MIAMI, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Transax International Limited , a cost-saving information network solutions provider for the healthcare sector, is pleased to announce record transaction volume for the third quarter 2005, its 11th consecutive quarter of positive transaction volume and revenue growth.
For the third quarter 2005, Transax undertook 1.75 million "real time" transactions, an increase of 115% compared to the same period in 2004. During the first nine months of 2005 Transax undertook 4.75 million transactions and during the first six months of 2005 received on average $0.50 per transaction.
Stephen Walters, President & CEO of Transax, said, "We are pleased to report continued growth in operations, including another quarter of increased transaction volume. As a number of initiatives come to fruition, we expect to report record revenues for the third quarter of 2005. While all segments have grown in recent months, this quarter, as a percentage of total transactions, high margin Point of Sale (POS) transactions have been steadily increasing throughout the year and are now 63% of all transactions undertaken by Transax."
During the third quarter 2005, Transax International completed 1.75 million "real time" transactions including 1.1 million Point of Sale transactions. At the end of the third quarter 2005, the Company commenced a major initiative to integrate approximately 50 medical laboratory facilities countrywide throughout Brazil to collect "real time" medical laboratory transactions on behalf of its insurance company clients using Transax's proprietary software.
Also during the third quarter, Transax installed an additional 350 solutions to medical provider locations in Brazil. At the end of the quarter, Transax had over 5000 solutions operational nationwide throughout Brazil including more than 2500 POS solutions and 630 overlapping POS solutions undertaking transactions on behalf of multiple clients.
Transax International Ltd. provides network solutions to healthcare providers and health insurance companies. Utilizing its proprietary technology, Transax provides a service similar to a credit card processing for the health insurance industry. A Transax transaction consists of: approving eligibility, authorization, auto-adjudication of the health claim and generating the claim payable files all instantaneously in "real time" -- regardless of method of claim generation.
Transax's solutions have been proven to significantly decrease health insurance claim expenditure without any significant cost or expense to the health insurer. Based in Miami, Transax maintains a major operations office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with approximately 34 staff. The Company has contracts in place with major health insurers for up to 2,500,000 transactions per month and currently undertakes approximately 600,000 transactions per month. Transax receives about US 50 cents per transaction.


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Team Hinesville weightlifting brothers Mack and Dominique Brunson placed fourth in their respective divisions at the 2010 American Open held Dec. 10-12 in Ohio.
Mack Brunson competed in the 69-kilogram weight class for the first time and lifted 110 kilos in the snatch and 137 kilos in the clean and jerk.
Dominique Brunson, competing in the 62-kilogram weight class, lifted 90 kilos in the snatch and hoisted 115 kilos in the clean and jerk.
Team Hinesville weightlifting coach Jenna Bussard said Mack Brunson's performance included a personal best in the clean and jerk, and was a good outing for the current Linderwood University student.
Dominique Brunson, who normally places in the top three, said he wasn't pleased with his outing.
"I was off. I didn't like my performance at all," he said. "I was off the whole meet. I have to train more consistently. I need to be in the gym more. Before this meet I had a lot of after-school activities so I didn't make it to training as often as I should have and that was the biggest factor."
Tomorrow, Team Hinesville lifters James Fox, Nick Stock, Dominique Brunson, Jalil Menifee, J. Bacon, David and Michael Purser will compete in the Georgia/Alabama Local Weightlifting Committee meet in Savannah at the Anderson/Cohen Weightlifting Center.
Bussard said there will be lifters from Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina.
"I'm hoping to have three lifters qualify for the upcoming Junior Nationals," the coach said.
The Anderson/Cohen Weightlifting Center is at 7232 Varnedoe Drive in Savannah. Admission is free and the competition begins at 2 p.m.

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John Madden became the face of Madden NFL Football, one of the most successful sports video games ever
Legendary American football coach and commentator John Madden has died at the age of 85, the National Football League (NFL) has reported.
The league said he died unexpectedly and did not give a cause.
Madden led the then-Oakland Raiders to their first Super Bowl victory in 1977 and became a hugely popular television analyst after retiring from coaching.
He later became the face of Madden NFL Football, one of the most successful sports video games ever.
"Nobody loved football more than Coach," NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement.
"There will never be another John Madden, and we will forever be indebted to him for all he did to make football and the NFL what it is today."
Madden coached the Raiders from 1969 to 1978. He won Super Bowl XI when they went through the 1976 regular season with a 13-1 record.
He boasts the best winning percentage of NFL coaches who have taken charge of more than 100 games.
But he will perhaps be best remembered for his career in commentary, after retiring from coaching at just 42.
Known for his unpretentious style, Madden travelled to games in his own bus because he suffered from claustrophobia. He also developed a fear of flying.
Madden went on to win 16 Emmy Awards and covered 11 Super Bowls from 1979-2009. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006.
"People always ask, are you a coach or a broadcaster or a video game guy?" he said when was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. "I'm a coach, always been a coach."
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Therefore, Candidates are advised to register and obtain their NIN number from the National Identity Management Commission. Provide your choice of course and choice of institutions. You would not be allowed to enter the examination hall with any devices, pen, or any other materials. CCTV cameras will be installed in all the examination centers. So avoid examination malpractice at all costs, so that you will not be disqualified or embarrassed. Important points to note regarding this year's UTME examination.
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A Guide to Orange County Towns: Warwick and Sugar Loaf
by Anne Pyburn Craig
Mason and Samantha at Pennings Farm Petting Zoo in Warwick.
There's no time like summer to experience the enchantment of the Warwick Valley. The creativity and rich black dirt are in productive high gear; the fresh food's sizzling on the grill, the libations are flowing, and the music's throbbing. Warwick Village is full of welcomed wanderers, local and international.
Festivals are an art in themselves here. Culture has been a transformative force here for generations, both fueling and dominating commerce for decades, displayed in a spirit that blends reverence and fun. From July 12 through August 16, the Warwick Summer Arts Festival offers adventures for mood, mind, and spirit. The kickoff on July 12 is the 10 Minute Play Festival at the Warwick Performing Arts Center, offering readings of original screenplays, mini-plays and scenes. Saturday, July 14, is a day to Wonder Wander Warwick as the village explodes with visual and experiential artwork presentations. It's a walkable experience and will include hands-on opportunities to experiment with clay pressing, paper flower making, interpretive dancing, interactive large-scale painting, crocheting with plastic "yarn," and more. Bring the kids and create a family set of keepsake Wonder Wands to take home. (The weekend of July 7-8, the Warwick Merchant's Guild presents the Sidewalk Sale, with street vendors, in-store specials, and, for those feeling gluttonous, a pie-eating contest sponsored by Noble Pies.)
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On July 18, it's time for the Poetry Slam and Jam to rock the Pennings Farm Beer Garden. On July 28, the action moves to Scheuermann Farms for a Sunset Concert on the Lawn that includes the culminating glory of the Warwick Dance Collective Summer Intensive. On August 2, you're invited to view the results of July's collaboration between local youth and topnotch local talent in the Front Porch Summer Arts Program & Exhibit.
On Saturday August 11, partake of the Dusklit Interactive Art Festival 2018, featuring 38 immersive experiences by 64 contemporary artists from across the United States and Canada. Curated by visual artists Olivia Baldwin and Cody Rounds, the festival offers elaborate sensory environments, sound installations, and a costume-lending tent. You, as festival-goer, are considered integral to the magic that will happen. (See a pattern here? Warwick doesn't just show you beauty produced by others. It draws you in and evokes the beauty you brought with you in your heart.) Dusklit happens at the Seligmann Homestead at the Citizens Foundation in the hamlet of Sugar Loaf (located in the town of Chester), the former home of world-renowned surrealist Kurt Seligmann. Dusklit features performance art, new media, music, dance, poetry, interdisciplinary collaborations, and roving projects. "Lots of new surprises this year," says curator Rounds. "We are really trying to push play and spontaneity this time around."
And on August 16, the festival finishes up with a retro-meets-cutting-edge flourish. It's $20 a carload ($10 a person) to get into the Warwick Valley Drive-In for a screening of locally produced short films. Keeping it fresh and local is the Warwick way.
From August 9 through 12, be on the lookout for the Hudson Valley Jazz Festival, happening at various indoor and outdoor venues. The New York Swing Exchange will kick things off with a free concert on the Warwick Village Green.
So those are some especially good times to visit the Warwick Valley, but there's really no bad time. Even on any old weekday afternoon, there's much that's fabulous to explore. Retail here is free-form, with shops that mirror the owner's passion and personality. Reinvented in the Wick, for example, specializes in refurbished and recycled treasures, and owner Terri offers workshops in case you'd like to learn how to do that yourself. You'll find artisan jewelry, art glass, and singular decor at Iriniri; custom confections at the Candy Apple Shoppe; and gluten-free foods and wellness products at Down2Earth Market. Style Counsel specializes in making fine designer fashion a pleasure to purchase and wear. All of this and more is presented with an artful touch and a genuine Warwick welcome. And if antiques are your bliss, there are a day's worth of varied and eclectic shops. (Warwick is not without its esoteric side: The practical teachings of early 20th-century mystic George Gurdjieff live on at the Chardavogne Barn spiritual community. Spend a day learning about the Fourth Way on July 7)
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You'll also want to devote an entire day to exploring Sugar Loaf Arts and Crafts Village, located in the town of Chester. Just as the name suggests, a fine group of makers have banded together here to create and display their wares. Fine jewelry, candles, soaps, handmade paper goods, herbs, magic supplies, wearable art of all sorts, furniture, fantasy swords, woodcarving, stained glass...should you be in need of a gift for someone you love dearly, yourself included, Sugar Loaf's sweetness will blow you away.
Want to get outdoors? Here, too, this valley's abundantly blessed. The nine-mile-long, spring-fed Greenwood Lake is Orange County's largest body of fresh water, welcoming swimmers, boaters, fisherfolk, water skiers, and jet skiers. There's a public beach and an array of marinas to get you set to go. Wickham Lake offers still more water fun. (Wickham Woodlands Park is one of the best reuses of a one-time prison site that you'll find anywhere).
Having fun is thirsty work, and the Warwick Valley offers an array of best-in-class options for thirst-quenching. Breweries abound, making good use of delicious ingredients grown from the black dirt. (The Dirt's Brew Hop held in June featured five local breweries—Pine Island Brewing, Glenmere Brewing Company, Long Lot Farm Brewery, Westtown Brew Work, and Equilibrium Brewery.) Wine is equally fine: The Applewood Winery and Distillery will happily turn you on to the reasons that Hudson Valley wines, liquors, and hard cider have made such a stir in the craft beverage world, as will the Warwick Valley Winery and Distillery. Both places offer tastings, cafes, and live music events.
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Escolar served with baby bok choy, tempura-fried garlic scapes, wasabi, sesame, and soy, pickled ginger. The garlic scapes are from The Kitchen Garden, the four-acre organic garden co-owned by Chef and Dominique Herman, the produce source for The Grange.
You'll be hungry, too, and as you might expect, food is yet another love language fluently spoken in these parts. Farm-to-table, fresh, savory fare is on the menu at the Grange, a chef-owned-and-operated outpost where James Haurey applies his creative chops to the finest local goodies in a frequently changing, always-inspired menu that's accented with bimonthly art exhibits, movie nights (Chew-n-View), and live piano music on Mondays. At Noble Pies, Leslie Noble and Tom Herman are celebrating 10 years and 100,000 pies worth of fine artisanal baking this month. Combine your fondness for local suds with the deliciousness of local ingredients prepared New American-style at a beer dinner at Eddie's Roadhouse, a laidback gastropub. And those are just three examples: Your choices include classic and New American, fine Italian and pizza, Thai, Greek and Latin options, and more. Vegetarian and vegan-friendly places abound. Want to experience a creamery, a an Irish pub, a European-style chateau, or just a darn fine taco? The Warwick Valley can fix you right up.
The Warwick Valley's location, just an hour from Manhattan, has helped nurture the development of world-class culture in all sorts of flavors. Its exceptional beauty has bred ferocious loyalty that's protected it well against being overtaken by sprawl, and the result—three villages and nine hamlets strung around with farms—is like nowhere else on Earth. This, after all, is the place where a little local harvest festival begun nearly 30 years ago morphed into Applefest. Come down the second Sunday in October for 250-plus artful vendors, exquisite street eats, kids' carnival, pie baking contest, music, and art.
At least 50 nonprofits participate in this epic block party, exhibiting and educating and benefitting along with the Chamber of Commerce. If you'd like one fact that most illustrates Warwick Valley character, that might well be the one: It's a warm, vital tapestry, equal parts art and heart.
A final illustration: Pine Island's 10th Annual Black Dirt Feast on August 7 is sold out, but you can still get on the waiting list—it's a $125-a-plate collaboration featuring nine fine eateries and a quartet of libations providers all set to classical and jazz. And the proceeds go to food pantries and give scholarships. In this valley, that's just how it goes.
A Hudson Valley Jazz Festival performance on the Railroad Green in Warwick.
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Maryland football DB Denzel Conyers sustained concussion at practice, will return soon, per report
He left Thursday's practice in an ambulance.
By Alex Kirshner and Ryan Connors Updated Aug 19, 2016, 2:42pm EDT
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Update: After Friday's practice, DJ Durkin said Conyers will be practicing again shortly.
Denzel Conyers has been released from hospital and has returned to team. Was being treated for concussion. Expected back at practice soon.
— Roman Stubbs (@romanstubbs) August 19, 2016
DJ Durkin said Denzel Conyers, who was taken from practice yesterday in an ambulance, was treated for a concussion. He was back last night.
— Daniel Gallen (@danieljtgallen) August 19, 2016
Maryland senior defensive back Denzel Conyers left practice on Thursday in an ambulance, The Washington Post's Roman Stubbs reported. The nature of Conyers' injury hasn't yet been disclosed, and we'll update this post when we learn more.
Scary moment at Terps practice today: Senior DB Denzel Conyers suffered an undisclosed injury and had to be taken off in ambulance.
Conyers was transported to a Baltimore hospital and is "stable and alert," per school. He'll stay to have further testing done.
Conyers had 15 tackles in nine games for Maryland as a junior in 2015, and he has figured to see time as a safety in his senior season. Conyers has rotated between linebacker and the secondary in the past, and he got first-team safety snaps during spring practice. Darnell Savage and Josh Woods have played as the first-team safeties during fall camp, though Conyers has still been on the field plenty.
Conyers, who's listed at 6'3 and 212 pounds, hails from St. Petersburg, Fla. He signed with Maryland out of junior college in the class of 2014, three years after he'd committed out of high school to play for Florida International.
Best wishes to Conyers on a quick recovery from whatever ails him.


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IES: Fewer Israelis in search of jobs
Some 15,000 fewer citizens were reported to have been looking for work in March of this year than March 2006, according to results of a survey from the IES released Wednesday.
By MATTHEW KRIEGER
Some 15,000 fewer citizens were reported to have been looking for work in March of this year than March 2006, according to results of a survey from the Israel Employment Services (IES) released Wednesday. According to the survey, which polled thousands of companies and small businesses across the country, approximately 203,500 requests were received from "work-seekers," as compared to last March when 218,500 requests were submitted. Additionally, IES reported that in February of this year, 203,000 Israelis were seeking work, which is 6,000 fewer than the amount from this January, and 20,000 fewer than February 2006. Separately, the employment tracker Ortel, reported that demand for workers grew 10% during the first quarter of this year, building on 5% growth during the last quarter of 2006. In addition, during the first three months of 2007, Ortel said demand for workers in the financial sector grew 35%, in the customer service sector 10% and and 15% in the logistics field.


Cloud security firm Lacework is giving Amazon Web Services (AWS) administrators some help with monitoring their accounts.
The company this week said it is extending Polygraph, its flagship security platform, to support CloudTrail, AWS' service for tracking and logging events across an organization's AWS environment. The integrated offering is called Lacework for AWS CloudTrail.
CloudTrail lets AWS administrators monitor and record activity throughout their accounts, including user log-ins and any changes to accessibility levels and resource usage.
The service is particularly helpful for maintaining compliance and detecting behaviors that could lead to security breaches, but, as Lacework notes, its scope also means users typically have to parse millions of events before they can get actionable information out of their CloudTrail logs.
Lacework for AWS CloudTrail promises to simplify the work of analyzing CloudTrail data by using Lacework's so-called "zero-touch security approach." This approach relies on machine learning to reduce the amount of overhead needed to sift through event logs to dig out relevant information.
"Our proprietary machine learning techniques aggregate and organize CloudTrail data into intuitive maps and dashboards," said Lacework CTO and Co-Founder Vikram Kapoor in a prepared statement. "Alerts are automatically triggered when usage of an organization's AWS account by users deviates from the baseline of normal behavior."
[Click on image for larger view.] Polygraph leverages CloudTrail to give AWS administrators visual insight into user activity across their entire environment.
Unauthorized activity on AWS resources, in regions or accounts; activation of new services or changes to AWS S3 buckets.
Suspicious changes to users, roles, or access; changes in security groups, bypass of two-factor authentication.
Changes to AWS infrastructure services: tampering with access master keys, modifications to route table, or network interfaces and services.
Lacework for AWS CloudTrail is now available in the AWS Marketplace, including a 14-day free trial. More information is available on this datasheet.


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Q: In Rust, is being able to use a structs methods from an unimported module expected behavior? I'm still quite new to programming in Rust, but I do have experience with C/C++ programming.
The crux of my question has to do with this code:
src/main.rs:
use storefront::store_model;

fn main() {
    let mut store_model: store_model::StoreModel = store_model::new_store_model();
    store_model.add_product(
        String::from("Test Product"),
        123.45,
        String::from("This is a Test Product."),
        String::from("This is a Test Product for a test."),
        42,
    );

    store_model.add_product(
        String::from("Wonderfon"),
        77.34,
        String::from("This is the 1998 Wonderfon, brought back in 2022!"),
        String::from("Call like it's the 1990's! The Wonderfon is back in all its glory!"),
        77,
    );

    store_model.add_product(
        String::from("Test Product 2.0"),
        123.45,
        String::from("This is the Test Product 2.0!"),
        String::from("This is a Test Product 2.0 for another test."),
        42,
    );

    match store_model.product(0) {
        None => println!("That isn't an item!"),
        Some(p) => {
            let (product, quantity) = p;
            println!("{}", product.name());
        }
    }

    match store_model.product(1) {
        None => println!("That isn't an item!"),
        Some(p) => println!("{:?}", p),
    }

    match store_model.product(2) {
        None => println!("That isn't an item!"),
        Some(p) => println!("{:?}", p),
    }

    match store_model.product(3) {
        None => println!("That isn't an item!"),
        Some(p) => println!("{:?}", p),
    }
}

I didn't expect to be able to use the name() method for product (which is a struct I defined in a separate module, src/product.rs). What I did expect was some sort of error.
Is this expected behavior in Rust? If it is, is it explained somewhere, or is there any resources pointing to this behavior? I own a copy of The Rust Programming Language (for Rust 2018) and am currently on chapter 9. If it's further than what I've read to, where is it?

A: Yes, this is expected behavior. I don't know if it's mentioned specifically in The Rust Programming Language, but here is the Rust Reference on method call expressions:

Then, for each candidate type T, search for a visible method with a receiver of that type in the following places:

*

*T's inherent methods (methods implemented directly on T).

*Any of the methods provided by a visible trait implemented by T. …

So, an inherent method is always a candidate for method lookup. Inherent methods are those which are declared in impl Product { blocks, as opposed to declared by traits. If the method had been instead part of a trait, you would indeed have to import that trait.

Here's some useful context about how Rust's compiler works — these do not specify the behavior you oberved, but they are how it is possible. In Rust, unlike C++,

*

*There are no header files; instead, the compiler produces an .rmeta file describing the contents of a library when it compiles that library, and then when it compiles a dependent of that library it reads that file.

*The compilation unit — the amount of code that the compiler analyzes all at once — is the crate, not the file.
So, when you compile your crate, src/main.rs and src/product.rs are part of that crate and part of the same compilation unit. The compiler is free to use information from any of these files when working on the code in one of them. There is no possibility of a method existing but not being declared, like there is in C++.
In Rust, whether an item (type, function, method, module …) is visible in a given circumstance is a language design choice made to support good software engineering; it is never a case of the compiler not knowing about the item.

A: If we have
// src/product.rs
struct Product;
impl Product {
    fn name(&self) {}
}

And somewhere else:
let p = crate::product::Product;
p.name();
// ^ this is syntactic sugar to the following:
crate::product::Product::name(&p);

So yes, it is expected behaviour.

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'Tango 01', the Boeing 757 of the Argentine presidency
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Bangladesh Airlines Boeing 777-300ER. Photo Brngladesh Airlines
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China: China's presidential fleet includes 10 737's and two Air China 747s. The latter are used by the national airline, and are pressed into use as the premier's plane when required. There are plans for a dedicated long haul presidential aircraft; perhaps a Boeing 747-8 currently flying with Air China will be given the improved security, inflight refuelling, and an airborne command centre makeover.
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It was alledged that the CIA jimmied the plane while it was be converted from a regular Delta Air Lines plane in San Antoniio, Texas. Perhaps unsurprisingly the plane was never used for government officals, and was sold to a Kazakh airline in 2014. The fact that the new 747-8 was one of several already ordered and being used by Air China should ensure that it's not bristling with bugs.
India: the president's fleet of four Boeing 747-437Bs are equipped with jamming equipment, anti-missile systems and in-flight refueling. For short haul trips there are also three 737BBJs named Rajdoot, Rajhans and Rajkamal.
Boeing is delivering two new 777-300s later this month, which will have better range, lower fuel burn, and updates systems over the current 27-year-old jumbos.
Iran: Until the early 2010s, the president and other high-ranking government officials of Iran were still using the famous 'Shahin', a special VIP designed Boeing 707 that was purchased by the Shah of Iran in the 1970s. It was initially far more luxuriously outfitted than US Air Force One, but after the Iranian Revolution it was redesigned as a less regal VIP aircraft.
The venerable Boeing 707 'Sahin' as used by Iran till 2016.
An Airbus A321 was bought in the 1990s and is used on medium range trips of high government officials, plus the fleet includes a Dassault Falcon 20, three Dassault Falcon 50s and a Lockheed JetStar.
Forward cabin of the former Shah's Boeing 727. Photo Sam Chiu
The government of Iran also owned a Boeing 727, which is displayed at the Tehran Aerospace Exhibition Center near to Mehrabad Airport. The interior retains its VIP configuration as ordered by Henry Ford II in the 1960s. It was this aircraft that the Shah hiself piloted on January 16, 1979 on the first stage of his journey into excile to Aswan, Egypt.
Libya: Colonel Gadafi had a history of state visit eccentricities - once travelling overland from Tripoli to Cairo, and always taking a massive entourage and his trademark tent.
I was staying at the Sheraton in Addis Ababa when the Colonel stopped by. Large goons moved me away from the swimming pool in the early morning, where I later saw a white tent being erected. Later on the air inexplicably tensed and a motorcade sped down the driveway towards the portico and lobby.
The rebel-held Airbus A340 at Tripoli in 2011, after the fall of Gadaffi.
Gadaffi once flew to Zibmabwe for a onference with three airacfrat and 250 strong entourage, and on a trip to Belgrade in 1989 he arrived with two horses, six camels and a ton of Libyan sand. The authorities allowed him to graze the camels in the hotel grounds, but balked at him riding a horse to the opening of the conference as he had wanted. He departed without the camels, having gifted them to the city zoo.
Mexico: set against all this agrandisement, there is a long established (if niche) tradition of leaders promising to sell off expensive presidential planes. President Joyce Banda of Malawi sold her USD $22m Dassault Falcon 900EX jet and 60 matching Mercedes, and Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari sold off two jets in 2016 to 'cut down on waste'.
As for Mexico's governmental Boeing 787 Dreamliner - President Felipe Calderon ordered it, President Enrique Peña Nieto flew in it, and now newly elected President López Obrador has said he'll sell it. The Boeing is one of 18 Mexican government aircraft, but is by far the most controversial and costly - having been leased for 15 years at an estimated USD $300m.
The left wing populist was elected on a pledge to tackle corruption, but other campaign pledges include turning the Presedential Palace into a public park and cutting his salary in half.
Fuerza Aérea Mexicana's Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. Photo Julio Cesar Hernandez Reyes
Incidentally, through the Army's Auxiliary Aerial Militia Squadron, founded during the Mexican Revolution in 1913, the Mexican Air Force is one of the world's oldest.
North Korea: Kim Jong un's father and grandfather were terrified of flying - they witnessed their own executive jet explode at a display in 1982, which probably didn't help. On Kim Jong-il's two trips to China and one to Russia he took the train. For the Moscow sumit his 21-carriage armoured train took days to get there and was accompanied by hundreds of troops.
'Air Force Un', meeters and greeters, and a mammoth red carpet. Photo Korean Central News Agency
Current ruler Kim Jong-un appears to have escaped the worst of the family phobia though and uses an Illushyn IL-62 crewed by the infamous national carrier Air Koryo, dubbed 'Air Force Un'.
To ram the point home, he was filmed at the controls of a plane in 2015 - cue rousing orchestreal music and the patriotic tones of Ri Chun-hee, North Korea's newsreader of choice. How knowledgable about piloting an aircraft Un is remains in question.
Yet in May the so called Supreme Leader did risk a 360km flight from Pyongyang to Dalian when he met with China's Xi Jinping, and aboard his aged Il-62 too. This was his first known overseas trip by air. Enormous secrecy surrounded the visit, but a Cold War era Il-62 of Air Koryo was seen belching smoke on take off from Dalian airport after the meetings.
It may look like an am-dram mock up, but this is the real Air Koryo deal. Photo Koryo Tours
Rumours abounded as to whether Un's plane, or indeed his nerves would stand up to a long flight to meet with President Trump back in June. So Singapore was chosen, in part to be in range of Un's old crate, and also so as not to have the machine overfly mile after mile of open sea, with all the fears of few diversion airports should something go wrong with the aircraft.
However rather than limping into Singapore in a plane thought to have been buit in xxxx, Kim Jong-un actually descended in one of his pal Xi's converted Air China Boeing 747-8s. This kept up appearances of North Korea's strong ties with China, and demonstrated privte plane parity, as it is the same aircraft type used by the US as Air Force One.
Russia: for Putin's visit to the UK in 2003 he insisted that his 13-strong motorcade be shipped to London with him - including two armoured Russian-made Zil lomos. Russia presedential flight comprises 31 aircraft, including a couple of Airbusses, a couple of Antonovs, a couple of Tupolev 154s and Sukhois, eight Il-62s, eight Il-96s and 13 Tupolev 214s.
Putin's Russian-built presidential Il-96. Photo Dimitry Terekhov/Flickr
Russia operates two Ilyushin Il-96-300PU for the President's use, with all the trimmings, and there are even rumours of an escape capsule, similar to the one featured in the 1997 film 'Air Force One'.
Russian state Il-96 leaving Stansted in March 2018 with 23 'undeclared intelligence officers' on board
Head of state aircraft can be pressed into action for other duties too, as witnessed recently when Russia flew an government flight Il-96 to London's Stansted Airport in order to fly home their expelled embassy staff. British Prime Minister Teresa May had called the 23 'undeclared intelligence offices', and gave them a week to leave.
And so, with a photo of them and their famillies in the embassy being bid farewell by the Russian ambassador, an interview with the ambassador at the airport, and the large state jet, the Russian government capitalised on the PR opportunitites of the event rather effectively.
United Kingdom: the UK government forked out £10 million to refit one of the Royal Air Force Airbus A330 Voyager fleet for use of the government and Royal family. It's a miitary version of the standard passenger-carrying A330 that operates for the RAF as a fuel tanker, now fitted with 58 business classs style seats, missile defence systems and enhanced comms.
Am RAF A330 Voyager atRAF Brize Norton. Photo Sam Wise/Flickr
The UK's Royal family has form when it comes to actually flying planes too. Prince Philip earnt his wings (a term to mean that a person has completed their RAF flight training) in 1953, and at the time of him hanging up his goggles for good had accrued 5,986 hours at the controls. The Duke of York, Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry are also qualified helictopter pilots.
RAF BAE-146 of the UK's Royal Flight in Sumburg. Photo Ronnie Robertson/Flickr
Prince Charles was a keen flyer too. He started his career with the RAF in 1968. An incident on the Isle of Islay in June 1994 led to the Prince stepping down from active flying. He was at the controls during the landing and approached yhe runway some 32knots too fast and in high winds. This caused tyres to burst and the plane to slew off the runway and halt with the nose gear in mud.
USA: The so called 'Flying Whitehouse' was begun under JFK. It's said that George Bush Snr liked it so much that he'd get to the airport the night before and sleep on the plane before its early morning departure. And Jimmy Carter remembered his first trip - President Ford lent him the plane to carry his family to the inauguration. Carter said, "I was so excited, when we drove from Plains down to Albany, we forgot my mother," he said. "We had to stop and turn around."
Air Force One departing LAX
No surprise there - he was never going to buy an Airbus (the other airframer that makes an equivilent sized plane to the Jumbo Jet) - though he likes private jets and has a Boeing 757 of his own. He said the replacement of the current and aging Presidential Flight was a complete waste of money while on the campaign trail, but that was then.
Here's what you could have won. A fantasy Air Force One A380
The Reagan era Air Force One, a Boeing 707 that the President visited 26 countries and 46 states in, is on display at the Ronald Reagan Foundation in Simi Valley. The aircraft served seven US presidents from 1973 to 2001, and was where Reagan wroite many of his speeches and signed legislation. Among the other displays is a presidential limo, and a transplanted Irish pub from Ballyporeen, Ireland, which Reagan visited on a diplomatic trip in 1984 - it's now the Library's snack shop.
Reagan's Air Force One displayed at his museum. Photo Jim Maurer/Flickr
The National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio has an entire gallery devoted to previous presidential aircraft.
Vatican City: Pope Paul VI was the first pontiff to fly - when he made the first papal pilgrimage to Jordan and Israel in 1964.The Pope doesn't have his own aircraft, but instead tends to charter an Alitalia plane for his outward journeys, and then an aircraft from the national carrier of the country he is returning to Rome from.
Pope Benedict arriving in the USA in 2008. Photo Andrews Air Force Base
The media has dubbed his plane as 'Shepherd One', to echoe Air Force One, but it's invariably a chartered passenger jet.
These days the pope is lucky to get a couple of seats in Business Class, but a bed on display at a modest Kansas City Museum shows it wasn't always this way. In the unlikely setting of the Strawberry Hill Museum, in the days before flatbed seating in First and Business Classes, is the full sized bed that the pontiff used on an early trip to the US.
TWA's 'Shepherd 1', used for Pope John Paul's 1995 visit to the US
One More Thing...the most powerful man in the world aboard its most speccy plane, yet on September the 11th 2001, the armour plating, in flight refuelling and swarms of secret service simply wasn't enough.
After the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York on the 11th of September 2001, the then US President, George W. Bush was rushed to a safe room. Not to some super secret bunker deep under the Lincoln Memorial or in a disused Appalacian mine, but instead to the armoured cabin of Air Force One, which was hastilly scrambled from Sarasota, Florida, where the president was visiting a primary school.
At this time US air space had been closed, so pretty much the only plane above America's skies - aside from its escort of F-16 fighters - was just a pale blue and white Boeing 747, with around 60 people on board, and their Commander in Chief.
George Bush on board Air Force One on 9/11
The 747 lifted off and began heading to Washington D.C, but changed course owing to reports of six or more aircraft still not responding to ATC calls (and therefore possible hijacked targets too).
Following a call from Dick Cheny on the ground in Washington, the President gave the go ahead to shoot down any hijacked aircraft from his in-flight oval office at the front of the main deck.
Communications with the ground and ATC melted down somewhat due to the chaotic circumstances and spike in demand. Bush was minded to return to Washington D.C., but the on-baord secret service team told the president they didn't feel that was safe.
Then a highjacked plane hit the Pentagon and Tillman is reported as saying 'Let's go and cruise around the Gulf (of Mexico) for a little bit".
In the post 9/11 chaos, AF1 only picked up TV feed when flying over big cities
Comms that day on board AF1 were surprisibgly poor, with no email, just two phone lines operational, and intermittant TV reception - only really watchable when flying over large cities.
They flew to the nearby Barksdale Air Force Base, near Shreveport, Louisiana, and were caught by local news reporters, who were nevertheless unaware if Bush was on board. He left the plane via the lower stairs in case of snipers. After refulling, resupplying, and a hasty recorded press conferemce, an hour and 53 minutes after Air Force One had landed, it took off again.
President Bush using the lower steps at Barksdale Air Force Base, in case of snipers
With fuel topped up further with in flight refulling, the aircraft was good for a non stop flight of about 14 hours. But AF1 actually proceeded northwest to Offut Air Force Base, near Omaha, Nebraska - a good thousand miles west of the US capital.
From here, the aircraft continued on its unlikely odyssey, heading for Andrews Air Force Base 20 kilometres outside of Washington D.C. The president and all on AF1 got a chilling view of the Pentagon building disfigured by the crash of Maerican airlines flight 77 and in flames.
On landing Bush was swiftly transfered to Marine One, the presidential helicopter. He finally arrived at the White House some nine hours after hijacked American Airlines flight 11 hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York.
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The deadline for all research participation (and alternative assignments) for Winter 2019 is April 11th at 11:59PM.
As part of the PSY 1000 and PSY 2500 course, you are required to participate in departmental research studies or alternative assignments based on your reading of predetermined research articles.
All experiments and alternative assignments will be posted in the Psychology Experiment Management System, called SONA. You will have to create an account using your Oakland email address. Once you have created an account you can begin signing up for research studies or the alternative assignments. Make sure to read the instructions on how to create an account, find research studies that you are eligible for, or find alternative assignments to complete.
You are required to complete 10 research credits in total. You must earn at least 2 of your credits through in-person, laboratory research participation OR completing the alternative assignments. The remaining 8 credits can be earned through online research participation OR completing the alternative assignments. You will not be allowed to sign up for or complete more than 8 credits through online research participation. Pending credits for online research participation will count toward the 8 credit limit. Alternative assignments do not count as online research participation.
Please be considerate of the Researchers' time by keeping track of your appointments. If you are unable to make an appointment that you signed up for, please cancel your appointment using the SONA system. If you do not cancel prior to the beginning of the appointment time, you will be given an 'Unexcused - No Show' for your appointment. If you are given three 'Unexcused - No Shows' you will only be able to earn your credits through the completion of the alternative assignments.
You must sign up in SONA for the PSY 100 Alternative Assignment. After you have created an account in SONA you can complete the alternative assignment.
Choose an article from the list of pre-approved articles for your course: Psy 1000 list of articles.
Use the PsychINFO search engine on the Kresge Library website to find the article. All articles on the list can be accessed in electronic format.
Read the article and take notes or highlight the important information for later reference. Once you have read the article, you will then be required to answer a series of questions about the article.
Log in to the SONA system and click on "Study Sign-up." You will then see a list of research studies and the alternative assignment. Sign up for the "PSY 1000 Alternative Assignment." Once you have signed up, a link to the online quiz will become available for you to access.
When you are ready to complete the quiz, you can access the link, which will take you to a survey/quiz in SURVEYMONKEY. Complete the quiz for the article you just read.
At the end of the survey a screen will be displayed with all of your answers. It may be wise to save a screen shot of your answers or to print a copy of your responses as proof that you completed the assignment (this option is available to you during the quiz).
It may take up to a week to receive your credits. At the end of the semester, the final credits will be awarded shortly after the deadline. You will receive one credit for each quiz you complete based on the reading of a different article. If you plan to fulfill your research requirement by only completing the alternative assignments, you will need to read 10 articles, sign up for the alternative assignment in the SONA system, and complete eight quizzes by the semester deadline. You can access the same link to complete each quiz for a different article.
You must sign up in SONA for the PSY 2500 Alternative Assignment. After you have created an account in SONA you can complete the alternative assignment.
Choose an article from the list of pre-approved articles for your course: Psy 2500 list of articles.
Log in to the SONA system and click on "Study Sign-up." You will then see a list of research studies and the alternative assignment. Sign up for the "PSY 2500 Alternative Assignment." Once you have signed up, a link to the online quiz will become available for you to access.
When you are ready to complete the quiz, you can access the link, which will take you to a survey/quiz in survey monkey. Complete the quiz for the article you just read.
When will I receive credits?
Make sure that you read the instructions or information provided to you by the researcher conducting the study. This information may be posted on SONA or may have been provided to you in a document or online. It may take several days to be awarded credit for participation. Please be patient and only contact the researcher after an appropriate amount of time (i.e., the time specified in the instructions or information) or several days after the closing of the session.
Your credits for the alternative assignment will be awarded on a weekly basis.
What happens if I do not complete my credits on time?
For each credit you fail to complete, 1% will be deducted from your final grade. For example, if you fail to complete 1 credit, 1% will be deducted from your final grade. If you fail to complete 2 credits, 2% will be deducted from your final grade and so on. Therefore, if you fail to complete all 10 credits 10% will be deducted from your final grade (NO EXCEPTIONS). If you complete the research requirement, no deductions or additions will be made to your grade.
What if there are no research studies?
Throughout the semester, new experiments and new openings for existing experiments will be posted on SONA. Be patient and check the system regularly (i.e., a few times per week).
If it is nearing the end of the semester and you have not completed your credits, you must complete the alternative assignments to complete the research requirement. There are no excuses. If there are no research studies available, you must complete the alternative assignment. A lack of available studies is not a valid excuse for not completing the research requirement. Everyone is required to complete the research requirement either by research participation or the alternative assignments.
If you do not remember your password you can request your password to be sent to you on the SONA main page. Please attempt this option prior to emailing the coordinator.
You need to be at least 18 years old to participate in the experiments listed on SONA, unless otherwise specified in the description of a specific experiment. If you are not at least 18 years old, you will need to complete the alternative assignments.
Students who show up for experiments they are not enrolled in will be refused the opportunity to participate.
If you cannot make a session that you have signed up for, you should resign from that session. If it is too late to resign, you should email the researcher conducting the study to inform them that you will not be able to make the session. This may mean that you forfeit your opportunity to participate in that particular study.
If you are having difficulty with SONA or have specific questions about being a research participant, you may contact the Subject Pool Coordinator, Dr. Virgil Zeigler-Hill, zeiglerh@oakland.edu. Make sure that you have attempted to answer your questions on your own prior to contacting Dr. Zeigler-Hill.
What if I am participating for extra credit?
Extra credit is only awarded by instructors who have designated participation in the Subject Pool as a viable extra credit option. If your instructor has agreed to allow extra credit for experiment participation, information regarding this option should have been made explicit in your syllabus or by your instructor. If your instructor or your course is not listed in SONA, extra credit is likely not an option for you.
If you are a PSY 1000 or PSY 2500 student, your instructor must have explicitly stated that extra credit is an option. If it is an option, you need to discuss this option with your instructor for the details. However, you must complete the 10 mandatory credits prior to receiving any extra credit for research participation in your course.


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Waldron Spartans engaged in virtual spirit week
Corey Murray
cmurray@hillsdale.net
WALDRON — Students, parents and faculty alike have engaged in Waldron School District's Virtual Spirit Week this week.
Superintendent Mike Potts said the spirit week began with a simple idea to keep the district involved with what families and staff were doing during the shutdown.
"Even though we're not at school, we're still involved in people's lives," Potts said. "It's a fun thing to do to keep people involved and moving along."
And the district has had a lot of interest and participation thus far. On Monday, families shared photographs and videos of students reading to the schools social media accounts. Tuesday brought arts and crafts photos and Wednesday was filled with cooking content.
"People are enjoying it," Potts said.
District faculty is busily working to send stuff out to students to work on, Potts said, but the district suffers from internet limitations in the rural, mostly agriculture, area.
Staff has also been involved in delivering meals in the community house to house, Potts said.
Meanwhile, the district is anticipating re-opening April 13 after the state of Michigan extended the original three week closure beyond April 6.
Potts said the district is monitoring the national pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus and is remaining flexible as new guidelines and protocols are issued.
"Right now we're playing the cards as they're dealt," Potts said when asked if the district was prepared for schools to be closed the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year as other states have done.
Potts said it was not exactly clear if the district would have to make-up the five weeks students are off and said if they did, districts throughout the state would have to re-evaluate budget implications due to hourly staff payroll.


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Q: Cannot set 32bit colordepth at max resolution I have a Dell Latitude D830 which has a 1920x1200 display and a Nvidia Quadro 140M graphics card. It runs windows XP professional German with SP3. When I have a 2nd monitor attached an I have both screens set to 1920x1200 I can not set 32bit color depth. It always defaults back to 16bit. It worked a while ago but doesn't any more.
This only happens when both monitors are enabled. If I disable either one it lets me set 32bit again.
Also when I set the 1st display to 1920x1080 and the 2nd to 1600x1200 i can enable 32bit on both again.

A: That problem usually indicates that there is insufficient video memory to store the color data for both screens at the same time.
My D830 with the 135M has 128MB of dedicated video memory, but my external displays are all 1680x1050, so I can't test with a 1080p external monitor.


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Fonterra confirms timeline for capital structure implementation
Fonterra confirmed on November 25 that its new Flexible Shareholding capital structure is set to be implemented in late March 2023, subject to the cooperative's board being satisfied that the relevant preparations are completed before then.
The structure, which is laid out in a step-by-step tool for shareholders, is intended to make it easier for new farmers to join Fonterra and for existing farmers to remain, by allowing greater flexibility in the level of investment required.
Fonterra chairman Peter McBride said the Flexible Shareholding will support Fonterra's strategy by helping to maintain a sustainable milk supply, protecting farmer ownership and control and supporting a stable balance sheet.
"Our cooperative is already making good progress towards our 2030 strategic goals, and we believe moving to our Flexible Shareholding structure will help ensure that we stay on track," said McBride.
The proposal to move to the Flexible Shareholding received a strong farmer mandate in December 2021, with more than 85% of the total number of farmer votes cast in support of the recommendation.
Since then, the cooperative has been working with the New Zealand government to get related changes made to the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act – the legislation that enabled the formation of Fonterra back in 2001.
McBride said the passing of the relevant legislation in New Zealand's parliament provides farmer owners the clarity they have been wanting.
"This milestone gives us the confidence to put in place the transition to our Flexible Shareholding structure," McBride said. "We would like to take this opportunity to thank Minister O'Connor and the government for passing the legislation through under urgency and giving the co-op's shareholders this much needed certainty."
The decision to implement Flexible Shareholding in late March was made based on a number of considerations.
"We believe late March is the best date for implementation because it avoids our share trading black-out period associated with the co-op's Interim Results," McBride said. "The black-out period would impact our ability to support liquidity in the market via the Transitional Buyback, which is part of the package of liquidity measures of up to $300 million that we have previously announced.
"It also gives shareholders time to fully digest the detailed information we will be sending through ahead of the implementation date, and to seek advice from their financial advisors. We are mindful that it's a busy time on farm, and that advisors may not be available over the summer holidays."
In addition, Fonterra is aiming for new market making arrangements to become effective before the Flexible Shareholding is implemented to help support liquidity.
The cooperative intends to confirm the final implementation date at the same time as its interim results are announced – currently scheduled for March 16, 2023.
- Fonterra


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Q: $\frac{\max(1,xy)}{y} = x$: Did I just create a fractal? https://www.desmos.com/calculator/6hfyqc6ks9
Did I just create a fractal? Again, the function is $\frac{\max(1,xy)}{y} = x$.

Even uncannier version, from the alternative form with "sgn" that Wolfram provided: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/rikex4bvld

A: You have definitely created a strange fractal-like behavior, but not in the equation itself -- rather in Desmos's plotting software :)
The problem with this equation is that it is true not for a one-dimensional curve of points, but rather for the two-dimensional space of points $(x,y)$ where $xy \ge 1$. Algebraically:
$$
\frac{\max(1, xy)}{y} = x
\iff \max(1, xy) = xy \iff xy \ge 1.
$$
The true plot of this is as follows:

Graphing software -- including Desmos -- is usually optimized for the case of plotting a curve, rather than a 2-dimensional space of points. It is likely that is the reason for the weird behavior.
FWIW, Desmos does warn us that something might be up with this plot, as shown by the following warning in your screenshot:

A: I have identified the regions as being delimited by powers of $2$ and graphs of $y=2^k/x$. The issue is with the implementation of their max function. If you change it to $\max(0,xy)/y=x$, you can extend the pattern all the way down to the origin:
Desmos link

The clean lines make up the true "fractal". But I think this is the end of the line for me, because I have no idea why max would have an issue understanding that if $a\approx 2,b\approx 2$ then clearly, $\max(ab,0)=ab$.


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Firecrackers is a Canadian drama following two young women, best friends from a rural town, as they face marginalization and struggle in a patriarchal society (93 min, drama). Director: Jasmin Mozaffari Screening on Wednesday, March 20 at 18.30. Q&A discussion… Read More »FIRECRACKERS
 Breathless is a documentary covering the gripping story of the fight of individuals against a booming and deadly asbestos industry (70min, doc). Director: Daniel Lambo Panel Discussion with: Tublu Krishnendu Mukherjee, barrister and Indian advocate at Doughty Street Chambers in… Read More »BREATHLESS
Rafiki is a drama about two Kenyan women who fall in love and are forced to choose between love and safety. Director: Wanuri Kahiu Screening on Sunday, March 24 at 16.00 (83 minutes) 30-minute skype Q&A with: Samantha Mugatsia who plays… Read More »RAFIKI
Capernaum is a drama that draws attention to the plight of children in Beirut's slums and the situation people without ID cards find themselves in (121 min, doc). Director: Nadine Labaki 30-minute Q&A discussion with: Spyros A. Sofos, a researcher at Lund… Read More »CAPERNAUM
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Central Airport THF is a documentary that offers a glimpse into the lives of refugees being housed in an old airport. It strikes a perfect balance between people and locale (100 min, doc). Director: Karim Aïnouz Screening on Sunday, March 24… Read More »CENTRAL AIRPORT THF
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Under the Wire documentary about the violations of international humanitarian law in Syria and the impact on people there. Director: Chris Martin Screening on Saturday, March 23 at 16.00 (95 min, doc) Q&A with Lina Biscaia, the former Acting Chief Analyst of… Read More »UNDER THE WIRE
Swedish premiere! Anthropocene is a documentary at the intersect of art and science which depicts humanity's massive re-engineering of the planet. Directors: Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, and Nicholas de Pencier Panel discussion with: Flaviano Bianchini, founder and director of Source… Read More »ANTHROPOCENE


Hang up your coats and dust off your dancing shoes as DJ Rene is in Camps Bay this Spring and Summer. "The Frenchman" takes to the decks at The 41 every Friday night in October. More dates to come for season!
The summer warm-up sessions will offer a scrumptious Sunset Tapas Platter for R 150 to share which includes Smoked Red Pepper Hummus with flatbread, Potato & Parmesan Churros with Chipotle Mayo and Crispy Squid with Sriracha Aioli. 2 glasses of Andiamo aperitivo spritz will be offered with the Tapas Platter. It is a light, refreshing Italian style blend of sparkling wine infused with only the finest imported blood orange bitters. Andiamo is the ideal drink for when the day is waning, and the night is young.
A La Carte dinner is also available during the Summer Warm-up sessions. Kitchen closing at 9.30pm.
Good music, delicious food and great vibes are all on offer this spring at The 41.
From 10 o'clock till late, The 41 will remove its dinning tables to make sure you've got space enough on the dance floor for your best choreographies!
Call us on 021 437 0558 or email at info@the41.co.za for Dinner, Party table bookings (available from 10pm) & Guestlist.


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