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Talk:Group sales
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The Netherlands
Discuss possible ways how to deal with the distribution in The Netherlands.
{Marcel de Jong 19/04} I received an idea from User:Jan de Haan. We could try to find a distributor/importer, and approach that person with the question of doing the importing for us. Sadly I don't know anyone in that business, so I have no idea how to go about contacting someone like that.
{Sander Hoentjen 19/04} I might be able to help out here, next Tuesday I will talk with my ex-employer and ask if he has any ideas. (Their business is helping US companies establish market in Europe)
{Marcel de Jong 19/04}Please do. And keep us informed. Would be great if we can get this off the ground.
{Jan de Haan 19/04}Agree. For the record: the reason we are looking for a professional business to organize this for us is the inability of any person to front the money for 10 Freerunners, an amount of money ($6000,-) that almost everybody gives the hickups. So we're looking for a business that can buy us the 10 phones with the discount with the guaranteed sale of them. I've done business with sallandautomatisering (Am _not_ affiliated with them in any way) and they showed definite interest. So if Sander's way does not work, I suggest we contact them.
{Marcel de Jong 20/04} Jan, the Freerunner is cheaper than that. In group sale we're probably looking at a figure of 'just' $3690 (ex shipping, and probably other costs.) And otherwise it's $399 per sold phone (again excluding shipping costs and probably also import fees) BTW it would be good if the people interested in getting a Neo in this group sale also add contact information, so that people can be notified, if you haven't done so already. Out of 11, we're only able to contact 8, at the moment.
{Jan de Haan 20/04} The $6000 was 10x the price for the first hardware version for sale with the debug option. Btw, I'm definitely interested in the debug version, although that is sold as a separte packge. Source http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-April/015080.html (Thanks, Marcel. ;-) )
{Marcel de Jong 20/04} I have notified 9 people on the Dutch list about this page. The other two I have no way of contacting at the moment. Let's hope they read the community mailing list. :)
{Yorick 20/04} I'm from Belgium, would shipping be possible to Belgium? I'm very interested. thanks.
{Marcel de Jong 20/04} Yorick at this point, I'm not sure. I'm not an importer myself, just someone who is eager to get his grubby hands on a Neo. :) BTW, you could start a similar discussion on it for Belgians right here as well. Just add it to the page here. Just make a separate section on this page. :)
{André Disselhorst 20/04} I was thinking that, in the case finding someone willing to do the importing in the Netherlands would fail, we maybe could join such an initiative abroad. @Jan de Haan: I think asking sallandautomatisering will do no harm.
{Eric Smith 21/04} I can help oragnise the importing. This is something I do in my business but have very little time available. So we need to be superefficient with information and of course financial arrangements. Feel free to mail me eric _at_ fruitcom.com.
{Yorick 20/04} Would you also be willing to ship to Belgium?
{Jan de Haan 21/04}
Gepost via: http://salland.eu/content/mysalland/mail_contact.php onder subject: E-mailcontact - Product Management artikel toevoegen Hier kunt u artikelen opgeven, die nog niet in het assortiment van Salland Automatisering voorkomen, maar die u wel door ons geleverd zou willen zien worden. Wees svp zo compleet mogelijk met het verstrekken van informatie over het te leveren artikel. Uw naam J. de Haan Uw e-mailadres Contact Artikelinformatie Merk openmoko Naam freerunner Website openmoko.com L.S., wij (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Talk:GroupSales#The_Netherlands) proberen als groep minstens 10 openmoko/freerunner toestellen te verkrijgen a E369,- voor de groepskorting. Bent u geintereseerd om dit voor ons te realiseren? Hoogachtend, J. de Haan. PS Reactie kan via mijn email adres of via de bovengenoemde pagina, deze mail wordt daar ook gepost. E-mailcontact - verzonden Uw bericht is ontvangen en wordt zo spoedig mogelijk behandeld.
{Marcel de Jong 22/04} Thanks Jan. I hope this will work, I'm just afraid, we're going to need more people to make it viable for those stores to import it. But I see that they use a .eu domain, so if they also sell stuff over the border, I don't think it to be too hard to drum up some support from the other European groups. That way we can make a bigger market to offset those import costs for the retailer. BTW, I replaced your email address in that email, with something more spam-proof. ;)
{Sander Hoentjen 22/04} I had no luck with my ex-employer unfortunately. A comment about the Salland Automatisering letter though: You are talking about a E369,-, is that the price in Euro you are thinking about? ATM 369.00 USD = 231.037 EUR, shipping and taxes will be applied, anybody knows what the price will be for us taken that into account? How much money can a company make out of it, in order for us to still buy? I don't think a company will do it for free, but maybe they will do it for just the publicity, that can be good for them of course.
{Marcel de Jong 22/04} If I had to ballpark it, I'd say aim at around 350, anything below it would be great. I'm not sure what the shipping costs/import costs would come at. I think, looking at other consumer electronic prices in the US and Europe, it's a safe bet (lots of appliances have about the same number behind the currency symbol, whether it is $ or euro) And the $369 and $399 are still estimates, at least if I read Steve's mail correctly.
{Arjan Veenstra 20/04} Personally I wouldn't mind doing this through a private person, as long as things are properly documented (e.g. there is proof when things go wrong). That will mean having to pay in advance, but I doubt anyone of us would bother to run off with $4000. A 5 lines 'contract' is probably enough to make sure you get your money back when the Freerunner don't show up. But then, i'll just go along with the rest of you.
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Title: Beverley Stone papers, 1934-2012
Primary Creator: Stone, Beverley (1916 - 2003)
Extent: 5.6 Cubic feet. More info below.
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Date Acquired: 11/15/2007. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Cook, Barbara I., 1929-2013, Mortar Board (Society). Barbara Cook Chapter (Purdue University), National Association for Women Deans, Administrators & Counselors, Purdue University. Dean of Women, Stone, Beverley, 1916-2003, Women's Archives at Purdue University, Women city council members, Women college administrators--United States
Forms of Material: Books, Certificates, Clippings (Information artifacts), Correspondence, Photographic prints, Speeches
Languages: English
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National Association for Women Deans, Administrators & Counselors
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Stone, Beverley, 1916-2003
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Alternate Extent Statement: 9 manuscript boxes, 2 cubic foot boxes
Access Restrictions: Collection is open for research. Material documenting privileged student records such as grades and discipline records are restricted until 70 years past their creation date.
Acquisition Source: Donation.
Related Materials:
Beverley Stone had close ties to three other Deans of Women: Dorothy Stratton, Helen Schleman, and Barbara Cook. More photos, correspondence, and other materials relating to Stone can be found in those collections. Official correspondence can be found in the Office of the Dean of Women and Office of the Dean of Students record groups.
Oral history interview conducted July 17, 1972, located within MSO 2, Purdue Office of Publications Oral History Program collection.
Preferred Citation: MSF 466, Beverly Stone papers, Karnes Archives & Special Collections research center, Purdue University Libraries
Processing Information: Whenever possible, original order of the materials has been retained. All materials have been housed in polyester sleeves, acid-free folders, and acid-free boxes. Loose newsprint clippings have been photocopied and the original clippings discarded. Newsprint in scrapbooks has been left intact. Several oversized documents have been stored separately due to their size. Reduced-size photocopies of these separated documents have been inserted in their proper place in the collection. Speech notecards in Series Seven have been placed in individual acid-free envelopes and organized by date when possible.
Finding Aid Revision History:
While processing the Dean of Women records, the archivist discovered materials that belong in the Beverley Stone papers. This material was added to the collection on June 17, 2013 and is housed in Box 10.
Archon record updated by Virginia Pleasant on May 24, 2016.
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Charlie Sheen's ex files a restraining order and attempts to get custody from the actor
Update: TMZ is reporting Brooke Mueller filed for a restraining order against her ex, Charlie Sheen. "The order requires Charlie to stay 100 yards away from Brooke and have no contact with her," the story says. Apparently, Brooke asked for her lawyer to get an emergency order without even consulting Charlie. Charlie's response? "Great. I was already planning on staying 100 parsecs away from her." Yikes!
As if having one bizarre parent isn't enough, 1½-year-old twins Max and Bob have two! TMZ.com is reporting that their mom Brooke Mueller, 33, went to the Beverly Hills Police Department to try and get physical custody of them, but she made one BIG mistake. Charlie Sheen doesn't live in Beverly Hills.
The cops told her she was at the wrong police department and that they couldn't help her. Talk about "epic stories," Charlie. This is one EPIC fail.
The twins are living with Charlie full-time in his Los Angeles mansion and apparently he is worried about his estranged wife's sobriety. Interesting. I guess that's why he called on the porn star for help.
"Charlie believes Brooke, at present, is not in a position to care for the children with the love and attention they need," a source tells RadarOnline.com. "He has consulted with a lawyer about what move he can take next." So now Charlie wants full custody? He better put his best "warlock" face on!
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The Human Rights Clinic prepares students for lifelong careers in social justice advocacy around the globe. Through the Clinic, students join a community of advocates working to promote human rights and to recalibrate the global power imbalances that drive economic and political inequality, exploitation, threats to physical security, poverty, and environmental injustice. Through fact-finding, reporting, litigation, media engagement, advocacy, training, and innovative methods, the Clinic seeks to prevent abuse, advance respect for human rights, and promote accountability for violations. Embedded in the Clinic's work is a commitment to the values of equality and mutual exchange in transnational partnerships; respect for rights-holder autonomy, voice, and power; and diversity, inclusion, full participation, and justice within the human rights field.
Through a combination of Seminars and Project Work, and with the mentorship of the Clinic's professors and supervisors, students develop the wide range of skills necessary to be strategic and creative human rights advocates, critically analyze human rights, and advance the human rights methodologies of the Clinic and the human rights field.
Clinic Seminars provide a map of the terrain of international human rights advocacy, including the field's dominant forms of action, strategies, methods and critiques, which equips students with the knowledge and the tools to navigate the field with confidence and critical reflection. Students learn to assess where they and human rights projects are positioned, the available tools or routes for action, and how to ethically, pragmatically, and responsibly choose which steps to take toward which ends. They learn project selection, design, and strategy; choice and sequence of advocacy tactics; fact-finding methodologies and evidence assessment; interdisciplinary research methods; interviewing witnesses, experts, and perpetrators; digital and physical security; report and brief-writing; using judicial and quasi-judicial processes; advocacy options at the local, national, regional, and international levels; engaging the press and using social media; mitigating vicarious trauma and promoting resilience and well-being; ethical frameworks and the navigation of ethical dilemmas; and accountability and project evaluation. The Clinic engages students in an active and co-creator mode of education, and students are taught to self-assess and monitor their own progress, and are involved in building the methods, pedagogy, and institution of the Clinic itself.
Students work in teams on projects that are designed to pursue social justice in partnership with civil society and communities. The Clinic Projects vary from year to year, each addressing marginalized, urgent, and complex human rights issues around the world, including in the Central African Republic, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Yemen, and the United States. This year's projects focus on corporate accountability for human rights violations and environmental harms in the extractives industry, labor and education rights of immigrant communities and religious minorities, human rights and humanitarian law violations in counterterrorism operations and armed conflict, the right to mental health during armed conflict, abuses by international peacekeepers, and sexual violence. Through its project work, the Clinic functions similarly to a non-governmental organization, with students implementing advocacy projects.
Drawing upon its seat at the intersection of theory and practice, the Clinic is also a laboratory for testing and modeling new and innovative modes of human rights work, and seeks to be a model of rigorous and critical human rights advocacy. This includes a focus on enhancing human rights methods through interdisciplinary partnerships, critical reflection on human rights practice, and sustainable advocacy through attention to vicarious trauma and resilience.
To provide a support structure for these goals, and to contribute to a strong and collaborative human rights community at Columbia Law School and beyond, the Clinic builds a network of current students, alumni, scholars, and advocates who support one another and collaborate toward the advancement of human rights.
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Accountability for "Targeted Killings" and Drone Strikes: In September 2014, the Clinic launched a new project to promote accountability for US "targeted killings" and drone strikes. This work built upon prior work undertaken by the Clinic under the direction of Naureen Shah. The Clinic worked with U.S. and international civil society groups to develop joint NGO letters to both the UN and the US government urging greater transparency, accountability, and compliance with international law in the use of drones for lethal targeting. The Clinic also prepared extensive research on advocacy work and strategies, hosted strategy meetings with civil society organizations, and conducted consultations with military, civil society, UN, and international law actors, as well as journalists and Yemeni experts to develop new advocacy projects to address drone strikes.
Armed Conflict in the Central African Republic: In 2014-2015, the Human Rights Clinic developed a new partnership and project with a Central African Republic (CAR) NGO to support their work related to war crimes investigations, accountability, and the promotion of peace and reconciliation in the country. In December 2013, a brutal civil war erupted in the CAR, with frequent occurrences of war crimes and widespread displacement of the civilian population. There is now a UN peacekeeping mission in the country, although humanitarian conditions remain poor for many residents, and there is widespread impunity for war crimes. The Clinic designed a joint project with CAR civil society to develop a secure war crimes evidence database, prepare legal advice on the elements of war crimes and international humanitarian law violations, and guidelines on gathering and storing evidence. In June 2015, Knuckey traveled to the CAR to support the domestic NGO's investigations.
Business and Human Rights in the Global Economy: Peru. In 2014, the Human Rights Clinic launched a new effort to support communities and social organizations mobilizing against a proposed gold mining project known as Conga in Cajamarca, Peru. Community members fear that the project, if allowed to go forward, will result in negative impacts to the environment and human health stemming primarily from harm to water quality and access. Local communities say that the mere existence of the project has already adversely impacted human rights, calling attention to violence against protesters by security forces acting on behalf of the company, and harassment and efforts to forcibly displace those living near the mine concession area. The Clinic is supporting the affected communities through an exploration of the responsibility of the different companies and institutions involved in the project (including a U.S. mining company and the International Financial Corporation of the World Bank) in light of the application of international legal norms and standards. In March 2015, the Clinic traveled to Lima and Cajamarca to meet with organizations, activists, and affected communities to discuss and advance legal strategies seeking to stop the project. The Clinic also supported a legal action in a U.S. federal court seeking discovery of information held by the U.S. company regarding an incident of violent repression of protest activity at the mine site in November 2011 that left many protesters injured.
Business and Human Rights in the Global Economy: Papua New Guinea. HRI and the Human Rights Clinic support communities dealing with the environmental and social consequences of the Porgera Gold Mine, a mine owned by a Canadian company, in the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea. The thousands of indigenous people living in villages surrounding the mine fear that mine operations have polluted their rivers and streams, contaminated rainwater, caused erosion and landslides, and contributed to poor air quality and low crop yield – but have had little access to independent assessments of these environmental concerns. Residents requested the Clinic to carry out independent research of any environmental and health impacts. After extensive research and preparation – including on rights-based mixed-methods research, the rights to water and health, international and domestic environmental law, and interviewing technique – in December 2014-January 2015, the Clinic traveled to the region along with environmental scientists from the Earth Institute of Columbia University, as well as a film-maker. The team conducted an interdisciplinary rights-based study, blending physical science and human rights methodology, to assess the mine's environmental and human rights impacts. Sarah Knuckey also traveled to the region for a month in July 2015 to carry out additional research. The results of the study will be published and shared with the communities in early 2016.
Separately, the Clinic also works on issues related to physical abuse by the mine's security guards. For years, residents have alleged that mine security guards engaged in beatings and sexual assault, including gang rapes, of local residents. After earlier work investigating these violations, the Human Rights Institute and the Human Rights Clinic have been analyzing the mining company's recent efforts to compensate sexual assault victims through the creation of a non-judicial remedy mechanism. A major report and an academic article will be published in 2015 as part of a multi-pronged analysis of corporate non-judicial grievance mechanisms for human rights abuses. In October 2014, the Institute and Clinic also hosted with EarthRights International a workshop of international experts to discuss community-led grievance mechanisms, as an alternative model for remedying these types of abuses.
Sarah Knuckey, Director, Human Rights Clinic; Faculty Co-Director, Human Rights Institute
To read Sarah Knuckey's full biography and to find her contact information, visit the faculty webpage.
To read Ben Hoffman's full biography and to find his contact information, visit the HRI webpage.
To read JoAnn Kamuf Ward's full biography and to find her contact information, visit the HRI webpage.


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MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 11, 2012--
U.S. Bancorp announced today that John Elmore and Kent Stone will
succeed Richard Hartnack, vice chairman of consumer and small business
banking, and James Chosy will succeed Lee Mitau as executive vice
president and general counsel. All three appointments will become
effective upon the retirements of Hartnack and Mitau on March 1, 2013.
Elmore, who has been with U.S. Bancorp since 1988, is currently
executive vice president of community banking. Stone, who has been with
U.S. Bancorp since 1980, is executive vice president, consumer banking.
Elmore will become vice chairman of community banking and branch
delivery, and will oversee the bank's branch network, including
metropolitan and community banking, and in-store and on-site banking.
Stone will become vice chairman of consumer banking sales and support,
and will lead the bank's overall consumer and small business strategy
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mortgage lending and all consumer lending activities.
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banking since April 2005, when he joined U.S. Bancorp. Prior to joining
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from 1991 to 2005 with responsibility for community banking and
investment services.
Mitau has served as executive vice president and general counsel of U.S.
Bancorp since 1995. Prior to 1995 he was a partner at the law firm of
Dorsey & Whitney LLP in Minneapolis.
Elmore, Stone and Chosy will join U.S. Bancorp's 15-member managing
committee and report to Richard Davis, chairman, president and chief
executive officer.
"I want to thank Rick and Lee for their many years of outstanding
leadership to U.S. Bancorp," said Davis. "Rick and Lee helped to lead
U.S. Bank through the most turbulent period in recent history. Their
contributions brought enormous value to our employees, customers and
shareholders – and have helped to position U.S. Bank as a leader in our
industry for the next generation – we will miss their influence."
Davis added, "John and Kent are seasoned and highly respected U.S. Bank
leaders with a demonstrated track record of helping us build the fifth
largest bank in the nation. We are also excited to welcome back Jim to
U.S. Bank. His legal and regulatory counsel will be invaluable during
these rapidly evolving times. I look forward to serving with all three
new members of our managing committee."
U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), with $352 billion in assets as of Sept. 30,
2012, is the parent company of U.S. Bank, the 5th largest commercial
bank in the United States. The company operates 3,086 banking offices in
25 states and 5,080 ATMs and provides a comprehensive line of banking,
brokerage, insurance, investment, mortgage, trust and payment services
products to consumers, businesses and institutions. U.S. Bancorp and its
employees are dedicated to improving the communities they serve, for
which the company earned the 2011 Spirit of America Award, the highest
honor bestowed on a company by United Way. Visit U.S. Bancorp on the web
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Respawn's Titanfall Leaked Ahead of Likely E3 Reveal; Arriving Spring 2014
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It looks like Respawn Entertainment's big title got revealed a little early, as Game Informer jumped the gun when its July digital issue arrived ahead of E3. Called Titanfall, it's a first-person shooter coming next spring for the PC and Xbox One. An Xbox 360 version is also planned, however that isn't being developed at Respawn. The game is multiplayer-based, with a campaign multiplayer mode, a "traditional" multiplayer mode, and then a "one-player mode." Titanfall sees players controlling 24-foot tall mechs (the Titans) that are powerful killing machines, with speeds matching player movement in most other FPS titles. If you don't feel like using a Titan, then your character, aptly called Pilots, can fight on foot with their Titan following along behind under AI control.
The Pilots can be either male or female, and are kind of like superheroes in the sense they are very agile and can run along walls or multi jump. Pilots can take down Titans on their own by shooting the brain, however Pilots need to be cunning in order to survive. They can use a variety of weapons like a pistol, assault rifle, an Anti-Titan rocket launcher, and even a data knife to hack AI players to fight on your side. Yes, there are going to be AI players on each map that you'll be facing off against, most likely in the campaign multiplayer portion (and maybe the one-player mode). Its story sounds like it could be told more through background events, like Left 4 Dead, and there will be memorable single player moments mixed into the multiplayer side.
Titanfall is built on Valve's Source Engine, which enables 60FPS even on the Xbox One. Respawn is heavily modifying the Source Engine to better suit the needs of the game, and that should make for a visually stunning experience. I have high hopes for the game's multiplayer experience too, as Respawn (created by the Infinity Ward founders before being ousted by Activision) is planning to make it more welcoming than the likes of Call of Duty, Battlefield, and Halo. Average lifetime of a player is going to be a lot longer than those aforementioned titles, and the "gameplay loop" is going to be more accomodating for new players. That's certainly welcome news, especially if you're more of a casual multiplayer FPS fan.
Respawn offered a little insight into why Titanfall is coming out on the Xbox One and not the PS4, at least initially. The cloud computing aspect is apparently a big deal, with an unlimited number of dedicated servers for Respawn to offload "a few dozen AI" and physics calculations. At this stage, the developer isn't even making use of the Xbox One's 5GB allocation of its 8GB total for gaming. Given more time Respawn could use the 5GB total, but for now it isn't.
Expect more information on Titanfall to be revealed at Microsoft's E3 conference next week. For a little bit more info now, you can head over to the source below.
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Sander wrote:taniaaust1 wrote:yes.. with experience one can end up staying in LDs for a long time. I used to have that ability to stay as long as I liked. Even beginners sometimes have a long LD (it all can depend on how deep ones state is when one is LD).
as long as you liked? i thought that was impossible since the duration of your LD depends on the REM phases during sleep?
Ive no idea about REM as Ive never paid any attention to all that. I assume you just need to be asleep and then if you are.. your waking mind can stay present while you are.. as long as you have waking mind there and are physically sleep.. you can LD.
I say that as I find I can LD at any time Im asleep (by this I mean I can LD just on going to sleep, just after waking up or even right in the middle of my sleep etc). One thou may have to work at times to keep onself in the dream if the body is wanting to wake up (its hard to explain the feeling one gets when the body wants to wake up but there is a feeling there even if deep in LD still). The closest to waking one is.. the harder it becomes to stay in the dream and the more one needs to work at doing so. You can force yourself to a degree into staying asleep by keeping yourself in the state you are in..
I went throu a stage where I used to be lucid ALL night.. from the time I went to sleep till the time I woke up. Its a state some yogis reach thou in it I wasnt dreaming all the time but was still asleep like a waking observer (not necessarily immerged in a dream but as a separate waking observer watching my thought flow) ...but that was weird as I could be aware in my sleep all night too and not necessarily dream.. that waking observer sleep state changed how things were..
I wish Id timed my past very long LDs to know just how long a single LD could last for but I used to stop the LDs by my own choice after a long time in them.


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The U.S. Air Force on Friday declined to confirm that it had received only one bid for a $6.8 billion helicopter competition, but said it had procedures in place that would allow the acquisition to continue regardless of the number of bidders.
All but one of the contractors expected to bid to build a new combat search and rescue helicopter for the Air Force announced last month that they would not compete, raising the prospect that the Air Force would have to adopt a different approach to the acquisition program.
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Sikorsky Aircraft, a unit of United Technologies Corp , did submit a bid for the competition, based on its H-60 helicopter, according to a company spokesman. Other potential competitors confirmed that they had decided to skip the bidding, and at least one of the companies said it was exploring a possible legal challenge to the terms of the competition.
Air Force spokesman Ed Gulick said he could not say how many companies had submitted bids by the Thursday deadline because that was "source selection sensitive," but the Air Force had "acquisition procedures in place to proceed with this important acquisition regardless of the number of bidders."
Gulick said the Air Force remained "committed to a fair, open and transparent process" to pick a new, affordable Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) that met the military's requirements, but could only release details after selecting a winning bidder.
Lieutenant General Charles Davis, the top military official in charge of Air Force acquisition, told Reuters in an interview last month that the helicopter competition was structured to tell potential bidders exactly what capabilities the Air Force wanted and what it could afford.
He denied that the terms of the competition had been written to favor the Black Hawk helicopter built by Sikorsky, and said Sikorsky would be asked to submit certified cost and pricing data if it turned out to be the sole bidder for the program.
Sikorsky was aware that it could be asked to provide such data if no other bids came in, a spokesman said. Lockheed Martin Corp is a key subcontractor on the Sikorsky bid.
Boeing Co , Textron Inc's Bell Helicopter unit , EADS and Northrop Grumman Corp teamed with AgustaWestland, part of Italy's Finmeccanica SpA , announced last month that they would not bid for the work.
At the time, industry executives said the bidding rules were so narrowly framed that they effectively excluded all but Sikorsky's Black Hawk helicopter from the competition, and would not reward extra capability offered by other aircraft.
EADS North America Chief Executive Sean O'Keefe told Pentagon chief arms buyer Frank Kendall in a letter last month that the Air Force's detailed mandatory requirements list had derailed its plan to buy an "in-production, off-the-shelf" helicopter and would result in an unnecessarily costly program.
As written, the terms of the competition also did not call for an evaluation of the full life cycle costs of the bids, despite the Defense Department's emphasis on affordability and a new federal law which required such an evaluation, O'Keefe said.
No comment was immediately available from the Air Force or Kendall's office on the letter from the EADS executive, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters.
Davis last month said that the Air Force had already drawn up plans for how to handle the procurement if only one company submitted a bid, although he said the service would have preferred to have a competitive process with more bidders.
He said the Air Force's move away from more "nebulous" and "open-ended" procurements was positive for the industry, allowing companies to make more informed decisions about whether to spend money preparing a bid for a given competition.
He said the change toward more narrowly defined requirements for military equipment was a result of multiple protests filed by companies in recent years that challenged the more open and subjective way procurements were structured in the past.
Boeing won the Air Force's last rescue helicopter competition with its H-47 model, only to see the $15 billion contract canceled after several protests by losing bidders.
"This is clearly a result of all of the issues that have accumulated over the years of all of these high-visibility protests," Davis said. As a result, the Air Force was now being more diligent in the structuring of its acquisition programs.
(editing by Nick Zieminski and Matthew Lewis)


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We are a group of men working far away from our homes and families, in a place where there are no people living, and no buildings or mosques. The time we spend at work is equal to the time we spend in our homes, i.e., we work for 28 days in return for 28 days off. This continues all year round, and we work for 12 hours each day.
What about praying in congregation (jamaa'ah) in this place? Is it obligatory or not?.
Prayer in congregation is obligatory for non-travellers and travellers like.
We have already mentioned the evidence for it being obligatory in the answer to questions no 120 and 8918.
You have to establish prayer in congregation; one of you should give the adhaan (call to prayer) then you should pray in congregation.
Al-Bukhaari (628) narrated that Maalik ibn al-Huwayrith (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: I came to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) with a group of my people and we stayed with him for twenty days. He was compassionate and kind, and when he saw that we were missing our families he said: "Go back and stay with them and teach them; pray as you have seen me praying. When the time for prayer comes, let one of you give the call to prayer and let the oldest of you lead (the others) in prayer."
Abu Dawood (547) narrated that Abu'l-Darda' (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) say: "There are no three people in a village or a desert among whom the prayer is not established, but the Shaytaan will overwhelm them. You must adhere to the jamaa'ah, for the wolf eats the sheep that strays off on its own." Al-Saa'ib (one of the narrators of the hadeeth) said: What is meant by jamaa'ah here is prayer in congregation. It was classed as hasan by al-Albaani in Saheeh Abi Dawood.
Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked about a group of travellers who were going to attend a conference; should they pray in the mosques or not? He replied:
The basic principle is that you should attend prayers in congregation in the mosque with the people if you are in a place where you can hear the adhaan without a loudspeaker because you are near the mosque. If you are in a far place where you cannot hear the call to prayer even with a loudspeaker, then pray in congregation where you are. Similarly if going to the mosque will detract from the purpose for which you came then pray in congregation where you are.
Fataawa al-Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen, 15/381.


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Simon Poulter of What Would David Bowie do? Puts the case for the live album…
You've bought the singles, bought the album, bought the concert ticket, bought the T-shirt, bought your bus ticket home and now you're being asked to buy it all over again as a live album of the show you've only just returned from. And, yes, you will buy it.
If you were at Newark's Prudential Center this week, I'm sure, soon, there will be a live CD/DVD/Blu-ray Disc package of this or one of the three other gigs in the Rolling Stones' run of 50th anniversary shows – two in London, two in New Jersey.
Over their fifty years as a band, they've released no less than 22 live performance albums. Such is their relentless self-merchandising under tireless CEO Mick Jagger (eight of the 22 albums are archive releases, brought out since the Stones' last full tour), that you wouldn't bet against a 23rd.
Stones live albums have, generally, caught the band in their natural musical habitat and, if you're prepared to work your way through the 22, you come notice just how much they have evolved, even if you hold some deep-seated prejudice about the band from London's suburbs who adopted the Chicago blues and went on to become easily the greatest rock and roll band in the world.
You should, then, start with the apostrophe-abusing Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!, released in September 1970 (and re-released in 2010 as highly recommended 40th anniversary box set) captured the band in two shows in New York and Baltimore just as they were in the midst of, arguably, their most creative period, with Let It Bleed already recorded and Sticky Fingers about to go into production.
It captures a band in subtle transformation from boisterous, God-help-us-if-your-daughter-brought-them-home British beat and blues merchants into louche, 70s rock monsters.
The Beatles were, it appeared, on the way out, and new, heavier rivals like Humble Pie and Led Zeppelin were emerging from the 60s. Woodstock, Monterey and Isle Of Wight had set the bar for rock performances for the next few years, as had Jimi Hendrix, who died just three weeks after the Stones released Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! to acclaim, with critics hailing it the best live album ever.
Fast forward to 1978 and The Rolling Stones: Some Girls Live, which was released last year along with the repackaging of Some Girls, and you get the full-on Stones in the 1970s, Keith Richards now clearly out of it on whatever laboratory he was living from, Ron Wood enjoying life as the 'new' Stone.
Musically, though, the 'weaving' of Richards and Wood's guitar is already starting to become more evident on Some Girls Live. Critics have suggested that the junkie Richards became a lazier guitarist, contributing rudimentary riffs to live performances while the more accomplished soloist Wood made all the effort. Not so: on Some Girls Live you can hear a distinct new Rolling Stones emerge, with Charlie Watts – solid to this day – at the back, Bill Wyman's often under-rated bass playing holding it together strongly, Richards and Wood over the top of it all with their guitar fabric, and Jagger out front, camping it up for England like Andy Pandy.
Fast forward again to 2004 and the Live Licks album, recorded on their 40th anniversary greatest hits tour and you have the corporate Stones, a polished, sports stadium band who, like some giant human jukebox, pick and choose their set lists on a night-to-night basis and can command guest appearances from Sheryl Crow (on Honky Tonk Woman) and Solomon Burke on their cover of his song, Everybody Needs Somebody To Love.
There may, inevitably, be some dross in the Stones' 22 live albums, but there are some gems too. But 22 live albums in 50 years: compare that to their great rivals, The Beatles, who barely lasted four years after their first hit record before they gave up touring altogether. The only evidence that The Beatles ever played live at all are the clips of news footage of performances drowned out by pre-pubescent screaming, or the somewhat tired and strained vibe of their 1969 Savile Row rooftop performance. If only someone had only recorded them at Hamburg's Star Club in 1960, or at the Cavern on their triumphant return to Liverpool two years later.
The case for the Live album
The live album has been one of the music industry's most contested products, regarded as either cynical plundering of the over-benevolent punter's bread, man, or pointless filler between studio albums. As the Rolling Stones have frequently demonstrated, the live album has – and continues to be – fittingly reflective of their supreme stagecraft.
Paul Weller, for example, can be similarly compared, having been responsible for some brilliant in-concert releases over the years, from music press front cover flexidiscs (I still own – somewhere – a Style Council EP from Sounds featuring a blistering version of Curtis Mayfield's Move On Up) to numerous plugged and unplugged sets on his own. And I haven't felt short changed or ripped off by any of them.
While it is true that some live releases are little more than greatest hits collections with added theatrical ambiance, many are deservedly landmark records in their own right. Johnny Cash's At Folsom Prison relaunched his career, capturing a raw and emotional performance in front of inmates at California's Folsom penitentiary, and coming on the back of the legendary country singer's struggle with drugs.
With this context, a song like Cocaine Blues becomes more than just ironic, and when you hear a tannoy in the background ordering an inmate to report in somewhere, you have a live album as thrillingly unpolished as possible.
Simon & Garfunkel's Concert In Central Park was another landmark, mostly for the fact it brought the warring duo back together again. The concert wasn't so much meant to be a reunion as a benefit show for New York's Central Park itself.
Despite being in the midst of some of Manhattan's wealthiest real estate, the park was in a state of disrepair. So, apparently, the idea of half a million people traipsing through it for a pop concert seemed to be the answer… Concert In Central Park could be seen as a live greatest hits album of Simon & Garfunkel, which is includes some of their own solo material. It's rough-round-the-edges (Garfunkel is said to have been unhappy with his vocals), but it superbly reminds you what made them folk-rock's superstars.
Rough-round-the-edges, on the other hand, is what you want from The Who. Their Live At Leeds album, with its brown paper cover art, epitomises The Who live throughout their entire career – what you see (and hear) is what you get.
A loud – even on an album – run through their late '60s 'standard' set, with hard core performances of Young Man Blues, Substitute, Eddie Cochran's Summertime Blues, and a 14-minute assault on My Generation, it has been hailed as the best live rock album ever, but that's always going to a subjective viewpoint.
There are, obviously plenty of live albums to remind us that some acts are no more exciting live as they were in the studio, which will thankfully explain the absence of One Direction Live From The Budokan in your record collections any time soon.
Gems you may have missed
Other live releases early on in careers, however, give fascinating insight in greatness to come. David Bowie's Live In Santa Monica '72 is possibly the greatest example.
It had been available for many years as a bootleg, but in being released as a limited edition CD four years ago, Bowie fans finally had their hands on an official version of a performance by the Dame in the midst of his Ziggy Stardust persona, with guitarist Mick Ronson at his absolute best, with the pair (and the other Spiders) romping through Rock'N'Roll Suicide, Life on Mars, Queen Bitch, John, I'm Only Dancing, The Jean Genie and Suffragette City, the latter presenting punk a full two years before anyone in New York had the idea of getting grungy with rock and roll.
Some live albums have built reputations as notable as many of the greatest studio albums. Frampton Comes Alive! has probably become more famous than any other album in the canon of Pete Frampton, the former Bromley schoolmate of David Bowie and Humble Pie founder.
Released in 1976 it provide to be another contradiction to the era of punk. While, elsewhere, some of Frampton's own contemporaries were spitting their way through the punk explosion (he's only a two years older than Joe Strummer…), here was this frizzy blond-haired pretty boy producing one of the biggest-selling albums of the 1970s, a live double album to boot, and one containing extended guitar solos.
Today, Comes Alive! comes across as somewhat pedestrian, the result of endless spins of the album's Show Me The Way, Baby I Love Your Way and Do You Feel Like I Do America's myriad classic rock radio stations. But there was a time when virtually every record collection featured that blue-spined double disc package with its distinct full-frame cover shot of Frampton looming out.
Another live album of genuine note is Seconds Out by Genesis. Recorded during their 1976 and 1977 tours for their A Trick Of The Tail and Wind And Wuthering records, it presented a band in transition.
After Peter Gabriel left in 1975, and Phil Collins stepped forward to become their new lead singer, the band started shifting towards more accessible material. Genesis were still telling stories, rather than performing pop songs (their first 'love song', Follow You, Follow Me wouldn't appear for another year), but Collins had clearly replaced Gabriel's somewhat aloof theatricality with his own impish, stage school-based cheeky-chappiness, which you can on the likes of Robbery, Assault And Battery and what was, then, their only hit single to date, I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe).
Seconds Out is a brilliant live album for its production quality. Plenty of bands have regarded live albums as well-intentioned 'gifts' for their hard-core fans, a souvenir of a memorable night, an acclaimed tour or simply a must-have for the collection with extended jams and unreleased cover versions capturing the band in their pomp and prime. Others have regarded them as official mitigations of bootleg recordings. Seconds Out is, even today, a live album I love for its authentic capture of the acoustic atmosphere of a big gig – the crowd's roar as a band breaks into its opening number, and complicated and intricate songs that fill up the entire soundstage of your home stereo system to the extent you easily replicate the experience of being there at home. Without the beer-sticky floor of course.
But as album sales dwindle (and, perversely mainstream bands make more money these days from live shows), there is a proportionate decline in live album releases too, presumably because there are marketing people advising that "core demographics" no longer go in for them.
It remains, so it would seem, for the old guard to keep the live album flame lit. Like Led Zeppelin. For a band that didn't really go in for releasing anything other than studio albums in their prime, they have been relatively prolific since their demise, with the awful The Song Remains The Same and How The West Was Won, not to mention Page and Plant's No Quarter 'unplugged' entry. By old, I mean either those old enough to have been on the original Woodstock or Monterey line-ups, or those who wished they'd been old enough to be there.
Led Zeppellin weren't at either Woodstock or Monterey, but then it's arguable that by the time they took hold, they'd have been too big for either festival.
It is ironic that the Zepp have released more live material since they folded than was ever available during their career, with the recently-released multi-format Celebration Day capturing their one-off 2007 show at London's 02 arena in honour of Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun.
It was, by all accounts of those who were there, a memorable show. But memorable for what? Probably seeing Page, Plant and Jones together again, with John Bonham's son Jason providing uncannily similar chops to his late dad on drums.
Is it a classic Zeppelin show? Probably not, but this is where the fan's compromise comes to effect: you know it won't be quite like Led Zep were at one of their legendary Los Angeles gigs in the early 1970s, at a time when they were the ultimate rock bad boys on the road, but Celebration Day still goes to demonstrate why Jimmy Page has been one of the greatest rock guitarists since he was a teenage session player from Epsom, Surrey, playing on songs by Lulu, Marianne Faithful and, believe it or not, the Rolling Stones and The Who.
This year's London 2012 Olympics, with its opening and closing ceremonies, perhaps suggested that the big stadium filling acts are in decline. Bruce Springsteen, U2 and their protégés Coldplay are amongst the few truly 'big' stadium bands left for whom you might want to buy a live album afterwards. Coldplay are certainly making the most of their elongated greatest hits show at the London 2012 Paralympics closing ceremony, by releasing Mylo Xyloto Live 2012, which captures the junior pomp rockers in their most arena-packing filling, U2 crown-usurping majesty.
The golden age of live albums was, however, without doubt the late 60s into the early 1980s. Hardly anyone who played Bill Graham's legendary Fillmore in San Francisco, or its sibling Fillmore East in New York during the 70s failed to release a live album on the back of such shows. The Fillmore East's unique acoustics even made for a more pristine recording that captured the hall's legendary ambience.
And thus, between the two venues, there is an enormous list of live releases from the likes of Henrix, The Grateful Dead, Steve Miller, Otis Redding, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Frank Zappa, The Doors, Cream (and other Clapton vehicles), The Byrds, Carlos Santana, The Allman Brothers, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Pink Floyd. Indeed, there was a time when if you hadn't released an album with at least one of the Fillmore venues in the title, you really weren't anything.
Today, do we need them? The live album harks back to an era before everyone carried a recording studio around in their pockets, as they do today. Live albums were meant to prevent bootleggers sneaking shoebox-sized cassette recorders into gigs and making off with second-rate bootlegs.
Today, however, the concert experience is a gymnastic exercise in craning through a sea of smartphones recording shaky but high(ish) definition clips for YouTube and posterity. And often, by the time you've caught the bus home, much of the show you've just seen will have already been posted online, with reasonably good quality picture and sound.
The only thing you don't get on a professionally recorded live album is the noise of people next to the iPhone owner, yakking on about their recurring flare-up of cystitis, or arguing about whose round it is…
Article originally appeared here. Stones pic from PA


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The real-life relationship between two of the most controversial literary figures of the 20th century forms the basis for this drama. Anaïs Nin (Maria de Medeiros) is a struggling author trying to finish her first book, a study of the work of D.H. Lawrence. She also has a keen sexual curiosity that is not being satisfied by her sweet but unexciting husband, Hugo (Richard E. Grant). Through Hugo's friend Richard (Kevin Spacey), Anaïs is introduced to Henry Miller (Fred Ward), a writer from America who shares Anaïs' passion for both eros and literature; she is later introduced to June (Uma Thurman), Henry's wife and a practicing bisexual. While Anaïs is attracted to Henry, to her surprise, she's even more strongly drawn to June; June, however, must return to America, and with her approval, Henry and Anaïs begin an affair. Anaïs' newfound sense of sexual liberation leads her to several new lovers over the next several months, but she and Henry find themselves pursuing the same object of affection when June returns to Paris. Henry & June's frank but tasteful treatment of sexual themes led the MPAA to threaten the film with an X-rating; instead, the film became the first feature released with the revised NC-17 classification.~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Director: Philip Kaufman
Writer: Anaïs Nin and Philip Kaufman
Cast: Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Maria de Medeiros, Richard E. Grant and Kevin Spacey
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42 U.S. Code § 6836 - Support for voluntary building energy codes
§ 6836.
Support for voluntary building energy codes
(a) In generalNot later than 1 year after October 24, 1992, the Secretary, after consulting with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, other appropriate Federal agencies, CABO, ASHRAE, the National Conference of States on Building Codes and Standards, and any other appropriate building codes and standards organization, shall support the upgrading of voluntary building energy codes for new residential and commercial buildings. Such support shall include—
a compilation of data and other information regarding building energy efficiency standards and codes in the possession of the Federal Government, State and local governments, and industry organizations;
assistance in determining the cost-effectiveness and the technical feasibility of the energy efficiency measures included in such standards and codes; and
(b) ReviewThe Secretary shall periodically review the technical and economic basis of voluntary building energy codes and, based upon ongoing research activities—
recommend amendments to such codes including measures with regard to radon and other indoor air pollutants;
seek adoption of all technologically feasible and economically justified energy efficiency measures; and
(Pub. L. 94–385, title III, § 307, as added Pub. L. 102–486, title I, § 101(a)(2), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2785.)
Prior Provisions
A prior section 6836, Pub. L. 94–385, title III, § 307, Aug. 14, 1976, 90 Stat. 1149; Pub. L. 95–619, title II, § 255, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3238, set forth provisions respecting grants to States for adoption and implementation of performance standards, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 97–35, title X, § 1041(b), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 621.
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"We have to be alert for these barriers," says Gerret Van Duyn, manager of the environmental and biotechnology policy section of the National Cotton Council. He spoke at a joint meeting of the American Cotton Producers and The Cotton Foundation at Corpus Christi.
Biotechnology heads the list of trade challenges, he said. "We have a coalition of industry partners working on reducing such non-tariff trade barriers as Europe's moratorium on biotechnology. Cotton may not be on the front line of this fight but we're working closely with food groups to learn from their experience."
Biotech restrictions could affect sale of cottonseed in food products. "Labeling requirements could restrict use," he said. "We have to be alert to that possibility."
Loss in trade could reach $300 million a year because of the moratorium, Van Duyn said. "We also could lose new markets because of scare mongering."
Van Duyn said the restrictions, labeling requirements and moratorium come from anti-biotechnology interests.
"Bio-technology is a valuable asset," he said.
Traceability, bio-safety and protocol are other issues the NCC and other industry interests will watch among other environmental issues.
Spray concerns
On the positive side, spray drift regulations may be altered to limit liability to farmers.
Van Duyn said another issue could pose severe hardships on farmers and pesticide applications. "The spray nozzle would be considered a point source pollution site," he said, "equal to a pipe pumping pollutants directly into a stream. We are concerned."
Buffer zones might be required around areas with endangered species.
Van Duyn said industry is concerned with the rising cost of registering new products but added that a streamlined system may get products on the farm faster.
Several new biotech products could be available for cotton producers soon. He said Dow, Syngenta and Bayer all have new products in the pipeline.
"New Bt cotton will feature a different protein and a different mode of action," he said. "And a double-toxin Bt is coming, as well as new herbicide resistance."
Van Duyn said industry would soon release new products to control plant bugs, pink bollworms and other insect pests, along with new herbicides.


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Sharp Aquos LC-46LE821E
Review Sharp's main selling point for its Quattron-branded range of Aquos TVs is the inclusion of extra, yellow pixels, giving an increased range of colours. The set's also a very modern looking design, and to my taste much more so than the others I've tested.
The picture quality from the LED edge-lit display is good, but the default setting for motion interpolation seemed to be making Doctor Who look a little peculiar - turning it down solved the trick.
The menu system is very slick, taking advantage of the screen size by shrinking the picture and displaying settings and information above and to the right. The EPG, though, seemed a bit cramped, with too many lines of information showing. It also proved unnecessarily fiddly to see the programme synopsis, with no info button on the remote control, but you can search by date of genre.
Pop up a menu option, and the picture shrinks
Sharp offers no internet TV or video services, so in terms of media playback you're limited to DLNA, and that covers only music and photos – only the latter of which worked with my Synology Nas box, though to be fair, the review TV didn't seem to have final UK firmware. There is a limited timeshift using internal memory too, but not full-fledged DVR functionality.
It may be a big screen, but that's just too much EPG to take in at a glance
Also of note is that the set's only Scart connection comes on a supplied adaptor, so if you have lots of legacy equipment, the Sharp isn't for you.
Great design and picture, but price and lack of online video lets the Sharp down. ®