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 Берешит — библейская Книга Бытия.
 Берешит Раба — мидраш про книгу Берешит.
 Берешит — первая недельная глава.
 Берешит — альбом Софи Цдаки.
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The altitude of a place is its height above sea level.
The air was thin at such a high altitude on the mountain.
A coastline is the outline of a country's coast.
He noticed that most of the cities in Australia are on the coastline.
To deter means to prevent or discourage someone from doing something.
Icy roads deter people from driving their cars.
To devise something means to have an idea or plan about it in the mind.
The thieves devised a plan to steal the diamonds.
Expertise is the knowledge and skills to do something well.
John has a lot of advertising expertise. He can sell anything!
A fracture is a crack or break in something.
Don't stand on that leg because there is a fracture. It might get worse.
To impair something means to damage it or make it worse.
Drinking coffee impairs my ability to go to sleep.
To implement something means to ensure that what has been planned is done.
The school decided to implement a new teaching strategy.
If something is indigenous, it is originally from, or native to, a place.
Tomatoes are indigenous to the Americas.
Insight is a deep and accurate understanding of something.
The physics textbook gave the student new insight about gravity.
A limb is a large branch on a tree.
The monkey sat on the tree limb and enjoyed a piece of fruit.
A migraine is a painful headache that makes one feel sick.
My sister gets a migraine every time she has a lot of stress.
Optimism is the feeling of being hopeful about the future or success of something.
The mother had optimism about her children's futures.
When something is peculiar, it is strange, sometimes in a bad way.
That peculiar smell coming from the kitchen reminds me of rotten eggs.
When a person is proficient at something, they can do it well.
Secretaries are proficient at typing quickly.
A quest is a long and difficult search for something.
The treasure hunter went on a quest to find an ancient gold necklace.
A ridge is a long, narrow piece of raised land.
The brown bear walked along the edge of the mountain ridge.
A spouse is the person to whom someone is married.
I live in a home with my spouse and our two children.
To thrust means to push or move something quickly with a lot of force.
The boxer thrust his fist into the punching bag.
To tolerate something means to be able to accept it even when it is unpleasant.
When you are in a hurry, it can be hard to tolerate traffic signals.
"Where am I?" Bob thought to himself when he woke up on a peculiar beach. "I can't remember what happened." There had been a bad storm, and Bob's fishing boat sunk. He washed ashore on a small island, but he had gotten hurt during the storm. He had a terrible migraine, and he had a fracture in his shoulder. He felt awful. But he had a strong desire to make it home to his spouse and children. He had to tolerate all the pain and devise a plan.
Bob stood up and looked around. "I'll walk to a higher altitude, so I can see everything around me," thought Bob. "Maybe I'll gain some insight about this island and find something to help me escape." As he walked along a mountain ridge, he noticed that the tall indigenous trees looked sturdy and thick. Bob got a brilliant idea. He could build a raft! He cut down some leaves and tree limbs. Even though his shoulder injury impaired his ability to carry the materials, he slowly dragged them down the mountain until he reached the coastline.
Bob was a proficient builder. He used his building expertise to line up the limbs and tie them together with long vines. When the raft was finished, Bob was happy with his work. "This will bring me home to my family," he said with a smile. At last, Bob was ready to implement his escape plan. With all his might, he thrust the raft into the water. He climbed on and began the quest to find his way home. Bob smiled again, and thought, "I'm glad I kept a good attitude. It prevented the pain from deterring me from my plan. Optimism and ambition make anything possible." Slowly, he floated out to sea. In a few days, he made it to shore and ran home to see his happy family.


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Review: Connect The Dot 2018 – Oakville Showcase at Less Than Level
Connect The Dot is a competition touring all across the GTA in search of the best MCs in Toronto and the surrounding areas. After seeing Toronto legend Saukrates crown the 2017 Connect The Dot Champion back in January, he's back on tour with the team, judging all the showcases himself and selecting artists to compete…
Concert Review: Saukrates at Less Than Level in Oakville, ON
Toronto legend Saukrates has been on a tear lately, re-releasing his classic 1999 album The Underground Tapes on digital platforms for the first time, including new songs, remixes and exclusive commentary to go along with it (peep the single I got to premiere on AmbrosiaForHeads.com last month), as well as providing support to the local Hip-Hop scene…
Review: Connect The Dot 2017 Champion Showcase in Toronto
For our first show of 2018, we're showing some love to our local Toronto Hip-Hop scene with the Connect The Dot showcase! Toronto MC Mic Gutz went on a tour throughout the GTA, picking out the best MCs from each area, and now they've all returned to the big city for a competition to determine…
The Top 10 Concerts I Attended in 2017
This has been the most epic, action-packed year of concert-going in my entire life so far. 2017 saw me completely blow my previous personal record of most concerts attended in a year out of the water, with over thirty shows attended this year. I have to thank all the artists, promoters and media companies who…
Concert Review: Method Man & Redman at Toronto's 2017 Festival of Beer
Toronto's Festival of Beer (TFOB) is back with their summer fest, and it may be the dopest Hip-Hop party of the entire summer! Taking place at Bandshell Park, the festival consists of several beer tents housing brewers from around the world with 416 different beers to sample, a grilling tent featuring world renowned…
Concert Review: Shad & Ty Dolla $ign at the 2015 NXNE Festival in Toronto
Oh, the controversy surrounding this concert. Where to begin… North By Northeast, or NXNE for short, is an annual music festival that brings hundreds of artists to Toronto every June. There are many wristband and ticketed concerts put on throughout the city during the one-week festival, and it's all capped off with a set of free, public concerts…
Concert Review: Shad at Massey Hall in Toronto
Arguably Canada's best MC, Shad is back with another big-time event: a concert at the revered Massey Hall to celebrate 10 years of being a professional artist. Shad has come a long way; using the winnings from a talent competition to record his debut album When This Is Over in 2005, winning a Juno Award…
I'd like to thank everyone who's supported this blog and anyone who has ever read any of my articles! This is the first full calendar year I've had SYpherSights running, so this time I have concert reviews written for every show on the list. While I couldn't attend every single hip-hop show in the city,…
Concert Review: Apathy, C.L. Smooth & More at The Cookout Festival in Hamilton, ON
The Cookout is a relatively new festival to emerge from the Steel City, Hamilton, Ontario, featuring barbeque cooking and live hip-hop music. In just its second year, the 2014 edition of the festival featured D-Sisive, Saukrates, Apathy, and was headlined by C.L. Smooth performing his entire 1994 album, The Main Ingredient. On top of these four…
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The List - My Double decker Buzz
Vehicles I have owned: 5 – 1968 Daimler Fleetline CRG6LX / Northern Counties, registration number XDH518G.
As far back as I can remember, I've loved buses. According to my foster sister and brother, my first two words were 'bus' and 'pub'. I've been in possession of both.
My first bus, yes – first, was still in service during the first two years of my apprenticeship and was, at the time, the last of 99 of its type to remain in use. Another emerged, phoenix-like almost as soon as I and my close apprentice chum, Frank Sharkey, had paid the £823.40, including VAT and tyres to our then employer, the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive (Wumpty for short) and drove it away, with the assistance of some experienced bus driving pals, to a museum site to the south of Birmingham, 20 to 30 miles from our homes.
Our intention was to restore the bus to its original Walsall Corporation livery, bright, almost turquoise blue, lined out with lemon beading straps and then take it to glorious rallies up and down the country, showing off our oddball vehicle. This never happened. After all, what would distract a couple of teenaged lads from fettling a bus?
Yes, that's right, girls…and pubs, and girls in pubs.
Frank hadn't a car and mine had a girlfriend in it, plus I was playing in bands at the weekends. To add to that, we hadn't a plan of action in place and so our bus dream faded.
Fast forward to spring 1983, word reached us that another enthusiast wanted to buy our bus. By this time, we had advertised the bus for sale and had received some rather juicy offers from breakers wanting its coveted Gardner 6LX, 150bhp diesel engine for export. The enthusiast matched the scrapman's offer and so the bus was saved from the cutting torch, for the time being.
However, the enthusiast wasn't able to pay us in a single lump sum and so Frank and I agreed on receiving the cash in monthly instalments. These were paid regularly and so throughout the summer of 1983, our income was boosted by a rather decent amount of money. In addition, my foster mother had rather strangely decided that she wanted to work at a holiday camp for the summer and so gave me a few quid a week to ensure that I didn't starve.
Needless to say, I didn't starve. This first glorious summer of freedom was spent working on other lovely buses at my favourite garage (Sutton Coldfield), by then in its last year of existence, after which I'd head off swimming with some of my workmates. A quick nip home to change into some dandy threads and have a bite to eat – I've always loved cooking, and then off down to The Gate pub for a few pints before catching the closing time bus home.
Wham, in their then current hit 'Club Tropicana' sang "all that's missing is the sea". Truly, I agreed with them.
I didn't need the sea anyway, with the municipal swimming baths on my doorstep at 30p a dip, 1983 prices.


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5 Critical COVID-19 Risks to the Public Sector
Uncertainty surrounding the effects of COVID-19 is plaguing every industry, but possibly none quite like the public sector. Here are the most critical risks that experts have their eyes on.
By: Emily Spennato | May 8, 2020
Topics: COVID-19 | Crisis Management | Critical Risks | Cyber Risks | Public Sector | Risk Management
Taxpayers demand a lot from the public sector, especially in times of crisis.
The impact of COVID-19 has been no different, except this time, public pressure is even greater. To make matters worse, a pandemic does not offer the geographic limitations of a hurricane or the flooding of a coastal town. No U.S. municipality has been spared from coronavirus.
As our editor-in-chief, Dan Reynolds, wrote in 2018, "The public sector faces every risk the private sector does and then some." Now more than ever, these words ring true.
Here are the 5 greatest risks to the public sector, brought on by COVID-19.
1) Budget Restrictions
Responding to a health crisis results in a huge increase in expenses and a large reduction in revenue from industries that are shutting down. A large risk exposure for the public sector is its reliance on other industries.
Jose Peralta, public sector director, Aon
"I think in the long-term there's all this uncertainty about the sources of revenue that are needed by these public entities," said Jose Peralta, public sector director, Aon.
"If you're talking about a tourist-heavy municipality, when are those tourists going to come back to your city? What does that mean in terms of services that you have to cut? There's also quite a big disparity because of the unevenness of recovery from the last recession."
People tend to think of public services as resources that just show up when we need them and have unlimited funding, but in reality governments face tight budgets.
"Governmental entities are under budget restraints; most operating without the assistance of federal stimulus money. They struggle to obtain enough personal protective equipment and supplies," said Dorothy Gjerdrum, managing director of Gallagher's Public Entity practice.
Peralta added that times of crisis bring a better understanding to the public of just how difficult it can be for government services to meet demands and expectations with the funds they have access to.
"I think there's a better understanding now of all the pressure that public entities are under," he said. "They have higher demands for efficiency which makes them even more fragile, especially when they're trying to react in the way that we expect them to react to events like this."
2) Strained Resources: Human and Otherwise
On top of strained budgets, the public sector is also struggling to maintain an adequate supply of resources — such as personal protective equipment — to respond to the crisis.
Protecting employees and first responders from illness or harm is the number one priority for all sectors. This requires the proper PPE for those who don't have the luxury of working from home.
In addition to that, staffing is also running thin.
Dorothy Gjerdrum, managing director, Gallagher's Public Entity practice
"Many law enforcement officers are driving solo instead of in pairs; others are trying to minimize risk by wearing face masks. This is an ongoing challenge," Gjerdrum said.
And no matter how scarce human or material resources become, state and municipality provided services cannot take the day off, which can take a physical and emotional toll on those tasked with delivering them.
"From garbage collection to the operation of prisons and detention facilities, state and local governments must continue to provide essential services, keep employees safe, and serve the public," Gjerdrum said.
"I think there's a big awakening around all of the ways that public entities factor into our lives and what they mean," said Peralta.
"You have a K-12 school system, you think of it as a provider of education, but they're also providing day-care, food and counseling."
3) Cyber Exposures
Governments are at a 33% higher risk of cyber-attacks than organizations without public-facing applications. A recent report from Corvus shined a light on why ransomware attacks are gaining traction in the public sector.
They found that a lack of common security measures, such as the use of email security software, and often under-staffed and under-funded in-house IT teams could be part of the reason why governments are common targets for cyber attacks.
Times of crisis make these municipalities even more vulnerable. "Cyber-attacks on public sector operations are on the rise and with an increased number of employees working from home, that is a major concern," Gjerdrum said.
Back in March, when social-distancing first went into place, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services suffered a cyber attack that attempted to slow its coronavirus response. As a result, lives hung in jeopardy.
If employees don't know how to take the proper precautions to protect their data from home, the data of entire organizations — and in this case entire cities and states — could be at risk.
According to the National Law Review, the best way for public entities to offset this risk is to conduct a Cybersecurity Threat Risk Assessment, have an incident response plan ready to go and test their own security.
4) Natural Catastrophes
As previously stated, unlike some disasters, the coronavirus doesn't discriminate by geography. Municipalities fighting the virus have an even greater exposure should they be hit with a natural disaster.
"It's being described like a natural disaster that's happening everywhere all at once," Peralta said of COVID-19.
And when natural disasters do happen, it's the public entities — first responders, police officers, and EMTs — that are expected to be that crucial backstop.
"We're about to enter into hurricane season and the spring flooding season in the midwest and we're probably going to be hit by other natural disasters and other shocks to the system…We're already reacting to this unprecedented disaster and it's 100% guaranteed that somewhere in the United States public entities will need to react to a second disaster."
With more resources being allocated in the fight for COVID-19 relief, there will be less supplies to allocate to natural catastrophe victims as well as smaller response teams.
5) Uncertainty
In any sector, uncertainty is just another word for 'uninsurable risks', with risk management as the strategy for planning for the future.
"In some ways, we have a better view of what we need to do to prevent the health crisis, but there's this growing uncertainty and pressure on long-term ramifications and financial impact of this disaster," said Peralta.
These ramifications could come in the form of furloughs and layoffs, reduction in services, increased taxes and higher insurance costs.
"Knowing when and how to re-open is a pressing concern," Gjerdrum added.
"Businesses and people are anxious to put this behind us; that will make it tempting to open operations as soon as possible. Experts predict we will see new waves of infection if we open too soon. Limited access to testing and contact tracing limits our ability to know when it truly is safe to re-open, so that is a huge and present risk."
Perhaps one of the biggest uncertainties and largest obstacles facing reopening is the social-distancing guidelines that will likely remain in place.
"There are discussions around maintaining social distance guidelines when classes resume. Many of the typical classrooms will be at half the capacity they were prior to this based on guidelines," said Carleen Patterson, first vice president, practice leader, Public Entity, Alliant.
In spite of uncertainty and hardship, responding to a crisis will only make the sector more equipped to handle this type of disaster in the future. However, with likely little to no time to financially recover before a possible second wave, adequate preparedness is unlikely.
"Many of the uncertainties and risks that we face are uninsurable," Gjerdrum said.
"We hope that lessons learned from this event will result in better preparation and practices that can be applied to a disaster of any type. Early, continual and consistent communication will be paramount. Insurance costs will certainly rise; that will result in lower limits and higher costs. That may generate more creative risk financing solutions and risk prevention tools and resources."
"I think one really important takeaway is that this is a huge unprecedented disaster and people are completely unsure of how it's going to affect the balance sheets of public entities," added Peralta.
"But everyone is feeling the pain right now." &
Emily Spennato is a former staff writer with Risk & Insurance.
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Disc 1: 01. 몰라요 (I Don't Know) 02. GOOD MORNING BABY 03. MR.CHU 04. SO LONG 05. WANNA BE 06. SECRET 07. MYMY 08. IT GIRL 09. HUSH 10. DJ REMIX (BOY / I GOT YOU / YEAH ) 11. BUBIBU 12.
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A man who crashed his car in the freezing cold temperatures of night-time was saved from hypothermia when police found him by using thermal-imaging drone.
The police drone was deployed just after 2am, He was discovered in a deep ditch, 500ft (160m) away from his car on the A16 near Ludborough, Lincolnshire.
Sgt Mike Templeman said the man was found "unresponsive and hypothermic".
He tweeted: "Great result & life possibly saved!" after a ground search had failed to find the man.
"We did extensive searches in the police vehicles, obviously we are very rural and it was very dark so you're limited in what you can see."
The man has been taken to hospital for treatment.
A police officer can be seen walking towards the man being directed by the drone pilot. When he finds him he calls another officer who is seen running to the scene as an ambulance is called.


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Kevin Shields Sheds Light on New My Bloody Valentine Album
It's like someone took 'm b v' and "dropped acid on it or created a dimensional clash"
On top of some all-analog vinyl reissues, Kevin Shields has confirmed that a brand new full-length from My Bloody Valentine will arrive in 2018. Ahead of what's shaping up to be a big year for the shoegaze icons, Shields has now shed some light on the band's forthcoming album and tour plans in a new interview.
Speaking with Rolling Stone, Shields revealed that the band had begun work on the follow-up to 2013's m b v last year. After initially plotting for an EP, the band opted to go for an entire record after Shields thought of a new concept.
"In some respects, some of it is a bit straightforward," Shields told the publication. "The m b v album that we did in 2013 feels more meandery and not as concise. This one is like if somebody took that and dropped some acid on it or created a dimensional clash or something. It's more all over the place."
Rolling Stone also notes that the album will run about 40 minutes long, and could feature six or seven tracks.
"It could turn out to be only five tracks," Shields said. "I hope not, but I don't want it to be a double album and I don't want it to be really long."
Shields also confirmed that the band will hit the road on tour in support of the album next year, adding that they would stick to a more conventional rollout as opposed to 2013's surprise release.
"I don't want to release the album like we did it," he told Rolling Stone. "I want it to be more organized. I felt like we needed a manager, because we just react to everything. It worked well enough in the past, but I have to be honest. I don't do enough really to feel comfortable with the situation and I have been like that for a long time."
Read the complete interview here.
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Google parent sues Uber, alleging IP theft
By Agency Staff	 24 February 2017 No Comments
It took Alphabet's Waymo seven years to design and build a laser-scanning system to guide its self-driving cars. Uber Technologies allegedly did it in nine months.
Waymo claims in a lawsuit filed on Thursday that was possible because a former employee stole the designs and technology and started a new company.
The complaint intensifies Alphabet's rivalry with Uber, one of the Internet giant's largest investments, and reflects an escalating talent war in the burgeoning autonomous-driving arena as tech and car companies alike compete for skilled engineers.
Legal fights are multiplying after General Motors and Uber valued upstarts — each with just a few dozen employees — as worth hundreds of millions of dollars in separate acquisitions last year.
Waymo accuses several employees of Otto, a self-driving start-up Uber acquired in August for US$680m, of lifting technical information from Google's autonomous car project. The "calculated theft" of Alphabet's technology earned Otto's employees more than $500m, according to the complaint in San Francisco federal court.
"We take the allegations made against Otto and Uber employees seriously and we will review this matter carefully,"' Uber spokeswoman Chelsea Kohler said in an e-mail.
The claims in Thursday's case include unfair competition, patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation.
"Fair competition spurs new technical innovation, but what has happened here is not fair competition," Waymo said in the complaint. "Instead, Otto and Uber have taken Waymo's intellectual property so that they could avoid incurring the risk, time and expense of independently developing their own technology."
Waymo was inadvertently copied on an e-mail from one of its vendors, which had an attachment showing an Uber lidar circuit board that had a "striking resemblance" to Waymo's design, according to the complaint.
Anthony Levandowski, a former manager at Waymo, in December 2015 downloaded more than 14 000 proprietary and confidential files, including the lidar circuit board designs, according to the complaint.
He also allegedly created a domain name for his new company and confided in some of his Waymo colleagues of plans to "replicate" its technology for a competitor.
"Misappropriating this technology is akin to stealing a secret recipe from a beverage company," Waymo wrote in a blog post explaining the suit.
Levandowski left Waymo in January 2016 and went on in May to form Otto, which planned to develop hardware and software for autonomous vehicles.
"These are very serious allegations, if true," said Tyler Ochoa, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law. "The trade secret case by itself is a blockbuster."
Waymo's complaint contains such specific information about the devices used and the dates the information was downloaded that it's "hard to believe they'd put those accusations into print unless they had evidence", Ochoa said in an interview.
Alphabet's venture capital arm, GV — formerly known as Google Ventures — is an early backer of Uber.
Waymo's lawsuit is ill-timed for Uber, a company already mired in crisis over allegations of sexual harassment and recently beset by customer losses due to ties to US President Donald Trump.
Uber this week set up a commission led by former US attorney-general Eric Holder to investigate a former developer's allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination by her manager. Weeks earlier, CEO Travis Kalanick stepped down from the president's business advisory council after customers defected, citing his affiliation with Trump.
Tesla, meanwhile, is suing the former head of its Autopilot program over claims he broke his confidentiality agreement with the company when he founded a start-up with a former Google car engineer.
In January, the electric car maker accused Sterling Anderson of starting working last summer on the autonomous car venture, Aurora Innovation, that he set up with Chris Urmson, the former head of Google's self-driving car project. Anderson left Tesla in December.
In another dispute over intellectual property in the self-driving space, Google in December accused a former employee of breaching his contract obligations over possession and use of confidential information when he went to work for startup Drive.ai. — (c) 2017 Bloomberg LP
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TAM has not completed its certification and will cease flying as a commercial operator, according to Bolivia's Defense Minister Javier Zavaleta, as the airline missed the 31 July 2018 deadline set forth by the government.
However, the government granted the company until the end of September 2018 to achieve the necessary certification in order to resume operations.
TAM, also known as Transporte Aéreo Militar, is looking to become a public company as it is currently part of the military branch.
Meanwhile, its debts are being dealt with, and a payment plan has been established.


This article is about the private university founded in 1962. For the public university founded in 1551 and the oldest university of the Americas, see National University of San Marcos. For other uses, see University of Lima (disambiguation).
The University of Lima (Spanish: Universidad de Lima) is a private nonprofit university in Lima, Peru. It was founded in 1962. The decision to create the University of Lima was made in the early 1960s by a group of university professors, along with commerce and industry representatives. It was after two years of effort that they managed to start it. It officially started operating on 25 April 1962. At the beginning only had with 120 students in a small campus in the Jesús María District. Due to the university's quick growth, the campus in the Monterrico area of Surco was inaugurated to serve the university's space needs.
Today, the University of Lima has over 13,000 students, twelve majors, a postgraduate school, a general studies program and a scientific research institute, along with many services for students, faculty, and the community at large.
^ a b Revista de Historia de América, Issues 110-113 (in Spanish). Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia. 1991. p. 145. Retrieved 2 August 2017.


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Climate change is changing the distribution of many species. For most that live on mountains, the only way to go is up, but sooner or later, they are going to run out of mountain. A new study, the first broad review of its kind, has analysed shifts in elevation range due to warming temperatures in 975 populations of animals, plants and insects.
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First of all should the participants provide 3D models of 2 buildings (one modern and one traditional) or 3d model of one of the buildings? Second of all should we build the 3D only on sketch up? 1. You can provide only one model. 2. You can send your model with textures in this formats: .3ds, .dae, .obj or .skp format (Sketchup 2015).
Скажите пожалуйста если объект, модель которого я хочу сделать, выполнен с обустройством искусственного рельефа (причем это его характерная черта), то могу ли я реализовать этот рельеф в модели, не будет ли это противоречить заданию? Да, можно присылать модель с обустройством рельефа, если это неотъемлемая часть здания. Единственное требование, чтобы модель была оптимизирована — имела минимальный вес и не содержала внутренних невидимых элементов.
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Lesley Stahl reports on a recent string of crashes on U.S. railroads and the delay in implementing life-saving technology that could have prevented them
2019 Mar 03
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There have been a number of catastrophic train crashes in recent years that may seem to have been isolated incidents. But, it turns out, they are connected in an important way. They illustrate a failure in the railroad industry to implement a life-saving technology that could have prevented them.
The list of accidents includes one last year in Cayce, South Carolina where an improperly aligned track switch sent Amtrak's Silver Star, its crew and more than 100 passengers careening off the mainline track and barreling into a CSX freight train parked on a siding.
Emergency responders are at scene after Amtrak train collided with freight train and derailed near Cayce, South Carolina, on February 4, 2018 Randall Hill / REUTERS
Mark James: When it hit, I mean, you can couple up at six miles an hour, and it'll shake the ground. And this thing hit at 51 miles an hour. And the blast was unbelievable.
Mark James was right there. He was the engineer of the CSX freight train that night.
Mark James: And they're bringing people off with broke arms, legs, people fr-- mangled really. And this is something I'll never, I'll never get over. I couldn't imagine anybody else that's ever seen that before.
Lesley Stahl: And right up close.
Mark James: Yeah. That close.
As the engineer, Mark James was driving the CSX train along different tracks in the yard, in order to unload freight.
That night he and his conductor were working under unfamiliar conditions because the electrical signal system - that sends out alerts when the tracks are not lined up properly - was out of service.
Mark James: Nobody can see what we're doing. It's called dark territory.
It was the CSX conductor's job that night to throw the switches by hand like this to realign the tracks and thereby change the direction the train could go.
Lesley Stahl: Are there a lotta switches?
Mark James: Lotsa switches, yes.
Lesley Stahl: Like, how many?
Mark James: He probably handled close to 40 switches that evening.
But there was only one switch that would matter for the passengers and crew of Amtrak's Silver Star, the switch to keep Amtrak on the main line.
Mark James: That's when I ask him, "Did you get the mainline switch?" And he assured me that he had thrown it 100 percent.
Lesley Stahl: He said, "100 percent?"
Mark James: Uh-huh.
Lesley Stahl: In the training, does it say that you-- you should check, you should double-check?
Mark James: No. There's no way I can get off a locomotive and go check every switch he throws. That way, you'd get nothing done.
Lesley Stahl: But you had a feeling.
Mark James: Yeah. I did. I asked him multiple times. I trusted him that he had gotten the switch back.
At that moment, southbound Amtrak 91 was bearing down on that mainline switch that would send it into the CSX freight train. Mark James says he had gotten off the train to stretch his legs.
Mark James: I get down and I'm expecting these headlights very bright coming to get on past us. And then I see-- you could tell when that train hit the-- hit the switch and came in on top of us, you could see where it-- where it rocked., my mind was just crazy. I didn't-- "Oh, my God, no. Please no. Please no."
A surveillance camera near the tracks captured the Amtrak train as it went under a bridge and slammed into the stationary CSX train.
Mark James: And it was just tearing the locomotives up. And it went up over and turned over that way. And there was nothing left of where I was sitting. And I thought my conductor was dead.
Lesley Stahl: Was he sitting right at the point of impact?
Mark James: As the collision was happening, somehow he made it out the back door. So I'm talking to him. He's in shock. He's sitting there saying, "I know I got that switch back. I know I got that switch back--"
This is what was left of the other train's locomotive. That Amtrak train's engineer and conductor were killed. One of the passenger cars folded in half. More than 90 people were injured.
Robert Sumwalt: It only took about seven seconds from the time that it hit this switch--
Lesley Stahl: Oh.
Robert Sumwalt: And it collides with the stationary CSX.
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Robert Sumwalt is the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the crash.
Lesley Stahl: What if that CSX train had toxic chemicals in it?
Robert Sumwalt: Well, we've certainly seen accidents with toxic chemicals onboard, where a switch was left in the wrong position right here in South Carolina, in fact.
It was just over 50 miles away, in Graniteville, where a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in 2005, leaking tons of chlorine gas, killing nine people and leaving 554 with respiratory injuries.
Lesley Stahl: And the town has never been the same, as I understand it.
Robert Sumwalt: Well, that's right. So people might be thinking, "Well, I-- this-- I don't care about this story. I don't ride a train." But most communities have railroad traffic going through it.
Albert Linden: Every day you get some of the locomotives loaded with everything. They heading that way, and they moving 60 miles an hour, too.
Albert Linden owns an electrical contracting business next to the crash site in Cayce, South Carolina. It was his surveillance camera that captured the accident.
Albert Linden: These tracks are in horrible shape.
Lesley Stahl: Had you ever seen any other accident? Any derailment?
Albert Linden: Yes, ma'am. It's quite frequent.
Lesley Stahl: It's frequent?
Albert Linden: In the last ten years, there's probably been seven, eight of them. They forgot to flip the switch, and derailed them in here.
Lesley Stahl: The same thing?
Albert Linden: Yes, ma'am. Forgetting to flip the switch.
Lesley Stahl: And you're just sitting here, watching this unfold before your very eyes?
Albert Linden: They, they-- it's a common occurrence.
But those didn't involve the lives of more than 100 passengers who – along with engineer Mark James – were counting on the CSX conductor to make sure the tracks were pointing in the right direction for Amtrak to pass through.
Lesley Stahl: Is there anything that you should have done that you didn't do?
Mark James: No.
Lesley Stahl: Nothing.
Mark James: I can't see what my conductor's doing. And I have to trust him. We have to work together. And I did trust him. And he's human. He made a mistake.
What if we told you that mistakes like that, human errors, can be caught, and crashes prevented by a technology that was supposed to be in place by now. Congress mandated that most of the country's major railroads install the technology by 2015.
In a complex arrangement, Congress extended that deadline first to 2018 and now again to 2020. The technology is called positive train control – PTC.
It's a computerized system that uses technology like GPS and Wi-Fi to transmit information from sensors and signals installed along the tracks to and from the trains. It amounts to an automatic braking system.
Pat Desir shows correspondent Lesley Stahl how PTC works
Pat Desir, an engineer for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, demonstrated how the system works.
Lesley Stahl: This is the speed limit and this is what you're going at the moment.
Pat Desir: Exactly. It enforces my speed.
Lesley Stahl: So it can stop the train, but it can also slow you down to keep you—
Pat Desir: Exactly.
Lesley Stahl: --at the right speed.
Pat Desir: See right now we're supposed to be doing 25 miles per hour. All right, I'm gonna go above it. And I'm gonna show you how PTC works. All right? I'll get to about 28 miles per hour. And I'm bringing it up. You feel (BEEPING) how fast we're going? And now-- (NOISE)
Lesley Stahl: Whoa.
Pat Desir: And we received a penalty brake application. Brought the train to a complete stop.
This commuter railroad was one of the first to install the equipment. But others have been slow to follow. And that has led to deadly consequences. The PTC mandate was imposed after a crash in Chatsworth, California that killed 25 people. Since then, there have been 22 crashes, killing a total of 29 people and injuring more than 500.
If PTC had been installed, this derailment a year ago in Washington state - when Amtrak 501 was going twice the speed limit – wouldn't have happened.
And this crash in 2015 when an Amtrak train was going too fast in Philadelphia - wouldn't've happened either.
The major railroads – including CSX and Amtrak - each own miles of their own tracks and their trains ride on each other's tracks.
To make matters more complicated, they're installing different PTC systems and have to make them compatible with the other companies that ride on their tracks. They've also been stymied by software and equipment challenges and regulatory hurdles.
As of today only 10 percent of the mandated railroads have fully implemented PTC.
Lesley Stahl: It seems so obvious. It just seems so urgent that it's almost unfathomable that it doesn't get done.
Robert Sumwalt: That's why the NTSB is just flabbergasted that we still don't have it more than 10 years after Congress mandated Positive Train Control.
One issue has been the Federal Railroad Administration, FRA, the railroad's regulatory agency, criticized in government reports for not vigorously enforcing the PTC mandate. We tried to talk to the agency but they declined our interview request.
Its handling of PTC has been a source of frustration for Robert Sumwalt of the NTSB.
Lesley Stahl: The regulatory agency, The Federal Railroad Administration, are they just not doing their job?
Robert Sumwalt: Well, we have issued recommendations to the FRA and they've not acted upon those.
Lesley Stahl: Why are they so lenient with the railroads? Somebody told us that in his opinion they're captive to the railroad system, to the industry.
Robert Sumwalt: The regulator needs to step up to the plate and do their job and regulate.
Lesley Stahl: Who's responsible?
Robert Sumwalt: Well, ultimately, it's up to the railroads to put this system in place. It's a steep climb for them. It's going to cost, depending on who you talk to, anywhere between $10 and $14 billion for the system to be implemented.
Lesley Stahl: Okay. So?
Robert Sumwalt: You're right.
Lesley Stahl: I mean, it's safety. You're, they're, they have people's lives in their hands.
Robert Sumwalt: Yes, and we're confounded by that as well. And for every day that goes by we are at continued risk.
When there's a train crash involving Amtrak, it usually pays the damages. But because it is largely funded by the government, that means the taxpayers pay.
We have learned that Amtrak agreed decades ago, in secret indemnity contracts, to be responsible for damages even if the freight company is at fault and the accident occurs on the freight company's tracks.
The freight company in the South Carolina crash, CSX, declined our interview request, but sent us a letter saying it has already spent "$2.5 billion" on PTC and that the crash was "the result of human error, and violations of long-standing operating procedures." CSX fired both the conductor and engineer Mark James.
Lesley Stahl: Are you fighting this?
Mark James: Yes.
Lesley Stahl: Are you challenging--
Lesley Stahl: --the firing?
Mark James: Yes. There's nothing I could have done to prevent the accident. I did nothing to cause the accident and I got fired anyway.
James is unemployed. He's raising a teenage daughter and is facing large medical bills for PTSD.
Mark James: You can't sleep at night, you know. If you wake up, this is in your head.
Lesley Stahl: Still.
Mark James: Yeah, and nightmares, visions, like in – loud noises.
Lesley Stahl: Like a soldier.
Mark James: Yeah.
Lesley Stahl: In your opinion, is train travel safe?
Lesley Stahl: Would you put your daughter on an Amtrak train?
Mark James: No. I wouldn't get on one myself.
Amtrak, which declined our interview request, sent us a statement saying it has made substantial strides on implementing PTC.
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Q: Are there infinity many $n$ that can't be represented as sum of two composite numbers relatively prime to each other Let $a$ and $b$ be composite integers relatively prime to each other.

Can it be shown that
There are infinity many positive integers $n$ that can't be represented as
$$n=a+b$$

Example first $n$ which can represent $13=9+4$

Update Now posted to MO link

A: http://oeis.org/A096076 is the sequence, "Not the sum of two relatively prime composite numbers." It's given as,
$1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32, 36, 38, 40, 42, 45, 48, 50, 54, 56, 60, 66, 70, 72, 78, 80, 84, 90, 96, 105, 108, 110, 120, 126, 132, 138, 140, 150, 180, 210.$
It says,
"Max Alekseyev showed that this sequence is finite; proof completed by several people to show that the list is complete."
No proof is given, nor any link to a proof.

A: Answer is given by GH from MO
Link for original answer
Following fedja's comment, the number of decomposition $n=a+b$ with $\gcd(a,b)=1$ equals $\varphi(n)$. Among these, there are at most $2\pi(n)$ decompositions in which $a$ or $b$ is prime, hence $n$ has a suitable decomposition when $\varphi(n)>2\pi(n)$. Now the well-known explicit lower bounds for $\varphi(n)$ and upper bounds for $\pi(n)$ imply an explicit finite list of exceptions. For more details, see the relevant Wikipedia articles (link1 and link2), or Rosser-Schoenfeld: Approximate formulas for some functions of prime numbers (1961).
Added. By (3.6) and (3.42) in the paper of Rosser and Schoenfeld, the inequality $\varphi(n)>2\pi(n)$ holds as long as
$$e^\gamma\log\log n+\frac{2.51}{\log\log n}<\frac{\log n}{2.52}.$$
In particular, $\varphi(n)>2\pi(n)$ holds for $n>10^7$.

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(Toronto) —ORION is proud to announce the launch of a shared Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) pilot initiative together with eight Ontario higher education institutions.
Introduced in response to demand from the research and education community, this two-year pilot project will establish and further a security framework in order to address the current information privacy and cybersecurity challenges.
ORION welcomes Farooq Naiyer to this role. Farooq will also help direct and advance ORION'S security initiatives on behalf of customers.
Farooq brings rich experience of more than 15 years in the area of cybersecurity, privacy, technology compliance and assurance.
"I'm excited to have Farooq join the team. He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience that will build even stronger links within our communities and assist with ORION's efforts to provide each user with the best service partner possible," says Alfonso.
Prior to joining ORION Farooq was part of the Cybersecurity and Privacy team at PwC in Canada where he led several cybersecurity engagements. Prior to that, Farooq led IT assurance teams for a leading Canadian retailer. He has also held leadership roles in leading financial institutions in the Middle East and South Asia as well as Big Four consulting firms in South Asia.
He has strong academic background with BSc (Hons) in Computer Sciences from the University of Huddersfield. He holds various leading certifications in the area of Information Security and IT assurance which includes CISA, CRISC, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, COBIT, PCI – Quality Security Assessor, and PCIP.
"With decreasing enrollment and yet more demands on technology, funding for a CISO is challenging at best," says Laurentian CIO, Luc Roy, one of the members of the pilot. "With a shared CISO, Laurentian has a senior security officer guiding us with best practices, developing strategies, leveraging common policies and frameworks, recommendations that best suit higher education sectors, and more great things to come. The collaboration only means that we share the same challenge and that we will conquer collaboratively instead of individual silos."
More than a hundred universities, colleges, hospitals and research institutions, as well as the majority of Ontario's school boards, have been part of ORION's shared private network since its inception 15 years ago. "I look forward to working with Alfonso and the ORION team to build an even stronger future. I hope to help continue the growth of this fundamentally important organization that connects communities with technology to support our research, education and innovation customers throughout Ontario," says Farooq.
ORION is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to empowering Ontario researchers, educators, and innovators. We foster a community of more than two million users at more than a hundred universities, colleges, hospitals and research institutions, as well as the majority of Ontario's school boards. We enable ground-breaking discoveries and cutting-edge education by connecting institutions and regions through our network, facilitating collaboration, and providing our community with the digital tools and expert support they need to make the world a better place.
Cathy Bogaart
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cathy.bogaart@orion.on.ca
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The big buzz at this year's Australian Tourism Exchange (ATE), held last month in Sydney, focused on Qantas' decision to withdraw funding from Tourism Australia (TA) in order to reinvest in other tourism promotional bodies.
Speaking at ATE, Stephen Thompson Qantas' head of international sales, affirmed the carrier's commitment to Australian tourism and said the airline is seeking relationships with regional tourism boards. The first beneficiary was Destination New South Wales (NSW), which got $15 million in matching funds from Qantas, the largest state-based promotional contract ever signed in Australia.
Destination NSW has a budget of A$125 million ($130.7 million) to market over the next four years and the Qantas money adds $15 million more. Sydney will campaign under the theme "Love every second in Sydney." For Sydney, it was a red letter ATE since the event took place at the Convention and Exhibition Center, which will meet the wrecking ball in order to clear the way for a new center, part of a massive transformation the city is about to undergo.
Even as Destination NSW consolidates its assets, Western Australia is seeing growth as well. Fueled by a vast mineral wealth that has actually given Australia a trade surplus with China, Western Australia is coming into its own. That wealth is making Perth into a major city with the latest census showing a swelling population. Qantas' partnership with Emirates also is repositioning Perth as a potential gateway for Americans visiting from the East Coast and European travelers who can just as easily fly into Perth via Dubai as into Sydney. At the show Western Australia unveiled plenty of new tourism development. Perth has added the new Terrace Hotel and Fraser Suites Perth and launched Crown Perth (re-branded from Intercontinental Perth Burswood) and Four Points by Sheraton Perth. The Crown Towers Perth, a six-star, 500-room luxury hotel will be completed in three years.
In Queensland, U.S. arrivals grew 17 percent last year thanks to several factors, including direct service to Auckland from Cairns making it an easy segue city for Australia-New Zealand combinations, as visits from 94 cruise ships. Cruising offers a real potential for Queensland because the peak season for cruise is the state's low season. "These are definitely tourists we wouldn't have gotten were it not for cruise," says Patricia O'Callaghan, general manager-tourism events for Townsville Enterprise.
In its U.S. marketing, the Australian state of Victoria puts Melbourne front and center and the city is a perfect fit for Tourism Australia's sophistication-driven "Best of Australia" promotions. Melbourne trails only Sydney in popularity among U.S. visitors thanks to its restaurants, shopping and nearby wine regions, beaches and wildlife.
Government research shows that Melbourne's sophisticated lifestyle appeal boosted U.S. arrivals 5.1 percent and visitor spending 9 percent in 2012, ahead of the national average of 2.9 percent. Americans spent 1.9 million room nights in Victoria, 13.1 percent ahead of the national average. Besides its galleries, theaters, concerts and 3,000 restaurants, Melbourne also is a magnet for sporting events like the Australian Tennis Open and horse racing's Melbourne Cup.
Wine and wildlife are the focus for South Australia. More than 60 percent of the wine exported from Australia comes from the state's 19 wine regions. Kangaroo Island, the "Galapagos of Australia," offers what may be the country's purest interaction with wildlife. It's also one of the few places you can see koalas in the wild. Adelaide is adding luxury properties such as the Mayfair Hotel and outside of town the six-bedroom Kingsford Homestead is so Eden-like that its signature experience is an outdoor bath.
Tasmania, which competes with New Zealand as a place to enjoy hiking from a luxury lodge, is home to four of Australia's seven Great Walks. It features 1,800 miles of walking trail and is geared towards a U.A. traveler who falls within that 45 percent of American repeat visitor to Australia. Between 17,000 and 18,000 Americans visit Tasmania annually.
The U.S. market for Australia has reached a maturity point where American travelers can begin to see it as a more nuanced regional travel experience. It may be time to sell it state by state with your more experienced travelers, which just might finally eliminate the logistical nightmare of selling a continent as a single destination. After all, Australia isn't for just one visit!


TheStreet's Quant Ratings stock-modeling service is reaffirming its "Sell" recommendation on J.C. Penney Company (JCP - Get Report) , which is Monday's "Stock of the Day" at our premium Web site Real Money.
J.C. Penney has declined 64% to around $1.66 a share in the 17 months since our quantitative model downgraded the stock to a "Sell" from a "Hold" on May 16, 2017.
Quant Ratings evaluates thousands of stocks on a daily basis using a quantitative model that combines fundamental analysis of a firm's latest financial statements with technical analysis of a stock's price moves. You can check out Quant Ratings here.
We rate PENNEY (J C) CO as a Sell with a ratings score of D+. This is driven by a number of negative factors, which we believe should have a greater impact than any strengths, and could make it more difficult for investors to achieve positive results compared to most of the stocks we cover. The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its feeble growth in its earnings per share, unimpressive growth in net income, generally high debt management risk, weak operating cash flow and generally disappointing historical performance in the stock itself.
PENNEY (J C) CO has experienced a steep decline in earnings per share in the most recent quarter in comparison to its performance from the same quarter a year ago. Earnings per share have declined over the last year. We anticipate that this should continue in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, PENNEY (J C) CO reported poor results of -$0.35 versus -$0.01 in the prior year. For the next year, the market is expecting a contraction of 152.8% in earnings (-$0.89 versus -$0.35).
The company, on the basis of change in net income from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly underperformed when compared to that of the S&P 500 and the Multiline Retail industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 110.4% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from -$48.00 million to -$101.00 million.
The debt-to-equity ratio is very high at 3.47 and currently higher than the industry average, implying increased risk associated with the management of debt levels within the company. Along with this, the company manages to maintain a quick ratio of 0.09, which clearly demonstrates the inability to cover short-term cash needs.
Net operating cash flow has decreased to $219.00 million or 45.52% when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, when comparing to the industry average, the firm's growth rate is much lower.
Despite any intermediate fluctuations, we have only bad news to report on this stock's performance over the last year: it has tumbled by 47.99%, worse than the S&P 500's performance. Consistent with the plunge in the stock price, the company's earnings per share are down 113.33% compared to the year-earlier quarter. Naturally, the overall market trend is bound to be a significant factor. However, in one sense, the stock's sharp decline last year is a positive for future investors, making it cheaper (in proportion to its earnings over the past year) than most other stocks in its industry. But due to other concerns, we feel the stock is still not a good buy right now.
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The American Podiatric Medical Association offers these tips for caring for your feet this summer. Visit our expert podiatry team to care for your feet so you can enjoy an active summer. We also offer custom orthotics for healthy, comfy footwear. Call us 7 am to 7 pm at 425-339-5407 most days this summer. Seeing patients in Everett and Smokey Point.
Limit walking barefoot -- It exposes feet to sunburn, as well as plantar warts, athlete's foot, ringworm, and other infections and increases risk of injury to your feet.
Wear shoes or flip-flops at the pool, beach, or locker room to prevent injuries and limit the risk of bacterial infections.
Apply sunscreen to your feet. Protect your feet from sunburn, especially the tops and fronts of ankles, and reapply sunscreen after you've been in the water.
Drink plenty of water throughout the day to minimize foot swelling.
Wiggle your toes, flex your ankles, and stretch your calves to keep blood flowing in your feet.
For more info about keeping feet healthy, read "All Toes on Deck: Tips for Protecting Feet from the Heat" via the American Podiatric Medical Association.


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"Bomber Boys: Portraits from the Front" and "Local Heroes" Member Preview
Following John Jensen's presentation of Hollywood and the Homefront, Harbor History Museum members and lecture attendees are invited to stick around for a preview of our newest exhibit, "Bomber Boys: Portraits from the Front" and a special lobby installation featuring our "Local Heroes."
Enjoy complimentary refreshments and an opportunity to get the first look at this amazing exhibit which highlights the little-known story of the combat, captains, crew, and camp life of the 445th bomb squadron of the 12th Army Air Corps stationed on Corsica and in Italy.
The flight and ground crew of Outhouse Mouse, a B-25 that flew more than 100 missions in the Mediterranean Theatre.
Hollywood and the Homefront: Tinsel Town's Contribution to World War II
Light Up the Night: 5th Annual Saint Lucia Festival


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How To Buy Cars In Need For Speed Unbound
Here is a guide on how to buy cars in Need for Speed Unbound.
By Milton Dsouza Last updated Dec 2, 2022
You just got your hands on NFS Unbound and are playing through the opening stages of the story. And then it hits, you still don't have your own car. What's worse is that you don't have any option to buy a car in Need for Speed (NFS) Unbound. Let me cut to the chase, you can indeed buy your own cars in the game. But this option becomes available a little while later.
You will have to complete the Prologue first before you can buy cars in the game. The two characters – Rydell and Yaz take you through this brand-new world of racing. Once the intro is done, the option to buy cars from the garage will now be open. You will be able to buy a car of your choice from Rydell's garage. But keep this in mind, most of these cars will still remain locked. You'd be required to progress further in the story to unlock these cars and then purchase them eventually if you like.
It might be frustrating not being able to drive through the streets of Lakeshore City early on in the game with your own car. We understand your disappointment, but you have no other choice other than being patient. The fact is you can indeed buy your own cars in the game, but this option will become available a little while later. Once you complete the prologue, you'll earn enough money to buy a car of your choice!
That pretty much explains everything you needed to know about how to buy cars in Need for Speed Unbound. We hope all your worries are put to rest with this guide. If you found this guide helpful, check out how to play NFS Unbound with friends.
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[prMac.com] Toronto (ON) Canada - Zevrix Solutions today is proud to announce the release of Output Factory 1.6, a feature update to its output automation plug-in for Adobe InDesign. The software solves the problem of easily printing and exporting multiple InDesign files while ensuring error-free output through automated preflighting.. With Output Factory, printers, ad agencies and publishing houses worldwide can streamline and simplify their printing workflow and easily repurpose InDesign files for the web and mobile devices.
The new version adds the ability to easily reprint previously processed files, or export them to PDF, EPS, HTML, EPUB and other formats. Users now can select the desired InDesign files in the app's history and add them to the current queue with just a click of a button. The update also introduces the history file counter and fixes some window behavior anomalies on macOS Sierra.
"Output Factory has been the single biggest time-saver I've encountered in years of print production," says Mike Agate, Production Manager of Which?, Europe's largest consumer rights organization. "With the reduction in head count and efficiency savings, it must have paid for itself 500 times over."


18 December 2018 - Explore Secretary jobs in Delhi with 4 years to 4 years experience via Delhi Institute of Tool Engineering. Register here to apply online for similar kind of Secretary jobs.
The application in the Prescribed Performa, in respect of suitable, eligible and willing officers can be relieved immediately, if selected, may please be sent to OSD (Admn),Delhi Institute of Tool Engineering, Wazirpur Industrial Area, Delhi-110052 along with up to date ACRs /APARs of last 5 years along with photocopies of certificates. The candidates who apply for the post will not be allowed to withdraw their candidature subsequently. Application received after the last date or without the required documents will not be entertained.
The last date of receiving of duly filled application will be 45 days from the date of publication in Employment News. Application received after the due date or without ACRs/APARs, Vigilance clearance or otherwise found incomplete will not be considered. Delay in transit shall be the responsibility of applicant.
The envelope containing the application should be super subscribed with "Application for the post of Secretary on deputation".
DITE has been playing a vital role in the development of micro, small and medium industries through supply of trained manpower in the field of tool making and tool designing and supply of sophisticated tools such as dies, moulds, press tools, jigs, fixtures etc. for the past over thirty years. The Institute runs post- ITI courses in machine operations and die fitting, Diploma course in Tool & Die Making, Diploma course in Mechanical Engineering,B.Tech (Tool Engineering),B.Tech (Mechatronics) and M.Tech (Tool Engineering) to cater to ever challenging needs of technical excellence in the area of Tool Engineering and Mechatronics.


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German Embassy in Tripoli reopened today
25.09.2011 - Press release
Today (25 September), a Federal Foreign Office spokesperson issued the following statement on the reopening of the German Embassy in Tripoli:
"The German Embassy in Tripoli was reopened today, following an order by Foreign Minister Westerwelle.
It now has the task of actively and effectively assisting with the expansion of Germany's political, economic, and cultural ties with the 'new Libya', and of coordinating German support efforts.
Foreign Minister Westerwelle has assured the Transitional National Council that Germany will help Libya with its new beginning, as it moves down the path towards democracy and the rule of law."
Following the arrival in Libya of the new German Ambassador, Rainer Eberle, the German Embassy in Tripoli is open for business as of today. Little by little, the embassy is again becoming fully operational. Ambassador Eberle has already held first talks with Libyan Foreign Ministry officials.
The reopening of the embassy was prepared by a core team of diplomats and security staff that had been deployed to Libya for several days. This embassy team was in contact with Transitional National Council representatives who had already moved to Tripoli, with representatives of other diplomatic missions, and with United Nations mission staff (UNSMIL).
On 3 March, the German Embassy in Tripoli had been closed for the time being on security grounds. As part of the shut-down, diplomatic staff had also been evacuated. As of May, a German liaison office had been operating in Benghazi.
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In the region, with the region: Lake Chad Conference in Niamey
24.01.2023 Speech
Opening statement by Minister of State Katja Keul at the High-Level Conference on the Lake Chad Region in Niamey