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Three convicted for poaching Maumee deer last year
Fri, 29 Aug 2014 18:13:16 GMT —
hree people have been convicted of poaching after the illegal killing of a white-tailed deer buck in Maumee last Thanksgiving.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources say the deer was poached by three individuals at night with a crossbow. They say a 10-point buck that had been a frequent resident of Maumee's Side Cut Metro Park was killed near a sidewalk in a yard near St. Joseph's Church and school.
The buck is believed to have been shot from a vehicle, according to ODNR.
Zachary Jarrell, of Perrysburg, has been found guilty of four violations from the Division of Wildlife and two charges from the city of Maumee. He will serve 10 days of electronic home monitoring after having 110 days of his sentence suspended, pending no other violations for three years. He has also been ordered to pay $800 in restitution and $593 in court costs. He must serve 60 hours of community service and forfeit the crossbow used in the crime. His hunting license has been suspended for three years in Ohio and all states of the Wildlife Offender Compact.
Nicholas Boggs, of Rossford, and Allison Swift, of Perrysburg, were also charged in the poaching incident for helping Jarrell. They have each paid $198 in fines.
The public is encouraged to report wildlife violations through the Turn-In-A-Poacher (TIP) Program. Calls regarding wildlife violations can be placed anonymously at 1-800-POACHER (800-762-2437).


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By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog
Well there you have it.
On Wednesday afternoon, Mercer County Superior Court Assignment Judge Mary Jacobson (whose position made her the point person for high-profile matters including the SCI Bridgegate subpoenas and gay marriage) struck down a law suit filed by various New Jersey organized labor groups; their goal was to compel Governor Chris Christie and Treasurer Michael Sidamin-Eristoff to make $2.4 billion in redirected pension payments in the FY 2015 budget.
The Administration welcomed the Judge's decision.
"This was one of the hard choices the people of New Jersey expect me to make, and I am pleased the court recognized the necessity and urgency of this decision so that we can provide key funding for our schools, our colleges, our hospitals and other essential services," Governor Christie said in a statement. "For our state's families who are already overburdened by high taxes, raising taxes even further would not solve a problem created by decades of neglect and irresponsibility."Click here for reuse options!
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100 white doves released by Mandela's hospital
Pretoria: Two South African businessmen on Tuesday released 100 white doves into the air outside the hospital where anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela is fighting for his life.
"It symbolises that fact the we need to have love as South Africans, we need to have peace in South Africa," well-wisher Thomas Toutts said.
Flowers, balloons and messages of support piled up outside the Pretoria hospital where 94-year-old Mandela was admitted on June 8 with a recurrent lung infection.
"We feel this is the right place, where our father of the nation is lying in hospital," said Toutts, a tax consultant and events manager who also breeds doves.
His business partner Calvern Hugo said their gesture was to recognise Mandela's contribution to the country's freedom.
"We are really appreciative of what you have done for us as a nation. What you have done will echo throughout the generations to come," he said, in words intended for the elderly statesman.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner spent 27 years behind bars for his struggle under white minority rule and went on to become South Africa's first black president.
Mandela's condition appeared to take a significant turn for the worse over the weekend with the presidency announcing on Sunday that he was "critical".
One of his granddaughters, Ndileka, said on Tuesday that Mandela's condition was "stable".
His lung problem dates back to his time breaking rocks at the windswept Robben Island prison camp near Cape Town.


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We had some customers encounter an issue with installing language packs on BitLocker protected computers. It turned out that the installation of a language pack for all users on a computer changed the boot configuration data (BCD) settings on the computer and that change was detected as a possible tampering with the computer by the trsuted platform module (TPM) which then forced the computer into recovery mode. As a result we are recommending that you suspend BitLocker before installing a language pack for all users and then resume protection so that the new settings are included in the TPM measurements.
This change is in both the FAQ and in the deployment guide in the following topics:
BitLocker FAQ entry - What causes BitLocker to start into recovery mode when attempting to start the operating system drive?
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Beauty got some serious buzz in 2012, with tongues wagging about everything from CC creams to mothers who take their daughters tanning. Companies rolled out a plethora of new products (like instant nail art) and also recalled a few (like sunscreen that caused burns). As we ponder what the year 2013 will bring, flip through to reminisce on the top beauty headlines of 2012.
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Enhance your stay at Salishan Spa & Golf Resort with a relaxing massage at the most cutting-edge spa in Gleneden Beach and the central Oregon Coast. View our menu of massage services and select your well-deserved indulgence. To make an appointment you may call our spa directly at (541) 764-4300.
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This relaxing full-body massage, designed to elevate your mood and calm your mind, will improve circulation while easing muscle aches and tension. Recommended for first timers
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This massage will be custom tailored to your needs, using soothing strokes and applying your choice of aromatherapy oils designed to address your desires, including stress relief, rejuvenation, and energy-boosting.
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A firm therapeutic massage that targets specific muscle groups, the deep-tissue massage is designed to relieve built up tension and alleviate areas of chronic stress.
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Perfect for the mother to be, the Prenatal Massage will help alleviate the discomfort associated with the changes the body goes through during pregnancy. (Not recommended for women in their first trimester)
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Your choice of massage experience for a full two hour period.
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Only had a half hour play so far but very impressed with how it runs for such a small device.
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Don't have a real image but here is what i got off the steam store.
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Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction and Ghostbusters the video game are on the way hopefully tomorrow or the next day. My PS3 will arrive in about 2-3 days. :D
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After 92 years of production, Teck Cominco's Sullivan Mine closed on December 21, 2001. Throughout its
lifetime, the mine produced over $20 billion in lead, zinc, and silver metal and was home and heart to over
four generations of miners and their community in Kimberley, British Columbia.
Sullivan was an underground mine with a complex orebody, composed primarily of sulphide and iron sulphides.
The nature of the mine lends itself to acid rock drainage (ARD) and subsequent challenges including
metal leaching into surrounding waters. The long history of the mine, extending far beyond the early
days of environmental management such as we recognize today, left legacy issues to be addressed. And the
local town of Kimberley, founded in the 1930s as a company town, was faced with a real challenge to remain
sustainable after mine closure.
Teck Cominco has earned international recognition for its proactive reclamation
and mine closure work—both on the environmental side and in helping the
community rebrand itself. In fact, the company
hosted, along with the City of Kimberley and the
World Bank, the Sullivan Round Table, an international
gathering of experts and representatives of communities of interest to
examine the social, environmental, and economic legacy of the Sullivan and
other mine projects. The aim was to set the stage for the development of best
practices in sustainability.
The earliest programs to address environmental concerns at the Sullivan Mine
began in the 1960s, targeting waste discharge to watercourses and the reclamation
of waste disposal areas on land. Research into revegetation and soil cover
technology to turn disturbed land into productive sites began in 1972.
By the mid-1970s, the tailings disposal facilities were upgraded and a drainage
and effluent collection and treatment system was under design and construction.
The company pioneered the development of high-density sludge water
treatment and installed the first operating plant in the world to treat acidic
drainage water. By late that decade, the plant was commissioned, arresting the
flow of contaminated mine drainage to Mark Creek and tailings effluent to the
Cow and James creeks.
By the early 1990s, recognition of the finite life of the mine culminated in the
development of a reclamation and closure plan. The company ran vegetation
test plots, and worked to prevent negative impact from the tailings and waste
sites. In 1991, closure plans were submitted for public review, and the Sullivan
Mine Public Liaison Committee was formed. The closure plan addressed the
principal concerns including acid rock drainage, protection of watercourses,
reclamation of land, and protection of the public from potential safety hazards.
By 1995, the BC Ministry of Energy, Mines, and Petroleum Resources issued a
reclamation amendment permit to the mine. However, two years later, the BC
Ministry of Environment issued its Contaminated Site Regulations, and the
Sullivan Mine had two ministries to work with in the closure and decommissioning
of the site.
"The Ministry of Environment's process was much more directive," said Bruce
Dawson,Teck Cominco who stayed on to oversee reclamation work after a longtime
employment at the mine."It involved multiple stages of investigation, submission and approval of plans, and public review
Ultimately, the province became aware there were
two ministries vying over one process, and the decision
was made that the first ministry on the case
took priority over 'core' mining activities. However,
the Sullivan team had pre-done their work, on
ground water, soil contamination, and metal uptake
in vegetation, so were in a good position to undertake
the collection of information the Ministry of
Environment wanted. So, information was available
to meet the new Contaminated Site Regulations.
"We met the requirements of both ministries concurrently,"
explained Dawson. "For the Ministry of
Mines,we'll place the final engineered soil cover this
year and will have met their requirements. For the
Ministry of Environment,we can't meet the soil standards.
The Kimberley area soil doesn't meet them
due to the presence of natural mineralization, and
the mine wastes exceed the standards. Instead, riskbased
standards were used to meet the Ministry of
Environment Remediation requirements."
The ecological risks associated with the retired mine
require both aquatic and terrestrial assessments.The
aquatic assessment included surface and groundwater
sampling, algae and plant collection, fish tissue
sampling, insect collection, and food chain
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Adapting Corporate Governance for Sustainable Peace
In previous work, we argued that there is a link between corporate governance and the reduction of violence. In this manuscript, we further explore that link with a focus on how corporations can work toward the goal of reduction of violence in the societies in which they operate. Here, we pose the question of how well suited various corporate governance regimes are to face these complexities, and how they can do so in ways that are consistent with their fundamental principles. We focus on the corporate governance regimes of the United States, Germany and Japan. A common denominator of the political entities addressed is a commitment to a political regime of democracy. Section I outlines our thesis that corporations are in a position to make contributions to peace in society because of shifting political balances of power. It elaborates with the idea that our contemporary world has shifted from traditional balance of power conceptions in terms of the near universal embrace of parliamentary democracy requiring some reformulated description of the optimal relations among democracy, peace, and globalization. This section establishes the general parameters of the argument that democracy and peace are linked and that there are serious charges that globalization works against democracy and thereby threatens the sustainability of peace. Section II analyzes comparative models of corporate governance and considers the extent to which contemporary corporate governance models look to peace and workplace security as aims they should achieve. Concluding remarks follow in Section III.
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Reward offered after chemical attack on dog in Dumfries
A four-figure reward has been put up after a corrosive liquid was thrown over a dog while it was in its kennel in Dumfries.
The lurcher suffered extensive burns and had to be put down.
It happened between 22:00 on Saturday and 01:00 on Sunday in the town's Babbington Drive.
The reward offered by Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.
Peta spokesman Ben Williamson said: "It is imperative that any community faced with a sadistic and violent act such as this takes measures to find the culprit or culprits and bring them to justice.
"Animal abusers are a danger to everyone. They take their issues out on whomever is available to them, human or non-human, and must be caught before they act again."
Police Scotland described the incident as "a horrible attack on a defenceless animal".
PC Paul Whyte said: "I cannot imagine the suffering it must have gone through as a result of this.
"We are pleased to hear that Peta have offered a reward and can only hope that this helps bring those responsible for this attack to justice."


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SPEOS CAA V5 Based Windshield Analysis allows CATIA V5 users to test the compliance of a windshield with ECE R43 and SAE Z26 regulations. It enables the simulation of typical experiments, such as sighting target reflection and transmission, even Moire Calculation is available. Moreover it provides optical parameters such as deviation, distortion, refractive power to characterize a given windshield, it also allows users to generate the distortion of an image or a video to find out what the effect of the curvature of the windshield shape will be. SPEOS CAA V5 Based ' Windshield Analysis provides windshield manufacturers a powerful engineering tool to improve their development process, to speed up their reactivity and to enhance their support to their customers. SPEOS CAA V5 Based ' Windshield Analysis gives car manufacturers a validation tool that can be used at all the stages of the design process saving effort on invalid designs, evaluating the impacts of modification and giving them independence from their suppliers.


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is this it? – A Multimedia Installation
An immersive installation exploring desperation and unknowing on the brink of adulthood.
Short Summary
Auberrant is made up of Jamie Wiffen, Saul Allerton and Tom Johnstone, they are a sound and video art group who are working on their second piece of work, 'Is this it?'. Their most recent piece together, 'People Walking', has an upcoming screening at 'Bank Street Arts' in Sheffield.
Jamie Wiffen
'I'm excited to work on this piece because it allows me to experiment in areas I have not tackled in previous projects, whilst simultaneously expanding upon the type of sound art I already have a love for.'
Saul Allerton
'This is my first attempt at making a soundscape fit into a physical space rather than a screen, I'm really excited to see how to adapt my style to engulf the area and to properly explore the idea of how to represent 'Youth' in the first phase'
Tom's sonic inspiration comes from minimal techno and ambient music artists such as Thomas Köner, Phillip Jeck and Bruce Gilbert. Tom's creations are minimal, droning soundscapes that create tension and atmosphere.
'I'm looking forward to Is this it? as it allows all three artists to convey their own approach to sound into their own phase. My phase will be focusing on the anxieties and insecurities of young adulthood and how these feelings can effect a person's view of life and the future. The way that the three phases interact with one another is an exciting prospect and I am hoping for the best.'
Jamie and Tom have worked together previously, designing the sound for a short piece called 'Adam's Ale' which was accepted to 'Screentest' 2015.
Saul's sound design of 2015, no dialogue, film 'A Stolen Broken Heart' has been recently accepted into German film festival 'Independent Days FilmFest'.
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Calaveras County
William P. Peek, one of the early settlers of California, is a native of the Green Mountain state, his birth having occurred in Bethel, on the 11th of March, 1828. The family is of English lineage on the paternal side and of Irish descent on the maternal side. The great-grandfather of our subject emigrated from England to America at an early period in the history of the country, taking up his residence in Vermont. John Peek, the father of our subject, was born in that state and was married there to Miss Lucretia Lamb. In 1837 he removed with his wife and seven children to Polo, Ogle County, Illinois, becoming one of the pioneer settlers of that state. He established his residence on a farm where he resided until his death, which occurred in the seventy-seventh year of his age. His wife passed away in her sixty-fifth year. The farm is still in the possession of the family, being owned by two of the sons, George and Frank Peek, and it is now a desirable country property. One child was added to the family in Illinois, and the eight sons and daughters are all yet living.
Mr. Peek, of this review, was the second son and was only nine years of age when he accompanied his parents on their removal to Illinois, and was therefore reared amid the wild scenes of the frontier and experienced all the hardships and trials that fall to the lot of those who establish homes in a new district. He worked on the farm through the summer months and during the winter season pursued his education in a primitive school near his home. In 1852 he crossed the plains to California in search of gold, leaving Council Bluffs on the 13th of April and arriving at Volcano, in Amador County, on the 13th of September, that season of the year in which the emigrants suffered so extensively with cholera. The party with which he traveled was not attacked by the disease, nor were they troubled by Indian raids, making their five months' journey in safety to the place of their destination. Mr. Peek first began teaming, hauling goods from Stockton to Mokelumne Hill. After following that occupation for a year he opened a livery stable, having but one horse at first. He soon secured a larger stock, however, and his business steadily grew, while in proportion he increased his facilities.
After carrying on operations along that line for thirty years he came to Jackson, in 1884, purchasing a half interest in a livery business here, and conducted that enterprise for fourteen years. He then sold his interest to his partner and in February, 1897, retired after a connection of forty-four years with that enterprise. He met with creditable success in his undertaking and is now the owner of a nice home in Jackson, together with twelve acres of land which he has platted, laying it off in town lots, which are fifty by one hundred feet. Each lot fronts on a street and has an alley fifteen feet wide in the rear. He sells these lots for two hundred dollars each, and upon a few of them good residences have already been erected. The land is beautifully located on a hillside near the business center of the town and is a very valuable property.
In 1855 Mr. Peck returned to Polo, Illinois, to marry the lady whom he had wooed ere he started for the west. On the 9th of September Miss Sarah Allen became his wife and she is still living, their happy married life covering a period of forty-five years. The lady is a native of Ireland and during her childhood was taken by her parents to Illinois. Mr. Peek brought his bride to his new home in California, and their union was blessed with seven children, namely: W. G., who died in infancy; Frank Wilson, now the postmaster of Mokelumne Hill; Henry Allen, a resident of Fresno, California; Millie, John C. and Thomas Allen, all at home; and Alice, the wife of Harry Jones, a son of one of the prominent pioneer settlers of Jackson. They have a large farm and reside near her father. Mrs. Peek is a member of the Presbyterian Church and a lady of most estimable qualities.
Mr. Peek belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Legion of Honor, and has always been a staunch advocate of Republican principles. At an early date he was elected one of the supervisors of Calaveras County and was also chosen to represent his district in the legislature, being a member of the house during the sessions of 1873-4. He was for eleven years the efficient postmaster at Mokelumne Hill, and in those positions discharged his duties with faithfulness and fidelity. Probably no man in this section of the state has as wide an acquaintance, and certainly none is held in higher regard, for his business career has ever been straightforward and his private life has been true and honorable, commending him to the confidence and regard of all with whom he has been associated. He is a citizen of the highest respectability, and his identification with the interests of his adopted state has been of material benefit thereto.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: "A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of Northern California", Pages 161-163. Chicago Standard Genealogical Publishing Co. 1901.
© 2010 Gerald Iaquinta.
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Wei Xin
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Country: USA
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- Differential expression of cytokeratins 8 and 20 distinguishes craniopharyngioma from rathke cleft cystWei Xin
Department of Pathology and the Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 48109, USA
Arch Pathol Lab Med 126:1174-8. 2002..Distinguishing craniopharyngioma from Rathke cleft cyst is sometimes difficult, and the distinction is clinically significant because Rathke cleft cysts have a better prognosis than craniopharyngiomas...
- The clinical significance of focal active colitis in pediatric patientsWei Xin
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 0054, USA
Am J Surg Pathol 27:1134-8. 2003..Pediatric patients with focal active colitis have a much higher incidence of Crohn's disease than adults with same entity. Hence, it is important to document the presence of focal active colitis in pediatric patients...
- Prognostic factors in malignant mixed tumors of the salivary gland: correlation of immunohistochemical markers with histologic classificationWei Xin
Department of Pathology, The University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor 48109, USA
Ann Diagn Pathol 6:205-10. 2002..In addition to histologic grading, Ki67 is a useful prognostic marker in the evaluation of malignant mixed tumor while p53 and E-cadherin appear to be of limited value...
- Exaggerated pigmented granulomatous reaction to the artificial joint implant mimics metastatic melanomaWei Xin
Department of Pathology, The University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
Diagn Cytopathol 30:198-200. 2004..This report underscores the diagnostic dilemma associated with the exaggerated pigmented granulomatous reaction due to an artificial prosthesis...
- The clinical significance of focally enhanced gastritisWei Xin
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Health System, 1500 E Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0054, USA
Am J Surg Pathol 28:1347-51. 2004..An isolated biopsy diagnosis of FEG should not be interpreted as being suggestive of Crohn's disease...
- The clinical significance of focal enhanced gastritis in adults with isolated ileitis of the terminal ileumAmber A Petrolla
Department of Pathology, University Hospital Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, 2103 Cornell Rd, 5525 WRB, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
J Gastroenterol 43:524-30. 2008..Our goal was to determine if FEG is a pathological marker of Crohn's disease in patients with isolated chronic ileitis in the terminal ileum...


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Throughout this review, I'm going to be very careful not to describe Skies as cinematic, not just because it's a horrible writing cliché, but also because it's not as accurate as it would initially seem. Indeed, Skies has all the surface-level hallmarks of a cinematic experience: a rousing orchestral soundtrack, an against-all-odds plot featuring a brave band of adventurers, and a much larger opposing force of warmongering evil. However, let's face it, the plot lacks the depth of even the most boneheaded Hollywood blockbuster. This is why I think Skies has more in common with the Saturday morning cartoons we enjoyed in our youth – the storylines themselves were merely flimsy, paper-thin excuses to blow some stuff up in an action sequence, but we would happily suspend our disbelief and get whisked off on an adventure with these characters regardless. The dialogue was succinct and refreshingly to the point – little more than a brief reiteration of who were the goodies and who were the baddies – but we liked it that way. It was simple, easy-going entertainment, and Skies brings it all back in gaming form.
In Skies, the baddies are the pesky Wunonians, general oppressors of freedom who have a nasty habit of making themselves a nuisance in your vicinity. On the other end of the morality scale, in-keeping with the Saturday morning vibe, our hero is a fresh-faced boy who seems to punch way above his weight, leading a band of flying adventurers. Your team continually grows as you aid and recruit new members from localized pockets of resistance, navigating around the world through a birds-eye perspective of the map, traveling between areas by steering a tiny plane between them. Missions are marked on the map, and landing on marked areas immediately triggers a mission, preceded by some background information delivered by your squadmates.
These moments of narrative exposition are well constructed. All of the characters are nicely rendered in a charming hand-drawn style, and the writing itself, while relatively simplistic and formulaic, is serviceable enough. However, the bulk of the game essentially consists of airship gunfights, heavily inspired by the gameplay of arcade classic Asteroids. Sure, this means that missions are a familiar gaming experience for the most part, but it's also a reliably entertaining formula. Steering the airships around feels responsive and natural, and the weapons have a genuine impact. Upgrading has a proper, punchy feedback, with ships feeling genuinely empowered and beefed-up by their improvements – when you upgrade to the Corsair ship, for example, the thunderous machine-gunfire makes the gun on the starter ship feel like a weedy pea-shooter by comparison.
However, the game isn't completely free of annoyances. For instance, long journeys across the map are hobbled by random encounters with ambushing forces, reminiscent of old-school JRPG design. This can yield frustration, and feels like an attempt to artificially lengthen the experience. Although, on the plus side, ambushing forces tend to be easy pickings, so can come in handy if you're grinding for money to upgrade your ship or buy stock. Also, if your ship is on the verge of collapse, trying to land for repairs while constantly at risk of attack makes things super-tense. Mostly though, Skies' weakest moments are when Cuve have tried to mix up the mission structure which, while admirable, doesn't always work out brilliantly. A good example of this is the inclusion of rock-dodging stages, which is perhaps intended as a nod to Asteroids or a welcome break from shooting, but is ultimately too easy and short-lived to have any real impact. The same goes for escort and protection missions, which pretty much lack any peril whatsoever. Contrastingly, after a relatively pain-free experience, the turret sections are nasty difficulty spikes. These sections expect you to anticipate and destroy off-screen enemies using the on-screen radar, but with the stationary, slow firing cannon this is very tricky to manage – and the achingly snail-paced nature of the weapon makes it all too easy to get bogged down.
Skies is far from flawless, but its problems were not enough to stop me having a great time playing through it. Whether or not it was just thanks to vivid imagery that stirred my nostalgia, the game conjured a great atmosphere that I haven't seen a game achieve for a long time. Skies felt like a genuine adventure. When assessed in terms of cold analysis, it is very clear that each part of the game – some parts in particular – could be improved. However, a great sense of style, some genuine moments of gameplay and thematic excellence, and a cohesion of ideas make this a superb package. Especially given the low price, which must be taken into account, Skies easily makes its way into my favorite indie games of the year so far.
You can buy Skies on Desura, GamersGate, and ShinyLoot. You can keep up with all things Cuve, and their next game QuestRun, on their website or Twitter.
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text: Grammy nominations are here! But all the surprises, disappointments and confusion did not come without a collection of performances during last night's announcement special. Because The Recording Academy might possibly feel somewhat guilty about their decisions, they need to assuage our concerns with a televised concert. Three-time nominee Lady Gaga was on hand to perform two singles from Born This Way, "Marry The Night" and "You and I," the latter being a duet with Sugarland. Watch below as she trades verses back and forth with Jennifer Nettles, who does her best to challenge Gaga's love for Nebraska and New York with a few shoutouts to her home state of Georgia. As Nettles voice booms over Gaga's piano chords, Mother Monster can only answer with diva fingers, while sporting accentuated dark circles around her eyes. Get some sleep, Stefani! 2012 is going to be a busy year. Kidding, Gaga's smokey eyes are further proof of her fascination with 101 Dalmatians. Someone better add these two to the diva supercut ASAP. Watch below.


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The trickster twins of free food and Internet coupons struck again this week. Well, nearly free food. Boston Market restaurants are experiencing chicken shortages after their coupon offering customers on their mailing list a full chicken meal for $1. The coupon went viral on deal sites, and we even included it in our Morning Deals on Tuesday. And as more people than planned took advantage of the deal, lines ran long and supplies ran low.
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Comparing your privates in PHP
While working with some code that should compare two different instances of the same class I discovered a "hidden" feature in PHP.
I was going to compare several private properties between to objects and started making a piece of code to perform the actual comparison using getters for the properties. I felt the approach sucked, and started looking into alternatives way to do this.
When comparing objects, the PHP manual states:
When using the comparison operator (==), object variables are compared in a simple manner, namely: Two object instances are equal if they have the same attributes and values, and are instances of the same class.
When using the identity operator (===), object variables are identical if and only if they refer to the same instance of the same class.
At first I interpreted this as the properties has to be public. I wanted to enforce type on my properties so I did not want to make them public.
It turned out that the solution was hidden in plain sight, as object visibility in PHP is applied at a class-level, not a instance-level. That means that two object instances of the same class has access to each others private properties (and methods)!
<?php class A { private $prop; public function __construct($value) { $this->prop = $value; } } $a = new A(1); $b = new A(1); $c = new A(2); $d = new A("1"); var_dump($a == $b, $a == $c, $a == $d); // true, false, true
This means that we use the comparison operator on two instances of the same class and do a comparison of ALL the properties, even the protected and private ones.
You can also use this to call private methods on other instances of the same class. Keeping this trick in mind can be really awesome for performing unit tests or implementing the Proxy pattern.


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I'm a lucky girl. Not only do I have writing friends online who have become my trusted CPs, but I also have an AMAZING group of local women I meet with every month to swap pages. Yay! KICK-AZ writers 🙂
At our recent meeting, we started talking about WriteOnCon. If you don't know about WriteOnCon, it is an amazing online writing conference for those who write Pictures Books up to New Adult. Check it our here.
Two in our group were planning to submit materials to the forums, while two others had not heard about the event. As I was explaining the details of how you can upload your query, one of the writers asked if anyone could critique your work. We discussed that any writer could look at your thread and comment. That began a whole different conversation about getting feedback. Oh, feedback!
As of the moment I'm writing this, there are over 220 queries posted to the WriteOnCon threads. Now, not all those people are going to comment on what you load to the forums, but most likely you are going to get a number of people (hopefully!) who want to give you feedback. Here's the thing, not every piece of praise, or criticism, is going to resonate with you. Over the last two years of participating in the conference, I've personally seen some brilliant feedback and some, well, not so much. And that is okay. We are ALL learning every day.
When I first started sharing my work, I thought I had to implement every piece of advice I was given. Guess what happened to my first manuscript? It turned into a bloody mess. After incorporating every single critique I got, my beloved main character had totally lost her voice. And the story? It was almost unsalvageable.
The key to feedback is deciding whether or not the changes make sense in terms of your manuscript. Some things to ponder:
Plot: Will making a sweeping change have a domino effect within your manuscript and compromise the direction of the story?
Pacing: If you add or delete a scene, will it slow down, or speed up, your narration to an uncomfortable point?
Voice: If you implement feedback for dialogue and/or internal thought, will it change the voice of your main character?
Here is the lesson I learned: everyone has an opinion. The thing to remember is that not all feedback is appropriate for your manuscript. Read through it all of course, but only incorporate what is appropriate for the tone and voice of your story. People can give you tons of advice, but only you and your instincts know what will make your book stronger.
So be grateful for the amount of time people have spent giving you their thoughts. Be gracious. Say, "thank you," but don't rush to make immediate changes. Let the critiques sit for a while, and then, when you're ready, only implement what feels right. I promise that you, and your manuscript, will be better for it!
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Upcoming Events: You, me, and my computer (5/20); The Social Machine Book Launch (5/20); Post Arab Revolutions (5/27)
Upcoming Events / Digital Media
May 14, 2014
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You, me, and my computer
Tuesday, May 20, 12:30pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor. This event will be webcast live.
Can we use technology to help us be more human? To smile more, to touch and to listen to each other? What if a computer could understand and make decisions about our social relationships better than we could ourselves? Would our interactions be improved by computationally determining what to do and say? What happens if we crowdsource our dating lives and actually find love? This is a discussion of attempts to understand these questions through an artistic practice involving hacking, design and self-experimentation.
Lauren McCarthy is an artist and programmer based in Brooklyn, NY. She is adjunct faculty at RISD and NYU ITP, a researcher in resident at ITP, and recently a resident at Eyebeam. RSVP Required. more information on our website>
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The Social Machine
Tuesday, May 20, 6:00pm ET, Harvard Law School. Free and Open to the Public. Reception to follow.
Online, interface designs fashion people's appearance, shape their communication and influence their behavior. Can we see another's face or do we know each other only by name? Do our words disappear forever once they leave the screen or are they permanently archived, amassing a history of our views and reactions? Are we aware of how public or private our surroundings are?
In "The Social Machine", Judith Donath addresses topics such visualizing conversations and networks; portraying identity with data and history; delineating public and private space, and bringing the online world's open sociability into the face to face world. "The Social Machine" is a manifesto for balancing legibility, social responsibility and innovation -- and a manual for designing radically new environments for social interaction.
Judith Donath synthesizes knowledge from urban design, evolutionary biology and cognitive science to design innovative interfaces for on-line communities and virtual identities. A Harvard Berkman Faculty Fellow and formerly director of the MIT Media Lab's Sociable Media Group, she is known internationally for her writing on identity, interface design, and social communication. RSVP Required. more information on our website>
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Post Arab Revolutions: What Social Media is telling us
Tuesday, May 27, 12:30pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor. This event will be webcast live.
Since that fateful Youtube video of Mohamed Bouazizi started circulating in Tunisia, people started labeling the 2011 revolutions that sparked across the Arab World as the Facebook and Twitter revolutions. While that is not the case, it is undeniable the role that social media played in those and other revolutions that are emerging across the world. Taking a social networked analysis approach, I will talk about the initial findings of ongoing research being conducted on the Arab Blogosphere and Twitter maps from various countries in the region. This analysis has helped identify key actors in the region (and in some cases the absence of certain actors) in addition to the links between them. It is a fundamental step and a foundational one that will support building a knowledge base and that will help understand the flow of information and conversations -if any- between different activists in the region, while offering a position to study the tactics used by activists in the region to support their cause.
Dalia Othman is a Berkman Fellow and Visiting Scholar at MIT's Center for Civic Media. At Berkman, Dalia has been looking at online civic engagement in the Arab World, focusing on analyzing the Arab Blogosphere and Twitter maps of various countries within the region. RSVP Required. more information on our website>
RB213: The Public Spectrum
Most of the spectrum of frequency that exists in the US is occupied or owned by large wireless corporations, cable companies, by the government. But at least one small chunk of spectrum — "low-band spectrum" wireless, or TV white spaces (so-called because it is the space between the television dials) — has been somewhat open to the public. There are thousands of devices on the market that take advantage of this spectrum without paying a license fee, allowing consumers to transmit bits without interference from walls, trees, or radiation from devices like microwaves. But the Federal Communications Commission is now deciding whether to auction off this spectrum to the highest bidder, putting at risk not only billions of dollars in economic activity, but also very fundamental concepts of affordable public access to information spaces. And on May 15th, just a couple days away from this podcast, the FCC will be holding an open meeting to discuss whether auctioning off this spectrum would be a good idea. Harold Feld, senior vice president for Public Knowledge, recently sat down with David Weinberger to talk about why we should be concerned about auctioning off this spectrum. video/audio on our website>
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Big news over at Microsoft this afternoon. As announced by Steve Ballmer himself, Microsoft unveiled its flagship productivity suite — The New Office, formerly code-named "Office 15".
The New Office Suite can be downloaded from Office.com/Preview and includes new versions of the entire sure – Word 2013, Powerpoint 2013, Excel 2013, Outlook 2013, OneNote, Access, Publisher, Lync etc..
I'm still digesting all the information from the new release however be sure to check out our First Look Screenshot Tour and read below for a few of the key highlights from the release ceremony of the Preview.
- Deep integration with Microsoft's Cloud Services Skydrive (for consumer) and Office 365 for Corps.
- Office in the cloud truly with a Subscription model for buy Office and an Office on Demand feature that allows you to stream full-featured Office Apps to any Internet-connected Windows PC.
- Roaming capabilities which allow you access to recently used files, templates, custom dictionaries and more across all your devices.
- Increased Touch support for Tablets and Touch sensitive monitors – Just in time for Microsoft's very own Tablet the Surface!
- Finally we see native Office Apps for Windows 8 Metro — Both Lync and OneNote have a native UI built just for the Metro UI and all the Office suite icons have received a facelift to look much more "metro-like".
- More social integration as well as more built-in integration with recent acquisitions Skype and Yammer.
And so much more….
The team here at groovyPost is going to have a blast checking out all the new features, tips and tricks of Microsoft Office 2013 so stay tuned for a lot of groovy Office Goodness in the coming days!


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UK's GKN Aerospace joins Manufacturing Technology Centre as tier-one member
GKN Aerospace has announced that it has become a tier-one member of the UK's Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) as part of its strategy to strengthen and share its research into automated assembly technologies.
MTC was established as a part of the UK Government's national manufacturing strategy; it is aimed at supporting production processes and technologies in collaboration with industry, academia and other institutions.
MTC provides a space for the development and demonstration of new technologies on an industrial scale in a low-risk environment.
The founding industrial members of the MTC include aerospace manufacturer Rolls-Royce, Aero Engine Controls, Airbus UK, with research including the University of Birmingham, University of Nottingham, Loughborough University and TWI.
GKN Aerospace stated that the combined focus would increase the scope and pace of progress in manufacturing and assembly research.
GKN Aerospace Technology director Rich Oldfield said that the MTC would function as a focal point for UK industry as the manufacturers explore new automation techniques and technologies.
"For the UK's aerospace sector, globally the strongest national aerospace capability after the USA, the MTC will provide support as we work together to extend our share of a growing and dynamic international civil aerospace market," Oldfield said.
"To achieve our goals we must be able consistently to deliver aircraft structures that are lighter, quieter, swifter to manufacture and less wasteful of raw material than our competitors internationally."
GKN Aerospace is already involved in multiple core MTC projects related to robotics, advanced tooling, near net shape technologies and advanced metrology.
The company is a manufacturer of metal and composite airframe and aero-engine structures.
Image: GKN Aerospace manufactures the composite winglets which will be used on the new Bombardier CSeries. Photo: courtesy of GKN Aerospace.


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I recently bought this record and if I am informed correctly by the seller, the record was added to an old magazine in 1956.
I would like to buy the corresponding magazine, so I hope someone can tell me details of this magazine and maybe send me a photo of it.
Another question I have, is how scarce this flexi record is. (how many where pressed?)
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I am 39 and I believe very attractive. I went in for a consult at a PS office with his nurse that does all of the skin procedures for him. I explained I just wanted to look a little refreshed. She told me I needed the following 1. Ultherapy $1750 2. Botox 57 units $570 3. IPL 5 sessions $2500 4. 5 syringes of Juvederm and one other filler for $2500 Does that seem extreme to you? I thought it seemed right but now after reading other posts, it seems so. Thanks!
Virgin to Any Facial Fillers, Treatments, Botox?
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Facial aging
You have seen the marketing side of cosmetic surgery. They will advise you to get the treatment for every machine the own.
You have not seen the doctor!!!!
Just to feel refreshed , clear skin, glowing skin. You may only need medical grade skin care that will cost less than $500 and lasts 3-4 months.
May be a chemical peel.
Proper and Natural-Looking Facial Rejuvenation Requires Restoring Lost Volume & Skin Resurfacing
Without photos it is difficult to say what you particularly need. However, in general terms, rejuvenation of the skin requires attention to restoring age-related volume loss (loss of fat, muscle, bone and cartilage) and resurfacing the skin (smoothing, softening, brightening).
It has only been in the past ten to fifteen years that we have had what might be described as a revolution in our thinking about what happens to our faces (and necks and hands, for that matter) as we age. Whereas once we thought that everything related to combined effects of gravity and skin laxity (looseness), which led to aggressive, invasive plastic surgery procedures (i.e. facelifts, necklifts, and blepharoplasties) to pull skin tight and cut off excess skin, today we more correctly understand that much of the aging we see arises from the loss of volume underneath the skin, i.e. loss of bone, loss of cartilage, and loss of fat.
So, when we see with the passage ot time a nose drooping, where once it was upright and straight, we know it's because of a loss of supporting cartilage underneath the tip. If we see jowls along the jawline, or pronounced smile lines and marionette lines, we appreciate that there has been loss of cheek fat and a displacement downward of the remnants of the cheek fat pads that are at the root cause of these problems. When we sigh at the development of bags, dark circles, tear troughs and hollows under the eyes, we can appreciate that they have come about by the vacuum left as the heart-shaped, robust fat pad that once inflated that area has shrunken and shriveled and gone Southward and inward leaving the skin resting on the bone of the lower portion of the orbit of the eye and reflecting the dark underlying blood vessels and musculature in the region. And when we compare the face of a young Gregory Peck with that of the actor at a more advanced age, we realize that these changes in face shape, width, etc.,are due to underlying bony changes and reorganization.
If we have a favorite armchair that loses its tufting with time, do we send it off to the upholsterer and expect that the upholsterer will simply pull the remaining fabric taut and trim off the edges so that we end up sitting with our derrieres right on the wooden frame. Insead, we expect him to replace the lost stuffing. But that's not what surgeons routinely did to their patients in the past. They pulled the skin tight over the underlying bone and trimmed off the excess leaving their patients smooth, but looking like skeletons or cadavers or to use the words of one prominent NY plastic surgeon, "deformed." The famous comedienne Phyllis Diller used to poke fun about her freakish post facelift look.
It's taken us a long time, but we now know that restoring volume to the face (and to other deflated areas like the hands, etc.) is the essence of rejuvenation. It's not enough to tinker with the house. We need to fix the aging and shrinking foundation.
Fortunately, we have a whole variety of regulatory agency-approved volumizing fillers, like Radiesse in the U.S. and many others in other places, like Europe, Canada and Israel (Stylage XXL, Restylane SQ, Juvederm Voluma) that allow experienced aesthetic physicians to inject the precise amounts in the exact locations to quickly and easily (in minutes) restore more youthful facial contours without the need for scalpels or stitches and surgical scars. What's more, as a person ages, the exact placement of the materials and the quantities can be modified and tailored to precisely fit the aesthetic needs of the moment. Something that also cannot be as easily achieved with the surgical use of fixed- sized permanent implants.
Neuromodulators (Botox, Dysport, and Xeomin), too, can take a prominent role in rejuvenating when hyperkinetic muscles of facial expression contribute to crow's feet, worry lines, scowl lines, and bunny lines, for example. When these are present, treatment with neuromodulators can yield extremely gratifying results.
Unfortuantely, for the most part, I have not been impressed with the benefits of IPL and fraxel lasers, nor of the current radiowave or ultrasound therapies for either skin tightening or texturing. There is a whole lot more of marketing hype than hard science for a lot of these so-called "energy-based" devices. Chemical peels, on the other hand, are tried and true modalities that have a proven track record for smoothing and brightening skin, flattening rough spots and evening out blotchy discolorations.
So, while I could not comment on the specifics of this case, the recommendations cited in the question seem a bit much, to say the least, for a 39 year-old who describes herself as very attractive. Of course, it should go without saying, that consultation with a board certified aesthetic physician with extensive experience with all forms of injectable volumizing fillers, neuromodulators, and peeling agents is a must for achieving truly natural and gratifying results.
Learn more: http://YoungerLookingWithoutSurgery.com
Rejuvenation Options for First-Time Patient
I am sorry for your experience with this nurse in the plastic surgeon's office because not only is it disgusting how much was recommended to you, but that you were seen only by a nurse and not with the doctor himself. If you are looking for a mild, conservative rejuvenation/refresher, it is very likely that you don't need any of the things she tried to sell you. Perhaps all you need is a good skincare regimen and/or something very easy and light like a micro-dermabrasion treatment or light chemical peel. Obviously, it is difficult to recommend anything without seeing you in person. I would suggest consulting with a board-certified dermatologist who will be seeing you him/herself and not dishing you off to a PA or nurse. Good luck!
Learn more: http://www.barnettdermatology.com/practice.php?id=29
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No need to undergo treatments you don't see a need for
It seems this nurse was not listening when you said you wanted a little freshen-up.
There are a lot of simple procedures that you can do a little at a time along the way to stall the aging process and to brighten and lift.
Pick what bothers you most and attend to that first. If it's a frown line you might be perfectly happy with Botox alone. If it's some discoloration, only the IPL or some good skin care products. You are always in the driver's seat, so don't be pushed into treatments you see no need for.
How YOU feel about your looks is most important.
Too much too soon
Yes, this does sound much too extreme to me as well and it sounds likely that you will never even see the doctor so you are paying a tremendous amount of money for a nurse's opinion and expertise. For all of my new patients I usually recommend starting slowly and first addressing their particular concerns. Plus I do all of the injections for my patients.
Learn more: http://www.dorsetstreetdermatology.com/cosmetic-dermatology
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Singapore's Sembcorp Marine Becomes RCL Favoured Shipyard
Sembcorp's Sembawang Shipyard gets ship repair Favoured Customer Contract (FCC) from Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (RCL).
The contract, signed in Miami, Florida, USA, by Mr. Kevin Douglas, Vice President of Technical Projects and Newbuildings for Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., Mr. Svein Taklo, Vice President, Marine Operations for Royal Caribbean International, and Ms. Wong Lee- Lin, Executive Director, Sembawang Shipyard, commits the repairs, revitalisation and upgrading of its fleet of passenger ships cruising in the Singapore region to Sembawang Shipyard.
Royal Caribbean is a global cruise vacation company that operates Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, Pullmantur, Azamara Cruises and CDF Croisières de France.
The contract also commits to joint planning, information and experience sharing, thus leveraging complementary resources to achieve sustainable targets in the areas of HSE (Health, Safety and Environment), logistics management, quality, cost-efficiency and on- schedule deliveries, which are key performance indicators for high quality cruise vessels maintenance.
The signing of this Favoured Customer Contract will include two cruise ships calling at Sembawang Shipyard for major revitalization and a third ship for drydocking and repairs between January 2013 to 2014 with total estimated sales ranging from S$50 million to S$70 million, depending on the scope of repairs and upgrading packages of the ships.
Mr. Kevin Douglas, Vice President, Technical Projects and Newbuildings, Royal Caribbean Cruises said "The selection of Sembawang Shipyard as our partner in the Far East is in line with Royal Caribbean's strategy to grow our cruise business in Asia as we see Asia, in particular, China and Singapore as our key markets."


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Scott Disick Hooked Up with Kourtney Kardashian's Friend Kimberly Stewart
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The last 24 hours have been packed with plenty of star sightings in Hollywood and beyond.
Gerard Butler made one lucky fan's day on Tuesday night in Hollywood, Calif. Outside the Jimmy Kimmel Live! studio, the 43-year-old Scotsman was spotted signing a fan's forehead — yes, her forehead — as he continued his… More »
Rod Stewart, 66, is singing his new granddaughter's praises … literally! "I'm a grandfather now," the music icon gushed to USA Today. The paper adds that he started singing out the name Delilah. "I've been going around blabbing that for hours now."
Delilah was born Sunday to Rod's 32-year-old daughter Kimberly Stewart and… More »
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After two years of dating actress Amber Tamblyn and Arrested Development's David Cross are engaged, according to Life & Style. Their source even mentioned the couple have kept the news under wraps for the last couple weeks!
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Kimberly Stewart grabbed some lunch with her legendary rocker dad Rod in Los Angeles on Monday afternoon, and couldn't hide the bumpage.
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Earlier this week, many were left scratching their heads as Kimberly Stewart (daughter of legendary rocker Rod Stewart) confirmed that she was expecting a baby with bad boy lothario Benicio Del Toro. Now, another Hollywood hook-up is causing even more confusion.
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Welsh actor Rhys Ifans was left angry and bitter from his break-up from professional relationship bungler Sienna Miller. Lucky for him, Kimberly Stewart had been freshly rejected by John Mayer and was available for rebound service.Then, Rhys decided that losing Sienna might feel better if he went off with two or three Miller lookalikes!
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Bombardier attributed a lack of "overall systems maturity" to the latest delay of the CSeries CS100 airliner, now scheduled to enter service in the second half of 2015. In a statement released on Thursday, the company also said the larger CS300 would enter service six months later. Previous schedules called for certification and entry into service of the CS100 by this September.
"We are taking the required time to ensure a flawless entry-into-service," said Bombardier Commercial Aircraft president Mike Arcamone. "We are very pleased that no major design changes have been identified; this gives us confidence that we will meet our performance targets. While the process has taken more time than we had expected, our suppliers are aligned with the program's schedule and together, we will continue to work closely to move the program steadily forward. With the first flight of flight test vehicle 2 [FTV2] successfully completed on January 3, 2014, the CSeries aircraft program will continue to gain traction over the coming months."
The revelation of the latest delay virtually coincided with a separate announcement that Bombardier had collected a firm order for 16 CS300s from Saudi Arabia's Al Qahtani Aviation Company during the Bahrain Airshow. The owner of Al Qahtani, which also reserved options for another 10 of the airplanes, plans to launch a new airline called SaudiGulf Airlines. Bombardier also just revealed that Sweden's Malmo Aviation has agreed to become the first CS100 operator in late 2015. Malmo holds a firm order five CS100s and five CS300s.
Originally expected to gain certification by the end of last year, the CSeries experienced several delays to first flight before finally taking to the air last September.
By the time Bombardier Commercial Aircraft marketing vice president Philippe Poutissou spoke with AIN during last November's Dubai Airshow, the company planned to issue an update on the flight-test schedule of its new CSeries jet "in a few weeks" as program managers assessed whether to maintain the company's admittedly ambitious entry-into-service target date of one year after first flight.
Although at the time, Bombardier reported the first flight-test vehicle (FTV1) had completed 190 total hours of testing, a month earlier Poutissou told AIN that FTV1 had flown a total of eight hours over the course of three flights. Bombardier conducted the fourth test flight, lasting 1.5 hours, on October 30, more than seven weeks after first flight.
Bombardier no longer specifies the number hours flown by its two aircraft; however, a spokesman told AIN on Thursday that the program has now logged some 250 total hours, in the air and on the ground. Together, FTV1 and FTV2 have flown more than 20 times, he added. Plans call for five prototypes to fly a total of 2,400 hours before the airplane gains certification.
Due to inclement weather in and around Mirabel, Canada, Bombardier has now sent FTV1 to its facilities in Wichita to continue testing, allowing it to fly more often, according to the spokesman. Schedules call for the third flight test vehicle, FTV3, to take to air in a matter of a few weeks, he said.
During an October 31 teleconference to discuss third-quarter 2013 financial results, the manufacturer said that it updated the aircraft's fly-by-wire flight control system software "as planned" between the third and fourth test flights and also conducted some vibration testing that it hadn't performed before the first flight.
By Thursday, however, neither FTV1 now FTV2 had flown in normal mode, only in so-called direct mode, meaning without full use of the fly-by-wire system. The spokesman told AIN that crews will begin flying in normal mode imminently.


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Trenton, NJ – Governor Chris Christie today announced the appointment of Senator Bill Baroni to the post of Deputy Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
"Senator Baroni is a distinguished leader with a record of putting the public first. He brings with him the right experience and leadership needed to help lead the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey into the new decade. I know that Bill shares my commitment to accountability and ending wasteful spending throughout state government. I am confident that Senator Baroni will do an excellent job and look after the public's interest and New Jersey's interests while serving at the Port Authority."
Senator Baroni was elected to the New Jersey State Senate in 2008, after serving four years in the New Jersey Assembly. In the Senate he sits on the Judiciary, Health, and Human & Senior Citizens Committees. Senator Baroni is concurrently an attorney with Fornaro and Francioso and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Seton Hall University.
Previously, Senator Baroni was an attorney with Blank Rome, LLP, where his practice included campaign finance and election law.
Senator Baroni holds a BA, Magnum Cum Laude, from George Washington University and a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law.
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Quick Cuts: The Phillies are supposed to activate Raul Iba�ez on Friday, but despite finishing his rehab without problems, they won't commit. ... Aubrey Huff doesn't think his groin strain is serious enough for him to go on the DL, but he could be out through the break. ... The Cubs will re-evaluate Geovany Soto today; expect the oblique strain to hold him out through the break, just to be safe side. ... Ryan Doumit is expected to have a few more rehab games in Triple-A, but should be back with the Pirates soon. There's a rumor that the Freddy Sanchez deal might be opening the roster spot for Doumit. ... Xavier Nady had his Tommy John surgery and should be ready for spring training. ... Corey Dawkins, ATC, does some great work here on the subject of BMI, workloads, and more. ... Orlando Hudson left Thursday's game after a pitch hit him in the knee. He wasn't hobbled after the game, so he shouldn't miss much time, if any. ... Cesar Izturis is back from an appendectomy and should be a cheap source of fantasy steals. ... Brandon Backe has a torn rotator cuff. Expect some fireworks as his agent heads for a fight with the Astros. ... I'm going to have to see more of this system that Alan Schwarz describes in yesterday's New York Times; the key for me is going to be positioning.
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The Houston Chronicle is reporting that The Astros will be paying for Backe's medical costs. Are you referring to his release while hurt that his agent will fight with them over?
Jul 10, 2009 09:59 AM
Soto has been DL'ed this morning, with Piniella quoted as saying Soto will miss a MONTH. Oy!
Jul 10, 2009 10:13 AM
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As far as the Schwarz article, I've always be very skeptical of any of the advanced fielding metrics adopted as gospel here at BP and have commented that until we get someone to measure the movement of the ball and player in real time we won't have anything.
Jul 10, 2009 10:17 AM
The last line of your note on Torii Hunter is priceless. I'm dealing with a basketball-caused oblique strain, and I laughed so hard I hurt.
Jul 10, 2009 10:43 AM
Will, I "own" Reyes in several leagues and needless to say, losing a first rounder, especially one expected to dominate a category, well, hurts like hell. I'm even more worried about 2 keeper leagues where I own him. I know there's no chance of getting "fair" return in a deal. But is there a chance this injury could linger, affecting his explosiveness or psychologically making him more tentative? Any concern that the Mets' coaching/training staff will play it too safe next year (assuming he doesn't return at full strength this season)? Given that they seemed to have overcome the injuries that plagued him early in his career, do you think they're now mismanaging their players' conditions? Thanks. Jordan
Jul 10, 2009 12:22 PM
Brian Kopec
I've always thought, based on personal experience and various anecdotes from others, that a minor injury not impacting function could help improve focus and thus performance. I've even heard ex-ballplaying announcers mention this. Obviously it depends on the individual/sport/injury but I think there is definitely some truth in it.
Jul 10, 2009 12:57 PM
Is the Met's training staff doing an awful job, or is this just really, really really bad luck. We're now looking at like what something like 5-20 lost projected warp to injuries (especially if you count wagner) this season. I mean, every single one big injuries were known issues, so is that mitigating for the training room and minayas problem or something that they failed to rise up to time and again.
Jul 10, 2009 13:21 PM
Jul 10, 2009 13:21 PM
Richard Bergstrom
I was at the Rockies game last night when Embree got hit with that comebacker. He was still in the follow-through of his pitching motion and all his weight was on his right leg when he got hit just above the ankle. Maybe it was me, but from the replay, I thought I could see the shin bone shift when it was struck. Either way, I was pretty sure it was broken and reports today confirm its broken and that he's out for the year.
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CWMCARN Forest Drive has fast become one of Gwent's top tourist attractions.
Every years tens of thousands of people visit the area and use the winding roads through the forest to make their way to the top to enjoy the views over the surrounding countryside.
But now there are very real fears among its many supporters that the previously-reported decision to close the roads to allow for the felling and removal of thousands of diseased trees, will mean the end of the drive for good.
Natural Resources Wales says it has no option but to close the seven-mile drive in November to start large-scale felling of larch trees across a 400-acre section, which have been infected with an untreatable condition.
It might well be the case the NRW has no option but to take such drastic action, although there are those who disagree that closure is necessary.
But what gives us and others more cause for concern is NRW's reluctance to commit to re-opening the forest drive once the work is completed. At best the NRW says it hopes to do so, but cannot commit further because of the financial strain facing all of Wales' public sector.
To lose the forest drive would be a crying shame.
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From Floor Nurse To Nurse EntrepreneurThink about the skills you have now that are transferable, e.g., managing others, client education, and then start applying for positions outside of nursing. You can do it!
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA--(Marketwired - June 19, 2014) - Prima BioMed Ltd (ASX: PRR) (NASDAQ: PBMD) ("Prima", "the Company") today advised that the Western Association of Gynecologic Oncologists (WAGO) Program Committee has accepted the abstract entitled "Treatment with Mucin 1-Autologous Dendritic Cell Therapy Significantly Improves Progression-Free Survival in Ovarian Cancer Patients in Second Remission" for oral presentation at the Ovarian Cancer Session at the 2014 WAGO Annual Meeting to be held from June 25-28, 2014 in California.
Dr. Heidi Gray, lead investigator, will deliver a presentation on final progression free survival (PFS) and interim overall survival (OS) data for Epithelial Ovarian Cancer patients in First or Second Remission (the CAN-003 protocol). As outlined in her presentation to the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting on 31 May and as previously announced, Dr Gray will highlight the positive trends demonstrated in PFS and OS for CVac in the second remission patient population.
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Event: 2014 WAGO Annual Meeting
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