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Expedite Urban Highway Construction
The state should expedite urban highway construction to reduce congestion, improve safety and lower users costs.
As national highway program activity shifts from the construction of new highways to the rehabilitation of older ones, many state highway departments including the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) are finding that considerable resources are needed to lessen the negative effects resulting from construction within urban areas. These adverse effects inclu de traffic congestion, loss of productivity, inhibited access to property, hazardous and costly construction operations and difficult personnel and inspection management conditions for TxDOT.
An innovative strategy that has evolved in response to these urban reconstruction problems is expediting. This broad strategy is a plan for accelerated pavement construction and reconstruction; its specific practices, aimed at reducing project duration or severity, are termed mitigation measures. TxDOT is using s ome expediting techniques in a few projects. An example is the joint TxDOT and Harris County Metropolitan Transit Authority improvement project on U.S. 59 (Southwest Freeway) in Harris County. Through the use of contractor bonus incentives, this project an ticipates a shorter completion time to minimize congestion and user operating costs. It will open freeway segments sooner, allowing user benefits to begin earlier. Because expediting pavement reconstruction has profound implications for reducing user and b usiness costs, action is needed to ensure that such innovative construction practices receive high priority in TxDOT. A strong statewide policy in this area would ensure that the growing problem of urban highway construction does not cause excessively high social costs to the public or permanent economic damage to Texas businesses.
Evaluating the precise economics of a construction project entails an analysis of all the potential alternatives that are capable of providing the minimum required performance. All other things being equal, the alternative that is the least expensive over time should be selected. The present method for assessing cost effectiveness in pavement design is incomplete, principally because there are additional costs like user costs that merit consideration in the anal ysis. A new approach to evaluating pavement rehabilitation projects is needed that includes both user costs and the economic losses sustained by businesses abutting such construction.
Consumers Interest
The interests of highway users are primarily thought of as economic, since a consequence of construction operations is a temporary increase in the time and cost of travel. Travel costs typically are associated with time, vehicle operations and safety. Time costs, as perce ived by the user, are defined as the additional travel time or delay that is incurred from traffic congestion resulting from construction activities. Vehicle operational costs are the increased cost of navigating a vehicle through a construction zone. Such costs result from additional engine idling time and stop-and-go driving conditions. Finally, safety costs take into account the economic loss associated with any increase in the number and/or severity of vehicle-related accidents resulting from constructi on operations.
Owners Interest
TxDOT has the responsibility of ensuring that the demands of the consumers are fulfilled and that resources are expended effectively. The economic interest hinges on the potential cost of mitigation that is, the allocation of resources for temporary services as an alternative to investments in permanent, long life-cycle facilities. If the owner does not provide mitigation measures, the consumer may be penalized economically. This economic loss, in effect, amounts to a temporary tax on consumers in terms of user delays and the loss of income for abutting businesses.
TxDOT can maintain better relations with the public by realizing the value of the public s support and by creating a responsive public relations campaign that safeguards the public s trust. An active public relations program is in itself a mitigation measure, since the program may increase consumer tolerance of adverse effects.
The principal differences between the public and the private sectors in managing construction contracts involve the selection of contractors, the employment of personnel, the use of production incentive measures, negotiating contract changes, public accoun tability and an ability to respond to a rapidly changing economic environment. Thes e differences are recognized by law and can be abridged by the state during times of national or even limited emergency. It is not considered good public policy to undertake emergency measures in routine projects, since such actions may be considered a was te of resources. Consequently, TxDOT is to a degree administratively constrained in its ability to manage mitigation measures.
Examples of these administrative limitations include the difficulty in attracting, training and retaining qualified technicians to manage around-the-clock, seven-day-a-week operations by a contractor and the authority to negotiate the selection of contractors on the basis of price and performance. Currently, TxDOT finds construction selection limited to primarily price on the basis of state procurement law and administrative procedures. TxDOT is currently considering adopting rules that screen contractors before bidding based on past p erformance on highway jobs. These various administrative constraints have to be understood, considered and compensated for when planning and adopting mitigation measures.
Implementing Expediting Techniques
Mitigation methods can revolutionize the way in which highway pavement construction is conducted by minimizing the negative impacts associated with the construction operation. Yet the process of selecting the proper expediting methods in highway pavement c onstruction is complex. All activities pertaining to the project, from the project s conception to its completion, should be considered when implementing expediting procedures.
Expediting through Preliminary Planning and Design
The construction site, traffic type and behavior, socioeconomics and other issues must be considered in the planning and the designing of the project. While this evaluation may represent a costly process, its cost effectiveness may be justifiable in the lo ng term. Cooperation with other agencies and groups at the local level, like the Metropolitan Planning Organizations, is essential when collecting planning and design data. Using innovative techniques and strategies that expedite construction, engineers can identify the best alternatives available for the project. The selection process for the following items must be comprehensive, unbiased and impartial: bidding of the pro ject, acquisition of right-of-way, relocation of utilities, design and implementation. Good traffic handling plans, conducted early in the project, expedite pavement construction and show appreciable results in minimizing the adverse effects of constructio n. Methods for expediting pavement construction through design include reducing the number of layers in the pavement structure and using fast-setting, full-depth materials.
In the planning stage, decisions on incentive/disincentive contracting should be made. Highway construction projects located within sensitive environments and urban areas are candidates for the use of incentive bonuses and/or disincentive cash penalties to encourage early completion. An incentive is usually considered a cash bonus for c ompleting a specified task before a specified time or within a specified time period. A disincentive involves liquidated damages for failure to reach a specified milepost within a specified time. While these contract stipulations may be allowable within Tx DOT contracting procedures, they are infrequently used. There is some concern that TxDOT will be paying extra for a product and time schedule that should be available under normal conditions. 1 However, TxDOT will need to reevaluate product specifications and time schedules to reflect costs of user delay in urban congestion areas.
Expediting through Construction
Expediting through construction includes fast-tracking in construction materials, equipment and techniques. Some examples of methods used during fast-tracking are in-place recycling of existing pavement materials, the use of special equipment (like slip- form concrete pavers) and the use of insulated curing blanket method for curing concrete. These fast-tracking techniques allowing critical constru ction sequencing speed the construction operation, reduce material curing time and, therefore, minimize the time required for completion. 2
Expediting through Construction Materials
High-early-strength materials, new exotic materials and modified materials can play key roles in expediting highway pavement construction. Some of these materials include vacuum-treated portland cement concrete, roller-compacted concrete and fast-setting patching materials, such as cement-gypsum, magnesium phosphate cement, me thylmethacrylate polymer and latex-modified cement. However these materials can be costly and are not allowed in the normal procurement procedure. Their use may be cost effective in heavy traffic areas where delays can result in high costs to consumers an d adjacent properties. The cost effectiveness of their use may also be justifiable in areas where a lengthy construction period may endanger lives.
Many fast-track materials like fly ash, stabilizers, jet cement and fast-track portland cement concrete hav e been tested in different parts of the country. Between 1987 and 1988, 15 fast-track projects were conducted in three states; 12 were built successfully in Iowa, two in Michigan and one in Illinois. 3 Several other fast-track projects were tested between 1989 and 1990 in Iowa, Virginia, Pennsylvania and in other states.
In 1986, the first fast-track pavement construction was conducted in Buena Vista County, Iowa. With the construction involving seven miles of U.S. 71, this fast-track portland cement concre te pavement allowed traffic on the facility 24 hours after construction. 4 Although the fast-track operation increased the cost of the project by $1 per square yard, the increase was offset by the reduction in costs for detours, re-routing and liabilities. Iowa s project demonstrated that fast-track concrete can reopen a highway in a very short time, usually less than 12 hours after the completion of construction. 5 In all cases the fast-track method of construction was successful in reducing construction time.
Expediting Using Construction Equipment
Using the proper equipment in pavement construction can substantially increase productivity and, hence, reduce construction time. In particular, advanced and automated construction equipment can be instrumental in speeding construction operations. Applicat ions of the equipment were conducted in many states. For example, automatic dowel bar inserters were used in north central Pennsylvania, diamond wire saws have been used for cutting reinforced concrete in recycl ing operations in several states; slip-form pavers have been used in Utah; and pavement pulverizers have been used at Atlanta International Airport. 6, 7
Expediting through Construction Techniques
Expediting highway pavement construction may include the use of prefabricated elements, vacuum-treatment of portland cement concrete, in-place recycling of pavement materials, roller-compacted concrete and exotic materials as polymer and fly ash. Vacuum tr eatment of portland cement was used in the Netherlands to produce a concrete with a low water/cement ratio. 8 The purpose of the vacuum is to remove excess water needed to facilitate the transport and placement of the material. This process helps the concrete more rapidly achieve the strength required to support traffic.
Expediting through Traffic Management
Selecting the best traffic control strategies for any highway project requires consideration of many factors. Among these factors are traffic conditions, traffic characteristics, type of project, project durat ion, the area containing the construction site, safety issues, economics, environmental concerns and many other issues related to traffic and construction operations. User delay, safety issues, public relations policies, updated public notifications on con struction matters all of these important considerations must be examined when deciding which traffic-control strategy to select.
Expediting through Contracting Procedures
Innovative contracting procedures that minimize impacts on road users in urban areas may include lane rental fees. As a disincentive provision in the contract, a daily rental fee would be charged if a contractor overruns the stated calendar construction days in the bid. Additionally, if at the time of completion the contractor has not ap plied all the lane closures initially indicated in the contract, a bonus equal to the rental fee could be paid. TxDOT uses this contracting procedure experimentally. The statewide low bidding procurement procedure inhibits the use of such contracting proc edures.
A. The Legislature should change state law to specifically allow Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to adjust contracting practices to include incentive and disincentive measures to expedite highway construction, reconstruction and maintenance in u rban areas.
The limitations of TxDOT s contracting procedures and construction monitoring procedures hinder construction in urban areas. Highway construction, reconstruction and maintenance projects located within urban areas a re candidates for the use of incentive bonuses and/or disincentive cash penalties to encourage early completion. An incentive is usually considered a cash bonus for completing a specified task before a specified time. Other incentives may be less explici t, such as permitting the contractor to work on Sundays or holidays, if such are usually prohibited, to encourage early completion. TxDOT should develop more flexible employment and employee compensation practices to make available staff resources to manag e expedited projects. Statutory changes are needed to accomplish this flexibility within TxDOT.
B. The Legislature should direct TxDOT to expedite those urban projects where higher initial construction costs will provide intermediate and long-term savings and reduce consumer user delay costs. TxDOT should submit a progress report to the Legislature b y November 1, 1994.
Although expediting may cost more initially, an expediting program will minimize user delay costs like travel time and fuel costs and costs to abutting businesses. In addition, such a program will allow TxDOT to focus more on customer service. By paying attention to user costs and economic consequences for businesses generated by construction activities, TxDOT will better be ab le to prioritize and evaluate projects and their construction techniques to better serve all Texans.
Contractors will be asked to bid on construction plans that incorporate these expediting techniques. These requirements may require contractors to more ti ghtly schedule their construction work, resulting in some incremental costs. However, the competitive bidding process should minimize any additional expediting costs.
There is one problem in managing disincentives and incentives that may be peculiar to public agencies namely, the availability of personnel and other resources to administer a contract where the contractor is going all out, around-the-clock, in order to seek incentive pay.
Fiscal Impact
There would be cost savings directly to the taxpayer s and business owners in the vicinity of highway projects using expedited construction procedures. For those areas having traffic volumes above 100,000 vehicles per day, as much as three to six months could be cut from the total construction time. This tra nslates into approximately a 20 to 30 percent time savings. Cost savings per vehicle need to be addressed on a project-by-project basis. 9
Because construction contracts will be of shorter duration, there would be a reduction in administrative costs. This savings can be realized, however, since higher initial construction costs may be required the overall spending would remain the same.
1 Interview with Ed Shaddock, Legal Division, Texas Department of Transportation, Austin, Texas, December 11, 1992.
2 The time required to harden road materials before usage.
3 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Road Transport Research, Traffic Management and Safety at Highway Work Zones (Paris, France, 1989).
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 A. Butler, Expediting Urban Highway Construction: A Literature Review, (Center for Transportation Research, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 1991).
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 W.F. McFarland and J. L. Buffington, Texas Highway Economic Evaluation Model: A Critical Review of Assumptions and Unit Cost and Recommended Updating Procedures, Report 225-8 (Texas Transportation Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1979).


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Wednesday 31 January 1665/66
For Samuell Pepys Esqr:
One of the principall Officers
of his Majesties Navy,
at the Navy Office in Seething-Lane London
With a roll of paper
31 January 16661
I do, according to your Commands, transmit you an hasty Draught of the Infirmary, and Project for Chatham2; the reasons, and advantages of it, which challenges your Promise of promoting it to the Use design'd: I am, my Selfe, convinc'd of the exceeding benefit it will every way afford us: If, upon examination of the Particulars, and your intercession, it shall merit a recommendation from the rest of the Principall Officers, I am very confident the effects will be fully answerable to the pretence of the Papers which I send to accompany it: In all Events, I have don my Endeavor; and, if upon what appeares even Demonstrable to me (not without some considerable Experience, and frequent Conference with our Officers, discreete, and sober Persons) I persist in my fondnesse to it, from a prospect of the many advantages would be reaped by setting it on foote; I beseech you to pardon the honest intentions, and to passe-by the Errors of
Sir, Your most obedient
and faithfull Servant
Sir, I must beg your excuse, if my desire to comply with your commands as soone as might be, and having severall avocations3, I could not delineate the Plot so accurately as I intended; but I hope it may suffice to explaine the Designe: neither had I one to write so fairely, as the paper inclosd in the rolle should have ben written:
Source: PRO S.P. 29/146, f.73. Endorsed by P, "31 January 65 Sayes court Mr Evelen".
- MS: "Says-Court Jan:31: -65/6". ↩
- See P's diary, 29 January 1666. The MS drawing is now in the Bodleian at MS Rawl. A195, f.255 ↩
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- ROOT access is required!!!
- Due to the way pairing is done with the controllers, you need to manually pair your controller with the PC utility 'SixaxisPairTool' (available on the website) and a mini-USB cable. Android 3.1+ users can also pair directly on their devices via USB.
- It is highly recommended that you use an ORIGINAL controller. Many after market controllers will not work. If you get a 'Client connected: 1' message, but the lights on your controller continue to flash, it is almost certainly not an original Sony controller.
- The fake controllers that are most likely to work (though not guaranteed) are those made by Gasia. If you bought a fake that works but isn't made by Gasia, I'd love to hear from you so I can compile a list of known working controllers.
- Be sure to read the instructions in the help menu carefully.
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- Fix for some fake controllers not connecting.
- New driver for devices with MTK chipsets.
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It tells you root is required. Stop complaining it doesn't work when your device isn't rooted or that you don't want to root. It's a free way to verify compatibility!
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I checked to see if my phone was compatible and it is.
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No thanks on the root
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being able to map touch screen to the controller is a awesome, I do all my game where possible this way now.
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For this to even work: YOUR PHONE NEEDS TO BE ROOTED.. I read a few of these comments already. When I got to the guy who one starred this app for no support on note 3 when I on note 2 had zero issues. Superuser or whatever you use will ask you to deny or allow root access. He even said that you need it because of the bluetooth connection required. Dont be a yutz.
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Dog Allowed Hikes in and near Tucson, Arizona
|Total Length
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|Difficulty Rating **
|Best Seasons
|Hiking Time
|Carr Peak from Reef Townsite (Huachuca Mountains)
|6 mi.
|2050 feet
|Spring Summer Fall
|4 hours
|Upper Ramsey Canyon (Huachuca Mountains)
|4.6 mi.
|560 feet
|Spring Summer Fall
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|Aspen Loop from Marshall Gulch (Santa Catalina Mountains)
|3.7 mi.
|560 feet
|Spring Summer Fall
|1.5 hours
|Butterfly Trail loop (Santa Catalina Mountains)
|10.2 mi.
|2070 feet
|6.25 hours
|Green Mountain Trail (Santa Catalina Mountains)
|3.9 mi.
|1300 feet
|Spring Summer Fall Winter
|2.2 hours
|Oracle Ridge-Canada del Oro Loop (Santa Catalina Mountains)
|18.6 mi.
|4180 feet
|Spring Summer Fall
|9 hours
|Wilderness of Rocks from the summit of Mt. Lemmon (Santa Catalina Mountains)
|8.6 mi.
|1800 feet
|Spring Summer Fall
|5 hours
|Wilderness of Rocks, Long Loop from Marshall Gulch (Santa Catalina Mountains)
|11.9 mi.
|2100 feet
|Spring Summer Fall
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|Bog Spring (Santa Rita Mountains)
|4.5 mi.
|1760 feet
|Spring Fall Winter
|3 hours
|Mt. Wrightson from Gardner Canyon (Santa Rita Mountains)
|9.4 mi.
|3383 feet
|Spring Summer Fall
|5.3 hours
|Mt. Wrightson from Madera Canyon (Santa Rita Mountains)
|10.8 mi.
|4033 feet
|Spring Summer Fall
|6 hours
**Difficulty rating
Class A hikes (More than 16 miles or more than 3,000 feet of elevation change.)
Class B hikes (8 to 16 miles and between 1,500 to 3,000 feet of elevation change.)
Class B- hikes (Just a little bit short of the criteria for a B hike: 8 to 16 miles and between 1,500 to 3,000 feet of elevation change.)
Class C hikes (3 to 8 miles and between 500 to 1,500 feet of elevation change.)
Class C+ hikes (Just a little bit over the criteria for a C hike: 3 to 8 miles and between 500 to 1,500 feet of elevation change.)
"Tucson Hikes - Dog friendly hikes index." Grand Canyon Chapter Sierra Club, Arizona. http://arizona.sierraclub.org/trail_guide/DOGSNDX.HTM (accessed May 25, 2011).
Guillory, Renée. Best hikes with dogs. Arizona. Seattle, WA: Mountaineers Books, 2004. (Available through the Pima County Public Library: http://librarycatalog.pima.gov/search/?searchtype=X&searcharg=Best+Hikes+with+dogs+Arizona&searchscope=8&SORT=D)


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Honors & Awards» Academic All-Big Ten (2013)» Three-Time Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll
2014 OutlookSophomore Greg McMullen was among group of four defensive ends to see extensive playing time during the 2013 season. This season McMullen is expected to take on an expanded role. After an outstanding spring, the 6-3, 280-pound McMullen is the frontrunner to earn the starting end position opposite All-America candidate Randy Gregory.
McMullen has outstanding size and strength, allowing him to be effective against the run, while also having the ability to rush opposing passers. Only a sophomore, McMullen is also a key part of an influx of young talent on the front four that figures to provide a foundation for the Blackshirt defense for years to come. McMullen earned Academic All-Big Ten honors in 2013.
2013 (Redshirt Freshman)McMullen played in 11 games and totaled 16 tackles, including nine solo stops. He recorded four tackles for loss, including a 10-yard sack at Purdue. McMullen had a season-high four tackles against Southern Miss, including a pair of tackles for loss, and a forced fumble. He also recorded two tackles each against Wyoming, Michigan and Michigan State, including a tackle for loss against the Spartans. McMullen had three quarterback hurries.
2012 (Redshirt)McMullen redshirted in his first season at Nebraska and was impressive on the scout team.
Before Nebraska (Hoban HS)McMullen was one of the most dominant defenders in Ohio throughout his prep career at Akron's Hoban High School. McMullen racked up more than 40 sacks during his career and was a regular in the lineup since his freshman season. McMullen capped his career with 78 tackles, 12.5 sacks and 14 tackles for loss as a senior. His play for Coach Ralph Orsini earned McMullen North Coast Blue Division Player-of-the-Year honors. He was also a first-team Division III All-Ohio selection for the second straight year.
McMullen was equally impressive as a junior, earning All-Ohio honors with 87 tackles, 8.5 sacks and an impressive 31 quarterback pressures. He also lined up at tight end and had four receptions for 70 yards. McMullen earned second-team All-Ohio honors as a sophomore when he racked up 11.5 sacks. McMullen first broke onto the scene at Hoban as a freshman, when he had 12 sacks and earned honorable-mention All-Ohio accolades.
McMullen was ranked among the top 200 players overall nationally by both Rivals.com and 247 Sports, and was also among the top 12 overall prospects in Ohio by both services. McMullen appeared in the Semper Fi Marines All-America Bowl following his senior season. McMullen only visited Nebraska, but he was highly recruited, including scholarship offers from Ohio State, Notre Dame, Michigan State, Cincinnati and North Carolina State, among others.
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Last year at this time, Miguel was a relative unknown. The 26-year-old singer was working on his second album, Kaleidoscope Dream, when his studio partner, Pharrell Williams, attended the celeb-studded Met Gala in New York. "I was like, damn," Miguel recalls, "wouldn't it be crazy if I were there next year?" And there he was this May at the Met's Punk: Chaos to Couture opening, wearing a head-to-toe Lanvin suit complete with lapel buttons and studded creepers, alongside Wintour-approved pop stars like Nicki Minaj, Beyoncé and Kanye West. "To be honest with you, the majority of the people there didn't know who the fuck I was," Miguel says, even though he won a Grammy for his hit single "Adorn" in February, and his music has been topping Billboard's R&B charts for most of this year. "So my look was perfectly like, 'I belong here, but I'm not trying to shout it out.'" (Read More…)
Check out some photos (and the cover) from Miguel's feature in Vibe Magazine with Kendrick Lamar. Below, you can check out some of the Q&A from the interview session: (Read More…)
Kelly Clarkson was a testament to the power of Grammy music discovery when she said during her acceptance speech for best pop vocal album at last week's Grammys, "Miguel, I don't know who the hell you are, but we need to sing together. I mean, good God. That was the sexiest damn thing I've ever seen."
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The first line of the album's first song sets the tone: "These lips can't wait to taste your skin." You have entered Miguel's Kaleidoscope Dream, a fantastical, steamy, colorful, gritty-but-polished, polished-but-gritty, dripping-with-sex-sweat bacchanal of Marvin Gaye smoothness. The song is "Adorn," and it hit the young Los Angeles–based Mexican/African-American singer like a flash of light, the chords coming to him on a cross-country flight, the lyrics following shortly after. He touched down, wrote the thing in a blur, and doesn't remember much of anything about the process.
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Miguel's alcohol stash is low. He's got a glass-worth of whiskey, which he says he prefers, and one bottle of beer. He offers me the whiskey. It's 8PM on a Saturday in LA, and the plain, two-bedroom apartment he shares with his girlfriend of seven years, an aspiring actress named Nazanin Mandi, droops with the remnants of a recent party. A golden CONGRATULATIONS! banner dangles in a corner, tied up by one end, and deflated balloons wobble idly on the carpet. Taped to the wall, a plastic flag with stick-on letters reads: ADORN NO. 1. It's a week before the release of Kaleidoscope Dream, Miguel's second album, and its single, "Adorn," a top contender for our generation's "Sexual Healing," holds the highest slot on Billboard's R&B chart. He recorded the song last year in this very apartment, in the makeshift studio/second bedroom, where a microphone stand is now the sole piece of audio equipment visible beneath trash bags full of scarves, sweaters and black hats.
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I've added some photos from Miguel's Unleash'd magazine spread.
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Definitions for unconscientiousness
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Exploring alternatives to MythTV
Despite the omnipresence and professional stance of the two major league media center projects, MythTV and VDR, practical and attractive alternatives are available (see Table 1). Elisa convinces with both its look and technology, and its easy configuration is unbeaten in the field. The lack of TV support and its showy visuals, which seem to be modeled on Apple products, might tip the user's decision in favor of a competitor in some cases.
Freevo is almost too feature rich, and the plethora of options means a steep learning curve for users. After negotiating it, the system rewards you with an array of online video sources, remote control options, a sophisticated client-server design, and add-ins.
GeeXboX is simpler and easy to configure. The approach of using a customized Live CD gives a second lease on life to older hardware and lends itself to new applications, such as embedded players or self-starting video media.
- Wikipedia on MPEG4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264#Patent_licensing
- Medibuntu project: http://www.medibuntu.org
- Codecs for openSUSE: http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia
- Fluendo codec shop : https://shop.fluendo.com
- Elisa wiki for Ubuntu: http://elisa.fluendo.com/wiki/Distribution/LinuxPackages/Ubuntu
- Elisa for openSUSE: http://www.susegeek.com/media-player/elisa-open-media-center-multimedia-player-for-opensuse-linux/
- Elisa Portal: http://elisa.fluendo.com
- Freevo: http://freevo.sourceforge.net
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- w_scan: http://edafe.org/vdr/w_scan/
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Book Review: Contemporary Houses
By Sandy Amazeen May 9, 2011, 6:16 GMT
This stunning visual feast with commentary delivered in four languages, presents a sampling of spectacularly designed houses from around the world. With broad swaths of concrete, glass and steel, most of the architecture runs toward the ultramodern whether the setting is in the middle of a big city or perched on a rural hillside. Natural lighting plays a huge role in the design of these living spaces. The Isolated Houses chapter features some fascinating play with optical illusions and the horizon. The House Equis located on the Peruvian coastal desert with its amazing hanging swimming pool is an excellent example of using this concept. Perhaps the most interesting if sometimes impractical homes are to be found in the Unique Houses chapter. Most, like the Gallery in Kiyosato, House by a Lake and Pixel House are concept designs that are unlikely to sprout up in your neighborhood but interesting to ponder. With its rounded, multistory oval shape, the Villa Man-bow is similar to an out-of-place round globe home located off the freeway between Kingman, AZ and Needles, CA.
With hundreds of color photographs showing the exterior and interior including furnishings and fittings and thumbprint floor plans, students of architecture and design will find plenty of inspiration here. If you are looking to design a unique home be certain to check out the homes pictured in this simply presented, comprehensive volume.
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The Value of Being Able to Patent Drugs
New Scientist Short Sharp Science blog: A cheap and simple cure for cancer?
It is rare to find a drug that sweeps away decades of assumptions and reveals a radical approach to treating all forms of a disease. But a simple, small molecule called dichloroacetate (DCA) has done just that - and to that most dreaded of diseases: cancer.
The new findings, might also force a rethink on what actually causes cells to turn cancerous in the first place.
There's a hitch: dichloroacetate is an old drug and so cannot be patented. The upshot is that pharmaceutical companies can't stop rivals making and selling it more cheaply, so it's not worth their while to go to the huge expense of testing it in clinical trials.
This is not a new problem. Many drugs are left on the shelf because companies cannot make lots of money from them. It has happened for diseases that affect mainly poor people, such as TB, although there are now an increasing number of initiatives to help deal with these cases. But cancer is historically a disease that chiefly afflicts the rich, and testing DCA will need a one-off effort.
Drugs companies will be falling over themselves to find a patentable drug with similar action to DCA. Any of these that reach the market will be hugely expensive. It would be a scandal if a cheap alternative with such astonishing potential were not given a chance simply because it won't turn a big enough profit.
No Patents, No Innovation, apart from relying on philanthropy or Governments is there a way round this?


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[Qt Bug reported] App crashes on QDesktopServices::openUrl(QUrl("file:///C://folder)); if folder is empty
For some reasons my application crashes when I execute the following line.
- QDesktopServices::openUrl(QUrl("file:///" + QApplication::applicationDirPath()));
EDIT: It only crashes when the target folder is empty.
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I would prefer
- QDesktopServices::openUrl(QUrl::fromLocalFile(QApplication::applicationDirPath()));
Since it crashes os OSX every time (even if the folder is non-empty) I filed a bug in JIRA:
The snippet from the bugreport works for me. Although, on Windows your path is wrong. These are the right calls:
- QString path = QApplication::applicationDirPath() + "/somefolder";
- QDesktopServices::openUrl(QUrl::fromLocalFile(path));
You will hardly ever need native separators in Qt world.
In either case, I do not have crashes neither on windows nor on the mac.
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12 TABLE 10 ENFORCEMENT MEASURES General Enforcement Large Hub Medium Hub Small Hub Non-hub Non-primary Aviation Suspend or Revoke 7 13 16 21 5 9 Levy a Fine 3 5 6 11 0 6 Graduated Penalty 1 6 3 6 0 2 Remedial Training 7 13 15 20 1 7 Other 5 7 11 9 1 3 No Enforcement 0 0 0 0 0 1 enforcing county codes. Fully 71 responders or 91% can sus- than 1 driving incident of noncompliance within a week's pend or revoke the driving privileges on an airport. Although time frame. 31 responding airport operators or 41% indicated that they can levy a fine, only 18 (24%) maintained a graduated penalty system. Sixty-three airport operators reported that they require SECTION 2. NON-MOVEMENT AREA REQUIREMENTS remedial driver training in case of violations of rules and regulations or in the case of a runway incursion (see Table 10). Based on one of the choices in Question 5, 11 of the 76 respond- ing airport operators do not have driver training requirements Who is responsible for enforcing the airport's rules and reg- for non-movement areas. This includes one large hub primary ulations varies from airport to airport. In some cases, airports do airport, two non-hub primary airports, one non-primary com- not have police forces of their own and, therefore, rely on local mercial service, and seven general aviation airports. However, police agencies to enforce the rules and regulations. In some at the large hub primary airport, according to a representative cases, the rules and regulations are not enforceable in munici- from that airport, the air carriers, as well as the FBOs, have pal courts. In the majority of situations, airport operations per- training programs for their personnel that include many of the sonnel are tasked with enforcement responsibilities along with driving requirements that are usually in an airport operator's the airport police. Several airports also employ dedicated ramp driving program. safety personnel who are tasked with, among other responsibil- ities, enforcement. Several airports, across the spectrum, use all Sixty airport operators differentiate training requirements three organizations (airport police, operations personnel, and between the movement and the non-movement areas. Table 11 dedicated ramp safety personnel) for enforcement purposes. shows the breakdown of these airports. Twelve airport oper- ators responded that they do not differentiate between the Vehicular rules and regulations on an airport are impor- training requirements. tant owing to the nature of the airfield with taxiing aircraft, cargo containers, baggage containers, trucks of all different Of those airports that have non-movement area driver sizes and shapes, conveyor belts, etc. One large hub primary training programs, 13 do not issue any type of non-movement airport admitted to 11 or more driving incidents of non- area driving permits. The remaining 51 airports issue a ramp compliance with the airport's rules and regulations during drivers permit (11 responders) and 36 have some sort of nota- a one-week time period. Five airport operators (two large hub tion on the airport ID or color code the ID to indicate driving primary, two medium hub primary, and one small hub pri- privileges or a combination of the two. mary) responded that they get anywhere from 6 to 10 non- compliance incidents a week. Fifty-nine reported only 1 to 5 noncompliance incidents a week (5 large hub, 11 medium Auditing Tenant Programs hub, 14 small hub, 18 non-hub primary, 2 non-primary com- mercial service, and 9 general aviation). Four non-primary There are some airport operators who have opted to have the air commercial service airports indicated that they receive less carriers, FBOs, and other tenants perform the non-movement TABLE 11 DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN TRAINING REQUIREMENTS FOR NON-MOVEMENT AREA AND MOVEMENT AREA Differentiates Between Non-Movement and Medium General Movement Areas Large Hub Hub Small Hub Non-hub Non-primary Aviation Yes 8 12 15 14 3 8 No 0 1 1 6 2 2
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13 area driver training. There were 66 responses to the ques- Forty-two airports that responded to the survey question tion dealing with who does the initial driver training for on what constituted the driver training program for the non- non-movement areas. Nineteen airports (two large hub, two movement area required the employees to take a written test medium hub, three small hub, six non-hub, two non-primary for the non-movement area. Of the 19 airports that allowed commercial service, and four general aviation airports) indi- tenants and air carriers to train their own employees, 5 admin- cated that they allow others to perform this type of train- istered a written exam to the students, whereas 11 allowed ing. Approximately 63% (12 airport operators) of those that the tenant or air carrier to administer the written test. Two air- allowed other organizations to perform the training periodi- port operators indicated that no test was given to the students cally monitored and reviewed the training that was being pro- and one airport operator did not answer the question. vided. This 63% consist of two medium hub, three small hub, five non-hub, one non-primary commercial service, and one Additionally, there were five airports that also require a general aviation airport. The two large hub primary airports driving test that the employee had to pass before being able that allow tenants to perform the training neither periodically to receive a permit to drive on the non-movement area. No monitored nor reviewed the training taking place. large hub primary airport required a driving test for the non- movement area. In some cases (5), the airport operator used One of the questions in the survey asked how often the air- oral exams to qualify employees for driving privileges. port operator monitored or audited the tenant's or air carrier's driver training program. Nine of the 12 airport operators mon- For the 35 airports that used classroom instruction, the itored the program at least annually. One indicated that it length of the initial training generally lasted somewhere monitors the program every two years, whereas one non-hub between 30 minutes and 2 hours. The length for most air- primary does this every 6 months. The 12th airport operator, ports was one hour. However, there is a commercial service a non-primary commercial service airport, indicated "other" airport that has an 8-hour program for non-movement area on the survey. driver training. The following subjects were covered in the non-movement Non-Movement Area Driver Training area training: Airport rules and regulations, speed limits, the meaning of airfield signs and markings (including the The driver training programs for non-movement areas consist non-movement area boundary lines and their locations), the of several different methods, many of which are combined by dangers of aircraft jet blast, and right-of-way. Some airport the airport operator. In some cases, airport operators have operators taught the meaning of airfield signs and mark- prepared driver manuals for all perspective drivers to study, ings even though the drivers would be limited to ramps and similar to manuals prepared by state motor vehicle admin- aprons (see Table 13). istrations. Fewer than half of the responders (46%) offer classroom instruction for non-movement area driver train- At today's airports, it is not uncommon to see construc- ing. Twenty-nine airports employed computer-based training. tion taking place at many locations on the airfield, both in One airport uses a computer simulator for driver training pur- the movement area as well as the non-movement area. In the poses. The simulator differs from computer-based training in non-movement area, the types of construction can vary signif- that it has a digitized map of the airfield that allows a student icantly from the building of a hangar to rehabilitating aprons to maneuver around the airfield under varying conditions. and ramps. Although the chances of a runway incursion may Many of the airports surveyed also use on-the-job training be low in an instance where the contractor is limited to the non- (actual driving under the supervision of a qualified driver or movement area, there is still a need to ensure that there is suf- trainer) (see Table 12). ficient protection through training and/or through isolating TABLE 12 METHODS OF NON-MOVEMENT AREA TRAINING Large Medium Non- General Methods of Training Hub Hub Small Hub Non-hub primary Aviation Reading Manual 4 9 12 11 2 8 Classroom Instruction 1 6 7 14 3 4 Computer-Based 5 8 9 7 0 0 Training Computer Simulator 1 0 0 0 0 0 Written Test 5 8 12 12 2 3 Driving Test 0 1 1 1 2 0 Oral Exam 0 1 0 1 2 1 On-the-Job Training 3 6 6 8 3 2 Other 2 0 2 2 1 1


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Microsoft finally launches its Office Mobile for iPhone on Apple App Store
The new Microsoft Office Mobile is fully optimized for the iPhone's small display and it's hooked to the cloud so you can view and edit your SkyDrive and SharePoint documents.
Just as you'd expect, you can edit documents on mobile and preserve the original formatting. Office Mobile for Office 365 subscribers is a cloud app, but you can still edit documents while you are offline and changes will get synced later on, when you go online. You can also see comments, create your own documents and share it all socially. Neatly, documents you have already opened resume at the place you left them and the app can also fire up so you can read email attachments on it.
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1. quyenqchau0813 (Posts: 87; Member since: 22 Mar 2013)
I'm sorry for demanding
but please review this app
5. quyenqchau0813 (Posts: 87; Member since: 22 Mar 2013)
OK it said only usuable, IF you have a 365 account
I thought it was free for those don't have an account
"I had dream
and my dream is done"
8. Dorothy69 (banned) (Posts: 498; Member since: 21 May 2013)
Never give up on your dreams, just tap your heels thrice and you'll get there.
Sadly, Microsoft Office Mobile has been available on Windows Mobile since Windows 2003SE (PowerPoint has been available for Windows Mobile since at least Windows Mobile 5).
The two tragedies here are:
1. After over a decade of having "Mobile" versions of some of their "Office" applications, with 6 of those years having an available iPhone, they still can't release a Mobile version for iOS or at least make it cross-platform.
2. Windows Mobile is light years behind iOS and millennia and super light years behind Android. Not that many people would switch to it just for "Office".
It sucks that iOS users are still mobile less in this respect!!!
10. muhsen (Posts: 268; Member since: 07 Jun 2012)
hmmm, u r talking about windows mobile here not windows phone.... that's a pretty awkward comparison...its like comparing win xp with Mac OS 10.9
and As far as i know windows phone 8( not 7) is light years ahead of ios (hello ,wp has BT file transfer and usb mass storage and others iOS can dream of and still retain as much smoothness) and somehow near to android ( but still wp doesn't have usb OTG or RAR app for instance)....so people don't switch to wp for Office just like people don't switch to android for google maps!
also r u asking a company to give up one of its core weapons to other companies ?????
11. Dorothy69 (banned) (Posts: 498; Member since: 21 May 2013)
My dear friend, R.I.F. (Reading is Fundamental). The article is about Office Mobile for iOS; my reply simply stated how long Office Mobile apps have been available for Windows Mobile which is utilized on Windows Mobile Phones. Don't be one of those cluelessly defensive twits who claims that Windows Phones are not the "Mobile" version of Microsoft Windows; it was Microsoft Windows Mobile 10 years ago and it still is.
2. Astro551 (Posts: 46; Member since: 18 Dec 2011)
nice, just as my university signs us up for office 365. now just need an android app (assuming it's not already out)
3. abcdefgh (banned) (Posts: 471; Member since: 29 Mar 2013)
looks like both companies have made an agreement.lot of microsoft services coming to apple.wonder what apple would do in return?
4. abcdefgh (banned) (Posts: 471; Member since: 29 Mar 2013)
maybe apple would help ms to port iapps to wp?
7. YourNightmare (Posts: 32; Member since: 12 Jun 2013)
Same question here...I though now all this apple nerds can use .doc files etc to use their HP printer, in case they don't got the iPrinter that uses .apple files and then I thought what can give apple back? No idea, that's a billion dollar question. (LoL I know I went far on this one xD)
9. muhsen (Posts: 268; Member since: 07 Jun 2012)
hmmm,u need an office 365 subscription and that needs money (not a small amount btw) so still its not that of an advantage..... specially when u know that windows phone doesn't have this limitation
also u can't create docs but u can only edit them,,,,, again unlike windows phone
12. E.N. (Posts: 2362; Member since: 25 Jan 2009)
If you look at the second picture, there's a button on the bottom that says "New," so I think you might be able to create documents
6. Samsomesh (Posts: 180; Member since: 11 Jun 2012)
Need android version for creating docs,etc.. And offline just like on desktop.. But it's not going to happen anytime soon..
13. zibbyzib2000 (Posts: 204; Member since: 18 Nov 2010)
Microsoft bashes the iPad on its ads for not being able to have PowerPoint... Then they release the whole MS Office suite for iOS. It makes so much sense... NOT!!!
14. juanyunis (Posts: 72; Member since: 31 Aug 2012)
Exactly, i just figured out the same thing lol. "I guess PowerPoint is something i cannot do" not anymore.
15. Rager722 (Posts: 229; Member since: 30 Jan 2013)
I can see the death of Microsoft coming soon
16. 7thspaceman (Posts: 1146; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)
I think that Microsoft is just testing the waters to see if Apple Iphone People are interested
enough in getting MS office through Microsoft's Office Subscription cloud based suite. for 99$ dollars a person gets to put it on 5 device including your smart phone. It's the Only way Microsoft could get Office on the Iphone and avoid Apple store fees because it's not on the Apple site


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