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Meet you at the State Fair
New leader promises more of the same.
Jim Harris
Max Brantley
September 15, 2005
Ralph Shoptaw found the gears already turning nicely when he took over in mid-May for the retired Jim Pledger as general manager of the Arkansas State Fair. Plans were already in place to bring in some name music entertainment — for example, modern rock band Better Than Ezra and classic rock band Grand Funk Railroad — for this year's event Oct. 7-16. "We have a really good staff here and a lot of the work was done before I came," he said. "It takes all year to put a fair on, so they had been planning and putting things in place before I got here." Shoptaw, who started his career in the fair business at Texarkana's Four-States Fair and Rodeo and worked there 13 years, says the transition "has gone smoothly." The Fair is the big show, but barely a weekend passes without some activity on the grounds. Shoptaw anticipates few major changes in the setup. He just wants to enjoy some time around the animals during the State Fair. "I have somewhat of a livestock and agriculture background," he said. "I minored in agriculture in college. We had a cattle farm at Texarkana until after I got out of college. So, I have a real desire to bring agriculture and livestock to the forefront with this fair. I'd like to see us focus more on agriculture and livestock, since they are such a big part of the state's economy." Dan Sawyer, who joined the Fairgrounds after Barton Coliseum's hockey team, his previous employer, dissolved, handles marketing and sponsorships. Hans Vanderwerff is the Fairgrounds' assistant manager in charge of operations. Mason Ellenberger is the events director who lined up the bands for the State Fair. Those acts, incidentally, will be free with a regular fair admission. Shoptaw's ties to the State Fairgrounds date to longtime manager Johnnie Holmes. "He was a really close friend of mind and somewhat a mentor for me. I spent some time up here during the Fair and he taught me the business. I learned my way all around these fairgrounds. I also knew Jim Pledger for several years." So, when Pledger announced he was stepping down, the 58-year-old Shoptaw, who had been running the DeGray Lake State Park lodge for the past six years, applied for the job. "It's actually been a lifelong dream of mine to be here. My goal was to ultimately be the general manager of the Arkansas State Fair." Shoptaw served 10 years on the state Fair Managers Board, including a year as president, and was elected to the Fair Managers Hall of Fame. "Fair business is pretty much in my blood," he said. Last week, Shoptaw saw part of the Fairgrounds turned into a temporary home for evacuees from New Orleans. He said that only about 100 were on the grounds at midweek, and they were being relocated — the Fairgrounds had a Hunter Expo scheduled that was expected to draw several thousand people, just a week after the state's biggest horse show was held there. Although concerts have moved almost exclusively to Alltel Arena, Barton Coliseum has activity, Shoptaw said. "There are a wide range of meetings and conferences there. The entire horse show was in there. It's not sitting dark." The State Fair on average attracts more than 400,000 folks for everything from the professional rodeo to the midway rides and games to the monster truck show. A $39.95 family value pack will include four tickets, a parking pass, and food and ride coupons. Some questions for fair buff Shoptaw: Favorite fair food? "I like a all of it. What I do is always get a corn dog. That is THE original fair food to me. There are so many other things, though, like hand-dipped ice cream. At the Maryland State Fair, where I went last week, you could get the vanilla ice cream dipped in chocolate. We've got lots of food. This is a food fair, and a lot of people come just for the food." Favorite fair music? "Basically country. I used to book some acts at the fair in Texarkana, some old rock 'n' roll acts like Billy Joe Royal. I'm kind of wide ranging, though." Favorite ride? "The one called the Cliffhanger. It's pretty scary. I like some of those old rides like the Himalaya and the Ring of Fire." Given the choice of one barn on the grounds to visit during the Fair, which would it be? The cows. Beef cattle. That's what I used to raise. But that children's barnyard is pretty neat, too."
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Program schedule by days
DAY 1, March 28, 2017
Plenary session.
Legislation in the sphere of electronic and electrotechnical equipment. Wastes, Extended Producers Responsibility and the standards.
08.00 - 09.30
Foyer and the exhibition hall
Registration and welcome coffee. Foyer and the exhibition hall.
09.30 - 11.30
MIR hall.
Welcome address by the organizers of MIR Expo and EWEEES.
09.30 - 09.40
Welcome addresses.
Victor Kovshevny, Chiarman, MIR Expo; Director, RUSLOM.COM, Russia.
Dr. Viktor Haefeli, Chairman, EWEEES; Owner, Smart Recourses; Senior Consultant of the Ministry of Ecology, Switzerland.
General Moderator: Denis Arsentyev, President, Roadside Service and Tourism Companies Association
Moderator: Prof. Tatyana Guseva, Dmitry Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia.
Key speakers:
09.40 - 10.20
Roman Kuprin, Deputy Director of Metallurgy and Materials, The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia
Vladimir Talalykin, First Deputy Director, Housing and Utility Sector Reforms Foundation, State Corporation
Nuritdin Inamov, Director of International Co-operation Department, The Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia (to be confirmed).
Elena Semiletova, Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Natural Resources and Ecology, State Duma of Russia.
Anton Kulbachevskiy, Head of the Department for Natural Resources Use and Environment Protection, The City of Moscow (to be confirmed).
Alexander Kogan, The Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Use, Moscow Region (to be confirmed).
Olga Filchenkova, Head of the Department of Natural Resources Use Economy, Economy and Finance Department, The Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia (to be confirmed).
The representative of The Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage, Russia (to be confirmed).
Albina Dudareva, Deputy Executive Director, The Association of Inter-Regional Social and Economical Co-operation Central Federal Region.
Welcome address, Yves Rossier, The Ambassador of Switzerland in Russia.
Ellen von Zitzewitz, Counselor for Energy, Environment, and Climate, Economy and Science Department, Embassy of Germany in Russia
10.20 - 11.30
Panel discussion inter-industrial round table.
1. WEEE (wastes of electronic and electrotechnical equipment)
Dr. Victor Haefeli, President of the 2nd Congress of Eurasian WEEE Solutions.
2. Manufacturers
Aleksey Vorobyev, GR Director, PepsiCo; Senior Expert of Profile Working Group
3. Manufacturers.
Alexander Onischuk, President, The Association of Trading Companies and Manufacturers of Electrical Household and Computer Equipment (RATEK).
4. Association of manufacturers.
Dr. Frank Schauff, Association of European Business, Russia.
5. Gennadiy Podgorodetskiy, Department Ferrous Metals Extraction and Recycling, Director of Innovation Metallurgical Technologies Science and Educational Center, NITU MISIS
6. Paper scrap.
Denis Kondratyev, Member of Board, Scrap Paper processors League (self-regulation organization), Russia.
7. Glass.
Victor Osipov, President, StekloSoiuz, Russia.
8. Plastic.
Dmitriy Tukov, President, Soyuzresurs Association, Russia.
9. Ivan Gaychenya, Vice President for Corporate Security, MTS
10. Metal
Victor Kovshevny, Director, RUSLOM.COM
11. Regional governments
Vladimir Baltachev
Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Udmurtia
General Information on MIR Expo and EWEEES: Prof. Tatyana Guseva, Dmitry Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia.
11.30 - 12.00
Exhibition hall. Coffee break.
MIR hall.
Cash and banks. Transparency of business.
Panel discussion. Current problems of the recyclers.
General Moderator: Denis Arsentyev, President, Roadside Service and Tourism Companies Association
Moderators: Denis Kondratyev, Member of Board, Scrap Paper processors League, Russia; Ildar Neverov, Member of The General Council, Business Russia (All-Russia public organization).
Vladimir Dvoretskiy, Chairman, Republican Union for Ferrous Metallurgy Industrialists, Association, Kazakhstan.
Igor Frait, Ekologia-Novosibirsk, Russia.
Rodion Cherednichenko, Chairman of Board, Wastes Recycling Association, Russia.
Oleg Primak, CEO, ETM Group
Evgeniy Koshkarev, First Deputy Chairman of Board, Germes; Chairman of Council, NOTP Self-regulating organization (national union of customs representatives), Russia.
Maksim Novikov, Executive Director, Scrap Paper processors League, Self Regulation Organization, Russia.
Rodion Cherednichenko, Chairman of Board, Wastes Recycling Association, Russia.
Konstantin Maykov, CEO, ECOMASHGROUP
Yuriy Ryabichev, Chairman of the Commission for Cleaning and Wastes Management, Opora Rossii; President, ARUK
Dmitriy Potapenko, Businessman
Andrey Vrorbyev, Partner, Egorov, Puginskiy, and Partners Law Bureau
Key issues:
Scrap export restrictions
Cancellation of personal income tax
Public Private Partnership at municipal solid wastes recycling plants construction concessionary agreements
New technological platform of wastes recycling industry development
Hold of scrap recyclers accounts
Legislation barriers for wastes collection and recycling
Improvement of Russian National Classifier of Economic Activities (OKVED)/OKPD
New norms for recycling and ecological charges for 2018-2020
Presentation of the forum Platinum Sponsor
Maksim Belopotapov, Max-In Trade, Founder
EWEEES hall
Session: Extended Producers Responsibility and environmental charges.
12.00 - 12.05 Welcome address.
Moderators of EWEEES Congress: Prof. Tatyana Guseva, Dr. Viktor Haefeli
12.05-12.15 Legislation setting Extended Producers Responsibility for environmental charges
Olga Filchenkova, Head of Natural Resources Use Economy Department, Department for Economy and Finance, The Ministry of Economy and Finance of Russia
12.15-12.25 Execution of the orders for WEEE collection and recycling
Natalya Sokolova, Head of State Ecological Survey Department, Federal Service for Natural Resources Use Survey, Russia (Rosprirodnadzor) (to be confirmed)
12.25-12.35 Current situation and challenges in connection with Extended Producers Responsibility and the environmental charges from the manufacturers point of view
Alexander Onischuk, President, RATEK Association, Russia
Aleksey Soldatov, Manager for Technical Regulation, Household Equipment Manufacturers Committee, AEB
12.45- 12.55 25 years of Extended Producer Responsibility and environmental charges execution in the sphere of WEEE.
Andreas Roethlisberger, SENS e-recycling.ch, Switzerland
12.55-13.05 Implementation of recycling charges in Poland for electronics and electrical machines manufacturers
Dmitry Renard, ELEMENTAL Holding, Poland
13.10 - 14.00
Panel discussion. Extender Producer Responsibility and environmental charges in EEU
Current situation in the sphere of legislation and the implementation of environmental charges in the Russian Federation
Moderator: Prof. Tatyana Guseva, Dmitry Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia.
1. Vladimir Poroshin, Consultant, DRAGMETCONSULT Consulting Center
2. Olga Filchenkova, Head of Natural Resources Use Economy Department, Department for Economy and Finance, The Ministry of Economy and Finance of Russia
3. Natalya Sokolova, Head of State Ecological Survey Department, Federal Service for Natural Resources Use Survey, Russia (Rosprirodnadzor) (to be confirmed)
4. Aleksey Soldatov, AEB, Russia
5. Alexander Onischuk, President, RATEK Association, Russia
6. Andreas Roethlisberger, SENS e-recycling.ch, Switzerland; Ex-President of European WEEE Forum
7. Dmitry Renard, ELEMENTAL Holding, Poland
8. Gennadiy Kalinin, Founder, Afinor, Russia
14.00 - 15.00 Lunch. Exhibition hall
15.00 - 17.00
MIR hall
Presentations of key consumers of Russian ferrpous scrap metals
General Moderator: Denis Arsentyev, President, Roadside Service and Tourism Companies Association.
All key consumers of ferrous scrap participate in the forum for the relations with partners and suppliers. Each of them have 1-2 min. for the presentation.
Presentation of Brass Sponsor
Sergey Babushkin, Director for CIS, Metso Lindemann
Participants according to Uralmekom invitation list:
1. Fagim Valeev, CEO, TMK Chermet
2. Yan Starchenko, Commercial Director, TMK Chermet
3. Sergey Lobanov, Scrap Metals Procurement Director, Mechel-Steel Managing Company
4. Oleg Titov, CEO, Severstal-Vtorchermet
5. Alexander Kulikov, Commercial Director, Severstal-Vtorchermet
6. Andrey Pavlov, CEO, Meta
7. Vitaliy Posobin, Director for Commerce, Meta
8. Andrey Teterin, Head of Marketing Department, Meta
9. Vladimir Krasilschikov, CEO, OMK-EcoMetal
10. Roman Reznikov, Commercial Director, BMZ-Managing Company of BMK Holding
11. Viltaliy Chernel, Deputy Director, BMZ-Managing Company of BMK Holding
12. Vitaliy Adamenko, Director, BMZ Trade House
13. Denis Kraev, Executirve Director, Vtorresurs-NK
14. Sergey Sokolov, Executive Director, UralMetCom
15. Dmitriy Sidorenko, Commercial Director, UralMetCom
16. Evgeniy Galkin, CEO, SGMK-Trade
17. Konstantin Chvanov, Head of Procurement, Asha Metallurgical Plant
18. Andrey Antonov, Director, Profit
19. Mikhail Ponomarev, Senior Specialist, MMK
20. Alexander Sofronov, CEO, Vtorchermet NLMK
21. Igor Fedorov, Commercial Director, Vtorchermet NLMK
Digital economy in scrap business. On-line materials exchanges. Tenders of the Ministry of Defense.
Anzhelika Imanova, Deputy Director, Russian Auction House
Dmitriy Filimonov, CEO, RODEKS
Dmitriy Ivanov, CEO, Metallmarket.ru
Denis Ponomarev, Head of Transit Department, VtorTsvetMet-Nizhniy Novgorod
Yuriy Kostin, CEO, Institute of State Management and Purchases
15.00 - 17.00
D2 hall
Panel discussion for paper scrap for the recyclers. How to start and what to do?
Andrey Guryanov, CEO, Paper Scrap Recyclers League, Self Regulation Organization
Denis Kondratyev, Member of Board, Paper Scrap Recyclers League, Self Regulation Organization
Andrey Ivanov, CEO, Green Dog
Timofey Blinov, Commercial Director, Green Dog
Alexander Zenkin, Financial Director, SOEMZ
Ekaterina Korshikova, Senior Analyst, Paper Scrap Recyclers League, Self Regulation Organization
15.00 - 17.00
EWEEES hall
Reports of the EEU member countries.
15.00 - 15.05 Welcome address
Moderators of the Congress: Prof. Tatyana Guseva, Dr. Viktor Haefeli
15.05 - 15.20 Projects in the sphere of WEEE management in Lipetsk Region, Russia
Ruslan Gubaydullin, Executive Director, Clean Country Association
15.20 - 15.35 Formation of wastes management sector in Russia and CIS. Co-operation of Governments and business
Vladimir Maryev, Head of the Sub-Committee for Dangerous Wastes and Recyclable Materials, Committee for Natural Resources Use, Chamber of Industry and Trade of Russia; President, Association for Wastes Recycling
15.35 - 15.50 Extended Producer Responsibility in Kazakhstan legislation. Perspective of new legislation influence on WEEE recycling development in the country
Vera Mustafina, Director, KazWaste Association
15.50 - 16.05 Extended Producer Responsibilityin Belarus legislation. Execution results, challenges, and perspective
Alexander Kirpichnik, CEO, BelVTI (to be confirmed)
16.05 - 16.20 Solutions for WEEE in Tajikistan
Dr. Muazama Burkhanova, Expert, EIA; Chairman, Civic Initiative Support Fund, environmental organization
16.20 -16.35 Current situation and challenges for WEEE recycling in Russia
Victor Kitsing, Founder, NOVOREC Recycling, WEEE recycler, Russia
16.35 - 16.50 Solutions for Extended Producer Responsibility and environmental charges
Armin Kinle, 4Square Return, Germany and China
Exhibition hall
Evening reception and the vent of EWEEES and MIR.
Day 2, 29 March 2017
08.30 - 09.00
Exhibition hall.
Registration and welcome coffee.
D2 hall.
Panel discussion on plastic scrap recycling.
Moderator: Dmitriy Tuknov, President, Soyuzesurs Association.
Speakers and experts:
Nikita rodin, CEO, Poli Pro
Konstantin Rzaev, Executive Partner, Khim partnery
Olsep Khukeyan, CEO, Metard
Roman Korovkin, CEO, Russkiy polimer
Sergey Tekin, Director for Development, Vikona
Maksim Tyurin, Executive Partnet, Plarus
Pavel Tolmachev, Executive Director, VTOREKOINDUSTRIYA
Alexander Nikolskiy, Vice President, SoyuzResurs
Ruslan Barinov, Adviser to CEO, Oboronpromekologia
09:00-11:30 Scrap markets analysis. Innovations in scrap processing and recycling. MIR hall
General Moderator: Denis Arsentyev, President, Roadside Service and Tourism Companies Association
Scott Newell, Chairman, Newell Recycling Equipment
Dmitriy Pyatkov, Senior Analyst, Metals&Mining Intelligence
Victor Zemlyanykh, Head of Strategic Analysis Direction; Chairman of the Commission of Russian Steel National industrial association for Raw Materials Procurement
Rutger Gyllenram, Founder and Chairman, Kobolde & Partners
Gennadiy Podgorodetskiy, Department Ferrous Metals Extraction and Recycling, Director of Innovation Metallurgical Technologies Science and Educational Center, NITU MISIS
Ilya Surushkin, Technical Director, TK. Opportunities for management efficiency increase at recycling plants, by means of rational use of informational systems
Danas Budilovskikh, Director, INECO
Solutions and the Best Available Technologies
09.00 - 10.00 Introduction into WEEE recycling and standards. EWEEES hall
09.00-09.05 Welcome address
Moderators of the congress: Prof. Tatyana Guseva, Dr. Viktor Haefeli
09.05-09.20 Informational and technical reference book for the Best Available Technologies ITS 15 Wastes recycling and neutralization (except of thermal neutralization): issues of recycling of WEEEE containing ozone-damaging materials
Alexander Sanzharovskiy, Research Associate, Secretary of TRG 15,
Bureau for the Best Available Technologies
09:20 - 09.35 Opportunities for national standards development for the Best Available Technologies
Kirill Schelchkov, Research Associate, Buro of the Best Available Technologies
09.35-09.55 International standards for WEEE: CENELEC, EPA, WEEELABEX
Petr Novotny, WEEEELABEX, Czech Republic
Christoph Becker, Auditor for WEEELABEX è CENELEC, RAL, Luxemburg
10.00- 11.30 Solutions for WEEE recycling. EWEEES hall
10.00- 10.10 Recycling of household appliances and electronics according to international standards
Petr Novotny, WEEEELABEX, Czech Republic
Christoph Becker, Auditor for WEEELABEX è CENELEC, RAL, Luxemburg
10.10-10.30 Module solutions for WEEE and other consumer wastes handling using the Best Available Technologies
Mario Zoellig, SwissRTec, Switzerland
10.30- 10.50 Creation of new products at the account of WEEE recycling.
Peter Heßler, URT Environment and Recycling Technology, Germany
10.50-11.10 From scrap to current demands of the market.
Boris Anders, Steinert Elektromagnetebau, Germany
11.10-11.30 State-of-the-art technology in the sphere of WEEE recycling in Russia.
Russian recycler (to be confirmed)
11.30- 12.00 Coffee break. Exhibition hall
D2 hall
Dismantling and recycling of construction wastes
Moderator: Andrey Nesteruk, Head of Regions and Government Relations, RUSLOM.COM
Experience of dismantling
Victor Kazakov, CEO, CrashMash
Dismantling of buildings and constructions. Specifics of dismantling and recycling of five-storey apartment blocks.
Rail Karimov, CEO, Promstroy-Proekt
Examination of the buildings before dismantling
Igor Nisaev, Chief Engineer, ORGSTROYPROEKT
Technologies for Dismantling
Yuriy Yaroslavtsev, Managing Partner, TransStroyMontazh
Dismantling as a source of quality materials for recycling
Alina Bezmenova, Deputy Director, Reshenie
Main kinds and designs of attachable equipment, their advantages and disadvantages
Marco Bodei, Executive Director, Italmek
Union of professional dismantling companies: background and challenges. Creation of the working committee
Andrey Nesteruk, Head of Regions and Government Relations, RUSLOM.COM
Aleksey Krasnikov, CEO, AT Machinery
Alexander Mishin, ORGSTROYPROEKT
Vladimir Malyshev, Executive Director, Monte Group of Companies
Vera Yakovleva, Exlusive Representative in Russia, BHS-Sonthofen
Experts of the Moscow Government (six representative of the City Construction Department)
Alexander Vasilyev, CEO, Reshenie
Alexander Msryan, TransStroyMontazh
MIR hall
Customs and logistics session
General Moderator: Denis Arsentyev, President, Roadside Service and Tourism Companies Association
Moderator: Roman Kozlov, Director, Germes
1. Dmitriy Stechkevich, CEO, Pskovvtormet
2. TK EAES. Katerina Maryankova, Head of Legislation Committee, Germes
3. Perspectives of the Authorized Economic Operators institution. Anastasia Samarets, Deputy Head of Committee, Germes
4. Self-regulating organization of customs representatives as an effective instrument of business and government co-operation. Dmitriy Naletov, Director, NOTP Association
5. Logistic services as the element of recycling. Sergey Nikiforenko, Chairman of Transportation Services Committee; CEO, Intelrailtrans
6. Logistics opportunities of Chudovo for scrap transshipment. Sergey Zaimenko, Director, Chudovo
7. Electronic transit, Oleg Vasilenko, Deputy Director, SZTLS
8. Tatyana Kruglova, CEO; Evgeniya Danilina, Deputy Director, Gruppa Targo
9. Stepan Vasilevich, Advisor to the Head of Federal Customs Service of Russia; Chairman of All-Russia Union of Veterans of Customs Service
Questions of the session:
Introduction of the Customs code of EurAsEC from 1 July 2017
Risks and problems of customs costs correction
Problems of customs duties payment depending on the payers. Additional charges
Recycling fees for special technics importers problems
Efficiency of co-operation with customs brokers
Sea ports rating
Introduction of new logistics centers and customs points
12.00-12.30 Recycling of refrigerators and air conditioners. EWEEES hall.
12.00-12.10 International standards for WEEE (refrigerators)
Petr Novotny, WEEEELABEX, Czech Republic
Christoph Becker, Auditor for WEEELABEX è CENELEC, RAL, Luxemburg
12.10 - 12.30 Challenges and solutions for refrigerators collection and recycling
Vladimir Maryev, Head of the Sub-Committee for Dangerous Wastes and Recyclable Materials, Committee for Natural Resources Use, Chamber of Industry and Trade of Russia; President, Association for Wastes Recycling
Dr. Viktor Haefeli, Smart Resources, Switzerland
EWEEES hall
Recycling of plastic and chemical sources of current received from WEEE.
12.30 - 12.40
International standards for plastic
Petr Novotny, WEEEELABEX, Czech Republic
Christoph Becker, Auditor for WEEELABEX è CENELEC, RAL, Luxemburg
12.40- 13.00
The Best Available Technologies for polymers received from WEEE
Wolfgang Ganser, MBA Polymers, Austria, China, UK
Recycling of chemical sources of current as a part of electronic wastes recycling. Russian practice
Vladimir Matsyuk, CEO, Megapoliresurs Group
13.30-14.30 Lunch. Exhibition hall
14.30 - 16.00
EWEEES hall
Recycling of precious metals received from WEEE.
International standards for WEEE an electronic boards recycling
Petr Novotny, WEEEELABEX, Czech Republic
Christoph Becker, Auditor for WEEELABEX è CENELEC, RAL, Luxemburg
14.35 - 14.50
Industrial recycling of printed boards
Valeria Schedrina, Aurubis, Russia
14.50 - 15.05
Tantalum as an additional income when recycling electronic boards
Heinrich Pertsch, SYPRA, Germany
15.05 - 15.20
Refinement of precious metals and advanced methods of Li-Ion batteries recycling
Klaus Sparn, Umicore Precious Metals Refining, Belgium
15.20 - 15.35
Sales of WEEE containing precious metals
Li Sunchgul, HANWA Co, Japan
Conception of gold mining in the city using WEEE.
Timm Luks, SMS group, Germany
16.00 -16.30 Coffee break. Exhibition hall
16.30 - 17.00
EWEEES hall.
Recycling of mercury containing lamps.
16.30 - 16.35
International standards for WEEE and lamps recycling
Petr Novotny, WEEEELABEX, Czech Republic
Christoph Becker, Auditor for WEEELABEX è CENELEC, RAL, Luxemburg
16.35 - 16.45
Recycling of mercury and lamps
Elister Rinfret, Balcan Lamp Recycling Systems, UK
Congress closing. EWEEES hall
17.30 Cocktail. Exhibition hall
MIR hall
Mini mills and electric steel mills. MIR hall
General Moderator: Denis Arsentyev, President, Roadside Service and Tourism Companies Association
Electric metallurgical mini-mills in Russia
Yakov Kats, Deputy Head of Department, VNIIMETMASH
Modern electric smelting as a symbiosis of technics, technologies, and human factor
Dmitriy Elanskiy, Partner of BSE for Sales; Associate Professor, NITU MISIS
Recycling of anthropogenic wastes
Alexander Sharuda, CEO, IC Vtoraluminprodukt;
Vera Myasoedova, Professor, Chemistry Doctor, Expert of Russian Academy of Science
Industrial park in MSB-Udomlya (Tverskaya Region). Search for a strategic investor.
Alexander Tsuvarev.
Own Energy sales company. A substation with a capacity of 80 MW with direct technological connection to the Kalinin NPP and a heat main 21.5 Gcal / h. The land is 138 hectares. Presence of agreed project documentation and administrative support.
Current state of ferro-alloys production facilities in Russia
Leopold Leontyev, Academician, The Institute of Metallurgy and Material Science of Russian Academy of Science (IMET RAN)
Profitability: mini-mills vs. integrated plants
Aleksey Chizhikov, Senior Analyst, RUSLOM.COM
Modern parts for the equipment for industrial wastes transportation and recycling.
Alexander Borisov, Senior Specialist, Privodnaya Tekhnika Industrial Group
IT as an instrument of steel production technology, quality, and cost management
Nikita Alalykin
Metallurgia Vysikikh Tekhnologiy, Research Center
Losses of electrometallurgical plants at scrap purchases
Victor Kovshevny, Director, RUSLOM.COM
Day 3, 30 March 2017
MIR hall
Presentations of innovations and technologies.
General Moderator: Denis Arsentyev, President, Roadside Service and Tourism Companies Association
EWEEES hall
Batteries and secondary lead.
EWEEES hall
Recycling of ELV, machines, and equipment
ELV Recycling.
Yuriy Vorontsov, Deputy Director, Vtoraluminprodukt
Recycling of agricultural machines
Valeriy Gerasimov, Head of Laboratory, GOSNITI
Vladimir Ignatov, Scientific Consultant, GOSNITI
Railway carriages recycling
Dmitriy Sosin, Sales Manager for Russia, CIS, Baltic States, Scandinavia, and Poland
Stanley Solutions for infrastructure Hydraulic equipment
B2 hall
VAT in aluminum and copper export markets: the solution.
Web: http://mir-expo.com
557 participants from 30 countries. Over 600 are expected.


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Industrial Cast Iron Warehouse Window Mirror Oblong
An very large original factory window from an industrial warehouse. Each of the panes is individually glazed. Salvaged and glazed with mirror glass to create a perfect hallway or over-mantle feature mirror.
It is tall enough to sit on the floor or can be leant against the wall on top of a statement piece of furniture.
This piece would look wonderful in a garden room or is perfectly suitable to be used in an outdoor space (foxing of the glass may occur outdoors which looks really superb and speckled). Outdoors mirrors give the illusion of extra depth and reflect light adding illumination to darker areas of the garden.
The cast iron frame is beautifully patinated from its use as an external window. It features it's original grey and green oxidised paintwork and is rusted in parts as you would expect from an antique external iron frame. The mirror glass is all new and in very good condition.
Height 136cm / Height 111cm
Width 111cm / Height 136
Depth 5cm
The mirror is almost square in appearance and can be hung either portrait or landscape.
We would need to ship this via specialist carrier due to it's size and the amount of glass, please contact us for a shipping quotation with your adress and postcode.
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In late 2009 I collaborated with William Massie, Beverly Fishman and Heather McGill on the design of a VIP lounge for the AXA Corporation at Art Basel Miami Beach. The piece was subsequently acquisitioned into the permanent collection of the Miami Art Museum. These photos document the result of that collaboration.
The documentation below does not show the integrated video. The video was projected on a convex porous screen (the brown wall). This makes the video nearly impossible to photograph on axis. The wall is translucent when looked at directly. It is completely solid when seen from an oblique angle. The effect of this was to dematerialize the video and the wall.
Documentation of the Lounge
The video projection wall is opaque when viewed from an off axis position. Note how the brown wall appears solid in this photo and compare to the next image.
The video projection wall is translucent when viewed from an ON axis position. Note how the background supergraphics bleed through the wall. Video was also projected on the wall.
Detail showing video projection
Elliott Earls at Casa Casuarina the former home of Gianni Versace.
The cover of the official program of Art Basel Miami Beach 2009.
Inside spread documenting the collaboration in the official program of Art Basel Miami Beach 2009.


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Relationship of dental practitioners to rural primary care networks
As emphasised in the recent Australia's National Oral Health Plan 2015-2024, rural and regional residents in Australia have been identified as one of the priority populations who continue to experience poorer oral health than other population groups. Residents in these areas have poorer health outcomes and less access to health care services than people living in major cities. They are also at risk of poorer oral health outcomes, experience higher rates of dental caries than their city counterparts and are more likely than residents of major cities to present to dentists for problems such as pain. There is no single factor that completely explains this however access to dental services is a key factor. Australia has a maldistribution of dental practitioners. There are more than three times as many dentists practicing per 100,000 population in major cities (59.5) than in remote/very remote areas (17.9). The proportions of other types of dental practitioners including dental therapists and prosthetists are also the lowest in remote/very remote areas.
Dental services in Australia are largely provided within the private sector (85%) and public (low cost or fully subsidised) oral health services are only provided for children up to 18 years old, and adults with health care concession cards (HCC). In 2010, about 50% of all people aged five years and over had some level of private health insurance cover for dental services. In the absence of a dental practice in their own or a nearby community, rural and remote residents' dental needs may be met, in part, by visiting mobile facilities or periodic "fly-in-fly-out" services. Residents may also access a dental practitioner by travelling to a larger population centre though regular attendance can be difficult. This is due to costs associated with travel (which can be many hundreds of kilometres), time off work, juggling the responsibilities associated with caring for dependents and, for those with less than adequate health insurance cover, the fees involved especially when return visits are required for optimal treatment.
Towns in many rural and remote areas in Australia are often widely dispersed and lack the population base to warrant a full-time dentist. In the absence of a resident dentist, patients with an acute oral health problem may present to other primary care providers located in general medical practices, hospital emergency departments (ED), pharmacies or to an Aboriginal Health Centre. Non-dental practitioners are usually able to provide only temporary relief of symptoms and referral rather than definitive treatment . Presentations to an ED may result in admission for treatment, especially where there is concern that the patients' condition may deteriorate. Over 2012-2013, dental conditions accounted for 63,000 avoidable hospital admissions, the third highest reason for acute preventable hospital admissions in Australia. These admission rates were higher in non-metropolitan areas and highest for very remote areas. This raises the concern that people in these areas may have been hospitalised due to the lack of adequate and timely preventive dental care in community settings.
Consequently, there are strong imperatives to investigate ways in which these communities can be provided with better oral health services in realistic and cost effective ways that draw upon opportunities afforded by recent health and primary health care reform initiatives. Rural communities are served by a range of health care professionals, often working in an extended capacity as a consequence of workforce shortages and limited range of health care professionals in these areas. Such practitioners provide a network of heath care professionals serving rural communities. Stronger links and cooperation between rural health care practitioners and dentists/oral health professionals may improve service provision such that interventions are both timely, effective and result in appropriate follow-up or referral.
Residents of rural and remote communities have poorer oral health and less access to oral health services than people living in major cities. The populations of many rural and remote centres are not large enough to support a resident dentist and, in the absence of community oral health services, rural residents may present to non-dental primary care providers with oral health problems.
The aim of this study was to describe strategies that can be used by primary care practitioners to improve the provision of oral health services to rural and remote communities. The specific objectives were to (i) map oral health services practices in rural communities across primary care providers (ii) assess the extent to which oral health problems impact on service provision by primary health care providers; (iii) assess the extent to which primary care networks could be more effectively utilised to improve the provision of oral health services to rural communities and to identify what interventions/strategies were most likely to be effective.


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BILL NUMBER:S7245 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to the admissibility of certain expert testimony This is one in a series of measures being introduced at the request of the Chief Administrative Judge upon the recommendation of her Advisory Committee on Civil Practice. This measure would add a new section 4549 to the CPLR to effect a very narrow but much needed change in the evidentiary law concerning the admission of expert testimony in civil trials. It would, in effect, legislatively overrule the oft-cited decision in Wagman v. Bradshaw, 292 AD2d 84 (2d Dept 2002). Current Law This measure relates to the "professional reliability" exception to the rule against hearsay.{1} One commonly recurring question is whether and when an expert witness can rely, in reaching his or her opinion, on reports or data that is not itself in evidence. The Court of Appeals long ago stated the rule as being that "opinion evidence must be based on facts in the record or personally known to the witness," but that one exception to the rule is that an expert "may rely on out-of-court material if it is of
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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7245 I N S E N A T E May 7, 2014 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BONACIC -- (at request of the Office of Court Admin- istration) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to the admissibility of certain expert testimony THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The civil practice law and rules is amended by adding a new section 4549 to read as follows: S 4549. ADMISSIBILITY OF CERTAIN EXPERT TESTIMONY. EXPERT OPINION THAT IS OTHERWISE ADMISSIBLE IN EVIDENCE SHALL NOT BE RENDERED INADMISSIBLE BY VIRTUE OF THE EXPERT'S RELIANCE ON A REPORT OR OTHER DATA WHICH IS NOT ITSELF IN EVIDENCE IF THAT REPORT OR DATA IS OF A KIND ROUTINELY ACCEPTED IN THE PROFESSION AS RELIABLE IN FORMING A PROFESSIONAL OPIN- ION. THE RULE SET FORTH IN THIS SECTION SHALL APPLY IRRESPECTIVE OF WHETHER THE AUTHOR OR SOURCE OF THE PREDICATE REPORT OR DATA IS IN COURT OR AVAILABLE FOR CROSS-EXAMINATION. THE RULE SET FORTH IN THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO A PREDICATE REPORT OR OPINION PREPARED FOR PURPOSES OF LITIGATION. THIS SECTION DOES NOT RENDER INADMISSIBLE ANY EVIDENCE THAT IS OTHERWISE ADMISSIBLE BY STATUTE OR COMMON LAW. S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all actions pending on or after such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD14223-02-4
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- Jen said...
I will check it out! Can't wait to read your story! I got your package in the mail today. Thank you so much! My husband and I fell in love with the lace tabletopper and plan on using it through December! And the chocolates and christmas strip fabric were a fabulous surprise!
- November 4, 2010 at 10:55 PM
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That is pretty special Thearica.I love the quilt. How gorgeous!!
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That's a beautiful block and an equally beautiful story. I'm glad Allie was so appreciative of all your hard work.
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why don't you summarize for those who are always in a hurry like me, it here on this blog ?!
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The Delhi airport boasts of one of the biggest passenger terminals in the world but exports and imports from the airport is getting delayed due to lack of space at its cargo terminal.delhi Updated: May 11, 2011 00:58 IST
The Delhi airport boasts of one of the biggest passenger terminals in the world but exports and imports from the airport is getting delayed due to lack of space at its cargo terminal.
For more than a month, hundreds of trucks waiting endlessly for days outside the Indira Gandhi International Airport's cargo terminal has become a common sight. Exporters say that this is resulting in losses in crores of rupees every day. They allege that the ongoing renovation work at the terminal has crunched space inside the terminal, leading to delays.
"Usually custom clearance of export and import goods take about a day but the time taken now ranges between four to seven days," said a cargo agent who didn't wish to be named. "Since trucks are stuck outside the terminal for days, we are shelling out R5,000 to R15,000 extra on them instead of R400 to R600. All this is due to the construction work going on inside," he said.
"Exporters are facing this problem for the last one month. While the government asks us to increase exports, the required infrastructure is not present to handle the cargo traffic," said SP Agarwal, president, Delhi Exporters Association. "The terminal can only handle 550 tonnes of good every day, which is not enough in this peak summer good export season."
Agarwal said if the delays go on, countries importing goods from India will lose confidence and move to other countries for their needs. "There is just not enough space at the terminal and it is taking three to four days for the trucks in queue to just get inside," he said.
Private airport operator Delhi International Airport Ltd. (DIAL), however said that the truck processing time at the parking area has reduced significantly. "All the agencies including customs have been working closely together to bring about this improvement," said a DIAL spokesman.


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Question: Skin pain without rash, fatigue, misc pain.
|nikki613 - Sun May 10, 2009 1:05 am
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For a while now I have been in a moderate amount of pain, and I am wondering if these symptoms are somehow linked. Every person i talk to about this seems to think I am crazy, but I figured it would be better to discuss it on here to see if it's something i should look into.
For starters, i have the strangest pain, the most of it occurring in the skin of my knees, and my shoulder blade area. It feels as though I have sunburn or a rash of some sort, but there is nothing there...no redness or any visible traces of a problem. It hurts if the sheets on my bed so much as rub against it. Very frustrating.
In addition, I get severe stabbing pains in my chest, usually on the left side under my ribs. It is not constant but very sharp. My back is constantly bothering me as well, it just seems to hurt no matter what i do. I feel tired constantly and have terrible difficulty sleeping, and as of late, a very hard time moving bowels. I have a pretty healthy diet so I don't believe this is contributing. I know this sounds like a bunch of complaining, but I just feel like someone my age (23) should not be having these types of problems. Any doctor I see will usually just prescribe me with an anti-inflammatory or muscle relaxer, and these do not seem to help. If anyone can help me figure out if these symptoms are linked, PLEASE let me know. I just want to find out what's wrong and address it. Thank you!
|Faye Lang, RN, MSW - Fri May 15, 2009 4:32 pm
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Hello Nikki613,
Such obscure symptoms as you describe can be due to an autoimmune condition. Your symptoms suggest diagnoses such as Fibromyalgia or Dermal Lupus, both of which can have associated symptoms/conditions like the bowel issue you describe. Since anti-inflammatories have not helped, it's time for you to see a rheumatologist, or a university associated medical center dermatology department. Many times, this type of condition has an insidious onset, with symptoms developing over time, which makes it hard to diagnose, and will require assessment by a specialist. Please schedule an appointment as suggested, and go to a site such as "Mayoclinic.com" to review autoimmune symptoms and conditions. That will help you organize what you need to describe to your doctor. Also, a log of symptoms as they occur can help the doctor see the severity of what you describe.
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The following skills, abilities, and/or gifts are required for a person to effectively serve as Vice President on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod Council:
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- Openness to the guidance of the Holy Spirit
- Comfort serving as chair, on a governance based Council
- Willingness to work with the other council members to achieve the synod's vision for its ministry
- Prior active service in your congregation, and/or at the synod level
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S8.20. Vice President
†S8.21. The vice president shall be elected by the Synod Assembly. The vice president shall be a layperson. The vice president shall be a voting member of a congregation of this synod. The vice president shall not receive a salary for the performance of the duties of the office.
S8.21.01. The vice president shall be a voting member of the ELCA Churchwide Assembly.
S8.22. The vice president shall chair the Synod Council.
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Enjoy the beatific Sonoma countyside in our 3bd/3ba home. Features a stocked kitchen, indoor-outdoor dining, pool/hot tub, W/D, and more.
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El alojamiento
It's low-key and complete. No clutter. A complete kitchen with all the basics and a whole lot more (no need to buy salt, oil, etc.) Our highly-relaxed setting is an outpost for daytime activities in wine country: tasting, hiking in state parks, golfing, cycling, visiting Sonoma or Santa Rosa or Healdsburg, canoeing the Russian River, or even going out to the Pacific coast. Or just laze about the pool, listening to some music on the retro stereo (lots of CDs on premise, a few LPs, and fully mp3-capable.)
Three bed, three bath on a third of an acre, with a pool and hot tub. Quiet, family-oriented neighborhood. Quiet time from 9p-9a, enforced.
Two outdoor dining tables, one charcoal grill, and a shaded deck right off the kitchen.
A 55-inch TV, WiFi, vintage/modern sound system, and a kitchen ready to prepare most any dinner plan.
Washer and dryer, hammock, and all only 400m from the tasting room.
Restaurants in the town of Kenwood will keep the foodie amused, and other tony eateries are only 9 minutes away in Glen Ellen, or downtown Sonoma, 20 minutes by car.
A "Marcus Aurelius" approach to furnishing provides guests with tranquility, and a canvas for the imagination. Relaxation has never been easier. Easy on the eyes, it's the anti-clutter home rental.
In the kitchen you'll find staples--no need to run out and buy oil or spices you'll only use once. There's a serviceable market 400m away; a Whole Foods-like market is 4 miles away; and a full-on Safeway 9 miiles away, toward Santa Rosa. If you deplete something, please provide a replacement.
The master BR features a King mattress, and the "guest" BR is furnished with a Queen. There are two single beds in the kids' room. Two (surprisingly comfortable!) air mattresses are on-prem. There's ample closeting, washer and dryer, and ceiling fans in all the rooms that need them. There is NO A/C, but we've never needed it.
Bring your dreams of relaxation and simplicity, and let the day begin.
Servicios y zonas comunes
Guests can use entire home, except for any locked areas (a closet).
Atención a los huéspedes
We will not be present.
Otros aspectos destacables
Stay a week!
Washer-dryer and everything you need are nearby. Nap on a hammock hung between two olive trees.
I would hope that our guests have fun, guided by consideration, respect, and joie d'vivre.
Please park only in driveway or in front of the home. Sonoma County is a little bit sensitive about vacation rentals, so let's all work together to keep affordable, comfortable, and pleasant homes in the market for guests.
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I'm considerate, affable, and low-impact; husband for 13 years, dad of 2 girls. Writer by trade. My wife is a jewelry designer with her own stores. Athletic, enjoyer of jazz, and my kids like me.


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Someday, Patie Ventre says, competitive dog dancing may have its Olympic moment.
It is easy enough to imagine: Team U.S.A. mounting the medal platform in sweatsuits and neck bandannas of red, white and blue. The camera zooming in as eyes glisten and muzzles drip. A swelling roar at the final strains of ''The Star-Spangled Banner,'' and the joyous pumping of fist and paw.
But that dream is for a far-off year and place -- Athens, say, or Paris. For now, there is Hershey.
More specifically, the parking garage of the Hershey Lodge and Convention Center, where more than two dozen dogs and at least that many people gathered this weekend at the Northeastern Regional Disco Doggie Dancing Meet, one of the biggest events of the year for the World Canine Freestyle Organization.
''Canine freestyle'' is another way to say competitive dancing by people with their dogs. It combines elements of ballroom dancing, obedience training, dressage, voguing and jumping around the kitchen with the Village People turned way up.
It is also the consuming passion of Ms. Ventre (pronounced VEN-tree), 58, a cheerful, raspy-voiced Brooklynite whose day job is in advertising and public relations but whose heart lies in being the Abner Doubleday of dog dancing.
Like Doubleday, Ms. Ventre did not invent her sport -- Canadians did that, in the 1980's -- but in 1999 she founded the World Canine Freestyle Organization, the largest of several groups in this country, Canada and Britain that promote dog dancing. It claims 400 members in 13 countries.Continue reading the main story
To those who do canine freestyle, it is the greatest advance in human-canine relations since the Frisbee and the retractable leash.
To those who don't, it can seem profoundly weird, yet endearing -- compelling evidence of the things people will do for the love of their dogs. And vice versa.
The Hershey meet began with hands over nametags as ''The Star-Spangled Banner'' was played. Then Ms. Ventre, in a broad-brimmed black hat, white T-shirt and black stretch pants, recited ''The Dog's Prayer.'' (''. . . I turned my own name back to front and called you Dog, my friend.'') Her rhinestone earrings were shaped like dog bones.
A quick sound check, and Julie Norman, 20, of Wyndmoor, Pa., and Sprint, her border collie, were ready. Ms. Norman, in braids, cowboy hat and yoked shirt, stood with hands on hips as the speaker began blasting ''The Devil Went Down to Georgia.'' Sprint locked eyes with her owner and weaved between her legs, hurdled her outstretched feet, heeled and circled and finally jumped on her back, to gasps and applause. As a clincher, Ms. Norman tossed her hat and Sprint lunged, almost catching it.
The human dancers, all but one of them women, showed nearly as much enthusiasm for their costumes as their dogs. They wore sailor suits, flapper dresses, tartan kilts and Dogpatch gingham. Somebody -- her face was wrapped in black -- was a ninja. The only Fred in this sea of Gingers, Mark Criste, 46, an engineer from Altoona, Pa., was a cowboy.
Mr. Criste mused about the lack of male (human) dancers shortly before winning a share of the award for highest artistic and technical score -- the equivalent of Best in Show.
''I wish there were more guys, I really do,'' said Mr. Criste, who danced with his instructor, Diane Kowalski, a golden retriever and a border collie. ''I heard there might be a couple others in the United States, but I've never seen any.''
The event was not without solemnity. A stonefaced Marlene Schlichtig, in moccasins, fringed buckskin and a feather headdress, used slow, reverent hand movements to guide Bear, her Norwegian elkhound, as somber New Age music played.
But Linda Blanchard, 53, of Clarks ton, Mich., was more typical. In an electric-green flapper outfit (which won Best Costume), she led Robbie, her German wirehaired pointer, in frenetic pirouettes to march tunes. Robbie hit the mark on nearly every move, and the crowd went wild.
Not everything went as well for Peg Shambaugh, 77, in the Sassy Seniors Division (''My dog is 11, so we're the same age!'' she said). Belle, her border collie, came through in the bow-and-curtsy routine, but clearly was intimidated, with ears back and tail between her legs. At one point, Belle scratched herself. Ms. Shambaugh scratched herself, too. Was it all part of the act? It was impossible to tell.
Fake turf and a white picket fence lent a pastoral air to the 35-by-70-foot dance floor. Tables were set up for three judges, an announcer and Ms. Ventre. She worked the laptop, entering scores and posting results.
For all the grandeur of its name, the World Canine Freestyle Organization is largely a one-woman show, run from Ms. Ventre's home in Sheepshead Bay. Ms. Ventre is organizing at least seven competitions this year, including meets in South Carolina, Ohio and Washington State.
A former competitive rollerskater, she added innovations, like scoring routines on ''technical merit'' and ''artistic impression.'' In a major break with Canadian rules, she drastically sped up dances.
But did the dogs really dance? It seems that dog dancing, like dog singing, is a subjective thing. ''I don't think that they really appreciate music,'' said Dr. Nicholas H. Dodman, director of the animal behavior clinic at the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine.
The dogs merely respond to their dancing owners, he said: ''The dog just likes the owner being happy.''
What about rhythm? ''I don't think so,'' Dr. Dodman said. ''I'm pretty sure they don't have that.''
An observer of today's meet would have to agree. The number of dogs that reliably kept the beat was fairly close to zero.
(Diane Kowalski's border collie, Wes, was an exception: He did a stunning approximation of a moonwalk to ''Bad'' by Michael Jackson, winning an almost unheard-of 9.9 in technical merit.)
In other routines, a few favorite moves could be discerned: weaving in and out of a striding partner's legs; a sideways, shuffle-off-to-Buffalo step; circling, and bowing, with rear end in the air and chin on the ground.
Dogs also improvised: barking, yawning, scratching and running out of the ring. Sometimes they just stood there.
Ms. Ventre looked briefly puzzled when asked why -- for dancers -- the dogs spent so little time on their hind legs. ''You were expecting Fred and Ginger?'' she asked.
It wasn't like that.Continue reading the main story


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U.S. stocks rallied on Tuesday after Monday\'s selloff, as the country\'s economic data came in better than expected and global stocks stabilized on easing fears over a cash crunch in China. The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 100.75 points, or 0.69 percent, to 14,760.31 points. The S&P 500 leapt 14.94 points, or 0. 95 percent, to 1,588.03 points. The Nasdaq Composite Index added 27.13 points, or 0.82 percent, to 3,347.89 points. After the rally, the three indices recouped much of its previous day\'s losses. And the Nasdaq rose for the first time in five sessions. A batch of data released on Tuesday revealed that the U.S. housing market is continuing to recover. The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed that average home prices rose 2.6 percent and 2.5 percent for the 10- and 20- City Composites from March to April, their record monthly gains, according to a report released Tuesday by S&P Dow Jones Indices. Separately, U.S. house price appreciation continued in April, rising 0.7 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from the previous month, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency ( FHFA) House Price Index (HPI). U.S. new home sales also rallied. Sales of new single-family houses in May added 2.1 percent from April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 476,000, the highest level since July 2008, according to estimates released jointly Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. U.S. consumer confidence in June surged to the highest level in more than five years, said a survey released Tuesday by the research institute Conference Board. Consumer spending accounts for approximately 70 percent of the world\'s largest economy. New order for manufactured durable goods in May climbed 3.6 percent, the U.S. Commerce Department said, beating market consensus. European stocks rebounded strongly from seven-month lows while Asian stocks closed mixed on Tuesday as the People\'s Bank of China, the nation\'s central bank, moved to soothe market jitters. The Shanghai Composite Index inched down 0.2 percent and the Hong Kong Hang Seng Index ticked up 0.2 percent. \"Markets are calmer this morning. U.S. stocks opened higher. Bonds are lower in yield, too, suggesting we may be experiencing a lull in the panicky activity of the past week. Still, nerves are raw and trading is likely to be volatile for a while,\" FTN Financial Chief Economist Christopher Low commented in a note Tuesday. Global stocks saw a heavy selling on Monday amid fears of the tightening interbank lending in China, sending the major U.S. stock indices roughly 1 percent lower. On other markets, oil price gained Tuesday on upbeat U.S. data. Traders are awaiting the weekly report on oil inventories due out Wednesday from the Energy Department. Light, sweet crude for August delivery climbed 14 cents, to settle at 95.32 dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent for August delivery went up 10 cents, to close at 101.26 dollars a barrel. The U.S. dollar gained against other major currencies as new home sales data confirmed the housing market\'s recovery, reinforcing expectations that the Fed will taper later this year. In late New York trading, the euro dropped to 1.3090 dollars from 1.3123 dollars of the previous session. The dollar bought 97. 76 Japanese yen, higher than 97.72 yen of the previous session. Prices of U.S. Treasuries continued to fall. Yield on the 10- year Treasury note, which moves inversely to prices, rose to 2.598 percent on Tuesday. Gold futures dropped as strong data reinforce taper fears. The most active gold contract for August delivery fell 2.0 U.S. dollars, or 0.16 percent, to settle at 1,275.1 dollars per ounce
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There are many ways you can do this. I suggest using logistic regression simply because it seems a lot simpler than really complex contingency tables (as I think you agree). You can just specify interaction terms among the design variables created from your categorical variable.
I am confused on what your IV and DV are as in your first sentence you only have dependent variables listed. If your IV are all 2 level categorical variables (like gender) its fairly easy to analyze interaction. If there are more than two levels of your categorical variable than analyzing interaction could be a bit tricky.
But the way you do it is fairly straight forward. You just specify interaction terms between the variables you think interact and then see if they are statistically signficant. So if you have two nutrition types with two levels each (say A and B) than you specify A*B as an interaction effect and test that. If you have three two level nutrition variables (A, B, C) you would have three two way interaction terms (A*B A*C B*C) and one three way interactions A*B*C.
Note that as you get beyond 3 way interaction it gets really difficult to explain what they mean I actually have never seen such an analysis.


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Colombian all-around plastic artist Diana Gamboa once again
makes the papers with her stunning paper made dresses
opening the SIMB, 'Semana Internacional de la Moda de
Bogotà', with her "Mis oídos guardan secretos - My ears
keep secrets" set of amazing white origami clothes.
For Diana origami isn't paperwork at all yet her longtime craze
as well her family's legacy: she learned the technique in her
childhood years, attentively watching her father making
thousands of figures by folding paper, a knowledge he acquired
by Japanese people he met in Valle del Cauca.
Her unique masterpieces can't really go unnoticed: paper
sculptured dresses achieving a high fashion value once worn
despite their own short life, made not to sell paper costumes
or to be hailed as an offbeat fashion designer yet simply
one-of-a-kind artistic creations of pure design and
geometry, basically pure maths turned into clothing.
White or better, the lack of color, is her favorite shade because
white makes every artwork look imposing and she does a
very hard work designing proportions, engineering prototypes
and eventually folding a thousand time kilometers of paper
that are never glued but carefully assembled (not to mention the
ongoing testing on a variety of papers and recycling methods).
Diana's ergonomic paper clothes astoundingly allow the
ongoing testing on a variety of papers and recycling methods).
Diana's ergonomic paper clothes astoundingly allow the
wearer's movements avoiding any risk of wreckage.
"I came to do origami dresses by accident, the technique was
always a hobby when in 1999 I was invited to parade on Calle
del Sol in Bogotà (...) while seeking advice on my husband
(Colombian actor and sculptor Luis Fernando Bohórquez)
I told him without thinking I'd better make a origami
dress, so he said: Com'on, you're an expert in folding paper,
aren't you? Why don't you do it? From that moment we
aren't you? Why don't you do it? From that moment we
began to develop together our own paper artworks."
|SIMB's catwalk show pics by Edwin Guiza


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Shrink Compensation for ProJet® VisiJet® Materials
Material shrinkage occurs in thermosets as they transition from liquid state to solid state during the curing process.
The 3DSPRINT Client Software has features that allow the user to compensate for the natural shrinkage of the material in order to fine tune the accuracy of a part.
These shrink compensation values serve as general guidelines to setting shrink compensation. Part building and cleaning in a controlled process will best determine the optimal shrink compensation values for a particular geometry.
ProJet® 2500 Default Shrink Compensation Values for all materials (as of 20150930) are as follows. New default values MAY be rolled out without software update notification.
|X Value
|Y Value
|Z Value
|VisiJet® M2 RWT (Rigid White)
|VisiJet® M2 RCL (Rigid Clear)
|VisiJet® M2 RBK (Rigid Black)
|VisiJet® M2 EBK (Elastomeric Black)
|VisiJet® M2 ENT (Elastomeric Natural)
|VisiJet® M2 Cast (ProJet® 2500W Only)
Identify the exact X and Y dimensions of the part using a CAD program.
- Most CAD programs and simple .stl file viewers will provide a way to view a part with its dimensions.
- Make note of the actual X and Y dimensions as XCAD and YCAD.
Build and clean the part and take measurements of the finished part.
- It is recommended to measure along the critical dimensions of the geometry, take measurements in multiple areas and take an average of the values.
- Measurements can be made using calipers or more advanced metrology methods.
- Make note of the X and Y dimensions of the printed part and mark them as XPART and YPART.
NOTE: If the measurement of the finished part is different from the measurement of the CAD model, fine tune the accuracy using scaling factors.
Determine the Scaling Factor to use for the next build
Use the following formula to calculate the scaling percentage to be used for fine tuning the build:
XCAD = XCAD x (1 + X Scaling Factor) x (XPART / (divided by) XCAD)
YCAD = YCAD x (1 + Y Scaling Factor) x (YPART / YCAD)
X Scaling Factor = (XCAD - XPART) / XPART x 100 (answer will be a percentage)
Y Scaling Factor = (YCAD - YPART) / YPART x 100 (answer will be a percentage)
X measurement of CAD model = 3.000"
Y measurement of CAD model = 5.000"
X measurement of printed part = 2.998"
Y measurement of printed part = 4.989"
X Scaling Factor = (3.000 - 2.998) / 2.998 x 100 = 0.067%
Y Scaling Factor = (5.00 - 4.989) / 4.989 x 100 = 0.22%
Applying Shrink Compensation Values
There are two ways (Methods A and B) to select or enter new custom Shrink Compensation for the job and one method (Method C) to deal with individual parts:
Method A
Enter standard Shrink Compensation Values for the material or entire print job.
- Open 3DSPRINT Client Software and select Printer Tools.
- Select the Printer Settings.
- Select the Add Button.
- Give this new Shrink Compensation a name, enter the new values, click SET.
- Now the printer is defaulted to the new set of shrink compensation values. The bottom right corner information window is providing the new maximum printable size for XYZ accordingly per shrink compensation. You can now load jobs and print to the printer using these Shrink Compensation values.
Method B
Select Shrink Compensation Values for this material.
- Open 3DSPRINT client software and select the Printer.
- Select the printer (use cursor to show printer information) you wish to print the job with and then click Next.
- Select material for the job, click Next.
- Select Print Mode, and then click Next.
- Pick your Build Style with Shrink Compensation values entered in Method A and click Set.
- Now the printer is set to print with the selected shrink compensation values. The information window is showing maximum printable size for XYZ accordingly per Shrink Compensation. You can now load jobs and print to this printer with these particular set of Shrink Compensation values.
Method C
Apply Shrink Compensation Values in each part
Enter Scaling Factor for adjustment build
- Open 3DSPRINT client software, load a job or parts, select Transform.
- Select Scale and then enter the % for XYZ accordingly. For example, enter 100.6 for 0.6% calculated shrink compensation. Close the window when done.
- Repeat Step 2 for any other parts which may need shrink compensation added to the job. Using Method C allows you to add different shrink compensation values for different parts.
- Now this job is ready to print with the chosen shrink compensation values for the parts. You can now add the job to the Print Queue for printing.
Print your part(s) with scaling factors and confirm by measuring. Process may need to be repeated depending on the various geometries of parts.


text: Many people jump at the chance to be the mouth piece of God or the hand of God. But are we willing to be His alabaster jar? By this I mean are we willing, in all of our value and gifting, to forsake it all and be poured out over his head and for His pleasure alone? Not for the glory of men but for the enjoyment of God. If we can honestly say yes, if we esteem God so high that nothing in His will is out of the question, then perhaps, we are primed best for His use.


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Melania Trump TRIED to BRIGHTEN an otherwise DARK and DISMAL Republican Party National Convention, but her SPEECH may have left a lot to be desired---like AUTHENTICITY. It appears that Melania's speech took parts of Michelle Obama's DNC speech from 2008! .
The Donald Trump campaign on Tuesday denied allegations that Melania Trump plagiarized a Michelle Obama speech on the first night of the Republican National Convention, calling the accusation "just really absurd."
"To think that she would do something like that knowing how scrutinized her speech was going to be last night is just really absurd," Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort told CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day."
At least one passage in Trump's speech Monday night plagiarized from Obama's address to the Democratic National Convention in 2008.
Side-by-side comparisons of the transcripts show the text in Trump's address following, nearly to the word, the would-be future first lady's own from the first night of the Democratic convention in Denver nearly eight years ago.
But Manafort said the words Melania used were not "cribbed" but are common words.
"There's no cribbing of Michelle Obama's speech. These were common words and values. She cares about her family," Manafort said. "To think that she'd be cribbing Michelle Obama's words is crazy."
Manafort said attacks on Trump's speech are due to Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, being "threatened" by Trump.
"This is once again an example of when a woman threatens Hillary Clinton, she seeks out to demean her and take her down. It's not going to work," he said.
Similarities between Melania Trump's #GOPConvention speech and Michelle Obama's in 2008 https://t.co/hFPAf2maXl https://t.co/tmNgFDcEtO— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 19, 2016
Here is Trump, on Monday:
"From a young age, my parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise, that you treat people with respect. They taught and showed me values and morals in their daily lives. That is a lesson that I continue to pass along to our son," Trump said.
And we need to pass those lessons on to the many generations to follow. Because we want our children in this nation to know that the only limit to your achievements is the strength of your dreams and your willingness to work for them."
And here is Obama, on August 25, 2008:
"And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you're going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them, and even if you don't agree with them.
And Barack and I set out to build lives guided by these values, and to pass them on to the next generation. Because we want our children -- and all children in this nation -- to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them."
[Source: CNN.com]
CORRECTION: Melania stole a whole graph from Michelle's speech. #GOPConvention— Jarrett Hill (@JarrettHill) July 19, 2016
WATCH: https://t.co/8BCOwXAHSy pic.twitter.com/zudpDznGng
I guess Melania was a FAN of FLOTUS!
The similarities are UNCANNY, right--the SPEECHES that is..not the PEOPLE.


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Price: $$ - Moderate
Start your meal at this "Epic" restaurant in Midvale with the three-olive tapenade & hummus before you move on to an appetizer of tender steamed clams in garlic, white wine, and butter with parsley. From there, perhaps choose the mushroom- Marsala grilled chicken, grilled beef tenderloin with blue cheese butter and port reduction, or the crowd-favorite: sauteed pork medallions with caramelized onions and a sherry-sage demi-glace. The fact that almost nothing on the menu is priced over $20 means you can splurge a bit with a selection from the very appealing wine list.
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We have studied the amplification characteristics of a cryogenically cooled total-reflection active-mirror (TRAM) ceramic laser including wavefront distortion, birefringence loss, small signal gain (SSG), and temperature rise for developing high-performance master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) systems. A 0.6 mm thick ceramic sample was used, and maximum pump intensity was reached. The transmitted wavefront was measured by using a Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensor, and we evaluated the thermal lens focal length and Strehl ratio for different pump conditions. We have also observed a butterfly-like leakage profile of thermally induced birefringence loss at the maximum pump intensity. From SSG measurements, we obtained moderate laser gain of for one bounce with a near aberration-free wavefront. Gain calculations, which included also temperature dependence of the emission cross section and reabsorption of , were in good agreement with the experiments. These experimental results will be useful as benchmark data for numerical simulations of temperature distribution in TRAM and for designing multikilowatt-class high-performance MOPA systems.
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Researchers in Europe have analyzed and modeled social contact patterns
in order to better understand the spread of respiratory infections. The
study is published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine.
It is common to use mathematical modeling techniques to understand and predict the impact of infectious diseases. The models help policy officials and researchers make recommendations regarding intervention, treatment, and prevention of infectious and contagious diseases. In assessing the likelihood that a disease will spread among a population, researchers use contact rates - how many people that a person contacts in a day - as a key predictor. Contact rates are usually assumed to follow a certain pattern, but researchers have not yet directly observed these patterns. To improve our understanding of contact rates and to analyze patterns among age groups and social settings, researchers have decided to directly ask people how many contacts they have in a day and then generated models based on these data.
Joël Mossong (Microbiology Unit, Laboratoire National de Santé, Luxembourg and Centre de Recherche Public Santé, Luxembourg) and colleagues from several European nations recruited 7,290 people from Belgium, Germany, Finland, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, and Poland. The participants recorded basic demographic information and noted physical (kiss, handshake, e.g.) and nonphysical (two-way conversation without skin-to-skin contact) contacts for one day.
The researchers found that the participants averaged 13.4 contacts per day (97,904 contacts in total). The diversity of contact information is summarized below:
- Children had more contacts than adults
- People who live in large households had more contacts
- People had more contacts on weekdays than on Sundays
- Longer duration and higher frequency contact tended to be physical
- People of the same age tended to mix more frequently than people of different ages
- About 70% of daily contacts lasted less longer an hour
- About 75% of contacts with strangers lasted less than 15 minutes
Mossong and colleagues then modeled the contact patterns using mathematical and statistical techniques. They were also able to create a model of how a respiratory infection epidemic may spread throughout a population. Results predicted that during the initial spread of a respiratory infection, 5- to 19-year olds would suffer the greatest burden. These younger people have many more contacts per day and more contacts within their own age group.
The authors conclude: "Our survey is, to our knowledge, the first population-based prospective survey of mixing patterns pertinent to the spread of airborne and close-contact infectious diseases performed in several European countries using a similar diary methodology. The quantification of these mixing patterns shows a remarkable similarity in degree of assortativeness, which likely results in similar patterns of spread in different populations. This finding represents a significant advance in our understanding of the spread of these infectious diseases and should help to improve the parameterisation of mathematical models used to design control strategies."
Social contacts and mixing patterns relevant to the spread of infectious diseases
Mossong J, Hens N, Jit M, Beutels P, Auranen K, et al.
PLoS Medicine (2008). 5(3):e74.
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About PLoS Medicine
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Written by: Peter M Crosta