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Q: Apache Server Not Displaying Site From Correct Directory I have an apache server setup on Zentyal 3.4/Ubuntu 13.10. I have disabled the default virtual hosts file and enabled one with the following:
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@SERVER
    ServerName dev.net
    DocumentRoot /var/www/dev
    <Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/dev/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

However, when i set the url to dev.net, a page comes up saying "This is the default web page for this server. The web server is running but no content has been added, yet." This is not the content of the index.php in /var/www/dev . In fact, I even removed the default index.html from /var/www and I still get the message.
PHP is installed and enabled. Is this a problem with php? If not, do you have any ideas?

A: No, it is not a problem with PHP.
Please first reload apache, and then, clear the browser's cache, and finally reload the webpage. This should resolve the issue.


Words containing BI. With this 2 letter combination (B I) you can create 458 anagrams that contain all the same letters. We found partially matching words lists! We searched for words in our database of more than 182 000 anagrams.


Palestinians and their supporters often cite South African apartheid when trying to illustrate the conditions the Palestinian people are living under. The wall that is being built up and down occupied Palestinian territory is thus known as the apartheid wall, and, just recently, President Yasser Arafat invoked South Africa when, in an interview with the London-based al Sharq al Awsat newspaper, he said he would be happy to do as Nelson Mandela did and step aside for a new generation of leaders, but only, as in the case of South Africa, when nationhood is achieved.
Indeed, the South African apartheid system does exhibit a number of similarities to the system installed by the Israeli government to rule Palestinians under occupation. To give but one, perhaps the most obvious example, Palestinians in the occupied territories live under one law, military law, while Israeli settlers in the same occupied territories live under another, civil Israeli law.
Since 1948, Israel has been using what are known as emergency regulations that were originally devised by the British Mandate authorities, ironically, at times to be used by the British against the Jews. These emergency laws were used for years against the Palestinian population inside the green line and, since the occupation of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, are still applied in occupied Palestinian territory.
The rules give all legal power to the Israeli military governor vis-a-vis the occupied Palestinian population under his rule, unlike the settlers in occupied territory who are subject to Israeli civilian police. Thus a Palestinian will be put before a military court (if he goes to court and is not simply placed in administrative detention), while an Israeli settler will retain his full civil and political rights before a civil court.
In general, while Israel likes to portray itself as a country ruled by law, the fact remains that for Palestinians, the Israeli courts are the chief instruments through which torture and discrimination against them are institutionalized. And in this vein there are many other instances of obvious discrimination that are remarkably similar to the apartheid era (compare settler-only roads to white-only restaurants, or the "right of return" of Jews who have never been to the country while Palestinian refugees indigenous to the country linger in exile, etc.).
But there are also important differences. The black South African struggle was one for equal rights in one country. While some Palestinians would advocate a similar struggle here, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has become primarily one over the creation of two separate states, or rather a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
And while the struggle against apartheid was a struggle for equal social and political rights, the Palestinian struggle, in addition to that, is also an existential struggle. The current Israeli prime minister is the first ever to publicly state that he would accept a Palestinian state, but on the ground he is doing his best to ensure that such a thing cannot become a reality by isolating Palestinians into cantons and imposing his own vision of what land such a state can be built on.
Finally, the apartheid regime existed while there was still a global balance of power. Today's unipolar world is held entirely in the sway of the world's single hegemon, the United States. And the US is Israel's staunchest supporter. While black South Africans received crucial solidarity from sectors of American society for whom the civil rights movement was a defining and greatly empowering phenomenon, no equivalent exists for the Palestinians.
Herein lies a major problem for Palestinians. While a number of pressures led to the end of the apartheid regime, a crucial one was the international isolation and economic sanctions that were eventually imposed on that country. Palestinians have tried, and continue to try to convince the international community that a similar course of action with regards to Israel would be an effective way of finally solving this conflict. But as long as the US continues successfully to block such efforts, via its veto power in the United Nations Security Council or direct pressure on a number of countries–and as the only global power the US can dictate and determine how political processes unfold–it is an avenue of pressure that will be closed off to Palestinians.
In short, while both apartheid South Africa and the Israeli occupation are similar in the desire shown by one people to control the indigenous other of a given country and the lengths to which they would go to crush the will of their targeted populations, the Palestinians must also understand the differences in the two cases to better achieve their national rights. Thus, while apartheid South Africa might provide a fairly accurate comparison to illustrate the plight of the Palestinian people, it does not necessarily provide the model upon which action should be emulated. Palestinians need to be creative to fight for their rights in the context of the particularities of their situation, which in certain crucial aspects are different from apartheid.
Hisham Ahmed is a professor of political science at Birzeit University. He is featured on Media Monitors Network (MMN) with the courtesy of Bitterlemons.org.


In Epsom calfskin, Sombrero calfskin and Mysore goatskin. The Lettres au carré design gives rise to a collection of charms that form a colourful alphabet. Each letter is a unique combination of colours and shapes, made of solid leather and leather inlay.
In Epsom calfskin, Sombrero calfskin and Mysore goatskin The six versions of this new interpretation of the Kelly bag showcase a leather inlay technique. Each one features one of the letters of the word Hermès. This assembly of leathers, smooth and grained, matt and glossy, forms a perfectly flat motif.
This table football table has a solid structure, wide paddles, and a substantial weight. A nod to the house's equestrian roots, the players are actually jockeys: made of carved metal by Christian Renonciat, they sport colourful handpainted silks. In the centre of the table is the number 24 in leather marquetry, a reference to Hermès' historic address in Paris: 24, Faubourg Saint-Honoré.
As graphic as it is decorative, this little horses game in printed maple comes with a die in wood marquetry. A saddle nail in engraved steel inlaid in the base of each token adds a discrete detail.
Young and old can play on the beach, by the pool, or in the garden with these printed beach bats that match the Jeux d'animaux beach towel by Jean Houzard. The cork handle features a silk wrist strap.


The Punjab and Haryana High Courts have banned crackers on weddings and other ceremonies on Thursday (December 07).
The Punjab and Haryana High Courts have banned crackers on weddings and other ceremonies on Thursday (December 07). Now people from Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh will not be able to do this. The High Court has also banned the bursting of fireworks on the New Year celebration. At the same time, the High Court has asked the two states and Union Territory of Chandigarh to take strict measures to strictly follow this order. The court has asked the district deputy commissioners and police superintendents of Haryana, Punjab and Chandigarh to strictly follow the order.
Before this, the High Court had earlier banned cracking firecrackers in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh on the occasion of Diwali and had given exemption for only three hours from 6.30 am to 9.30 pm. The court took this decision considering the increasing level of pollution. Punjab-Haryana High Court's bench of justice AK Mittal and Justice Amit Rawal had then made it clear in its order that detailed guidelines related to the bann will be issued later.
Previous PostWomen will have to wear helmet after this order.


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// 2014-06-16  Prepared the code to work for both unicode and multibyte applications

#include <Windows.h>
#include "acwin_statusbar.h"
#include <assert.h>

namespace acWindow
{

CStatusBar::CStatusBar() : CWindow()
{
	numParts = 0;
	widths   = 0;
}

CStatusBar::~CStatusBar()
{
	if( widths )
		delete[] widths;
}

int CStatusBar::Create(CWindow *parent)
{
	// Initialize the common control
	INITCOMMONCONTROLSEX icc;
	icc.dwSize = sizeof(icc);
	icc.dwICC = ICC_BAR_CLASSES;
	InitCommonControlsEx(&icc);

	HWND parentWnd = parent ? parent->GetHandle() : 0;
	HWND statusBar = CreateStatusWindow(WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|WS_CLIPSIBLINGS|WS_CLIPCHILDREN, __TEXT(""), parentWnd, 0);
	if( Subclass(statusBar) < 0 )
		return -1;

	SetStatusText("");

	return 0;
}

LRESULT CStatusBar::MsgProc(UINT msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
	switch( msg )
	{
	case WM_DESTROY:
		DefWndProc(msg, wParam, lParam);
		Detach();
		return 0;

	case WM_SIZE:
		DefWndProc(msg, wParam, lParam);
		OnResize();
		return 0;
	}

	return DefWndProc(msg, wParam, lParam);
}

// flags
//  0              - sunken border
//  SBT_NOBORDERS  - no border
//  SBT_OWNERDRAW  - text is drawn by parent
//  SBT_POPOUT     - raised border
//  SBT_RTLREADING - right-to-left reading
void CStatusBar::SetStatusText(const char *text, UINT index, DWORD flags)
{
	if( index > 255 ) index = 255;

	TCHAR buf[1024];
	ConvertUtf8ToTChar(text, buf, 1024);

	SendMessage(hWnd, SB_SETTEXT, index | flags, (LPARAM)buf);
}

void CStatusBar::SetParts(UINT inNumParts, int *inWidths)
{
	numParts = inNumParts;
	if( numParts > 255 ) numParts = 255;

	if( widths ) delete[] widths;
	widths = new int[numParts];

	// Copy the widths
	memcpy(widths, inWidths, numParts*4);

	OnResize();
}

void CStatusBar::OnResize()
{
	// Calculate the size of the window so we can adjust the location of each part
	RECT rc;
	GetWindowRect(hWnd, &rc);
	int w = rc.right-rc.left;

	// Determine how many resizables parts there are, and
	// how much space should be shared between them
	int countResizables = 0;
	int n;
	for( n = 0; n < numParts; n++ )
	{
		if( widths[n] == -1 )
			countResizables++;
		else
			w -= widths[n];
	}

	if( w < 0 ) w = 0;

	// Resize the parts
	int rights[256];
	int right = 0;
	for( n = 0; n < numParts; n++ )
	{
		if( widths[n] == -1 )
			right += w/countResizables;
		else
			right += widths[n];

		rights[n] = right;
	}

	SendMessage(hWnd, SB_SETPARTS, numParts, (LPARAM)rights);
}

}

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Ashdown Engineering introduced an interesting new bass cabinet called the CL-310-DH. Rated at 450 watts at 8 ohms, the cabs were inspired by vintage British PA systems and feature a 3×10″ configuration with dual high-frequency horns. The seed for the new design came from Pink Floyd and session bassist Guy Pratt.
The cab design is rear ported with a six-inch tuned port. It also has a tilt-back design with casters on the rear and a handle for easy transportation. A side recessed leather handle lets you carry it on its side, as well.
The CL-310-DH is finished in a Bronco Tolex with a red custom weave grille and old English style white piping. It debuted at the 2019 Winter NAMM Show and will be available soon with a price point of approximately $775.


Ahmed has worked with BSBG for more than a decade, and was one of the first engineers to join the division. His extensive expertise and appetite for projects has helped him establish himself as one of BSBG's most valuable assets, and he has worked his way up to become an associate based upon his commitment and capabilities. As an engineer, his work is precise and meticulous, and this is augmented with a genuine passion and enthusiasm for all aspects of the project cycle.


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Eremophila sargentii is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a shrub with sticky, shiny foliage, small leaves and mauve or blue flowers.

Description
Eremophila sargentii is a strong-smelling shrub which grows to a height of between . Its branches are glabrous, shiny and sticky and have ridges extending down from the leaf bases. The leaves are linear to oblong-shaped,  long,  wide, glabrous, sticky and shiny due to the presence of resin.

The flowers are borne singly in leaf axils on straight, glabrous, sticky stalks,  long. There are 5 green, overlapping, egg-shaped, sticky sepals which are  long. The petals are  long and are joined at their lower end to form a cylindrical tube. The petal tube is mauve, blue or lilac-coloured, white with yellow-brown spots inside. The petal tube and lobes are glabrous except for the inside of the tube which has long, soft hairs. The 4 stamens are enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering occurs between September and October and is followed by fruits which are dry, woody, oval-shaped and about  long.

Taxonomy and naming
The species was first formally described in 1921 by Spencer Le Marchant Moore who gave it the name Pholidia sargentii and published the description in Journal of Botany, British and Foreign. In 1981, Robert Chinnock changed the name to Eremophila sargentii and published the new name in Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden. The specific epithet (sargentii) honours Oswald Hewlett Sargent, a pharmacist and botanist from York, who described nine species of plants.

Distribution and habitat
This eremophila grows in sandy loam and laterite between Wongan Hills and Kalannie in the Avon Wheatbelt biogeographic region.

Conservation
E. sargentii is classified as "Priority Two" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife meaning that is poorly known and from only one or a few locations.

Use in horticulture
This is a very hardy shrub, usually with deep blue flowers that contrast well with its bright green, often aromatic leaves. It is usually propagated from cuttings and grows well in a wide range of soils including those that are alkaline or clay-based. It is both drought and frost hardy and does not usually require watering, even during a long dry spell.

References

Eudicots of Western Australia
sargentii
Endemic flora of Western Australia
Plants described in 1921
 Taxa named by Spencer Le Marchant Moore

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If you have heavy or oversized items to transport, hiring one of our special trailers may be the way forward. Our heavy duty trailers are equipped with 2 or 4-wheel steering and are easily hitched to heavy industrial vehicles. With their removable drawbar the 4-wheel steered trailers have an exceptionally tight turning circle, making them extremely useful where space is limited. Flat bed trailers are ideal for the internal transport of materials over 3 tonnes, and we have a range of other trailers which come into their own in specific situations.
Need to travel substantial distances during an event, on a construction site or at the golf course? Our site carriers, gators (multifunctional work vehicles) and golf carts are what you need! Our electrically powered golf carts are CO2 neutral and therefore suitable for the transport of persons and goods in enclosed spaces, in event venues, commercial buildings and tunnels. They can save you a lot of walking! And carrying: their load space provides plenty of room for your bits and pieces.
Need some additional temporary storage space? Hiring a shipping container or a variant building may be the answer. These are highly flexible and create additional space simply and quickly. They can also be used as temporary workshops. A mobile canteen provides dry and comfortable accommodation for your staff. The ball coupling means they are easily transported and suitable for motorway speeds. Our mobile canteens are equipped as standard with fixed bench seating and a table, WC, lighting, heating and an electrical outlet.
Road barriers and crowd control barriers are used to cordon off a site or route, and are extremely useful in combination with mobile road signs. Mobile road signs are used to provide warnings or information at working locations or event sites, for example to indicate a diversion. The trailer is compact for quick and easy deployment, and it is powered by solar panels and an internal battery, so no power supply is required.


James and I recently discovered a new trail: Discovery Trail.
It was fabulous. We spotted a huge bald eagle in a tree by the path.
We sat on a bench behind the barn and watched the it make a kill on the pond...a bit gruesome.
Who knew this little gem was tucked back in Centralia through a little farm and along the river. Yes, I think we'll go again.


On 5th December 2018 the Conference AlgaEurope 2018 was held in Amsterdam where the Water2REturn project was presented by the partners Algen and Ljubljana University.
Latest developments in regulations and marketing.
New developments in macroalgae application.
Robert Reinhardt, director of Algen, was in charge of chairing the session on Biorefineries. During this conference Algen explained three projects such as SaltGae, Life Algaecan and Water2Return with an oral presentation.
Lara Resman, from the University of Ljubljana, showed a poster presentation about the results of Water2Return project experiments according to barley and maize growth pot tests using microalgae biomass as biostimulant or biofertilizer.
This conference has allowed us to expand the knowledge behind agricultural science in terms of algae. Deep insight has been gained in the fields of algae cultivation, algae extraction, the production of high value products and the application of algae in environmental solutions. All this has been important for understanding the biology and processing of algae, as well as for getting new ideas and valuable contacts for further work.


It's time to indulge in Some Freedom Bytes at Grub House. The popular joint at Rajouri Garden has launched a New Menu called Freedom Bytes, that only has Tricolour dishes on its menu. The menu Offers a great variety of dishes. One can choose from Tricolour Grilled Soya, Tricolour Paneer Tikka, Tricolour Pasta, Tricolour Pizza, Tricolour Risotto, Tricolour Gravy , Tricolour Lasagne, Tricolour Desserts and more.
Not only this, If you are dressed up in either of the Tricolor, you might get lucky to 15% discount on your meal.
Grub House is nice place to hangout with family and friends. It offers great variety in food. Covering Indian, Chinese, Italian, Punjabi style, grills , both finger food as well as mains.
Celebrate , Independence with Tricolours in your food. . . . . . . .
Address & contact number- J 2/14, BK Dutt Market, Rajouri Garden.


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The 2008 Vancouver Whitecaps season was the club's 23rd year of existence (or 33rd if counting the NASL Whitecaps), as well as their 16th as a Division 2 club in the franchise model of US-based soccer leagues. With games against well supported MLS side Toronto FC in the Voyageurs Cup and local rival Seattle Sounders selling 22,000 season tickets for MLS in 2009, the Vancouver Whitecaps were marketed as one of the leading markets for a 2011 MLS expansion side. This included expanding the ownership to include Victoria, BC raised NBA star Steve Nash in July.   The Division 1 MLS speculation along with the higher profile that came with public negotiations with Vancouver City Council and the Port of Metro Vancouver to develop the Whitecaps Waterfront Stadium gave a boost to media coverage and game attendances.  The privately financed stadium, first proposed in 2006, appeared to be reaching its final government land use approvals in 2008.

The 2008 season started in a strong fashion with two losses in their first ten games as new coach Teitur Thordarson maintained the defensive style of previous coach Bob Lilley to grind out results.  The USL-1 league was a closely contested affair with eleven points separating 11th and third in the standings.  However, the top two teams, the Whitecaps and Puerto Rico were a further ten points clear of third place.  The Commissioner's Cup was a contest between the Whitecaps, who finished runner-up by one point, and the Puerto Rico Islanders. The Whitecaps almost squandered a 5-1 aggregate league by letting the Minnesota Thunder back into the second leg of the USL-1 play in round, but held on for a 5-4 aggregate win. In the semi-final series against Montreal Impact they ground out a first leg 1-0 loss after their goal keeper was ejected.  The Whitecaps deservedly won the second leg 2-0 at home to go through 2-1 on aggregate to the final against Puerto Rico Islanders. The playoff final was a back and forth game in which the Whitecaps prevailed 2-1 in front of 5,822 at their long time home of Swangard Stadium.

This was the first year of the official tournament for the Voyageurs Cup also known as the Canadian Championship as CONCACAF designated a Canadian spot in the new champions league structure of the CONCACAF Champions Cup. The Whitecaps finished third in the 2008 Voyaguers Cup with two losses to Montreal and a draw and a win over Division 1 MLS side Toronto FC.

Schedule and results

Tables

Tie-breaker order: 1. Head-to-head points; 2. Total wins; 3. Goal difference; 4. Goals for; 5. Lottery
† Rochester deducted 1 point for use of an ineligible player on August 10, 2008

Pre-season

USL-1

Results by round

Post-season
Play-in Round

Semi-finals

Final

Canadian Championship

Canadian Championship standings

Canadian Championship results

Cascadia Cup

Friendlies

Current roster
After the 2007 season, the Whitecaps and coach Bob Lilley parted ways with the Whitecaps hiring Teitur Thordarson. Many local long time stalwart veteran players such as Jeff Clarke, Jason Jordan, Steve Kindel, Geordie Lyall, Martin Nash, and Alfredo Valente remained on the roster. Leading striker Eduardo Sebrango also was back for another year with the new coach.

The Whitecaps signed Jamaican striker Nicholas Addlery, US keeper Jay Nolly, Omar Jarun, Japanese international Takashi Hirano, and Bolivian youth international Vicente Arze.

Staff
 Head coach – Teitur Thordarson
 Assistant coach – Todd Wawrousek
 Manager communications – Nathan Vanstone
 Director of professional teams – Greg Anderson
 Office manager – Lindsay Pucklik
 President – Bob Lenarduzzi

All stats as of the end of the season.

Goalkeeper stats

Player statistics

Updated February 28, 2014
 Note this list includes only players that have dressed in the eighteen.
 Note brackets indicate substitute appearances.
 Note statistics are for league and playoffs (not preseason). Voyageurs Cup statistics appear to no longer be available.

References

Vancouver Whitecaps (1986–2010) seasons
Vancouver Whitecaps


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Q: Dynamic predicate building in EF5 Ok,
I have to build a predicate to select an unknown number of columns from a known entity in EF5 AND filter by an unknown number of columns ONE of which will always be a name from a child collection.
So this is what I need to end up with
var q = db.Set<Entity>()
          .Where(e => e.Code.Contains("q") || e.Translations.FirstOrDefault(t => t.Culture.ID == "whatever").Description.Contains("q"))
          .Select(e => new
                       {
                           e.ID,
                           e.Code,
                           Name = e.Translations.FirstOrDefault(t => t.Culture.ID == "whatever").Description
                       });

but I'm not sure how to approach building the predicate for the expression
e.Translations.FirstOrDefault(t => t.Culture.ID == "whatever").Description.Contains("q")

The columns to select and the fields to filter on are supplied as an array of strings, and in this instance the filter is always contains.
I'm familiar with building predicates, that's not the issue, it's more I've never had to look into child collections before and I'm at a total "WTF" point of the day :-)
Any and all pushes in the right direction would be most appriciated.

A: One approach might be to use DynamicLinq. See http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/01/07/dynamic-linq-part-1-using-the-linq-dynamic-query-library.aspx
If you look at the third query down, you should be able to do something like:
 e.Translations
.Where("Culture.ID = 'whatever'") //Conditions defined as string as per example
.FirstOrDefault() //etc.

Regarding select an unknown number of columns from a known entity in EF5 AND filter by an unknown number of columns, you could use whatever expression is required to build your string prior to using it. For the 'contains' clause it is a bit more complex - please see the methods described here - How to write String.Contains in Dynamic Linq
I haven't actually tested this as I don't have access to EF5, but it looks like there are EF5 based questions for DynamicLinq (so it should work) - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9929396/entity-framework-5-0-performance-with-dyanmic-linq
Also, I should point out that I would prefer to use PredicateBuilder for this purpose, but I believe you will be unable to without knowing the fieldnames in advance/using some sort of reflection (see Using Dynamic Column Names in a Linq Query). It is also worth acknowledging this answer (https://stackoverflow.com/a/2497335/201648) which suggests the above approach.
Also, it is possible to setup conditional rules for fields using lambdas as described here: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/28580/LINQ-and-Dynamic-Predicate-Construction-at-Runtime
// use tryparse to make sure we don't run a bogus query.
if (cbxUseEmployeeID.Checked &&
    int.TryParse(filterEmployeeId.Text, out emplId) &&
    emplId > 0) {

    // here's how simple it is to add a condition to the query.
    // Still not executing yet, just building a tree.
    predicate = predicate.And(e => e.EmployeeID == emplId);
}

This would still require you to know the possible set of fields as far as I can see (I still think its cool and worth a mention).

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Double Loop Corkscrew ist die Bezeichnung eines Stahlachterbahnmodells des Herstellers Vekoma, welches erstmals 1981 ausgeliefert wurde.

Die 700 m lange Strecke erreicht eine Höhe von 30 m und verfügt über vier Inversionen: zwei Loopings sowie einen doppelten Korkenzieher.

Standorte

MK-1200

Custom MK-1200
Zudem gibt es auch noch die Custom MK-1200, welche vom Grundprinzip des Layouts gleich sind, sich jedoch in einigen Abschnitten unterscheiden. So wurde z. B. bei Big Loop im Heide Park unter anderem die Kurve direkt nach dem Lifthill weggelassen, sodass der Firstdrop direkt nach dem Ausklinken der Kette erfolgt.

Weblinks
 Übersicht aller Auslieferungen inkl. Versetzungen

Achterbahnmodell
Stahlachterbahn
Achterbahn hergestellt von Vekoma


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Partly cloudy skies. Low near 50F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph..
Northwest trail shouldn't disrupt grizzly habitat
By Rick Bass Guest columnist
These are strange and tense times. Having been involved in Montana's conservation politics for 32 years—I remember when Pat Williams was young!—it's interesting and encouraging to witness recent Montana-based conservation legislation, even as Washington, D.C. pulses and throbs with paralyzing vitriol.
Maybe what we are doing in Montana is an uptick, or maybe it's a real trend. The bipartisan support for the Gateway Act to protect the north entrance to Yellowstone from international mining interests, and likewise support for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, are both reminders that our economy depends more than ever upon the integrity of Montana's open space and wild places.
Maybe what we are doing in Montana is an uptick, or maybe it's a real trend. Regardless, clear opportunity exists for another bipartisan solution to a threatening issue for which exists a ready-made, no-brainer solution. The Pacific Northwest Trail (PNT), a 1,200-mile, high-volume through-hiker trail along the Canadian border, was, after 32 years of opposition by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, nonetheless quietly authorized by attachment of a single paragraph to a must-pass omnibus bill. The route authorized passed through the middle of the most vital grizzly habitat in the Yaak Valley. (The legislation also required the USFS to complete a management plan for the 1,200-mile trail within two years of the bill's passage. For unknown reasons, the USFS failed to even initiate such planning for eight years, and never completed it. Until a few years ago, many people in Montana didn't realize a trail had been authorized).
So many concerns attend to the genesis of this legislation: the lack of Montana's stakeholders to be engaged in the discussion; the untested map itself, which cobbled together an matrix of existing trails, logging roads, new trails, and in some cases, high-speed paved U.S. highways, the latter of which is as illegal as it is unsafe for both hikers and motorists. Conflicts with border agents along the Canadian-U.S. border are being documented, as are long stretches of trail in which hikers don't have reliable access to water. Local search-and-rescue responders also lament the location of the existing route.
One way to deal with this train wreck of a piece of legislation would be to simply deauthorize the Montana portion of the trail. (Washington state and Idaho communities have challenges and problems with their portions of the trail as well. Let those states get things right in their own states; in the meantime, there's no need to export their problems to Montana.) With only 25 grizzlies surviving in the Yaak Valley—maybe only three or four breeding age females with cubs—it's past time to cease advertising and promoting a high-volume trail through 26 miles of the most critical designated core grizzly habitat in Montana.
Another option, however, still meeting the wants of through-hikers, would be a re-route. In 1978, the late Dr. Chuck Jonkel, legendary grizzly scientist, tasked with detailing for Congress the problems with the hikers' club's proposed route, identified a route just south of the Kootenai River, which would avoid placing high numbers of hikers into the small alpine meadows along the border. These tiny alpine meadows—so limited and rare in the Yaak—are the vital (and designated) core habitat for female grizzlies with cubs. (A 2018 analysis by Dr. Lance Craighead and Wayne McCrory confirmed the veracity of Dr. Jonkel's findings).
Some hikers, viewing this route on the map, complain about having to walk a little farther—1,300 miles, say, instead of 1,200, in order to help protect the most endangered grizzly subpopulation in Montana. Those who are investigating the Jonkel route rave about the scenery of the majestic Kootenai River, and the incredible biodiversity of northwest Montana. Dr. Jonkel's southern scenic alternative—giving hikers the option of dropping into the trail towns of Libby and Troy, if desired—also travels to nearly twice as many high points, with their spectacular views, compared to the existing, hastily-legislated route.
Businesses in Libby and Troy are asking the delegation to legislatively re-route the trail to provide maximum economic opportunity in Lincoln County, and to avoid bisecting core grizzly habitat. (Once the high-volume trail receives 200 users per year, it becomes classified as yet another open road in grizzly country, with all sorts of ramifications for proposed vegetative management in the area).
Sen. Tester, Sen. Daines, Rep. Gianforte: keep the ball rolling. Let Washington D.C. keep waging titanic battles of dysfunction. There is plenty of work here to keep us all busy, taking care of business at home.
Rick Bass, former writer-in-residence at Montana State University, is a board member of the Yaak Valley Forest Council (www.yaakvalley.org) and Save the Yellowstone Grizzly (savetheyellowstonegrizzly.org). He is a recipient of the 2018 Governor's Award in the Arts.
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The first report, with the short title of OER4Adults, is an overview and analysis of practices with Open Educational Resources in adult education in Europe.
The report is based on an analysis of the OER4Adults inventory of over 150 OER initiatives of relevance to adult education and lifelong learning in Europe, and on a survey of the leaders of 36 OER initiatives that focus on adult and lifelong learners in Europe.
There is considerable confusion between 'free' (no financial cost) and 'open', which is compounded by lack of clear licensing information on many OER. Low awareness of licensing is pronounced among adult educators and lifelong learners; common practice is to use free (no cost) resources without worrying unduly about IPR. The confusion [is compounded] by restrictive but 'free' practices (such as many MOOCs). [Such confusion] is a barrier to collaboration across sectors that can produce OER of value to adult learners, and hinders the collection of evidence of the benefits of OER with a consequent threat to funding streams.
The majority of OER providers have traditional Higher Education views of teacher-directed pedagogy that are out of line with the direction in which adult learning is heading. Furthermore, the question of credit for OER study that is appropriate to lifelong and workplace learners is seldom tackled. The findings raise the possibility that approaches that work well in a university context may be less appropriate elsewhere. Cross-sector collaboration between universities and those who know the lifelong learning context could lead to more effective resources.
Individuals working in OER initiatives are strongly altruistic in their motivations, and these ideals engender strong commitment and team working. However, they tend to overlook the wider social context in which open learning initiatives are being supported by institutions primarily because of the brand recognition they create, and the importance of brand, as opposed to quality, in learner choice of resources. Brand is particularly significant for adult learners whose digital literacy tends to be low.
Community-building is seen by initiatives as essential for successful uptake of OER. Communities can raise awareness, spread practice, and boost confidence. But equally a community can, by its norms, be closed in practice to 'others'. Transferring resources produced in one community such as a university to another such as a group of workplace learners can be difficult. This makes collaboration across sectors particularly important at resource development stage. The open licence is essential in enabling such collaboration.
The ability of the masses to participate in production of OER – and a cultural mistrust of getting something for nothing – give rise to user concerns about quality. Commercial providers/publishers who generate trust through advertising, market coverage and glossy production, may exploit this mistrust of the free. This is particularly significant given the low ability of lifelong learners to evaluate resources for themselves. Belief in quality is a significant driver for OER initiatives, but the issue of scale-able ways of assuring quality in a context where all (in principle) can contribute has not been resolved, and the question of whether quality transfers unambiguously from one context to another is seldom [addressed]. A seal of approval system is not infinitely scale-able, while the robustness of user reviews, or other contextualised measures, has not yet been sufficiently explored.
Initiatives focused on adult learning contexts tend to have more diverse funding streams than those focused on more formal educational contexts. They are less likely to be reliant on government funding and more likely to be involved in cross-sector partnerships or exchanges. They have a larger community base and greater embeddedness in ongoing practices, rather than being perceived as a one-off funded 'project' that comes to an end when the funding ends. They are less worried about the ongoing sustainability of their work.
In the past, many sharing and technology change projects were hampered by the attitude of participants, and while negative views of open practices are still the case for many, this is rapidly changing with tutors and senior managers becoming more receptive to open practices and using technology. … However, working with OER [Open Educational Resources] and open practices is not a straight forward process with issues remaining in communication, training, legal, procedural, practical and infrastructural areas…All of this activity is substantial and mean[s] that even [those experienced on OER projects] were not able to leapfrog or simplify many of the stages every OER project has to engage in.
it is also important to consider the OER freedoms (c.f. UNESCO Access2OER report). In that framework, there are three essential freedoms inherent in "open", which are legal freedom, technical freedom, and educational freedom. Legal freedom embodies licensing, and is the main OER freedom recognised. Technical freedoms include the freedom to access easily, to download, to disaggregate easily, etc. Finally, educational freedom captures whether the resource is sufficiently open for it to be adaptable to various circumstances, and easy to understand and localise. …. Overall, this threefold "freedoms"-based approach to OER enables users to take ownership, to change and adapt, and thus to participate as fully as possible and develop their own capabilities.
Detailed examples to illustrate all these and other findings are given in the report.
These two reports are essential reading for anyone interested in developing or using open educational resources, and really need to be read in full. The reports bring together a great range of experience in the actual practice of open educational resources, as distinct from the rhetoric.
It can be seen that while progress is being made in the acceptance and use of OERs, it is still a hard struggle. What seems a very simple idea in principle becomes exceedingly complex in practice. This of course is due partly to restrictive copyright and licensing rules in many countries, but also due to a large degree on institutional and cultural issues. Organizations such as the Creative Commons are working hard to deal with the technical and legal issues. The institutional and cultural barriers are more difficult to resolve but are not limited to just OERs. Such barriers really inhibit all use of learning technologies in ways that enable their potential to be fully exploited.
Having said that, if OERs are to be adopted on a large scale, thought needs to be given to simplifying the process, so that individual instructors or even course teams do not have to worry about the legal, technical and educational barriers. This requires some pretty smart institutional processes to be put in place to support OER use and adoption, as well as a good deal of faculty development and training. Until that is done, academics will be reluctant to change.


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Cole Eye researchers are focused on understanding the underlying genetic basis for macular degeneration and various other eye diseases in the hopes of aiding in the provision of new treatment options, and progress towards a cure.
In collaboration with the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB), one of the many ongoing projects within the Cole Eye Research Institute is an eye donation program. The program has been in existence for over 25 years, and the laboratory used for storing and examining the eye tissue has been at the Cole Eye Institute since 2001. Laboratory program director, Joe G. Hollyfield, PhD, was instrumental in organizing this program in the early 1980s.
The Eye Donor Program allows researchers to gain invaluable information from eye tissue affected by various retinal degenerative diseases (RDDs) such as Age-related Macular Degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, Leber congenital amaurosis, Stargardt disease, and various others.
A substantial number of tissue distributions have been made to other laboratories that are pursuing research important to the goals of FFB. These include tissues from 60 donor eyes that have been distributed for analysis to 17 different investigators in the United States and abroad.
or the Foundation Fighting Blindness toll-free at 1.800.683.5555.
Since this collection was relocated to the Cole Eye Institute it has continued to be upgraded, and substantial new research has been conducted using both new donations that come to this facility as well as tissues that have been a part of the collection for many years. As the result of the research performed on these tissues at the Cole Eye Institute, 22 research publications have appeared and 28 poster presentations have been made at national/international meetings.
To study and learn more about inherited, rare retinal degenerative diseases, the Cole Eye Institute maintains a growing collection of eye tissue acquired from individuals affected with RDDs. These individuals have agreed to donate their eyes to FFB for research purposes. The eye tissue is stored and studied at the Cole Eye Institute. Because the tissue is preserved, it can be beneficial to researchers for years to come.
At the time of death of a registered donor, the donor's family, physician, or eye bank contacts the 24-hour "Donor Hotline Number"—a special hotline restricted only for individuals who are FFB eye donors. The genetic coordinator receiving the donation calls will coordinate with the family and the eye bank nearest the donor to retrieve the tissue and arrange to have it shipped to the Cole Eye Institute. In order to be of most value and use, the tissue must be obtained and prepared within a few hours of death.
Once in the laboratory, various testing and examining of the tissue is performed, and detailed reports are generated. These reports and the tissue are then made available for other researchers studying inherited retinal degenerative disease.
Currently, a new initiative is underway to begin obtaining medical history, ophthalmic records, and family history information for individuals currently registered to donate. This will be done through a telephone interview with the Cole Eye Institute Genetic Coordinator, Meghan Marino, MS, GC. Upon review of each registrants' information, by Elias Traboulsi, MD, Director of the Center for Genetic Eye Diseases, genetic testing may be pursued in order to have a confirmed molecular diagnosis. All of this information will be securely stored and made reference to when the donation has been made. This allows for further research to be done regarding the genetic basis on inherited RDDs, as well as make connections between the genetic changes with the eye tissue.
Note: This list does not include all of the RDDs studied by the Foundation Fighting Blindness/Cole Eye Institute joint program. If you have questions about whether or not the RDD you have is studied, call the RRB Retina Donor Coordinator at 410.423.0600.
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Sale Sharks and England wing Denny Solomona has signed a four-year contract extension with the Manchester based side.
Solomona, 24, has extended his time at Sale with a freshly inked four-year contract. The former Rugby League player converted to Union last year, trading Castleford for Sale Sharks.
In his first season, Solomona scored 11 tries in 15 appearances for Sale and has since become a key cog in the Sharks European and domestic ambitions. So far this season, he has scored seven tries in in 14 appearances, including a brace last weekend against Bath.
His spectacular knack to score a try saw him capped after just over half a season as a Union player, featuring twice against Argentina last June.
"I really pleased to have signed an extended contract with Sale, there couldn't be a better environment for me to play my rugby. Dimes and all the coaches have all been great and Im very excited about the future here with a great bunch of guys.
"Denny has really enjoyed his time here and we thought it was right to offer him another long-term deal so we are delighted he has signed.
He is a world-class finisher and a thoroughly great lad who is on the verge of playing for England all the time and he's really great asset to have around.


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Dutch Treats
The Turk Anthony Jansen van Salee
"Anthony Jansen van Salee is a Turk, a rascal and a horned beast."
- Hendrick Jansen voicing the common view of his neighbor's character in 1638.
Mark of the Turk
The mark which Anthony Jansen van Salee placed on documents.
Anthony Jansen van Salee, the Turk, arrived in New Amsterdam about 1633. For the next forty years, he stirred up trouble. He took his surname from the Moroccan seaport of Salee, where his Dutch father admiraled a sultan's fleet. His nickname came from the local woman the admiral bedded, who presumably raised her son Mohammedan, making him New York's first Muslim - by upbringing only since no one would call him a religious man.
New Amsterdam was a litigious place, and Anthony was involved in more than his share of lawsuits. Within five years, Anthony was hauled into court for stealing wood, paying wages he owed with a dead goat, allowing his dog to kill a neighbor's hog, pointing a loaded pistol at the overseer of the West India Company's slaves, threatening a debt collector with bloodshed if he insisted on the money owed and slandering any number of people.
As if he couldn't create enough trouble himself, Anthony married Griet Reyniers, former mistress to an early Director turned whore of the rabble. The couple together ran afoul of the local clergyman and his wife, an escapade that could not go unpunished.
Courtesy of Bill Greer, author of The Mevrouw Who Saved Manhattan (available in the NNI Shop).
"Whether or not Salee sympathized with Indians other than sharing savage habits, he sure supported his friends when somebody larger picked on them."
- Jackie Lambert expressing an alternative view of the Turk's character
in The Mevrouw Who Saved Manhattan.
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The 5 star Hotel Villa Padierna is built like a Tuscan palace, in the beautiful surrounding of its own 3 golf courses, all around the Flamingos Golf Club.
It is a privately owned villa with a unique decoration in all rooms and public areas.. Paintings and statues from a private collection are carefully integrated into this fantastic building. Statues and fountains from the same collection also appear at unexpected pleasant spots around the golf courses. Open fire places and a touch of English decor make the Villa Padierna a wonderful place to pop into for a drink, snack, or a meal.
The hotel restaurants have the most beautiful views over the golf course, the Mediterranean Sea , Gibraltar and Africa , and offer a great variety of typical Spanish and international dishes. It has just opened a beautiful spa centre, with beauty treatment rooms.
When you visit the hotel, you can understand why it is a member of Leading Small Hotels of the World and has been voted 7th 'Best Hotel in the World' in the F.T.
The Spa offers relaxation and treatments that are incomparable.
The amphitheatre hosts weddings and concerts.
The Flamingos PGA Golf courses are designed by Antonio Garrido, and there is an exceptional Golfing Academy.
Like many of the courses on the Costa del Sol, Flamingos demands some accurate tee shots, and certainly needs playing more than once to find the best lines on certain holes. Having said that, like most courses a bad shot is heavily penalised (lost!), but good shots are rewarded. However having found the green – your putting technique will be certainly put to the test. The greens vary greatly in size, and there are very subtle borrows. Some of the greens were re-designed when the course played host to the European Senior Tour for the past 2 years. To achieve an average of 2 putts per hole would be an achievement! The course has one of the best drainage systems on the Costa del Sol , and is usually playable when other courses are shut due to water-logging. Every hole is planted with different shrubs and trees with the intention that each hole will be named after the trees it is planted with.
From each of the 18 holes you will enjoy breathtaking views of the Mediterranean , Africa and Gibraltar while experiencing all the peace and tranquillity you desire from a golf course.
It offers an exciting and varied design with ample but tiered greens along with undulating fairways that will impress even the most discerning golfer. A special feature is the "Arroyo del Taraje" stream that passes through the course and ends in a lake that is a natural border for the course at the beginning of holes one and ten. What you will notice is that every detail has been considered and cypress, oranges, olives, pines, carobs and chestnuts are the types of tree that give each hole its own identity.
The course is very enjoyable with a good mixture of both long and short holes. It is demanding for even the most experienced golfer, particularly the front nine holes. Just remember the views if you are not playing well – they are well worth the visit! The par 4 tenth is the most challenging hole where water plays its part. A good tee shot is required to set up the chance of playing over the water to reach the huge but undulating green. There are also two artificial lakes on the fifteenth and the right hand side of the seventeenth that make this even more interesting. Another feature is that all the bunkers are filled with ground marble. Although the course can be walked it is advisable to take advantage of the buggies on offer so you can sit and admire the scenic landscape between shots.
Other facilities include a practice area with putting green and for the golfer with relatively little experience or with limited time there is the short 9 hole Flamingo Blanco to enjoy.


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Home/Business/Famous American cyclist confirms retirement…
...as another is handed a two year ban for blood doping. As expected, Lance Armstrong used tonight's press conference before the Tour de Georgia to confirm he'll retire the day after the end of this year's Tour de France. And Tyler Hamilton also made some news today when arbitration decision in his blood doping case went against him.
Famous American cyclist confirms retirement…
BikeBiz 18th April 2005	Business
Texan TV stations such as kfoxTV were the first with the Lance retires news, live on air.
"I have decided the Tour De France will be my last race as a professional cyclist," Armstrong said at the news conference.
The Discovery Channel team leader said he wanted to spend more time with his three children.
"I have decided the Tour De France will be my last race as a professional cyclist… My time has come but I will definitely have the itch every now and again. My children are my biggest supporters but at the same time they are the ones who told me it's time to come home."
Here's today's Tyler Hamilton news:
The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) announced today the decision by an independent arbitration panel from the American Arbitration Association (AAA)/North American Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), finding that Tyler Hamilton of Boulder, Colo., an athlete in the sport of cycling, committed a doping violation for transfusing another person's blood. Hamilton, 34, received the maximum two-year suspension for a first-time doping offense. Following the full evidentiary hearing, the majority of the AAA/CAS Panel directly rejected Hamilton's defenses and found that his positive sample was "due to a homologous blood transfusion." Based on blood screens taken in the spring and summer of 2004, Union Cycliste International (UCI) warned Hamilton and his team that Hamilton was suspected of manipulating his blood. Following these warnings, UCI target-tested Hamilton and he tested positive. "UCI took the necessary action to protect the integrity of its sport," said USADA Chief Executive Officer Terry Madden. "This decision shows that sport is committed to protecting the rights of all clean athletes and that no athlete is above the rules."
A transfusion of another person's blood is a prohibited method under the USADA Protocol and the UCI Anti-Doping Rules, which adopted the World Anti-Doping Code and World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) Prohibited List. This form of blood doping allows a person to increase their red blood cells, thereby increasing their aerobic power and endurance. Hamilton tested positive at the Vuelta de Espana on September 11, 2004 and forfeits all competitive results achieved from that date. His two-year period of suspension ends on April 17, 2007. The case was referred to USADA for handling by the UCI. The scheduling of the case was expedited by USADA at Hamilton's request. However, the AAA/CAS Panel provided Hamilton over a month extension following the hearing to submit any additional evidence in his defense. USADA did not object to the extension.
http://www.usantidoping.org
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Continued Upgrades; Streamline is constantly being improved and developed. New versions, front ends etc, all included.
If you love the product as much as we do, taking out a 12-month contract with us can reduce your costs by up to 30%. Contract terms are simple and provide you with peace of mind that you will receive ongoing support and service at a lower price.
We have recently introduced an outright purchase alternative. The cash purchase option is more flexible in that you can choose the amount of support, training and upgrades you require on an ongoing basis. It will work our more economical in the longer term, whereas the rental option will deliver more value ultimately. Please note that the cash purchase option is not available to clients that have been renting for less than a year.
For both the rental and cash option the price comes down the more users you put onto the system. We would like to urge clients to roll Streamline out throughout their companies; the better the collaboration the more productive the team becomes.
One of the powerefull features of Streamline is how easy and quick it is to build the solution you need with the building blocks provided in the base system. We help you do so. Customisation and consultation is charged for at an hourly rate and is quoted for before any such work is undertaken.
As Streamline is a web based application (allowing you to work from anywhere), it needs to run off a web server that is available and visible to its users. There are many permutations in this regard and the ideal solution will depend on the geographical spread of your team (are they all in the same building or working from home, on the road or from all over the world?). Cost of connectivity and security might also be considerations. We can host your solution for you or you might opt for your own server which is located in a data centre, or on site on your premises.


Probably all our readers have heard about unmanned aerial vehicles, so called drones, RPAS or UAV. The usual image we have is that of the aircraft created ex professo to fly without a pilot, which allows to simplify the design by eliminating the need to include vital support systems, space for people, pressurized cabins (essential to fly above certain altitude), air conditioning systems, waste disposal systems and other comforts for human beings.
Nowadays, people are reluctant to accept that aircraft are not controlled by a human pilot.
However, there is another way to build a UAV, transforming a manned plane by providing a fully autonomous navigation system or supervised by a ground control station. This option has the advantage of reusing the knowledge in aerial programmes at the level of design, maintenance, airworthiness, fleet standardization, etc.
Aerospace exploration, pioneer in so many fields, is also pioneer in the autonomous control of aircraft designed to be manned. The need arises from the evidence of danger of experimental space flights. The Soviet Union developed its own space shuttle programme, which was called Buran. During the inauguration flight of 1988, it performed two complete orbits around the Earth and landed successfully in the Kazakhstan cosmodrome. The cabin was pressurized with nitrogen to reduce the risk of explosion and the flight was supervised from the control station in Moscow, in case the aircraft made a navigation decision that might be considered dangerous. Unfortunately, the project was cancelled too early due to lack of funds and no further flights were attempted.
Nowadays, Boeing and the US Air Force are working in a joint programme to turn the F16 jet fighter into a military UAV, which has been called QF-16. In September 2013, one of these airplanes made its first test flight in the Tyndall air base, in Florida. Two test pilots from the Air Force controlled the jet from the ground. For this first test, a training flight was simulated with all kind of evasion and attack manoeuvres. The system's reliability and accuracy was also tested when flying at supersonic speeds –the jet can reach more than 2,400 km/h. An important milestone occurred on August 29, 2014, when the QF-16 was able to evade all by himself a missile targeted at him. The Air Force's idea is to use the QF-16 in aerial combat to make the most of this jet's technology without endangering human beings. Before the F-16, the Air Force also performed several similar flights, turning a F4 Phantom jet into an unmanned aircraft, which was called QF-4.
Which other uses may be given to the transformation of airplanes into UAVs? It may be useful for air cargo flights due to the great advantage of saving in vital support systems. But there is still a long way to walk since, apart from the technical difficulties that entail making the navigation system interpret successfully all flight variables, the people's reluctance to accept that airplanes are not controlled by a human pilot also needs to be taken into account.


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MEDITECH South Africa celebrates 40 years of transforming healthcare around the globe
January 4, 2023 —
Please join us in congratulating everyone at MEDITECH South Africa on their 40 years of success.
First paediatric hospital in Europe awarded HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7
March 23, 2022 —
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust (Liverpool, UK) was recently awarded EMRAM Stage 7 from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), recognising its use of digital technology to optimise patient care.
Australia's Chris O'Brien Lifehouse launches Expanse
February 2, 2022 —
Australia's Chris O'Brien Lifehouse recently went LIVE with MEDITECH Expanse, adding yet another level of digital maturity for the world-renowned cancer centre.
Namibia Institute of Pathology advances long-term MEDITECH partnership with Expanse
September 22, 2021 —
MEDITECH South Africa is pleased to announce that its long term partner, the Namibia Institute of Pathology (NIP), recently signed for Expanse.
How MEDITECH Customers Worldwide are Meeting the Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 has impacted healthcare around the globe. Hospitals are being challenged in ways not previously seen in our lifetimes, as they test and treat large volumes of patients while attempting to control community spread. Read on to learn about some of our customers' worldwide initiatives and how they are helping to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
MEDITECH International Selects MedPower for Mobile EHR Training
February 14, 2020 —
MEDITECH International selects MedPower, LLC, a leading cloud-based eLearning solution provider, to develop and deliver MEDITECH Expanse training to providers in their expanding network of hospitals and healthcare facilities throughout the UK, Ireland, South Africa, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East.
Chris O'Brien Lifehouse Signs for MEDITECH Expanse
December 16, 2021 —
As part of its robust EMR transformation, Australia's Chris O'Brien Lifehouse recently signed for MEDITECH Expanse.
Australia's Chris O'Brien Lifehouse Adopts MEDITECH's Oncology and Patient Portal Solutions
Australia's Chris O'Brien Lifehouse - one of the world's foremost cancer hospitals - has signed for MEDITECH's 6.x Oncology, Pharmacy, Materials Management, and Patient and Consumer Health Portal solutions.
Farrer Park Hospital Celebrated for Improvements to Patient Experience
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Runners take off at the start of the 2015 Head Over Teal race in The Preserve subdivision.
On Sept. 24, the Laura Crandall Brown Foundation will hold its seventh annual Head Over Teal 5K/10K and Fall Festival at The Preserve in Hoover. Together with the help of the Brookwood Baptist Health, the Foundation is looking to once again make a difference and raise awareness for gynecologic cancers.
This year alone, 90,000 cases of gynecologic cancer will be diagnosed; 30,000 of which will be fatal. There is little-to-no available early detection for these cancers.
Because of this, the LCBF focuses on early detection research and has donated more than $275,000 to early detection research, educate community members about gynecologic cancers and support numerous families and cancer patients since its creation in 2009.
The LCBF race is a 5K, 10K and 1-mile fun run/walk meant for both two-legged and four-legged family members, and the post-race fall festival will be open to everyone. Games, children's inflatables, face painting and crafts will be featured.
"Fundraisers [like this] are important to provide the funding needed to carry out our important mission, most specifically, providing grants to researchers who will help detect ovarian cancer at its early stages and give all girls at any stage a chance to fight it, to beat it and to live," Moody said.
To register, click here. Early registration discounts were available through Sept. 10, and fundraising pages can be set up through the LCBF website.


This outlet is best known for the collection of cakes, pastries and confectionery items, as they go that extra step to give their customers the best service. It delivers delicious, home-like cakes, packed in a presentable manner. They use the best ingredients to make their cakes and breads. The staff here is also good and the place is clean and hygienic.


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Har Jehoram (: הר יהורם) je vrch o nadmořské výšce 680 metrů v jižním Izraeli, v pohoří Harej Ejlat.

Nachází se cca 8 kilometrů severozápadně od centra města Ejlat a necelé 2 kilometry východně od mezistátní hranice mezi Izraelem a Egyptem. Má podobu výrazného odlesněného skalního masivu, jehož svahy na všechny strany prudce spadají do hlubokých údolí, jimiž protékají vádí. Na jižní straně je to vádí Nachal Šlomo, na severu Nachal Netafim. Stékají směrem do Akabského zálivu. Okolní krajina je členěna četnými skalnatými vrchy. Na jihovýchod od Har Jehoram se zvedá masiv Har Šlomo. Na jihozápadní straně je to vrch Har Jo'aš, pod nímž vede od pobřeží silnice číslo 12. Na severovýchodě stojí vrch Har Jedidja. Hora Har Jehoram je turisticky využívána. Pod vrcholem prochází Izraelská stezka, jež zde vstupuje do svého posledního úseku, předtím než skončí na egyptské hranici.

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