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Justia Forms Business Contracts Liberty Media Acquisition Corp Form of Services Agreement by and between the Registrant and
Form of Services Agreement by and between the Registrant and Liberty Media Corporation
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EX-10.8 14 tm2036073d6_ex10-8.htm EXHIBIT 10.8
SERVICES AGREEMENT (this "Agreement"), dated as of [●], 2021, by and between Liberty Media Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Provider"), and Liberty Media Acquisition Corporation, a Delaware corporation ("LMAC").
WHEREAS, LMAC and the Provider desire that, following the Effective Date (as defined below), LMAC obtain from the Provider the services described herein, and that LMAC compensate the Provider for the performance of such services on the basis set forth in this Agreement; and
WHEREAS, on the date hereof a subsidiary of the Provider is also entering into a facilities sharing agreement with LMAC with respect to 12300 Liberty Boulevard, Englewood, Colorado 80112.
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing recitals, the mutual agreements contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be bound legally, agree as follows:
ENGAGEMENT AND SERVICES
Section 1.1 Engagement. LMAC engages the Provider to provide to LMAC, commencing on the date the securities of LMAC are first listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market (the "Effective Date"), the Services (as defined below), and the Provider accepts such engagement, in each case subject to and upon the terms and conditions of this Agreement. The parties acknowledge that certain of the Services will be performed by officers, employees or consultants of the Provider, who may also serve, from time to time, as officers, employees or consultants of other companies, including, without limitation, LMAC, Qurate Retail, Inc. ("Qurate"), Liberty Broadband Corporation ("LBC") and Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings, Inc. ("LTAH").
Section 1.2 Services. The Provider shall render to LMAC, by and through such of the Provider's officers, employees, agents, representatives and affiliates as the Provider, in its sole discretion, may designate from time to time, support and administrative services, including research, due diligence, transaction process management and execution, information technology, public and investor relations, legal, facilities management, back office, vendor management, accounting, book and record keeping, cash management and secretarial services (collectively, the "Services"); provided, however, that the Services shall not include any investment advice to LMAC.
Section 1.3 Services Not to Interfere with the Provider's Business. LMAC acknowledges and agrees that in providing Services hereunder the Provider will not be required to take any action that would disrupt, in any material respect, the orderly operation of the Provider's business activities.
Section 1.4 Services Fee.
(a) For the period from the Effective Date to the expiration of the Term, LMAC agrees to pay, and the Provider agrees to accept, a monthly fee equal to $83,333, payable in arrears (the "Services Fee"); provided, that the first payment following the Effective Date shall be prorated based on the number of days after (but excluding) the Effective Date until (and including) the last day of the calendar month in an amount equal to one-thirtieth of the Services Fee per day; provided, further, that upon the consummation by LMAC of the Initial Business Combination (as defined below), the Provider and LMAC will review and evaluate (and thereafter will review and evaluate semiannually) the Services Fee for reasonableness during the Term and will negotiate in good faith to reach agreement on any appropriate adjustments to the Services Fee, and based on such review and evaluation, Provider and LMAC will agree on the appropriate effective date (which may be retroactive, but in no event earlier than the date of the consummation by LMAC of the Initial Business Combination) of any such adjustment to the Services Fee.
(b) LMAC will pay the Provider the Services Fee by wire or intrabank transfer of funds or in such other reasonable manner specified by the Provider to LMAC, in arrears on or before the last day of each calendar month following the Effective Date.
Section 1.5 Survival. LMAC's obligation to pay the Services Fee shall survive the expiration or earlier termination of this Agreement with respect to such amounts as are payable in respect of the period of time prior to the effective date of such expiration or termination.
Section 1.6 LMAC Trust Account. Notwithstanding Article IV, Article V or anything contained herein to the contrary, the Provider hereby irrevocably waives any and all right, title, interest, causes of action and claims of any kind or nature whatsoever (each, a "Claim") in or to, and any and all right to seek payment of any amounts due to it out of, the trust account established for the benefit of the public stockholders of LMAC and into which substantially all of the proceeds of LMAC's initial public offering will be deposited (the "Trust Account"), and hereby irrevocably waives any Claim it presently has or may have in the future as a result of, or arising out of, this Agreement, which Claim would reduce, encumber or otherwise adversely affect the Trust Account or any monies or other assets in the Trust Account, and further agrees not to seek recourse, reimbursement, payment or satisfaction of any Claim against the Trust Account or any monies or other assets in the Trust Account for any reason whatsoever.
Section 2.1 Term. The term of this Agreement (the "Term") will commence on the Effective Date and will continue until terminated in accordance with Section 2.2.
Section 2.2 Termination. This Agreement will be terminated prior to the expiration of the Term in the following events:
(a) upon mutual written agreement of the parties hereto;
(b) immediately upon written notice (or at any later time specified in such notice) by the Provider to LMAC if a Change in Control occurs with respect to LMAC following the consummation by LMAC of an initial business combination (as described in the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-250188) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission) (the "Initial Business Combination"); or
(c) immediately upon written notice (or at any later time specified in such notice) by LMAC to the Provider if a Change in Control occurs with respect to the Provider following the consummation by LMAC of the Initial Business Combination.
For purposes of this Section 2.2, a "Change in Control" will be deemed to have occurred with respect to a party if a merger, consolidation, binding share exchange, acquisition, or similar transaction (each, a "Transaction"), or series of related Transactions, involving such party occurs as a result of which the voting power of all voting securities of such party outstanding immediately prior thereto represent (either by remaining outstanding or being converted into voting securities of the surviving entity) less than 75% of the voting power of such party or the surviving entity of the Transaction outstanding immediately after such Transaction (or if such party or the surviving entity after giving effect to such Transaction is a subsidiary of the issuer of securities in such Transaction, then the voting power of all voting securities of such party outstanding immediately prior to such Transaction represent (by being converted into voting securities of such issuer) less than 75% of the voting power of the issuer outstanding immediately after such Transaction). For the avoidance of doubt, the consummation of the Initial Business Combination shall not be deemed to constitute a Change in Control with respect to LMAC.
Each party will remain liable to the other for any required payment accrued prior to the termination of this Agreement.
PERSONNEL AND EMPLOYEES
Section 3.1 Personnel to Provide Services.
(a) The Provider will make available to LMAC, on a non-exclusive basis, certain employees, independent contractors or other personnel engaged by Provider (the "Personnel") to perform the Services.
(b) LMAC acknowledges that certain of the Personnel also will be performing services for the Provider, Qurate, LBC, LTAH and/or other companies, from time to time, including certain Subsidiaries and Affiliates of each of the foregoing, in each case, while also potentially performing services directly for LMAC irrespective of this Agreement.
Section 3.2 Provider as Payor. The parties acknowledge and agree that the Provider, and not LMAC, will be solely responsible for the payment of salaries, wages, benefits (including health insurance, retirement, and other similar benefits, if any) and other compensation applicable to all Personnel. All Personnel will be subject to the personnel policies of the Provider. The Provider will be responsible for the payment of all federal, state, and local withholding taxes on the compensation of all Personnel and other such employment related taxes as are required by law. LMAC will cooperate with the Provider to facilitate the Provider's compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, rules, regulations, and ordinances applicable to the employment or engagement of all Personnel.
Section 3.3 Additional Employee Provisions. The Provider will have the right to terminate its employment or engagement of any Personnel at any time.
Section 4.1 Indemnification by the Provider. Following the consummation by LMAC of the Initial Business Combination, the Provider will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless LMAC and each of its Subsidiaries, officers, directors, employees and agents, successors and assigns (collectively, the "LMAC Indemnitees"), from and against any and all judgments, Liabilities, losses, costs, damages, or expenses, including reasonable attorney's fees, disbursements, and costs (collectively, "Losses"), incurred in connection with any Action brought by a third party (a "Third-Party Claim") (including but not limited to defending or avoiding any such Action) arising from or out of, or relating to the gross negligence, willful misconduct, fraud, or bad faith of the Provider in connection with the performance of any provision of this Agreement (the "Provider Indemnification Matter"); provided, that notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provisions of this Agreement, at any time during the Term, the Provider shall not be liable, responsible or accountable to the LMAC Indemnitees for any Losses incurred by the LMAC Indemnitees for any act or omission by the Provider unless such conduct constitutes gross negligence, willful misconduct, fraud, or bad faith of the Provider.
Section 4.2 Indemnification by LMAC. Following the consummation by LMAC of the Initial Business Combination, LMAC will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Provider and its Subsidiaries, Affiliates, officers, directors, employees and agents, successors and assigns (collectively, the "Provider Indemnitees"), from and against any and all Losses incurred in connection with any Action brought by a third party (including but not limited to defending or avoiding any Action) arising from or out of, or relating to (a) any material breach by LMAC of its obligations under this Agreement, or (b) any acts or omissions of the Provider in providing the Services pursuant to this Agreement (including for its own negligence, but except to the extent such Losses arise from the Provider Indemnification Matter); provided, that LMAC and its Subsidiaries shall be excluded from the definition of "Provider Indemnitees."
Section 4.3 Indemnification Procedures.
(a) (i)	In connection with any indemnification provided for in Section 4.1 or 4.2, the party seeking indemnification (the "Indemnitee") will give the party from which indemnification is sought (the "Indemnitor") prompt notice whenever it comes to the attention of the Indemnitee that the Indemnitee has suffered or incurred, or may suffer or incur, any Losses for which it is entitled to indemnification under Section 4.1 or 4.2, and, if and when known, the facts constituting the basis for such claim and the projected amount of such Losses (which shall not be conclusive as to the amount of such Losses), in each case in reasonable detail, provided that such notice will be given no later than ten business days following receipt by the Indemnitee of written notice of any Third-Party Claim as to which indemnification is available hereunder. Failure by any Indemnitee to so notify the Indemnitor will not affect the rights of such Indemnitee hereunder except to the extent that such failure has a material prejudicial effect on the defenses or other rights available to the Indemnitor with respect to such Third-Party Claim. The Indemnitee will deliver to the Indemnitor as promptly as practicable, and in any event within five business days after Indemnitee's receipt, copies of all notices, court papers and other documents received by the Indemnitee relating to any Third-Party Claim.
(ii) The Indemnitor will be entitled, if it so elects, to take control of the defense and investigation with respect to such Third-Party Claim and to employ and engage attorneys reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnitee to handle and defend such claim, at the Indemnitor's cost, risk and expense, upon written notice to the Indemnitee of such election, which notice acknowledges the Indemnitor's obligation to provide indemnification under this Agreement with respect to any Losses arising out of or relating to such Third-Party Claim. The Indemnitor will not settle any Third-Party Claim that is the subject of indemnification without the written consent of the Indemnitee, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed; provided, however, that, after reasonable notice, the Indemnitor may settle a claim without the Indemnitee's consent if such settlement (A) makes no admission or acknowledgment of Liability or culpability with respect to the Indemnitee, (B) includes a complete release of the Indemnitee and (C) does not seek any relief against the Indemnitee other than the payment of money damages to be borne by the Indemnitor. The Indemnitee will cooperate in all reasonable respects with the Indemnitor and its attorneys in the investigation, trial and defense of any lawsuit or action with respect to such claim and any appeal arising therefrom (including the filing in the Indemnitee's name of appropriate cross-claims and counterclaims). The Indemnitee may, at its own cost, participate in any investigation, trial and defense of any Third-Party Claim controlled by the Indemnitor and any appeal arising therefrom, including participating in the process with respect to the potential settlement or compromise thereof. If the Indemnitee has been advised by its counsel that there may be one or more legal defenses available to the Indemnitee that conflict with those available to, or that are not available to, the Indemnitor ("Separate Legal Defenses"), or that there may be actual or potential differing or conflicting interests between the Indemnitor and the Indemnitee in the conduct of the defense of such Third-Party Claim, the Indemnitee will have the right, at the expense of the Indemnitor, to engage separate counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indemnitor to handle and defend such Third-Party Claim, provided, that, if such Third-Party Claim can be reasonably separated between those portion(s) for which Separate Legal Defenses are available ("Separable Claims") and those for which no Separate Legal Defenses are available, the Indemnitee will instead have the right, at the expense of the Indemnitor, to engage separate counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indemnitor to handle and defend the Separable Claims, and the Indemnitor will not have the right to control the defense or investigation of such Third-Party Claim or such Separable Claims, as the case may be (and, in which latter case, the Indemnitor will have the right to control the defense or investigation of the remaining portion(s) of such Third-Party Claim).
(iii) With respect to any Third-Party Claim as to which indemnification is available hereunder, the Indemnitor does not undertake to defend the Indemnitee against such Third-Party Claim, whether by not giving the Indemnitee timely notice of its election to so defend or otherwise, the Indemnitee may, but will have no obligation to, assume its own defense, at the expense of the Indemnitor (including attorney's fees and costs), it being understood that the Indemnitee's right to indemnification for such Third-Party Claim shall not be adversely affected by its assuming the defense of such Third-Party Claim. The Indemnitor will be bound by the result obtained with respect thereto by the Indemnitee; provided, that the Indemnitee may not settle any lawsuit or action with respect to which the Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification hereunder without the consent of the Indemnitor, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed; provided further, that such consent shall not be required if (i) the Indemnitor had the right under this Section 4.3 to undertake control of the defense of such Third-Party Claim and, after notice, failed to do so within thirty days of receipt of such notice (or such lesser period as may be required by court proceedings in the event of a litigated matter), or (ii) (x) the Indemnitor does not have the right to control the defense of the entirety of such Third-Party Claim pursuant to Section 4.3(a)(ii) or (y) the Indemnitor does not have the right to control the defense of any Separable Claim pursuant to Section 4.3(a)(ii) (in which case such settlement may only apply to such Separable Claims), the Indemnitee provides reasonable notice to Indemnitor of the settlement, and such settlement (A) makes no admission or acknowledgment of Liability or culpability with respect to the Indemnitor, (B) does not seek any relief against the Indemnitor and (C) does not seek any relief against the Indemnitee for which the Indemnitor is responsible other than the payment of money damages.
(b) In no event will the Indemnitor be liable to any Indemnitee for any special, consequential, indirect, collateral, incidental or punitive damages, however caused and on any theory of liability arising in any way out of this Agreement, whether or not such Indemnitor was advised of the possibility of any such damages; provided, that the foregoing limitations shall not limit a party's indemnification obligations for any Losses incurred by an Indemnitee as a result of the assertion of a Third-Party Claim.
(c) The Indemnitor and the Indemnitee shall use commercially reasonable efforts to avoid production of confidential information, and to cause all communications among employees, counsel and others representing any party with respect to a Third-Party Claim to be made so as to preserve any applicable attorney-client or work-product privilege.
(d) The Indemnitor shall pay all amounts payable pursuant to this Section 4.3 by wire transfer of immediately available funds, promptly following receipt from an Indemnitee of a bill, together with all accompanying reasonably detailed backup documentation, for any Losses that are the subject of indemnification hereunder, unless the Indemnitor in good faith disputes the amount of such Losses or whether such Losses are covered by the Indemnitor's indemnification obligation in which event the Indemnitor shall promptly so notify the Indemnitee. In any event, the Indemnitor shall pay to the Indemnitee, by wire transfer of immediately available funds, the amount of any Losses for which it is liable hereunder no later than three (3) days following any final determination of the amount of such Losses and the Indemnitor's liability therefor. A "final determination" shall exist when (a) the parties to the dispute have reached an agreement in writing or (b) a court of competent jurisdiction shall have entered a final and non-appealable order or judgment.
(e) The remedies provided in this Section 4.3 shall be cumulative and shall not preclude assertion by any Indemnitee of any other rights or the seeking of any and all other remedies against an Indemnitor, subject to Section 4.3(b).
(f) To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Indemnitor will indemnify the Indemnitee against any and all reasonable fees, costs and expenses (including attorneys' fees), incurred in connection with the enforcement of his, her or its rights under this Article IV.
Section 4.4 Survival. The terms and conditions of this Article IV will survive the expiration or termination of this Agreement.
Section 5.1 Defined Terms.
(a) The following terms will have the following meanings for all purposes of this Agreement:
"Action" means any demand, action, claim, suit, countersuit, litigation, arbitration, prosecution, proceeding (including any civil, criminal, administrative, investigative or appellate proceeding), hearing, inquiry, audit, examination or investigation commenced, brought, conducted or heard by or before, or otherwise involving, any court, grand jury or other governmental authority or any arbitrator or arbitration panel.
"Affiliate" means, with respect to any Person, any other Person controlled by such first Person, with "control" for such purpose meaning the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities or voting interests, by contract, or otherwise. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of this Agreement, none of the Persons listed in clause (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv) shall be deemed to be Affiliates of any Person listed in any other such clause: (i) Provider taken together with its Subsidiaries, (ii) LMAC taken together with its Subsidiaries (iii) LBC taken together with its Subsidiaries, (iv) Qurate taken together with its Subsidiaries, (v) LTAH taken together with its Subsidiaries, or (vi) any other entities with an executive management team that may from time to time include certain of the Personnel taken together with the Subsidiaries of such entities.
"Confidential Information" means any information marked, noticed, or treated as confidential by a party which such party holds in confidence, including all trade secrets, technical, business, or other information, including customer or client information, however communicated or disclosed, relating to past, present and future research, development and business activities.
"Liabilities" means any and all debts, liabilities, commitments and obligations, whether or not fixed, contingent or absolute, matured or unmatured, direct or indirect, liquidated or unliquidated, accrued or unaccrued, known or unknown, and whether or not required by GAAP to be reflected in financial statements or disclosed in the notes thereto (other than taxes).
"Person" means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, trust, unincorporated organization, association, governmental authority, or other entity.
"Subsidiary" when used with respect to any Person, means (i)(A) a corporation a majority in voting power of whose share capital or capital stock with voting power, under ordinary circumstances, to elect directors is at the time, directly or indirectly, owned by such Person, by one or more Subsidiaries of such Person, or by such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person, whether or not such power is subject to a voting agreement or similar encumbrance, (B) a partnership or limited liability company in which such Person or a Subsidiary of such Person is, at the date of determination, (1) in the case of a partnership, a general partner of such partnership with the power affirmatively to direct the policies and management of such partnership or (2) in the case of a limited liability company, the managing member or, in the absence of a managing member, a member with the power affirmatively to direct the policies and management of such limited liability company, or (C) any other Person (other than a corporation) in which such Person, one or more Subsidiaries of such Person or such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person, directly or indirectly, at the date of determination thereof, has or have (1) the power to elect or direct the election of a majority of the members of the governing body of such Person, whether or not such power is subject to a voting agreement or similar encumbrance, or (2) in the absence of such a governing body, at least a majority ownership interest or (ii) any other Person of which an aggregate of 50% or more of the equity interests are, at the time, directly or indirectly, owned by such Person and/or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of this Agreement, none of the Subsidiaries of the Provider will be deemed to be Subsidiaries of LMAC or any of its Subsidiaries, nor will any of LMAC's Subsidiaries be deemed to be Subsidiaries of the Provider or any of its Subsidiaries.
(b) The following terms will have the meanings for all purposes of this Agreement set forth in the Section reference provided next to such term:
Definition Section Reference
Agreement Preamble
Claim Section 1.6
Change in Control Section 2.2
Effective Date Section 1.1
Indemnitee Section 4.3(a)(i)
Indemnitor Section 4.3(a)(i)
Initial Business Combination Section 2.2
LBC Section 1.1
LMAC Preamble
LMAC Indemnitees Section 4.1
Losses Section 4.1
LTAH Section 1.1
Personnel Section 3.1
Provider Preamble
Provider Indemnification Matter Section 4.1
Provider Indemnitees Section 4.2
Qurate Section 1.1
Separate Claims Section 4.3(a)(ii)
Separate Legal Defense Section 4.3(a)(ii)
Services Section 1.1
Services Fee Section 1.4
Term Section 2.1
Third-Party Claim Section 4.1
Transaction Section 2.2
Trust Account Section 1.6
Section 5.2 Entire Agreement; Severability. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement among the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, oral and written, among the parties hereto with respect to such subject matter. It is the intention of the parties hereto that the provisions of this Agreement will be enforced to the fullest extent permissible under all applicable laws and public policies, but that the unenforceability of any provision hereof (or the modification of any provision hereof to conform with such laws or public policies, as provided in the next sentence) will not render unenforceable or impair the remainder of this Agreement. Accordingly, if any provision is determined to be invalid or unenforceable either in whole or in part, this Agreement will be deemed amended to delete or modify, as necessary, the invalid or unenforceable provisions and to alter the balance of this Agreement in order to render the same valid and enforceable, consistent (to the fullest extent possible) with the intent and purposes hereof.
Section 5.3 Notices. All notices and communications hereunder will be in writing and will be deemed to have been duly given if delivered personally or mailed, certified or registered mail with postage prepaid, or sent by confirmed facsimile, addressed as follows:
If to the Provider:
Liberty Media Corporation
12300 Liberty Boulevard
Attention: Chief Legal Officer
Facsimile: [Separately provided]
If to LMAC:
Liberty Media Acquisition Corporation
or to such other address (or to the attention of such other person) as the parties may hereafter designate in writing. All such notices and communications will be deemed to have been given on the date of delivery if sent by facsimile or personal delivery, or the third day after the mailing thereof, except that any notice of a change of address will be deemed to have been given only when actually received.
Section 5.4 Governing Law. This Agreement and the legal relations among the parties hereto will be governed in all respects, including validity, interpretation and effect, by the laws of the State of Colorado applicable to contracts made and performed wholly therein, without giving effect to any choice or conflict of laws provisions or rules that would cause the application of the laws of any other jurisdiction.
Section 5.5 Submission to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial. Each of the parties hereto irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that it will not commence any action, litigation or proceeding of any kind whatsoever, whether in law or equity, or whether in contract or tort or otherwise, in any way relating to this Agreement and the legal relations among the parties hereto, in any forum other than the courts of the State of Colorado sitting in Denver County, and of the United States District Court of Colorado, and any appellate court from any thereof, and each of the parties hereto irrevocably and unconditionally submits to the jurisdiction of such courts and agrees that any such action, litigation or proceeding may be brought in any such Colorado State court or, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, in such federal court. Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such action, litigation or proceeding will be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law. The parties waive the right to a trial by jury in any dispute or other claim in connection with this Agreement.
Section 5.6 Rules of Construction. The descriptive headings in this Agreement are inserted for convenience of reference only and are not intended to be part of or to affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement. Words used in this Agreement, regardless of the gender and number specifically used, will be deemed and construed to include any other gender, masculine, feminine, or neuter, and any other number, singular or plural, as the context requires. As used in this Agreement, the word "including" or any variation thereof is not limiting, and the word "or" is not exclusive. The word day means a calendar day. If the last day for giving any notice or taking any other action is a Saturday, Sunday, or a day on which banks in New York, New York or Denver, Colorado are authorized or required to be closed, the time for giving such notice or taking such action will be extended to the next day that is not such a day.
Section 5.7 No Third-Party Rights. Nothing expressed or referred to in this Agreement is intended or will be construed to give any Person other than the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or with respect to this Agreement, or any provision hereof, it being the intention of the parties hereto that this Agreement and all of its provisions and conditions are for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties to this Agreement and their respective successors and assigns.
Section 5.8 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which will be an original and all of which together will constitute one and the same instrument.
Section 5.9 Payment of Expenses. From and after the Effective Date, and except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, each of the parties to this Agreement will bear its own expenses, including the fees of any attorneys and accountants engaged by such party, in connection with this Agreement.
Section 5.10 Binding Effect; Assignment.
(a) This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding on the parties to this Agreement and their respective legal representatives, successors and permitted assigns.
(b) Except as expressly contemplated hereby, this Agreement, and the obligations arising hereunder, may not be assigned by either party to this Agreement; provided, however, that Provider may assign its rights, interests, duties, liabilities and obligations under this Agreement to any of its wholly-owned Subsidiaries, but such assignment shall not relieve the Provider, as the assignor, of its obligations hereunder.
Section 5.11 Amendment, Modification, Extension or Waiver. Any amendment, modification or supplement of or to any term or condition of this Agreement will be effective only if in writing and signed by both parties hereto. Either party to this Agreement may (a) extend the time for the performance of any of the obligations or other acts of the other party to this Agreement, or (b) waive compliance by the other party with any of the agreements or conditions contained herein or any breach thereof. Any agreement on the part of either party to any such extension or waiver will be valid only if set forth in an instrument in writing signed on behalf of such party. No waiver of any term, provision or condition of this Agreement, whether by conduct or otherwise, in any one or more instance, will be deemed or construed as a further or continuing waiver of any such term, provision or condition or of any other term, provision or condition, but any party hereto may waive its rights in any particular instance by written instrument of waiver.
Section 5.12 Force Majeure. Neither party will be liable to the other party with respect to any nonperformance or delay in performance of its obligations under this Agreement, other than for payment of the Services Fee, to the extent such failure or delay is due to any action or claims by any third party, labor dispute, labor strike, weather conditions or any cause beyond a party's reasonable control. Each party agrees that it will use all commercially reasonable efforts to continue to perform its obligations under this Agreement, to resume performance of its obligations under this Agreement, and to minimize any delay in performance of its obligations under this Agreement notwithstanding the occurrence of any such event beyond such party's reasonable control.
Section 5.13 Specific Performance. Each party agrees that irreparable damage would occur and that the parties would not have any adequate remedy at law in the event that any of the provisions of this Agreement were not performed in accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise breached. It is accordingly agreed that each of the parties shall be entitled to seek an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches of this Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions of this Agreement, this being in addition to any other remedy to which they are entitled at law or in equity.
Section 5.14 Confidentiality.
(a) Except with the prior consent of Provider, LMAC will:
(i) limit access to the Confidential Information of Provider disclosed to LMAC hereunder to its agents, representatives, and consultants on a need-to-know basis;
(ii) advise its agents, representatives, and consultants having access to such Confidential Information of the proprietary nature thereof and of the obligations set forth in this Agreement; and
(iii) safeguard such Confidential Information by using a reasonable degree of care to prevent disclosure of the Confidential Information to third parties, but not less than that degree of care used by LMAC in safeguarding its own similar information or material.
(b) LMAC's obligations respecting confidentiality under Section 5.14(a) will not apply to any of the Confidential Information of LMC that LMAC can demonstrate: (i) was, at the time of disclosure to LMAC, in the public domain or (ii) after disclosure to LMAC, is published or otherwise becomes part of the public domain other than by acts of LMAC in violation of this Section 5.14.
(c) The provisions of this Section 5.14 will survive the expiration or termination of this Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties has signed this Agreement, or has caused this Agreement to be signed by its duly authorized officer, as of the date first above written.
LMAC:
[Signature Page to LMAC Services Agreement]


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Brett Hearn Headed to NE Dirt Modified Hall of Fame
By ROBIN YASINSAC-GILLESPIO
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"It really hasn't sunk in yet but the numbers warranted this for a while," said Hearn from his new office at Orange County Fair Speedway, where he assumed the role of general manager late last year. "Even though I'm finding myself looking back lately and sharing stories, I am more about looking forward."
Hearn's incredible stats, and the stories surrounding his success, will be hard — if not impossible — to top by any upcoming superstar.
His body of work: A mind-boggling 919 career wins at 48 different tracks in 11 states and two Canadian provinces; 97 track and series championships, including eight overall Mr. DIRT Modified titles; 10 Super DIRTcar Series titles; and crowns in every other title series DIRTcar ever designed. Hearn is a six-time Super DIRT Week winner in both the big-blocks and small blocks (a dozen overall) and a 12-time winner of Orange County's crown jewel Eastern States 200, topping the companion ES 358 Mod event 17 times. He is Orange County's all-time feature winner with 308 victories in four divisions, and the winningest driver at Albany-Saratoga Speedway with 136 wins. Hearn was named Driver of the Year in 1986 by the Eastern Motorsports Press Association, and was number one on Area Auto Racing News' 2013 list of the 50 Greatest Drivers of the Past 50 Years.
Always driven and determined, Brett Hearn's laser-focus on the ultimate prize enabled his rapid rise over the past four-plus decades. As a boy, he tried other sports and also tried to focus on his studies — but the idea of racing engulfed his thoughts.
"We had a club on our block and would race bicycles," recalled Hearn of the Jersey neighborhood gang. "I think I groomed myself from the age of 11 to race — go karts, dirt bikes. I was always racing something."
His dad Gordon did some racing at OCFS in the early '70s, and became acquainted with car owner Tony Ferraiuolo. On the occasional visit to Ferraiuolo's race shop in nearby Whippany, Brett was eager to tag along with his father.
"I hung out enough to know what I wanted to be like — I don't think there was much more that impressed me at that time than seeing how a real race shop operated," Hearn said of the Ferraiuolo outfit. "It certainly influenced me."
Gordon put Brett in a Sportsman car at Orange County in 1975 at the age of 16. With guidance from chassis wizard Eric Koster, and help from speed shop owner Pete Van Iderstine, Hearn invaded victory lane during his sophomore season, winning 12 times at OCFS and Nazareth Speedway. In 1977, it was 20 wins and championships at both ovals.
"He had that Van Iderstine car that Whip Mulligan had built and we got a chance to set the chassis up and take him to the race track to see his ability," Ferraiuolo's superstar driver Gary Balough recalled. "There was so much talent there! And he just got better and better."
Hearn gives a lot of the credit for his early success to Pete Van Iderstine. "I was working in his speed shop and my dad and I started beating on Pete to give me a chance in his car," said Hearn. "Pete had a good car — I mean a really good car."
Van Iderstine also had stout power: Hearn showed up for his third season with a Tony Feil engine under the hood that belonged to Van Iderstine.
"The engine we had in our first car was built in our family room at home, from junkyard parts that we had gathered up," Hearn related. "So for us to be able to run a professionally built engine was huge! It was really much better than what most guys had at that time."
After three years in the Sportsman ranks, Brett believed he was ready to move up to the big-league Modifieds. His father agreed. "So here I think, OK, I've got him on the hook and we're going to go big-block racing," Hearn ruefully remembered, "but he looked at me and said, 'Good luck.'"
Gordon's unexpected response didn't set well with his overachiever son.
"I was mad — I thought, I'll show him," said Hearn. "A few days later my dad came to me and said, 'I will be there to help you but I won't do it for you.' That was smart: he set me up to be self-sufficient."
The family-owned car was sold for $6,000; Gordon split the sale price with his son.
"I took my $3,000 and what I saved from working at the speed shop and I started making deals," said Hearn. "Pete worked out an engine deal with me and we won (OCFS) the third week out in the big-block. I went home with that $1,000 (night's payout) and thought I was a millionaire."
With his GQ good looks, his professional presentation and his ability to speak articulately about himself and the sport, Hearn was able to effectively elevate everyone's idea of a local stock-car racer. As comfortable in a corporate conference room as he was in the cockpit, Brett brought sponsor procurement and representation to a whole new level. By the early '80s, he was the Jeff Gordon to everyone else's Dale Earnhardt.
And that didn't really sit well with the old-school diehards.
"They say in sports, if you can't visualize yourself winning then you are probably not going to win," said Hearn. "You have to visualize yourself as the guy to beat."
It was a confidence that many couldn't handle — a confidence that led to jealousy and resentment from rival teams during Hearn's climb.
But he had the talent — they grudgingly gave him that — and players like Hall of Fame driver Budd Olsen took notice. Hearn was working at Olsen's South Jersey speed shop — until Budd reckoned Brett would do the business more good racing out on the road than mooning around the shop.
Budd and Doug Olsen provided the cars and parts; Hearn provided the engines. And they sent him out on tour to compete with the Super DIRT Series.
"That was what got me to the point where I could run professionally; it was with their support," a grateful Hearn said of the Olsens. "And it just kept getting better and better as the years clicked off."
His first major road victory came in 1981 at Lebanon Valley Speedway, a 100-lapper in July. He followed that up by winning the LV 200 in September, and his second Eastern States 200 at his home track the next month. Hearn was 23 years old.
Out on tour, competing against the circuit's toughest scrappers, Hearn and team drew attention with their spit-polished image, impressive early career stats, top-notch equipment — and that mistaken attitude.
"Being from New Jersey, I always felt a little bit of an outsider," Hearn said of the NY-based series. "We just did our own thing and tried to be the best we could. Nobody could believe we weren't cheating. We were making a lot of ground-breaking changes so we focused on that."
Hearn has run corporate colors for Pepsi, Auto Palace, Budweiser and others over the years, and driven for some top car owners: Bob Hummer, Guy and Brian Madsen, John Majka, Pete Chesson, Vinny Salerno, Jody Gable, Hastings & Knoth, Glenn Hyneman — and, of course, there was his 1989-91 stint with Ray Bramall's Freightliner Trucks of Newburgh team.
In the course of three seasons, Hearn and Bramall racked up 99 wins, three SDS Mod titles, the overall Mr. DIRT Modified crown, two DIRT Asphalt Series championships, three Modified and three small-block titles at Orange County, a Mod Championship at Rolling Wheels, and two consecutive Super DIRT Week big-block victories.
"Those were probably my most productive years but my three most agonizing," Hearn admitted. "We won everything in sight, yet I didn't feel good about it. The team jelled and the equipment was top-notch and always on the money. But there were so many other things that made me want to go back and run my own deal."
In an earlier departure from NE Modifieds, Hearn took a stab at NASCAR's Busch Series in 1985 and '86. With help from the Olsens and others, he managed a best run of 10th at Dover International Speedway. But like many other talents before him, he found NASCAR a bottomless money pit. And when you're hot on the dirt short tracks. . . Well, it doesn't make economic sense to pursue it.
"When he went down to North Carolina to race there was no doubt in my mind that he had the credibility, the personality, the looks and the talent to become a Cup star," said Gary Balough, who also took a swing at the big time, and conferred with Hearn about the opportunity at the time.
But it wasn't in the cards. "I would have liked to have stayed in NASCAR but it's not a regret in my career," reflected Hearn, who says the knowledge and work ethic he gained propelled him to even greater success in the Mods. "That experience allowed me to come back and build cars with the Freightliner team that were really light years ahead of everybody else."
On familiar turf, and calling his own shots, Hearn changed it up in 1996, leaving his long-time home track of Orange County for an off-and-on stint at Lebanon Valley, before returning to OCFS in 2019.
"We raced at the Valley for 16 full seasons and won 13 championships," said Hearn. "That was fun for us, but it was also nice to return to Middletown for the end stage of my career."
Dickie Larkin, one of the Valley's winningest drivers, is happy Hearn wasn't a career regular.
"We weren't friends because Brett didn't really make friends with people — he was all business," said Larkin, who was LV's Modified champion in 1990 and 1994.
"I'm just so thankful he spent his first 15 to 20 years at Middletown, not Lebanon Valley, because all of our records and trophy cases would look a little different. We didn't even have him in the prime of his career and look what he did at LV! By the time we got him, he was in his 40s and 50s.
"He just set a whole different standard for Lebanon Valley," Larkin concluded. "I sure respect what he's accomplished. . . Brett Hearn was one of the best there ever was, if not the best."
Hearn's upcoming Hall of Fame induction will not find him hanging up his helmet. He plans to drive select shows for the Madsen team this season while also focusing on his new role as Orange County's Director of Motorsports.
"I'm really excited about the next chapter," said Hearn, who has promoted the successful "Big Show" annually at Albany-Saratoga Speedway. He's nervous yet excited about steering the ship for Chris Larsen at OCFS. "If I was getting ready for a big race, I would wake up in the middle of the night with my mind racing, get up and make notes so I didn't forget anything by morning. I'm finding myself doing that again about the track, so I know I'm in a good place."
Hearn looks forward to celebrating his career milestone Hall of Fame honors with family and friends in July.
"My career has been such a family thing — my brother [Bobby] is a well-known chassis builder, my nephew [Matt] is a crew chief, my sister [Bonnie] and my parents [Gordon and Kay] have gone to the races my entire career," said Hearn. "How lucky am I that 40 years later they are still chasing me around in a motorhome?"
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Q: Current when two batteries (voltage sources) of different potentials are in a circuit What will happen when I connect two batteries of different potential in a circuit like below? And if there will be a current will it be the same in the whole circuit? How is it possible since electrons can't travel through batteries (electrolyte) and cathode is depleted of electrons?

A: In the circuit you have shown the "batteries" are not in parallel, they are connected in series and the resistor is connected in series as well. By definition the current is exactly the same through elements connected in series, so yes, the same current flows through the resistor and the batteries.
Whether electrons actually travel through a battery is not important from a circuit perspective...the important things is that the current into one terminal is exactly equal to the current out of the other terminal of a given battery.
Current travels into the positive terminal of a battery whenever you charge a (rechargeable) battery. There is no inherent problem with a circuit that has current flowing into and out of batteries at the same time.
If your circuit has ideal voltage sources then their voltage will never change. If you imagine that the voltage sources are rechargeable batteries, then one battery will discharge and the other will be charged. When they reach the same voltage the current will stop flowing. As @james-large said, you drew ideal voltage sources and the situation changes if you think they are real,
non-ideal batteries.

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Q: How can i fix this texture rendering issue in this basic OpenGL demo? I tried making a basic square + texture demo in Rust OpenGL and the texture i rendered looks like this:

...while it's supposed to look like this:

Below is my texture creation and upload code, which is a rust-ized version of learnopengl.com's version of creating, binding and uploading a basic texture:
pub fn from_image(file: String) -> Result<Texture, String> {
            let mut texture: GLuint = 0;
            match image::open(file.clone()) {
                Err(err) => panic!("Could not load image {:?}: {}", file, err),
                Ok(img) => {
                    let (width, height) = img.dimensions();
                    let img = match img {
                        DynamicImage::ImageRgb8(img) => img,
                        img => img.to_rgb8(),
                    };

                    unsafe {
                        glGenTextures(1, &mut texture);
                        if texture == 0 {
                            return Err(String::from("Error creating texture"));
                        }

                        glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture);

                        glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_REPEAT as GLint);  // set texture wrapping to GL_REPEAT (default wrapping method)
                        glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_REPEAT as GLint);
                        glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,
                                        GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR as GLint);
                        glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,
                                        GL_LINEAR as GLint);

                        glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D,
                                     0,
                                     GL_RGB8 as GLint,
                                     width as GLsizei,
                                     height as GLsizei,
                                     0,
                                     GL_RGB,
                                     GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE,
                                     img.as_raw().as_ptr().cast());

                        glGenerateMipmap(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
                    }
                    Ok(Texture(texture))
                }
            }
        }

Here are my shaders:
const VERT_SHADER: &str = r#"#version 330 core
         layout (location = 0) in vec3 pos;
         layout (location = 1) in vec2 aTexCoords;

         out vec2 texCoords;

         void main() {
            gl_Position = vec4(pos.x, pos.y, pos.z, 1.0);
            texCoords = aTexCoords;
         }"#;

const FRAG_SHADER: &str = r#"#version 330 core
        out vec4 final_color;

        in vec2 texCoords;

        uniform sampler2D Texture;

        void main() {
            final_color = texture(Texture, texCoords);
        }
        "#;

Here are my VAOs, VBO and EBO, which i took from learnopengl.com
const VAO: [Vertex; 4] =
        [[0.5, 0.5, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0], [0.5, -0.5, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0], [-0.5, -0.5, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0], [-0.5, 0.5, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0]];

const EBO: [TriIndexes; 2] = [[0, 1, 3], [1, 2, 3]];

    unsafe {
        glVertexAttribPointer(
            0,
            3,
            GL_FLOAT,
            GL_FALSE,
            (5 * size_of::<f32>()) as GLsizei,
            0 as *const _,
        );

        glEnableVertexAttribArray(0);

        glVertexAttribPointer(
            1,
            2,
            GL_FLOAT,
            GL_FALSE,
            (5 * size_of::<f32>()) as GLsizei,
            (2 * size_of::<f32>()) as *const _,
        );

        glEnableVertexAttribArray(1);
    }

A: The issue is the offset is incorrect for the second parameter in the VAO. It is currently an offset of 2 when it should really be an offset of 3. This causes the texture coordinates to be interpreted as [0.0, 1.0], [0.0, 1.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0]. This effectively causes the y-axis of a sample to be ignored as the texture is only sampled along its diagonal.
This is the corrected version of the call:
glVertexAttribPointer(
    1,
    2,
    GL_FLOAT,
    GL_FALSE,
    (5 * size_of::<f32>()) as GLsizei,
    (3 * size_of::<f32>()) as *const _,  // <- This was the line with the issue
);


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package au.gov.ga.geodesy.sitelog.domain.model;

import java.util.Date;

import javax.validation.constraints.Past;
import javax.validation.constraints.Size;

/**
 * http://sopac.ucsd.edu/ns/geodesy/doc/igsSiteLog/equipment/2004/antenna.xsd:gnssAntennaType
 */
public class GnssAntenna {

   private Integer id;

   @Size(max = 200)
   protected String antennaType;

   @Size(max = 200)
   protected String serialNumber;

   @Size(max = 200)
   protected String antennaReferencePoint;

   protected Double markerArpUpEcc;

   protected Double markerArpNorthEcc;

   protected Double markerArpEastEcc;

   @Size(max = 200)
   protected String alignmentFromTrueNorth;

   @Size(max = 200)
   protected String antennaRadomeType;

   @Size(max = 200)
   protected String radomeSerialNumber;

   @Size(max = 200)
   protected String antennaCableType;

   @Size(max = 200)
   protected String antennaCableLength;

   @Past
   protected Date dateInstalled;

   @Past
   protected Date dateRemoved;

   @Size(max = 4000)
   protected String notes;

   @SuppressWarnings("unused")
   private Integer getId() {
      return id;
   }

   @SuppressWarnings("unused")
   private void setId(Integer id) {
      this.id = id;
   }

   /**
    * Return antenna type.
    */
   public String getAntennaType() {
      return antennaType;
   }

   /**
    * Set antenna type.
    */
   public void setAntennaType(String value) {
      this.antennaType = value;
   }

   /**
    * Return serial number.
    */
   public String getSerialNumber() {
      return serialNumber;
   }

   /**
    * Set serial number.
    */
   public void setSerialNumber(String value) {
      this.serialNumber = value;
   }

   /**
    * Return antenna reference point.
    */
   public String getAntennaReferencePoint() {
      return antennaReferencePoint;
   }

   /**
    * Set antenna reference point.
    */
   public void setAntennaReferencePoint(String value) {
      this.antennaReferencePoint = value;
   }

   /**
    * Return marker ARP up ecc.
    */
   public Double getMarkerArpUpEcc() {
      return markerArpUpEcc;
   }

   /**
    * Set marker ARP up ecc.
    */
   public void setMarkerArpUpEcc(Double value) {
      this.markerArpUpEcc = value;
   }

   /**
    * Return marker ARP north ecc.
    */
   public Double getMarkerArpNorthEcc() {
      return markerArpNorthEcc;
   }

   /**
    * Set marker ARP north acc.
    */
   public void setMarkerArpNorthEcc(Double value) {
      this.markerArpNorthEcc = value;
   }

   /**
    * Return marker ARP east acc.
    */
   public Double getMarkerArpEastEcc() {
      return markerArpEastEcc;
   }

   /**
    * Set marker ARP east ecc.
    */
   public void setMarkerArpEastEcc(Double value) {
      this.markerArpEastEcc = value;
   }

   /**
    * Return alignment from true north.
    */
   public String getAlignmentFromTrueNorth() {
      return alignmentFromTrueNorth;
   }

   /**
    * Set alignment from true north.
    */
   public void setAlignmentFromTrueNorth(String value) {
      this.alignmentFromTrueNorth = value;
   }

   /**
    * Return IGS radome model code.
    */
   public String getAntennaRadomeType() {
      return antennaRadomeType;
   }

   /**
    * Set IGS radome model code.
    */
   public void setAntennaRadomeType(String value) {
      this.antennaRadomeType = value;
   }

   /**
    * Return radome serial number.
    */
   public String getRadomeSerialNumber() {
      return radomeSerialNumber;
   }

   /**
    * Set radome serial number.
    */
   public void setRadomeSerialNumber(String value) {
      this.radomeSerialNumber = value;
   }

   /**
    * Return antenna cable type.
    */
   public String getAntennaCableType() {
      return antennaCableType;
   }

   /**
    * Set antenna cable type.
    */
   public void setAntennaCableType(String value) {
      this.antennaCableType = value;
   }

   /**
    * Return antenna cable length.
    */
   public String getAntennaCableLength() {
      return antennaCableLength;
   }

   /**
    * Set antenna cable length.
    */
   public void setAntennaCableLength(String value) {
      this.antennaCableLength = value;
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Top 10 Electric Cars in the World 2019
#9. Jaguar i-Pace
The Jaguar i-Pace is expected to hit the road as from next year and is also expected to go on sale as also from early 2018. According to the Jaguar, a British brand owned, the i-Pace will be built by Magna Steyr's factory in Austria. They have also said that Jaguar i-Pace is built on a dedicated electric-vehicle architecture that allows the designers to work outside rulebook on vehicle layout.
The Jaguar i-Pace is fitted with features that make it one on of the top 10 electric vehicles. It is fitted with a battery pack which is located on the floor. The battery produces 90-kWh of energy which is expected to power the four wheel motors. Also, the battery can be charged by 50kW voltage. Jaguar estimates that the I-Pace should be able to travel more than 220 miles on a charge. Jaguar i-pace has an expected range of 220 mi (350 km) that's according to EPA rating. The acceleration rate is expected to be 0-60 mph in just 4 seconds. More is expected to be revealed on Jaguar i-Pace features once it hit the roads.
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With the increase is cost within Pay Per Click through Google, and the low quality of calls you can purchase from a pay per call company we have created an opportunity to generate leads through multiple channels including TV, Radio, and Online advertising. All for a single price.
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The results we see for our lead generation service vary based on the center receiving the calls. Some center's have a better sales process, accept more insurance, and work with deductibles and out of pocket costs. However, we are seeing an average cost per intake between $3,000 and $4,500. This means that with a $10,000 investment, you may see 2-3 intakes. It simply depends on your teams ability to close the callers.
The minimum investment each month is $15,000 ($25,000 in California and Florida). However, if you would like to perform a test of the service, we are able to run a one month test for $10,000 ($25,000 in California and Florida). There is no guarantee of intakes from our services, however, our goal is to generate enough calls to produce a quality ROI for your center and maintain your business for the long term.
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US Detention Facilities in Iraq
by Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch has repeatedly tried to gain access to U.S. detention facilities in Iraq, but U.S. military officials in Baghdad have denied requests for visitation rights. HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH is able to have regular access to prisons and detention centers under Kurdish control in northern Iraq.
According to information that HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH obtained from the U.S. military's database in January 2004, the U.S. is holding detainees at 10 major facilities around Iraq. The largest is Abu Ghraib Prison, also known as the Baghdad Central Correctional Facility or BCCF. Two other major facilities are Camp Bucca in Umm Qasr and Talil Airforce Base south of Baghdad (also known as Whitford Camp).
The other seven are:
1) Al-Rusafa (formerly the Deportations' Prison or Tasfirat) in Baghdad
2) Al-Kadhimiyya in Baghdad (women only)
3) Al-Karkh in Baghdad (juveniles only)
4) Al-Diwaniyya Security Detainee Holding Area
5) The Tikrit detention facility
6) The Mosul detention facility
7) MEK, or Ashraf Camp, near al-Ramadi
The names and details (including identification number, date and place of arrest, military unit which carried out the arrest, place of detention, charges) of inmates held at these facilities are entered into a central database following initial interrogation and processing.
The total number of detainees whose names appeared on the database on January 24 this year was 8,968, but the figures may fluctuate substantially from week to week.
Additionally, there are a number of other detention facilities located in U.S. military compounds, used as temporary facilities for initial or secondary interrogation. These include facilities at Camp Falcon on the outskirts of Baghdad, and Camp Cropper located near Baghdad Airport. Security detainees have been held for up to a week during initial interrogation, and up to a month for secondary interrogation, during which time they have no access to relatives or counsel. Their names and details are entered into the central database only in the event that they are transferred to one of the ten major detention facilities listed above.
In November 2003, the coalition authorities established General Information Centers (GICs) where families could seek information about detained relatives. The GICs are staffed by Iraqis under the supervision of U.S. military officers. In Baghdad, for example, there are nine GICs located in the following districts: al-Kadhimiyya, al-Karkh, al-Adhamiyya, al-Mansour, al-Rusafa, al-Sadr, al-Karrada, Tis'a Nisan, and al-Rashid. Once families obtain the identification number (also known as sequence number) and place of detention of their relatives, they can obtain a date for a visit.
However, many families told HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH that they have experienced prolonged delays in securing a date for a visit, in some cases for over three or four months. In most facilities, according to U.S. military personnel, the waiting period averaged one month. At Abu Ghraib, it was three months. Military officials told HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH that they have insufficient staff at the prison and could not cope with more than a maximum of 30 visits per day. In al-Kharkh, the juvenile facility, the waiting periods for visits were said to be closer to one week.
In January 2004, the United States was holding detainees from 21 different nations, including Algeria, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Israeli-occupied Gaza and West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and Yemen.
Abu Ghraib is itself divided into a number of "camps." These include Camp Ganci (with five divisions according to the seriousness of the crime); Camp Vigilant for high security detainees who are subdivided into "black, gray, and white lists;" a Medical Wing, and another camp for those "serving time."
MEK is the old Ashraf camp used by the Iranian opposition group Mojahedin-e-Khalq (hence MEK) which, according to the U.S. military, does not hold any Iranian detainees but Iraqis accused of serious crimes such as murder and rape.
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 *      Author: Peter Goodman
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#ifndef HOTPATCH_H_
#define HOTPATCH_H_

namespace granary {

    /// Given a function at address `addr` that occupies no more than `len`
    /// contiguous bytes, copy the instructions directly from `addr` into a
    /// new buffer of the same size, re-relativize those instructions, and
    /// return a pointer to the new instructions.
    app_pc copy_and_rerelativize_function(const app_pc addr, int len) ;

    /// Prepare to redirect a function.
    void prepare_redirect_function(app_pc old_address) ;

    /// Hot-patch a function at address `old_address` to JMP to `new_address`.
    void redirect_function(app_pc old_address, app_pc new_address) ;

}

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Memento mori and also lightsabers.
Are you excited to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens in theaters next month? That's totally understandable. It's hard not to be, you know? It's been ten years since we last had a new Star Wars movie. Thirty-three years since we last got a good one. And the idea of a great new story set in a universe with the sort of rare, wide appeal of Star Wars is intrinsically exciting. So go for it, get excited about The Force Awakens. But how excited will you be for the 2016's Star Wars movie? Or the one after that? Or the one after that? Or the one you will take your grandkids to thirty years from now? Because, if Disney has its way, there will be new Star Wars movies this year, next year, and every year after that until the day that you die.
This isn't all that surprising a notion in and of itself, but to see it stated so plainly in print is a bit arresting. But there it is, front and center in a giant Wired article that lays it front and center. Titled "You Won't Live to See the Final Star Wars Movie," the (really good) article, in a preamble to an in-depth examination of how franchises are built in a post-Marvel world, speaks of Disney's intent to make a Star Wars movie in theaters every year for as long as people will come out to see them.
It's a stark contrast to franchise filmmaking of less than a decade ago, where Christopher Nolan wouldn't bother talking about his next Batman movie until his current Batman film was done and his palate cleansing passion project (Like The Prestige or Inception) had premiered. Now we have stories like this one, where Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy talks about how three different Star Wars movies are being worked on right now in the same building where The Force Awakens is being edited.
That's a lot of damn wars and a lot of damn stars.
So what do we do now? How does one cope with the knowledge that, by watching the next Star Wars, they are taking part in something that will never truly end, at least not for us, or our children, or our children's children?
Stare into the abyss and try not to blink; you might miss the next trailer.
What we can do is take bets on which character will get a solo movie before we die. I, personally, hope to live long enough to see Disney executives — believing that every angry fan who saw the prequels has died out — try and greenlight a Jar-Jar Binks movie. Barring that, I want to live to see Salacious B. Crumb, a character whose name I just learned today, star in a trilogy of his own. Preferably voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch (or his grandson).
And thus we will march onward, hoping not that we will see the last Star Wars movie, but that our favorite one will see the last of us. Unless, of course, something changes, and Star Wars is allowed to end, like us. Perhaps, we can call that ....a new hope.


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Amable Berthelot (né le  - mort le ) est un avocat, écrivain et personnalité politique québécois.

Biographie
Né à Québec en 1777, Amable Berthelot est le fils de Michel-Amable Berthelot Dartigny, un marchand français venu s'établir à Québec. Il étudie au Petit Séminaire de Québec. Il fait son stage en droit avec Jean-Antoine Panet, puis est admis au barreau en 1799.

Il travaille un temps à Trois-Rivières. Capitaine de la milice locale lors de la guerre anglo-américaine de 1812, Berthelot est élu à l'Assemblée du Bas-Canada en 1814, représentant Trois-Rivières.

Il ferme son bureau en 1820 pour déménager en France. Il revient au Bas-Canada en 1824 et est élu de nouveau élu comme représentant de Trois-Rivières la même année, cette fois associé au Parti canadien.

Il quitte à nouveau pour la France en 1831, vendant ses livres avant son départ (sa collection comprend quelque ), puis revient à Québec en 1834. Il est élu représentant de la Haute Ville à l'assemblée législative et sert jusqu'en 1838. À la suite de l'union du Haut-Canada et du Bas-Canada, il représente la circonscription de Kamouraska à l'Assemblée législative des provinces du Canada de 1841 jusqu'à sa mort, à Québec, en 1847. Sa sépulture est située dans le Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, à Montréal.

Œuvres
Berthelot a publié quelques essais sur la grammaire française ainsi que sur l'archéologie historique.

 Dissertation sur le canon de bronze que l'on voit dans le Musée de M. Chasseur à Québec,
 Essai de grammaire française suivant les principes de l'abbé Girard,
 Dissertation sur l'instruction primaire
 Essai d'analyses grammaticales suivant les principes de l'abbé Girard cet ouvrage, destiné aux écoles primaires, offre une méthode qui n'exige des élèves que d'apprendre très peu de pages par cœur

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Personnalité liée à Trois-Rivières
Naissance en février 1777
Décès en novembre 1847
Décès à 70 ans
Député à l'Assemblée législative de la Province du Canada
Député de la Chambre d'assemblée du Bas-Canada
Historien québécois
Linguiste québécois
Personnalité inhumée au cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges

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Ceasefire is imperative for Syrians caught in 'a living hell', says Christian Aid Ireland.
"Conditions for people trapped in Eastern Ghouta are amounting to a living hell," Christian Aid's Emergency Programme Officer for the Middle East, Máiréad Collins, has said.
Christian Aid has warned that conditions near the Syrian capital are so desperate that women are giving birth in clinics underground and people, who venture out in the daytime, risk injury or death from the relentless bombing.
"The onslaught against people, schools and hospitals in the besieged Eastern Ghouta area of rural Damascus is so overwhelming that those still alive have retreated to cellars and basements without water or electricity," said Máiréad.
"People, many displaced from elsewhere in Syria, are being forced to find shelter in basements without proper access to electricity or water. Local NGOs' attempts to deliver humanitarian support are dangerous and severely limited.
"An immediate ceasefire is absolutely imperative for the 400,000 children, old people, women and men still caught in Eastern Ghouta."
One of Christian Aid's local partners working in Eastern Ghouta has said: "There are 300 dead since Sunday. Several medical buildings have been targeted. People are hiding under the ground and our staff are sneaking out at night to get coverage on phones to call and update us. People are using the night-time to try and find any kind of food to feed their children, who are trapped with them underground."
A food kitchen we support in Eastern Ghouta was recently hit by an airstrike and is now out of use. They are searching for a new place to provide desperately-needed food, as food prices have tripled.
Indiscriminate shelling of Eastern Ghouta has intensified dramatically, according to the United Nations, which has warned that 'the international crimes of indiscriminate bombardment and deliberate starvation of the civilian population' are happening in Syria.


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Six pillars of monitoring automation
Industry SpotlightLatest News
Published: November 1st, 2018
Changes in software development that have led to accelerated delivery cadences are stressing other parts of the application life cycle. This is especially true in organizations adopting microservices architecture, where teams are working autonomously to deliver their software, which by definition relies on communication with other services to form a more complete application.
And one area where this has caused major changes to occur is application monitoring.
The decentralization of authority over change means the 'classic' way of doing APM – creating a few experts who understand the complexity of an application, understand the underlying data and ultimately dig down to the root cause – no longer holds up.
"We speak about the democratization of the whole APM territory, which allows everyone – be it an occasional user, be it an expert user, or a developer looking at a current problem — to have access to the data immediately, to see what is running there, what is being collected, and to get to the root cause with in a few seconds," said Pavlo Baron, chief technology officer at Instana. "There is no central authority anymore that is doing the job of keeping the things together and understanding how they communicate and talk to each other," and understand how many components can impact each other.
The idea of a dynamic application and changes is actually one of the pain points of monitoring microservices, because things change all the time, and it has to be monitored all the time, according to Baron.. "The only way to do that and not go insane, and to keep up with the changes in the application, is through automation. Every aspect of monitoring — what to monitor, what to look for, what makes it healthy — all those things have to be automated. What you risk if you don't, or can't automate it, if you use a tool that requires any kind of manual intervention, you risk being obsolete even before your changes are rolled out. We have customers who are updating their applications or services dozens of times a day."
There's an organizational shift within IT application delivery teams, focused on Agile methodologies and achieving CI/CD. In microservices deployment cycles, this shift is automating every other part of the deployment process — monitoring is the last piece."
That's why Baron and others in the industry believe in monitoring automation. It is time-consuming and not cost-effective to have people writing monitoring configurations every time a microservice within an application changes, he pointed out. "Whenever you deliver a change, you change something in the whole crowd of your services, you're effectively monitoring configurations and the rules you use to identify problems, and those must be adjusted. You need to keep people continuously busy, instead of delivering value, just configuring and reconfiguring your monitoring. Our approach is to automate this as much as possible and take that problem from the teams so they can focus on what really matters."
The basis for this new APM is intelligence, and building an intelligent system begins with the ability to recognize what is running in the system that is being monitored. From there, the monitoring system needs to know how to attach to a component and consume the data from within — automatically — without any human intervention in terms of configuration.
Baron explained that a big part of making that work is data precision, which is why Instana built one-second resolution for all metrics and metadata, so Instana's automation engine (the robot) can always be up to date. Whenever a change occurs, the robot will be able to capture the change and re-adjust the underlying graph to the new connections.
In Baron's mind, automated monitoring should be a commodity. Only a few people in the world have the job of monitoring systems, he said, while most people have the job of keeping systems up and running. With the IT world moving toward combining those roles, Instana is trying to deliver maximum automation, intelligence and visibility to its users.
"We plan to evolve the whole APM territory into something that perfectly supports the modern way teams work," he said. "While the classic APM tool is functional, from a process perspective, it's not a good fit."
The Six Pillars
The only way to effectively manage microservice applications is to automate the entire monitoring life cycle by applying AI to discovery, monitoring and analysis. Instana's AI strategy is built on six fundamental pillars, the first three of which are focused on automation. Those pillars are:
Automatic and Continuous Discovery & Mapping
Precise High Fidelity Visibility
Cloud, Container & Microservice Native Deployment
Full Stack Application Data Model
Real-time AI-Driven Incident Monitoring & Prediction
AI-Powered Problem Resolution and Troubleshooting Assistance
APM, application life cycle, Instana
What's beyond continuous testing? AI
Instana acquires three companies with an eye toward the future of APM
A guide to APM solutions
How these companies can help you monitor your applications
APMs are more important than ever for microservice-based architectures


In ToxBank Gold Compound Wiki the SPARQLExtension for Semantic MediaWiki provide a SPARQL endpoint as a web service that answers SPARQL queries. An integrated webform Special:SPARQLEndpoint can also be used as an easy graphical human-readable interface to the SPARQL endpoint. Data analysis or other software can make direct request to the HTTP-based service.
How the Gold Compound wiki can be accessed from within R see [gcwiki-r-client on github] .
Retrieve a list of URIs and names of all gold compounds of the TGCD.
This page was last modified on 24 January 2014, at 11:19.


The energy demand in Egypt is currently around 30,000 MW with a supply of a little over 26,000 MW, leaving an energy deficit of around 4,000 MW, according to Egypt's Electricity Regulatory Authority's annual report. Egypt is ideally placed for renewable energy generation with high sunshine duration of around 3,300 to 4,000 hours and high wind potential across Egypt's coast, which experience average wind speeds of 7-12 meters per second.
Ahmed Kenawy, assistant professor of environmental studies, and researcher at the Instituto Pirenaico de Ecologia (IPE) in Spain, told Daily News Egypt that the problem with coal is that it is not a clean source for energy compared to renewable resources, which are environmentally friendly, such as solar power, wind, and waves. He pointed out that Egypt is a promising country regarding solar power, due to the long sunshine hours.
"Utilizing renewable energy is part of a national plan to diversify electricity generation sources to meet growing demand and secure the continuity of the electricity supply…Egypt has a great, untapped potential to turn into an international renewable energy hub," said Ayman Hamza, spokesperson for the Ministry of Electricity.
One of Egypt's biggest projects in renewable energy is the solar power plants in Benban, Aswan. The government launched the renewable energy feed-in tariff program in 2014 to establish projects to produce electricity from wind farms and solar power plants with a total capacity of 4,300 MW, with investments of US$7bn. This includes 2,300 MW from solar power, including 300 MW from plants, which produce less than 500 KW. In addition, the program includes 2,000 MW from wind farms.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) plan to make a great contribution in the renewable energy project in Egypt worth US$1 billion. The bank said it would provide US$352.3m while the GCF would finance US$154.7m. The total cost of the initiative is estimated at US$1 billion and is expected to be covered by additional funds from sponsors and other lenders.
Moreover, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) announced that it will provide about US$210m to finance a renewable energy project in Egypt, including the construction of 11 green field solar power plants with a total capacity of 490 MW. The project will increase Egypt's capacity to generate energy and reduce reliance on gas and fuel to generate electricity, which would help in meeting the commitments of the Paris Climate Agreement.
The program will also increase Egypt's generation capacity, whereby it can export energy during peak hours and improve its conectivity in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and Africa, according to Jagatheesa Pandian, vice president and chief investment officer of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. Egypt's huge solar resources with its strategic green growth vision, will allow this project to generate global environmental benefits by avoiding Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by over 500,000 tons of CO2 per year, according to the statement.
Abdulraheem explained further that solar power provides his house and land with stable electricity by about 230 volts. The solar power station cost him EGP 8,000 (~US$450) and he currently pays less than what he has used to pay for electricity per month, a difference of EGP 100 (~US$5.5) instead of EGP 200 (~US$11). He considers solar power as the project of the century as it saves money and other energy sources, in addition to the environment, calling for support to generalize his experience in providing water for agriculture by using solar energy.
To irrigate his 10 feddans, Hassan Agoura from Al-Hajer also established a solar power station, which cost him EGP 180,000 (~US$10,000). He told DNE that the station saves him EGP 25,000 (~US$1,400) annually as he used to pay EGP 2,500 (~US$140) for irrigation per season, but now with his new solar station he cultivates his land for two seasons.


McDONALD, Murray Gerald – Age 76 of Sarnia, passed away peacefully on Thursday, December 29, 2016 at St. Joseph's Hospice, Sarnia. Beloved husband of Linda McDonald (nee Shaw) for 52 years. Loving father of Doug (Lori), Carol and Kevin (Amanda) McDonald. Cherished grandfather of Justin, Heather, Meaghan, Leah and Morgan. Survived by his mother Jean McDonald (nee Miller) and siblings Myrna (Doug) Pettit, Dale (Cathy) McDonald and Bonnie (John) Simmons. Predeceased by his daughter Patricia, father Jack and brothers John, Gary and Allen.
Family and friends will be received at the Community of Christ Church (corner of Brigden Road and Lasalle Line) on Tuesday, January 3, 2017 from 10:00am until service time at 11:00am. Interment of ashes to follow at Moore Union Cemetery, Mooretown.
Aunt Linda it was sad to hear about Uncle Murray. Our hearts and best wishes go out to you and your family. Many of my memories of Uncle Murray are around family events like Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa's, Shaw Reunions and picnics on the St. Clair River. Murray's humour and kindness will be remembered.
Carol, Justin & family, sorry for the loss of your Father/Grandfather, thinking of you. Hugs!
Kevin & family so sorry to hear of your loss. May he be forever in your hearts.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the whole family..Bless his soul.
Sending my sympathy to you and your family at this sad time. May you and your families remain supportive of one another during this difficult time.
Linda and family. May I offer my deepest condolences to you and the family in the loss of Murray. He was a super great guy and my husband and I had many a good laugh with him. In our thoughts and prayers as you face the days ahead.
We have lost an amazing man and Heaven gained an amazing angel..
Prayers to the entire family..


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