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UK: ROVOP Invests in New Jobs and ROVs
Rapidly growing and award winning energy services firm ROVOP is to create around 60 jobs to accompany the purchase of five remotely operated vehicles (ROVs).
The Aberdeen-based subsea specialist will invest around £15million over the next 18 months in the workclass hydraulic machines, supplied by FMC Schilling Robotics, with the first ready for use in January 2013.
Continual high demand for ROVOP's fleet has led to this latest expansion and the purchases are with a view to obtaining new work. Recently signed contracts for work on windfarms across Europe will be served by the company's existing vehicles.
The soon to be received heavy-duty ROV systems compliment the mid-size machines already operated by ROVOP, allowing the company to provide the full range of ROV services demanded by the offshore market.
The company will create highly skilled ROV pilot-technician posts and provide comprehensive training programmes for existing electrical and mechanical engineers. The first 12 new recruits are set to leave Aberdeen during December to undertake intensive training at FMC Schilling Robotics' California facilities.
ROVOP selected FMC Schilling Robotics HD and UHD models following a rigorous selection process. The 150Hp HD represents the latest in ROV technology, delivering industry leading performance, power and reliability. The highly integrated modular design of the ROV enables rapid maintenance of all subsystems which, compared to traditional ROVs, can save valuable hours in costly drilling or construction operations offshore.
Operating systems on the machines provide the most advanced ROV control system in the world and include several automated features that greatly improve efficiency. These allow for complex remote intervention operations to be performed in less time, due to the inherent power and stability of the ROV combined with the capability for the operator to perform tasks with the highest degree of precision.
The mobile ROVs can be installed on clients' vessels, rigs or platforms. These will be made available to global oil companies, offshore construction, inspection repair and maintenance (IRM) and survey clients who require the highest standards of ROV service available.
Steven Gray, Managing Director of ROVOP, said "This represents a significant milestone in the development of ROVOP. We will now be operating the most modern, capable and reliable fleet of ROVs in our market.
"Our new vehicles will enable us to carry out heavy work as well as more complex automated tasks subsea. The demand for our expertise and service continues to grow strongly and we expect that to continue as our fleet increases in size, power and capability."
"The ROVs are designed to deliver faster and more efficient field servicing, allowing our personnel offshore to focus on providing the highest level of service and focus on excellent delivery for the client using the advanced features of the ROV and its operating system."
In addition, ROVOP is investing around £250,000 in a state-of-the-art ROV simulator. The simulator, also provided by FMC Schilling Robotics ROV, reflects a new generation of such technology, with the most realistic 3D modelling and real-life field operations scenarios. This system will allow personnel to undergo situational training, as well as rehearsing tasks and scenarios before heading offshore.
Doug Middleton, ROVOP's Operations Director, commented: "The FMC Schilling Robotics simulator is a critical part of our strategy to be the ROV operator of choice for the offshore energy industry. Our dedication to safe and efficient operations means that being able to rehearse scenarios and train personnel to the highest possible standards is key to our future plans. Working with the most technologically advanced equipment, as well as providing an excellent training environment is important to our ability to recruit and retain the best ROV personnel in the industry at all levels from trainees to supervisors."
Tyler Schilling, President and CEO of FMC Schilling Robotics, said "We are very pleased to be selected as ROVOP's long term partner for the supply of ROV systems. ROVOP's customers will experience first-hand the performance benefits from our significant investments in developing ROV technology that is both easy to operate and easy to maintain."
In just over a year of trading, ROVOP has already grown to employ more than 30 staff and was named Promising New Business at the 2012 Grampian Awards for Business.
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1 large onion (chopped and sautéed until translucent)
1/2 stick of butter (melted and real butter)
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salt and pepper (to taste)
Boil the potatoes until done as if for mashing. Then drain and break into large chunks with fork. Next boil or steam your green beans until done and drain. Then sauté the bacon and onion together until done and drain. Now combine the potatoes, bacon and vegetables. In a separate bowl mix your butter and Half & Half together. Then slowly whisk in the vinegar and add salt and pepper to taste. Now slowly combine this cream with the potato mixture. Until you have reached a creamy but not liquidly consistency. Serve hot, with more vinegar on the side if desired.
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New Orleans Hornets win first pick in NBA draft lottery
(AP) NEW YORK - New owner, and now a new star player coming to New Orleans.
And yet another loss in a historic season full of them for Michael Jordan and the Charlotte Bobcats.
The Hornets, recently sold by the NBA to Saints owner Tom Benson, won the NBA's draft lottery Wednesday and the No. 1 pick overall which they almost certainly will use to pick Kentucky star Anthony Davis.
At least that's what the college player of the year is expecting. Moments after the Hornets won the lottery, Davis said he was looking forward to playing professionally in the place where he led the Wildcats to a national championship in April.
The good news for the Hornets comes after a difficult season in which they traded All-Star Chris Paul.CBSSports.com's mock draft board
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"Just a first step for us to winning it all," Benson said in a TV interview after the lottery.
The Hornets moved up from the fourth spot, where they had a 13.7 percent chance, to earn the pick.
The Bobcats, after going 7-59 for the worst winning percentage in NBA history, fell to the No. 2 pick. Washington will pick third and Cleveland fell one spot to fourth.
Charlotte had a 25 percent chance of grabbing the No. 1 pick, but instead will have to take the best player after Davis, possibly his teammate Michael Kidd-Gilchrist.
The team with the worst record hasn't won since Orlando drafted Dwight Howard in 2004.
The league bought the Hornets from owner George Shinn in December 2010 and the sale to Benson was completed in April. The NBA was criticized for the conflict of interest of a league owning a franchise, particularly when Commissioner David Stern blocked a trade that would have sent Paul to the Lakers in December, then approved another that landed Paul with the Clippers.
The ownership uncertainty hindered the Hornets, but they were in a celebrating mood Wednesday after earning the No. 1 pick for the first time since 1991, when they were still in Charlotte and took Larry Johnson.
"We've had a lot of good stuff happen to us in the last few weeks," coach Monty Williams said, referring also to the sale.
The Hornets also have the No. 10 pick.
The Nets were the other big loser when they stayed in the No. 6 spot. They owed their pick to Portland for this season's Gerald Wallace trade unless they moved into the top three.
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NEA president stops in Orlando during back-to-school tour
ORLANDO - September 14, 2011 -
The president of the National Education Association is urging parents and local education, community and business leaders to forge effective partnerships to support students and neighborhood schools. Dennis Van Roekel made a stop in Orlando today as part of NEA's "Standing Strong for Students" Back-to-School Tour.
"In these changing times, providing every child with a world-class education requires more from all of us," said Van Roekel, a high-school math teacher from Phoenix, Ariz. "Teaching and learning can't just occur in the classroom. We must work together help more students, more ways, more effectively. We all—teachers, students, parents, elected officials and community leaders—are accountable for our children's success."
Van Roekel took part in a roundtable discussion with those important stakeholders while visiting Orlando, Wednesday. The group shared opportunities and obstacles, along with .ideas and insights to help ensure the success of all students. NEA is a strong proponent of community engagement and recognizes its positive impact on student achievement. Research shows a direct correlation between parent, family, and community involvement and higher academic performance and school improvement.
Van Roekel and NEA Secretary Treasurer Becky Pringle are crisscrossing the nation, visiting schools in seven cities, September 12-15th. They are getting first-hand views of school improvements and strategies that can be replicated across the country. In addition to Orlando, the NEA leaders visited Evansville, Ind., Romulus, Mich., Las Vegas, Nev., Dayton, OH and Seattle, Wash. Van Roekel heads to Miami tomorrow.
While in Orlando, Van Roekel also toured Lee Middle School, which has an International Baccalaureate program. Lee also features rich, diverse courses and offers access to modern technology and training, including opportunities to learn web design and video production. Students are gaining skills they will need to compete in a global society. Van Roekel also visited school bus drivers and monitors at the Eric Olson Bus Compound on Bear Bryant Drive.
Florida Education Association Vice President Joanne McCall, Orange County Classroom Teachers Association President Mike Cahill and Orange Education Support Professionals Association President Bill Humphreys joined Van Roekel for the Orlando visits.
"From larger classes to shrinking programs, students and teachers face unprecedented challenges," said McCall. "This fall's landscape is radically different because of the disastrous legislative session that cut critical resources. But what hasn't changed is educators' steadfast commitment to children."
"We appreciate the fact that President Van Roekel is on the ground, seeing opportunities and challenges first- hand," said Cahill. "As we work to transform schools, it is important to listen to those on the frontlines."
Humphreys added, "Education support professionals have valuable insight as well. Each day they provide essential services for students, like making sure they get to and from school. They know what children need beyond the classroom."
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First, we got wind of a clip from last October of Reyna at a Citizens Union panel on term limits. In the nine-minute video, Reyna tries to state her case for why she supports overturning term limits. Her main argument is that she found it frustrating to keep defending her seat, which in the end takes away from the amount of time she can dedicate to fighting and serving her district. And apparently keeping her basic math skills in check.
Now, we here are Pol Position certainly don't claim to be geniuses when it comes to subjects like calculus, algebra, or geometry. In fact, we just did a quick check here, and only one person in the whole office is capable of doing long division.
That said, you won't find it shocking that Reyna completely loses us when she launches into a long explanation of voter apathy in New York City with a set of figures and percentages that claims to prove that term limits allows a small percentage of New Yorkers who actually come out to vote to choose who will represent the entire city in races like mayor and city comptroller, as well as smaller percentages of voters who choose even more local representatives.
(Or so we think, because after about the first ten seconds we got bored and started trying to piece together the remnants of our Fourth of July weekend. It's still in shambles.)
But even we had to stand up and take note when Reyna made the claim that there are 13 million registered voters in Kings County. That's right, 13 million! Now, we knew that Brooklyn was getting popular, but last time we checked there were only 8.2 million people in all of New York City. That's a lot of new registered voters living in illegal basement apartments in Greenpoint!
Actually, Reyna forgot to put in a decimal point, and meant to say 1.3 million registered voters in Kings County. We're not going to be too hard on her - it's easy to overlook a tiny dot now and again
But we're not sure what mistake she had in her notes that made her declare a little later on that "there are 12 registered voters in Kings County," which this time elicits uncomfortable laughter from the crowd. That's a drop-off of about 12,999,988 voters.
Reyna apologizes again, and says that she prepared quickly and didn't want you "to be disenfranchised" by the figures. Well, what did she think would happen!
Maybe Reyna was preoccupied with what she saw coming down the pipeline. During her talk at the forum she mentions that she had the pleasure to serve for Assemblyman Vito Lopez, the powerful pol who heads the Kings County Democratic Party, and who she probably hoped would back her for a third term once those darn term limits were out of the way.
Unfortunately for Reyna, Lopez had other plans. On June 12, he announced that he would be endorsing Maritza Davila, a district leader and community organizer. A sharp 180-degree turnabout from the elections of 2001 and 2003, when Reyna was criticized for being a shill for the Lopez agenda.
According to a post on The Politicker website, Lopez said Reyna was a weak link in the local political scene, and that when she was first elected to the City Council, he doubts she knew what the difference between an E.D. or an A.D. was.
Which brings us to our next YouTube clip (ed. note: this video has since been removed), which was put together by a supporter of Reyna. It's a slideshow set to the music of Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down" from Reyna's days as a campaign manager. Many of the photos are of a young Reyna with stars in her eyes, excited about making a splash on the Brooklyn political scene. (And even one of her and Lopez getting down, or at lest that's what we think is going on. See above.) apparently, it proves that a campaign manager would know the difference between an ED and an AD, but does nothing to address her issues with decimal points.
At this point, maybe Diana Reyna wishes she had never voted to overturn term limits, because this election is not going to be a walk in the park. In addition to Davila, she also faces challenges from Gladys Santiago and Gerald Esposito, the district manager of Community Board 1. Esposito has already raised approximately $80,000 for his campaign, much more than any of his opponents.


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The Rutgers University men's basketball team announced the addition of one guard on Thursday while another professed his desire to play for the Scarlet Knights.
Mike Poole, a 6-foot-6 senior guard at St. Benedict's Prep in Newark, signed a National Letter of Intent. This past season Poole averaged 10.8 points, 6.1 rebounds and 3.2 assists while shooting 49 percent from the field for the nationally ranked Gray Bees, who finished 20-1.
"Mike's defensive mentality, his athleticism, his upside makes him the type of player you're going to look for right now," said head coach Mike Rice, who is moving quickly to bolster a 2010-11 roster that had just eight scholarship players when he took over two weeks ago. "They may not all be as polished or highly rated, but you're going to look for upside and someone who's best basketball is ahead of him."
Poole joins what is currently a three-man recruiting class, along with forward Gil Biruta and shooting guard Austin Carroll. Poole and Biruta were teammates at St. Benedict's. Biruta and Carroll originally committed to previous coach Fred Hill.
"I think it's a very solid class," Rice said. "Keeping Gilvydas and Austin was key, especially with what has taken place with this program and the ups and downs they've seen in the last month and a half. They're willing to stay with it and they have a passion for Rutgers University. They want to become a part of it."
So does Tyree Graham, a 6-foot-1 junior college shooting guard from North Carolina. Late Wednesday night Graham tweeted his intention to play for Rutgers in the fall. He was headed UAB but changed his mind after some changes took place on that program's coaching staff.
Graham, who would sign scholarship papers if his transcripts and credits pass muster with Rutgers' compliance department, has two years of eligibility left. He began his collegiate career at Texas Tech, averaging 3.9 points, 1.7 rebounds and 1.5 assists over 13 games before withdrawing due to a family matter. This past winter he averaged 17 points per game at Supply Brunswick Community College in North Carolina.
Graham had a connection to Rutgers through Scarlet Knights associate head coach David Cox, who had mentored him in the D.C. Assault AAU program. He could possibly step in and start at shooting guard, where Rutgers has a hole after the transfer of leading scorer Mike Rosario to Florida.
Graham's addition would leave Rice with three open scholarships for next season. The coach's primary focus will be on finding a center.
"In the near future I'm probably going to add two more pieces to the puzzle," Rice said.


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There's no doubt the current climate for investors can seem daunting. The U.S. fiscal cliff, European recession and sovereign default risk, turmoil in the Middle East, regime change in China and myriad other macro factors are weighing on the markets and causing significant daily swings. This kind of volatility can be very unnerving and is not everyone's cup of tea. On the other hand, with interest rates at record or near-record lows, the returns on "risk-free" assets are distinctly unappealing. Furthermore, what exactly does "risk-free" mean in a world where the ratio of government debt to GDP is rising to levels that appear unsustainable in the long run? What's an exasperated investor supposed to do?
"We look at the world today and we come back to a few time-tested fundamentals," says Robert Bard, CFA, the managing partner at Dorchester Investment Management.
"One is prudence. In part, this means diversification. There are a variety of plausible scenarios that could play out over the next few years. Some of them are relatively benign; others, quite unpleasant. We need to be sure that our portfolios will hold up no matter how the world unfolds. Integrated with this is the management of risk. This means not taking unnecessary risks and ensuring the risks we do take are intelligent and informed and offer returns that are in proportion to the risks being assumed."
In the past, it was possible to walk into a bank and be presented with an abundance of secure investment opportunities, be it stocks, bonds, GICs, etc. Fast-forward to today and it's not clear what's good anymore.
"We lived in a world 30 years ago where it was relatively easy to get above-average historical returns, in a world that was relatively stable and that we understood, and where the risks were manageable." explained Bruce Gill, also from Dorchester, and a partner for more than 40 years.
Today we're in a world where the returns are microscopic, but the risk is a lot greater. All the options have warts and the problem is we don't know how big the warts are or even if all the warts have been identified. It's a much more challenging environment. It's really a paradigm shift," he added.
Suffice to say, the premium placed on professional money managers who can help navigate the waters has never been higher. Bard and Gill offered the following advice regarding what to look for in an investment firm:
The first and most important factor is philosophy. The firm's investment philosophy should mirror your own, resulting in a strategy you would use if you had the inclination, time and expertise to manage your own portfolio. A like-minded philosophy will allow you to stick with your investment strategy through the ups and downs of the markets and provide you with peace of mind in order to enjoy the rewards of long-term investing.
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We will have to wait some time before Strasbourg hands down its judgment in the religious discrimination cases it heard earlier this week.
Whatever the outcome – which is perhaps predictable – the Court's ruling will have a significant influence on the place of religion in public life and on how the relationship between religion and the state should be structured to reflect the aims of fairness and mutual respect envisaged in the Convention.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission argues in its intervention submission that Strasbourg – and the UK courts – should move on from their "restrictive" interpretation of Article 9, summed up by Lord Bingham's oft-cited description of the Court's position in R (SB) v Governors of Denbigh High School [2006] UKHL 15
The Strasbourg institutions have not been at all ready to find an interference with the right to manifest a religious belief in practice or observance where a person has voluntarily accepted an employment or role which does not accommodate that practice or observance and there are other means open to the person to practise or observe his or her religion without undue hardship or inconvenience.[para 23]
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On Sundays, all the stores are closed but a couple of bakeries and a bunch of bars (French can't live without a supply of booze). Even though these quiet Sundays are kind of a recurring event and a tradition in France, most people still need to shop on Sunday—a baguette, a few slices of jambon blanc, a roasted chicken, maybe some deli specialties like a good portion of taboulé, pâté or other charcuterie. So, people go to the nearest market. Even in large cities like Nantes, producers come from all over the region to sell their fruits and vegetables, and they add to the smaller daily market.
These days, going to the market is almost a political act. Buying local, buying organic, buying less and buying better quality products in general is the trend. However, doing so has a price. Contrary to popular belief, markets aren't cheap. In fact, supermarkets are almost always cheaper but for a few specialty items.
It's a great place for people watching and to take picture of food, though, and to immerse yourself into the culture. I hadn't seen that much seafood in a long time!
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The rendezvous of ESA's Jules Verne ATV with the ISS uses GPS navigation, star tracker devices, two critical sensors, a telegoniometer and a videometer. After raising its orbit to some 400 kilometres, the ATV will come in sight of the ISS, and from about 30 kilometres distance behind, and 5 kilometres below, it will close in on its target.
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With its unprecedented cargo and re-boost capabilities, ATV will service the Space Station for many years and could become a unique asset after the Shuttle retirement in 2010. Its advanced technologies will no doubt have other uses: for robots to recover old satellites and space debris, to return planetary samples back to Earth, for the remote construction of large space structures, and notably for interplanetary journeys.


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As one might expect, the 4 in 4G denotes the fourth generation of mobile wireless technology. Commonly used to refer to superfast mobile broadband, 4G actually encompasses the full range of VoIP and mobile broadband technologies used by smartphones, wireless modems, and just about any mobile broadband device that uses data.
According to the International Telecommunications Union, a 4G network offers mobile speeds of up to 100Mbps, scalable channel bandwidth, problem-free call and data handovers between towers, and an all-IP packet switched network.
There has been some discussion as to whether current mobile technologies marketed as 4G are truly deserving of the moniker. As it is now, both of the 4G technologies currently in use, WiMAX (802.16m) and Long-Term Evolution (LTE), are technically considered to be 4G predecessor systems. This is the case even though they both offer theoretical download speeds of up to 325Mbps and 100Mbps, respectively. Real-world speeds will be far below that level—likely in the neighborhood of 3-6Mbps for WiMAX and 8-12Mbps for LTE.
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Schaffhausen pleads guilty in 3 daughters' deaths
Schaffhausen defense says he was insane
HUDSON, Wis. — A man has pleaded guilty to killing his three young daughters at their home in western Wisconsin, but still maintains he shouldn't be held responsible because he was insane.
Thirty-five-year-old Aaron Schaffhausen changed his plea Thursday after more than a day of legal wrangling about what kind of evidence would be allowed at his trial. He answered yes when the judge asked if he was guilty.
Jury selection is due to begin Monday in St. Croix County Circuit Court.
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PPSC Past Paper of DDO Planning Held On 17-7-2106
Following are some collection of Questions appeared in the paper of DDO Planning
1. Meeran g tomb in .Mumbai.
2. Quid first wife .Emibai.
3. Palk strait between .India and Srilanka.
4. Gaakh novel written by
5. Molvi Abdul haq head of .Anjuman taraq-e-Urdu.
6. Ptv started in .November 26, 1964.
7. Muhammad ali boxer age .74.
8. qurtaba ka qazi written by .Syed Imtiaz Ali Taj.
9. NEC stands for .national economic council.
10. Word bank co organization. ICSID, MIGA, IFC, IDA, IBRD.
11. Inqilab iran date .A referendum on creating an Islamic Republic was held in Iran on 30 and 31 March 1979. I dont know if they wanted this or the perios which was Jan 1978 till Feb 1979
12. Per capita income in rupees .Around 1500 USD.
13. Planning comission head
14. Pick the odd .spoon. blow slice catch, as every thing else is a action
15. Ball .pole. moon earth
16. Yadun ki barat .Josh Malikh Abadi.
17. Nawab mohsin ul mulk real name .Syed Mahdi Ali Khan.
18. Tasmania part of .Australia.
19. Percentage of water on earth .71%.
20. Bhasha dam will be constructed on .Indus river.
21. Deposit in northern mountain
22. Apiary/aviary .where you keep birds and butterf;ies.
23. Planning borad headed by
24. Ishfaq ahmed famous of .Nuclear Scientist .
25. Ashak abad capital [Dont remember]
26.brexit .Britian Exit.
27. Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi belong to .Argentina.
28.individual goal by in olympics
29. Pakistani VS England Cricket Match 1954, Paki captain .A.H.Kardar.
30. Lee Kwan Yew leader of .Singapore.
31. Who is Ibn Al-Haytham .scientist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher.
32. EU permanent Parliament .Brussels (Belgium.
33. European Central Bank .Headquarters: Frankfurt, Germany.
34. Faiz ahmed Faiz ka pahla Deewan Nama
35. Cacha Chakahn ka kardar kis musanif ka hai .Imtiaz Ali Taj.
36. who is Akhtar Hameed Khan .Economist.
37. Sadqain .Painter/Calligrapher .
38. Qurat-ul-Ain ka pehla noval. Agg ka Derya. but please confirm
39. When Sidh seperated from Briatain .1936.
40. First man to travel into space in .1961.
41. Men to women ratio .111 men to 100 women.
42. Water formula .H2O.
43. Bio- Fuel is made up of .plant and animal.
44. China became republic .1949.
45. Polymath .Expert in different things.
46. Saint Petersburg famous city of .Russia.
47. ancient persepolis .Marvdasht, Fars Province, Iran.
48. River Nile .Cario.
49. river ganges .Varanasi, Haridwar, Allahabad, Kolkata, Patna, Kanpur, Ghazipur.
50. PC-I stands for .Planning commission Performa 1.
51. PC-II Approval is required .for feasibility.
52. ADP Formulation .1 financial year.
53. Financial Year is from .1 July of the previous calendar year and concludes on 30 June.
54. Somalia Capital .Mogadishu.
55. TDAP overlooks .Trade/Exports.
56. DAEWOO company origin .S. Korea.
57. sphygmomanometer is used to check .Blood pressure.
58. Painkillers are also called .Analgesic.
59. River seine .Paris.
60. Brojan Das .Bengali swimmer, who was the first Asian to swim across the English Channel.
61. Define Mean mortality Rate .units of deaths per year.
62. Numismatics is .Coin Collection.
63. Capital Expenditure acquiring or maintaining fixed assets, such as land, buildings, and equipment
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<The following flier is seen in Horde capital cities.> Peace does not come easily, and never of its own accord. It must be fought for, and defended vigilantly once won. Sanctuary fights to create the world we want to see, where those who cannot fight or do not wish to will not suffer. We do not shy away from what it may cost us, and we will do what we must to protect it. Sanctuary is sworn to uphold justice with mercy, and peace with self-sacrifice. We serve the Horde, though never at the cost of innocent lives. If you believe in the same, join us. We currently have need of motivated individuals to join and lead the following teams: Defense Team (( PvP )) Sanctuary stands ready to defend the Horde and its territories, including contested battlegrounds. In addition to being prepared to respond when any Horde settlement comes under attack, we also coordinate with allied guild Borrowed Time to form an elite team for battlegrounds (( RBGs )). 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Though the guild was inactive through Cataclysm and Pandaria, it was revived before the launch of Warlords and continues its storied traditions, well-remembered by many. Because we are pushing to grow and develop even further, now is the perfect time to join. You can influence the direction and storyline of a well-known and respected guild with your own unique contributions, and make history that will become a part of server lore. Our storyline itself is out of the ordinary. We embrace peace on a PvP server. This makes our intentions actually a challenge to meet, and when there is justification for action, it is all the more exciting. We back our vows in a way you can't on a plain RP server. We also enjoy a strong, friendly relationship with other RP guilds on TNRH, including on the opposite faction. 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Fusion Genesis is meant to be a mix of a twin-stick shooter and a massively mulitplayer online game. But it felt more like a space combat game than an MMO.
The Starfire folks, all ex Rare developers, explain that the game pulls in friends to populate your games so that you're never gunning against just console-controlled enemies.
It's a fun little twin-stick shooter, but it was hard to get a sense of what all was going on without having a lot more time with it.
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BRIDGEPORT >> A guard at the Bridgeport Community Correctional Center is accused of smuggling heroin and marijuana to inmates.
The Connecticut Post reports Joseph Trottman, 44, was charged Wednesday with attempt to convey contraband into a correctional facility and attempt to distribute narcotics.
State police say the arrest follows a sting operation by its gang unit that began in January after a tip from an informant.
Police say a woman posing as an inmate's girlfriend gave Trottman cash and fake heroin to smuggle into the facility. They say Trottman had the marked money on him when he was arrested.
Attempts to reach Trottman for comment Friday morning were unsuccessful. It was unclear if he has hired a lawyer and he has no listed telephone number.


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Recipe from Flemings Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar in Madison, Wis.
Prep Time and Total Time: 55-65 minutes
4 Butternut squash
1 lb salted butter at room temp
1 lb unsalted butter
3 cups water
1 cup chopped pecans
1 cup maple syrup
2 T plus 1 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp finely ground black pepper
2 T coarsely ground black pepper
1. Wash the butternut squash and cut 1/4" off both ends, removing the stem and bottom of squash. Cut in half from stem to bottom. Using a spoon, scrape seeds out of interior.
2. Rub with room temp butter and sprinkle with kosher salt and coarsely ground black pepper.
3. Place in a roasting pan with water and roast the squash for 45 min at 375 F until tender.
3. While squash is roasting, place unsalted butter in mixing bowl with paddle attachment. Whip for 5 min on medium speed.
4. Scrape the bowl, and add pecans, maple syrup, salt and pepper. Stop and scrape the bowl every two minutes. Be sure to mix well.
5. When squash is done, remove from oven and place on a plate. Rub maple pecan butter on top, and serve.
Yields: 12-16 servings
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Michael Greenwald is originally from Kingston, New York. An Associate Professor of Religious Studies, his interests nevertheless are quite eclectic. He earned his Bachelor's Degree in Astronomy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970, attended Hebrew Union College where he earned a Master's Degree in Hebrew Letters in 1973 and was ordained a rabbi in 1975. He finished his formal education at Boston University with a Ph.D. in New Testament and Christian Origins in 1989, the same year that he joined the St. Lawrence faculty.
His current research involves the completion of a book relating the collection of the documents that came to be called the New Testament and the collection of Jewish traditions in what came to be called the Mishnah with intellectual trends and structures of knowledge in the Roman Empire of the Second Century.
He regularly teaches courses on the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and New Testament, on the religious traditions of Judaism, religions of the Greco-Roman world, the Holocaust, and the modern history of the Middle East, the latter two dual-listed with the History Department. He has taught upper-level seminars on Jesus in the Gospels, anti-semitism, and religion and theology in the fantasy world of J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Education under fire: Palestinian pupils go back to school to find it confiscated
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Israeli forces drove into the Palestinian village of Jubbet adh-Dhib last Tuesday and tore down its brand new, EU-funded primary school, just a day before the school year was due to start back. It's the third time in two weeks Palestinian schools are targeted.
On Wednesday morning, a tent was set up and chairs - the only thing left behind after the army drove away with the prefabs used to build the classrooms - were crammed inside in an attempt to offer the school's 60 students a semblance of normality.
"It was heart breaking to see children and their teachers turning up for their first day of school under the blazing sun, with no classrooms or anywhere to seek shelter in, while in the immediate vicinity the work to expand illegal settlements goes on uninterrupted," said Itay Epshtain, policy manager for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), after visiting Jubbet adh-Dhib, which is located near Bethlehem.
The same village had been left in the dark earlier this summer, when Israeli forces confiscated 96 of its solar panels, which are the only source of electricity for its residents. The village has been waiting for years to be connected to the power grid, but Israel continued to denied permits on grounds the village has no outline plan. When Palestinians submitted an outline plan to the Israeli Civil Administration (the military body in charge of civilian matters in the West Bank), it too was rejected.
"There is no electricity, the water cuts off often. Settlers are also harassing us," Umm Ibrahim Alwaheesh, a resident of Jubbet adh-Dhib, told Palestine Monitor. "The energy ministry and Comet-ME came and brought us solar panels. After 8 months the soldiers came and they took them. They were the best 8 months in my entire life," she added.
Pupils in a makeshift tent after the confiscation. Picture from Twitter
Pupils in Jubbet adh-Dhib are not the only children to start the school year with little more than their school books. On August 9, Israel confiscated 10 solar panels and 12 batteries used to provide electricity to the only primary and nursery school in Abu Nuwwar, a Bedouin village that lies between the West Bank's largest settlement, Ma'aleh Addumin, and East Jerusalem. The 650 residents of Abu Nuwwar, like other residents of this area, known as E1, are at particular risk of forcible transfer due to Israeli government's construction plans for the area. Critics say they are aimed at linking the mega-settlement to Jerusalem, effectively cutting off Palestinian neighborhood of East Jerusalem - which Palestinians see as their future capital - from the rest of the West Bank and preventing their development.
Earlier this month, Israeli forces demolished a kindergarden in another Bedouin community located in E1, Jabal al-Baba. Palestinians living in these areas are refugees from villages near Beersheba, in present-day Israel, and have lived here since their displacement in 1948. While every single structure in Abu Nuwwar has a pending demolition order since 2005, Jabal al-Baba residents have seen their homes, usually makeshift wood and corrugated iron structures, demolished a number of times over the years. Many of the demolished structures had been built with EU assistance.
According to the NRC, some 55 schools across the West Bank are currently threatened with demolition and "stop-work" orders. The NGO counted 24 cases of direct attacks against schools in the first three months of this year, including incidents where tear gas canisters and sound bombs were fired at students on their way to or from school. In 2016, four communities' educational facilities were demolished or confiscated and 256 education-related violations were documented in the West Bank, affecting over 29,000 students.
2016 saw the highest number of demolitions of Palestinian structures since records began. According to UN OCHA records, in 2017 Israel demolished or seized about 300 Palestinian-owned structures throughout the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, displacing 500 Palestinians and affecting the livelihoods of another 5,300.
The EU missions in Jerusalem and Ramallah called on the Israeli government to return the confiscated equipment and structures to all three affected schools.
"In line with its long-standing position on this issue, the EU calls upon the Israeli authorities to halt demolitions and confiscations of Palestinian houses and property in accordance with its obligations as an occupying power under international humanitarian law," said a statement released on Thursday, "and to cease the policy of settlement construction and expansion, of designating land for exclusive Israeli use and of denying Palestinian development."
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Predictably enough, Ravens center Matt Birk's opposition to same-sex marriage has caught the attention of Vikings punter Chris Kluwe.
In response to an op-ed Birk penned in support of, as he wrote, "preserving marriage as the sacred union of one man and one woman," the outspoken Kluwe published a six-point takedown of what he calls Birk's "logical fallacy."
The crux of Kluwe's response—which is far less profane than his letter to the Maryland delegate who tried to silence linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo — is that Birk "lacks facts, sources or statistics" and needs evidence to support his reasoning.
"I will support your right to worship at whatever altar you choose," Kluwe wrote, "but I will not support you trying to force it on someone else, or to deny someone else legal benefits due to religious reasoning."
Additionally, the Minnesota punter takes issue with Birk's statement that gay marriage will impact his children.
"The only impact same-sex marriage will have on your children is if one of them turns out to be gay and cannot get married," Kluwe said. "What will you do (and I ask this honestly) if one or more of your kids ends up being gay? Will you love them any less?"
Despite his opposition to Birk's views, Kluwe was quick to state his respect for the center, a former Vikings teammate.
"This is not an attack on you as a person or your beliefs," he clarified, "but the argument you presented in the Star Tribune simply does not stand up to logical inspection."


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"Audio-cough event detection based on moment theory", Applied Acoustics, vol. 135, pp. 124–135, 2018.,
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- 1 Introduction
- 2 Download the Latest Release
- 3 Get Involved with Fedora ARM
- 4 Development
ARM chips are the most widely-produced processor family in the world; they have historically been used in cell phones and embedded applications, and are increasingly used in tablet devices and low-power-consumption servers.
The Fedora-ARM project is an initiative to bring Fedora to this processor family.
Download the Latest Release
Fedora 18
This is the most recent stable release of Fedora. These images have been tested and are recommended for most users and includes Versatile Express (QEMU), Trimslice, Beagleboard xM, Pandaboard, Kirkwood Plugs, and Highbank based hardware platforms. The full release announcement can be found here. Board specific images and installation instructions:
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Raspberry Pi and other Remixes
If you are looking for Fedora 18 on a device that wasn't mentioned above it may not have official support due to some licensing issue or lack of upstream support. Unofficial Fedora remixes are available for additional targets including the Raspberry Pi and other popular devices. The list of known Fedora 18 remixes is catalogued at Architectures/ARM/F18/Remixes. Likewise, root filesystem tarballs are provided to help you make your own remixes.
Release Archive
- Previous Fedora ARM releases can be found in our Release Archive
Get Involved with Fedora ARM
- Mailing list: arm (archives)
- IRC: #fedora-arm[?] on http://freenode.net
- Trac for Fedora ARM issues is here
- Trac for infrastructure (koji,DB,etc) issues is here
- Trac for Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix issues is here
- IRC: #fedora-meeting-1[?] each Wednesday at 20:00 UTC (4PM EDT) on http://freenode.net (archives)
Bug Reporting
Detailed information on Fedora-ARM:
- Fedora ARM Koji (package builder) instance
- Information for Fedora package maintainers on getting your packages to work on ARM
- Information for Fedora-ARM team members (and prospective team members!) plus developers
- Updating a Fedora Kernel on ARM Systems
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- Release Development Archive
AArch64 Development
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Technical Talks
We host semi-regular ARM Tech Talks on #fedora-arm and #fedora-arm-talks (FreeNode). The topics are varied, and have included ARM processor errata (cache controller specifics), debugging kernels with gdb, and how to install Fedora on a Google Chromebook. You can give a talk by signing up on the ARM Tech Talks page.


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Flowers in position for second Opening Day start
GLENDALE -- White Sox manager Robin Ventura wouldn't go as far as to state the starting catcher's job is Tyler Flowers' to lose before Cactus League action even begins. But it clearly looks as if last year's Opening Day starter behind the plate has a strong chance to repeat such an honor this year based upon Ventura's comments Saturday after the team's workout.
"More or less," Ventura said. "We know what we get with Tyler, and I like the way he calls games."
Flowers will be behind the plate Friday against the Dodgers at Camelback Ranch, making the pitch calls for staff ace Chris Sale in the White Sox Cactus League opener. Flowers homered in support of Sale for the only run in last year's regular-season 1-0 opener, but fortunes went downhill from there.
His shoulder soreness eventually led to September surgery, and his .195 average over 256 at-bats made his first year as a starter one to forget. Flowers isn't dwelling much on 2013.
"Most of us are trying to forget about last season and recognize some areas that hurt us last year personally and as a team and improve on those," Flowers said. "Other than that, I'm not thinking about it and I'm sure nobody else is either."
While the 28-year-old expects better results offensively, he knows that part of his game has to be separated from the most important aspect of handling the pitchers.
"I don't think people want a guy who hits .330 and doesn't catch worth a [darn] and doesn't care," Flowers said. "That's important for this position specifically. All positions, that's important too, but this one probably a little bit more than the others."
"Being able to separate it, some people are better at doing it than others, and he got to a point last year where it wore on him, and then injuries kind of took it from there," Ventura said. "The emphasis really for him, coming in here, he feels better offensively. He feels healthy, and No. 1 is how you handle the game, the pitchers, so you go from there."


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A study conducted by IDC — and commissioned by Microsoft — forecasts that spending on cloud computing will generate roughly 14 million new jobs by the year 2015, along with an additional $1.1 trillion per year in business revenues produced by "IT innovation".
"The cloud is going to have a huge impact on job creation," says Susan Hauser, Microsoft corporate vice president of the Worldwide Enterprise and Partner Group. "It's a transformative technology that will drive down costs, spur innovation, and open up new jobs and skillsets across the globe."
To visually present the information of the study, Microsoft also released an infographic that depicts cloud computing's role in job creation in the U.S. along with the press release, as you can see above.
With an array of both consumer-focused — such as SkyDrive — and enterprise-focused cloud technologies — such as Office 365, Azure, and its upcoming Windows Server 8 release — Microsoft is certainly no stranger to the industry. And by the looks of things, they have plenty to look forward to in the coming years and cloud computing becomes more and more utilized.


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I like Star Trek as much as the next person. Probably more. But one thing has always bothered me: life on the Starship Enterprise may appear almost utopian but the way the ship – indeed the whole Federation is run – is essentially hierarchical. Humanity's mission to "boldly go" is being undertaken by a quasi-military dictatorship. For a series originally billed by its creator as "wagon train in space", it is hardly land of the free.
Is this really how we want to explore the cosmos and take our culture to the stars?
Now that there are proposals for private missions to the Moon, a plan to send a married couple to Mars and space agency ambitions to fly a crew of six into deep space to explore asteroids, this is no longer a theoretical question. If even only one or two of these schemes come to fruition, in the relatively near future, humans are going to be living in isolation beyond the direct influence of governments on Earth.
Later this year, a conference is being held in London on Extraterrestrial Liberty, looking ahead to a time when we may find ourselves – or our children – living in colonies on the Moon and Mars, or locked aboard a starship on a one-way trip to a distant star. If space technology continues to advance, human communities beyond the Earth would seem to be inevitable. As a result, people are already beginning to contemplate how these societies might operate.
The man who has written the book – actually several books – on the colonisation of space is the founder and President of the Mars Society, Robert Zubrin. His proposals for the establishment of human settlements on Mars are exquisitely detailed, from the first landing to the eventual terraforming of the red planet for a thriving civilisation. The Mars Society currently operates Mars bases on Earth – in the Utah desert and Arctic – to simulate the challenges facing Martian colonists. Like the joint Russian-European Mars500 isolation experiment in 2011, where crewmembers were locked away for more than 500 days, these "missions" include a 15-20 minute time delay between the base and the control centre. Zubrin says the experiments have already given them hints about how extraterrestrial human civilisation might develop.
"One thing we certainly discovered with our simulated Mars missions is that you can't command a crew from mission control," he tells me. "The crew has to be led by the commander, generally operating with a very consultative style." As a result, they have renamed their mission control "mission support", acknowledging that they are no longer completely in charge. "I believe it will not be possible to control a Mars base from the Earth, increasingly the thing will take on a life of its own."
Humanity test
It is a view shared by the Executive Director of the Institute for Interstellar Studies, Kelvin Long. As an engineer, his long-term goal is to develop plans for a starship but he sees the evolution of humanity into a spacefaring species as incremental. "I'm interested in huge space habitats, putting lots of people on space stations and sending them off to the stars," he explains. "But you can't do any of that unless you start with the small stuff and demonstrate that humans can live for sustained periods in space."
So are humans up to the challenge – living 225 million kilometres (140 million miles) away, isolated from mission control as well as friends and family on Earth? When you share a house with someone and they fail to do the washing up, it's a little annoying. Share a Mars base and someone fails to change the carbon dioxide scrubbers, everyone dies.
"Mars is the test for humanity," Long says. "It's the test of our character and, to me, that should be the next destination for the human species – to colonise Mars, to set up a small station and develop it gradually. If we can't crack Mars, then forget everything else that we have ambitions for."
The first people to visit Mars are likely to be selected for their skills and their emotional and physical suitability for the challenge. This will be a highly trained crew of "right stuff" astronauts, used to doing what they are told. But, predicts Zubrin, it will evolve. "The colony might start out as hierarchical, with a base commander and second in command, but the process of nature is going to take it in the direction of freedom."
Things start to get really interesting when Mars explorers stay for years, rather than weeks, and the settlement becomes established. "People will have children… and at some point the Mars base breaks out of becoming a base and becomes an actual village – a real society with real people living real lives, with children in schools and community orchestras. All kinds of things that a base commander might think are completely extraneous."
Society 2.0
Zubrin sees this as a natural, and inevitable, progression from hierarchy to locally accountable democracy and draws parallels with the colonisation of North America. "First you had independence from the West India Company, then ultimately from the British Crown and that's how life is," he says. "I think a Mars base may well start out as a bureaucratically structured entity but when you have people living real lives, they're going to be pushing against the boundaries of that. And if you want to leave the colony, the easiest thing would be to get together with some other people and found additional colonies on Mars."
As this human civilisation 2.0 expands, then the Earth may no longer seem so attractive – certainly to the second and third generation Martians. "I tend to think that Martians will not want to go back to Earth," says Zubrin. "Firstly because Earth's gravity will be very unpleasant for them, if they've grown up in one third gravity, and they will be exposed to a much greater risk of disease."
Above all, they will also no longer consider Earth as home. "The whole point is to create new branches of human civilisation," Zubrin explains. "It'll have its own dialect, its own literature, own jokes and sense of humour. It's going to be different, a different culture, and I think that's good."
But will human society 2.0 be any better? Or will it be the same brilliant, terrible, messy, artistic, destructive, ingenious, horrific civilisation our Martian colonists left behind? I suggest to Kelvin Long that perhaps Star Trek might be the society to aim for. "Many people would like to live in that sort of world, a utopian future," he replies. "I'm sure the new world will be rockier than that but hopefully when we as Earthlings go into space, we won't be fighting each other."
Of course, several thousands of years of history suggest this is a wildly optimistic, maybe even foolhardy, prediction. Even in the Star Trek universe, crewmembers frequently disagree. When humans get together – particularly in high-pressure environments – tensions are bound to arise.
Future colonists will need to have the administrative structures, laws and social etiquette in place to avoid conflict, either through ruthless dictatorship or, more likely, discussion, compromise and some degree of consensus. At first they will probably take those structures from Earth but, ultimately, will develop new ways of living together more suited to their environment and, says Long, because space changes people: "Astronauts often have a different outlook, having seen the Earth from above," says Long. "When humans who go to Mars look back and see that pale blue dot in the distance and think 'everything I've known is on that planet,' it's bound to affect them. And hopefully improve them."
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Yoon says he's on track with rest of O's pitchers
SARASOTA, Fla. -- Right-hander Suk-min Yoon threw his first bullpen session with the Orioles on Thursday and said Friday he's on track with the rest of Baltimore's pitchers.
"I threw nice and easy. My control was good, and it was better than I expected," Yoon said through interpreter Justin Yoo. "I'm on pace and everyone's been very welcoming, so that's also helped me get on pace."
Yoon, whose arsenal includes a fastball, slider, changeup and curveball, said he expects to throw another side session on Saturday. Most Orioles pitchers have begun throwing with hitters tracking pitches in the batter's box and will start throwing live batting practice Saturday. Yoon said he won't face hitters in Saturday's bullpen, though.
Yoon, signed to a three-year deal, said he hasn't been told yet whether he'll work as a starter or reliever for the Orioles.
Overall, Yoon seems to be taking his first experience in the United States in stride, saying Friday morning that he's not intimidated "at all" by the idea of pitching in the Majors after spending nine seasons with the KIA Tigers in the Korean Baseball Organization.
"This is my first Spring Training here, but baseball is baseball anywhere you go," Yoon said. "You've got some of the best players here, so spring camp has been very good."


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