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Insotel Punta Prima Resort & Spa, Minorca
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- 5 restaurants
- Indoor pool and outdoor pool
- WiFi in the lobby
- Health club
- Spa services
- Childcare
- 24-hour front desk
- Air conditioning
- Garden
- Computer station
- Front desk safe
- Laundry service
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- Check-in time ends at 2 PM
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- Health club
- Tennis on site
- Spa services on site
- Spa tub
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This aparthotel is all-inclusive. Onsite food and beverages are included in the room price (some restrictions may apply).
DiningRestaurante Menurka - This buffet restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Restaurante Il Faro - This restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine and serves lunch and dinner.
Restaurante Gourmet Aire - This fine-dining restaurant specializes in Mediterranean cuisine and serves lunch and dinner.
On Site
- Health club
- Sauna
- Spa tub
- Steam room
- Tennis on site
- Basketball on site
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Mountain biking on site
- Playground on site
- Racquetball/squash on site
- Volleyball on site
- Golfing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
Insotel Punta Prima Resort & Spa, Minorca's small print
Also known as
- Insotel Punta Prima
- Insotel Menorca
- Insotel Resort Punta Prima Es
- Formentera Club Punta Prima
- Barcelo Punta Prima Menorca
- Insotel Punta Prima Resort
- Punta Prima Formentera
- Insotel Hotel Punta Prima Es
- Insotel Resort
- Punta Prima Insotel
- Punta Prima Resort
- Club Punta Prima Formentera
- Blau Portopetro
- Formentera Punta Prima
Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2500, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.
Optional extras
WiFi is available in guestrooms for EUR 6 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
WiFi is available in public areas for EUR 6 for 24 hours (rates may vary)
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Q1 2013 Earnings Call
April 25, 2013 8:30 am ET
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I'd now like to turn the call over to Mr. Ron Mittelstaedt, Chairman of the Board and CEO. Please proceed, sir.
Ronald J. Mittelstaedt
Okay, thank you, operator, and good morning. I'd like to welcome everyone to this conference call to discuss our first quarter 2013 results and provide a detailed outlook for the second quarter.
I'm joined this morning by Steve Bouck, our President; Darrell Chambliss, our COO; Worthing Jackman, our CFO; and several other members of our Senior Management team. As noted in our earnings release, 2013 is off to a great start. Consistently strong pricing growth, improving landfill volumes and increasing E&P activity drove better-than-expected financial results in the first quarter.
Solid waste volume growth slightly exceeded our outlook for the period as well, despite harsh winter weather conditions in many markets. In addition, revenue per day from E&P waste increased about 12.5% from early January to late March.
Adjusted EBITDA was 32.5% of revenue in the first quarter or about 50 basis points above our outlook. More importantly, adjusted free cash flow, a hallmark of our strategy, increased 29% to more than $100 million in the period or 22.3% of revenue. We remain cautiously optimistic about the balance of the year as solid waste pricing growth is already dialed in, year-over-year volume growth comparisons should continue to improve and E&P activity should continue to ramp, especially in the Bakken due to a combination of factors, including seasonal increases and newly permitted on-site solidification capabilities.
Before we get into much more detail, let me turn the call over to Worthing for our forward-looking disclaimer, as well as other housekeeping items.
Worthing F. Jackman
Thank you, Ron, good morning. We must inform everyone listening that certain matters discussed in this conference call are forward-looking statements, intended to qualify for the Safe Harbor's from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements related to expected volume and pricing trends, E&P activity in margins, recycled commodity prices, expectations regarding period-to-period comparisons, potential acquisition activity, contributions from closed acquisitions, the timing of permitting activities and inquiries related to MLP treatment, the impact of the relocation of the company's corporate headquarters from California to Texas and our second quarter outlook for financial results.
Such forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those currently anticipated. These risks and uncertainties are set forth in the company's periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Stockholders, potential investors and other participants are urged to consider these factors carefully in evaluating the forward-looking statements and are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.
The forward-looking statements made herein are made only as of the date of this conference call and the company undertakes no obligation to publicly update such forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
On the call, we will discuss non-GAAP measures, such as adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income and adjusted net income per diluted share and adjusted free cash flow. Please refer to our earnings release for a reconciliation of such non-GAAP measures to the most comparable GAAP measure. Management uses certain non-GAAP measures to evaluate and monitor the ongoing financial performance of our operations, other companies may calculate these non-GAAP items differently.
I will now turn the call back over to Ron.
Ronald J. Mittelstaedt
Okay, thank you, Worthing. Revenue in Q1 was $449.9 million, up 19.5% over the prior-year period. As noted earlier, revenue met the upper end of our expectations, despite harsh winter weather conditions in multiple markets.
Internal growth in the quarter was almost 1% broken down as follows: Positive 2.8% from core price; positive 0.4% from surcharges; negative 1.9%, volume; and negative 0.4% from recycling, intermodal and other services. Net pricing, or core price plus surcharges, exceeded 3% again this quarter and was 3.2% similar to Q4. Pricing growth for the full year remains on track to average about 3%.
Volume growth in Q1 was negative 1.9%, an improvement over Q4 and slightly better than our outlook of negative 2% to negative 2.5% for the quarter due to better-than-expected landfill volumes more than offsetting the negative impact of harsh winter weather conditions in many markets.
2 items we have discussed on previous calls, namely our decision in early 2012 to turn away lower-priced volumes at our Chiquita Canyon landfill and the wrongful termination later in that year of a municipal contract in Madera, California that we are now litigating. These 2 accounted for about 65% of our volume loss in the period. Reported volume growth was also impacted by one less day in the comparative period.
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An electrohydraulic system for controlling the gear changing process in a mechanical, automatic gear-box having five gears. The system includes two pairs of electromagnetic valves (57, 58, and 59, 60) which control via pressure-control valves (61, 62) the flow of pressure medium to three operating cylinders (41, 42, 43). When activated individually, the electromagnetic valves control the engagement of the first, second, third and fourth gears. Simultaneous activation of the electromagnetic valves (58, 57) of the first and third gears will result in engagement of the fifth gear, whereas simultaneous activation of the electromagnetic valves (60, 59) of the second and fourth gears will result in engagement of the reverse gear.
1. A system for controlling the gear changing process in a mechanical, step-change automatic gearbox of the kind having two inputs shafts arranged to be driven alternately, and two intermediate shafts which carry gear wheels in engagement with gear wheels on the input shafts, and in which system at least one gear wheel of each pair of mutually engaging gear wheels can be disengaged from its respective shaft, and said system further including pressure-medium activated piston-cylinder devices for engaging and disengaging said disengageable gear wheels, and a control circuit including valve means for regulating the flow of working medium to and from the piston-cylinder devices, characterized in that the control circuit includes at least two valve means (57, 58; 59, 60) one of which when activated causing engagement of only first disengageable gear wheel (21; 24), the other one when activated causing engagement of only a second disengageable gear wheel (22; 25), said valve means when activated through causing said first and second gear wheel to be disengaged and a third gear wheel (26; 30) to be engaged.
2. A control system according to claim 1 in the case of a gearbox having forward drive gears and a reverse gear, characterized in that the control circuit includes two pairs of valve means (58; 57; 59, 60); in that the valve means (58, 57) of one pair when activated individually engage a disengageable gear wheel (21, 22) for the first and the second gears, whereas when activated together said valve means disengage said gear wheels and engage a disengageable gear wheel (26) for the fifth gear; and in that the valve means (60, 59) of the second pair when activated individually engage a disengageable gear wheel (24, 25) for the second and fourth gear respectively, whereas when activated together said pair of valve means disengage said gear wheels and engage a disengageable gear wheel (24/30) for the reverse gear.
3. A control system according to claim 1 characterized in that said piston-cylinder devices (41, 42, 43) include a cylinder (44) and a piston (45) which is spring biased towards a neutral position in which a cylinder space (71, 76) is located on each side of the piston; in that activation of one valve means in a pair of valve means will result in the supply of pressure medium to one cylinder space in said cylinder, whereas activation in the supply of pressure medium to the opposite cylinder device in the same cylinder and to a cylinder space in another corresponding cylinder having a piston arranged therein.
4. A control system according to claim 1, characterized in that the one valve (58, 60) in respective pairs of valves has a pressure side which is connected to the operating side of a pressure controlled valve (61, 62) and to one cylinder space (71, 72) of a piston-cylinder device (42, 43), whereas the other valve (57, 59) of said valve pair has a pressure side which is connected to the other cylinder space (73, 74) of said piston-cylinder device and also, via said pressure control valve (61, 62) to one cylinder space (75, 76) in another piston-cylinder device (41).
5. A control system according to claim 4, characterized in that the valve (57, 58) of one valve pair have a latching function and are latched in a closed position, via one of said pressure-control valves (62), by the pressure in the cylinder (76) which is under pressure when the reverse gear is engaged.
The present invention relates to a system for controlling the gear-changing process in a mechanical, automatic gearbox of the kind having concentrically journalled and alternately driven input shafts, and two intermediate shafts which carry gears which engage with gears on the input shafts, and in which at least one gear in each pair of mutually engaging gears can be disengaged from its respective shaft, including pressure-medium activated piston-cylinder devices for disengaging and engaging said disengageable gear, and a control circuit which includes valve means for regulating the flow of medium to and from the piston-cylinder devices.
Double input shafts and double intermediate shafts are used in gear boxes of the so-called "power shift" type, in which the gear change is effected through pre-selection, wherein two gear pairs, each driven by a respective input shaft, are engaged simultaneously. Prior to changing form, for instance, first gear to second gear, the gears of the second gear transmission are engaged, whereafter the actual gear change takes place by disengagement of the input shaft of the first gear and engagement of the input shaft of the second gear.
One feature characteristic of this type of gearbox is that they are well suited to automation. For example, the process of gear changing can be controlled by a microcomputer-controlled electro-hydraulic control system, in which electromagnetic valves regulate the supply of working medium to hydraulic cylinders whose pistons are connected to the shift rods in the gearbox. It is necessary to construct such control systems with the aim of minimizing the risk of error in the microcomputer or in the remainder of the electric system, e.g. such errors are those which will result in two gears on and the same shaft, e.g. the disengageable gears of the first and third gear, being engaged simultsaneously. The result of wrongly engaging two gears in this way can have extremely serious consequences, not only in total destruction of the gearbox but also in a direct driving hazard, as a result of braking or locking of the driven vehicle wheels.
The object of the present invention is to provide a control system of the aforedescribed kind which will totally eliminate the risk of simultaneously engaging two disengageable gears on one and the same shaft, irrespective of erroneous control signals from a microcomputer incorporated in the system or of any other fault in the electric system.
This object is achieved generally in accordance with the invention, in that the control circuit includes valve means which are constructed and interconnected such that the supply of pressure medium for engaging a second gear on a shaft which already has a first gear engaged will result in the disengagement of the first engaged gear through a pressure medium control facility.
For instance, in the case of a gearbox having five gears, in which the gear pairs or sets of the first, third and fifth gear, and the reverse gear are each driven by one and the same input shaft, whereas the gear pairs or sets of the second and fourth gear are each driven by the second input shaft, a pair of electromagnetic valves, each of which controls the supply of pressure medium for engagement of the gears of the first and second gear, may be connected to one another and also with further pressure-medium control valve means, in a manner such that activation of the third gear valve while the valve of the first gear is still activated will result in disengagement of the gear wheel of the first gear and engagement of the gear wheel of the fifth gear. By allowing, in this way, two valves of mutually different functions to function jointly to provide an additional function, the risk of simultaneous engagement of two gear wheels on one and the same shaft is totally eliminated.
The invention will now be described in more detail with reference to an exemplifying embodiment illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which
FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of an inventive gearbox, and
FIG. 2 is a circuit diagram of an inventive control system for the gearbox illustrated in FIG. 1.
The reference 1 identifies an engine flywheel which has connected thereto a clutch, generally referenced 2, which includes a first clutch disk 4, a second clutch disk 5, a pressure plate 6 which is non-rotatably connected to the flywheel but axially movable thereon, and a further pressure plate 7 which is rigidly connected to the flywheel. The clutch disk 4 is connected to a first input shaft 8 which carries the gear wheels 9 and 10 of the second and fourth gears, whereas the clutch disk 5 is connected to a second input shaft 11 which is a hollow shaft journalled concentrically with the first shaft 8 and which carries the input gear wheel 12, 13, and 14 of the first, third and fifth gears respectively.
A first and second intermediate shaft 16 and 17 are journalled in the gearbox housing 15 on respective opposite sides of the input shafts 8, 11 and extend in a plane on one side of the input shafts. Each of the intermediate shafts 16, 17 have non-rotatably attached thereto a respective gear wheel 18 and 19 which engage the crown wheel 20 of a differential, the housing of which forms part of the actual gearbox housing 15.
The intermediate shaft 16 carries a pair of freely rotatable gear wheels 21 and 22 which engage the gear wheels 12 and 13 of the first and third gear respectively on the input shaft 11 and which can be alternately locked on the shaft, by means of an axially displaceable coupling sleeve 23 which is non-rotatable relative to the shaft. The intermediate shaft 16 also carries free rotatable gear wheels 24 and 25, which engage the gear wheels 9 and 10 of the second and fourth gears respectively on the input shaft 8. The intermediate shaft 17 carries a correspondingly freely rotatable gear wheel 26 which engages the gear wheel 14 of the fifth gear on the second input shaft 11, and a freely rotatable gear wheel 30 which is intended for the reverse gear and which engages a gear wheel 29 on the second input shaft 16. Respective gear wheels 24, 25 or 26, 30 can be locked on the shaft with the aid of two axially displaceable coupling sleeves 27 and 28 which are non-rotatable relative to the shaft. The first-gear gear wheel 21 on the intermediate shaft 16 is provided with a hub on which the gear wheel 30 is non-rotatably mounted.
When driving in first gear, the movable pressure plate 6 will urge the clutch disk 5 against the fixed pressure plate 7, thereby driving the input shaft 11, whereas the input shaft 8 is disengaged. The torque is transmitted from the gear wheel 12 to the crown wheel 20, via the gear wheel 21 locked on the intermediate shaft 16 and the gear wheel 18.
Prior to changing up to the second gear, a preselection is made by locking the second-gear gear wheel 24 and the intermediate shaft 16 with the aid of the coupling sleeve 28, whereafter the actual gear shift is made by movement of the movable pressure plate to the right in FIG. 1, so as to disengage the flywheel 1. Continued gear changes are effected in a corresponding manner, by alternate engagement and disengagement of the two clutch parts.
When engaging the reverse gear, the reverse-gear gear wheel 30 is locked on the shaft 17 and the clutch disk 5 is pressed firmly between the movable and the fixed pressure plates 6 and 7. The torque is now transmitted from the gear wheel 12 to the gear wheel 30, via the first-gear wheel 21 and the reverse-gear gear wheel 29, the direction of rotation of said gear wheel 30 now being opposite to its normal direction of rotation, so that the crown wheel 20 will be driven in an opposite direction for reversing of the vehicle.
FIG. 2 is a circuit diagram of an electro-hydraulic system for controlling the gear changing process in the gearbox illustrated in FIG. 1.
The system includes three operational devices 41, 42 and 43, each comprising a hydraulic piston-cylinder arrangement, including cylinder 44, piston 45, operating rod 46 and shift fork 47. A return spring 48 is mounted between two plates 50 which engage respective abutments 49 in a cylinder 51, said spring striving to set the rods 46 to the position illustrated in the Figure, in which position respective pistons 45 are located centrally in their respective cylinders. All of the coupling sleeves 23, 27, 28 will now occupy a neutral position, in which all disengageable gear wheels are disengaged. The arrows shown in FIG. 2 in connection with respective shift forks 47 illustrate the engaging direction of the different gears.
The system also includes a tank 52, a pump 53, a pressure regulating valve 54, a non-return valve 55 and a pressure accumulator 56, a first pair of electromagnetic valves 57, 58, a second pair of electromagnetic 59, 60, and a pair of pressure-controlled valves 61, 62. The valves 57-62 are marked with the gear which is engaged when activating the valve concerned.
The method of operation is as follows:
A supply of current to each of the valves 58, 60, 57 and 59 singly in said order will result in the sequential engagement of the gear wheels of the first, second, third and fourth gears, as a result of delivery of pressure medium to each of the cylinder spaces 71-74 of the operational devices in sequence. When the valve 58 for the first gear is activated, the valve 61 will be under pressure on the operating side, which means that this valve is open and that the cylinder space 71 of the operational device 42 is under pressure. If the valve 57 for the third gear is now activated, the cylinder space 74 of the operational device 42 will also be placed under pressure. When mutually the same pressure prevails in the cylinder spaces 71 and 73, the return spring 48 will adjust the shift rod 46 to its neutral position, so that both gear wheels 21, 22 (FIG. 1) are disengaged. At the same time, pressure medium is delivered to the cylinder space 75 of the operational device 41, via the valve 61, which causes the fifth gear to be engaged. Analogously, when the valves 60, 59 for the second and fourth gears are activated simultaneously, both of the cylinder spaces 72, 74 of the operating device 43 will be placed under pressure, therewith bringing the device 43 to its neutral position. At the same time, pressure medium is delivered to the cylinder space 76 of the operating device 41, via the valve 62 opened by the valve 60, so as to engage the reverse gear. The valves 57, 58 may also have the form of pressure controlled latching valves and communicate, on their operating sides, with the pressure side of the valve 59, through the valve 62. When the valve 62 is open, the valves 57, 58 are latched in their closed positions, thereby making it impossible to engage the disengageable gear wheels of the first, third or fifth gears.
Because the described system utilizes pairs of valves which each have their separate function when activated individually but which provide a third function when activated together, the risk of unintentional simultaneous activation of two valves is totally eliminated, such unintentional activation of said valves being caused, for instance, by a computer error or some other fault in the electric circuit controlling the electromagnetic valves such as to result in the engagement of two gears driven by one and the same shaft. In addition to this advantage, a further advantage is that the inventive system provides a solution with only a few components.
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Homey....Marxists have been instructing in colleges around the country for years.
Who cares what Eddie Munster has to say...REALLY ! ! !
Is this for students only? Or is anybody allowed to come and listen/ask questions. I can't imagine Carroll students being allowed to go without their parents, afterall over 1000 of them had their mommy and daddys call and complain because school wasn't cancelled last Tuesday.Hide replies
If you read the article rockhead, you would have seen "OPEN TO THE PUBLIC".
Which side of his mouth will he be speaking from--or will it be a speech that's twice as long due to speaking out of both sides?
Paul Ryan is one of the smartest in Congress, not to mention a possible next president of the United States.
(That would be the 45th for you liberals)Hide replies
Very funny. Nice try at a lie.
Yeah right. The Vice Presidential candidate who couldn't even bring in the majority in his own small city midwestern hometown for a national Presidential election is going to secure the nomination for President 4 years later. Hope you waste a ton in donations on the primaries.
Don't miss his photo-op washing clean pots and pans, and the opportunity to buy an autographed copy of his P90X workout video.
Sign up for his session, Reproductive Rights - It's Our Decision Not Yours.Hide replies
Lyin' Ryan. B S a flying. Get out your shovels kids, and start filling up the manure spreader. Mr. B S himself is coming your way.
It would have been much more appropriate to invite him to give a speech on April Fool's Day.
Translation on Ryan's remarks-lets pass more free trade agreements so corporate profits can increase from their already record high level which will improve the global economy.
Carroll University is not located in Ryan's district - he has part of Waukesha but not where Carroll in located. That's Sensebrenner's district. You mean they didn't have one single one he could go to in his district? Lame.
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The Yamaha BodiBeat MP3 player won't be out until late this year, but it's got a certain something. (And I don't just say that because of the running girl and bouncy music on their Flash site.) The BodiBeat analyzes your music collection, then syncs up songs that match your running tempo using a built-in accelerometer. It's also got a heart rate monitor that will clip on the ear if you're doing something low-impact. It's a solid idea, but the implementation will make the difference. Yamaha talks about changing tracks mid-song if your pace changes, which could get irritating pretty quick if not handled with some intelligence. Product Page [Yamaha.com via Oh Gizmo via Red Ferret]
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Sounds a lot like the PersonalSoundtrack project Greg Elliott has been working on for years. His system seems smarter though, as it can time-stretch tracks to match your footfalls precisely. Oh, and it's open source which I doubt the firmware for this product is going to be 😉
Since this is supposed to be a sports mp3 player, it bugs me that they used that style of headphone – they don't stay in your ears when you run. (or maybe its just me thats cursed with greasy lugholes)
I use 'earhook' style phones for running, if I'm listening to music at all; I like to hear the car thats trying to kill me.
The solution to that is to not run in the freaking street…
Personally, I'd prefer this to Elliot's project, as A) it's likely to be an actual product I can buy somewhere, and B) much of the music I listen to would not be stretch-friendly.
Oooh, but if the picture is any indication, the earbuds are custom!? (Look at that connector!) I understand the cable routing issues of having both earbuds and an ear heart monitor clip, but that's not a very good solution.
They should have used the standard wireless chest-strap heart rate sensor. It might be more involved to put on, but I believe it would be less intrusive and stay in place better. Who wants to exercise with a thing clipped to your ear?
I saw in the product-site-linked Bodibeat BF-1 Owner's Manual:
…neat, the thing does song transitions. There is an optional 'connective phrase' during the fade out/ins.
Social implication: This sounds automatic-DJ-like, some club spinner is sure to call herself DJBF-1 within a few months, whether or not her act is driven by an accompanying live BodiBeat-connected venue-appropriate-gendered Go-Go dancer / Go-go treadmiller.
A wish for use of actual device: My guess is the "transitions" are some beat-appropriate drum-fills and the like. But these provide no extra information. Would be great if this transition could be optionally set to be "Next up – Track Title by Track Artist!". No worries for the li'l on-board processor, the high-quality per-song song-metadata-text-to-speech processing would have already been done at sync time on the iTunes-a-like PC/Mac/Linux box software that loaded in the BodiBeat songs. Each song would then have a companion 3-second song, containg title and track spoken audio. Only device overhead would be playing back propoer samples at proper time. Unless Apple patented this 8 years ago, won't license, and isn't using the feature on Nike+iPod for the same inscrutable reasons they don't offer the dead-obvious (and amply Bodibeat provided) feature "alert when above/below target pace".
Here's the quote on transitions from BF-1 manual…
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Song playback on the BF-1 is basically continuous. One song follows
another virtually without pause in order that your exercise continues
undisturbed. The Song Transition function lets you determine how the BF-1
connects consecutive songs with a special connective phrase.
The Song Transition setting is in effect just before the audio song is played. (Before a BODiBEAT
song is played, no connective phrase is added.)
From the Workout Music menu, select the Song Transition
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Transition 1
A connective phrase is added between successive songs, to smoothly sequence
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A connective phrase is added between successive songs, with the previous song
fading out (only when the previous song is an audio song), followed by the connective
phrase and then playback of the next song.
Wow, if this works with cycling as well, this would be one of those rare products I've been wanting so long (pretty exactly 10 years in this case) that I'd already forgotten I've been wanting it.
as davearter pointed out, i wrote synchstep (http://synchstep.com) and it does exactly this. oh, and it's free and runs on your iphone or ipod touch and works with your entire music library. so this is something you can actually use.
it's a project i made back in 2005 that i ported to the iphone/ipod
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Come on Jabrill! Michigan is where you belong. We want you in Ann Arbor! Let's Go Blue!
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Come on Jabrill! Michigan is where you belong. We want you in Ann Arbor! Let's Go Blue!
If we could miraculously beat and ruin Ohio's season, all of this speculation would be put to rest.
This season could become even more of a disaster than I thought. My opinion is that Hoke is good at 2 things. Recruiting and clapping hands to rile up the Blue Hairs. If he loses Hand and Peppers, he isn't good at anything I care about.
It is permitted for Brandon to directly contact Peppers at this point in the process? If so perhaps a reassuring phone call might be in order.
I've followed UM for lots of years and losing him won't make any diff. Face it fans Michigan is not and has not been an elite team for over 30 years. (One off in 97) look at the records. One or two elite recruits will not make any difference. It's all on the player development and play calling.
In other words....michigan hasn't been an elite team in 30 years, except when they were elite. Lol great logic


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I'm 25, married and this is mine and dh's first mutual child. This is my second baby and his fourth!
Posted 12/12/2012
Just turned 24, and DF had my engagement ring on layaway 4 months before we found out I was pregnant..but I pushed him to get the ring on my finger before we told my parents ;) Lol. We've been living together a year and 3 months.
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I'm 30, married 2+ years, and we're having our first child, a baby girl. :)
We did not live together before we got married, and we were actually both "v"s til our wedding night! :)
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I'm 29, married for 2.5 years now, and a FTM
Posted 12/12/2012
23 married 4 years and having our second.
Posted 12/12/2012
30, married, and having our second. Married 5 years, together 15!!!!!
*XR*-Wife to DR (02/24/07), Mommy to DJ (5/13/09)
Rainbow baby GIRL due 01/02/13!
Posted 12/12/2012
Ugh. I had to mark the over 35 category. :/
I'm 36, married for 12.5 years come 12/17. :) Yes, we were married -4.5 years when ods was born. :)
I'm 36, married for 12.5 years come 12/17. :) Yes, we were married -4.5 years when ods was born. :)
You had a really nice life. You spent a lot of it looking down at your phone. ~My note to self.
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I'm 31 with my bf for 7 years and were on our 2nd munchkin :)
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I'm 25, married, and having our 3rd baby :)
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27, married for 3 years, 2 baby girls
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RICHMOND — Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II leads Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling by 19 percentage points in the likely Republican nomination contest for governor in 2013, according to a poll released Thursday.
The Roanoke College poll, which put Mr. Cuccinelli and Mr. Bolling at 37 percent and 18 percent, respectively, also found 44 percent of voters are undecided, similar to results in other polls in this race.
Mr. Cuccinelli has won support from conservatives in part by suing the federal government over President Obama's health care reforms and challenging the Environmental Protection Agency over carbon emissions regulations. He also has greater name recognition than Mr. Bolling, the poll showed.
Mr. Bolling has spent the second term in his post as Gov. Bob McDonnell's chief jobs creation officer and has been the tie-breaking vote in the evenly divided Senate on several contentious issues so far during the 2012 General Assembly.
Mr. Bolling had a 57 percent favorable rating and 16 percent unfavorable rating, while Mr. Cuccinelli's numbers were 62 percent and 24 percent, respectively.
"Looking ahead to 2013, Mr. Cuccinelli has greater name recognition than Bolling and leads in the head-to-head matchup," said Harry L. Wilson, director of the Institute for Policy and Opinion Research. "But both currently enjoy high favorable ratings among Republican primary voters who are familiar with them. That said, a year can be an eternity in politics."
In Virginia's GOP presidential primary contest March 6, Mitt Romney has a 56 percent to 21 percent lead over Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, the only other candidate on the Republican ballot in the state.
"To state the obvious, it appears inevitable that Mitt Romney will win the primary," Mr. Wilson said. "But with a higher unfavorable rating [36 percent favorable, 37 percent unfavorable] among those voting, he is not an overly popular choice. Whichever candidate gets the GOP nomination, he will have a lot of work to do in Virginia."
Even with additional candidates on the ballot, the former Massachusetts governor still led with 31 percent of the vote, while 27 percent favored former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. Thirteen percent went to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and 12 percent favored Mr. Paul.
Half of the respondents identified themselves as Republicans, 28 percent said they were independents and 13 percent were Democrats. Virginia holds an open primary, so anybody can vote, regardless of party.
The poll surveyed 377 likely Republican primary voters from Feb. 13 to 28, and has a margin of error of 5 percentage points.
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William H. Steele (judge)
William Howard Steele (born 1951) is an American attorney and judge. He serves as a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.
Steele was born in 1951 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. After graduating summa cum laude from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1972, Steele served in the U.S. Marine Corps as an officer, pilot, and instructor pilot. During his service in the Marine Corps, Steele participated in the operation to evacuate American citizens from Lebanon in 1976. He later served in the Alabama National Guard as a pilot and as commanding officer of an assault helicopter company.
After his service in the Marine Corps, Steele attended the University of Alabama School of Law. After law school, he was employed for six years as assistant and chief assistant district attorney in Mobile, Alabama. In that capacity, he litigated over 100 jury trials, and co-founded the Child Advocacy Center, an agency devoted to identifying and providing assistance to child victims of physical and sexual violence. In 1987, he was hired as an Assistant United States Attorney by U.S. Attorney and future U.S. Senator, Jeff Sessions.[1] He held that position for two years before engaging in the private practice of law.
In 1990, he was appointed as a United States magistrate judge for the Southern District of Alabama, and served in that capacity for 13 years. In 2003, after being nominated by President Bush, and confirmed by the Senate, Steele was appointed to the position of U.S. district judge.


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A Timeline of Innovation
Vidyo Technology Contributions Through the Years
Since its founding in 2005, Vidyo has been a pioneer in video collaboration, from contributing to new standards for video compression to delivering the world's first mobile video client, to introducing the world's first video client on smart glasses.
The Vidyo Architecture
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- Jamie Newberg, RecruitingNation
Jaylen Walton (Memphis, Tenn./Ridgeway) has decided to stick with Ole Miss, despite opening up his recruitment when Houston Nutt was fired.
"Actually, [new Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze] was recruiting him pretty hard when he was at Arkansas State," Ridgeway coach Durron Sutton said. "He's a real good fit in their offense and for what they do. If he was a big back that gets downhill I would say no and tell him to change his decision. But he's all done and all set with Ole Miss."
Walton, 5-foot-8 and 170-pounds, is a three-star recruit and the nation's No. 68 ranked running back prospect. He's also the No. 26 rated prospect from the state of Tennessee.
Walton rushed for more than 2,000 yards his senior season. He's a spread back with excellent speed and quickness and is great in space. Walton made his official visit to Ole Miss this past weekend.
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I am trying to add a computed column to a table via SSMS - I'd rather care not to get into the details on why the base column is a
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The original column is a
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With a combination of state-of-the-art equipment, acoustically engineered rooms, and some of the finest vintage gear, the studio allows artists and music producers to focus on their project and be creative, while getting comercial qualty recordings.
Gustavo – Producer/Audio Engineer/Musician/Owner/ – Gustavo has played in numerous bands and musical projects. He has specialized in contemporary music, such as R&B, hip-hop, pop, rock, metal, indie, among others with over 10 years of experience. He knows how to help musicians and singers channel their ideas and creations and put them together through strategic steps. His understanding of musical instrumentation enables him to help artists to improve their existing materials, maintaining at the same time, the artist's identity. He easily adapts to any musical composition and understands the artist's ideas, influences, and goals.
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My Tour is in New York City This Thursday. Come and Join Me For The Day.May 31st, 2011 | 10 Comments
My Light it, Shoot it, Retouch It Tour is in New York City on Thursday, with around 900 or so photographers who will be there and I want you to be there too!!! It's not to late if you want to snag one of the remaining seats. It's only $99 for the full day, includingContinue…
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I did a quick video about my first shoot with the just announced new Westcott Spiderlite TD-6s. If you've got two minutes and 16 seconds, check it out (I interrupt the shoot briefly to show you the difference between the old TD5-s and the new TD-6s and it will be instantly clear what's new). ForContinue…
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After teaching more than 2,100 photographers in four cities, it's time to take the show to the Big Apple, as my "Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It Tour" comes to New York City for its only New York stop this year (the shot above is from my Chicago tour stop last week. All photos byContinue…
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Ill be in Boston a week from this Thursday (March 24th) kicking off my new Light it, Shoot it, Retouch It Live! tour. Hundreds of photographers are already signed up and I want to make sure youre there, so go snag a seat right now (heres the link), and spend the day with me seeingContinue…
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Book your room at Lindner Hotel BayArena
Economy Class RoomMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)
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Get an overview of this hotel4-star hotel with restaurant and fitness center
Situated in Leverkusen, this hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of BayArena, Rathaus Galerie, and Neuland-Park. Carl-Duisberg-Park and Japanischer Garten are also within 3 mi (5 km).
Hotel Features
Along with a restaurant, this hotel has a fitness center and a bar/lounge. Other amenities include a sauna, a steam room, and WiFi in public areas.
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All 121 rooms offer WiFi, pillowtop beds, and flat-screen TVs with cable channels. Minibars, room service, and hair dryers are among the other amenities available to guests.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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Hotel Amenities
In addition to a sauna, Lindner Hotel BayArena features a steam room and a fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with high-speed wireless Internet access (surcharge).
Event facilities include conference space and meeting rooms. This Leverkusen hotel also offers multilingual staff, dry cleaning/laundry services, and room service (during limited hours). Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
- Restaurant
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- Fitness facilities
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- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- WiFi (surcharge)
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Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access (9.95 EUR per 24 hours surcharge)
Available in some public areas: Wireless internet access (9.95 EUR per 24 hours surcharge)
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- WiFi (surcharge)
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Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6:30 AM and 10:30 AM.
Lindner Hotel BayArena has a restaurant on site.
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Recreational amenities at the hotel include a sauna, a steam room, and a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
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Check-in time starts at 3 PM
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Promoting Self-Determination: A Model for Training Elementary Students to Self-Advocate for IEP Accommodations
Hart, Juliet E., Brehm, Julianne, Teaching Exceptional Children
Natalia and the rest of her third grade class were taking a unit assessment in mathematics. Natalia and her mother studied together all week, and she felt confident with the material. She knew how to successfully complete the problems on her own, but her reading disability made it difficult for her to read word problems independently. In order to address this concern, Natalia's MultiDisciplinary Evaluation Team decided that word problems would be read aloud as an accommodation in her most recent individualized education program (IEP), yet how this information was communicated to Natalia was not made clear.
As Natalia took the next mathematics tests, she kept saying to herself, "I know I can do this. It was so much easier when Mom read the problems to me at home. Maybe I can ask the teacher to read the problems to me, but I'm not sure if that is allowed. I don't know what to do. " Natalia sat and stared at her paper, trying as hard as she could to read the problems on the page. Before she knew it, her teacher was collecting the tests, and Natalia had completed fewer than half of the problems. Promoting self-determination among students with disabilities has been a principal focus of policy, research, and practice related to special education transition planning for nearly 2 decades (Ward, 2006), but how this occurs prior to the age required by law is not something that has received ongoing attention. Current research emphasizes the advantages of promoting self-determination in securing positive in-school and postschool outcomes for adolescents with disabilities (Cho, Wehmeyer, & Kingston, 2012), but how this occurs at the elementary level is limited. The outcomes of research do show though that youth and young adults with disabilities who have acquired self-determination skills have enhanced academic performance and more active class participation (Gilberts, Agran, Hughes, & Wehmeyer, 2001), improved employment and independent living opportunities (Wehmeyer & Palmer, 2003), and more positive quality of life and reported life satisfaction (McDougall, Evans, & Baldwin, 2010). All these outcomes provide great reasons to teach self-advocacy skills as early as possible to empower students to have the strongest future outcomes.
Self-determination refers to "acting as the primary causal agent in one's life and making choices and decisions regarding one's quality of life free from undue external influence or interference" (Wehmeyer, 1996, p. 24). Selfdetermined students assert themselves when appropriate, take pride in their accomplishments and abilities, and are able to act as self-advocates (Zionts, Hoza, & Banks, 2004). In their selfadvocacy, students gradually assume a more proactive role and greater say in their IEP (Sebag, 2010); have knowledge of their own strengths, needs, and interests; effectively communicate their own choices and decisions; and are able to evaluate their own behavior (Kleinen, Harrison, Fisher, & Kleinen, 2010). Increasingly, researchers have made calls to begin developing selfdetermination in students with disabilities from earlier ages, including early elementary-school age (Lee, Palmer, Turnbull, & Wehmeyer, 2006; Palmer & Wehmeyer, 2003).
Promoting students' self-determination at earlier ages and in order to increase more meaningful IEP participation is useful and important work for all professionals and parents to consider. However, a significant lag remains in the degree to which self-determination endeavors have been extended to and are reflected in the context of students' daily, lived IEP experiences, within inclusive classrooms at the elementary level. Teaching self-advocacy skills in earlier grades for students in inclusive settings is important because as Simpson (2004) noted, specially designed instruction to meet their needs is not always provided, and, moreover, some observations of inclusive classrooms have shown teachers struggle to make curricular accommodations for students with disabilities (Dymond & Russell, 2004). …


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NAFCU, Members Attend NCUA Listening Session in L.A.
Washington (June 26, 2014) – National Association of Federal Credit Unions (NAFCU) Director of Regulatory Affairs Mike Coleman and Regulatory Affairs Counsel PJ Hoffman are on-site for National Credit Union Administration's (NCUA) listening session in Los Angeles today. Credit union representatives are ready for a potentially wide-ranging exchange with agency officials and staff on concerns related to NCUA supervision and regulation, including NCUA's risk-based capital proposal.
"We have a lot of members who are seriously concerned about how NCUA's risk-based capital proposal could impact their bottom lines and services for members," Coleman said. "NAFCU is taking every opportunity available to press the case for capital requirements that are fair for all credit unions."
Coleman said that as NCUA considers next steps for this proposed rule, NAFCU will continue to press for significant changes, among them:
- risk-weighting that does not place credit unions at a competitive disadvantage with community banks;
- clear guidance on capital expectations instead of a potentially arbitrary "individual minimum capital requirement"; and
- an implementation and compliance period of at least three years.
Given the recent comments from NCUA Board members regarding the significant changes that will be made to the rule before it is finalized, NAFCU continues to believe that NCUA should re-issue the proposed rule with any changes made using the input received from the comment period and these scheduled listening sessions.
More than a dozen NAFCU member credit unions are represented at today's session. The session, held at The Westin Bonaventure, is slated to run from 1-4 p.m. Pacific time.
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