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PwC US Announces Intent to Acquire HumanR, Inc.
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Oct 24, 2013, 09:00 ET from PwC US
NEW YORK and WASHINGTON, Oct. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PwC US today announced its intent to acquire substantially all the assets of HumanR, a Herndon, VA-based consulting firm specializing in organizational development consulting. HumanR will become a part of PwC's Human Resource Services (HRS) practice, within its Saratoga™ workforce analytics team.
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PwC's focus on workforce analytics is aligned with HumanR's mission to help organizations create a better, more trust-based and productive work environment for employees. Through the acquisition, PwC will not only gain intellectual and analytical capabilities and technology platforms, it will also combine two of the leading names in workforce analytics and employee surveys.
"With talent management of critical interest to companies today, the effective use of workforce analytics is essential to helping organizations attract, retain and develop talent," says Nik Shah, a leader of PwC's Saratoga practice. "HumanR's strong brand and excellent client relationships with HR executives at companies of all sizes and across industries make it a perfect match for PwC's comparable workforce analytics capabilities. Together, we will further enhance our ability to harness the power of workforce data for our clients, enabling them to make better workforce decisions that drive business growth."
HumanR has a long history of providing HR and organizational leaders with the tools to measure and improve employee performance and retention. HumanR offers data driven strategic consulting through its workforce surveys, 360 feedback programs, competency modeling, performance management tools, leadership development programs and training services.
Mary Saily, CEO of HumanR notes, "We at HumanR are thrilled to be joining PwC, a world-class organization with a depth and breadth of resources that will enable us to better serve clients and to bring them added value and extended service offerings."
Ms. Saily will join PwC as a leader in the PwC Saratoga practice. Burgess Levin, founder of HumanR, will serve as a senior executive consultant. The deal is expected to close in November.
About HumanR
Based in Herndon, Va., and founded in 1975, HumanR provides corporations and government agencies with tools for managing the employee life cycle and developing strategic talent. By addressing key leverage points throughout the employee's tenure, HumanR's clients improve employee performance and retention. By identifying and developing strategic talent, its clients invest in the people most likely to impact business success.
About PwC US
PwC US helps organizations and individuals create the value they're looking for. We're a member of the PwC network of firms in 157 countries with more than 184,000 people. We're committed to delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services. Tell us what matters to you and find out more by visiting us at www.pwc.com/US. Gain customized access to our insights by downloading our thought leadership app: PwC's 365™ Advancing business thinking every day
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Yoshimura is to field a two-team line-up at this year's Suzuka 8-Hour World Endurance race in July to celebrate its 60th Anniversary of the company that includes former 500cc World Champion Kevin Schwantz, former Japanese Champion Satoshi Tsujimoto, former Australian Champion Josh Waters and All Japan Superbike rider Takuya Tsuda.
The two teams - Yoshimura Legends & Yoshimura Shell Advance Suzuki – were announced to media and fans earlier today at the Japanese Circuit's 2014 Open Day by Yoshimura President Fujio Yoshimura.
Schwantz, who won the 1993 World 500cc Grand Prix series for Suzuki – and who finished third at Suzuka in 2013 riding for Team Kagayama– will ride alongside his 1986 Suzuka 8-Hour partner Tsujimoto; the duo taking a podium-position in third overall.
Waters, who this season moves to the Tyco Suzuki British Superbike Team, will partner All Japan Superbike rider – and 2013 Suzuka 8-Hour runner-up for the Yoshimura Suzuki team – Tsuda.
Fujio Yoshimura – Yoshimura President & Legend Team Manager:
"We are glad to announce that the Suzuka 8-Hour this year is going to be one of the most memorable event ever for Yoshimura Japan. It is our 60th Anniversary year since Pops Yoshimura started this business back in 1954 and we are fielding a 'Legend Team' to celebrate our racing history.
"The team will run with two very famous riders; one is 1993 WGP Champion Kevin Schwantz and other is 1985-1986 All Japan Formula-1 Class Champion Satoshi Tsujimoto. They were paired together in the 1986 Suzuka 8-Hour and finished third overall. They will challenge not only for a podium finish but also hopefully give a lot to the entertainment side of motorsport as well.
"Even for riders like Schwantz and Tsujimoto, to challenge at the Suzuka 8-Hour will be extremely tough because of the high temperatures and humidity - which drains your energies to where you could get into serious dehydration problems - but both of them are willing to challenge to prove that it is something worth challenging for!
"I have to put together the team to support their challenging sprits in the best
possible manner. Yoshimura believes that such an effort will make our anniversary a worthwhile project - just like Suzuka 8-Hour in 80's. We can assure you that this effort hopefully makes all the spectators and our fans realise the team's sincerity and determination; and also add a bit of nostalgic-excitement to the event."
Kevin Schwantz:
"Competing in the 2013 Suzuka 8-Hour with Team Kagayama reminded me of what racing with a great team is all about. I am really looking forward to celebrating Yoshimura's 60th anniversary of being in business by competing in the 2014 Suzuka 8-Hour on a 'Pops Yoshimura' Suzuki.
"Pops was a very influential man in my career; I first met him mid-way through the 1985 season riding for Yoshimura. Riding for Pops taught me a lot and helped groom me to be the competitor that I am. He was a real motivator and got the best out of everyone that worked around him.
"In 1994, I presented Pops with my winning Suzuka Grand Prix trophy - the fourth Japanese win of my career - in the Suzuki garage. That photo is still one of my favourites of all time. Before his passing, he told me I was his only rider to ever win a 500cc World Championship, or as it is known today MotoGP, and since his passing his words still hold true. To be teamed with my team-mate from 1986, Satoshi Tsujimoto, is a real honour. Thank you to the Suzuka circuit and everybody at Yoshimura Japan for the opportunity."
Schwantz Main Racing History:
∗ 1985 Suzuka 8H 3rd place / Yoshimura / Pair rider: Graeme Crosby.
∗ 1986 Suzuka 8H 3rd place / Yoshimura / Pair rider: Satoshi Tsujimoto.
∗ 1988 Suzuka 8H 3rd place / Yoshimura / Pair rider: Doug Polen.
∗ 1993 500cc Grand Prix World Champion.
∗ 2013 Suzuka 8H 3rd place / Team Kagayama.
∗ 25 GP wins / 21 lap records / 29 pole positions.
Satoshi Tsujimoto:
"It is the 60th anniversary year for Yoshimura and I am so excited to announce that I will race at the Suzuka 8-Hour as a member of the Legend Team. My team-mate is Kevin Schwantz, who joined the Yoshimura Factory at the same time as me back in 1984!
"It has been 30 years since then and I am honoured to race together in the Yoshimura family. I am now 54 years old, but I still have same Yoshimura 'Challenging Spirit' from the past and I will work hard to get myself in the best condition to enjoy the race. It is going to be a really tough race physically, but we will show our performance at the race."
Tsujimoto Main Racing History:
∗ 1985 All Japan TT F-1 Champion / Team Yoshimura.
∗ 1986 All Japan TT F-1 Champion / Team Yoshimura.
∗ 1986 Suzuka 8H 3rd place / Yoshimura / Pair rider: Kevin Schwantz.
∗ 1993 Suzuka 8H 2nd place.
∗ 1995 Suzuka 8H 2nd place.
Yohei Kato – Yoshimura Shell Advance Team Manager:
"The 37th Suzuka 8-Hour is being held on 27th July 2014 and as the Yoshimura team has been racing from the first year continuously, it is going to be our 37th Suzuka 8-Hour race.
"It is not an ordinarily race for us as it is our 60th Anniversary since my grandfather started the business in 1954 and the Suzuka 8-Hour this year is going to be our memorial race to celebrate our history.
"We have a strong line-up in our riders: Takuya Tsuda - who is making lots of progress in his second year in Superbike - and Josh Waters, who showed great performance at the Suzuka 8-Hour in 2012. We also have another potential rider to make the team even stronger.
"It is going to be a very tough race again this year as there are strong Honda teams, there is Suzuki Endurance Racing Team (SERT), YART, other experienced teams from WEC and also the Kawasaki factory team is backing the race. But we are convinced that we can beat them with our 'Racing Spirit' and 'Strong Bond.'
"We are really pleased to have two teams this year and the #12 Yoshimura Suzuki is going to be formed as the Legend Team with Kevin Schwantz & Satoshi Tsujimoto. They are the pair who finished third in 1986 and both are real legends.
"I am going to support them a lot, but my goal is leading the #34 team to the victory; it is going to be a big fight even within Yoshimura Suzuki and we will do our best to get our fifth Suzuka 8-Hours victory."
Takuya Tsuda:
"I am so glad and excited to race the Suzuka 8-Hour again with the Yoshimura Suzuki Shell Advance Team. It is the 60th Anniversary for Yoshimura and I am proud to be in the team. Last year we were in the winning-position but finished second after a couple of racing accidents.
"We do not need this experience again and we will just push hard to finish race at the highest podium position. Since my team-mate Josh Waters is very fast at Suzuka, my team crews are always reliable - and team will build the best race machine for us - so it is going to be possible to bring a fifth victory for the team!"
Tsuda Main Racing History:
∗ 2013 All Japan Championship JSB1000 Ranking 4th / Team Yoshimura.
∗ 2013 Suzuka 8H 2nd place / Team Yoshimura.
Josh Waters:
"I am very excited to be joining Yoshimura Suzuki Shell Advance for this Suzuka 8-Hour race; some of my best racing memories have been at Suzuka and with Yoshimura Suzuki.
"My team-mate Takuya is very fast and we have a great team behind us, so we are going to be one of the strongest teams this year. Yoshimura Suzuki every year at the Suzuka 8 hour has been fighting for the victory, so this year we will try even harder to achieve the best result as it is a very special year for the team and I feel very lucky to be a part of it."
Waters Main Racing History:
∗ 2009 Australian Superbike Champion.
∗ 2011 WSBK Wildcard (3 events) / Team Yoshimura.
∗ 2011 Suzuka 8H 2nd place / Team Yoshimura.
∗ 2012 Australian Superbike Champion.
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Mr. Memmer retired in 1974 from Gougler Industries of Kent, where he had been employed for 32 years in the maintenance department. He also was a farmer in Randolph for more than 50 years.
He was a member of St. Joseph Church in Randolph.
Survivors include his wife, Agnes Mary (Schaefer), to whom he had been married for 62 years; sons, Lawrence Charles Jr. of Niles, Walter of Ravenna, Howard of Kent, Daniel of Randolph and David of Rootstown; daughters, Mrs. William (Dorothy) Rankin of Kent, Mrs. Peter (Mary) Hershberger of Kent, Delores Baer of Rootstown, Mrs. Forest (Rosemary) Bixler of Ravenna, Mrs. Gary (Diane) Jones of Ravenna, and Mrs. Ed (Sue) Spell of Kittaning, Pa.; 29 grandchildren; 15 great- grandchildren; brother, Paul of Hartville; and sister, Iris Mori of Hartville.
Calling hours will be held from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Wood-Kortright Funeral Home, Ravenna Chapel. Services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at St. Joseph Church in Randolph, with the Rev. Edward Wieczorek officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery.
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niceyou have to keep this with you which i guess is why they made it so portable. you have to stay on top of the liner bc it either flakes or wears off really unevenly, and the shadow creases and fades as well. BUT that being said, it is a great value, and the tuxedo combo is what i wear [black and white] on most days, so it is convenient for me even with the reapplication ordeal. — 8 years, 5 months agocorizotti | 550 reviews
Pretty NiceI actually really liked this duo. I didn't have any problems with it. The first time i used it, I went out to a club and it stayed on all night without creasing or smudging at all. I was more disappointed in the amount of product that was in the tube. I was expecting there to be more in there, especially on the shadow side. — 6 years agoChelleBelle718 | 49 reviews
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At approximately 3:15 am this morning the 13.4metre fishing vessel 'Ayson' struck rocks and later sunk near Sterling Point, at the entrance to Bluff harbour, while returning from fishing.
The skipper and two crew members made a call on the marine radio and activated an EPIRB before boarding the vessels life raft.
Bluff Coastguard vessel 'NZAS Rescue' and the South Port NZ vessel 'Takitimu' responded to the emergency.
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For years, television commercials have jerked viewers out of their seats with sudden spikes in loudness – but by this time next year, broadcasters will have to prevent advertisers from pumping up the volume.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission announced on Tuesday that broadcasters must control the loudness of the ads they air on TV. Their deadline to do so is Sept. 1, 2012 - the beginning of the fall TV season next year.
The federal broadcast regulator received 304 complaints about noisy commercials from Canadians last year, more than double the number it received in 2009.
But even more letters poured in this year, after the CRTC launched a process in February asking for comments from the public about loudness in television ads. It received more than 7,000 comments in response to that request.
"This has been a perennial issue. People have been complaining to us…we said, it's time to do something," CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein said in an interview Tuesday. "There's no reason why the industry can't do it. The costs are minimal. The technology is there."
The CRTC said in its statement that equipment to control loudness in commercials is widely available.
That's mostly because there's a market for the equipment: broadcasters in both the U.S. and the U.K. have already been required to address the problem of loudness in ads.
The Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice in the U.K. brought new rules into effect in 2008. The Advertising Code there now states that "advertisements must not be excessively noisy or strident."
Last December, the CALM Act was passed in the U.S. (the initials in the name stand for Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation) requiring the Federal Communications Commission to keep TV networks in line. Within one year, the FCC must ensure that advertisers use industry technology to modulate sound levels, so that ads will be aired at a reasonable volume.
The U.S. law was based on recommendations established in 2009 by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), an international group that works to develop TV standards.
The CRTC is now telling broadcasters to adopt that standard for tracking television signals, to make sure commercials are not significantly louder than the TV shows they accompany. The CRTC will publish regulations by the end of this year requiring broadcasters to follow the ATSC standard, and they will be asked to implement it by next September.
The changes only apply to TV advertisements and will not be enforced for noise variations in videos that stream on broadcasters' websites, such as ctv.ca or globaltv.com.
The call for comments in February came just days after a B.C.-based Member of Parliament proposed that a law be passed to change Canada's Broadcast Act and require the CRTC to mitigate loudness in TV ads, the way the CALM Act in the U.S. did with the FCC.
Conservative MP Nina Grewal introduced the private member's bill, which was scheduled to be debated in Parliament in March but was held up by the federal election. The regulator's move to create new rules now means a new law is not necessary.
"It's really great news for all of us, that the CRTC has responded with new regulations," Ms. Grewal said in an interview Tuesday. "I'm very, very happy that they have taken action.
The loudness "starts with the production side of the equation, which we don't control," Kevin Goldstein, vice-president of regulatory affairs for Bell Media , which owns Canada's largest private network, CTV, said in an interview Tuesday. "Realistically, from our perspective, to the extent that this issue is rectifiable, it requires a three-party solution: the broadcasters, the [cable and satellite providers]and, first and foremost, the production community."
Mr. Goldstein also said that in some cases, the problem is not with the broadcast, but is tied to viewer perception. If a program with relatively quiet dialogue switches to a "more action-oriented" commercial with a denser mix of sounds, viewers may think it is significantly louder when it isn't, he said. "Technically, there may not even be an issue."
Rogers Communications Inc. began using equipment to measure and control audio levels in 2010, the company wrote in a submission to the CRTC in April.
"Since we are deploying this solution throughout our entire cable network, Rogers will be able to maintain more consistent loudness levels between channels," Rogers vice-president of regulatory affairs, Pam Dinsmore, wrote in the submission, which said that the company had already begun controlling loudness on 120 of the TV signals on its cable service, including the most heavily viewed channels. "Rogers does not believe regulatory changes are required in order to ensure the effective control of the loudness of commercial messages relative to adjacent programming."
Quebecor Media Inc. has also been installing equipment to control sound levels on the channels it owns, including some of its TVA stations, and specialty channels LCN and Yoopa, the company said in a submission, also in April. It has plans to do more on other broadcast stations, and on specialty channels Addik, CASA, and Mlle. Like Rogers, Quebecor stated in its submission that regulatory changes are not needed to address the problem.
Shaw Media , which owns the Global TV network, has also been working to meet the new ATSC standard, a representative said in a statement on Tuesday. "Over the next year, we will consult with commercial producers, advertising agencies, and others to ensure we're compliant by the Sept. 1, 2012 deadline."
The CBC is studying the decision, spokesperson Marco Dubé said in a statement Tuesday. "We're going to get working on meeting the deadline."
Excerpts from a few of the 7,000 responses to the CRTC's request in February for comments on the loudness of TV ads:
"I support controlling the loudness of commercial messages 100 per cent. It is completely unnecessary not to mention irritating to have louder commercials than the program itself. We constantly mute the TV during commercials due to the loudness. Commercials should be a the same loudness level as the program." Dan Wong, Sylvan Lake, Alta.
"I find significantly louder commercials to be very annoying, particularly when watching television after my children have gone to bed." Stephen Cadieux, Kanata, Ont.
"I get a headache every time the commercial gets too loud and this is every day … I strongly support regulating the volume level." Vijai Dial, Toronto
"[Advertisers]are wasting money as most of my friends either record to avoid the ads or mute as soon as possible." Patricia Horner, Aberdeen, Sask.
"In our home, we should not be held hostage by the advertisers - we mute the volume so that their messages are not heard at all!" Carol Tracey, Calgary, Alta.
"I fully support this initiative to restrict the noise level of commercials; it's become intolerable. I've already submitted a complaint to the CRTC about this but did not receive any response … I'd like to know why the CRTC hasn't acted sooner." René Ricard, Magog, Que., commenting in French
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Mats Zuccarello scored two goals as the New York Rangers fought back to claim a 7-3 win over the New Jersey Devils.
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A crowd of 50,105 witnessed the outdoor clash and it looked like the men from the Garden State were in for a good night as they rushed out into a 3-1 lead.
Patrick Elias had put the Devils ahead but Dominic Moore evened things up before Elias' second and a marker from Travis Zajac put New Jersey in control.
That was as good as it got for them, however, as Marc Staal reduced the deficit and Zuccarello's brace turned the game on its head.
Carl Hagelin and Rick Nash then extended the lead before Derek Stepan scored the first successful penalty shot in an outdoor NHL game.
Nick Bjugstad scored the only goal in the shootout as the Florida Panthers beat the Detroit Red Wings 5-4.
Sean Bergenheim had put the Panthers ahead but three unanswered goals from Gustav Nyquist, Daniel Alfredsson and Riley Sheahan put Detroit in control at the end of the second period.
Jesse Winchester and Tomas Tatar traded goals in the third and the Panthers took the game into a scoreless overtime period through Drew Shore and Brad Boyes.
Kevin Bieksa netted the overtime winner as the Vancouver Canucks overcame the Phoenix Coyotes by the same score.
Bieksa and Jannik Hansen had put Vancouver two up but two goals from Antoine Vermette levelled the scores.
Chris Higgins and Zac Dalpe then reopened the two-goal advantage but Vermette's hat-trick goal and a snipe from Shane Doan took the game to overtime.
The Winnipeg Jets produced a superb third-period performance to shock the Chicago Blackhawks 3-1.
Brandon Bollig gave the Stanley Cup champions the lead less than two minutes into the game but goals from Blake Wheeler and Andrew Ladd had Winnipeg ahead in the third before Wheeler's empty-netter sealed the win.
In Sunday's other game, the Edmonton Oilers claimed a 5-1 win over the Nashville Predators.
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Hispanic middle school students may be more likely to smoke tobacco, drink alcohol, or use marijuana than their peers from other ethnic groups, while Asian students may be least likely, according to a recent RAND study. A team of RAND researchers led by Elizabeth D'Amico and Regina Shih gathered data from 5,500 seventh- and eighth-graders at 16 California middle schools. The team found that, overall, 22 percent of students interviewed reported ever using alcohol, 10 percent reported using tobacco, and 7 percent reported marijuana use. For each substance, the odds of substance use were highest among Hispanic students and lowest among Asians, whereas Caucasian and African American students fell somewhere in between.
The RAND team wanted to understand these ethnic differences and so they further examined personal, family and school factors that may influence the middle schoolers' likelihood of substance use. They found that these factors also varied by race and ethnicity. Among Hispanic youth, personal factors were linked to risk of substance use—including youths' lack of confidence in their ability to resist peer pressure and beliefs that substance use had fewer negative consequences. In contrast, Asian youths' relatively low rates of substance use were explained by personal, family, and school factors. Asian youths who felt more confident in their ability to resist peer pressure, who expressed respect for their parents, and who perceived lower rates of substance use among their school peers were less likely to report substance use.
The findings point to important issues that could be addressed in school substance-use prevention programs. For example, interventions could improve youths' ability to resist peer pressure, which might be especially valuable for Hispanic youths. Interventions can also encourage positive parent-child communication and boost kids' sense of responsibility to their parents, which might help maintain Asian youths' lower rates of substance use. The researchers caution that they are not suggesting that such targeted efforts be offered only to students of certain ethnicities, but that such efforts should be widely applied in prevention programs to help the broadest range of youth possible.
In choosing a doctor, Americans are often encouraged to select based on publicly available information, such as a doctor's board certification, educational background, or history of paying malpractice claims. But do these characteristics identify physicians who deliver the highest quality care? A team of researchers from RAND and the University of Pittsburgh studied the relationship between physician characteristics and quality of care. They examined the care delivered by about 10,000 Massachusetts physicians to more than 1.3 million adults during 2004 and 2005. Using data from insurance claims, researchers evaluated the quality of care provided for 22 common medical problems such as diabetes and heart disease.
Researchers found that the physicians studied provided on average about 63 percent of recommended care. Average performance varied by condition, ranging from 31 percent for cataract care to 68 percent for care of congestive heart failure. Only three physician characteristics were associated with better quality: being female, being board certified, and graduating from a medical school in the United States. Furthermore, the difference in quality between the average physician with the best combination of characteristics (female, board-certified, domestically educated) and the average physician with the worst combination (male, noncertified and internationally educated) was small: only 6 percentage points. Even among physicians with the best combination of characteristics, quality was uneven, ranging from 49 to 75 percent of recommended care. Strikingly, the analysis found that a physician's past payment of malpractice claims was not significantly related to quality.
These findings provide little evidence to suggest that a patient would consistently receive higher quality care by switching to a physician with the combination of characteristics identified as associated with high-quality care. The researchers conclude that the public would benefit from access to better data on physician performance.
Elizabeth D'Amico is a senior behavioral scientist at RAND and a licensed clinical psychologist. She is nationally recognized for her work developing, implementing, and evaluating interventions for adolescents that target alcohol and drug use. She currently has three studies in the field that evaluate interventions with youth and two that evaluate interventions with young adults.
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Regina Shih is a psychiatric epidemiologist at RAND. Shih's research focuses on the social and environmental determinants of mental disorders, substance use, cognitive dysfunction, and cardiovascular disease. Her research also seeks to clarify the causal pathways underlying racial/ethnic disparities in physical and mental health outcomes. She has previously published on the health effects of environmental exposure to lead, ambient air pollution, neighborhood socioeconomic status and neighborhood racial/ethnic segregation.
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text: | Weekly jobless claims fell 25,000 to 370,000 but Superstorm Sandy is still affecting the numbers. Also, Darden Restaurants, which owns Red Lobster and Olive Garden, will announce that none of its full-time employees will have their hours cut as a result of new health care regulations. Ashley Morrison reports.


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There are no diplomatic relations between Israel and the Peoples Republic of China but the two countries are cooperating on a variety of projects.
Maariv reported yesterday that more than 60 Israeli firms are currently involved in establishing enterprises in China or are in the final stages of agreements with the Chinese authorities. The projects include an airfield and 10 hotels, solar energy plants and agricultural development involving Israeli know-how, capital and technology. The Chineseprovide the manpower and land and do the actual construction, Maariv said. Two Israeli experts have just been granted visas by the Chinese and will travel there on their Israeli passports. Others have gone to China on non-Israeli passports. Many Israelis hold dual nationality for business purposes.


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NEW YORK (AP) — The Port Authority has opened a new PATH train platform at the World Trade Center.
The new modernized platform will become part of the $4 billion trade center transportation hub.
The transportation hub will open in phases through 2015.
The new platform serves travelers headed from lower Manhattan to Hoboken, N.J.


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For some time I have been thinking, writing, and gathering information, not necessarily in any good order, about our situation here in the US. For more than a decade I have thought that we are in a protracted crisis.
This crisis can be felt at the personal, family, local and national level in all areas of life. Some of the sources are systemic to technological change and the global dynamics of capitalism. Some find their roots in fundamental failures in humans – racism, sexism, religion, etc. Some flow from our political system, some from our economy.
The focus of this work has been to try to identify what this crisis is about within the US context, to describe it, without any real notion of even suggesting solutions.
Where Did This List Come From and Is There an Order?
I first started this list two or three years ago while we were still in the deepest part of the Great Recession. Most of the early entries related to the political system and economic inequality. As I have returned to it I have broadened the coverage of social and political topics. Most recently I have added ones that relate to the mythology underlying our approaches to life in the US.
Here is my current list of topics:
- Underperforming, expensive healthcare system
- Political system controlled by big money, private and corporate
- Distorted role of corporations
- Quasi-religious faith in "free market" capitalism
- Race, sex, ethnicity, klans….
- Myth of social mobility
- National and State Political Systems Designed to Be Anti-democratic and Dysfunctional
- 30+ year stagnation of income
- Disappearance of living wage jobs
- The rich are at their feeding troughs
- Expensive, underperforming K-12 educational system
- Expensive, underperforming higher ed system
- Web access and infrastructure
- Homelessness and poverty
- Bloated, dysfunctional global military and empire
- Our longest war – the war on drugs
- Criminal justice system – aka the judicial-incarceration gulag
- Persistent income disparities
- Super rich vs. everyone else
- Intrusion by organized religion into government and politics
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I am opening a nail salon and am finding that most manicurists will not consider being hired if I don't pay them on a commission basis, i.e. they do not want to be paid a wage. I understand that there is no clear-cut line between being an independent contractor vs. an employee, but are there steps I need to take to ensure that they are being properly classified as independent contractors? Are there specific things I need to be saying to them so they are clear that they are independent contractors? If I were to take these steps, is there any certainty that if one of them were to sue me that they weren't really an independent contractor, rather an employee, that I would prevail? Is there any certainty that if I take these steps, the IRS doesn't come after me for back payment of employer taxes?
Thank you for your fast and thorough response.
I understand more clearly now. If I make a suggestion, it is merely that. I cannot really make it a "standard" because if I do, I am toeing the line of an employer-employee relationship?
If I made a suggestion as to, for example, how often they clean their tools, but then do not penalize them if they do not follow that suggestion, would that be okay?
Last, if I more 80/20, in that 80% of what I do is clearly treating them as independent contractors, but maybe 20% of the time I do things, like requiring them to clean their tools a certain way, do you find that courts and/or the IRS weigh in favor of independent contractor status? Or are they more likely to penalize me for failing to classify them as employees? In other words, are they more prone to side on the side of the employee if some, but not majority, of what I do is of an indep contractor status?
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Sochaczew – a city with county rights in central Poland, in the Mazowieckie Province. It lies 55 km west of Warsaw, by the Bzura River.
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Jewish presence in Sochaczew dates back to the 15th century. In the years 1426-1455, the duke of Mazowsze Władysław issued to the Jews of the Sochaczew region a privilege which regulated the legal way of dealing with Christian land owners who were in debt to Jews. It is possible that Jews lived exclusively in the town at that time. They appear in the sources as early as 1463, when a Jewish doctor named Feliks is reported to live and work there. In 1507, the Jews of Sochaczew paid 6 zlotys of coronation tax. The information on Mojżesz and Michał, who were tax collectors in Sochaczew and Kłodawa, dates back to the beginning of the 16th century.
In the second half of the 16th century, anti-Jewish riot became more frequent in Mazowsze. With the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation in the background, many accusations against Jews were spread. One of charges considered desecration of the Host and pressing blood out of it. A case of this kind ended up in Płock. In April 1556, a group of townsmen from Sochaczew accused the local Jews that they had bought a consecrated host from Dorota Łazęcka and pressed blood from it. The district governor of Sochaczew, Stanisław Borek from Trzecieniec, punished Dorota Łazęcka and the rabbi of Sochaczew Beniasz with death penalty, wich was carried out on 23 April 1556. The remaining three accused Jews were taken to the provincial governor of Rawa Andrzej Sierpski and after being subjected to torture, they confessed. On 1 June 1556, they were hanged on the hooks at the three gates to Płock. The Jews of Płock feared similar incidents and asked King Zygmunt August to issue a safe conduct for them and help establishing the truth. The king gave his protection to all Jews in Rzeczpospolita, especially those in Płock, until the case was resolved. The safe conduct gave them right to trade and prove their innocence. After half a year (on 14 January 1557), Zygmunt August ordered to take the victims of the hooks and allowed the families to bury them.
In 1564 and 1570, the Jews owned 7 houses, including a synagogue. The poll tax was paid by 24 Jews in 1578. The local municipality was growing fast. In 1599, already 20 houses belonged to Jews. Addiionaly, sixteen tax collectors lived there. In 1602, the Jews had also a hospital, a house of prayer, and the number of tax collectors dropped to 4.
Local history
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The history of Sochaczew dates back to a settlement founded in the Early Middle Ages near a defensive stronghold relocated in the 14th century to a hill currently known as the Castle Mountain, where a brick castle was erected. Sochaczew was first mentioned in documents from 1138 as an alleged place of the death of Duke Bolesław III Krzywousty.
In 1221, Sochaczew was referred to as the seat of a castellany. In 1257, three churches were constructed there: parish, monastery and Dominican ones. The stronghold and settlement were destroyed following the invasion of the Lithuanians and Ruthenians in 1283. They were rebuilt and strengthened by Ziemowit III, Duke of Mazowsze. At the end of the 13th or at the beginning of the 14th century (most probably in 1324), Sochaczew was granted municipal rights. In 1377, Siemowit III wrote down and proclaimed the laws of Mazowsze in Sochaczew. At that time, the town functioned as the capital of the Sochaczew Land and its dukes were vassals of the Polish king.
In 1476, the Sochaczew Land was annexed by the Kingdom of Poland as part of the Rawa Province and Sochaczew itself became a royal city. In 1434 and 1476, its municipal rights were confirmed. Despite the fires that wreaked havoc in the town in 1506, 1509, 1536 and 1590, Sochaczew had a large population. In 1564, about 2 thousand people lived in 330 houses, mainly artisans affiliated in 22 guilds. Before 1630, the old castle was turned into the seat of starostes. In 1619, another fire destroyed half of the town. Sochaczew was also ruined by the wars in the second half of the 17th century, particularly the Swedish Deluge. In 1660, only 13 houses remained in the town. Several dozen years later, Sochacze had only slightly over 200 inhabitants. Further destruction was brought by the wars at the beginning of the 18th century and an epidemic in the years 1708–1709.
In the second half of the 18th century, the town was gradually gaining in importance. The number of inhabitants grew to about 1500. Following the third partition of Poland (1795), the Sochaczew Land came under Prussian occupation (South Prussia). In 1807, it became part of the Duchy of Warsaw (Warsaw department) and was incorporated in 1815 into the Kingdom of Poland (Province, later Governorate of Warsaw). At the beginning of the 19th century, the urban layout of Sochaczew un
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Aurora -- Head coach Tim Deering was excited to see some offense from his Greenmen varsity baseball team late in the regular season, but there's no guarantees in the postseason, even with a big offense.
As the No. 1 seed at the Struthers Division I sectional-district tournament, Aurora was to open play May 13 after a first round bye. Check the Advocate's website for final results.
Aurora (16-7) was scheduled to play the May 12 winner of the Twinsburg (No. 3 seed) and Bedford (No. 6) game. Deering was expecting the opponent to be Twinsburg.
The district games will take place at Bob Cene Park in Struthers.
"This district is tough and Twinsburg is playing well against a strong schedule," Deering said. "Twinsburg can really hit and play defense well."
Standout sophomore pitcher A.J. Kimes (4-1 this season) was expected to take the hill for Aurora in its crucial postseason games. The Greenmen's pitching staff is a team strength.
Also in play this week -- possibly -- is a share of the championship in the Chagrin Valley Conference Chagrin Division.
Aurora was 6-3 in the CVC and is slated to host Kenston (7-2), which already has a share of the crown, today (May 14). Chagrin Falls (7-3) is also in the mix. The Greenmen are to play a non-league game at Canton South on May 17.
The Greenmen won 11-6 at Olmsted Falls (9-15) in non-league action on May 8 as Aurora had a pair of four-run innings to pull out the win after seven lead changes.
DEERING saw his troops score four runs in the top of the fourth inning, four more in the sixth and three in the seventh. Aurora had 11 hits.
Two athletes who are pacing the offense now -- juniors Nick Ely and University of Virginia recruit Andy Weber -- got into the act again.
Aurora took the lead for good in the sixth frame when Ely singled home Weber off Olmsted Falls losing pitcher Ryan Yako.
Weber, who is hitting over .340, had two hits and five runs batted in. He tripled in the sixth and seventh innings and scored both times.
Ely is batting .357 and he had two doubles, two RBI,and two runs scored as junior Josh Andexler got the win in relief of junior Devin Bradley.
Andexler (2-0) allowed two runs in 3.1 innings of work while striking out two batters.
"Our offense is working to score and right now Weber and Ely are extremely hot at the plate," said the coach. "They are our only hot hitters now, but that's good to see from your three and four hitters [in the lineup]."
A two-out run-scoring double by Weber scored junior Matt Carpenter in a two-run eighth inning to spark a 3-1 league win at Kenston (13-7) on May 7.
It was a pitcher's duel and Kimes won the battle with a 3-hitter in eight innings of work. Kimes didn't allow a run and had only one walk while striking out three batters.
"A.J. gave up one unearned run and was looking really good," said Deering, as Kimes threw only 80 pitches.
"KIMES really shot them down and he's just doing a great job," added the coach. "He's going right at hitters and letting our defense play behind him."
Aurora had only five hits in the win and Weber scored two runs as well.
Meanwhile, a four-run first inning keyed Aurora's 6-1 win over Perry (11-10, 4-5) in league action at Ed Sherwin Field on May 6.
Once again pitching was the key as junior Carter Semancik fired a complete-game 3-hitter to move to 2-0 this spring. He did not allow a single walk and was aided by the big 4-run first inning by the offense.
"Carter is a strike thrower and he just hit the plate," Deering said. "He had command and was throwing down in the zone. It was nice to get ahead with a big inning."
Aurora scored in the first on RBI singles by Weber and Ely, plus a two-run error by Perry. Ely was outstanding at the plate, going 3 for 3 with a double, two RBI and two runs.
Senior Luke Calcei took the ball on the hill in a CVC test at Perry on May 5, and proceeded to pitch a one-hit shutout in a 4-0 win.
Calcei's gem raised his season mark to 3-2, as the only hit he allowed was a single to left field early in the game. He fanned five batters and walked three.
"Luke was tremendous," Deering said. "He really picked up our staff, which was out of order a bit with some postponements. Luke did a great job for us."
The Greenmen offense managed only five hits, but the biggest was by junior Ryan Gambatesa -- a 2-run, two-out single in the top of the sixth inning to extend the lead.


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Dynamical Models of Stock Prices Based on Technical Trading Rules Part I: The Models
In this paper we use fuzzy systems theory to convert the technical trading rules commonly used by stock practitioners into excess demand functions which are then used to drive the price dynamics. The technical trading rules are recorded in natural languages where fuzzy words and vague expressions abound. In Part I of this paper, we will show the details of how to transform the technical trading heuristics into nonlinear dynamic equations. First, we define fuzzy sets to represent the fuzzy terms in the technical trading rules; second, we translate each technical trading heuristic into a group of fuzzy IF-THEN rules; third, we combine the fuzzy IF-THEN rules in a group into a fuzzy system; and finally, the linear combination of these fuzzy systems is used as the excess demand function in the price dynamic equation. We transform a wide variety of technical trading rules into fuzzy systems, including moving average rules, support and resistance rules, trend line rules, big buyer, big seller and manipulator rules, band and stop rules, and volume and relative strength rules. Simulation results show that the price dynamics driven by these technical trading rules are complex and chaotic, and some common phenomena in real stock prices such as jumps, trending and self-fulfilling appear naturally.
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The severe drought conditions that troubled Indiana through the summer have largely dissipated, with a federal report showing the state's dryness in its best condition since mid-June.
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Before Amanda Clayton won $1 million in the Michigan lottery program she was accepting various welfare programs including $200 per month in food stamps and according to the Detroit News after she won the big prize she continued to stay on governmental aid.
The Michigan Department of Human Services confirmed on Wednesday night that they removed Clayton from the program when it was realized that she made far too much money in 2011 to qualify for the program.
According to state Rep. Dale Zorn:
"State assistance, our tax dollars, is meant to go to those who are truly in need. It's not meant to go to those who won big in the lottery."
Clayton chose to accept her $1 million prize in one lump sum of $700,000 which provided her with approximately $500,000 after taxes. According to her ex-boyfriend she then went on "an insane shopping spree" in which she bought a house and car with cash.
What might be most shocking is the fact that Clayton actually believed she deserved to stay on welfare because she was bogged down with two houses and other newly added expenses. As Clayton put it:
"I thought that they would cut me off, but since they didn't I thought maybe it was OK because I'm not working. I feel that it's OK because I have no income, and I have bills to pay. I have two houses."
Sadly this isn't the first time a lottery winner in the state of Michigan has remained on welfare, a $2 million winner in 2010 did the same thing which has led state officials to now think about ways they can examine and remove lottery winners from the state welfare program.
In the meantime Clayton could find herself in legal trouble for accepting food stamps after her income and assets surpassed the legal threshold.
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The Carver County Board of Commissioners discussed and adopted its 2013 aquatic invasive species program at its Feb. 26 regular session.
Parks Director Marty Walsh presented the Board with multiple options for the upcoming lake season, with the Board choosing Option B.
This option includes inspection services at Lake Minnewashta, Lake Bavaria, Lake Waconia, as well as other lakes within the Carver County Watershed District and the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District.
While exact hours and inspection dates have yet to be decided while the county waits on funding approvals, the 2013 program aims to provide inspection services at times of higher use such as early mornings and weekends.
Last year, Lake Bavaria began with a roving inspection program that was bolstered by the Friends of Lake Bavaria, allowing inspections seven days a week by mid season. This year, the funding isn't available for every day inspections, but the program will focus on those days and times of heavier traffic.
For Lake Waconia, the county hopes to use a daily approach, provided the appropriate levels of funding are approved by the Department of Natural Resources.
"Until we have actual funding sources secured, it's difficult to say just what that program will be," Walsh said, but added that the county is leaning towards more full-time service at Lake Waconia.
What's new for 2013 are the additional lakes that the watershed districts are offering funds for. Additional lakes will be inspected on a roving basis and have yet to be decided, but could include lakes such as Hydes, Reitz, Wasserman, Pierson, Parley, and Virginia.
In the coming months, the county will also explore the idea of a centralized inspection service, where certain inspection sites could allow boaters access to lakes that do not have on-shore services.
The Carver County Water Management Organization aims to tackle aquatic invasive species in three ways: education, monitoring, and inspections.
Also at the Feb. 26 meeting, April 6, 2013 was proclaimed Cancer Awareness Day in Carver County, in conjunction with the kickoff of Relay for Life of Waconia's annual event; new employees John Schimelpfenig (Public Works, highway/park maintenance), Sam Pertz (Public Works, parks/trail supervisor), and Patrick Lambert (Public Works, right of way agent) were officially welcomed; and used benches and furniture from the Social Services lobby area are being donated to Mary's Wish in Waconia.
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World War II veterans have gathered to see the Queen dedicate and unveil a memorial to tens of thousands of airmen who died in the conflict.
The Bomber Command Memorial in London's Green Park pays tribute to the sacrifice and bravery of the 55,573 RAF crew who were killed.
More than 5000 surviving airmen joined the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and other members of the Royal Family in Green Park for the unveiling of the memorial, which features a 2.7-metre bronze sculpture depicting a seven-man bomber crew returning from a mission.
The STG7 million ($A10.8 million) Portland stone memorial also has been given the blessing of the German people, after an inscription was included which commemorates all those killed in the bombings of 1939-45.
Dudley Hannaford, 88, who came from Sydney for the service, told how he served as a wireless operator on Lancaster bombers flying out of RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire.
"I had 18 operations over Germany and I was shot down on the 18th," he said.
"I joined up with the pilot and we tried to evade capture, which we did for 16 days, but we ran out of food and had to give ourselves up.
"It was quite near the end of the war anyway, and I was in a prisoner-of-war camp near Munich when I was released and repatriated."
He said the occasion was "absolutely wonderful".
"It makes me think of release and victory. I only played a very small part in that, but it is something to be very thankful for," he said.
Other veterans came from Canada and New Zealand.
As well as the bronze sculpture, the memorial's roof is inspired by a Vickers Wellington aircraft and incorporates sections of aluminium recovered from a Handley Page Halifax III bomber shot down over Belgium on May 12, 1944, killing eight crew.
It will be handed over to the RAF Benevolent Fund to maintain.
The project initially raised concerns in the city of Dresden, where 25,000 civilians were killed in Allied bombing raids in 1945.
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"We are close friends with people in Britain, we are twinned with Coventry, and at first we were surprised that the memorial was being constructed," the spokeswoman quoted the mayor as saying.
"Our mayor raised concerns when she happened to be at an exhibition in London and met London mayor Boris Johnson.
"The inscription is a further gesture of reconciliation between Britain and Germany."
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THE Royal Bolton Hospital's board of directors must be held to account for the its financial failings, a leading councillor has said.
Cllr Andy Morgan, who sits on the council's health, overview and scrutiny board, said he had been left "infuriated"
by the latest figures at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust.
It was revealed in The Bolton News yesterday that the Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the hospital, is £8 million in the red — a figure expected to rise to £12 million by April, and which could be as high as £16 million by the end of the financial year.
The Department of Health has shored up the hospital's finances until the end of December with an £8 million loan.
Cllr Morgan said: "I cannot believe how the Trust has gone from surplus to a massive deficit in the matter of two years. We need some answers, not the drip-feed of information that is currently happening.
"The questions need to be asked to tell both users and staff how it is going to be sorted."
At the last scrutiny committee, on September 4, Cllr Morgan says he asked about the level of deficit and was assured it would not increase from £3.8 million.
That figure was the amount reported by the hospital to be "unaccounted for" after problems in the Trust's accounting led to PricewaterhouseCoopers being brought in to carry out an internal review.
It also came after health watchdog Monitor took the unusual step to intervene after issuing a damning report about the hospital's finances in August.
David Wakefield was appointed as interim chairman, to replace Cllr Cliff Morris, who left his post three months before the end of his second term on the board.
At the hospital's board meeting on Thursday, Mr Wakefield said: "The forecast does not look great.
"Clearly, we are going to do something to address the current spending and get some help with cash."
Cllr Morgan added: "It is unacceptable and it is not fair to the staff who have all this uncertainty."


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OCALA, Fla. - Marion County deputies have arrested a man who they say was building machine guns inside of his Ocala home.
Charles Lester,48, has been charged with six counts related to illegal weapons and drug paraphernalia.
Deputies said they received a tip that Lester was building the guns inside his home on Dogwood Trail Court and upon arriving, they found two guns on Lester without a concealed weapons permit. Detectives found 16 guns in Lester's home, five of which were converted to fully automatic rifles.
Also found in Lester's home was rolling papers, a grinder, a cigarette roller and a blue glass pipe. He was arrested on $16,000 bond. His charges include carrying a concealed firearm, possession of a short barrelled gun rile or machine gun, carrying a weapon openly, two counts of a possession of automatic firearm and possession of drug paraphernalia.
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Spielberg, who has won two Oscars and is tipped to be nominated for another for his latest movie, Catch Me If You Can, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, said he is interested in shooting a movie in Australia.
The 55-year-old has never been to Australia, although he says some of his closest friends are Australian. They include directors Peter Weir, Fred Schepisi, George Miller and Luhrmann.
"These are my buddies and Nicole Kidman is a very close friend of mine and also there's Naomi Watts," Spielberg said.
"I mean, there's good reason for me to go over there. The reason I haven't is it's 15-and-a-half hours to get there and it's the longest airplane ride I think you can take."
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After all these years, Gord Poersch still remembers the spirit of the game.
St. Vital resident Poersch, 75, was a halfback with the Winnipeg Juvenile Football League championship-winning St. Vital Mustangs team of 1955 — and a pick for the 1955 Juvenile League all-star team — before becoming a member of the Winnipeg Rods and their 1956 Canadian Junior Football League championship winning team.
"In terms of our equipment, we had hand-me-downs from year to year. We played for the spirit of the game," said Poersch, who — pending on the results of some medical tests — hopes to attend an upcoming gala dinner to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the Mustangs and catch up with some of the old faces.
The event will be held on Sat., March 9 at the team's clubhouse at 100 Frobisher Rd. in Maple Grove Park. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m., cocktails will be served until 7 p.m. and dinner will follow. The master of ceremonies will be CTV Winnipeg's sports director, Shawn Churchill, while guest speaker will be Bruce Covernton, a former Mustang who went on to play in the Canadian Football League for the Calgary Stampeders.
The gala — which organizers hope will attract alumni, as well community members currently involved with the club — will also see three builders and a team inducted into the Mustang's newly-formed Hall of Fame. The builders are Al Penny, Bob Vandale and Gord Cooke, while the team is the 1987 junior Mustangs, who were (the former) Armadale Cup finalists that year.
"Looking back, it was a good era to play in," said Poersch, who went on to run Western Fabrics for many years before his retirement. "After the game, most guys would hang out at the Red Top (Drive Inn Restaurant). I still have a lot of good friends from those days and I still see the guys now and then."
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I have tested my inference engine code on both Windows XP and Linux and on both systems it crashes DrScheme3m under V350.3. It runs fine under V350 (both DrScheme and DrScheme3m) and also runs fine under DrScheme for V350.3. Under Windows XP, it generally dies with the GC indicator icon on and gives the following generic error. MrEd-based application has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. For Linux (Ubuntu 6.06) the window and application just go away. It is almost immediate on starting the computation and the crash is 100% repeatable. I'm not sure what other information I can give you. I can, of course, send the code to anyone who wants to investigate the problem. The code is strictly Scheme - there are no FFI packages and it is entirely self contained (there are no requires at all). The only unusual thing I can think of is that it does do quite a bit of destructive list manipulations. It is also prototype code and likely leaks some, but I can't see that that is the problem since it does run outside of the V350.3 3m environment. [Note that in earlier posts today I was saying in at least some places 305.3 when I meant 350.3.] Doug M. Douglas Williams, Ph.D. Sr. Scientist Science Applications International Corporation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/attachments/20060703/446e724d/attachment.html>
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