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Red-hot Tribe hope Kluber can extend streak
Minnesota tabs Pelfrey to cool down Indians in series finale
With the Indians beating the Twins, 7-3, on Saturday, Cleveland manager Terry Francona will move on to the next day -- much in the same way he would if the Indians had lost the game.
Fortunately for the Cleveland skipper, he can do so with a better taste in his mouth, as the Indians have run their winning streak to a season-best six games. They'll get a chance to make it seven and sweep the Twins in the series finale Sunday afternoon (1:05 p.m. ET) at Progressive Field.
"When we win a game, I move on to the next day, or if we lose a game, I try to correct what we did wrong and move on," Francona said. "I try not to get caught up in how many we've won or lost, because it doesn't affect today. ... If they come in feeling good about themselves, that's good. That's how I want it all the time."
The winning streak will be put to the test on Sunday against Twins righty Mike Pelfrey, who has struggled in his return from Tommy John surgery. Pelfrey, who had the surgery on May 1 of last year, went 2-3 with a 7.66 ERA in five starts in April.
"I don't make any excuses for the way I've pitched," Pelfrey said. "It's unacceptable. It's below the standards I've set for myself. It's been a bad month. I guarantee I've had a lot worse months, but this is not acceptable. Hopefully, May will be a lot better. It better be a lot better, or I'm sure things will change."
He says, though, that he doesn't think about his elbow when he's pitching, and that it feels "great." Pelfrey has not faced the Indians in his career.
Cleveland will respond with Corey Kluber, who is a perfect 2-0 with a 2.25 ERA this season.
The right-hander held Kansas City to two runs on seven hits in seven innings en route to the win in his first start of the season on April 28. He struck out six and walked one.
Indians: Kipnis heating up
Over his last two games, second baseman Jason Kipnis has gone 5-for-9 with two triples, a home run and six RBIs. Kipnis credited Francona with helping him overcome his slow start.
"It's always nice to have the support of your coach," Kipnis said. "We have a good relationship. I think we have a trust in each other, and the fact that he's stood by my side and had confidence and kept me where I am in the order so far, despite how I've been hitting, shows a lot and means a lot to me."
Twins: Parmelee showing power
Chris Parmelee has hit home runs in two of his last three games, and is hitting .333 (13-for-39) with five walks in 12 road games this season.
"He's comfortable," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said of Parmelee. "He's feeling really good. I think we talked about him getting over the hump last year. Earlier he was worried about his at-bats with a lot of one-on-ones and conversations. But you can always see it when he's feeling confident because he goes about his business. And he's there."
Worth noting
• Of the Twins' Trevor Plouffe's 37 career home runs, 29 have come with the bases empty.
• The Indians' Drew Stubbs has multiple hits in three of his last four games.
• The Twins have gone 12-5 against the Indians since June 2, 2012. In that span, Minnesota has outscored Cleveland, 112-70.
• The Indians announced Saturday that their postponed game from April 23 against the White Sox has been rescheduled as a traditional doubleheader on June 28 at 4:10 p.m. CT at U.S. Cellular Field.
Joey Nowak is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Using the Build System
This part of the guide is about using the build system, that is, how to interact with the build system when you're developing some part of GHC, its libraries or tools. The section aims to be comprehensive; for a quick start, read Building/Hacking first.
Source trees and build trees
Sometimes we want to separate the build tree from the source tree. There are a few advantages to doing this:
- You can make multiple different builds from the same sources, perhaps for testing different build settings, or for building on different platforms.
- You might want to put the source tree on a remote, backed-up, filesystem, but keep your build tree on a local fast unbacked-up drive (this is a configuration we use regularly at GHC HQ). It doesn't matter if you lose the build tree: it can easily be regenerated.
- It's easy to blow away a build tree and start again, without modifying your source tree. make maintainer-clean is usually good for this too, but it can miss files that it doesn't know about, or files that are remnants from older versions of GHC.
- It helps to avoid mistakes whereby you edit a file that happens to be automatically generated, instead of the original source file (e.g. editing config.mk instead of config.mk.in). If you only edit files in the source tree, then this can't happen.
However, if you just want to build the software once on a single platform, then your source tree can also be your build tree, and you can skip the rest of this section.
Windows users: so far as we know, symbolic links do not work right on MSYS at least, so we never use separate source and build trees on Windows.
Mac OS X 10.8 users: Apple no longer includes X11 with Xcode (which provided lndir). Install XQuartz >= 2.7.2 or build it directly in utils/lndir (as below).
A build tree is just an exact copy of the source tree, except that every file in it is a symbolic link to the appropriate file in the source tree. There are "standard" Unix utilities that make such copies, so standard that they go by different names: lndir and mkshadowdir are two (If you don't have either, the GHC source tree contains sources for the X11 lndir check out utils/lndir). To create a separate build tree, the typical sequence is something like this:
$ mkdir ghc-build $ cd ghc-build $ lndir <source> $ ln -s <source>/.git .
Where <source> is the directory containing your source tree. Note the last step: GHC's configure script likes to see the .git directory, and by default lndir will not link .git directories. Things will still work if you omit this step, but the GHC version number for your build won't contain the date (i.e. it will be "7.7" instead of something like "7.7.20121218").
You need to be a bit careful when using a build tree, that any new files you create (if you do any development work) are in the source tree, not the build tree! This is especially easy to mess up when creating new tests, so watch out.
Booting, configuring, cleaning
GHC uses the autoconf tools in the standard Unixy way, described in more detail in subsequent subsections on this page:
--------------- | | | Source code | <--------------------\ | | | --------------- maintainer-clean | | perl boot (runs autoconf) | | | v | ---------------------------- | | Source tar-ball |>-------/| | ./configure | | | libraries/*/GNUmakefile | | | libraries/*/ghc.mk |<-\ | ---------------------------- | | | | | ./configure distclean | | | | v | | ------------------ | | | Configured |>----------/| | | mk/config.mk | | | | |>-----------------/| ------------------ | | | | | make | | | | | v | | ------------------ | | | Built |>-----------/ | | | | | |>------------------/ ------------------
See also standard targets and Commentary/SourceTree.
Steps to prepare for building
We gave a quick getting-started introduction to building GHC in Building/QuickStart, the following sections describe each step in more detail.
In the build system, the path to the top of your build tree is referred to as $(TOP), and we will use that convention in the following sections.
Generate configure scripts
NOTE: if you're starting from a source distribution that you downloaded from the GHC web site, rather than git sources, you can skip this step. Source distributions come with configure scripts pre-generated for you.
Change directory to $(TOP) and issue the command
$ perl boot
(Note: the $ is the prompt. You don't type that bit.) This runs autoreconf on the various configure.ac scripts in the GHC build tree, generating configure scripts and other miscellaneous files.
You have to re-do this step if (and only if) you ever change one of the files that autoconf uses to generate the configure scripts, such as configure.ac, or aclocal.m4.
Run the configure script
Run the configure script, thus:
$ ./configure <args>
configure's mission is to scurry round your computer working out what architecture it has, what operating system, whether it has the vfork system call, where tar is kept, whether gcc is available, where various obscure #include files are, whether it's a leap year, and what the systems manager had for lunch. It communicates these snippets of information in two ways:
- It translates various files such as mk/config.mk.in to mk/config.mk, substituting for things between "@" brackets. So, "@HaveGcc@" will be replaced by "YES" or "NO" depending on what configure finds. mk/config.mk is included by every Makefile (directly or indirectly), so the configuration information is thereby communicated to all Makefiles.
- It translates mk/config.h.in to mk/config.h. The latter is #included by various C source files, which can thereby make use of configuration information.
configure takes some optional arguments. Use ./configure --help to get a list of the available arguments. Here are some of the ones you might need:
- --host=<platform>
- Set the "host platform" (see platform names). Usually only necessary if cross-compiling.
- --target=<platform>
- Set the "target platform" (see platform names). Usually only necessary if cross-compiling.
- --with-ghc=<path>
- Specifies the path to an installed GHC which you would like to use. This compiler will be used for compiling GHC-specific code (eg. GHC itself). This option cannot be specified using build.mk (see later), because configure needs to auto-detect the version of GHC you're using. The default is to look for a compiler named ghc in your $PATH.
- --with-gcc=<path>
- Specifies the path to the installed GCC. This compiler will be used to compile all C files, except any generated by the installed Haskell compiler, which will have its own idea of which C compiler (if any) to use. The default is to use gcc. On Windows, this should be set to the gcc that comes with MinGW, which by default is c:/mingw/bin/gcc.
- --with-ld=<path>
- Specifies which ld program to use. Normally only necessary on Windows, where you should set it to the ld that comes with MinGW, which is usually c:/mingw/bin/ld.
- --prefix
- Tells the build system where you would like GHC to be eventually installed. You don't have to install GHC in order to use it: it is entirely possible to work on GHC and test it without ever modifying anything outside the build tree. However, if you do want to install GHC, then the --prefix directory is the root of the install tree. Typically on Unix systems the default for --prefix is /usr/local. See also Building/Installing for more details.
Build configuration
Next, you say how this build of GHC is to differ from the standard defaults by creating a new file mk/build.mk in the build tree. This file is the one and only file you edit in the build tree, precisely because it says how this build differs from the source. (Just in case your build tree does die, you might want to keep a private directory of build.mk files, and use a symbolic link in each build tree to point to the appropriate one.)
mk/build.mk is purely for overriding settings that are found in mk/config.mk. You should never edit mk/config.mk directly, since it is automatically generated from mk/config.mk.in by configure. Neither should you edit mk/config.mk.in; just provide your settings in mk/build.mk.
We provide a sample file, mk/build.mk.sample, which you can copy to mk/build.mk and edit. It provides a number of pre-defined configurations, such as a "fast build" or a "development build". Take a look in the file itself for details.
To understand more about what you can put in mk/build.mk, read on.
Common build.mk options
The following are some common variables that you might want to set in your mk/build.mk. For other variables that you can override, take a look in mk/config.mk.in.
(default: -H32m -O)
Options passed to GHC for all Haskell compilations.
- GhcHcOpts
(default: -Rghc-timing)
Options added when compiling GHC (all stages)
- GhcStage1HcOpts
(default: empty)
Options added when compiling the stage 1 GHC.
- GhcStage2HcOpts
(default: -O2)
Options added when compiling the stage 2 GHC.
- GhcStage3HcOpts
(default: -O2)
Options added when compiling the stage 3 GHC.
- GhcLibHcOpts
(default: -O2 -XGenerics)
Options added when compiling the libraries.
- GhcProfiled
(default: NO)
Set to YES to enable profiling for GHC itself (stage 2). You'll also need to add GhcLibWays += p to make this work.
- GhcDebugged
(default: NO)
Set to YES to pass -debug when building GHC (stage 2).
- GhcLibWays
(default: v p)
Ways in which to build the libraries. Must contain at least v (the vanilla way). Also contains p by default (profiling). For other ways, see mk/ways.mk.
- SplitObjs
(default: YES if supported, NO otherwise)
When set to YES, static library object files are split into smaller pieces. This means that less of the library code needs to be linked into the final application, which makes smaller binaries. It takes longer to build libraries this way, though.
(default: NO)
When set to YES, dependencies on the ghc executable will be turned into order-only dependencies. What this means in practice is that less needless recompilation will be done while you are making changes to ghc's sources, but for certain types of changes it means the build will fail.
(default: YES if supported, NO otherwise)
When set to YES, these build the docbook documentation (e.g. the users guide) as HTML, PS and PDF respectively.
- By default this is set to integer-gmp, which means Integer is implemented on top of the C GMP library. If you set it to integer-simple then a simple, BSD-licensed Haskell implementation will be used instead.
How to make GHC build quickly
The GHC build tree is set up so that, by default, it builds a compiler ready for installing and using. That means full optimisation, and the build can take a long time. If you unpack your source tree and right away say ./configure; make, expect to have to wait a while. For hacking, you want the build to be quick - quick to build in the first place, and quick to rebuild after making changes. Tuning your build setup can make the difference between several hours to build GHC, and less than an hour.
Here are the build.mk settings that we use to build fast:
# My build settings for hacking on stage 2 SRC_HC_OPTS = -H32m -O -fasm -Rghc-timing GhcStage1HcOpts = -O -fasm GhcStage2HcOpts = -O0 -DDEBUG -Wall GhcLibHcOpts = -O -fasm -XGenerics GhcLibWays = v SplitObjs = NO
What do these options do?
- SRC_HC_OPTS = -H32m -O -fasm -Rghc-timing
- These options are added to the command line for all Haskell compilations. We turn on -fasm, because that halves compilation time at the expense of a few percent performance. -Rghc-timing prints out a line of timing info about each compilation. It's handy to keep an eye on. -Wall turns on all the warnings; GHC is meant to be warning-clean with -Wall.
- GhcStage1HcOpts = -O -fasm
- Build stage 1 optimised: we're going to be rebuilding stage 2 a lot, so we want the compiler that does the building to be fast.
- GhcStage2HcOpts = -O0 -DDEBUG -Wall
We turn off optimisation here, assuming you'll be modifying and
testing stage 2. With optimisation off, rebuilding GHC after
modifying it will be much quicker, not only because the
individual compilations will be quicker, but also there will be
fewer dependencies between modules, so much less stuff is recompiled
after each modification.
Also we turn on -DDEBUG, because that enables assertions and debugging code in the compiler itself. Turning on DEBUG makes the compiler about 30% slower.
- GhcLibHcOpts = -O -fasm -XGenerics
- You almost certainly want optimisation on when building libraries, otherwise the code you build with this compiler goes really slowly. -XGenerics adds generics support to the libraries - you can turn this off if you like (it'll make the libraries a bit smaller), but you won't be able to use Generics in the code you build against these libraries.
- GhcLibWays = v
- Normally the profiled libraries are built. Setting GhcLibWays to just "v" disables this, so you only build the normal libs.
- SplitObjs = NO
- Object splitting causes each module to be split into smaller pieces in the final library, to reduce executable sizes when linking against the library. It can be quite time and memory-consuming, so turn it off when you're hacking.
Building things
At this point you have made yourself a fully-configured build tree, so you are ready to start building real things.
The first thing you need to know is that you must use GNU make. On some systems (eg. FreeBSD) this is called gmake, whereas on others it is the standard make command. In this document we will always refer to it as make; please substitute with gmake if your system requires it. If you use a the wrong make you will get all sorts of error messages (but no damage) because the GHC Makefiles use GNU make's facilities extensively.
To just build the whole thing, cd to the top of your build tree and type make. This will prepare the tree and build the various parts in the correct order, resulting in a complete build of GHC that can even be used directly from the tree (as inplace/bin/ghc-stage2), without being installed first.
Order of the build
Here is a high level view of what happens when you build GHC:
- First, we build a few packages that GHC itself depends on, such as Cabal, and filepath, using your installed GHC. These packages are under libraries, and each is built in a subdirectory dist-boot; for example the bootstrap build of Cabal will be in libraries/Cabal/dist-boot.
- Then we build package ghc, still using the installed GHC. The ghc package is a perfectly ordinary package. The source code for the package is all the files in compiler/.
- Now, still using the installed GHC, we build the ghc executable, from source code in ghc/. This source code is just a small Haskell program that depends on package ghc.
The resulting executable is called the "stage 1" compiler (see stages). You can run the stage 1 compiler by invoking inplace/bin/ghc-stage1. The stage 1 build of GHC happens in compiler/stage1.
- The stage 1 compiler is now used to build all the packages in the libraries subdirectory, and the runtime system in rts.
- Finally, the stage 1 compiler is used to build GHC itself again, this time against the libraries we just built. This GHC is called stage 2, and can be invoked as inplace/bin/ghc-stage2.
There's an optional final stage, using the stage 2 compiler to build a stage 3 compiler, but this isn't strictly necessary, and is only used to check that the stage 2 compiler is working properly.
What to do after make has finished
If make completes successfully, then it should have created inplace/bin/ghc-stage2, which is a GHC binary you can run directly. It supports all the usual features, including GHCi if you pass the --interactive flag.
In fact, the inplace directory looks a lot like an installed copy of GHC (see Building/Installing): there is a bin subdirectory containing various programs that can be run, including ghc-pkg, Haddock and hsc2hs.
You can now run the testsuite, see Building/RunningTests. You can now install GHC, by typing make install.
What to do if you get a build failure
GHC is a complex system, with many platform-dependent components. We try our best to make sure it builds out of the box as often as possible, but build failures are not uncommon. If you get some kind of failure, don't panic.
The chances are, someone else already encountered the same problem as you and has reported it on a mailing list or as a ticket. Search for the error message using your favourite search engine, and if that doesn't turn anything up then search directly on this Trac. Finally, if you don't find a solution:
- Ask someone: MailingListsAndIRC
- or just ReportABug
Developing in a GHC build tree
This section describes how to make changes to the sources of GHC, or its libraries and tools, and use the build system to build and test those changes.
Bringing the whole tree up to date
The easy way to bring the tree up to date after making some changes is simply to go to the top of the tree and say make. The build system has enough dependencies encoded into it that this should rebuild everything that needs to be rebuilt, in the correct order. The downside is that it will build everything right though to the stage2 compiler and including all the documentation, which might be overkill if all you wanted to do was to test a small change to GHC.
Building a single sub-component
Each subdirectory of the source tree has a stub makefile, most of which follow this pattern:
dir = libraries/base TOP = ../.. include $(TOP)/mk/sub-makefile.mk
the main purpose of the stub makefile is to invoke make at the top-level of the tree: GHC's build system is non-recursive, so in effect there is really just one Makefile, at the top level. However, the stub makefile has another purpose: it passes a target to the top-level Makefile, telling it to build just the components of the system in this directory. For example, when you say make in the rts directory, this is actually equivalent to
$ make -C .. all_rts
where "-C .." tells make to invoke the Makefile in the directory "..", and all_rts is the target that makes everything in the rts subdirectory. Equivalently, make all_libraries/base at the top level would build everything in the libraries/base subdirectory. To understand how the all targets are defined, see standard targets.
You can also clean a single component of the tree, just by saying make clean in a subdirectory. Again this is equivalent to issuing a command at the top of the tree of the form make clean_libraries/base.
Rebuilding the GHC binary after making changes
Suppose you want to make a small change to GHC itself and test it. Assuming that your tree is already up to date, the best way to do this is as follows:
$ cd ghc $ make stage=2
Note that the first command above takes you to the ghc subdirectory of the source tree, not into the source tree (which is also named ghc if you did a git clone). So if you did a git clone from your home directory, you'll be in ~/ghc/ghc/, not ~/ghc/. Many of the compiler-building make commands must be performed from this subdirectory, not from the root of the source tree.
This will bring the stage 2 compiler up to date only. Setting stage=2 has the effect of disabling all the rules that build the stage 1 compiler, so the build system will ignore the fact that the stage 1 compiler is also out of date, and hence all the libraries are also potentially out of date. If you just did make from the top-level, all of these dependencies would be taken into account, and a lot of rebuilding would probably ensue. There's another target that takes an even quicker shortcut:
$ cd ghc $ make 2
This is like make stage=2, except that it omits the dependency-building phase (make 2 is in fact just shorthand for make stage=2 FAST=YES; see Fast Rebuilding below). If you have changed the imports in any modules, those new dependencies will not be taken into account by the build system, so you might get a build failure. On the other hand, this shortcut usually works and the few seconds it saves can make GHC development a much more interactive experience. There are also targets
- make 1
- make 3
to make the stage 1 and stage 3 compilers respectively. These targets work in both the ghc and compiler subdirectories (Commentary/SourceTree).
Note that if you've never built stage3 before, you will need to create dependencies for it using make stage=3. This is because a normal build will skip building the stage3 compiler. You will then be able to run make 3 as usual.
Freezing stage 1
Often when working on GHC we find ourselves doing make 2 a lot. If we accidentally say make at some point, that will start building stage 1 (because presumably something in the GHC source code has changed), which has many knock-on effects: all the libraries will be reconfigured, rebuilt, and then stage 2 will be completely rebuilt. To prevent this from happening, we can "freeze" stage 1 by adding a line to mk/build.mk:
stage = 2
this prevents stage 1 from being rebuilt until this line is removed or commented-out again. It's a handy trick when you're working on GHC.
Building a single file
It's possible to tell make to build a single file, from any subdirectory in the tree. For example, suppose I want to build just the module Control.Monad in the base package, I can do it like this:
$ make libraries/base/dist-install/build/Control/Monad.o
(you have to know that dist-install is the distdir for a package, and object files are put in the subdirectory build). It's also possible to do this from the libraries/base subdirectory:
$ cd libraries/base $ make dist-install/build/Control/Monad.o
suppose you wanted to build this module with a few extra flags, perhaps because you want to see what GHC's optimiser is doing on this module:
$ rm dist-install/build/Control/Monad.o $ make dist-install/build/Control/Monad.o EXTRA_HC_OPTS=-dcore-lint
you could also cut-and-paste the command-line to add flags, but sometimes the EXTRA_HC_OPTS method is more convenient.
Fast rebuilding
Often when you're working in a particular part of the tree, the rest of the tree is up to date, and you just want to rebuild the component you're working on after making changes. To speed things up, we'd like to avoid having make check that everything else in the tree is up-to-date before building the component we're working on. So the GHC build system provides a couple of ways to do this:
- make FAST=YES
- Only has an effect in a subdirectory. Setting FAST=YES causes make to omit rebuilding the .depend file (if any), and also omits some of the phases. FAST=YES is allowed in conjunction with any other target; for example, it makes sense when rebuilding a single file, as in the previous section.
- make fast
- Shorthand for make all FAST=YES.
Another useful trick is
- make stage=0
- Does not build any GHC stages at all. stage=0 can be used in combination with other targets and settings.
Verbose build
By default, the build log is printed in a compact form, where each invocation of the compiler looks something like:
HC [stage 0] compiler/stage1/build/Constants.o
This makes it easier to see the build progress, but sometimes it can be useful to inspect the full command lines that are being used.
To enable full output, run make with the V=1 option:
make V=1
You can also put the "V=1" in your build.mk or validate.mk file.
Installing extra packages
The boot libraries are built as part of building GHC; they are built with the stage1 compiler, and imported when the stage2 compiler is compiled with stage1.
All other libraries are stand-alone Cabal packages, and the build system knows nothing about them. Nevertheless, it is common to want to install extra packages for the GHC in your build tree. Here are instructions for how to do so.

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A Survey of Venture Capital ResearchMarco Da RinTilburg University, Department of Finance; Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) Thomas F. HellmannSaïd Business School, University of Oxford ; University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business; University of Oxford - Said Business School Manju PuriDuke University - Fuqua School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) October 12, 2011 TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2011-044 CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2011-111 Abstract: This survey reviews the growing body of academic work on venture capital. It lays out the major data sources used. It examines the work on venture capital investments in companies, looking at issues of selection, contracting, post-investment services and exits. The survey considers recent work on organizational structures of venture capital firms, and the relationship between general and limited partners. It discusses the work on the returns to venture capital investments. It also examines public policies, and the role of venture capital in the economy at large. Number of Pages in PDF File: 136 Keywords: Venture capital, private equity, alternative assets, IPOs, acquisitions, corporate venture capital, public policy, limited partners, institutional investors, syndication, innovation, venture capital returns JEL Classification: G24, G21, G23 Date posted: October 13, 2011Suggested CitationContact Information
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A little perspective.....
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A little perspective.....I've been watching various threads and posts here over the recent while, and I've come to the conclusion that our perspective (collectively) can be a little off.....
I just found out 2 days ago that I face a very sudden and life threatening/changing operation - I'm having a brain tumor removed tomorrow. I might be fine - I might not - but regardless - if this gives me an opportunity to step back and workout what matters and what doesn't in my every day, then that's perhaps not a bad thing. A message for all of us when we bitch and whine about the minutia of every person or incident that clouds our otherwise could be perfect days..... See the positive, even if it's just a weed through the footpath. You never know what life has just around the next bend. What is it with cycling? 30+ kmh and lycra???!!!
Re: A little perspective.....Good luck mate.
Re: A little perspective.....Good luck... hope you are back here soon!.
Re: A little perspective.....Good Luck and I hope you get back on your bike under a lovely sunny sky soon
2011 Felt F75
2012 Fuji Nevada 2.0
Re: A little perspective.....As above - wish you all the best mate.
Re: A little perspective.....Best of luck, and a quick recovery too.
Re: A little perspective.....hey dude best of luck!
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Re: A little perspective.....Hope all goes well for you and you are back on the bike soon.
Merida 903 from the LBS; Diesel engine
Re: A little perspective.....Fearful stuff, but I'd trade perspective for a few buckets of good luck and a side order of optimism in your situation.
Hope it goes much better than your worst fears. Cheers WombatK
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us -Jerry Garcia
Re: A little perspective.....All the best for the surgery. If it helps any I have two friends who have had brain tumors removed (one of them was done twenty years ago and he had a follow-up 12 months later). Both of these people are still living happy, healthy lives today.
[edit] Three friends now that I think of it. All healthy and well. Stay positive and we look forward to hearing from you soon. Last edited by il padrone on Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:34 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Riding bikes in traffic - what seems dangerous is usually safe; what seems safe is often more dangerous.
Re: A little perspective.....Sent from my iThingy... I ride, therefore I am.
...real cyclists don't have squeaky chains...
Re: A little perspective.....
+1 and seven pages of zeros. Stay strong Unc, heal fast. Shaun ...whatever the road rules, self-preservation is the absolute priority for a cyclist when mixing it with motorised traffic.
London Boy 29/12/2011
Re: A little perspective.....Fortunately Australia has some of the best neurosurgeons in the world. Good luck! Look forward to reading your new perspective when you get back.
Bianchi, Ridley, Montague, GT, Garmin and All things Apple
Re: A little perspective.....Hope all goes to plan Art and you are pootling along again soon. Stay strong and recover well.
Re: A little perspective.....Wise words indeed...all the very best mate. You won't need luck with a positive outlook on every day.
Look forward to hearing from you here very soon. Never underestimate the power of ignorance
Re: A little perspective.....All the best for your surgery.
Re: A little perspective.....All the best for the op and a swift recovery.
Re: A little perspective.....All the best, I won't say luck as our Doctors here in OZ are some of the best, they'll do their best to get you back to full health.
I know exactly what you mean, I watched my wife in hospital with a near fatal heart attack, the first time they did a terrific job & did 2 by-passes, the second time a stent, she's still going. I also had the misfortune of watching a member of my house slowly die from cancer, all this stuff changes your perception of what's important & how petty people (myself included) can become & what is really important, it changed the way I look at work, leisure (especially my cycling) & life in general, it isn't something that you can explain to another, unfortunately it's something you need to experience.
Re: A little perspective.....So very true. Best of luck with the op and recovery. Please post back here with updates.
Re: A little perspective.....All the very best of luck ........... see you back here soon.
Re: A little perspective.....Hoping you are back soon.
Re: A little perspective.....Life ! that,s what is important, not the other crap we experience. My thoughts, as well as fellow cyclists are with you Uncle Arthur.
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MISSION Freefall | |
Carl Johnson entering the Shamal's cockpit after killing the hitmen.
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Game: | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas |
For: | Salvatore Leone |
Location: | Las Venturas, San Andreas |
Target: | Marco Forelli's hitmen |
Conditions of mission failure: | |
Shamal reaches Las Venturas, player's death, destroying Dodo, destroying Shamal | |
Reward(s): | |
$15000, Respect | |
Unlocks: | Saint Mark's Bistro, High Noon(with Misappropriation) |
Unlocked by: | Fish in a Barrel |
- "You know my Joey? I like that. So, kid, what can I do for you?"
- — Salvatore Leone.
Freefall is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas given to protagonist Carl Johnson by Leone Family Don Salvatore Leone from his office in Caligula's Palace, a casino located along The Strip in Las Venturas, San Andreas.
Salvatore is sitting in his office at Caligula's Casino while Maria appears and gives him the ordered sandwich. After a while Carl Johnson shows up and informs Salvatore about having worked with his son Joey Leone back in Liberty City and that he can do anything Salvatore wants from him. Carl is informed that a Shamal plane is arriving at the airport soon and it contains Forelli Family hitman coming to kill Salvatore. Carl then makes his way to the Las Venturas Airport and steals a Dodo. He flies over to the Shamal and follows it. After staying behind Carl jumps out of his Dodo and gets in the Shamal plane, killing every Forelli inside as well as the pilot. He then flies the plane back to the airport, completing the mission.
Mission objectives
In order to complete the mission the player must:
- Get to the airport
- Steal the plane in the hangar
- The hitmen's flight is due to land soon, intercept the plane before it gets to Las Venturas
- Get behind the plane and fly into the corona
- Kill the Forelli hitmen
- Kill the pilot
- Fly the plane back to the airport
The reward for completing this mission is $15,000 and respect. The mission "Saint Mark's Bistro" is also unlocked if the missions Green Goo, High Noon and Madd Dogg are done.
- Freefall is the only mission where Carl can actually take cover instead of crouching.
- No matter what weapons Carl may have in his inventory, he is automatically equipped with a 9mm pistol and this is the only weapon he is allowed to use during the firefight.
- The Shamal that Carl enters is actually an interior in Hidden Interiors Universe.
- The mission's cutscene is the first chronological appearance of Maria Latore.
- This mission is considered one of the more difficult missions in the game owing to the Dodo's inferior speed. If the player does not time their u-turn exactly right, he/she will have to start again as the Dodo will be unable to catch the Shamal.
- The trick to completing this mission is to make a u-turn the moment you see the Shamal, then tilt up. Wait for the Shamal to pass under you, then dive into the corona.
- This is the first of several missions in GTA: SA that involves Carl flying a substantial distance away from the main San Andreas islands.
- Strangely, Carl's Dodo is capable of flying as fast as the Shamal, which is odd since the Shamal normally can travel much faster than the Dodo.
- When CJ destroys the hijacked Shamal, the mission fails, even though the mission objective has already been reached.


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HTML5 for Digital Advertising Resources Page
This resources page is intended to supplement the HTML5 for Digital Advertising 1.0 document and other future developments from the IAB HTML5 Working Group. This page has been seeded with suggestions from the HTML5 Working Group, with participation from web and mobile ad creation practitioners. It is the Working Group's goal to establish a common ground for HTML5 ad creation and optimization while also offering general guidance to designers and developers transferring skillsets.
This resource page provides a starting set of information and tools for developers and designers of HTML5 ads, across three core sections: HTML5 Tools, Video, and Animation. The contents of this page will be updated as the industry adoption of HTML5 evolves and the HTML5 Working Group creates and shares new guidance.
This wiki page is open to any contributor wanting to suggest or update content relevant to the available sections, and it should be considered an open space for industry knowledge share. The IAB does not intend to promote any product or services over another within this resource, and we recommend each company research and evaluate which products and services work best for their own organization.
HTML5 Tools
The HTML5 Tools section is an industry attempt to bring clarity on the different types of tools available to both designers and developers in HTML5 ad creation. Designers will need tools that focus on producing the creative assets, developer's tools for the CSS, JavaScript and HTML5 files. This wiki page is open to any contributor wanting to suggest applicable HTML5 tools for designers or developers. To suggest a tool for this Wiki, please include the following criteria:
- Tool Name
- Tool Audience (Designer/Developer)
- Tool Category (as listed in doc, depends on audience)
- Tool Purpose & Best Practice
For Designers
Image Creation Tools
Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop is used for layered image creation. Creatives should be saved as PNG, JPG or GIF and other tools may be required for sprite creation or size optimizations. Note that Animated GIF images are not supported on many mobile devices.
- Note: Android supports bitmap files in a three formats: .png (preferred), .jpg (acceptable), .gif(discouraged)
- Source: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/drawable-resource.html
HTML5 Animation Tools
Adobe Edge
HTML5 animation tool has familiar Adobe UI. Relies heavily on external JavaScript libraries that generate output which can be too heavy for mobile.
Sencha Animator
Standards-based HTML5/CSS3 animation tool with key frame control and strong cross-platform support. Extra attention given to mobile ad creation including MRAID-compliant output.
Tumult Hype
Key frame-based animation tool that generates HTML5 content for desktop and mobile. Compatible only with Mac.
Flash converters
Adobe Flash Professional Toolkit for Create JS
Convert SWF files with core animation, classic tweens, and sounds to HTML5 using Flash Professional. Intended to "jump-start" your designs for HTML5.
Google Swiffy
Convert SWF files (SWF 8 and AS 2.0) to HTML5. Output includes images as Base64 so further optimization is limited.
HTML5 website tools
Abode Edge Tools
Adobe's HTML products includes tools building animations, responsive layouts, hand-coding, mobile device previews, web fonts, and hybrid app building. Intended for designer-developers building HTML5 websites, limited in ad creation best practices.
HTML5 mobile rich media
Celtra AdCreator
Web-based platform for creating, trafficking, and tracking HTML5 mobile rich media ads. AdCreator is an OS and device-agnostic tool with drag-and-drop interface, pre-built components, custom JS to develop on top that lets users create an ad once and run it across many media owners. Offers dynamic ads and a wide array of platform-based, pre-tested formats and features, including location based and social media features.
Crisp Engage
Web application to build, manage, and measure multi-platform rich media ad campaigns. Generates HTML5 ads from templates or from scratch with an emphasis on mobile. Includes MRAID support, ad validator and tester, importers for animation tools, video encoding, and image editing. Creative wizards leverage a library of ad features including web fonts, retina support, geo-location and social APIs. Provides pre-tested universal ad tags for desktop and mobile ad servers.
InMobi Studio
Platform to build, run, and measure mobile rich-media ads. Drag-and-drop interface with library of components for common ad-based features like video, geo-location, and gestures. Generates output for smart phone and tablet devices that is MRAID compliant.
PointRoll's Composer Ad Builder""
Currently in development, build and output interactive, multi-device digital display ads in both Flash & HTML5 via a single tag — without using Flash authoring software & without writing a single line of code. For both designers & developers who want to dramatically cut production time.
For Developers
Browser Reference
Can I Use
Extensive reference on browser support for HTML5 and CSS3 features
HTML5 Please
Reference on browser support for HTML5
CSS3 Please
Reference on browser support for CSS3
HTML Test
Reference to test your web content against current HTML5 compliance
Mobile HTML5
Reference on mobile support for HTML5
JavaScript Libraries
GreenSock JavaScript animation library
Commonly used for JavaScript-based animations, familiar to ActionScript developers in Flash.
Code compression
YUI Compressor
Command-line tool to compress and obfuscate JavaScript and CSS. Can be incorporated with build tools or online versions are available.
Command-line tool to compress JavaScript. Can be incorporated into build tools or online versions are available.
Image compression
Yahoo! Smush.it
Online lossless optimization tool that analyzes a web page and provides compressed images.
Online lossless optimization tool that creates compressed images from uploaded images.
Sprite Generators
Online and bookmarklet tool to create a sprite image and corresponding CSS from an HTML page.
CSS Sprite Generator
Online tool to create a sprite image from a .zip package of images.
Web application with drag-and-drop features to create a sprite.
Command-line tool to create sprite images from a folder.
Web fonts technology
Foundry and tool provider for web fonts. Provides Photoshop plug-ins and HTML building and font-download-optimization tools to incorporate web fonts into creatives.
Adobe Typekit
Commonly known foundry of web fonts, but limited tool support.
The HTML5 Video section is a resource for finding the updated browser support and streaming delivery technologies available for browsers and devices. Although the working group will periodically update content within these topics, this section is open to any contributor seeking to provide any new or known updates not yet posted.
Browser Support
While the HTML5 video element is widely supported among the latest major browser vendors, the video asset itself needs to be transcoded into a few different formats to ensure cross browser functionality. The following section allows you to check the most updated browser support:
- Desktop:
- FireFox: Theora/OGG, VP8/WebM (possible future plans for H.264/MP4)
- Internet Explorer:
- IE8 - No HTML5 Video support use Flash
- Safari: H.264/MP4
- Opera: VP8/WebM, Theora/OGG
- Chrome: H.264/MP4, VP8/WebM and Theora/OGG (possibly dropping support for H.264/MP4 in future releases)
- Desktop:
- Mobile:
- iOS - H.264/MP4
- Android*: H.264/MP4 and VP8/WebM (2.3+)
- Blackberry - H.264/MP4
- Windows Phone - H.264/MP4
- Mobile:
Notes: Android's HTML5 video support is highly fragmented between OS versions and devices. WebM will work in IE9 and Safari provided the user has the WebM codecs installed. H.264 for older mobile devices requires special video transcoding properties, such as a Baseline profile.
Streaming delivery technologies
There may not be a standard just yet but there are a few technologies we encourage to use when target ads to specific browsers and devices. The following video delivery technologies intended to reduce the video file weight through transport, but not all are supported by all browsers and devices. Delivery specifications are set to evolve in the coming years with the promise of an industry standard. Since most video delivery through the HTML5 video element is a progressive download from server to client, it's encouraged to keep this information in mind when serving video with higher file size to users on devices tied to a cell carrier, as they're often restricted to a limited bandwidth data plan.
HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)
Delivery specification by Apple used to segment a video file into smaller transport streams and deliver it to an end user by way of an .M3U8 file. The M3U8 file is a description file instructing the HTML5 video player on how to playback the video segments. Supported in iOS, Safari and Android 3.0+
MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP)
Delivery specification similarly as HLS but its instruction file is an .MPD (media presentation description file). Although not supported in any major browser, it does show promise as a ubiquitous streaming solution in the near future as public support ranges from Microsoft, Adobe and Akamai. While not supported in any major browser just yet.
HTML5 Adaptive Bitrate Streaming
Emerging video delivery technology that sends segments of a video to a user without incurring the extra overhead of progressively loaded content, it also detects bandwidth constraints of the user and adjusts video playback quality accordingly. Support exists with Apple's HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) specification, and in Safari and iOS
Feature Detection for Canvas
Feature detection is used to detect whether features built into an HTML ad are supported in the browser, and if not supported, offer an alternate experience that is executable based on supported features. This section provides guidance in the feature support for Canvas in select browsers. Please note that it is not the exact code to run this function, but the practice to perform the feature detection check that is the recommendation within this resource section.
If Canvas is not supported by the user's browser, the feature detection should provide a fallback user experience. This feature, as well as all new web technology features and functionality can be checked for compatibility on this site: http://caniuse.com/#feat=canvas
- Explorercanvas
<!--[if lt IE 9]> <script src="excanvas.js"></script> <![endif]-->
- The JavaScript file can be downloaded here: http://code.google.com/p/explorercanvas/
- Note Please be aware that this script does not support all Canvas features that may be utilized within any given ad unit and performance can be slow and should be used cautiously


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SAN FRANCISCO -- The Giants' 5-3 loss Friday night to the San Diego Padres was wholly forgettable, but not to Eric Hacker.
Having made all but five of his 166 professional appearances in the Minor Leagues, Hacker finally received his first Major League start. He didn't dazzle, but nor did he disappoint. Filling a one-time-only vacancy in the rotation created by last Sunday's rainout and Monday's subsequent doubleheader at New York, Hacker surrendered three runs and eight hits while striking out seven in six innings. By definition, that's a quality start. "It was very rewarding," Hacker said. "The experience was great. Playing before these fans is awesome. I'm really kind of lost for words, to be honest with you. I'm very thankful for the opportunity. It's a long time coming." Unfortunately for Hacker, quality was mostly lacking from the rest of the Giants' performance. They again floundered offensively with runners in scoring position, going 1-for-9 in those situations. In the Giants' last 12 games, they're hitting .165 (18-for-109) with runners in scoring position."We're kind of sputtering right now offensively," manager Bruce Bochy said.
Left-hander Jeremy Affeldt surrendered a pair of seventh-inning runs, precisely when keeping the score closer might have tested the last-place Padres' nerves."The bullpen's not consistent enough to win these close ballgames," Bochy said.
Citing the Giants' assets as well as their faults, Bochy summed up his club by stating, "That's why we're .500 [10-10]." At least the Giants learned that if circumstances force them to summon another starter, they can rely on Hacker, who turned pro after the Yankees selected him in the 23rd round of the 2002 First-Year Player Draft. Since then, he has toiled in four organizations, compiling a 63-44 record almost exclusively as a starter. Yet none of his employers saw fit to give him the ball to start a big league game until Friday. His previous big league outings were all in relief. Moreover, Hacker might not receive another chance from the Giants for a while. He was optioned back to Triple-A Fresno after the game as the Giants recalled right-hander Steve Edlefsen to maintain their seven-man bullpen complement. Hacker, who won all four of his starts while fashioning a 2.19 ERA with Fresno, believed that he proved himself to the Giants."They know what I bring to the table," he said.
He brought steadiness initially, retiring eight Padres in a row after yielding Nick Hundley's first-inning RBI double. But San Diego, which entered the game with a National League-worst .213 batting average, broke a 1-1 tie in the fourth inning with a pair of runs generated by consecutive one-out singles from Hundley, Yonder Alonso, Orlando Hudson and Cameron Maybin. Padres manager Bud Black implied that his hitters adjusted to Hacker's delivery."He was a little deliberate. It was a little bit of a timing issue," Black said. "But our guys became a quick study. We saw a slow breaking ball and he had enough of a fastball. We put some pressure on him."
Hacker viewed matters differently."I think I was up a little bit," he said, referring to the elevation of his pitches. "I just tried to pitch to contact, tried to be aggressive in the zone, and a couple of balls fell their way."
Meanwhile, the Giants were mostly stymied by Padres left-hander Cory Luebke (3-1), who won his third start in a row. Angel Pagan, who has hit safely in 12 consecutive games, delivered his fourth career leadoff homer, and Buster Posey guided a fifth-inning, opposite-field double that right fielder Will Venable nearly caught at the barrier. But those were Leubke's only significant lapses. "We didn't take advantage of the opportunities at the right time," said Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval, whose third-inning single lengthened his season-opening hitting streak to a Major League-high 20 games. Posey christened the Giants' eighth against Andrew Cashner by clobbering his fourth homer, matching the total he reached during his truncated 45-game season last year. Posey lifted his batting average to .371 and his slugging percentage to .629, prompting Bochy to say, "He's doing what we know he's capable of doing." Bochy doubtlessly looks forward to the day when he can distribute that praise more freely.Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Andrew Short, former US Red Bull KTM factory rider and now back on KTM with BTO Sports KTM wrapped up his weekend at Supercross Paris Bercy with a 5-3-3 result to finish overall third in the King of Bercy classification behind Americans Justin Barcia and Trey Canard. Red Bull KTM factory rider Jordi Tixier came away with a 6-11-10 result for overall tenth in the very competitive field.
For Jordi Tixier, present at Paris Bercy with Red Bull KTM Factory Team boss Stefan Everts it was a chance to compete on the KTM 350 SX-F and to test himself out against some of the sport's big names from the USA. On Friday he finished a creditable sixth overall after a good start in the finale that saw him up front at the beginning of the 15-lap race. He did drop back in the last five laps, when he started to tire. Tixier had been ill earlier in the week.
Saturday threw up more challenges for the young French rider. He was fifth in his heat race and had to contest the LCQ but won this to earn a second row start in the main event. He started strongly but his chances of a top finish disappeared after a spectacular crash resulted in him finishing eleventh on the second nights of competition.
Tixier had a good third place qualification in his heat on Sunday to comfortably escape the LCQ to go on and finish tenth in the final for overall tenth. Stefan Everts said it had been a solid weekend for his rider and he said Tixier showed good SX technique in a very competitive field.
Results Friday, Final
1. Justin Barcia (USA), Honda
2. Trey Canard (USA), Honda
3. Gautier Paulin (F), Kawasaki
4. Will Hahn (USA), Honda
5. Andrew Short (USA), KTM
6. Jordi Tixier (F), KTM
Results Saturday,Final
1. Barcia
2. Canard
3. Short
4. Cooper Webb (USA), Yamaha
5. Paulin
11. Tixier
Results Sunday, Final
1. Canard
2. Barcia
3. Short
4. Paulin
5. Webb
10. Tixier
Results King of Bercy 2013
1. Barcia, 4 points
2. Canard, 5
3. Short, 11
4. Paulin. 12
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Plumas County sheriffís deputies and investigators responding to claims by High Desert State Prison correctional officer Todd Posch that he was the victim of a hit-in-run in front of his residence in Greenville Wednesday morning determined "Poschís allegations were false and fabricated" according to a press release signed by Sheriff Greg Hagwood.
The document also indicated "further investigation revealed that the early morning attack on Posch at the Highway 147 rest stop in March of 2009 proved to be fabricated by Posch as well."
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Anderson, Ashley A., Jason Delborne and Daniel L. Kleinman. 2012. "Information Beyond the Forum: Motivations, Strategies, and Impacts of Citizen Participants Seeking Information during a Consensus Conference." Public Understanding of Science. doi: 10.1177/0963662512447173 |
Anderson, Ashley A., Dietram A. Scheufele, Dominique E. Brossard and Elizabeth A. Corley. 2012. "The Role of Media and Deference to Scientific Authority in Cultivating Trust in Sources of Information about Emerging Technologies." International Journal of Public Opinion Research. 24(2):225-237. doi: 10.1093/ijpor/edr032 |
Arora, Sanjay, et al. February 2012. "Commercialization of New and Emerging Technologies: A Cross Country Comparison of Graphene Firms." Presentation. Georgia Tech Research and Innovation Conference. Atlanta, GA. |
Arora, Sanjay. May 2012. "Website Indicators for the Strategic Management of Emerging Technologies." Presentation. International Conference on Innovative Methods for Innovation Management and Policy. Beijing, China. |
Arora, Sanjay, Alan L. Porter, Jan Youtie and Philip Shapira. 2012. "Capturing New Developments in an Emerging Technology: An Updated Search Strategy for Identifying Nanotechnology Research Output." Presentation. Global Tech Mining Conference. Montreal. |
Bennett, Ira. 2012. "Course Overview: Energy and Energy Policy (CHM 501)." |
Bennett, Ira and Timothy Boyd. November 2012. "Equity in the Nano City: How Can Nanotechnology Empower Equitable Water Distribution." CNS-ASU Science Café. |
Bennett, Ira and Tim Boyd. November 16, 2012. "Equity in the Nano City: How Can Nanotechnology Empower Equitable Water Distribution?." Presentation. CNS-ASU Science Café. Arizona Science Center. Phoenix, AZ. |
Binder, Andrew R., Michael A. Cacciatore, Dietram A. Scheufele, Bret R. Shaw and Elizabeth A. Corley. October 2012. "Measuring Risk/Benefit Perceptions of Emerging Technologies and their Potential Impact on Communication of Public Opinion toward Science." Public Understanding of Science. 21(7):830-847. doi: 10.1177/0963662510390159 |
Boardman, Craig, Catherine Slade and Barry Bozeman. 2012. "A Retrospective of the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI): Lessons Learned for Coordination of Federal Scientific and Technical Work at the Nanoscale." Making it to the Forefront: Nanotechnology-A Developing Country Perspective, ed(s). N. A. Duda, p. 139-160. New York: Springer. |


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As I walked down the street, I had the eerie feeling that I was being watched. Must have been a window phantom.
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Ivory and illegal timber seized in INTERPOL-coordinated operation across Africa
LYON, France – More than 240 kg of elephant ivory and 856 timber logs have been seized and 660 people arrested during an INTERPOL-coordinated operation combating ivory trafficking and illegal logging across Southern and Eastern Africa.As part of INTERPOL's Project Wisdom and Project Leaf, the operation jointly targeted ivory smuggling and illegal logging,...
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INTERPOL's largest operation combating illegal ivory trafficking targets criminal syndicates
LYON, France – INTERPOL's largest ever transnational operation targeting criminal organizations behind the illegal trafficking of ivory has resulted in more than 200 arrests and the seizure of nearly two tonnes of contraband elephant ivory.The three-month long Operation Worthy, which involved 14 countries across Eastern, Southern and Western Africa also r...
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INTERPOL-supported training aims to curb wildlife trafficking across Southern Africa
GABORONE, Botswana – Law enforcement officers from eleven southern African countries have completed an intensive six-day training course on wildlife law enforcement organized by INTERPOL, designed by Environment Canada and primarily funded by IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare).The six-day workshop (22-27 August) was designed to improve gove...
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Illegal ivory and rhino horn trade target of INTERPOL co-ordinated operation across southern Africa
A transnational operation co-ordinated by INTERPOL targeting wildlife crime across southern Africa has resulted in the location and closure of an illegal ivory factory, the seizure of nearly 400 kilos of ivory and rhino horn with a market value of more than one million dollars, as well as the arrest of 41 people.The two-day operation (13-14 May), codename...
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INTERPOL co-ordinated operation targets illegal trade in wildlife medical products
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13 November 2009
LYON, France – Unregistered and illegally sold medical and cosmetic products worth thousands of euros have been seized in a series of operations across Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe, co-ordinated by INTERPOL.More than 300 officers from police, customs, drug regulatory authorities, immigration and other agencies took part in Operation Zambezi, whi...
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The Approach Pack by Ruff Wear is a super durable pack designed for your dog to carry when out backpacking, paddling or whenever you are traveling trail or urban adventures. The Comfort-fit Web Master Harness frame is stable, with good structure so the weight can be distributed with equal dispersion, and accommodates dogs of all shapes and sizes (check the sizing chart for your dog's sizing).
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We have only taken it for a few 'dry runs' so far. Basically not exceeding 3 miles. But so far it is just super! One of the main reasons why I selected this particular brand was all of the extra padding in the pictures. It has definitely held up to my expectations. There is plenty of pad and soft material around the dogs limbs and sensitive areas. The pockets are generous in size and there are plenty of adjustments.
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Great even just for short walks. We add water to both sides and it really slows her down helps get alot of her energy out..It took a few trips for her to get used to it but now she barley notices it
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