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Program: BIS (Multimedia)
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12131013 Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology Department: Information Science
Minimum duration of study: 3 jaar Totale krediete: 469 NQF level: 07
Programme information
Kurrikulum: Jaar 1
Kurrikulum: Finale jaar
Programinligting
Modern information technology offers the possibility of information products being designed and created comprising various types of media over and above the traditional text medium. Information technology therefore results in the convergence of various previously separate traditional media. There is not a single discipline that handles the combination of information products. The multimedia qualification in the department of Information science addresses this shortcoming. Any type of institution in all economic spheres, including government, may profit from a multimedia approach to information design, organisation and retrieval.
Multimedia documents include text, graphics, sound, video and animation. The purpose of this qualification is to enable students to understand the necessary concepts to build multimedia products and maintain the products. This programme is therefore a combination of theory and practice. The explosion of the web, as well as the exponential growth and power of information technology, requires the introduction of this degree following international trends.
Important information for all prospective students for 2022
The admission requirements apply to students who apply for admission to the University of Pretoria with a National Senior Certificate (NSC) and Independent Examination Board (IEB) qualifications.
Applicants with qualifications other than the abovementioned should refer to:
Brochure: Undergraduate Programme Information 2022: Qualifications other than the NSC and IEB, available at click here.
Citizens from countries other than South Africa (applicants who are not South African citizens) should also refer to:
Brochure: Newcomer's Guide 2021, available at click here.
Website: click here.
School of Tomorrow (SOT), Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) and General Education Development Test (GED): The University of Pretoria no longer accepts qualifications awarded by these institutions.
National Certificate (Vocational) (NCV) Level 4: The University of Pretoria may consider NCV candidates, provided they meet the exemption for bachelor's status criteria and the programme requirements.
Transferring students
A transferring student is a student who, at the time of application for a degree programme at the University of Pretoria (UP) –
is a registered student at another tertiary institution, or was previously registered at another tertiary institution and did not complete the programme enrolled for at that institution, and is not currently enrolled at a tertiary institution, or has completed studies at another tertiary institution, but is not currently enrolled at a tertiary institution, or has started with tertiary studies at UP, then moved to another tertiary institution and wants to be readmitted at UP.
A transferring student will be considered for admission based on
an NSC or equivalent qualification with exemption to bachelor's or diploma studies (whichever is applicable); and meeting the minimum faculty-specific subject requirements at NSC or tertiary level; or having completed a higher certificate at a tertiary institution with faculty-specific subjects/modules passed (equal to or more than 50%), as well as complying with faculty rules on admission;
previous academic performance (must have passed all modules registered for up to the closing date of application ) or as per faculty regulation/promotion requirements;
a certificate of good conduct.
Note: Students who have been dismissed at the previous institution due to poor academic performance, will not be considered for admission to UP.
A returning student is a student who, at the time of application for a degree programme –
is a registered student at UP, and wants to transfer to another degree at UP, or was previously registered at UP and did not complete the programme enrolled for, and did not enrol at another tertiary institution in the meantime (including students who applied for leave of absence), or has completed studies at UP, but is not currently enrolled or was not enrolled at another tertiary institution after graduation.
A returning student will be considered for admission based on
an NSC or equivalent qualification with exemption to bachelor's or diploma studies (whichever is applicable); and meeting the minimum faculty-specific subject requirements at NSC or tertiary level; or previous academic performance (should have a cumulative weighted average of at least 50% for the programme enrolled for);
having applied for and was granted leave of absence.
Note: Students who have been excluded/dismissed from a faculty due to poor academic performance may be considered for admission to another programme at UP. The Admissions Committee may consider such students if they were not dismissed more than twice. Only ONE transfer between UP faculties will be allowed, and a maximum of two (2) transfers within a faculty.
Important faculty-specific information on undergraduate programmes for 2022
The closing date is an administrative admission guideline for non-selection programmes. Once a non-selection programme is full and has reached the institutional targets, then that programme will be closed for further admissions, irrespective of the closing date. However, if the institutional targets have not been met by the closing date, then that programme will remain open for admissions until the institutional targets are met.
The following persons will be considered for admission: Candidates who have a certificate that is deemed by the University to be equivalent to the required National Senior Certificate (NSC) with university endorsement; candidates who are graduates from another tertiary institution or have been granted the status of a graduate of such an institution, and candidates who are graduates of another faculty at the University of Pretoria.
Life Orientation is excluded when calculating the APS.
Grade 11 results are used for the conditional admission of prospective students.
A valid qualification with admission to degree studies is required.
Minimum subject and achievement requirements, as set out below, are required.
All modules will be presented in English, as English is the language of tuition, communication and correspondence.
University of Pretoria website: click here
Achievement level
English Home Language or English First Additional Language
NSC/IEB
Other programme-specific information
The semester in which these modules are offered may vary from year to year.
Students who wish to continue with a BScHons (CS) should consult the Computer Science department for the correct admission requirements to the degree. COS 301 and three COS electives are compulsory admission requirements for BScHons (CS).
Promotion to next study year
Refer also to General Academic Regulation G4.
A student must pass all the modules of the first year of study, before he or she is permitted to register for any module of the third year of study. Module prerequisites remain applicable. Exceptions to this rule will be considered by the relevant head of department and the Dean.
A new first-year student, who has failed in all the prescribed modules of the programme at the end of the first semester, will not be permitted to proceed to the second semester in the School of Information Technology.
A student who has not passed at least 70% of the credits of the current year of study after the November examinations will not be re-admitted to the School of Information Technology.
Students who fail a module for a second time, forfeit the privilege of registering for any modules of an advanced year of study.
Students whose academic progress is not acceptable can be suspended from further studies. Refer to the following important regulation: G4 and/or regulations as they appear for the applicable programmes.
A student who is excluded from further studies in terms of the stipulations of the above-mentioned regulations will be notified in writing by the Dean or admissions committee at the end of the relevant semester.
A student who has been excluded from further studies may apply in writing to the admissions committee of the School of Information Technology for readmission on or before 12 January.
Should the student be readmitted by the admissions committee, strict conditions will be set which the student must comply with in order to proceed with studies.
Should the student not be readmitted to further studies by the admissions committee, he/she will be informed in writing.
Students who are not readmitted by the admissions committee have the right to appeal to the Senate Committee for Admission, Evaluation and Academic Support.
Any decision taken by the Senate Committee for Admission, Evaluation and Academic Support is final.
Pass with distinction
A degree (undergraduate) in the School of IT is conferred with distinction on a student who did not repeat any module of his/her final year, obtained a weighted average of at least 75% (not rounded) in all the prescribed modules for the final year, provided that a subminimum of 65% is obtained in each of these modules and provided that the degree is completed in the prescribed minimum period of time. Ad hoc cases will be considered by the Dean, in consultation with the relevant head of department.
Minimum krediete: 144
Fundamental modules
AIM 111
Academic information management 111
Krediete: 4.00
Module-inhoud:
Find, evaluate, process, manage and present information resources for academic purposes using appropriate technology.
Apply effective search strategies in different technological environments. Demonstrate the ethical and fair use of information resources. Integrate 21st-century communications into the management of academic information.
Academic literacy for Information Technology 121
By the end of this module students should be able to cope more confidently and competently with the reading, writing and critical thinking demands that are characteristic of the field of Information Technology.
UPO 112
Academic orientation 112
COS 110
Program design: Introduction 110
Krediete: 16.00
The focus is on object-oriented (OO) programming. Concepts including inheritance and multiple inheritance, polymorphism, operator overloading, memory management (static and dynamic binding), interfaces, encapsulation, reuse, etc. will be covered in the module. The module teaches sound program design with the emphasis on modular code, leading to well structured, robust and documented programs. A modern OO programming language is used as the vehicle to develop these skills. The module will introduce the student to basic data structures, lists, stacks and queues.
Operating systems 122
Fundamental concepts of modern operating systems in terms of their structure and the mechanisms they use are studied in this module. After completing this module, students will have gained, as outcomes, knowledge of real time, multimedia and multiple processor systems, as these will be defined and analysed. In addition, students will have gained knowledge on modern design issues of process management, deadlock and concurrency control, memory management, input/output management, file systems and operating system security. In order to experience a hands-on approach to the knowledge students would have gained from studying the abovementioned concepts, students will have produced a number of practical implementations of these concepts using the Windows and Linux operating systems.
Imperative programming 132
This module introduces imperative computer programming, which is a fundamental building block of computer science. The process of constructing a program for solving a given problem, of editing it, compiling (both manually and automatically), running and debugging it, is covered from the beginning. The aim is to master the elements of a programming language and be able to put them together in order to construct programs using types, control structures, arrays, functions and libraries. An introduction to object orientation will be given. After completing this module, the student should understand the fundamental elements of a program, the importance of good program design and user-friendly interfaces. Students should be able to conduct basic program analysis and write complete elementary programs.
Introduction to computer science 151
This module introduces concepts and terminology related to the computer science discipline. General topics covered include the history of computing, machine level representation of data, Boolean logic and gates, basic computer systems organisation, algorithms and complexity and automata theory. The module also introduces some of the subdisciplines of computer science, such as computer networks, database systems, compilers, information security and intelligent systems. The module also focues on modelling of algorithms.
IMY 110
*Closed – requires departmental selection. Open to BIT, BSc:IT and BSc CS students.
Mark-up Languages. This module explores the role of mark-up languages in the information environment; the difference between the logical structure and the appearance of documents; the study of HTML, CSS and XHTML; the building of websites and basic information architecture.
*Closed – requires departmental selection.
Multimedia for the Web. This module introduces the process of creating and editing images, animation, basic interactive content, and sound for the web using multimedia authoring tools, such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash (with basic ActionScript), and Adobe Audition.
INL 110
Information science 110
Introduction to Information Science. This module is an introduction to the study field of information science and its various professions. Key concepts that will be discussed include the following: the human as information processor and user; the life-cycle of information in terms of processes, products and role-players; as well as the communication of information. The social-ethical impact of globalisation is included as a key concern, with reference to Africa, the 4th Industrial Revolution and other revolutions to come are addressed as well as core principles such as equity, diversity and inclusion.
Organisation and representation of information. This module offers a brief overview of the basic principles and processes underlying the organisation, representation, and structuring of information. The process of organising information on the web (such as social networking sites), in multimedia formats, by means of document image processing and in databases is dealt with. Themes on the representation of information through the creation of metadata include various general and domain specific metadata schemas such as Dublin Core for the web, as well as the various retrieval and management tools available for metadata. Practical classes include basic HTML and the design of web pages incorporating and applying what was covered in theory.
Information and communication technology. This module offers a brief overview of hardware and software and telecommunications technologies. Various networks, network applications. intranets, internet, the World Wide Web, deep web and cloud computing are discussed. Computer ethics, ICTs, e-commerce, ergonomics, mobile computing technology and the influence that new trends and developments such as the 4th Industrial Revolution and virtual reality have on the creation and distribution of information are covered in this module. The practical component focuses on the introduction to the coding language, Python.
VIO 102
Visual design (1) 102
*Only for students who specialise in BIS Multimedia
Introduction to elements and principles of design, typography and layout. Application of visual principles and techniques. Media characteristics. The design process.
JCP 202
Community-based project 202
This module is integrated into all undergraduate academic programmes offered by the Faculty. Main objectives: execution of a community project aimed at achieving a beneficial impact on a section of a socio-economically underprivileged community located in socio-economically deprived areas our society; awareness of personal, social and cultural values and an understanding of social issues; and development of life skills.
Data structures and algorithms 212
Data abstraction is a fundamental concept in the design and implementation of correct and efficient software. In prior modules, students are introduced to the basic data structures of lists, stacks and queues. This module continues with advanced data structures such as trees, hash tables, heaps and graphs, and goes into depth with the algorithms needed to manipulate them efficiently. Classical algorithms for sorting, searching, traversing, packing and game playing are included, with an emphasis on comparative implementations and efficiency. At the end of this module, students will be able to identify and recognise all the classical data structures; implement them in different ways; know how to measure the efficiency of implementations and algorithms; and have further developed their programming skills, especially with recursion and polymorphism.
Software modelling 214
The module will introduce the concepts of model-driven analysis and design as a mechanism to develop and evaluate complex software systems. Systems will be decomposed into known entities, such as design patterns, classes, relationships, execution loops and process flow, in order to model the semantic aspects of the system in terms of structure and behaviour. An appropriate tool will be used to support the software modelling. The role of the software model in the enterprise will be highlighted. Students who successfully complete this module will be able to concep-tualise and analyse problems and abstract a solution.
Netcentric computer systems 216
This module will introduce the student to netcentric systems by focusing on the development of systems for the web, mobile devices and the cloud. To lay the foundation on which the rest of the module can follow, traditional web-based programming languages such as HTML5, JavaScript, CSS and Python will be covered differentiating between client-side and server-side computation. Persistence of web-based data will be included for both client and server-based computation. These technologies will be extended and applied to mobile platforms where the availability of a connection, location-services and mobile device limitations play a role. For cloud platforms, aspects relating to task partitioning, security, virtualisation, cloud storage and access to the shared data stores, data synchronisation, partitioning and replication are considered. In order to practically demonstrate that a student has reached these outcomes, students will be required to use, integrate and maintain the necessary software and hardware by completing a number of smaller practical assignments where after integrating all these technologies into a comprehensive and practical programming project is required.
Concurrent systems 226
Computer science courses mostly deal with sequential programs. This module looks at the fundamentals of concurrency; what it means, how it can be exploited, and what facilities are available to determine program correctness. Concurrent systems are designed, analysed and implemented.
Computer organisation and architecture 284
This module provides the foundations on which other modules build by enabling a deeper understanding of how software interacts with hardware. It will teach the design and operation of modern digital computers by studying each of the components that make up a digital computer and the interaction between these components. Specific areas of interest, but not limited to, are: representation of data on the machine-level; organisation of the machine on the assembly level; the architecture and organisation of memory; inter- and intra-component interfacing and communication; data paths and control; and parallelism. Topic-level detail and learning outcomes for each of these areas are given by the first 6 units of 'Architecture and Organisation' knowledge area as specified by the ACM/IEEE Computer Science Curriculum 2013.
The concepts presented in the theory lectures will be reinforced during the practical sessions by requiring design and implementation of the concepts in simulators and assembly language using an open source operating system.
Advanced Markup Languages 1. This module investigates XML and its related technologies (such as XSLT, XPath, XSL-FO, DTD, XML Schema, and namespaces) as a vital part of the web development process.
*Closed - requires departmental selection.
Multimedia and hypermedia theory. This module offers the opportunity to make a thorough study of the theory and applications of multimedia and hypermedia. This includes: multimedia products, multimedia authoring tools, hypermedia databases, digital publications on the World Wide Web, New Media, as well as information architecture, websites and the social realities and impact of the World Wide Web.
Advanced Markup Languages 2. This module assumes knowledge of dynamic scripts and basic web based technologies such as PHP as well as the use of relational databases like MySQL. The module explores the interplay between scripting languages, databases, and current industry standard web technologies, from both the server-side and client-side perspectives. The module has a focus on developing hands-on practical skills.
PUB 210
Publishing 210
Copy-editing. This module offers an introduction to copy-editing as a phase in the publishing process. Topics covered are the role of the copy-editor in the publishing value chain; the levels of editing; the responsibilities of the copy-editor towards the manuscript, the author and the publishing house; the responsibilities and skills of the proof-reader; typical problems in texts; proof-reading and copy-editing symbols and the mark-up of texts; as well as legal and ethical aspects of editing. Learners are also equipped with practical skills in proofreading and copy-editing both digital and print-based texts.
*Requires VIO 102
Visual analysis and interpretation. Design function and specific applications in the electronic environment. Aesthetic, functional and communicative evaluation of design.
Multimedia: Project 300
The module enables students to combine all their knowledge gained through out their studies to create a functional game. The course consists of extensive game design theory teaching. The students create a game by following an iterative design process, extensive documentation and in depth play testing and usability testing. The final product is a creative, innovative and complete game.
Human-computer Interaction. This module involves a study of human-computer interaction and human-information interaction; humans as computer and information users; and the ethical aspects relating to the creation of multimedia information products. A detailed study of the role, composition and functioning of an interface, underlying principles in the design and evaluation of interfaces, will also be undertaken.
Trends. This module deals with technical aspects of multimedia hardware and software, digital video and audio formats and compression; and version management. A detailed study of the latest developments in mark-up languages and related technologies will also be undertaken.
Software engineering 301
The module exposes students to problems associated with software development on an industrial scale. Overall goals of the module are: to become familiar with the latest trends in software engineering; to understand the software engineering process and to appreciate its complexity; to be exposed to a variety of methodologies for tackling different stages of the software lifecycle; to understand and apply the concepts of systems administration and maintenance; to complete the development of a fairly large object orientation-based software product. The focus of the module is on a project that lasts the whole year. The project is completed in groups of approximately four (4) students and teaches students to take responsibility for a variety of roles within a group, and to understand the different requirements for these; to experience the advantages and problems of working in a group; professionalism with regards to particularly colleagues and clients.
After the successful completion of this module, the student will be able to: understand the psychology of a client; work in groups; and have an appreciation for planning, designing, implementing and maintaining large projects. These qualities should place the students in a position in which they are able to handle software development in the corporate environment.
Artificial intelligence 314
The main objective of this module is to introduce a selection of topics from artificial intelligence (AI), and to provide the student with the background to implement AI techniques for solving complex problems.
This module will cover topics from classical AI, as well as more recent AI paradigms. These topics include: search methods, game playing, knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning, neural networks, genetic algorithms, artificial life, planning methods, and intelligent agents. In the practical part of this module, students will get experience in implementing
(1) game trees and evolving game-playing agents;
(2) a neural network and applying it to solve a real-world problem; and
(3) a genetic algorithm and applying it to solve a real-world problem.
Database systems 326
This module builds on a prior introductory module on database technology and provides more advanced theoretical and practical study material for managing large volumes of data, for example, noSQL database systems and MapReduce. The module will consider file system models, for example Hadoop, relevant for big data storage, manipulation at scale, mining and visualisation. Basic knowledge of parallel decomposition concepts will be included.
Computer security and ethics 330
This module develops an appreciation of the fundamentals and design principles for information assurance and security. Students will develop a clear understanding of the basic information security services and mechanisms, enabling them to design and evaluate the integration of solutions into the user application environment. Emphasis will be placed on services such as authorisation and confidentiality. Students will acquire knowledge and skills of Security Models such as the Bell-LaPadula, Harrison-Ruzzo Ullman and Chinese Wall Model. Students will develop a detailed understanding of the confidentiality service by focusing on cryptology and the practical implementation thereof. The student will be introduced to professional and philosophical ethics. At the end of the module students will be able to engage in a debate regarding the impact (local and global) of computers on individuals, organisations and society. The professionalism of IT staff will be discussed against national and international codes of practices such as those of the CSSA, ACM and IEEE.
Computer networks 332
The objective of this module is to acquaint the student with the terminology of communication systems and to establish a thorough understanding of exactly how data is transferred in such communication networks, as well as applications that can be found in such environments. The study material includes: concepts and terminology, the hierarchy of protocols according to the OSI and TCP/IP models, protocols on the data level, physical level and network level as well as higher level protocols. The practical component of the module involves programming TCP/IP sockets using a high level language. The emphasis throughout is on the technical aspects underlying the operation of networks, rather than the application of networks.
Programming languages 333
Programming languages are the backbone for software development. Each language has its own different syntax and semantics, but there are many common concepts that can be studied and then illustrated through the languages. The module concentrates on issues of object orientation, including delegation, iteration and polymorphism. It surveys how languages provide the basic building blocks for data and control, as well as exception handling and concurrency. At the end of the module, students will be able to appreciate the rich history behind programming languages, leading to independent principles that evolve over time. They will be skilled at using a variety of programming languages, including new paradigms such as functional, logical and scripting, and will know how to learn a new language with ease. From this experience, they will be able to apply evaluation criteria for choosing an appropriate programming language in a given scenario.
Compiler construction 341
This module will introduce the student to the fundamentals of compiler construction. These include: the structural difference between a high-level and a von-Neumann language, the meaning of syntax and semantics and what semantics-preserving correctness means; the concepts of regular expressions, finite automata, context-free grammars in the context of programming languages; the need to construct parse-trees for given programmes; the application of data structures and algorithms for the purpose of code-analysis, code-optimisation and register-allocation; and the limits of code-analysis in terms of undecideability and the halting problem.
After successful completion of the module, the student will have an understanding of the importance of compilers and will understand how to implement a compiler, in terms of its components, the scanner, parser, type checker and code-generator for a given grammar.
Computer graphics 344
The aim of this module is to acquire a sound knowledge of the basic theory of interactive computer graphics and basic computer graphics programming techniques. The theory will cover graphics systems and models, graphics programming, input and interaction, geometric objects and transformations, viewing in 3D, shading, rendering techniques, and introduce advanced concepts, such as object-oriented computer graphics and discrete techniques. The module includes a practical component that enables students to apply and test their knowledge in computer graphics. The OpenGL graphics library and the C programming language will be used for this purpose.
The regulations and rules for the degrees published here are subject to change and may be amended after the publication of this information.
The General Academic Regulations (G Regulations) and General Student Rules apply to all faculties and registered students of the University, as well as all prospective students who have accepted an offer of a place at the University of Pretoria. On registering for a programme, the student bears the responsibility of ensuring that they familiarise themselves with the General Academic Regulations applicable to their registration, as well as the relevant faculty-specific and programme-specific regulations and information as stipulated in the relevant yearbook. Ignorance concerning these regulations will not be accepted as an excuse for any transgression, or basis for an exception to any of the aforementioned regulations.


A Modern Theory of Random Variation is a new and radical re-formulation of the mathematical underpinnings of subjects as diverse as investment, communication engineering, and quantum mechanics. Setting aside the classical theory of probability measure spaces, the book utilizes a mathematically rigorous version of the theory of random variation that bases itself exclusively on finitely additive probability distribution functions.
In place of twentieth century Lebesgue integration and measure theory, the author uses the simpler concept of Riemann sums, and the non-absolute Riemann-type integration of Henstock. Readers are supplied with an accessible approach to standard elements of probability theory such as the central limmit theorem and Brownian motion as well as remarkable, new results on Feynman diagrams and stochastic integrals.
Throughout the book, detailed numerical demonstrations accompany the discussions of abstract mathematical theory, from the simplest elements of the subject to the most complex. In addition, an array of numerical examples and vivid illustrations showcase how the presented methods and applications can be undertaken at various levels of complexity.
A Modern Theory of Random Variation is a suitable book for courses on mathematical analysis, probability theory, and mathematical finance at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. The book is also an indispensible resource for researchers and practitioners who are seeking new concepts, techniques and methodologies in data analysis, numerical calculation, and financial asset valuation.
Patrick Muldowney, PhD, served as lecturer at the Magee Business School of the UNiversity of Ulster for over twenty years. Dr. Muldowney has published extensively in his areas of research, including integration theory, financial mathematics, and random variation.


Two Department of Veterans Affairs facilities in southeastern North Carolina will remain closed until next week due to the catastrophic flooding that continues to cripple the area days after Hurricane Florence first made landfall.
Though most of the VA facilities affected by the storm were reopened by Tuesday, a health care center in Wilmington and outpatient clinic in Morehead City are expected to remain closed until Sept. 24. The southeastern coast of North Carolina was most affected by Florence, which brought more than 2 feet of rain in some areas and caused widespread power outages and closed roads. The Associated Press reported the storm was to blame for at least 32 deaths.
As of Tuesday, the rain had stopped, but flooding continued. In addition to the facilities in Wilmington and Morehead City, three clinics and two veteran counseling centers located elsewhere in the state were closed, and the VA said it was uncertain when they would reopen.
"Due to Hurricane Florence, some of our outpatient clinics are closed with reopening dates [to be determined], based on factors like weather, road and facility condition as well as water and utility availability," the Fayetteville VA Medical Center wrote in a statement.
The flooding also caused the agency to close two national cemeteries in North Carolina — one in Wilmington and the other in New Bern, where 4,300 homes were damaged by floodwaters.
"When it is safe and possible to do so, we will assess whether conditions are safe enough to reopen to visitors," the National Cemetery Administration, part of the VA, wrote in a statement Tuesday.
In preparation for the storm last week, the VA closed 18 clinics across Virginia and North and South Carolina. The agency also evacuated the Hampton VA Medical Center in Virginia. Veterans from Hampton were bused to Martinsburg, W.Va., Salem and Richmond, Va., and Salisbury and Durham, N.C.
All affected clinics and veteran centers in Virginia and South Carolina were reopened as of Tuesday, and 170 of the 210 veterans evacuated from Hampton had returned there. Some of the Hampton veterans remained in Salisbury and Durham, cut off from Virginia because of road closures. They were expected to return either late Tuesday or Wednesday.
The VA first predicted Florence would affect more than 740,000 veterans in the three-state area who were enrolled in VA health care services. A new estimate Tuesday determined the number was closer to 640,000 veterans.
To help in the aftermath, the VA sent out 15 mobile veteran centers, two mobile pharmacy units, two emergency nutrition units and five mobile medical units to offer medical care, medication and counseling to veterans affected by the storm.
The VA is encouraging veterans with questions to call the Veteran Disaster Hotline at 1-800-507-4571.


Travel stories: a hotel, an event, a restaurant, or simply a nice anecdote!
Experiences and emotions related by one of the finest voices on Italian radio: Maurizio di Maggio, who broadcasts for Radio Montecarlo directly from Monaco.
But above all, tales of a globetrotter, a passionate and curious nomad in his spirit, who stylishly reveals an unprecedented and at times irreverent vision of the glittering world of the most exclusive hotels and dream trips!
Maurizio Di Maggio is an Italian journalist and radio presenter. A nomad in his spirit, he stays in the same place as little as possible, is the best description we can give. His passion for travelling has brought him to all 5 continents and in collecting his experiences, he has invented a radio format that speaks about travel, which he has been constantly improving since 1969.
he has also worked on several record productions: in 1982 he published Space Operator by 4M International for Goody Music. In 1984 with Disc8 he published Fly To America by Red Gang, with whom he performed that same summer on Drive In (Italia 1) and Discoring (Raiuno). In 1995, after a stint in London where he met Eddie Piller (Acid Jazz Records) and Gilles Peterson (Talkin' Loud Records), he recorded a double album titled Trip-Tik under the pseudonym Ciconio with the collaboration of Paolo Ricca, published by Flying Records.
On 15 June 2009 and 19 June 2018, he won the ADUTEI – Association of Delegates of Foreign Tourism Offices in Italy – award in the radio category.
He is on air on Radio Monte Carlo from Monday to Friday 8 pm to 10 pm, and Sunday from 4 pm to 7 pm.
He collaborates with the TV at Centre de Presse de Monaco, producing a weekly programme in Italian, MC Info.
Is the first Italian Hotel of the Radisson Collection brand.
that stands out for its exceptional elegance. And it's charme will conquer everyone!


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Q: Function only works in Opera I wonder if I could get some direction on this problem. I have a forum with a js function to surround text in a message with bb code, but it only works in Opera. In other browsers, it just doesn't do anything, the highlighted words just become not highlighted any more. The actual parser to convert from bbcode to html works fine, its just this surroundText function which is not working.
Here is the routine:
$('.surroundText').click(function(event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    var before = $(this).data('text'),
        after  = $(this).data('text-after');
    surroundText(before, (after) ? after : '');
});

Ultimately I am going to have to install some debugging software and deal with this, but could someone see anything here which is fixable? For some reason Opera works perfectly and everything else doesn't, for a few minor functions on the platform. This is the biggest one.
Edit: Oh and the buttons have this code:
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This is from a working sample...the code is the same, I was confused. Can anyone see a clear problem?

A: Finally, I figured this out, its so simple. The jQuery wasn't loading in the other browsers at all. The issue was pretty simple,
When the JavaScript was loaded, the line looked like this:
.script("http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.1/jquery.min.js").wait()

and the problem was that the http: isn't supposed to be there, therefore jQuery wasn't loaded at all.
So the proper line is:
.script("//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.1/jquery.min.js").wait()

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Edwin was born on May 17, 1925.
Edwin enlisted in the Navy on September 15, 1943, and was released on April 12, 1946.
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Man attempts to burn to death wife on dowry grudge - Integration Through Media ....!
BIRGUNJ: An incident has been made public here after 10 days that a man attempted to burn to death his 18 year old wife over the dowry dispute in a rural area of the district.
Rabina Khatun from Chhipaharmai Rural Municipality -4 of the district survived such crime perpetrated by her husband Sabir Minya Dhobi and parents-in-law.
When she protested the in-laws' attempt to exclude her from family after seizing the golden jewelries she was wearing, the husband and in-laws beat her and tried to burn her to death, said Deputy Superintendent of Police, Rajan Limbu, quoting Rabina.
Although husband Sabir, father-in-law Farjan Minya Dhobi and mother-in-law Shova Khatun made such criminal effort ten days back, Rabina was able to make it public Thursday.
She could not reveal the incident because she was forced to stay inside home for these 10 days. As she managed to contact the women cell of the District Police Office, she was brought to the Narayani Sub-Regional Hospital, Birgunj, for treatment.
The doctors involved in her treatment said Rabina got serious burns on waist and right leg.
As per Rabina's complaint, the district police has forwarded the investigation by directing the subordinate police stations to arrest Rabina's in-laws.


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Emma part of bronze medal-winning Australian team
18 Dec 2018 | News
Carves it up at world juniors in California
When Emma Cattlin looks back on 2018, a highlight of her year will no doubt be helping to push her country to a third place finish at this year's ISA World Junior Surfing Championship in California.
The South West Academy of Sport surfer was part of the Australian team which competed at the event held at Huntington Beach over late October and early November.
The contest saw representatives from 44 countries compete for individual and national bragging rights.
"It was pretty unforgettable," Cattlin said.
"To represent Australia was amazing."
Cattlin, who competed in the under-16 age bracket at worlds and is the current under-18 girls state champion, said being part of the side that claimed bronze was also a good outcome, considering Australia placed fourth at the event last year.
"To do one better for Australia was pretty cool," she said.
(Pictures: ISA/Ben Reed)

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Born an elf and a mage, Izuku is the lowest of the low among the pariahs of Ferelden. Running away from persecution, he meets an unlikely friend in Mina, a Qunari spy. Will they find freedom together? Or will their cultures separate them before they can follow their hearts?
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Recently I was grinding the Chinese MT line. I found the grind on the T9 WZ-120 horrendous. So many modules to research. When finally finished, I found it underwelming. High alpha damage but the gun handling is atrocious. Only -3 deg gun depression, 10 sec reload, 3 sec aim. And that's with 100% crew, BIA, vents, rammer and gun laying drive. Does WZ-120 need a buff?
Does WZ-120 need a buff?
Will it get a buff any time soon? Probably not.
There's a long list of tanks that are under or over performing which WG seems to largely ignore. But thankfully they found time to buff the 279e tho.
Edited by TCYH, 09 February 2019 - 12:17 PM.
Yet it's still better than the tier 8.
Wasn't it par for the course to only attempt the MT line after the HT line to avoid as much of the horror as possible?
I just ground the 120 from the 132 after a couple of games in the 34-2.
maybe your playstyle did not suit the tank or vice versa.
You have to play it up close and personal prolly best supporting HTs...and flanking when situation allows.
but holy moly, played a few games in it, I was whacking everybody and anybody in it, doing easy 2-3k damage per game.
The 120 is fine, its tanks like the 430 that need a nerf imo.
Edited by Fluffy_Water_Bear, 11 February 2019 - 03:24 PM.
Give the WZ-120 5° of gun depression and an aim time that isn't over 3s, something like 2.85s base.
That's pretty much all it needs, at most the module health could be increased too.
The Chinese mediums as a whole need a buff, some need far more than others, and in comparison, the 430U line needs to be hit with the nerf bat.


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Boopis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Calyceraceae, native to Chile, Argentina and Brazil. The taxon is believed to be highly polyphyletic.

Species
Currently accepted species include:

Boopis andicola Gand.
Boopis anthemoides Juss.
Boopis australis Decne.
Boopis breviscapa Phil.
Boopis bupleuroides C.A.Müll.
Boopis castillonii (Hicken) Pontiroli
Boopis chubutensis Speg.
Boopis filifolia Speg.
Boopis gracilis Phil.
Boopis graminea Phil.
Boopis itatiaiae Dusén
Boopis juergensii Pilg.
Boopis multicaulis Phil.
Boopis necronensis Zav.-Gallo, S.Denham & Pozner
Boopis patagonica Speg.
Boopis pterocalyx Zav.-Gallo, S.Denham & Pozner
Boopis pusilla Phil.
Boopis raffaellii Speg.

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Calyceraceae
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After the Fire, Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons Since 1649.
By: Delaney, Paul J. and Andrew D. Nicholls (edited by Irene Golas)
Publisher: Elmvale, Ontario., Eastern Georgian Bay Historical Foundation.: 1989
xii - 101 pp. Traces the development of this historic site from its abandoned ruins (it was simpy known as the "French ruins" after the fire of 1649) through to the completion of its careful reconstruction in 1971. Illustrated with black and white photographs, maps and sketches. Six pages of notes, a 2 page bibliography and a 4 page index. Minor wear to the covers, otherwise clean with a sound binding. View more info
One Canada: Memoirs of the Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker, The Tumultuous Years 1962 to 1967.
By: Diefenbaker, John G.
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Macmillan.: 1977
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
8vo - 23 x 14.5 cm.; xxiii - 309 pp. Bright blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine. This is volume 3 of John Diefenbaker's memoirs. Illustrated with 12 pages of black and white photographs from the period. Two appendices, List of Acts passed by Diefenbaker's government from 1957 to 1963 and the Declaration of Loyality of November 15 of 1966. Seven page general index. The book shows very mild shelf wear to the spine tips and the text block fore edge has some small stains on the lower one-quarter of it. Otherwis eclean and tight. The dust jacket has edge wear to the spine tips a... View more info
Signed black and white portrait photograph of John Diefenbaker.
By: Diefenbaker, John.
Publisher: Ottawa, Ontario., 1977
17.5 x 12.5 cm; Signed and dated (1977) black and white portrait photograph of John Diefenbaker. The image size is 14.5 x 11.5 cm. Inscibed to a "Moran McMahon - with best wishes". Penciled note on back "66-1443. Dec. 1977". View more info
Preserving Peterborough's Past: 150 Years of Museums and History.
By: Doherty, Ken.
Publisher: Peterborough, Ontario., The Peterborough Historical Society.: 1995
8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; 26 pp. Pale yellow wraps with black lettering in a saddle stapled binding. Illustrated with black and white photographs. An 'occasional paper', #16, published by the society. Minor wear to the edges and the spine margins of the covers are faded. Sticker scar on the top spine corner of the front. The shipping cost for this small item will be reduced after it is ordered. View more info
The Cambodians, Laotians and Vietnamese in Canada. (Booklet #28 in "Canada's Ethnic Groups" series).
By: Dorais, Louis-Jacques.
8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 32 pp. Dark blue wraps with white lettering in a saddle stapled binding. Translated from the original French by Eileen Reardon. Four statistical tables in the text. Three pages of suggestions for further reading at the back. An as-new and unused booklet. The shipping cost for this small item will be reduced after it is ordered. View more info
Girl's Schooling in Quebec, 1639-1960. (CHA Booklet No. 49).
By: Dumont, Micheline.
8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; 32 pp. Blue covers with white lettering in a saddle stapled binding. Translated from the French by Carol Élise Cochrane. Four page listing of suggestions for further reading at the back. Minor wear to the covers, else fine to near fine. The shipping cost for this small item will be reduced after it is ordered. View more info
The Social Teachings of the Canadian Churches; Protestant, the Early Period, before 1850.
By: Elgee, William H.
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Ryerson Press.: 1964
Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket
8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; (8) - 236 pp. Wine red cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine. A broad survey of the attitudes of Canadian churches vis-a-vis the developing Canadian social structure. Annotated with an index. The dust jacket is worn on the edges, scuffed with sticker damage to the lower spine. The interior is clean and the binding is solid. View more info
Women and Their Work in Upper Canada. (CHA Booklet No. 64).
By: Errington, Elizabeth Jane.
8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; 43 pp. Blue covers with white lettering in a saddle stapled binding. Two and a bit page list of suggsted further reading at the back. Very minor wear to the edges of the covers. The shipping cost for this small item will be reduced after it is ordered. View more info
A Fly on the Curtain.
By: Euringer, Fred.
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Oberon Press: 2000
8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; 218 pp. Euringer documents the early days of the Stratford Festival and summer stock theatre in Ontario during the 1950's. The author worked with the likes of Tyrone Guthrie, Michael Langham, Christopher Plummer, Frederick Valk, Kenneth Wicks, Bob Huber, John Douglas, and Donald Sutherland. Minor soiling to the white wraps with a black remainder mark on the head edge. Cover art by Egon Schiele. Illustrated with 4 pages of black and white photographs. View more info
52 Questions on the Nationalization of Canadian Railways.
By: Fabius.
Publisher: Toronto, Canada, J. M. Dent & Sons.: 1918
Condition: Very Good-
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Louis Riel. (CHA Booklet No. 50).
By: Flanagan, Thomas.
8vo - 21.5 x 13.5 cm.; 27 pp. Orange and white covers in a saddle stapled binding. Two pages of suggested further reading. Very minor wear to the edges of the covers. The shipping cost for this small item will be reduced after it is ordered. View more info
Cassocks, Doublets, and Deerskins. Religious and Secular Costume on the Mission Frontier of New France in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.
By: Folkes, Patrick and Nancy Penny.
Publisher: Midland, Ontario., The Friends of Sainte Marie.: 1988
8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; (10) - 67 pp. Illustrated with 5 black and white photographs. Thirteen pages of reference notes, 4 page select bibliography and a 3 page glossary. An as-new and unused book. View more info
Aspects of Maritime Regionalism, 1867-1927. (CHA Booklet No. 36).
By: Forbes, Ernest R.
8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; 22 pp. Tan covers with white lettering in a saddle stapled binding. One page list of suggested further reading at the back. Very minor wear to the edges of the covers. The shipping cost for this small item will be reduced after it is ordered. View more info
The Canadian Labour Movement, 1812-1902. (CHA Booklet No. 27).
By: Forsey, Eugene A.
8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; 23 pp. Pale yellow covers with black lettering in a saddle stapled binding. Two page list of suggested readings at the back. Minor wear and light soiling to the covers and 2 ink scribbles on the front. The shipping cost for this small item will be reduced after it is ordered. View more info
A Place Called Heaven: The Meaning of Being Black in Canada.
By: Foster, Cecil.
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Harpercollins.: 1996
8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 324 pp. French folded flaps on the fore edges of the covers. Three page index of names. The "Heaven" in the songs of the slaves in the southern US was the end of the underground railroad, Canada. This image of Canada is still alive, but, does it deliver? This is an account of the troubled state of race relations in a modern Canada by one who immigrated from Barbados. Foster is a respected journalist and broadcaster. Some light wear to the head and tail edges of the covers and general, though light, scuffing to the covers. View more info
Canadian Society in the French Regime. (CHA Booklet No. 3).
By: Fregault, Guy.
8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; 16 pp. Gray covers with black lettering in a saddle stapled binding. One page bibliography. First published in 1968, this is the sixth printing. Very minor wear to the edges of the covers and some fading of the margins of same. The shipping cost for this small item will be reduced after it is ordered. View more info
The University of Toronto: A History. (second edition).
By: Friedland, Martin L.
4to - 25.5 x 17 cm.; lv - 764 pp. Black cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine. First published in 2002 on the 175th anniversary of the founding of King's College, the predecessor of the University of Toronto. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Thirteen page listing of principal sources, 18 page bibliography, 40 page comprehemsive index. This book won the Heritage Toronto Award of Merit and the Ontario Historical Society J. J. Talman Prize. An as-new and unused book. View more info
Graham Towers and His Times.
By: Fullerton, Douglas H.
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., McClelland and Stewart: 1986
8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 348 pp. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with sixteen pages of black and white photographs. From the dust jacket, a comment about Towers by Stephen Leacock: "Graham Towers has distinguished himself as that happy combination of a practical banker and theoretical economist for which the world usually looks in vain". Slight edge wear to the head edge of the unclipped dust jacket. View more info
Le Québec et ses historiens de 1840 a 1920. La Nouvelle-France de Garneau à Groulx.
By: Gagnon, Serge.
Publisher: Quebec City, Quebec., Les Presse de l'Universite Laval.: 1978
8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; (8) - 474 pp. The text is in French. Volume 23 in the series "Les Cahiers d'Histoire de l'Université Laval". Twenty-five page bibliography, 13 page "Index onomastique" and an 8 page "Index thématique". Minor wear and light scuffing to the covers, otherwise clean with a solid binding. View more info


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Home News in brief Local What is the latest on the IT3(b) submissions for client investments?
What is the latest on the IT3(b) submissions for client investments?
There is some confusion in the legal fraternity about the submission of IT3(b) data from their clients' investments to SARS.
I spoke to Lizette Burger, the Professional Affairs Manager at the Law Society of South Africa to get her input on the matter. She said that there is a meeting scheduled this week between SARS, the Law Society of SA and the Banks to discuss the issue and process.
The previous May 2013 deadline for these returns, found that a number of law firms could not submit their clients' investment information, as the banks had not yet supplied the law firm with the information, causing a ripple effect of late submissions .
Let's have a look at what is needed for this submission.
Law firms need to submit data on all the investments they have made on behalf of their clients to SARS for the previous tax year by the 31st May each year.
The information required for natural persons is:
First Name, Surname, Initials and Date of Birth
Address, either postal or physical
ID Number or Passport number including country of issue
Tax reference number
Account number with the institution where the interest is received
Date of opening the account
Date of closing the account
Balance at the closing date of the account or last day of tax year
Interest received for the period
Monthly debits and credits to the account
An indicator of account verification status in terms of FICA.
The information required for other parties is:
Registered name
Entity registration number
These returns must be submitted electronically with SARS through the e-Filing system.
Let's see what comes from the meeting this week, we will keep you posted.
A copy of the text of the Government Notice:
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29 FEBRUARY 2012 Number No. 35090
GOVERNMENT NOTICE
SOUTH AFRICAN REVENUE SERVICE
No. 173 Dated 29 February 2012
NOTICE TO REPORTING INSTITUTIONS TO FURNISH BI-ANNUAL RETURNS OF INVESTMENT AND INTEREST WITH EFFECT FROM THE 2013 YEAR OF ASSESSMENT IN TERMS OF SECTION 69 OF THE INCOME TAX ACT, 1962 (ACT NO. 58 OF 1962)
1. Notice is hereby given in terms of section 69 of the Income Tax Act, 1962, ("the Act"), that reporting institutions must furnish returns of moneys invested with, loaned to and deposited with the reporting institution and of interest received by or accrued to or in favour of any person from the reporting institution or from any business carried on by the reporting institution in the Republic during the period 1 March 2012 to 28 February 2013.
2. Reporting institutions for purposes of this notice are:
(a) Banks regulated by the Registrar of Banks in terms of the Banks Act, 1990 or the Mutual Banks Act, 1993;
(b) Co-operative Banks regulated by the Co-operative Banks Development Agency in terms of the Co-operative Banks Act, 2007;
(c) The South African Postbank Limited (Postbank) regulated in terms of the South African Postbank Limited Act, 2010;
(d) Financial institutions regulated by the executive officer, deputy executive officer or board, as defined in the Financial Services Board Act, 1990, whether in terms of that Act or any other Act;
(e) Companies listed on the JSE, and connected persons in relation to the companies, that issue bonds, debentures or similar financial instruments;
State-owned companies, as defined in section 1 of the Companies Act, 2008, that issue bonds, debentures or similar financial instruments; and
(g) Organs of state, as defined in section 239 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa,1996, that issue bonds or similar financial instruments.
3. Unless otherwise agreed in terms of paragraph 4, returns must be furnished by the following dates:
(a) for the period 1 March 2012 to 31 August 2012, 31 October 2012; and
(b) for the period 1 March 2012 to 28 February 2013, 31 May 2013.
4. The South African Revenue Service ("SARS") and a reporting institution may agree to different periods and dates for the submission of returns in respect of persons with years of assessment that do not end on the last day of February.
5. The following information must be disclosed in the returns, unless SARS and a reporting institution agree otherwise in writing on good cause shown-
5.1 Natural persons
(a) Surname, first names, initials and date of birth;
(b) Address details (physical or postal);
(c) Identity number or passport number (including country of issue);
(d) Tax reference number;
(e) Account number;
Date the account was opened and date it was closed;
(g) Closing balance of account at end of return period;
(h) Interest received by, accrued to or in favour of the person from the reporting institution during the period covered by the return, other than interest on instruments and interest rate agreements that the reporting institution deals in and which interest the reporting institution does not report as interest for financial reporting purposes;
(i) Monthly totals of all credits and debits to the account; and
(i) Indicator of account verification status in terms of the Financial Intelligence Centre Act, 2001.
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(a) Registered name;
(c) Reference number issued by the relevant regulatory authority, such as the Companies and Intellectual Property Registration Office (CIPRO), the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) or the Master of the High Court;
Monthly totals of all credits and debits to the account; and
(j) Indicator of account verification status in terms of the Financial Intelligence Centre Act, 2001.
6. Returns must be filed electronically with SARS.
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Establishing PR residency can result in tax free gains from positions entered after a Act 22 decree is granted and the person has met residency requirements for a full tax year.
Generally, a bona-fide resident of Puerto Rico is a person who (1) is present for at least 183 days during the taxable year (2) does not have a tax home outside Puerto Rico during the taxable year (3) does not have a closer connection to the United States or a foreign country than to Puerto Rico.
Taking these gains after establishing PR residency will be subject to preferential PR income tax rates. If the gain is taken within 10 years of established PR residency it will be taxed at the income tax rate for capital gains in effect the year it is taken (currently 10%). If the gain is taken after 10 years the rate is 5%. US residents moving to PR will still be subject to US taxes on any non-PR built-in gain taken within 10 years of moving. These PR taxes are allowed as a credit against US federal taxes. So essentially you pay the US federal taxes. The only way to escape US federal income taxes on open coin trades existing before PR residency is to close the trade after 10 years of PR residency.


Molding Corporation of America (MCA) works tirelessly at improving quality and operating efficiency through employee training and participation, information systems, advanced molding technologies and statistical process control and monitoring.
We're committed to meeting and exceeding industry standards using the most sophisticated engineering and specialty materials.
We rely on rigorous Q/A training programs for our employees.
We monitor our products and process through our well staffed Q/A laboratory.
Starting with the customer, we fully define the agreed upon requirements which we document and monitor throughout the process.
Our quality laboratory features a full range of measurement equipment including digital calipers and micrometers for direct electronic data entry, analysis and reporting. Laboratory support equipment includes; color measurement equipment, a 30-inch optical comparator, microscopes and precision equipment for the measurement of impact resistance, hardness, flatness and concentricity.
We assure uniform dimensional accuracy, structural integrity and cosmetic consistency in all finished parts and assemblies—so you can depend on them to perform reliably as intended.
Do's and dont's of part design.


Interiors expert Amanda Sawyer is hosting a wreath workshop in Limerick, with all proceeds to Novas. The event takes places on Saturday 8th of December from 10am to 12.30pm in Novas' Head Office, 87 O'Connell Street and costs €50. Each participant will take home a beautiful wreath for the Christmas season.
Irish Girl in Brooklyn is inspired by the life of the founder Amanda Sawyer, who has moved back home to Limerick after spending more than 30 years in New York. Irish Girl Flowers is part of Irish Girl in Brooklyn, which is based in Limerick city and offers interior design expertise as well as products for the home. Amanda graduated from the Flower School New York and now, along with her sister Siobhan, is offering floral creations for the home, events and weddings.
Irish Girl Flowers along with Novas is offering the opportunity to attend this Holiday Wreath Workshop. The workshop will take place on Saturday 8th of December and costs €50 and light refreshments will be served. If you would like to reserve a place on the workshop you can call into Novas Head Office on 87 O'Connell Street or the Irish Girl in Brooklyn Studio, which is situated on the 1st Floor, 13 Thomas Street, Limerick (access via Little Catherine Street). Places are limited to 20, so pre-booking is essential. For anyone interested in interiors, crafts or wishing to participate in a festive activity with friends or family, this is just the workshop for you.
For further information, contact the Irish Girl is Brooklyn Studio on 085 2254370.


So we've discovered a resource: asteroids, ice, planetary resources, moon goo, intelligent livestock, etc. What do you do now?
The PI extraction system is nicely done, nothing extra to do there for the moment. I'll just point out that livestock don't necessarily come from planets: but there's no reason they can't! Rather than placing an extractor down, the unconscionable capsuleer could install a homeless shelter to attract the intelligent livestock. I won't pursue that any further.
Loot and salvage are pretty well understood, this will include my previous suggestion about alterations to drone poo and NPC drops.
Moon goo is pretty simple: for extraction from moons, we have discovered a quantity of "stuff" on a planet, and we want to extract it. So set up a POS, get that moon harvesting array up and running, and if you want to go faster simply install more arrays. There's a limited quantity of goo, ranging from barely enough to keep a single harvester active for a week through to enough to keep a POS packed with harvesters busy for a month. Yes, that's right, just a month. There will be something else to harvest on that moon sometime, so the POS isn't wasted.
Asteroids and ice: So in the discovery phase we've determined that this asteroid actually exists. Now what does it contain? There are plenty of suggestions on the forums (mostly from non-miners) as to how to make mining interesting enough for non-miners to like it enough to get "into" mining. GTFO. You attention-deficit people already have all manner of ways to entertain yourselves, why do you want mining to be "interesting"? If it was "interesting" more people would do it, thus devaluing the activity. If that sentence doesn't make sense, I guess mining really isn't for you.
For the purpose of my meandering discussion on the subject, let's assume that extraction from asteroids works exactly like it does today. The only twist on the old mining system is that all asteroids are simply labelled "Asteroid" and you have to either recognise the rock by appearance, or use a survey scanner and start tagging which rock contains which ore. So you warp to the bookmark you bought from that explorer, survey the field and tag the Pyroxeres, load your Pyroxeres crystals, start your lasers up and sit back with a beer while trading tall tales with your corpmates.
I'll just say this in passing: mining is already a great way to pass time while chewing the fat with corpmates, mining does not need to attract you in order to be a useful part of the game.
So you've extracted "stuff" from "source". You now have a cargo hold full of junk to process somehow. That ore has to go to a refinery. That load of coolant wants to be turned into fuel blocks, which needs an assembly plant of some kind.
Here's how you'd currently do it: warp to a stargate, jump through the gate, warp to the next gate, yadda yadda.
That's too easy. It's too easy to the point that null sec alliances find it easier to buy freighter loads of supplies from Jita and ship them out to null sec, even when their area of null sec is swimming in raw materials. Mining in null sec is too boring, it's frowned upon, it's too dangerous, blah blah blah. There's a long list of excuses for why people don't perform much in the way of industry in null sec: the main reason is why bother when hauling stuff from Jita is so damn quick and easy?
Before you jump up and tell the world that you manufacture stuff in null sec, let me just ask you to explain why 425mm Railguns are so popular. I'm guessing it's because they have a convenient compression ratio for a bunch of minerals that you like. You're manufacturing from imported materials.
So why is hauling stuff from Jita so much easier than mining it in null sec? On one hand you have the difficulty of mining (it's usually easier and safer than mining in hisec, but null sec residents find it boring and thus more difficult to do than flying combat ships into bubble clouds around enemy POSes to shoot lasers into the darkness for hours on end). On the other hand you have the ease of hauling stuff from Jita. There are three factors that make hauling from Jita so easy: first is the ease of moving anything long distances when you can autopilot in hisec and jump through null sec, avoiding star gates with ease. The second is the ability to compress vast quantities of minerals into a small space by manufacturing certain modules in hisec, shipping them in a freighter, then refining them at the other end. The third is emergent from the first two: that is the fact that Jita is the major market hub in the whole game.
Let's look at the ease of moving stuff first: you set your course for, say, a station in Torrinos. Once you undock you warp to your instant undock bookmark, then start the warp & jump to the Perimeter gate, enable the autopilot and walk away for an hour. By the time you come back your ship is safely docked up in Torrinos. You transfer your goods across to a jump freighter, undock, and immediately jump to the first of a series of cynosural beacons in your alliance's navigation network.
The main contrast between this way of life and, say, living in a wormhole is that star gates have infinite carrying capacity. Star gates (according to the lore) are basically artificial, stable, wormholes. Thus it seems to me that there should be some mass & transit limits based on the capability of the star gate machinery to open the wormhole for your ship to transit. Surely a smaller star gate will have lower carrying capacity than a larger one?
So step one in making logistics matter: make star gate transits a scarce resource. As an example, we might start with a first rebalancing attempt of making system star gates capable of transiting 20 ships per minute, for a mass limit of 1B kg (we'll use confusing units like Billion kg instead of Teragrams since you can look at the Show Info page of any spaceship and see 900,000,000kg). Perhaps a constellation star gate would be capable of transiting 200 ships per minute, with a mass limit of 10B kg. Then a region star gate would have a mass limit of 100B kg, or 2000 ships per minute. It might be possible to modify a gate by anchoring certain boosters nearby to adjust the throughput in a range ±99%, thus allowing a system star gate to be restricted to a maximum mass of 10,000,000kg (i.e.: destroyers and frigates only), with less than 1 ship per minute. This could be useful for smallholders in null sec, for example, or for one alliance attempting to siege another alliance's space.
Suddenly your autopilot trip takes a lot longer: you have to know ahead of time which gates have higher capacity, plan your trip through those gates, and hope you don't get stuck in a queue for a quarter of an hour. Traffic jams in space! How exciting is that?
And what if player corporations could install their own star gates?
The backbone of null sec industry at present (with the assumption of infinite carriage capacity) is mineral compression. You buy a bunch of 425mm Railguns (or similar), haul them out to null sec where you refine them. Why? Because 425mm Railguns take approximately 1500m3 of minerals and compress it into 50m3. The same magical feat is possible with other things such as ammo, warp scramblers, passive targeters, and a whole swathe of modules. Basically, they are broken because the finished product takes up a teensy tiny proportion of the materials required to make them (and, more to the point, the materials you get from smelting the item). Most ammo has a compression ratio in the order of 2:1: nerfing mineral compression will mean the necessity of expanding cargo holds in combat ships, or adding ammo bays to hold the volume of ammunition required to keep them running for any length of time.
So step two: nerf mineral compression. A 425mm Railgun should be closer to 1500m3 than 50m3 in volume. In fact, since the entropy of a 425mm Railgun is far lower than a puddle of molten metal, I'd suggest that it should take significantly more space than 1500m3: perhaps double.
This single step would help boost null sec industry simply from the fact that people in null sec would need to mine in null sec (and remember we've cut down the steady stream of minerals from NPC drops). The pain would be most felt in terms of tritanium, since it is the mineral required in the highest quantities. Since there is no mineral compression, the freighters running back and forth 30 times more frequently would need to dedicate most of their capacity to tritanium. A few mining operations in null sec to supply the high ends will reduce those 30 runs for minerals down to 20, just for tritanium.
This will also help address super capital proliferation: those beasts require immense quantities of tritanium. Choking off the logistics chain will mean that priority has to be given to materials for replacement frigates, cruisers and battleships.
So the folks in null sec trying to provide materials to keep 30 capital ship assembly arrays active will be whining a little. HTFU.
How big is Jita 4-4? How many freighters are regularly docked there? What is the volume of all the materials on the market at that station? How does all that stuff fit in that station?
If you don't make logistics a complex portion of the game, it becomes meaningless. 30:1 mineral compression, limitless transit at star gates, gargantuan carrying capacity of space stations: these all make logistics meaningless.


ANKARA, 21 November 2016 – 210 children from all 81 provinces of Turkey – including 40 Syrian children living in Turkey and children with disabilities – have gathered at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (GNAT) on 21 November 2016 during the Closing Session of the 17th Children's Forum jointly organized by the Ministry of Family and Social Policies and UNICEF.
The Children's Forum focused on social inclusion, social cohesion, the place of children with disabilities in society as well as children's participation. The outputs of the 17th National Child Forum were presented at the GNAT in the presence of the Deputy Minister of Family and Social Policies Mehmet Ersoy, UNICEF Representative in Turkey Philippe Duamelle and the Ombudsman for Children Serpil Çakın.
In their final declaration document read at the Parliament, the children delegates called on officials to develop further and encourage children's participation and strengthen children's rights. In the document, they suggested establishing a permanent Child Rights Monitoring Committee at the Parliament, ensuring child participation within the Ombudsman institution and increasing the numbers of local platforms allowing children to be represented – such as the Municipal Children Assembly, Child Right Committees and Youth Committees – across the 81 provinces of the country. "As children, we want to be trusted and our ideas being taken into account," the document said.
On the occasion of the Universal Child Rights Day, the Child Rights Campaign was first launched at the Presidential Residence on 20 November 1999 with the participation of child delegates from 81 provinces. Provincial Child Rights Committees are active since 2000, now under the Ministry of Family and Social Policies and they constitute a platform ensuring child participation at national level.
Each provincial committee counts two elected co-chairs, one boy and one girl representing children. Committee members come from all segments of society, thus ensuring wide participation at national level.


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December 14, 2015 Issue
Jackie Hoffman and John Epperson face off in "Once Upon a Mattress."
By Michael Schulman
Transport Group stages Mary Rodgers's 1959 musical, a cheeky retelling of "The Princess and the Pea."Illustration by Kyle T. Webster
Forty-second street, Saturday afternoon: a costume fitting. In one corner of a rehearsal studio, the perpetually grouchy character actress Jackie Hoffman practiced running up and down a staircase in a flowing turquoise dress. In another, John Epperson, best known for his ferocious drag alter ego, Lypsinka, was choosing among bejewelled crowns. "How ironic," Hoffman said, examining her duds. " 'Fiddler,' where they're supposed to look poor, has a budget of probably forty million. We're supposed to look rich, and we have a budget of twelve dollars."
With any luck, Transport Group's revival of "Once Upon a Mattress" (at Abrons Arts Center, through Jan. 3) will tap the same level of drollery. The 1959 Mary Rodgers musical, which retells the story of the princess and the pea, was once a vehicle for Carol Burnett. Now, in an inspired double feat of stunt casting, it will star two of downtown's prickliest divas: Hoffman, late of "On the Town," as Princess Winnifred, the loudmouthed bachelorette (her big number is "Shy"), and Epperson, as the evil Queen Aggravain, who plots her demise.
The whole thing, Epperson explained, was his idea. As a boy, he saw Carol Burnett in the 1964 television version, and later acted in a college production as a character named Sir Studley ("which was very cruel of the director"). He eventually realized that he wanted to play the queen, and in 2013 he and Hoffman performed a staged reading for a benefit, which Mary Rodgers attended. She died the next summer, but not before telling Epperson that she hoped for a full production.
Of her first princess role, Hoffman said, "At first, I was amazed at how ill suited I seemed to it"—she's typically cast as the sourpuss second banana—but she promised "that special brand of Jackie Hoffman misery." She was now in a dainty pair of pajamas. Epperson strutted out in a regal red-velvet gown. Hoffman eyed him and said, "It'll be a fight for focus." ♦
Published in the print edition of the December 14, 2015, issue, with the headline "Royal Pain."
Michael Schulman, a staff writer, has contributed to The New Yorker since 2006. He is the author of "Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep."
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