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An aerobatic stunt pilot narrowly escaped by parachute Friday when his single-passenger plane crashed in a fireball onto a northern Vermont interstate, charring the ground beneath it.
Dan Marcotte, an experienced aerobatic stunt performer, bailed from the plane in the nick of time, before it crashed into a lane of Interstate 89 North in Highgate, Vt., near the Canadian border and the Franklin County State Airport, NECN's Jack Thurston reported.
Firefighters found him dangling in his parachute from a tree and cut him down. He was not seriously injured, police said.
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"Something happened to the plane; he knew something was wrong," Lt. Garry Scott of the Vt. State Police told NECN. "These high speeds; we're pretty lucky no one else was injured."
The section of I-89 was shut down twice during this emergency: once during the initial frenzy, once as the wreckage was cleared away. At times during the removal of the wreckage, one lane of slow travel was allowed. No drivers were hit when the plane hurtled to the ground.
Marcotte is a well-known pilot who performs tricks at events like the Independence Day celebrations on the Burlington waterfront. His Facebook page identified him as the plane's pilot.
He was practicing when he had to jump from his plane, and he is now doing okay, a loved one explained on Facebook. "Thank God for our STRONG parachute!" the page administrator wrote.
"He was very upset, emotionally upset," Lt. Scott said of Marcotte. "But no real significant injuries. He was able to walk. He came back to the scene and talked to investigators."
Scott said the Federal Aviation Administration, out of Maine, will look into what went wrong.
Police and a towing service gathered as much of the wreckage as they could find.
Mike Cota of Cota's Towing said this wasn't the first response of its kind for him, though. "We have about one a year or so; somebody goes down up here," he said.
The Facebook page of Dan Marcotte AirShows was lighting up with well-wishes Friday afternoon, with folks very glad their friend lived through this, likely still with more thrill-seeking left in him.


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Uh . . . not to be a spoiled sport, but FRED, what about this rule?
Originally Posted by FRED
Post cut-off time is 6PM EST, April 17, 2009.
Yes, the "rule" allowed to stand.
Congratulations sadsak! You are the WINNER for the Contest!! PM me where do you want the coin to be mailed to and be a "happaysack"
Sorry pwcmba...you're too late ;) FRED omitted the time stamp.. :p
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The above are big words, especially in the IT industry but for us at Abridge, good processes and methodologies are the equivalent of proper builders designs and planning which are necessary to explain the concept and schedule to the customer.
Abridge undertakes to ascertain and assess all client requirements and work through their expectations of the system prior to any development work.
From requirements, we draft up design specifications and mockups to ensure that the clients "see" what they are getting and understand how the system should work.
On agreement from both parties, Abridge shall then undertake the development and deployment of the system for the client.
On completion and handover another process is activated to ensure that the solution delivered shall be managed and supported properly, with appropriate staff/end user training to ensure acceptance and use.
Depending upon the complexity of such solutions (just like the complexity of a buliding for a homeowner), other processes may be added in there to ensure nothing is left uncovered.
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Earlier this week, officials at the Tama Zoo in Tokyo ran a tiger containment drill based on the premise that a Siberian tiger had escaped during an earthquake.
To simulate the roaming cat, officials put some unlucky soul in a fur suit and corralled him with nets and a simulated tranquilizer dart. Sure, it's easy to catch a tiger when it's confused by its unfamiliar environs. What would really be a challenge is if "the tiger" suddenly evolved the mental faculties of a human and commandeered one of those zoo golf carts. Trust me, vainglorious zookeepers across the globe are woefully unprepared for that day.
As Pink Tentacle points out, cosplay zoo drills are not an entirely uncommon occurrence in Japan — previous escaped animals have included a polar bear (who faux-mauls some employees) and the world's most uncoordinated rhinoceros.
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BIG. FAT. SPOILER ALERT. If you're not up to date on Grey's, walk away now. From the show. Or this post. Or both. One of those.
I'm not ashamed. I'm in mourning. For eleven years, I've been in a tumultuous relationship with Grey's Anatomy. We had our ups and downs. We jumped through quite a few crazy hoops. We let a lot of really atrocious shit slide. We loved and lost, but this loss is too much. This broke me. This destroyed us.
Shonda, you're an asshole. A spiteful, malicious bitch. Grey's Anatomy MADE you. The fans MADE you. You betrayed our trust. You don't give enough fucks about Grey's, even though it's the one that put you on the map. This was something you needed to do better. It needed to BE better. Meredith deserved better. WE deserve better. And quite frankly, Prince Fucking Charming shouldn't have died. Sure, it's a drama. But you turned a drama into a tragedy. And not even a good one. Killing off eleven years of emotional investment with a stupid, fleeting, single-episode plot is just wrong.
You didn't even make Derek's death a remotely decent or reliable plot twist. First, you skirted around a dozen different ways McDreamy could have left the show. He could have stayed in DC. He could have cheated (thank GOD you didn't do that) on Mer. He could have been killed in another plane crash (insert eye roll here). He could have died in the car crash at the beginning of the episode. And so on and so forth. Then, you let him die alone. 'Da fuck?
For someone who's praised as such a gifted TV writer, your inexcusable story arc sure did leave us with a lot of questions. Why didn't Bailey tell Meredith that she had been on a call with Derek earlier that day? Or that the call had dropped? If he was in a dead zone, why did his phone buzz? Why would he stop in the middle of the street to answer it? Where was his phone and ID in that mess to identify him? Did he need to be a John Doe? If they airlift people from the middle of nowhere to Grey Sloan ALL THE DAMN TIME, why didn't they do it this time? Don't write him off dying alone in some podunk fucking hospital. Don't make Meredith make the decision to pull the plug alone. Seriously?
I'm fucking done. And I'm not the only one. We're pissed, Shonda. And not oh-my-god-I-can't-wait-to-watch-the-next-episode pissed. 102,000 fans and counting are signing petitions and shit to bring back the character you eliminated in the most horrific way.
You think we want to watch any more of your shitty cry fests after you destroyed any chance of Bright and Shiny Meredith ever, at all? After you killed off a character in the most senseless, asinine way? No. That shit will not taint my television. But just in case you were wondering, here are a few ways you could have left the fans with a little less bitter, we-quit-you rage.
You Could Have Allowed His Death to Have Meaning
Okay. You want to kill him. You're a vindictive writer like that. If he had to die that day, let him die saving one of those teenagers. Or the little girl. Or her mom. Don't let his death be completely void of any rhyme or reason. If it were such a beautiful day to save lives (every life but his own), he should have died to prevent someone else from dying. You could have created a believable heroic story on one of the ferry boats he loved so much. Or he could have died pushing someone away from the explosion that happened in the beginning of the episode. Derek did not have to die for naught.
You Could Have Let Him Stay in DC
Everyone was okay when he was in DC. Sure, he was Skyping his family more than seeing them. But if you had let him live, Mer could take the kids on weekend trips and he could come home a little more often. You wouldn't need to show any of that. You would just need to mention it every now and then. The point is that they're still together and in love. He's still Prince Charming and Mer's still happy and rocking as a surgeon.
You Could Have Faded Him to Black
You know that place you were headed with the happy non-brilliant-surgeon, soccer-coach-dad thing? That. Do that. Dr. Shepherd would have flitted off into the sunset and lived happily ever after as a devoted husband and dad. He could be mentioned in passing as doing something perfectly lovely as a stay at home dad while all hell breaks loose in the hospital and his baby sister would save the day. He would never need to appear on the show, but we'd be happy…knowing he was dedicated to Mer and their family.
But you didn't do any of these things, Shonda. Instead, you followed your tired surprise-but-not-really plot twist formula. Grey's Anatomy is just like Game of Thrones. Except the characters are much more likable, and when you kill them off, abruptly, without thought or even a solid story arc, you're an asshole.
I'd say that I'm waiting for Meredith to be executed the way of Eddard Stark, but I won't be around to see it. Because I'm so over it (but not really, because I'm in fucking pain). And Shonda Rhimes is dead to me.


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The open-source Python programming language has grown in capability and support to become a serious contender for cross-platform personal computing and server development. This course introduces the student to this exciting programming language, cultivating professional software development skills along the way. Yet this course requires no prior programming knowledge. Organized as 64 lessons, 16 tests and two exams, for a total of 82 lecture units, this course covers the following topics:
This course series will be ideal also for home-school students to start them down the road to a complete technical education. By the end of the complete series, when available, students will be able to design circuit boards, write firmware, and program microcontrollers used in many products, including consumer products and agricultural equipment.


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CHICAGO--Speaking at today's Annual Meeting of Shareholders in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Lee Hillman, Chairman of the Board of Directors, CEO and President, of Bally Total Fitness Holding Corporation (NYSE: BFT - news) told shareholders that the Company exceeded all of its financial benchmarks during the past fiscal year and achieved revenues of over $1 billion for the first time in Company history.
He reviewed highlights of the Company's successful performance in 2000 and outlined the strategy for building further growth and profitability in five key areas:
Customer service
Incremental revenue
Club growth and expansion
Building and leveraging the Bally Total Fitness brand
Strengthening the balance sheet
Bally's Customer-Centric Focus
``Driving Bally's growth during the past fiscal year and the cornerstone of our strategy is a focus on enhancing the customer experience,'' said Mr. Hillman. ``The upgrading of facilities, addition of fitness activities, enhancement of membership programs along with expanded offerings of fitness related products and services is heightening customer satisfaction and a big reason why Bally has such a low attrition rate.''
``The key to the lasting success of Bally is member satisfaction,'' said Mr. Hillman as he outlined a number of new customer-centric initiatives including:
Expansion of its private-label nutritional line to include ``Rapid Results'' packs which help members achieve the results they desire
Enhanced group exercise offerings to include cutting edge classes such as Kwando Spar, Pilates, Yoga and Aqua Fitness
Providing online account access at www.ballyfitness.com to grant easy access to individual account information
Additional membership options, adding more flexibility to payment programs, reaching a wider audience on an introductory basis
Building Incremental Revenue
``Our customer service initiatives are also delivering increased yield from every membership,'' added Mr. Hillman. ``We are particularly enthusiastic about our highly successful and expanding personal training services and the future of our nutritional supplement business.''
Bally currently has nearly 3,300 trainers on staff and expects to double that number over the next two years. From virtually zero in 1997, products and services in 2000 generated $111 million in revenues as well as $38.6 million in operating income, a 74% increase over 1999. The Company's retail revenue is also growing at a high rate, spurred by the introduction of new Bally nutritional bars and drinks during the past year. For 2001, there will be further expansion of the product range and the pursuit of distribution outside of Bally facilities.
Club Growth and Expansion
Mr. Hillman discussed the opening of 14 new clubs in 2000 and indicated that the Company planned on opening approximately 25 facilities during 2001. The Bally club at the prestigious Eaton Centre in Toronto, which was the site of the annual meeting, is one of two new Canadian clubs opened during the past six months and builds on the Company's 1999 merger with Sports Clubs of Canada. This brings Bally's presence in the Toronto area to a total of 13 clubs, with another under construction. Bally also entered the Portland, Oregon market in 2000 with the acquisition of 13 clubs.
``Bally is already a leader in each of the top 25 U.S. markets and 45 of the top 50 metropolitan areas in the U.S. and Canada,'' continued Mr. Hillman. ``In fact, nearly two-thirds of Americans live within 10 miles of an existing Bally Total Fitness center. However, there are plenty of opportunities for further profitable expansion through new club development and acquisition. We will seek to both fill in geographic gaps and take advantage of economies of scale. Earlier this year we completed our first international franchise agreement for a club in the Bahamas and look forward to expanding this program later this year.''
Building and Leveraging the Bally Brand
Since the beginning of 2000, Bally has aggressively pursued a number of brand building initiatives. These included expanding its co-marketing partnerships with leading consumer product companies. Bally has partnered with AOL Time Warner, Kodak, Pepsi, Kraft, Sprint and Novartis among others to deliver the Bally brand name to new audiences and help these industry leaders reach the Company's approximately four million members. The Company joined forces with Sports &Leisure Technology in 2000, to expand distribution of Bally Total Fitness Products into Gart's and Zeller's, national retail chains in the U.S. and Canada. Bally also partnered with the University of Chicago Hospitals to bring full scale outpatient physical rehabilitation and therapy services to a Bally club in Chicago.
``Bally stands apart as the best platform to reach an enormous population of active lifestyle, fitness conscious consumers,'' added Mr. Hillman. ``We will continue to seek opportunities to expand the Bally name and develop co-marketing initiatives with other leading brands. At the same time we look forward to pursuing additional avenues to leverage our facilities, products and services.''
Strengthening the Balance Sheet
Mr. Hillman also discussed Bally's agreement in March of 2001 that resulted in the sale of approximately 8% of the Company's membership receivables portfolio to Household International at net book value. The sale generated initial cash proceeds of approximately $45 million and provides for future profit participation for Bally. He stated that, ``the agreement with Household demonstrated to the market the strength and value of Bally Total Fitness receivables. This transaction is one of the steps we are taking to further improve our balance sheet. It also reflects our commitment to de-leveraging our assets and focusing our resources on building our core businesses.''
Mr. Hillman concluded by telling shareholders, ``I'm proud of the work we are doing and of our people. With a focus on our core business, customer service and enhanced brand recognition, I am confident that we are well positioned to prosper in the years ahead.''


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Between October and March, the harsh climate can be a little too chilly for some and a number of attractions and palaces may be closed. Those of you who are keen skiers will definitely be pleased to hear that Prague is a mere three-hour bus trip from some of the Czech Republic's best ski resorts, such as Harachov, Snezkou, Spindlorov Mlyn and Krkonosye, in northern Bohemia.
Restaurants are extremely plentiful in the Czech capital, and deal in all types of fare from traditional to fusion. No matter what part of Prague you are in you'll find somewhere to re-charge the batteries. Even though more and more fusion, Mexican, and other international restaurants are popping up throughout the city, most restaurants still deal in traditional fare. Dumplings, potatoes and goulash also feature heavily in local specialities.
Prague has one of the best public transportation systems in Europe. Themetro, trams and the buses are used by two-thirds of Prague's population and they cover the majority of the city and its outskirts. The metro makes getting around the Prague a very easy and relaxed since it enables you to cover long distances in a matter of minutes. If you can't continue to your destination on foot, you'll be able to catch a tram or bus from near the subway station.
To move around town freely, you are better off using public transport over driving or taking a taxi. If you're going to be staying in Prague for a number of days, you may wish to purchase a Prague Tourist Pass that will enable you to use any type of mass transit as many times as you want within the time period for which your pass is valid.
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The bar and club scene in the Czech capital Prague's bar and club scene is lively to say the least. You will find that beer is drunk morning, noon and night in Prague, and that Czech beers are among the best and cheapest in the world. The brands you should look out for include Pilsner Urquell, Gambrinus, Staropramen and Budweiser (Budvar). The average wage for bar staff in Prague is 50Kč an hour, so please, after having your drinks and your fun, show some appreciation with a decent tip.
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The Old Town Square of Prague often has temporary market stalls set up, selling a variety of hand-crafted products. Around the square are small shops selling Bohemian crystal, arts and crafts and tourist souvenirs. There are also some international boutique shops.
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Toronto, it's been a tough month. Even though there's been no snow, our vision seems to be clouded. We had many worthy projects, but nothing that popped. So we're not giving out a grant this month. What does this mean? It means that you need to double down and submit your best ideas. And it means that we're going to give out more money later in the year.
But we're here to help! Check out this post highlighting our 9 Principles of Awesome. And message any of our Trustees. We're eager to give you advice on what makes for a great application.
JourneyAmerica: To share and highlight the stories of extraordinary individuals making a positive impact in communities across the Americas by riding two horses from Canada to Brazil.
Let's Pick Fruit With Our Computers: Roughly 1.5 million pounds of fruit grows from Toronto's trees every year. 11% of our total urban canopy makes stuff we can eat. We're living with an abundance and we barely know what to do with it all – or that it exists in the first place. Looking for your local fruit tree? Not Far From The Tree wants to build a web site to make it easy to find.
Scientific Poster Meets Street Art: Art meets science meets graffiti through alleyway poster installations detailing the research of our city's leading graduate students.
Solar Fire Haiti: No, it's not an evil mission to burn Haiti or some freaky solar eclipse. Solar Fire Haiti is the invention of a man with a mission… an open-source design for a thermal energy stove that can be used for cooking in a range of developing countries, without the need for electricity of firewood. Awesome for moresome.
Walkable Planets Toronto: Ever felt like you're on another planet? Ever had moments where you're lost in space? Well, the Walkable Planets community art project now gives you official permission to go and explore your inner galaxy through durable works of art in public parks around Toronto. The project will include the creation of ten art installations in public park spaces throughout the city at a scale of one to five billion. The project will be centered in Christie Pits Park with a sculpture representing "the Sun", whilst the remaining planet installations will be placed at other parks like Trinity Bellwoods, Dufferin Grove and High Park.
ZED.TO: ZED.TO is an immersive online and live theatre experience that asks Torontonians to participate in a story about the end of the world, brought about by a fictional biotech company called ByoLogyc. The experience will unfold over an 8 month period, linking major arts festivals across the city such as Fringe and Nuit Blanche.


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The intraday pricing of international equity ETFs has garnered much recent attention. While some view the divergence between the intraday price of an international ETF and the value of its underlying securities as a form of a premium or discount, this is not the case at all.
Mutual funds help provide an understanding of this anomaly. Many international equity mutual funds run into challenges with daily purchases and redemptions when determining the right value of underlying securities, primarily because the vast majority of those underlying securities are not trading in their home markets at the 4 p.m. Eastern time close of U.S. markets. A mutual fund sponsor is then left to determine the NAV at the best price for both buyers and sellers.
If the U.S. market's day is uneventful, odds are those underlying holdings are worth approximately the same price as where they closed. If the day is eventful—and these types of days, where the market can move up or down, or both up and down, by 100 basis points in a single day, occur more often than not—the resulting volatility usually spreads into international markets once they open and likely affects the value of those underlying securities.
Fair valuation is the process of trying to determine the correct value of securities. This is an important process, as recently evidenced by the SEC's investigations regarding how certain mortgage-related securities were valued during the financial crisis. If international markets are expected to drop dramatically the next day (likely due to a fall in U.S. markets), investors may be overpaying for the fund, and redeeming investors will get more money than they should, leaving existing shareholders on the hook.
The fair valuation process works exactly the same way with an ETF, except investors buy and sell at the publicly offered price instead of the NAV. The ETF price is normally in line with its indicative value or estimated NAV. However, during volatile times a price difference becomes evident between the underlying securities' value at their previous close on the international markets and how they trade in the U.S. market. What influences those changes is the very same cause that impacts the fair value process used to calculate the NAV.
The Important Differences
Multiple market participants usually drive the public offering price for ETFs. When the intraday fair valuation process takes place, a wide variety of views determine the expected value of a given securities basket and investors select the best price for both purchasing and selling ETFs, whereas in a mutual fund, the fund sponsor solely determines the valuation.
The other notable difference is that investors can see when the public price for an ETF is diverging from the last international market trading value, so it is much more obvious when fair valuation is affecting the price. How does a mutual fund determine fair valuation? Very little information is available to help investors understand the price they may receive on an adjusted trading day. Although a prospectus mentions that the mutual fund sponsor has the right to make fair valuation adjustment, there is no specific obligation when to tell investors.
The transparency that ETFs provide in this process is critical for investors and helps advisors know that transparency means far more than just holdings for their clients.


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Product Used: LCA31 series linear
Problem: Traditionally the pneumatic cylinder is used to control a valve for liquid nitrogen dosing. The pneumatic cylinder gave an impact on the valve when closing. The liquid nitrogen is cooling the valve seal to temperatures that metal seals are like glass and become brittle. Impact damages the closing seal so that they need replacement every half year. This shuts down the line for quite a long time.
Solution: SMAC actuators' highly repeatable & positioning coupled with high speed allows the user to more precisely & repeatedly control the dosing amount. SMAC actuators also allow for easy change over for different dosing requirements. Another advantage is the life of the SMAC actuators as well as the extended life of the dosing valve, as SMAC's unique Soft-Land function prevents damage to the valve when closing. This will result in increasing valve's life time. These features will increase uptime and increase profitability for end user.
SMAC Advantages
- Better force control of liquid nitrogen dose for cost savings on the amount of liquid nitrogen used. (Soft-Land)
- SMAC actuator is fully programmable in force, speed, and position.
- SMAC actuator can be easily set-up and make quick change via GUI to run a different motion profile for the liquid nitrogen valve. No mechanical adjustments required.
- SMAC actuator's long life over 100,000,000 cycles increasing uptime and lowering replacement cost.
|Liquid nitrogen dosing diagram
|Various dosing volumes
|The movement with SMAC actuator. Returning to zero is closing the valve gently.
|SMAC actuator can operate over 1100% cycles per minute. Most line speed is 1200/minute.


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I have 14 hives and started 4 years ago. I have never treated for anything. I use SBB and close my entrances down in dearths to 3/4 by 3/4. I have SHB but I only treat them with a srewdriver. I use plastic MannLake PF120, so wax moths are not a problem and the SHB can be crushed in the frame crevices. I run feral bees and some Italian/Russian mixes. I don't understand why people treat? What's to treat? I have a few varroa but the SBB really helps that. I have only lost 1 hive in 4 years and that was to starvation. What do you treat for?
I never got them to survive the Varroa until I got on small cell.
>small cell = natural cell size - foundationless?Not exactly. But I had the same results with natural cell. Large cell=5.4mm small cell=4.9mm Natural cell=4.6mm to 5.1mm
No more Varroa issues.
SBB helps with varroa because the bees groom each other and themselves and in the process, they clean off varroa mites. The mites fall through the SBB and can't come back up to get onto another bee. If they fall onto a solid bottom they can simply attach to the next bee that comes along. That's the way it is - I keep SBB on all of my hives throughout the winter since here in Atlanta, closing up the bottoms isn't really necessary. Linda T in Atlanta
>I know if I dump in a package of bees on natural comb, that mites will be an issue. I've done it many times. Same as smallcell.I've done it many times as well. And I have no Varroa issues.


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Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague, who comes from the east coast, and we are bookends in our country, has a deep interest in fisheries. I would like to ask him a simple question.
We know that the oceans are dying, that a third of all mammal species are dying, and that overfishing has taken 17 of the major fisheries in the world. They have all been fished to overcapacity.
I would like to ask my hon. colleague, does he not think that this situation is so urgent and pressing that the federal government needs to bring together provincial counterparts to develop an integrated fisheries strategy that would deal with fisheries on the west coast, in the Arctic and on the east coast, so we will arrest the death of our fisheries, which has a huge impact upon foodstuffs, the environment, and all the other species that feed other fish? One example is the Arctic cod. They are small fish essential to the health of the Arctic Ocean.
The Finns are going to fish this particular species with no restriction, no barriers, no guidelines, and no oversight whatsoever. If this bill goes through, it would have a profound impact upon the health of the species in the north and the Inuit who live there.
Would my hon. colleague suggest that the government needs to be urgently seized with this issue and start to take responsibility for its role as the federal Government of Canada in dealing with this pressing problem?


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|In 2009 we went along with Peter, a German truck driver that took us from Aalsmeer to Malmö. Peter was actually going to Oslo, but we decided to get out earlier to have an extra day on our trip. It turned out to be a great decision as we got out on the last day of the MöllevångsFestival, a beautiful festival that was scattered throughout the city into a hundred mini festivals. At the end of the night we strolled back to our hostel when we saw something that looked like a free-drinks-included-party. It turned out to be the opening of Galerie Makeriet, and the owners invited us back in November of that year for an exhibition on our trip.


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After five years of progress in reducing or holding virtually stable the number of homicides committed in Baltimore City, 2012 saw a disturbing rise in killings over the previous year. City officials need to ask themselves whether this is merely a statistical blip in an otherwise generally positive trend, or whether it indicates more serious problems ahead.
As of today, 215 people have been killed in the city, a 10 percent increase over this time last year. In 2011, the first year since the 1970s with fewer than 200 homicides, officials pointed to the drop as a major victory against crime and a sign that Baltimore was finally on a path to shed its image as one of America's most dangerous cities. Now that homicides appear to be rising again, the city should be looking hard at ways to preserve the gains it has made in recent years.
No one knows for certain why homicides rise in some years and fall in others. Baltimore's jump in homicides occurred during a year when statistics show that overall violent crime rates (including aggravated assaults and armed robberies) and property crimes were both on the wane.
Why killings should increase when other types of crime are falling remains something of a mystery, though there is a school of thought that suggests crime rates, like markets, rise and fall periodically in response to social forces that are difficult to quantify and often impossible to predict. Some social scientists think the state of the economy affects the crime rate, with poverty and lack of education being among the leading causes. That view is far from universal, however, and history provides little evidence of a direct relationship between rates of poverty and crime.
Other researchers point to demographics. Since most crimes are committed by young men, they argue, when the proportion of such individuals in a population goes up, crime rates will follow. Still other experts believe the propensity to commit crimes springs from complex patterns of social and familial interactions experienced early in life that exert a lasting influence. Such people will offend throughout their careers regardless of economic conditions or opportunities to engage in legitimate alternatives.
Police and prosecutors have little influence or control over such factors. What they can do is aggressively go after those suspected of the most violent offenses in order to protect future victims. Police Commissioner Anthony Batts says that many of the killings this year were driven by disputes over turf between rival drug gangs, and that in such cases it is difficult to find witnesses willing to testify in court. But others have suggested that changes in the procedures prosecutors and police use to charge suspects may have allowed many of them to avoid arrest and imprisonment, leaving them free to remain on the streets and commit more crimes.
Earlier this month, The Sun's Justin Fenton reported that Baltimore State's Attorney Gregg Bernstein, who campaigned on a pledge to aggressively prosecute violent crime, has charged far fewer homicide cases than his predecessor, Patricia Jessamy, and that police detectives are increasingly frustrated by their inability lock up people they suspect have committed serious offenses.
Mr. Fenton detailed one case in which prosecutors originally declined to bring charges against a man accused of a 2011 fatal shooting in Bolton Hill because they felt there wasn't enough evidence to win a conviction. Prosecutors only changed their minds after he was linked to a second shooting this November that left two men dead and a woman critically injured.
Had the suspect been charged earlier, sources told Mr. Fenton, witnesses might have come forward once he was behind bars to strengthen the state's case without fear of retribution. Taking such suspects off the streets keeps them from intimidating and threatening people in the community and also denies them opportunities to commit additional crimes.
Certainly prosecutors should proceed cautiously until they are confident any case they bring is strong enough to win in court, and they must also protect the right of people who may have been falsely accused not to spend weeks or months in jail while their cases work their way through the system. But investigators often can't begin to turn up all the evidence needed to support a murder charge until after the suspect has been arrested.
Police and prosecutors say cooperation between their agencies has never been better, and it is encouraging that Mr. Bernstein recently agreed to charge five cases brought to him by Mr. Batts that detectives considered especially urgent. Keeping the most dangerous offenders off the streets should be the top priority for maintaining Baltimore's progress against homicides because lives are saved when suspected murderers are arrested and jailed before they kill again. But that can't happen unless they are charged.


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One of the most astonishing chapters in U.S. aviation history unfolded ten years ago when Chicago Mayor Richard Daley ordered a secretive raid on Meigs Field, sending heavy equipment in under cover of darkness to carve massive Xs across the runway. At the time, Daley claimed the move was necessary to protect the city "from terrorism" but he soon admitted that it was the first stage of fulfillment of a long-held dream to turn Northerly Island, the man-made strip of land that housed Meigs, into an ambitious waterfront park. Ironically, the only development of any significance has been the repurposing of the terminal building into a nature center to anchor some walking trails and a 30-acre patch of ground seeded to natural prairie grasses. LiveNation also built a temporary stage to host concerts but the park is a far cry from the urban Shangri La envisioned by Daley. Meanwhile, a few stalwarts continue the fight to "save Meigs" although there's no realistic expectation that aircraft will ever return, which, according to the Chicago Sun-Times, happened with the advance knowledge of senior officials of the Department of Transportation.
In its anniversary piece on the destruction of Meigs, the Sun-Times says then-Chicago Transit Authority President Frank Kreusi, one of Daley's most trusted supporters, hatched the plan and also contacted DOT in advance to make sure there would be "no significant pushback." Although FAA officials were quick to publicly condemn the destruction of Meigs the consequences were ultimately relatively minor. Chicago was fined $33,000 for failing to provide the required 30-day advance notice of closure of the airport and ordered to pay back $1 million of federal airport improvement funds spent on Meigs in previous years. Chicago avoided any penalty at all for improperly diverting federal grants and airline ticket tax revenue to cover the $1.5 million cost of the destruction. It could have been fined $4.5 million for illegally using that money.


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From Houston, TX's very own legendary boutique guitar brand, it's a Robin Wedge. This example is "Made in Japan", which would date it somewhere between 1982 and 1986 when Robin guitars were built by Tokai and FujiGen. Manufacture of Robin guitars moved to the United States from 1986. It's an interesting observation that where so many other brands once had guitars manufactured in the USA they are now being built out East, while Robin guitars must be one of the few exceptions where this has happened the other way around.
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A moped driver died in St. Augustine Friday morning when hit by a truck after striking a toppled power pole that was hit moments earlier by a car, police said.
Police are hunting for the car and truck, which fled the scene of the 2:20 a.m. accident on U.S. 1 at Daniel Street, said Sgt. Mike Etheridge of the St. Augustine Police Department.
Etheridge said a white or silver Mazda was heading south on U.S. 1 when it veered off the road for an unknown reason, hit the pole and then drove off. The pole fell into the street and was then hit by the moped driver, who was thrown from his bike.
The moped driver, who was not wearing a helmet, was then struck by a truck pulling a white box trailer. That driver stopped, spoke to a witness and then sped away, Etheridge said.
The accident closed streets in the area and knocked out power to dozens of homes and businesses.
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The Christian Democratic Party is ready to accept refugees running from ISIS, the party's head Pavel Bělobrádek said at a press conference on Tuesday. Mr Bělobrádek made the announcement in reaction to Saturday's call of the Czech Bishop's Conference on parishes to accept families of Christian refuges. Mr Bělobrádek said the party is ready to provide aid to migrants in cooperation with churches and non-profit organisations. At the same time, he pointed out the need to distinguish between economic migrants and refugee whose life is at threat. The government is scheduled to meet on Wednesday to debate the number of migrants the Czech Republic would be able to take in over the next two years.
Several dozen Greenpeace activists gathered in the centre of Český Krumlov in south Bohemia to protest against oil drilling in the Arctic. The event was sparked by the controversial plan by the Anglo-Dutch group Shell to restart drilling for oil in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas off Alaska. The campaigners have placed a model of an oil platform by the Vltava River in the centre of the town, blocking access by boats. Head of the Czech Greenpeace Arctic campaign Petr Kucka said that the plan to drill oil in one of the last pristine places in the world is as absurd as placing an oil platform in the middle of a UNESCO cultural heritage site.
Hundreds of taxi-drivers protested in Prague against a plan proposed by Prague mayor Adriana Krnáčová to tighten up the rules for giving licences to taxi drivers and to re-assess those who already have licenses. The drivers will be required to undergo topographic and psychological tests. Hundreds of taxi drivers met at Prague's Strahov stadium and drove to Prague Town Hall, where they handed a petition to the mayor. There are currently around 4,000 taxi drivers registered in the Czech capital.
The trial of four people charged with production and distribution of child pornography began at a court in Hradec Králové on Tuesday morning. The group allegedly abused over a hundred children, taking their photos and making video recordings in a studio in Červený Kostelec, in east Bohemia, and then selling them abroad. They earned up to five million crowns. One of the accused is a mother of two of the abused children. Police had been monitoring the group since 2013 and detained them in March last year. If convicted, they would face up to fifteen years in prison.
Price regulation of medical devices, drafted by the Czech Health Ministry, should bring the health sector savings of up to six billion crowns, Health Minister Svatopluk Němeček said on Tuesday. The ministry is also planning to adopt measures against re-exporting cheaper medicines abroad. Mr Němeček said the ministry was forced to impose a temporary ban on the export of certain drugs in recent months due to their sudden absence on the market. The Health Ministry along with the State Institute for Drug Control is currently drafting a list of drugs that could not be reexported in the future. The prices of drugs in the Czech Republic are lower than in many other European countries. As a result, some drugs imported to the country are sometimes re-exported for higher prices.
Forecasters are warning of heavy storms across the Czech Republic on Tuesday, predicting torrential rain, strong wind and hail in places. The heat storms are expected to hit western parts of the country on Tuesday afternoon, when temperatures should reach up to 37 degrees Celsius. The belt of rain will move eastward overnight, reaching Moravia and Silesia on Wednesday morning. The heatwave should break with the coming rain but above average temperatures are predicted to last for the entire month of July.
Over 82,000 tickets have been sold so far at the 50th Karlovy Vary International Film festival which is underway in the West Bohemian spa town. According to the film festival's press department, nearly 11,000 people accredited for the event and more than 200 screenings have already taken place. The audience poll is headed by Paolo Sorrentino's Youth, followed by Czech film Domácí péče or Home Care by debuting screenwriter and director Slávek Horák. The festival runs until Saturday.
All Czech tennis players were knocked out of the Wimbledon singles competitions after the last two Czech hopes, Lucie Šafářová and Tomáš Berdych, lost their fourth-round matches on Sunday. The French Open runner up Lucie Šafářová was beaten by unseeded American Coco Wandeweghe 6:7, 6:7 and Tomáš Berdych lost to Gilles Simon of France 3:6, 3:6, 2:6. Šafářová remains at Wimbledon competing in doubles with US partner Bethanie Mattek-Sand, after easing past the British duo of Jocelyn Rae and Anna Smith 6:3, 6:0.
A medical expert called to give testimony in the case Petr Kramný, who is accused of killing his wife and ten-year-old daughter while their were holidaying in Egypt in 2013, told the court on Tuesday that he was convinced that Kramný's daughter died as a result of sudden heart failure brought on by an electric shock. Marek Dokoupil who performed an autopsy on the child's body after it was brought back to the Czech Republic said all his findings supported the theory that ten-year-old Klára died after getting a strong electric charge. The state attorney has accused Kramný of killing his wife and daughter by means of an electric shock. Klára is thought to have died after grabbing hold of her mother. Kramný denies the accusations and is sticking to his original story that all three of them suffered food poisoning and he alone recovered.
An inspection by the Supreme Audit Office has revealed serious irregularities in the work of the State Fund for Transport Infrastructure, the ctk news agency reported. According to inspectors the fund spent 3.5 million crowns on outsourcing for work which was meant to have been done by its own staff. Moreover the work was commissioned without tenders. The fund has not yet responded to the accusations.


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Joined: 21 Aug 2007
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Location: Central Kentucky
Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:46 pm
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Ginger, et als,
There is an incredibly array of gravy and sauce additives that most of us only find out about by accident. The porcini and other mushroom powders are certainly among them.
One of my new best friends is powdered tomato. I've never seen it commercially, but it's easy enough to make at home. A spoonfull or two perks up many sauces and gravies.
Might be an interesting thread discussing these kinds of products.
Re: toasting flour. If anybody is going to try this for the first time, one word of caution. Do not turn you face away from it for a second. It can go from slightly colored to burned in a hearbeat. So be sure to stir constantly and watch the heat levels carefully.
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Okay. I'm back on this topic again -- whether anyone is interested or not. As I type this, I have 4 quarts (yes, 4 QUARTS) of made-ahead gravy cooling slightly before I put it into the freezer for Thanksgiving. Tastes great, and all I can think of is that I will actually have enough gravy for the crowd I'm expecting AND I won't be struggling with it in the middle of preparing the rest of the meal.
I used Rainey's original recipe (via Women's Day magazine), nearly doubling it, as my starting point and tweaked it a bit as follows:
1. I used both wings and necks, partly because I knew the necks would be good flavor and partly because they cost a bit less than the wings.
2. I switched to convection the last half hour of roasting to increase browning.
3. I deglazed the pan with white wine first, then added some water to finish.
4. Increased the # of carrots in the stock and added some celery as well, just because that's how I usually make stock. Also used fresh thyme instead of dried.
5. Allowed the stock to cool overnight and then skimmed the (small amount of) fat before reheating and thickening.
Drawbacks? It takes time, and it takes some extra cash because you do have to purchase those additional turkey parts. Also, turkey parts might be hard to find. My local butcher carries them only at this time of year, so I was lucky. However, I think (for me) it will be well worth it next Thursday. I hope my guests feel the same way!
Just wanted to pass on my experience making this recipe since I raised so many questions about it.
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Georgia, thank you for posting, I think it cinches/clinches this make-ahead turkey gravy idea. I had to read your comment twice to find the short but important part: "tastes great",
but I'm glad you documented the other stuff too!
I'm careful with carrots (and those sweet onions) because sometimes they add too much sweetness, but celery (and celery seed and celery salt) and yellow onions, fine.
It occured to me that your kitchen (lucky you)
smells like Thanksgiving!
I've been busy because my hunter is home from the Book Cliffs of Utah and an
is now in my freezer.
Have a lovely day with your full house on Thursday!
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Yes, it DID smell like Thanksgiving! When you think of it, the entire process is exactly like making gravy with the Thanksgiving turkey; just substitute the individual turkey parts for the big bird. And, then again, there's all that time and lack of pressure as well.
Bonus: I picked the succulent meat off the wings and combined it with some diced celery, apples, pecans, raisins and dried cranberries and made a lovely little turkey salad. Leftovers!
I've never tasted elk--in fact, have had very little game of any kind. Perhaps that should be on my culinary "to do" list.
Happy Thanksgiving to you (and everyone), too
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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 4:04 pm
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You do need to expand your horizens that way, Georgia. Game---both wild and ranched---is enjoying a justifyable resurgence. It tastes wonderful---often better than beef---and is much healthier.
Elk, itself, is one of the great meats of the world.
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georgia wrote:
GP, I'm not sure what you mean by "emotional distance". It does seem to me, though, that there was a "core" group of posters a few years ago who are rarely heard from these days.
I still visit the forums as I have them set up in my RSS feed. Unless I have something I think will add to the coversation I rarely comment these days.
A lot of the core group from the early days have become firm friends. We tend to keep in touch by emails, Facebook and Facebook chat. I guess the need to chat here on the forums is not as strong as it was for that reason.
I think I speak for all of us when I say we have Clotilde to thank for introducing us via the forums. So a belated Thanksgiving message to Clotilde - Thank you Clotilde.
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text: Breaking All The Rules with WCF June 10, '09 Comments [35] Posted in Web Services | XML | XmlSerializer Sponsored By Sometimes, in my job, I go onsite at partners and work with them, sometimes architecturally, sometimes doing proofs of concepts to make sure they're comfortable with things working together. This week I'm onsite at a large enterprise and one of the things they wanted to see, amongst many, was .NET interoperating with an existing Web Service. It's not important what platform their Web Service is running on, but it's not Windows and .NET. What was important was that they had WSDL and XSDs for the service, which put them above 99% of the Web Services I come upon in the enterprise. The team here said that this particular web service used WS-Security and was a compliant web service. I figured, and told them, no problem. That's something .NET is good at. Moving angle-brackets around is something both I, and .NET do pretty well. I figured we had a number of options. In this scenario was I going to be the Client, I could use: WCF - svcutil.exe - good System.Web.Services - wsdl.exe - pretty good WebClient/XDocument/XmlDocument - not so good, but workable. You get the idea. There were a few things wrong, though. Bad-ish WSDL They gave me the WSDL and when I ran svcutil.exe on it, I got this error (the elements have been changed to protect the innocent.) C:\Users\Scott\Desktop\foo>svcutil foo.Wsdl foo.xsd /config:app.configMicrosoft (R) Service Model Metadata Tool[Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Communication Foundation, Version 3.0.4506.2152]Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.Error: Cannot import wsdl:bindingDetail: The WSDL binding named FooBinding is not valid because no match foroperation GetFooDetails was found in the corresponding portType definition.XPath to Error Source: //wsdl:definitions[@targetNamespace='urn:foo:v1']/wsdl:binding[@name='FooBinding']Error: Cannot import wsdl:portDetail: There was an error importing a wsdl:binding that the wsdl:port is dependent on.XPath to wsdl:binding: //wsdl:definitions[@targetNamespace='urn:foo:v1']/wsdl:binding[@name='FooBinding']XPath to Error Source: //wsdl:definitions[@targetNamespace='urn:foo:v1']/wsdl:service[@name='FooService']/wsdl:port[@name='FooPort'] I googled binged around for this to no avail. After staring at the file long enough, I realized that while this is a lousy error message (to be clear) it was telling me (obscurely) what was up all the while. Here's a snippet of what I was looking at: <Type name="FooType"> <operation name="FooSearch"> <input message="tns:FooSearchRequest"></input> <output message="tns:FooSearchResponse"></output> <fault name="FooFault" message="tns:FooFault"></fault> </operation> </Type> <binding name="FooBinding" type="tns:FooType"> <soap:binding style="document" trans="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"></soap:binding> <operation name="FooSearch"> <soap:operation soapAction=""></soap:operation> <input name="FooSearchRequest"> <soap:body use="literal"></soap:body> </input> <output name="FooSearchResponse"> <soap:body use="literal"></soap:body> </output> <fault name="FooFault"> <soap:fault name="FooFault" use="literal"></soap:fault> </fault> </operation>... The key was that their WSDL didn't have the name="" attribute on the input and output elements of the operation. The name needs to line up to the operation name in the binding. <Type name="FooType"> <operation name="FooSearch"> <input name="FooSearchRequest" message="tns:FooSearchRequest"></input> <output name="FooSearchResponse" message="tns:FooSearchResponse"></output> <fault name="FooFault" message="tns:FooFault"></fault> </operation></Type> Once these new name="" attributes were added, I was able to generate my client-side stubs. I had to edit their WSDL, which sucks. However, you might argue svcutil.exe could chill out. Either way, a speed bump. Claiming Compliance I was told the Web Service would use WS-Security and a usernameToken. However, the actual message seemed like it was missing something. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:soapenv="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:wsse="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/12/secext" xmlns:wsu="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/07/utility" xmlns:tns="urn:foo:v1" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope/soap-envelope.xsd urn:foo:v1 com.foo.messages.v1.xsd"><soapenv:Header> <wsse:Security> <wsse:UsernameToken> <wsse:Username>secret</wsse:Username> </wsse:UsernameToken> </wsse:Security></soapenv:Header><soapenv:Body> <tns:FooRequest>... It's been a while (about 18 months) since I did any WCF and WS-Security, but UsernameToken really needs to have a Password element also. Additionally, when you're using WS-Security, you typically get WS-Addressing, etc along for the ride. There's other headers I'd expect to see. I trudged on, built up the message and tried to send it off. First problem was that the endpoint URI I had was http, not https. It's not possible to send a UsernameToken in plain-text - the system explicitly forbids it. However, their system was setup to default to basic HTTP. Some gnashing of teeth and I found an SSL endpoint I could use. However, it's a hassle to debug SSL traffic. I usually use ProxyTrace or TCPTrace but with SSL, not so much. Sniffing SSL Traffic with a Proxy I ended up using Charles, an HTTP Proxy that can act as a man-in-the middle, issue an SSL cert, then decrypt the traffic, and forward it along to the real endpoint. However, the SSL Cert Charles issues isn't from a certificate authority, so I had to make a Policy to blindly (temporarily) accept all certificates: internal class AcceptAllCertificatePolicy : ICertificatePolicy{ public AcceptAllCertificatePolicy(){} public bool CheckValidationResult(ServicePoint sPoint, X509Certificate cert, WebRequest wRequest, int certProb) { return true; //Always accept }} Then I apply it in this (obsolete, but easy) way: ServicePointManager.CertificatePolicy = new AcceptAllCertificatePolicy(); Now I can run all my traffic through my local man-in-the-middle. I can set the proxy in my config file: <basicHttpBinding> <binding name="FooBinding" ... proxyAddress="http://BigAssLaptop:8888" useDefaultWebProxy="false"> or in my own binding: WSHttpBinding oldBinding = new WSHttpBinding();oldBinding.ProxyAddress = new Uri("http://BIGASSLAPTOP:8888");FooPortTypeClient svc = new FooPortTypeClient(oldBinding, new EndpointAddress("https://example.com/foo/v1")); This let me see the outgoing request. I noticed immediately that my WCF client was sending a LOT more stuff that I needed. Breaking the Rules It was hard for the client to hear, but here's the deal. They were using the usernameToken element, alone, in the WS-Security namespace in the style of an apiKey. You often see these kinds of APIs in the Web 2.0 world, when intense security isn't needed. You get a key that's unique to you, basically a GUID, and it also acts as a tracker for the provider. However, this isn't how WS-Security usernameTokens work, or are supposed to work. Perhaps a better way would have been for them to use a custom soap:header, rather than trying to tunnel "apikey" semantics into an existing token. At this point, regardless of relative-wrongness, I still need to get the WCF client to talk to this unusual endpoint. I could use one of the other XML mechanism available, or, gasp, a StringBuilder, but since I wasn't having trouble with the body of the message, just the envelope. This essentially means that I wanted WCF to do something incorrect, on purpose. After a call to Steve Maine and team, along with some general freaking out, I was able to get WCF to spit out JUST a usernameToken, like this. WSHttpBinding oldBinding = new WSHttpBinding();oldBinding.Security.Mode = SecurityMode.TransportWithMessageCredential;//Just the usernameoldBinding.Security.Message.ClientCredentialType = MessageCredentialType.UserName;//And basically nothing elseoldBinding.Security.Message.NegotiateServiceCredential = false;oldBinding.Security.Message.EstablishSecurityContext = false;//oldBinding.ProxyAddress = new Uri("http://BIGASSLAPTOP:8888");//oldBinding.UseDefaultWebProxy = false;//remove the timestampBindingElementCollection elements = oldBinding.CreateBindingElements();elements.Find<SecurityBindingElement>().IncludeTimestamp = false;//sets the content type to application/soap+xmlelements.Find<TextMessageEncodingBindingElement>().MessageVersion = MessageVersion.Soap12;CustomBinding newBinding = new CustomBinding(elements);FooPortTypeClient svc = new FooPortTypeClient(newBinding, new EndpointAddress("https://example.com/foo/v1"));FooRequest req = new FooRequest();//...etc...now it's just request and response. Unfortunate, but I'll put this configuration of a custom binding, and hopefully when they fix it, it'll be a configuration change. This at least got us to a point where I can reliably call their web services. Long day, but interesting stuff. About Scott Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author. About Newsletter Sponsored By Hosting By Comments [35] Share on: Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or use the Permalink


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USB Audio Power is a breakthrough in Home Theater Entertainment audio quality. Using an unique design, the USB ports onboard provide a TRUE 5V signal that doesn't drop when more devices are connected.This simply means better signal quality over USB, especially for devices that rely on a perfect signal, like USB DAC's as they rely on a perfect transmission of audio bits from the motherboard to the DAC. This also means that external low-noise power supplies are no longer essential for better audio quality as USB Audio Power is able to deliver an optimum USB signal.
- - Enhances USB Audio Quality
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|"Are you a wizard or not?"
The title of this article is conjectural. Although it is based on canonical information, the actual name is a conjecture and may be supplanted at any time by additional information released from canonical sources. If this occurs, please move this page to the appropriate title.
- Hermione Granger: "Hagrid, what is it"
- Harry Potter: "What's this, Hagrid?"
- — Harry and Hermione on the letter they noticed.[src]
This letter was written by Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry School Governors to Rubeus Hagrid on 19 December, 1993.
Dear Mr Hagrid,
Further to our inquiry into the attack by a hippogriff on a student in your class, we have accepted the assurances of Professor Dumbledore that you bear no responsibility for the regrettable incident.
However, we must register our concern about the hippogriff in question. We have decided to uphold the official complaint of Mr Lucius Malfoy, and this matter will therefore be taken to the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures. The hearing will take place on April 20th, and we ask you to present yourself and your hippogriff at the Committee's offices in London on that date. In the meantime, the hippogriff should be kept tethered and isolated.
Yours in fellowship…[2]
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (First appearance)
- Pottermore
Notes and references
- ↑ Harry Potter Lexicon: Calendar - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 11 (The Firebolt)


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how to get the most out of oven space?
(This is a continuation of a discussion started here.)
I was starting to feel guilty hijacking weaverhouse's beautiful sourdough thread, xma, so I thought we could step over here. I agree about the potential for pan size--fantes carries a couple types of $7 7x I think 9 cookie sheet, you might take a look at that. I quite like their selection and service, I use them often when I want kitcheny stuff. I've just started baking my rounds on seperate sheets, a 12" pizza pan and my 10" cast iron griddle. It's working well for just the two, and there's still enough room to pop a bowl over them if I want.
The fresh loaf is so terrific--Asian, huh? and tiny? Well, me too, 5'1" right after a good stretch. I saw a movie (all right, I admit. Shaolin Soccer, it was) where an Asian, Chinese in this case, steamed bun featured somewhat prominently in the script. The bun was a kneaded white bread sort of thing, it looked delicious, though as you say, who connects bread with Asia?


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27 inmates break out from Brazilian prison
Authorities say 27 inmates escaped from a Brazilian penitentiary crawling through the sewage system.
An official at Rio de Janeiro state's Bangu prison complex told media that 31 prisoners attempted the break on Sunday. Within hours four were recaptured still inside the sewage system.
It is unclear what the prisoners were serving time for.
Rio state's Prison Affairs Department has ordered an investigation into the prison break.
The department did not respond to repeated requests for more details.


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Do you know what an Inside Joke is? It's a joke that only works inside my head! That's an Inside Joke. And by the way, that, in itself, is an Inside Joke! However, since you are here, why don't you check out some of my other blogs: IT's Lost Art of Software Engineering: https://softwareengineeringhandbook.wordpress.com/ […]
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An Inside JokeJune 18, 2017
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Heart Attack? This could maintain your life just long enough…April 7, 2015
Please take 2 minutes and read this:- Let's say it's 7.25pm and you're going home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up in to your jaw. […]
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