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A sleeper is the quintessential multitasker, functioning as a stylish sofa or loveseat during the day and folding out into a spacious bed at night. Whether you're looking for a sleeper sofa, a sleeper loveseat, or a sleeper sectional, it's easy to find the fashionable multipurpose furniture you need.
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Percy is having great fun in The Thanatos Syndrome as his hero Tom More—a psychiatrist recently released from a 2-year prison spell for selling uppers to truck drivers—makes his way back to work, marriage, and life itself.
Here are my favorite similes from the first third of the novel:
There in the garbage can, sure enough, a very dead rat with a drop of blood hanging like a ruby from its nose.
She winked at me, like a schoolchild who's just learned a dirty joke.
He's dressed too carefully in suit and vest, like a local doctor summoned before a congressional committee.
He is graceful and conscious of his gracefulness, like an actor.
Bob shrugs and turns away, his eyes suddenly distant and preoccupied, like an unsuccessful suitor.
I am able to sit still and notice things, like a man just out of prison, which I am, and glad of it.


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The Firm
Multiple funds under management with a single focus: Superior Performance.
For any private equity investment, the challenge is figuring out how to deliver consistently risk-adjusted high returns in economically challenging times. It was to remedy this reality that SCAS Capital assembled a one-of-a-kind team of investment managers to offer our Limited Partners a unique firm where the best minds with complementary skills could be brought to bear on such challenges.
Our approach to investing is to recognize value (or the potential for value) where others cannot see it. This contrarian philosophy is what helps deliver consistent and outstanding performance because we dedicate the right mix of capital, time, and management expertise to make successful investments out of challenging situations.
The result, SCAS Capital, is a boutique private equity firm unlike any other. We serve the needs of investors demanding superior performance while continually building upon our trusted relationships with our Limited Partners to create successful and enduring investment partnership.
We are proud that SCAS Capital professionals in aggregate are the largest investor in every fund we raise. This commitment highlights our core principle of alignment with our investors and management teams.


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Launch in Lisbon: everything you need to know about how to set up your life & business in Lisbon.
Lisbon is on the radar internationally and we acknowledge that. However, if you are a foreign entrepreneur that is interested in Lisbon to launch your business, you might feel a little lost in all the information that you need to know. Do not worry, you are not the only one.
Based on many emails we received, conversations we had with many entrepreneurs and potential clients on how to set up a business and life in Lisbon, we had this hunch that there needs to be something done. After all, one of our aims as Startup Lisboa is to help the Lisbon startup ecosystem be more inclusive and better structured.
We came up with the idea of Launch in Lisbon hoping to ease the pain of these people. Although it seemed like a good idea, we still had to test it to see if it would fit the needs.
We initiated Launch in Lisbon this autumn to help foreign entrepreneurs, companies and investors develop their businesses. The challenge we set up for ourselves and for our participants was to cover everything they need to know on how to set up a life and business in Lisbon in a short span of time (3 days).
The first "Launch in Lisbon" proved we're on the right track
The first edition was held between the dates November 2nd-4th, 2017 on the eve of the Web Summit, with the participation of a diverse group of 15 entrepreneurs, coming from all over the world, including USA, France, Brazil and Israel. We received positive feedback from the participants, many of them stating that they have a better understanding of the Portuguese legal and tax framework. We heard statements like "We are so glad that we did this!", "This programme made complex information simple!", "I feel like I gained 6 months of work only in three days!".
In fact, 80 percent of the participants said that they have changed the next steps that they were going to take in order to have a better structured business in Portugal. Participants were also very pleased with the high quality of the experts providing workshops and the networking opportunities they had during the programme. According to them the content was "super rich" and they felt like they are a part of the Startup Ecosystem in Lisbon and toured "super cool" places that they never would be able to do themselves.
Hearing these statements, we are pleased to say that the first edition was a success and second edition is on its way.
How to participate:
Following the success of the first edition, the next Launch in Lisbon will take place between the dates February 7th-9th, 2018. The deadline for application is January 25th and can be done through: www.startuplisboa.com/launch-in-lisbon
The cost of the program is €375 (VAT exclusive) per participant.
Please check the website for further information or contact email@example.com
Launch in Lisbon in a glimpse:
Launch in Lisbon is a 3-day soft-landing programme tailored for foreign entrepreneurs. The programme includes intensive workshops on incorporation of a company according to Portuguese Laws, fundamentals of corporate and personal tax, labor laws and talent recruitment all held in English.
Obtaining grants and subsidies, the real estate market, networking events, an entrepreneurial ecosystem tour and visits to incubators and accelerators are also a part of the programme.
The workshops are provided by the expertise partners PLMJ Law Firm, Moss & Cooper Consulting, Hays Recruitment Company, Deloitte and HomeLovers (one of the alumni of Startup Lisboa).
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About Us
Adani Foundation is working relentlessly in 18 States, 2,250 Villages and Towns in India, touching lives of more than 5,00,000 families by empowering our communities towards nurturing the dreams of a New India.
President's Message
As the Adani Group grows larger, our responsibility to give back becomes even larger and we are determined to collectively work to fulfil this.
Chairperson's Message
Through committed actions we have and will continue contributing our bit towards society to set up a chain reaction which will make future generations self-reliant.
Vision & Mission
Accomplish a passionate commitment to the social obligations towards communities, fostering sustainable and integrated development, thus improving the quality of life.
Our Team
At Adani Foundation, we strongly believe in the power of team work. Taking this belief ahead, we work towards one common goal of Nation Building and empowering the communities, thereby.
Know about Adani Foundation's initiatives at various locations across India.
- President's Message
Focus Area
The Foundation conceptualises its purpose by consolidating the activities under four broad working areas namely – Education, Community Health, Sustainable Livelihood Development & Rural Infrastructure Development.
Increasing & enhancing teachers' effectiveness, encouraging community participation and improving the school environment by making it child centric and conducive to learning are the three pillars supporting the edifice of the education sector
Community Health
The Foundation adopts a holistic approach while addressing key issues to ensure that the poorest of the poor are covered under the ambit of the Community Health Initiatives.
Sustainable Livelihood
The Foundation invests in building social capital, promoting collective strength through self-help groups, supporting initiatives towards preservation of traditional art and organising skill development training for the women artisans.
Rural Infrastructure
The Adani Foundation believes in investing in promotion, protection and upgrading of physical capital, i.e., infrastructure and equipments.
Our Reach
Adani Foundation's interventions in the areas of Education, Community Health, Sustainable Livelihood Development and Rural Infrastructure Development, impact more than 4 Lac families in 12 states of India.
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Browse through this section for the latest media releases and news on Adani Foundation. Our library offers a repertoire of high quality images, video footage and advertisements.
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Browse through this section for the newest media releases related to Adani Foundation
Media Coverage
News coverage for Adani Foundation available in chronological order or sort as per our Focus Areas.
Management Desk
"Nation building is not just about asset creation, but also meaningfully transforming lives", Dr. Priti G. Adani, Chairperson.
Media Library
Our library offers access to Adani Act anthem, logos, high quality images and video footages.
View a glimpse of latest events organized in the areas of education, community health, sustainable livelihood and rural infrastructure
Social Media
Stay in touch with the latest happenings at Adani Foundation. Join the conversation on our social media channels.
The newsletter gives a glimpse of the various initiatives Adani Foundation is doing across the country.
- Media Release
Success Stories
Know more about lives impacted through various initiatives by Adani Foundation.
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For uninterrupted revolutions and actions, we are always looking out for young & talented people who share our restless determination to contribute towards making our country self-reliant.
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This is a resource for the 2002 Social Justice Statement.
1. Being informed
- The theme of the 2002 Catholic Social Justice Sunday Statement is: The Environment.
- The Anglican, Catholic and Uniting Churches have produced an ecumenical resource, the Ecumenical Environment Kit.
2. Surfing the Net
Numerous sites exist where information and activities can be accessed.
- Australian Conservation Foundation www.acfonline.org.au
- Catholic Conservation Centre www.kateri.org
- Catholic Earthcare Australia www.catholicearthcare.org.au
- Columban Missionary Society www.columban.org.au
- Landcare www.landcareaustralia.com.au
- Catholic Religious Australia
The following sites enable you to make a difference online.
- Give Water www.wateraid.org
- The Hunger Site www.thehungersite.com
- The Rainforest Site www.therainforestsite.com
3. Discovering the local environment
Become aware of the natural environment in your local area. What are the environmental issues in your local area? Is there a local action group? How can you enhance and raise awareness about your local natural environment?
4. Valuing and Conserving Water
Today, over a billion people lack access to safe drinking water, and more than 2 billion people lack adequate sanitation. Every year at least 5 million people, most of them children, die from illnesses caused from drinking unsafe water.
Participate in ongoing activities related to World Water Day (March 22) – for example, visit www.unwater.org.
Join the campaign against the privatisation of water in low-income countries – visit www.aidwatch.org.au.
5. The Earth Charter
The United Nations has released The Earth Charter, a synthesis of values, principles and aspirations to guide the future development of our Earth. Most of the Charter is in harmony with Catholic Social Teaching.
Read and reflect on the Charter, and use it for discussion. It is available at www.earthcharterinaction.org.
Which aspects of the Charter are not in accordance with Catholic Teaching and why?
6. Care for your pets
Pets are lovable and often make good companions. When caring for pets, remember that most household pets need to be contained within the area of your home. They can damage Australian flora and fauna.
We need to preserve our native creatures and their habitats. Cities, suburbs and rural areas are more than social communities in which human beings live and grow; they are also part of natural communities in which we share space with a wondrous variety of life.
7. Plant a tree
Planting a tree is an appropriate activity to mark many occasions: a birth in the family; the beginning of a new year; a special birthday; an occasion of celebration; or a particular environmental day.
8. Recycle, reuse, reduce
Consumerism impacts on the environment. If we reduce our consumption of both goods and energy we reduce waste and pollution. When we buy goods, we reduce waste if they are reusable rather than disposable. Recycling is essential at home and at school or work.
9. Thinking globally and acting locally
The Earth is our home and we all share a mutual responsibility for our planet. We need to make the connection, in whatever way we can, between ourselves and all life on Earth. That connection can be through modern technology, traditional means, or by working with other individuals and organisations. We can translate that connection into action through local environmental awareness and activity.
Wherever we are, we can make choices and work towards building a future where all people live in harmony with nature, eradicating pollution and any degradation of the natural environment.
10. Prayer
Use the accompanying Prayer Card prepared by the ACSJC for personal prayer, in schools and parishes, or at family prayer time.
Incorporate creation and environmental themes in the prayer and worship of your family, school or parish community.


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Garage door opener installation is very easy when you take the time to check out and comply with the manual. And it does not take all the time, you could have it carried out in a couple of hours in an afternoon. The packages all consist of whatever you require unless you encounter the should strengthen the door. Yet the directions for assembly and Dade City garage door opener installation and the parts are all there.
Garage door openers can be found in three fundamental types, with a few others that are more innovative and harder to install. But the standard three consist of the most prominent 'chain drive', which is cheaper yet makes a bit more noise than the others. And the 'screwdriver' that sets you back a little greater than the chain drive, but it quieter. And lastly the 'belt drive' which costs one of the most and is even more silent than the very first 2.
You need to start off by reading all the directions in the manual. Get accustomed to the pieces involved in the setting up and installation. It's not made complex, yet similar to any work, there can be that simple action that wasn't done properly that triggers you to have to backtrack and redo it, and occupies even more of your time. It's better done appropriately on the initial try.
The garage door opener installation overview will discuss a great deal of information and will certainly take you from step one all the way to a finished work. Along the road you'll undergo subjects like 'setting up', 'installation', 'adjustment', configuring', 'repairing and components', and 'procedure'. It will additionally consist of devices and the warranty. This guide ought to be maintained easily available whatsoever times for appointment.
After the opener is embedded in place, after that comes the adjusting. You examine it by pulling up your door regarding a foot off the ground then transform it loose. It needs to shut 'slowly', not quick, and it shouldn't hang still either. The following test is halfway up. At this point it need to hang still. And the next examination is 3/4 of the means up, where it should slowly make its way to complete open.
When it comes to readjusting the 'stress' springs, if you believe you can do it on your own after that of course do it. However when it pertains to the 'torsion' springs, it's best entrusted to a professional. These can be really harmful and you should stay away from making modifications to them by yourself. Now you can get rid of any type of ropes and undo any kind of locks on the door.
Action progression ought to continue something like this: Mark off the precise facility of the door opening. Step the precise elevation of your door, and place your brace 2 to 3 inches more than that. The hands-on usually has exact specifications on this. Next, assemble your rail by complying with the directions, and after that place it by attaching it to your bracket located over the opening of the door at center.
A ladder can be handy for laying your electric motor on while you connect the bands to rafters. You desire your electric motor to be at center of your door tracks. Then affix your bracket to your door and put the connecting arm in its appropriate location. Currently you can attach the motor cables to your switch.
Garage door opener installation is easy as long as you could follow the hands-on instructions. Currently we're at the last action, which is linking the infrared sensors. You want these to be around six inches high off the ground on both sides. They should be connected to a GFCI outlet if you have one. If you don't have one, a specialist electrical contractor must be phoned call to install one. Currently you merely examine if for opening and closing and make necessary adjustments, and you're in company.


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Security Slice: Authorization Gone Wrong
Naoki Hiroshima recently lost a coveted Twitter handle because GoDaddy and Paypal fell for some fairly basic social engineering techniques. The customer service representatives at GoDaddy only required the attacker to provide the last several digits of Hiroshima's credit card, which the hacker easily obtained from Paypal.
How should companies handle authentication to avoid social engineering?
Listen to episode 119 of our Security Slice podcast and hear Lamar Bailey, Tyler Reguly and Tim Erlin discuss why four digit PINs are better than social security numbers, how to get consumers more invested in authentication, and why it's easier for companies to pay for fraud than protect against it.
Click Here to Listen to the Podcast
More Podcasts:
- Security Slice: Taking a Java Break
- Security Slice: The Broken Link Between Physical and Cyber Security
- Security Slice: Is Retail Security Off Target?
- Security Slice: Tis the Season for Security Predictions
The Executive's Guide to the Top 20 Critical Security Controls
Tripwire has compiled an e-book, titled The Executive's Guide to the Top 20 Critical Security Controls: Key Takeaways and Improvement Opportunities, which is available for download [registration form required].
Definitive Guide to Attack Surface Analytics
Also: Pre-register today for a complimentary hardcopy or e-copy of the forthcoming Definitive Guide™ to Attack Surface Analytics. You will also gain access to exclusive, unpublished content as it becomes available.
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History and Result of Permanent Makeup
Permanent makeup dates back at least to the start of the 20th century, though its nature was often concealed in its early days. The tattooist George Burchett, a major developer of the technique when it become fashionable in the 1930s, described in his memoirs how beauty salons tattooed many women without their knowledge, offering it as a "complexion treatment … of injecting vegetable dyes under the top layer of the skin."
Immediate results
Permanent makeup results in enhanced features of the face—definition is rendered to eyebrows, eyes and lips by the use of colors. Results can imitate topically applied cosmetics or can be quite unnoticeable, depending upon the design, color value and amount of pigment used.
At first, permanent makeup results may look darker. This is due to colour remaining in the outermost epidermal layers of skin at the start. Colour softens within a few days during the healing process as the upper layers of epidermis slough and are replaced by new epidermal cells.
Long-term results
The best possible colour results can perform for many years or may begin to fade over time. The amount of time required for this, depends per person. While permanent makeup pigment remains in the dermis its beauty-span may be influenced by several possible factors. These can be environmental, procedural and/or individual factors.[5] Sun exposure fades colour. The amount and colour of pigment deposit at the dermal level can affect the length of time that permanent makeup looks its best. Very natural-looking applications are likely to require a touch-up before more dramatic ones for this reason. Individual influences include lifestyles that find an individual in the sun regularly such as with gardening or swimming. Skin tones are a factor in colour value changes over time.
There are cases of undesired results.[6] The four most common complaints are "too dark," "wrong colour," "uneven" and "too big." A skilled, experienced, permanent makeup professional is able to adjust the colour and evenness of permanent makeup results in most cases. A design that is too large presents a serious challenge, however. Costly pigment lightening techniques and/or removal may be the only solutions.


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The International
In The International, an edge-of-your-seat action thriller, Interpol Agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) are determined to bring to justice one of the world's most powerful banks. Uncovering illegal activities including money laundering, arms trading, and the destabilization of governments, Salinger and Whitman's investigation takes them from Berlin to Milan to New York and to Istanbul. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk as the bank will stop at nothing - even murder - to continue financing terror and war.
1hr 58mins long
R16 Contains violence and offensive language.
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Tom Tykwer
Naomi Watts
James Rebhorn
Clive Owen
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SIMULTAN - Simultaneous planning environment for buildings in resilient, highly energy efficient and resource-efficient districts
Short Description
Starting point / motivation
Previous scientific research projects have shown that there is a high potential for essential efficiency arrangement within overlapping energy systems. Due to the negative response for already built passive houses and low energy buildings, there is an increasing resistance for the use of new innovative systems. The expectations of both developers and residents have been disappointed. In general, all troubles within either the planning and execution of unexpected backlashes in an energy supply system, reflects back due to the loss of the general outline within a sophisticated energy system.
Contents and goals
The planning team for both high efficient building retrofits and generally new designs is still lacking a tool which enables an integrated planning strategy and consistency within the scenarios for the development of an energy supply and demand system. Power supply companies need a comprehensive and consistent planning tool for technological opportunities within the building sector by considering the general supply and demand behaviour forecast. The aim of the project is an optimal planning procedure for buildings and energy supply grids with respect to system backlashes.
Methodology and approach
This project proposes to use a systematic approach. In the initial scenario, the energy demand behaviour of city dwellers, will be established and based on that a further scenario to develop an urban energy supply strategy considering building technology opportunities.
To enable an integral and simultaneous planning feature for an ideal complex of buildings, a design environment will be established for an integrated planning process from the preliminary phase to commissioning. By implementing real validated data from urban energy system simulations, the performance of resilience of all aspirated building configurations can be determined.
The workability of this methodology can be verified by using already existing and well known districts. These suitable building complexes will be determined, all essential steps for new buildings or refurbishments are to be iterated and all technical arrangements for optimal efficiency increase will be shown. Essential methods for this realisation are decentralised generation, active demand side management and thermal activation of construction parts.
Expected results
The expected result is a workable tool based on a multidisciplinary planning approach, to support the decision finding process in order to design both refurbishment projects and new developments within a highly efficient city. Based on the understanding for the general system, new tariff models are to be established and solid solutions for the energy system of the future are being determined.
Project Partners
Project management
E206 - Institute of Building Construction and Technology Vienna University of Technology
Project or cooperation partners
- Schöberl & Pöll GmbH
- VASKO+PARTNER INGENIEURE Ziviltechniker für Bauwesen und Verfahrenstechnik GesmbH
- Wiener Stadtwerke Holding AG
- E280 - Department of Spatial Planning, Vienna University of Technology
- E184 - Institute of Information Systems, Vienna University of Technology
- E302 - Institute of Energy Systems and Thermodynamics, Vienna University of Technology
- E370 - Institut für Energiesysteme und Elektrische Antriebe, Vienna University of Technology
- E389 - Institute of Telecommunications, Vienna University of Technology
Contact Address
Research Center of Building Physics and Sound Protection
Institute of Building Construction and Technology
Vienna University of Technology
Project leader Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Thomas Bednar
Postal A.:
Karlsplatz 13/206/2
A-1040 Vienna
Adolf-Blamauer-Gasse 1-3/206/2
A-1030 Vienna
Tel.: +43 (1) 588 01 20 650
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Construction Notice - April 2018
Neighbourhood Renewal has begun in Belgravia. Please anticipate that the duration of construction in front of your residences may be up to 12 weeks (weather dependent).
The construction consists of removal and replacement of public sidewalk, curbs and gutters and reconstruction and paving of the road, as well as bike lane infrastructure along 76 Avenue. Streetlight replacement will be carried out, as required.


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Azarov needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 39 designs submitted by 20 freelance designers.
We are Canadian flower and gift delivery company
Our company is looking to redesign Home page and Product view page
Home page - we like our existing home page (canaflora.ca) but its time now to move forward. We are looking to increase conversion rate of our web site so we believe that Home page is having huge impact on that. We believe that customers making their choice based on experience so Home page should tell our potential customer what kind of experience he/she will get. Our home page should Wow the customer. Customer should feel that this is the place he would definitely love to shop at.
We are looking to incorporate our slogan "feelings delivered" with the logo.
Also we need to have shopping cart somewhere which we dont have at the moment
Product page - thats the page where customer is making decision to buy or not buy. So thats where we should work on making customer to feel as comfortable as possible.
We would consider to add to this pages features like: recently viewed, other customers who bought this also like.... etc
For both pages very important to keep next points clear:
- Free cross-canada delivery
- collect Air Miles
- Worry free shopping (satisfaction guarantee bla bla)


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Let's get sentimental…
On Monday, I surprised my grandparents by flying to Michigan and walking through their front door (when they weren't there…ooops!).
Since I hadn't seen them in over a year, this was just as much a gift to myself as it was a surprise for them.
When I start to list generalized memories about my mom's parents, so much comes to mind:
- Fishing
- Camping at the "North 40"
- Long road trips
- "Grandma Camp"
- Geocaching
- Board games
- Potter's Wheel Bible Church
- French toast and bacon
Mmmmmm…French toast covered in cinnamon…
- 2 slices of bread
- 1 egg
- 1 tbs milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tbs Blind Spot Cinnamon Roll nut butter
- 1/2 banana
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- Whisk egg, milk, and vanilla together. Sprinkle 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon into the mixture and let sit.
- Spread 1/2 tbs of Blindspot Cinnamon Roll nut butter on each of the pieces of bread. Slice 1/2 of a banana and place the slices on one piece of bread. Sandwich the bread together with the nut butter and banana in the middle.
- Coat a frying pan with nonstick spray and heat over medium heat.
- Dip the sandwich into the egg mixture and flip so that both sides are covered. Transfer the bread to the heated pan.
- Cook until both sides are brown, turning as necessary.
- Eat and enjoy!
P.S. The Penzeys cinnamon was a gift from my grandma because she knows that cinnamon can go on anything!
P.P.S. Happy National French Toast Day!
What food do you always eat at your grandparents house?
What do you put on French toast?


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Rising high above the Pudong Lujiazui business district, our art-deco–inspired Hotel sits in the gleaming 21st Century Tower, surrounded by iconic skyscrapers and bustling city streets lined with luxury shopping, restaurants and prestigious financial centres. Awaken to panoramic views of Shanghai from your room's floor-to-ceiling windows, enjoy breakfast at Camelia, then hop in our complimentary house car to whisk your way to meetings or sightseeing adventures with the family. Unwind with a swim in our infinity pool or at our intimate FLARE Spa before savouring the authentic Cantonese flavours at Shàng-Xí. Without question, the racing pulse of new China beats fastest in Pudong – let us show you why.
- Pearl View Deluxe Room
Floor-to-ceiling windows frame inspiring views of Century Boulevard, the Pearl Tower and the vibrant Lujiazui skyline from these sophisticated, upper-floor rooms.Details
- Pearl View Junior Suite
Art-deco accents and luxury finishes such as stingray leather and rich, Macassar ebony lend a sense of luxury to these junior suites, each of which features a generous living space and a partially separate bedroom.Details
- Club Room
Contemporary décor, modern technology and access to the Executive Club Lounge make these rooms ideal for quick business trips.Details
- Pearl Suite
Two king bedrooms and separate dining and sitting areas let you easily relax, work and entertain next to floor-to-ceiling views of the dynamic Shanghai skyline in these inviting suites on our 37th and 38th floors.Details
- Deluxe Suite
Tend to emails or entertain colleagues in the spacious living room, leaving the well-appointed bedroom and oversized marble bathroom as your private sanctuary for when the day is done.Details
Embark on a gourmet adventure with a memorable dinner cruise that takes in views of old and new Shanghai.
- offer valid for: Nov 22 2019 – Dec 31 2020
- minimum stay: 2 nights
- Reservation must be made at least 2 days in advance
- Tickets for two for a dinner cruise tour with Crystal Cruises
Our infinity-edge pool and whirlpool sit surrounded by lounge chairs and bird's-eye views.
On the Edge
Swim right up to Shanghai's iconic skyline in our sleek, jade-tiled indoor pool, perched high above the city on our 41st floor.
It feels like you're swimming in the sky next to the most spectacular views.Joyce Zhao Hotel Manager
Pudong by Four Seasons
- Your Private Pool, After Hours
It's 11:00 pm, and the pool is all yours. Spend the next two hours swimming with your sweetheart next to floor-to-ceiling views of the city's soaring towers and the winding Huangpu River, sipping wine or Champagne and indulging in delicately prepared canapés during this stylish and romantic evening for two.Details
- Unpacking List
It's not the things you take with you that define your journey; it's the experiences you have and the memories you bring home. Explore our Hotel Manager's five sensory "souvenirs."Details
- Local Gems That Can't Be Missed
Insiders from Four Seasons Hotel Shanghai at Pudong share their favourite sites to see and most coveted places to go around the Hotel.Details
- Authentic Dim Sum
Senior Dim Sum Chef Jay Yang's life's work is all about perfecting dim sum, serving dishes that not only thrill your taste buds, but bring all of your senses the genuine feeling of the cuisine's origin. Sample traditional, steamed, Ha Gau shrimp dumplings or baked oat buns – Chef Jay's personal favourite – at Shàng-Xí.


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ATTENTION: You can now update your own local council details at LGEO Research's Wiki Page! Please find latest updates there.
Observations in January 2009
- UK local councils tend to use fan pages rather than groups to deliver their services through Facebook. The differences between fan pages and groups are listed in the table below. This informational table was created by Authority Domains and the link can be found here.
- After observing all the councils facebook fan pages, I found Bracknell Forest Council Fan Page the most exciting to watch. It offers a different approach to how local councils can use Facebook to engage with citizens. They have search functions for events and organisations, which I also found on Kirklees Council which has a 'Search Kirklees' function. Bracknell also has a focus group, virtual tour, Do it online, google map on their contact us information and podcasts. While it does have other features, these are the features that interests me the most.
- Visible Social Media Activity: Stradford-on-Avon District Council, St. Helens Council, Hillingdon Council, Lichfield District Council, Bracknell Forest Council, Kirklees Council, Barnet Council, Newcastle City Council and London Borough of Southwark.
- Most fans: Barnet Council seems to have a large number of fans which I believe was down to the webteam and consultants effort to increase awareness both online and offline. We shall try to reveal their secrets on their applause worthy success in social media so far soon. 😉 Congrats Dom!
- After surveying all the fan pages, not alot of these councils are utilising 'The Wall' service, which is my main interest. Hillingdon Council (8 posts) & Barnet Council (31 posts) are the only councils that seem to have visible interactions with fans on their wall. It begs the question on whether if UK local council facebook fan pages were created merely to create presence or a footprint online and deliver feeds or can they truly be effective by being interactive?
- There is 1 facebook fan page that definitely stood out and which is Medway Councils Fuse Festival Fan Page. Medway Council has cleverly used the fan page to promote a local event. It currently has 98 fans (which now includes myself 😉 ). Here is a MySpace link for the same event http://www.myspace.com/fusemedway. Well done Simon!
- I almost missed another attractive feature used by Lichfield District Council, which is their 'Ask us a question' service. I found this to be a very useful service as the public can ask questions while not exposing the council to unwanted questions or comments on their wall. Well done Stuart! Truly inspired. 🙂
Though there may still be a lot of questions surrounding the use of social media; specifically in this case, Facebook, I can see the potential in these services if they were delivered effectively and efficiently used to address the public concerns. Though I have to admit, only the councils themselves know the issues that concern their citizens, therefore only those councils will know how to display and use the services accordingly. With that said, no 2 council Facebook fan pages or groups will or should be identical. However there are a lot of practices that can be adopted across councils to encourage the uptake of their Facebook services.
If you wish to add your council to the list, kindly leave the link or details of your council in the comment box.
And please do correct me if I'm wrong or left anything out. Please forgive me! I'm only human 😉
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Is the TCU defense back? After two games, there are reasons to think so
When he talks about the best defenses, TCU coach Gary Patterson usually points to three ingredients.
Toughness, smarts and speed.
For him, all three have been in abundant display in the Horned Frogs' 2-0 start, which includes a shutout of Jackson State, an FCS school, and a smothering of SEC member Arkansas on the road.
"We've got some guys in our intelligence positions that are making good checks and doing things," Patterson said. "Any time you get a defense to play hard and have a little smarts to it, then you're going to have an opportunity to stop people."
The opportunities are going to keep coming, and they're going to get tougher, starting Saturday with SMU and the nation's fifth-highest scoring offense.
After that, it's one of the Big 12 favorites, Oklahoma State, plus the rest of the league schedule, including No. 2 Oklahoma.
But so far, the Frogs have checked all the boxes in getting their defense ready.
"You're trusting in coach Gary Patterson's way," linebacker Travin Howard said. "He's going to come up with a great game plan, and you just practice throughout the week, and we'll be just fine. His résumé speaks for itself. That's all I have to say. Check his résumé."
So is the TCU defense back? Here are six reasons to think so:
1. "Speed, baby," as Patterson famously said after a 12-3 victory against Texas Tech in 2006. Patterson loves players who can get from Point A to Point B in a flash, and he believes the Frogs have assembled one of their fastest defenses in years. "Definitely is one of the fastest ones," he said Tuesday at his weekly press conference. "But fast doesn't matter if you're not physical."
2. Speaking of physical, then, the Frogs have shown that, too. Strong safety Innis Gaines put a hit on Arkansas quarterback Austin Allen that Patterson hasn't forgotten. "I like Innis Gaines, especially on special teams," he said. On the defensive line, an eight-player rotation allowed TCU to remain physical against the Arkansas line, Patterson said. The Frogs did not wear down. By game's end, both the TCU defensive and offensive lines were dominant.
3. The Frogs are wrapping up. Asked to describe the tackling by TCU last week, Patterson said, "We were pretty happy." Which is high praise. Patterson explained: "Healthy guys, fresh guys, guys that aren't banged up are going to tackle better than guys that are. Guys that have fresh legs are going to run through things better." Thanks to an offense that converted 10 of 14 third downs, the TCU defense faced only 54 snaps. The week before, it was 56.
4. The football IQ is up. "We're older, a lot of guys with experience," Howard said. "Guys that can play multiple positions." Patterson has been able to move two linebackers to defensive end, including Ty Summers, the second-leading tackler a year ago. A defensive tackle has also been used at end. Howard can play linebacker and safety. There is much to learn, but by now, it has sunk in for many of the Frogs. "Coming out of high school, you're not asked to do as much as you're doing here," Howard said. "Your IQ of football goes up, like skyrockets."
5. Red-zone defense. TCU has not allowed a point on any trips inside the red zone. Jackson State's opening drive reached the 5-yard line and was turned away on downs. Arkansas got to the 4 and 2 and had to try field goals, which missed each time. "That's probably the thing I've been most impressed with about the defense," Patterson said. "For us, that's a big deal to be able to play down there. You've got to be able to play red-zone defense. It's definitely something we pinpoint."
6. More strength, more size. It's most evident along the defensive line, with tackles Ross Blacklock and Corey Bethley playing at over 300 pounds. Under Patterson, TCU tackles traditionally have been much lighter for the sake of quickness. But Blacklock, a four-star recruit from Fort Bend Elkins in 2016, and Bethley, a three-star recruit from state power Katy, are not slow. As part of the defensive line rotation, they made a difference in Fayetteville. Bethley had a fourth-quarter sack to help TCU keep a 14-7 lead last week. "He'll keep playing more as we go on," Patterson said. "To be honest, he should have played more."
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Rosie's Glasses
By Dave Whamond
In this wordless picture book, Rosie wakes up in a monochrome world, with a dark cloud over her head. As she plods through her miserable, gray day, the cloud follows. Mishaps and mayhem thwart her every move, irritating noises assault her --- and the pouring rain makes everything worse. But then, on her way home from school, Rosie finds a pair of strange glasses. When she puts them on, her world transforms into vivid, joyful color. All of a sudden, she can see the beauty and fun in everything around her --- and her dark cloud has disappeared. Are the glasses magic? Or could it be that changing how we look at the world can change the way we experience it?
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French retailers Auchan and Système U have announced they will collaborate on a deeper level, a move that terrifies its European competitors. Legally speaking, it may not be a merger, but it could practically turn out to have the same effect.
Système U and Auchan enter far-reaching collaboration
The numbers five and six in the French market had already joined forces when purchasing brand products, but will now also do the same for their private labels. Their joint spending power will reach 50 billion euro on a yearly basis. Both groups will also create a joint-steering committee, which will have power to steer both networks if there are unanimous decisions.
Both chains will also exchange a large number of stores: 247 Simply Market-branded supermarkets, which belong to Auchan, could transfer to Système U and be re-branded into franchise Super U supermarkets, while 70 Hyper U hypermarkets could possibly be turned into Auchan franchise stores.
There are very clear reasons for the collaboration: French retail margins are under pressure, particularly because of E.Leclerc's aggressive price tactics. The French market also faces increased competition from the German discount chains Aldi and Lidl and on top of that, leading to competitors Intermarché and Casino already having joined forces on a purchasing level, as did Carrefour and Cora.
No mention of the word 'merger'
Even though both companies will collaborate on many levels, they have made no mention of the word 'merger'. "Système U is a cooperative society and will not accept an acquisition easily", it is said. The chain is owned by some 900 independent members, totaling a billion euro turnover - generated almost entirely in France. On the other hand, Auchan is a family business with 90 % of shares controlled by the late founder's (Gérard Mulliez) family. The remaining 10 % of Auchan's shares belongs to the employees.
Even though, legally speaking, it is not a merger, one could consider this a "civil union" with the same consequences as an actual marriage. That is why both groups have had to present their collaboration plan to the European Union's antitrust commission, which in turn may send it on to Paris. The final decision should arrive by early 2016 at the latest.
The quick succession of French collaborations have also agitated foreign groups. Aldi and Lidl will now face a strong competition at the western border of their home market, while Belgian retailers have similar issues at their southern border. Perhaps the talks between Ahold and Delhaize can be placed in the same framework and state of mind as what is happening in France.


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I've never really had a Bucket List. But when I decided to go to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, I called the trip a Bucket List adventure to anyone who raised eyebrows at me. No, I had no desire to bare all on the street for some beads. But I did have an intrigue about this tri-colored street party, enough to plan it out and go once and for all—or, as we say in the restaurant world when setting out for an after-shift drink, for "one and done."
I stayed at Le Pavillon, an historic grand hotel a few blocks from the noise of Bourbon Street. Le Pavillon is a hotel with a tradition of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches served for guests at 10 o'clock nightly. What's more, guests are invited to sit on the plush and ornate furniture of the beautiful lobby as if it's our own personal living room. (I was to learn in the coming days that this is signature New Orleans style: a happy and open welcome.)
In the Battle of New Orleans in 1814, Andrew Jackson defended the city from the British—with the help of the privateer and pirate, Jean Lafitte. Lafitte and his men were instrumental in helping to defeat the British. A city defended by pirates? I was starting to like this town more and more.
Twenty minutes on Bourbon Street and I found myself with a drink in my hand, a glitter-painted mask on my head, and a feather boa around my neck. The good times were rolling.
Mid-street conversations with jovial strangers were the norm. Some revelers in the street asked me to trade masks with them. When asked which bar was making the giant hand grenade drinks, my friend and I comically pointed in opposite directions, but later found that we were both right: The Tropical Isle has three Bourbon Street locations. One day, I wore a Captain America t-shirt, and everyone referred to me as "Captain" everywhere I went. And later in the week, when asked directions to different points of interest, I'd spent so much time on foot in the French Quarter that I knew the right directions to give.
By day, you could traverse the Bourbon Street crowds easily, and there was music everywhere—especially live music on the side streets. At night, the movement was much slower, and thus, more chatty, especially in areas with balconies above Bourbon because partiers tossed (on Sunday) and threw (Monday's Lundi Gras) and outright rained down cases (Tuesday's Mardi Gras) of beads onto all of us in the street below. (There's a misconception that the only way you get beads is to flash someone. Not true: Beads are freely given, thrown, and traded.) Each day and night, you literally skated on the beads that had fallen on Bourbon Street. (And Bourbon Street was cleaned every night.) Then on Tuesday, you waded around heaps of them so tall that you pushed the mounds to see make sure there weren't people underneath them.
The things I saw: I saw a man in nothing but a thong who'd taken a black wig and stuffed it into the front of the thong. I saw women in nothing but body paint—beautifully ornate body paint. I saw a terrible cabaret show. I saw some definite (enhanced and real) body parts, but as my friend put it so perfectly: "The ones you see are not so much the ones you want to see."
I saw the Bacchus parade on Sunday night, gorgeously lighted. I saw the Rex and the Zulu parades on Tuesday afternoon and I tried to catch an ellusive coconut as they were tossed from the floats. (In New Orleans, an organization that puts on a ball or parade for Carnival season is known as a Krewe, pronounced "crew." Officially, the parades were called the Krewe of Bacchus, Krewe of Rex, etc.) I saw parade watchers on balconies attempt to throw beads across the four-lane street to the opposite balconies. I saw them succeed in the endeavor, too. I saw people on top of the parade floats, dressed in feathers that extended an easy six feet over their heads. I saw a parade marcher give a news interview as he drank a Bud Light. I saw float riders toss beads to the crowd with one hand while drinking from a jug in the other. I saw the absolute mess on Canal Street at noon on Tuesday as the parade passed through. I saw the city of New Orleans take to the cleanup effort as if it were no big deal at all.
I saw the police march down Bourbon Street at 12:05 a.m. Wednesday morning, a happy phalanx clearing the street for a water truck to make its way through. The truck driver then bellowed, "Here comes the hose!" and I watched as an all-out surge of soapy water was pumped onto Bourbon. (You can't be on the street after midnight. But you can be in the bars if you want, no problem.)
Quietly walking the French Quarter daily, I learned of the history of French and then Spanish rule, the architecture that is mostly Spanish as two fires during Spanish occupation destroyed all but three buildings of the original French Quarter. I learned that the bend of the Mississippi River built up the French Quarter to now 11 feet above sea level, while the rest of New Orleans remains below sea level. I learned that that bend in the River created a crescent-shaped coastline along New Orleans, dubbing it the Crescent City. I learned that my hotel, Le Pavillon, sits in what was the American Quarter, which is separated from the French Quarter by Canal Street—known as neutral ground where different people and different ideas could come together safely. (Eventually, any central traffic median in New Orleans became known as "neutral ground.") I learned that New Orleans has a history filled with the intermingling of different peoples and cultures, who, like their brilliant cuisine, find ways in common to celebrate life. I learned to slow down, raise a glass, and enjoy.
I traveled to New Orleans for Mardi Gras as a way to put a check onto a Bucket List that I hadn't actually made. And I still haven't made one.
What I found is that Mardi Gras, the French Quarter, and New Orleans itself are not Bucket List adventures. The celebration, sharing, the community of strangers, and the downright enjoyment of life are like feeling the sun on your face after a long, cold winter. That's not something suited for one and done. It warrants no check mark. It's something to be lived–again and again.
"The value in living out your Bucket List is in changing your entire perspective on life, one brave step at a time."
—Jody Brown, blogger, poet, traveler, and author
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I can't seem to find a way to encrypt my entire system partition or the entire drive and be able to skip the pre-boot authenticaion.
I need to be able to boot the machine into the normal encrypted system partition without a pre-boot authentication, so my sister can use the computer using her windows login. But I need the encryption if she ever tries to put the HDD on another computer as a removable drive...
I COULD use file containers, but we also want to encrypt files like "hosts" in the windows/system32/drivers/etc folder.
Does anyone know how to do this?
PS: I use both Linux and Windows, so whichever answer there is, I can try.
Edit: I was thinking of saving a hash of my password for TrueCrypt boot loader to use, somewhere. I know it would be possible to find this hash and even reverse this hash given time, but I just need something to make it a little bit harder than just plugging my HDD on another computer and browse through my files...
Sorry, left a piece of important information out. My sister wants to see and use the programs I do so she can learn more about computer stuff. I think that's a good thing, so I wanna help her like that. Btw, I RARELY see her, because we study at different times, so always typing the password whenever she wants is not a really viable option.


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This week, Ikea announced that it will be selling a new television with an attached cabinet that has DVD and BlueRay players and stereo speakers built into it. It's called the Uppleva:
The purpose of the Uppleva is to get rid of the cable mess and lack of visual uniformity that often comes with televisions and components today. The cabinet also can be configured to include additional space for more components, like a digital cable box. And, it comes with a universal remote.
The new television has been referred to as "groundbreaking" and an "amazing all-in-one television" since the announcement, but I'm going to shy away from both of those phrases. To me, it's simply the reintroduction of the console television with modern components. It's attractive and effectively hides all the cable mess and visual distractions. It's certainly an uncluttered entertainment center and it's nice to see companies creating streamlined products.
According to Reuters, the system will be "in five European cities in June, throughout seven European countries this autumn, and in its remaining markets [such as the USA] in the summer of 2013." The electronics were designed specifically for Ikea by China's TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings (they create the brands TCL, ROWA, Thomson, and RCA). Prices for the Uppleva system have not yet been announced.
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I recently helped a friend to repair a Linn Valhalla power supply pcb. It would seem that these are prone to particular failures and a common one is low motor torque in which the motor buzzes or vibrates since it is too weak to drive the platter. This turned out to be R32 (560k) on the board. R33 had also deteriorated with the ceramic body breaking up. I have uploaded the circuit as a png and pdf file which some may find useful.
If you are having motor problems I would first replace these 2 resistors R32 and R33. Failing that then the next step is to replace the small orange caps around the logic chips if the motor does not turn at all.
If the unit will not power up then some early Valhalla units could blow the bridge rectifier so you will need to test this and the large power supply caps it feeds, assuming the fuse is ok. If the bridge has part blown then AC can reach the caps and damage them. If replacing any parts then consider using something slightly higher rated and higher quality as the standard parts are nothing special.
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Follow the expansion of the Sports Series range and the release of the 570GT, McLaren estimates a sales boom.
Throughout 2016, the Woking-based firm is hoping to sell at least 3,000 cars, almost double the 1,654 units it delivered in 2015. Ultimately, McLaren intends on hitting 4,000 annual sales, with the Sports Series the driving force behind these high figures.
This year will mark the first full 12 months that the 540C, 570S and 570 GT will be available to customers, offering buyers three serious alternatives to the offerings from Audi, Lamborghini and, of course, Porsche.
While similar high-end brands like Aston Martin, Lamborghini and Lotus will expand production by offering performance-focused SUVs, McLaren has ruled out entering this segment, instead preferring to cater to sports cars enthusiasts with an expanded range of derivatives. Next year, a fourth version will be added to the Sports Series in the form of a the 540/570 Spider.


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Are you looking for fun and creative Do-It-Yourself ideas? Look no further, this article includes great ideas for DIY gift that people will love to receive using your old leather materials.
Leather isn't just for biker gangs or pop stars anymore! Once you learn how to work with it, it's a great way to add a bit of edge to your wardrobe or home and a great way to roughen up some of the more girly elements of your decor. If you're not into the whole leather thing, but love the look, a lot of times it's easy to swap out for faux leather, so you can definitely embrace your animal and fashion loving instincts.
We've rounded up 40 DIYs from around the web to add some a bit of the leather trend to your jewelry collection, your office or home decor, and your style.
1. Sequin Heart Patches: The leather gives this adorable sweater upgrade just the right amount of edge and the sequins will make you stand out… in a good way! (viaSay Yes to Hoboken)
2. Stamped Leather Tie Clip: Don't think we've forgotten about the guys! This custom tie clip would be a fun DIY touch to a nice suit. (via Lovely Indeed)
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This week NVIDIA unveiled what it claims to be the world's first artificial intelligence computer designed specifically to "drive" fully autonomous vehicles.
The new system, codenamed Pegasus, brings the NVIDIA® DRIVE™ PX AI computing platform for handling Level 5 driverless vehicles (Level 5 is "steering wheel optional." In other words, no human intervention is required, for example, a robotic taxi). NVIDIA DRIVE PX Pegasus can perform over 320 trillion operations per second — more than 10x the performance of its predecessor, NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2.
NVIDIA DRIVE PX Pegasus is intended to help make a new class of vehicles possible that can operate without a driver — fully autonomous vehicles without steering wheels, pedals, or mirrors, and interiors that feel more like a living room or office than a vehicle. They will arrive on demand to safely take passengers to their destinations, bringing mobility to everyone, including the elderly and disabled.
One of the driving forces behind autonomous vehicles is to recapture millions of hours of lost time that could be used by "drivers" (really passengers) to work, play, eat or sleep on their daily commutes. Theoretically, countless lives could be saved by vehicles that are never fatigued, impaired, or distracted — increasing road safety, reducing congestion, and possibly freeing up land currently used for parking lots.
Of the 225 partners developing on the NVIDIA DRIVE PX platform, more than 25 are developing fully autonomous robotaxis using NVIDIA CUDA GPUs. Today, their trunks resemble small data centers, loaded with racks of computers with server-class NVIDIA GPUs running deep learning, computer vision and parallel computing algorithms. Their size, power demands and cost make them impractical for production vehicles.
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The computational requirements of robotaxis are enormous — perceiving the world through high-resolution, 360-degree surround cameras and lidars, localizing the vehicle within centimeter accuracy, tracking vehicles and people around the car, and planning a safe and comfortable path to the destination. All this processing must be done with multiple levels of redundancy to ensure the highest level of safety. The computing demands of driverless vehicles are easily 50 to 100 times more intensive than the most advanced cars today with human drivers.


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The number of UTVs that are on the market has increased by 340 percent. You now can find a model that's specialized for any type of job or riding that you want to do. Meanwhile, battery-powered UTVs still won't get you far on a full charge.
If you want a UTV to make those never-ending chores around your property go faster, and to have more fun while you do so, you're in luck.
The UTV market has swelled. Today, 177 models are on the market compared with 52 in 2012.
Of the current models that we counted, 124 are utility, or work, UTVs, which are geared toward hauling and towing objects. The other 53 are sport UTVs, which are designed for joy riding.
However, that's just simple classification. Manufacturers now make specialized UTVs. For work, you now can find a model that has a gas-assisted dump bed and a model that includes a two-wheel-drive turf mode that prevents the tires from digging into delicate soil. Hunters can find a UTV that's tricked out with camouflage bodywork, gun scabbards and winches. If you want to take your UTV in the mud, then you'll find mud-specific UTVs that are outfitted with air-intake snorkels, mud tires, relocated radiators and lower gearing. If you plan to ride your UTV in dunes and sand, then you'll find UTVs that are equipped with high-performance adjustable shocks, more ground clearance and performance sand tires.
In 2012, we marveled that Arctic Cat's dune-buggy-like Wildcat 1000i H.O. ($16,599) was the most "extreme" design that we'd seen. Today, at least six UTVs (starting at $19,499) are designed specifically for navigating dunes, and all six are equipped with engines, shocks and sand tires that are a step above those of the Wildcat 1000i H.O.
"What we're seeing is that the hunting world likes to be able to work with their vehicles and likes for them to be very mobile, and then you have the guys in the desert who want to go fast on a high-horsepower turbocharged engine with long travel suspension," says Rick Sosebee, who's been a contributing editor to ATV Rider magazine for 11 years. "In today's market, you can say this and this and this, and there's a machine built specifically for what you want to do."
However, you should keep in mind that as manufacturers rolled out niche UTVs, the prices of the vehicles went through the roof. We found 27 UTVs that cost at least $19,000, compared with just three models that cost that much not that long ago.
Meanwhile, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) haven't seen much change. As the number of UTVs exploded, the number of ATVs dropped a bit. We counted 104 ATVs on the market, which is down from the 123 that were available previously.
"As UTVs become better suited to everything from farming to racing, ATVs have been hanging on by the skin of their teeth and been relegated to adding bold new graphics as opposed to any real advancements," says Jorge Cuartas, who's written about ATVs and UTVs since 2001 and has managed an amateur ATV racing team since 2003.
ALTERNATIVE FUELS. When Polaris introduced an electric UTV in 2012, no other mainstream manufacturer was expected to follow the company's path. The latter part still holds, but now Polaris has two electric sport UTVs.
The Ranger EV Li-Ion ($22,999), which was introduced in August 2015, is the first UTV that's powered by a lithium-ion battery. The Ranger EV ($11,299), which debuted in 2010, has a lead-acid battery. Experts tell us that, regardless of the type of battery, electric UTVs are limited in their usefulness, because the UTVs deliver only a few hours of performance on a full charge.
We found that as a result of its lithium-ion battery, the Ranger EV Li-Ion gets roughly twice the range (up to 50 miles with no payload) on one charge as does the Ranger EV. The Ranger EV Li-Ion also is 462 pounds lighter than is the Ranger EV, which is still the heaviest two-passenger UTV that we found.
Unfortunately, both electric UTVs top out at 25 mph, which is below average for a UTV. Furthermore, the Ranger EV Li-Ion costs $13,000 more than the otherwise identical gasoline-powered Ranger.
"Electric [UTVs] have improved, but for most people, when you get in a UTV situation and you get out in the woods, you don't want to worry about running out of battery in an hour and a half or 2 hours," Sosebee says. "There's no way to regenerate that power without plugging that thing in for 4 or 5 hours."
Similarly, a little growth has taken place with regard to diesel power in UTVs. Polaris introduced three diesel-powered UTVs (starting at $13,799), and Kawasaki now sells six diesel-powered UTVs (starting at $13,199), compared with two before. However, experts tell us, and manufacturers concede, that diesel models still don't produce as much horsepower or speed as does a gasoline model of roughly the same size. Diesel-powered models also typically cost $1,200 more than do gasoline-powered models that have the same engine size.
We haven't heard of any manufacturers working on major breakthroughs in terms of models that are powered by alternative fuels, so if you're looking for an ATV or UTV that has long-range capacity and power, then gasoline is your only option.
Cassandra Clark has tested and written about ATVs and UTVs for 14 years. Her work has appeared in ATV Rider and Popular Science and on OutdoorLife.com.


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On site at the Bruce Springsteen Concert « Back to blog
The Boss was back in town recently and needed some strong cabins for all of his team.
It was great to be involved in his concert and what an awesome show it was!
He is still going strong after all these years… just like our portable buildings!


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ok, because i am AWESOME, i guessed the lie in Domestic Overlord's little game. so now it's my turn.
1. In high school, I entered a pie-eating contest, even though I hate pie.
2. In college, I attempted to drink one beer every hour for 24 hours. I made it to Hour 7.
3. As a child, my father made me dress up as his company's mascot--a termite--and march in a parade in front of the entire community.
4. One Halloween after college, my roommate and I dressed up as a sexxy dinosaur and a cactus, respectively, and walked to a party in the city. On the way a crazy drunk man threw a knife at us.
5. During an All-Region trip, my friends shoved me into a tuba case and latched it just because they could.
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Flagship Of Fearmongering: The Guardian, MI5 And State Propaganda
- In Alerts 2016
- Post 08 November 2016
- Last Updated on 09 November 2016
- By Editor
Readers of the Guardian woke up last Tuesday (November 1, 2016) to find that the newspaper and website had been given over to promoting MI5. To be more precise: the paper was trumpeting a fearmongering 'exclusive' with MI5 Director-General, Andrew Parker. It was billed as 'the first interview of its kind' and was conducted by the paper's deputy editor, Paul Johnson, and the diplomatic editor, Ewen MacAskill. However, it quickly became clear that this 'interview' consisted largely of the two senior Guardian journalists listening to the MI5 chief and diligently writing down what he said with no discernible challenge or scrutiny.
Ex-Guardian journalist Jonathan Cook summed up perfectly the contents of the 'interview':
• the Russians under Vladimir Putin are an evil empire;
• Islamic jihadists are everywhere but MI5 is brilliant at foiling their terror attacks;
• the increased budget MI5 has received is entirely justified because it is doing such a brilliant job of foiling terror attacks;
• MI5's extra powers to surveil us all are necessary to foil those terror attacks;
• whatever happens with Brexit, MI5 will continue doing a brilliant job protecting the British people;
• MI5 is determined to become a friendlier place for women and minority ethnic applicants.
This was state ideology masquerading as robust reporting; in Britain's 'flagship' newspaper of liberal journalism, no less. The front page of the Guardian website, with an accompanying photograph of two armed policemen, was a model example of propaganda that should be pored over by journalism students for decades to come:
EXCLUSIVE / MI5 chief warns of growing Russian threat to UK
• Moscow 'using cyber-warfare' against targets across Europe
• 'About 3,000' violent Islamic extremists in Britain
• Andrew Parker is first serving spy chief to give newspaper interview
Andrew Parker / There will be terrorist attacks in Britain
Paris-style attacks / UK police warn of jihadi gun threat
Opinion / 'Hear us out before you knock Prevent'
The featured opinion piece was by Simon Cole who is chief constable of Leicestershire and the National Police Chiefs' Council lead for Prevent. This is a government mass surveillance programme rolled out under 'the war on terror' which has been heavily criticised for dividing and alienating sectors of the British public, notably Muslims.
Nowhere in this coverage did the Guardian point out that US and British foreign policy – including wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan, bombing in numerous other countries, support for Israel while it brutally oppresses Palestinians, and drone programmes of 'targeted' killings - has boosted the risk of terror attacks here in the UK. Indeed, intelligence services had warned Tony Blair of the increased terrorist threat to Britons before the invasion of Iraq. Eliza Manningham-Buller, former head of MI5 (and thus a predecessor of Andrew Parker), told the Chilcot inquiry in 2010 that the invasion of Iraq had 'undoubtedly' increased the terrorist threat in Britain. Intelligence and security officials also said that UK foreign policy was a factor in the 'radicalisation' of the suicide bombers who committed the 7/7 terror attacks in London in 2005.
Moreover, as historian and foreign policy analyst Mark Curtis has shown, Britain has long colluded with radical Islamic forces in order to pursue imperialistic foreign policy objectives. Curtis observes that the UK is now participating in seven covert wars: in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia.
Somehow, none of this was deemed relevant to the Guardian's big interview with the head of MI5. Aren't newspapers supposed to do actual journalism, and thus scrutinise and challenge claims made by those in powerful positions? Does the Guardian treat its readers with such indifference, perhaps even contempt, that it feels no need to adhere to such basic standards?
Consider, for example, the following words from the MI5 head about the alleged 'increasing threat' posed by Russia:
'It is using its whole range of state organs and powers to push its foreign policy abroad in increasingly aggressive ways – involving propaganda, espionage, subversion and cyber-attacks. Russia is at work across Europe and in the UK today. It is MI5's job to get in the way of that.'
There was no hint in the Guardian's coverage of MI5's newspeak that the West is engaged in all of these activities too and, given the huge resources deployed by the US and Nato, to a greater extent worldwide. Nor was there any mention of the West's much larger death toll with millions of victims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere. It beggars belief that the Guardian 'interviewers' would be unaware of all this. So, did they consciously decide not to point out that the West does all the things Parker pinned on Russia, and to a far greater and more deadly effect? Are we to believe that Paul Johnson and Ewen MacAskill – supposedly tough, hard-hitting experienced journalists - were so meek as not to challenge Parker? Don't they realise how supine that makes them appear to their readers?
Public Security Is Only 'A Marginal Concern Of Policy Planners'
Jonathan Cook gives a number of possible reasons why Andrew Parker and the Guardian colluded in their 'first interview of its kind'. First, why did the piece not appear in the more obviously establishment-friendly Times as a platform for MI5 propaganda? Cook speculates that it might be because the Guardian has now become 'the preferred British news source for American elites, whose own media are even more servile to power'. The Guardian's 'unjustified reputation for leftwing and critical journalism will bestow on this MI5 press release the necessary pretence that Parker has been subjected to tough questioning'. Moreover, Parker 'knew that the Guardian would be as docilely accepting of his propaganda as any rightwing outlet of the corporate media.' Any, or all, of these statements are likely true. But none of them apparently occurred to Mark Urban, the BBC Newsnight diplomatic editor, who warmly welcomed the 'nice scoop' for the Guardian, praising the MI5 chief for his 'bold call'. Such is the 'impartiality' of senior BBC News journalists.
Cook also notes the Guardian's deception in framing the encounter with Parker as though he had entered 'a combative environment' in coming to the newspaper, when the Guardian journalists reminded readers that the paper was the first to report on the Edward Snowden story. Cook expands:
'In fact, the Guardian's Snowden revelations seem like another era. Remember that the Guardian got access to Snowden's documents only via their star columnist Glenn Greenwald, who has since departed after what appeared to be an increasingly troubled relationship, especially after the Snowden revelations. Instead Parker is once again given an opportunity to attack Snowden, accentuating the "damage that was done to the work of British and allied intelligence agencies" by Snowden's efforts to bring to public attention the systematic and secretive invasions of our privacy.'
Later in the day, the Guardian published an article on its website titled, 'Kremlin pours cold water on MI5 chief's claims of Russian threat'. This was presumably intended as a 'balancing' piece to the propaganda blitz that had preceded it; in much the same way that the 'mainstream' media in 2002-2003 routinely quoted the Official Enemy Saddam Hussein as 'balance' to incessant Western propaganda about Iraq's mythical 'weapons of mass destruction'. Where, instead, were the expert western analysts who could easily 'pour cold water' on MI5 claims?
Perhaps what was most galling about the Guardian coverage was that the most real and pressing threat of all was not even mentioned: climate chaos. Nor was there any mention of the ever-present threat of global nuclear annihilation; a danger made worse by establishment support for the renewal of Trident, the supposed nuclear 'deterrent' much loved by the arms industry and their political and financial backers.
The reality is that political, military, intelligence and security elites are not primarily concerned about the safety and security of the general population. Perhaps Noam Chomsky put it best:
'What about the security of the population? It is easy to demonstrate that this is a marginal concern of policy planners. Take two prominent current examples, global warming and nuclear weapons. As any literate person is doubtless aware, these are dire threats to the security of the population. Turning to state policy, we find that it is committed to accelerating each of those threats -- in the interests of the primary concerns, protection of state power and of the concentrated private power that largely determines state policy.'
'Power systems seek short-term power and domination; they're not concerned with security.'
The Guardian's latest propaganda service on behalf of state power demonstrates this all too well.


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Oil Lines
By Parker Sutton & Katherine Jenkins
The spatial organization of modern Alaska—a complex network comprised of more than 20 federal agencies in the Arctic alone (1)—is plainly rooted in a single event: the 1968 discovery of oil in the sparse northern reaches of Prudhoe Bay. The psychospatial transformation that ensued would, in the language of John McPhee, "change, apparently forever, the use and demarcation of Alaskan land." (2) Nearly forty years later, this projection has even greater resonance.
The icon of this transformation is the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), an infrastructural seam cinching Alaska's latitudinal shores. The political compromises that permitted its eventual easement laid the foundation for Alaska's shift from a self-organizing, self-sustaining domain to a highly bounded and strictly regulated state. This spatial restructuring prompted a reversal in Alaska's identity and governing ethos, from a territory with immense renewable resources to a state largely defined by a finite one: oil.
The Alaska of 1968 was poised for an imminent transformation. The reason for this is twofold. First, ninety-five percent of Alaskan land was federally owned at the time. This translates to approximately 630 million square miles or forty percent of all American public lands. (3) Until the discovery at Prudhoe Bay, no non-native Alaskan had particularly wanted the land: (4) in the years between the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1887, and the Alaska Statehood Act of 1958, less than half of one percent of Alaskan land passed to private hands. (5)
The second contributing factor is the unique spatial demands of oil its extraction, production, and distribution in combination with an increasingly global capitalist economy. Capitalism is more than an economic system, it is a "way of organizing nature" (6) a notion typified by mineral resource extraction, in which geographical space is decisive in controlling not merely production but the mechanisms that prevent overproduction and oversupply. (7)
These underlying spatial premises drove the transformation of America's last frontier, as it was touted by conservationists. In 1969, after a brief study, oil companies announced plans to build a hot oil pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez. It was the image of the pipeline on a map, "a razor blade slit across the face of the Mona Lisa," (8) according to one Alaskan, that thrust environmentalists, conservationists, multinational oil syndicates, state and federal agencies with different land use doctrines and ideals of stewardship into contention for Alaskan land.
Two years later, in 1971, the U.S. Congress passed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), which was designed to satisfy the demands of Native Alaskans, and to a lesser extent conservationists, to streamline pipeline construction. The ANCSA created twelve Native owned regional economic development corporations each associated with a specific region of Alaska, effectively fixing the once fluid geographic borders of tribal regions and formally engaging them in capitalism for the first time.
As for conservationists, 80 million acres of land was set aside for parks and reserves. These withdrawals were later confirmed by President Jimmy Carter in the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Map (ANILCA), carving a role for over 20 federal agencies in the management of Alaskan land resources. In return, the ANCSA made it such that "if the Secretary of the Interior wanted to set aside a pipeline transportation and utility corridor, that neither the state nor Alaska Natives could select lands within it." (9)
In Alaska, the drawing of internal borders was concurrent with the erosion of national boundaries, signaled by the arrival of multinational oil companies and various international commercial interests. The pipeline itself is operated by Alyeska Group, a consortium presently comprised of five oil companies with a majority stake owned by British Petroleum, who, alone, has operations in almost 80 countries. (10) And given that oil is a fungible global commodity with a benchmark global price, Alaska was immediately thrust into the international marketplace. This is not to overlook that the pipeline itself is made of Japanese steel.
Yet, to many, the most profound border alteration was not inscribed in physical maps but cognitive ones: the formal closure of the frontier in American consciousness.The frontier was, and is, as much an idea as a landscape. Those mourning its demise were mourning the loss of what they believed to be the unique human qualities that the frontier instills; the very cultural and political qualities that shape American values, as put forth by Frederick Jackson Turner and his disciples. This sentiment was captured with wistful eloquence by Stewart Brandbourg, the director of the National Wildlife Foundation, who remarked that "in our quest for a higher standard of living... we permit all of the wilderness to be destroyed, we rob ourselves of the experiences and conditioning that have contributed so much to the inner strength of our people and the achievements of our nation." (11)
Often overlooked in this argument is the frontier's dual role in the formation of American capitalism. The frontier is an economic construct: a ratio of people to resources. Following this idea, famously introduced by historian Walter Prescott Webb in The Great Frontier, the frontier signaled not merely a life close to nature but an economic opportunity. Unlike Turner before him, Webb stressed the part of technological innovation in wresting a livelihood from frontier landscapes. (12) The TAPS falls within this critical lineage.
Anti-oil conservationists felt that the frontier lost was lost forever, the forces of capitalism being intractable. Moreover, the argument has frequently been made that there is no "feedback mechanism... that turns environmental destruction into increasing costs for capital itself." (13) This notion is largely counterfactual: if there was, the logic goes, environmentally costly industries would self-regulate. For many carbon-emitting industries, this is true. It is precisely the reason we find ourselves in the position of environmental crisis we are in today.
The TAPS is ever the exception. The first large diameter hot oil pipeline to traverse environmentally sensitive permafrost terrain, over half of its 800 miles is elevated on vertica support members (VSM), while the remainder of the pipeline is buried. (14) Research Commission in collaboration with the Federal/State Joint Pipeline Office (JPO) estimates that 336 miles of pipeline are susceptible to deterioration due to melting permafrost.
Through this lens, the TAPS territory is a landscape of irony: the oil recovered from and conveyed through Alaska's fragile terrain is fueling the northward climb of its invisible permafrost boundary and imperiling its petrochemical future. By 2100, a warmer atmosphere is predicted to push the edge of Alaskan permafrost northward over 300 miles, divorcing the specialized designs of the TAPS from its environment.
Looking back, the protective boundaries established through compromises made at the pipeline's inception—that is, the formation of National Wildlife Refuges and National Parks are increasingly irrelevant. In the classic environmental preservationist view, "the only alternative to human incursion and development is the setting aside of wilderness, an enclosure away from the human footprint." (15) Warming air transcends any such superficial border; anthropogenic climate change may have the most enduring impact on Alaska's land - the greatest spatial agency.
Like all instruments of resource extraction, the TAPS will reach its eventual obsolescence, its lifespan bound by the finitude of geologic resources. nowing this, it is critical to consider how the next wave of energy production will impact the space, culture, and landscape of Alaska, and how designers and policymakers might engage with and improve upon the drawing of borders, seen and unseen, at this scale.
(1) Clement, J. P., J. L. Bengtson, and B. P. Kelly. 2013. "Managing for the future in a rapidly changing Arctic. A report to the President". Interagency Working Group on Coordination of Domestic Energy Development and Permitting in Alaska (D. J. Hayes, Chair), Washington, D.C., p. 5.
(2) McPhee, John. Coming Into the Country. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. p. 245.
(3) Conley, Heather. Arctic Economics in the 21st Century: The Benefits and Costs of Cold. CSIS/Rowman & Littlefield, Washington, D.C., 2013. p. 59.
(4) National Park Service. "Isolated Paradise: An Administrative History of Katmai and Aniakchak National Park Units". Accessed January 2016. http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/katm/adhi/chap3.html.
(5) McPhee, John. Coming Into the Country. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. p. 1718.
(6) Moore, Jason. "Toward a Singular Metabolism: Epistemic Rifts and EnvironmentMaking in the Capitalist WorldEcology". New Geographies 6: Grounding Metabolism, edited by Daniel Ibañez and Nikos Katskiks. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2014. p. 12.
(7) Labban, Mazen. Space, Oil and Capital. London: Routledge, 2008. p. 7.
(8) Coates, Peter A. The TransAlaska Pipeline Controversy: Technology, Conservation, and the Frontier. Bethlehem [Pa.]: Lehigh University Press, 1991. p. 304.
(9) Committee on the Cumulative Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska's North Slope. "Cumulative Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Activities On Alaska's North Slope". Washington: National Academies Press, 2003. p. 134.
(10) "British Petroleum Strategic Report 2014". Accessed January 2016 http://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/pdf/investors/bpstrategicreport2014.pdf
(11) Geron, Harry R. AWR Hearings, Part 2. Fairbanks, Alaska, 1959. p. 397.
(12) Cronon, William. "A place for stories: Nature, History, and Narrative". The Journal of American History, 38, Issue 4. (March 1992). p. 1335.
(13) Foster, John Bellamy and Clark, Brett. "The Paradox of Wealth: Capitalism and Ecological Destruction." Monthly Review: Volume 61, Issue 06 (November), 1999. http://monthlyreview.org/2009/11/01/theparadoxofwealthcapitalismandecologicaldestruction/
(14) United States. Arctic Research Commission. "Climate Change, Permafrost, and Impacts On Civil Infrastructure: U.S. Arctic Research Commission", Permafrost Task Force Report. Arlington, Va.: U.S. Arctic Research Commission, 2003. p. 33.
(15) Standlea, David M. Oil, Globalization, and the War for the Arctic Refuge. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. p. 92.
Katherine Jenkins is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at The Ohio State University. Parker Sutton is a designer at DLANDstudio in Brooklyn, New York. They are cofounders of the design-research collaborative Topologic.