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When I talk to developers about App Cloud, they often ask, "How is App Cloud different from PhoneGap?" Without missing a beat, I give my stock answer: "PhoneGap is great, but App Cloud gives you so much more." The matter of more has always nagged at me—more is not necessarily better—so I decided to do an apples-to-apples comparison from a Web developer's perspective. I built the same app twice, first on PhoneGap, then on App Cloud, and graded each system on the strength of its platform capabilities, development model, and service offerings.
Spoiler alert: Both App Cloud and PhoneGap are winners! Skip to the end to see my conclusions.
First impressions
PhoneGap: I located and downloaded the latest version of the PhoneGap SDK in about 15 seconds without any fumbling. This made a great first impression. And I noticed PhoneGap offers a public archive and full documentation of its old SDKs, which gave me peace of mind as a developer. Finally, I found phonegap.com to be neatly organized, with clear pathways to documentation, community support, and case studies.
App Cloud: I registered for a free account before downloading the SDK. (If you're impatient like me, you'll find the registration step annoying. But it's necessary if you want to use cloud services like cloud compilation, push notifications, and analytics.) After registering, I landed in App Cloud Studio, where I found links to the SDK, the Workshop app, video tutorials and community support. I downloaded the SDK and the Workshop app.
Getting started
PhoneGap: I unzipped the SDK, cracked open the getting started guides, and followed the instructions for setting up my development environments on iOS and Android. What looked simple on paper turned out to be insanely complicated.
Getting started on iOS required downloading and installing XCode. But to download XCode, I had to upgrade my operating system to version 10.7 from version 10.6.8. This took four hours.
Getting started on Android was even more of an exercise in patience. I downloaded Eclipse, then the Android SDK, then the Android Developer Tools plugin. At each pass I was presented a dizzying array of options. For example, there were 12 versions of Eclipse and 11 versions of the Android SDK:
Whew! All told, getting started with PhoneGap took nearly a whole day, and I had yet to write a single line of code.
App Cloud: Getting started with App Cloud was a breeze by comparison. First I downloaded the Workshop app onto my iPhone and Android phone. Then I unzipped the SDK, double-clicked the Node.js installer, ran the startup script, and opened the App Cloud development server in my browser. In about ten minutes, I was ready to start coding.
Hello World!
PhoneGap: I opened XCode and followed PhoneGap's "Hello World" instructions for creating a new Cordova iOS project from a shell script. This appeared to work until I tried running the project in the iPhone simulator:
As it turned out, the local copy of the getting started guide was out of date and omitted a key step: installing the Cordova library. I deleted the project, installed the Cordova library, and ran the script again. Then I tweaked index.html and opened the app in the simulator:
Nice! Getting the app onto my iPhone was a bit trickier. I had to register my device in the iOS Provisioning Portal, then create a provisioning profile, then create a development certificate, then install the certificate. While these steps are necessary to create an iOS app in any framework, it was cumbersome to go through these motions just to run my "Hello World" app.
As for Android, it once again threw me for a loop. I simply couldn't get my "Hello World" app to run in the Android Emulator despite all my attempts to create and launch an Android Virtual Device in Eclipse. After a frustrating couple hours—even stackoverflow was no help—I managed to create a device image via the Android SDK Manager, then launch the emulator:
App Cloud: I ran the provided Node.js script to create a starter app inside App Cloud's development server. Then I popped open Chrome and navigated to the app:
I made a few changes to a CSS file and refreshed the web browser—a quick win. Then I opened the Workshop app on my iPhone and scanned the QR code that appeared in the web browser. In three seconds, the app loaded on my phone. I made some more changes to the CSS and pulled down the "Refresh" tab in the Workshop. The changes appeared. Then I did the same thing on my Galaxy Nexus.
I've gone through this process a thousand times now, yet I'm always floored by it. In just a few minutes, I was previewing an app on both iOS and Android, making changes, and seeing the changes take effect immediately. And I did it without XCode, without the Android Developer Tools, and without any specific knowledge of native app development.
Structuring the app
PhoneGap: I wanted my sample app, a simple news reader, to have two distinct views, one for displaying the latest news and one for displaying my saved articles. I assumed I could use two HTML pages to create the backing for these views, but I was surprised to learn that I had to build my entire PhoneGap app within the context of a single HTML page. I imagined my code would get pretty messy without using a JavaScript MVC framework to manage it, and I worried about the performance implications of doing too many things inside one page.
I was also disappointed by the lack of support for native navigation across iOS and Android, so I had to roll my own navigation in HTML. Not wanting to use an iOS-style tab bar on Android or an Android-style action bar on iOS, I settled on a generic design that would accommodate both platforms.
Finally, I found no built-in functions for handling basic tasks like scrolling and pagination. After exploring a few different UI libraries, I decided to install jQuery Mobile, a popular tool for building mobile web sites.
App Cloud: Unlike PhoneGap, App Cloud apps are backed by multiple HTML files, each corresponding to an independent view in the UI. A typical content-driven app might have four or five views, and the developer can choose whether or not to display native navigation to help the user navigate from view to view. In this sense, the UI is truly "hybrid." On iOS, users see the familiar tab bar and "More …" menu; on Android, users see an action bar.
As I discovered early on, spreading code and functionality across multiple views is a good thing for a few reasons. First, the native container can unload individual views if it needs to free up memory (instead of crashing). Second, developers can neatly organize their code by view (each HTML page has its own DOM, its own CSS, and its own JavaScript). Finally, because the app is broken into multiple views, the code itself is more portable.
App Cloud has a thin UI layer, but it does 90% of what I need: "tap" events, smooth scrolling, and page transitions inside a single view. I like having these basic functions available out of the box. As with PhoneGap, App Cloud lets you drop in third-party JavaScript libraries. (I've used many, including Moment.js for date formatting and Hammer.js for gesture support.)
Another nice feature: App Cloud loads HTML "templates" from plain text files on the device's file system and populates them in the bc.templates object. This makes it easy to separate control logic from presentation logic using Markup.js (included in the App Cloud SDK) or a templating framework of your choosing.
Making the app
PhoneGap: Even though I was able to use my favorite text editor and stage the app on a local web server (Apache), I still had to run XCode and Eclipse in order to build and preview the app on my iPhone and Nexus. Every few minutes I went through the same motions: 1. Switch contexts from my text editor to Xcode, then to Eclipse. 2. Run the app in the iPhone simulator, then in the Android emulator. 3. Deploy to each device. This got tiresome. (I looked at PhoneGap Build as a potential time saver, but it didn't strike me as a convenient development tool. It's a build tool, as the name implies. I also looked at Hydration but got scared away by the docs. What's a "non-Hydrated binary equivalent?")
At this point it occurred to me that I was dealing with two different code bases to make two different apps, one for iOS and one for Android. A fellow engineer suggested I create a symbolic link between the www directories in each project, which seemed kludgy to me.
App Cloud: I staged my app in App Cloud's local development server (running on Node.js) and tested much of it in Chrome. When it came to testing the app on my iPhone and Nexus, I simply pulled it up in the Workshop app.
The Workshop app extends the development model that all web developers have come to know: Code, refresh, repeat. The ability to test an app incrementally—without long delays and without having to reboot the app—saves a tremendous amount of time and frustration.
Finally, unlike PhoneGap, I was working with a single code base of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files, even though I was building for iOS and Android at the same time. There was simply less code to move around.
Working with content
PhoneGap: I pulled an RSS feed directly from my web site using jQuery's get() method. Then I converted it to JavaScript object with the help of an XML to JSON plugin. To cache content on the device, I used localStorage methods.
App Cloud: As with PhoneGap, I used $.get() to pull down the RSS. When it came to storing data on the device, I used bc.core.cache(), which uses a Least Recently Used algorithm to clear data if the cache ever fills up. App Cloud's caching function also handles serialization and deserialization of objects.
Taking it a step further, I decided to run my data through an App Cloud content feed, then load it using the SDK method bc.core.getData(). This service has multiple benefits: First, it lightens the load on the origin server (in my case, a small Wordpress site). The App Cloud server periodically fetches new data, caches it, and makes it highly available to thousands of devices. Second, App Cloud reduces the size of the payload by eliminating unnecessary data fields. Third, App Cloud converts the data from XML to JSON on the server side, flattens it, compresses it, and provides a convenient interface for accessing it.
Working with the device
PhoneGap: While I didn't really take advantage of native device capabilities, I noticed that PhoneGap's device API is more mature than App Cloud's. For example, PhoneGap supports access to the contacts database and compass. It also has a nice interface for determining the device's connection type. And the API itself is very well organized.
App Cloud: While App Cloud offered less in the way of device capabilities, there were some built-in features that I found to be invaluable. First, it's often necessary to display external web content without forcing the user to leave the app. For this reason, the App Cloud SDK makes it extremely easy to open native modal windows. (PhoneGap has some plugins for this, but they require extra configuration.) Second, many types of content apps require multiple, distinct views. By default, App Cloud supports multiple views backed by native navigation controls. Developers can hide the navigation bar outright or toggle it via bc.device.enterFullScreen() and bc.device.exitFullScreen().
Note, App Cloud will soon release its own plugin development kit that allows developers to create custom native functionality on top of the App Cloud SDK.
Running the app
PhoneGap: From a distance, it was hard to distinguish between PhoneGap and App Cloud. But there were a couple issues with PhoneGap. First, I was unhappy with the smooth scrolling (or lack thereof) in jQuery Mobile, my chosen UI layer. I considered switching to Kendo UI Mobile, but I didn't want to pay $199 for it. I also looked at Sencha Touch, but it was too bulky (a 55MB download). I settled on iScroll. Problem solved. Second, the part of my UI that displayed multiple images (at 150KB each) was noticeably slower to load.
App Cloud: I cheated here and used App Cloud's image transcoding API, even though it's not part of the free edition (App Cloud Core). I cropped and scaled each thumbnail image on the fly, shaving nearly 1MB off the total payload and speeding up the rendering of the UI. Sure, I could have cut up these images by hand, but that's simply not practical to do when delivering dynamic images to multiple platforms across many types of devices.
I also saved a few cycles by loading my data through an App Cloud content feed. Not only was the payload smaller, I didn't need to convert it from XML to JSON on the client.
App Cloud's smooth scrolling was also faster than iScroll when handling complex content.
One final note on performance: Both apps ran faster on iOS than on Android.
Building the app
PhoneGap: Since I had already done the hard work of setting up XCode and the Android Developer Tools, building the app for production was relatively straightforward. I just repeated what I had already done a dozen times during development (although I added my own icons and loading images).
App Cloud: I zipped up the directory containing my static assets—HTML, CSS, JS, etc.—and uploaded it to App Cloud Studio. Then I clicked "Publish App" and was asked to enter tons of provisioning information for iOS and Android. Although tedious, this process was certainly easier than having to build the apps myself, and at the end I was able to download an IPA file for iOS and an APK file for Android.
And the winner is ...
I think PhoneGap and App Cloud are both winners, but in different categories. PhoneGap wins for having a more robust device API, great documentation and examples, and a large ecosystem of plugins. (As I mentioned above, App Cloud is about to release its own plugin framework, and it will support many PhoneGap plugins.) App Cloud wins for its elegant development model—the Workshop app is simply unmatched—and for its array of cloud services.
The biggest distinction is this: While PhoneGap is a development platform, App Cloud is a development platform and an operational platform at the same time. In my simple demo app, I took advantage of two App Cloud services: image transcoding and content feed optimization. I also compiled my iOS and Android apps in the cloud from a single code base. In a more complex app, I would use App Cloud's push notification system, real-time analytics, and remote configuration capabilities. Sure, these things are possible with PhoneGap, but not without cobbling together lots of moving parts from many different vendors.
I encourage web developers who are exploring hybrid-native solutions to evaluable both platforms as I have. You might find PhoneGap to be exactly what you're looking for: a cross-platform development kit. But if you need more in the way of services (image transcoding, content optimization, push notifications, etc.) and less in the way of heavy toolchains (XCode and Eclipse), take App Cloud for a spin.
Both App Cloud and PhoneGap have a lot to offer. I hope they continue to push each other—and web developers—forward.


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This will be my third Brighton. This time I am travelling down twice from London probably on the train so I can enjoy the comfort of my own bed and avoid doing too much walking the day before.
In 2013 I stayed overnight in Three Bridges and family dropping off near the start and subsequently parking at an NCP multi storey in town.
Last year I again stayed at the Holiday Inn express in Three Bridges and took the train down while my family took a later train and saw me pass at three miles. That worked quite well apart from having to head to Preston Park for the mini miles. Felt sorry for the juniors as it lacked the attention being away from the sea front. Ended up doing too much walking as a result.
Matiakez said:Planning on finding an air b n b for the weekend, however after some advice about how easy it is to get into Brighton on the morning? Basically is staying on the outskirts and travelling ok Or is it best to stay central.
I notice the park and ride is sold out already.
Depends what you mean by outskirts - there's lots of non city centre Brighton that's in walking distance of start, and walking is the best way of getting there (or cycle www.btnbikeshare.com). Apparently Taxis charge silly prices and because of road closures that go in from 6.30?am car or taxi are tricky without local knowledge. Most buses will be running properly again by finish so you can get back there. buses.co.uk
If you mean outside Brighton and Hove, driving in is easy...but...parking is not! City centre car parks are very expensive and queues to get out afterwards are terrible! London Road car park is possibly the best bet but with road closures you have to know how to get there. On street parking is limited and expensive unless you park outside the restricted area. Otherwise, find somewhere on a train line and get the train to Brighton or from the east, London Road.
Found this thread hard to find as it does not have marathon in the title just Brighton 2019. Can this be changed does anyone know?
Im in again, same as every other year as this is my A race. Training starts for me this week following P&D schedule.
Blimey someone posting on this thread (cue tumbleweed)
my training has come to a bit of a halt with plantar fasciitis . so a few weeks rest but had a good training base pre Christmas so should be ok.
picking up numbers is annoying but all major marathons do it. well done on getting a room. will be a great weekend. It always is.
Thanks Eagle, first run back today and only discomfort running so will run through it and stretch and roll etc (might be tricky to ice after a run as I normally run lunchtimes at work)
Hope the hammies ease up after the phsio, that's a big muscle to cause pain.
What time are you aiming for at Brighton?
EE - That's not good 3 months is getting chronic really. 3:03 is a pretty awesome time. 3:20 should be a gentle trot round for you.
Im probably going to end up around a similar time 3:15-3:20 but aiming for London GFA sub 3:10, I used to sneak under the 3:15 but now they have lowered it to sub 3:10. See how the training goes and the PF issue.
Sounds like me EE , I have stopped running a few times, not chasing PBs, as they are gone but as you get some enjoyment out of it. none of us on here are going to be winning it!
nice 18 miles. I only managed 16.5 at the weekend you are one up on me already lol (cut my run short as foot started to hurt a bit so decided to be cautious)
I keep saying that bringing things to the boil... however come April I will be thinking "Aghhhhh Ive left it too late"!
10 mile LT run today. Cant say I'm looking forward to it!
I've just signed up for a charity place for Brighton. Will be my second time, did it in 2011 and I'm hoping it's not as hot this year as it was then. Loved the race though and am looking forward to it. Just got airb&b in central area, looks about 15 mins walk to the start.
I did 3.28 in 2011, realistically hoping for sub-3.40 this time round. I'm doing 30+miles per week but am trying to not peak too early!
Seems to be hot at Brighton marathon most years - The weather gods always come out to play on that day!
EE - LT pace is half marathon pace. so you run 10-12 miles with 4-7 miles at same pace you race a half marathon. I find them the hardest of all runs
Blimey EE you are getting the long ones in already. 4 long runs...
I've only done a 16 miler and 20, but that was off the back of some good base training end of last year.
I kept pretty much to 8 min miles then last 2 miles at MP. Felt ok, so quite pleased.

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My name's Daniela, I'm 29 and I live in Virrey del Pino, a suburban neighbourhood in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. I work in the public sector as a technician in the Historical Museum of La Matanza (HMLM). My job consists in taking up excavations and planning outreach activities, sometimes it includes speaking in public events. I've dug some areas in the Museum backyard ("El Pino" site) and also in another site near it ("La Elvira" site) , so if you want to see pictures of them check out our Archaeology Lab Facebook Page and its Blog (both in Spanish).
Well, the title preaches "Exploring digital tools…", and that means that what I'm going to write about is the use of photographs for reconstructing objects and surfaces, which is what we've been doing recently (let's call it "a project"). It should be mention that exploring this technique was Marcelo Vitores' idea. I wasn't sure it would worth it, but he insisted. And he was right! The results we obtained were really good.
Budget and curiosity were the motivation for exploring this "tool". As almost any archaeologist in the Third World, we couldn't buy a laser scanner because of the limited budget, but we thought we should find a way to make the most out of our existing equipment. Then curiosity made its part, by leading us through the exciting road of image-base modelling (IBM). There are different options within IBM, but the one we used is structure-from-motion (SFM). In simple words, it's a method for obtaining a 3D cloudpoint, which consist of a .ply file where the recognized features (points) from the photos are displayed in 3D. The resulting pointcloud can be used to create a 3D model. This means that with only a digital camera and a computer/laptop we could get similar results to those of laser scanning. For processing the photos we used Phyton Photogrammetry Toolbox and for editing the pointcloud we used Meshlab. See more pictures in this Facebook album and also in these Blog posts, or browse the models in 3D in Sketchfab.
Many archaeologists and cultural heritage professionals are including SFM in their activities. Besides the uses for public outreach, having the 3D models allows you to measure, section, compare, etc. If you take the time to record every level excavated (and I'm sure it's something you already do), you can build a sequence of surfaces, like the layers in a cake. Here's a sample of our models. In this case, I used archived photos of an excavation and I obtained the model shown in the link (since I couldn't embed the model here's a picture of it; visit the link to navigate the model in 3D).
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- "How to make 3d scan with pictures and the PPT GUI" by ATOR (Arc-Team Open Research)
- "Python Photogrammetry Toolbox: A free solution for Three-Dimensional Documentation" by Moulon and Bezzi
- "Modelado tridimensional de hallazgos mediante software fotogramétrico" by Vitores and Ávido (in Spanish)
- "El archivo fotográfico como fuente para la reconstrucción tridimensional" by Ávido and Vitores (in Spanish)
- "Fotogrametría + Imágenes de internet. Nuevas posibilidades" by P. A. R. Tecnologías de Representación Gráfica del Patrimonio (in Spanish)
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Mr Mario Pennisi, CEO, LifeScience Queensland, Australia
There is no doubt that the world is still in a delicate financial balance, with no significant chance of that improving in 2013. This overall situation, combined with the continued strength of the Australian currency and the slowing of the Australian economy, means we will be looking to the government, both federal and state, to work with us and our members to ensure that there is still an appropriate level of stimulus that provides the continued impetus required to attract investment and activity across the life sciences in Australia.
However, we are working on our priorities and to leverage the opportunities already in place and some new initiatives, such as the TIA-Qld Node, which has been active in pursuing industry collaborations. I expect it will continue to gather pace into 2013 and beyond.
We are also opening Translational Research Institute and DSM Biologics Manufacturing Facility in 2013 will provide a substantially increased level of capacity and capabilities not already available elsewhere in Australia and that will help build an increased level of activity and confidence. Furthermore, the Queensland government has started to roll out initiatives across the sector, and it will begin the task of consolidating responses and implementing their priorities. The first consultation paper is Agriculture Strategy.
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Instead, the 29-year-old Greenwich resident is on a yearlong sabbatical, her days devoted to her new project, a pay-it-forward website for classrooms.
The project is one woman's response to tragedy.
Friday morning, Dec. 14, 2012, was a peaceful time, before 9:30, in Roig-DeBellis' first grade class. One of her students was absent that day, but the other 15 sat raptly listening to their teacher.
"We were in morning meeting, which is my favorite part of the day," Roig-DeBellis recalled. "It is the calmest part of the day; it is one of the quietest times of the day. So it was a blessing that that's where we were when the shooting began because they were very calm and quiet and I had their undivided attention."
The shooting began. In a neighborhood elementary school.
She heard gunman Adam Lanza, 20, a former Sandy Hook student, blasting through the glass in the front entrance.
"Our proximity to where he shot in, we couldn't have been any closer, really. So the second it started I closed the door and I turned off the lights. And then I literally turned around and told them, 'Into the bathroom, now."'
For 45 minutes, Roig-DeBellis comforted her students, keeping them from any crying outbursts for fear the slightest noise might draw gunfire.
The school principal and psychologist lay dead in the hallway.
The gunman reached two other first-grade classrooms, killing 20 children and four other educators. Then he killed himself.
Long after her class was rescued by police, Roig-DeBellis still did not know the death toll.
Parents of those children huddled in the small bathroom remain indebted to the teacher.
"All of us consider her our personal hero," said Erin Milgrim, whose daughter was in that class that day. "How do you thank somebody who thinks everyone is going to die, and yet she's telling your child she loves them. That is not something you will ever repay."
Roig-DeBellis leans lightly on a pillow — with the words "To the moon and back" — on the black leather couch in her Greenwich apartment as she talks about the future.
The 29-year-old married Nick DeBellis in August, after teaching summer school. She is training to run in the New York City Marathon Nov. 3.
Her demeanor is meticulous, energetic, motivated.
Her focus now is on an endeavor she conceived in January: the "Classes 4 Classes" kindness "pay it forward" initiative that allows students from kindergarten through fifth-grade to make a donation to students in other classes anywhere in the country.
Initially after the shootings, Roig-DeBellis was something of a Sandy Hook personality. That very day, she was interviewed by ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer and immediately was the photogenic face of courage for the nation.
She granted interviews to Sawyer multiple times as well as other national news organizations.
She was a guest of President Barack Obama at the State of the Union address in January.
Closer to home, she was the feature profile in the September edition of Greenwich Magazine.
Outwardly strong, inwardly she was struggling.
For the first couple weeks after the shooting, she was terrified to be alone.
"I couldn't shower with the door closed; I couldn't sleep in the dark. I didn't go into a store alone ...It was such a sense that this could happen again."
For a while, she was out of the national spotlight and in her classroom at the new Sandy Hook school in Monroe, which Newtown education officials have sequestered from the general public.
The teacher is reluctant to talk about why she chose to take a sabbatical. There had been tensions between some Sandy Hook teachers and the district administration over several issues -- how quickly the school would try to return to some version of normal; how public should educators be in discussing the tragedy; what were the best ways for the school community to deal with its anguish.
Board of Education member Bill Hart said he knows no specifics behind Roig-DeBellis' leave, though, certainly he is aware that the district has been sensitive to providing resources to any staff or student struggling to cope with the trauma from the shootings.
For this school year, the school district's counseling staff has been increased considerably through a $1.5 million federal grant dedicated to schools that have experienced an extreme trauma.
"Everybody is struggling with the right way for these kids to heal. Nobody has a definite answer for that," Hart said. "I think certainly her (Roig-DeBellis) heart is in the right place."
Roig-DeBellis will say only that she decided to take a leave of absence after finishing the 2012-13 school year to give herself personal time as well as to focus on her education project.
"I owe it to Classes 4 Classes to give it all my energy to impact as many children as possible because it's so important," she said.
The lesson is kindness
Upon the return from Christmas break, the Sandy Hook school and Newtown community were deluged with gifts from all over the world.
Cupcakes and Happy Meals, story books and stuffed animals. All was appreciated, and Roig-DeBellis enjoyed seeing her children's faces light up with such acts of generosity.
But she wanted to turn gratitude into action.
"We were getting and getting, and that's great, but if I don't teach my kids that when you get that you have to give back then I'm missing it here," said Roig-DeBellis, who grew up volunteering for such charities as the downtown soup kitchen.
In response to receiving so much, her class raised money to buy a class in Tennessee an electronic blackboard device. That class then raised money for an Arizona class to buy markers and a whiteboard.
"In life, the best thing you can do when someone does something nice for you is to do something nice for someone else because it keeps the kindness going," Roig-DeBellis instructed.
From that, the non-profit project began. The official launch of the updated, interactive website — www.classes4classes.org — is slated for mid-October.
"We want this to become a global movement," said Patrick Morrow, chairman of the six-member Board of Directors.
The project specifies that a class collects its donation — from family members to a club or business looking for a charity to endorse — only after it schedules a donation for another class.
The organization recommends classroom requests between $250 and $1,000. Classes 4 Classes adds a 15 percent fee to cover its operating expenses.
With the updated website, Morrow said, class profiles will be kept up for 60 days to raise donations.
"I was just blown away," Morrow said of the concept. "To have someone go through a tragedy like that and to be able to turn it into something so powerful...it's a phoenix rising from the ashes."
The goal is to instill in children the desire to be kind and generous to others, particularly those less fortunate.
"I think after experiencing what they did on that day, and the overwhelming abundance of things they were just getting and getting, I think it was extremely positive for them to have the experience of helping someone else," Roig-DeBellis said. "We're taking some power back. We're taking control back from a situation where they had none."
Even for the Sandy Hook School community, the epicenter of the tragedy, the way forward is as varied as each child or staff member.
"We all experienced an extreme tragedy ... but everyone's experience on 12/14 was very different," Roig DeBellis said of respecting every individual's journey through the grief. "What you heard, what you saw, and coming out of the experience, who you lost. And everyone continues to be on their own level of healing ... There is no rule book with instructions. And there aren't any answers."
It is clear, though, that the teacher helped her students deal with their emotions by showing kindness to others.
Milgrim said her daughter Lauren wanted to follow her teacher's lead. She started sharing her ample supply of stuffed animals whenever she visited anyone.
"We plan to be in touch forever," Milgrim said of her daughter's first grade teacher. "She is a very, very special special person."
For the coming school year, operating strictly on a volunteer basis, Roig-DeBellis will travel wherever she is requested to talk about Classes 4 Classes.
Then she is returning to the classroom. At this time, she said the plan is to rejoin the Sandy Hook faculty.
She is quick to say she has never stopped being a teacher, nor did she ever want to be anything else.
"I still am a teacher this year," she said. "But instead of one classroom I have hundreds of classrooms."
She has come far from Dec. 14, just one struggle of so many in the community. But at the same time, that day is never far from her thoughts.
"It's a constant," she said. "It's the first thing I think about when I wake up and the last thing I think of when I go to bed.'


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By Ronald Grover and Chris Michaud
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK Sun Mar 16, 2014 2:28pm EDT
Cast member Ty Burrell attends the premiere of the film "Mr. Peabody and Sherman" in Los Angeles March 5, 2014.
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LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Mr. Peabody & Sherman" won the weekend box office derby with $21.2 million in ticket sales, outpacing both last week's winner "300: Rise of An Empire" and video game turned car racing movie "Need for Speed."
The animated "Mr. Peabody & Sherman," which opened a week earlier in the No. 2 spot, overtook last week's winner, the Greek-era action film "300: Rise of an Empire" which collected $19.1 million from Friday to Sunday, according to studio estimates.
"Need for Speed" settled for third place on its opening weekend with ticket sales of $17.8 million at U.S. and Canadian theaters.
"Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club," the weekend's other new movie, was fifth behind "Non-Stop," selling $8.3 million worth of tickets. The Liam Neeson airliner thriller made $10.6 million.
The stunt-filled "Need for Speed," starring Aaron Paul of the AMC television series "Breaking Bad," had hoped to capitalize on the video game franchise's appeal to a young audience, but fell short of Hollywood's forecast of a $22 million-to-$25 million opening weekend. Paul stars as a street racer who seeks revenge after being framed for the death of a close friend.
"The tracking had shown the younger audience was as hot as could be," said Dave Hollis, executive vice president of film distribution at Walt Disney Studios, which released the film produced by Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks studio.
"So when they didn't show, yes it leaves us disappointed," said Hollis. "But the good news is the folks who did come really liked it," he noted, citing moviegoer polls, and adding that the studio was hopeful that strong word of mouth with approaching school and Easter holidays would stoke the box office.
The film, which cost about $66 million, took in about $63 million globally during its opening, Hollis said.
"Mr. Peabody & Sherman," which features the talking dog Mr. Peabody and his adopted boy, Sherman, is the latest animated film from Hollywood to enjoy a strong audience reception following Disney's "Frozen" and "The Lego Movie" from Warner Brothers.
The film, based on the "Peabody's Improbable History" segments in the 1960s animated TV show starring the characters Rocky and Bullwinkle, has taken in more than $63 million since its opening on March 7 and had the relatively unusual experience
of moving up into the top box office spot on a weekend other than its opening one.
"300: Rise of an Empire," a blood-splattered sequel to the 2006 blockbuster "300″ about the war between Greeks and Persians, has generated $78 million since its March 7 opening, according to box office tracking service Rentrak.
The film, based on a graphic novel by author Frank Miller and produced by Legendary Pictures, stars Australian actor Sullivan Stapleton as the Greek leader Themistocles and French actress and model Eva Green as the ruthless commander of the Persian forces. It added another $41 million this weekend in foreign markets.
In a limited run, "Veronica Mars," starring Kristen Bell in a film adaption of the TV series that ran on the UPN and The CW networks from 2004 to 2007, collected ticket sales of $2 million at 291 theaters.
The film was financed with $5.7 million in contributions from more than 91,000 fans of the show who responded to pleas from Kirsten Bell and the show's creator Rob Thomas through crowdsourcing platform Kickstarter.
"The Grand Budapest Hotel," Wes Anderson's whimsical caper film starring Ralph Fiennes, Bill Murray and Owen Wilson, continued to chalk up impressive ticket sales with $3.6 million at just 66 theaters. Last week it set an industry record $200,000 per screen average over three days playing in only four theaters.
Walt Disney distributed "Need for Speed." Warner Brothers, a unit of Time Warner, distributed "300: Rise of an Empire," "The Lego Movie" and "Veronica Mars."
Fox, a unit of Twenty-First Century Fox, distributed "Son of God," and "Mr. Peabody & Sherman." "The Grand Budapest Hotel" was distributed by Fox Searchlight, a unit of Fox.
Lionsgate released "Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club."
(Reporting By Ronald Grover and Chris Michaud; Editing by Rosalind Russell)
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By Susan Greer Canadian Press
March 11, 2014 , London, Ont. – Corned beef and cabbage is
about as authentically Irish as pizza. But in North America, and particularly
in the U.S., it is synonymous with the celebration of St. Patrick's Day.
March 11, 2014 , London, Ont. – Corned beef and cabbage is
about as authentically Irish as pizza. But in North America, and particularly
in the U.S., it is synonymous with the celebration of St. Patrick's Day.
The story goes that impoverished Irish
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He also says there is no spike in Canadian
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Mary Shabatura and her family grow about 40
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on the weather, they will plant their spring crop in April for harvest as early
as June, with additional plantings in May and June. The early varieties take 50
to 60 days to mature, while the hardier storage type — mainly the green cabbage
— take about 120 days, she says.
"For the spring ones, you won't get as
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Green cabbage has the strongest taste, she
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texture) and is a milder cabbage (in taste)."
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Napa cabbage, sometimes called Chinese
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head of romaine lettuce than a typical head of cabbage and has the mildest
Shabatura uses cabbage a lot in her
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The key to combating the smell of cooking
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Other suggestions include using
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and adding a bay leaf, a little vinegar or lemon juice to the pot. Vinegar or
lemon juice will also preserve the bright colour of red cabbage.
Cabbage is a versatile vegetable. It can be
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Nutritionally it is a good source of
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When buying cabbage, look for firm, heavy
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Senate Democrats are on the warpath against the House-passed Cut, Cap and Balance Act. They have taken to calling it the "Cut, Cap, and Kill Medicare Act." At a press conference on Wednesday, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) aptly summed up the left's characterizations of the legislation, calling it "cruel, dangerous, and stupid." Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on Thursday called it "some of the worst legislation in the history of this country."
But a CNN poll released Thursday shows that two-thirds of Americans support the system established by the CCB Act. Sixty-six percent of respondents said they approved of a plan under which "Congress would raise the debt ceiling only if a balanced budget amendment were passed by both houses of Congress and substantial spending cuts and caps on future spending were approved." Sixty-three percent of Democrats and 65 percent of independents said they would approve of such a plan.
The CCB Act does just that: It caps spending at 19.9 percent of GDP (not at 18 percent, as some, including numerous senators, have claimed), cuts $111 billion out of the fiscal 2012 budget, and requires a balanced budget amendment before Congress can raise the debt ceiling.
An almost identical number of respondents (65 percent) said they were opposed to the "Gang of Six" plan floated by a group comprised of three senators from each party. Only 34 percent said they supported it. The plan has come under fire from a host of conservatives, including the Heritage Foundation's David Addington. Opposition to the Gang of Six plan also transcends party lines, according to the CNN poll: 60 percent of Democrats, 65 percent of Independents, and 70 percent of Republicans oppose the plan.
Unlike the CCB Act, the Gang of Six plan does not include a balanced budget amendment, which, according to this survey, Americans overwhelmingly support. A full 74 percent of respondents said they support a BBA. Sixty percent said one would be necessary to control federal spending.
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Victor Anichebe grabbed a late equaliser for West Brom on a night when Jose Mourinho's Chelsea barely looked like potential Barclays Premier League champions.
Chelsea were poised to move four points clear at the top of the table on the back of defender Branislav Ivanovic's injury-time strike in the first half at The Hawthorns.
But substitute Anichebe flicked home his third goal of the season in the 87th minute to make it 1-1 and thwart the Blues, who had lost on their last two visits to this part of the West Midlands.
After all the hype in the wake of their stunning win at Manchester City and Eden Hazard-inspired thumping of Newcastle on Saturday, Mourinho's side were undoubtedly off the boil against the Baggies.Perhaps Mourinho does have a point after all, that his side are the "little horses" in this year's championship race, as Arsenal and City will have the chance to take over at the summit on Wednesday.
Only Willian can claim to have had an impressive game as it was he who primarily pulled the strings, and who crucially set up the only goal of the first half just as Albion were on the brink of heading into the interval on the back of a creditable 0-0 scoreline.From Willian's corner into the near post, centre-back David Luiz was left unmarked to flick the ball on with his right foot to the far post where Ivanovic slotted home from three yards.
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With Anichebe on for Bifouma in the 73rd minute, the Nigerian glanced home Saido Berahino's cross three minutes from time to lift Albion back out of the relegation zone.Come the conclusion it was a fair result, and all credit to Albion who pressed and harried admirably throughout the entire game, even if they failed to record a single shot on target in the first 45 minutes.
It has been the desire of new head coach Pepe Mel to see his players give the opposition not a minute's respite, and Chelsea were rarely allowed any time on the ball at any stage.That was underlined by the minimal number of chances that came their way during the opening half prior to Ivanovic's injury-time effort.
The key ones fell Willian's way as he first saw a fierce 27th-minute drive flash just over the angle of bar and post.Three minutes from the break he picked up a loose ball on the edge of the area before chesting it down and sending a half-volley dipping over the goal.Then came Ivanovic's goal - a blow for Albion, although they had conjured just one chance of note in the first period.
That came as Morgan Amalfitano, Berahino and Bifouma - making his first start since his recent loan move from Espanyol - combined to tee up Brunt for a searing shot two yards wide.The first half was most notable for the boos that rang in the ears of Ramires - playing in place of Frank Lampard in the only change to the Chelsea team that beat Newcastle.Ramires was the player who contentiously earned Chelsea a penalty in the 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge in October, when Albion were seconds away from a shock victory.
The Albion fans certainly had not forgotten that moment as Ramires' every touch was greeted with jeers and catcalls.At one point he went down under a challenge from Bifouma, which left him requiring treatment, and resulted in a chorus of 'Let him die!' and even louder boos when he returned to the pitch.After the break Willian came the closest to extending Chelsea's lead, but found Foster in fine form.As the half wore on the home side finally found some impetus up front and began to create their opportunities prior to Anichebe coming up trumps to send the home fans into raptures.Just nine days ago, Anichebe had again come off the bench to salvage a point for Albion in a 1-1 home draw with Liverpool
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Klinge Corporation
B-309930.2: Feb 13, 2008
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Klinge Corporation protests the U.S. Marine Corps's (USMC) award of a contract to Sea Box, Ltd., under request for proposals (RFP) No. M67854-07-R-5060, for large field refrigeration systems (LFRS). Klinge asserts that Sea Box's proposal should have been rejected as unacceptable.
We deny the protest.
B-309930.2, Klinge Corporation, February 13, 2008
The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release.
Richard P. Rector, Esq., and Seamus Curley, Esq.,with the law firm of DLA Piper, for the protester.
Robert A. Farber, for Sea Box, Ltd., the intervenor.
David P. Ingold, Esq., and James McCloskey, Esq., U.S. Marine Corps, for the agency.
David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
Protest that awardee's proposed large field refrigeration system (LFRS) did not meet requirements of Trade Agreements Act is denied where agency, after requesting further information from awardee, reasonably determined that components of awardee's LFRS would be substantially transformed in U.S. and thus qualify as a U.S.-made end product.
Klinge Corporation protests the U.S. Marine Corps's (USMC) award of a contract to Sea Box, Ltd., under request for proposals (RFP) No. M67854-07-R-5060, for large field refrigeration systems (LFRS). Klinge asserts that Sea Box's proposal should have been rejected as unacceptable.
The solicitation provided for award of an indefinite'delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for a base period of 1 year, with four 1-year options, to furnish up to 300 LFRSs, as well as spare parts and training. Each LFRS was to be comprised of two primary components: (1) a 20-x-8-x-8-foot insulated container, compliant with International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards, with double doors at one 8'x'8'foot end, and (2) (to be installed at the opposite end of the container) an electrically-powered refrigeration/freezing/heater unit (RU).
The solicitation included a performance specification that divided the specified performance characteristics into Critical Performance Parameters that must be met for minimum acceptability, and other parameters that were only objectives and were subject to tradeoff in the best value analysis. RFP at 1; Performance Specification sections 1.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2. The solicitation also incorporated the standard Trade Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. sect. 2501 et seq.) clauses requiring (1) that offerors certify, [f]or all line items subject to the Trade Agreements clause of this solicitation, that each end product to be delivered under this contract, except those listed in paragraph (c)(2) of this provision, is a U.S.-made, qualifying country, or designated country end product, Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) sect. 252.225-7020, Trade Agreements Certificate; and (2) that the contractor deliver under this contract only U.S.-made, qualifying country, or designated country end products, absent exceptions not applicable here, DFARS sect. 252.225-7021(c), Trade Agreements. In this regard, DFARS standard clause 252.225-7021(a)(12), Trade Agreements, incorporated in the solicitation, provided that:
U.S.-made end product means an article that --
(1) Is mined, produced, or manufactured in the
; or United States
(2) Is substantially transformed in the
into a new and different article of commerce with a name, character, or use distinct from that of the article or articles from which it was transformed. United States
Award was to be made to the offeror whose proposal represented the best value based on four evaluation criteria: operational effectiveness, past performance, supportability, and price. RFP, Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) sect. 52.212-2, Evaluation''Commercial Items. Sea Box, Klinge and three other offerors submitted proposals. Based on its evaluation of the initial proposals, the Corps determined that Sea Box's proposal represented the best value and made award to that firm on
Klinge filed a protest with our Office challenging the award, asserting that (1) the agency had improperly determined Klinge's proposal to be unacceptable for failure to satisfy a Critical Performance Parameter in the performance specification''the requirement that the RU start and operate in ambient temperatures from '25 Fahrenheit (F.) to +131 F, Performance Specification sect. 3.9.1, and (2) Sea Box's proposal did not comply with the Trade Agreements provisions included in the RFP. In response to Klinge's protest, the USMC determined to take corrective action; it suspended performance under Sea Box's contract, established a competitive range of three offerors (including Klinge and Sea Box), and conducted discussions. We dismissed the protest as academic (B-309930,
In its September 6 letters opening discussions, the agency requested that Klinge and Sea Box (1) [p]lease provide specific test data or analysis that supports your claim of meeting the 131 degrees F. operating temperature Critical Performance Parameter; and (2) specifically identify the country of origin for each line item number and . . . address your compliance with DFARS 252.225-7021, Trade Agreements. Discussion Letters to Klinge and Sea Box,
We have considered each of Klinge's arguments and find that they are without merit. We discuss Klinge's primary arguments below.
Klinge asserts that Sea Box's proposal should have been rejected for failure to demonstrate compliance with the Trade Agreements requirement in the solicitation requiring that the offeror provide only U.S.'made, qualifying country, or designated country end products. DFARS sect. 252.225'7021(c).[1] We find Klinge's protest in this regard to be without merit.
Both Sea Box and Klinge proposed to utilize insulated containers manufactured (by the same company) in
Klinge proposed to ship the Chinese containers to the
As discussed above, the solicitation required an offeror either to (1) produce an item in the
The record indicates that the USMC determined that, under Sea Box's proposed approach, a substantial transformation would occur in the
When a bidder or offeror represents that it will furnish end products of designated or qualifying countries (including domestic end products) in accordance with the Trade Agreements Act, it is obligated under the contract to comply with that representation. If prior to award an agency has reason to believe that a firm will not provide compliant products, the agency should go beyond the firm's representation of compliance with the Act; however, where the contracting officer has no information prior to award that would lead to such a conclusion, the contracting officer may properly rely upon an offeror's representation without further investigation. Leisure-Lift, Inc., B-291878.3; B-292448.2,
The agency's evaluation and resulting determination of compliance was reasonable. As we noted in a recent decision, Pacific Lock Co., supra, at 3, neither the FAR nor DFARS provides guidance or examples to illustrate the circumstances under which an article is substantially transformed into a new and different item. Here, the contracting agency, in determining whether under Sea Box's proposal there would be a substantial transformation in the U.S., looked to whether significant work or processes necessary to the functioning as a refrigerated container system would occur in the U.S. Agency Supplemental Report,
In this regard, our review of the record supports the agency's determination that the information available to contracting officials concerning Sea Box's production process indicated that significant production activity would take place in the
Finally, the record indicates that the agency verified with Sea Box prior to award that significant, essential production activity remained to take place in the
Thus, it appears from the record that the information available to the contracting agency prior to award concerning Sea Box's contemplated production process indicated that the Singapore refrigeration units would be simply bolted to the Chinese containers in China, and that the work and processes necessary to combine the two components into a functioning refrigerated container systems, which would be substantial in terms of effort (whether measured by time required or cost), instead would first occur in the United States. Based on this information, the USMC determined that the components of Sea Box's LFRS would be substantially transformed in the
Spare Parts
Klinge asserts that language in Sea Box's proposal also called into question Sea Box's commitment to provide only U.S.'made, qualifying country, or designated country end products under Contract Line Item Number (CLIN) 0003, under which offerors were to propose and price a parts support package sufficient to support the LFRSs for a period of up to 2 years operation at a rate of 600 hours per year. DFARS sect. 252.225-7021(c). Klinge notes that Sea Box stated in its discussion response that its package is comprised of 32 discrete parts or items, substantially every one of which is manufactured in the
We have no reason to question the agency's determination that the reference in Sea Box's FPR, when discussing the parts support package, to substantially every one of which is manufactured in the United States, did not call into question Sea Box's commitment to furnish a compliant parts support package as reflected in Sea Box's overall certification that each end product to be delivered under this contract . . . is a U.S.-made, qualifying country, or designated country end product. Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) sect. 252.225-7020, Trade Agreements Certificate. Not only did the substantially every one of which language not clearly evidence an intention to take exception to Sea Box's overall certification of compliance, but, in addition, Sea Box specifically stated in its discussion response that one hundred percent (100%) of the CLIN 0003 2-Year Parts Support Package cost represents manufacturing efforts performed in the U.S. Sea Box Discussions Response,
Klinge asserts that the agency unreasonably determined that Sea Box's proposed LFRS satisfied a Critical Performance Parameter in section 3.9.1 of the performance specification''the requirement that the RU start and operate in ambient external temperatures from -25 F. to +131 F. Specifically, Klinge questions whether the agency had a basis for determining that Sea Box's LFRS could start and operate in ambient temperatures up to 131 F.
In this regard, market research conducted by the agency prior to issuance of the solicitation led the agency to conclude that it was uncertain whether Klinge and Sea Box could meet the ambient temperature requirement with a commercial product. Market Research, LFRS, at 12. However, Sea Box included in its initial proposal a specification matrix indicating [f]ull compliance with respect to the ambient temperature requirement. Sea Box Initial Proposal, Specification Matrix. In its discussion letter to Sea Box (after the agency undertook discussions as part of its corrective action in response to Klinge's initial protest), the USMC referred to a Carrier specification for the Carrier refrigeration unit proposed by Sea Box that had not been included in Sea Box's proposal. Agency Report,
Klinge asserts that the Carrier letter did not furnish a reasonable basis for finding Sea Box's proposal compliant with the ambient temperature requirement. We disagree. Although Klinge maintains that Sea Box was required to support its stated compliance with test data (similar to the data Klinge supplied in its own proposal), the language in the discussion letter on which Klinge relies did not establish a solicitation requirement for an offeror to furnish test data in support of its proposal such that failure to furnish such data required rejection of the proposal as unacceptable. Instead, as noted above, the agency's discussion letter simply requested that Sea Box (and Klinge) [p]lease provide specific test data or analysis. Discussion Letters,
The protest is denied.
Gary L. Kepplinger
General Counsel
[1] Designated countries are listed at DFARS sect. 252.225-7021(a)(3); qualifying countries are listed in DFARS sect. 225-872-1.
[2] Klinge also asserts that because Sea Box indicated in its FPR that testing would occur in China, the LFRS must have been essentially complete by that time. Sea Box's FPR, however, also provided for substantial testing to occur in the U.S., including 6 days of Contractor Testing, after the 10 days allotted to Install[ing] Interior components. Sea Box FPR, Work Breakdown Structure, at 1-2. In any case, Klinge's additional, testing argument was raised for the first time in Klinge's December 20, 2007 submission, which was filed more than 1 month after counsel for Klinge had received a copy of Sea Box's FPR on November 16 (and after Klinge had made a filing responsive to the November 16 document distribution and the agency had filed its report). As a general matter, under our Bid Protest Regulations, protests based on other than solicitation improprieties must be filed within 10 calendar days of when the protester knew or should have known their bases. 4 C.F.R. sect. 21.2(a)(2) (2007). Moreover, where a protester initially files a timely protest, and later supplements it with independent grounds of protest, the later-raised allegations must independently satisfy the timeliness requirements. FR Countermeasures, Inc., B'295375, Feb. 10, 2005, 2005 CPD para. 52 at 9. Likewise, where a protester raises a broad ground of protest in its initial submission but fails to provide details within its knowledge until later, so that a further response from the agency would be needed for us to adequately review the matter, these later, more specific arguments and issues cannot be considered unless they independently satisfy the timeliness requirements under our Regulations. Planning and Development Collaborative Int'l, B-299041, Jan. 24, 2007, 2007 CPD para. 28 at 11; Biospherics, Inc., B-285065,
[3] As further explained by Sea Box in response to the protest, the Chinese container is manufactured with one end open; the refrigeration unit is seated in a metal panel and the panel is simply bolted to the end of the container so as to close off the container and thereby facilitate shipment to the U.S. According to Sea Box, no work is performed in China other than bolting the panel to the container for shipment purposes; all other required work, including the addition of all other necessary parts and all mechanical and electrical labor operations and integration, is performed at Sea Box's facility in the U.S. Sea Box Comments,
[4] Klinge asserts that the communications between agency counsel and Sea Box's director of contracts, which occurred after the closing time for receipt of FPRs, amounted to discussions such that the agency was required to reopen discussions with Klinge as well. Klinge states that, had it been provided further discussions, this would have included another opportunity to potentially revise its pricing and, perhaps more importantly, to address past performance, which was an area where the agency raised a concern and essentially discredited all explanatory information supplied in Klinge's written discussion responses. Klinge Comments,
[5] In contrast, as noted by the agency, Klinge's proposed list of 23 spare parts (appendix F to its proposal), included two parts that were described in a separate list in its proposal (appendix B) as being Non-Designated Country parts and non'U.S. parts, which would appear to render its proposal not compliant with the Trade Agreements Act. Klinge Comments,
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