jumia, but fans will know that there's more to come from the Chinese company as the year trickles down. To be more specific, the company is still expected to refresh its premium lineup with a new Infinix Zero 6 (tentative name), which, of course, will be a successor to the Zero 5 and it's Pro variant.
Now, this isn't to say that the Infinix device that was recently benchmarked on Geekbench with model number X620B is the Infinix Zero 6, but looking at some of the specs, it's hard to argue otherwise. In the benchmarks, the Infinix X620B has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 on board, an octa-core processor clocked at 1.6GHz mated with a 6GB RAM, same as what appeared on the Zero 5 duo.
In terms of software, the phone has Android 8.1 Oreo, which is the version we expect to meet on the Infinix Zero 6 out of the box. Other than these, there isn't much we can gather from the benchmarks, but given Infinix's recent shift to using Qualcomm chipsets, it's possible that this could be our first look at the company's next flagship device.
Infinix Note 5 is an Android One device. Whether this will also be true for the Infinix Zero 6 is anyone's guess, but given my love for clean software, I wouldn't mind such a bold move.
Also, the fact that the device's model number is X620B suggests that there's another variant of the same phone. Looking at previous release windows, though, we don't expect the Infinix Zero 6 to be here until somewhere in Q4 2018.
Note that Geekbench doesn't have the best of track records when it comes to "leaks", so take this information with a brick of salt.


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Shutts & Bowen Names Four New Partners
Shutts & Bowen LLP named four new partners during its annual meeting.
"These promotions exemplify Shutts' commitment to recognize and reward leadership, integrity and legal acumen and to plan for the future growth and success of the firm," said Managing Partner Micky Grindstaff. "They also demonstrate Shutts' diversity and our presence as a full-service business law firm throughout Florida."
Christine P. Bandin is a member of the firm's Class Action and Mass Litigation Practice Group in Miami. She focuses her practice on insurance defense matters and coverage disputes. She has substantial experience trying cases involving fraud, medical necessity, improper billing and coverage. She received her J.D. from the University of Miami and her B.A. from Florida International University.
Ryan C. Reinert is a member of the firm's Creditors' Rights/Bankruptcy Group in Tampa. Ryan focuses his practice on business bankruptcy, including trustee and creditor committee representation, and commercial litigation. He represents commercial lenders in traditional, pooled, joint venture and CMBS loans. He's also represented vendors, landlords and contractors in Chapter 7 and 11 bankruptcy cases. He received his J.D. from Stetson University and his B.A. from Northern Kentucky University.
James P. Terpening III is a member of the firm's Construction Litigation Practice Group in Tampa. He is Florida Bar Board Certified in Construction Law. He represents owners, developers, general contractors, subcontractors, design professionals, and lenders in disputes involving construction defects, delay claims, mechanic's liens, insurance coverage, bond issues, construction loans, and more. He received his J.D. from Emory University School of Law and received his B.S. from the University of Florida.
Jamie B. Wasserman is a member of the firm's Business Litigation Practice Group in Fort Lauderdale. She represents developers, commercial landlords, and lenders in real estate litigation matters, partners or members of legal entities in business disputes, and physicians, physician group practices, home health agencies, physical therapy and rehabilitation centers, and skilled nursing facilities in transaction and healthcare/employment relationships. She received her J.D. from Nova Southeastern University and her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin.
About Shutts & Bowen LLP
Established in 1910, Shutts & Bowen is a full-service business law firm with more than 260 lawyers in its Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Orlando, Sarasota, Tallahassee, Tampa and West Palm Beach offices. Learn more about Shutts & Bowen at www.shutts.com.
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Jamie B. Wasserman
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During World War II flamethrower tanks were popular with infantry units for a number of reasons, such as their ability to deal with enemy bunkers and strongpoints (thus saving infantry formations having to get close to such locations, which would have resulted in heavy casualties), and thus demoralise the enemy in general. It was therefore logical that the Germans would convert a number of StuGs, their prime assault gun, to flamethrowers.
In December 1942, plans were instigated to increase StuG III production by using the new chassis already on order for the Panzer III. However, with the ending of Panzer III production it was decided that of the 220 StuGs being delivered in June 1943, 10 would be converted to become Flammenwerfers (flamethrowers). From photographic evidence it appears that all these vehicles were converted from StuG III Ausf F/8s.
The conversion involved only small changes. The sturmkanone (assault gun) was replaced by a flamethrower, and fuel tanks for the weapon were also fitted. The 14mm Flammenwerfer had a traverse of 10 degrees to the left and right, with an elevation of minus 10 degrees to plus 20 degrees. The Maybach engine gave the vehicle a top speed of 40km/h (25mph), while every vehicle was equipped with a FuG5 radio.
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Driving down the beach in your four wheel drive can bring with it feelings of freedom, excitement, adventure and every now and then, despair. Video captured by Francois Van Zyl while camping and uploaded to social media shows this driver taking to a very rough looking patch of sand on the Western Australian coast near Caraban learning the hard way just how quickly excitement on the sand can turn into a bad time.
With the waves taking large amounts of sand away, leaving a substantial bank, the four wheel drive runs out of room while still travelling at a high rate of speed causing it to roll over into the water in an instant, A large flash can be seen as the battery and electrical components hit the water followed by the sad final blinking of the headlights.
In a second video posted by Francois shows the white four wheel drive in the aftermath of the accident, carrying Aussie flags on what became its final charge into the surf. With the car written off, the owners work to remove any belongings from the wreck.


If the branches in the trees are too long, it could cause potential dangers. Therefore, you have to make sure that you focus on keeping the branches in the right size. Some of the dangers of having overgrown trees are that it will cause the risk of branches falling onto the house, they will grow to electric lines and what not. If you want to prevent the trees from overgrowing, one of the best things that you can do is to gain tree lopping Lakelands services. These services will not only avoid the dangers but is also healthy for the trees. They will make the trees much healthier and control the diseases that the trees could be infected in.
There are times when the trees in your property are blocking what any of the expectations that you are having. Having trees will cause disruptions to build any buildings or there would be certain trees that would be dangerous to have. In such cases, you have to make sure that you gain the services of good tree removal so that any of the trees can be removed without causing safety concerns.
There could be certain diseases that would affect the health of the trees. To make sure that your trees are healthy, make sure that you look out for any of the diseases that could get to them and keeping them healthy throughout.


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Fort McMurray airport reopens; suspicious package no longer a threat
The Fort McMurray International Airport was evacuated early Friday evening and all outbound flights were cancelled after reports of a suspicious package.
The Fort McMurray International Airport was evacuated Friday evening and all outbound flights were cancelled after reports of a suspicious package.
RCMP in Fort McMurray say a suspicious package is no longer a threat.
Wood Buffalo RCMP responded to a suspicious package call at the Fort McMurray International Airport around 4:40 p.m. Friday, evacuating the facility and cancelling all outbound flights while awaiting the arrival of a bomb unit from Edmonton.
Shortly after midnight, RCMP issued a second news release indicating the "suspicious package has been identified, isolated and secured, and is no longer a threat."
The airport has been reopened.
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Finished drawings for a house, c1779,...
Finished drawing for a garden...
Mr Powell: unexecuted designs for a house and garden building, 1779 (3)
Mr Powell is unknown, but Bolton has suggested that he may have been John Powell (d1783), a clerk of the Pay Office. In 1779 a Mr Powell commissioned the Adam office to design a garden building. There also survive two drawings giving a design for a house for Powell, which is presumably also datable to that year. The intended location for these designs is not known, and they are not thought to have been executed.
A.T. Bolton, The architecture of Robert and James Adam, 1922, Volume II, Index pp. 57, 84; D. King, The complete works of Robert & James Adam and unbuilt Adam, 2001, Volume II, pp. 121, 227
Finished drawings for a house, c1779, unexecuted (2)
[1] Finished drawing for a house, c1779, unexecuted
datable to 1779
Adam office hand, possible Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison, and title inscription in the hand of William Adam (underwritten in pencil)
Finished drawing for a garden building, 1779, unexecuted (1)
[3] Finished drawing for a garden building, 1779, unexecuted
Adelphi / 16t. July 1779


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Infrared saunas are wonderful devices. Numerous studies have shown them to be quite therapeutic. If you have done your research, you have probably been convinced of the efficacy of far infrared saunas.
The Bio-Mat, which produces far infrared and negative ions through a bed of amethyst crystals, is a great alternative to an infrared sauna. The Bio-Mat has multiple temperature settings. When the temperature setting is placed on high, the Bio-Mat can effectively be used in place of an infrared sauna. The high temperature settings are used if you were trying to sweat or detox as you would with an infrared sauna. When you do this, put a couple extra cotton towels on top of the mat, and wrap yourself up with a blanket. Space blankets also work well with the Bio-Mat to intensify the far infrared. The Professional, massage-table size, Bio-Mat, would be a good choice for this application.
There are numerous advantages to a Bio-Mat, over an infrared sauna. Here is a list of some of these advantages and differences.
The Bio-Mat is less expensive than an infrared sauna.
You can sleep on a Bio-Mat. Since you can vary the temperature settings, you can adjust the mat to lower temperatures, so you will be warm and cozy all night.
The Bio-Mat uses less power. The Professional Bio-Mat at its highest output uses about 1/4 the power of an efficient infrared sauna.
Bio-Mats are portable, and you can travel with them, or move them from room to room. The Mini and Professional Bio-Mats come with travel cases.
The Bio-Mat has deeper infrared penetration. The Bio-Mat can penetrate 6-8 inches into the body. An infrared sauna penetrates about 2 inches.
The Bio-Mat has a different quality infrared because the infrared is modulated by the amethyst crystals. This increases the bio-availability of the infrared.
The Bio-Mat provides the benefits of amethyst crystal healing. With the Bio-Mat, you are on lying on a bed of gemstone quality amethyst crystals.
The Bio-Mat provides negative ion therapy, which stimulates serotonin, allowing the body and mind to relax, assisting in therapeutic sleep. Negative ions are generated within the Bio-Mat and enter the body through conduction. Negative ions are only generated in those saunas where water is pored onto hot rocks.
The Bio-Mat is a registered medical device.


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Jennifer Benjamin
"Why I Became a Surrogate"
What's it like for women who essentially loan out their bodies for nine months? Here, three gestational surrogates share their stories.
A Lifelong Bond: Christine Rush, 28
When Christine Rush was still in high school, she went to visit a friend in the hospital, who had just given birth to a baby. Only, this baby wasn't hers — she had been a gestational surrogate for a Japanese family. "I just found the whole thing so cool. She had just given birth to someone else's kid!" Christine recalls. "It really stuck with me and I thought it would be something I would really love to do one day."
By the time she was 22, Christine was already married with two little boys of her own. She started thinking about surrogacy again and how the financial gain — which, in the US, is often anywhere from $20,000 to $40,000 — would allow her to put herself through school, keep working, and take care of her children. At first, her then-husband, Devin, was concerned about the emotional toll it might take on her to carry someone else's baby and then have to give that child away. After a lot of discussion though, she managed to convince him that she could handle this, and that it would ultimately be a good thing for their family.
So Christine called the agency that her friend had worked with and said, "Get me matched!" The agency specialized in providing surrogates for families from Japan, where surrogacy had been banned (although recently, the country has been considering conditional approval). After a psych screening, a health screening with a fertility doctor, and lots of paperwork, she was matched with a Japanese family that already had two other children, born via gestational surrogate. She went through two embryo transfers using the couple's eggs and sperm — the first didn't take, but the second did and she got pregnant about a year after starting the process.
The couple came to the US several times during the pregnancy, but because of the language barrier and the distance, Christine says they didn't form much of a relationship. In September 2008, Christine delivered a healthy baby boy, and the parents gave him the middle name, Christopher, after their surrogate. "It was so shocking that they were naming their child after me because it was such an easy thing for me to be pregnant. It was just like, 'Here I am; I'm pregnant!' I didn't have to stress over having my own child to prepare for," she says.
She loved the experience so much, she was eager to do it again. This time though, she wanted it to be with a couple in the States. "I liked the idea of having a family that was involved, that I could connect with and share things with," Christine says. "The agency will match you based on what you expect out of the process. Some surrogates don't want a lot of contact, but I was really open and felt like I had nothing to hide. If they wanted to talk on a daily basis, great! If they wanted to know what I was eating today, fine!" The agency matched her with Nicole and Josh Lawson, a couple who had tried years for a baby, suffering a number of miscarriages and disappointments along the way. They hit it off immediately and two months later, Christine went through an embryo transfer and got pregnant. This was just five months after giving birth to the Japanese baby.
While she did go to LA a couple of times to see the Lawsons' doctor, most of Christine's prenatal appointments were in her hometown of Turlock, about 350 miles away, and Nicole and Josh were there for almost all of them. The two women talked on the phone, emailed or texted every day, and often they'd Skype so that Nicole could talk to her baby, whom the couple had already named Zoe, and see her moving around in Christine's belly.
The night before Christine was due to be induced, Nicole and Josh came up and stayed with the Rush family. At the hospital the next morning, while waiting for the Pitocin to kick in, Nicole rubbed Christine's back and feed her ice chips, asking again and again what she could do. Meanwhile, Christine, lulled by an epidural and, by now, an old pro at the whole birthing thing, watched TV and even took a nap.
When it was time for the baby to be born, Nicole held one of Christine's legs, and Christine's husband stood at her shoulder. "The birth went perfectly. It was so calm and so loving, because I had this really special connection with Nicole and Josh, and they were my support system," Christine says. "It was a beautiful experience."
When Zoe was born, the nurses, as instructed, handed her to Christine first. "We had discussed that I wanted to be the one to give the baby to Nicole and Josh, because I felt it would complete the whole cycle," she recalls. Then Josh cut the umbilical cord, and after the baby had been cleaned up, Nicole and Josh held her and fed her the first bottle.
Three years later, both the Lawsons and Christine are now advocates for surrogacy, helping couples struggling with infertility to have families of their own. In 2011, Nicole and her mother, Pam Hirsch, founded Baby Quest Foundation, a non-profit that gives money to couples who have trouble trying to conceive, so they can afford IVF or surrogacy, which are both very costly. Since their inception, they've awarded nine grants and their first recipients are having a child in March.
Meanwhile Christine, busy raising her own three boys, still periodically donates her eggs to couples trying to get pregnant. "That's my way of helping people right now, and it allows me to help multiple families at once," she says. Still, she hasn't ruled out doing surrogacy again in the future. "I would love to do it again when it's the right time, and for the right reasons. In the end, you're giving someone a child, helping give life to another person," she says. "What could be more amazing than that?"
A Friend's Gift: Jennifer Marett, 42
After struggling with her own infertility issues, Jennifer Marett understood the emotional pain of trying desperately to have a child, only to be disappointed again and again. She and her then-husband, Eric, ended up conceiving through IVF — and her boy-girl twins were five years old when her good friend Sarah* went through some tough times.
Sarah had gone through several cycles of IVF to get pregnant, and lost her baby boy at birth. Sarah and her husband bravely decided to try again immediately, but before beginning the IVF process all over again, they had to consult with her fertility doctor. When he took a look at her uterus though, he saw that there was a tremendous amount of scar tissue left after her son's birth and recommended a D&C procedure. During the procedure, Sarah began to bleed profusely, and the doctors were forced to perform a hysterectomy. Sarah, who had already lost a baby, would now never be able to be pregnant again.
The couple's one hope: they still had frozen embryos from a previous IVF cycle. They just needed to find a surrogate who would carry them.
Jennifer was heartbroken for her friend, who'd experienced such horrible loss and trauma. She had loved being pregnant, and even though she and Eric knew they didn't want any more kids, she'd felt a little wistful at the fact that she would never be pregnant again.
"Sarah had been through so such tremendous grief — I just wanted to do what I could for her." One day, while she and Sarah were talking about her various options, Jennifer realized what she needed to do. She said, "Hey, I'm not using my uterus right now. I could grow your babies!"
Of course, it took Jennifer some time to convince Eric, whose main concern was for his wife and twins, and whether she would have the energy to give their own children the time and attention and energy they needed. They went to family therapy sessions as a couple, and attended therapy with Sarah and her husband as well. "The attorneys insist on [therapy] to make sure everyone is on the same page, as well as to assess the mental health of everyone involved," she says. "We were going in with our eyes wide open, not romanticizing anything. We knew the risks that come with a pregnancy — miscarriage, premature bleeding, bed rest — and were prepared for them." While Eric wasn't thrilled, he also didn't want to be the one to deny Sarah and her husband a family. So, he agreed.
After getting the go-ahead from the therapists and a clean bill of health from the doctors, they did embryo transfers and Jennifer got pregnant with twin girls. "I had already carried my own twins, so I knew the challenges [of being pregnant with multiples], and was ready for them," she recounts. As with her own pregnancy, she ended up on restricted bed rest, but luckily had a flexible enough job as a university clinician that she could work a lot from home. Only this time, Jennifer was a lot more anxious, feeling that it was her responsibility to keep the girls healthy. "It was like taking care of someone else's kids — you don't want to do anything that could cause any damage," she says. Just as she had been with her own pregnancy, she was cautious of her health, and sure to take breaks and stay off her feet when she felt rundown.
Jennifer's pregnancy brought the friends even closer. "We just felt really bonded to each other, like family," she says. "As I was getting bigger, Sarah would come over and take my kids out for the day. We were there for each other." Still, despite the close friendship, Sarah and her husband insisted on doing everything by the book. "They wanted to pay me, and I kept refusing, because I wasn't doing it for the money," Jennifer recalls. "But ultimately, it was what they felt they _needed _to do, I think because it made them feel that it was more fair."
At 35 weeks, Jennifer's water broke and she went straight to the hospital for a c-section. During delivery, Sarah was in the operating room, snapping pictures. "It was really surreal and kind of crazy. I was shaking from the epidural and physiologically overwhelmed, but the babies were healthy, which was such a relief," she says. She says it was very easy for her to hand the little girls to their parents, because she knew she would be in their lives forever.
Five years later, Jennifer is still incredibly close to the healthy twin girls she carried in her belly for almost nine months. "They consider me an aunt, and my kids are like cousins to them," she says. "And in a way, I'm kind of like a Grandma because I get to spoil them and enjoy them and then give them back." In the end, the twin girls weren't just a blessing for Sarah — they were a gift to Jennifer and her family too.
Making History For Same-Sex Couples: Jennifer Menges, 33
In 2005, Jennifer Menges was a stay-at-home mom, raising her three children in the suburbs of Minneapolis. Through a parenting website, she had met another mother who had been a surrogate for a family, and was now trying to get that child back. "I was absolutely horrified for that poor family, and shocked that this woman would even attempt to claim that child as her own," Jennifer recalls. "I started researching surrogacy and discovered that what this woman was doing, wasn't at all the norm. And the more I looked into the experience of surrogacy, the more I thought that it was something I could totally do." She had donated her eggs while in college to help pay her tuition, and saw surrogacy as another way she could help families desperate for a child.
In 2006, Jennifer joined an agency, one that was working with same sex couples, and it matched her with two Jewish men in New York City, who already had one adopted son. "At the time, Minnesota was very surrogate-friendly and same-sex-friendly, while New York was not," she says. "It seemed so unfair to me that there were so many laws, preventing a loving couple from being parents, just because of their sexuality." Because of all of the laws in New York, the couple had no choice but to seek a surrogate from out-of-state.
They also decided to use an egg donor from California, and to do the embryo transfer there at a clinic that would allow each of the men to fertilize a separate set of eggs with their own sperm (rather than using just one man's sperm). Up until then, clinics weren't willing to work with more than one father, concerned that mixing samples in utero would be somehow less successful. (To this day, some clinics still won't work with two sperm donors.) In February 2006, they transferred the best quality embryo from each father's "batch," and Jennifer became pregnant with the couple's twins. They were set to become the first surrogate family to have twins by two different Dads.
While some in her community questioned Jennifer's choice to become a surrogate for a same sex couple, even going so far as to refer to the twins as, "gay-bies," her family, and even her church, embraced what she was doing. "It's a pretty lenient Lutheran Church to begin with, and they were really supportive of the fact that we were helping others," Jennifer says. "They'd even pray for us and for the intended parents. I think everyone's main concern was whether or not we'd be able to give up the babies without it breaking our hearts."
Both Jennifer and her husband, David, treated the pregnancy as they had with their own three children. "We'd play music for the babies in my belly, and my husband would talk to them, but we still never felt like they were ours," she explains. During the course of the pregnancy, the same-sex couple came to Minnesota about every eight weeks, and they talked every day. "I think that's actually the saddest part when the experience is over — people think it's hard to give up the baby, but it's harder giving up that bond you create with the parents," she says.
Although Jennifer didn't feel that the twin girls were hers, when it came to their birth, her maternal instincts kicked in. "My doctor wanted to deliver the twins at 36 weeks, but I just didn't feel right about it, and was sure the babies just weren't ready to come out," she recalls. "I talked it over with the intended parents who agreed with me, so I dodged the doctor's office, and stayed off my feet for the last three weeks of the pregnancy."
At 39 weeks, they all showed up at the hospital for her c-section. "One of the fathers was totally freaked out and didn't want to see blood, I think, hoping he could just look through a window, from a distance, but he ultimately came around, and all four of us were in the OR," she says. "We had a coordinator who was helping us with all of the logistics, which was great, because normally they wouldn't have allowed so many people in there."
Jennifer had given birth to her own children at home, so a hospital c-section with a team of doctors and nurses, was a very different experience for her. "I was chattering from the epidural and the fathers kept asking if I was okay," she recalls. "I didn't want them to be scared, so I kept telling them I was totally fine, trying to make it a positive experience for them." When the babies came out, each weighing around 7.5 pounds, the doctors handed them to their fathers, and the new family spent the next several days in a hospital room together. Jennifer also agreed to pump breast milk for the twins, while she was still in the hospital. So, the two families saw a lot of each other in the first few days of the twins' lives.
Jennifer's kids came to visit as well, and were so excited by what their Mom had done. "Our kids think we're like Santa Claus, giving families children," Jennifer explains. "Still, they were happy to have their mom back, and we were all looking forward to getting our lives back to normal. Some surrogates say they feel sad leaving the hospital without a baby. I was happy to have done this, but ready to move on to the next part of our life."
The day she got out of the hospital, she and her husband, along with the Dads, went down to the courthouse to make it official. They signed papers and went through a legal procedure that essentially removed Jennifer and David's names from the birth certificate, and included the two fathers instead. They became the first surrogate family in the country to do this. "The judge said it was a defining day in history, and that she wished she could have married the two men right then and there."
It was such an incredible experience for Jennifer and her family that, a few years later, she decided to become a surrogate for a same-sex couple in Michigan. "This time, I skipped the agency, and did all of the paperwork and logistical stuff myself," she says. "It just seemed more fair to me because these couples end up spending such insane amounts of money on egg donors and IVF and embryo transfers, I felt we could eliminate some of the extraneous costs." In general, surrogates in the US are usually paid in monthly installments. The contracts are always worded carefully, implying that the fee is for care and expenses, not a lump sum for the use of the surrogate's body. Once again, Jennifer went to California for the embryo transfer and got pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl, born in October 2010.
Jennifer still keeps in touch with the two families she's helped, regularly getting emails, pictures and Christmas cards. She says she would love to one day be a surrogate again, even the physical burden of carrying two sets of healthy-sized, full-term twins has left her with back problems. Still, she cherishes her surrogacy experiences: "It was such a rewarding thing for me, to give these wonderful, loving couples the children they deserved," she says. "I have zero regret and would do it again for them in a heartbeat."
*Name changed for clarity. "Sarah's" name is also Jennifer.
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High-Tech Ways to Conceive
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Surrogate Left With Twin Babies After Parents Divorce — Crazy!
Surrogate Mom Almost Unknowingly Gives Up Her Biological Son
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Breaking the "Surrogate Code"
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Now it includes full asar and SA-1 support.
NOW it is SA-1 compatible (fixed some bogus conversions and added others forgotten in previous version).
v2.0: added an option and some hijacks to make possible to ground pound onto spiky enemies (similar to the spin jumping).
Deactivating the possibility to ground pound "spiky" enemies causes the game to crash or softlock when the player attempts it, as well as when the player jumps on any sprite on the title screen demo.
On a side note, two things that could be neat to see implemented: the option to not play any or certain SFXs, and the option to perform "continuous" ground pounding (keep the player in the appropriate state after doing it on a "spiky" enemy). These are only mere suggestions, though.


Formation Data Systems' FormationOne scores in value, innovation and functionality to take silver in server-based storage in the 2016 Products of the Year competition.
Silver winner in the Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com 2016 Products of the Year Server-Based Storage category.
Startup Formation Data Systems snared the silver award with a new software-defined storage product that supports block, file and object storage.
The FormationOne software tied for first place in value and shared second place in innovation and functionality among 12 finalists in the server-based storage category, based on average scores from the competition's judges.
CEO Mark Lewis, a former CTO at EMC, founded Formation Data Systems in September 2012. FormationOne's distributed, fault-tolerant architecture underwent more than two years of customer testing before the product's general release in March 2016.
The Formation software-defined storage runs on commodity x86 servers and dynamically tiers virtual volumes across SSDs and HDDs. The product's unified connector design provides interfaces for block (iSCSI), file (NFS), object (Amazon S3) and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
"Very interesting and innovative solution, if it delivers to all the requirements it promises," one judge commented.
"Functionality is impressive," another judge wrote.
One key feature, TimeLine, provides transactional data journaling (continuous data protection) with integrated snapshots and clones, and enables customers to recover data from any point in time. FormationOne's quality of service, called PriorityOne, allocates and prioritizes I/O to specific application workloads -- within configured performance thresholds -- based on policies.
Additional enterprise storage capabilities include single-origin inline data deduplication to reduce the storage footprint and FireBreak anomaly detection analytics to spot performance problems and security issues. Virtual Storage Recapture discovers, pools and repurposes unused flash- and disk-based storage capacity in VMware virtual servers, VM-attached arrays and hyper-converged systems.
"Interesting concept to unlock trapped storage for archive use case," a judge wrote. "They should see traction, but the addressable market might be limited with newer [hyper-converged infrastructure] architectures coming on board."
FormationOne software-defined storage uses a subscription-based pricing model. The annual price of $50 per terabyte per year includes all software plus maintenance. Discounts are available for high-capacity configurations.
Customers are responsible for supplying x86 compute nodes. Formation's compatibility list includes Cisco, Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Huawei, Lenovo, Quanta and Supermicro. The FormationOne software can scale out to hundreds or potentially thousands of nodes.
Which of the FormationOne features is most impressive, and what is the product lacking?


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2014 US Open - Day 13
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 06: Kei Nishikori of Japan celebrates after defeating Novak Djokovic of Serbia in their men's singles semifinal match on Day Thirteen of the 2014 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 6, 2014 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images for USTA)
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The fruit bodies of Armillaria are mushrooms in which the cap is held atop a central stem. The mushrooms grow from live or dead wood and may appear in dense clusters with overlapping caps. Caps may grow to ten centimetres in diameter and be greyish (possibly also with brown or pinkish tints), greyish-yellow or yellow-green (but then a fairly drab, rather than bright, shade). The gills are more or less cream coloured and the range of stem colours is similar to that listed above for the cap.
An immature mushroom has a partial veil (a membrane that covers just the gills). As the cap opens out this membrane breaks and the bulk of it is left as a ring or skirt of tissue on the upper part of the stem. Sometimes there is also a remnant left as a raggedy edge to the margin of the cap.
Spore print: white. With overlapping caps, many spores released from the gills of one cap will fall onto the surface of the cap below and so it is to see a white spore deposit on the lower of two caps.


A blank canvas to decorate, with some venues you find you have to decorate to hide pieces, with a marquee you have a clean blank slate to work with. VS It can take a lot of decorating and more cost to dress the marquee and get the effect your after.
You can choose any caterer you like and have more opportunity to negotiate with them. VS You will need to spend more time getting them familiar with your venue, they will have to bring in and set-up a kitchen and hire outside wait staff.
You can buy your own beverages saving a lot of money. VS You will need to consider how you will keep everything chilled, where it will be served and staff to serve it.
You can start, finish, leave whenever you want. VS You may have problems with noise if you are in a residential area and you will have to clean everything up- but usually that can wait until the next day.
You can do whatever you like, kind of... VS You have to hire everything in; flooring, tables, chairs, crockery, glassware etc.
You can set-up whenever you want. VS Being outside you are exposed to the elements which can cause problems and you may need to hire security to keep an eye on everything.
Well those are the main points to consider when tossing up between a wedding venue and a backyard marquee. Please get in touch with us through our contact page if you need any help with your big day.


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The construction world is full of dangers this week – paparazzi poised to pounce, company names to trip over, bungling waiters, errors of protocol – even the angel at the top of the tree is fearful...
Who says construction isn't glamorous? Mace has just won the chance, courtesy of a charity auction, to appear in OK! – the weekly glossy magazine for celebrity watchers everywhere. OK! is sending its scandal-sensitive reporters and snappers to cover Mace's Christmas party in all its glory. Staff might want to think twice before getting into any compromising situations on the dancefloor – our industry and one-and-a-half million OK! magazine readers will be watching.
Enforcing the follow-on
Perhaps inspired by how the Australians are overhauling the the England cricket team at the moment, I hear that their compatriots at Bovis Lend Lease are planning a further shake-up of its UK management structure. Apparently, Murray Coleman, the chief executive, is looking for a new head honcho to manage the northern division and possibly act as his deputy chief executive. Watch this space.
Fools and horses
The problems with Ascot's grandstand have been reported but John Doyle chairman Stef Stefanou had a different problem at the racecourse recently. Wanting to entertain some business associates, Stefanou hired a box, complete with champagne buffet and waiters. Alas, the apparent cluelessness of the service staff meant Stefanou was obliged to hand out the champagne and canapes himself. He'll be hoping for more success the next time he goes to the races – he's just bought himself a racehorse.
Naming and shaming
The first thing to do when working on a new project, all management consultants will tell you, is learn the names of the people you are working with. Unfortunately, culture secretary Tessa Jowell hasn't heeded this advice and insisted on calling the delivery partner consortium CML – as opposed to CLM – all the way through last week's highly-charged select committee meeting on the Olympics budget. Many sniggers later, an embarrassed colleague had to not-so subtly lean over and correct his boss.
Legal negligence
Sir Will Alsop has won this year's Barbara Miller Award from the Forum for the Built Environment, according to top law firm Pinsent Masons. Unfortunately for Pinsent Masons, Alsop has not actually received a knighthood, but whether the famously rebellious architect will sue for libel is not yet known.
Festive cheers
With Christmas just around the corner, most of us are gearing ourselves up for some onerous present buying, but consultant EC Harris has a much bigger task on its Christmas to-do list. The company is charged with making sure that the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree reaches its destination from Norway, then it has to erect and dress it. The lights on the tree are set to be turned on next Thursday – let's hope none are on the blink after a year in storage. That kind of thing can seriously dent a reputation.
Carbon cycles
Roger Madelin, joint chief executive of developer Argent Group, played his part in reducing carbon emissions last week by arriving on his bicycle at CoreNet Global UK's summit, "Climate Change for CRE". Jonathon Porritt, chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission, told an audience of corporate real estate professionals that "it's time to wake up and smell the carbon". Let's hope Roger was holding his breath while riding through the West End.
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ANKARA (Reuters) – Fears over renewed tensions with the United States reversed some of the Turkish lira's overnight gains in early trade on Thursday following a dovish Fed decision that had boosted emerging market currencies late on Wednesday.
The United States could soon freeze preparations for delivering F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, officials told Reuters, in what would be the strongest signal yet by Washington that Ankara cannot have both the advanced aircraft and Russia's S-400 air defences system.
The lira firmed to 5.4160 against the dollar in the wake of the Fed decision but eased back to 5.4415 after Reuters report, analysts said.
Amid a slowing economy the Fed now sees only one rate hike next year, and announced a plan to end its balance sheet reduction program by September.
"It's a very positive decision for emerging market currencies including the lira, and we were able to observe its impact on the market, with lira gaining around 1 percent against the dollar," an Istanbul-based forex trader said.
The United States is nearing an inflection point in a years-long standoff with Turkey, a NATO ally, after so far failing to sway President Tayyip Erdogan that buying the S-400 Russian air defense system would compromise the security of any F-35 aircraft delivered to Turkey.
While no decision has been made yet, U.S. officials confirmed that Washington was considering halting steps now underway to ready Turkey to receive the F-35, which is built by Lockheed Martin Corp (NYSE:).


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It's not trying to say that life is a musical, quite the contrary.
At its core, it's an exposition on mundane complexities that sometimes derail the more fantastical aspects of our existence. I got that from Stone prancing around in a cute one-piece? Not quite. Look behind those enchanting eyes, there is a lot of life hidden in there somewhere. Not life as a choral accompaniment, but life as we know it, a stubborn dirty fighter that never backs down.
Perhaps I've digressed. The reality is that life is not a regulated sport. It does not conform to agreed precepts and it isn't always required to reimburse what it intentionally or unintentionally robbed you of. We sling around cliche proclamations like 'life is unfair' while thinking about that frail old lady down the street who got hurt simply because a pair of irresponsible youths decided she would be an easy target on an unassuming needy night.
But what about those abhorring decisions we have to make sometimes? The ones that eventually results in the death of something precious in your existence? What about those? The ones that punish you for doing what you have to do. Not quite so easy to wave those away with a lazy blanket statement.
I used to appeal figuratively to an ethics committee, demanding to know why I was penalised for essentially doing the right thing. Isn't it supposed to be likened to a mathematical equation? That if I sum the right parts I would be guaranteed the intended eventuality. I was forcefully dealt those cards in some instances, not that I went looking for a poker table. The committee had a moral obligation to absolve me. Otherwise we would descent into absolute anarchy, right?
That's before I realised that one of the biggest fundamental mistakes we make about life is that we often assume it plays on your team, albeit occasionally uncooperative and disruptive but a teammate nonetheless. The truth is, it does not. It doesn't even play for the opposition. It just moves around with little consideration for you and whatever reward or destruction you reap is largely accidental.
Church of the Good Shepherd, NZ. Tourists just out of view.
If we deconstruct out existences down to a series of processes, then most of us would agree that some of ours are run with a great deal of inefficiency.
Better decisions could be made if we were afforded even a hint of what was down the road. Whether it's that job loss a week after you bought a new car, that market crash in six month's time, that lovely girl you are going to meet a year later and how you are shitting over that by chasing every skirt you see today, humans are really like rubber duckies dropped into a wild river, smashing uncontrollably against the banks, unable to hold on to anything and completely unaware of what fate is waiting at the end of the waters.
I've taken this issue with God more than once, demanding that He explain to me why He can't just reach His whizz-like pinky down here and fix this bug. I've thrown tantrums over what I perceive to be just inefficient management on His part. That with a well-designed Excel sheet and a few clipboards, He could have my life purring like a vintage engine.
The truth is, most of us treat God like a consultant, someone whose agenda and objective is to achieve process nirvana, to poka-yoke-the heck out of the intricacies of our existences so that we slip not, waste not.
But God really does not behave like a consultant. His purpose isn't for us to operate our lives flawlessly and with optimum efficiency. If that was really the purpose, then He could simply zap us with the ability of aforementioned foresight, boot temptations out the door and endow us with impeccably strategic minds before dusting His hands off and sitting down for a pina colada (virgin, of course).
Instead He really behaves more like a teacher, or at least the way teachers are supposed to. There is no intended end-product at the end of the production line, because it's all about guiding you through a process. How much you get out of it depends on your willingness to listen and how intentionally you apply that knowledge to the process. What we want out of God is for Him to just hand us the exam questions because really, that is the most efficient way to get us where we need to be. But we would never stand for a teacher that did that, so perhaps we should start looking at God in the same way and not expect Him to play cheat.
I am cognisant about how this looks to skeptics, that a supposedly omnipotent God that seemingly allows you to barrel into any eventuality really sounds a lot like that God does not exist. But isn't that the definition of what faith is, to swim into vicious waters instead of staying dry on the comforting shores of logical reasoning?
I chose faith a long time ago, and I really don't quit easily.


LitSnap Book Review -- The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1 by Mark Twain.
The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1 by Mark Twain.. Twain stipulated that his memoir could not be published for 100 years after his death, and this is it, a raucous meander through the writer's life and mind. Surprise bestseller; you may have trouble finding a copy, but persist.
""Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man — the biography of the man himself cannot be written." There is very little real feeling here and no volcanic fires until you come upon the account of the death of his daughter Susy, 24, in Hartford, of meningitis, on Aug. 18, 1896. It is agony to read.."
"This volume—the first of three—makes public autobiographical dictations in which Twain unpredictably pursues the many side-excursions of his remarkably creative life. ."


Hydrosols are a by-products of essential oil production. Hydrosols contain all of the essence of the plant just like essential oils but in a milder form making them suitable for applications where essential oils may be too strong. Try them as a facial splash, body perfume, deodorant or air freshener. Hydrosols can be blended in most bath products and freshen up laundry water. Hydrosols can be packaged in HDPE type plastic containers. We have 20ml mini sprayers that are perfect for floral waters.


Food: Vegan Bailey's Almande - Daisy Chains.
Where do I begin?! It's been a whole year almost since I first tried the Baileys Almande. I used to love the normal Bailey's back when I still had dairy in my diet, but thankfully there is a vegan version! This almande itself is quite different front the normal baileys, but still delicious. The name itself hints that this is made from almonds and that is exactly what it tastes like. It looks like almond milk but tastes a lot like almond pudding or an alcoholic version of almond milk.
There is not a roasted nut taste to this at all and it's not overly sweet to taste.
I've only had this straight, but I will be looking online to see what kind of cocktail I can whip up with these as well. I have seen so many people on Instagram use this as a base for their cocktails and they all look super delicious.
Overall, I thoroughly recommend this and will be buying this as part of my Christmas shop. My only thoughts are that if you are looking for something that tastes like the original then this is not going to be for you as it is miles different.


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The motel is the perfect starting point for exploring the surrounding area, and satisfies the demands of quality accommodation for businessmen as well. We provide live music on request, can host and more than willingly able to organize events.


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Insurers continue to help bushfire-affected communities
Tomorrow the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) and insurance industry leaders will meet Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg in Canberra to brief them on bushfire recovery efforts.
Insurance Council of Australia CEO Rob Whelan said: "The ICA will reassure the government that insurers have been and will continue to focus on helping customers who have been affected by this year's devastating bushfires.
"The industry is well resourced to carry out repair and rebuilding work in partnership and collaboration with the community, governments and regulators, the building and construction sector and suppliers.
"Insurers will discuss all aspects of recovery, from assessments and property clean-up to rebuilding. They will also offer their expertise in assisting all levels of government with developing a national response."
Insurance companies and their staff are working around the clock to help communities, householders and business owners affected by catastrophic bushfires in four states.
Since September 5, insurers have handled more than 6000 insurance claims from bushfire regions of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria. Insurance losses are estimated at $431 million this bushfire season.
"For the past four months, insurers have been working with bushfire-affected householders, business owners and communities to help them recover and rebuild their lives," Mr Whelan said. "Australia is in the midst of a bushfire crisis, and insurers are helping their customers at a time of immense financial, physical and emotional stress.
"Emergency response teams are helping customers process claims and access emergency assistance in dozens of local communities. This past weekend alone more than 60 staff attended the evacuation centre in Melbourne to talk to evacuees about their needs.
"Insurers have booked hundreds of hotel and motel rooms and are providing emergency accommodation and financial assistance to many customers.
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Jewish World Review July 21, 2014 / 23 Tammuz, 5774
Finally, a Rare Point of Agreement
JewishWorldReview.com | In recent days, Israel has been hit not only from the Gaza end of the Fatah-Hamas pantomime horse but also from Lebanon and Syria.
It's under attack not merely from a terrorist squat but from two sovereign states, all of whom are clients to one degree or another of a third, Iran. Had not General Sisi overthrown Mohammed Morsi and tossed him in jail, there might have been a fourth country happy to make mischief. Meanwhile, across the Allenby Bridge in Jordan, Israel's least insane neighbor has seen its population swollen by 25 per cent from Syria refugees, and at its western frontier now borders the new caliphate of jihadist head-hackers. In the Sunni/Shia regional showdown between ISIS and Teheran's various subsidiaries, the two warring parties agree on little except that dead Jews brighten everyone's day.
Oh, well. The Middle East. It's all very complicated, isn't it? Fatah, Hamas, Hizb'Allah, the Muslim Brothers, ISIS, Alawites... Who can keep track? And why worry your pretty little head about it all when the easy and cool thing to do is blame the Jews? Brendan O'Neill writes:
Why are Western liberals always more offended by Israeli militarism than by any other kind of militarism? It's extraordinary. France can invade Mali and there won't be loud, rowdy protests by peaceniks in Paris. David Cameron, backed by a whopping 557 members of parliament, can order airstrikes on Libya and British leftists won't give over their Twitterfeeds to publishing gruesome pics of the Libyan civilians killed as a consequence. President Obama can resume his drone attacks in Pakistan, killing 13 people in one strike last month, and Washington won't be besieged by angry anti-war folk demanding 'Hands off Pakistan'. But the minute Israel fires a rocket into Gaza, the second Israeli politicians say they're at war again with Hamas, radicals in all these Western nations will take to the streets, wave hyperbolic placards, fulminate on Twitter, publish pictures of dead Palestinian children, publish the names and ages of everyone 'MURDERED BY ISRAEL', and generally scream about Israeli 'bloodletting'. (When the West bombs another country, it's 'war'; when Israel does it, it's 'bloodletting'.)
Anyone possessed of a critical faculty must at some point have wondered why there's such a double standard in relation to Israeli militarism, why missiles fired by the Jewish State are apparently more worthy of condemnation than missiles fired by Washington, London, Paris, the Turks, Assad, or just about anyone else on Earth. Parisians who have generally given a Gallic shrug as French troops have basically retaken Francophone Africa, stamping their boots everywhere from the Central African Republic to Mali to Cote d'Ivoire over the past two years, turned out in their thousands at the weekend to condemn Israeli imperialism and barbarism. Americans who didn't create much fuss last month when the Obama administration announced the resumption of its drone attacks in Pakistan gathered at the Israeli Embassy in Washington to yell about Israeli murder. (Incredibly, they did this just a day after a US drone attack, the 375th such attack in 10 years, killed at least six people in Pakistan. But hey, Obama-led militarism isn't as bad as Israeli militarism, and dead Pakistanis, unlike dead Palestinians, don't deserve to have their photos, names and ages published by the concerned liberals of Twitter.)
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By the way, I'm in favor of French intervention in francophone Africa: low-key military action in support of explicit national interests outside the ineffectual transnationalist kindergarten-cop racket is something more western powers should be doing. But, that aside, Mr O'Neill is right to be struck by the unique virulence of today's "anti-Zionism" in Europe.
At one level, it's a form of displacement. Britain, France and other countries are Islamizing fast, and native hedonists and their restive Muslim populations have profound disagreements on where their societies are headed: The post-Christian Euro-left think they've built a secular society where gay marriage and gender fluidity are to be celebrated; significant percentages of young Muslims want to live under Sharia and believe apostasy should be punishable by death. Reconciling these conflicting visions will prove tricky. Yet, as with ISIS and Iran, on one issue both parties are in complete agreement. As I wrote over half-a-decade ago:
There are already many points of cultural friction-from British banks' abolition of children's "piggy banks" to the enjoining of public doughnut consumption by Brussels police during Ramadan. And yet on one issue there is remarkable comity between the aging ethnic Europeans and their young surging Muslim populations: A famous poll a couple of years back found that 59 percent of Europeans regard Israel as the greatest threat to world peace.
Ethnic Europeans and excitable young Muslims don't agree on gays or women's rights or bacon butties or clitoridectomies or Page Three girls or cousin marriage, but they do agree that, in the famous words of the late Daniel Bernard, French Ambassador to the Court of St James's, "all the current troubles of the world are because of that shitty little country Israel". The protests Mr O'Neill refers to - outside embassies in western capitals - are the house-trained end of the new Jew-hatred. Euro-lefties are playing good cop to their young Muslims' bad cop. Here's how things go down that end:
Similar incidents occurred all over Greater Paris and France at about the same time. The morning before-that is to say, on the Sabbath-a Molotov cocktail was thrown into a synagogue at Aulnay-sous-Bois, a Parisian suburb. At Asnieres, another suburb, the police said a Muslim mob of 300 gathered in front of the synagogue and shouted anti-Israel slogans for about half an hour. Smaller group of Muslim mobsters attempted to get into the Belleville synagogue, in northeastern Paris, and into the Tournelles synagogue, in the Marais district.
No less horrid were the many pro-Palestinian rallies, in Paris, Marseilles, Lille, Bordeaux, and other cities, complete with Palestinian and ISIS flags and proudly displayed fake Fajr rockets. The demonstrators-almost all of them of North African or Subsaharan African origin-shouted explicitly anti-Semitic slogans, notably "Itbah al-Yahud!" (Slaughter the Jews, in Arabic.) Any time they would spot Jewish-owned shops or professional offices they would cover the doors or windows with stickers urging, "to boycott the racist State of Israel." [Last] Sunday, several thousands pro-Palestinian and pro-jihadist demonstrators marched for miles across the city, from the heavily Muslim Barbes neighborhood to places with large Jewish populations and many synagogues like the Bastille area. The mobsters that attacked the Don Isaac Abravanel synagogue were some of them.
It would be asking too much of the Euro-lefties to stand against this. For, if they part company with the Muslims when it comes to Israel, what else do they share? And so their facilitation of the new Jew-hatred will continue:
BERLIN (AP) - German police allowed an anti-Israel protester to climb inside a police car and shout slogans including "child murderer Israel" and "Allahu akbar!" - Arabic for "God is Great!" - through a police megaphone, a spokeswoman for Frankfurt's police said Sunday.
Police let the protester use the megaphone during a Free Gaza demonstration Saturday because he had offered to calm down a protest that had turned violent, spokeswoman Virginie Wegner told The Associated Press.
Think about what that's like for an octogenarian Jew. When you were in short pants, the mob was all around and the guy with the police megaphone was yelling, "Heil Hitler!" Now the mob's all around and the guy with the police megaphone is yelling, "Allahu Akbar!"
Scaramouche writes today:
I remember some time ago reading that something along the lines of "the Jews will never be forgiven for the Holocaust." At first, that statement seems merely perverse: after all, why would the Jews have to be forgiven for savageries inflicted on them? Morality and sanity would seem to demand that, if any forgiveness was going to go on, it would entail Jews forgiving those who participated in crimes against Jews, which were also crimes against humanity.
And yet, as we see today with Zionhass and how it is metastasizing around the globe, that first idea, that the world would withhold forgiveness to the Jews because of what was done to them, appears to be right on.
I think that might be me that Scaramouche is thinking of - back in the Telegraph a decade ago, January 25th 2005:
According to a poll by the University of Bielefeld, 62 per cent of Germans are "sick of all the harping on about German crimes against the Jews" - which is an unusually robust formulation for a multiple-choice questionnaire, but at least has the advantage of leaving us in no confusion as to how things stand in this week of pan-European Holocaust "harping on". The old joke - that the Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz - gets truer every week.
As I wrote some years ago, the principal beneficiaries of post-war "Holocaust guilt" turned out to be the Muslims. Anyone familiar with the cheerfully open prejudices of 'tween-wars Continentals knows that they would never for a moment have contemplated the rise of mosques and madrassahs in Brussels and Lyons and Frankfurt and Salzburg. But in post-war Europe the Holocaust got laid at the feet of ethnocultural nationalism, and so there were no acceptable grounds on which to object. And so, even as synagogues and kosher butchers are besieged and firebombed, the Euro-left will continue to make common cause with the Muslims in blaming the Jews.
That's why it's psychologically necessary not just to object to Israeli militarism as a decade ago they objected to Bush-Blair militarism, but to go beyond and insist that the Jews are now the Nazis. For, if one truly believes in "Never again!", then one is morally obligated to stand against the new Nazis. Someone has to be the Nazis, right? And to identify the real totalitarian threat would be asking too much. As I concluded in Commentary all those years ago:
Not long ago, I found myself watching the video of another "pro-Palestinian" protest in central London with the Metropolitan Police retreating up St. James's Street to Piccadilly in the face of a mob hurling traffic cones and jeering, "Run, run, you cowards!" and "Allahu akbar!" You would think the deluded multi-culti progressives would understand: In the end, this isn't about Gaza, this isn't about the Middle East; it's about them. It may be some consolation to an ever-lonelier Israel that, in one of history's bleaker jests, in the coming Europe the Europeans will be the new Jews.
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