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2014 Mercedes-Benz GLK 250 BlueTEC 4Matic
Posted: May 13, 2013 in Mercedes-Benz
Tags: Bluetec, GLK 250 BlueTEC, Mercedes-Benz
It's been more than twenty years since Mercedes-Benz offered a four cylinder diesel engine in the US market. The new 2.1L biturbo-diesel engine in the 2014 GLK 250 BlueTEC compact crossover is so sweet that it's bound to win over even some of the die-hard diesel haters.
2014 Mercedes-Benz GLK 250 BlueTEC
The detail of the taillight of the redesigned for 2013 GLK shows more depth and detail of design. A nice touch.
Nowhere except inside the fuel filler door and in the driver's handbook will you see the word "diesel" on the new GLK 250. Despite the fact that the Three-Pointed Star has been making diesel engines for over a century and despite diesel's strong popularity around the world, Mercedes' US marketing arm would like to reintroduce Americans to the charms of diesel power without mentioning the "d-word" – so powerful is the American public's alleged dislike of the noisy, dirty, smelly, doggedly-slow diesels of yore.
The rear badging of the 2014 Mercedes GLK 250 BlueTEC doesn't have a "diesel" badge. In the "old days" this car would have been badged GLK 250D and the word "diesel" or "turbo-diesel" may have appeared on the opposite side.
Twist the key of the $39,495 GLK 250 BlueTEC (you have to pay $650 if you want the pushbutton convenience of Keyless Go) and the engine fires right up. Common-rail direct diesel injection banishes any lingering memories of glow plugs and waiting for a light to go out before you could start the engine. From inside, there is little evidence of a noisy diesel engine. Even outside the cabin, you have to listen carefully to hear the diesel's low-revving churns.
The 2.1L Biturbo diesel engine in the 2014 GLK 250 BlueTEC.
Also relegated to the dustbin of history is any whiff of diesel fumes or black clouds of particulates. Mercedes' BlueTEC system scrubs diesel emissions with a series of steps including a catalytic converter, a particulate filter and a squirt of a urea and water solution. The result is exhaust clean enough to meet California's stringent standards which do not distinguish between diesel or gasoline engine emissions. In short, a 50-state legal diesel engine.
The rewards are a compact crossover with top tier fuel economy. The EPA rates the 2014 Mercedes GLK250 BlueTEC at 24 city 33 highway 28 combined. This beats almost all the competition – at least for now. Only the BMW X1 xDrive28 ties the GLK for highway fuel economy. Lesser brand crossovers like the extremely popular Honda CR-V or Ford's highly-touted Escape with a 1.6L EcoBoost engine can't touch the diesel for sheer economy.
The GLK, first introduced in the US for the 2010 model year, was thoroughly revised and reworked for the 2013 model year. While I love Kim Cattrall as Samantha on Sex in the City, showing her loading up a GLK on Rodeo Drive in the 2008 film didn't make me rush out to buy one.
My first drive of the GLK 350 (previously the only model available) was less than inspiring, mostly because I couldn't get past the horribly cheap interior and junior-GL styling that I didn't think worked.
Fast forward to 2013 and I'm a convert. That me-too was properly laser-sculpted and is now much more fluid and mature. While she's still not a sexy kitten like the Audi A4 Allroad, the GLK just looks more comfortable in its sheet metal.
The double-bar grille is more prominent and the front fascia and new headlamps flow more organically.
More important is the quantum leap in interior quality and ambiance The steering column stalks are now up-to-date. Plastics feel substantial, thick and soft, where appropriate. Switch gear remains stock Mercedes parts bin.
The interior of the 2014 GLK 250 is more driver focused with the re-positioning of the 7 inch navigation screen and the center console mouse-like controller.
The leather-wrapped three-spoke steering wheel is small in diameter, and almost sporty – although at 4,246 pounds curb weight, you really can't call the GLK sporty.
The instrument panel and steering wheel feel properly upscale and very Mercedes-Benz — which is a good thing.
I particularly like the four round air ducts with the aluminum-look bezels and cross-hairs. They really elevate ambiance and overall premium look. Pleated leather in the door inserts add a touch of luxury and the wood accents are convincing.
You sit quite upright in the cabin – more so that almost any other car on the market. I found the position as well as the stock Mercedes seats quite comfortable and leg and shoulder room more than adequate. The GKL has real cup holders – something that you will appreciate when you realize that BMW forgot to put decent ones in the X1.
The 60/40 split rear seats fold flat in the GLK. There isn't a ton of space, but it's all well tailored and properly flocked.
Of course, for me, what sealed the deal was that sweet little engine. While it won't win any speed records, 369 pound-feet of torque at only 1600 rpms more than makes up for having only 200 ponies. Mercedes' standard in-house 7-speed automatic is flawless.
The 4Matic all-wheel drive system, standard on the GLK 250 BlueTEC, has a rear-drive bias and doesn't shave much from a fairly tight turning radius of 37.7 feet (a full foot shorter than the 2013 Ford Escape). I found the electronic rack-and-pinion steering tracked straight with a light feel — more than passable for a small crossover with no sporting intentions. It's a distant cry from the recirculating ball gears of my 1988 190E.
Like all German cars these days, you have to add pricey options to get them to the level of options you'd expect on a luxury car. For example, the rear visibility of the GLK isn't great, so you would be wise to look for a rearview camera. It's standard on the base $23,000 Honda CR-V, but on the GLK, you have to opt for the $2,790 Multimedia Package, which includes COMAND hard-drive navigation on a 7-inch color display, 10GB Music Register, SiriusXM Traffic and Weather and Enhanced Voice Control.
You also can't get the handy power tailgate by itself, you have to buy it as part of the $3,450 Premium 1 Package which includes a Panorama roof, SiriusXM Satellite Radio, Auto-dimming rear and side view mirrors with a digital compass and garage door opener. No unbundling! Heated front seats are a $750 stand-alone option.
The panorama glass sunroof is part of the Premium 1 Package. I wish it could be unbundled.
Needless to say, all this quickly adds up to something north of $50,000. The GLK 250 4Matic is $1,500 more than the rear-drive GLK 350 but $500 less than the 4Matic version.
If the price for the car doesn't confuse you, there is the issue of the price of diesel fuel. It routinely fluctuates from below regular grade gasoline to more than premium. However, you are supposed to use premium gasoline in the GLK 350. For me, the fuel price is a push and the increased economy you get out of every gallon of diesel more than repays any price premium at the pump.
The interior of the new GLK looks like a nice place to spend time. Road trip anyone?
Also, diesel power makes sense for people who do most of their driving on the highway. Simple Google searches will tell you that diesel drivers routinely get better than EPA estimates on long trips and the GLK 250 BlueTEC has a road trip-friendly range of more than 500 miles.
The best news is that the GLK now feels like a proper Mercedes-Benz and I have confidence in more than 100 years of diesel engineering experience. Still, nothing sells a car like 369 lb-ft of torque behind every push of the pedal. Try it and I think you'll be hooked too.
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Spiderweb of wormholes could solve a black hole paradox 1st proposed by Stephen Hawking
A seemingly intractable black hole paradox first proposed by physicist Stephen Hawking could finally be resolved — by wormholes through space-time.
The "black hole information paradox" refers to the fact that information cannot be destroyed in the universe, and yet when a black hole eventually evaporates, whatever information was gobbled up by this cosmic vacuum cleaner should have long since vanished. The new study proposes that the paradox could be resolved by nature's ultimate cheat code: wormholes, or passages through space-time.
"A wormhole connects the interior of the black hole and the radiation outside, like a bridge," Kanato Goto, a theoretical physicist at the RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program in Japan, said in a statement.
Under Goto's theory, a second surface appears inside the event horizon of a black hole, the boundary beyond which nothing can escape. Threads from a wormhole connect that surface to the outside world, entangling information between the interior of the black hole and the radiation leaks at its edges.
Black hole information paradox
In the 1970s, Hawking discovered that black holes aren't exactly black, but at first, he didn't realize the giant problem he had created. Before his discovery, physicists had assumed that black holes were exceedingly simple. Sure, all sorts of complicated stuff fell into them, but the black holes locked all that information away, never to be seen again.
But Hawking found that black holes release radiation, and can eventually evaporate entirely, in a process now known as Hawking radiation But that radiation didn't carry any information itself. Indeed, it couldn't; by definition, the event horizon of a black hole prevents information from leaving. So, when a black hole finally evaporates and disappears from the universe, where did all its locked-up information go?
Related: 4 bizarre Stephen Hawking theories that turned out to be right
This is the black hole information paradox. One possibility is that information can be destroyed, which seems to violate everything we know about physics. (For instance, if information can be lost, then you can't reconstruct the past from present events, or predict future events.) Instead, most physicists try to solve the paradox by finding some way — any way — for the information inside the black hole to leak out through the Hawking radiation. That way, when the black hole disappears, the information is still present in the universe.
Either way, describing this process requires new physics.
"This suggests that general relativity and quantum mechanics as they currently stand are inconsistent with each other," Goto said. "We have to find a unified framework for quantum gravity."
A tale of two entropies
In 1992, physicist Don Page, a former graduate student of Hawking, viewed the information paradox problem another way. He started by looking at quantum entanglement, which is when distant particles have their fates linked. This entanglement acts as the quantum mechanical connection between the Hawking radiation and the black hole itself. Page measured the amount of entanglement by calculating the "entanglement entropy," which is a measure of the amount of information contained in the entangled Hawking radiation.
In Hawking's original calculation, no information escapes, and the entanglement entropy always increases until the black hole finally disappears. But Page found that if black holes do indeed release information, the entanglement entropy initially grows; then, halfway through the black hole's lifetime, it decreases before finally reaching zero, when the black hole evaporates (meaning all the information inside the black hole has finally escaped).
If Page's calculations are correct, this suggests that if black holes do allow information to escape, then something special has to happen around the halfway point of their lives. While Page's work didn't solve the information paradox, it did give physicists something juicy to work on. If they could give black holes a midlife crisis, then that solution might just resolve the paradox.
The black hole Cygnus X-1 is pulling material from a massive blue companion star. Once that "stuff" reaches the event horizon, there's no escape, right? (Image credit: NASA/CXC)
More recently, several teams of theorists have been applying mathematical techniques borrowed from string theory — one approach to unifying Einstein's relativity with quantum mechanics — to examine this problem. They were examining how space-time near an event horizon might be more complex than scientists initially thought. How complex? As complex as possible, allowing any sort of curving and bending at the microscopic scale.
Their work led to two surprising features. One was the appearance of a "quantum extremal surface" just below the event horizon. This interior surface moderates the amount of information leaving the black hole. Initially, it doesn't do much. But when the black hole is halfway through its life, it begins to dominate the entanglement, reducing the amount of information released) so that the entanglement entropy follows Page's predictions.
Secondly, the calculations revealed the presence of wormholes — a lot of them. These wormholes appeared to connect the quantum extremal surface to the exterior of the black hole, allowing the information to bypass the event horizon and be released as Hawking radiation.
But that previous work was only applied to highly simplified "toy" models (such as one-dimensional versions of black holes). With Goto's work, that same result has now been applied to more realistic scenarios — a major advance that brings this work closer to explaining reality.
Still, there are a lot of questions. For one, it's not clear yet if the wormholes that appear in the mathematics are the same wormholes that we think of as shortcuts in time and space.
They are so deeply buried in the math that it's difficult to determine their physical meaning. On one hand, it could mean that literal wormholes thread in and out of an evaporating black hole. Or it could just be a sign that space-time near a black hole is nonlocal, which is a hallmark of entanglement — two entangled particles do not need to be in causal contact in order to influence each other.
One of the other major issues is that, while physicists have identified a possible mechanism to relieve the paradox, they don't know how it actually works. There's no known process that actually performs the work of taking the information that's inside a black hole and encoding it in the Hawking radiation. In other words, physicists have built a possible road to solving the information paradox, but they haven't found any way to build the trucks that travel down that road.
"We still don't know the basic mechanism of how information is carried away by the radiation," Goto said. "We need a theory of quantum gravity."
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Most of us girls have grown up reading Fairy Tales about princes & princesses, but interestingly those don't validate in todays age. Today we don't wait for a man to make us feel special, today our lives will not be miserable if our prince is gone on a long weekend or we don't prey on those who are not equal.
Today we wear pant suits and work on magical machines which can communicate through time via signals. But when there are princess pieces in fashion who says we cant transform into one.
I designed this fabulous skirt my self and got it custom stitched at a local draper, The most charming thing about this skirt is its humongous fall, its so hug that you have to make an effort when you walk but then its so enchanting that you don't give a damn after all you are looking like a modern day princess and everybody is looking at you.
To make it more realistic and 21st century casual chic, I decided to pair it with a white T Shirt and a Denim Moto Jacket to give it a Rock and roll vibe. I put together my hair in Bridget Bardot-ish bouffant to make it more dressy and prepped. Then just add a head band to complete the look and you are all set.
Will be taking more risks with this gorgeous skirt soon so watch this space and stay tuned.


March. Autumn. I was visiting Tasmania, our southern-most Australian state, for the first time.
It was unseasonally warm. The apple isle had been in the grip of an extended hot season. And as always in Australia, the resulting storms and lightning strikes had started many fires. Wide, rolling fires, hard to put out, continuing for weeks with the ongoing heat. Steady fires, edging their way forward through great swathes of the south-east, south-west and central highlands. The Huon Valley was a write-off; my planned visit to Tahune now forgotten, the Airwalk a crispy, blackened mess at the end of a closed road.
The east coast was immune, dramatic and beautiful. The north-western inland forests were still reasonably lush and green. Clouds hugged mountains, exposed cliffs were mossy and ferny. It was dry but the thickly-forested landscape survived. I tried to capture the surrounding countryside: granite, pines, rainforest gullies.
With 2 days left and now travelling on my own, I headed south towards Lake Pedder via the central highlands. Rolling hills of pale yellow grasses, remnants of dry forest and empty roads. Despite heading south it was heating up; 39 degrees with hot winds buffeting the car. I didn't see anyone else for miles. I think Tasmanians were as shocked as I was by the weather, and stayed hidden in their homes.
I was determined to reach Strathgordon, explore Lake Pedder and stay overnight, but unsure if the single road in would be open. Fires had already rumbled through adjacent Mount View and Southwest National Parks. But luck was with me, and still with no other soul in sight, I cruised into fire-affected areas, some still gently smoking. I chose my rest stops carefully as the sun started to disappear behind grey-white drifting smoke.
Smokey clouds start to block the sun.
Windscreen view: drifting smoke and scorched granite.
Towards Mount View National Park.
The fresh fire was to the north east of me, I was heading west, the winds were nor'westerlys…hmm. Windblown smoke can create an illusion of close fire, but windblown embers can make it real. Battling mind-games, I kept driving until I safely reached Lake Pedder. In retrospect I wish I'd taken more photos of the dramatically scorched and apocalyptically-beautiful landscape. But fear and uncertainty won out; I didn't stop.
Lake Pedder was gorgeous, stunning (and a future blog post). A little way further west of the lake is Gordon Dam (at the end of Gordon River Road – after that, it's only world heritage wilderness). I was the only one there. My fear of heights and the strong, hot winds made for a slow walk down to the wall. I had a death-grip on those handrails. But I did it.
The walk to Gordon Dam wall.
Conditions changed overnight. A misty rain settled in and the temperature dropped by 20 degrees. The Tassie I expected was back. Retracing my steps of the day before, everywhere smelled of damp fire and smoke. I saw light green growth evident as plants recovered. Others were softly sizzling in the dampness.
Morning light behind smoke, Southwest NP.
View of The Needles, Southwest NP.
My favourite image is this one below. A grass tree, intact, leaves curled delicately as a result of bushfire, traumatised, elegant, beautiful.
I left Southwest NP and headed into Franklin Gordon Wild Rivers on this last day. It couldn't have been more different. But that's another blog post.
Excellent post and photos … and very interesting looking place too!


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Color Changing by PMC Lighting at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Utah
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Vivint Smart Home Arena was just named Utah Construction & Design Magazine's 2017 Project of the Year. Lead design firm, SCI and Okland Construction delivered the impressive 125 million dollar (80 million in construction costs) renovation in just 129 days—a project that should have taken 18-24 months. This 743,000 square foot, six-level renovation was "a once-in-a-lifetime type project," said Bret McDonald, Sr. Project manager at Okland Construction.
The Vivint Smart Home Arena is home to the Utah Jazz, as well as Salt Lake City's premier music, and entertainment venue. The arena is the sixth oldest NBA facility, and will become the fourth as soon as the Milwaukee Bucks finish their new 500 million dollar arena later this year, as well as San Francisco's Golden State Warriors finishes their new one billion dollar arena in 2019. The renovation of Vivint Arena was essential to compete with the modern NBA facilities and their seemingly limitless budgets. Larry H. Miller, owner of the Utah Jazz, knew that this renovation needed to not only fix issues with the 25 year old sports arena, but that it needed to become part of the fan experience.
Okland Construction and SCI Architects started the project in November of 2016 with four months of planning and procurement of long lead-time items like escalators and a retractable seating system. The front entry of the arena was shut down in March to start renovation, while the rest of the building didn't get underway until the Jazz were eliminated from the payoffs in May.
In charge of the project was Okland Construction's Sr. Project Manager Bret McDonald and General Superintendent Fred Strasser. The duo made sure that everything ran smoothly and on schedule. To do so, they had construction taking place almost 24 hours a day. "Our scheduler was working full-time just updating our schedule, which was 135 pages long. There was just no room for error. You cannot make up time on a schedule like that," McDonald said. "It's a once-in-a-lifetime type project."
The team of 3,000 workers, and 80 subcontractors, addressed a number of concerns including overcrowded entrances into the seating areas, overloaded stairwells, elevators and concessions areas. The building, originally built in 1991, had major issues with it's vertical circulation of people, and was corrected by moving the club seats to level two, and adding additional vomitoriums (entrance and exit passages into stadium seating area) to ease the traffic flow of people to their seats. Ticket booths were moved from level one, which now functions as a beautiful back-of-house for referees, special guest performers, and their crew, giving a more productive flow of patrons to the other five floors.
The renovations also included 20,000 new, fully upholstered cushion seats, and upgraded deluxe suites, as well as four new concession areas in each corner of the arena and updating the fire alarm system. But one of the largest tasks the crew took on during their expedited schedule was replacing all lighting with new energy efficient LED, including PMC Lighting's Nelio fixture with Aura Tuneology. The 12 million dollar electrical contract went to Hunt Electric, who had roughly 100 electricians working nearly all day with six crews working seven days a week. The PMC Nelio fixture was chosen for it's high efficiency and it's ability to shine the whole color spectrum onto the ceiling. The position of the lighting made it possible for the color effects to be visible from the building's exterior. Building operators have the ability to change the up-light color of the fixtures at any time with a remote touch screen. This technology not only equips the building with options for different color schemes, but provides a level of fun and excitement that had never been attainable in the building before.
"We are genuinely happy with the way it turned out," Steve Miller, Vice Chairman of Larry H. Miller Group of Companies said. "The fan experience now is just amazing…as I look at the arena from Level 6 down, we literally did something significant on every level." (Learn more by watching the video below)
Owner: Larry H. Miller Sports and Entertainment
Lead Design Firm: SCI
General Contractor: Okland Construction
Electrical Engineer: BNA consulting
Structural Engineer: Wilson and Company
Mechanical Engineer: Me Engineers
Civil Engineer: CRS Engineers
Electrical Subcontractor: Hunt Electric
Photography: Aaron Shaw
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Hershfield, 25, a recent UC Santa Cruz graduate, approached homeowner Anita Grunwald while she walked her dog.
As housing prices rise and rents soar, the tenants' rights movement has gained momentum in smaller cities across California. Even typically placid suburbs are now grappling with rent control battles that were fought decades ago in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose.
In addition to Santa Cruz, housing advocates in Sacramento, Santa Rosa and many Southern California communities are seeking to limit rent increases and gain protections for renters from eviction. Others, like Pacifica, San Mateo and Burlingame, have seen rent control measures fail after battles between renters and landlords.
Growing financial pressure on tenants is driving a statewide push for a November referendum to lift California's limits on rent control, a decades-old law backed by landlords and developers and known as Costa Hawkins. The law generally bans rent control on single family homes, condominiums, and units built after February 1, 1995. If the law is lifted, cities could put caps on far more properties.
Typically, local rent control measures allow landlords to annually raise rents with the cost of living index, capped at no more than 5 percent. Advocates also push for protections against evictions, limiting the reasons a landlord can remove a tenant.
But across the state, real estate brokers, property owners and others have financed successful campaigns against rent control. They say the answer to the housing crisis and rising rents is more development, not regulation.
Renter groups say the controls allow tenants — a growing population in many Bay Area suburbs — to have stable, predictable housing costs. The caps slow the rate of rent increases, but state law gives landlords the opportunity to raise prices back to market rates when tenants leave.
Samara said rising costs have many poor and working class families spending more than half of their income on housing. Median monthly rents for apartments in the Bay Area are among the highest in the country, with a typical two bedroom leasing for $2,270 in Oakland, $2,570 in San Jose and $3,060 in San Francisco, according to Apartment List.
A recent study of rent control in San Francisco by Stanford researchers found the local measures led owners to convert more units to condos or redevelop the properties, and reduced their amount of available apartments. Renters tended to stay in rent-controlled apartments longer, the study found, which allowed them to save between $2,300 and $6,600 per person annually from 1995 to 2012.
The reduced supply of apartments drove city-wide monthly prices up by about 7 percent, researchers found. They argued the program would have been more efficient if the city provided subsidies or tax credits to offset large rent increases.
Howard said property owners are willing to compromise with other provisions, such as granting relocation assistance and guaranteeing 12-month leases, but have not found a willing partner in the advocacy groups. "They had the mantra of rent control or bust," he said.
Pacifica might offer a glimpse of what's ahead for other suburban communities.
The quiet coastal community tucked between San Francisco and Half Moon Bay has seen its population grow and rents, like elsewhere in the Bay Area, soar. The median cost for apartments rose 51 percent between 2010 and 2015, a city survey found, far outstripping average wage increases.
A local mobile home park, Pacific Skies Estates, was purchased by out-of-state investors. The investors raised rents and renovated the property. Dozens of residents were evicted, sparking a community backlash.
A non-profit group, Fair Rents 4 Pacifica, formed and mustered enough support from the city council to get rent control placed on the November 2017 ballot.
National, state and local Realtor associations, as well as city property managers and landlords, spent about $450,000 to defeat the measure. The campaign included paid signature gatherers, signs and online marketing.
Renter rights advocates told police they were harassed by petitioners hired by landlord groups as the two sides campaigned in Pacifica shopping centers. "It was an extremely unpleasant experience," said Suzanne Moore, a retired nurse helping lead the rent control campaign.
In March, San Mateo County prosecutors charged two contractors gathering signatures for the property owners groups with felony election fraud. Brad and Jentry Jasperson, of Utah, face 21 counts in San Mateo Superior Court of identity theft, signing fictitious or forged names to a petition, and perjury by declaration. Prosecutors allege the couple forged or made up 10 signatures of San Mateo County residents.
Howard said the CAA supported the investigation and expects lawful behavior from its campaigners.
Tenant advocacy groups say the hardball tactics have been mirrored in communities across the state.
Zav Hershfield expects the resistance to grow in Santa Cruz. Some members of the group are already wary of reprisals from their landlords.
Stephen Snyder, a long-time homeowner, had already studied the issue when Hershfield handed him a clipboard.
"Everybody should have a chance to live here," Snyder said, scratching his name on the petition.
RENT CONTROL IN THE BAY AREA – MORE TO COME?


Workmen's compensation — Attorney fees taxed as costs — Section 4123.519, Revised Code — Statutory amendment applicable to pending actions — "Pending case" construed.
1. The amendment of Section 4123.519, Revised Code, effective November 2, 1959, a part of the Workmen's Compensation Law, authorizing the taxing of claimant's attorney's fee against an employer, applies to actions pending in a Common Pleas Court on the effective date of such amendment.
2. An action under the Workmen's Compensation Law, in which judgment was filed in the Common Pleas Court prior to the effective date of such amendment of Section 4123.519, Revised Code, but in which a motion for new trial was overruled and such order journalized subsequent to such amendment, was a pending case at the time of such amendment, and such court retained jurisdiction to assess attorney fees.
Messrs. Solsberry, Ketcham Radar, for plaintiff appellee.
Messrs. Vorys, Sater, Seymour Pease and Mr. Russell P. Herrold, Jr., for appellant.
Mr. Mark McElroy, attorney general, Mr. Alvin C. Vinopal and Mrs. Mary Spivey Durham, for defendant appellee.
This is an appeal from an entry of the Common Pleas Court of Franklin County, wherein the trial judge fixed the attorney fees as part of the costs in a case in which the claimant was successful in an appeal made by the employer from a decision of the Industrial Commission.
The employer questions the right of the trial court to tax the attorney fees as part of the costs because the motion or application to the court for attorney fees was not made until several terms of court after the entry on the merits of the case was made by the trial judge; and because the law did not provide for the payment of attorney fees at the time the appeal was commenced. They contend, to apply the amendment to Section 4123.519, Revised Code, to this case constitutes a retroactive assessing of fees against the appellant in violation of Section 28, Article II of the Ohio Constitution.
The case on the merits was tried before the judge, a jury having been waived, and it resulted in a judgment for the plaintiff, which judgment was filed in March 1959. A motion for new trial was overruled, after argument, in January 1960, but the judge's decision on the overruling of the motion for new trial was not journalized until October 4, 1960. In May 1961, the attorneys for the employee filed an application for attorney fees, and on July 19, 1961, the judge's decision was rendered allowing attorney fees, and that decision was journalized on October 14, 1961.
It is to be noted that Section 4123.519, Revised Code, was amended effective November 2, 1959, so that "The cost of any legal proceedings authorized by this section, including an attorney's fee to the claimant's attorney to be fixed by the trial judge * * * shall be taxed against the employer * * *." This amendment was to apply to all cases pending in the Common Pleas Courts. The Workmen's Compensation Law did contain a similar provision when the claimant was injured in 1953, but was not provided for during the period from October 5, 1955, to November 2, 1959. In the original entry granting judgment to the plaintiff the trial judge did order that the claimant recover her costs.
Section 2335.18, Revised Code, provides that in all actions, motions, and proceedings, in any of the courts of this state, costs of the parties shall be taxed and entered of record separately.
"On the rendition of judgment, in any cause, the costs of the party recovering, together with his debt or damages, shall be carried into his judgment, and the costs of the party against whom such judgment is rendered shall be separately stated in the record or docket entry. * * *"
"The cost of any legal proceedings authorized by this section, including an attorney's fee to the claimant's attorney to be fixed by the trial judge in the event the claimant's right to participate or to continue to participate in the fund is established upon the final determination of an appeal, shall be taxed against the employer or the Industrial Commission if the Industrial Commission or the administrator rather than the employer contested the right of the claimant to participate in the fund. * * *"
The trial judge felt that the statute placed a duty upon him to assess the costs and that his jurisdiction over the costs continued into the subsequent terms of court. In as much as this was a pending case at the time of the amendment of the section, and some proceedings took place after the effective date of the amendment, we believe the trial judge to be correct in his ruling.
It should be noted that the amendment applies only to pending cases and does not impose new or additional burdens, duties, obligations or liabilities to past transactions, and does concern only the remedy which the employer sought to pursue. It does not disturb any vested right, and provides only for the taxing of costs when the case is pending. See State, ex rel. Michaels, v. Morse, 165 Ohio St. 599, at page 607.
We believe the judgment should be, and it hereby is, affirmed.


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Books > Engineering >
Small Waterplane Area Ships
V. Dubrovsky
K. Matveev
S. Sutulo
isbn-13: 978-09742019-3-1
US$149 :: Hardbound
255 pages :: 7.5"x10" :: © 2007
Started as experiments a few decades ago, SWATH vessels have already proved their superiority in certain applications in which their excellent seaworthiness coupled with high deck area to displacement ratio are of primary importance. With their smooth ride and little if any loss of speed on rough seas they provide comfortable, fast and timely ferry service, reliable patrol and rescue services, and a stable platform for all-weather helicopter take-off and landing. The logic of utilizing the inherent advantages of small waterplane area hulls has led naval architects and designers to apply this feature to various multi-hull arrangements, thus combining the benefits of different types of ships into a single vessel. This is exactly the focus of the present book which provides the wealth of the existing experimental and theoretical results (with signifacant
contributions by the authors) and their application for designing new high-performance vessels.
Small waterplane area (SWA) ships, like other multi-hull ships, are relatively novel in the marine industry. Statistical databases and practical experience for designing these ships are sporadic and spread in scattered publications. The book presents the basic information required for designing the SWA ships encompassing the first principles and a bulk of necessary databases both developed by the authors and available in the public domain, collected under a single cover. The book contains seven chapters and ten appendices.
Ch. 1. Introduction explains how small waterplane area, which is the main feature of SWA ships, and the division of buoyancy into several hulls, as in all multi-hull ships, makes the SWA ships superior for sailing in rough seas and convenient for passenger and light-weight cargo transportation.
Ch. 2. General Geometry and Hydrostatics shows how these features provide plenty opportunities for designing vessels with unique combinations of performance characteristics unimaginable for traditional monohulls.
Ch. 3. Resistance and Propulsion in Still Water analyzes the data of the biggest currently published series of SWA model tests (more than 300 variants of shapes and arrangements of hulls). Recommendations are given for selecting the types of SWA ships most appropriate for particular operations. Ch.3 is supported by Appendices A - D presenting the experimentally based data on interaction between hulls for SWATH and tri-hull vessels with different arrangements and sizes of hulls, Appendix E on wave systems generated by SWATH vessels, Appendix G on dynamic unloading and foil design, Appendix H on recent advances in the use of air cavities for reducing the viscous resistance of SWATH vessels, and Appendix J on towing resistance of semi-submersible rigs.
Ch. 4. Seakeeping and Loss of Speed in Waves presents an analysis of SWATH behavior and recommends operational tactics in rough seas, as well as the methods of using active foils and air-activated tanks for mitigating the ship motions. A concise review of feedback control laws is given as well as the basic principles and approaches to design and analysis of control systems. Appendix F presents a summary of the seakeeping standards proposed by different authors.
Ch. 5. Notes on SWATH Maneuverability presents a discussion of dynamic characteristics and controllability of SWATH and their dynamic attitude and motion stability with practical recommendations for design of controlling surfaces. Appendix I presents mathematical modeling of the SWATH maneuvering motion and stabilizing fins.
Ch. 6. Loads and Structural Design analyzes the global and local strength of SWATH with an emphasis on the transverse strength. A new concept is introduced for the platform-strut connection that allows one to save weight and reduce impact loads on the platform.
Ch. 7. Comments on Design presents a general SWATH design algorithm based on a deck capacity equation with several iterations and parametric variations. A number of examples are given demonstrating the potentials of SWA vessels for fast and all-weather passenger and cargo transportation and support services. References contain a bulk of related literature in the public domain. Glossary, Acronyms, Nomenclature, and Subject Index are provided for the reader's convenience.
This book is a continuation of the monograph Multi-Hull Ships by Dubrovsky &
Lyakhovitsky providing new and significantly extended knowledge for practical design
and demonstrating great potentials for future applications of SWA ships. Like the
mentioned monograph, this book is addressed to naval architects, designers,
researchers, professors, graduate and senior undergraduate students, managers and
other involved in design, research, rule development, plan approval, acquisition,
planning and operation of small waterplane area vessels.
The book is written by three authors representing three generations of Russian naval
architects. The lead author, Victor Dubrovsky, from the first days of his career has
been immersed into hydrodynamic research and design of multi-hull vessels including
those with small waterplane area. This was at a time when the word catamaran was
known, mainly as a Polynesian boat, to curious minds only and long before the
acronym SWATH was created. For English-speaking readers he is known for the
recently published fundamental monograph Multi-Hull Ships (co-authored by A.
Lyakhovitsky) and Ships with Outriggers. The youngest of the authors, Konstantin
Matveev was fortunate to start his career at the very heart of the innovation design
center which at that time was the undisputed USSR leader in hydrofoils and the world
only builder of the pioneering WIG craft. With the experience he gained there and an
appetite for innovation, he continued his career in a number of the finest design and
research centers in the USA. The significant contributions made by Serge Sutulo have
been focused on maneuverability and seakeeping of surface displacement ships and
other marine vehicles. Carried in several countries and published in four languages, his
works combine detailed theoretical research with experimental studies in one of the
most complicated fields of the ship hydrodynamics.


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Union Move war eine von 1995 bis 2001 jährlich durchgeführte Technoparade in München. Sie entstand als Initiative der Münchner Veranstalter gegen Drogenmissbrauch (Kunstpark Ost, P1, Ultraschall, Partysan, Parkcafé und Pulverturm), um gegen die Münchner Sperrzeit und die unverhältnismäßige Kontrolle durch die Polizei zu demonstrieren, und erreichte Teilnehmerzahlen von bis zu 100.000 Ravern. Ein wiederholtes Motto der Parade war "Music is the only drug!".

Geschichte
Der erste Union Move fand am 27. Mai 1995 statt und lockte 60.000 Teilnehmer an. Die Route führte von der Münchner Freiheit über Leopoldstrasse, Altstadtring und Isartor bis zum Marienplatz, wo die Abschlussveranstaltung stattfand. Im Anschluss bestand die Möglichkeit den Rave mit einer Housetram fortzusetzen, welche über den Altstadtring fuhr. Abends wurde dann unter dem Motto The 2nd Munich Nightmove in lokalen Nachtclubs (u. a. Alabamahalle, Temple, Ultraschall, Terminal 1, Charterhalle, Wappensaal und Parkcafé) weitergefeiert, wobei die Raver zwischen den Clubs mit Shuttlebussen wechseln konnten.

Im Jahr 1996 kamen dann erstmals 100.000 Raver zum zweiten Union Move. In diesem Jahr fand die Schlusskundgebung auf der Theresienwiese statt, die Afterparties fanden wie schon im Jahr zuvor in den Clubs des ehemaligen Flughafens München-Riem statt. 1997 konnte die Veranstaltung erneut 100.000 Besucher verzeichnen, die zur Musik von 16 mit Lautsprechern behängten Lastwagen tanzten, im folgenden Jahr ging die Teilnehmerzahl mit 60.000 Ravern allerdings etwas zurück. Die Besucherzahl stieg im Jahr 2000 mit 70.000 wieder ein wenig, brach dann aber im Jahr 2001 mit 30.000 (Angabe der Veranstalter) bzw. 19.000 (Polizeischätzung) ein, die sich an einem verregneten Pfingstsamstag tummelten. Die Abschlussveranstaltung des letzten Union Moves fand am Odeonsplatz statt.

Im Jahr 2015 entstand eine Initiative, die sich für eine Neuauflage der Technoparade einsetzt. Bisher waren diese Versuche jedoch nicht von Erfolg gekrönt.

Galerie
1998

2000

CD/Vinyl Alben & Singles
 1995 – Various – Munich Union Move – The Parade & 2nd Munich Nightmove (Virgin, 2 × CD, Compilation, 7243 8 40585 2)

 1996 – Various – Union Move – The Compilation (Virgin, 2 × CD, Compilation, 7243 8 41 823 28)

 1996 – Tom Wax @ Jan Jacarta – Music Is The Only Drug (The Union Move Hymn) (Virgin, CD, Maxi, 7243 8 93567 2 4)

 1996 – Tom Wax @ Jan Jacarta – Music Is The Only Drug (Virgin, Vinyl, 12",  7243 8 9356 7 6)

 1996 – Tom Wax @ Jan Jacarta – Music Is The Only Drug (Virgin Club, Vinyl, 12", Promo,  VGP 000077)

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

 Originalaufnahmen vom ersten Union Move 1995 von Faustinusfilm (Youtube)

Techno-Veranstaltung
Tanzveranstaltung in München
Parade
Musikalische Veranstaltung in München
München im 20. Jahrhundert
Demonstration (Politik)
Erstveranstaltung 1995
Letzte Veranstaltung 2001
München im 21. Jahrhundert

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Q: How to remove a UIImageView I'm making an application where user add and remove different type of UIImageview ojects to display like hair nose etc. I have done adding images to views only problem i'm facing is how to delete these images I'm using PanGestureRecognizer I want to know to delete the Imageview when dragged to the top see the image Below.

A: Simply do it by.
self.imageView.image = nil;

A: - (void)pan:(UIPanGestureRecognizer *)sender
{

typedef NS_ENUM(NSUInteger, UIPanGestureRecognizerDirection) {
    UIPanGestureRecognizerDirectionUndefined,
    UIPanGestureRecognizerDirectionUp,
    UIPanGestureRecognizerDirectionDown,
    UIPanGestureRecognizerDirectionLeft,
    UIPanGestureRecognizerDirectionRight
};

static UIPanGestureRecognizerDirection direction = UIPanGestureRecognizerDirectionUndefined;

switch (sender.state) {

    case UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan: {

        if (direction == UIPanGestureRecognizerDirectionUndefined) {

            CGPoint velocity = [sender velocityInView:recognizer.view];

            BOOL isVerticalGesture = fabs(velocity.y) > fabs(velocity.x);

            if (isVerticalGesture) {
                if (velocity.y > 0) {
                    direction = UIPanGestureRecognizerDirectionDown;
                } else {
                    direction = UIPanGestureRecognizerDirectionUp;
                }
            }

            else {
                if (velocity.x > 0) {
                    direction = UIPanGestureRecognizerDirectionRight;
                } else {
                    direction = UIPanGestureRecognizerDirectionLeft;
                }
            }
        }

        break;
    }

    case UIGestureRecognizerStateChanged: {
        switch (direction) {
            case UIPanGestureRecognizerDirectionUp: {
                [self handleUpwardsGesture:sender];
                break;
            }
            case UIPanGestureRecognizerDirectionDown: {
                [self handleDownwardsGesture:sender];
                break;
            }
            case UIPanGestureRecognizerDirectionLeft: {
                [self handleLeftGesture:sender];
                break;
            }
            case UIPanGestureRecognizerDirectionRight: {
                [self handleRightGesture:sender];
                break;
            }
            default: {
                break;
            }
        }
    }

    case UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded: {
        direction = UIPanGestureRecognizerDirectionUndefined;
        break;
    }

    default:
        break;
}

}

- (void)handleUpwardsGesture:(UIPanGestureRecognizer *)sender
{
    NSLog(@"Up");
}

- (void)handleDownwardsGesture:(UIPanGestureRecognizer *)sender
{
    NSLog(@"Down");
}

- (void)handleLeftGesture:(UIPanGestureRecognizer *)sender
{
    NSLog(@"Left");
}

- (void)handleRightGesture:(UIPanGestureRecognizer *)sender
{
    NSLog(@"Right");
}

Let me know if it works for you or not.

A: deleting is the wrong word here.
You can remove it from it's superview, which will destroy the imageView IF no other object keep a strong reference to it.
[imageView removeFromSuperView];

Or you can make it display nil istead of an image which will insure your imageView is still here but it doesn't display anything.
imageView.image=nil;

if you  wish to delete the displayed image from say a NSMutableArray of extraFeatures, you can :
[self.extraFeatures removeObject:imageView.image];

and then
[imageView removeFromSuperView];

** EDIT: pan gesture
- (void)pan:(UIPanGestureRecognizer *)sender
{
    // move begins
    if(sender.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan)
    {
      // Do something when the move begin???
      // Maybe record the initial position
    }

    // Move the view around during the pan
    else if (sender.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateChanged)
    {
        CGPoint move = [sender translationInView:self.view];
        sender.view.center = CGPointMake(sender.view.center.x + move.x, sender.view.center.y + move.y);
        [sender setTranslation:CGPointZero inView:self.view];

         // test if we should remove the view, viewCenter outside of viewbounds
        if(!CGRectContainsPoint(self.view.bounds, imageView.center))
        {
            [sender.view removeFromSuperView];
        }
    }

    // End of move
    else if (sender.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded)
    {

        // test if we should remove the view, viewCenter outside of viewbounds
        if(!CGRectContainsPoint(self.view.bounds, imageView.center))
        {
            [sender.view removeFromSuperView];
        }

        // else maybe comming back to the original position
    }
}

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Starting an E-commerce company in Indonesia used to be in a legal grey area. Despite the uncertainty, e-commerce has been a very popular industry among both local and foreign companies.
In May 2016, Indonesia finally liberalised portions of the foreign ownership on E-commerce companies under the terms of its agreement with the DNI (Negative Investment List), a list of business sectors that are to be exempted from foreign ownership.
According to the latest DNI, e-commerce companies are allowed to have up to 100% foreign ownership but under certain conditions.
This article provides an overview of the new regulation and outlining Emerhub's role in helping foreigners in governing 100% foreign ownership in the E-commerce company in Indonesia.
Government Regulation No. 17 of 2013 on The Implementation of the Law of the Republic Indonesia No. 20 of 2008 on Micro, Small and Medium Business is made to utilise Usaha Mikro Kecil dan Menengah/ UMKM (Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises).
Criteria for each type of business activity under Article 6 of UMKM Law are as table below.
Presidential Decree No. 44/2016, which was issued in May 2016 to support the utilisation of UMKM, replaces the previous 2014 DNI (Negative Investment List) and reflects a trend of liberalisation of online trading policy in Indonesia.
Below is the summary of the newly issued negative investment list (DNI).
Partnership is a way for BKPM to utilize the Micro, Small and Medium Business.
In Article 11 of Government Regulation No.17/2013, Partnership is a process of transferring skills in the field of production and process, marketing, financing, human resources and technology in accordance with the Partnership system.
However, in Article 12 Government Regulation No.17 of 2013, large business is not allowed to own or control their UMKM Partners, and the same goes to medium to its micro and small business partners.
The partnership arrangement below shows a larger business has exclusive right and has more control of the business compared to the SMEs.
In the franchising for example, large business plays the role as franchisor and the UMKM as the franchisee. This means, the medium enterprise will give micro and small business the right to use its goods and services as prescribed and act as a representative to the medium enterprise.
UMKM to engage in a partnership with foreign medium/ large business by establishing a new company.
Other than the partnerships mentioned above, UMKM could do other kinds of partnership, such as setting up a PMA for as long as it did not violate the Government Regulation and the UMKM holds the proof of business license in Indonesia.
Emerhub's core service provides any foreign investors to make a partnership agreement with us. As we specialize in assisting companies' licensing, legal and compliance, our agents will easily help you understand and proceeding with 100% foreign ownership E-commerce company in Indonesia.
We also work as your consultants through every stage, providing you with assistance and regular reporting to make sure you are in the line with Indonesia's business compliance.
E-commerce company in Indonesia has exploded over the past couple of years with the highest number of active internet users (74.6 million) compared to other ASEAN countries, and 8.7 million online shoppers with the amount of transaction of US$4.89 billion in early 2016.
Being the 4th most populous country in the world, the country's Internet users is predicted to rise to 102.8 million users by the end of 2016.
Nielsen Media Research provides statistic on the most popular E-commerce categories in Indonesia, not surprisingly, are non-consumable—durables and entertainment-related products. Spending intentions for each have risen at a double-digit or near double-digit percentage-point rates since 2014.
The chart below is showing Indonesia E-commerce sales that have increase by USD 0.93 billion since 2015 to early 2016.
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UT Dallas Graduate Programs Rise in U.S. News & World Report Rankings
By Melissa Cutler •March 28, 2019
U.S. News & World Report recognized The University of Texas at Dallas as the highest-ranked engineering graduate program in North Texas and the fourth-strongest in the state. In the national rankings, the bioengineering program jumped nine spots to No. 69, and the mechanical engineering program rose 10 places to No. 77.
U.S. News & World Report has recognized The University of Texas at Dallas' graduate school programs in public affairs, engineering and business as among the best in the country in its most recent rankings.
The UT Dallas program showing the greatest leap in the rankings was the public affairs program in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences. It climbed 11 spots to No. 53.
Two programs in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science also made big strides in the U.S. News rankings of Best Grad Schools released March 11. The bioengineering program jumped nine spots to No. 69, and the mechanical engineering program rose 10 places to No. 77.
Overall, the Jonsson School tied with the University of Arizona and Stony Brook University – SUNY for the 64th best graduate engineering school out of 219 in the country. Additionally, UT Dallas has the highest-ranked engineering graduate program in North Texas. Statewide, it trailed only UT Austin, Texas A&M University and Rice University.
"It's gratifying to receive this kind of validation of the success of our young institution. I believe we will keep rising as our programs grow and more world-class faculty and students join our ranks."
Dr. Juan González, dean of graduate education and associate provost at UT Dallas
Other ranked Jonsson School programs were: computer engineering at No. 52, electrical engineering at No. 53 and materials science and engineering at No. 70.
"This is one more recognition of the high quality of our faculty and students and our excellent research infrastructure," said Dr. Juan González, dean of graduate education and associate provost. "It's gratifying to receive this kind of validation of the success of our young institution. I believe we will keep rising as our programs grow and more world-class faculty and students join our ranks," he said.
The Naveen Jindal School of Management also made the grade, climbing two spots to No. 38 in the category of Best Business Schools, a ranking that placed it in the top 10 percent of the 475 schools surveyed across the country. It tied for 38th with Michigan State University and placed third in Texas only behind UT Austin and Rice.
The Jindal School's information systems program was ranked 17th, and its accounting program was 47th. In addition, the supply chain management program took the No. 20 spot. UT Dallas' part-time MBA climbed three spots to No. 17 and tied with Georgia Institute of Technology, Rice, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Washington University in St. Louis.
Each year, U.S News ranks professional school programs in business, education, engineering, law, medicine and nursing. The rankings are based on expert opinions about program excellence as well as statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school's faculty, research and students. The data come from statistical surveys conducted in fall 2018 and early 2019 that are sent to more than 2,000 graduate programs and from reputation surveys sent to more than 22,000 academics and professionals in the disciplines. U.S. News periodically ranks programs in science, social sciences and humanities, and health. This year, public affairs programs were evaluated.
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Q: linkedserver SQL/ORACLE - An error occurred while preparing a query for execution my problem is the same... i have this code that is use in my db utils class for make query.
    public DataSet sqlCommandSelect(string command)
    {
        try
        {
            DataSet objDataSet = new DataSet();
            string strOrders = command
            SqlCommand objOrderCommand = new SqlCommand(strOrders, myConnection);
            SqlDataAdapter objOrdAdapter = new SqlDataAdapter();
            objOrdAdapter.SelectCommand = objOrderCommand;
            objOrdAdapter.Fill(objDataSet);
            objOrderCommand.Dispose();
            objOrdAdapter.Dispose();
            return objDataSet;
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            log.Error("sqlCommandSelect : " + command + " " + ex.Message + " " + ex.StackTrace);
            return null;
        }
    }

Now i am trying to make this query (that work greats on sql editor)
        SELECT * FROM
        OPENQUERY(ORACDGMI,'SELECT * FROM CIC.ANAGRAFICA ')

ORACDGMI Is a linkedserver SQL/ORACLE
Give me the error:
        An error occurred while preparing a query for execution

Any suggestion?