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The ability of many cephalopods (cuttlefish, squid and octopus) to change their surface colour and texture has long fascinated engineers.
"It's a fantastic quality, and one unprecedented in human engineering," lead author and MIT mechanical engineering professor Xuanhe Zhao says.
Zhao's material mimics the ability of a cephalopod to flex its muscles, exposing different spots of pigment to make them more or less prominent.
In doing this, they also change their texture from smooth to bumpy.
The new material uses a stretchy polymer that reacts to an external electric voltage.
As electricity switches it on and off, it changes from a smooth, nearly colourless surface to a bumpy, dark blue, fluorescent one.
For now, the colour and texture change go hand in hand.
But by adding multiple layers of the polymer, Zhao says, they might be able to control colour and texture independently.
Because the material used is so stretchy, the display is quite flexible. Flexible displays could be used for wearable computing devices and more durable electronics, but Zhao has high hopes for his display's use in military camouflage.
"The military spends millions of dollars developing new camouflage patterns, but they're all static right now…they don't change," Zhao says. "If you put a pattern designed for the forest into the desert, it's not going to function as camouflage, and it might even make you more conspicuous than no camouflage at all."
Dynamic camouflage would allow soldiers and military vehicles to adapt to their surroundings instantly. Zhao's display is in its early stages, but one thing is almost certain: If scientists develop quick-changing camouflage materials, we'll have cephalopods to thank. (WP-BLOOM)


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Trainer Peter Morgan is hoping that Star Rolling will be able to take a sit just off the lead when he makes his Group 1 debut in the 2014 Australian Cup at Flemington this weekend.
Star Rolling has generally been ridden towards the middle of the field in his ten career starts, but was taken straight to the lead in the Group 2 Peter Young Stakes (1800m) at Caulfield on February 22 and fought home bravely to finish third behind Fiorente and Mourayan.
Morgan and trainer partner Craig Widdison were thrilled with the effort of Star Rolling in the Peter Young Stakes, but Morgan told Sky Racing HQ this morning that he would prefer if the son of Casino Prince did not lead in the Australian Cup this weekend and said he hoped Shamus Award would take up the running in the Group 1 event.
"We are hoping that we won't have to lead this time and we probably won't because the three-year-old will probably lead us," Morgan said.
"We have always taken a sit with him; when he led the other day it was the first time that he has ever led in a race.
"We want to have a sit if we can."
Morgan admitted earlier in the autumn that he wasn't particularly happy with the condition of Star Rolling after he finished fifth in the Listed John Dillon Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on January 25, but believes he is now close to peak fitness.
The veteran trainer took his star galloper to work at Sandown yesterday and said that he couldn't be happier with his work.
"I am very happy with him; he went to Sandown yesterday morning and worked very well," Morgan said.
"I have said during the spring that I had him in better order than I did early autumn and we struggled a little bit with him, but I think that he has really hit his straps this week.
"It wasn't a testing one, but I like them to have a little bit of a trip away if I can because it just gives them a little bit of an adrenaline rush.
"Sandown is a terrific course to work on and they get a bit quiet staying here on the farm."
Star Rolling is currently available at 2014 Australian Cup odds of $16 at Ladbrokes; with Melbourne Cup winner Fiorente ($2.20) a clear favourite from two-time Group 1 winner Shamus Award ($4.20) and Australian Guineas placegetter Thunder Fantasy ($9).


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This family-friendly holiday village takes its name from the gardens where it sits in a panoramic spot in the midst of a 60.000-square-metre olive grove and park. It was designed to respect the environment and landscape of the existing lemon groves. The hotel offers all modern amenities to its guests and is tastefully furnished. Services available include 24-hour reception, lift access, a restaurant, a bar, several sun terraces, a garage and a wellness area. The airconditioning works in July and August.
This 4-storey holiday village is set on a hillside in Limone sul Garda with views of Lake Garda. It is 15 minutes by car from the resort town of Riva del Garda. The resort is about 1 km from the centre of Limone and only 100 m from the lake. The hotel is located approximately 120 km away from Linate Airport in Milan.
Most of the simply decorated, functional rooms have a view of the lake, and each room comes with a private bathroom with a shower and hairdryer. Further amenities include a double bed, direct dial telephone, satellite/cable TV, Internet access, a minibar, a safe, air conditioning (from July to August) and a balcony or terrace.
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Immaculate 2006 Shult Built Country Home w/3 BR 2 Bath on 15.39 Peaceful Acres. Maintenance free siding, Central Air, Sheet Rocked Walls, Open Floor Plan, 2 car Oversized Barn Garage with extra bonus Loft Storage Area. Upgrades: Cathedral Ceilings, Laminate Flooring, Carpet, Paint, Glass Backsplash, Tile Entry, Plantation Blinds, 4 Walk-in Closets, Private Master Bath with Jet Tub, Double Sinks & Walk-in Shower & Crown Molding. Part of acreage is Wetland in back and Grass Field in Front.
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POSTINGS: The Dix Hills Wall; Almost a Mile Long, It Gives a Project Privacy
Published: November 27, 1994
"Something there is that doesn't love a wall" and "makes gaps," wrote Robert Frost in "Mending Wall."
His farm wall had to be mended every spring. But a wall 7 feet high and 5,000 feet long running the full road frontage of a new Vanderbilt Manors West housing complex in Dix Hills, L.I., is going to remain intact "hopefully for a very long time," said the developer, Charles B. Mancini of the Park Ridge Organization in Ronkonkoma.
The wall has gaps -- deliberate ones -- where decorative wrought-iron fencing replaces the stucco and concrete. It will cost $250,000 instead of the $35,000 to $40,000 Mr. Mancini said it would normally cost to put up a privacy fence. But by putting up a wall that requires minimal maintenance, Mr. Mancini said, he saves the expense of forming the homeowner's association that would have been necessary to care for the less-sturdy fence, and gains a feeling of exclusivity for his development.
There will be 21 four-bedroom houses in the 27-acre enclave, which fronts on Melrose and Wolf Hill Roads. Designed by Scott T. Somerville, an inhouse architect, they range in price from $589,000 to $649,000 and in size from 4,200 to 4,700 square feet. Although model houses will not open until early in January, sales have begun and seven contracts are signed.
Photo: Part of the 7-foot-high, 5,000-foot long wall, built at a cost of $250,000, that shuts off the 21-house Vanderbilt Manors West enclave in Dix Hills, L.I., from abutting roads. (Vic DeLucia/The New York Times)


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Christopher Quincy was an American boy whose father admired everything British. As a result of this trait, Chris found himself trapped at St. Basket's, an ancient London school founded--and built--in the time of Henry VIII and, Chris thought, it looked it. The corridors were dim and drafty, and the rooms of the boarding pupils, of whom Chris was one of four, were gloomy and unpretentious. Still, Chris had good company in his two roommates, Leslie Plainfield, who was English, and David Choudhry, a Pakistani. The three were close friends, which made it all the more horrifying when Chris and Leslie saw Mr. Jaggers, the games master, deliberately (so it seemed) break David's leg with a hockey stick. Unaccountably, the school heads refused to get a doctor for David. In the midst of apparent security and traditional British calm, a truly macabre and dangerous situation was building up. Will David get the help he needs before it's too late, and what else is going on at this school?
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Published: November 4, 1862
From the Richmond Dispatch, Oct. 31.
These troops were commanded by Brig.-Gen. TERRY. Having effected their landing at an early hour and driven in our pickets, the Yankees advanced rapidly toward the railroad. The Charleston Mercury says.
They first encountered our forces about 11 o'clock A.M., and the fighting was kept up with more or less spirit from that time until 5 o'clock P.M., when the enemy began to waver and finally fell back in disorder, leaving his dead upon the held. The action is described by an eye-witness to have been a second Secessionville affair, in the disparity of the forces engaged, in the stubborn character of the contest and in the completeness of the repulse. Capt. ELLIOTT's Battery and the Virginia Battery are said to have covered themselves with glory. A later report, though not official, places the number of our casualties at 10 killed and 60 wounded.
The heaviest loss was suffered by the Virginia Artillery, Capt. J.N. LAMKIN, a gallant corps, which has served on our coast ever since the fall of Port Royal. They had four killed and sixteen wounded, most of the latter slightly. The following are the names of the killed: C. PETERS, J.F. FLUONER, W.A. THACKER, T.J. ALLEN, Lieut. MASELE was wounded in the head and arm slightly. The battery went into action with thirty-five men. A large number of its horses were killed. The Old Dominion buys also lost a caisson, owing to the horses having taken fright, out captured one from the enemy, which made things even. The enemy burned the caisson which they took.
The Courier adds the following to this account:
The Forty-sixth Georgia and a detachment of cavalry, under the command of Col. COLQUITT, were ordered down Thursday morning, to follow up the enemy, a courier having arrived, stating that the enemy was in force at Mackey's Point. The Georgians on the road gathered up quite a large stock of overcoats and other articles found on the road. Two new made graves were also discovered. The enemy's dead he scattered along the route down to the point of landing. During the whole engagement they were carrying their wounded and dying to the rear. One man who saw them on their retreat states that he met a continued stream of ambulances going and coming from their boats. On their advance they had killed some sheep, but in the hasty retreat were obliged to leave their plunder.
Our troops buried forty of the enemy's dead. The force that first met the enemy consisted of the Rutledge Mounted Riflemen, Capt. TRENHOLM; Charleston Light Dragoons, Capt. RUTLEDGE; Beaufort Volunteer Artillery, Capt. WM. ELLIOTT, and an infantry company, who stubbornly and successfully contested the enemy's advance until the arrival of reinforcements. The others afterward engaged were NELSON's Virginia Battery. MORGAN's Squadron of Cavalry, Major ABNEY's First Battalion of Sharpshooters, consisting of Capt. CHISHOLM's Company, Capt. ALLSTON's Company, and Capt. BUIST's Company.
A deserter from one of the blockading steamers off Charleston arrived in that city on the 27th. The Courier gives the following report from him:
Before he left, he was acting as Assistant Quartermaster, and overheard a conversation between Capt. DENNISON and another officer on the poop-deck of his vessel, in which one of the officers stated that an attack on Charleston would be made on the arrival of two iron-clads and some additional vessels, with an expected reinforcement to the land forces of some seventeen thousand men. They expected to make the attack by land and water between the 1st and 10th of November. Their light-draft gunboats were to run up the Stono, shell the woods and attack the batteries along the banks, while the iron-clads and larger vessels are to come up and attack Fort Sumter and the city.


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1Get ready for rejections. most of the time you will encounter rejection due to lack of trust of the prospect on you. Do not worry keep on meeting new people and discuss with them about eBiz.
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Google opened the Android Developer Summit this morning with the announcement of an update to its integrated development environment (IDE) Android Studio 2.0 to an over-subscribed audience of independent developers at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View California. Android Studio 2.0 available today as a preview release is faster and more stable, according to group product manager Stephanie Cuthbertson.
VP Android Development Dave Burke compared the speed of the improved IDE to the quickness of web development. Web developers almost instantly see the results of a code change. HTML, CSS or Javascript changes are rendered in seconds when the page is refreshed. Fast, iterative coding and debugging is very productive.
Google's Android Studio 2.0 preview promises to bring similarly fast iterative development to native Java development. Typical Java project build speeds leave developers unproductively staring at their screens for a minute or longer have been reduced by 2 to 2.5 times to 25 – 30 seconds. Incremental builds drop to single digit seconds.
Google saved the best news about Android Studio almost until the end – Instant Run lets developers see the impact of code changes in their running apps in a second or two. Proving the statement, Burke demonstrated this fast turnaround with a graphically-rich chess game app. Burke changed the code that rendered the pieces' size and category. Each iterative code change was reflected in a about a second in the emulated chess game. Instant Run works with every physical device and every emulator dating back to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, which covers 96% of the Android devices in use today.
Consistent with the theme of faster and more stable, a new set of fast Android device emulators was announced that promises to cure a nagging complaint of slow device emulator load times. Staring at a screen waiting for a slow emulator to load is another waste of developer time. The new emulators can test subsystems such as the camera, GPS, texts and battery. Apps can be tested under a variety of conditions such as fully charged and low battery levels on many emulated hardware models from the many vendors of Android devices.
A new GPU profiler was added to improve debugging graphically intensive apps such as maps, games and video. Graphic performance and logic errors can be difficult to trap, analyze and correct. The new GPU profiler can record and replay the app frame by frame while the error is traced to a specific cause inside the app.
App Indexing puts app content in Google Search results. An example is a search based on a person's name will return a link to the LinkeIn app on the users Android or iOS device. It is a powerful feature for developers because it presents information in their apps in Google Search results making search and the app more useful to users. Since mobile search recently eclipsed desktop search, the probability that information in an app will best satisfy a search is very high. But to take advantage of app indexing the developer needs to make changes to expose their app to Google's indexes. Android Studio 2.0 will suggest where to add deep linking and built in static analysis will check syntax. The IDE will interact dynamically with Google Search to test if the final result is properly indexed.


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I don't suppose he is truly the son of God in terms of investment, with the ability to work miracles on money, but his $3 million personal portfolio and success in calling markets speaks for itself. He got oil right most recently and I was intrigued to hear him telling viewers to sell shoes and buy "sox" (the name the semiconductor share index goes by in America). This was on the grounds that the shoe manufacturers, such as Nike, are suffering from some excessive inventories while semiconductor firms are in the opposite position. One of Cramer's favourites is Marvell.
I'm not much good at tech speak so I offer you the Forbes.com summary of this California-based company's activities: "A global semiconductor provider of complete broadband communications and storage solutions. The Company's product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, wireless, PC connectivity, gateways, communications controller and storage solutions."
That's a little dry. Cramer understandably advises that you ought not buy or hold stocks in companies you don't understand, but I have at least grasped the fact that Marvell makes the chips that go into virtually everything you're going to be buying for Christmas this year and next: the Apple iPod, Sony's brand-new-this-week portable PlayStation - the PlayStation 3, Microsoft's new Xbox, and also various printers, PDAs, mobile phones and wireless networking stuff. The products, in other words, that excite those "I want one of those" hormones in the average human being. Not only that but the form; recent results showed excellent growth n sales and profits and some incredible margins.
Marvell, in other words, is about as far away form those fairy-tale dot coms that blew the last tech boom apart. This time the tech really will be different - much more firmly based on stuff that you can actually hold in your hands.
However I haven't got around to buying Marvell yet because I've been quietly topping up a couple of holdings that I also think will make some progress: mobile phone outfit O2 and William Hill. I've also been buying back into the posh estate agents Savills.
As luck would have it the shares rose sharply just after I bought them, so I'm already in the money. The bid talk about O2 never seems to recede, and there is yet more gossip surrounding the group this week. A couple of years ago I bought quite a few tranches in O2 every time I registered a new low in the great tech and telecoms sell off, so I've already more than doubled my money (on paper at least) on the existing shares.
As if that wasn't enough, to make me feel extra smug, Savills is close to marking yet another all-time high, and William Hill ticked up slightly.
I'm waiting for a weakness in Marvell before I pile in and load up the truck with the company's shares. It's especially tempting round now because of the dollar's continuing frailty.
Just as I found that shopping in New York's wonderful stores and eating in their superb delis is a surprisingly cheap affair for Europeans just now, so is buying shares in quality, world-class, American companies. Such an opportunity will not last forever. "Boooyya!" as Mr Cramer always says.
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Recently our van trip has been milk free. Seems they don't do milk in bottles in France. However they do do milk in machines. Check out this milk dispenser outside a huge supermarket chain. Thats us filling our water bottle with fresh, cool milk!
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A Golden Bay dairy family has imported an automatic milk dispenser and begun selling raw milk from their farm in Clifton.
Mark and Phillippa Houston supplied Fonterra from their farm in South Canterbury before downsizing and setting up in Tasman for the climate and the lifestyle. The idea for selling raw milk evolved in response to strong community interest and support.
"The motivation with the machine is that we didn't want to stand there all day with the hose to fill up people's bottles," said Mr Houston.


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Frontbenchers will convene to mount a fightback in the run-up to the next general election, following summer polls that place Labour far behind the Tories.
A YouGov survey for The Sun newspaper today revealed that the Conservatives were heading for a 96-seat Commons majority at the next general election.
Tory leader David Cameron has a 42% share of the vote, with Labour trailing on 28% and the Liberal Democrats on 17%.
The poll, the first of the party conference season, also found that voters believed Mr Cameron would make a better prime minister than Gordon Brown by a factor of two to one.
Mr Brown will now try to rally his Cabinet to convince voters that its strategy of spending during the recession has had a marked effect on the economy's recovery.
The Cabinet meeting comes days before G20 finance ministers gather in London to join Chancellor Alistair Darling for talks on the world economy.
The Prime Minister will also attempt to finally shake off the Lockerbie row, which yesterday led him to deny "double dealing" over the bomber's
release from a Scottish prison.
The meeting, to be held in an undisclosed location, is the latest in a series of Cabinet "away days".
Mr Brown's Cabinet meeting in Birmingham last year was thought to be the first such event to be held outside London since 1921.
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With the appearance of the fake spring we had recently here in Portland, this flock of pink flamingos landed in my neighbor's yard. They were strangely still and unmoving, almost like those little plastic pink flamingos that live mostly in retirement villages in the south. I prefer to think that no one would do this to their yard intentionally, so I choose to believe that it must have been a wild flock posing as the crappy plastic variety.
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Srinagar, May 26 (UNI) Jammu and Kashmir Governor Lt General (Retd) S K Sinha today exuded confidence that the Institute of Kashmir Studies (IKS) would promote the spirit of Kashmiriyat and strive for disseminating this message not only in South Asia but all over the world.
In his address at the inaugural session of the IKS at University of Kashmir here, the Governor said the aim of this Institute is to study Kashmiriyat in all its aspects of culture, literature, history and philosophy.
Established two years ago, General Sinha said Rs one crore was obtained from the Centre for the purpose.
He said national and international seminars were held and apart from scholars from different parts of our country, we have had participants from Pakistan and Central Asian Republics, with whom we share old historical and cultural ties.
General Sinha said during the course of interaction it was discovered that the University of Lahore already had a Department of Kashmiriyat, before Centre for Kashmir Studies was established here.
On the rechristening of the Centre into an Institute, the Governor said he had an occasion to interact with the UN Goodwill Ambassador and Founder Trustee of South Asian Foundation, Madanjeet Singh last year, who showed enthusiasm about the project and it was decided to upgrade and reorganise the Centre of Kashmir Studies expanding its area of activities to cover all the South Asian Countries.
He said a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed with the South Asian Foundation, which has promised a grant of Rs four crores.
The Centre has been registered as an autonomous institution and redesignated as the Institute of Kashmir Studies.
''We are happy that this Institute is being inaugurated by the President Prathiba Devisingh Patil'', the Governor said, adding that this is a red letter day not only for the University but Jammu and Kashmir State as a whole.
He also mentioned about Pakistan Junoon Band bonanza yesterday here and said ''We feel very encouraged to find that music transcends boundaries and can be used to launch a jihad for peace, transcending boundaries and bitterness of the past''.


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Belle Billones
Dasmariñas, Cavite
Belle Billones
Dasmariñas, Cavite
"All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself." - belle
Jorebel Billones, was born on July 16, 1991. At the age of 11, she started to become independent by herself because of financial problem of her family. She wants to make her family happy and satisfied of what they have even in a small things.
5-feet and 1-inches. Black long hair & black eyes. She loves playing badminton and application games on the internet. She loves go to church every Sunday and she is also a youth and choir member of a Youth Ministry namely Immaculate Youth Ministry in Salawag, Dasmarinas Cavite.
She's now taking Bachelor of Secondary Education major in Filipino, 4th year level in University of Perpetual System Dalta Molino Bacoor, Cavite. This is actually her second course, the first course she had already taken is a 2 years course degree of Hotel and Restaurant Management in City College of Pasay. She loves to cook and to serve her dishes with her family, close friends and classmates.
She is a type of person that loves to mingle with other people and love to make fun every single of the day. She's good in singing, dancing, acting and painting/drawing arts too.
Most of the time, she spends her moments with surfing in net, making new poems and reading Bible when she have a free time to do those things.
At the end of the day, she owes everything to the Guy above, our LORD.
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|1,450 sq. ft.
|Property type
|Minimum Stay
|3 nights
4 year old Cedar Chalet with covered wrap around decks. Great views from all decks. Our Chalet is situated in a gated mountain community. Fully furnished 2 bedroom 2 bath with pine tongue and groove cathedral ceilings.
Year round access with beautiful mountain views.
Easy access for all on a paved road.
15 minutes to historic down town Murphy and Blairsville, Ga.
The John C. Campbell Folk School is 5 miles away!
This is our 4 year old vacation home that we are happy to share with anyone that loves the mountain views like we do. Nothing better than relaxing on the deck in the morning with a cup of coffee enjoying either the lush green of summer or the beautiful colors of fall.
Larry and Denise Rowe purchased this chalet in 2012
We have vacationed in North Carolina for the last 30 years. Hiked many trails, enjoyed waterfalls, tubing and rafting.
This is the opportunity to rest and relax. Time to stop and catch your breath from the busy hectic schedule of everyday life!
What a wonderful way to spend my anniversary! The Chalet was beautiful with a breath taking view! My husband and I so loved the gas fire place, wrap around deck and relaxing atmosphere! Hope to return soon and have suggested for my inlaws to go stay! Thank you so much for the much needed get away!! Traci & Wayne
Very clean ,comfortable, quiet, well maintained and wonderful view. We would highly recommend this property . Looking forward to going back.
We stayed from August 27 through September 3, 2016
Thank you Larry and Denise for sharing your home with us for the second time. We got there a little earlier then planned. I called Denise and she told me it was okay to go into the home early. My son, husband and I enjoyed our time in Murphy. We loved watching the humming birds and the deer. We went to Gatlinburg, TN and on the way back we saw 4 Elk. We love the Community of Crisp Mountain. We are hoping some day to own a home there. But until then we will rent Mountain View Escape.
Robin and Larry Gerhard
Our stay couldn't have been better. This is a very clean, comfortable, beautiful cabin in a quiet, peaceful location. the pictures of the inside the cabin don't show just how nice the cabin is decorated. And everything we needed for our stay was provided. We enjoyed the early mornings sitting on the deck looking at the fog across the mountains and valley and watching the hummers and other birds eating from the feeders. The view from the deck is beautiful and we used binoculars to view the distant landscape. In the late afternoons baby rabbits would come out into the clearing and eat. we saw numerous deer and turkeys. Our only disappointment was that we never saw a pretty sunset due to cloudiness. the owners are great to work with and our thanks to them for sharing their cabin with us. In summary, it's just a great place to stay. We highly recommend the owners and their cabin to everyone.
This was our 4th time staying at the chalet. The pictures do not do the chalet justice. The mountain view is stunning. We enjoy our coffee on the deck in the morning watching the cows and horses in the pasture below and breathtaking sunsets with a glass of wine in the evenings. Although there are neighbors you have privacy on the deck enjoying the views and wildlife (turkeys, rabbits, deer, many different birds). This year my favorite was the family of wild rabbits that played in the yard. It was cute to see the babies eat and play until momma rabbit came to collect them. They would be out in the morning and evenings! We enjoy the mountain view and comforts of the cabin and day trips every year. We will be back next year since we have not ran out of things to do yet!!!! Thank you for sharing your beautiful chalet Larry & Denise.
This was our second vacation in this chalet. It just gets better each time. So much to do in the area & the chalet is absolutely beautiful. The view from this chalet is absolutely breathtaking. I could have spent the entire week just sitting on the deck. The owners are fantastic to work with. Thanks Larry & Denise!
Keurig coffee maker! Bring your coffee and enjoy the view from the deck! The John C. Campbell Folk School is 5 miles away.
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Having a vehicle just like those in the movie The Fast and the Furious will surely make you an instant celebrity just like Dominic Toretto. In the film, Toretto is a street car racing rock star known for the exquisite looks and exceptional performance of his vehicles. He produces one-of-a-kind and performing vehicles by using
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Over the years, the population of car enthusiasts has increased, especially those who adore vintage cars. Unfortunately, vintage cars may cost a fortune, which leads to vehicle buffs to just restore their old cars to achieve their dream classic cars. Luckily enough, there are many available tips and tricks to follow to be successful
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4 Mountain Bike Trails Around Metro Manila
In the Philippines, steel tubes are not only essential part of any vehicle but for any kind of bicycle, too. Bicycles should have the quality parts to be have an optimum performance. Owning the best quality bike will urge you to conquer even the most difficult trail. Thinking of going out with your beloved bike?
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The best muffler seller in the Philippines would be one who also provides car maintenance and repair services, making them a one-stop auto shop. Auto shops ensure the lifespan of your vehicle by conducting necessary car maintenance and repair to maintain its optimal performance. But you don't always have to go to them for every
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Safety Precautions to Prevent Car Theft
The worth of a vehicle can be determined by the different high-price parts that form it, may it be made from aluminum, glass, special fibers, or steel tubes. In the Philippines, motor and vehicle theft is becoming prevalent for the expensive car parts that sum up each automobile. Don't worry, you're not completely vulnerable. Here
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Don't Breakdown! Here's How to Deal with Common Roadside Emergencies
Surely, having a universal muffler or other technologically advanced car components can help a vehicle perform at its best. However, even if the vehicle has brand new and high quality car parts, unexpected car breakdown may happen any time. That's why it's so unexpected! A wise driver would be prepared for any car breakdowns
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Manual Transmission vs. Automatic Transmission: Which Should You Get?
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Jim Steel (director)
|Jim Steel
|April 24, 1958
|Nov. 5, 2014
Palm Springs
|Other names
|J Steel, James Steel, Patrick Dennis, Scott Parisi
Jim Steel (April 24, 1958 – November 5, 2014) was an American director, writer, production manager and producer of pornography. He was an inductee of the Grabby Awards Hall of Fame and the GayVN Awards Hall of Fame.
Adult film career[edit]
Steel's career dates back to the late 1980s. He is well known in the gay adult film industry as "the only person in this business today who understands how to mix comedy and sex..."[1] He worked continuously through 2009n various capacities.
Steel was once half of the producing team known in adult film as "Patrick Dennis." His first breakout hit was Davey and the Cruisers. He later directed the popular "Rites" series for HIS Video (Rites of Summer, Rites of Spring, Rites of Winter, and Rites of Fall), and the "Pay to Play" series of films. By 1994, he had produced or directed more than 140 films.[1]
Later works included a stint with Falcon Studios as well as the revived HIS Video label and the revived Men of Odyssey label.[2][3][4]
He was primarily known for his work in the Gay Pornography market, but worked consistently in both gay and straight adult video. He occasionally played nonsexual cameos in the films he produced.
Jim Steel was inducted into the Grabby Awards Hall of Fame in 1999 and the GayVN Awards Hall of Fame in 2005.
Cameo appearances[edit]
- French Connection 1: Temptation (Falcon Studios, 1998)
- Conquest (Wicked Pictures, 1997)
- Jock-a-Holics (Sierra Pacific/Tyger Films, 1993)
- Lost In Vegas (All World's Video, 1993)
Selected producing filmography (gay)[edit]
- Tulsa County Line (Men of Odyssey, 2001)
- Top Secret (Men of Odyssey, 2000)
- Caesar's Hard Hat Gang Bang (Men of Odyssey, 2000)
- Echoes (Men of Odyssey, 2000)
- Technical Ecstasy (Men of Odyssey, 1999)
- Mass Appeal (Men of Odyssey, 1998)
- Pick Up (Vivid Man, 1995)
Selected directing filmography (gay)[edit]
- Teacher's Pet (HIS Video, 2007)
- Devil Inside (HIS Video, 2006)
- Up All Night (Falcon Studios, 2005)
- Mass Appeal 2 (Men of Odyssey, 2002)
- The Joint (Men of Odyssey, 2001)
- Carnal Intentions (Men of Odyssey, 2001)
- The Journey Back (Men of Odyssey, 2000)
- Ryker's Revenge (Men of Odyssey, 1998)
- Dreaming in Blue (Vivid Man, 1998)
- Hollywood Knights (Vivid Man, 1997)
- Men's Room (Vivid Man, 1996)
- A Night with Todd Stevens (Vivid Man, 1996)
- Pure (Vivid Man, 1996)
- Rescue 69-11 (Vivid Man, 1996)
- Crossroads (Vivid Man, 1993)
- The Return of Grant Fagin (Vivid Man, 1991)
See also[edit]
- List of male performers in gay porn films
- List of pornographic movie studios
- List of Grabby recipients
- ^ a b Spencer, "On the Set With Jim Steel," Manshots, February 1995.
- ^ Johnson, "Falcon Names New Directors," Adult Video News, February 11, 2005.
- ^ Richards, "Men of Odyssey Returns Under Bob East," Adult Video News September 25, 2006.
- ^ "LFP Revives HIS Brand With The Devil Inside," Adult Video News, September 25, 2006.
- Johnson, Peter. "Falcon Names New Directors." Adult Video News. February 11, 2005. Accessed November 30, 2007.
- "LFP Revives HIS Brand With The Devil Inside." Adult Video News. September 25, 2006. Accessed November 30, 2007.
- Richards, Rick. "Men of Odyssey Returns Under Bob East." Adult Video News. March 26, 2007. Accessed November 30, 2007.
- Spencer, William. "On the Set With Jim Steel." Manshots. February 1995.
External links[edit]
- Jim Steel at TLAvideo.com
- Grabby Awards Wall of Fame
- GAYVN Awards website
- Jim Steel on Internet Movie Database
- Jim Steel at the Internet Adult Film Database
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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Jul 20, 2004
|Filing date
|Jun 5, 2001
|Priority date
|Jun 5, 2001
|Fee status
|Also published as
|Publication number
|Andrew D. Flockhart, Robin H. Foster, Eugene P. Mathews
|Original Assignee
|Avaya Technology Corp.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (6), Referenced by (59), Classifications (8), Legal Events (10)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This invention relates to real-time work centers in general and to call centers in particular.
One of the problems of managing a real-time work center is deciding when to allow new work to enter the center and when to deny entry. For example, given a call center that does not operate around-the-clock, customer calls to the call center that occur near the call center's closing time must be either refused or diverted to another call center if the calls are not expected to be answered and/or completed by the scheduled closing time.
In the prior art, this is typically done by vector programming, where a fixed time is chosen for ceasing to accept new calls, e.g., ten minutes before closing time. For example, one known system can be structured to have pre-programmed closing/opening times in its scripts that either control call distribution in a multi-site environment or control call distribution to various skills in a single-site environment. There are serious flaws with this approach. For example, for a skill with an average call-handling time of three minutes, if ten minutes before the closing time there are no calls in queue and agents are available, then seven minutes of potentially productive work time will be lost. Conversely, if ten minutes before closing time the call wait-time in queue is 15 minutes, then either agents will have to work eight minutes beyond the closing time to handle old waiting calls, or already-enqueued calls will have to be abandoned.
Another known approach is to have a "closing" skill defined into which a manager of a call center logs in to close the center and logs out of to open the center. In vectoring, if there are agents logged in to the "closing" skill, the center (or a part of it) is assumed to be closed.
To determine the opening/closing of the call center, the "closing" skill is monitored. If the "closing" skill is staffed, the site cannot take a call. If the "closing" skill is not staffed, and if there are "sufficient" resources to support a predictable level of operation (e.g., if there are more than a predetermined minimum number of agents logged into the call center), the center is considered open. This approach leaves open the question of when the manager should log into the "closing" skill to close the call center.
This invention is directed to solving these and other problems and disadvantages of the prior art. Generally, according to the invention, acceptance or rejection of new work at a work center is conditioned on whether the work arrival time plus anticipated wait time and service time for this type of work exceeds the work center's closing time by some margin (e.g. a predetermined amount of time, down to and including zero).
According to the invention, a method of operating a work center comprises determining if a sum of arrival time plus anticipated wait time plus anticipated service time of a work item exceeds a closing time of the work center by a margin, and then accepting or rejecting the work item depending on whether it is determined that the sum does or does not exceed the closing time by the margin. The margin is illustratively nil. Preferably, these considerations are made separately for each type of work item serviced by the work center, e.g., individually for each skill/split served by a call center. Also preferably, the rejecting comprises redirecting the work item to another work center if it is determined that the other work center can service the work item by its closing time. The invention thus ensures that the work center will likely complete servicing of waiting work items by its closing time, without unnecessarily refusing work items whose servicing can likely be completed by the work center's closing time.
While the invention has been characterized in terms of a method, it also encompasses apparatus that performs the method. The apparatus preferably includes an effector—any entity that effects the corresponding step, unlike a means—for each step. The invention further encompasses any computer-readable medium containing instructions which, when executed in a computer, cause the computer to perform the method steps.
These and other features and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following description of an illustrative embodiment of the invention considered together with the drawing.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a call center that includes an illustrative embodiment of the invention; and
FIG. 2 is a functional flow diagram of operation of a shutdown program of the call center of FIG. 1.
FIG. 1 shows a work center that includes an illustrative embodiment of the invention. The work center is illustratively a customer contact center such as a call center comprising an automated call distributor (ACD) 100 that serves a plurality of agent positions 120. Customer communications such as calls incoming and/or outgoing on trunks 130 are distributed by ACD 100 for servicing among agent positions 120. ACD 100 is a stored-program-controlled machine comprising at least one memory 102 for storing programs and data and a processor 104 for executing the programs and using the data. ACD 100 is illustratively the Definity� enterprise communications system of Avaya Inc. Included among contents of memory 102 are call queues 110 for buffering calls that are waiting to be serviced, one queue 110 for each split or skill 106-108 handled by call center 100. Associated with each skill 106-108 is also an expected or anticipated wait time 112 that indicates how long a call can be expected to wait in the corresponding queue 110 before being assigned to an agent position 120 for servicing, and/or an anticipated average service time 114 that indicates how long on average it takes an agent position 120 to service this type of call. As described so far, the call center of FIG. 1 is conventional.
According to the invention, memory 102 of ACD 100 includes a shutdown program 116 that decides when to cease accepting new calls for each skill 106-108 as the closing time of call center 100 approaches. The functionality of shutdown program 116 is shown in FIG. 2.
Execution of shutdown program 116 is invoked when a new call arrives for a skill x (one of the skills 106-108), at step 200. Program 116 determines the call's arrival time (the present time), at step 202, and retrieves anticipated wait time 112 and anticipated service time 114 for skill x, at step 204. Program 116 then sums these three times and compares the sum against the closing time of the call center, at step 206. If the sum does not exceed the closing time, program 116 indicates acceptance of the call to ACD 100, at step 208, whereupon ACD 100 proceeds to enqueue the call in queue 110 of skill x and/or assign the call to an agent position 120 for processing. If the sum exceeds the closing time, program 116 indicates rejection of the call to ACD 100, at step 210, whereupon ACD 100 proceeds either to play a rejection announcement to the call or to redirect the call to an alternative call center. Following step 208 or 210, execution of program 116 ends, at step 212.
In the just-described embodiment, the tolerable margin for exceeding the closing time is assumed to be nil. In an alternative embodiment, a non-zero margin may be tolerated, such that the determination at step 208 becomes whether the sum exceeds the closing time by more than the tolerable margin. The tolerable margin may either be predetermined and fixed, or it may be dynamically computed by the system based on current data of the call center.
In a multi-site (multi-call center) arrangement, each call center must know its own operational hours. If the (arrival time+anticipated wait time+anticipated service time) of a call placed in a queue 110 of the call center would exceed the closing time of the call center, the call should not be enqueued there, in order that all pending work have a good chance of being completed by closing time. (This could be a call that originally arrived at this call center, or one that was redirected from another call center.) Instead, the call should be rejected or enqueued at another call center, even if the other call center would predict a longer wait in queue. Alternatively, the (arrival time+anticipated wait time) must not exceed the closing time of the call center.
The call center with an upcoming closing could reply to a remote call center that is seeking to relocate a call that the wait time is infinite, that the call is rejected (send a reason code) and/or with a projected re-opening time. This information does not mean that a remote call center cannot try again to relocate a call to the closing call center.
In addition, it should be possible as well to maintain an opening and closing schedule on a per-skill basis at each call center, to take care of situations in which not all skills are supported at each call center at all times, but some skills are available (a partial closing, for example, where some of the main skills are staffed but some of the less common skills are not.) Additionally, if each call center has knowledge of operational hours and the average service times by skill across all call centers, then each call center can complete the evaluation of the suitability of a remote call center based upon only the anticipated caller wait time being provided by the remote call center.
Additionally, the caller may hear a busy tone or an announcement such as "Please call tomorrow" when the [arrival time+anticipated wait time+anticipated service time] exceeds the closing time.
Also, reporting capabilities may identify calls, skills, and call centers affected by these rules so that system managers are aware of the logic being invoked. In addition, the real-time nature of this logic would allow for real-time display of enterprise operations indicating where redirection has been discontinued due to shutdown conditions, on a skill-by-skill basis.
Of course, various changes and modifications to the illustrative embodiment described above will be apparent to those skilled in the art. Such changes and modifications can be made without departing from the spirit and the scope of the invention and without diminishing its attendant advantages. It is therefore intended that such changes and modifications be covered by the following claims except insofar as limited by the prior art.
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Rays sign RHP Roberto Hernandez
The Rays have inked right-hander Roberto Hernandez, who was formerly known as Fausto Carmona
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The Rays have signed Roberto Hernandez, the right-hander who formerly went by the name "Fausto Carmona," to a one-year, $3.25-million contract. Marc Topkin of the St. Petersburg Times tweets that the deal also includes $1.85 million in possible incentives.
The 32-year-old Hernandez pitched just 14 1/3 innings last season (a consequence of his being placed on the restricted list by the Indians and his missing more than a month with a right ankle sprain), but for his career he has a 4.64 ERA across parts of seven major-league seasons.
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Hyderabad, Sep 26 (UNI) Riding on the success of India's twin rockets-- Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV)--Arainespace, world's first commercial satellite launch services and solutions provider, will jointly explore with Antrix Corporation, the marketing arm of the ISRO, to use the Indian platforms for launching third country satellites.
The joint Indo-European effort could fructify over the next two years, Arainespace Chairman and CEO Jean Yves Le Gall told the media here today on the sidelines of the 58th International Astronautical Congress (IAC-2007) here.
With ''technical qualification'' of both the PSLV and the GSLV ''established'' these will provide flexibility in the joint marketing efforts as both had proved to be ''very good technical success'', he said. ''The efforts to market (the Indian platforms) could materialise, say over the next two years or so'', Mr Gall added.
These vehicles could be commercially used for launching smaller satellites. Both Arianespace and Antrix Corporation have an agreement for joint cooperation for commercial launch.


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The club's survival bid suffered a huge blow in midweek when they gave away two late goals to gift Crewe a point.
That result left Rangers bottom of Division One and the dismissals of Karl Ready and Peter Crouch hurt their hopes further.
But Holloway believes that his side can still get out of trouble even though time is running out.
He said: "There are five games left and 15 points are needed if we're to stay up. We should have beaten Crewe but we didn't and the players have got to do something about it."
Rangers do have some good news, though, before they go to fellow strugglers Portsmouth on Saturday. Karl Connolly, Michel Ngonge and Wayne Brown have all recovered from injuries and Danny Maddix is available again after suspension.
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Yes I saw it too and recorded it.
The pro-CCW gentleman did IMHO and excellent job and had pat ansers & facts at hand off the top of his head which typically is not the case in these sorts of discussion/debates. The gent who was his counter he like most was speaking toward a bunch of non-sense.
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Comparing the New Claymore AlphaShares China All Cap ETF (YAO) to Claymore AlphaShares China Small Cap ETF (HAO)
There have been exciting new offerings in the international space of late, allowing US investors access to foreign equities other than those available as US ADRs. We discussed a Brazilian small cap ETF last summer [Jun 2, 2009: Market Vectors Brazil Small Cap (BRF) - a New ETF for Exposure to Brazil, an Indian small cap product is on its way [Van Eck Global to Introduce Indian Small Cap Offering], and a Chinese small cap ETF, Claymore AlphaShares Small CAP (HAO) has been one of the better ETF performers in 2009. We've had a limit order sitting out in this latter product for months, which I've recently canceled as I've missed the train.
Even for someone who follows the markets daily there is an avalanche of ETF products out there, much of it me too. Hence if an ETF does not catch attention quickly it generally languishes in purgatory. But Claymore has a new product out that fills a nice niche in between its small cap offering, and the very large cap type of ETFs, most notably the very popular iShares Xinhua China 25 (FXI) - a product we've owned on an off the past few years. This is what I term a mega cap type of fund; it owns the largest of the large names in China - many of which are available in the US as ADRs. While China is an exception (to a degree) you generally will find more growth in mid or small cap names (but higher volatility) so I thought it would be interesting to compare and contrast the 2 Claymore products. The small cap ETF is obvious in where it is placed in the food chain - but with the new all cap ETF you can get exposure from large companies, to medium, to small and this might turn out to be a very popular ETF over time for that reason.
First, let's review Claymore AlphaShares China Small Cap ETF (HAO) as its been around for a good while. It's fund page can be found here.
The ETF has decent volume - trading about 300,000 shares a day, with an expense ratio of 0.70%. The ETF has attracted about $250M in assets, and the year to date performance as of 10/31, was 76.1%.
Next we have the new Claymore AlphaShares China All Cap ETF (YAO) which launched in the past few weeks.
The Claymore/AlphaShares China All-Cap ETF (the Fund), NYSE Arca:YAO, seeks investment results that correspond generally to the performance, before the Fund's fees and expenses, of an equity index called the AlphaShares China All-Cap Index (the "China Index" or the "Index").
The ETF actually had an amazing 1.3 million shares of volume the first day out - but has since fallen off. It has not yet been around a month so we can't tell yet if momentum will continue; but it also has the same expense ratio as its smaller brother. It has already attracted $72M in assets in under a month, so it seems to be quite popular.
Now let's compare the ETFs, in terms of size of companies owned, number of companies owned, along with sector exposure
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We can see the All Cap offering owns companies on average 10x as large as the small cap offering; no surprise there. This is still far smaller than the average size in the iShare Xinhau China 25 ETF referenced above. Since most of China's largest companies are financial or energy based, this has also skewed YAO to a 1/3rd allocation into that 1 sector, with nearly another 1/5th into the energy sector. We can see this in YAO's top holdings
- Bank of China
- China Life Insurance (LFC)
- Industrial Bank
- China Construction Bank
- PetroChina (PTR)
- China Mobile (CHL)
Most of these (non bank) names are very familiar mega cap names for any investor who has traded Chinese shares in the US. However these 7 make up only 35% of the All Cap ETF and then as you move down the list you start seeing more of a mix of names, both in size and industry. Hence the difference between this and FXI which is simply a collection of 25 names with the same girth as the 7 above.
Turning back to the Small Cap ETF, the top holdings are very different:
- Citic Pacific
- Netease.com (NTES)
- Dongfeng Motor
- Ctrip.com (CTRP)
- Yanzhou Coal Mining (YZC)
These first five only make up 14% of the HAO ETF, so this is much more broadly diversified in both industry but also concentration of holdings. I am familiar with a good portion of the names in this index - at least those listed in the US... certainly many names that are not available in the US also fill the roster.
So much like the Brazilian or coming Indian small cap ETFs we'd expect more volatility the smaller you go, but more of a real exposure to the domestic economy - especially the consumer. Whereas the larger the ETF skews, the more exposure to multinational type of companies you would have.
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A man pleaded not guilty today to administering a stupefying drug and murdering his wife.
George Kibuuka, 47, is accused of killing his wife, Margaret, 40, who was found dead with stab wounds at her home in Shirley, Southampton, in November last year.
Kibuuka was also found injured at the house in Richville Road when his wife was discovered on November 8.
It later emerged that he had drunk pesticide, and the chemical seeped through his skin and caused irritation to medical staff treating him in hospital.
Firefighters called to the house at the time had to wear chemical protection suits to take away hazardous materials.
Kibuuka entered not guilty pleas at Winchester Crown Court and was remanded in custody until the case goes to trial on October 18.
Mrs Kibuuka originated from Uganda but had lived in the UK with her husband for a number of years.
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A MUST SEE charming single 3 story brick home with full length covered front porch. This home includes three nice size bedrooms and two full baths. Walk in the front door to an open living room with a decorative fireplace. Head through the french doors into the dining room or enjoy a beverage in the eat in kitchen. There is a re-modeled mud room off the kitchen with a backdoor to the covered patio and fenced in back yard. There are four off street parking spots convenient to the backdoor. Once upstairs you will find 3 bedrooms, a full bath plus linen closet and a door off the hallway which leads upstairs to a large attic which could easily be converted into a large size 4th bedroom or playroom area. Enjoy walking distance to Manatawny Park where local activities are held throughout the year. The park has playgrounds and a splash pad to cool off in the summer. INVESTORS WELCOME!!!!! This single home was previously two units which were converted into this charming single home!!!


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Production Associate
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About Powder City
Powder City is seeking detail-oriented individuals to join our production team.
Powder City is a vertically integrated online retailer of dietary supplements located in York Pennsylvania. Our mission is to deliver the highest quality health and wellness as a price leader in the market so that our customers can meet and achieve their performance goals.
- Filling and sealing products to target weight
- Sifting powder products
- Checking lot numbers on raw materials
- Cleaning work area
- Prep work for packaging
- Reading and following SOPs
- Attention to detail
- Ability to lift up to 30 pounds
- Health, Dental, and Vision (eligible if averaging at least 30 hours weekly)
- 401k
- Prorated holiday pay based on hours worked
- At cost employee discount on all products
Statements found within have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These dietary supplement products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Always consult a physician if you are unsure about taking a new supplement. Do not take this supplement if you are under 18, if you are pregnant, nursing, or have any cardiovascular issues.
Scientific studies cited are not conclusive and have limitations, due to of their closed environment nature. Referenced studies will not necessarily determine your experience with a supplement, since there are many unaccounted variables, which fall outside the scope of the studies.
The reviews contained within are the opinions of contributors and are not necessarily the views or opinions of Powder City. These reviews should not be taken as fact or recommendation, and are only opinions of products that the contributors may have or may have not used. Powder City makes no warranty, implied or expressed, to the accuracy of information provided by these reviews.


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CSCNow known as DXC Technology
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