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Amateur Radio Newsline Report 1802 February 24 2012
Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1802 with a release date of February 24th, 2012 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a QST. Ham radio could have another new band a few years from now; The Republic of South Sudan gets its callsign block; the FCC asks Congress for more funds in fiscal year 2013 and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration asks for voluntary rather than mandatory compliance by car makers in combating distracted driving from automotive electronics. Find out more on Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1802 coming your way right now.
Some more good news out of Geneva, Switzerland. Somewhat overshadowed by last weeks announcement of the approval of a new ham radio band from 472 to 479 kHz at the now concluded WRC-12 comes word that yet another possible new ham radio allocation near 5 MHz. One that could become a reality at the next World Radio Communications Conference to be held in 2015. Amateur Radio Newslines Heather Butera-Howell, KB3TZD, has the details:
The band being proposed is from 5.250 to 5.450 MHz. According to ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ, who attended WRC-12, the original proposal came from Cuba.
In the ARRL Letter Sumner is quoted as saying that the International Amateur Radio Union team worked hard to line up support for this item. He said that the factor that worked most in their favor was that at W-R-C 07, a proposal for a 5 MHz agenda item for WRC-12 failed to gain enough support. As such, there was a feeling that the Amateur Service deserved better treatment this time around.
Sumner noted that there was active support from a number of administrations in Latin America which helped a lot, but a lot of others also had to agree to get it on the agenda. The coordinators of future Agenda Items on behalf of the regional telecommunications organizations, such as CITEL and CEPT, eventually agreed on a package of Agenda Items that included this item.
Tim Ellam, VE6SH, is the President of the International Amateur Radio Union. He noted that it always a challenge to have things placed on the agenda for future World Radiocommunication Conferences. As such Ellam says that that he is pleased that we were successful in having an Agenda Item for a potential allocation at 5 MHz on a secondary basis on the agenda.
Ellam does however caution that there will be a lot of work to do over the next International Telecommunications Union study group cycle. He adds that there is much appreciation is owed to the International Amateur Radio Union and the national delegation teams in Geneva for their hard work on this issue.
For the Amateur Radio Newsline, Im Heather Butera-Howell, KB3TZD, near Pittsburg Pennsylvania.
The permanent 5 MHz amateur band proposal will be Agenda Item 1.4 at WRC-15. More about it and the rest of what took place at the 2012 conference is on line at the ARRL website. A direct link to the story is at tinyurl.com/wrc-2012-wrapup. (ARRL)
The International Telecommunication Union has announced the official callsign allocation prefix block for the newly crated nation of the Republic of South Sudan will be Z8A through Z8Z. The Republic of South Sudan joined the United Nations on July 14, 2011 at which time it became the 193rd member of that august world body. (Facebook DX Forum)
The Federal Communications Commission is asking Congress for more money to ramp up its operations including enforcement. Its also talking new license fees. Amateur Radio Newslines Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, has the details:
The FCC has asked Congress to approve a 2013 fiscal year budget of $346 million. That compares to an approximate $6 million increase over the approximate $340 million the agency received for fiscal year 2012.
If approved as is by Congress, there would be 141 new FCC staff members, bringing the total to 1,917 over the current 1,776. The number of full-time staffers at the Media Bureau would increase from 197 to 213. The Enforcement Bureau would go from 276 to 299 and the Office of Engineering & Technology would increase from the current 81 to 87 staffers.
Part of the money would also be used for eight new vehicles and to replace obsolete signal analysis equipment with new direction-finding and wireless monitoring gear in existing vehicles. These are the mobile units that field agents use to detect unauthorized transmissions and resolve interference issues.
The commission would also have new authority to set user fees on un-auctioned spectrum licenses as a spectrum management tool. Fees would be phased in over time to determine the appropriate application and the monetary amount.
The FCC tentatively plans to begin levying such fees sometime this year, and estimate those could total $4.8 billion through 2022. Its unknown if such licensing fees would or even could be applied to Amateur Service, FRS or 11 meter Citizens Band operations. The latter two would be highly unlikely due to the non-licensed nature of operations on those bands. Amateur Radio is already bringing in a profit through the Vanity Callsign program.
For the Amateur Radio Newsline, Im Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, in Los Angeles.
The agencys budget request is part of President Obamas total budget submission of $3.8 trillion for fiscal year 2013, which begins October 1st. (RW)
The United States Broadcasting Board of Governors which oversees government supported broadcasts to other parts of the world has sent its 2013 fiscal year budget request to congress. The $720 million request is lower than its 2012 budget and includes program, transmission and staffing reductions at the Voice of America, Office of Cuba Broadcasting, Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Network. Four broadcast language services are proposed for elimination including both Greek and Chechen. The 2013 request also calls for another $21 million in cuts in administrative and technical support services costs across the agency and of the board itself.
But whats not going into on the air operations has another destination. Referring to the so called new media, the 2013 budget request contains $9 million in increases for elevated social media and building out the agencys digital infrastructure. It also asks for $11.6 million in fighting Internet censorship.
The Broadcasting Board of Governors estimates the five government funded civilian broadcast networks it oversees currently reach 187 million people each week. Its 2013 budget request contains an overall 4 point 2% decrease over current spending levels that the Board hopes will be enough to meet the approval on Capitol Hill in this era of extreme economic austerity. (B&C)
Ham radio operators and other two-way radio users can breathe a proverbial sigh of relief. At least for now. This with word that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will not seek mandatory regulations regarding what types of technology controls will be placed on auto makers to help thwart distracted drivers. Instead they are issuing voluntary guidelines to the auto makers as we hear from Amateur Radio Newslines Cheryl Lasek, K9BIK.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has proposed voluntary safety guidelines for auto manufacturers, including a recommendation that they design dashboards so that distracting devices are automatically disabled unless the vehicle is stopped and the transmission is in park.
The guidelines, which are directed at passenger cars and sport utility vehicles, would exempt safety devices such as electronic warning systems that alert drivers to potential collisions or lane changes. GPS and other navigation devices that provide directions also would be permitted while driving, but the safety administration is asking that the systems be designed so drivers can't manually enter a destination unless the car is in park.
Other dashboard technologies recommended for automatic disabling include text-messaging, Internet browsing, social media browsing, phone dialing and computer screen messages of 30 characters or more that are unrelated to driving.
The guidelines would make exceptions for these devices if they are designed only for use by passengers and can't be accessed or seen by the driver. Also there is no mention of any cutoff to external power receptacles such as cigarette lighters which are used by many hams, CBers and G-M-R-S operators to power low-power two way transceivers.
David Strickland is the groups Administrator. He told the press that while his agency recognizes that manufacturers want to build vehicles that include the tools and conveniences expected by today's American drivers, that the guidelines they are proposing would offer real-world guidance to automakers. Also that it would help them develop electronic devices that provide features consumers want without disrupting a driver's attention or sacrificing safety.
Manufacturers also are urged to take steps to improve the safety of technologies that drivers are allowed to use while driving. That includes reducing to two seconds or less the amount of time drivers must divert their eyes from the road to use a device. Devices should be designed so drivers don't have to use more than one hand or glance through extraneous information.
According to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, one reason National Highway Traffic Safety Administration decided to pursue voluntary guidelines instead of mandatory rules is that officials wanted to do something quickly. He noted that the process for writing federal rules often takes years to complete.
For the Amateur Radio Newsline, Im Cheryl Lasek, K9BIK, near Zion Illinois.
The final impact these new guidelines on the ability of hams to permanently install after-market two way radio gear in their vehicles will not be known until the new designs appear in car showrooms. And thats likely several years away. (NHSTA release, other published reports)
From the United States of America, We are the Amateur Radio Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world including the WD0FFV repeater serving Colorado Springs Colorado.
The nominating season for the 2012 Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year Award is now open.
Created in 1986, this award is offered to recognize the accomplishments of a radio amateur age 18 or younger for his or her accomplishments in service to the nation, his or her community or to the advancement of the state of the art through amateur radio.
Nominees must reside in the United States 50 states or its possessions or in any of the 10 Canadian provinces.
As in years past, Yaesu USA will transport the winner to the Huntsville Hamfest in Huntsville , Alabama, where the award will be formally presented. Yaesu will also provide Hotel accommodations as well as convention tickets and a prize of amateur radio equipment to the winner. CQ Magazine will again treat this years recipient to a week at Spacecamp-Huntsville. Heil Sound Ltd. will be presenting this years winner with an additional prize. Amateur Radio Newsline will present the winner with the official Young Ham of the Year Award plaque which again this year is underwritten by Dave Bell, W6AQ, of DBA Entertainment in Hollywood, California.
If for some reason the person selected is unable to travel to the Huntsville Hamfest, Amateur Radio Newsline will attempt to arrange a special award ceremony where the recipient resides, such as at his or her school or amateur radio club.
Please note that the prizes given to the recipient are second in nature to the actual Young Ham of the Year Award. All nominations and materials required by the official rules must be received by ARNewsline before May 30, 2012.
Complete details, rules and a required nominating form in Adobe .pdf format are available on our website at www.arnewsline.org/yhoty. Nominating forms can also be obtained by sending a self addressed stamped envelope to Amateur Radio Newsline Inc., Young Ham of the Year Award, 28197 Robin Avenue, Santa Clarita California, 91350.
Please note tat all nominating forms and support materials become the property of the Amateur Radio Newsline and cannot be returned.
Again the cutoff date for nominations is May 30, 2012. Nominating forms are on-line at www.arnewsline.org/yhoty. (ARNewsline)
The commissions Media Bureau wants answers from Radio Power Inc. about W250BN, a translator on 97.9 MHz in Wisconsin. The translator started out in the city of Beloit is now living on the air in West Allis. This after a series of moves in the last two years. Amateur Radio Newslines Don Carlson, KQ6FM, is in Reno, Nevada, where Power Radio has its headquarters:
Last November the Milwaukee Free Radio Group wrote to the FCC, calling Radio Powers actions in relocating its translator from site to site a preconceived scheme to move a translator a distance of 69 miles from Beloit to Milwaukee. It insinuated that Radio Power was trying to accomplish this by using minor changes so as to circumvent the requirement to wait for a window for filing a major change.
Now the FCC is acting. Peter Doyle is the chief of the FCCs Audio Division of the Media Bureau. He has sent what is described as a strongly worded, certified letter to Radio Power in Reno, Nevada. In part the letter states that the Media Bureau is investigating potential statutory and rule violations and related instances of potential misrepresentation and/or lack of candor on the part of Radio Power Inc. Specifically, it is alleged that the licensee abused commission processes by effectuating a major change in the facilities of Station W250BN, now licensed to West Allis, Wisconsin by a succession of serial minor change applications.
The FCC told Radio Power to answer its questions within 30 days. It wants to know if Radio Power had a reasonable assurance that the specified sites would be available for the intended use. It demanded a copy of all documents relating to the securing of reasonable assurance of site availability; and it wants to know the precise length of time during which the licensee broadcast from each of the facilities.
The FCC also wants a copy of any documents relating to the stations operation for each of the locations The FCC also wants to know the precise length of time during which the station was silent for more than 30 days, and why.
For the Amateur Radio Newsline Im Don Carlson, KQ6FM, in Reno.
The FCC also wants to know what community the licensee of W250BN ultimately intends to serve, the primary station it intends to rebroadcast along with copies of all documents relating to the relocation of the station away from the city of Beloit. (FCC, RW)
The FCC appears to be on the hot seat with congress over the way its been handling the entire matter of the licensing of LightSquareds proposal to create its high speed Internet service in spectrum adjacent to that used by the Global Positioning System or GPS.
In an e-mailed press statement, Iowa Senator Charles Grassley who has been investigating the FCCs interactions with LightSquared, said that the agency put this project on a fast track for approval with what appears to have been completely inadequate technical research. As a result, Grassley is blocking two Obama administration Commission nominees until he gets more documents about the matter from the FCC.
Now the House of Representatives is also about to look at the LightSquared matter. Oregon Representative Greg Walden, W7EQI, chairs the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. He has said that he plans a hearing on how the agencys handling of the LightSquared application for its broadband network led to a year of dispute. (Published reports)
From the some people never learn file comes a story you may find hard to believe. Its about a person to who after being accused of running an unlicensed station and then paying a reduced fine apparently went right back on the air again. Jim Damron, N8TMW, reports:
Theres been a lot of unlicensed radio station fines issued by the FCCs Enforcement Bureau to Florida residents in recent weeks.
The Commission has issued a new $25,000 Notice of Apparent Liability against Whistler Fleurinor of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. This for allegedly operating an unlicensed transmitter on 99.5 MHz in 2011.
The agency says that it raised the fine by $15,000 over the base amount because Fleurinor continued operating an illegal station on the same frequency from the same commercial property after he was issued an earlier fine of $20,000. In that instance, the FCC lowered the penalty to $500 based on Fleurinors proof of inability to pay the higher assessment.
In issuing the new forfeiture order the FCC noted that the fact that Fleurinor had again committed the same violation, and did so multiple times after he had already been found to be in serious violation in the first N-A-L. It said that this action by Fleurinor demonstrated not only the egregiousness nature of the violations, but also his deliberate disregard for the Communications Act and for the FCCs rules.
For the amateur Radio Newsline, Im Jim Damron, N8TMW, reporting.
Fleurinor was given the customary 30 days to pay the fine or to file an appeal. If he does the latter and basses his appeal on his inability to pay, it will be very interesting to see the FCCs response this time around. (FCC)
Arizonas Superstition Amateur Radio Club will be operating a special event station W7W on February 25th as in the city of Mesa. This is the annual celebration of The Lost Dutchman Mine story at the museum in Apache Junction. It is also in observance of the Arizona Statehood Centennial . More information can be found on line at WB7TJD.org. (K2DFE)
Registration is now open for the 2012 Southeastern VHF Society Conference slated for Charlotte, North Carolina, from April 20th to the 21st. The meeting will feature technical programs, noise figure and antenna gain testing, banquet prizes, vendor displays, and an equipment auction. ARRL President Kay Cragie, N3KN, will be the banquet speaker. A downloadable registration form in Adobe .pdf format is on-line at tinyurl.com/southeastern-vhf (WA2ODO, VHF Reflector)
The 17th annual Islands on the Air or IOTA Dinner will be held in conjunction with the 63rd annual Visalia International DX Convention on Friday evening April 20th. The venue will be the Plaza Room of the Holiday Inn Hotel on Airport Drive in Visalia, California
This dinner is open to all who are active in the Islands on the Air program or who just want to see beautiful pictures of far away islands.
Also, as at previous IOTA dinners, admission is free for those wishing to watch the programs without dining but paid attendees will receive priority seating.
At this time, buffet service is set for 50 attendees. The cost is $33 per person. Reservations must be prepaid by April 10th and go to Ray Benny, N6VR, 462 South Reed Road, Chino Valley, Arizona, 86323.
More about this years International DX Convention is on-line at dxconvention.org. (IOTA)
Some names in the news: First up is Vaughan Henderson, ZL1TGC, who has assumed the presidency of New Zealand's national society, the NZART. This following the resignation of Roy Symon ZL2KH on Monday, February 20th.
According to a press release, Symon had served as NZART President for the last three years and was completing his last term. He was due to finish at the 2013 Annual General Meeting where he had planned to hand over to his successor. Instead he tendered his resignation to the NZART citing personal reasons.
In accordance with the organizations constitution, ZL1TGC who was serving as Vice-President became the new President. The NZART Executive Council will now have to elect a new Vice-President. (NZART)
Back in the United States, Scott Avery, WA6LIE and Brandon Hansen, KG6YPI will be guest speakers at the New Ham Forum at his years Radiofest being held in Monterey, California, on March 3rd. The two will be discussing remote radio operations and its applications. More information is on-line at www.raiofest.org. (WA6LIE)
This is ham radio news for todays radio amateur. From the United States of America, We are the Amateur Radio Newsline with links to the world from our only official website at www.arnewsline.org and being relayed by the volunteer services of the following radio amateur:
D-Star is truly going places where it has never been before. This with word that radio amateurs in Windhoek, Namibia now have their own D-Star repeater operational and on the air.
Reportedly, the biggest challenge to getting the system operational was obtaining a stable data connection to the internet. This was solved with a 3G connection and the help of the biggest cellular telephone service provider in Namibia.
Right now the system is at a temporary low level location. According to V51JP, the Repeater will be moved to its final site as soon as everyone is satisfied that it is performing correctly. V51JP also says that he thanks DL1YBL and DL5DI for their assistance in getting the new D-Star repeater up and running.
More about this new D-Star system in Namibia is on-line www.qsl.net/narl. (V51JP)
QF Radio will launch an all-English broadcast on 91.7 FM in Quatar. The station is an operation of the Qatar Foundation, a social and educational foundation based in Qatar. It delivers its programs across all segments of society by means of on-air broadcasts, the Internet, smart-phones and other developing technologies. In addition to music and news, the station airs programs for students, featuring cultural and scientific issues. The station will also switch to an all Arabic format on 93.7 FM, where it currently airs a mix of Arabic and English-language programming. (MN)
The International Telecommunication Union has called upon the worlds nations to take all 'necessary actions to stop intentional interference with satellite transmissions. The change in regulations, which was approved at the just concluded World Radiocommunication Conference came after numerous complaints that international satellite TV programs in the Persian and Arabic languages were suffering from deliberate interference.
The new rule says that administrations shall ascertain the facts and take the necessary actions when they encounter jamming. What actions these might be were not spelled out in the document.
The two satellite operators that have been targeted are Eutelsat and Arabsat. They claim that the jamming signals originate from Iran and Syria. The interference, which has increased since September, 2011, has affected numerous broadcasters including programming from the British Broadcasting Corporation, Germanys Deutsche Welle, and RFEs Radio Farda.
Joining in backing the revised ITU anti-jamming rule to fight this willful and malicious interference to satellite transmissions were Radio Netherlands Worldwide and the European Broadcasting Union. (MN)
The Philippine Amateur Radio League is celebrating its Golden Anniversary in 2012. To commemorate this milestone the organization is sponsoring an on-the-air operation that will award a special commemorative certificate to hams world-wide who make contact with its members.
Also throughout 2012 the club will be operating with the special event call sign of 4G0LD. QSL information along with the rules to qualify for the Golden Anniversary award can be found at www.dx1l.dxhams.net/Awards.htm (DU1XX, NZART)
From the Radiosports file comes word that the first in the series of South African Radio League sponsored digital contests will be held on Sunday, February 26 from 13:00 to 16:00 UTC with PSK and RTTY activity on 80, 40 and 20 meters. The exchange is a simple R-S-T report and a serial number starting at 001. Stations maybe contacted twice per band, once on PSK and once on RTTY. Other contests date will be announced in the future. More is on-line at www.sarl.za. (SARL)
Dave Clingerman, W6OAL, reports that the Colorado 6 meter beacon is back up and running on its published frequency of 50.065 MHz. The beacon had gone into wander mode for a few days after a suspected crystal oven failure had it sliding around its normal operating frequency.
According to W6OAL, a spare local oscillator unit can sometimes come in handy. Installing it apparently was the fix. Dave adds that beacon reports are appreciated whenever the band is open. (VHF Reflector)
In DX, word that W5JON will once again be active as V47JA from his vacation home at Calypso Bay, St. Kitts from February 28th through March 28th. His activity will be on 80 through 6 meters using SSB. While on the island he plans to operate during the ARRL International DX Contest on March 3rd and 4th and the CQ WPX SSB Contest March 24th through the 25th. ALL QSL's to W5JON either direct
ON4AVT will be on the air as C5AVT from Gambia from February 28th to March 20th. He will be active mostly on 15 meters using the digital PSK mode. QSL via home call.
G3SWH and G3OLU will be operational from western Swaziland as 3DA0PW through February 29th. Their main objective is to work as many European and North American stations on as many different bands as possible and hope to make at least 15,000 QSOs. QSL via G3SWH, either direct, via the bureau or using the facility on www.g3swh.org.uk.
Members of the Malaysian Amateur Radio Transmitter Society and the 9M4SDX Team will be active as 9M0L from Pulau Layang Island from April 10th to the 24th. If you work them QSL direct to 9M2TO either direct or via the bureau to Malaysian Amateur Radio Transmitter's Society. More details will be forthcoming shortly.
DF7ZS, will be on the air from Aruba stroke P4 from P40V's QTH between March 21st to the 27th. Activity will be casual but he will operate during the CQ WPX SSB Contest using the callsign P41P. QSL P4/DF7ZS via DF7ZS. QSL P41P via W3HNK.
Nine members of the 'A DX Group' will be active from Coloane Island between May 17th and the 23rd. Operations will be on 160 through 6 meters, including the 30, 17 and 12 meter bands. Modes used will be CW, SSB and RTTY. There will be at least three stations on the air at the same time on different bands and modes. The group's callsign will not be announced until the beginning of their operations. QSL via EB7DX, direct or by the Spanish Bureau. All QSOs will be confirmed electronically via Logbook of the World.
Lastly, DL1NL will be operational portable OA4 from Lima, Peru, until early March. His activity is only in his spare time on 160-10 meters CW, with some SSB, from the Radio Club Peruano station. QSL via DL1NL, either direct or via the bureau. No electronic QSLs are accepted by this station.
(Above from various DX news sources)
And finally this week, the history of the early 20th century Amplion loudspeaker is a story told in a recently released video by Trilith Films in the United Kingdom. Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, is in the newsroom with more:
Titled A Tale Retold the video tells the story of UK radio amateur Frank Marshall who in 1998 told Trilith pictures about a collection of old motion picture films that had been stored under his workbench for decades. He thought that among them might be one film he had particularly enjoyed as a boy. It was an advertisement for an early loudspeaker called the Amplion. One that had been used in local cinemas in the 1920s and by his father's pioneering radio business on the Isle of Portland.
When rescued from the pile of rotting nitrate film it was discovered that the film entitled "The Tale of the Amplion" was a here to fore unknown work by the famous illustrator William Heath Robinson. It is almost certainly the only animated cartoon that Robinson ever made.
The tale is retold by Frank Marshall who preserved the film, Gerry Wells of the Vintage Wireless Museum in London and Geoffrey Beare of the William Heath Robinson Trust. Included is the film as it originally appeared but with a especially composed musical sound track created by composer Stephen Deutsch.
A very interesting 20 minutes indeed.
For the Amateur Radio Newsline, Im Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, in the Newsroom in Los Angeles.
This video was shot and edited by John Holman for Trilith and now appears on Transition Vision's Heritage Channel. Its available for world-wide viewing on-line at YouTube. It can be found at tinyurl.com/amplion. (Southgate, ARNewsline, others)
With thanks to Alan Labs, AMSAT, the ARRL, the CGC Communicator, CQ Magazine, the FCC, the Ohio Penn DX Bulletin, Radio Netherlands, Rain, the RSGB, the Southgate News and Australia's WIA News, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. Our e-mail address is newsline(at) arnewsline (dot) org. More information is available at Amateur Radio Newsline's only official website located at www.arnewsline.org. You can also write to us or support us at Amateur Radio Newsline, 28197 Robin Avenue, Santa Clarita California, 91350
For now, with Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, at the editors desk, Im Don Wilbanks, AE5DE, saying 73 and we thank you for listening.
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Scotch-Irish-L ArchivesArchiver > Scotch-Irish > 1998-08 > 0902688870
From: Steve McCracken <>
Subject: Re: Charles Hanna's Account
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 13:54:30 -0500
Dorothy Chance wrote:
> _The Scotch-Irish or The Scot in North Britain, North Ireland, and North
> America_ by Charles A. Hanna, Originally published New York, 1902, ISBN Set
> Number 0-8063-0168-6.
> I ordered the set from the Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc and I believe
> you can find it through www.amazon.com.
> >>
> >You might also want to try http://www.barnesandnoble.com I just
bought the set for $52.50, but you MUST remind them that it is a two
volume set. They initially sent me only volume two.
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A LEGAL battle that could have big consequences for the biotech industry began on Monday.
The case, the latest round in a long-running patent war, is about the human blood protein erythropoietin, which stimulates the production of red blood cells. EPO is used to treat anaemia (and by cheating athletes), and is the top-selling biotech drug, earning an estimated $4 billion last year.
The protein is currently made by Amgen of Thousand Oaks, California, using animal cells genetically engineered to make human EPO. But another company, Transkaryotic Therapies (TKT) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, wants to sell a rival version called Dynepo that is made in human cells by turning on the EPO gene.
Amgen argues that TKT is infringing its patent on producing EPO. TKT says there is no infringement because it has not manipulated the EPO gene itself. The companies have been slugging it out in courts around the world


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Government to simplify process of setting up Free Schools
Mon 28 Jan 2013
Parents, charities and teachers could soon find it much easier to set up Free Schools.
According to the Department for Education (DfE), the existing system means interested parties have to go through a "lengthy planning application process" if they wish to set up in a building not previously used for education.
It is therefore keen to simplify the process so Free Schools can be established in vacant and under-used buildings much more quickly.
Michael Gove, the education secretary, said he wants to make it as easy as possible for those who are keen to open a Free School "not only to find buildings but move into them".
As a result, he is "delighted" that the government is actively working to reduce the amount of red tape that stands in the way of these institutions securing a permanent home.
Mr Gove said ensuring Free Schools are able to move into their preferred site more quickly should enable them to focus on "raising standards and providing parents with an excellent school".
Eric Pickles, the communities and local government secretary, added that the coalition is committed to giving children the chance to benefit from a good education.
Therefore, he believes it is vitally important to ensure that Free Schools are able to "plan with confidence to be able to open at the start of the academic year".
Mr Pickles stated that the new planning measures being proposed by the government should be able to offer parents and schools the certainty they require.
Furthermore, he noted that streamlining the system in this way will help to ensure "new schools can open, good schools can expand and all state-funded schools can improve their facilities".
Theresa Kerr, a solicitor at Winckworth Sherwood, commented: "This move shows that the government is eager to remove some of the obstacles that have previously slowed down the process of opening a Free School.
"Any measures that can streamline the process will no doubt be welcomed by those involved in setting up new schools, though it will be interesting to see how quickly the impact is seen on the ground."
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The investigation focuses on whether the Company and its executives violated federal securities laws by failing to disclose that: (1) Incyte's reported fourth quarter 2011 and first quarter 2012 sales had been artificially inflated due to a large number of extremely sick, advanced-stage myelofibrosis patients being prescribed the drug initially upon FDA approval in November 2011; (2) many of these extremely sick, more advanced patients were discontinuing use of Jakafi during the second quarter of 2012, which was significantly diminishing Jakafi's second quarter 2012 sales growth; and (3) drug dropout rates achieved during clinical trials could not be used to determine then-current dropout rates.
On August 2, 2012, Incyte announced the Company's second quarter 2012 financial results for the period ended June 30, 2012, and disclosed that Jakafi sales growth had been much softer during the second quarter of 2012 than investors and certain stock analysts had been led to expect. Incyte also disclosed for the first time that many of the new patients prescribed Jakafi during the fourth quarter of 2011 and first quarter of 2012 "were [so] very advanced ... they would not have been eligible for the Phase III trial in which life expectancy had to be at least six months."
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Tunisia's ousted President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, his daughter and son-in-law have been given jail terms in absentia over corrupt property deals.
They were also ordered to collectively pay $100m in damages, BBC reports.
This is the third guilty verdict against Ben Ali, who fled in January to Saudi Arabia, which has since failed to extradite him despite requests from Tunisia.
Ben Ali's overthrow in January after weeks of protests inspired the wave of "Arab Spring" uprisings that spread across the Middle East and North Africa this year.
He fled with members of his close family to Saudi Arabia, where he is now in exile, after 23 years in power.
He was jailed for charges relating to using his power to obtain property at prices well below the market value in the capital, Tunis.
He and his son-in-law, businessman Sakher El Materi, were sentenced to 16 years in prison, Reuters reports.
His daughter, Nesrine, who is married to El Materi, was given an eight-year jail term.
Ben Ali was first sentenced in June, along with his wife Leila, to 35 years in prison for embezzlement and misuse of state funds.
Earlier this month, he was convicted on charges of possessing illegal drugs and weapons after a one-day trial and given 15 years in jail.
His critics say there was widespread human rights abuses and a lack of democracy under his rule, BBC reports.
His case is being watched closely in Egypt, where former president Hosni Mubarak is due to stand trial over the killing of protesters who unseated him after 30 years in power, Reuters reports.


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Originally published Friday, June 7, 2013 at 4:49 PM
Editorial: Federal snooping program PRISM is troubling
The PRISM email-interception program is one more example of federal power unconstrained by law.
Seattle Times Editorial
A FEDERAL document reveals a program called PRISM that scoops up email, chats, videos, photos, stored data, Internet phone calls, file transfers, video conferences and logins from nine different Internet providers.
The companies deny it. Not us, says Microsoft. Never heard of PRISM, says Apple.
Do we believe the companies?
Maybe they were hacked by their own government. At the very least, the companies should help the public get to the bottom of this issue.
President Obama says, "There are a whole bunch of safeguards involved" in what the government did. Should we believe him?
Skepticism is in order here.
The program was secret. And when the president says it does not involve reading "the emails of U.S. citizens and U.S. residents," how sure are we of that?
Not nearly enough. Especially when the federal employee who leaked this says, "they quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type."
Has Congress been a check on the executive power? No. Have the courts? Not in this instance, which involves a tribunal in which there never is an opposing counsel and which operates in secret.
How often does this court ever say "no"? Supposedly it's once in every 3,000 to 4,000 requests, but those reports are a decade old.
How does this square with "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures"? The Fourth Amendment seems to define a lawful search entirely in terms of what PRISM is not.
Two years ago, Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Mark Udall, D-Colo., asked Attorney General Eric Holder the still-salient question: How can the people judge a program when they are not told what it is?
This page supported Barack Obama. So did the voters of Washington. Obama was for "change." But on the matter of secret killing by aerial drone, on detention without trial at Guantánamo, and now on the mass interception of mail by the national security state, where is the change?
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Emergency crews were called out to the Mariners Village apartments early Wednesday when 911 operators received several calls for a shooting in the complex.
According to police, someone who lives in the complex got into an argument with several people after an inappropriate comment was made.
Police said the argument led to a scuffle and several shots were fired outside an apartment building.
At one point the scuffle spilled into a second floor apartment and shots may have been fired in that unit, according to police.
No one was shot or seriously injured in the fight.
Police said the suspected shooter, who has not been identified, ran off before emergency crews arrived.
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Written by Zola Gorgon - author of several cookbooks.
Watch out for those spoiled onions...
I had the wonderful privilege of touring Mullins Food Products, makers of mayonnaise. Mullins is huge, owned by brothers and sisters in the Mullins family. My friend, Jeanne, is the CEO.
Questions about food poisoning came up, and I wanted to share what I learned from a chemist.
The man who gave us our tour is named Ed. He's one of the brothers. Ed is a chemistry expert involved in developing most of the sauce formula..(He's even developed sauce formula for McDonald's.)
Keep in mind that Ed is a food chemistry whiz. During the tour, someone asked if we really needed to worry about mayonnaise. People are always worried that mayonnaise will spoil. Ed's answer will surprise you.
He said that all commercially-made Mayo is completely safe.
"It doesn't even have to be refrigerated. No harm in refrigerating it, but it's not really necessary." He explained that the pH in mayonnaise is set at a point that bacteria could not survive in that environment. He then talked about the quintessential picnic with the bowl of potato salad sitting on the table and how everyone blames the mayonnaise in it when someone gets sick.
Ed says that when food poisoning is reported, the first thing the officials look for is when the victim last ate ONIONS and where those onions came from (in the potato salad?). He says it's not the mayonnaise (as long as it's not homemade Mayo) that spoils in the outdoors. It's probably the onions, and if not the onions, it's the POTATOES. He explained that onions are a huge magnet for bacteria, especially uncooked onions.
You should never plan to keep a portion of a sliced onion. He says it's not even safe if you put it in a zip-lock bag and put it in your refrigerator. It's already contaminated enough just by being cut open and out for a bit that it can be a danger to you. (And doubly watch out for those onions you put on your hotdogs at the baseball park!)
Ed says if you take the leftover onion and cook it like crazy,you'll probably be okay, but if you slice that leftover onion and put it in your sandwich, you're asking for trouble. Both the onions and the moist potato in a potato salad will attract and grow bacteria faster than any commercial mayonnaise will even begin to break down.
So, how's that for news? Take it for what you will. I (the author) am going to be very careful about onions from now on. I see a lot of credibility in this info, coming from a chemist and a company that produces millions of pounds of mayonnaise every year.
(Dogs should never eat onions.. Their stomachs cannot metabolize them.)
http://www.snopes.com/food/tainted/cutonions.asp - Says Undetermined
Check out what "Ed" says in regards to this. I think it is worth taking note of... I am sticking to what I said before... I will not eat or use onions that have been cut up and sat out, even after they have been refrigerated.
Wow..I do this all the time. I am the only one in my house who eats tuna salad, etc. I almost always have a cut onion in my fridge and I eat it sometimes a week later!
I am shocked! I have it cut up in the fridge right now.Can"t wait to share this info.
Snopes.com says undetermined and I'd rather be safe than sorry. I will use smaller onions and use them up.
Check out what "Ed" says in regards to this. I think it is worth taking note of... I am sticking to what I said before... I will not eat or use onions that have been cut up and sat out, even after they have been regrigerated.
when I had to take my class in food saftey they had us remeber this about how fast a food spoils
F-the food
A-how much acid is in the food
T-time, how long is it in the danger temp of 40-140 degrees
T- the temperature ( see above)
O- how much oxygen is presant
M- How much moisture is in the food
Salt and sugar are both food presevatives, keep that in mind too! Eat Safe!
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Stoneware, fired to Cone 10. Lead free glazes, dishwasher safe. Two holes in the bottom to provide drainage for plants. Pale green glaze on the interior, clear glaze on the outside showing the clay body color and white slip around the rim which has been carved through with abstract mid-century designs. The design extends all the way around the rim. 7 3/4 in diameter, 2 ½ in tall. You could plant directly in the bowl, or fill with gravel and put another smaller plant pot in it. You could put potpourri in it, a candle garden, display collectibles such as seashells or also use it as a fruit bowl.
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"VA Research recently has added a national field support service, DecisionOne, with 5,000 "feet on the street," VA Research President and Chief Executive Officer Larry Augustin said. The 60-employee Sunnyvale, Calif., firm has hired a former Sun Microsystems marketing director, Brian Biles, as its vice president of marketing. And it's acquired a small company, Electric Lichen, which includes Jim Gleason, co-founder of the New York City Linux Users Group."
"Augustin said he intends to take his privately held company out for an initial public offering - but not until next year..."
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Jacques Derrida, the French master thinker, is less a philosopher (i.e., lover of thought) than a doubter who wonders if thought is even possible. He willingly participates in this documentary about his life, and is as responsible for its peculiar tone as the filmmakers. It may have been Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman's idea for white-haired "Jackie," as his wife calls him, to pose in front of a video screen showing him watching a video of an earlier interview, but Derrida did choose to play along. The media abyss Derrida peers into offers no insight; the interview at the center of this labyrinth is one in which Madame and Monsieur Derrida resolutely refuse to offer any clue as to the emotional nature of their marriage. The Minotaur has checked out. Flashes of Derrida's personality -- such as his pained dismissal of an interviewer's offering of Seinfeld as an example of deconstruction -- and of his ideas come through in this film, which devotes equal screen time to Derrida buttering a muffin and to him elucidating his concepts. Scenes of Derrida lecturing are quite interesting; there should have been a lot more of them. Dick and Kofman, in attempting to deconstruct the documentary genre, bobble the better film they could have made because they fail to realize that their subject, who invented deconstruction, was "always already" (as Derrida likes to say) better at it than they could ever be. The man may look like a parrot with a cocked head, suspiciously eyeing a proffered cracker of thought, but as a film subject he's an elusive hare, and the makers of Derrida a pair of Elmer Fudds. (Gregg Rickman)
Saturday, April 27, 9:30 p.m., AMC Kabuki; Sunday, April 28, 4:30 p.m., AMC Kabuki
Los Inundados (Argentina, 1961)
There's another "Voyage to Italy" besides Martin Scorsese's in this festival, and it belongs to Fernando Birri, winner of the Persistence of Vision Award. Birri, an Argentinean who returned to his father's native Italy to train with neo-realist directors De Sica et al., put his hometown outside Buenos Aires on the map as the center of the New Latin American Cinema movement. Los Inundados is his first fiction film, about a poor family stranded by flooding and then, as a result of bureaucratic bumbling, taken on a comical involuntary train ride through Argentina. When the train itself isn't functioning as a character, it's a paradoxical symbol for both official denial and exploration of the heartland. See this and its landmark companion short, Tire Dié, which shows real families struggling to stay afloat while their children risk falling under moving train wheels to grab coins from passengers. Both are outstanding examples of humanistic, politically engaged cinema. (Frako Loden)
Sunday, April 28, 3 p.m., AMC Kabuki
May (U.S.A., 2002)
A memorable ad campaign for a fast-food chain's chicken nuggets declared that "parts is parts," but the obsessive, socially inept May (Angela Bettis) begs to differ. When her clumsy attempt to strike up a relationship with a hunky body-shop worker (Jeremy Sisto) ends badly, our deranged heroine sets her sights on his lovely hands. May's lesbian co-worker at an animal hospital has a pretty neck; how long will she keep it before she obliviously offends May? This airless, low-budget chiller is creepy fun for a while, as it subverts and mocks May's demented hijinks with a grab bag of absurdist chuckles. (The running joke is that people keep telling May they "like weird," until they get a taste of her outré behavior and revise their standards accordingly.) But May gradually settles into the overly measured pace of a self-important American indie feature, as if writer/director Lucky McKee were delivering a treatise on the pain of friendship and the peril of solitude. Too bad he didn't opt to wring each bloody laugh out of everybody's greatest fear -- that a person with whom we're superficially acquainted will turn out to be Psycho No. 1. (Michael Fox)
Sunday, April 28, 7 p.m., AMC Kabuki
The Pinochet Case (France/Spain/Belgium, 2001)
Nominee for the Golden Gate Award's grand prize in documentary, this superb work details the 1998 attempts to extradite Augusto Pinochet, dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990, from London so that he can stand trial back home. Pinochet's long, Nazi-inspired "Night and Fog" of torture, murder, and forced disappearance of citizens is recalled movingly and oddly hearteningly by survivors and victims' family members. Meanwhile, an inspiring team of Spanish, Chilean, and British lawyers and legislators builds a case that could not have been assembled in Chile alone. Footage of a friendly meeting between Pinochet and Margaret Thatcher reveals the support for his reign of terror by other governments, while trips through mass graves and torture chambers like the horrific Villa Grimaldi are mute testaments to political persecution and fear of democracy. Here, "globalization" means a multinational quest for justice, and it's a crowd-pleaser. (Frako Loden)
Monday, April 29, 6:45 p.m., AMC Kabuki; Tuesday, April 30, 6:30 p.m., AMC Kabuki; Wednesday, May 1, 9:15 p.m., PFA
Smokers Only (Argentina, 2001)
This stylish but insubstantial movie centers on the dubious hookup between a Rollerblading street hustler and a wannabe rock chanteuse. Andres is just filling time, while Reni is (foolishly) trying to fill a void; they barely have a "thing," let alone a love affair. Yet she says, "I don't want to forget you." Andres' loving response: "I don't want to miss you." First-time director Veronica Chen finds Reni's neediness endlessly fascinating, and so augments her characters' nocturnal milieu with barely a glimmer of social context (and that's if you interpret the carefully framed golden arches as a comment on globalization). Given the lack of plot and the absence of any illuminating details about Buenos Aires, it's some kind of miracle that Chen manages to sustain interest for most of her tale's 87 portentous minutes. Failing to muster any insights into an amoral generation that has nothing to sell but its youth -- and no shortage of buyers -- Smokers Only is a prettified tour of the gutter. (Michael Fox)
Friday, April 26, 10 p.m., AMC Kabuki; Saturday, April 27, 4 p.m., AMC Kabuki
Stalin: Red God (U.K./Austria, 2001)
Frederick Baker's fascinating hourlong documentary records a Russia still in shock over Joseph Stalin's murderous one-man rule, some 50 years after the fact. "There was no appeal against whether he punished or pardoned you," says a 100-year-old cartoonist for Pravda, whose brother was killed on the dictator's order. "If God exists is uncertain, but we know that Stalin did exist and he was right there next to us." Baker's thesis is that a deified spirit of Stalin hovers over Russia even today, and while he finds scattered evidence for this idea in places like the Georgian's hometown, where children recite poetry in Stalin's memory and townspeople exhume old statues of him, the idea's more asserted than proved. Baker offers no systematic look at today's Russia. Even the stronger parts of his film -- the recollections of aged witnesses to Stalin's rule -- are weakened by his failure to identify them properly (the cartoonist's age is given in the press notes, but not in the film). A soundtrack made up of eerie ambient noise is annoying, and Baker's dramatic re-creations of incidents in the dictator's life are shaky. (His use of mute doubles of Stalin could be justified by Stalin's own fondness for films about himself, with ennobled actors playing him, but no Socialist Realist cinéaste ever used hand-held cameras!) Nonetheless, Stalin: Red God is essential viewing for anyone interested in the pathology of state terror; the Soviet Union under his rule was both charnel house and chapel. (Gregg Rickman)
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Rated 5 / 5 stars
Impromptu - improvising music on the spot. This is how this music was made. So wild, full of freedom, yet not amorphous for it has a structure. It was made according to its performer's whim. This music suggests a box of chocolates. For you never know what you will get - what excitement and thrill one can get to hear this music.
O.O I'm shocked, really...
Wow... Even I couldn't say it more precisely. I couldn't even imagine that someone is able to look so deeply through a person by simply listening a song. Music is truly an universal language. It's like you know me for a long time.
Thank you for your priceless opinion. I would be happy to hear from you more!
I listened to your stuff and I enjoyed most the jazzy one. I, probably, going to make something similar but I don't know how to add drums and maby some bass (guess it's too complicated for me and I'm not sure what prog to use)
Anyway.. Thanks again, good luck and hope you enjoy my future works)
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
This is great! I love it, though you should try to record it on something other than your phone.
Well, right now there's simply no other way, unfortunately.
I'm thinking about using mic and if it makes the quality better (in which I very doubt), than...
I'll probably continue recording on my phone ;)
But still, thank you for the review, I hope you enjoy my other songs too..
Rated 5 / 5 stars
I'd love to sample/ remix this. Shitty ass recording quality, but there's some serious soul to that :)
I'm glad you liked it :)
Remix? I wanted to make some other version, adding drums from other song, but nothing seemed to add up (I'm not that good in mixing and I don't have any equipment, only my cell phone and laptop; even converting the file was made by my friend). Hope you make something awesome and epic out of this "Shitty ass recording quality". Looking forward to hear it.
Oh, 5 stars? Thx! ;)
I'll let you know when I'll post something new.


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Amazon's Multi-State Sales Tax Battles are a Sideshow to the Real National Solution, and the Politicians Know It
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sales taxes that they're supposed to—and state efforts to get people to voluntarily fork over the money one at a time are predictably unsuccessful. Did you know there's a form you're supposed to fill out?
The long-simmering effort to fix the problem is known as the Streamlined Sales Tax project. This multi-state coordinating board is chock full of lawmakers, government tax analysts and business advisers trying to harmonize sales tax laws around the country, making administration more uniform and practical.
For the engineers at Amazon and other e-retailers, this amounts to converting a bunch of different and conflicting tax systems into one source code that someone could use to develop a tax-collecting program. And that would, in theory, make multistate sales-tax collection easy enough that Congress could change the law and allow the system to take effect.
Amazon didn't respond to a request for comment in time for my deadline, but the company has looked favorably on this approach. In a letter to a California state senator, Amazon public policy VP Paul Misener called out the Streamlined Sales Tax effort and wrote that "a national resolution, involving tax simplification evenhandedly applied, is the legally permissible path for states to follow."
Washington state has plenty of people who have been working for a long time on the project, including Russ Brubaker, a senior assistant director at the Washington state Revenue Department. He's also the No. 2 officer at the national Streamlined Sales Tax group.
Brubaker says the attention being generated by the Amazon lawsuits and disputes isn't actually harmful to the Streamlined effort—instead, he says, it could make the issue more pressing for the feds to solve.
"All of the efforts are aimed at the same goal which is to require remote sellers to collect taxes that are owed to the states," Brubaker says. "The only caution I would have is that, when it's time to turn and devote all the necessary effort to the federal legislation, that folks will need to do that. And I have every confidence that they will."
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Looks like Modaco has already released a superbooth package for the HTC One X which roots the phone before it is even released! All you'd have to do (assuming you had the phone) is plug it in, put it in bootloader mode, and run the script. All we are going to need is an unlocked bootloader, and HTC has been kinder in recent times about that specific issue. Look forward to custom ICS Sense 4.0 ROMs and of course CM9 ROMs as well, with all of the other wonderful things root privilege gives us such as backup/restore apps with data, changing device type or LCD density, freezing apps and deleting bloatware, as well as custom recoveries, kernels, etc…
Stay tuned for the actual release of the device and once we get that bootloader unlocked, the sky's the limit!
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Palate: Viscous; initially oak flits in then departs to allow cinnamon, citrus, toffee apples to show their hand, only to reappear later.
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Vaio laptop not loading past bios. HDD problem?
Hey, first post!
I'm trying to fix a vaio laptop at the moment and am a bit stuck
The screen doesn't go past the vaio. It just before the windows logo would normally appear. I tried using the windows 7 cd to try a repair or cmd/chkdsk etc, but the OS wasn't found/listed. I also tried to do a clean install and the HD wasn't detected by windows 7 setup. I also tried booting up with ubuntu and the HD still wasn't detected.
Can I assume this is a busted HD?
Should I still shoot for a bootage diagnostic cd for the hard drive?
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Enter BIOS and check HDD is shown or not? Try to set BIOS default values. If the HDD is visible then make it the first boot device and then CD/DVD and reboot.
Finally try to boot with a Linux on CD and check the HDD. Or download UBCD4Win or Hiren's CD and run chkdsk on the HDD.
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I bought two wire baskets at WalMart for the top shelf for the bread so it won't get mashed under everything else.
Then I got a sheet of corrugated plastic from a friend, cut it to fit the drawer, and attached it front and back with zip ties.
Now I can separate the bottom drawer into meats, veggies, meals and snacks, and misc. I think it works pretty well.
Yay me :)
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If someone keeps stabbing you in the back, then quit handing them the knife.
Seriously..such a simple fix and it works great! Good job
I got corrugated plastic stuff from a friend who works at a sign shop- but you can probably use foamcor board (in office supplies) or anything plastic you can cut to size.
Amazonia, I have the old fridge in the basement now. Perfect for vodka bottles
I dream of the day when I can properly organize my freezer.
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Icix is looking for a Data Architect in San Francisco, CA. According to the post, "The platform team at Icix is looking for a seasoned Architect with strong skills at developing and managing big data. The Data Architect will be responsible for designing the data platform for the icix system which will manage all of the graph data, structured and unstructured data and documents stored and accessible by the icix network. This system must be able to query and manage complex graph data and millions of documents with exceptional performance and ultra high reliability. The Data Architect will also be responsible for working in conjunction with Data Visualization Engineers to build solutions which allow for the search, retrieval, reporting and analytics of the data stored in the data platform."
Qualifications for the position include: "5+ years as an application developer/tech lead/architect. Expert in data management, data warehousing, and ETL. Experience with big data and high volume data processing and technologies. Deep knowledge of databases and database technologies e.g. SQL, Oracle, SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL. BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent work experience. Experience with ORM and data caching techniques. Experience with Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, Pig. Familiar with statistical analysis techniques and machine learning. Familiar with data visualization, reporting and charting technologies such as d3.js, Datameer, Tableau, Qlikview, Omniscope, Graphite, Crystal, etc. Familiar with graph data sets and databases such as Neo4J, FlockDB, Riak, OrientDB, Jena, etc. and technologies e.g. SPARQL, RDF, TinkerPop, Gremlin, etc."
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Unique Name for Baby with Siblings Avery and Azria
Need a Name for Baby #3 Whose Siblings are
Avery Makai
Azria Rose
I am right around 5 weeks pregnant with baby #3. (Apparently, that's what happens when my husband drinks Jose Cuervo on New Year's Eve.) I plan on making this baby's gender a surprise since I already have one of each! Avery Makai (boy) and Azria Rose (girl).
I think we are going to have a lot of trouble picking out a name this time around. First of all, my husband and I rarely agree on names. Plus, while searching for a name for our first, (Avery), we looked through all the baby names multiple times without agreeing on anything. Somehow, we even had to look at the name Avery multiple times until we realized we liked it. Azria was extremely easy to name. Somehow the name just caught my eye one day when walking by a sign with the name Max Azria on it, which was odd because I had passed the sign at least 50 times beforehand without a single thought. I said to my husband that I thought Azria would be a nice little girl name but asked if it would be too unusual. He responded saying that he really liked it, so I told him if we ever have a girl, maybe we'll have to name her Azria. Well, I unexpectedly found out I was pregnant less than a week later and was convinced from that moment on that the baby would be a girl and her name was absolutely destined to be Azria.
I'm open to names that start with any letter. Avery's and Azria's names both happen to start with an "A" but it was just coincidence. I honestly have no preference whether or not this baby's name starts with an "A" or not. However, I would like the name to sound nice alongside of the names Avery and Azria. I have a HUGE preference for names that are NOT POPULAR. For example, I love how I never hear Azria's name and how her name isn't even on the top 1000 popular name list and I hate how Avery's name is becoming more and more popular. So I am definitely aiming for something unique, different, and unpopular that sounds nice with the names Avery and Azria, that my husband and I both can agree on if possible.
So Avery Makai, Azria Rose, & ...........?
Thanks in Advance for the Help!
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Thank you for the suggestions. I read the list to DH and he veto'd all of them. He has also veto'd everything I have come up with on my own. So far he has veto'd Finn, Aurelius, Zenobius, Emory, Emmet, Emmerson, Quinten, Milo and Arlo for boys. We both agreed Pheonix was tolerable but don't love it enough to use it. I haven't even so much as come up with any girl names yet. We both like Ariana and always have but something always stops us from using it. He suggested Aeris for a girl but I'm apprehensive because it sounds similar to "heiress" to me. Aeris was his only suggestion so far so he hasn't really brought much to the table. I know I still have a long way to go, but I was really hoping to at least get some names on a maybe list right away. Now I'm already wondering if we will ever agree on a name.
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Supporting new teachers
Editor: The St. Johns County School District, with enormous support from the business community, recently completed a 3-day orientation for the 180 new teachers to the district. These teachers, ranging from brand new to 23 years of experience, come to St. Johns from all over the United States. During the orientation, they were introduced to mini workshops on a variety of subjects, including an overview of the school district, the importance of the Strategic Plan and Character Counts!, an introduction to our reading and math series, the teacher support website, rules and procedures, and many more topics.
The teachers received a "goody bag" full of books, supplies and discount coupons from businesses and restaurants in town. They also received a Teacher Resource Notebook containing materials from the various workshops. Teachers enjoyed a continental breakfast and lunch each day, meeting various community leaders the first day and their mentors the last day of the orientation. Many experienced teachers from other districts shared their appreciation of the training and support and indicated that they had never received anything like this before in other districts.
The above is written as a preface to this letter of sincere thanks to all of the businesses and people who helped to make this orientation a major success. Our major sponsors, the Educational Community Credit Union, The St. Johns Education Association, Nova Southeastern University, Subway, Wachovia Bank, all provided food for the event. Door prizes were distributed each day, with the Casa Monica Hotel contributing the grand prize of a superior room for two nights and three days to one lucky teacher. Other door prizes and donations came from: Cortesse's Bistro, Gypsy Cab, Office Max, Fresco Fine Food and Grille, South Beach Grille, Theo's Restaurant, Horace Mann, Anastasia Athletic Club, Cheese Wheel, Barnacle Bills, Raintree Restaurant, Harry's Seafood Restaurant, and Domino's Pizza. Barnes & Noble provided a wonderful social for the new teachers after the last day of the orientation, offering many door prizes, refreshments and a 25 percent discount for school books and supplies. Many thanks also go to our school board members, Mayor George Gardner, Commissioners Nicholas Meiszer and Donald Crichlow, and Lisa Miller and Margo Pope from The Record for attending the lunch the first day and showing their support for the teachers.
St. Johns County clearly knows that "it takes a village to raise a child," and is very supportive of its educators. We, at the school district, are very appreciative of that support.
George Moon
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Beach access concerns
Editor: Kudos to Linda Brown and her beach access concerns (St. Augustine Record 07/16/04). Matanzas and Summer Haven need public (both able bodied and disabled) beach access.
The closing of Anastasia State Park was obviously not based on the percentage of vehicles versus accidents, otherwise it would be open to driving and I-95 would be closed instead.
Beach access is a public right that keeps shrinking due to County Commission and state park level decision. This is a travesty, which needs to be addressed and corrected before any further access points are closed.
I say, reopen the access at Matanzas, reopen Anastasia State Park to driving and open all other county owned access points (with parking) we taxpayers "own." The rights of non-beachfront homeowners are not being acted upon and this needs immediate correction.
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Iowa Legal Age Of Consent (Legal Age for Consensual Sex)
What is the 2017 Age of Consent in Iowa?
The Iowa legal Age of Consent for sexual contact is 16 years old. There are a total of A total of thirty one states have set their age of consent at 16, the lowest age of consent in any state.
There is a a close in age exemption to the Iowa age of consent for those aged 14 and 15, who may engage in sexual acts with partners less than 4 years older. Additional laws forbid sexual contact with people in certain positions of power, such as a teacher and a student or a patient and a medical professional.
Iowa Close-In-Age Exemption
Iowa has a close-in-age exemption, also known as a "Romeo and Juliet law", to the legal age of consent. This provision allows partners who are close in age, or both under the Iowa age of consent, to engage in consensual sex without fear of prosecution under Iowa age of consent regulations. For more information, read about close-in-age exemptions.
What is the Age of Consent?
The Age of Consent is the age at which a person is deemed by Iowa law to be capable of consenting to, and engaging in, sexual acts. Anyone who engages in sexual activity of any type with a partner under the applicable Age of Consent is breaking the law and can be charged with crimes ranging from a misdemeanor to a felony (statutory rape) depending on the jurisdiction in which they are prosecuted. Iowa's specific laws on the Age of Consent can be found above.
What happens if I violate the Iowa Age of Consent?
If you engage in sexual activity with a minor who is under the Iowa Age of Consent of 16, you can be prosecuted under Iowa sexual abuse laws and charged with crimes ranging from sexual assault to first degree rape, regardless of whether or not the sexual acts were consensual. Depending on the charges, conviction can carry penalties ranging from one to fifty years in prison and registration as a sex offender .
What happens if I travel to a state where the Age of Consent is lower?
In most states, the travel or transportation of a minor over state lines with the intention of engaging in sexual activity is in itself a severe misdemeanor or felony. As a result, it is generally not possible to evade a state's age of consent rules by travelling to a different state.
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Dominic Caruso, the chief financial officer of Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), spoke to analysts at the Deutsche Bank Health Care Conference on Tuesday. After a brief recap of the Synthes acquisition (which I wrote about here), Mr. Caruso took questions from analysts; I would like to highlight some of the key questions that have material importance to long term shareholders.
The first question raised by analysts is why orthopedics (via Synthes) as opposed to an acquisition in another area, like consumer? First off, orthopedics is a huge market ($37 billion), which the company believes has good growth prospects looking forward due to an aging population and increased demand in emerging markets. As Mr. Caruso notes, this is an area where Johnson & Johnson was not so strong before; now, they have a leadership position in a category with sizable and growing demand.
As noted previously, the use of stock (65% of transaction) was a big issue with many shareholders. On the original call, the company said that the deal would be structured this way regardless of efficient use of cash from outside of the United States. Now, it appears that might be up for further discussion: "We are evaluating various alternatives to finance the transaction in the most efficient way possible. So, I'll just leave it at that. We have plenty of opportunities to do that. It will depend on how we integrate the businesses going forward. So, it's a little too early to comment any further on that." One can only hope that this means more cash and less equity as the structure of the deal is finalized (even though paying with Johnson & Johnson stock at $65 is a lot different than $58-59 where we were a few weeks ago).
As noted last week when the deal was announced, the reasoning for using so much equity was to maintain the financial flexibility and the AAA credit rating at Johnson & Johnson. As one analyst notes, does this mean that the company will be put off from doing some larger deals in the near future? Mr. Caruso's answer suggests that while maintaining their AAA credit rating is important, it isn't a deal breaker: "Although we've just done or are in the midst of doing a pretty significant deal, it doesn't really preclude us from doing anything else. Our AAA credit rating is important to us, but I don't think it's limiting in terms of how we proceed to generate significant shareholder value."
As I stated in my value submission for April, the price for Johnson & Johnson (this was in the high 50s) suggested 3.5% growth per annum over the next decade. Mr. Caruso believes that healthcare "looks like it's a 5% grower for the next four or five years," and that their other interests, such as MD&D, is in "markets that grow a couple of points above 5%." If this comes to fruition, Johnson & Johnson still looks like a steal in the low-mid 60s.
At the end of the day, I think Synthes is a good acquisition for Johnson & Johnson. As noted on the call, 70% of their [Synthes] sales last year came from new products, a focus on R&D and innovation that will be continued under the Johnson & Johnson umbrella. Here is the link for the presentation:
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When a 19-year-old Itzhak Perlman made his second appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1964, he shared the bill with the Rolling Stones.
Nearly a half century later, Perlman has achieved a comparable degree of name recognition, and he's aging a lot more gracefully than Mick Jagger.
His two appearances with the San Diego Symphony over the weekend, including a Sunday afternoon program that coincided with the Chargers' playoff game, sold out the Jacobs Music Center. And when he came out on stage Saturday night, he was afforded an immediate standing ovation, a practice that may be common at rock concerts, but is unheard-of in classical music performances.
Having played for presidents, recorded hundreds of albums, and performed thousands of concerts around the world, he's indisputably the world's first violinist.
More than that, as somebody who was afflicted with polio who needs crutches to walk, he's more than a musician, he embodies the triumph of the human spirit.
So how did he sound? He's in excellent musical shape. The emotional directness, the lack of pretension, the rare combination of ease and absolute conviction were all evident in his interpretation of the Beethoven Violin Concerto.
His sound is warm and focused, and his technique and intonation remain certain.
The issue in Saturday's performance was something much more basic than all of that: the tempo.
Undoubtedly conductor Jahja Ling and Perlman had conferred over how fast (or how slow) the concerto should go. The opening movement is marked Allegro, ma non troppo, which roughly means fast, but not too fast.
Ling and Perlman took the ma non troppo part to heart. They played it so slow as to make it nearly impossible to build up any momentum. Indeed, in this iconic work, which is likely the most performed and recorded of any violin concerto, the lyrical aspects are more pronounced than the rhythmic elements (at least until the third movement), but the balance was so skewed toward the melodic that the interpretation sounded static, at times even flat, despite the beauty of Perlman's playing.
Given the slow pacing of the opening movement, there wasn't the requisite degree of tempo contrast with the even slower second movement. The tempo picked up in the closing Allegro, but not to the degree you might expect.
In the program's first half, there was plenty of rhythm in a boisterous rendering of Hindemith's "Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber" that bordered on chaotic.
The Hindemith could have used a little more control and ensemble nuance, and the Beethoven would have benefited from a little more rhythmic energy, maybe even abandon. Where were the Rolling Stones when you needed them?
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La Barranca
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Ernick Romero (Bass)
Alfonso André (Drums)
Jorge "cox"Gaytan (Violin)
Adolfo Romero (Guitar/Syntheziser)
Ivan Solis (Drums) (playing occasionally)
La Barranca has been a successful ongoing outfit for over a decade. Based in Mexico City, they are led by guitarist and songwriter José Manuel Aguilera, who previously and concurrently worked with Sangre Azteka, Jaguares, Cecilia Toussaint, Steven Brown/Nine Rain (Tuxedomoon), and more. He has an unusually economical style of playing that concentrates on great rhythms, superb tone, and very melodic solos. After the original lineup—Aguilera, Federico Fong (bass), Alfonso Andre (drums), all of whom were guest members of Jaguares with former Caifanes frontman Saúl Hernández—went its separate ways, a second version of the band included Santa Sabina guitar virtuoso Alex Otaola and the extremely flexible rhythm section of brothers Jose María ("Chema") and Alonso Arreola. The band's sound effortlessly moves from flat out rock to fusion-ish jamming and passes through a kind of Mexican folk influence along the way. Aguilera is a good singer with a talent for finding simple melodies amidst rather complex songs. On "El Fluir" the band decided to record live and to cut back on the keyboard and programmed additions to their music. Surprisingly, the result was not an over-the-top jamfest but rather a very tightly arranged set of songs that hinted at the overwhelming power they could possess in concert. The two guitar interplay between Aguilera and Otaola was highly impressive as they explored all forms of playing together and against one another (with Otaola pulling all sorts of radical sounds out of his guitar). "El Fluir" was their first US release since "Tempestad" in 1998. This edition was further sweetened by the inclusion of a previously unreleased bonus track and a video for the first single "Pare de Sufrir."
In 2007, the group went on hiatus in order to find new management and to allow time for solo projects. José Manuel Aguilera released a second project with Jaime López titled "No más héroes, por favor." Bassist Alonso Arreola put out a mostly-instrumental album "LabA: Música horizontal" that features all the other La Barranca members as well as jazz musicians like Michael Manring, Trey Gunn, and David Fiucynski. Alex Otaola released a solo project (also featuring appearances from La Barranca and Santa Sabina musicians) titled "Fractales" in August 2007. The "Fractales" music comes with video portions as well. Drummer "Chema" Arreola began work on a book.
In June 2007, Alonso Arreola announced that the group could not agree on matters essential to continuing on and that he would be leaving the band. Although not speaking for his brother or Alex Otaola, he indicated that they would likely leave the band as well. He was careful to point out that this was an amicable split and that Aguilera would be welcome to continue with new members should he so choose to.
Subsequently, Aguilera announced via the www.labarranca.com.mx website that the original trio of Aguilera, Fong, and Andre would reunite for a new La Barranca album in 2008. This album is named "Providencia", it was sold at first only through the official website. Providencia was soon joined by a companion album "Construcción", a collection of instrumental outtakes and demo versions of the tracks of "Providencia".
- El fuego de la noche (1996, Opción Sónica-MCA).
- Tempestad (1997, BMG-Ariola).
- Rueda de los tiempos (1999, Universal-Discos Manicomio).
- Denzura (2003, MW Records).
- El Fluir (2005, Fractal Records).
- PЯOVIDEИCIA (2008, Louisiana Barranca).
- Piedad Ciudad (2010, Fonarte, Fonca).
- Eclipse de memoria (2013)
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I ordered two dresses I paid for made to measure and fast track What a waste of money the dresses didn't fit . Very badly made
I asked for refund on one dress as this was the worst not fit for purpose !!
Only an offer of discount on next order !!! Don't want to order anything from them again !!
Don't waste your money !!!


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Wireless CAZ testing is now an option with the TEC WiFi Link. Simply attach the WiFi Link to your DG-700, and you're ready to go wireless. Having wireless capability allows you to leave your DG-700 in the CAZ and monitor pressure changes on the iTEC-700 app as you turn exhaust devises on. During this webinar Paul Morin will demonstrate how to conduct a wireless CAZ test in a home.
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