Very soon, our GaraMatic operator packages will be supplied with a new compact 4 button garage door hand transmitter. The new 4 button hand transmitters will incorporate the same ultra-secure technology and ergonomic design as their 2 button counterparts.
So for customers seeking a compact hand transmitter design that will fit on their key ring, or in their pocket more easily than some of the more bulky handsets currently on the market, whilst offering 4 buttons instead of 2, this is a great addition.
Control More Doors with a Compact Design: Because the new hand transmitter has 4 buttons, you can control up to 4 doors, where it was previously just 2 doors.
Programme Each of the 4 Buttons to Perform a Different Function: With more buttons, you could programme one button on the handset to open a gate or garage door, a second button to open the garage door, a third button to turn on the light on the GaraMatic 10 operator unit and, possibly the fourth button to activate the partial opening feature.
Matt Black Textured Surface: The new 4 button hand transmitter features the understated, classy matt black textured surface.
Ultra-Secure Technology: The new 4 button hand transmitter utilises high frequency (868 MHz) encryption signals for added security, ensuring no one can copy your signal. Furthermore, the use of bi-directional radio signals increases the range and reliability of the handset, enabling customers to control their garage door from even further away.
As current stocks run out, GaraMatic operator units will be replaced and shipped with new handsets; two 4 button hand transmitters for GaraMatic 9, and a 4 button and 5 button hand transmitter with GaraMatic 10 and 20 models. For further information on this hand transmitter, check out the Garador website.
Did anyone say Coffee Morning?
It's that time of year again and we have just finished running our two day coffee morning (28 - 29th September) at the Garador offices here in Yeovil, all in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. This year we introduced savouries, as well as some very delicious sweet cakes, into the mix… just to shake things up a bit, and it has been a real success with £224.00 raised for the charity!!!
As you can see in the picture above, we saw more delicious cakes to tickle our taste buds, including lemon drizzle cake, chocolate cake, triple chocolate cookies, iced cupcakes, malteser cakes, Oreo cupcakes… and that's just the sweet stuff. The savouries included a 3 cheese quiche, mini ham and cheese pizzas and sausage rolls… all lovingly home made by the office staff here at Garador.
Feel free to check out the Macmillan Coffee Morning website to find out more about the charity event, including recipes, local events and hosting your own!
Garador have decided to support Britain's 'Cycle to Work Day' and reward any member of staff that cycled to work on 14th September 2016, with a free croissant and coffee!
It was a lovely sunny today in Yeovil and a great day for our Charity 'Cycle to Work Day'. Lots of Garador staff took part and there was a great effort and some great mileage with both Neil Bond and Pete Rice doing 26 miles putting them at the top of the leader board in terms of distance, although Pete Rice did cycle his route on a mountain bike so probably deserves the crown!
Between all of the Garador staff who took part, they clocked up over 250 miles today and collected over £25 which Garador will make up to £30, before doubling to £60 for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Check out the Cycle to Work Day website for more details of how it works.


Webinar with Rebecca Griffiths: MOOCs in the Classroom?
Join Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, and Veronica Diaz, ELI associate director, as they moderate this webinar with Rebecca Griffiths, Ithaka S+R's Program Director for Online Learning.
From 2012 to 2014, Ithaka S+R conducted a study with the University System of Maryland to explore the benefits and challenges of embedding MOOCs in traditional courses. MOOCs taught by professors from a range of universities on the Coursera platform were blended into 14 USM courses across eight different campuses. Through our research, we were able to measure the impact of this hybrid approach on both students and faculty: What was the effect of this new model on student learning outcomes? How did students react to using MOOCs in the classroom? Did faculty find that using MOOCs saved them time in planning and teaching their courses? How did their role in the classroom change? Would they choose to teach with MOOCs again? In this webinar, Rebecca Griffiths will share data from hundreds of students and 20 faculty members involved in the study and reflect on lessons learned.
Registration for this free webinar is limited to EDUCAUSE's ELI members.


When the guides of the future plan the itinerary for the walking tour dubbed "Vancouver: Tech City," they'll start in Railtown. After all, this is where the social media company Hootsuite emerged in 2008, amid the cheap, converted warehouses between the Downtown Eastside and the docks on Burrard Inlet. Back then, you called the neighbourhood "sketchy," but that got you the stink eye from Bill Tam, president and CEO of the BC Technology Industry Association: "It's edgy!"
The next stop on the tour will be Gastown, another old neighbourhood of small-footprint buildings full of walk-up offices, but one that was more gentrified in the early days—not "edgy" but "funky." In 2015, this was the home of entrepreneurial hothouses like Launch Academy, where hopeful youngsters learned how to innovate—or how to fail quickly and start again before they dragged their friends and family members into an expensive mistake.
Following a semi-circle, the tour will run through downtown, where the high-tech industry suddenly became so dominant around 2015 that it outbid law firms and government ministries for the city's most prestigious office space. And then it's on to Yaletown, another converted warehouse district that, in the dawning era, bristled with clubs, cafés, spas and fitness emporiums—and high-tech offices brimming with thousands of hipster techies who could afford that kind of thing.
Then, down past the Telus World of Science, tourists on this outing will come to Mount Pleasant, where Hootsuite took over a snazzy space in a move facilitated by the always-accommodating Vancouver Economic Commission.
Finally, saving the best for last, it will be on to the SkyTrain for a quick trip to Burnaby and the 10-minute walk to The Company That Saved the World.
Every great tech scene has an origin story, complete with a ground zero, like the Palo Alto garage where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, late of Stanford, seeded Silicon Valley. In British Columbia, the point of genesis is in the Vancouver suburb of Richmond, in an old shed long since lost in the fog along the Fraser River delta. That's where Professor John MacDonald and physics grad Vern Dettwiler headed on Feb. 3, 1969, after they walked out of the University of British Columbia to set up a little remote-sensing company. They thought that they had an interesting technology, and they were disappointed that the brilliant young scientists and engineers they'd seen go through UBC all seemed to be leaving town. The two men hoped they might be able to keep some of the more promising students employed. Now, 46 years later, MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.—better known as MDA—is a communications and information company with more than 4,800 employees arrayed in plants and offices around the world, including 600 in its head office and still-leading research-and-development centre in Richmond. They build everything from black-box military communications systems to radar satellites. And in their benign shadow, the high-technology sector in B.C. now employs 84,000 people, more than the forestry, mining and oil and gas industries combined.
According to a recent KPMG report commissioned by the BC Technology Industry Association, B.C. boasts 9,000 high-tech companies that together generate more than $15 billion in direct economic impact—that's 7.6% of provincial GDP. That sudden growth, in a province that still can't shake the resource-industry self-image, has produced a buzz, and the buzz has turned to giddiness with the arrival and/or expansion in Vancouver of some major international players. Microsoft and Sony Pictures Imageworks have staked out huge footprints in what is arguably the highest-profile commercial space in downtown Vancouver—the redeveloped former Eaton's (later Sears) department store that anchors Pacific Centre at 725 Granville St. Barely a block away, Amazon is installing 1,000 high-tech employees in the Telus Garden, a new head office for a telco that is, itself, a tech giant, with 7,000 employees in Metro Vancouver, including 1,200 in the downtown core; 700 of them will work at this new location.
The attendant pressure has changed the face of commercial real estate in Vancouver's suddenly crowded downtown. Norm Taylor of commercial real estate firm CBRE says the market is set to absorb more than two million square feet of new office space in the next two years, the largest growth spurt in Vancouver's history. As of late February, that space was more than 60% pre-leased. And in a central business district once reserved for head offices (or what small share Vancouver has of them), high-end law and accounting firms and government, high tech—growing at twice the speed of the rest of the B.C. economy—is generating more than 40% of the demand for office space.
It's true, of course, that B.C.'s $15 billion in tech salaries, services, sales and exports pales next to California's $275 billion. But it's early days. "B.C. is in that adolescent growth stage when parts of you grow faster than others. It's an awkward passage," says Bill Tam.
Second, tech is sticky. Sure, it's not physically stuck to a resource like mining or forestry. But it's surprisingly difficult to pick up and move an established tech company—especially the creative part.
Third, tech is all about critical mass. Once you have the above-mentioned talent pool, you get networking and creative cross-pollination. And you get spinoffs minted by people with serious industry experience. While no one is bold enough to say Vancouver has reached critical mass, the success of homegrown heavyweights like Hootsuite, and the arrival or expanding presence of international anchors, indicates a sector heading toward maturity.
Actually, "sector" isn't the right word to describe this phenomenon any more. In a time and place where a surprising number of people subscribe to both Greenpeace and Harvard Business Review, we talk about the tech "ecosystem" and its "biodiversity." Tech is no longer as sterile as a lab. It's a forest of interaction where little things feed big things and big things, in turn, seed new little things.
The best illustration of this is the BC Techmap, an interactive visual history compiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers over the last 18 years. The map shows thick bundles of connections emanating from the research universities. In a 2013 report on some 220 UBC spinoffs and affiliated companies, Colliers International calculated total market capitalization of $2.5 billion and total annual revenue of $400 million. SFU says that it has "spun out, mentored, incubated and assisted over 200 companies, adding more than 2,400 jobs to our economy and contributing an estimated $186 million in annual tax revenues." That's just direct economic activity driven from university labs—everything from biotech contenders like QLT Inc. to cleaner-energy industries like Westport Innovations. The universities, with help from institutions such as the British Columbia Institute of Technology and Emily Carr University of Art + Design, also spawn the engineers, scientists and technicians in clean tech, the health professionals and researchers in biotech, the computer and electrical engineers in web tech, and the designers, artists and storyboard writers in gaming and computer animation. Oh yes, and the business people.
Once in the tech sector, few of those people sit still. One of the next biggest tentacle bundles on the Techmap runs from MDA to the many dozens of other companies that have benefited over the years from lessons learned at the knee of MDA's masters. Another bundle emanates from Ballard Power Systems, the once-ballyhooed fuel-cell innovator whose biggest actual output to date may be counted in talent that it has trained and sent on to other enterprises.
Consider Mossadiq Umedaly, who was Ballard's chief financial officer in its mid-'90s heyday when Ballard, Daimler-Benz and Ford together looked like they might seize the whole burgeoning market for no-emission vehicles (said market imploded when regulatory leader California decided that hybrids were a more practical alternative). Umedaly says that Ballard's chairman at the time, the late Fraser Mustard, used to divide the tech world into "doers" and "thinkers," and then, à la Rumsfeld, into "doers who think" and "thinkers who do." Umedaly, a doer who thinks, left Ballard before its slide and, in 1999, assumed the presidency (and later the chair) of Xantrex, a power electronics company that had been working on unsexy but practical power inverters since 1983. Umedaly saw the potential to scale up the Xantrex operation, especially in an age when inverters were becoming essential to managing intermittent power from renewable sources like wind and solar. He found a first round of financing and then floated an IPO in 2004, and by the time he sold the company in two pieces to Ametek and Schneider Electric, Xantrex was "the biggest clean-tech company in B.C.," with annual revenues of $250 million.
Schneider is huge; "it's the French Siemens," says Schneider's VP operations and CFO for solar, Jill Tipping. With 150,000 employees around the world and 3,000 in Canada, the company had the capacity to relocate its 200 new Burnaby employees, specialists in solar power, pretty much anywhere—a thought that Tipping says never came up. Instead, the company's global solar business unit is headquartered in Burnaby.
Although Xantrex had no manufacturing here, almost no sales and—given the low cost of B.C.'s hydroelectric power—no market, "this is the brain trust; it's the gold mine. The risk of moving it and disrupting it accidentally is too high," Tipping says. In the tech world, "you do the things that are smart to do in the places that are smart to do them," she adds, pointing to Apple, which designs in California and manufactures in China. Tipping's only reservation about Metro Vancouver is that question of critical mass. There is great local talent, but Schneider still has to recruit mid-career managers and senior engineers from elsewhere. So, Tipping says, Schneider is delighted to see companies like Microsoft upping their Vancouver presence. "Even if they're not directly in our space, it still creates a cluster effect that's good for us."
The story is similar at the Vancouver operations of what is now SAP, the world leader in enterprise software and software-related services, with 130 offices around the world and 74,000 employees. The 1,200-person Vancouver operation began in the 1980s as a local start-up called Crystal Services. Owing to a succession of takeovers, it was later known as Seagate Software, Crystal Decisions and Business Objects before being acquired by SAP in 2008. Again, SAP has the global capacity to shift or absorb smaller operations, but in Vancouver, it chose to consolidate and expand. Kirsten Sutton, managing director for SAP Labs Canada, says this location is now the SAP Canadian Centre of Excellence for Analytics—the largest software development employer in B.C., it's SAP's locus for innovation in some of its most important product lines. As with Schneider and Xantrex, Sutton says, moving was never an option. "The DNA is what SAP needed," and that DNA is peculiar to Vancouver. "It's the culture, the work-life balance. People who work here love it here and it comes through in their work."
In any story of Vancouver, it is, of course, inevitable that the work-life thing would come up. The city is so often dismissed as being full of people who spend too much time hiking and skiing and standing in the path of pipelines. Sitting in the spectacular downtown wedged between False Creek and Burrard Inlet in the lee of the North Shore Mountains, it's easy to understand how people in the rest of the country would find Vancouverites smug (even if self-deluding about whether it's worth the cost of living). But nearly everyone interviewed for this story had recently travelled to Eastern Canada, and they all felt compelled to give a weather report. In a February phone conversation, Don Osborne, president of the MDA Information Systems Group, mentioned that he was looking out across a busy, balmy Richmond golf course—and that, in Ottawa and Montreal, which he had visited the previous week, the temperature had been minus 35. SAP's Kirsten Sutton phoned from the airport in Toronto. Minus 25. Dennis Lopes, head of legal and corporate affairs for Microsoft Canada, called from the Vancouver airport, taking his last whiff of air redolent of early cherry blossoms. He was flying home to Microsoft's Canadian head office, also in the Toronto area, and he was dreading the change.
Microsoft is busily recruiting for its newest international development centre in the spanking new Pacific Centre space. (It has similar centres around the world from China to Finland, but no others in Canada or the U.S.) To this end, Lopes says, "We're recruiting from around the world and, from a candidate perspective, Vancouver is very desirable, despite the high cost of living." He went on to deliver an analysis straight out of Richard Florida. In addition to being warm and beautiful and conducive to an outdoor lifestyle, Vancouver is richly multicultural and highly diverse, all aspects that are attractive to people from the creative sector. It's also close to Microsoft's international headquarters in Seattle, although what really matters, for people collaborating on projects, is that it's in the same time zone. Asked, though, if this is a recruiting centre whose real purpose is to consolidate staff, the best of whom would then be cherry-picked to go south of the border, Lopes dismisses the suggestion out of hand. Microsoft already had a Vancouver development staff of about 300. Rather than sending those folks south, it's more than doubling their numbers. The staff in the new 143,000-square-foot Pacific Centre office will number 700, and there is a rumour (which Lopes declined to confirm) that Microsoft has told its broker that it may hang on to 75,000 square feet in an existing office in tony Yaletown. Microsoft is digging in—and in a way that contributes to a growing Canadian myth: head office, sales and marketing types go to Toronto; techies, creative and other hipsters to the Left Coast.
Mind you, it's not all about the mountains, the oceans and the choice of three cappuccino purveyors on every block. Randy Lake, executive vice-president and general manager of the animation and visual-effects leader Sony Pictures Imageworks, brings a hard, cold, cash-based reality back into play when he says, "I love Vancouver." Having moved the Imageworks head office from Culver City, California, to Pacific Centre as of April 1, "I would not want to pick up and leave. But if the [tax] incentives were gone tomorrow—well, that's my nightmare scenario." The sweetest of those incentives, for Sony, is the DAVE—the Digital Animation or Visual Effects—tax credit, which lately means that a credit of "17.5% can be applied against any qualified B.C. labour expenditures that are incurred while performing eligible post-production activities in B.C." Lake says this break, more than any other factor, drove the relocation from Culver City.
Still, even Lake returns to the metaphor of the high-tech ecosystem. His 750 animators and visual-effects specialists will be in the same building as Microsoft's development staff, and they all will be mere blocks away from colleagues in Gastown and Yaletown, where Sony had maintained a smaller production studio for the last five years. Lake said the firm was originally attracted by the talent in homegrown firms like Distinctive Software (now part of Electronic Arts) and Image Engine. Here again, there is strength in numbers. The visual-effects community is highly nomadic, jumping from one film production to another and—when necessary—from one production company to another. So, again, it's easier to recruit if prospective employees know that a subsequent shift would take them to, say, the sizable Industrial Light & Magic facility down the street and not all the way down the I5 to California.
There are two other broad aspects to the B.C. tech story—and two other places in the ecosystem. At one extreme is the bold entrepreneurial start-up—the 5,000 one-person operations that don't even get included in the count of 9,000 existing high-tech companies. At the other are the Hail Mary candidates, like General Fusion. This is The Company That Saved the World (or at least Would Save): a $50-million gamble to produce an energy source that founder Michel Laberge insists would render fossil fuels redundant for everyone on Earth.
Laberge personifies the surprisingly short distance between those extremes. First, he is, himself, an indirect product of MDA. Following the BC Techmap, MDA begat Creo, the laser-imaging company that was acquired by Kodak in 2005. Laberge worked at Creo for nine years after receiving a PhD in physics from UBC. At Creo, he says, he learned there was more to business than "solving a triple integral equation." But he got bored with Creo's lasers, took his savings and set to work, in an abandoned gas station on Bowen Island, on a simple fusion power plant.
In other words, a decade ago, he was one of those start-up companies with no employees. But, by his efforts, he generated both heat and light. In fact, he generated enough energy to convince Mike Volker, director of SFU's Innovation Office and co-founder of the Vancouver Angel Technology Network, to raise a total of $420,000 from 60 investors. Then Laberge recruited Creo colleague Doug Richardson ("for no salary!") as CEO, and, between them, they made enough progress to attract another $50 million in financing, including contributions from everyone from Chrysalix Global Network and the oil sands company Cenovus to Jeff Bezos. They're now working on the components of a fusion-energy reactor that will have no long-lived radioactive waste and a nearly inexhaustible fuel supply from sources such as heavy hydrogen atoms from seawater. "We're trying to convince ourselves that it will work," Laberge says. "Then we will need a big pile of cash." He thinks their design could result in a plant that costs only $200 million, compared to the nearly $20-billion (U.S.) bill for the latest experimental fusion reactor in France.
This gets to one of the last, limiting factors affecting Vancouver's reach for tech greatness: big piles of cash. While these seem to be available in the trunk of every Silicon Valley Jaguar, everyone complains that they are in short supply north of the border.
Haig Farris, the famed West Coast angel investor who co-founded and ran Ventures West, and who helped raise the $200 million that put the Burnaby quantum computing company D-Wave on the map, sniffs at the suggestion. "I've been in this business since 1973 and it hasn't changed one little bit: I go to Silicon Valley and all I hear is, 'It's so hard to raise money.'"
But then he acknowledges that, in some ways, things have changed. "Now physics and math are driving everything and people in the venture capital community don't get it. Neither the media nor the investors understand. So, there's lots of angel money. But it's hard to get people to commit for long-term, complicated things: for artificial intelligence, learning computers and materials science. The best deals are still the hardest to sell."
And yet, Mossadiq Umedaly, who has also spent much of the past decade managing or facilitating tech investments, says: "For a good idea, there's always money."
Which bit of optimism leads to a last word from Laberge, who is Québécois, funny and self-deprecating in a completely unconvincing way, and who, if he succeeds, could generate a dividend that will make the combined job-creating tech fortunes of Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk seem modest. Laberge offers both a complaint, and a solution: "It's as hard to find the money as it is to find the fusion. I walked a lot to find the money. So, I'd say, you need a good idea and long legs."


Today's daily deal? Who cares.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- After Gilt Groupies changed the 12 o'clock hour and Groupon made vouchers cool, users may finally be over it all.
Considering the eruption of new deal sites, it's not surprising that more shoppers are boycotting rather than buying.
In just the past two years daily deals and flash sale sites have grown so huge that they inspired a slew of copycats -- like LivingSocial, BuyWithMe, Rue La La, ideeli, Beyond the Rack, Swirl and HauteLook -- and second-market sites where consumers can unload those impulse purchases.
Sales at these sites grew 60% in 2009 and 70% in 2010, according to American Express Business Insights, which tracks the spending habits of its 90 million cardholders. But now consumers may have hit their saturation point.
"My inbox is inundated with sale emails that I delete. I don't read them anymore because they all blend together," Ruby, 24, said.
Leslie Holland, 49, says she occasionally buys deals from Groupon and LivingSocial when they offer discounts at stores or restaurants near her home in Louisville, Ky., but otherwise deletes sale notifications from Rue La La, Gilt and Swirl among others.
"I delete at least 100-150 emails a day, most from sale sites," she said. "Too many sales start at noon and I can't stop in the middle of my day to buy things I don't need."
Roger Adams, 38, goes one step further. He says he used to delete them but "now I go and actually unsubscribe to those that send too many emails."
In reaction, some sites, like Savings.com, are aggregating daily deals into one email customized to each user's preferences. But even these services have a hard time standing out in a crowd.
"With daily deals, spring sales, free parking at the airport, there are amazing deals but there's just a deluge of deals coming to you at every angle. It's becoming more challenging," said Savings.com CEO Loren Bendele.
Ultimately, only the strongest sites will survive, predicts Larry Joseloff, a vice president of Shop.org, a division of the National Retail Federation.
"It's kind of like social networking," he said. "At one point everyone was trying to build a social network, but there can be some overkill. A normal individual is not willing to be part of 10 networks."


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I don't buy as many CDs as I used to, but I occasionally listen to some at home or work. Most of what I listen to would probably be considered alternative, but we all know that's a meaningless word, so I won't say it. I'm willing to listen to about anything, as long as it's not Bush, rap, most country, gospel, or anything loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss. That doesn't mean I'll like it, but who knows?
Rather than describe my taste any further, here's a list of CDs. Feel free to make any judgements necessary, and tell me if you think I'll care.


Want to make money fast? Maybe clear out some clutter and make some space or perhaps you got some new stuff and you want to get rid of what you replaced. Sell on Facebook marketplace. Here are step by step instructions on how to do it.
When our business closed Mike and I were flat broke. We needed to move out of our rental home and we didn't know where we were going to go so we decided to just sell everything we owned at the time. We figured we could use the money and we wouldn't have to worry about moving or storing anything. This is when I found Facebook marketplace. Fast forward to when we moved into my grandmother's house and we were in a slightly different situation. The house was full of stuff we didn't want so again I turned to Facebook Marketplace. In the past couple years I've become sort of an expert at selling on Facebook. So much so I often get asked by friends and family if I can sell stuff for them too. I realised a lot of people have stuff they want to get rid of or need to make some quick cash so I decided to share some of my secrets here today.
Remember when craigslist was the place to sell everything without leaving your house? There was no more hassle of having a yard sale or going to an auction or having to put an item/car in your front yard with a for sale sign. Now you could reach a lot more people with a click of a button and sell your item quickly.
Facebook took notice of this and in a pursuit to make Facebook the only website you ever needed to visit on the internet they created, Facebook marketplace.
FB marketplace took the place of craigslist very quickly. There are 16 million people on Facebook. Which means the amount of people more likely to view your item is 10x that of craigslist. Also Facebook has cut down on scammers by monitoring the marketplace as well as the fact that only Facebook users can posts items for sale. No anonymous users means accountability and a better overall experience for the community. People feel safer so they are more willing to buy.
2. Once you have found your item, search marketplace for similar items. What are those items selling for? By clicking on the item you can see how long it's been on the market. Remember value is determined on what the market is willing to pay for it. So if an item has been priced at $70 but has been sitting for a month. That item isn't priced right and should be dropped in price.
3. Use the correct keywords in the title and description. You are now a salesperson of your own item. So sell it! Why should someone choose your item over someone else's? Are they even finding your item when they search? Make the person want your item over anyone else. If it is an old desk, use words like vintage desk or describe it better. Does it have a farmhouse look to it? Title it: vintage farmhouse desk. By using these keywords if someone were to type in farmhouse in the search bar, your item will come up as opposed to titling it, desk. Next, in the description, write something that will help your customer use their imagination. Things like "this desk makes a great DIY project!" Or "a little paint and hardware and this desk will be brand new" help the customer picture where the item could go or what they could be doing with the item.
4. Pictures! Window shopping is now done on the internet. As people are scrolling through Facebook, what is going to make them stop on your item? Better pictures! Lighting is key in helping you to sell your item. Take multiple angled shots, even dress it up. Let's stick with the desk example, you could add a plant, a notebook and a pen. Show them what they are missing out on by not buying your item.
5. Last step, revisit your posts often. If they aren't selling, consider dropping the price after two weeks on the market. Every few days, fb allows you to renew your post which means it will be bumped to the top of the list. Use this feature to maybe remind someone that is on the fence about your item. Always answer all questions that someone asks you about the item.
Using these 5 steps, your item will be sure to sell in no time! Remember, search the market, price it right, help use a little imagination and BAM, you are on your way to selling your first item quickly!
One additional tip I can share is to make selling on Facebook even easier is to utilize porch pickup. If you feel comfortable with the concept it can make selling much simpler. You don't have to worry about meeting people or even being home. I can understand if this makes some people uncomfortable but I have found most people to be pretty honest and I have had good experiences both as the seller and buyer.
These steps have helped me sell over $5,000 worth of stuff that I had lying around the house. I hope they help you too! That money really came in handy at a time when we were struggling financially and it felt great to declutter and free up space. I would love to hear from the community any tips that might help sell on FB Marketplace. Comment below and share your success stories!
By now you may have forgotten about America's Pie at the Beach. Some of you probably still want to know what happened and some of you are probably hoping I'm going to announce that Mike and I are opening another pizza shop. But that is not the story that I'm going to tell today. America's Pie at the Beach went under because of business partnership problems. Not because there wasn't enough effort put in, not because the business on the avenue wasn't enough to keep the doors open, not because of the competition. We were struggling like every new business does but to be honest we couldn't have asked for a better reception from the community in Rehoboth. We had so much support and we were truly on our way to becoming a permanent fixture on the avenue. However there were problems on the inside. Partnerships are hard. This is why so many of them fail. I've heard it described as being married to someone without loving them. In my experience that is pretty accurate.
I've stayed off the radar for this long because it's not easy to lose a business, to have it ripped out from under you. I still have trouble talking about it. So many emotions boil up still to this day. Many of you may be asking why didn't they open up down the street or somewhere else? Mike and I put everything we had into that shop. When the doors closed we literally had nothing and if my parents didn't tell us to move into my grandmother's house we would have been homeless. Sure, we could have figured out some way to do it again and trust me Mike wanted to. Truthfully, he still does and we still had people who believed in us and offered to help get us open again.
But in being truthful, I was ready for a change.
At the time I didn't know what that change was. I had been in pizza since I was 15. I didn't know another industry. For the past two years I've taken time for myself. Ive been trying to find myself. Trying to figure out what I like to do, what are my passions, what lights me up. When you leave something you have been in since as long as you can remember, the only thing I've ever really done, it can be hard to find your footing. I had a bit of an identity crisis. I didn't know who I was anymore. Mike would remind me "you are not what you do" but that is more of a place to start a journey than a destination.
The past two years have been building years for me. After the shop, I became a shell of myself. I pushed everyone away and didn't want to be reminded of the business in anyway. Additionally, I didn't keep in contact with anyone and when I met new people, I wouldn't tell them about the shop either. I was harboring feelings that I had towards my former business partners and to be honest I probably still am a little to this day. At this point in my life, I am ready to move on. I don't wish my former partners any ill will, I just want to move on and move past it. Business failures happen all the time. What you don't read about it is how it effects the business owners. Many handle it like I did. Not well. We go into hiding, or never speak of it again. It has taken me a long time to realize that by harboring feelings, I am only hurting myself.
Which is why I am here today to change that. I am ready to stop hiding from it and face my failure.
It does not define me. I will not let it. I'm ready to move on from it and learn from my failures and build myself to be better than the previous version of me. I'm ready to come out of hiding. I am writing this to say I appreciate all the support we received at the pizza shop, I enjoyed spending time talking to every one of my customers each day and truly miss all of you. I enjoyed listening to your stories and hearing about your families and I miss that time we had together. In writing this, I hope that you still want to engage in those stories again. I really want to know what you have been going through these past two years. I hope to rebuild our relationships.
After months and months of trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my career, I believe that I have found something. Something that makes me the happiest I have been in years!
I am a real estate agent, licensed in Delaware and on my way to be licensed in Pennsylvania as well.
It is something that brings me so much joy and fulfillment. I get to listen to stories and build relationships just like back at the shop. I get to help them achieve a dream that they may have never felt was possible.
First time home buyers are probably one of my favorite groups of people to help. Some had never even thought about owning a home. Sitting down and explaining the home buying process, showing them that is possible and how to get there. It is an amazing feeling to be able to get to closing day and see the excitement in their faces that they are finally going to own their own home and be able to do whatever they want with it. I, on the other hand am happy in helping them invest in their future and excited to watch them grow as people in their new homes. It makes me feel like part of the family. I love hearing about how they decorated and how they established a feeling of home. I enjoy watching them build their families and hearing their stories like when they watched their babies take their first steps in the home of their dreams.
Over the past two years I turned another passion I had into a small handmade business that I run out of my house. It was something that started as a hobby that has grown into so much more and also couples nicely with my real estate business. I create gift boxes and personalized gifts apparel and decor for all occasions. I focus on new homes, new babies and weddings.
One thing that I learned from the house I rented in Rehoboth is how much soot is left on the walls from the candles I was burning. After research I also realized the candles were toxic and probably not helping with my headaches I was experiencing either. I decided I could probably do a better job myself and set out to create candles that were better for the environment and my health. These have become the backbone of my handmade business. I make 100% all natural soy candles, which I absolutely love! It helps to sleep at night knowing that my house isn't filled with toxic fumes from the candles and better yet, no soot on my walls! I also make personalized mugs, t shirts, coasters, wood signs, farmhouse decor, and a bunch of other items and I add them all into the gift boxes I put together. The gift boxes are a personal favorite because it is a way to create something with a personal touch that someone will remember and can put to practical use. I created a website handmadebyjenngee.com, check it out and tell me what you think!
In running my lifestyle blog I have found an outlet to express myself.
It gives me a way to get my ideas out on paper and share with others the important ideas and lessons that I have picked up throughout this process. Not many people can say they had a business and lost it at the age of 27. I hope that in sharing my experience others who might be going through hardships of their own can find inspiration that it can get better. Through hard work and dedication anything is possible. I want to give entrepreneurs and women a perspective that while yes, I may have said it was the hardest thing to have to go through, I do not regret doing it. I learned a lot in losing it and yes, I may have lost myself for a few years, but sometimes you have to lose yourself in order to find yourself. Now I am coming back better than ever! Lately, I find myself trying to compare who I was then and who I am now. I was much more disciplined back then with everything- financially, mentally, and physically. I often now have to remind myself, if I did it once I can do it again. Im still on my way back to the top and as long as I keep going stay resilient and not give up I will get back to where I was and even go further.
Today, I stand here saying that a risk was taken and while it may not have turned out the way that I thought it was going to, it is getting better day by day and I am coming back stronger than ever. I miss all the relationships I built with my customers and I am ready and would love to rekindle lost friendships. Please reach out to me! I want to hear from you! I want to listen to your stories again and enjoy the time spent with each and every one of you.


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Pauss is a Norwegian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Bernhard Pauss (1839–1907), Norwegian theologian, educator, and author
 Henriette Pauss (1841–1918), Norwegian humanitarian
 Olav Eduard Pauss (1863–1928), Norwegian ship-owner

See also
 Paus

Norwegian-language surnames


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Bexar County Hospital District Asks For Same Tax Rate, Bigger Budget
Texas Public Radio | By Eileen Pace
Published September 9, 2014 at 9:52 AM CDT
The Bexar County Hospital District has requested a tax rate for the coming year with no increase in the tax rate itself. But the health system is counting on rising local property values to sustain its budget over the coming year.
The hospital district, now known as University Health System, submitted a proposal to Bexar County commissioners with a tax rate that is unchanged from last year.
The 2015 budget is prepared after the 2014 tax rate has been set. But University Health System president and CEO George Hernandez said the challenge is not estimating the tax rate needed to support the budget.
"We do it in advance and then we work to make sure that we live within our budget," Hernandez said. "But the challenges are the continuous cuts in reimbursements at the state and federal level. We're seeing in the neighborhood of $25 million in reduction in reimbursements."
But Hernandez said a big problem is the state's Medicaid reimbursement policy.
"The Medicaid reimbursement in the state of Texas is 51 cents on the dollar," he said. "The federal government allows them to pay the whole dollar, but the state legislation has been very conservative and it really does not pay any hospital or any physician what is permitted."
The new University Hospital Sky Tower is an estimated $35 million cost increase, but Hernandez said the hospital system found ways to improve operating costs by reducing energy and other strategies. UHS proposed a tax rate of 27.6 cent per $100 valuation, which will mean a homeowner's tax for the hospital district will increase at the same rate the home's value increased in the last year. The unchanged tax rate is expected to yield $323 million, or an additional $20 million for next year's University Health System budget.
Bexar County Commissioners will hold two public hearings on the tax rate before taking a vote on Sept. 16.
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Four Vietnamese were awarded the New Zealand ASEAN Scholar Awards by New Zealand Prime Minister John Key on Monday. The four were among the 40 individuals from 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to be presented with the prestigious prizes in a ceremony to mark 40 years of diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the bloc. ASEAN is a ten-member organization which includes Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam. The Vietnamese recipients of the awards are Mai Kieu Lien, CEO of dairy firm Vinamilk; Nguyen Xuan Vang, head of the International Cooperation Department under the Ministry of Education and Training; Tran Duc Lam, CEO of Tran Duc Homes Company; and diplomat Ton Nu Thi Ninh. The four were honored for their contribution to the development of Vietnam and New Zealand's cooperation. The New Zealand-ASEAN Scholar Awards are designed to recognize New Zealand's close … [Read more...] about Four Vietnamese awarded New Zealand ASEAN Scholar Awards
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Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries last night by the Vietnam News Agency. - General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and President of China Xi Jinping has sent a letter to General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong to thank him for cabling a message of condolences over the passing of comrade Jiang Zemin. Read full story - State budget collection from export-import activities in January topped 24.8 trillion VND (1.07 billion USD), or 5.8% of the estimate, down 42.3% annually, reported the General Department of Vietnam Customs (GDVC). Read full story - The State Treasury has announced that it plans to raise 400 trillion VND (over 17 billion USD) worth of Government bonds via auctions on the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) this year. Read full story - There were 2,536 newly-established businesses in Ho Chi Minh City in January with a total newly registered capital of over 17.9 … [Read more...] about ☀ Morning digest February 2
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Pioneertown High Desert Project
To paraphrase the Scottish bard, if you take the high road and I take the low road, I'd be in Palm Springs or Palm Desert, while you'd find yourself in Yucca Valley on the high desert, or perhaps what has been dubbed "The Golden Empire" whose capital is picturesque Pioneertown.
Post author By The Los Angeles Times
Added Feb 11, 2020
BY TOM CAMERON,
Times Real Estate Editor
Pioneertown is a familiar setting for scores of Western movies filmed in the jumbled rocks of the Morongo Range on the far side of the San Bernadino's two hours from Los Angeles via the San Bernadino Freeway to the Yucca Valley, the 29 Palms turn off and on north to the unique community.
The place was built two decades ago in Old West style to be available as a complete movie set for Hollywood saddle spectaculars. They even called the principal thoroughfare "Mane St." Hollywood responded, shooting some 50 films amid the false-front buildings and the nearby rocky or sandy terrain.
There was a modest real estate boom, too, but it didn't amount to much, perhaps because of a lack of over-all planning and organization.
Pioneertown is to be the heart of the so-called Golden Empire, a 30-square-area 4,000 ft. above sea level, and seldom subjected to excessive high temperatures, in which it differs from the low desert of the Coachella Valley, where 100-plus readings are common in the summer.
Benton Lefton, a former Cleveland developer who is head of the California Golden Empire, called in the experts to see how the area could be developed.
And, he told them, he didn't have in mind another Disneyland or Knott's Berry Farm, but rather a master-planned resort and residential community, Lefton refers to the Golden Empire as a $400 million project that by 1975 will have 18,000 single family home lots of from 7,200 square feet to two and one-half acres, and even some of up to 20 acres, depending on terrain. He plans 1,000 acres for condominium construction as well as town-houses and similar developments that might range up to 20 units per acre; 1,000 acres for commercial developments like shopping centers and hotels; 1,000 acres for church, school park, and recreational use, and even 1,000 acres for industry.
Lefton's team consists of Ferdinand R. Iwasko, who prepared a master plan; William Snelling of Land Trends Inc., who did a feasibility study, and Jennings Engineering Co., who staked out the building sites, graded the roads and confirmed the master plan. The project is scheduled for 10 years of orderly development, according to Lefton.
The developer was a major home builder in the Middle West for 20 years before coming here in 1961. He is a past president of the Home Builders Assn. of Greater Cleveland.
The first phase of development comprises 2,000 acres of the total of 21,000 acres and involves preparation of 15,000 lots. The civil engineering has been supervised by Gordon J. Jennings, head of the firm bearing his name.
"There is a minimum of grading involved," Jennings said. "The natural desert beauty will not be scarred except in preparation of primary and secondary highways, access roads, and possibly some drainage control. Streets, curbs, gutters, and sidewalks are ready for paving. Utilities will be put in.
The first phase, in addition to some refurbishing of Pioneertown itself, involves about 10 acres for commercial zoning, 30 acres for trailer parks, 130 acres for multiple-unit residential development, and 1,650 lots ranging from small to large. Lots will be priced from $3,500 to $8,000. Multiple unit lots will be offered at $9,000.
Air Strip Planned
With its dry, clear atmosphere, Pioneertown will offer good facilities to the private flier. A 5,700-foot strip is being completed east of the town, with plenty of tie-down and other facilities.
There are about 20 commercial enterprises in Pioneertown now, and this number will be doubled by those under construction or scheduled, according to Lefton.
The California Golden Empire contains only about 100 homes today, but with steadily increasing popularity of the high desert—as exemplified by the tremendous growth of Yucca Valley, 29 Palms, Morongo Valley, Victor Valley and other nearly mile-high communities of the area—it should grow.
The inland high desert has no smog, and the scenery is impressive. Toward the coast there's the big San Bernadino Mountain range, with majestic Mt. San Gorgonio (Old Greyback) thrusting 11,500 feet into the clear sky. To the north and south are vistas of the rugged hills with desert plants and distinctive Joshua trees. To the east, across the high desert mesas, are the distant mountains.
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A woman in Kenya makes plastic waste bricks.
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The trash of someone else is the gold of somebody else. Materials Engineer Nzambi Matee, 29 years old, prefers the brick pavers. Matee founded Gjenge Makers, a Nairobi-based company that has pioneered a new recycling method in sustainable products for plastic wastes. It created lightweight and low-cost sand bricks that are stronger than concrete, made from recycled plastic.
Matee was recently awarded the Young Earth Champion 2020 Award, the United Nations' highest environmental award. The award recognises environmental leaders who have an important environmental impact on their initiatives. "I wanted to use my background to combat plastic pollution in applied physics and engineering materials.
"The best way to achieve this was to channel waste into the construction and construction industries and find the most efficient and affordable material for the building of buildings," said Matee, whose Gjenge Makers company has so far recycled 20 metric tonne, and hopes to reach 50 by the end of the fuselage process. "The solution was very effective, long-term and cost-effective.
The bricks can be used for the construction of walls, entrances and other structures.
For waste collector groups, women's organisations and youth groups 112 jobs have been created by the company. The Greener World Matee collects non-recyclable or reprocessable industrial and consumer plastic waste. Polypropylene (used in flip-top decks, buckets, and rope), poly-purpose polyetylene (used in shampoo and milk bottles) (used in bags). The plastic is then mixed with sand, heated and broken into beautiful bricks of diverse colour and thick.
Gjenge pavers can support twice as much weight not just stronger and lightweight than concrete blocks. "They are more durable and less fragile by linking the blocks with plastic. Sand, ballast, cement and water are standard bricks. Although all of these ingredients contribute to the paver block weight, only sand or ballast and plastics are present in our paver blocks. It gets lighter as a result. They are 30% cheaper than conventional bricks since after the creation of plastic products we use the lowest plastic quality left behind by industries."
Four years before production began in 2020, Matee worked on the concept. It also helped design, manufacture and manufacture the machines making such blocks.


Gambettes Box is a French subscription box service in which you receive two pairs of tights each month for £13.90 (€15.90) that are inspired by the streets of Paris. I've been receiving the box for the past seven months now and I think the box as a whole is such a fantastic idea! The presentation and packaging are always great and I love the designs – I cannot recommend it enough!
The first pair of tights is the 'spectacular spectacular' tights which are 35 denier, a thickness and opacity of tights I haven't tried before. They are black lace tights which are in the medium size – I'm a UK 8/10 and the tights always fit perfectly. If you are a similar size to me then go for the medium size but if you are unsure of your size, you can visit their website to find out.
This box is designed in partnership with Patricia Blanchet, a Parisian shoemaker and the theme seems to be of the circus. I love the lace design of these tights, it makes a pair of plain black tights more interesting and unique. They'd be great when paired with a little black dress!
The second and final pair is the 'haute voltige' tights which are 20 denier so they are perfect for the upcoming spring and summer months. This design is definitely my favourite of the two within this box as they are unique, cute and they aren't as prone to tears as the lace tights are. In the photograph above, I'm wearing the 'haute voltige' tights with a plain black skater dress and they are the perfect combination! I think they'd be ideal with so many dresses I know and I can see myself wearing them so much in the spring and autumn months.


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Lake Forest, IL, July 26, 2012 – Tenneco Inc. (NYSE: TEN) reported second quarter net income of $87 million, or $1.42 per diluted share, versus net income of $50 million, or 81-cents per diluted share, in second quarter 2011. On an adjusted basis, net income rose to $70 million, or $1.14 per diluted share, compared with $50 million, or 81-cents per diluted share, a year ago.
Net tax benefits of $1 million, or 2-cents per diluted share, related to U.S. taxable income with no associated tax expense due to the valuation allowance on the company's net operating loss position, partially offset by losses in certain foreign jurisdictions and adjustments to tax estimates.
Total revenue in the quarter increased to $1.920 billion, from $1.888 billion in second quarter 2011. Revenue excluding substrate sales and currency rose 9 percent to $1.587 billion, versus $1.453 billion a year ago. Currency had a negative impact of $119 million in the quarter. The revenue increase was driven primarily by strong OE light vehicle production volumes in North America and China and incremental commercial vehicle revenue globally. In the second quarter, total OE commercial and specialty vehicle revenue increased 36 percent year-over-year to $226 million, which represented 12 percent of total revenues in the quarter, compared with 9 percent a year ago.
EBIT (earnings before interest, taxes and noncontrolling interests) increased 21% to $137 million from $113 million in second quarter 2011. Adjusted EBIT was $139 million, a $24 million increase from a year ago, despite a negative currency impact of $13 million. EBIT improvement was driven by strong operating performance on higher light vehicle production volumes and incremental commercial vehicle revenue. The year-over-year comparison also includes lower stock-indexed compensation and lower aftermarket customer changeover costs.
Cash generated from operations was $86 million in the quarter, a $19 million year-over-year improvement from the year ago quarter on the strength of higher earnings and effective working capital management.
Tenneco continues to strategically invest in growth with capital expenditures in the quarter of $62 million, up from $47 million the prior year. The majority of spending was in the North America and Europe OE businesses to support new light and commercial vehicle customer program launches, and in Asia to accommodate new programs and new customers.
During the second quarter, Tenneco completed a previously announced stock buyback plan, repurchasing 600,000 shares of its outstanding common stock for $18 million, to offset dilution from shares issued to employees in 2012.
Tenneco's net debt at June 30, 2012 was $1.185 billion, versus $1.133 billion the prior year. The leverage ratio (net debt to adjusted LTM EBITDA including noncontrolling interests) was 1.9x, down from 2.0x a year ago.
North America EBIT increased 39% to $86 million compared with $62 million one year ago. On an adjusted basis, EBIT was $86 million versus $63 million despite the impact of $6 million in currency transaction losses year-over-year. EBIT performance was driven primarily by strong operational performance on higher volumes, particularly in the OE emissions control business including the commercial vehicle segment. EBIT this quarter also included lower aftermarket changeover costs.
Europe, South America and India EBIT was $32 million compared with $37 million a year ago. On an adjusted basis, EBIT was $34 million versus $38 million. Currency had a $9 million unfavorable impact on EBIT. EBIT was driven by strong operational performance in the Europe OE businesses in the face of weak industry volumes, and negatively impacted by lower production volumes in South America and declines in the Europe aftermarket.
Asia Pacific EBIT rose 36% to $19 million compared with $14 million last year. Currency had a $2 million favorable impact on Asia Pacific segment EBIT. EBIT was driven by higher volumes on new light vehicle platforms in China and operating improvements in Australia.
IHS Automotive predicts higher year-over-year light vehicle production in most of Tenneco's markets except Europe. IHS forecasts* indicate that global light vehicle production is expected to rise 2% year-over-year in the second half of 2012, with North America increasing 6%, China up 7%, South America up 13% and India up 2%.
Light vehicle production in Europe is forecasted to decline 7% year-over-year, which the company expects to partially offset with a strong customer and platform mix in its OE emissions control business. As over the last several quarters, economic weakness will continue to drag on the European aftermarket business.
Stronger North America vehicle production, particularly in the company's OE emission control business, is expected to drive solid year-over-year revenue growth. The company expects its North America aftermarket revenues will be roughly the same as last year's very strong third quarter.
In China, stronger year-over-year OE volume is expected to continue driving growth for the Asia Pacific segment.
The weakening global economic conditions are having somewhat more of an effect on commercial vehicle production schedules. While Tenneco will experience very strong commercial vehicle revenue growth for 2012, due to these slower production schedules commercial vehicle revenues are now expected to be closer to the first half run rate than the company's forecast in the beginning of the year. Tenneco continues to successfully launch and grow its commercial vehicle business and today is announcing three new commercial vehicle business wins in Europe and India.
"Our technology-driven emission control strategy continues to drive our business globally, and despite current economic headwinds, Tenneco remains on track for revenue growth, margin improvement and record earnings in 2012 with continued outstanding growth opportunities going forward," added Sherrill.
*IHS Automotive production forecast as of July 17, 2012.
The company will host a conference call on Thursday, July 26, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. ET. The dial-in number is 888-603-9213 (domestic) or 312-470-7158 (international). The passcode is TENNECO. The call and accompanying slides will be available on the financial section of the Tenneco web site at www.tenneco.com. A recording of the call will be available one hour following completion of the call on July 26, 2012 through August 26, 2012. To access this recording, dial 800-841-8609 (domestic) or 402-280-9935 (international). The purpose of the call is to discuss the company's operations for the quarter, as well as other matters that may impact the company's outlook. A copy of the press release is available on the financial and news sections of the Tenneco web site.


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my ($opt, $usage) = describe_options(
    'ws-copy <'.join("> <",@{$primaryArgs}).'> %o',
    [ 'workspace|s:s', 'ID or Name of workspace to copy from', {"default" => workspace()} ],
    [ 'newworkspace|n:s', 'ID or Name of workspace to copy to', {"default" => workspace()} ],
    [ 'version|v=i', 'Version of the object to copy' ],
    [ 'showerror|e', 'Show full stack trace of any errors in execution',{"default"=>0}],
    [ 'help|h|?', 'Print this usage information' ]
);
$usage = "\nNAME\n  ws-copy -- copy an object\n\nSYNOPSIS\n  ".$usage;
$usage .= "\nDESCRIPTION\n";
$usage .= "    Create a copy of an existing object. If you do not specify a version \n";
$usage .= "    and the object is copied to a new name, the entire version history of \n";
$usage .= "    the object is copied. If the version is specified, or if an object by \n";
$usage .= "    the new name already exists, only the version specified (or the latest \n";
$usage .= "    version) is copied.\n\n";

if (defined($opt->{help})) {
	print $usage;
    exit;
}
#Processing primary arguments
if (scalar(@ARGV) > scalar(@{$primaryArgs})) {
	print STDERR "Too many input arguments given.  Run with -h or --help for usage information\n";
	exit 1;
}
foreach my $arg (@{$primaryArgs}) {
	$opt->{$arg} = shift @ARGV;
	if (!defined($opt->{$arg})) {
		print STDERR "Not enough input arguments provided.  Run with -h or --help for usage information\n";
		exit 1;
	}
}
#Instantiating parameters
my $params = {
	from => { ref => getObjectRef($opt->{workspace},$opt->{"Original object ID"},$opt->{version}) },
	to   => { ref => getObjectRef($opt->{newworkspace},$opt->{"New object ID"},undef) }
};

#Calling the server
my $output;
if ($opt->{showerror} == 0){
	eval { $output = $serv->$servercommand($params); };
	if($@) {
		print "Object could not be copied!\n";
		print STDERR $@->{message}."\n";
		if(defined($@->{status_line})) {print STDERR $@->{status_line}."\n" };
		print STDERR "\n";
		exit 1;
	}
} else {
	$output = $serv->$servercommand($params);
}
#Checking output and report results
if (!defined($output)) {
	print "Object could not be copied!\n";
} else {
	print "Object copied successfully.\n";
}

exit 0;

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An international team of astrophysicists using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) stratospheric observatory discovered a molecule in the planetary nebula NGC 7027, which formed shortly after the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago.
A full report on the study is presented in the journal Nature, and it is briefly described on the NASA website. We are talking about the ion of helium hydride (HeH +), formed from helium atoms and hydrogen.
It is believed that this is the first type of molecules that have appeared in the universe. By the way, the possibility of their existence was proven in the laboratory in 1925.
In the 1970s, astrophysical models were created, proving that these molecules may be present in planetary nebulae. And only now for the first time managed to detect such a molecule in space.
It was found using the SOFIA, the world's largest stratospheric observatory, located on a Boeing 747SP aircraft with a high-resolution spectrometer. It was he who recorded in real time "helium hydride signal".
According to scientists, helium and hydrogen were first combined about 100 thousand years after the Big Bang. So a molecule called helium hydride was created.
Theoretically, it should be present in the modern universe. However, until now it has never been found in space.
By the way, the molecule was discovered in the nebula NGC 7027, located at a distance of 3000 light years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Cygnus. It contains the remains of a dead star, resembling the sun, which is surrounded by a dense shell.
According to scientists, the discovery confirms a key part of the basic understanding of the simple chemistry of the early Universe and will allow us to explain how over the course of billions of years it has turned into a modern, complex chemistry.


Modern technologies are not only for the convenience of the average person, they become a dangerous weapon in the hands of frauds and scams. Now with the help of a thermal camera you can easily see the PIN-code of payment card in just a few seconds. The attacker can wait for you everywhere: at the gas station near the payment terminal or in the supermarket.
Thermal camera for smartphones can now be purchased everywhere. They are inexpensive, but with their help it became possible to quickly and accurately identify security code credit card. A new method, which began to use the crooks based on the read heat-waves emanating from the fingers at the time of introduction of the PIN.
Before reading this information is a special camera with an infrared range. Now a similar feature is available in almost any modern smartphone.
The attacker is close to you in the moment when you pay with a credit card and enter your PIN. He wouldn't look over your shoulder, hoping to see cherished numbers code. It is enough just after you make a payment, take a picture of the payment terminal using a thermal camera. Now he has a PIN, and the numbers that are typed in after this date will be brighter in the image.
Be sure when typing code touch the fingers of the other hand to several adjacent buttons. It will introduce potential burglars into confusion and will not allow to solve the security code of your credit card.


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Oneida Indian Nation Honored in Upstate New York's Largest Nationally-Recognized Gingerbread Village
Turning Stone Resort Casino's 2019 Gingerbread Village features architectural details in honor of Oneida Indian Nation's Turtle, Wolf and Bear Clans
ONEIDA INDIAN NATION, N.Y. — Every year, Turning Stone's award-winning pastry team, led by Executive Chef Ron Ross, a three-time James Beard award recipient, and Executive Pastry Chef Dennis Miller, designs, bakes and decorates the largest and more elaborate Gingerbread Village in Upstate New York.
This year, the talented pastry chefs paid homage to the Oneida Indian Nation, owner of Turning Stone, by featuring imagery of the three Oneida Indian Nation clans – Turtle, Wolf and Bear – in the architectural details of the beautiful log cabin; one of nine buildings within the all-edible Gingerbread Village.
The Gingerbread Village is nationally-recognized every year by travel and tourism publications, such as Forbes Travel Guide, as an "edible work of art."
Measuring more than 70 feet in length and features nine towering buildings, this year's village also includes a Willy Wonka house; a Disney Princess-inspired hotel; a Candy Land designed house; a Mediterranean-style train station; and many more.
Turning Stone Gingerbread Village Fun Facts:
– 200 lbs of gingerbread dough
– 560 lbs of frosting
– More than 200 lbs of fondant
– 480 lbs of powdered sugar
– 4,000 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
– 2,000 Sugar Sanded Sour Lemon Drops
To view more photos of Turning Stone's 2019 Gingerbread Village, click HERE.
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Last hurrah for Homestead: track hosts final title races
By MARK LONG - Nov. 16, 2019 02:28 AM EST
Kevin Harvick waits in the garage for a NASCAR Cup Series auto race practice to begin on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla. Harvick is one of four drivers racing for the series championship. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — In many ways, Homestead-Miami Speedway was the ideal spot for NASCAR's "championship weekend."
Great weather, especially for November. A famous beach and trendy nightlife nearby. And a worn-out asphalt track that's produced slipping, sliding, side-by-side racing and nine different winners in the last nine years.
The Cup Series champion has been crowned at the South Florida speedway every year since 2002 and will be again Sunday, for the 18th consecutive year.
Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr. are the title contenders, and the highest finisher among the four will clinch the championship. For one of them, it will be a life-changing moment. For Homestead, it will be a last hurrah.
NASCAR moved "championship weekend" to Phoenix in 2020, leaving Homestead to settle for a March race date amid Spring Break.
What happens in 2021 is unclear. Many believe the NASCAR finale will remain in Phoenix, especially after the sanctioning body recently spent $170 million on facility upgrades. But others think it should rotate.
"In all honesty, it shouldn't be in Phoenix the year after," Harvick said. "Having that championship race is important to new markets, new fans, exposing people to our sport. ... To me, what happens in the race is irrelevant.
"It's great that we're going to crown a champion. We all love Homestead. The event and the market and the notoriety, the new things that come to a new market that help carry that racetrack for a number of years to come, are important. We have to use our championship event to rebuild enthusiasm in markets. I think that will be the first step to doing that."
Homestead's championship days might be numbered, but the memories of fantastic finales will linger.
The speedway has delivered several compelling clinchers, most notably in 2011 and 2016, and provided the backdrop for several high-profile retirement parties. NASCAR stars Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Danica Patrick all said goodbye in some fashion at the track.
Stewart walked away five years after his third and final Cup title, which may have been the most memorable of the three.
Stewart and Carl Edwards were the remaining contenders in 2011, and Edwards dominated for much of the first half of the race. Stewart, meanwhile, was running 25th before making some changes and charging to the front.
They ran 1-2 over the final 27 laps, but Edwards couldn't chase down Stewart, who won his third Cup Series championship. They actually finished tied in points, but Stewart won the title on a tiebreaker (most victories).
"Did I make it exciting enough?" Stewart radioed to his team.
The finish was even better five years later.
Edwards was on the front row for a restart with 10 laps to go when he blocked fellow title contender Joey Logano and wrecked a chunk of the field. Jimmie Johnson eluded the crash and won his record-tying seventh Cup championship.
But the indelible image of the night was Edwards walking to the infield care center and stopping along the way to apologize to Logano's team. Edwards walked away from the series two months later.
"The racetrack is phenomenal," Hamlin said. "I believe as a driver you can really make a difference here. Even if your car is lacking a little bit, you can move around and change the characteristics of your car, the handling of your car through different lines and whatnot."
But NASCAR decided to make the move to showcase its investment in ISM Raceway and Phoenix, which is considered a more enthusiastic racing market.
"There are pluses and minuses to everything, right?" Truex said. "I think the plus about here at Homestead, we only come here once a year. Completely different racetrack than anywhere we go. ... I don't know that we should race for a championship somewhere where we raced already in the season, you know?
"You're going to have an idea who is going to be good. This weekend is a total crapshoot because we haven't been here in a year. It's a new car, new tire, everything is different. You have no idea what to expect. That's a good thing for the championship. ... At the same time, I definitely think we should move it around."
Track officials have embraced the shift and recently upgraded several fan amenities to give the speedway a more South Beach feel.
They created Ally Beach, a 20,000-square-feet beach located inside Turn 3 that overlooks the spring-fed lake that spans the length of the backstretch. The beach will host an infield party for guests 18 and older and include live entertainment and water activities.
They also built a fan village that includes a sports bar as well as local music, salsa dancers and live paintings by local artists.
"It is bittersweet. There's no question about it," track president Al Garcia said. "But every time something happens, a door closes, another one opens. I really am very optimistic about the privilege of running here during that Spring Break time."


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Rugby On TV: December 8-12
Want a guide to all the oval ball action you can catch on television this week? Look no further – irishrugby.ie has the answers.
Thursday Dec 8:
Sky Sports 1: "TOTAL RUGBY", 6.00pm – The IRB's magazine show wraps up the latest action from around the globe. (Repeated at 11.00pm, on Friday at 06.00am and 10.30am)
Setanta Sports: "TOP 14 RUGBY: HIGHLIGHTS", 7.30pm – All the tries, penalties and drop goals from last weekend's series of matches in the French Top 14 championship, including league leaders' Toulouse's trip to mid-table Brive. (Repeated on Friday at 12.05am)
Sky Sports 2: "THE RUGBY CLUB", 8.00pm – Simon Lazenby rounds up the latest rugby action from the domestic leagues and previews this weekend's European action. (Repeated on Friday at 8.00am and 12.30pm and 3.00pm)
Setanta Sports: "SPORTS MONTHLY", 9.30pm – Monthly sports round-up programme, which includes a look back at the draw for the inaugural AIB Cup competition at Lansdowne Road. (Repeated on Monday at 12.05am and 9.00pm
Friday Dec 9:
Setanta Sports: "IRB SEVENS 2005/06: DUBAI", 11.20pm – Coverage from last weekend's IRB Sevens tournament from the Dubai Exiles ground, where England retained the title. (Repeated at 7.00pm)
Setanta Sports: "TOP 14 RUGBY: BOURGOIN V CLERMONT", 2.20pm – Coverage from last weekend's Bourgoin v Clermont tie in the French Top 14 championship.
Sky Sports 2: "LIVE HEINEKEN CUP RUGBY", 7.30pm – Live coverage of the Pool 4 clash between Ulster and Saracens from Ravenhill (kick-off 7.30pm), followed by delayed coverage of the Pool 1 tie between Castres and Sale at Stade Pierre-Antoine.
Saturday Dec 10:
Setanta Sports: "CELTIC LEAGUE RUGBY", 02.10am – Coverage of last weekend's Celtic League derby meeting between Connacht and Leinster from the Sportsground in Galway. (Repeated at 06.10am)
Sky Sports 3: "LIVE HEINEKEN CUP RUGBY", 12.30pm – Live coverage of the Pool 1 clash between the Newport-Gwent Dragons and Munster at the Rodney Parade (kick-off 1.00pm), followed by live action from the Pool 3 tie between Clermont-Auvergne and Stade Francais from the Stade Marcel Michelin (kick-off 3.00pm).
Sky Sports 2: "LIVE HEINEKEN CUP RUGBY", 5.00pm – Live coverage of the Pool 5 clash between Leinster and Bourgoin from the RDS (kick-off 5.15pm), followed by delayed coverage of the Pool 2 tie between Calvisano and the Cardiff Blues at the Centro Sportivo San Michele.
RTE Two: "LIVE HEINEKEN CUP RUGBY", 5.05pm – Live coverage of Leinster's must-win Pool 5 clash with Bourgoin from the RDS.
Setanta Sports: "IRB SEVENS 2005/06: GEORGE", 5.15pm – Highlights from the first day of action at this weekend's IRB Sevens tournament in George, South Africa. Sit tight for three hours of fast flowing rugby. (Repeated on Sunday at 12.10am and 10.55am)
Sunday Dec 11:
Sky Sports 2: "LIVE HEINEKEN CUP RUGBY", 12.30pm – Live coverage of the Pool 6 clash between Llanelli Scarlets and Wasps at Stradey Park (kick-off 1.00pm), followed by live action from the Pool 3 tie between Leicester and the Ospreys from Welford Road (kick-off 3.00pm).
Setanta Sports: "IRB SEVENS 2005/06: GEORGE", 4.30pm – Highlights from the second day of action at this weekend's IRB Sevens tournament in George, South Africa. Two hours of uninterrupted coverage.
Sky Sports 3: "EUROPEAN RUGBY SPECIAL", 8.00pm – Highlights of the weekend's Heineken Cup games, including Llanelli Scarlets v Wasps and Leicester v the Ospreys. (Repeated on Monday on Sky Sports 2 at 01.00am)
Monday Dec 12:
Chorus Sports Channel: "THE RUGBY SHOW", 8.00pm – Highlights of Saturday's AIB League Division One games between Garryowen and Dungannon, and Cork Constitution and Clontarf. (Repeated at 10.00pm, on Tuesday at 7.00pm and 9.00pm)
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Littered with burned tanks, trucks, cars and Iraqi corpses, the stretch of road from Kuwait to Basra has been deemed the "Highway of Death"; the American-perpetrated atrocity is viewed by many as a war crime — due in no small part to the deliberate carpet-bombing of a stretch of highway where hysterical Iraqis became landlocked in traffic. Above: American soldiers pry open the car trunks and take as much ammunition and as many weapons as they can carry. (Source: CBC, http://www.cbc.ca).


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After an explosion caused by a failed experiment tragically cost him his sight, Nobel-prize winning scientist, Dr. Gustaf Dalén, was confined to his home. Cared for by his wife Elma, Dalén was concerned about the amount of time she was spending stoking the fire under a dangerous open stove. Inspired, he resolved to invent a more efficient cooker that could be safely left on at all times. The AGA was born.
Although invented by a Swede, the AGA cooker has become a symbol of all things quintessentially British. In 1947, manufacture of the cooker was moved to the Coalbrookdale foundry in Shropshire, where they are still being made to this day. Also, Douglas Scott, best known for designing London's classic Routemaster buses, played a significant role in the re-styling of the cooker, turning it into the recognisable icon it is now.
The secret to the AGA's success is that they are still built the same way as they always have been. Molten iron is poured into moulds to create heavy iron castings, which absorb and retain heat, before being given multiple coats of enamel. This means that not only does food retain more moisture and flavour, but also, every cooker is unique. Another major selling point is their longevity, with a recent competition to find the oldest working AGA cooker discovering that one installed in 1932 was still cooking!
Although an AGA cooker may conjure up images of rambling country estates and farmhouse kitchens, they are equally at home in a contemporary setting. Modern models are combined with state-of-the-art technology that allows you to remotely turn on a casserole or heat up the home simply by sending a text from a smartphone. To cut down running costs, some even have touch-screen panels that control the different ovens and hotplates, innovations that I'm sure would have overjoyed Dr. Dalén.
As the evenings draw in and we dream of stewed apples bubbling on the stove and dogs warming their paws in front of the oven, it's clear the AGA is more than just a good looking facade and, possibly, even more than an ingenious design. It is a cherished part of family life.
For more ideas on how to create a warm and inviting kitchen during these colder months, read our article on Bringing Autumn Into Your Kitchen.


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1 Kenyans line up to donate blood for those injured in Saturday's terrorist attack on a shopping mall, at Uhuru Park in Nairobi, Kenya.
2 The cast from AMC's series "Breaking Bad" poses backstage with their awards for Outstanding Drama Series at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, Sept. 22, 2013.
3 An Afghan man takes a nap while taking a break from work at a rice shop in a market in Kabul, Afghanistan.
4 Actors dressed like Roman Legionaries in action during a demonstration in the antique theatre, in Orange, southern France, Sept. 22, 2013.


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Also, I am having an issue uploading a skin with the same name to replace/fix an existing skin without removing the old skin entirely. Before 4.2, I did not have this issue. Even if I change the revision number, the skin/extension loader gives an error of "failed to load from Temporary Folder". If I remove the skin, or change the name entirely, I can load it.