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I will try to be succinct however I do not know video jargon.
I have home videos (.mpg4 and .mov) . . . I want to simply cut out trivial segments . . . and then save to a DVD . . . and upload to blog (just my family blog post).
For me, Windows Movie Maker is very simply and I can quickly "trim out" and save the movie. HOWEVER the playback on DVD or even an emailed version is terrible.
I tried Avidemux but its not as easy as WMM.
I don't mind buying a program . . . . it just has to be easy!
AND !!!! just tell me what settings to use
I BEG of you! Please help this stay-at-home mom.
I can follow instructions REALLY well.
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Hi Mom.
Though you didn't specify, I'm going to assume your mp4s and movs are high definition.
A step up from windows movie maker would be something like Vegas Movie Studio or Premiere Elelments or Pinnacle 17. (Personally I would encourage Vegas Movie Studio, it's well thought out and can usually be found at a discount for around $40.)
You will be able to output your blog/online version directly from any of them -- they all have presets that are decent as starting points and can be tweaked as your discernment and ambition grow. They all have free trials
As for making a DVD, which is always standard def and therefore not as sharp, there is a good free tool available here called AVStoDVD, you can learn more about it and download it by clicking on its highlighted name in this post. Sony's DVD Architect I find more difficult than necessary (though by no means unnavigable.) If you want to take a step up, I would recommend TMPGenc Authoring Works, not as cheap but well-designed and reliable. Again, all the paid software have free trials.
The paid software will also output Blu Ray if quality is paramount.
Hope this helps.
Last edited by smrpix; 5th Apr 2014 at 10:38.
Yes, the video is HD. So in my mind I had it backwards regarding the reason I'm getting blurry rainbow effects on the final "movie".
In my mind I was thinking that the original HD movie was like a 5 gallon bucket of water, trying to be poured into a 1 gallon milk jug therefore NO distortion would resort since it's going into a smaller container . . . BUT if original movie was standard def and I was trying to save it to a blue ray, then distortion would result because you would be starting out with a 1 gallon jug of water (movie) but trying to fill the space of a 5 gallon bucket (blue ray) therefore more water (filler) would have to be added.
I bet you've never had THAT analogy.
Yeah, that's the basic idea.
When you're downconverting the software is looking at each molecule of H2O and guessing that some of them are HO , some are H1.5O, some are H2 and some are normal, so you're getting distortion (rainbows, etc) that way. Upconverting it's looking at steam and trying to figure out how to duplicate and stack the molecules to make water.
Yours is definitely more poetic.
Dear Smrpix, thank you sooo much for taking the time to answer my question!
HaHaHaHa!!! No one has ever called me poetic!
I see references to Vegas Movie Studio quite often so I will take your word for it and try it out.
Another question, what if I don't want to make a DVD but simply send a video (via DropBox) or upload it into a blog . . . after I do simple edits such as cutting out boring chit-chat I'm always confused as to which option to "save as". Do I choose x264 ????
WMM ask do you want to save it to computer / email / etc etc.
I don't know! I just want to save the blasted thing as the same quality as was orginally taken by video camera.
Dear Tech People,
You could make MILLIONS of dollars if you would write software for us non-techie people. For instance, have drop down menus choices that say . . . to save video for website blog that no one is going to read anyway "choose a" . . . to save video to email to Aunt Jan "choose b" . . . to save video to make a dvd "choose c" . . . . we don't know what bit-rate and frames and encoding and decoding and and and and . . .
For the love of God and all the universe, our original home movie was perfect however we just want to cut out Uncle Frank's endless ramblings about his hip!!! We moms need SIMPLE. Treat us like first graders, it won't hurt our feelings, REALLY!!!
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The Reno Quilt show is July 17th and 18th at the National Automobile Museum. Last year it was so much fun! Is there anyone coming from the board?
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
The Reno Quilt show is July 17th and 18th at the National Automobile Museum. Last year it was so much fun! Is there anyone coming from the board?
Sounds like a lot of fun, but a little too far away for me :D:D:D I will just have to wait and watch for your post describing it....
I wish! Nope, too far away too!
Bumping up for the weekend.... LOL I really want to meet up with some of the board members who are attending.
This sounds like so much fun...DH and I visited the Auto Museum while on a vacation trip to Reno/Tahoe by way of California. Just had a conversation with him after reading your post...he was smilin'...and then I asked him if he'd like to go visit the museum again..."Why?"....well, there's a quilt show in July....he decided he needed to go move the water sprinkler...guess I'll have to try again later to get him to commit! We no longer fly and that's a really long drive...have done it a couple of times...but I LOVE your part of Nevada so it is not out of the question entirely. It was a fun trip for him too so keep your fingers crossed!Originally Posted by RedGarnet222
For those of you that have not been to Reno/Tahoe....PLEASE consider visiting this beautiful area... Lake Tahoe is breathtaking to see and even more amazing when you get a few facts about it...awesome! We also went to the Ponderosa, Virginia City, Carson City....LOVED Carson City!
Okay, RedGarnet222, how'd I do? I'm sure you can think of some more things to build some more interest to get some more members to plan a trip out for the show...BTW, whose show is it?
I am sorry I haven't answered you before now. I was a little busy this last week sewing for the golf tournement silent auction and babysitting. Ok, I forgot to check too, sorry.
The quilt show is the truckee meadows quilt show. It will have a few quilt groups represented, and others who don't belong to a guild. It is not a requirement that you belong to a guild to participate. So I think that makes it fun.
You are so right about the area having loads of sight seeing spots to visit within just an hours drive in any direction. Also, there are many many quilt shops to spend your spare time in. LOL!
If you two decide to come, please let me know, I promise you don't have to have your pic taken with me, and shown, unless you want to. LOL!
I wish,
But the Gun Show is in Portland Oregon that same weekend. Gotta nurture my other hobby too.......LOL

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Phillip Li
Financial Economist
Phillip Li is a Financial Economist in the Credit Risk Analysis Division within the Economics department of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
Dr. Li's current research interests include credit risk modeling, missing data methods, computational statistics/econometrics, and discrete choice econometrics. His fields of interest include banking, theoretical and applied econometrics (both classical and Bayesian approaches), and applied microeconomics. He holds a doctorate in economics and a master's degree in statistics from University of California, Irvine and an undergraduate degree in economics from University of California, Berkeley.


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The scope of the tragedy in Japan grew increasingly apparent Monday, with more than 10,000 deaths reported and a nuclear disaster threatening to spiral out of control. Friday's magnitude-8.9 earthquake and the subsequent tsunami have spurred Japan's "worst crisis since World War II," according to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, and for millions of people across the island nation, the nightmare is just beginning.
Rescuers are still searching for survivors along the devastated northeastern coast, but with only sporadic luck — one man was found clinging to his roof nearly 10 miles out at sea, for example, while some entire towns appear virtually devoid of life. Emergency workers are also racing to help more than half a million displaced victims, but their humanitarian efforts are being partly overshadowed by yet another catastrophe: explosions and radiation leaks at quake-damaged nuclear power plants. Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station have been flooding its reactors with seawater in a desperate attempt to avoid a full meltdown, and are periodically releasing radioactive steam into the atmosphere to relieve pressure. And while experts say a Chernobyl-scale disaster is unlikely, nearby residents have been evacuated, and U.S. Navy ships have detected radiation as far as 100 miles away. An explosion blew the roof off Fukushima Daiichi's second reactor Monday morning, while the Japanese government announced later in the day that cooling systems at a third reactor had failed. So far, there has been only a partial meltdown of the reactor cores, officials say, but potentially dangerous radiation is still escaping, and some worry the situation could persist for weeks or even months. As one U.S. official tells the New York Times, "under the best scenarios, this isn't going to end anytime soon."
The nuclear crisis began Saturday when Fukushima Daiichi suffered its first hydrogen explosion at unit 1, and things grew more dire over the weekend as trace amounts of radioactive elements cesium-137 and iodine-131 were detected outside the plant. The second explosion came Monday morning, injuring several workers and releasing more radiation, but reportedly not damaging the reactor core. Meanwhile, Japan's official death toll from the earthquake and tsunami seemed poised to soar, as officials reported finding 2,000 dead bodies on just two shores in Miyagi Prefecture. Police there say there's "no question" that at least 10,000 people have died in that prefecture alone.
(Sources: Kyodo News, CNN, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, USA Today)
Japan's post-earthquake nuclear crisis is already triggering a chain reaction around the world, spurring officials and civilians in other countries to rethink their own reliance on nuclear energy. And perhaps nowhere is this anxiety more palpable than the U.S. "I think it calls on us here in the U.S., naturally, not to stop building nuclear power plants but to put the brakes on right now until we understand the ramifications of what's happened in Japan," Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., said on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday.
The situation has echoes of the partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in 1979, which spurred a nearly three-decade pause in the U.S. nuclear industry's growth. Much like Three Mile Island caused the American public to distrust nuclear power's safety, the specter of uncontrolled radiation leaks in Japan now threatens to derail a fledgling revival of U.S. nuclear energy that's been building for several years. That revival had built a "fragile bipartisan consensus," the New York Times reports, bringing together Republicans, Democrats, environmentalists and energy companies by offering plentiful power without the dangers of greenhouse gas emissions. But the basis of that consensus now appears to have dissipated almost overnight. "The accident certainly has diminished what had been a growing impetus in the environmental community to support nuclear power as part of a broad bargain on energy and climate policy," one energy analyst in Washington, D.C., tells the Times.
Still, most U.S. politicians are cautious in their assessment of the situation, warning that it's too early to make domestic decisions based on the disaster in Japan. "I don't think right after a major environmental catastrophe is a very good time to be making American domestic policy," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on "Fox News Sunday. "My thought about it is, we ought not to make American and domestic policy based upon an event that happened in Japan." President Obama has remained similarly hesitant to draw conclusions. "The president believes that meeting our energy needs means relying on a diverse set of energy sources that includes renewables like wind and solar, natural gas, clean coal and nuclear power," says a White House spokesman. "Information is still coming in about the events unfolding in Japan, but the administration is committed to learning from them and ensuring that nuclear energy is produced safely and responsibly here in the U.S."
(Sources: Kyodo News, Reuters, New York Times)
Friday's earthquake was not only the most powerful ever recorded in Japan — and the fifth-strongest measured worldwide — but it also transformed the shape and movement of the Earth. Parts of Japan were thrust eastward by roughly 8 feet, the U.S. Geological Survey reports, and the planet's mass was redistributed so much that it shortened the length of a day by 1.6 microseconds.
The Pacific tectonic plate normally pushes under a western section of the North American plate by about 3.3 inches per year, but a fierce earthquake like last week's can provide a dramatic boost — often with devastating results. "With an earthquake this large, you can get these huge ground shifts," USGS seismologist Paul Earle tells the AFP. "On the actual fault you can get 20 meters [65 feet] of relative movement, on the two sides of the fault." At least one GPS station reportedly moved 8 feet east after the quake, although not all parts of Japan moved uniformly. While areas closer to the quake's epicenter are now several feet closer to the U.S., other parts of the island barely moved at all, meaning Japan is also now wider east-to-west.
In addition to stretching and moving Japan, the quake also affected the planet as a whole. Much like past temblors in Sumatra (2004) and Chile (2010), the intense tectonic movement redistributed some of the Earth's mass closer to its core, causing the planet to rotate more quickly. (The principle is the same as with a spinning figure skater, who spins faster if she pulls her arms inward toward her body, centralizing her center of gravity.) The shift sped up the Earth's rotation by about 1.6 microseconds, according to NASA geophysicist Richard Gross, therefore shortening the day by the same amount. That's a major geological feat, but it's still less dramatic than effects of 2004's magnitude-9.1 earthquake in Sumatra, which shortened the day by 6.8 microseconds.
(Sources: Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, Voice of America)
Could the ancient "lost city" of Atlantis have been destroyed by a tsunami? That's the conclusion of a U.S.-led research team that claims to have finally located the long-rumored city, buried thousands of years ago by a muddy flood in southern Spain. Coincidentally coming just after a colossal tsunami devastated northeastern Japan, the finding not only offers to solve a persistent archeological mystery, but also highlights "the power of tsunamis," says lead researcher Richard Freund.
Atlantis has been legendary for millennia — ever since the Greek philosopher Plato first described a civilization "swallowed up by the sea" — but evidence of its existence or destruction has evaded archaeologists. Yet thanks to a satellite photo of a suspected flooded city near Cadiz, Spain, the team of researchers believe they may have finally found the ill-fated society. It would have taken a much larger tsunami than the one in Japan to wipe out this city, however, since it was located some 60 miles away from the coast. "It is just so hard to understand that it can wipe out 60 miles inland, and that's pretty much what we're talking about," Freund tells Reuters.
While the researchers did find an ancient city, it will be difficult to prove definitively that it's Atlantis. Still, its context among other "memorial cities" found elsewhere in central Spain gives Freund hope this is the real thing. "We found something that no one else has ever seen before, which gives it a layer of credibility, especially for archeology, that makes a lot more sense," he says.
(Sources: Vancouver Sun, Reuters)
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Paltry Rates Keep CDs in Decline
With a recent 2% drop in certificates of deposit at credit unions, the savings tools are now $44 billion below their March 2009 peak.
"From a member perspective, the 0.80% national average rate paid on a one-year CD isn't worth tying up the money," said Dave Colby, chief economist at CUNA Mutual Group.
According to CUNA Mutual Group's June Credit Union Trends Report, 114% of the year-over-year change in deposits went into share drafts, regular shares and money market accounts as of April, the latest month tracked.
Member savings fell $5.2 billion in April as liquid deposit account balances were drawn down once again from the five payroll Fridays in January, the data showed. This figure will be reversed when May results become available, Colby noted.
Still, year-to-date, member savings deposits were up $30 billion, or 3.2%, and annual growth came in at 3.7%.
"In aggregate, credit unions have more than adequate liquidity and continue to manage their cost of funds lower, given the low investment yields at the margin," Colby said.
NCUA data showed the Q1 2014 annualized cost of funds was 53 basis points, down from 59 for 2013 and 61 in Q1 2013, according to the trends report.
Colby, who retires July 11 after 37 years of service at CUNA Mutual, took some time to reflect on the forecast for the next chapter of his life.
"Looking forward, I see my retirement. I have worked with credit unions and CUNA Mutual for more than 37 years and it's been great," Colby said. "Throughout my career, my goal was always to have a positive impact. I hope that in your minds I did. Who knows what the next chapter of my life will bring, but it will include my credit union."


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Sixty-four people have been injured and one person has died on state roads and highways since Thursday afternoon as a huge winter storm made its way across Minnesota. Elsewhere, school cancelations and early storm warnings kept many people at home.
And the Minnesota State Patrol said Friday motorists in much of the state should stay off the roads all weekend.
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• More weather details in Paul Huttner's Updraft
• Photo gallery: Storm scenes from around Minnesota
Leonard Kahn, 60, of Elgin, Minn., died after the Dodge Caravan he was driving collided head-on with a semi truck shortly after 2 p.m. on Thursday. The accident occurred under icy conditions on undivided Highway 42 in Wabasha County, according to a Minnesota State Patrol incident report. The semi truck driver sustained non-life threatening injuries.
State Patrol Lt. Eric Roeske said late Friday troopers responded to 685 crashes and more than 1,900 instances where cars have spun out or slid off the roads. He said people should avoid driving today if they can.
Among the accidents caused by icy conditions were 66 jack-knifed semi trucks, Roeske said Friday.
Gov. Mark Dayton declared an emergency Friday, calling out the National Guard to help with recovery and sheltering of stranded motorists in parts of central and southeastern Minnesota.
Road conditions have prompted all State Patrol command staff to suspend their daily duties and provide assistance on state highways.
Veteran troopers in several parts of Minnesota say the conditions are as bad as they've seen in 25 years, State Patrol Lt. Col. Matt Langer said.
Blowing and drifting snow is making travel very difficult across northeast Minnesota, where as much as 17 inches of snow has fallen in some areas. Winds gusting over 30 mph are blowing snow onto roadways and reducing visibility for motorists in Duluth and across the Arrowhead region.
Duluth police advised travel only if necessary. Roads in Duluth are snow packed and slick, and many side streets and alleys remain unplowed.
"Other than main arteries of travel, travel is almost impossible unless you have a 4-wheel drive vehicle, and even then, it's very difficult," said Mike Tusken of the Duluth Police Department. "There's drifts that are as tall as cars. I don't know how you'd make it through there."
According to the State Patrol, Interstate 35 between Duluth and the Twin Cities is passable with reduced speeds, but it is snow packed and slick in places. Officials urge caution in tunnels through downtown Duluth as snow that is tracked in or blows into the tunnels can make driving along curves treacherous.
St. Louis County has more than 100 plows out clearing roads. Gusty winds have casued six-foot drifts in some areas of northern Minnesota, which is making it tough for crews to apply sand and salt to roads.
Local emergency responders are prepared to help shelter more stranded motorists over the next few days. Joe Kelly, deputy director of homeland security in Minnesota, said the National Guard helped about 290 people during last night's snow storm. He said people who had either run off the road or were stranded by road closures were taken to National Guard Armories and other buildings in eight counties throughout the southern third of the state.
"Local officials are always watching road conditions and paying attention to who is out there," Kelly said. "They're prepared to take people in if the conditions get bad again, later tonight or into tomorrow."
State Department of Transportation officials are still advising drivers to stay off the roads throughout the evening. About a dozen roads remained closed Friday afternoon.
Interstate 90 was closed in both directions from Austin to Stewartville, just south of Rochester.
No cars were allowed on southbound I-35 from Owatonna to the Minnesota-Iowa border. Officials hope to open at least one lane of southbound I-35W from Owatonna to Albert Lea later in the evening.
Emergency responders say road conditions are not improving quickly.
State Patrol officials expect road conditions to remain treacherous for the next several days.
Meanwhile, by 4 p.m. Friday Xcel Energy had restored power to about 95 percent of the 50,000 Minnesota customers who lost power since Thursday. As of 2 p.m., 453 customers were without power in the western part of the Twin Cities metro area and 1,657 customers lacked power in the east metro.
Xcel officials said they expect to completely restore service by noon Saturday.
Snowfall totals of 6 to 12 inches blanketed the state, and the 9.9 inches recorded at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is the biggest snowfall of winter there so far. According to the Minnesota Climatology Working Group, this is the coldest winter since 1978-79.
The heavy snowfall set back the day plowing schedule in St. Paul, where the city extended day plowing and parking restrictions until late in the evening on Friday. Residents there are being asked to avoid parking on designated Day Plow Routes until the street has been plowed full width -- and to expect to be towed and ticketed if they don't.
The very heavy, wet snow also brought down a lot of power lines. Rochester Public Utilities reported more than 3,000 customers have lost power. Crews were out all night working to restore power to about 3,000 customers.
Outside of the cities, MnDOT plows are out in force. The snow and ice has been hard to clear because it's been compressed by the wind and traffic, spokesman Kevin Gutknecht said.
He said falling temperatures have made the ice more solid.
The news isn't all bad, however.
"The sun is out, and if you get out of the wind, and kind of stand in the sun, you can feel some warmth from it," Gutknecht said.
"That warmth is actually a big help to us as well, because it helps affect the way and the speed with which [road] salt will work."
Still, Gutknecht cautions drivers to slow down.


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I could very well see this team finish in the #3 spot in this year's EC, but I worry that it's not a sustainable level of success. Obviously, that's just my opinion, which is why I said it would be interesting to know MU's thoughts about this team's success this particular season.
Here's a look at the team's financial situation, heading into next season:
- DeRozan: $9.5
- Johnson: $7.0
- Fields: $6.25
- Hayes: $5.96
- Valanciunas: $3.68
- Novak: $3.45
- Ross: $2.79
- Salmons: $1M guaranteed ($7.0 full)
- Hansborough: $1M guaranteed ($3.33 full)
- Lowry (cap hold): $9.32
- Patterson (QO / cap hold): $7.76
- Vasquez (QO / cap hold): $5.38
TOTAL: $71.42M* (if Salmons & Hansborough are not bought-out and no cap holds are renounced)
TOTAL: $63.09M* (if Salmons & Hansborough are bought-out and no cap holds are renounced)
TOTAL: $49.95M* (if Salmons & Hansborough are bought-out and Patterson & Vasquez are renounced)
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From: "Tom Gull" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] TRMCA for R1b1
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:40:55 -0500
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I think it's interesting how one factual posting about TMRCA analysis for
R1b1 can morph into a rehash of the "my ancestors were the Lascaux cave
painters" vs "nomads from the steppes" arguments. Vince posted a new
analysis early on the 26th, Alan R mentioned the eastern refugia and the
implications of the analysis on that, David made his usual "not supported by
population geneticists" posting, followed by the usual rebuttals and some
side postings about who was trying to suppress discussion. Obviously, we
don't want to suppress postings like Vince's original new work and people
speculating about what it implies.
Then Bob asked the really valuable question: OK, you guys disagree, what is
the actual supporting evidence for each theory? I've seen a lot in these
forums on the "younger R1b" theory but very little of the factual
underpinnings for the "R1b was the original European haplogroup in the
western refugia". Did it all really boil down to "R1b predominates now so
it must have done so then"? Or is there a set of interlocking evidence that
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U.S. Workers' Investment Decisions for Participant-Directed Defined Contribution Pension Assets
Two issues may have a tremendous impact on the adequacy of retirement income for today's workers: the growth of 401(k) pension plans and the possible privatization of Social Security. Workers are becoming increasingly responsible for the adequacy of their retirement income by determining how their retirement savings are invested. This paper examines the investment choices of workers covered by a defined contribution pension plan with responsibility for investments, specifically incorporating self-selection into DC pension plans. The results suggest that (1) current DC plan participants tend to be more aggressive investors than the general work force would be; (2) workers in certain demographic groups tend to invest their pension assets more conservatively than others; and (3) selection is present but appears to be economically unimportant.
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Eurotunnel won its fight for survival yesterday after shareholders overwhelmingly backed a restructuring plan.
The business will be reborn next month as Groupe Eurotunnel after 87% of its shareholders agreed to exchange their stock for holdings in a new, less indebted company. Such an outcome appeared unlikely last year after creditors backed out of a rescue deal and brought legal action against the company. But Eurotunnel prevailed after launching a multimillion pound advertising campaign to get out the French shareholder vote.
Jacques Gounon, Eurotunnel chief executive, said: "Eurotunnel is saved. I would like to sincerely thank shareholders who have shown their strong support ... The unquestionable success of the offer confirms their commitment to this great group. It enables Eurotunnel to have a fresh start."
The vote brings to a close a torrid chapter in the tunnel operator's history, which saw it come close to buckling under the combination of a £6.2bn debt burden, boardroom upheaval and investor rebellions. Eurotunnel's second largest shareholder turnout, in 2004, saw nearly 50% of investors vote to install Mr Gounon to run the company.
Mr Gounon told the Guardian he was taken aback by the scale of shareholder support. Eurotunnel executives had expressed concern about the "logistical nightmare" of contacting 660,000 shareholders, most of whom were French members of the public whose names and addresses were held by nominee banks. Around 150,000 Eurotunnel shareholders are British.
"Frankly I never believed that we could have such a successful level of voting. We have a very large number of retail shareholders who are difficult to contact," said Mr Gounon.
Eurotunnel entered bankruptcy protection last year after a deal to restructure its debts collapsed, leaving the company with one last chance to piece together a rescue deal. Under the terms of the restructuring, Eurotunnel's debt will be more than halved to £2.8bn and shareholders will receive a 13% stake in Groupe Eurotunnel, rising to 67% over time.
Eurotunnel's first quarter revenues fell 9% this year following the loss of a lucrative subsidy intended to give the business short-term support when the tunnel opened in 1994. The government-backed minimum usage charge [MUC] expired at the end of 2006, while rail freight revenue continues to fall. Eurotunnel is in talks with its largest freight customers, EWS and SNCF, over new financial terms following the withdrawal of the MUC.
"The new Groupe Eurotunnel has some key assets, such as the 80-year concession from the French and British governments," said Mr Gounon. "Everything is working well. This company could interest some investors because it's a long term investment with a good future."
The Eurotunnel chief executive added that the opening of the St Pancras international terminal will increase Eurostar traffic through the tunnel.
Eurotunnel is France's largest retail stock, and has had a rebellious shareholder base. The board was ejected in 2004 when investors, angered by the share price collapse, backed a coup by Niçolas Miguet.
Although a political project of the French and British governments, the 1986 concession demanded private funding; Margaret Thatcher insisted to François Mitterrand "not a public penny" be invested. Under the concession, creditors can ask the governments to hand the operational licence to them if Eurotunnel is liquidated, as would have happened if shareholders rejected the debt-for-equity swap this week.


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Dimensions: 127 1/2 x 36 1/4 in. (323.8 x 92 cm)
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Accession Number: 1984.199.1a-e
In this fourteenth-century panel, one of a group of panels forming a window (acc. nos. 1984.199.2–.4 and 48.183.2) the vibrant color and robust lines of thirteenth-century stained glass were jettisoned in favor of colorless glass painted with leafy vines growing on a trellis. The three foliate designs, each of which is remarkable for its delicacy and refinement, are identifiable not only by their botanical species but also as patterns known to have originated at Saint-Ouen. The two lower panels display the periwinkle flower; the third panel represents the leaf of the strawberry plant; and the top two depict geranium foliage. The colored borders incorporate buttercup leaves with red and green quarries, and the center bosses are composed of whorls of artemisia leaves entwined with knotted ribbons of color.


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I just sent a Q&A to CH. As a courtesy to the people here at the Den, here it is too. When it's being posted on their site later today, this becomes public material of course, but remember this is THEIR Q&A
11th april 2005
Answers by Fabrice Cambounet, H5 producer
* The announcement was originally supposed to happen last year. What took so long?
Well, the first thing is that we werent quite ready Also, Ubisoft decided to increase the commitment and timeframe on the project, to raise the quality bar. That meant we could push back the communication start a bit further. Now we have more time and more people on board, and the contact with fans and journalists will be better.
On a personal level, I also became extra-busy this time last year with Alexander getting the movie license on top of the thing, and Pacific Fighters on the side.
* How did you end up choosing Nival Interactive for the development of the game? Have you guys been playing Etherlords II as well?
Nival was pretty motivated for the job They were banging on the door here all night, waking up neighbors, shouting to get the production. It was no big deal, as they are one of the most experienced companies in the field in turn-based strategy : I played a bit of Etherlords 1 and 2, but mostly played Silent Storm to death. This game is impressive, especially in the gameplay field (beyond visuals and technical). And shouting flying nazis is a gripping challenge As gameplay is the critical element to develop, and Nival proved its ability for that, the choice of developer was easy.
* What can you tell us about the minimum system requirements that appeared on the Net during the week-end?
I donââ¬t know where theyââ¬re coming from . Theyââ¬re pretty much higher than our target minimum. Weââ¬ll be narrowing this later in the development. I do keep in mind that weââ¬re aiming for a broad fan base, not the tech-crazy.
* The official teaser site is simply gorgeus. What kind of content can we expect to find on it in the future?
Youââ¬ll find everything you can expect Art, screens, videos, data, tidbitsââ¬Â¦
* When do you expect to tell us a little more about that second title under the Might and Magic brand? Can you at least tell us if it's the Chinesse MMORPG?
Cant tell. Hint : it is NOT the Chinese MMO. There are many more things behind the curtain that you can imagine. (yes, you can start drooling )
* What do you think of the reaction of the fans until now? Is it similar to what you expected?
I was happy on the feedback on visuals. The reaction last year on sketches was positive, but only slightly. Put in context, it seems most people like the style we chose to use. And theyââ¬ve only seen a small part of itââ¬Â¦ At this stage there is not much to comment on other than the few screenshots released with the announcement, but this will grow up quickly, especially with the E3 looming.
* Since you probably don't want to reveal what the towns are at this point, can you tell us how you ended up with a number of six? Is it a continuation of the Heroes IV system?
It is not linked with Heroes 4 in any way. Six is a pretty fine number, in terms of variety, balance, and production. As we want to achieve a high quality game, that means we cant do 20 towns and hope to reach a good tuning and great visuals for all.
The concerns Iââ¬ve read regard more the number of creatures. I was very interested in reading a fanââ¬s calculations on the number of creatures, including upgrades and addons. I think he ended on around 130 creatures in Heroes 3. I dare say we will easily top that
* How useful were the game proposals, the fan feedback, the suggestions that were posted last year?
They were critical. Thatââ¬s why I wanted to get in touch early ââ¬" the longer you wait the more difficult it is to integrate other opinions. I received a large number of summaries (from CH or the french fans) and even detailed research (from the russian community). Iââ¬ve read a few threads here and there, and especially what the fans were concerned about (through the questions thread). This was very important in focusing the attention to one area or the other. I hope youââ¬ll see that in action.
The next step, beyond comments on the released elements of course, will be the beta test. It is planned later this summer. There will only be a limited number of seats !
* How far are you into the development of the game? Is it playable at this point?
As I like to tease, I must say that weââ¬ve been able to play for a few months now Weââ¬re starting to get this ââ¬ÅHeroesââ¬Â feeling quite clearly ! This is really a great opportunity to work on an ambitious project, with a highly motivated team. There is a mountain of work left ahead, but all this time will also be dedicated to tuning and polishing, and its not that frequent in games development.
Edit: Darn thing replaced my smileys by questions marks Should be better now.

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Hmm, I wonder if the Den could put together a Q&A for Fabrice...

And then keep the answers to ourselves or post "a secret guild of fans made an interview with Fabrice"? In a less indirect way, I don't see a problem to post potential questions and CH, Heroic Corner of whoever is gonna make next session can chose from these.
Very nice and thanks for posting it To me one of the most amazing things about Heroes is the longetivity of the game. It has been yonkers since H4 came out and yet the fans for all the different versions quickly came out of the woodworks as soon as H5 became a topic of official discussion.
The game has managed a historical appeal to players like myself who love the graphics, the exploration, finding things, working out puzzles and a rousing battle on occassion. It even works for those battle hardy folks who before they even go into a battle know the stats and the costs of each battle.
It is a game that raises emotions whether it be bad or good. Cattleman and I still play many H4 maps in hot seat mode (sometimes several times) and are incredibly excited about the prospect of H5. We may not always post our comments but we are surely lurking......hungrily waiting for more news!


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STARKVILLE, Miss. — Fostering an environment of innovation and creativity and inspiring students to be successful in a fast-paced and changing world are goals that Mississippi State President Mark E. Keenum said are in line with the university's vision.
During the "Investing in Innovation" conference, also known as I3 Day, Friday [April 5], Keenum said nurturing an entrepreneurial culture will help educate and train people to be successful in taking on global challenges, including one that is of special focus under Keenum's leadership â?" innovative agricultural solutions to help feed the growing global population. Keenum noted that an additional two billion people will be added to the global dinner table by the year 2050.
"To inspire and motivate students to go off into the world and do great things â?" that's what we're about at Mississippi State," Keenum said.
The conference centered around the theme "Inventing Solutions," and an intellectual property showcase demonstrated that a true variety of ventures, from medical and pharmaceutical solutions to social media applications, are addressing a diverse assortment of demands.
Keynote speaker at the innovation luncheon Thad McNulty, an angel investor and entrepreneur, emphasized that the basics of supply and demand should never be overlooked as the fundamental keys to success in any business.
McNulty, who received a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University, worked as a research analyst and general partner at Water Street Capital before starting a hedge fund that compounded at 20 percent net per year for 12 years.
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Throughout the preceding Entrepreneurship Week, MSU students competed in business plan competitions, with cash awards totaling more than $50,000. Dean of Business Sharon Oswald said the week demonstrated the university's incredible entrepreneurial culture.
"We have students with innovative ideas and faculty willing to help them take these ideas to the next level. This week has given students the opportunity to pitch their ideas to a host of individuals who can serve as mentors in life," Oswald said. "It gave them good practice and good feedback."
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Student entrepreneur Read Sprabery, representing the company Nimbus Mobile, walked away with the top award from the Tellus Operating Group, LLC Final Round Business Plan Competition. John Gazzini is the company's co-founder, who participated in an earlier round of competition before traveling to out-of-town employment interviews. The award package includes a $10,000 cash prize, as well as legal services provided by Bradley Arant Boult and Cummings, and office space in the MSU Business Incubator courtesy of the Golden Triangle Enterprise Center.
Sprabery, a senior computer engineering major from Olive Branch, explained that Nimbus Mobile's FeatherServe platform allows pool service companies to easily manage their employees while keeping better logs for their customers. Gazzini, of Birmingham, Ala., also is a senior computer engineering major.
"We're actually revolutionizing service companies in general, but we're starting with pool service companies," Sprabery said. "We're just making it easy to schedule appointments, keep records, keep up with your customers, and keep up with your employees."
He said that participating in the business plan competition forced he and Gazzini to think about the business in more technical ways.
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Danny Holt, assistant professor of management and a faculty advisor with the Entrepreneurship Center, said the week offered unique opportunities for many pioneering students.
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Unanswered: looping through unique values, saving them into designed workbooks with sepcial names
Im a new to VBA and found a macro which does almost what I want but need to be modified. I d be very grateful if you could help.
Lets say I have:
- a workbook called Source.xlsm with 30 unique values in col A and 50 other columns fulfilled. First row is filled with column names
ID Name1 Name2 Name n
A00001 A1 A2 A n
B00002 B1 B2 B n
- a workbook called Dest.xlsm; formatted file to which I want to copy unique values + all of the columns from Source.xlsm
A n
- where in cell D3 should be value from Source.xlsm A2. A1,A2, An . should be below cell D3
I need a macro which will:
- open a Source.xlsm
- open Dest.xlsm
- loop through all of unique values in col A of Source.xlsm
- copy each of unique value to the separate Dest.xlsm file where in cell D3 should be value from Source.xlsm A2. A1,A2, A n should be below cell D3
- save the separate files Dest.xlsm for each of the unique value from col. A naming for example A00001_ddmmyyyy.xlsm where dd-day, mm-month, yyyy-year
- close all files
Macro, which loops through unique values in col A and simply copies these values into separate workbooks instead of copying them into separate Dest.xlsm for each of the unique value from col. A
Sub Extract_All_Data_To_New_Workbook()
'this macro assumes that your first row of data is a header row.
'will copy all filtered rows from one worksheet, to another blank workbook
'each unique filtered value will be copied to it's own workbook
'Variables used by the macro
Dim wbDest As Workbook
Dim rngFilter As Range, rngUniques As Range
Dim cell As Range
' Set the filter range (from A1 to the last used cell in column A)
'(Note: you can change this to meet your requirements)
Set rngFilter = Range("A1", Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp))
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
With rngFilter
' Filter column A to show only one of each item (uniques) in column A
.AdvancedFilter Action:=xlFilterInPlace, Unique:=True
' Set a variable to the Unique values
Set rngUniques = Range("A2", Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp)).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisi ble)
' Clear any filter
On Error Resume Next
On Error GoTo 0
End With
' Filter, Copy, and Paste each unique to its own new workbook
For Each cell In rngUniques
' Create a new workbook for each unique value
Set wbDest = Workbooks.Add(xlWBATWorksheet)
'NOTE - this filter is on column A (field:=1), to change
'to a different column you need to change the field number
rngFilter.AutoFilter Field:=1, Criteria1:=cell.Value
' Copy and paste the filtered data to its new workbook
With wbDest.Sheets(1).Range("A1")
.PasteSpecial xlPasteColumnWidths 'Paste column widths
.PasteSpecial xlPasteValuesAndNumberFormats 'Paste values
End With
Application.CutCopyMode = True
' Name the destination sheet
wbDest.Sheets(1).Name = cell.Value
'Save the destination workbook and close
wbDest.SaveAs ThisWorkbook.path & Application.PathSeparator & _
cell.Value & " " & Format(Date, "mmm_dd_yyyy")
wbDest.Close False 'Close the new workbook
Next cell
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Will Cady clones himself and tests the versatility of the Soundblox Pro Bass Envelope Filter.
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The Nemesis Delay: The Official Source Audio Demo
The Nemesis Delay features 24 vintage and advanced styles of delay.
Andy at Pro Guitar Shop Demos the L.A. Lady Overdrive and Kingmaker Fuzz
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Wizardry 8 had 8 party members (two RPCs and 6 PCs…all of them controlled by the player). JA2 had 18 party members, split into 'squads' of no more than 6 (one of the weaknesses of the game IMO. Would have been a lot better to not limit squad size at all).


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Saturday, January 16, 2010
Town & Country Resort & Convention Center
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9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
We'd like to invite you to attend this Saturday's Union-Tribune Successful Aging Expo from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Town & Country Resort & Convention Center in Mission Valley.
This dynamic event – which includes free admission and parking – is loaded with information and tips on how to age successfully.
As you'll see in the ensuing pages, the Expo is full of high-interest seminars led by our region's top aging experts, ranging from financial planning to healthy living, to improving your living space.
You will find more than 60 exhibitors offering a wide variety of services and products, all geared to helping us age successfully.
Additionally, you will have an opportunity to meet some of our newspaper's top executives, expert columnists and reporters at the Union-Tribune exhibit near the Check-In area.
I guarantee you will not only enjoy the interaction with our experts and exhibitors, but you will leave with valuable information that will help you to maintain a happy, healthy and successful lifestyle in the years to come.
For more information, you may visit our Successful Aging ExpoWeb site at AgingExpo.UnionTrib.com.
We look forward to seeing you on Saturday.Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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Fibre Optic Projector
Product Description
Create Star Ceilings, Light up your Staircase, or outdoor decking!
See our fitting guide for installing the Fibre Optics into a staircase
Fibre Optics have traditionally been illuminated by halogen lamps with motorized colour wheels providing around 7 fixed colours. The halogen lamps used in standard Fibre Optic Projectors get very hot and require cooling fans. They also burn out rather quickly and need frequent changing, our system is designed to last and is maintenance free.
Ideal for use in Bathrooms, Therapy Rooms, Spas & Saunas.
It costs under £10 a year in electricity to run our system for 24 hours a day 365 days a year!
The "CoolFusion" projector has revolutionised Fibre Optic Lighting. By using powerful Multi Chip LEDs, a different sort of compact projector has been made possible. As the name suggests the CoolFusion stays relatively cool, is totally silent and can reproduce the full visible spectrum from over two million colours.
Designed & Manufactured in the U.K
Ideal For:
- Decking and Garden Lighting
- Bathrooms & Wet Rooms
- Ceilings, Walls and Floors
- Stairs and Steps
- Bars and Clubs
- Limousine Ceilings & Bars
- Film and Studio Effects
- ICE Installations
We have tested the CoolFusion side by side with a 50w Halogen Based projector and the light output for the CoolFusion projector is more intense. The CoolFusion Projector uses less than 1/7th of the power of a 50w halogen based projector!
With the saving in electricity and cost of replacement bulbs the CoolFusion could pay for itself in just over 3 years! This comparison is assuming continuous use compared with a 50w halogen based projector, with electricity costing 14 pence per Kilowatt Hour.
If you already have an existing Fibre Optic System you can replace your standard Projector with our CoolFusion Projector, just remove your existing light box and add the CoolFusion in it's place and your Fibre Optics will be brought into the 21st Century!
Comparing our CoolFusion to the traditional Fibre Optic Projector is like comparing an MP3 Player to a Gramophone.
The CoolFusion projector offers the following advantages over the traditional projector:
- Energy efficient - uses 86% less energy!
- No mechanical Colour Wheel
- No Motor or moving parts
- No Fans - cool & silent operation
- No lamps to blow
- No Maintenance
- Clean Light - No UV radiation
- 2.1 Million Colours
- Long Lifetime ~50,000 hours
- Very Compact
- Full Colour Choice / Speed Control
- Sound Responsive
- Remote Controllable
- Networkable with our other Colour Changing Products
- DMX Capable with an additional bridge
CoolFusion can seemlessly sweep through the entire colour range with the subtle hues and shades between each of the primary colours.
There are literally hundreds of variations for each colour. You want pink no problem, just decide which particular shade that you want, and lock it on that colour - the same goes for any other colour!
CoolFusion can be used alone with it's built-in program or to make things really interesting use it with a ZAP+, or ZEN Controller to give you full sound to light response and complete control over colour palettes and sweeps.
Below we have put together a range of kits from a 2 Meter Harness with 80 Lights to 6 Meters with 80 Lights. If the Projector is placed at the center of the lights it will give a span double the length of the harness. For example a 2 Meter Harness will give a total span of 4 Meters.
The CoolFusion can be supplied on it's own or with a Harness, please use the drop down menu to select the Harness Length Required.
Designed & Manufactured in the U.K
Product Specification
|Maximum current drain
|0.6 Amps
|Typical drain
|0.3 Amps
|Light Output
|6.7 Watts equivalent to a 50 watt Halogen
|10 - 16 Volts DC
|Current Regulated, Reverse polarity and over-voltage protection built-in
|Data accepted
DMX512 via the DMX Bridge
|2,097152. 7 Bit 128 Levels
|CE, RoHS
|Optic Coupler Diameter
|27mm (up to 35mm available by request)
|Dimensions of CoolFusion
|147mm (L) 82mm (W) 48mm (H)
Product Documents
Purchase Options
|CoolFusion LED Fibre Optic Projector
|CoolFusion LED Projector with 2 Meter 80 Tail Fibre Optic Harness
|CoolFusion LED Projector with 2 Meter 150 Tail Fibre Optic Harness
|CoolFusion LED Projector with 4 Meter 80 Tail Fibre Optic Harness
|CoolFusion LED Projector with 4 Meter 150 Tail Fibre Optic Harness
|CoolFusion LED Projector with 6 Meter 80 Tail Fibre Optic Harness
You will also need to select a Power Supply in the related items below. The Controllers are optional.
For more information about one of the products below simply click the name of the product.
|Colour Controller
|ICELED DMX512 Bridge
|ICELED ZAP+ Digital Controller
|ICELED ZEN (v7) Controller with Remote & Remote Eye/Display
|Power Supplies
|2A Switchmode Plug-top 12vdc Power Supply, Free DC Connector (5 Amp)
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~ Mr. Dominican(Duplicated CD)
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Mr. Dominican "El Tigre Fino" is revolutionizing the music industry by blending reggaeton and hip hop with his latin flow and essence. The producer, writer and performer Jorge Mr. Dominican Castillo was born in the city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 1980. Since a very small age his passion was the music, acting and sports. He started as a young boy by performing artistic presentations at a local and school level. Then in 1992 the genre of reggaeton and the latin hip hop became his passion. Mr. Dominican has the talent, the knowledge, and skills of composing, producing, and performing his own music. He also has the ability to sing and perform in different languages and musical genres, which give him the potential to take his music to diverse public. "El Tigre Fino" has done educational studies as a computer programmer, graphic designer, web designer, and music production, which had permitted to advance with his projects as an artist. Also his career as a live performance has gave him the experience he needs to interact with his audience. Mr. Dominican is captivating different cultures within all kind of ages and generations, and with his matchless talent as a rapper and reggaeton singer he is expanding his talent, his flow, and his music, globally. 'I'm very satisfied of what I have accomplished by now, but I know that I still have a long road to go through and many goals to achieve along the way. I thank God, my family, fans and friends for all the support they have giving me. Also I want to encourage people to follow their dreams. It doesn't matter what your dream is, how many obstacles you'll find on your way, or how many people telling you that you can't do it. Everybody have the opportunity to be whatever they want to be, just when it comes take it and don't let it go'
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Advice needed: might have a line on a Brommie...
Hi gang...
just asking for some advice. I might haven an opportunity to buy a 3 year old Brompton M3L with the larger, adjustable seat post. What would be a good price for it?
Lots of vIews... no replies. Surely there is someone that can give me an appraisal and advice?
A new M3L here in the states goes for $1075 at NYCEwheels.com which seems to be about an average price for the bike. How much does a bike like this depreciate after a few years of regular use? $300? More? Less? Just trying to come up with what's fair.
I just saw one for sale in Vancouver BC for $400 , I emailed the person and never received a reply. A ML3 on Ebay recently went for $710.
Here is one in the San Francisco area http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bik/750050831.html
If it's in good condition & been properly maintained, I wouldn't have thought any more than a 30% drop in value, especially if it comes with any of the luggage options.. It's not uncommon to find folding bikes up for sale that are practically mint, people buy them on a whim, and then never use them.
That one in the sf bay area comes with a lot of accessories... but is also a few years older. But it gives me a pretty good idea on what to look for.
I went and checked to see what completed auctions for M3Ls looked like on ebay... and the lowest was £325. That's about $650... with the average around £400 ($800). I know that the British market for these is a bit more robust so a direct comparison may not be the best, but it should be close enough.
Thanks for the link, Dyno. :)
p.s. I have checked with my wife... and she's ok with the purchase. :love:
And... then I got the letter in the mail stating my property taxes are going up. I could almost feel those Brompton handlebars in my hands. Oh well... a few more months won't kill me.
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Without question our all time favorite ladder is the Little Giant Select Step (our review here). You can set it up on stairs, position it right up against a wall, or just utilize it as a standard 5,6, 7, or 8 foot step ladder. It's kinda heavy, but the innovation contained within is more than enough to off-set that.
And the good news is that the company has turned their attention towards the standard extension ladder. Just the other day we got word of something called the Little Giant Velocity 24' Extension Ladder. After a quick run-down of the features it's looking like Little Giant has solved many of the irritations associated with using a large extension ladder.
Most importantly, the pulley system is positioned off to the side, beyond the rungs. This means a few things to the user. For one, you don't have to worry about getting tangled in the rope while on the ladder. But even better than that is the fact that, because it's now on the side, there is more room to work with so Little Giant has added an additional pulley which translates into (according to the manufacturer) 60% less force needed to lift the extension. Sounds pretty sweet.
Little Giant also says that the ladder is lighter than the norm because it is made with their special fiberglass composite material. We checked the Home Depot site and the product weight of the Velocity is 44 lbs and the similar light weight Werner ladder tips the scales at 45.7 lbs. So we're not sure how much difference that is going to make (assuming the HD numbers are correct).
There are also a few useful reminders on the ladder, particularly for homeowners who may not use an extension ladder that often. The top three rungs are painted red to serve as a "do not step" indicator as well as to show how may rungs must be above the roofline if you're going to step off onto the roof. The ladder also has markings indicating where and how to hold it while you move it around.
Another big plus to the ladder is the price. It's only $200 which is about $80 less than the similar Werner (they're both 1A rated for 300lbs).
So yeah, this looks like a really nice ladder at a great price. We scanned the customer comments at Home Depot and it seems that there has been some issues with the red paint on the top rungs rubbing right off on clothing, so there's that. But compared to the ease of the pulley mechanism and the cost of the item, that's a sacrifice probably worth making.
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A CAMPAIGN to restore a historic church and bring it into wider use is well on the way to success.
The 800-year-old St Michael and All Angels Church, in Witton Gilbert, near Durham City, received Heritage Lottery Fund cash as part of a £262,000 project.
Already, the roof has been repaired, a new toilet installed, a kitchen-meeting room and a cafe space created.
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Further work is planned on the flooring, heating and seating.
Additionally, the church's Breathing Space health and well-being project has helped more than 400 people over the last year, including the elderly, the homeless and addicts.
The project takes advantage of the church's location next to a nature reserve to offer art and relaxation activities, along with lessons about wildlife.
Vicar the Reverend Canon Caroline Dick said: "The building has been transformed over the past two years, which has enabled the Breathing Space project to take flight.
"We always said that we wanted our work to include people on the margins of society and we have done that. The project has been a success and we have every confidence moving forward."
Project worker Pam Barmby, who is soon leaving to live abroad, said: "The aim is to improve health and wellbeing and we have used the stillness of the beautiful 800-year-old church to bring that about, offering something that is often lacking in modern life as well as engaging with the outside areas surrounding the church."


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Dr. Robert Kinast, founder of the Largo, Fla.-based Center for Theological Reflection, will give a free talk, The Rebirth of Practical Theology, at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 31, in Brady Educational Center auditorium. The St. Thomas community is welcome.
Kinasts talk is part of the 20th anniversary celebration of the Teaching Parish Program, a program of pastoral formation for seminary students at the St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity.
Kinast has a Ph.D. in systematic theology from Emory University and has taught pastoral/practical theology at the Catholic University of America and at the Washington Theological Union. He is the author of 10 books and more than 70 articles on aspects of practical theology, lay ministry and process theology.
During his visit to St. Thomas, Kinast will share his expertise on theological reflection, a process to relate ones experiences to ones theology, with supervising pastors from the Teaching Parish Program, staff of the Center for BeFriender Ministry and parishes using BeFriender Ministry.
Kinasts visit is sponsored by the Center for BeFriender Ministry, the Pastoral Formation program of the St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, and the UST Theology Department, supported with a grant from the Faculty Development Center.


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Growing Number of UN Member States make commitment to stop use of child soldiers
New York, September 29, 2009 - Moves to prevent the criminal use and abuse of young boys and girls recruited into armed groups around the world took a step forward today as eight more countries endorsed a United Nations declaration aimed at ending the scourge and bringing to justice those who violate children in armed conflict.
"2009 has been a terrible year for children," said Radhika Coomaraswamy, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, at event where individual countries formally endorsed the Paris Commitments, which require nations to do all they can to help end the recruitment of children in armed conflicts.
Children continue to be forcibly recruited, abducted, maimed or killed in conflicts around the globe, and conflicts in Gaza, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan have led to high numbers of casualties and large-scale displacements, she said.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), children have been caught in the middle of conflict between Government forces and rebel militia, and in Nepal some 3,000 child soldiers have been detained for two years in detention camps, added the Special Representative.
"Sexual violence, both against girls and boys, remains a grave concern," she told the ministerial forum endorsing the Paris Commitments at UN Headquarters in New York. "Children are raped, gang-raped or used as sexual slaves by armed groups."
Ms. Coomaraswamy stressed that without holding individuals accountable for "such grave violations against children," peace is unobtainable. "Nor can there be any comfort when children are not given the support to deal with the psychological consequences of such crimes."
A group of eight States approved the Paris Commitments at the event, bringing the total number of nations supporting the declaration from 76 to 84. The latest countries to endorse the document were Albania, Guinea, the Central African Republic (CAR), Eritrea, Jamaica, Liechtenstein, Panama and Senegal.
"The Paris Commitments send a powerful political message," said Ms. Coomaraswamy. "The stronger the message, the more children will be saved."
In an interview with the UN News Centre after the event, Ms. Coomaraswamy noted that at present an estimated 250,000 children are associated with armed groups, "sometimes as frontline combatants, as spies or porters. They also are domestic aides, sex-slaves, they fight, etc."
She said that before the Paris Principles – a set of related technical guidelines for running child soldier demobilization and reintegration programmes – children were put into transit camps and taught to sew or trained in motor repairs for six months and sent back home.
"Child protection people said that this didn't work very. Soon they were re-recruited," she told the UN News Centre.
"Successful programmes are those in which the child is quickly taken back to the family – and if there is still a community – you work with the family and the community," she said. "You provide livelihood training but in his environment."
Ms. Coomaraswamy noted that many of the Member States who have endorsed the Commitments are traditional donor nations. "So we hope they will fund programmes along the lines of the Paris Principles."
Today's event was the second ministerial follow-up Forum to the International Conference entitled "Free Children from War," which was held in Paris in 2007, and it was co-organized by the Permanent Mission of France to the UN, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Ms. Coomaraswamy's office.
UNICEF Executive Director Community Ann M. Veneman said that children are "extremely resilient if they receive adequate care, education and alternative livelihoods to the horror of war."
Ms. Veneman also highlighted the success of community-based long-term reintegration programs. "To be effective, the programmes need to be adequately funded in the long-term and we need more support from the international community for the sake of the children."
For more details go to UN News Centre at http://www.un.org/news
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UNICEF is on the ground in over 150 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.