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Saturday, 12 December 2009 22:16
There have been more massacres in Mindanao than in other parts of the Philippines.
Among the massacres are those perpetrated by the Abu Sayyaf.
The first Abu Sayyaf attack was on March 20, 2000. The Abu Sayyaf raided the predominantly Christian town of Tumahubong on the remote southern side of Basilan island, facing the island province of Sulu, and kidnapped 50, mostly Christian students, teachers, principals and priests from two schools (Muslim students were let go). The terrorists were apparently angry because the teachers had not paid their monthly "donations" to Abu Sayyaf. While waiting for ransom monies to arrive, Abu Sayyaf members made good on their promise to behead several male teachers and rape at least one woman.
A second Abu Sayyaf attack was on April 23, 2000 at the famous divers' resort called Sipadan, located a few miles offshore from the northeastern tip of Borneo. Sipadan today is not even part of the Philippines; rather it belongs to the Malaysian State of Sabah. However, in the past, Sabah belonged to the Sulu Sultanate, a fact known by Galib Andang, a.k.a. Commander Robot, the 33-year-old Tausug from Jolo island who ran this particular hostage operation. He regaled the 23 kidnapped hotel guests with the usual Wahhabi vitriol about Western alcohol, sex, materialism, AIDS, greed and infidelity, which the Muslim terrorists did not want on "their islands." Exquisitely skilled in rallying the media, Robot successfully upgraded himself and his group from the status of a local to an international-level Islamic Movement. This bravado means much to the Tausags.
A third Abu Sayyaf kidnapping occurred on May 28, 2001 at Dos Palmas (Two Palms) Island Resort at Honda Bay in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan island, Philippines. Approximately 20 male and female hostages were abducted and marched around the jungles of Basilan, some of them for over a year. One man was brutally beheaded when Abu Sayyaf terrorists perceived that ransoms weren't being paid in a timely manner. Several women were taken as wives by their captors and one even became pregnant by Khaddafy Janjalani, which allowed her to leave the group and get medical treatment, much to her relief.
The leaders of this kidnapping were Abu Sabaya and Khaddafy Janjalani. Evidently they had rested up sufficiently from the March 20, 2003 abduction of the school children to take on another operation. Bills must be paid.
More recently the Abus have made the news kidnapping priests and school principals.
They abducted workers of the International Committee on the Red Cross (ICRC) in January 2009.
In 1991 to 1992 the Abu Sayyaf Group attacked several Christian churches, missionaries and communities. They killed two American evangelists when they threw grenades in Zamboanga City.
They bombed the Christian missionary ship MV Doulos.
On December 26, 1993, they killed six people and wounded 132 others when they bombed the Davao City Catholic Cathedral.
On June 10, 1994 they killed 71 people in bomb attacks in Zamboanga City.
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On March 20, 2000, they kidnapped more than 50 students and teachers from two schools in Tumahubong, Sumisip, Basilan and killed four of the hostages.
On April 23, 2000, they kidnapped 19 foreigners and two Filipinos from a resort in Sipadan, Malaysia. Most of the hostages were released after paying ransom.
In May 2000, they kidnapped 10 foreign journalists in Jolo, Sulu, but released them after 10 hours.
There were many more Abu kidnappings but no killings until May 27, 2001.
On that day the Abus abducted 20 foreign and Filipino tourists from Dos Palmas beach resort in Palawan.
They were brought to Basilan. The government then launched a military rescue operation to free the hostages, including Americans Guillermo Sobero, Martin Burnham and Gracia Burnham. Only Gracia survived. Her husband died of illness. Sobero was beheaded.
On August 20, 2002, the Abus kidnapped six Filipino Jehovah's Witness missionaries in Sulu. Two of them were beheaded. The other four were rescued.
On May 4, 2003, the Abus bombed the Davao International Airport in which 21 people were killed and 166 others were wounded.
On February 27, 2004, six persons linked to the Abu Sayyaf caused a SuperFerry to explode and catch fire. At least 100 were killed.
On July 10, 2007, 50 soldiers sent to find and rescue a missing Italian priest were ambushed by the Abus. Fourteen were killed. Ten of the soldiers were beheaded.
On May 18, 2009, the Abus beheaded a farmer, Doroteo Gonzales.
On November 9, 2009, the head of Kanague Elementary School principal Gabriel Canizares was found by policemen in Jolo. He was among a group of teachers who had been abducted on October 19 in Patikul, Sulu.
Jabidah massacre
The Jabidah massacre on March 18, 1968, is also called the Corregidor massacre. Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) soldiers massacred at least 28 Moro recruits they were training to enter and make trouble in Sabah.
The Jabidah massacre is seen as having been the immediate cause of the subsequent Moro insurgencies in Mindanao.
From the Philippine Army website, here are excerpts from "A Mindanao Story-Troubled Decades in the Eye of the Storm"
By Maj. Gen. Delfin Castro (Ret), former commander of SOUTHCOM AFP from 1980 to 1986.
Wee urge readers to read the whole account, which is one of the most moving and heroic narratives of Philippine soldiers' heroism and valor.
(From Chapter 4: The Reward of Persuasion: Bloodbath in Pata)
(Here begins Gen. Delfin Castro's account):
Even as the NPA [New People's Army] was being checked along the Davao-Agusan boundary, the incident was shaping up in Sulu, one of that had echoes of the Patikul massacre of 10 October 1977 and that would characterize the duplicity and ferocity of the conflict in the southern islands in those years. In time, it came to be known as the Pata Massacre. The 3rd Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division had launched an operation in Pata Island on February 9, 1981 in the wake of reported landings of an undetermined number of MNLF [Moro National Liberation Front] forces somewhere at Barangay Pata Likud. The 31st Infantry Battalion was at the forefront while two other battalions were screening on the mainland side. The Brigade set up its Advance Command Post in Patian Island, the next island away from Pata. As a result, Mayor Burahan of Pata called a meeting of island leaders in Barangay Saimbangon on February 10 to assess the situation. Among those who attended were Vice-Mayor Ombra Tagid-gid, Omar Ali, Faisal, Issa, Kadaffy, Salahuddin, Moharam and CHDF Commander Unad Masillam of Pata Likud. Barangay leaders denied presence of MNLF elements in the in their barangays.
Assured that no MNLF forces had landed, the 31st IB [Infantry Battalion] began to pull out on February 12, leaving only the Headquarters Service Company of the battalion Commander Lt. Col. Jacinto Sardual still planned to call on Commander Unad Masillam before leaving.
Earlier that morning, Unad had a meeting in his residence with Omar Ali, Faisal, Issa, Kadaffy, Salahuddin, Moharam and his son Dindiong Masillam on rumored information that their fire-arms would be confiscated by the 31st IB before it left the island. This however, looked like a calculated provocateur's move by Unad as most of the troops had already left the island.
The meeting was going on when Sardual arrived to call on Unad before leaving with the rest of his battalion. He was accompanied by just a few men. Unad and his group accompanied Lt. Col. Sardual back to where the Headquarters Service Company was encamped. Unad then told Sardual to have the company formed and their arms stacked so they could shake hands and bid each other farewell. Why Sardual, going against all norms and tenets of combat common sense, gave the orders for such and why the company officers in turn passed the order to the men can hardly be imagined. But the order went out and the men complied, except for a few who did not join the formation.
While the company stood in formation, their arms neatly stacked, over 400 armed men of Unad and his allies quietly ringed them and then let loose searing volleys of automatic fire. With comrades shredded and falling like bowling pins around them, soldiers attempted to get to their stacked firearms, to no avail. Only the few that did not join the formation were able to return effective fire. But they were badly outnumbered and the outcome was inevitable.
When the smoked cleared and the guns fell silent, 119 officers and men lay lifeless; Sardual's body sprawled among those of his men. The headquarters service company of 31st IB had ceased to exist in a matter of minutes. Some bodies were mutilated and burned. They had been looted of uniforms, shoes, wallets, watches and other valuables. Over 120 firearms and over a million rounds of assorted ammunition fell into Unad's hands.
The Pata massacre was classic execution of one of Misuaris's stratagems—for certain MNLF elements to join the government and at a given opportunity, to sabotage the returnee program of the government from within. Later, Commander Unad and his son Dindiong slipped away from the island—and their reward for what they had done: important positions in the military hierarchy of the Misuari faction.
A damning silence.
That fateful morning, I arrived in Jolo to check on the 1st Division accompanied by Lanao Sur Governor Ali Dimaporo who was scheduled to visit Sulu Governor Mus Izquierdo. After the amenities, Division Commander Brig. Gen. Emilio Luga proposed that we visit the Advance Command post of Col. Rodolfo Canieso at Patian Island. Canieso reported an ongoing operation in Pata Island, but nothing of the tragedy that had befallen the ill-fated 31st commander and his HQ Company. I wanted to go to Pata to look things over but he dissuaded us from proceeding, saying it might interfere with operations. Instead, he proposed that we accompany him to Juambal Island, some three islands away to the west, where he was supposed to accept the surrender of a rebel group. We went, using three UH1H Huey helicopters. I asked where the rebels were and what security arrangements had been prepared for their coming out. It turned out there were none! Only a handful of Special Forces personnel had arranged the surrender and it was to be in a swamp clearing about 100 meters from where we landed.
We were supposed to enter this swamp area to accept the surrender. I took Brig. Gen. Luga aside, whispering that we were not to enter the swamp and to prepare to leave the area as quickly and as quietly as possible. I then spoke to the lead helicopter pilot, telling him that I would cross a small water channel and once I started crossing back, to get the Huey's blades whirling and ready for immediate take-off. We did just that. I told Col. Canieso and the surrender coordinator we would come back later as the ceremonies might take some time and that Governors Izquierdo and Dimaporo were expecting us at a coordination meeting.
We left Jumabal Island quickly behind and returned to Patian Island to drop off Col. Canieso who insisted on our having lunch there. Up to this time, Canieso kept a tight lip on events at Pata. I even accepted the surrender of some 60 rebels with Sulu Gov. Izquierdo, Lanao Sur Gov. Dimaporo, Sulu Vice-Governor Tupay Loong 1st Division Commander Brig. Gen. Emilio Luga, Jr. witnessing the ceremony. Later, Brig. Gen Luga brought me to Taglibi to see the progress of the BLISS housing project of the Ministry of Human Settlements. From Jolo, we proceeded to Manila where that evening, while attending an Airforce function, an urgent call from President Marcos about the incident in Pata took all the luster of my evening away.
I had to tell the President I was near Pata that morning but had been kept in the dark about the gravity of the situation. The President informed me he had directed the Flag Officer in Command of the Philippine Navy to send available ships to cruise the waters around Pata and neighboring islands and to support the landing of additional troops.

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Wind turbines sit atop a development of new houses that utilise 20% renewable energy on Nov. 25, 2009 in Croydon, England. The United Kingdom ranked first among 12 large economies for energy efficiency, according to a scorecard released July 12, 2012 by the private American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. The United States ranked ninth, right behind China.
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A plane flies past Big Ben in the evening light.
A European program to charge airlines for their greenhouse-gas emissions could raise round-trip ticket prices from the United States by more than $30 starting next year.
The magnificently restored Gothic building atop busy St. Pancras rail station's back in business as a grand hotel called the St. Pancras Renaissance.
May 6 will mark the 135th anniversary of the day that the building opened as the Grand Midland Hotel. It was especially convenient for people traveling by rail since the impressive, Gothic structure sits atop the rail station in Kings Cross.
The former Wham! singer pleaded guilty last month to driving under the influence and possession of cannabis.
New Zealand's Carla Hohepa, second from right, leads the New Zealand women's rugby team in a traditional pregame dance known as the Haka before facing England in the Women's Rugby World Cup final at Twickenham Stoop Stadium in London. Hohepa won player of the match honors and New Zealand beat England 13-10 for their fourth consecutive World Cup victory.
England's Jermain Defoe, center, watches his shot go past Bulgaria goalkeeper Nilolay Mihaylov to score his third goal during their Euro 2012 qualifying soccer match at Wembley Stadium in London. England won 4-0
Pakistan's Mohammad Amir celebrates after claiming the wicket of England's Matt Prior during the second day of the fourth cricket test match at the Lord's cricket ground in London.
A 1952 Humber Snipe formerly owned by HRH The Queen Mother is among a classic collection of Humber cars owned by potato merchant Allan Marshall in Hull, England. Marshall has 26 Humbers, many with royal and government histories. The vehicles were all hand built by coach builders Thrupp and Maberly in Coventry for the car company founded by Thomas Humber.
Our car guys tell me the main car here is probably a '58 Oldsmobile. There's also a Mustang and a piece of a Corvette in view. Not sure how those are British, but they were at the festival.
People walk among inflatable orbs at the Big Chill music festival near Ledbury in England's Herefordshire. Running from Aug. 5-8, the festival features bands and musicians from the underground music scene as well more established acts such as Lily Allen and Massive Attack.
South African surfer Bortoletto competes in the Association of Surfing Professionals Relentless Boardmasters 5-Star Event, a five-day surf and music festival, on Fistral beach Newquay, England. The winner of the competition recieves $120,000 in prize money.
Great Britain's Jonathan Rea, left, and Leon Haslam smoke their rear tires following the World Superbike race in Silverstone, England.
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Andrew English writes on the website of London's Daily Telegraph about his search for another drink at the show.
"'Would you like a glass of Champagne?' asks a waiter.
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Lunch is served at Salon Prive, which is held at the Hurlingham Club in London. The club was built in the mid-19th century and says on its website it is "recognized throughout the world as one of Britain's greatest private members' clubs." Salon Prive says it is "the only evening event open to non-members at the club."


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Ferguson says companies will 'reassess'
PUBLISHED: 06 May 2010 12:56:05 | UPDATED: 09 May 2010 04:29:54PRINT EDITION: 06 May 2010
Federal resources minister Martin Ferguson says mining and energy companies will reassess investments as the full details of the government's proposed resources tax are not yet settled.
"In the short term yes, companies will reassess their investment decisions because they don't know the final details of the government announcement of last Sunday," he said in Melbourne on Thursday.
"It's the responsibility of the CEO and board of directors.
"I am not surprised at that."
Mr Ferguson also said that the decline in the sharemarket was not surprising. He added that the mining companies themselves may have added to the negative sentiment.
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Gopal picked up three wickets in three balls to bring down curtains to ROI's dismal batting performance.
The 27-year-old Chidambaram Gautam notched up his ninth first-class century.
Having looked beyond Gautam Gambhir for a year the selectors have told him that all is not lost.
Jiwanjot Singh has secured a berth in the Rest of India squad for the Irani Trophy starting next week in Bengalore.
One of the top scorers in the 2011/2012 season,Bist struggled with three injuries in the 2012/13 season
A broken thumb and injured shoulder kept Bist on the sidelines in the last domestic season.
Rest of India notched up innings and 75 runs victory over Ranji Trophy champion.
After Irani Trophy humiliation and first-game reversal,Mumbai challenge awaits champions Rajasthan
Subroto Banerjee moulded Umesh Yadav from an outright pace bowler to one with skill
Shikhar Dhawan became first batsman in history of Irani Trophy to score century in both innings.
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Scale will not reset if inside a State 'PropertyChanges'
For an example reference, look at the first code example in: http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/Drag_and_Drop_within_a_GridView
On line 18, I have:
- scale: state == "active" ? 0.5 : 1.0 // Can't be placed in state: bug?
This produces the correct result. The icon scales to 0.5 when state changes to 'active'. Then scales back to normal when state isn't 'active'.
However, have a look at line 37:
- PropertyChanges { target: item; x: coords.mouseX - width/2; y: coords.mouseY - height/2 }
If I attempt to add scale inside the PropertyChanges instead of changing it manually as shown previously:
- scale: 0.5
Then the scale never resets back to normal.
All of the other properties such as x and y do reset properly.
Can anyone explain?
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This problem is likely caused by a bad interaction between the Behavior (on the scale) and the State. In the past I've observed cases where a Behavior is mid-animation when the state change occurs, and the state framework remembers the wrong "rewind" value — I'd guess something like that is happening in this case, though I'm not 100% sure.
As a workaround, can you animate the scale using a Transition rather than a Behavior?
Thanks, using a Transition does indeed fix this.
The transition also seems to generate a lot of lagg when moving items. So I think it is (very quickly) changing state during a move which may be the cause of the original problem.
As the state relies on the currentIndexDrag variable in here:
- grid.model.move(grid.currentIndexDrag, index, 1)
- grid.currentIndexDrag = index
The update to the variable comes too late I guess.
Edit: This doesn't fix the issue either
- grid.model.move(grid.currentIndexDrag, grid.currentIndexDrag = index, 1)
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I've mentioned before that I've started doing Zumba as a form of exercise. I usually enjoy it. I've had two instructors that had me watching the clock, but otherwise, I find it relaxing, energizing, and just plain ol' fun.
Tonight as I stood in the back of the studio, watching thirty women enjoy exercise, I thought about how much work my man put into this studio. It was an idea in his head for awhile, then he got it approved by the powers that be, then he found a place to rent and figured out the best materials to use in it. I wanted to yell out, "Hey! All of you enjoying this studio, my man did this! Isn't he amazing? Aren't I the luckiest girl in the world to be married to such a smart guy?"
Of course, I didn't yell this, because really, I don't like people staring at me. But that studio is an awesome place. And my man is awesome, too!
This is Baby Girl checking out the studio while it was still under construction.
We got to attend a parent/child yoga class during an open house in February. The little blonde watching Mama try a yoga pose? Yup, that's my Baby Girl. She tried some of the stuff, but at this point she just wanted to be done.
Seriously, I'm married to the greatest guy who has the greatest job!


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This is the legal, carry knife, you've been waiting for. Thanks to the request from my friend Harry, we now make a knife you can legally carry (in most areas) yet still pack a heavyweight punch. The blade is under 3 inches long – way under 3 inches. So now, no one can argue whether it's legal or not. Yes, it has a full size handle, so you know you've got a real knife in your hand. As I've said before, this is the ultimate pocket protector. This is the very first run and quantities are limited. If you want a low serial number of what's going to be the industries most influential knife, I'd pick one up now.
The CQC-14 features our Patented "wave shaped opening feature" or Remote Pocket Opener. In an emergency or injury situation the knife can be opened with one hand as it is drawn from the pocket.
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bevanhe (verified owner) – :
My favorite Emerson. When I thought I lost my first one, I ordered a second. Now I have two!
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The CQC-14 is one of my newest additions and I've carried it for a couple weeks. I looked at it a million times but honestly there isn't a lot of talk about it on the web or in the knife community that I have seen and in a way I think that prolonged my decision to pick one up. I've primarily used it to cut boxes, plastic shipping straps, tape, pry a water proof case off of my phone, and a few other daily chores. This one is a winner for me because its non-threatening demeanor does not offend the senses of the people I work with and/or around. If you find yourself in an environment that a larger knife is either illegal (I'd consider moving) or causes too much attention or concern to those around you by its shear presence, then I would not hesitate recommending the CQC-14 to you as a very solid choice. I have the BTS and was initially concerned that the serrations would hinder its functionality but it turns out just the opposite. The CQC-14 is a tool, it's built like a tool, it carries like a tool, and it wants to be treated like a tool. Emerson knives are known for their ergonomics and relentless ability to take whatever comes their way, but the handle on the CQC-14 is the most comfortable one I've held. If you're on the fence and looking for a push to make you want to buy one of these work horses, this is your push…DO IT!
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DriveWare® 7
(Current Version 7.2.2 - released June 2014)
DriveWare 7.3 Beta now available!
DriveWare® 7 software is used to commission, troubleshoot, and integrate all ADVANCED Motion Controls' DigiFlex® Performance™ digital servo drives.
All drive limits, control loops (current, velocity, and position), and event handling can be configured in DriveWare. Notable features include a fully functional multi-channel oscilloscope, function generator and user friendly layout and interface.
- Overview
- New Features
- Release History
- Downloads & Support
DriveWare® 7 Overview
Intuitive User Interface
DriveWare® 7 features an improved user interface common to everyday applications. Panels, tabs, toolbars, and icons can all be scaled and customized to fit different monitors and resolutions.
Drive configuration and setup windows are categorized and accessed through the Setup Panel, a 'tree-view' interface layout that simplifies the drive commissioning process.
Extensive Tuning and Configuration Tool Set
The built-in fully-functional digital oscilloscope and waveform generator make it easy to find the optimal tuning gains quickly and achieve the highest performance. The effect of gain changes can be observed in real-time and adjustments can be made while the system is in operation.
The Powerful Motion Engine
Indexing - Create up to 16 unique Index Tasks by defining position, velocity, and acceleration/deceleration values. Indexes can be either Relative or Absolute motion profiles. Once created, Indexes can be activated using the Motion Panel, digital inputs, or by using an external network command.
Sequencing (new in 7.2) - Indexes can be combined with Homing routines and other control functions to form up to 16 different Sequences. Sequences can be configured to initiate on power-up, via a digital input, or over the network.
Motion Panel - The Motion Panel tool is used to execute pre-defined Indexes, Dynamic Indexes, Jogs, and PVT motion profiles. The Motion Panel also displays current motion profile data and Motion Engine status.
Expanded Compatibility and Capability
DriveWare® 7 is compatible for use with ADVANCED Motion Controls®' CANopen, EtherCAT®, RS485/232, and Ethernet TCP/IP network capable DigiFlex® Performance™ servo drives..
With universal feedback and motor support, DriveWare® 7 and DigiFlex® Performance™ servo drives present a complete motion control solution for any motion application.
PLS (new in 7.2) - Two independent programmable limit switches are configurable directly within DriveWare® 7 or by using network commands. The direction, pulse width, repeatability, and rollover can all be set to user-defined values, allowing great flexibility for use in multiple application scenarios.
System Requirements
- Intel® or AMD processor 1GHz or faster
- Microsoft® Windows XP® with Service Pack 3, Windows® 7 Professional with Service Pack 2
- 2GB of available RAM (4GB or more recommended)
- 50MB of available hard-disk space for installation
- MicroSoft .NET 4.0 Framework
- Communication Hardware (see drive documentation for more details)
- RS-232 port (COM 1-8)
- USB 2.0 port
For previous software releases, visit our Reserved and Discontinued page.
New Features:
Indexing was introduced on the previous release of DriveWare®. Sequencing adds the ability to combine indexes, timers, triggers, I/O control and more to a create series of motions or responses. With sequencing, simple machines can now be automated with no need for a centralized controller or communication network.
For example an infeed conveyor that's part of an assembly process might have a sequence where it moves the product into position then pauses while other processes work on the product. When the interim process is complete the product is then moved down the line, triggered by either a digital input or after a given amount of time.
Up to 16 individual sequences can be programmed and stored with an easy to use interface. Once configured, sequencing can be initiated several ways:
- On power-up
- With a digital input
- Over the network
Programmable Limit Switch (PLS)
This new feature is called a Programmable Limit Switch but think of it as a Programmable Logic Switch. With PLS, outputs can be configured to trigger at specified locations for a specified duration. Applications that use digital outputs to control peripheral devices such as sprayers, dispensers, actuators and more can see a benefit to performance especially if precise timing between motion control and the peripheral device is a requirement. PLS is aimed at repeated tasks and reduces delays by keeping all timing activities within the servo drive. For example a dispensing system could use a digital output to activate a solenoid for 100ms every 7.4mm starting at 35mm and ending at 350mm when traveling in one direction, but remain inactive when returning to the start position.
DxI/O extended I/O configuration
Demultiplexed I/O (DxI/O), allows DZE and DZS drives to expand their existing I/O to up to 32 digital inputs, 32 digital outputs, 4 analog inputs, and 2 analog outputs. These I/O can be read or activated over a high-speed network interface with update rates as fast as 100us. DxI/O capability requires a compatible drive and simple external circuitry which can be designed into the mounting card.
- DxI/O can reduce the overall system cost by eliminating the need for 3rd party I/O modules
- Using network I/O cleans up system wiring by allowing signal wires to terminate near the drive rather than having to trace all the way back to the controller
BiSS feedback supported on DZE, DZS and DPE drives.
BiSS is an open source digital interface for sensors and actuators. BiSS encoders allow for high-speed, high-resolution absolute position information to be transmitted to the drive in real time. DZE, DZS, and DPE drives can be configured for use with BiSS or other feedback types by downloading the appropriate firmware file to the drive.
Improved phase detect algorithm
Phase detection is required to commutate brushless motors with incremental feedback and no commutation sensors (i.e. no Hall sensors or commutation tracks). A new and improved phase detect algorithm adds options and provides a higher success rate especially beneficial on low friction, high inertia, and linear motors.
7.2.2 (released June 2014)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed potential issue with commutation parameter calculation in Absolute feedback devices.
- DriveWare installation no longer results in automatic uninstallation of previous DriveWare versions.
- Fixed Motion Panel reverse functionality for dynamic indexes.
7.2.1 (released April 2014)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed problem with Gain Set changes upon completion of AutoComm.
7.2.0 (released April 2014)
New Features
- Ability to program and store up to 16 individual sequences. A sequence can be initiated automatically on power-up, or can be initiated through a digital input or network command.
- Two programmable limit switches (PLS) allow the drive to toggle an output based on the measured or commanded motor position. The pulse width, maximum number of pulses and rotary rollover position are configurable.
- DxI/O™ extended I/O configuration supported in software.
- BiSS feedback is now supported on DZE/DZS and DPE drives.
- Improved phase detect algorithm and configuration options enhance phase angle detection in brushless motors when Hall signals are unavailable.
- Auxilliary Feedback Position is now a configurable option for PDO mapping in CANopen-based drives.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed scaling bug in Motor Parameters page - Max Motor Speed setting.
- Increased response rate when connected to DriveWare over Ethernet.
- Fixed problems with Autocommutation setting proper aux encoder polarity.
- Fixed problems homing to aux encoder index.
- Fixed problem with assigning PWM and DIR to Config 1 command source.
- Fixed problems reading aux encoder position over the network. (EtherCAT drives)
- Fixed problems with PDO watchdog. (EtherCAT drives)
- Fixed problem with fault reset disrupting CAN state machine (CAN drives).
- Fixed problem with detection of new operating mode via index 6060 (CAN drives).
7.1.2 (released September 2013)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed bug in assertion of correct commutation angles following AutoCommutation.
- Updated sample project file settings.
7.1.1 (released August 2013)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed bug in detection of auxiliary encoder index.
- Fixed problems with user unit scaling when base units for velocity and position devices differ.
- Fixed synchronization setting problem for brushless motors with absolute encoder feedback.
- Fixed initial mode of operation setting for profile velocity mode (CANopen drives).
- Fixed problem with display of target command while configuring PWM/Dir as a command source.
7.1 (released June 2013)
New Features
- DxI/O™ technology supported.
- 4 programmable jogs.
- AC induction motor configuration.
- DCF file export now supported in CANopen drives (device configuration file containing CANopen object data).
- BiSS C-Mode feedback now supported.
- Improved user units configuration page.
- Custom (Biquad) filter parameter configuration has been added to the interface
7.0.2 (released July 2012)
New Features
- New user interface with clean and professional look and feel.
- Common layout to everyday applications.
- Allows access to information quickly and conveniently.
- Scalable for different screen sizes and resolutions.
- Easily understood icons.
- Compatible with Windows XP and Windows 7.
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The Lighthouse of Roesnaes
Welcome to Røsnæs Lighthouse
The lighthouse was built in 1844-46 on the site of a former defence battery.
Røsnæs Lighthouse now features an exhibition all the way up the stairs to the top. The exhibition tells, among other things, of the wars of which the lighthouse has been a part.
Many ships have come to grief on Røsnæs Reef over the years. In 1939 another light, known as the Røsnæs Puller was built at the tip of the reef two kilometres off the shore.
Guides will be available in the opening hours of the lighthouse:
31/3-14 - 17/10-14
Monday-Friday 11.00 - 15.00
Saturday*- Sunday11.00 - 16.00
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Honda concluded their preparations for the start of the 2008 season on Thursday following a three-day private test at the Jerez circuit in southern Spain. Jenson Button, Rubens Barrichello and reserve driver Alex Wurz each spent two days at the wheel of the RA108, reporting positive progress with the team's latest aerodynamic and mechanical developments.
With the first race in Australia just over a week away, Hondas test programme focused on the evaluation of the new parts to confirm the final specification for the first three flyaway races, along with qualifying, race start and race procedures. The team's three drivers, who form the most experienced driver line-up on the grid this year, completed 603 laps, over 2670 kilometres of running.
"Our final test before the start of the season went well this week and it was very useful to evaluate the new developments that we have on the car, reported Button. We completed some long run work in preparation for the race weekends and I was pleased that we have made a step forward in terms of performance."
Barrichello and Wurz also felt that the heavily-revised aero package was a step in the right direction, the team having so far struggled to get the best out of the RA108.
"I drove the car in the launch specification and with the new aero package this week, which was very useful to provide a direct performance comparison, said Barrichello. Today I completed a lot of running with the new developments which was very beneficial. It is difficult to know where we are compared to the competition as we were testing privately, but I definitely feel we have taken a step in the right direction.
"The new aero upgrades open up new opportunities for the set-up and enable us to make better use of the tyres, added Wurz. I have completed two full race simulations without any problems and I believe we are well prepared for the season opener."
Echoing the comments of the teams drivers, Steve Clark, head of race and test engineering, concluded: "It is clear that the new package is a good step forward, not just on a single lap but also over longer runs. Virtually all of the wings and bodywork components have been updated since the launch specification and to good effect. Testing conditions have been challenging with strong and very gusty winds, so we look forward to seeing how the package translates to the race track next weekend in Australia."
Button and Barrichello now head to Japan for the Honda Motor Sports pre-season press conference, which takes place in Tokyo on Monday, before continuing their journey to Melbourne.


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Named the Healthcare Pricing and Reimbursement Firm of the Year by LMG Life Sciences (2013)
Ranked the second-largest U.S. healthcare law firm by Modern Healthcare (2012–2013)
Recognized as a top 10 law firm within the Life Sciences Regulatory Super League by The Practical Law Company (PLC) (2012)
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1111 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20004-2541
United States
Phone: +1.202.739.6326
Fax: +1.202.739.3001
Michele L. Buenafe is an associate in Morgan Lewis's FDA Practice. Her practice focuses on federal and state regulatory, compliance, and enforcement issues pertaining to medical devices, health information technology, pharmaceuticals, controlled substances, and human tissue products.
As part of her practice, Ms. Buenafe regularly advises clients on issues related to the development, manufacturing, and marketing of medical devices, pharmaceuticals, human tissue products, and combination products; labeling and advertising; FDA registration and listing; product recalls; and medical device reporting and other post-market reporting requirements. She also advises on issues related to the federal Controlled Substances Act and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) regulations. In addition, Ms. Buenafe assists clients in navigating the state regulatory requirements (including licensure requirements) applicable to drug and device manufacturers, wholesale distributors, pharmacies, DME suppliers, healthcare providers, and controlled substances and listed chemicals. She also advises clients on the regulatory requirements and emerging legal issues related to medical device data systems (MDDS), mobile medical apps, clinical decision support software, and other health information technology. She has spoken at medical device industry conferences on FDA regulatory issues affecting devices and health information technology and is an active participant in the Food and Drug Law Institute/FDA In-House Training Program.
Representative matters include:
- Assistance in responding to FDA, DEA, and state enforcement correspondence, including FDA 483s, Warning Letters, untitled letters, and state board inquiries.
- Addressing all forms of FDA regulatory issues and related state compliance matters in M&A transactions involving FDA regulated products (e.g., medical devices, health IT products, pharmaceuticals, and human tissues products), including regulatory due diligence, compliance representations and indemnification, and structured payments for achieving regulatory milestones.
- Handling all forms of transactional agreements, including purchase and supply, clinical trial, co-marketing, contract manufacturing, distribution, and quality agreements.
- Providing advice and assistance to a large technology company not previously subject to FDA regulation in connection with an FDA inspection related to its remote monitoring system. Advised on FDA requirements related to product marketing, MDDS requirements, establishment registration, quality systems, complaint handling, and medical device reporting.
- Providing routine advice to clients marketing medical image storage and display devices, MDDS devices, and general purpose IT products (including both hardware and software applications) to healthcare customers to assess FDA regulatory obligations and potential premarket pathways.
- Review of marketing materials to ensure compliance with FDA requirements, including any applicable approval or clearance.
Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Ms. Buenafe worked at a consulting group, where she assisted on matters concerning pharmaceutical CGMP compliance.
Ms. Buenafe earned her J.D., high honors, from the George Washington University Law School in 2005. During law school, Ms. Buenafe served on the American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal. In 1999, she earned her B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Arizona.
Ms. Buenafe is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Maryland.
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Larkspur Landing Milpitas
Description provided by Larkspur Landing Milpitas
Larkspur Landing is designed for today's traveler with the idea that comfort and technological convenience can exist side by side. Our Home Suite Hotel offers a Complimentary Healthy Start Breakfast, served 7 days per week. Free High Speed Internet Access including wireless Internet Access in our public areas, Complimentary Business Center with PCs, color printer, copier & fax. Complimentary Starbucks TM coffee & herbal tea in our Living Room 24 hours a day, apples every morning, and freshly baked cookies every evening. Exercise room & spa. Complimentary laundry facilities and same-day valet laundry service available (fee). A vending area stocked with quick meals, beverages & snacks. We are 3 miles from Cisco Campus and conveniently located near the Great Mall and Paramount's Great America Amusement Park. SJC-San Jose, CA - 6 miles SouthEast
List of Amenities for Larkspur Landing Milpitas
· 24-hour front desk · Accessible facilities · Express check-out · Free parking · Laundry/Valet service · Laundry/Valet service · Parking · Safe deposit box · Spa |
Restaurant Information
No food and beverage facilities on-siteArea Attractions
San Jose6.5 miles South East
San Francisco
34.28 miles SouthEast
36.15 miles NorthEast
San Jose Airport
7 miles North
Oakland Airport
29 miles SouthEast
San Francisco Airport
32 miles SouthEast
Great America Amusement Park
4.43 miles North
Winchester Mistery House
9.8 miles North
Santana Row
9.19 miles East
Tech Museum Center
7.89 miles NorthWest
Shoreline Ampitheater
10.5 miles East
San Jose Sharks
8.33 miles NorthEast
San Jose Convention Center
8.46 miles NorthWest
Santa Clara Convention
4.43 miles North
Great Mall
2.36 miles NorthWest
Corporate Locations
Cisco Company - 1.2 miles SouthWest, KLA Tencor - 3 miles North, Varian Medical 1.3 miles NorthWest, Philips Medical - 1.26 miles NorthWest, LSI Logic - 1.93 NorthWest, Palm Inc. - .53 South, Alied Telesyn - 3.17 East, Broadcom - 2.79 East, Cadence - 2.58
Room Information for this hotel
Spacious Studio SuiteTelephone
One Bedroom Exec Suite
Coffee/Tea maker, Modem jack
Miscellaneous Information provided by Larkspur Landing Milpitas
· American Dollars is the native currency.
· Check in time is 3:00 PM
· Check out time is 12:00 PM
· 124 rooms.
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Sky Sports News understands Stoke striker Eidur Gudjohnsen has completed a loan move to Fulham until the end of the season.
The 32-year-old was expected to remain at the Britannia Stadium on transfer deadline day but the Cottagers made a late bid.
The experienced striker had his medical in Stoke and then returned to the club's ground to thrash out details of his switch.
His move comes after being only a bit-part player since his summer switch from Monaco, making just five substitute appearances for the Potters.


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Leave No Trace
Leave No Trace is a national program which promotes the protection of our nation's wildlands through education, research, and partnerships. Leave No Trace teaches minimum impact hiking and camping skills and wildland ethics and builds awareness, appreciation, and respect for our public recreation places. Four federal land management agencies: the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service all promote the Leave No Trace message. Working with outdoor retailers, educators, and user groups these federal agencies are helping to make Leave No Trace the common language for all outdoor enthusiasts. With increasing visitor use, both day and overnight, it is important to minimize our impacts and Leave No Trace of our visits to wilderness, parks and special other places. Trips that include awareness and the use of minimum impact practices conserve natural conditions of the outdoors which make the adventure enjoyable and allow others the same experience. Your backcountry permit is a signed contract between you and the National Park Service. It's an agreement to treat the wilderness with respect by practicing Leave No Trace (LNT) techniques. Keep in mind that Leave No Trace camping goes beyond following the rules; it requires thoughtful judgement for each situation that comes up. Leave No Trace is simple, whether you are hiking and camping in the park's wilderness or driving to the Lighthouse, Drakes Beach or Tomales Point for an afternoon. At its heart is a set of seven principles which can be applied in any natural setting to minimize human impacts on the environment. Following the Leave No Trace principles and combining them with your personal judgment, awareness, and experience will help protect precious natural and cultural park resources and preserve the park experience for you and for future visitors.
Please learn and practice Leave No Trace skills and ethics and pass them on to those you come in contact with. It's easy to enjoy and protect the park simultaneously. For more information stop by a park Visitor Center, call the Leave No Trace Hotline at 1-800-332-4100, or visit Leave No Trace's website. Videos from NPSWilderness: Learn more about Wilderness Stewardship and Science in the Winter 2011-2012 issue of Park Science (html or 19.0 MB PDF).
Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces While Traveling:
At Camp:
Dispose of Waste Properly
Leave What You Find
Minimize Campfire Impacts
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Medical tourism guide
Medical tourism
Insurance for medical treatment abroad
Medical Travel Insurance for Treatment Abroad
There is a rise in the number of insurance companies providing medical travel insurance
American Medical Association
agrees that an expanding group of medical insurance company have consented to bearing at least a portion of the cost of medical tourism.
Medical Tourism, which was previously the territory of the uninsured and the under-insured is now being considered by industry giants like
Blue Cross/Blue Shield
. These companies state that they have either started or are considering pilot programs that will offer partial travel medical insurance.
Employee Benefit Management Services Inc.
, a Montana company started providing medial tourism programs to their 120 self-insured customers located northwest.
Medical tourism is transforming from a market mainly of under insured or uninsured patients to a situation where healthcare travel will be accepted by U.S. health insurance policy to make it accessible to a greater U.S. population.
The pros and cons of medical travel insurance:
Various benefits provided by insurance companies to medical tourists
Insurers admit that they are thinking of providing a variety of incentives, intended as a stimulus for patients to select overseas healthcare.
Jackie Aube
, the vice president of product management for CIGNA confirmed that some kind of incentive needs to be considered, while presenting an option to an employee to take a five to eight hours journey by plane.
Some insurance policies may not claim co-payments or repay patients for selecting cheaper medical facilities. The Montana firm EBMS, stated that some overseas healthcare insurance policies besides paying all healthcare costs will also cover air tickets, accommodation and other charges of the tour for the patient and an attendant.
Current estimates state that approximately
1.25 million Americans
will seek out medical treatment abroad in 2014. Supporters and critics admit that providing coverage could result in further expansion of healthcare travel.
Huge monetary benefits for insurance companies
McKinsey and Co. estimate that the money saved on treatments conducted abroad could reach $20 billion yearly. This could be the reason behind the growing trend of medical travel insurance.
Countries like India, Thailand, Singapore, Costa Rica and Korea provide medical treatment at a lower cost as compared to healthcare facilities in U.S. The recently created Medical Tourism Association of West Palm Beach Fla reports that a heart-bypass surgery in U.S. will cost $130,000; whilst a similar procedure will cost about $34,000 in Korea and about $6,650 in India. A hysterectomy in the U.S. cost $20,000 whereas the same treatment will cost around $4,000 in Costa Rica combined with a tour to Costa Rica.
Aube of CIGNA agrees that the main interest definitely lies in the monetary savings. She observes that many big employers are thinking of providing overseas healthcare insurance. However, so far they have not made a decision. She further adds that they are also encouraged by the possibility to present more options to their customers.
This is true also for Aetna, who has come into the market gradually with one employer
Hannaford Brothers
, a Maine based grocery chain, that has started providing travel medical insurance for hip and knee surgeries to their 27,000 workers. A spokesperson said that to date, no one has shown interest in the offer.
Also, this was the reason for the creation of
Companion Global HealthCare Inc.
, a program of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of South Carolina. It offers foreign healthcare as a component of a package of health insurance policies.
David Boucher, the assistant vice president of health care services, thinks that the primary benefit for patients will be to evade 'out-of-pocket' expenses and for employers to start reducing a small part of their healthcare cover expenses.
Some insurers and physicians are cautious of lower cost luxury
This trend is commended by insurance companies and medical tourists. They are tempted by lower cost of medical facilities abroad as compared to the price of similar facilities in U.S. and healthcare facilities that claim to be on par with top U.S. hospitals.
However, it also has ignited apprehensions amongst physicians and cautious insurers in the US. They are concerned about ensuring safety, high quality and constant access to care while treatments are conducted overseas.
The American Medical Association, recently released the
first-ever guiding principles
for medical tourism. In this guide, they mentioned that, for the moment it is not clear whether the dangers overshadow the profits.
The guidelines mention that medical tourists should only be recommended to institutions authorized by the international wing of the
Joint Commission
, a major accreditation agency of US, or the
International Society for Quality in Health Care
. Also, the patients must have greater access to information regarding physicians' qualifications and consequences.
Physicians cautioned that it is vital to arrange in advance for follow-up healthcare after coming back home. Also, medical tourists should be informed about the hazards of combining treatment with lengthy air travel and holiday activities.
Currently, a large number of U.S. patients are paying cash from their own pocket for overseas healthcare. However, this is predicted to change as insurance companies and employers are including treatments abroad to their networks and providing medical travel insurance to reduce "runaway" expenses.
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Like 119 million Americans every year, Forman decided to do something about his embarrassing weight situation. The 30-year-old knew, however, that traditional girth-loss measures gym membership, Weight Watchers, a copy of the South Beach Diet on his nightstand weren't going to inspire him to lose weight. So, while most of obese America would cringe at the idea of exposing their jelly rolls for all to see, Forman concluded that the only way he would be able to drop pounds would be if like the contestants on weight-loss reality show The Biggest Loser the entire process were documented on camera.
Fatboy is an hour-long documentary that follows Miles Forman on his journey to lose weight by any and all means necessary. Miles has lived in South Florida his entire life. He used to be in a rock band and hung out with Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids. He was the kind of tween who would gather up neighborhood children to perform plays. He wears old, cheesy T-shirts and isn't trying to be ironic about it, and he likes to squirt Easy Cheese directly into his mouth.
Superficially, in almost every sense, Miles is your average guy. Pass him in the cereal aisle at Publix and he wouldn't stand out from the raisin bran. But go see Mamma Mia! at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts and you're sitting in a building on land owned by the Forman family. The clan which includes Miles's grandfather, Hamilton; his two sons, Collins and Austin (Miles's father); and Miles is a Fort Lauderdale institution, as old money as can be in Florida. His grandfather, Miles will tell you, was one of the first to take root in the area. He opened the Forman Dairy and Nursery in the Forties, helped racially integrate Broward County's first hospital Broward General Medical Center in the Fifties, and eventually built a real estate development empire. "When he went into the military," Miles says of his grandfather, "he was sent to California, where he saw they were building all these strip malls, all the stuff we have here now. When he saw that happening [in the late Forties], he thought, Florida isn't too far behind all of this maybe being in the real estate market isn't such a bad idea. So he came back here and started buying up land. My family has been involved in real estate here since the Forties and in Broward County politics for a very long time. So growing up, I got, 'Oh, you're Hamilton Forman's grandson,' or 'you're Austin Forman's son' a lot. I have this miniature empire around me that one day is going to fall on my shoulders, so it is kind of scary."
When he talks about his father and grandfather, it's obvious Miles, who says he made terrible grades in high school and thus didn't even consider applying to a four-year university, is proud of his family's accomplishments and says his dad, despite the fact that he was a workaholic, was involved in his life. The two, he says, have bonded over music and go on field trips together to see bands play all over the country. "When [Guns N' Roses'] Use Your Illusion came out," Miles recalls, "he sat with me and listened to all of 'November Rain.' Lots of parents wouldn't do that. So when [Slash's band] Velvet Revolver came out, my dad was like, I wanna see Slash live. So we went to Boston, and that's what got that bug up his butt."
Not everyone appreciates the rocker side of Austin Forman, though. The "scion of Broward County's most politically active family," as he's been described by the Broward-Palm Beach New Times, has been called by the press everything from "consummate influence peddler" to "prominent parasite" and was a key player in the event that captured the award for Best Scandal in last year's New Times "Best Of" issue. Forman and his partners, with the help of district CFO Patricia Mahaney, were set to rake in $100 million of taxpayer money on the development of a medical office in the North Broward Hospital District. That is, before Mahaney was caught embezzling NBHD money.
Upholding an image has always been a necessary part of being a Forman. And Miles, at least according to his mother, never quite lived up to that image. "See, now you've hit a nerve," Miles says when asked about his relationship with food and his mother as a youth. "I was never good enough for my mother. In many ways she rejected me; she wanted this kid right out of the catalogue it was like she wanted a Cabbage Patch doll. She was so adamant about my weight, so eating what I wanted was my independence. It was the one decision I got to make. It's like when your sister's dating this asshole guy and you keep telling her not to date him, and that just pushes her closer and closer to him. It's the same thing."


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The MGM Grand fire occurred on November 21, 1980 at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino (now Bally's Las Vegas) in Paradise, Nevada, USA. The fire killed 85 people, most through smoke inhalation.[1] The tragedy remains the worst disaster in Nevada history, and the third-worst hotel fire in modern U.S. history, after the 1946 Winecoff Hotel fire in Atlanta that killed 119 people and the Dupont Plaza Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico fire on December 31, 1986, in which 97 perished.
At the time of the fire, approximately 5,000 people were in the hotel and casino, a 23-story[2] luxury resort with more than 2,000 hotel rooms. Just after 7:00 on the morning of November 21, 1980, a fire broke out in a restaurant known as The Deli. The Clark County Fire Department was the first agency to respond. Other agencies that responded included the North Las Vegas Fire Department, Las Vegas Fire & Rescue and the Henderson Fire Department. UH-1N (Huey) and CH-3E (Jolly Green Giant) helicopters from the 1st Special Operations Wing out of Hurlburt Field, FL (which were deployed to Nellis AFB to participate in Red Flag '80) were the main part of a helicopter rescue effort that pulled 1,000 people from the roof of the MGM Grand. Fire spread accross the areas of the casino in which no fire sprinklers were installed. Smoke spread into the hotel tower. A total of 84 people were killed and 650 injured , including guests, employees and 14 firefighters. While the fire primarily damaged the second floor casino and adjacent restaurants, most of the deaths were on the upper floors of the hotel, and were caused by smoke inhalation. Openings in vertical shafts (elevators and stairwells) and seismic joints allowed toxic smoke to spread to the top floor.
The disaster led to the general publicizing of the fact that during a building fire, smoke inhalation is a more serious threat than flames. Seventy-five people died from smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide poisoning, four from smoke inhalation alone, three from burns and smoke inhalation, only one person died from burns alone, and one person died from massive skull trauma, caused by jumping from a high window.[1]
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The fire was caused by an electrical ground fault inside a wall soffit. The wiring inside the wall was used to power a refrigeration unit for a food display cabinet in the deli. The vibration of the machine caused the wires to rub against each other, and the friction-damaged wires arced and caused a fire, which was detected hours later by a hotel employee. The fire spread to the lobby, fed by wallpaper, PVC piping, glue, and plastic mirrors, racing through the casino floor at a rate of 15–19 ft (4.6–5.8 m) per second until a massive fireball blew out the main entrance along The Strip. Seven people died in the casino. The burning material created toxic fumes and smoke, which caused the majority of the deaths.[citation needed]
Due to faulty smoke dampers within the ventilation duct network, the toxic fumes circulated throughout the hotel's air circulation system, accelerating the spread of the poisonous gases.
Most deaths occurred in the stairwells, where the doors locked behind each person as the only open doors in the stairwell were on the roof and on the ground floor. Most of the victims died from smoke inhalation, many of them in their sleep.
The fire was confined to the casino and restaurant areas. The hotel was equipped with a fire sprinkler system that performed properly by keeping the fire out of that section of the building. The area with the most fire prevention was in the money counting area, not in individual rooms or on the casino floor. National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) studies show that in this fire the hotel occupants did not exhibit panic behavior. Instead, many took rational steps to preserve their lives. Examples of this include putting towels around doors (to block out smoke), notifying other occupants, offering refuge in their rooms, and using wet towels for their faces.
The casino and restaurants were not protected by a fire sprinkler system because they were exempt from rules requiring fire sprinklers in areas occupied 24 hours per day. A Clark County building inspector granted the exemption—despite the opposition of fire marshals—reasoning that a fire would be quickly noticed by occupants and contained with portable fire extinguishers. When the fire broke out in The Deli restaurant it was no longer open 24 hours per day, it was closed and unoccupied.[3]
The hotel was repaired and improved, including the addition of fire sprinklers and an automatic fire alarm system throughout the property, and sold to Bally's Entertainment, which changed the name to Bally's Las Vegas. Similar upgrades were also made to the nearly identical property (now the Grand Sierra Resort) in Reno, Nevada. The tower in which 61 of the 85 people who died as a result of the fire is still operating as part of the hotel today. A second tower, unaffected by the fire, opened in 1981. The present MGM Grand hotel-casino was built just to the south, near the northeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue
On February 10, 1981, just 90 days after the MGM fire, another fire broke out at the Las Vegas Hilton.[4] Because of the two incidents, there was a major reformation of fire safety guidelines and codes.
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text: | Walleye OpenerMay 18, 2009 - Ron DeuterCold and windy conditions with the occasional snow flurry didn't stop me from participating in this past weekend's walleye opener. Dressed more for an ice-fishing trip, I headed out late Saturday afternoon with a buddy on his boat. We chose an upstream local, figuring we'd find fish in shallow water since water temps are still rather cold. Finding a suitable spot was not a problem, but trying to anchor proved challenging with the persistent wind gusts. Luckily our anchors managed to snag bottom and hold us from blowing into shore. We sat in about 12 feet of water and were within casting distance of a weedy point with a quick drop-off. We each set-up one pole for jigging, while using another rod with slip bobbers. I set my slip-knot at about six feet and threw toward the point, reeling in a bit until the bobber stood up. I was rigged with nothing more than a plain No. 6 hook and a leech. My line was six-pound test, and I added a couple of split-shots right above the swivel. During our first hour, my buddy reeled in four non-keeper walleye - all in the 14-inch range. Hour two was my turn, as I brought in two fish, both measuring nearly 16 inches. While active, the fish definitely were not hitting hard. Only my second fish grabbed hard enough to completely sink my bobber. The first fish just sort of snagged on and swam off slowly. I could tell the bobber was moving because of a fish, so I slowly reeled in my slack, waited a few more seconds and set the hook. Even though we ended up catching a few more fish before dark, my two were the only keepers. Article CommentsNo comments posted for this article. Post a Comment | in: News, Blogs & Events Web |


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Vote for whoever you want, moron. It doesn't make any difference. The candidates are already picked out for us, so it makes no difference whichI'm voting for whoever is the whitest guy running for the dang governors job. just as long as he ain't black, or mooslim, or educated. Now leave me alone, i gotta go watch cars go in circles and drink swill
one wins. The elitist scum pulling the strings win either way. Fools
like you fall for it every time.
BTW: Just what has your black president done for the black community as a whole?. Hint: We are all getting screwed equally. Results are the only thing that matter, so just go look at the results before keeping up the nonsense.
Like I said, global elitists win, we lose.


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I suggest that Ms. Park also do her homework about accreditation. In the United States, accreditation is voluntary. Degrees granted by legally operating schools, whether accredited or nonaccredited, are equally valid under the law. It is up to the student to determine whether a nonaccredited degree will suffice for his or her needs. Many corporate employers and government bodies accept such credentials -- they even subsidize tuition. In my opinion, it is better for a school to declare up-front that it is not accredited by a recognized agency than it is to claim accreditation from a phony agency, as many do. Pacific Western University is a pioneer in alternative education, with many satisfied students.
After a previous article in which Superintendent Roger Cuevas's degree from the University of Northern Colorado was incorrectly characterized as bogus, New Times should be more careful. In my view, Dr. Fraind is owed an apology.
David P. Burkart
Editor's note: Paula Park's previous article, "How to Succeed in Education Without Really Studying" (September 25, 1997), did not characterize Superintendent Cuevas's degree as "bogus." The University of Northern Colorado's degree programs offered through its Center for Special and Advanced Programs were, however, described by Harvard educator Stephen K. Bailey as "the used-car lots of higher education."
Building a Better Profile
While working in Savannah, Georgia, with my Florida International University students, I read Paula Park's profile of me ("The Quintana Plan," January 22). What can I say! It was beautifully written and clearly communicated the passion and constant searching that have always motivated me. Her work has deeply moved me. There are, though, three basic points that require clarification to put them in their historical context.
First, I was not appointed by Fulgencio Batista to my job as director of the master plans of Varadero and the City of Trinidad de Cuba. That appointment was made by architect Nicolas Arroyo, acting as president of the Junta de Planificacion de Cuba, with the approval of all its directors.
Second, the architectural firm Moenck & Quintana was not commissioned to design the National Bank of Cuba project during President Batista's government; the firm of Perez Benitoa was commissioned.
Third, after President Batista's downfall in 1959, Moenck & Quintana was selected to design a new project for the bank, based on a different program structured by the bank's new president, Dr. Felipe Pazos. I personally worked on that project as partner in charge of design until I left the country in 1960. My surreal and fortunately short relationship with Ernesto "Che" Guevara, posing as the bank's president, occurred later, after Dr. Pazos had resigned that position.
Nicolas Quintana
Building a Better Architect
Thank you for "The Quintana Plan." Mr. Quintana is indeed a treasure of architectural experience. The City of Miami Beach is fortunate that he has offered himself for service on our Design Review Board. I hope my colleagues will join me in enthusiastically appointing him to the board so we may put his expertise to good use in the service of our community.
Commissioner David Dermer
Miami Beach
Clueless Is the Hunter
While passing through Miami, I read Sean Rowe's article "Hungry Is the Hunter" (January 22) and I felt compelled to write. I am a physician, not a hunter or a yuppie environmentalist or an ecologist. From this neutral position I can see objectively and must mention that the article was incomplete and that these hunters are at best disturbing and at worst frightening in their viewpoint of those whose opinions they don't understand.
Like the long path of abuse that finally leads to symptoms of a heart attack or a stroke, the Everglades is at the end of a long history of abuse and neglect that involved robbed water, polluted water, and a continuing human population explosion. How can anyone expect the days of the Indians to compare to this? Heart disease and the state of the Everglades are similar in the sense that chest pain, like the core of Mr. Rowe's article, presents itself as a symptom after many years of abuse and neglect that could go unnoticed. It must be viewed in the context of passing time, not as a snapshot.
If this is where we are now, where will the Everglades be in 50 years? The picture is dismal. I side with the yuppie environmentalists.
Peter J. Walton, M.D.
Clearwater Beach
Sean Hits the Bull's-eye
Sean Rowe's "Hungry Is the Hunter" rates as one of your very best stories.
Tom Rich


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Dylan: The Biography
By Dennis McDougal
Turner Publishing Company, 540 pages, $35
'What is this sh–?" Greil Marcus famously asked in his Rolling Stone review of Bob Dylan's most reviled album, "Self Portrait." Throughout my reading of "Dylan: The Biography," by Dennis McDougal, I've been asking myself the same question.
It purports to be "the ultimate biography of the musical icon," the one that will reveal "the real story behind the myths," the book we've all been waiting for, in which the riddles will all be answered and the texture of the man's life will be made as visible as his legendary illusions and feints.
But what is it really?
It's a book that tracks Bob Dylan's peripatetic life from his childhood in Hibbing, Minnesota, through his ongoing Never Ending Tour, which has taken him around the world from gig to gig for much of the past 20 years. We hear about his high school bands, his dalliance on the fringes of the Minneapolis folk scene, his move to Greenwich Village (which McDougal annoyingly calls "Greenwich" throughout the book, though anyone with even a casual knowledge of New York City knows it's commonly referred to as the Village), and his explosion onto the national scene. We hear about how he went electric at the Newport Folk Festival and hid out in Woodstock after what may or may not have been a faked motorcycle accident. We hear about how his obsessive fans stalked him and how crazy A. J. Weberman dug through his trash. We hear about the circus that was the Rolling Thunder Revue tour and about his conversion to born-again Christianity. The story continues on and on, through his teaming up to tour with the Grateful Dead to his return in recent years to the folky roots music that started his career, which produced a string of albums that rank with his very best. All of this without telling even the least attentive Dylan fan much of anything he or she doesn't already know.
It's a book that gets bogged down in the facts of his career while ignoring the animating force behind it. This album, the book tells us, was recorded in that studio; this tour consisted of x number of gigs; here's a list of the other pop stars who appeared with Dylan on "We Are the World." For hundreds of pages, it informs the reader of every last detail of Dylan's business transactions as though the meaning of a life could be reduced to a spreadsheet.
The book knows no middle ground. When it's not breathlessly claiming that Dylan's the voice of his generation, a prophet, a poet worthy of the Nobel Prize, it's dismissing him as a plagiarist and condemning his drug addictions as though an artist can't possess contradictions.
It's a book that's happy to leer over the details of Dylan's sometimes girlfriend Ruth Tyrangiel's palimony suit against him — presenting accusation as fact and burying the crucial information that she lost the case — as it is to legitimize William DeVogue's claims of being Dylan's son, despite a near total lack of evidence.
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King calls for RBS to be split up
PUBLISHED: 07 Mar 2013 06:34:00 | UPDATED: 07 Mar 2013 17:58:27PUBLISHED: 07 Mar 2013 PRINT EDITION: 08 Mar 2013Philip Aldrick London
Bank of England governor Mervyn King has challenged British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne to break up the Royal Bank of Scotland to wrench the UK out of its economic torpor.
Sir Mervyn claimed that "nothing has been achieved" in the four years since RBS was rescued with £45 billion of taxpayer cash and hundreds of billions of pounds of state guarantees. The bank is failing to support small businesses, he said, and is retarding the recovery.
Laying down the gauntlet to Mr Osborne, Sir Mervyn said the government's "arms-length" handling of the state-backed lender was "a nonsense", and that it should use its 82 per cent stake to seize control and split RBS into a "good bank" and a "bad bank".
"We've not been sufficiently decisive in recapitalising or restructuring it," he said.
Any further intervention would "mean accepting that there are losses" that would damage the public finances, Sir Mervyn said.
But he dismissed Mr Osborne's concerns, expressed last week, as little more than "presentational" difficulties that would be vastly outweighed by having "a healthy RBS back lending to the economy".
"We shouldn't worry about the consequential impact on the scale of public debt. Financial markets would see through this," he said. "We should simply accept the reality today, and the reality is that [the shares] are probably worth less than we thought."
The BoE governor has discussed his proposal with Mr Osborne, who is already under pressure from cabinet colleague Vince Cable and former chancellor Lord Lawson of Blaby to break up RBS. Treasury insiders said there was little prospect of the plans going ahead.
Addressing the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards for the final time before he steps down in June, Sir Mervyn said: "I think that the whole idea of a bank that is 82 per cent owned by the taxpayer but run at arm's length from the government is a nonsense. It cannot make any sense.
"I do not believe it's beyond the wit of man to devise a plan to restructure RBS and divide it into a healthy well-capitalised bank capable of lending to the UK economy. It does mean accepting there are activities that are likely to generate continued losses. In that sense, it would a be a good-bank/bad-bank split."
Sir Mervyn is believed to have pushed for a split as part of the original bailout in 2008, but was overruled by then prime minister Gordon Brown and chancellor Alistair Darling. Yesterday, he claimed Labour had been too close to the bankers, and that the industry lobby remained overly influential.
"The regulators knew that if they were tough on the banks, they would go straight to Number 10," he said. "The climate has changed, but the access probably hasn't."
Last week, Mr Osborne told former conservative chancellor Lord Lawson the break-up plan was "perfectly reasonable" but that "first we'd have to nationalise RBS". He added: "I'd have to justify spending perhaps £8 billion, £9 billion or £10 billion on nationalising RBS. I'd have to buy out the minority shareholders at a presumably independently agreed market price."
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