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American Express Co. (AXP) (AmEx) announced the alliance of its full service reloadable prepaid account – Serve – with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT). Operational since 2011, Serve is AmEx's next generation technology that aids eCommerce through the products and services that the mobile and card companies develop.
Accordingly, about 4,100 Walmart stores will now offer American Express Serve digital wallet, which will be sold for a nominal price of $1.95 and a monthly fee as low as $1.00. These stores will also serve as stations for reloading cash in the Serve accounts, overall adding more than 19,500 refill locations across the US. Primarily participating stores include Walmart, CVS/pharmacy of CVS Caremark Corp. (CVS) and 7-ELEVEN, making AmEx Serve the largest reloading network in the peer group, according to the Aite Group.
The latest alliance with Walmart extends AmEx's leadership into the rapidly growing person-to-person (P2P) mobile payment platform. While AmEx's Bluebird prepaid card for Walmart customers are already showing positive results, the Serve accounts will further expand the card payment processor's retail clientele by adding over 70 million US residents, who are underbanked and unbanked, to the company's network.
With the help of Serve, Walmart can now empower itself with an inexpensive digital wallet, which will enable its customers to refill mobile minutes, pay bills and purchase products and services through their mobile phone accounts as well as withdraw cash from ATMs freely. This kind of high-speed payment solution not only connects AmEx with its merchants but also complies with the next generation needs, particularly for those who are side-lined from the conventional financial system.
We believe such efforts are helping AmEx improve its operating leverage and reduce time-gap to reach out to its merchants. These are also crucial for maintaining its competitive strength against arch rivals, such as MasterCard Inc. (MA), Visa Inc. (V) and Discover Financial Services (DFS), in the card industry. Hence, such collaborations in the growth markets and diversification into eCommerce are crucial for AmEx in order to expand its revenue base.
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I aquired an early 70's grand prix , in the fall. It's my size and i've always wanted one, so I could turn it into a city bike,
I am starting this thread as a place to document all the events...
I currently have VO porteur bars and city levers ordered, with SKS Chromoplastic fenders, (couldn't swing the VO hammered fenders), with Panaracer Pasellas as well.
my inspiration for the color and idea came from TampaRaleigh's 2 speed coastie...seen here i really enjoyed the color and the style, and wanted to do a similar project
I am going to do a cork wrap on the bars and shellac and twine the ends.. hopefully i can figure this out with the city levers.. i have inverse levers in my parts bin but i was hoping to save those for another project, and i really like the look of the city levers
anybody want to donate a b17 ? :) i have a post in the ISO thread if your open to trades....
for now.. here is the before pic
I picked up a similar Grand Prix a few months ago. I've been working on it through the winter and riding it on rollers. I just took it out for the first road ride (25 miles) last weekend and I liked the ride more than I thought I would. My only upgrade was aero brake levers since I had them in the parts bin and they are more confortable for me than the stock Weinmann levers. Aluminum rims will be next... at some point.
All-in-all a great city bike, which is what I'm using mine for. Good luck with yours!
thanks... Very excited to have another project! should have it back from the powder coaters next week,
forgot to mention i went with a Venetian Beige as a color choice... if anybody wants to know...
Where do you even find real cork tape nowadays? All I can find anywhere is plasticized "cork" that doesn't even look like cork.
meh.. its probably synthetic im sure.. but the advertise it as cork.. i found this
Great looking bike! Would love to hear the rest of the story. Am also interested in the powder-coat results. I am contemplating this for a friend's 1981 silver Peugeot. Am committed to either a full repaint or powder coat (as I have added braze-on water bottle bosses and ordered in new decals) and would like to hear more about how other projects have turned out....
i just was doing some research on a replacement bb, not sure if this model is a 76 or not, but everything sheldon brown said is that the BB is 26tpi... grrr.. may have to retap or get a VO bb
anybody have experience with this model? i'm hoping its a 24tpi... we shall see
I just went through the 26tpi BB with a 78 Raleigh Superbe. PITA. I ended up reusing the bottom bracket and going cottered. Maybe you can find an axle spindle to go cotterless and reuse the cups. There should be something on Sheldon's website about that. Other than that, it is the VO BB ($$) or Phil Wood ($$$).
i have been cleaning an polishing the new/used crank and now i may not be able to use it!! grrr. i'm ok with cotters but im hoping to find a spindle that will work, or i might get the bb shell refaced
I am actually doing a rebuild on a 1981 raleigh grand prix. Going with Laguna seca blue, using the same paint code as the 01-04 bmw. However, my painter is using automotive paint, not powder coat. Keep us posted with the build details. Ill be making a thread when mine is back from paint
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I know some people on the forum can't stand powdercoating a bike but for use and function I couldn't be more pleased with all my projects. I've done a number of frames and the results have been fantastic every single time. I'm finishing up a 1987 Panasonic Mountain Cat 7500 this weekend, I always hated the 7Up yellow and green so I went with "Wet Black" powdercoat which matches the 1988 MC7500. I had custom vinyl decals made because the custom waterslide decals were going to cost more than the powdercoat. Since I went with peel and stick vinyl, the powdercoat finish will remain glossy and untouched. With other powdercoated frames when I've used waterslide decals, the entire powdercoat finish needs to be buffed slightly for the best adhesion and for the final top coat of clear. With my Cimarron and my Smorgasbord I followed the steps I mentioned and then my buddy who owns a body shop cleared both in BMW clear. Clearing over the powdercoat makes for a deep rich finish, most people get it wrong and think that it's a $300 to $500 paint job.
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I like powder coating, its a cheaper option to painting, and it makes the bike brand new in a way, it allows you to pick everything from color to tech... this is the second frame ive done, the first being my Trek 930
another reason was, the Grand Prix was shot, really no paint left it was a heavly used commuter bike and it showed... its taken me days to get all the bits cleaned up, i had to soak the headset all weekend just to get the elmers glue ahem.. grease out of the bearings.... she really needed some help..
one thing to note, i wanted to put a 6 speed cassette, on this bad boy, but im not sure my Suntour Cyclone Gt has the range to meet it? anybody have experience with this?, i can just take a cog off the 6 speed and run a 5 speed with a spacer.. .but i wanted to see if i could squeeze the extra gear...
powder coater just called, said its all done, picking it up after work!! maybe ill have some pics tonight!
Cant wait to see it!
+1 I'm also looking forward to seeing the finish!
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Here is a sneak peak.. put the headset, bottom bracket and fenders on, was worried about the bottom bracket, but after a few popeye arm exercises i was able to get the fixed cup back in and the adjustable cup is almost burried, it finally caught the spindle with about 2.5 threads left and i was able to back it off and adjust it nice.. even had some room to throw the lock ring on...
the fenders on the other hand were a PIA, the struts for the fenders had a little plastic holder that fit over the end and you cut to length, after hacking off about an inch from each strut I decided not to use them.. I just clipped off the little caps and fit them nicely over the ends
and lastly , i had picked up a threadless adapter for this build at my local coop, i was already to install the bars and the realized its a 1 1/8 threadless adapter not a 1" didn't even know they made those? oh well, back to the coop it goes..
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=364894 another when she was brought home..http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=364911
I can't tell...is that white or cream?
its Venetian Beige... it looks yellowish in the stand and white as just a frame... ill have better pics once its all back together
That's my favorite moment... pristine and ready to be built... all those possibilities!!!
It looks awesome, I can't wait to see it all together, great job so far!
decals ordered lastnight, from cyclomondo, took a tip from tamparaleigh, and went with the RL49
also will have the "made in england" and "heron" headbadge,
maybe some down tube stripes as well...
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decals are on the way..
lots of work done this weekend.. i even tried my hand in twine and shellac...
i had to improvise when the powder coat pitted badly when i was installing the shifter clamp, very suprised on how soft the powdercoat is, when i spoke to the place that did the job, they said some colors are more fragile then others... we'll see, so far i have a few nicks in my "new" frame..
so i decided to take it as an oppurtunity to practice the twine and shellac.. .it came out pretty well, and i think im going to make a chainstay protector out of twine as well,
more twine practice lastnight... no pics yet.. this time i wrapped the chainstay to make a twine protector of some sort.. its a slow and tedious process. especially when you have a wild tree cat sitting at your legs pawing the hemp twine as you wip it around several times... kitty actually undid the first wrap after i was almost done... so if your going to twine.. make sure kitties are sleeping or locked on the porch... moving on..
i found an old bullet style front light in the scrap bin at the coop, it was all rusty but seemed complete and functional, i cleaned all the rust off and painted it, i was able to get it mounted with the center pull brakes... that took some special kind of patience. the light works when i threw a new D battery in there but the light is really dim.. .im thinking it has a bad ground.. hopefully somebody with some experience with these old lights can lend me some pointers.
ill have some pics soon...
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A new Rasmussen Reports polls gives GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum a double-digit lead going into the Louisiana primary on Saturday, putting the former Pennsylvania senator on solid footing to carry some additional bragging rights out of another Deep South nominating contest.
The survey shows former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney running second and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich running a distant third — a snapshot that suggests the Mr. Gingrich's claim that his energy plan can drive the price at the pump down to $2.50 a gallon isn't catching hold as much as he'd like.
The survey of 750 likely GOP voters in Louisiana gave Mr. Santorum 43 percent and Mr. Romney 31 percent. Mr. Gingrich received 16 percent and Texas Rep. Ron Paul was last with 5 percent.
There are 46 delegates up for grabs in Louisiana, which will be divided up on a proportional basis, meaning that even a significant Santorum win may not do much to cut into Mr. Romney's substantial lead in overall delegates.
Mr. Santorum won the primaries in neighboring Mississippi and Alabama last week and hopes to score another win before the race shifts back to a part of the nomination calendar that features states that are expected to be more hospitable to Mr. Romney. Maryland, the District of Colombia and Wisconsin all hold winner-take-all primaries on April 3.
Other Louisiana polls also have shown Mr. Santorum leading the race, ahead by anywhere between 4 and 13 percentage points.
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Ravi Shankar (1920-2012) introduced Indian classical music to the West decades before World Music became a popular genre. "Raga: A Journey into the Soul of India," directed by Howard Worth, documents the life of sitar master Shankar in the late 1960s and early 1970s, following him on his return to India to visit his teacher and guru, Allauddin Khan. The film explores Shankar's life as a musician and teacher in the United States and Europe, initiating those in the West into the world of Indian classical music and culture.
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Cleverly pointed out by Joystiq, A Voyeur for September is an anagram for the game that they are showing off at PAX Prime; Super Meat Boy Forever. If the two are truly tied together by this link, then it might be safe to assume that this endless runner will be hitting the PC and tablets this September.
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Miley Cyrus is letting it be known that she has nothing but positive support to offer her fellow entertainer Justin Bieber after some of her comments about him may have left some questioning her intent.
Cyrus, the 20-year-old singer, covered Rolling Stone magazine recently where she spoke serving as a mentor to Bieber.
"I'm not much older than him, so I never want it to feel like I'm mentoring him. But I do mentor him in a way," Cyrus told the publication. "Because I've been doing this (expletive) for a long time, and I already transitioned, and I don't think he's quite done it yet. He's trying really hard."
However, Cyrus also spoke about warning the 19-year-old Canadian crooner about certain pitfalls that could be caused by his behavior.
"People don't take him seriously, but he really can play the drums, he really can play guitar, he really can sing. I just don't want to see him f-ck that up, to where people think he's Vanilla Ice," Cyrus told Rolling Stone. "I tell him that. Like, 'You don't want to become a joke. When you go out, don't start (expletive). Don't come in shirtless.'"
She went on to speak about his immaturity.
"But the thing is, I think boys are, like, seven years behind," Cyrus told Rolling Stone. "So in his head, he's really, like, 12."
After Cyrus came under fire from Bieber's fans known as "Beliebers" she took to Twitter to clarify her thoughts about Bieber.
"Always have ALWAYS will root for @justinbieber he always has and ALWAYS will be the (expletive). #onlylamestwistwords," Cyrus tweeted.
It seemed there were no hard feelings for Bieber, once he caught wind of Cyrus' comments.
"@MileyCyrus all good. I know what it is," Bieber wrote on Twitter after retweeting Cyrus' message. "We keep it interesting."


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Gar Forman wasn't asked very many questions during Tuesday's press conference concerning Derrick Rose's ACL surgery, but when they were thrown his way, most revolved around the status of the roster and what will be done to shore things up until Rose makes a full recovery.
Both Forman (and Tom Thibodeau) said Rose's injury has taken precedence over other matters involving the team in the short term. Forman confirmed the Bulls will do everything possible to remain competitive until Rose returns but said the team won't make any hasty decisions concerning the roster with Rose being out.
"We're hopeful at some point that [Rose] will be back [next season]," said Forman when asked if the Bulls will plan around Rose playing durng the 2012-2013 season after Dr. Brian Cole set the expectatons of his return at 8-12 months.
"I'm not sure we'll make plans as if he will be, but we're optimistic he will be at some point.
"We've obviously spent a lot of time putting this team together and in putting this team together, everything was looking at the big picture, long term. I think it's our job to stay focused on that and continue to look at what we feel is a long window of opportunity to have success and that's how we'll approach it. Have we taken a hit in the short term? Without question. But will we make decisions based on the short term? We won't. All of our decisions will continue to be based long-term and obviously a big part of that is Derrick who we feel is going to be a special player for us over the next 10 or 15 years."
The Bulls obviously will need to shore up their point guard issues until Rose comes back, but Forman's insistence that stop-gap measures won't be taken – at least at this point – came off somewhat as an unofficial vote of confidence in CJ Watson.
In the minds of many Bulls fans, Watson was the primary reason Chicago was eliminated in the first round. He had a terrible series against Philadelphia as he shot just 24 percent from the field and made what many considered a bone-headed decision to pass the ball off to Omer Asik late in Game 6, ultimately costing the Bulls the game and eliminating them from the postseason.
Of course Forman was diplomatic in his approach and, in keeping consistent with the front office's modus operandi, didn't tip his hand. But if what he says holds true, much to the chagrin of Bulls fans, CJ Watson could be back in uniform and running the show to start the season next year.


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Wild interviews 'The Manicurist' Tara Kelley, juror in the Jodi Arias Trial
First ever "Twinterview" (Twitter interview) with special guest Tara Kelley, Juror 17 from the Jodi Arias Trial aka "The Manicurist."
This interview was presented in the WAT Courtroom on May 29, at 2pm MST.
Wild: Soo Tara, how tasty is that tasty court water after all? I noticed it was getting huge pours.
Tara Kelley: I had to drink it once after forgetting my water:/ it is disgusting!!!!
Wild: Did you think in your wildest dreams that you would be chosen for this jury?
Tara Kelley: Out of 375 people..no way!! However the day of selections I had a feeling I would b/c I was the youngest female there
Wild: Did you believe there was any abuse by Travis, either emotional or physical?
Tara Kelley: No!!! I thought at times he said some mean things but I never thought she was abused!
Wild: How was the foreman chosen? Was he elected, or did he volunteer?
Tara Kelley: We had talked before about putting names in a hat and picking that way but idk if that is how they did it!
Wild: If prosecution was able to prove that Jodi slashed Travis' tires, how would that have changed the jury's perspective?
Tara Kelley: Can't say that it would have! I believe the people that voted life did so b/c the felt some sort of abuse happened!
Wild: When do you think the the premeditation began?
Tara Kelley: May 26, 2008!
Wild: What is your opinion of that last text sent by Travis where he was so angry?
Tara Kelley: It's part of my theory! I believe he found out about the sex tape and she threatened to blackmail him!
Wild: Do you want to tell us more about your theory now? Take a few tweets and expand upon it if you would like.
Tara Kelley: I believe on May 26, Travis was trying to break it off completely with Jodi! She got mad and threatened him with the sex tape! He started calling her those names b/c he thought if he did she would finally leave him alone, especially when he said u r the worst thing that ever happened to me! He was hoping that would make her stop! It only made her really mad knowing he no longer wanted her! She couldn't take it! She planned the burglary and started planning his death! She wanted to make sure she was the last he ever had sexually! She wanted that power of knowing she was his last
Wild: Great multi-tweet answer Tara! Very twitter savvy. In your mind, does Jodi have any redeeming qualities?
Tara Kelley: I gave her the benefit of the doubt, but when she sat up there and lied constantly, it was hard to believe she did
Wild: Did the juror room have billiards, darts, xbox with a 60 inch screen and a fireplace as I envisioned it having?
Tara Kelley: I wish!! We did puzzles , played UNO, cribbage, and that's about it lol!
Wild: Is there anything that your have heard or seen since trial has ended that stands out to you as a game changer?
Tara Kelley: I think those parent interrogation videos could have been a game changer! Shows they weren't shocked she did it
Wild: What did u think of Kirk Nurmi when he said "9 days out of 10 I don't like Jodi Arias"
Tara Kelley: I believed it! There was never interaction b/w him and Jodi at the table! He never looked happy by her
Wild: Did you think Alyce's analysis of domestic abuse applied to Jodi?
Tara Kelley: No! I feel she is an advocate and truly believed Jodi was abused! However there was NO proof only her word
Wild: What was the most damning piece of evidence against Jodi?
Tara Kelley: Wow that's a hard one!! Probably the camera! Showed a timeline of how quickly things happened!
Wild: How nice would it have been to drink court water out of a sweet WAT mug instead of those tiny styrofoam shot cups? ?
Tara Kelley: Would have made it ALL Better! Valerie just emailed me and said we can't make fun of her water and she wants her mug!
Wild: Did you find Nurmi very hard to listen to with all the sex talk day after day after day?
Tara Kelley: It was hard listening to the sex talk over and over and Nurmi liked to talk about sex over and over again
Wild: Last few ?'s. What is your opinion of Juan's style towards Dr. Samuels and LaViolette?
Tara Kelley: He was good, a little over the top at times but it worked! They were very flustered on that stand with him!
Wild: So, does the system work? Are you happy that you were a juror?
Tara Kelley: Yes the system works! It was a very long, emotional process but I am happy I got to do this! Met a lot of great people
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I'm sure I've warned you before – I'm a big believer in Software Factories… but I've been quiet about this for a while now. That's because I've been waiting for the 'next big thing'… enter stage left: "Blueprints"!
I had the pleasure of attending a talk that Michael Lehman and Jezz Santos gave in Seattle a while back, and more recently I've spent a little time recently playing with the CTP available on codeplex, and getting a feel for how it works. I thought others might find another example useful, hence I've posted my thoughts here. Basically I wanted a simple example to use to generate a Blueprint, and so I chose adding a web page that adheres to the View-Presenter pattern.
If you're after background information, you can't miss the codeplex site, the MSDN landing page, and Michael's webcasts.
One word of warning: This is based on the Nov 17th 2008 CTP, so chances are it'll break in future releases.
Creating a Template Project
The usual behaviour of a Blueprint Factory when invoked is to "unfold" a project template into your solution. By default this is a basic C# project, but we want a Web Application project with some structure in it.
To do this, we can first create a simple "ViewPresenterTemplate" Web Application project in Visual Studio 2008 as you would normally, and add "Views" and "Presenters" folders. Then implement the View-Presenter pattern on the "Default.aspx" page… the result looks a bit like this;
Next, we need to export this as a template that the Blueprints Factory can consume; so in Visual Studio select File->Export. Then export the project as a template (ensuring you don't "automatically import…" it into Visual Studio again), and locate the new zip file.
So now we have a nice template project, we need to create our Blueprint Factory.
Creating a Blueprint Factory
Once you've installed all the Blueprints bits, you can access the functionality from the Blueprints Manager on the Tools menu. First create a nice blank solution, and then pop the Blueprints Manager up and choose to unfold the "Microsoft Blueprints Factory 2.1.1" Blueprint. It will then prompt you for the Project Name of the Blueprint Factory. I chose "ViewPresenterBlueprint".
Next you can fill in some the basic details of your new Blueprint. Just fill in the Configuration tab for now. Note that the "Description" field is what is displayed to the user when selecting a Blueprint to unfold, so make it fairly explanatory.
The Template field is important for us in this example. By default, it is set to "Auto-generated", which means when you unfold a Blueprint it will generate a new C# project for you. That's not what we want, so we'll come back here in two minutes.
Attaching our Template
After hitting OK you'll see your new Blueprint Factory project all ready to go, and the guidance window (or "Blueprint Workflow") will be displayed. Next, we need to find our template ZIP file that Visual Studio created for us. I renamed mine to "Template.zip".
A Blueprints Factory project has a special folder to hold templates, aptly named "templates". The easy bit, then… drag your "Template.zip" file into the "templates" folder in your ViewPresenterFactory project. It should look a little like this;
Finally, to ask the Blueprints Factory to unfold our new template instead of the default C# project, we need to edit the configuration.
Right click the ViewPresenterBlueprintFactory and choose Blueprints->Edit Configuration. Replace the "auto-generated" Template option with "User supplied", and type in the filename of your newly added template;
Hit OK, and give your Blueprint a build.
Testing the Blueprint
At this point, you could unfold your new Blueprint into the same solution, but I prefer to do it in another instance of Visual Studio. This is because Command Extensions (what we'll see next time) remain in memory, so you need to restart Visual Studio to unload them anyway. But I also find it doesn't make such a mess of my factory solution's local directory.
So, spin up a new Visual Studio, open the Blueprints Manager, pick your Blueprint and click Unfold. It will ask you for a solution to add it to, so just select "Other Project Types->Visual Studio Solutions->Blank Solution", and give it a filename. Then you'll be prompted for the project name for our Web Application project.
One thing you'll find when testing is that you create a lot of these solutions (which is probably why some prefer to unfold into the same solution as the factory). Therefore I'd recommend putting them all under "C:\Testing" or something that will remind you they can be deleted.
When you unfold your new Blueprint you will see an exact copy of the ViewPresenterTemplate project we created earlier.
What next?
So far our factory doesn't do a lot, you're thinking! It creates a template project, and nothing else. But in the next step we'll be taking it further... specifically by allowing a user to add a View-Presenter enabled Web Page.
Watch this space for the next post shortly.
Originally posted by Simon Ince on 17th of December 2008 here.


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SALT LAKE CITY — Prompted by problems revealed last spring during an audit of the way Timpview High handled athletics and activities funding, the Utah State Auditor examined four additional high schools. What it found was that rules were inconsistent from district to district — inadequate in some cases, and at times ignored by coaches, booster clubs or administrators.
The audits of Alta (Canyons District), Davis (Davis District), Cottonwood (Granite District) and Fremont (Weber District) were released by the auditor's office Thursday morning. Significant changes in the way high schools handle fundraising and finances associated with athletics began after the Timpview audit as the Utah State Office of Education began offering training classes to high school administrators and coaches. The Utah State School Board is also researching — and discussed last Friday morning in a committee meeting — a new rule that would make rules and regulations regarding finances in schools uniform throughout the state.
State auditors looked at policies and procedures for fundraising, donations, sponsorships and advertising at the four high schools. They also examined the way booster clubs interacted with their schools in those efforts and in handling money.
The audits revealed that while some districts dealt with these areas adequately, others did not. Investigators also found that different schools had varying degrees of internal controls, and that sometimes even if schools had sufficient rules and regulations, they were ignored.
"A significant amount of money is handled at the schools through fundraising, donations, advertising, sponsorship and booster club activities," said a statement from the State Auditor's Office. "We believe that similar problems would be found at other school districts and schools throughout the State and without best practice guidelines and training, the problems identified will continue to occur at the State's school districts and schools. Therefore, all districts and schools would benefit from overall guidelines and training from the Utah State Office of Education."6 comments on this story
All the audits include a response from the districts, and in many cases, officials are already attempting to correct the problems found. For example, a number of the problems raised in the Cottonwood audit have been addressed by the district, which passed a new rule regarding fundraising and donations this summer.
The audits point out that a significant amount of money is raised by teams and groups affiliated with schools and that these problems are likely not isolated incidents. The Deseret News will provide in-depth analysis of each audit in separate stories later today, but is publishing complete audits this morning so patrons have an opportunity to see them in their complete form. The Timpview audit, which was conducted last winter, is also included.
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Alicia Keys Covers Complex Magazine; Reveals Admiration For Frank Ocean [PHOTOS]
After revealing A$AP Rocky on the cover of the December/January issue, Complex keeps it in NYC with Alicia Keys on the other side of the cover.
One of the most talented artists of our generation, the beautiful Alicia Keys speaks candidly to Rob Kenner about the hiatus she took from music to raise her family. She also speaks about being in the public eye for most of her life and the admiration she had for Frank Ocean. Ocean, who co-wrote the song "One Thing" on her new album, impressed Keys with his bravery in the much-talked about open letter he wrote on Tumblr.
"That was super brave and I'm so glad that he wrote it," she says. "He is the voice for so many people. We're all boxed in to these stupid things that we're taught is the way we're supposed to be and it's so ridiculous. There are so many people that need a champion to assure them that no matter who you are, you are a beautiful person. That doesn't change the fact that you're talented or intelligent. Thank God that we have come to this place where we can actually know and be more open to the fact that people come in all different ways. And that's great because it's a very boring world otherwise."
Check out some more photos from the shoot after the links.
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• The Alternative: 6 Jobs Mitt Romney Can Hold Down Since He Lost The Election [PHOTOS]
• Carmelo Anthony Rocks "Brooklyn" Hoodie In Candid Shots By Photographer Terry Richardson [PHOTOS]
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Presetting & Measuring
Field Report: Economical Re-Grinding
SPREYER Werkzeug-Technik and ZOLLER develop re-grinding modules for CNC precision tool grinding facilities.
Industry 4.0 is an important current topic for industry and the economy. Work processes are becoming more digitalized and more networked, not only in these areas, but also increasingly in classic craft trades. One current example of a successful cooperation between an international manufacturer of measuring technology and a precision CNC grinding tool company shows the innovative capabilities behind these changes.
The approach itself was innovative: almost exactly one year ago, manufacturer of presetting and measuring machines ZOLLER from Pleidelsheim turned to SPREYER Werkzeug-Technik GmbH in Limburg/Lahn with a new idea. The goal was to work together to develop a "re-grinding module" for the »pomBasic« universal tool inspection device. »pomBasic« is a compact solution for universal tool inspection, which can measure any geometric feature of drill bits, milling cutters, countersinks, and even saw blades, independent of measurement parameters, with the support of the »pomSoft« image processing software.
Right from the start, responsible employees at ZOLLER clearly understood why the company sought out SPREYER Werkzeug-Technik GmbH as a cooperative partner. From ZOLLER's perspective, SPREYER has the optimal basic features needed for this kind of collaboration. SPREYER Werkzeug-Technik GmbH offers tool reconditioning and production for customized and customer-specific tools utilizing highly modern 5 axis CNC tool grinding centers. The company has long used the ZOLLER »genius 3« universal measuring machine for inspecting and logging grinding qualities. SPREYER prepares VHM, HSS, and PKD milling tools and drill bits for over 1,500 regular customers from Germany and abroad. The tool specialists from Limburg also handle HW, PKD, and HSS saw blades as part of their daily business.
"We were immediately fired up when ZOLLER came to us; we're always interested in further improving the economic efficiency and reliability of our re-grinding processes," says Jürgen Baldus, Managing Director of SPREYER Werkzeug-Technik GmbH about his first reaction to ZOLLER's request. Of course, he was well aware that this isn't always the case when a manufacturer turns to a mid-sized company with a request for cooperation.
But this is exactly ZOLLER's mission: no matter how global the company becomes, it always stays close to its customers. This is the only way to adapt highly modern presetting and measuring machines to actual market requirements. "Our new developments always come about with our customers' participation, instead of bypassing their needs; this is the only way to become more successful together!" says Dieter Müller, applications engineer at ZOLLER. ZOLLER employees also understand: the re-grinding business is a difficult one; many smaller companies are working at the limits of their profitability.
This is precisely why these two highly-motivated partners focused on both theory and practice in developing the »reGrind« »pomBasic« regrinding module: they wanted to develop a new tool for more economic efficiency and process security, to find a way to "finally make regrinding work more profitable" says Dieter Müller from ZOLLER.
The results are clear. Thanks to the new »reGrind« software module, the »pomBasic« tool inspection device can now be used in the »pomSoft« measuring instrument software as a "digital caliper" for all wear measurements on machining tools.
The process is clear and manageable: before the grinding process, a so-called "digital twin" is created. Then the tools are measured and checked for wear using high-resolution image processing. This makes even the smallest hairline fractures on the tool visible, for example, allowing it to be removed from service on the machine even before the actual grinding process begins.
If the tool passes the quality test and is rated as eligible for regrinding, the employee can transfer the services — determined fully automatically — directly to the machine program. One advantage of the cooperation is that ZOLLER has expanded data output to control mechanisms by adding a palleting program module. This means that one employee at SPREYER can complete all programming related to production planning for the machine entirely using »pomBasic«. The palleting file created in »pomBasic« is transmitted directly to the machine through the shop floor network, meaning all the machine operator has to do is press the start button. After the precision tools are reprocessed, both they and the regrinding process can be handed over with full and clean documentation. ZOLLER is also currently working on an additional solution to allow this data to also be transferred digitally, including the "digital twin."
The advantages this "digital caliper" has for users are clear:
- Time savings and process security: the tool is clamped, positioned, measured, and can be immediately reground through a condensed work process. Subsequent measurements in the CNC machine are eliminated. The digital process and precise processing it provides allows the customer to be certain it will fit with one hundred percent precision.
- Imaging documentation: if problems become apparent with the tool during inspection measurements (e.g. overheating), screenshots can be taken at any time to document the issue. This imaging-based process allows for fast, transparent consultations with customers; images can be sent by mail during the grinding process, for instance, for approval.
- Data archive: generated data can be saved at any time for each individual tool, further simplifying future processes.
Everyone involved in the development process is certain that the »reGrind« regrinding module in »pomBasic« is going to bring about a lot of new movement in the tool inspection device market.
Together, they have developed a device that represents another module and another step in preparing classic regrinding businesses for "Industry 4.0." The module will allow even smaller companies to not only maintain their profitability and competitive standing, but will also meet the needs of machining tool mechanics to only remove as much material from a tool as is truly necessary.
"We are already looking forward to receiving future inquiries from ZOLLER to work together on development projects, so that we can pave the way for the digital future — not only for our company, but also for our entire trade," says Jürgen Baldus.
Author: Mario Hannappel, www.digitalbuero-limburg.de
Source: FDPW Forum, April 2016


text: Luke, On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Luke Palmer <lrpalmer at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Brad Larsen <brad.larsen at gmail.com> wrote: >> The trouble comes in when defining a more general arithmetic >> expression type class. Suppose we want polymorphic arithmetic >> expressions: >> >>> class PolyArithExpr exp where >>> constant :: a -> exp a >>> addP :: exp a -> exp a -> exp a >> >> We then try to define an evaluator: >> >>> -- instance PolyArithExpr E where >>> -- constant = E >>> -- addP e1 e2 = E (eval e1 + eval e2) -- bzzt! >> >> The instance definition for `addP' is not type correct: >> Could not deduce (Num a) from the context () >> arising from a use of `+' at /home/blarsen/mail.lhs:42:20-36 >> >> One way to remedy this is to change the class definition of >> PolyArithExpr so that `addP' has a Num constraint on `a': >> >>> class PolyArithExprFixed exp where >>> pae_constant :: a -> exp a >>> pae_add :: Num a => exp a -> exp a -> exp a >> >> which allows us to define an evaluator: >> >>> instance PolyArithExprFixed E where >>> pae_constant = E >>> pae_add e1 e2 = E (eval e1 + eval e2) >> >> I find this ``fix'' lacking, however: to define a new interpretation >> of the EDSL, we may be forced to change the DSL definition. This is >> non-modular, and seems like an instance of the expression >> problem. (There may be a multiparameter type class solution for this.) > > I don't know what you expect from pae_add, such that it could "add" a > couple of a's without knowing anything about them. Don't think of Num > as a implementation detail, think of it as information about that a. > An implementation which adds another typeclass constraint is requiring > too much information, and either the implementation is undefinable > (that happens, but it's always for a good reason), or the interface is > weaker than you wrote. > > I don't know what kind of implementation would add another constraint > on a. Are you referring maybe to a specialized interpreter for > Integer math? Well, if this is truly a polymorphic type that needs a > constructor class, there could be some non-Integer math in the middle > somewhere, and your interpreter would be incorrect. > > I would like to see an example of this unmodularity, making use of the > polymorphism, so I can understand what you're asking better. > > Luke > To elaborate a point I mentioned in my original email, and discussed in ``Unembedding Domain-Specific Languages'' by Atkey, Lindley, and Yallop: EDSLs defined using type classes in this way can be freely combined, and so you can cobble together an EDSL from several smaller EDSLs. For example, we can define an EDSL for boolean expressions: class BooleanExpr exp where true :: exp Bool false :: exp Bool cond :: exp Bool -> exp a -> exp a -> exp a (&&*) :: exp Bool -> exp Bool -> exp Bool (||*) :: exp Bool -> exp Bool -> exp Bool infixr 3 (&&*) infixr 2 (||*) Then, combined with PolyArithExprFixed, we can define an EDSL supporting polymorphic arithmetic and boolean expressions, as well as an evaluator for this language. (I've repeated the PolyArithExprFixed and previous evaluator stuff for reference.) class PolyArithExprFixed exp where pae_constant :: a -> exp a pae_add :: Num a => exp a -> exp a -> exp a class (BooleanExpr exp, PolyArithExprFixed exp) => BoolArithExpr exp -- a well-typed evaluator newtype E a = E { unE :: a } instance BooleanExpr E where true = E True false = E False cond p t f = if unE p then t else f e1 &&* e2 = E (unE e1 && unE e2) e1 ||* e2 = E (unE e1 || unE e2) instance PolyArithExprFixed E where pae_constant = E pae_add e1 e2 = E (unE e1 + unE e2) A simple test case, combining boolean expressions and arithmetic expressions: test1 = cond (true &&* false) (pae_constant 0) (pae_add (pae_constant 22) (pae_constant 20)) -- unE test1 <===> 42 Sincerely, Brad Larsen


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May 3 (Reuters) - Global air freight demand in March rose 14 percent, the strongest since October 2010, boosted by an uptick in world trade and strong export orders, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said on Wednesday.
"Optimism is returning to the industry as the business stabilizes after many years in the doldrums. There is, however, still much lost ground to recover while facing the dual headwinds of rising fuel and labor costs," said IATA Director General and CEO Alexandre de Juniac.
Air freight demand, measured in freight tonne kilometres, was primarily driven by increased shipment of silicon materials used in high-value consumer electronics devices, such as smartphones.
Available capacity rose 4.2 percent in March, meaning that load factors rose by 4.1 percentage points to 47.4 percent.
Last week, Germany's Lufthansa reported its first operating profit since 2008 due to improved demand at its air freight division. (Reported by Evangelo Sipsas; Editing by Thyagaraju Adinarayan)


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It's perhaps no surprise that since the birth of her daughter North West, Kim Kardashian has been a little quiet on the Twitter front.
But yesterday the apparent first pic of the 32-year-old, since the birth, popped up on sister Khloe Kardashian's Facebook page. And it showed the new mum enjoying what the world assumes was a much needed nap.
But hang on, haven't we seen this pic before? Yup. Khloe posted this snap on her Instagram page a few MONTHS ago. Darn. We'll just have to wait a little longer for the totes official shot. Sigh.
New parents Kim and Kanye are said to be getting used to parenthood at Kris Jenner's Hidden Hills Californian mansion, after escaping the Cedars-Sinai hospital under the cover of darkness on Friday.
North was born five weeks early on June 15 after Kim was rushed to hospital with complications.
Rapper Kanye is understood to have asked his girl to get hitched, so overwhelmed he was after the birth of their daughter - to be known affectionately as Nori - two weeks ago.
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Julius Knipl "is sort of an idealized, disgusting world," Ben Katchor says. "It's a place where you can eat pastrami and not die of a heart attack."
Maybe to you that doesn't sound like an effective sales pitch for his first book-length collection of Julius Knipl comics, Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay (Penguin, 102 pages, $12.95). Ask him to try again. "Well, it's a quarter of an inch thick. It doesn't take up much room." Or how about the fact that each strip is "only eight panels. You get your foot in the door with people who would never pick up a book."
So he's not the best pitchman for his own work. That's fitting for the guy who draws the rabbinically contemplative Mr. Knipl, philosophical purveyor of a prosaic art, melancholic observer of the urban lower-middle depths. Not the world of the real down-and-outers, but of the people hanging on for dear life to the rung just above that - the world of all-night-deli countermen and venetian-blind salesmen, corset makers and day-old bakeries, lonely pinochle players and "dead storage" warehouses.
It's "The Cheap Merchandise District," where the ready-made wig shops have names like Cleopatra Palace, and the bus that used to go past "the convertible sofa workers' union cemetery" has been discontinued. Where guys from the rooming house run in from the rain to order a Herbert water or a Hoyvel's coconut champagne, while earnest middle-age subscribers to Sexual Progress magazine gather at the Garden of Eden Cafeteria to say things such as, "You'll find the root of capitalism at the base of the urethra," and "The Industrial Revolution is still going on in our underpants."
"It's sort of sad," Katchor says in a soft, slow voice that sounds like Knipl talking to himself. "But it's the best idealized world I can think of. It's somewhere between a utopia and something..." His voice drifts off, but you know where he's heading. The corner of Deadpan Alley and Pathos Street, where the Live Fish truck is parked and a professional doorknob polisher is reading The Daily Pigeon with the headline "LOUIS JINK HAS A BIG FAT ASS."
Katchor grew up near there - in Brooklyn, in the Fifties and Sixties -though he says it "was more first-generation immigrant" than Knipl's world. "My father was born in Warsaw and came here before the war. So his whole circle was a little less assimilated than Knipl is."
Katchor and his friends "were all sort of comic-art connoisseurs," he recalls. "That was the only figurative art I was exposed to. In those days if you wanted to look at drawings of figures and objects, comics were it. I sort of knew there was such a thing as Western painting. I was taken to the museum once in a blue moon. But that was old. This was a living tradition.
"I was as much an art connoisseur then as I've ever been since. The way an expert can look at an unknown Renaissance painting and know who the artist is from how the ear is painted, we could look at a comic panel and say `Well, Ditko drew it, but it was inked by some mediocre hack.'" (Steve Ditko drew Spiderman and Dr. Strange.)
When he was in junior high he took life-drawing classes at the Brooklyn Museum. Later he studied figure painting at the School of Visual Arts, but "only for a year and a half. I didn't really graduate from that school."
In the mid-Eighties he and friends did two issues of a comic fanzine, Picture Story, and he began contributing to RAW. He created Julius Knipl for New York Press in 1988. It's since been syndicated by New Times, as well as papers in Washington, D.C., Providence, and other cities. Cheap Novelties pulls together 85 of the almost 200 Julius Knipl strips he's done, along with "The Cheap Merchandise District," which at seventeen pages amounts to a Knipl novella.
I ask him where the inspiration came from.
"Years before the strip, I was researching something in the library and came across an entry from an old Popular Science, `A Promising Career in Real Estate Photography,'" he says. "The term stuck in my mind. The name Julius Knipl was chosen for its sound."
The dreary but dogged characters Knipl deals with on his daily rounds - the door-to-door rubber band salesmen, unscrupulous sign painters, sidewalk pitchmen and proprietors of save-a-lot clothing outlets - come from Katchor's business experience. "I was a partner in a small typesetting business in Lower Manhattan for about ten years. I dealt with a lot of these small, desperate business people. We did the lowest-level stuff up to national magazine ads. Gypsy fortuneteller cards, stickers for the back of fake street watches that said fourteen-karat gold, delicatessen take-out menus. When I walked down the streets at the height of our business, the streets would be littered with our work."
The work included what he calls "sleazy graphics," such as a mail-order lingerie catalogue "that folded after one issue." The end papers of Cheap Novelties are a backhanded homage - they're pages from a fake mail-order catalogue filled with funny, sad, useless junk such as false eyebrows, lost-hair scrapbooks ("Quick...Preserve your youth...NOW!!"), button-hole removers, automatic hat cockers, smell-of-money aerosol, weeping-man noisemakers, and artificial salad.
"I still do some work for a man who does sleazy mail-order catalogues," Katchor relates. "He was looking at these with a serious eye to which ones were possible."
Trashy promotional trinkets and the eponymous cheap novelties take on a shabby talismanic quality in Katchor's work. Kazoos, erasers, bottle openers, magnets, paperweights, harmonicas, peep viewers - anything that can be given away and then thrown away. As one strip comments, In the design and manufacture of everything, there is a blatant lack of worth. It is the defective mortar which manages to hold each consumer enthralled for the brief span of a lifetime.
"I was trying to figure out if Knipl is idealized," Katchor reflects. "I know it's not naturalistic. And I just happened to read this E.M. Forster quote. He said: `In the heart of each man there is contrived by desperate devices a magical island. We place it in the past or future for safety, for we dare not locate it in the present. We call this memory or a vision to lend it validity, but it is neither, really. It is the outcome of our sadness, and of our disgust with the world that we've made.'"
So why is the urban island he evokes so haunted by decay?
"It's just that everyone's pleasure in the city is at the expense of someone else. Everything that's made, the minute it's made it starts to decay. It gets worn down so rapidly." The wearing down is inevitable, Katchor's strips suggest. In one there's a statue that's been effaced simply by being stared at by so many tour-bus travelers over the years.
All this may explain why Katchor and his wife moved out of New York City several months ago. They live now in Providence, though he's a little hard put to explain how they chose it.
"I think I spent a day here about ten years ago and was not impressed," he says. "We wanted to have some foot out of the city. I don't travel much in this country, so I have very little sense of what it's like." They checked out Baltimore, but "it was too hot." New Haven was too close to New York. They talked to a guy he knew in Providence who "had only good things to say about it. Every other town or city I heard of, people hated. They had only terrible things to say about it."
He says he hasn't been in Providence long enough to figure out whether he likes it yet. "I guess I was looking for a smaller New York, which it's not." He kept his studio in Lower Manhattan and comes down every couple of weeks for a few days to get his business done.
I take another stab at goading him into promoting his book. When I ask him how it came about, he says RAW's art spiegelman "had a commitment" with Penguin to package a few other books as RAW One-Shots. "I was one of the RAW contributors who hadn't done a book yet."
Spiegelman edited Cheap Novelties and did some of the design. I ask Katchor why he thinks "serious" comics such as spiegelman's best-selling Maus II are now getting such serious attention from critics and finding such a receptive market.
"I don't know why," he muses. "I'm always sort of amazed at this tremendous audience for movies. It's a little less glamorous, but comics are the same thing. It's just a story with pictures. Maybe if comics were a little more glamorous, maybe done with photographs of movie stars, it'd be even a bigger market.
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"I think it is the most accessible art form," he continues. "It's fun. It's very painless to read a comic. Minimal effort involved." Then he pauses and adds the expected down note. "I don't know. Maybe next to watching a movie, it's agony to read a comic strip."
Talking about the book brings him back to decay.
"I don't know what the purpose of the book is," he muses. "The strip has its life in the newspaper, really. The newspaper is the perfect format. It decays rapidly. It disappears in the garbage, like our whole culture. You read a newspaper quickly, on its way to the Dumpster." He pauses. "Of course, you could say that about a paperback book, too. It's ephemeral. It falls apart quickly." The notion seems to cheer him.
By this point I'm not surprised to hear that he hasn't been doing a lot of publicity for the book. I ask if he's done any book signings, and he says, "No, but I was thinking about doing a milling." A what? A "milling," he explains, was a spoofy nonevent thing humorist Jean Shepherd used to arrange. You just get a bunch of people to mill around on a street corner somewhere.
Katchor adds a characteristic twist of his own. "Preferably it'd be somewhere that's no location. A traffic island on Broadway and 43rd Street or something.


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Verdun: The Mincing Machine
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Visit: Bayonets, Battlefields
Visit: Mont Sec American Memorial, Battlefields
Visit: Fort Douaumont, Battlefields
About the Tour
The Battle of Verdun, in France, was one of the most costly and terrible of WW1. With more than 770,000 casualties in the fighting there in 1916 it was known as the 'mincing machine' or the 'meat grinder' to the French troops who served there. On this tour of Verdun join us as we visit the forts and trenches in this fascinating area of the Western Front seeing trenches, shell-holes and bunkers, and some of the iconic battlefield locations such as Fort Douaumont and Fort Vaux.
Tour Includes
- 4 nights hotel with continental breakfast
- Specialist Battlefield Guide
- Convenient local joining points
- Travel by Silver Service coach
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Day 1
Local departure by coach, then to Maizieres-les-Metz for a four-night stay.
Day 2
Battle of Verdun
We start at the Bois des Caures where the Battle of Verdun began in February 1916. Here Colonel Driant and his Light Infantry troops bore the brunt of the opening stage of the German assault. We see Driant's command post and see where he died, then continue to the Fleury Museum which re-opened for the centenary, followed by lunchtime in Verdun. In the afternoon we look at the cost of Verdun seeing the massive Douaumont cemetery and the moving Douaumont Ossuary, under which are the bones of more than 120,000 soldiers who died in 1916. We then look at two of the Ouvrages – defensive redoubts – at Thiaumont and Froideterre where we see the effect of the shelling, and explore bunkers and see gun turrets. We end the day at the Trench of Bayonets memorial and look at the famous story of French soldiers buried alive in their front line trench.
- Included meals: Breakfast
Day 3
Fort Douaumont & Fort Vaux
Fort Douaumont
Returning to Verdun we spend the morning looking at two of the most famous forts at Verdun: Fort Douaumont and Fort Vaux. Now national museums, we visit the top of the forts, see the gun turrets and explore the tunnels inside. After lunch we visit the Citadel Museum where France's unknown soldier was selected after the war and then look at the 'left bank' of the battlefield seeing the high ground at Mort Homme and Cote 304, where there was bitter fighting in 1916.
- Included meals: Breakfast
Day 4
St. Mihiel Salient
Trenches at St Mihiel Salient
The fighting at Verdun was always linked with the ground to the south around St. Mihiel and today we look at the St. Mihiel Salient. We see the hill at Les Eparges, torn apart by mine warfare, and then look at the role of American troops in the area in 1918, seeing the US Memorial at Mont Sec. After lunch in St. Mihiel we explore the rich remains of trench systems in the Apremont area, where we see examples of both French and German positions. We then continue with a look at the role of the 'Doughboys' and visit the St. Mihiel American Cemetery.
- Included meals: Breakfast
Day 5
Return home.
- Included meals: Breakfast
Your Excursions
Included Excursions & Visits
- Battlefield visits as described
Optional Excursions & Visits
- Entrance fees to museums & places of interest (extra cost)
Travel Insurance from £27.00 (5 days). Single Room Supplement from £119.00 (5 days).
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You will stay for four nights at the 4-star Novotel Metz Hauconcourt. The hotel is situated on the outskirts of Metz, and offers a restaurant and bar. The hotel also has an outdoor swimming pool (subject to season).
Novotel Metz Hauconcourt
Novotel Metz Hauconcourt
The Novotel Metz Hauconcourt hotel is located 15minutes away from the town of Metz and only 5minutes away from Amneville. The hotel is set in a large park and offers a swimming pool*, restaurant, bar, lounge and Wi-Fi/Internet access. All bedrooms feature air conditioning, T.V with international channels, Wi-Fi/Internet access, hairdryer and en-suite bathroom. *The swimming pool can be closed without prior notice.
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If you prefer, then you can join the tour at the hotel. To do this, we will require a copy of your passport for identification purposes and you must advise us at the time of booking.
No reduction will be given if you should choose to do this.
We are unable to guarantee that the hotel will be able to meet your dietary requirements. We find that the majority of European countries do not generally cater for vegetarians and that the meal supplied may well be what everyone else is having minus the meat.
We will of course endeavour to arrange for a vegetarian meal at the hotel. We do however suggest that you advise us of your dietary requests at the time of booking and recommend that you speak to the receptionist on arrival with regard to your request.
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Why not go the night before your holiday for a relaxing start? You can park for FREE for up to nine days at the Holiday Inn Ashford North and enjoy an overnight stay with English breakfast from just £38 per person. This offer is subject to availability and based on two sharing a twin/double room on a B&B basis. We'll then collect you from the hotel on the day of departure and return you there at the end of your holiday.
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Please note: On some coaches the legroom on front seats may be slightly less than that available on other seats due to the presence of a modesty board in front.
If your tour is cancelled for any reason and front/second row seats are not available on your new tour, you will be refunded the supplement. No other compensation will be payable.
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You don't take it straight but dry cleaning chemicals diluted with water and a little lemon juice cleanse the mouth like nothing else - including hydrogen peroxide.
Raul and Claudio Jimenez learned the secret while visiting Guadalupe de la Mar in Southern Mexico. The brothers were on vacation from their Dry Cleaning business in Guadalajara and visiting a friend and fellow Dry Cleaner when a mudslide caused the roof of the building to collapse.
Xavier Jimenez (no relation) and the brothers were trapped under the debris for several days. During their entrapment the men discovered several hoses with indistinguishable running fluids dripping into a basin. The hoses were buried behind massive timbers and mud and were unreachable.
Finally after an intolerable amount of time, totally dehydrated, and with breath the aroma of death, they decided to drink what ever was in the basin. Amazingly the men were revived and didn't die from the questionable liquid in the basin. Just a few minutes after drinking each man noticed that the others no longer had the death breath. The men endured another day under the rubble playing Mexican train dominos and drinking the strange brew. Finally they were rescued and were able to tell their story,
Two years later Raul and Claudio are marketing a revolutionary new mouthwash product throughout Mexico. They are attempting to expand north to the United States however the US Food and Drug Administration has road blocked the approval for human consumption of the product. Raul Jimenez has unsuccessfully and repeatedly explained and testified to the FDA "no, you got to spit it out after gargling". Efforts are underway to rename the product a household cleaner.


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LOS ANGELES – A 23-year-old man who admitted setting fires at a Hollywood synagogue and a residential construction site near Beverly Hills during a four-day crime spree was sentenced today to nearly 10 years in prison.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Sam Ohta said there was no question that Dmitriy Sheyko suffers from a mental illness — schizophrenia — but said his crimes were "not accidental."
The defendant pleaded guilty to 22 counts, including arson, burglary and use of a destructive device. Sheyko — who entered a separate plea of not guilty by reason of insanity — waived his right to a jury trial on whether he was sane or insane at the time of the April 2011 crimes, with the case going before Ohta, who ruled March 20 that Sheyko was sane when he committed the crimes.
"… The defendant went on a crime spree," the judge said before imposing the sentence, noting that he was "not unsympathetic" to Sheyko's mental illness and that he had spent a lot of time thinking about the case.
Sheyko will be ordered to register for the rest of his life as an arson offender, the judge said.
Deputy District Attorney Sean Carney called for a "significant sentence," telling the judge that Sheyko told psychiatrists who examined him that he has a "fascination" with fire.
Defense attorney Deborah Horowitz countered that his client had no prior criminal record and that the acts occurred because Sheyko suffered a psychotic break.
She said that he planned to live with his parents in the Sacramento area if released, and that a mental health treatment plan was in place for him there.
"To suggest that he can receive adequate treatment in state prison I think is optimistic," Sheyko's lawyer said.
Over a four-day period, Sheyko burglarized a Fresh & Easy market; broke into a classroom and set fire to a drum at Temple Israel Hollywood; broke into a home; and set fires at two homes under construction on Beverly Ridge Terrace. He also set fire to a construction manager's truck, destroying the vehicle, according to the prosecutor.
Sheyko was arrested April 18, 2011, and has remained jailed since then.With credit for the time he has already served in custody, Sheyko has about four years left on his term and will serve half of that.
Once Sheyko completes his sentence, authorities could determine if he should be classified as a mentally disordered offender and sent to a state mental hospital, according to Carney.