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NEW YORK Turkish tube and pipe producer Borusan Mannesmann plans to compete in the domestic market on technology, efficiency and expertise rather than price when it completes its planned 300,000-ton-per-year, $150-million welded oil country tubular goods (OCTG) mill in early 2014.
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Having a team with significant experience in the U.S. tube and pipe industry should help the company enter the market as a domestic producer, he said.
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The Istanbul-based company plans to source coil both from domestic and foreign suppliers.
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Borusan has already purchased most of the equipment it will need for its expansion, and is considering locations in either Texas or Oklahoma.
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More West Virginians either have a living will or a medical power of attorney, according to a survey by an end-of-life care center, but lawyers tell people to use caution and avoid easy mistakes when issuing their final wishes.
Dr. Alvin Moss, director of the West Virginia Center for End-of-Life Care, said the center's survey found a higher percentage of West Virginians have filled out these forms of advance directives than in other states.
The survey, which reached out to 1,000 West Virginia adults, found 50 percent either had a living will or a medical power of attorney. Thirty-eight percent had both. The survey also found that more people are dying at home as opposed to a hospital.
This marks an increase from three years ago, when the center found 40 percent of people had at least one document and 28 percent had both.
John Hussell, an estate-planning lawyer in Dinsmore's Charleston office, said he also sees more people using medical powers of attorney and living wills than in previous years.
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The state Legislature has provided funding the West Virginia Center for End-of-Life Care since 2002, the center's news release states, and it receives a majority of its funding through the state Department of Health and Human Resources.
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- OCCUPATION: Musician, Journalist
- BIRTH DATE: July 1808
- DEATH DATE: c. 1863
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Minerva, New York
- PLACE OF DEATH: Unknown
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Solomon Northup was an African-American farmer and musician who was taken hostage and sold into slavery in 1841; his story is told in the film 12 Years a Slave.
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Born in July 1808 in Minerva, New York, Solomon Northup grew up a free man, working as a farmer and violinist while having a family. He was lured south and kidnapped in 1841 and enslaved for more than a decade, enduring horribly violent conditions. Northup was freed in 1853 with help from colleagues and friends. His experiences are the subject of the book and film 12 Years a Slave.
"Blow after blow was inflicted on my naked body. When his unrelenting arm grew tired, he stopped and asked if I still insisted I was a free man. I did insist upon it, and then the blows were renewed, faster and more energetically, if possible, than before."
"While living at the United States Hotel, I frequently met with slaves, who had accompanied their masters from the South. ... Almost uniformly I found they cherished a secret desire for liberty. Some of them express the most ardent anxiety to escape..."
"I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of Slavery; and never once, I am proud to say, did I fail to counsel any one who came to me, to watch his opportunity, and strike for freedom."
Solomon Northup was born in July 1808 in Minerva, New York. His father Mintus had once been enslaved but was released upon his former master's death, and hence Solomon and his older brother Joseph grew up knowing freedom. Northup worked with his father on a farm growing up, and also took to books and playing the violin.
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On Christmas Day in 1829, Northup wed Anne Hampton, a woman of multi-racial descent. The couple went on to have three children—Elizabeth, Margaret and Alonzo. Solomon and Anne established a farm in 1832 in Kingsbury, with Northup also having a reputation in the community as the most excellent of fiddlers. With his wife also able to earn income for her in-demand cooking skills, the couple did well and moved to Saratoga Springs in 1834, where Northup worked at the United States Hotel, among other jobs.
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While seeking employment in March of 1841, Northup met two men who said they were affiliated with a circus. Initially only intending to accompany the men to New York and provide violin accompaniment for their act, Northup was convinced to travel with them further south to Washington, D.C. There he was drugged by the men, held captive, severely beaten and sold into slavery in Louisiana.
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Northup was forced to do a variety of tasks while in captivity and never revealed to his peers that he had once lived free for fear of him being sent farther away. He observed and later recounted the plight of others like Eliza, whose young son Randall was sold and taken away from her at an auction in New Orleans.
Northup was eventually sold in 1843 to Edwin Eppes, residing in Bayou Beouf. The standards under which Northup survived there were barbaric, with those enslaved forced to endure vile, horribly violent conditions. Northup also came to know Patsey, who was targeted by the sexually abusive Eppes while having to fear attacks from his hate-filled wife; her story represented the ordeals of many women subjugated in the slavery system.
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Samuel Bass, an anti-slavery Canadian carpenter visiting the Beouf plantation, befriended Northup and reached out to friends of the musician back in Saratoga Springs, looking for verification that he had been a free member of the community. Lawyer Henry B. Northup, who was part of the family from which Mintus and his clan took their name, travelled south and facilitated Solomon's release in 1853.
The same year Northup published the slave narrative/memoir Twelve Years a Slave, partially based on letters he'd written while in captivity. The work, known for its meticulousness and thoughtful quality, became a top seller and aided the abolitionist cause, later becoming an important, public historical document.
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The near escape of the Times Square bomb plot suspect last week highlighted how human failure can undermine an otherwise technically sound system.
The system in question is the Transportation Security Administration's no-fly watch list. Although Obama administration officials say the system worked, culminating in the apprehension of Faisal Shahzad, many observers wondered why Shahzad made it onto a flight when his name was on the list.
The hitch was the tight timeline. Although Shahzad's name was added to the list at approximately 12:30 p.m. Monday, the update had not yet made it into all the systems that government agencies and airlines use by the time he arrived at the airport that evening, reports Daniel Farber at CBS News.
To work properly in such a scenario, the system depends on human intervention. In the event that the government has identified a high-risk suspect, they notify airlines, which are then required to recheck the list manually, said Jerry Markon, Spencer Hsu and Anne Kornblut at the Washington Post.
According to the rules in place, airlines had 24 hours to make the check, which enabled Shahzad to slip through. As of May 5, the deadline is now two hours, the Post reports.
"The policy change announced Wednesday underscores the challenge U.S. security officials face as they rely on individual airlines to scan lists of potentially high-risk passengers and help to screen them out," the article states.
Some of the challenges could be reduced in the near future because of a previously planned change in security procedures, notes Scott Shane at the New York Times.
According to procedures, airlines — in this case, Emirates Airline — have the job of checking passenger names against the no-fly list for all international flights. But TSA, which already handles the task for domestic flights, will be taking that over by the end of the year.
A final encouraging note: Several news outlets noted that the last-minute check of passenger manifests, which finally led to Shahzad's arrest, was a process developed after an earlier close call: the attempted Christmas Day bombing by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
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Brandon Stokley has been the talk of the town this week, and for good reason. After all, his miraculous 87-yard game-winning touchdown reception at Cincinnati in Week 1 may turn out to be the Play of the Year in the National Football League.
In between team meetings and practices, the 11th year wide receiver has been busy discussing his Sunday heroics over the past few days — filling numerous media requests and chatting casually with family, friends and Broncos fans alike about the unforgettable catch.
"Everywhere you go people want to talk to you about it and text you about it," Stokley said. "It's been definitely a big subject of conversation."
Without question. But with Sunday's home opener against Cleveland on the horizon, Stokley knows it's time to put last week in the past. While he said he isn't necessarily tired of talking about the play, he knows his top priority this week is preparing for the Browns' defensive unit and the challenges that they present.
"It is time to kind of put it behind us and move on," Stokley said Thursday morning. "We're focused on Cleveland this week. That's the great thing about the NFL — good game, bad game, come Wednesday you kind of put it behind you, move on and get ready for the next week."
In total, Stokley said he has only seen a replay of the improbable play "five or six" times. When No. 14 has flipped on a rerun, it has been to relive the memorable experience with his 5-year-old son.
"We got into bed last night and before he went to bed I said, 'Let's put this on.' So it's kind of a goodnight little thing to watch before he goes to bed to put a smile on his face."
The elder Stokley said he's looking to improve upon last week's performance. Some may not think that is possible, but Stokley has set a list of goals for Week 2. Against Cleveland, he hopes to be more active in the passing game and show himself as a valuable third-down option.
"You've got to kind of move on from that game, put it behind you and hopefully make more than one catch this game," he said. "Make some third-down plays — that's what I'm looking forward to."
– Zach Eisendrath, DenverBroncos.com
Here are a few pictures from the onset of this afternoon's practice session:
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Train orders
At one time, trains couldn't leave the station without them
By William L. Gwyer
Published: May 1, 2006
The train order, variously called the "flimsy" or the "tissue" - together with its attendant operators, train order offices, and order hoops - has been rendered obsolete by the radio, the computer, and amended work rules. With its passing in the late 1980s, so did a whole concept of railroad traffic control that had been a hallmark of U.S. practice since the 1840's.
The train order's ultimate demise was sealed in 1986 by a national agreement between the railroads and the Transportation Communication Employees Union giving dispatchers the right to issue movement instructions directly to train crews, bypassing operators, in what is called Direct Train Control (DTC) territory. Up to that time the TCEU (previously the Order of Railroad Telegraphers) had jealously guarded its right to such work, and exclusive work rules had for years prohibited the adoption of a more modern system.
Throughout the 1980's railroad after railroad adopted either DTC, which depends on verbal instructions only (mostly by radio), or Track Warrant Control (TWC), which uses a preprinted form copied by the crew.
How train orders developed
In the early to mid-1800's, opposing trains on the same track were governed by a timetable, which contained a schedule for most regular freight and passenger train movements. Meets were prescribed, and one train simply waited on the other.
As traffic increased so did the level of sophistication, culminating in a timetable containing schedules of various classes and establishing priority. Still, there was no way to supersede it, and single-track operation was slow, haphazard at best, downright dangerous at worst. The term "cornfield meet" (for a head-on collision) had real meaning in those days.
By the time of the Civil War, the train-order system begun on the Erie in 1854 was well established. Train movements were controlled by a dispatcher who used telegraph agents to deliver orders to affected trains. The system remained essentially unchanged for more than a century.
Typical train-order operations began with the timetable. In it were contained schedules of each train, which were accorded a number and a numerical class. Such trains were called "regular trains," e.g., authorized by the timetable. First-class trains were superior to or had precedence over second-class trains, which were superior to third-class trains, etc.
Between trains of the same class, those in the direction specified in the timetable were superior to those in the opposite direction. Inferior trains were required to clear the schedule of opposing superior trains, and they were also required to clear the schedule of following superior trains, although in latter days this meant first-class trains only.
These timetables, distributed to all employees with duties involving train operation, conveyed the authority for a train to move over a given section of track at a given time; they were the official operating schedules of the railroad. Simpler versions of the timetables, showing times and other information regarding passenger trains, were made available to the public so riders could know when the trains ran.
Meeting points between scheduled trains were indicated in the timetable, usually in boldface type together with the number of the train or trains to be met. However, such meets were not positive. It was only an "advisory" where such trains should meet if they were both on time. The superior train did not have to wait on an inferior train at a timetable meet. The onus was on the latter to clear the former.
Train orders were issued by the dispatcher and superseded the timetable. They were used to advance an inferior train against a superior one, establish positive meeting points, create extra trains and sections, annul schedules, authorize work trains, and warn of track conditions and the like. There was an old saying: "What the timetable giveth, the dispatcher taketh."
Different shapes, sizes, and colors
Train orders were of two types: "31's," which had to be signed for by a member of the train crew, and "19's," which did not. The former were employed when the dispatcher needed to know that the affected train actually had the order, while the latter were used when he did not.
Train-order forms themselves came in pads printed on a thin onionskin paper, or "flimsy," which enabled crews to read them over the light of a firebox or against a kerosene lantern.
There was no standard color. The Pennsylvania used yellow, while the Erie preferred a grayish white for its 19's and a buff color for 31's. New York Central and Nickel Plate used green.
In the era before typewriters and ballpoint pens, operators copied orders using a stylus against double-sided carbons backed by a steel plate. Telegraphers' script, a beautiful, flowing, but legible handwriting, was the trademark of an operator who had learned his trade in the days of the Morse telegraph schools (named for the device's inventor, Samuel F.B. Morse).
Most railroads railroads required three copies of an order, one for the locomotive, one for the caboose (or conductor on a passenger train), and the other as the station record. Other roads required five. Of course, the number of copies also varied as to number of pertinent trains.
Running trains with train orders
The transmission of a train order was a strict ritual. The names of stations were pronounced and then spelled out letter by letter. So were numbers and time. The dispatcher always addressed an order to the train being restricted first and then each operator repeated the order back to him in the succession in which they were addressed. In telegraph days, the dispatcher wrote the order in the train-order book from the first repetition; with the telephone it was written as it was transmitted. In all cases, it was underlined as each station repeated the order.
Once it was repeated correctly, it was made "complete" and the time given. An order was never in effect until it was completed; if it had been repeated but not made complete it became a holding order. Once effective, the train order remained in effect until superseded by another order, fulfilled (that is, acted upon), or annulled.
Along with the orders came a clearance card, called a Form A on some roads. Its purpose was to list all the orders a train was to receive at the station.
A train-order signal was installed at most stations. These took sundry forms: as basic as a simple rotating lantern, semaphores, color lights, or, as on the PRR, a simple flashing "O" mounted on a signal mast. On a number of Eastern roads a simple red or yellow board supplemented by a lantern at night did the trick.
Handing up orders was part and parcel of the operator's job. For many years a bamboo hoop with a metal clip holding the orders was used. Its big drawback was that it had to be returned by the crew, who simply threw it along the right of way. Pity the hapless operator who had to trudge down the track to retrieve the hoop in winter or during an electrical storm. In later years, operators used a fork holding a string in which a slip knot was tied to hold the orders. The crew member simply slipped his arm through the fork, the string slipped out of the springloaded latch that retained it, and the orders were in hand.
On many roads, permanent order-hoop stands or racks allowed the operator to "load them" and then stand back and inspect the passing train. Regardless of the improvements, delivering orders was not pleasant under any circumstances. Operators had to watch for shifted loads and flying brakeshoes.
Technology catches up
The timetable system was replaced by newer methods of operating authority involving radio communications. Under these systems, trains are granted movement authority on a case-by-case basis, not by a standing timetable. Even though a train might run at the same time every day, it is not officially scheduled as far as railroad operations are concerned. For the convenience of riders, schedules are still issued to the public, but, as always, they convey no official operating authority.
Multiple track and centralized traffic control (CTC) eventually eliminated a large portion of single-track train-order railroading, although on double track and in CTC territory, the need for train orders was diminished but not eliminated. On double or multiple track, operating rules varied, but in the East, with its abundance of interlocked junctions, trains generally ran by signal indication with the current of traffic. As long as you had "proceed" signals you kept going regardless who was following. The timetable meant nothing here. Even into the 1980's a considerable portion of U.S. route miles were dispatched by timetable and train order.
In the years following World War II, a number of changes occurred as passenger trains disappeared and branch lines were abandoned. Freights were dropped from the timetable on many roads and run simply as extras. Sections also went out the door along with 31 orders, although today, under certain conditions an order still may have to be signed for. Still, the drama inherent in "31 east Copy 3" is gone.
The last stand of the train order in busy territory probably occurred on Burlington Northern's Powder River coal lines in the mid-1970's, but that was as short-lived as the ability of the signal department to hook up the CTC.
The 1980's brought the fax machine, signaling another round of train-order office closures. The end was near. Hard on the heels of the 1986 contract, train orders became history.
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Girl Scouts USA partners with Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion advocacy groups
Please view our 3-part video series detailing the many pro-life concerns about the Girl Scout organization. Click here to access the videos and the accompanying video documentation guides which provide supporting verifiable evidence including screen-shots and direct links from the Girl Scouts' own websites, page scans from the Girl Scouts' official curriculum for girls, and copies of the Girl Scouts' tax returns. This series has been promoted by Life News, Live Action, The Blaze, Jill Stanek, and World Magazine.
Girl Scout CEO Kathy Cloninger admits to a relationship between Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood in a 2004 interview on the Today Show. Video Clip (33 seconds long)
GSUSA's national Studio2B website there was a direct
live link to Planned Parenthood to help girls work on an
Interest Project and earn an "On
Your Own" patch. This link was up as late as November
Is the new GSUSA,
Anna Marie Chavez (reportedly Catholic)
pro-abortion? In 2009
Chavez spoke at a women's event co-sponsored by the local
Planned Parenthood. Would a
Catholic be seen at these
Ideology at work: Girl Scouts CEO Anna Maria Chavez
Article written by Mary Hasson, Catholic News Agency 3/1/12
Girl Scouts' spokesperson, Michelle Tompkins, attempts to explain the relationship between Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood. Video Clip Interview was produced by CNS in June 2011
Sandy Thomas, Vice President of Global Girl Scouting/Strategic Alliances, stated in an email dated April 4, 2011: "Through GSUSA's membership all our girl and adult members are members of WAGGGS. The amount of .44₵ is the approximate amount GSUSA pays per member as the WAGGGS quota is figure on the numbers of members." After reviewing every detail (including GSUSA's tax returns) within our WAGGGS page, you will conclude that more Catholic Girl Scout members equals an increased annual "membership quota payment" from GSUSA paid to the pro-abortion advocacy WAGGGS organization.
Abby Johnson: Pro Life Advocate
Abby Johnson's blog endorsing our website.
"I will never forget the first time I saw a GSUSA logo on the back
of one of our Planned Parenthood brochures" 5/27/11
… what are you going to do?
Here is what you can do; please write to your bishop (contact
information for your bishop). We hope that people will feel
"moved" to be directly involved in this mission by writing to their
bishop or parish priest. Please provide your bishop/parish
priest with the following informational packet:
sample letter to bishop/parish priest
2) website
informational flyer
3) article:
Denver Bishop: Girl Scouts could make girls more open to
pro-abortion agenda
Birds of a Feather Flock Together article written by Patricia
Bainbridge (Human Life International, Life Decisions
Illinois Bishop endorsement of AHG
BSA and AHG Promotional Brochure
7) Concerned
Catholic families (video 1 minute 38 seconds)
8) Power Point presentation coming soon
Links on Girl Scouts Why Not.com
Recent investigations show concerns about the NFCYM, including information on the NFCYM's own website that link Catholics to pro-abortion organizations. In addition, a book authored by the NFCYM Executive Director, Bob McCarty, provides problematic recommendations to pro-abortion websites. To view more troubling issues please see our NFCYM page.
The Articles page contains very informative articles published in Catholic News Agency, World Net Daily, Life News, The Washington Times, American Life League's STOPP International, National Catholic Register and many others on the subject of Girl Scouts and their relationship/partnership with Planned Parenthood and other abortion advocacy groups that are contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church.
GSUSA is hiding
the Truth from you.
So, if you contact them with concerns, don't expect to get straight
We have
screen shots of GSUSA's own website
proving relationships or partnerships with pro-abortion advocacy
groups. See if your local GS council is listed here on our
Truth page.
News: All Girl Scouts are members of WAGGGS through collaborated websites, activities, and finances. This intricate relationship with local Girl Scout troops is extremely disconcerting because WAGGGS promotes and advocates a campaign for "sexual and reproductive health services," including "emergency contraception in order to avoid unintended pregnancies" and accessible, affordable … abortions" as stated on their website.
Girl Scouts Resources: GSUSA books that are purchased by families at the local Girl Scout council level. Some of the literature lists websites that girls can explore which leads them to Planned Parenthood and other Pro-Choice websites. Some of the books list known pro-abortion women advocates for young Girl Scouts to emulate.
The About page contains information about our "Parents for Life" mission group, our mission goals, and intentions. Our mission group includes 1 former Girl Scout Leader, 4 former Girl Scouts, 4 families and a spiritual director. We launched www.girlscoutswhynot.com on May 8th, 2010. Our mission group is exposing the connection of Girl Scouts to Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion advocacy groups and individuals. We are asking all Catholic parishes and schools worldwide to sever ties with GSUSA and WAGGGS.
Visit our You Tube channel for video interview posts including a FOX News interview with a 16 year old ex-Girl Scout (this live interview took place on 12/29/11)
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Definition of spherical coordinates in English:
spherical coordinates
Line breaks: spher|ic¦al co|ord¦in|ates (also spherical polar coordinates)
- Three coordinates that define the location of a point in three-dimensional space. They are the length of its radius vector r, the angle θ between the vertical plane containing this vector and the x-axis, and the angle φ between this vector and the horizontal x-y plane.
- Usually written (r, θ, φ)
More example sentences- The company's virtual interface allows a user to enter, on a computer screen, the desired field vector of a three-axis magnet in Cartesian, cylindrical, or spherical coordinates.
- To this end, we consider a spherical boundary, for which the Poisson equation can be solved by expanding the potential in spherical coordinates.
- We propose to develop algorithms for the calculation of synthetic seismograms for anisotropic Earth models in spherical coordinates.
More definitions of spherical coordinates
Definition of spherical coordinates in:- The US English dictionary


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This would open up complete new markets like travel guides, restaurant guides etc. All those things you print from the web and carry with you. Lonely Planet sold out to BBC for a reason :-)
Since PDFs tend to be printed out a lot, Yahoo should try to run context sensitive IMAGE ads instead (and find a way to calculate prices for the printed copies).


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