text:
|Feb 25, 2013, 07:06 AM
Apple Store Experiences
So I recently made a trip to my closest Apple store which is 3 hours away. I was in the area on business and thought I would get my iPhone 5 swapped out as it's locked button is failing.
To be fair I didn't book a store appointment, as the Apple rep on the phone told me I coud just drop in as the phone would need to be swapped and would only take 5 mins. I spoke with the employee who was managing the genius desk, he looked at the phone and said it would need to be replaced and that it should only take 5 mins. He then look at his iPad and said he had no appointments I explained I lived about 3 hours away and really needed this fixed. He gave me a blank look a said nope you need an appointment.
I left the store and tried the second Apple store in the area which was about 20 mins away, I spoke with the rep there who also didn't have any appointments. However this rep actually did try and help me, he found a spare person and got my phone swapped out.
So anyone had any really good or bad experiences with Apple Stores?
Last edited by Cpt-Waffles; Feb 25, 2013 at 07:16 AM.
|Feb 25, 2013, 07:07 AM
Your closet has an Apple store?
To be fair, you were misinformed. You always need an appointment.
|Feb 25, 2013, 07:15 AM
Walked in with a mid 2010 MBP,
Snapped Hinge, Missing Keys, Smashed trackpad, and a charger with no plug on the end, the guy behind the genius bar replaced the charger and fixed the whole macbook for nothing, ~£350 of repairs.
iPhone 4, under warranty, with a broken noise cancelling mic, broken vibrator, and a camera with horrendouc blue tint, (none of these being my fault), he replaced the phone for free!
|Feb 25, 2013, 07:48 AM
|Feb 25, 2013, 08:06 AM
In my experience, it depends on how busy they are. I was once told "you need an appointment, that's the policy, use this computer here, you can get one for 1:15." It was 1:10 at the time.
(Other than that, to answer the original question: I've had many good experiences with Apple stores, but most of them have little to do with the real topic of this thread.)
|Feb 25, 2013, 10:13 AM
Loved 4 of my 5 visits - the other one they messed up on - they made it right though.
|Feb 25, 2013, 10:53 AM
Walked in with a MBA that had an obviously bad (electronically) LCD, walked out 10 minutes later with a full-unit replacement. No appointment needed.
2012 15" MBP, 2.3 GHz, 16 GB RAM, 750 GB Samsung EVO SSD, Hi-Res glossy
2012 Mac Mini 2.5, 8 GB RAM, 120 GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD
|Feb 25, 2013, 12:00 PM
|Feb 25, 2013, 12:28 PM
I have dealt with the online store (I don't have one near me either) and have had nothing less than stellar experiences with them. I have never had friendly service like I have every time I have called them, and have never had any hold times. And this was customer service, and not sales. They exceeded expectations every time.
|Feb 25, 2013, 12:49 PM
|Feb 25, 2013, 03:13 PM
I am also a big ThinkPad fan, and am a firm believer in their hardware. Their customer service however, has really went downhill since they are no longer fully owned by IBM. I still buy their PCs, but if I didn't like the feel and the build quality of their machines, I would probably look elsewhere.
For example. I had a ThinkPad that had a palm rest crack from heavy usage and a known problem. The said they would send someone out to replace it at my office. As it ends up, I was sick that day and didn't make it into the office. The service technician left his direct cell number for me to call and set up a time for him to return. It was the next week when I was back in the office, so I called him. He said since it was more than two days that I would have to go through the entire process over again and they would need to create a new service ticket. I called up their repair number and was told my warranty had expired about two days ago. I explained to them that since the problem was reported while the product was in warranty, and also why I could not make the appointment, and they said there was nothing they could do and "is there anything else we can help you with?" before ending the call. I was very disappointed in that experience.
There is no way if that would have been Apple I would have been treated that way. They literally bed over backwards to take care of their customers. I wish they made servers and had on-site service for their notebooks.
I told Apple based of off the experience I had with them that I would be a customer for life. No wonder so many like Apple.
I am sure that some have had bad experiences - it's bound to happen, but each time I have had to interact with them they have always greatly exceeded my expectations. Hard to say that for any company.
|Feb 25, 2013, 09:27 PM
|Feb 25, 2013, 09:31 PM
I never had a problem at the Apple store, but I also always had an appointment too. Not sure I would jump in my car and drive three hours without an appointment, the time it took to call and ask if I needed an appointment would have been the same time it took to make an appointment on my iphone.
Various Apple Products
|Feb 25, 2013, 09:38 PM
I don't have many experiences, but my brother had a bad one. He went to get a gift card for his friend at an Apple store known for cocky employees. Surely enough, he got an employee with a cocky attitude (the store is in a REALLY rich area). Nonetheless, he said he wanted to buy a $25 gift card (I wasn't with him btw) and the employee supposedly smirked and rudely said "that's it?!". Didn't end well....
|Mar 1, 2013, 03:09 AM
I've generally had pretty favorable experiences in the Apple stores until recently.
I've got a Mid-2012 MacBook Pro which they first tried to claim was out of warranty but later revised as I explained to them that a product RELEASED mid 2012 shouldn't be out of warranty until at least mid 2013 assuming a 1 year hardware warranty the rep had a "duh" moment and got that fixed up for me so that I could claim warranty repair on my initial problem of a trackpad that no longer physically clicked down this was only the beginning of my troubles... I received the computer back within the stated 3-5 day turnaround period and upon inspection noted a couple rather prominent scratches on the top case that definitely weren't present on the previously pristine computer I'd brought in to them so that piqued my suspicion upon closer inspection I found a rather deep gouge in the bottom plate as well as in the nearest foot. I asked for some type of resolution and the store manager was called over, I calmly explained the situation to him and at first he claimed he was unable to do anything to resolve the situation claiming I had damaged the unit myself until I told him that I was in fact a technician and this was unacceptable and a machine would NOT leave my shop in worse condition than I received it and to blame the customer was not acceptable. All the while the store manager has assumed a bulldog like stance complete with flared shoulders and both hands on the table he then offered to replace the top damaged portion which they of course didn't have in stock and being near the weekend wouldn't be until the following week following another 3-5 day repair turnaround now with all of this said my travel distance to reach the store is between 90-100 miles round trip.
I informed the manager this resolution was NOT acceptable and asked if he could provide any other resolution he declined any further resolution and flatly refused to replace the bottom panel claiming it would be practically impossible for them to damage the bottom panel I questioned how it would be possible for them to damage the top case and admit fault but practically impossible in his words to damage the bottom panel this seemed to further agitate him so rather than continue to escalate the situation and possibly cause a scene I informed him I would be contacting Apple directly to resolve the situation to which he smirked and rattled off their phone number and said go ahead everything is in our notes for them to see!
I contacted Apple the next day who approved replacement of both the top case and bottom case along with bottom panel in the time between my trip back in today I decided to Boot Camp the machine with a copy of Windows 7 I had laying around when I discovered that my internal superdrive no longer functions I chalked it up to coincidence and figured I'd just inform them when I came back in to drop the machine off but decided to run the Apple Hardware Test (AHT) just to rule out software issues. I'm now unable to complete the AHT having it never go past testing memory always hanging at 3 minutes 35 seconds every time provided I can actually get the AHT to load usually I receive a -5010D error which doesn't seem to exist on Apple's website, google has no mention of it and the genius even admitted he'd never seen that error code before but claims that it passed their higher level diagnostics tests, now common sense logic what have you would dictate that if a machine won't pass a BASIC diagnostic test then how would the same machine pass an advanced diagnostic test?
I'm at this point wondering what next? how long are they going to try to claim customer damage to a machine that lives on a desk in a locked room and if it ever leaves the desk is in a padded zipped carrying case? How long are they going to try to limp this machine along until they've replaced literally everything by my tally they're already up to over $1,000 in parts & labor on this machine. I had to stop myself from laughing when the genius offered to sell me Applecare maybe it was a hint?
At this point I'm thinking I may be better off to get out from under a falling giant and sell all of my Apple gear, the MacBook Pro the MacBook two Mac Minis the Time Capsule iPad and iPhones if I want this level of service I can easily find it at 3x less cost.
I apologize for the long post/rant but I'm understandably quite irritated with this whole situation.
Last edited by JebusKrist; Mar 1, 2013 at 03:13 AM. Reason: Late nite posting edits
|Mar 1, 2013, 05:03 AM
I bought a faulty iPod touch and the Apple Store staff apologized and exchanged it.
When I purchased a 4S from Craigslist I set up and appointment with the Genius bar to check it out. They did so free of charge.
Could the guy you spoke to have bent the rules for you? Yes. But the stores are staffed by people and they don't make that much money. Some folks just don't have the nack for customer service. Maybe he'd been having a bad day and was simply projecting that on you. Point is, you probably could have spoken to someone else in the same store and had an experience 180 degrees from what you saw.
|Mar 1, 2013, 05:04 AM
I generally try to avoid physical Apple stores if possible. They are always way too busy and I often have left the store not only failing to achieve the objective for going into the store, but also failing to find anyone to speak to. For repairs I use an authorised repair centre, always able to just walk in and drop off the machine, no hanging around, also I have found that the authorised centres don't make you sit around for an hour while they run diagnostics, unlike the Apple stores where you must sit at the genius counter while the genius runs through everything before finally deciding to take the machine in for repair.
|Mar 1, 2013, 05:15 AM
Sounds about right. I live down the street a store and have been turned away many times when doing walk-ins, no matter how serious or small the issue was. When you actually show up to an appointment though, the geniuses are generally nice people. I can't say the same for sales.
|Mar 1, 2013, 06:09 PM
Apple Store employees have always been good to me. Although when I first got a Mac I asked about viruses and was told to get an anti virus. The guy said he gets a virus once a month or so. Should have left right there and got a PC. And come to show him
I use OS X because of Windows. And I use Android because of iOS.
|Mar 3, 2013, 02:33 PM
I have a client (I'm an independent IT consultant) that had horrible store experiences yesterday. She had a month old iPad that loss touch capabilities at the right end of the unit about one inch wide the length of the unit. She took it to one store and was told to go home and make an appointment. She asked if they could schedule one for her in store and they refused. She went home and made an appointment at another apple store. During that appointment they wouldn't help her nor replace the device because she didn't know the password to her apple id. They told her to go home, reset the password, and make another appointment. She made a third appointment during which they told her it wasn't defective but she should use more hand lotion so her skin wasn't so dry, aiding in the touch ability. She demanded a manager and they replaced it, but had to transfer the apple id info herself in store after the employees left. It was enough rude handling that she was in tears (according to the email she sent me) and is ready to swear off Apple. What makes this worse is she is a business customer (working for a large well known US tax firm) stated she was using this for business as well as personal and was blown off by multiple employees. While she made these appointments while out shopping, I'm going to be handling any future store sessions. I know that the two apple stores here by Milwaukee, WI have an issue where the weekend staff is often completely different then the weekday staff.
Frankly I'm appalled and ready to escalate this up the chain. I just don't know the right contact. I used Steve's email for a few extreme instances but since he died, I'm not sure how they handled these. I haven't searched yet, but does anyone know the new executive contact email(s)?
|Mar 4, 2013, 12:31 PM
Mac Mini i5 10GB Ram 128 Samsung 840 Pro| iPhone 6+ 64 Silver | XBox One
Twitter: @Sarcosis
|Mar 4, 2013, 01:26 PM
good and bad
Worst experiences ever at the Apple Grand Central NYC store, just swapping machines and ultimately returning since my wrists are not trackpad inclined.
They were beyond rude and unprofessional. I will only go to brick and mortar 5th Avenue apple store now to buy stock items and/or test Macs. I have had great and meh experiences there, but my last two purchases went quite well(iDevices).
My online dealings have been better overall except in the case of returning my brand new dud 2010 iMac, it got done but with a lot of attitude.
As they get more popular, it seems like YMWV depending on your issues. I hope this changes for the better.
|Mar 4, 2013, 01:27 PM
Mac Reseller Experience
Recently, I ordered at my local Apple reseller a Mac Mini with 2.3 GHz Quad core i7, 2 X 1TB HD and 8 GB RAM along with an NEC 27" monitor. The setup is to be used by a visually impaired person so the unit was to be set at a non-native resolution (1600 x 900). To insure that my needs would be met, the salesman suggested that before the units leave the store that they be set up and tested. Low and behold, the Mac Mini was dead on arrival - it would not boot! What the salesman stated next sent a shiver down my spine. He stated that since the Mini was a custom order, it could not be returned to Apple and would need to be serviced by his store's techs. Luckily, I was notified the next day to pick up my Mini - it was only a loose wire on the HD. The salesman performed the in-store test of the Mini/monitor function and the display resolution was excellent. The units have functioned flawlessly for the past 2 months.
I am grateful for the Apple reseller salesman's willingness to spend the extra time and effort to insure this customer's satisfaction. However, Apple not accepting a return of a DOA custom order is worrisome.
2008 Mac Pro 3.1, 2X 2.8 GHz Quad, 6 GB RAM, 320 GB + 1.5 TB + 3TB internal HD, 2 TB external HD, OS 10.6.8, 27" NEC Multisync EA273WM
Last edited by Macmonter; Mar 4, 2013 at 01:40 PM.
|Mar 4, 2013, 10:50 PM
I wrote an email to Tim Cook's executive email address along with transcripts of the emails with the client of mine with the issue.
I figured it was a bad staff experience, but I'm finding that she went to both Bayshore & Mayfair locations, (3 appointments total in the same day) and drove home between each appointment. She lives on the Sussex/Pewaukee border so either store is a bit of a hike for her. 1 month old iPad with Applecare+.
I don't see why an Apple ID is even required to swap the defective unit with the new one? A unit is defective by an issue in the hardware, not dependent on the Apple ID at all. She was denied during one appointment because she didn't know the password to her Apple ID and they said she can't reset it in store. She ended up driving home, resetting the password from their website, making another appointment, and driving back. Crazy.
« Previous Thread | Next Thread »
|Thread Tools
|Search this Thread
|Display Modes
Linear Mode
|Similar Threads
|Thread Starter
|Last Post
|Your experiences with rMBP and a non-Apple external monitor
|MacBook Pro
|May 28, 2014 05:19 PM
|Early Experiences with Apple Retail Store iBeacon Technology Prove Mixed
|MacRumors.com News Discussion
|Dec 8, 2013 05:52 PM
|Would like advice and experiences of 1st day iphone store experience.
|Sep 19, 2012 11:48 AM
|In-store pickup experiences?
|Buying Tips and Advice
|Jul 5, 2012 06:43 PM
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 08:08 AM.


text:
Narrow your search
Walk-in customers won't be able to walk out with Apple's new smartwatch. But there will be pampering of those shopping for the 18-karat gold Edition gadget.
One e-commerce site allegedly accounts for 2.3 million reservations alone, according to Chinese media.
The reservations are reportedly spread across China's three major mobile carriers and various retailers, with the 64GB iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models proving the most popular.
The reviews site rolls out a new tool that lets customers book restaurant reservations directly from its website on mobile or desktop.
Shame about the supply pinch, though. Without that, sales might actually soar as high as 50 million, says a Morgan Stanley analyst.
Google Maps 9.8 has three new features that help manage location photos, details and your schedule.
The power of the Internet makes a takeout joint in Kona, Hawaii, one of the highest-reviewed US restaurants on Yelp.
Demand is expected to be high for the wearable, which can only be purchased through a reservation system.
There are many, many apps for the Apple Watch. Here's how you get them on and off, and what they actually work like.
No matter where you're headed, these iOS and Android apps can help you get there and find things to do when you arrive.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
William Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, suggested that systemically important financial institutions could see higher capitalization requirements than the 2.5% added cushion that Basel III requires of the largest firms. "One could make the case that an even higher SIFI surcharge may be appropriate," Dudley said.
View Full Article in:Reuters
Published in Briefs:


text:
Pronunciation: Sirmione
Added on: 2008-06-20 Listened: 487 timesin: Toponomastic
Pronunciation in Italian [it]
- Pronunciation by wmills (Female from Italy)
0 votes
Could you do it better? different accent? Pronounce Sirmione in Italian
Accents & languages on maps
- Random word: usignuolo
Not satisfied?
Modify word:
· Add languages
· Add categories
Report word:
Is there anything wrong with this word?
Please report it here.


text:
Cheap GRO to Peoria flights
Popular Flights from Gerona, Spain
Top Gerona Flights to US Destinations
Top Gerona International Destinations
Popular Flights from Peoria, Illinois
Top Peoria Flights to US Destinations
Top Peoria International Destinations
GRO to PIA Route Map
Gerona to Peoria Flights, Stats and Airplanes
Route information for flights from Costa Brava to Greater Peoria Regional.
4,541.39 miles
PIA - Greater Peoria Regional Airlines
Browse the most popular airlines servicing the Peoria (PIA) airport. Visit their flights pages to learn more about the most popular routes these carriers fly.


text:
Dark Landslide Near Van Gent Crater
December 7, 2012
Landslides are a common form of mass wasting on both the Moon and on Earth. This process exposes fresh material, and results in high albedo features in planetary images. Impact craters perform a similar process, with fresh craters creating high albedo features on planets. This landslide is lower albedo than the crater walls of the crater it occurs in, implying the landslide is more mature than the crater. How can this be? It is probably that the landslide surface is not exposing fresh material, but is instead mature highlands material that has fallen back into the crater. LROC WAC context image for today's featured image, located within the white box. Image width is 100 km [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
Topics: Disaster Accident, Environment, Geology, Lunar science, Planetary science, Planetary geology, Impact crater


text:
Next, you'll be asked to connect with Twitter. Rest assured, we will never send a tweet from your account
without your permission.
We will send you an email with an invite soon.
Is Kim Jong Un's sister Kim Yo Jong in charge?
See what's Trending Now for @tomwoods55
Follow @tomwoods55 on Twitter


text:
Best way to go?
View Single Post
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: SW Florida
Posts: 617
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Rep Power:
Re: Best way to go?
there's alot of ambiguity still..as far as "coming down to Miami"..now if that means spending a few months there while finding a boat and doing some coastal sailing in preparation while reading everything you can get your hands on about sailing..and sailing every minute you arent...and your generally a quick study then in a few months...if you have brass balls.. you might be able to launch for points south...the eastern tradewinds are your friend if you are headed to Brazil...fastest way but roughest is maybe just skirt Cuba and then maybe head for jamaica..then on down...next stop maybe Trinidad...I really don't know..but I doubt it that simple in terms of routing...should be mostly a beam reach south and back though there will be some rough areas of beating to windward at times for sure as theeastern trades don't hardly come from straight 90 degrees....the hardest beat will likely be heading east/southeast from trinidad down around to Brazil...There's alot to learn before such an adventure if you want to be reasonably safe...though..I have been sailing for about 7-8 years and have lprobaby only a 1000 sea-miles under my belt and i am just getting to the point where I would go more than 100 miles offshore in a boat under my own command...the sea is a harsh teacher to the uninitiated...good luck though and think it through..maybe chartering a yacht from trinidad/tobago might be a better plan..That way you have less big ocean passages...but coastal sailing demands perhaps as much knowledge as blue-water if not more...there's just more help available near coastlines..Not trying to put a damper on your idea..but that's a fairly tall order..will require alot of "work"...might be a grand adventure..who knows...might also be a pipedream...sometimes those are good to have too..
Last edited by souljour2000; 07-01-2012 at
View Public Profile
Send a private message to souljour2000
Find all posts by souljour2000


text:
Alt+F1: 47 - Canadian GP Prerace 2015
Become Premium to Watch
It's squid kids and ink blasting abound in Nintendo's exceptionally fun new online shooter.
Mortal Kombat X moves forward with a snappier version of the previous game's fighting and some cool new characters, but the story and other features around the edges feel a bit rough in spots.
The ways that Axiom Verge resembles Metroid help set up and drive home the ways that Axiom Verge is most definitely not Metroid.
Game »
consists of 9 releases.
Released Jun 07, 2011
A proprietary video codec (.bik extension) developed by RAD Game Tools and used in a very large number of video games.
When the main character starts out as a weak, hopeless, tiny lad and the player makes him the most powerful person in the game.
Whether it be Mario vs. Bowser, Jedi vs. Sith, Link vs. Ganon, or Elves vs. Orcs, the forces of good are in an eternal battle with the hordes of evil.
The head of a city government. The perfect candidate if your game needs a rear end in a top hat.
Over-the-shoulder is a camera view point popularized by Resident Evil 4 that is featured in most modern third-person shooters and third-person action games.
These games, franchises, characters, or companies have some connection with PlayStation Home. They could have some related digital wares available, have their own Space, or even be playable.
PlayStation Plus is a premium PlayStation Network subscription service.
Police are paid protectors who enforce the law through legal use of force. They help ensure public safety and social order. Their motto is to protect and to serve.
When the character the player is controlling dies as part of the game's plotline.
Game mechanics traditionally found in role-playing games that are incorporated into a non-RPG title.
Good ol' boys, rednecks or references to any kind of deep southern themes like big Ford trucks, NASCAR, and bass fishing
Games featuring characters which posses superhuman abilities and powers.
Terrorists can be found terrorizing people all over the world of video games. While there is no consensus on how to define the term "terrorism", terrorists are generally considered to be people who express their ideals through violence.
This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for:
Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other
Giant Bomb users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll
send you an email once approved.
Because you're new to wiki editing, we sent your
submission off to our moderators to check it over. Most
changes are approved within a few hours. We'll send an
email when it is.
Once you've earned over points you'll be able
to bypass this step and make live edits to our system.
Until then, gain points by continuing to edit pages.
No changes were submitted, nothing was done! Please make changes to the wiki!
Thanks for continuing to improve the site. Some of your changes are
now live. However, some of your changes were sent to moderation because you do not
have enough points to make those live edits. You need points to
live edit the changes you commited.
For the changes that went through, our robot math gave you points for this
Thanks for continuing to improve the site. Your changes are
now live. Our robot math gave you points for this
Use your keyboard!
Log in to comment


text: Expanding on this topic: If virt-resize is given a disk image that looks like this: filesystem | LV | +-------- VG ------+ PV 100% full PV 100% full /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 If asked to expand 'filesystem', which we assume fills up 100% of its container, then obviously the expansion has to "cascade down" so that eventually we need to expand one or both of the partitions. Which partition is arbitrary (but this is a rather atypical case). Now imagine that virt-resize is given this disk image and asked to increase the size of 'filesystem': filesystem | LV | VG | PV 80% full /dev/sda1 If the requested increase is smaller than the remaining free space in the PV, this could be done without resizing the partition at all. However the user would hardly need to use virt-resize for this, since they could just do exactly the same thing within the guest (or even from the host, using guestfish). It seems to me that if the user is using virt-resize at all, then any request to resize a filesystem must translate into a request to change the size of a partition. So we might say that a requested increase of 1GB of 'filesystem' cascades down so the LV and PV are also increased by 1GB, even if there was space in the PV to start with. It's trickier when we consider shrinking. filesystem | LV | VG | PV 100% full /dev/sda1 If the user requests that 'filesystem' is shrunk by 20%, we could end up either with: filesystem | LV | VG | PV 80% full /dev/sda1 (same size as before) or with: filesystem | LV | VG | PV 100% full /dev/sda1 (shrunk to 80% of previous size) If the user is using virt-resize at all, then obviously only the second scenario makes sense. And how about this situation: fs1 fs2 | | LV1---LV2 | VG | PV 100% full /dev/sda1 User requests that /dev/sda1 is shrunk by some amount. We need to take that space from fs1 and fs2 (assuming they have free space). Potentially there could be many different ways to achieve this. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top


text:
The Importance of Reading to Preschool Children
posted in: books | 0
Reading is the single most important way to help children get ready to read. Books with rich language help hold their interest long before they can read those words themselves. Children who enjoy being read to are more likely to more »


text:
Blog Archives
Q7000: Helix Orders Semi-Submersible Rig from Sembcorp Marine
Sembcorp Marine's subsidiary Jurong Shipyard has secured a US$346 million contract to build a second semi-submersible well intervention rig for Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. (Helix), a market leader in subsea well intervention services.
Scheduled for delivery in mid-2016, the semi-submersible light well intervention rig will be built based on a design jointly developed by Sembcorp Marine Technology Pte Ltd (SMTP), a fully-owned Research & Development subsidiary of Sembcorp Marine, and Helix. Featuring the latest technology, the rig – named Q7000 by Helix – is an efficient purpose-designed platform with capabilities to perform a wide variety of tasks, including conventional and extended top hole drilling, subsea construction, decommissioning well intervention, coiled tubing operations and twin ROV deployment.
The Dynamic Positioning (DP) class 3 unit has the ability to operate in deepwater operations worldwide, including the North Sea and West of Africa.
William Gu, General Manager of Offshore Division said: "We are honoured that Helix has chosen to build their second semi-submersible well intervention rig with us. This repeat order is significant as it testifies as to their trust and confidence in our design and building capabilities in rigs with well intervention and subsea capabilities that are customised to meet this new growth segment of the market. We are committed to build on our partnership with Helix and to meet their stringent standards of quality, safety and reliability."
Owen Kratz, Helix's President and Chief Executive Officer, said: "We are pleased to work with our trusted partner Jurong Shipyard on this second unit of the semisubmersible well intervention rig, to be named Q7000."
The above is not expected to have any material impact on the consolidated net tangible assets per share and earnings per share of Sembcorp Marine for the year ending December 31, 2013.
Ukraine: Ulstein's CSV Polar Onyx Launched
The hull of the offshore construction and well intervention vessel "Polar Onyx", built by the order from Norwegian company Ulstein Hull AS, has been launched at Shipyard Zaliv on May 31, 2013.
The hull is currently moored alongside the outfitting berth of the Ukraine-based yard and is waiting to be towed to Norway to the place of final completion.
The high-capacity vessel is designed for operations in harsh conditions and deep waters, with a length of 130 meters and a 25 meter beam. The vessel is built to the highest standard for dynamic positioning, DP2+, and is equipped with a 250t AHC offshore crane. It is also equipped with a 275t Vertical Lay System above a moonpool which is capable of installing flexible pipe and umbilicals to 3,000m water depth.
The vessel has recently been chartered to Ceona Services (UK) for a period of 5 years and it will start working for Ceona immediately upon delivery from Ulstein Verft in the first quarter of 2014.
In total, during the six years of cooperation between Zaliv and Ulstein Hull AS, fourteen vessels have been built for work in the oil and gas industry.
Ceona Hires GC Rieber Shipping's Newbuild CSV
VIDEO: HLV Fairplayer Installs Suction Anchors and Bottom Chains
In the following video, Jumbo Maritime Heavylift shows transport and installation of suction anchors and bottom chains from the vessel HLV Fairplayer.
The Fairplayer is fitted with a Class 2 Dynamic Positioning system.
VIDEO: HLV Fairplayer Installs Suction Anchors and Bottom Chains| Offshore Energy Today.
- Germany: HeavyLift@Sea Presents New Heavy Lifter Design (worldmaritimenews.com)


text:
Mike Powell (long jumper)
Powell announces at press conference that he will attempt to break the World Masters record.
|Personal information
November 10, 1963
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|Track and field
|Long jump
Medal record
|Updated on 6 August 2012.
Michael "Mike" Anthony Powell (born November 10, 1963) is an American former track and field athlete, and the holder of the long jump world record. Mike Powell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a two-time world champion in this event.
At the 1991 World Championships in Athletics (Tokyo), he broke Bob Beamon's almost 23-year-old long jump world record by 5 cm (2 inches), leaping 8.95 m (29 ft 41⁄4 in). The world record still stands, making Powell the fourth person since 1900 to hold the record for over 20 years. His feat earned him the James E. Sullivan Award and BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality Award in 1991. He also holds the longest non-legal jump of 8.99 m (29 ft 53⁄4 in) (wind-aided +4.4) set at high altitude in Sestriere, Italy in 1992.[1]
Powell won long jump silver medals at both the 1988 Olympics and 1992 Olympics. As well as his famous 1991 victory, he won the long jump again at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics, and came third at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics.
After the 1996 Olympics, Powell retired. He returned in 2001 with a goal of competing in the 2004 Olympics, but did not make the American team.
Powell attended Edgewood High School in West Covina, California, where he finished second in the High jump at the CIF California State Meet in 1981.[2] He went on to attend the University of California, Irvine and later transferred to the University of California at Los Angeles, is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
Powell is currently an analyst for Yahoo! Sports Olympic Track & Field coverage.
He stated in July 2009 that he intended to return to competition with the aim of breaking Tapani Taavitsainen's Masters over-45 world record in the long jump.[3]
Powell now coaches long jump permanently at the Academy of Speed in Rancho Cucamonga, Ca.
At the Simplot Games on February 20, 2015 in an official announcement Powell stated that, at the age of 51, he will jump again in competition. On March 7, 2015 Powell will compete in the Athletics New Zealand Track and Field Championships. Due to his every jump he makes in the competition will be considered an attempt at the World Masters record. Powell sustained an injury in warm up and didn't compete, but states he will jump in the future.
If he breaks the Masters record he will be the only athlete in any event to ever hold both the current World record and the World Masters record in that old of a division simultaneously. Yuriy Sedykh held both the world record and the record in the M45 division from 2001 to 2010. Jonathan Edwards and Jan Železný currently have the achievement in younger divisions, Jarmila Kratochvílová should also but her superior masters performance has never been recognized by World Masters Athletics. Haile Gebrselassie, Carlos Lopes and Jim Peters set both records simultaneously as 35 year olds.
- ^ "0 Toplists lj m - o". iaaf.org. Retrieved 2012-08-05.
- ^ "California State Meet Results - 1915 to present". Hank Lawson. Retrieved 2012-12-25.
- ^ Minshull, Phil (2009-07-07). Mike Powell aims to return to competition. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-23.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Mike Powell profile at IAAF
|Preceded by
Bob Beamon
|Men's Long Jump World Record Holder
August 30, 1991–present
|Preceded by
Larry Myricks
|Men's Long Jump Best Year Performance
1990 — 1991
|Succeeded by
Carl Lewis
|Preceded by
Carl Lewis
|Men's Long Jump Best Year Performance
|Succeeded by
Erick Walder
|Preceded by
Mal Meninga
|BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year
|Succeeded by
Andre Agassi
- 1963 births
- Living people
- American long jumpers
- Male long jumpers
- African-American track and field athletes
- James E. Sullivan Award recipients
- World record holders in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic track and field athletes of the United States
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States
- Sportspeople from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- University of California, Irvine alumni
- UC Irvine Anteaters athletes
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- World Championships in Athletics medalists
- Track and field people from California


text:
Summary:Jon Udell, tech writer, analyst, and developer, writes in his InfoWorld blog about his experiments with what he calls "screencasts" or narrated movies of software in action. Easy to do, apparently all it takes is a tool that captures screen video along with voiceover, and after some editing you can showcase application tips, capture and publish product demonstrations, and even make short documentaries.
If you think about it, we rarely get to observe in detail how other people use their software tools. Now that it's almost trivial to make and publish short screencasts, can we expose our software-tool-using behavior to one another in ways that provoke imitation, lead to mastery, and spur innovation? It's such a crazy idea that it just might work.
Here is a good example of a screencast showing how the standard Windows search feature doesn't automatically send your search terms to the indexing service and the ridiculously simple fix...


text:
If wade is a non factor in today's game, then the C's will win. It will come down to which team is more aggressive.. Players like Green and Krstic will have to be dominant; relying on the "big 3" doesn't work any more.
Unfortunately, it doesn't really matter. The road has to go through the Bulls, and the C's will not stand a chance.
posted at 4/10/2011 12:00 PM EDT
Re: Urgency
posted at 4/10/2011 12:27 PM EDTWhat a defeatist comment why even post? What does this add what kind of fan are you that a team we are 2 and 2 in the regular season with and had to play recently with new additions and many injuries that we will not stand a chance.What did you say last year? I mean are we supposed to congratulate if you are right? The road to a championship is always hard. If we get to the conference finals I love our chances. You think Rondo is not going to play better against Rose. You think we are going to miss all the easy shots. You have every right to post but what is your hope here, according to you there is no point in watching further.
This post has been removed.


text:
- Shopping Bag ( 0 items )
Publishers Weekly
Minor's motivational wisdom is exactly what you'll find in most books in the genre: accept responsibility for your own choices, he advises; love yourself and "always give people more than they were expecting." And though he does take readers "backstage" in his role as the music director of American Idol, don't expect any major revelations; the scenes he presents are largely generic, with no names named. The book does pick up some interest when Minor looks back at his career leading up to his TV job, starting with the vocal group he started growing up in Watts through gigs with Gladys Knight and other musicians. In one especially memorable passage, he recounts the resistance that other musicians and network reps offered to Whitney Houston's unorthodox arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner" for a Super Bowl appearance; that her performance would go on to set a new standard, he says, is evidence of the power of staying true to your own convictions. Unfortunately, there are not enough of these powerful moments to overcome the platitudes and make Minor's advice truly stand out from the pack. (Jan.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.


text:
Hang this in the stroller for gazing at and then use it for an interesting lap toy that rattles and has big stitched features. Best of all it has eight crinkly-sounding arms. Each has a different color and texture for baby to explore. Some are cotton, some velour and others in cord. All have knotties that will be interesting for baby to touch and taste, for sure. There is a textured teether attached along with a small fish that rattles. Infants.
Age: Infants. Award Year: 2015.
A fabric ball with bright patterns and colors and bumpy knobs that little hands can grab. Most are soft and squeezable, two have see-through domes with colorful beads inside that make a great rattle sound. A fun choice for first social roly-poly games.
Age: Infants, Toddlers. Award Year: 2015. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
These are not your typical stack and nesting cups. Instead there is a base and seven shallow rimmed discs shaped with easy to grab tabs. Each one has a cup-out shape in the center: a star, triangle, square, etc. The shapes can be stacked or nested in size order on the base or not. For stacking you will need to place the lion's face on the base. For nesting the pieces fit into each other and then can be capped with the lion's face and turned to hold it all together. Placing the lion's face in place for either operation will take adult hands. That said, this is a nice twist on an old toy concept that can be used to introduce and reinforce color names, shapes, size order and dexterity. Marked for over 9 months, be forewarned, chances are some of the pieces will be missing before your child is a toddler and able to do the size order part. That said, babies will like the multiple pieces to take apart, toss, teethe on and bang together. It's one of those toys kids return to and it can help develop eye hand skills and visual perception. A new twist on stacking and nesting.
Age: Infants, Toddlers. Award Year: 2015. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
A play wall intended for the vertical baby and young toddler crowd. The two-sided plastic wall comes with four blocks to use on either side of the toy. One side has three ramps and the other side has knobs-- each offers a different experience for dropping the blocks. Normally this type of toy would come with balls rather than squares and probably would have worked better. Of added interest, each of the cubes come with balls encased that will spin. Marked 6 month-3 years. More realistic sweet spot is 6-12 months.
Age: Infants, Toddlers. Award Year: 2014. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
This soft sheep projects a starry night sky of soft lights on the ceiling of the nursery for little ones to gaze at as they go to sleep. A built-in timer turns the light show off after 45 minutes. This projects three-color options: green, blue, and amber. Just as you would not put a pillow in a crib, this is not meant to be in a crib, but rather in the room. Soft to the touch, this is also a cuddly but quiet good choice for toddlers and preschoolers who find comfort in having a nightlight rather than a totally darkened bedroom.
Age: Infants, Toddlers, Preschool. Award Year: 2014. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
A portable play mat and activity gym with lots of colorful patterns to explore. It has four overhead toys for gazing, reaching out and batting at, too. You can remove the toys and add others for sparking interest. There is also a small mirror and a pillow for propping baby on for tummy time. It is approx. a 29-inch square and folds easily. Though there are gender specific mats around, we like this gender neutral one with primary colors. If you are looking for an oversized mat for twins, check out Mamas and Papas Large Activity Floor Mat.
Age: Infants. Award Year: 2014. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
An awesome bunny (available in pink or blue, that is a combination night light, music player, story teller, recorder and customizable player that you can start using with infants and well beyond. The pre-recorded music, both songs an just instrumental, is pleasant and not the typical tinny electronic stuff. Push the light switch and bunny's ears light up and change color slowly and without big brightness. It comes with 20 nursery rhymes and stories that preschoolers will enjoy and you can customize it and add your own stories and music. The plastic body is made tough and the battery is rechargable. You can lock the settings and oh, yes, the volume control(built into the tail) is easy to adjust and has some real range, not just high and low. It comes loaded with a micro SD card slot and mini USB port to update content. One of the most innovative toys we received late this holiday season. Marked 12 months and up, though we think the music on a table in an infants's room would be fine. It's not a toy you would give a 12 month old to handle either. For the very young, this is a listening or watching toy. Preschoolers are the ones who will want to learn how to push the buttons.
SNAP: A night light, music player, story teller, this is a gift that will be enjoyed by children from infants to well beyond preschoolers. Best of all you can record storeis, and music of your own choice to the extensive library.
Age: Infants, Toddlers, Preschool. Award Year: 2014. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
Looking for a toy that will go the distance? A classic set of nesting cups may look old fashioned, but to your baby they are new and loaded with fascination! With their wide easy to grasp rims, these cups are fun for floor play as well as the tub. They have safety holes in the bottom, so they cannot form a vacuum on baby's face. These are what must-have basic gear for sitting up babies. No bells, whistles or lights�just solid hands-on play with seven bright cups that stack into a 12-inch tower or nest neatly inside of each other.
note: the link online calls this a toddler toy, but the box is marked as it should be : 6 months and up.
Age: Infants, Toddlers. Award Year: 2014. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
Like the classic Skwish, here's a tabletop version that may buy you some time when you are stirring up baby's lunch. Use this on the high chair table or put it on the floor for sitting up babies. A strong suction cup will hold it in place while baby explores the colorful wooden beads, rods and springy cords.
Age: Infants. Award Year: 2014. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
A classic push and spin toy for sitting up babies. Truly easy-to-activate, baby simply pushes on the big red knob to make the colorful balls inside the dome spin and rattle. The colorful dots on the center-post, borrowed from the end pages of an Eric Carle book, also blur into bands of color. Babies are empowered with a sense of being able to make things happen. A hands-on way to learn about cause and effect.
Age: Infants. Award Year: 2014. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
Oppenheim Toy Portfolio - All Rights Reserved. Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award, and Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Blue Chip Award are Registered Trademarks of the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio.
Instructions for submitting product to the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio for review.
Contact the Toyportfolio by phone at (212) 598-0502 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Copyright 1995-2014
Products reviewed by the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio are provided by the manufacturer at their cost. The Oppenheim Toy Portfolio does not require or accept fees for reviewing products.


text:
Lars Hanson
this wiki
Lars Hanson was the founder of Walnut Grove and the first person townsmen checked with when they needed a job or to sell their farms. He was also a town elder.
He was a good friend of Charles, Doc Baker, Reverend Alden, and Nels.
His last appearance is when the Ingalls, Garveys, and Olesons return to Walnut Grove to find it a ghost town. The only members of the town left are a very sick Hanson and Doc Baker. Hanson is very depressed about how his town was abandoned. He tells Charles that there is no way he could bring it back to its glory.
When Charles manages to get everyone back, Reverend Alden has the first church service since the town came back. Everyone is amazed that Hanson managed to make it to church. At the end, the narrorator, Laura, tells of how he died just a few months later.
Behind the scenes
Lars Hanson was portrayed by actor Karl Swenson in all of his appearances.
Background Information
- Lars Hansons (Karl Swensons)last apparaence in the Series was in the Episode(Theres´ No Place like Home Part 2).


text:
Publications of the HPC²
Publications by HPC centers and institutes include items from past years such as an early publication written by one of the HPC founding investigators, Dr. Joe Thompson. Numerical Grid Generation was originally published by Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc. in 1985, and the copyright was transferred to Joe F. Thompson in 1997.
Publications for: Luke
Peer-Reviewed Journals
Harris, R., Liever, P., Luke, E., & Dudley, J. (2015). Multiple-Body Collision Algorithms for Computational Simulation of High-Speed Air-Delivered Systems. Communications in Computatational Physics. Global Science Press. 17, 564-593. [Abstract]
Peer-Reviewed Conference Abstracts
Thakur, S., Kumar, M., & Luke, E. (2015). Simulation of Subcritical Primary Atomization in a Rule-Based CFD Framework Using Stochastic Modeling. 53rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting. Kissimee, FL: AIAA. DOI:10.2514/6.2015-0163.
Harris, R., Sheta, E., Luke, E., & Ukeiley, L. (2015). Hybrid RANS/LES Acoustics Prediction in Supersonic Weapons Cavity. 53rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting. Kissimee, FL: AIAA. DOI:10.2514/6.2015-0009.
Contact: webmaster
Mississippi State University is an equal opportunity institution.


text:
It might have been one of the greatest A-list snubs in a very long time. But Kris Jenner is quick to tell the world otherwise.
After Jay-Z and Beyonce were no-shows at Kim Kardashian Italian nuptials in May, the mother-of-the-bride has come forward in an interview with an Australian radio station to address the infamous rebuff, claiming it "was the last thing on anyone's mind."
PHOTOS: The Weddings That Weren't: 18 Celebrities Who Were Left At The Altar
'There was so much commotion and excitement, I never really gave that a second thought," Jenner added.
The famous momager went on to say that the musical couple passed along their best wishes to Kimye prior to the ceremony. Beyonce also had posted a photo to Instagram wishing the couple nothing but happiness.
Prior to the wedding, there had been rumors that Jay-Z would act as West's best man as they have gotten increasingly closer over the past few years, but the rapper and his wife decided to take a trip to the Hamptons instead of supporting their friends.
PHOTOS: Solid As A Rock – 15 Of The Longest Marriages In Hollywood
Even though Beyonce and Jay-Z's absence made international headlines, Jenner insists that no one else thought about it.
"If you had been there you would have thought that was the last thing on anyone's mind," she said.
Why do YOU think Beyonce and Jay-Z ditched the wedding of the year?


text:
Our Menu is now available 7 days a week, serving at the following times:
Mon - Thu 12 - 3 and 5 - 9:30
Fri/Sat 12 - 930
Sunday Roasts 12 - Sold out (Booking is advised)
Sun 12 - 7pm (earlier if we run out) Roasts Only
Sunday Roast
We serve delicious roasts from midday until 7pm.
We offer a range of options for party catering with our buffet meals available from a range of 5.95 - 8.95 per head. Over Christmas we also offer a Seasonal Set Menu for private bookings and Christmas celebrations.


text:
With spring days finally upon us, our color team looked outside to find inspiration for this month's hue. There are so many gorgeous spring blooms, but HGTV Home Studio design intern Catherine captured both the burgeoning pastel trend and spring's essence in her pitch for Magnolia.
When we sent our top two color picks to guest editor Nancy Fire for the final vote, she gravitated towards this spring-perfect hue, too. "I'm seeing this color in textiles, hand-painted furniture and fashion. And magnolia works beautifully with copper, which is still trending," Nancy says.
Meet Magnolia: Your new spring color crush, and our April Color of the Month! Read on for more ways to use this hue.


text:
Results 1 to 3 of 3
Thread: FanArt WiP...C&C needed
December 18th, 2004 #1Registered User
- Join Date
- Sep 2004
- Posts
- 54
- Thanks
- 0
- Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
- Follows
- 0
- Following
- 0
FanArt WiP...C&C needed
This is my first attempt at painter. Im useing painter9. Tell me what you think.
Oh its more WoW based fan art.
"The only thing we have to do is die. Everything else is a choice."
- Similar Threads
- SketchBook: LMS fanart
- Fanart Fun :D
- A bit of GW Fanart
- ryu fanart
- My art. Mostly fanart.
Hide this ad by registering as a memberDecember 19th, 2004 #2Registered User
- Join Date
- Aug 2004
- Posts
- 445
- Thanks
- 0
- Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
- Follows
- 0
- Following
- 0
Dont know WoW so I may have missed crucial clues.
Is the picture about a witch holding 2 fireballs? If not, I cannot see her hands.
The fireball behind could be smaller for emphasized perspective.
The folds in the gown and cape can use more work.
December 19th, 2004 #3
Two things:
First of all I just think you have a bit of a streakiness going in the shades and hilights. Maybe try to eliminate some of that.
As well, the way you have the "camera angled" and the way the character stands makes his upper body look a bit curled up, up top. We can't really tell how far his hand reaches so the pose feels static due to the angle you chose. It doesn't look like you are unconfortable with drawing a bit of perspective so why not turn the guy around a bit and let him expand in 3 dimensional space.


text:
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Stock futures were pointing to a flat to lower open on Wall Street Thursday, pausing after the Federal Reserve pledged continued stimulus support and business activity appeared to have slowed in Germany, Europe's biggest economy.
The markets' response to a less-than-expected rise in claims for U.S. unemployment benefits was muted.
Futures for the S&P 500 were flat, or 2.91 points below fair value, at 1,549.
Futures for the Nasdaq were down 3.5 points, or 16.46 points below fair value, at 2,781.75.Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were up 14 points, or 11.73 points below fair value, at 14,422. J.C. Penney (JCP - Get Report) shares were rising 2.04% to $16.50 in premarket trading after the company said in a filing Wednesday that bondholders on March 18 withdrew a claim of default against the department-store company. Bondholders had filed the notice on Feb. 4 saying that the company was in default because it pledged merchandise as collateral on its bank credit line. Micron Technology (MU - Get Report) shares were rising 1.18% to $9.42. The Boise, Idaho-based company is expected by analysts Thursday to post a fiscal second-quarter loss of 19 cents a share on revenue of $1.92 billion after the market close. The FTSE 100 in London was slipping 0.75% and the DAX in Germany was stumbling 0.85% after financial information services company Markit Economics' early estimate on the German private sector output in March showed the slowest growth so far this year. The "flash" Germany Composite Output Index slowed to a three-month low of 51 in March from 53.3 in February. The "flash" Germany Manufacturing Output Index contracted to 49.8, a three-month low, from 50.7. On Thursday, the European Central Bank gave Cyprus an ultimatum or Monday deadline for finding a solution to raising €5.8 billion in funds to meet requirements under a €10 billion European bailout package after the Cypriot parliament rejected the proposal for levies on Cyprus bank accounts. The Labor Department said that initial jobless claims rose 2,000 in the week ended March 16 to 336,000, from an upwardly-revised 334,000 the prior week. That was less than the 342,000 expected by economists. Continuing claims for the week ended March 9 increased by 5,000 to 3.053 million from an upwardly revised 3.048 million the previous week. This was roughly in line with the 3.05 million average estimate from economists. The four-week moving average on first-time claims was 339,750, a decrease of 7,500 from the prior week. The National Association of Realtors is forecast to say at 10 a.m. that existing home sales rose to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 5 million units in February from a 4.92 million-unit rate in January. Out at the same time is the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank's Business Outlook Survey for March. The report may show that manufacturing conditions continued to be in contraction but improved to a decline of 2 from a drop of 12.5, which was the worst reading since June 2012. The Conference Board's Index of Leading Indicators, out at 10 a.m. as well, is expected to increase 0.4% after rising 0.2%. The Federal Housing Finance Agency reports on the January Housing Price Index which rose 0.6% in December. The report is due at 9 a.m. The benchmark 10-year Treasury rose 2/32, diluting the yield to 1.954%, as the dollar rose 0.08%, according to the


text:
The Right has reached a new low. These are all over the web now. No doubt the MSM will be picking up the story in due course. \ \ NSFW.
Elizabeth Buffy Summers
The Supremes
DataLounge get your fix of gay gossip, news and pointless bitchery.
Talking to DataLounge servers.
Please wait a moment...


text:
District of Texas Contract Cases
Recovery of Overpayment and Enforcement of Judgment Cases, Dockets and Filings
Cases filed
Cases 1 - 10 of 848
Cantwell Family Trust (1998) et al v. Hyten et al
as 1:2015cv00414
Plaintiff: Cantwell Family Trust (1998), Cantwell Holdings, Ltd.
Defendant: Scott Hyten, Sherwyn Hyten
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Contract Default
Equal Eloyment Opportunity Commission v. Midway R&D Group LLC et al
as 4:2015cv01294
Defendant: Midway R&D Group LLC, R&D KH LLC
Plaintiff: Equal Eloyment Opportunity Commission, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Cause Of Action: Job Discrimination
CNA Metals Limited v. American Steel Trading, Inc.
as 4:2015cv01262
Plaintiff: CNA Metals Limited
Defendant: American Steel Trading, Inc.
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Breach of Contract
ACS Partners, LLC v GFI Management Services, Inc
as 4:2015cv01111
Plaintiff: ACS Partners, LLC
Defendant: GFI Management Services, Inc.
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Breach of Contract
Pete v. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al
as 1:2015cv00172
Plaintiff: David Pete , Cecile Pete
Defendant: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Community Bank of Texas, NA.
Cause Of Action: Breach of Contract
Genworth Life and Annuity Insurance Company v. Uselton
as 7:2015cv00072
Plaintiff: Genworth Life and Annuity Insurance Company
Defendant: Sherrie Ann Uselton
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Other Contract
AIX Energy LLC v. Cook Inlet Energy LLC
as 4:2015cv01073
Plaintiff: AIX Energy LLC
Defendant: Cook Inlet Energy LLC
Counter_claimant: Cook Inlet Energy LLC
Counter_defendant: AIX Energy LLC
Cause Of Action: Fed. Question: Breach of Contract
Mertex UK Limited v. Bourland & Leverich Supply Co., LLC
as 4:2015cv00913
Plaintiff: Mertex UK Limited
Defendant: Bourland & Leverich Supply Co., LLC
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Breach of Contract
Data-Fi, LLC v. HostGator.com, LLC
as 4:2015cv00905
Plaintiff: Data-Fi, LLC
Defendant: HostGator.com, LLC
Cause Of Action: Breach of Contract
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. Allquest Home Mortgage Corporation et al
as 4:2015cv00820
Plaintiff: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Defendant: Allquest Home Mortgage Corporation , James C. Hodge
Cause Of Action: Fed. Question: Breach of Contract
Disclaimer: Justia Dockets & Filings provides public litigation records from the federal appellate and district courts. These filings and docket sheets should not be considered findings of fact or liability, nor do they necessarily reflect the view of Justia.


text:
|Crowne Plaza Hotels Angleton properties are provided below. Search for cheap and discount Crowne Plaza Hotels hotel prices in Angleton, TX for your personal or business trip. We list the best Crowne Plaza Hotels Angleton hotels so you can review the Angleton Crowne Plaza Hotels hotel list below to find the perfect place.
Our service will provide Angleton, TX hotels & motels that get similar quality scores of a Crowne Plaza Hotels.
Need a group/meeting discount? Request a group rate for Angleton TX
All Crowne Plaza Hotels in or near Angleton
Comparable hotels to Crowne Plaza Hotels
Next: Show All Available Comparable Hotels with Pricing >


text:
1998 BEST Pizza, Traditional
The old-school North End spot still serves up all the heavy bustle, cheap wine, and surly service required of a traditional pizza joint. And their slices are still the meanest in town: well-spiced; smoked, not greased; and impeccably proportioned. Nice pie, guys— we'll keep waiting in line.
Be respectful of our online community and contribute to an engaging conversation. We reserve the right to remove impersonators or personal attacks, threats, profanity, or flat-out offensive comments. By posting here, you are permitting Boston magazine and Metro Corp. to edit and republish your comment in all media.


text:
She was born in Freer to Joaquin Villareal and Lucia Lerma.
She is survived by one daughter, Elida Cruz of Tampa, Fla.; three sons, Refugio, Israel (Idalia) and Guadalupe (Marcela) Salinas, all of Queen, Fla.; three sisters, Gloria Reyes of Freer, Rita Villareal of Realitos and Maria Graham of Las Vegas, Nev.; 32 grandchildren; and numerous great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
A rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. today (Wednesday) at the VFW Hall in Mathis. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Thursday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Mathis. Interment will follow at Descanso Eterno #2 in Mathis.
Treviño Funeral Home


text: Clipart Company Intensifying Hunt for Gold in Keystone By Associated Press November 26, 2012 The Rapid City Journal reports that Mineral Mountain Resources in the coming weeks will release initial results from its exploratory drilling. Read More|Comment Category: Articles Tags: Gold, Keystone, Rapid City, Rapid City Journal Send to a friend! Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Pin it! Reddit This! Share on Tumblr!


text:
- Exchange: -
- Sector: Consumer Staples
- Industry: Consumer Products
- Sub-Industry: Agricultural Producers
Kamchatrybprom OAO
CMRPP*:RUTicker Delisted
Company Profile for Kamchatrybprom OAO (CMRPP*)
Kamchatrybprom OAO is a coastal and deep sea fishing company. The Company operates fleet of vessels and processes a variety of seafood.
Contact Information
Kamchatrybprom OAO
Leningradskaya Street 35
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, 683003
Russian Federation
Phone: 7-4152-42-92-00
Fax: 7-4152-42-92-01
Key Executives for Kamchatrybprom OAO (CMRPP*)
|Valery Nikitievich ProkopenkovGeneral Director
Quotes delayed, except where indicated otherwise. All prices in local currency. Time is ET.
Recommended Symbols:
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5


text:
Top infoTECH News
Software News
Hardware News
Security News
Networking News
infoTECH Editor's Pick
infoTECH Awards
What's Hot in Information Technology?
infoTECH Services
infoTECH Media Kit
Application Deployment
Cloud Contact Center
Data Management
Power Protection
Software Licensing
Software Monetization
infoTECH News
[February 08, 2013]
George W. Bush's private photos hacked, put online
Feb 08, 2013 (Los Angeles Times - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- A hacker who goes by the name of Guccifer has reportedly compromised the email accounts of at least six people close to George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush and has distributed some of the private emails and photographs online.
The Smoking Gun published a report Thursday saying it had spoken with the hacker, who said he wasn't worried about the possibility of the FBI or Secret Service coming after him. Guccifer said the "feds" have been investigating him a long time and "this is just another chapter in the game." Among the photographs allegedly posted online by the hacker were two showing President George W. Bush painting, and one with him and Ralph Lauren. President George H.W. Bush also appears in some of the photos, including a recent one of him in the hospital and another with President Clinton.
Some of the pictures came from the email accounts of Dorothy Bush Koch, George W. Bush's sister. The Smoking Gun said it called her about the hackings. She was shocked and responded "Why would someone do this " the news website said.
But it wasn't just photos that were exposed. Information from emails were also shared, including a list from October that included the home addresses and phone numbers for dozens of Bush family relatives, according to The Smoking Gun.
There's also an email sent to the children of George H.W. Bush from his former Chief of Staff Jean Becker while the president was ill earlier this year. Becker told the children that the president's funeral team had met to plan out a service if it became necessary, The Smoking Gun said.
___ (c)2013 the Los Angeles Times Visit the Los Angeles Times at www.latimes.com Distributed by MCT Information Services
InfoTech Spotlight's Homepage
comments powered by Disqus.
blog comments powered by
infoTECH Headlines
BMC Releases Remedy 9 Service Management Solution with Modernized Design
IBM Recognized as a Leader in the Digital Transformation Implementation Market
Managing Risk May Get Easier with New IBM and Deloitte Project
5 Building Blocks for a Successful Product Development Partnership
From Virtualization to the Cloud: Use IT Resources More Efficiently
QLogic and Cavium Joint Infrastructure to Accelerate Cloud Storage Applications
Dimension Data, NTT DATA to Create Cloud Migration Services for SAP
Global Capacity, Equinix Develop Ethernet Solution that Gives Direct Access to Cloud Providers
Google's New Approach to Enterprise Security: The BeyondCorp Initiative
New SANS Survey Highlights the Risks of Unmanaged Computing Devices
Subscribe to InfoTECH Spotlight eNews
InfoTECH Spotlight eNews delivers the latest news impacting technology in the IT industry each week. Sign up to receive FREE breaking news today!
FREE eNewsletter
HP's March into Simplifying NFV
Rich Tehrani
Independence IT, The Multivendor Desktop-as-a-Service Company
Rich Tehrani
Tech to Eliminate Fast Food Minimum Wage Workers
Rich Tehrani
Logitech ConferenceCam CC3000e Video Conferencing for SMB Review
Tom Keating
TransCertain CertainSafe Review - 2014
Tom Keating
Jumper Card - The Swiss Army Knife of Portable Chargers
Tom Keating
Meet Your Big Data Storage Needs: Coraid
As businesses collect more and more data, they will require storage capabilities that are easily and secure, accessible, and quickly scalable for pure storage as well as data analytics.
What are the Security and Compliance Requirements of Cloud Computing: Coalfire
As the adopotion of cloud computing continues to increase, businesses are finding, while they understand the potential benefits, they need help understanding the security and compliance ramifications of moving data into cloud data centers.
Managing Your Data and Apps in Multi-Cloud Environments: Right Scale
Businesses have reached beyond education and are starting to make signifcant cloud computing deployments, which means they need an awareness of public and private resources, which to deploy in what instances, and how to manage and maintain applications across both domains.
How Cloud Providers Can Drive Revenues for Tenants and Themselves: Interxion
In order to enable customers to create new revenue streams from their content and applications, cloud providers can provide test environments to allow businesses to more efficiently develop and test new applications.
Enabling Cross-border Data Center Connectivity: Interxion
One of the challenges for multinational enterprises is establishing connectivity between infrastructure located on different continents. The Transatlantic Data Center Alliance helps overcome many of these challenges, including regulatory and compliance needs.
infoTECH Whitepapers
SAP Enterprise Mobility: Bringing a Cohesive Approach to a Complex Market
What is Your Mobile Content Policy? A Checklist for Content Risk Mitigation
SANS Whitepaper: Mobile Content and Document Management Best Practices and Decision Checklist
IBM SmartCloud Social Collaboration for Government
IBM SmartCloud Solutions: Software as a Service
IBM SmartCloud for Social Business Mobility
IBM SmartCloud Engage Security
The Forrester Wave: Cloud Strategies Of Online Collaboration Software Vendors, Q3 2012
Social Business in the Cloud
The Social Business: Advent of a new age
What is Information Tehnology
What is Information Technology?
The History of Information Technology
Today's Most Desired Information Technology Skills
Information Technology Careers
Ten Information Technology Companies of 2011
Powered by
Technology Marketing Corporation,
800 Connecticut Ave, 1st Floor East,
Norwalk, CT 06854 USA
Ph: 800-243-6002, 203-852-6800;
Fx: 203-853-2845
Contact us
Technology Marketing Corp. 1997-<%= curyear %> Copyright.
infoTECH Resources
Editor's Pick
infoTECH News
Software News
Hardware News
Security News
Networking News
What's Hot
Media Kit
infoTECH Communities
Cloud Call Center
Mobile Market
SIP Trunking
infoTECH Channels
Application Deployment
Cloud Contact Center
Data Management
Power Protection
Software Licensing
Software Monetization
Other Industries
IP Communications
Cable Spotlight
Satellite Spotlight
Smart Grid
Sports Techy
M2M Evolution


text:
Stay up to date on new products, promotions, and more!
Please submit at least 2 images of your vehicle, one from each side. Images must not be larger than 5mb and must be .jpg, .jpeg, .gif or .png formats.
The following file types are allowed: .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .png.
* Required Fields
Shop with confidence and security.
© 2015 Rough Country Suspension Systems. All Rights Reserved.--


text:
Results 1 to 20 of 20
Thread: It's falling apart!
January 22nd, 2011 #1
It's falling apart!
Hey guys!
Here's a picture I've been working on for a long time, but that was the point, I need to practice my rendering, though I want to keep some roughness to it.
The thing is, I've been knocking colors back and forth, moving characters, redoing the whole background and all but I can't seem to put get at what's really wrong with it. So that's my question, really. I think the picture is uninteresting and lacking focus, it falls apart.
Is it too bright? Lacking contrast? Too diverse in colors?
I do realise the ground and background are in a very early stage and the horses will be a bit more downtrodden in the snow, but I don't think that will change the overall impression.
Any help is much appreciated!
- Similar Threads
- Its all falling apart- HELP
- Art: Falling
- falling
- falling
- Art: falling
Hide this ad by registering as a memberJanuary 22nd, 2011 #2
I really like this, however, I think the background is much too busy. Try to loose some of the details behind the characters to make them stand out. The green knight is a bit small I think, and my eyes can't help going out of the image because he is pointing out of the edge. Try to let him point into the image instead. Keep up the good work
Please stop by my sketch book!
My Self Portrait Project
My Fantasy Blog
Have a creative day!
The Following User Says Thank You to ranunkel For This Useful Post:
January 22nd, 2011 #3
All the problems you mentioned - and the searching and uncertainty are because you didn't begin the piece properly. A major piece needs to begin withthumbnail composition exploration and quick value study - then move on to color roughs and then a final design that you can go into with confidence, utilising reference as needed.
The battle for a successful painting or illustration is won at the beginning, not at the end.
What would Caravaggio do?
Plein Air
Still Life
Sight Measuring
The Following 5 Users Say Thank You to JeffX99 For This Useful Post:
January 22nd, 2011 #4Registered User
- Join Date
- Nov 2003
- Posts
- 1,924
- Thanks
- 54
- Thanked 825 Times in 678 Posts
- Follows
- 0
- Following
- 0
This is looking pretty good. I don't really see anything wrong with the overall composition or design. Three suggestions:
1. Lighten the background so the figures don't blend into it so much.
2. Adjust the pose of the standing figure. Right now it looks like he's cut and pasted from another picture...the pose doesn't even make sense in the perpesective of the picture. Also, if his arm was extended a bit more you'd get a clearer sense that he was pointing at something.
3. Print out what you've got here (as large as possible), do a tight line drawing in pencil (trace the forms and clean them up) to get the contours of the forms right, and then scan that back in and use it as an underlay to continue working. There is so much precise form that needs to be indicated accurately here, and a tablet/stylus is just an incredibly clumsy tool for that job, especially for a beginner.
As always, just my two cents.
The Following User Says Thank You to Giacomo For This Useful Post:
January 22nd, 2011 #5
remember that even snow isn't that white unless it's being hit directly on a sunny day, in this case it isn't. Also, remember to use references of it if you aren't used to drawing it. People often forget cast shadows and they are one of the easiest things to add to make an image believable.
The Following User Says Thank You to jbrown67 For This Useful Post:
January 23rd, 2011 #6
I lke the piece, a lot. but thers a lot of stuff going on, giacamo gave some really great advice. but really what I think u have to do is just stick with it, theres a lot of content in there and sometimes u just get tired of all the job ahead of you. so take a brake, breathe, and then come back and render the hell out of that one, cause if u do its gonna be AWEZOME!
Portfolio http://villainsforhire.se/
January 23rd, 2011 #7Registered User
- Join Date
- Jul 2004
- Location
- Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States
- Posts
- 58
- Thanks
- 0
- Thanked 13 Times in 13 Posts
- Follows
- 0
- Following
- 0
Let's see... With an illustration like this, it's best to ask yourself what's really going on in the picture. In this case, its a group of characters standing around. Its a very basic description, of course, but already you can see that you've got your work cut out for you if you want to add some excitment to the scene. You don't need epic swordfights or goblin ambushes to do this, either, but a dynamic composition would help. (Just to make sure I mention it, a thumbnail, as suggested above, is definitely the best way to start - it can help you plan out the drawing without haveing to rearrange the individual elements to try to make a "good" composition.) What you could have done was to make sure you planned out a good foreground/background/middleground relationship, rather than have all the figures clustered in the center. The good news is, I think you can still add some elements of foreground (bushes, branches, rocks, etc. at the bottom edge and overlapping a bit onto the figures) to help tie everything together and give it a voyeuristic sort of feel.
Additionally, it does appear that the figures have simply been placed and rearranged - there's no character interaction between them, and that's making the drawing feel static. Each character seems to be an isolated element to the piece rather than a cohesive whole. The one that seems the most successful is the one who's talking (green fellow), not necessarily for the rendering or the pose or general appeal, but because he's noticeably looking at another character and acknowledging his existence. Your other characters are somewhat looking at each other, but without the fully-rendered eyes and etc, its ambiguous. Even afterwards, you might still have to turn a head or two to look directly at other characters, but I think I would render the eyes a bit more first to see how it may help.
Fantastic work so far on the painting, I look forward to seeing it finished and polished.
January 23rd, 2011 #8
Nice pic! love the rendering of the riders and horses, and that the horses fit so well with their riders.
I would move the gent to the right even further to the right, so there's a clear divide between him and the groups of riders. And I would change the arm of the rider to the left, he's holding his arm so the eye of the beholder is lead off-frame and there's nothing in the background to bring the viewer back. Maybe he can have the bird on his other arm?
January 23rd, 2011 #9
Thanks so much everyone for taking the time to comment and give some critique, much appreciated!
ranunkel: I loosened up some the background, especially that around the characters. Your tip about the green guy (who's not so green anymore ) got things moving as well (quite literally actually). First I tried to move him into the picture, and then tried flipping him horizontally, but then I started moving the other characters around as well, and after many different tries I ended up flipping the background and move the characters more to the right, I think it works better now, so thank you for that!
What also interested me about your post was the fact that you called him a knight, when they're really supposed to be a ragtag band of raiders, so I tried to add more furs and change some stuff to make that more apparent.
JeffX99: You're definitely right about what you say concerning sketches and thumbnails. I did do some of them actually, to test different compositions and different looks for the characters. But they where all quite rough and I severely underestimated the sheer amount needed for a piece like this. I didn't do any color sketches either, which I see now is much more important than I thought, just sorting values out isn't enough! I will definitely remember this for my next piece of this kind.
Giacomo I tried changing the pointing guy's pose and redirecting his arm but I ended up with the same problem I had with the other guy pointing out of the picture, which was disturbing, so I kept my original pose and instead fixed the surface he's standing on, I hope it looks better now.
jbrown67 I added cast shadows but since I'm trying to achieve an overcast light-situation here, I didn't want them to be prominent, but I think it worked out, thanks!
Lotet I'm so happy you like it, I will try my best at the rendering, but as I said, I'm a more of a sketching person so I'm not very good at it
ILickSquirrels Hm I see what you mean with the interaction between the characters and stuff, I think it works better in this version, but I might be wrong, so I might have to turn some heads...
Anyways, here's the updated version, my chief concerns in this version are the two horses at the back, they don't look very interesting, and the guy to the left. His right arm holding the falcon is quite hard to discern, I tried changing the background color there but maybe I should just lighten up his glove instead?
Last edited by Heartwood; January 23rd, 2011 at 03:01 PM.
January 23rd, 2011 #10
Here is what I would do to keep the interest on the standing man so everone is engaged in the conversation.
The Following User Says Thank You to dpaint For This Useful Post:
January 23rd, 2011 #11Registered User
- Join Date
- Jan 2010
- Location
- Denmark
- Posts
- 57
- Thanks
- 20
- Thanked 21 Times in 14 Posts
- Follows
- 0
- Following
- 0
dpaint, well spotted. I'd hit that.
That comp could make this a very nice piece.
January 24th, 2011 #12
I like dpaint's idea. I would also rotate the standing guy's head and torso so that it's facing the viewer a little more (although his eyes should fixate on the same point). Both compositions remind me of a stage setup, and one way to engage the viewer is to orient the body language of the 'actors' in a way that subtly interacts with the viewer.
January 24th, 2011 #13
Hey that's a great idea dpaint I'll try that out
January 24th, 2011 #14Registered User
- Join Date
- Jun 2007
- Location
- charlotte, nc
- Posts
- 1,281
- Thanks
- 58
- Thanked 275 Times in 249 Posts
- Follows
- 0
- Following
- 0
I would add something like fog to push the idea that it's really cold where they are. I think more blues would also give that impression.
January 25th, 2011 #15
No time for any real qritique, just a quick idea for making it look cold. Give them red noses.
My sketchbook http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=128951
The Following User Says Thank You to Frida Bergholtz For This Useful Post:
January 25th, 2011 #16
if your going to put that guy on the right there you need to pic him and the falcon out a bit, there getting lost in the trees
"Simon, believe in yourself. Not in the Simon that you believe in, and not in the Simon that I believe in either. Believe in the Simon who believes in you"
- Kamina, Gurren Lagann
My Sketchbook
My old Sketchbook
The Following User Says Thank You to Oatestwder For This Useful Post:
January 30th, 2011 #17
So I just wanted to thank everyone for taking the time to comment and for all the helpful tips I got. Here's the finished piece, I'm not entirely happy with it but it has certainly improved a lot since I started out, and I've learnt a great deal from it.
By the way the image is really blurred, and I tried to save in different formats to counter this but without success, I'm working in Painter so simply sharpening isn't really an option, unless of course I open it in the Gimp and do it there but I didn't want adjust that in a jpeg format as I thought the quality might decrease...
January 30th, 2011 #18
hey there, it turned out great, though there is still some contrast issue with the characters melting into the background. but why not take it into gimp? its should totaly work, dont worry about the quality that much, u still have the original file.
Portfolio http://villainsforhire.se/
The Following User Says Thank You to Lotet For This Useful Post:
January 30th, 2011 #19Registered User
- Join Date
- Jun 2007
- Location
- charlotte, nc
- Posts
- 1,281
- Thanks
- 58
- Thanked 275 Times in 249 Posts
- Follows
- 0
- Following
- 0
well import it into photoshop if you have it and use the sharpening tool to sharpen your image. It makes a huge difference.
January 31st, 2011 #20
I'm not sure whether you'd be able to see so much red in such an overcast winter day.
And it seems to me that every rider is like "and not a single fuck was given that day". They don't really seem to be engaged in conversation, more like staring at the photographer.


text:
New Laws
New laws taking effect in Maryland
From shark fin bans to cyber-bullying, here's a look at new laws taking effect in Maryland.
RecommendedRecent Facebook Activity
Only On 7
ABC7 News at 4 Now Weekdays!ABC7 is giving you MORE news in your afternoons with an extra hour, an hour earlier! Join ABC7's Leon Harris and Alison Starling for what's trending in your community and world. Every weekday afternoon at 4pm right after back to back "Hot Bench" shows at 3pm on ABC7.


text:
Personalised wedding stationary service, made to your order. Prices from £1-3 per invitation
I can make invitations to your specification, or use my standard format. Best to get in touch and discuss your theme so we can come up with a purpose built solution for your day. Invitations, save the dates, rsvps, place cards, order of services and


text:
- Shopping Bag ( 0 items )
Mary Forde
"Like a travelogue to all of the best classrooms in the country . . . [a book]not about eduspeak and jargon, but about practical strategies that can be used in a variety of classes, with a range of students."
Differentiated instruction engages students of all abilities as active learners, decision-makers, and problem solvers making educational experiences more meaningful for all. This one-of-a-kind book proves that designing differentiated instruction can be simple and fun! Packed with creative adaptation ideas like fidget bags, doodle notes, and choice boards, this book gives K-12 educators 100 teacher-designed, kid-tested strategies they can use to meet the needs of all students in inclusive classrooms. Ideal for helping students who need extra support, scaffolding, reminders, organization, or enrichment, this book gives general and special educators Easy adaptations in 10 key areas (see box) A user-friendly layout with a description, materials list, directions, an example, references, and vendors for every entry Full-color illustrations of each strategy Practical advice from expert educators Lists of resources and references to back up every entry These ready-to-use, research-based adaptations enhance motivation and improve achievement for all children including English-language learners and students with autism, emotional disabilities, cognitive disabilities, learning disabilities and other special needs. Everyone in the classroom will benefit from this timely, ultra-practical guidebook the go-to resource for any teacher who has ever had a doubt that differentiated instruction can be simple and fun!
About the Authors
Environment & Sensory
Communication & Participation
Behavior & Motivation
Teaching & Learning
Study & Review


text:
Mema is a powerful, fast, and destructive mail-bomber built for Mac OS X and being coded by DCHKG.
Unlike other mail-bombers (like Team2600's Bomba), it waits for the remote smtp server's answers before sending any mail commands.
With mema, you are able to mail-bomb multiple email addresses and connect to multiple SMTP servers simultaneously.
mema opens up to 500 connections at the same time, and detects any time-out errors or misconnections in order to immediately reconnect the matching socket.


text:
Construction Lien Law: What You Need to Know to Protect Your Company
When to file a lis pendens--Martin Desmery, Partridge Snow & Hahn
In The Cross-Hairs? Protecting Your Company Against Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Investigations and Investors' Mortgage Buyback Claims
Litigation of Construction Delay: Claims of Delayed Early Completion
Homebuilder Series Webinar: Joint Ventures Solutions, Steve Lear
Accessibility concerns for disabled condo owners
Rules for rewarding 'super' condo board members
Condo Water Invasion: Potential Medical Liability?
How to Deal with Delinquent Condo Board Members
Condo complaints not in writing?
Assessments, Condos vs. Town Homes
Real Estate Trends in the Bay Area & Beyond – Interview with Paul Churchill, Member, Mintz Levin
Condo Adviser: Condominium Rules and Enforcement
Condo Adviser: Adjacent Development Rights and Objections
Condo Adviser: What is 'FHA approved,' exactly?
Condo Owners and Dealing with Uncooperative Management Companies
Reserve Funds: Purposes and Common Mistakes
Accessibility Concerns for Disabled Condo Owners
Ventas' Debra Cafaro on why the Health Care asset class is well positioned in today's economy
A New World for Mortgage Banking – What You Need to Know About the CFPB's Final Mortgage Servicing Rules
In Cypress Point Condo. Ass'n. v. Selective Way Ins. Co., 2015 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 721 (March 30, 2015), the New Jersey Law Division dismissed a declaratory judgment action filed against an insurer for a framing...more
In Travco Ins. Co. v. Ward, 284 Va. 547, 736 S.E.2d 321 (2012), the Virginia Supreme Court held that loss occasioned by the sulfuric gas released by defective Chinese drywall was excluded under the primary coverage grant of a...more
On December 19, 2014 the Illinois legislature amended the Illinois construction statute of repose to eliminate its protection in asbestos exposure cases (Public Act 098-1131). Beginning June 1, 2015, design professionals and...more
The Appellate Division recent held that the storage of home heating oil in an underground storage tank is not an abnormally dangerous activity. In Ross v. Lowitz, the plaintiffs, John and Pamela Ross, owned property that was...more
In Midwest Family Mutual Insurance Co. v. Wolters, et al., — N.W.2d –, 2013 WL 2363239 (Minn. May 31, 2013), the Minnesota Supreme Court joined the minority view in holding that the absolute pollution exclusion applies to...more
In a decision that exalts casuistry over common sense, the Ninth Circuit recently held that an insurer who reimbursed $2.4 million in CERCLA response costs to its policyholder had no subrogation rights against the potentially...more
We are pleased to report that the Virginia Supreme Court has tacked down – or, more appropriately, "drywall-ed in" – the issue of whether a pollution exclusion in a property insurance policy precludes coverage for Chinese...more
This past quarter brought us the long-awaited decision from the California Supreme Court on stacking of insurance policies. The Supreme Court has ruled that stacking of limits on successive policies is permitted on continuous...more
New Jersey property buyers need to be aware of liability for existing contamination as a result of failing to do an appropriate environmental investigation prior to purchasing. The recent case State Farm Fire and Cas. Co. v....more
Villa Los Alamos Homeowners Association v. State Farm General Insurance Company Court of Appeal, First District (August 25, 2011)
In MacKinnon v. Truck Insurance Exchange (WLR September 4, 2003), the California Supreme...more
Q: What do environmental contamination, real estate development and liability insurance have in common?
A: Millions of dollars more than you might have thought before you read this paper, especially in British...more
Lead Paint and Mold Liability Issues Facing Commercial Real Estate Owners...more
Appellate Panel Saves Notice Defense in Single Family Lead Paint Cases...more
Find a Residential Real Estate Author »
Sign up for your custom alerts now, using LinkedIn ›
Back to Top
Copyright ©


text:
PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi said the company is investing in research and development to "reinvent" the soft drink market in North America. "I think it's very important that established players reinvent their categories as opposed to allowing others to reinvent them and push them out," she said. Nooyi cited natural sweeteners and flavorings as potential drivers of growth.
View Full Article in:BeverageDaily.com (France)
Published in Brief:


text:
My Korean MIL has dementia and it's getting worse every day. My Korean FIL is getting to the point where he cannot take care of her anymore.
My husband's older brother and his wife have convinced my FIL to move back to Korea, establish residency and put my MIL in a nursing home in Korea. The motivation behind this drastic move is that nursing homes in Korea are cheaper, and with her dementia, my MIL is starting to lose her command of the English language.
My husband is devastated knowing that he will likely never see his mom again, as we cannot afford to go over to visit her in Korea. And since my FIL is planning on coming back to the United States, my MIL will be utterly and completely alone when she passes away. My husband and I are heart broken over this decision.
I don't speak Korean and am fairly new to this famly, so I feel like I need to stay out of the discussion. However, I can't help but wonder what your families have done in these situations with aging non-English speaking parents. We live in Atlanta which has a fairly large Korean community, so I would like to think that there would be some place here that my MIL could go so that we could visit her regularly.


text:
Sanexen Environmental Services Inc. has announced that the City of Porirua, New Zealand, has recently proceeded with the trenchless rehabilitation of 1,000 m of water main, making it the first city in New Zealand to install AQUA-PIPE.
The 250-mm asbestos cement water main is located in a residential area and also passes under a highway and a river. The rehabilitation work was successfully executed by Anzel, which has acquired an AQUA-PIPE license for New Zealand.


text:
Shop now and get Free Value Shipping on most orders over $49 to the contiguous 48 states, DC and to all U.S. Military APO/FPO/DPO addresses.
We want to ensure that making a return is as easy and hassle-free as possible! If for any reason you decide that your purchase just isn't for you, simply return the item within 30 days of receipt and we'll cover the cost of return shipping. Learn more about our Return Policy.
We are proud to offer a very large inventory of Guard Dog Security Self Defense Pepper Spray Accessories! This Guard Dog Security Self Defense Pepper Spray Accessories page enables you to narrow down our exceedingly massive selection. From the beginning, we've added an abundance of brands, thousands of product types and hundreds of thousands of products so that everyone can find their needs met right here. And we're continually looking to go beyond what's called for, giving you a lot more than a huge number of possible options. To ensure we answer all of your concerns and carry out your order as satisfyingly as we can, we have a dedicated staff of qualified customer service representatives and product experts at our headquarters to help. We also suggest you peruse our educational blogs and how-to articles, as you'll select the best gear if you have the most knowledge about what you want. We'll keep doing everything we can to improve to our selection of Guard Dog Security Self Defense Pepper Spray Accessories so that OpticsPlanet.com can always be your primary source for all things Self Defense Pepper Spray Accessories! Feel comfortable knowing, when you shop at OpticsPlanet.com, your experience is going to be nothing short of excellent
Connect with OpticsPlanet
Become our fan, follow us, & subscribe for the latest updates and deals
Subscribe to our email list
Sign up and receive $5 Off and get exclusive access to promotions, sales
events, pre-order sales & more!
Contact Information
Toll-Free: 800-504-5897
Intl.: 847-513-6201
Fax: 847-919-3003
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Hours of Operation
8AM-7PM CST Mon-Fri
9AM-5PM CST Sat
9AM-5PM CST Sun (Email & Chat Only)
Our Guarantees