A new image taken by a NASA satellite captures the extent of a major oil spill triggered by the explosion aboard an offshore oil rig about 40 miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. An estimated 42,000 gallons of oil have been gushing into Gulf waters daily since the Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank to the sea floor last week. Eleven crew members were killed in the blast, and several others were injured, and experts say the spill threatens the marine environment across the region, particularly on the Chandeleur and Breton barrier islands in Louisiana, where thousands of birds are nesting. Oyster beds on the eastern edge of the Mississippi River also are threatened. In this image, taken by NASA's Aqua satellite, the swirling sheen of oil — roughly 50 miles long and 33 miles wide — is seen in the lower right corner. Northerly winds have blown the slick away from the coast, but the wind direction is expected to shift Thursday and drive the slick toward the Louisiana wetlands. BP, the company that owns the platform, is using robotic submarines to try to seal the leaking oil well.
The oil well spewing crude into the Gulf of Mexico didn't have a remote-control shut-off switch used in two other major oil-producing nations as last-resort protection against underwater spills.
U.S. regulators don't mandate use of the remote-control device on offshore rigs, and the Deepwater Horizon, hired by oil giant BP PLC, didn't have one. With the remote control, a crew can attempt to trigger an underwater valve that shuts down the well even if the oil rig itself is damaged or evacuated.
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill could be leaking at a rate of 25,000 barrels [over 1 million gallons] a day, five times the government's current estimate, industry experts say.
Basing their calculations on government data and standard industry measurement tools, the experts said the Gulf spill may already rival the historic 1969 Santa Barbara, Calif., and 1989 Exxon Valdez disasters.
Ian MacDonald, professor of oceanography at Florida State University who specializes in tracking ocean oil seeps from satellite imagery, said there may already be more than 9 million gallons of oil floating in the Gulf now, based on his estimate of a 25,000 barrel-a-day leak rate. That's compared to 12 million gallons spilled in the Valdez accident.
Interior Department officials said it may take 90 days to cap the leaking well. If the 25,000 barrels a day is accurate and it leaks for 90 days, that's 2.25 million barrels or 94.5 million gallons.
Mr. MacDonald and his colleagues at the Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science Department have worked jointly with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the past on oil spill tracking, and have shared their estimates with NOAA scientists. He said the NOAA scientists didn't dispute the calculations.
Another worker familiar with the rig told the lawyers that the company had chosen not to install a deep-water valve that would have been placed about 200 feet under the sea floor. Much like blowout preventers, devices that are meant to seal leaks, this valve could have served as a cutoff of last resort in explosions, the lawyers said.
"The company took their chances in not having the valve so they could save money," said Mike Papantonio, one of the lawyers representing the shrimpers and fishermen.
Mr. Gowers [a BP spokesman] declined to comment on that claim except to say that the investigation was continuing and that it was too early to speculate.
And if we're not that lucky?
We expect that the Federal Reserve will extend the timeframe that we have come to know as the "extended period" in the making of its monetary policy. We do not expect the Fed to raise interest rates at all for the rest of this year, and maybe well into next year. We expect to see the deterioration of the economic statistics for the US to reveal the onset of this oil-slick crisis in May, and the negative impact will intensify during the summer months. A "double-dip" recession probably has been made more likely by this tragedy.
Would any free market supporters like to defend this thinly veiled example of corporate welfare?
Ms Margonelli notes that the Gulf disaster will likely lead to calls for a ban on new offshore drilling, and that this ultimately won't accomplish very much. Demand for oil will remain high, and so the drilling, pumping, and transport of oil will continue. While Americans (and much of the world's citizens) remain hungry for fossil fuels, a supply-side solution to the problem of negative fossil fuel externalities—environmental and human disasters, foreign policy complications, and the looming catastrophe of global warming—is unlikely to do much good.
What would do some good would be an effort to limit oil demand, and the most direct way to accomplish that is to tax the stuff. America notably has one of the lowest national petrol tax rates of any developed nation. The rate was last increased in 1993, and its value has eroded significantly since then, in real terms and relative to the market price of oil. It's an absurd state of affairs given America's dependence on oil. It's more ridiculous still when one considers that the federal government has been running short of funds to pay for and maintain its highways for years, and the federal highway trust fund is basically dry. America can't afford its infrastructure.
Yes that's right, it must have been those environmentalists that caused the spill. Because that makes sense… craziness like this can only come from people completely divorced from reality.
The ability to drill a relief well in the same season is especially important in the Arctic, where thickening ice typically forces a halt to all drilling by December. If a relief well can't be completed by then, oil could continue to leak into the ocean for months – possibly years – until the problem is fixed.
But a group of major companies has argued that new deep-water exploration areas in the Beaufort Sea require wells that will take two or three years to drill – making a same-season relief well impossible. They have also said that new technology has made drilling so safe that relief wells are no longer needed – and that, in any case, they are rarely the right tool in an emergency.
The latter argument has, however, come into question now that BP PLC has said a relief well is one of the top options to stop oil flowing from the well the Deepwater Horizon was drilling, and some believe the explosion will derail that request entirely.
This spill highlights the oft ignored reality that oil drilling is neither easy, nor safe, despite the fact that it has become easier and safer, and someone needs to be prepared to deal with the inevitable disaster both financially and ecologically. It represents nothing sort of corporate welfare to force taxpayers to foot the bill.
But there is a wider point to be considered here. The offshore drilling industry is currently undergoing a transition. Most easy targets have already been developed, and yet global demand for oil is not abating. In an attempt to quench this thirst, attention is moving into more technically challenging areas, with more complex geology and often in the deeper waters of the outer continental shelf. The increasing complexity of the equipment required to drill in such areas increases the number of things that can go wrong, and the location of the drilling makes dealing with catastrophic failures much more difficult, as we are seeing all too clearly this week.
*this ignores, of course, what has been recently pointed out by Lab Lemming, and Lisa Margonelli in the New York Times: that major spills have been regularly occurring – and largely ignored by the developed world – in places like Nigeria. The fact that oil companies have such a poor record in places unlikely to be touched by Western media and public outrage does not instil much confidence in the idea of self-regulation.
Drilling technology might have gotten better, but the easily accessible oil is running out. What is left is oil located in difficult to access places where there is much more that can go wrong. And when it goes wrong, fixing it becomes an incredible challenge, one that we may not be able to overcome.
Commentators call it an "oil spill" That means people will think of the oil as limited to only one tankerfull. It is not just a spill, it is an entire oil well released and spurting from a very deep part of the bottom of the Gulf. The oil will spurt up forever or until it is capped by a very difficult and dangerous deepwater operation with submarines and heavy remote controlled equipment. In the USA news this is not being explained. Booms and sprinkling dispersants (soap) are a foolish gesture and will let oil slicks dissolve and contaminate the water and sea life not just float on top and contaminate only boats and marsh nesting grounds of migrating birds and merely blacken shores and beaches by daily expanding hundreds of miles of sticky lingering layers. False remedies like soap help governments put off expensive true remedies like capping the deep oil well. USA journalists should warn about the size of the danger.
Good point, this isn't a spill in the usual sense.
But I am not sure that dispersant's are a bad idea. My notion is that by breaking up the oil it will be far less damaging to marine life (especially marine mammals that must come to the surface to breathe). But my knowledge is limited.
Also it was my understanding that attempts are being made to cap the well.


In the summer of 1944, following Nazi orders to "liquidate" the Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lodz, Henryk Ross, a photographer and one of the enclosure's inhabitants, quietly buried thousands of negatives he had made over the previous five years.
Within months, Ross's first wish came true: Shortly after the war's end, he excavated his material. But, more than half a century would pass before his work became recognized as a significant visual record of the Holocaust. The 1990 Frankfurt show Our Way Is Work addressed the photographic history of the Lodz ghetto without including his pictures, and the multi-volume illustrated Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, published the same year, made no mention of him. Only when Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross, 1940–1944 opens at the Art Gallery of Ontario later this month will Ross's poignant and provocative work be explored comprehensively for the first time.
"He began putting his life at serious risk to make pictures, using film he had stockpiled earlier."
That's in part because historians were uncertain how to interpret Ross's unexpected, and often shocking, story of the ghetto—one he knew intimately. In the spring of 1940, after Lodz fell to the Wehrmacht, its Jewish population was confined behind barbed wire in a neglected 2.4-sq.-km patch of the city. The Nazis insidiously charged Jews with the orchestration of their own demise. Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski was appointed to lead the Judenrat, the confinement's Jewish governing body. His decree, "Our way is work!" forced inhabitants to earn millions for the Third Reich, as the Lodz internment became Poland's most profitable ghetto. Rumkowski had a 10,000-strong administration that included Jewish police, postal workers—and documentary photographers. They were a comparatively privileged elite, offered such favours as slightly more food and room, as well as the hope of a longer life. Ross, a 39-year-old Warsaw-born veteran photojournalist and graphic artist, was chosen early on for his talent and became part of Rumkowski's exclusive group.
By the early 1940s, the Germans routinely exiled the Lodz Jews to the nearby village of Chełmno nad Nerem, where stationed vans converted to mobile gas-chambers were used for executions. The exhibition includes pictures made by Ross when he illicitly ventured outside ghetto boundaries to document the deportations. We also see the horror he shot inside its confines: Jews falling in the streets from hunger, the gallows in operation—pictures taken from cracks in closed doors, his camera hidden beneath an overcoat.
These images convey how Ross, in the tradition of painters Goya, Honoré Daumier and George Grosz, used his camera both as aesthetic instrument and means of protest. And, like all of art history's masters of political imagery, Ross depicted terror and beauty in equal measure. In addition to tragic moments, his Leica captured the hopeful ones: scenes of Jewish daily life, moments caught with wit, style and grace.
The diversity of Ross's vision that Memory Unearthed reveals also accounts for why he remained unknown for so long. On Aug. 2, 1944, after the ghetto's closing was announced, thousands of Jews, including its "elite," were sent to their deaths at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Amid the turmoil, Ross sealed his negatives in iron jars, along with collected documents and printed photographs, then placed everything in a wooden box lined with tar. Certain his life was over, he made sure witnesses watched the crate's burial at 2 Jagielonska St.
Ross survived extermination because he was chosen to be part of the ghetto's "cleanup" squad, charged with retrieving valuables from emptied buildings and bringing them to the Nazis. When the Red Army liberated Lodz—and the 877 Jews who remained, out of 204,000—Ross excavated his material. More than half of the 6,000 negatives he'd buried were blackened by moisture and lost forever.
The following year, Ross printed up some of his negatives and published The Last Journey of the Jews of Lodz, a book that focused exclusively on his images of tragedy. Yet, because of his status as part of Lodz's "elite" Jewish Council, some Holocaust survivors saw him as a Nazi collaborator. His critics felt his pictures were made with little risk.
For much of the remainder of his life, Ross continued to grapple with the challenge of how to craft an account of his experience at Lodz. Memory Unearthed places on view 17 pages of a notebook Ross created in the '80s. It holds his edited negatives, made into contact prints—thumb-sized images on photographic paper—and cut up and pasted into sequential rows. He was likely trying to sort his material for another book.
Ross died in 1991 before he figured out how to tell his story. After his demise, others began to tell it for him. Ross's son put his father's negatives and prints on the market, and the collection was acquired by the U.K.-based Archive of Modern Conflict, funded by Canadian media magnate David Thomson. By 2005, Ross's images had reached a wider circulation (a book of his work was compiled by the British photographer Martin Parr), but it was when Thomson donated the Ross collection to the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2006 that plans for the first major study of the photographer began.


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Mahindra Group companies donate 19 Mahindra vehicles for Uttarakhand relief
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Mahindra Group, one of India's leading business houses, had committed to help rebuild the flood ravaged state of Uttarakhand. As part of this effort, Mahindra Group employees had also pledged one day's salary to the Mahindra Foundation for assiting in the reabilitation efforts.
The amount collected has now been utilised to donate 19 Mahindra vehicles to the State Disaster Headquarters located in Dehradun. These include 13 4WD Bolero Pick ups for each of the 13 districts in the state, one Scorpio, three 25 seater buses, one 25 ton MTBL truck and a Bolero fitted with a 20KVA Mahindra Powerol DG Set. The vehicles were donated by the Mahindra Foundation which was established to provide medical relief to the poor and underprivileged. The Foundation also contributes and mobilizes resources to help rebuild the country in the aftermath of natural calamities.
In addition to this 150 solar street lamps and 300 solar lanterns will be handed over to the most severely hit villages which have been deprived of electricity.
The vehicles and solar street lights/lanterns were handed over to the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Shri Vijay Bahuguna at the CM house on December 30, 2013 by Mr. Rajeev Dubey, President (Group HR, Corporate Services & After-Market) & Member of the Group Executive Board, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.
Other senior Mahindra officials present included Mr. Vijay Kalra, Senior Vice President – Manufacturing Operations, Automotive Division, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., Mr. S K Dubey, Head of Mahindra's Rudrapur Plant, Mr. Satyavir Singh, Head of Mahindra's Haridwar Plant, Ms. Sheetal Mehta, Chief CSR Mahindra, and Managing Trustee, Mahindra Foundation and Mr. Sushil Singh, Vice President, CSR, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.
"At Mahindra, we have consciously pledged to go beyond monetary help when it comes to relief efforts and we hope our donation will contribute to the rebuilding efforts in the State and help restore its infrastructure," said Mr. Rajeev Dubey, President (Group HR, Corporate Services & After-Market) & Member of the Group Executive Board, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.
In addition to collecting one day's salary from employees, the Mahindra Group had also donated a sum of Rs. 1 crore to the Chief Minister's Relief Fund, Uttarakhand to provide urgently needed relief to flood affected victims in the state.
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The Acquisition of GDS Holding by Moran Environmental Recovery
A Legacy of Underwater Excellence
In 1979, Tim Beaver, John Graham, and a small group of professional divers banded together to form GDS Holding, Inc. (Global), which provided diving services, ship husbandry, marine construction, small vessel salvage, and spill response services in the Puget Sound region. Their philosophy was to provide outstanding service to the maritime community while maintaining the highest level of safety.
"We never wanted to tell a customer that we couldn't do something," said John Graham, co-founder and a majority shareholder of Global. "When other companies did that, their customers came looking to us, and we never let them down."
Incorporated in Seattle, WA in 1980, Global became known as the one to call for any underwater task and soon positioned itself as a global leader in marine construction, commercial diving, environmental services, and marine casualty response. The company grew to six locations in the western part of the U.S. and serviced both domestic and international clients.
"Global has endured and grown over four decades of changing markets, technologies and economies by maintaining a consistent approach to safety, reliability and high-quality work," said Tim Beaver, co-founder and a majority shareholder of Global. "Throughout, it has been the people that have held that vision, performing under the most strenuous and difficult conditions with smart management, reliable gear and journeyman skill. For these people, we are very grateful."
After nearly 30 successful years in business, the owners reached a major crossroad in 2008 – the younger management team wanted to stay with the business and grow, while the majority shareholders desired liquidity. Both parties agreed to hire an investment bank to represent them in a sale.
GulfStar was chosen due to its energy and diving company expertise, but the transaction did not occur right away because of the financial market upheaval at the time. Fast forward 10 years and GulfStar was selected again due to the relationship it had developed with the owners and management as well as its continued expertise in the market space. Global had further evolved into a leading marine infrastructure service provider.
GulfStar dives deep into the sale process
The GulfStar team positioned the company as a marine infrastructure player – less dependent on the energy markets – and set out to market Global to a targeted list of financial and strategic buyers.
On that list was Moran Environmental Recovery (MER), a subsidiary of Moran Towing Corporation and an integrated supplier of environmental, industrial, mechanical, and commercial diving services. MER entered into the commercial dive industry in 2014 with several targeted acquisitions. The acquisition of Global would significantly expand MER's strategic position in the marine infrastructure sector as well as bring talented management. MER emerged as the ultimate buyer.
Despite several unexpected challenges and delays during the closing process, including a government shut-down, the bankruptcy of a major utility client and the need for the parent to recapitalize its balance sheet, the deal closed on February 26, 2019.
Global's management team found a strategic partner with substantial capital to realize significant growth opportunities, while the majority shareholders achieved 100% liquidity. For MER, this acquisition represented an excellent complement to its existing commercial dive operation as well as an opportunity to further grow and expand its environmental business and geographic reach. Global continues to operate under its current brand, as a wholly-owned subsidiary of MER.
GulfStar did a fantastic job from the start. Their team understood our company, found the right buyer, kept an eye on every detail and followed through until the transaction was complete. We are very grateful to all the people that made this transaction a success and especially to GulfStar for making it happen.
Tim Beaver and John Graham, Majority Shareholders of Global
We have known the owners of Global for more than 10 years and have enjoyed watching their company evolve from a local diving contractor into a major marine infrastructure services provider. This is a very strategic acquisition that should greatly benefit the stakeholders of MER and Global. We found the best buyer for this wonderful client.
Kent Kahle, Managing Director of GulfStar Group
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• Ability to help structure transactions to meet both parties' objectives
• Ongoing guidance and advocacy beyond the initial letter of intent
• Ability to anticipate and mitigate potential challenges proactively
Sale To A Strategic Buyer


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Montana State's trenches taking shape in fall camp
By: Ashley Washburn
BOZEMAN — As we count down the days until Montana State's season opener against McNeese State, two of the Bobcats' most intriguing position groups to look at are along the line of scrimmage.
Not only does each line return just one lone starter, but since their obvious mismatch against North Dakota State in the FCS Championship, there's been an added emphasis on each group.
On defense, the Bobcats lost production up front with Amandre Williams, Chase Benson, and Daniel Hardy all graduating, but in the eyes of rising sophomore Sebastian Valdez, rebuilding this offseason has been productive.
"We're more connected with each other than we were last year," Valdez stated. "Yeah, we lost some good guys, but we also have some good guys coming up as well. Expectations are always above and at the end of the day we want to be a national championship defensive line."
Valdez is the lone starter to return up front and has taken that veteran role seriously.
Since January, the defensive tackle has put on nearly 30 pounds - a healthy weight he's seen transition nicely onto the field.
"It was just consistency and doing everything right," Valdez explained. "I think it's a really good weight, and I think I'm more powerful. I'm faster, and I like it."
"He played light once we moved him inside, so put that weight on so that he could really be a force this year," MSU head coach Brent Vigen added. "He was effective last year and really emerged through the course of the season, but it will be interesting to see him continue to grow into that as the season moves on."
While Valdez may be the only starter returning, there's still a lot of experience in that unit because of the defensive line rotation they used last fall.
On the edge, sophomore Brody Grebe and junior Ben Seymour both have high expectations, as well as redshirt freshman Blake Schmidt in the interior.
"There's a lot of continuity, and I think those guys learned so much from the way we did things last year and they were just kind of on the other side of those roles," Vigen said. "They've taken those urgings back in January and ran with them ever since."
However, on the offensive line, Vigen shared this week that the group is still in the thick of a position battle.
"We have several guys in the running and no one in that group has just locked it down," Vigen explained. "I think the guys that played - Justus [Perkins] and Rush [Reimer] - certainly have a leg up, but I think we have enough guys and some good position flexibility."
Their center Justus Perkins is the lone returner, and while that starting front is yet to be determined, his message at the start of fall camp was very clear.
"We see what's been said on social media or whatnot about how we're going to be young, we're going to be inexperienced, there's only one starter returning, so it's something we use as fuel and something that's going to be continued to use as fuel throughout the season," Perkins stated.
However, one guy to keep an eye on is Marcus Wehr. The former defensive lineman made the switch to offense earlier this spring and has been playing right guard.
"He looks like an offensive lineman that can dominate," Valdez boasted. "He's heavy to move. He's hard to block, hard to get past him. He's pretty good."


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New evidence in rape case against Mystikal delays bond hearing
The rapper will have his next bond hearing in October
Rapper Mystikal to remain in jail until at least early October
By Stacey Cameron | August 30, 2018 at 9:30 AM CDT - Updated August 30 at 9:30 AM
CADDO PARISH, LA (KSLA) - Arguments over the request to reduce the bond of the rapper Mystikal never took place on Wednesday, as his attorney learned that investigators have new evidence.
Michael Lawrence Tyler's (aka. Mystikal) booking photo at Caddo Correctional Center.
Michael Lawrence Tyler, better known as the rapper Mystikal, has spent the last year locked up at the Caddo Correctional center, facing one count each of first degree rape and second degree kidnapping.
His bond set at $3 million dollars, Tyler's defense lawyer filed a motion with Caddo Parish Judge Romana Emanuel, asking that the 46-year-old New Orleans rapper's bail be reduced to $500,000.
However, it was learned the Shreveport Police Department obtained a recorded statement from the victim in the case.
Last December, Tyler pleaded not guilty to the charges which stem from an alleged sexual assault at a downtown Shreveport Casino in October 2016.
In the case, a Caddo Parish Grand jury has also indicted Darnell Holman, a 26 year-old Shreveport man, on one count each of first-degree rape and second degree kidnapping, and Tenichia Monieck Wafford, of Harker Heights, Texas for one count of obstruction of justice.
A bond reduction hearing was set for Wednesday afternoon, and Tyler was transported to court for his appearance wearing a red jumpsuit, his hand and feet in shackles.
With defense counsel not having the opportunity to review that new evidence, the hearing was continued until 2p.m. on Oct. 4.


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The contact owns a 2000 Chevrolet Malibu. The contact stated that the key released from the ignition independently. The failure occurred intermittently. The vehicle was towed to the dealer to be repaired under NHTSA campaign number: 14V400000 (electrical system) but the part needed for the recall repair was not available. The contact felt that the manufacturer exceeded a reasonable amount of time for the recall repair. The manufacturer was made aware of the delay. The failure mileage was 156,000.
The contact owns a 2000 Chevrolet Malibu. The contact stated that the key failed to turn in order to shut off the vehicle. The contact mentioned that the key was stuck in the accessory position. Approximately twenty minutes later, the key was able to turn in order to shut off the vehicle. The failure occurred on several occasions. The vehicle was repaired under NHTSA campaign number: 14V400000 (electrical system), but the failure recurred. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 101,514.
2000 Chevrolet Malibu. Consumer is dissatisfied with the services received. After waiting for 45 minutes at the dealer, the consumer was informed the part was not available to perform the recall.
2000 Chevrolet Malibu. The ignition switch has consistently wore out many keys over the years. The consumer stated periodically, she was unable to remove the key from the ignition. The consumer received a recall letter in the mail and made an appointment at the dealer. However, when she arrived, the dealer stated they did not have the parts. Two weeks, the dealer called her and she returned to the dealer. She was informed they could not retrofit her current keys to the vehicle. She was informed she would have to buy a factory made key at $15 each plus tax, to allow them to do the recall. The consumer did not believe the issue was the key, but with the ignition switch that should have been replaced.
2000 Chevrolet Malibu remove and repair ignition lock cylinder switch the consumer is seeking reimbursement.
This vehicle has a defective ignition switch. The key comes out in run position while car is running. This vehicle was part of the GM recall for a faulty ignition switch. As part of this recall, the key was modified. This did not correct the problem of the faulty switch and remains a safety concern.
2000 Chevrolet Malibu consumer is inquiring if any GM dealer will service vehicle per recall although it was purchased at a Mazda dealer the consumer stated he previously had problems with the ignition. The repair shop replaced the starter.
2000 Chevrolet Malibu anti thief light flashes and vehicle will not start. Consumer is seeking reimbursement the ignition lock cylinder and hazard warning switch were replaced.
2000 Chevrolet Malibu. Consumer writes in regards to ignition switch issues and repair reimbursement.* ld the consumer stated the ignition switch was replaced twice.
2000 Chevrolet Malibu. Consumer states problem with vehicle shutting off and recall reimbursement. It was determined, the ignition switch needed to be replaced. The consumer received a recall letter in the mail, stating the key would replaced. Chevrolet customer assistance center stated she would not be reimbursed for the ignition switch.
The contact owns a 2000 Chevrolet Malibu. The contact stated that after the vehicle was repaired under NHTSA campaign id number: 14V400000 (electrical system), the vehicle failed to shut off and the key would not turn further than accessory position. As a result, the battery died and the vehicle had to be jumped started. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate mileage was unavailable.


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Q: SQLITE Error for Create table I am getting
>android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: near "tb_quiz": syntax error (code 1):

in Line
> @Override
public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db) {
    db.execSQL("CREATE table IF NOT EXISTS tb_quiz");
    Log.e("--------------", "file table created");
}

please help some one....thanks in advance.

A: You cannot create empty table. At least one column must be specified: https://sqlite.org/lang_createtable.html

A: Table cannot be empty, try writing some columns as follows:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS table_name (
    column1 datatype,
    column2 datatype,
    column3 datatype,
   ....
);

A:  "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS tb_quiz "
          + "(" + COLUMN_ID
          + " integer primary key autoincrement, " + COLUMN_COMMENT+ " text");

You should provide the schema of the table.

A: Please use following query for creating table
String CREATE_CLASS_TABLE = "CREATE TABLE class_table(class_id INTEGER, class_name TEXT)"

A: Try this,
public class DataBaseHelper extends SQLiteOpenHelper {

    private static final String TAG = "DataBaseHelper";

    // Database Name
    private static final String DATABASE_NAME = "MYAPP";

    // Database Version
    private static final int DATABASE_VERSION = 1;

    private static final String TABLE_USER = "user_info";

    // Common column names TABLE_USER
    private static final String KEY_ID = "id";
    private static final String KEY_USERNAME = "u_name";
    private static final String KEY_PASSWORD = "u_pwd";

    private static final String CREATE_TABLE_USER = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS " + TABLE_USER
            + "(" + KEY_ID + " INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,"
            + KEY_USERNAME + " TEXT,"
            + KEY_PASSWORD + " TEXT"
            + ")";

    public DataBaseHelper(Context context) {
        super(context, DATABASE_NAME, null, DATABASE_VERSION);
    }

    @Override
    public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db) {
        // creating required tables
        db.execSQL(CREATE_TABLE_USER);
    }

    @Override
    public void onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase db, int oldVersion, int newVersion) {
        // Drop older table if existed

        db.execSQL("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS " + CREATE_TABLE_USER);
        // Create tables again
        onCreate(db);
    }
}

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There are many benefits – social, financial, emotional and otherwise – to joining a firm.
Ask questions. One great benefit of practicing in a firm is having people around who know things you don't. At one time or another they probably were in your position. So don't be afraid to approach them for answers. Talk to other lawyers, secretaries and assistants. Even the firm messenger will have valuable information.
Watch others. Take advantage of the wealth of experience around you. Too often firm members practice like tiny islands. Watch colleagues at work. Swap ideas back and forth. Attend important events together. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Make your own rain. A common mistake made by lawyers who join a firm is assuming they no longer have to worry about getting new clients. That might be the case in your firm. But even firms with a long list of active clients are always looking for good new business. Bringing this in will make you indispensable.
Make time for pro bono work. A lawyer should perform 50 hours of pro bono work each year, according to the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct. As an incentive, the ABA challenges firms to contribute three to five percent of annual billable hours to pro bono activities. It suggests that firms count pro bono or public service work towards a lawyer's billable hour requirements or at least give some credit for time spent on pro bono work.
Maintain balance. Juggling career, family and personal time is not easy. Young associates are eager to please and should avoid sacrificing personal life for the firm. Finding balance early on will be easier than changing your lifestyle down the road. Practice time management. Schedule personal time as you would an important client appointment. Use an organizing system such as a manual or electronic calendar – and follow it. Don't take on more than you can handle. Learn to say no.
Be a good boss. Management skills are honed through practice. Delegate appropriate work to your secretary or paralegal. Encourage teamwork. When the answer in a civil suit has been dictated, is the task complete? Hardly. Someone has to physically produce the paperwork, photocopy and collate it, and deliver it to the courthouse for filing. The job is complete only when the final task has been done. Learn to follow things through. Your support staff can help you protect your law license and avoid malpractice. Respect others who work with you and build a base of loyalty.
Become a leader. Leadership skills are developed through practice. Learn to delegate, prioritize and organize. Assume leadership by volunteering for projects or committees that others might not enjoy or have time for, such as recruiting and staff liaison. Experience in committee work will also enlighten you as to firm politics. Volunteer to form a noontime jogging group or help organize the Christmas party.
Find a mentor. Good law firms have good in-house mentoring programs. Well-trained associates and new partners get up to speed quicker and make fewer mistakes with such a program. Mentoring fosters better communication, improved morale and a sense of continuity within the firm. If your firm does not have such a program, go out and find a mentor on your own. A good mentor will spend time listening to you and sharing ideas and cautionary stories. A good mentor will sacrifice some billable hours in order to shape you into a better, more effective lawyer by letting you tag along to court, client interviews and depositions.
Make a name for yourself. Develop an area of specialty on your own time by reading new case law and following trends. Volunteer your time. For example, if you work in family law, offer free legal service to the local homeless shelter.
Develop verbal skills. As a new associate, you might not find yourself in the courtroom right away. To continue developing skills learned in law school or moot court competition, volunteer for public speaking opportunities. Business schools, paralegal programs and community colleges often seek qualified attorneys to teach evening courses. Call your local chamber of commerce for names of organizations looking for guest speakers.


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87th LegislatureElections 2022EnergyWest Texas High-Level Nuclear Waste Storage Facility Comes Under Governor's Race Spotlight After License Approval
An obscure fight over storage of nuclear waste became a topic in the gubernatorial primary after incumbent Greg Abbott touted his support for its prohibition in Texas.
Brad JohnsonSeptember 15, 2021
Left to Right: Gov. Greg Abbott (The Texan/Ben Billups), dry casks for storing nuclear waste (The Nuclear Regulatory Commission), and Allen West (Gage Skidmore).
Austin, TX, September 15, 2021 — The GOP primary for governor gained a new fault line after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the federal government's arm overseeing the nation's nuclear industry, approved a license for the interim storage of high-level radioactive waste at a planned facility in West Texas.
That approval came on Monday, just days after Governor Greg Abbott signed legislation prohibiting such storage in the State of Texas.
On Tuesday, Governor Greg Abbott celebrated the passage of House Bill (HB) 7 and condemned the licensure, tweeting, "The Biden Admin. is trying to dump highly radioactive nuclear waste in west Texas oil fields. I just signed a law to stop it."
"Texas will not become America's nuclear waste dumping ground."
The bill, however, exempts the hundreds of facilities throughout Texas that store nuclear materials and several that already store spent nuclear fuel on their premises.
The two foremost such examples are the state's nuclear power plants with two reactors each that generate electricity for the power grid — one near Houston and the other near Dallas-Fort Worth.
One of those facilities, Houston, which stores thousands of tons of spent nuclear waste, found itself in the path of a hurricane this week.
Monitoring the facility, the NRC stated, "We've independently confirmed that water tight doors are shut, walkdowns on site have been conducted and that any loose items have been either secured or removed."
"By design and regulation, the plant's safety systems are built to handle extreme weather ensuring nuclear safety is maintained."
Abbott's framing of the issue into one of Texas versus the Biden administration ignores the fact that the license's application process spans three administrations, beginning in 2016.
The only steps of the process that have occurred during Biden's presidency are the release of the final Environmental Impact Statement and the NRC's official license approval. The two acceptance letters of the application were received during the Trump administration in 2017 and 2018.
However, another factor that has spanned administrations is the federal government's failure to finish the proposed permanent storage site for high-level radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Originally ordered by Congress to be completed by 1998, the Department of Energy has bungled its completion decade after decade.
One of Abbott's opponents, BlazeTV host Chad Prather, echoed support for HB 7.
"The audacity of the Federal Government to want to store/dump the most dangerous and highly radioactive material waste in Texas is not acceptable," said Prather in a statement to The Texan.
"This type of waste is one of the byproducts of nuclear energy that even though nuclear power has been in the United States since the 1950's there has been no long-term solution on how to handle and manage this waste, which will remain dangerous for more than 10,000 years."
"Texans come first in Texas, not nuclear garbage. We aren't Washington's dumpster," Prather concluded.
Eventually, the nuclear facilities in operation will need to be replaced, called a "nuclear cliff," and that waste must be dealt with. And so, the country's storage option for its aging nuclear facilities' waste is the interim model — which is likely to be accompanied by billions of dollars in federal money.
But whether Texas should be part of that option is hotly debated.
The West Texas facility, owned by Interim Storage Partners (ISP) and a joint project of Orano USA and Waste Control Specialists — which operates an already established low-level radioactive waste storage facility adjacent to the proposed ISP site — would store spent nuclear fuel on an interim basis of up to 40 years.
Spent nuclear fuel, classified as high-level nuclear waste, consists of the used uranium atoms and the fuel rods in which they sit during the fission process. When stored, it is encapsulated in thick concrete containers and during part of the process, submerged under water.
Upon approval of the license, ISP said, "This authorization is based upon the multi-year and thorough review and validation of the various scientific, engineering, environmental, safety, and economic assumptions, designs and plans set forth in the application."
"The extensive analyses concluded that this facility's commercial interim storage and transport operations satisfy all environmental, health, and safety requirements without negative impact to nearby residents or existing industries."
The ISP interim storage license is the second one of its kind approved by the NRC. The first was issued for a facility in Utah in 2006 that was never constructed after funding fell through. Another application is moving through the NRC approval process in Lea County, New Mexico.
Another gubernatorial challenger, Allen West, weighed in shortly after, taking a contrary stance to the governor and criticized HB 7 for not going far enough.
"[T]he concern about having an expanded nuclear waste facility in the Permian Basin is that the long-term energy security of America could be put at risk," West said in a statement. "Of particular concern is the allowance of nuclear waste to be stored in shallow facilities, in the Andrews case on a cement slab on the surface."
Also taking the opportunity to turn the issue against the White House, West added, "With the collapse of Afghanistan and fundamentalist Islam on the rise again thanks to the failures of the Biden Administration, the state of Texas should not be building a bullseye for bad actors."
West's position echoes Rep. Tom Craddick's (R-Midland) during the legislative debate during which he tried to pass amending language expanding the ban's language beyond the certain categories that Rep. Brooks Landgraf's (R-Odessa) bill named.
The former Texas GOP chair also called other stricter measures to tamp down on the storage and transportation of the spent nuclear fuel.
Absent the entire discussion's focus on qualms with the storage of spent nuclear fuel is the fact that the nation's entire nuclear arsenal is manufactured in Amarillo and is transported across the state.
But for now, the reservations about storing such waste in Texas is driving the debate — the one caveat being how broadly does the state want to issue its prohibition.
Meanwhile, the fate of the project is still up in the air. Just because the license was issued, does not mean the project will move forward — evidenced by the Utah facility's collapse. And the new state law, along with the formidable opposition held by Texas officials and figures, present an unassailable barrier to its construction in the near term.
For more background on this issue, read here.
Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the existing storage facilities in reference to HB 7. We regret the error.
Allen West
Brooks Landgraf
Tom Craddick
Brad Johnson is a senior reporter for The Texan and an Ohio native who graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 2017. He is an avid sports fan who most enjoys watching his favorite teams continue their title drought throughout his cognizant lifetime. In his free time, you may find Brad quoting Monty Python productions and trying to calculate the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow.
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I launched the Rock N Reel as early as ever, but did very little fishing in May. Wind and weather ruined several weekends. With the most recent storms, we will have to work to find fish and get the bay settled back down. I wanted to post a few pictures of some early season success and limit trips. When we have been able to get on the water, we have done well. In deeper water than I expected this early…. A wise man once told me that fish swim…go figure.
I will update as we get back on the fish this weekend.


We believe — and medical studies prove — that the easiest way to shed pounds and keep it off is to simply hold track of the foods you eat. Push your fitness additional with our mix of amenities and we'll help you with advice on new and better ways to train. These courses are an effective way to work the whole body and improve overall fitness. If you are searching for a certified and devoted private coach in Dubai or another metropolis in the Middle East – Fitness First is the place to be. Still acquired battery left and the guts rate tracker is always on and dealing like a allure. We are working to make health and fitness a part of everybody's lives, one person at a time, with a mission that will help you Go Further in life. The sort of fitness tracker is actually useful to choose in keeping with necessities. I am also new to those fitness trackers and have lately signed as much as Vitality health and they give a couple of manufacturers to choose from to sync with. I am sleeping higher than I can bear in mind and I even have the energy in the morning to achieve my fitness goals.
Store up to 500 songs instantly in your watch, that is 3GB of music wrapped round your wrist so you possibly can play your favorite playlists straight out of your fitness watch. However, I am looking to cut down all my fitness devices and have an all in one if possible. Designed to be an accessory for all-day put on, interchangeable straps help you easily change the color of your tracker.
Both Workout and Meal Plans are designed to not solely quickly & safely change your physique, but additionally to enhance your total health and fitness. I've seemed on the other fitness trackers, however of course they're pricey and there is no approach I can afford to buy them for the women in this group.
I would wholeheartedly disagree that the UP is the among the finest fitness trackers. MooV is introducing the next generation gadget late 2015 along with an replace Moov app which will mix all fitness specific apps (swim, run, bike, box, 7+ min workout, sleep & different actions). The tracker comes with a sports strap as standard to track working, cycling and swimming. It's a ardour that's infectious, and matched by a heat and welcoming surroundings not like another fitness membership. That's why the TomTom Spark three fitness watch tracks your heart price, steps, and sleep.
I would like to track my fitness on the system, telephone notifications could be good (texts, calls), but most importantly I want to be able to seize REM/Deep/Light Sleep, Toss-and-Turns, Interruptions and Sleep Quality. The proper exercise tracker for you can be based mostly on your particular person needs; whether or not that's accurate step counting, dependable sleep monitoring or 24/7 coronary heart price tracking There's definitely something for everyone out there.


Virtual Iron Software and XenSource plan to rely on Xen 3.0 as their key to competing with virtualization giant VMware. At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo this week in Boston, both companies were slated to unveil products based on the open-source virtualization technology.
Virtual Iron this summer will release for beta testing Version 3 of its namesake virtualization and management platform, moving it off its proprietary hypervisor and onto Xen 3.0. Officials with the Lowell, Mass., company said the combination of Xen and on-chip virtualization technology from Advanced Micro Devices and Intel will enable them to offer a product that gives users the same functionality as VMware technology but at a lower price.
"Theres not an account that VMware hasnt sold into," said Mike Grandinetti, vice president and chief marketing officer for Virtual Iron. "Theyre everywhere. But what weve been hearing repeatedly [from customers] is, Boy, Id love to have an alternative."
Virtual Iron Platform Version 3 will include the Xen hypervisor and the companys virtualization software stack and management capabilities. The upgrade will come in three editions—for the open-source community, professionals and enterprises—and initially will be available for beta testing for Linux in July, followed by Windows support in September.
XenSource, a Palo Alto, Calif., company founded by the developers of Xen, this summer will launch XenEnterprise, a packaged offering that includes Xen 3.0, guest installers and tools for migrating workloads from physical to virtual machines. As with Virtual Iron and its offering, XenSource will take advantage of hardware-based virtualization from AMD and Intel to enable multiple operating systems—including Linux and Microsoft Windows—to run on Xen VMs, said Chief Technology Officer Simon Crosby. Last fall, XenSource had put another management product, XenOptimizer, out for beta testing, but testers said they were more interested in a product with Xen hypervisor.


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Airbus in taks with Tatas, Indian carriers for wide-body A350XWB planes
By TBM Staff - Mumbai Tuesday, 22 March 2022, 11:15 AM 2239
Airbus is in talks with Tata Group and Indian carriers for a deal regarding the procurement of its wide-bodied A350XWB planes, President and MD of Airbus India & South Asia, Remi Maillard said on Monday. The Tata Group currently runs four Indian carriers — Air India, Air India Express, Vistara and AirAsia India.
Wide-bodied planes like A350XWB have larger fuel tanks that allow them to travel long distances as compared to narrow-bodied aircraft like A320NEO. A350XWB aircraft can travel above 8,000 nautical miles, with a flying time of approximately 18 hours in one flight. When asked if Airbus is in talks with Tata and Indian carriers for the A350XWB aircraft deal, Maillard said, "We are obviously in talks with all airlines. The new owner of Air India — Tatas — are existing customers of Airbus."
"Tatas have Vistara and AirAsia India with them, as we know. We have developed a long-standing, trustful and respected relationship with the Tata Group," he stated at a press conference in New Delhi. The Centre had sold Air India and Air India Express to the Tata Group in September last year. Maillard said Tatas are Airbus's partner in the defense business too.
We are industrialising and manufacturing together with our C-295 military transport aircraft for the Indian Air Force (IAF)," he noted. "Of course, we will be privileged to continue supporting the ambition of the Tata Group in the aviation sector across the complete spectrum," he added. The wide-bodied aircraft fleet in India has remained stagnant for the last 20 years, he said.
The single-aisle aircraft fleet has multiplied by a factor of six in the same time period, he noted. "We predict a 6.2 per cent yearly average growth for the air traffic out of India. The world average is at 3.9 per cent," Maillard noted. Airbus is "quite bullish" on the long-haul international market out of India, he said. "We believe the kind of revolution we have witnessed in the domestic traffic in the last 20 years will now happen in the long haul market," he noted. "We believe that the new generation aircraft, the A350, will be the trigger for this revolution in the international long haul market," the MD added.
(Source: PTI)
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Battle Los Angeles
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Mystery / Sci-Fi
Battle Los Angeles Subtitles
Los Angeles and other cities around the world are being bombarded by meteors that seem to be slowing down once they hit the earth's atmosphere. The earth is suddenly being invaded by space aliens that have landed off the shore of LA, and who begin killing everybody along the beach. The military is ordered into action. Marine Staff Sergeant Nantz (Aaron Eckhart), who was about to retire, is reassigned to a new platoon. The platoon, flown by chopper to the forward operating base at Santa Monica Airport, is being led by a new 2nd Lt. Martinez (Ramon Rodriguez). They are sent on a mission to rescue some civilians who are trapped at the police station within alien territory. They only have 3 hours to complete their mission and get out before the Air Force bombs that zone.
as Michael Nantz
Ramón Rodríguez
as William Martinez
Will Rothhaar
as Cpl. Lee Imlay
Cory Hardrict
as Cpl. Jason Lockett
Jim Parrack
as Peter Kerns
Gino Anthony Pesi
as Cpl. Nick Stavrou
as Kevin Harris
Reviewed by imdb96 8 /10
What the hell did everyone expect?
I go to Transformers to see Megan Fox look good and giant robots fight. I went to Battle: LA to see the American military and aliens shoot and blow each other up.
A lot of people seem to think this was supposed to be some kind of District 9 movie. Sure, if you evaluate it on the same scale as District 9, it sucks. But if you just wanted to see an awesome action movie, this is the movie for you.
Yes, there was no character development. Yes, the plot is a zillion years old. So what? I wasn't looking for those things. Now and then, it's nice to go see a movie with mindless action. 100% of this movie was mindless action. Suspend your disbelief and enjoy it. Compare it to a movie like The Losers or A-Team where the movie tries to build up some characters and an original plot and fail miserably.
I would also like to add that there are some nice original points to this movie. For once, the aliens are not infallible. I get pretty tired of the oh-lawd-we-hit-them-with-nukes-and-didn't-kill-one type of alien movie popularized by Independence Day. There is no magic bullet in this movie, the aliens die from bullets, and you have to take out the command and control center to do serious damage (hey, just like in a conventional land war!). I also thought this movie was a decent depiction of a realistic military response to an alien attack. Everyone mobilizes, surrounds the landing zone, and combat ensues when they are attacked. Pretty simple.
I also see complaints about camera style. I honestly didn't even notice. It didn't seem any worse than, say, Black Hawk Down.
So I give this movie 8/10 on my action movie scale. If you were planning on evaluating it on the thoughtful-work-of-art scale, you must not have seen any of the trailers.
Reviewed by jurasic5000 8 /10
Battle: LA, a close to reality war experience with aliens.
Forget what critic (others) says. This movie is enjoyable. Battle LA is one of the finest alien invasion movie. This movie is a third person view of a group of US marines getting their way out of the city invaded by Aliens. Battle LA is a modern combat war experience, no drama no bullshit. It sticks to the reality. Thats where audience lost the point, they expected another pop corn movie like Independence day/2012. But I do agree the movie lacks in some parts which prevents it becoming a great movie.
Visual and sound effects was awesome but camera work would have been better. Sometimes the camera annoys you, sometimes it gives you a first person experience.
On the whole its a close to reality and enjoyable ride. If you like war movies and serious visual & sound experience on big screen, this is the best thing right now.
Reviewed by Jharrison-22 7 /10
Black Hawk Down... with Aliens
I saw this film the other day, and I actually really liked it. It was exactly what I expected (maybe a little better). If you want to watch a really well thought out film with lots of character development and interesting subplots this is not the film for you. If you want to watch a bunch of U.S. Marines beat the tar out of invading spacefreaks, then this is the film for you. From when we first encounter the aliens to sometime in the middle, the movie is a nonstop thrill ride. Stuff explodes, aliens get splattered, humans get burned by lasers. In case you didn't already suspect, this film is very violent. Although there isn't a lot of blood, there are certainly a lot of deaths. The action is unpredictable and zany. One minute everyone will be walking somewhere between point A and B, the next, they're crouching behind burned out cars and houses as aliens pour ungodly hellfire onto them from above. The special effects were also quite good, with the exception of a couple bad animations here and there. That being said, the movie suffers when it slows down. The dialogue is poorly written, and delivered decently, but not well. Aaron Eckhart however did a wonderful job as a stony faced marine staff sergeant who keeps a cool head when under fire. Most of the storyline is pretty standard war movie/alien invasion stuff. You know, when after a bunch of fighting everyone gets discouraged and then the leader gives a big motivational speech and the inspirational music plays and everyone feels heroic.
So don't expect a masterpiece of modern cinema, expect alien guts and lots of shooting and I guarantee you will not be disappointed.
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What do you consider once you hear the time period electronic hobbyist or experimenter? The Silverado was like getting into a luxurious car, I cherished it. BUT the underside has an insane amount of rust for a car of its age, has the everyday stereo speaker issues, and all the time seems to throw codes and want varied electronics mounted. The TSA quickly would require all electronics bigger than a cellphone to be screened separately at airports.
Bixi is out there in France and will come to the US in March 2017; Bixi 2 will arrive by the tip of the 12 months. Technology has moved on. A few electronics hobbyists like I just described are still around however are fading fast. Modern electronics experimenters build projects from scratch using embedded controllers. The same technology can be used to monitor anchor place and personal digital transponders for crew that will notify the captain of an overboard state of affairs. The IATA's 2017 steerage, nevertheless, says that any battery as much as 160Wh ranking should be positive – as long as it's packed in gear.
In addition to offering three completely different driving modes, together with an automated one where the automobile drives itself, the hype surrounding the automobile's debut centers on BMW's AirTouch technology that allow's the driving force management all of it with the wave of a hand. According to a senior official of the ministry of electronics and IT (MEITY), work has already began on new draft.
When I'm sick of dumping cash into it simply to keep it operating(like my Blazer before this) I'm getting one thing with no/minimal electronics…VW Bug right here I come(or an older truck). Vesper's Smart AIS technology screens site visitors to be sure you stay protected: An alarm notifies the captain with sufficient time to take corrective motion if the system detects a problem via Vesper's target-tracking capabilities. Eric Yu of Royole fashions the corporate's foldable Smart Mobile Theater system throughout CES Unveile in Las Vegas, Nevada January 4, 2016. Many main electronics producers and retailers supply a number of choices to donate or recycle electronics.
The strategic significance of electronics was underscored this week when the Trump administration moved to block the acquisition of U.S. chipmaker Lattice Semiconductor by Chinese investors. The four basic elements of electronics are: (1) electrons as carrier vectors, (2) electrical cables and circuits, (3) the generators and (4) transistors. They are all electronics that go on vacation and must now be a part of laptops within the security checkpoint bins.


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Home / News / Eddisons To Market Prominent North Leeds Site
Eddisons To Market Prominent North Leeds Site
Property Agency
The Leeds office of Chartered Surveyors Eddisons has been appointed to market a prominent site in North Leeds.
The site on Sandhill Lane, off the main A61 Harrogate Road in Moortown, extends to 0.4 acres and includes a three storey office building, with a floor space of around 8,000 sq ft.
For the last 15 years it has been used by the Leeds Jewish Education Authority (LJEA) and The Zone Youth Centre, who are relocating to the Brodetsky School site in Alwoodley.
The LJEA is over 100 years old and the monies released from the sale will enable them to continue and modernise their focus of supplying quality Jewish education to all community members, irrespective of financial circumstances.
Stephen Harrison, Associate Director of Eddisons said: 'This is a prominent site in an affluent suburb of North Leeds and could be suitable for a variety of uses, subject to planning.
'The surrounding area is predominantly residential, with a mixture of retail premises including Marks and Spencer, Waitrose and Sainsbury's close by.'
The asking price is available on application.
Written by: Richard Roe on Saturday 06/07/2013
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Cracks in The Base?
by editor | May 29, 2008 | Counterterrorism, Strategic Comm. |
by Steven R. Corman
There has been a lot of buzz recently about dissent in the ranks of al Qaeda. Much of it has focused on a rejection of violence against civilians by Sayyid Imam al Sharif, a.k.a Dr. Fadl, issued from by fax from an Egyptian prison. Lawrence Wright has an article about it in the current issue of the New Yorker. Another analysis comes from Peter Bergen and Paul Cruikshank in the current issue of the New Republic. Both authors see this as part of a rising chorus of dissent in the Islamist community against the violent methods of al Qaeda, causing worried reactions from al Qaeda leaders.
Today the Diane Rehm Show on NPR hosted a panel discussion including Bergen, Fawaz Gerges, Michael Scheuer, and Jarret Brachman discussing these developments, which I commend to COMOPS Journal readers. Highlights include Scheuer going against the grain, saying that no Muslims would be fooled by pronouncements issued from an Egyptian prison and that al Qaeda's strategy against the West is proceeding according to plan. Bergen disagreed, giving examples of how cracks in The Base extend well beyond Egyptian jails.
Brachman made perhaps the most important point of the discussion (with which Gerges seemed to agree). Notwithstanding their own image problems, the extremists' propaganda punch relies on damning the West with its own actions, showing how it fails to live up to its own values. I would add that we are also playing into the extremist narrative. At a recent conference I spoke to a Pakistani general, whose comments were telling. He said nobody in his part of the world cares about bin Laden anymore. So, I asked, what sustains the extremists? "The extremists say that the United States is trying to conquer the Muslims and destroy the Umma. So what do you do," he asked. "Invade a Muslim country," I said. And he smiled.
Here is a post at Danger Room about Scheuer's nay-saying, including a link to some comments he posted Thursday on a thread there.