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A-Plant's Jane Downey shortlisted for international award
The UK's largest plant, tool and equipment hire company has announced that one of its 'shining stars' was shortlisted for a prestigious international award.
Compliance Officer, Jane Downey, has been nominated in the 'Compliance Officer of the Year, Large Sized Company,' category at the fifth Women in Compliance Awards.
Jane is one of 15 women to be listed in the category and will be competing against nominees from the USA, Malaysia, Germany, Poland and Singapore.
The Annual Women in Compliance Awards attracts more than 350 compliance professionals from across the globe and celebrates the achievements of female compliance professionals.
Jane joined A-Plant's Performance Standards Team in 2015 and along with her colleagues is a vital cog in ensuring compliance across the business.
The Environmental Health and Safety team, of which Jane is aligned to, played an important role in helping A-Plant, achieve its ROSPA Gold Medal Award in 2017.
Accomplishing so much in such a short space of time has been a satisfying achievement Jane explained: "I am thrilled to have been nominated for such a prestigious award.
"Being part of such a highly committed team is amazing and really helps us to all get the company's message across."
Chris Ryan, Head of Performance Standards at A-Plant said the company was exceptionally proud of Jane's achievement.
"From day one, I have been impressed with Jane's capabilities and above all, her tremendous commitment.
"She has already achieved so much; from delivering first class compliance procedural training, to supporting us in reducing accidents and minimising negative effects on the business. We're exceptionally proud to be part of her journey."
Douglas McLuckie, Director of Risk Management adds: "Over the past year, we have run a series of campaigns which continue to ingrain a robust Health and Safety culture across the company, such as our 'Work Safe, Home Safe' initiative and Jane has been one of the key members of the team to get the message across.
"We're well known throughout the hire and wider construction industry for our exceptional Health, Safety and Compliance practices, underlined by our multiple RoSPA awards. Jane, along with her colleagues, is instrumental in ensuring we retain these high standards."
The winners of the Women in Compliance Awards will be announced during a glittering gala dinner at London's Sheraton Grand London Park Lane Hotel on Thursday 22nd March 2018.


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July has been a great month for new music releases. A lot of bands have revealed their much anticipated new albums or singles and you can find some of them featured on this July Beats playlist.
British band Mystery Jets has a new album out called "Radlands" and in this playlist you can listen to their beautiful "Someone Purer" track found on their latest album.
Indie-rock London based, The Vaccines, also has a new release out: listen to "No Hope" and get your feet moving.
New Yorker based singer-songwriter Regina Spektor has released a new album called "What we saw from the cheap seats". The song "All the rowboats" has stood out and it can be found on this playlist. Beautiful, isn´t it? She still got it! "Hips and Lips" by Brittish alternative rock band, Maximo Park, is a great and catchy track from their new album of same name.
Still on the new releases, check out "Take a Walk", new single by Passion Pit and "Wrecking Ball" which is the new single by Norwegian band Casa Murilo; Bloc Party with "Octopus", Band of Horses with "Knock Knock" and the very uptempo "Headphones" by Little Boots and "Always" by Summer Camp.
From their latest album "The Temper Trap", listen to "Trembling Hands", another extraordinary song by the Australians indie-rockers of The Temper Trap. A playful song by Serenades is also featured in this playlist. "Weapons" is one of the many great songs by this Swedish group formed by Shout Out Louds´ Adam Olenius and Laako´s Markus Krunegard.
New music from known names: Jack White with "Missing Pieces" and The Walkmen with "Nightingales". MsMr introduce themselves with their single "Hurricane", an easy-to-get-lost-into yet intriguing track. We sure are curious to hear more from MsMr, what about you?
What have you listened to the most during this month of July? Let us know by sharing your favorite beats with us on Twitter using the hashtag #thursplay.
Enjoy the playlist!
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FEMFAT (Finite Element Method Fatigue) is the number one engineering software tool for fatigue life prediction. It is used to improve reliability and robustness of components in automotive and machinery industry.
FEMFAT is a tool designed to identify critical locations and supports the light weight optimization process at an early development stage, way before time- and cost-consuming tests will be performed. This results in high confident level to release prototypes, therefore less development loops and costly hardware tests.
Continuously developed over the last 20 years, FEMFAT provides reliable results to release virtual prototypes in an early development stage. FEMFAT is widely used in the automotive and non-automotive industry and trusted to be the number one tool for CAE.
The binding link between test track, laboratory and CAE is FEMFAT LAB. It supports development engineers with respect to load data management, including analysis, data processing and generation of load spectra. FEMFAT LAB is a powerful software solution to visualize, analyze and process large amounts of load data. FEMFAT LAB analyzes time histories of millions of data points and hundreds of channels within seconds.
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It is very easy to get started with this and play around with the new features. Just takes a few steps :
Oracle Linux is freely downloadable from http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux. Oracle Linux is free to use on as many systems as you want, is freely re-distributable without changing the CD/ISO content (so including our cute penguin), provides free security errata and bugfix errata updates. You only need to pay for a support subscription for those systems that you want/need support for, not for other systems. This allows our customers/users to run the exact same software on test and dev systems as well as production systems without having to maintain potentially two kinds of repositories. All systems can run the exact same software all the time.
The free yum repository for security and bugfix errata is at http://public-yum.oracle.com. This site also contains a few other repositories :
Now, back to UEK3 beta. Just a few steps are needed to get started.
I will assume you have already installed Oracle Linux 6 (update 4) on a system and it is configured to use public-yum as the repository.
First download and enable the beta repository.
# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
# wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/beta/public-yum-ol6-beta.repo
# sed -i s/enabled=0/enabled=1/g public-yum-ol6-beta.repo
You don't have to do sed you can just edit (vi/emacs) the repo file and manually set it to 1 (enable). Now you can just run yum update
# yum update
This will install UEK3 (3.8.13-13) and it will update any relevant packages that are required to be on a later version as well. At this point you should reboot into UEK3.
New features introduced in UEK3 are listed in our release notes.
There are tons of detailed improvements in the kernel since UEK2 (3.0 based). Kernelnewbies is an awesome site that keeps a nice list of changes for each version. We will add more detail to our release notes over time but for those that want to browse through all the changes, check it out.
To try out dtrace, you need to install the dtrace packages. We introduced USDT in UEK3's version of dtrace, there is some information in the release notes about the changes.
# yum install dtrace-utils
To try out lxc, you need to install the lxc packages. lxc is capable of using Oracle VM Oracle Linux templates as a base image to create a container.
# yum install lxc


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Cuisinart coffee machines provide a variety of coffee brewing options. As one of the most trusted brands in the kitchen appliance industry, Cuisinart maintains a commitment to excellence and innovation throughout its products. This means that your Cuisinart coffee machines will produce an excellent product on a consistent basis with minimal effort from you. Check out 1st in Coffee's variety of Cuisinart coffee makers including Cuisinart Grind and Brew coffee makers, Single Serve, and Perfect Temp models.
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When you browse through 1st in Coffee's selection of Cuisinart Grind and Brew coffee makers the first thing you will likely notice is the cost effectiveness of the line. Cuisinart has been at the forefront of the coffee maker industry offering affordable solutions for the home kitchen. If you are new to coffee making, or are a first time buyer for your own kitchen, these Cuisinart coffee machines make a great intro to the world of home coffee. A Cuisinart coffee maker with grinder will make it easy. Cuisinart also offers an extremely affordable introduction to espresso making with the EM 100 Espresso Makers. Capable of making espresso, cappuccino and latte with ease. We also have other popular models such as the Cuisinart Extreme Brew.
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The son of the owner of the limousine company involved in the upstate New York deadly crash, Prestige Limousine, is in custody. New York State police have charged Nauman Hussain with criminally negligent homicide after 20-people were killed in Saturday's crash in Schoharie. In addition, police pulled over the driver at a checkpoint in Saratoga Springs in August. While driving the same limo involved in the crash, cops determined he didn't have the proper license and was told to stop driving.
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- 1984
- Marvel Productions, Ltd., Sunbow Productions, Hasbro, Inc.
- Claster Television
- Transformers Episode Guide
- Cartoon Characters: Prowl, Skyfire, Brawn, Shockwave, Spike Witwicky, Jazz, Ironhide, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Bluestreak, Cliffjumper, Dr. Archeville, Reflector, Starscream, Wheeljack, Sparkplug Witwicky, Ratchet, Megatron, Mirage, Skywarp, Soundwave, Trailbreaker.
- Vocal Talent: Michael Bell (Prowl), Gregg Berger (Skyfire), Corey Burton (Brawn, Shockwave, Spike Witwicky), Scatman Crothers (Jazz), Peter Cullen (Ironhide, Optimus Prime), Dan Gilvezan (Bumblebee), Casey Kasem (Bluestreak, Cliffjumper, Dr. Archeville), Chris Latta (Reflector, Starscream, Wheeljack, Sparkplug Witwicky), Don Messick (Ratchet), Frank Welker (Megatron, Mirage, Skywarp, Soundwave, Trailbreaker).
- Directed By John Gibbs.
Sequence Directors: Warren Batchelder, Bob Bemiller, David Brain, Brad Case, Rudy Cataldi, Gerry Chiniquy, Charlie Downs, Lillian Evans, John Freeman, Jeff Hale, Caroline Heyward, Jaeho Hong, Andy Kim, Kyongme Kim, Bob Kirk, Bill Knoll, Al Kouzel, Bob Matz, Norm McCabe, Joe Morrison, Margaret Nichols, Spencer Peel, Karen Peterson, Stan Phillips, Tom Ray, Bob Shellhorn, Mooyong Song, Dan Thompson, Bob Treat, James T. Walker, John Walker, Neal Warner.
- Produced By George Singer, John Walker, Gwen Wetzler.
Executive Producers: Joe Bacal, Margaret Loesch, Tom Griffin.
Supervising Producer: Nelson Shin.
Associate Producers: Flint Dille, Roger Sliffer.
Co-Producer: Roger Sliffer.
- Animated By Youngduk Kim, Byungnam Choi, Kyungkwan Kim, Eynam Park, Baekyup Sung, Myunghi Park, Sungok Ch, o Chigeun Kang, Chiman Park, Hanyong Chung, Byungchong Oh, Sangil Shim, Nosoo Kwak, Namyul Baik, Youngchan Shin.
- Written By Douglas Booth.
Teleplay: Leo D. Paur.
- Music By Johnny Douglas, Rob Walsh.
Title Song: Ford Kinder, Ann Bryant.
- Edited By Al Breitenbach.
Assistant Editor: David Weathers.
Supervising Editors: Steven C. Brown, Robert T. Gillis.
Assistants To The Supervising Editors: Rick Gehr, Larry Whelan.
- Assistants To The Supervisor: Myrna Bushman, Lisa Wilson.
- Voice Director: Wally Burr.
- Talent Coordinator: Maddy Aaronson.
- Voice Recording Engineer: Joel Iwataki, Sylvester Rivers, Scott Brownlee.
- Recording Coordinator: Ellen Burr.
- Voice Processing: Scott Brownlee, Soundtraxx, Wally Burr Recording.
- Storyboards: Del Barras, Bill Barry, Danny Bulanadi, Peter Chung, Soo Young Chung, Vic Dalchele, Greg Davidson, Lindsay Dawson, Floro Dery, Jim Fletcher, George Goode, Paul Gruwell, Joo In Kim, Doug Lefler, Gerald Moeller, Brian Ray, David Russell, George Scribner, David Shin, Don Sheppard, Roy Shishido, Bob Smith, Leo Sullivan, Vincenzo Trippetti, Wendell Washer, Young Sang Yoon.
- Background Supervisor: Dennis Venizelos.
- Model And Background Design: Pat Agnasin, Dell Barras, Fred Carrillo, Floro Dery, Romeo Francisco, Ernie Guanlao, Gabriel Hoyos, George Goode, Andy Kim, Rico Rival, Romeo Tanghal.
- Color Models: Phyllis Craig.
- Assistant Design: Gabriel Hoyos, Leondro Martinez.
- Key Backgrounds: Phil Phillipson, Jeff Richards, Bob Schaefer, Dennis Venizelos, Fred Warter.
- Music Editors: Joe Siracusa, Mark Shiney, Peter Collier, Robert Randles, S.M.F., Bob Mayer, Richard Allen.
- Sound Effects Editors: Richard Allen, Jim Blodgett, Allison Cobb, Matt Cope, Michael L. Depatie, John Detra, Karen Doulac, Bruce Elliott, Ron Fedele, Richard Gannon, Lenny Geschke, Brad Gunther, David Hankins, Nicholas James, Richard Raderman, Ephraim Reuveni, Joseph Sorokin, Warren Taylor, Mike Tomack, Peter Tomaszewicz.
- Production Manager: Carol Weitzman, Yung Shin, Gerald Moeller, Elise Goyette.
- Production Coordinator: Paul Davids, Elise Goyette, Hildy Mesnik.
- Production Assistant: Yung Shin, Terri Gruskin, Mitsuko Hayes, Lizabeth Elliott, Laurie Pessel.
- Dubbing Supervisors: Jacquie Freeman, John Hart.
- Telecine Supervisors: Sarah Swiskow, Andrew Golov.
- Post Production Supervisors: Eric Early, Steven Heth.
- Story Editors: Dick Robbins, Bryce Malek, Flint Dille, Steve Gerber, Marv Wolfman.
- Director Of Production: Jim Graziano.
- Creative Director: Jay Bacal.
- Post-Production Services: L. Ed Walsh, Terry Jennings.
- Saturday Morning Incorporated: Paul Vitello & Associates.
- Executive In Charge Of Production: Lee Gunther.
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© 1984 Sunbow Productions, Inc.
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If there were a choose-your-own-adventure guide to finding a coffee maker, there would be four choices that determined how the plot would twist.
First, paper filter or metal filter, and then immersion or pour-over. A paper filter lets less sediment and lipids through, explains Bailey Manson, the education and service program manager for Intelligentsia, a hip coffee roaster based in Chicago. That makes for a lighter, thinner mouthfeel and more aromatics. A French press makes an immersion brew, in which water sits with the coffee, while pour-overs allow the water to briefly pass through the grounds.
Then there's time: Do you want the morning ritual of a multiple-step process, or do you need to push a button and get out the door?
Finally, how much coffee do you need to make? A one-cup pour would do the trick if you're a one-cup person, but if you're making coffee for two adults and even grown children, a big pot should be considered.
Sometimes, though, the answer is not either-or but both-and, says Brian Jones, author of the book "Brew: Better Coffee at Home." "There's also no rule against having several different brew methods," he says. "It's nice to be able to switch up the method depending on your mood, your company or the type of coffee you're brewing."
As the design director for HGTV Home, Nancy Fire circles the globe to find trendy goods and inspiration. When she's home to relax from her travels, she likes to use the Double-Wall Glass French Press ($49.95, williams-sonoma.com).
Double-Wall Glass French Press ($49.95, williams-sonoma.com). Photo by: Williams Sonoma — The Washington Post
"It is so durable, and it always keeps the coffee hotter for longer," she says. "I keep this press out in the country, and it's the perfect way to make morning coffee on the weekends." Attractive enough to sit out on the counter, this French press has insulated walls that keep it warm longer.
Espro Press P7, ($99.95-$119.95, espro.com). Photo by: Espro — The Washington Post
Every morning, Adam Mahr, owner of the gift and housewares shop A Mano in Washington, steeps his coffee grounds in the Espro Press P7 after a favored ritual ($99.95-$119.95, espro.ca). He chooses a dark bean from Brazil, Colombia or Ethiopia, then grinds it just before brewing to preserve the beans' oil. He heats water on the stove, cutting it off right before it boils, then heats the stainless-steel press with hot water before putting the grounds and coffee water in — the unique double filter of the press keeps the grounds from sludging up the coffee. Lastly, a timer is set for four to five minutes.
"Every morning, I go down, feed the dogs, make my coffee, watch 'Morning Joe' and then begin my day," he says.
Hario V60 ($25, surlatable.com). Photo by: Sur La Table — The Washington Post
"My go-to choice for brewing coffee almost every morning is a Hario V60," says Jones, who is also co-founder of a coffee-roasting company and the java brain behind the website Dear Coffee, I Love You. "It's a round pour-over dripper with a hole . . . and spiral ridges to help with water flow while brewing."
He likes a lighter, cleaner flavor profile, which the pour-over ($25, surlatable.com) offers. To take it up one more notch, Jones recommends using a gooseneck water kettle.
Six-Cup Glass-Handle Chemex ($43.50, chemexcoffeemaker.com). Photo by: Chemex — The Washington Post
When drinking at home, Manson of Intelligentsia prefers his thrift-store Chemex. "I like the clarity and cleanliness that I get from a paper filter," he says. For something similar, he recommends the Six-Cup Glass-Handle Chemex ($43.50, chemexcoffeemaker.com). The glass neck makes for better ergonomics, he says.
For a truly excellent cup of coffee, he recommends investing at least $100 in a quality grinder.
Georg Riedel, the 10th-generation owner of the wine-glass company Riedel, spent a year "drinking coffee, learning about coffee, serving coffee," he says, all part of his research to design a glass that best highlights the characteristics of coffee, especially the fine, frothy crema.
"When you are trained to examine aromas and flavors, then it does not make a difference if you drink wine, soda, juice, coffee or tea. . . . Everything that is aromatic comes with a basic structure," he says. Different machines produce the crema differently, but Riedel prefers any De'Longhi machine and especially the Nespresso CitiZ Espresso Machineby De'Longhi ($249.99, target.com).


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SSD Benchmark Tests: SATA IDE vs AHCI Mode
In a recent Benchmark Reviews technical article, SSD performance was tested in AHCI and IDE mode using only the HD-Tune software to produce results. It wasn't intentional, but our test results were flawed by this single-threaded benchmark tool, and our conclusion did not properly illustrate IOPS performance. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests the latest JMicron, Indilinx, and SandForce SSDs using a combination of tools to illustrate the true difference between SATA IDE and AHCI-mode, and demonstrates how one SATA mode is better suited than the other.
Solid State Drive technology is unfamiliar to many consumers, and so long as there are different ways an SSD can operate there always be questions that need answering. Benchmark Reviews offers various SSD tests, but proving performance speeds and matching manufacturer claims is only part of the story. Each SSD processor has unique behaviors, with some working well with TRIM and offering improved performance in AHCI mode, while others include Garbage Collection (GC) and work best in IDE mode. In this article Benchmark Reviews demonstrates how SSDs are tested by the manufacturer, and illustrates how real-world performance is different for end-users.
When Benchmark Reviews first started testing SSD storage products two years ago, we discovered that there were just too many variables to alter benchmark results. For example, the exact same Solid State Drive may offer one specific write speed while connected to the Intel ICH10 controller, yet could operate up to 30% slower on Marvell or JMicron SATA controller. Additionally, immature driver software can further degrade performance, or optimized drivers can restore speeds. Complicating matters even more, SSD-specific firmware can add features and improvements, but may also reduce operational speeds.
Readers familiar with the new technology have learned to read reviews from as many sources as possible; which is exactly what we've been suggesting in our product conclusions for almost two years. Some websites don't use special drive conditioning tools such as DISKPART or Sanitary Erase, and other do. The same is true for SSD owner, which span from hardware enthusiasts to basic computer users. Benchmark Reviews has concentrated on including several different tools for realizing quantitative performance results for our articles, while other websites use real-world file transfers and application routines. It's all relative, subjective, and impossible to determine which method is best.
For this article, our tests will focus on three of the most widely used SSD processors from Indilinx, JMicron, and SandForce. Using the Intel ICH10 SATA-3.0 controller, our SSD tests will benchmark read and write performance speeds with pristine 'fresh' NAND conditions with Sanitary Erase (for Indilinx) and DISKPART with the 'clean all' command for drive conditioning. Operational IOPS performance will be tested in much the same way, and will reveal which SATA controller is best suited for SSDs.
Ever tested SCSI versus SATA at the same RPM? Well there you will see exactly the benefit of access-times. Speed is rubbish when AT isn't good.
Test controllers on AT first, speed second, the picture will be a lot different in favor of IDE mode.
Same as with Internet, band-weight is nice, but if your ping is crap it won't be fast either.
You focus on the wrong points to measure a drive.
it would be more like:
IOPS is the ship's speed, Bandwith is the cargo capacity.
If you want to build a small house, and you need parts that can be delivered by either:
1x Big slow ship, that has 100x the capacity required
1x Small fast ship, that has just the capacity required
you'll be able to start building your house sooner with the fast ship, as it will arrive sooner.
Another would be to compare bandwidth and IOPS to a highway. Bandwidth determines the number of lanes, and IOPS determines the travelers.
The lower the number the closer they can drive behind each other, also affecting the IOPS.
As such access-time is the most important number over all of them.
IOPS can not be fast if your access-time is slow.
The access-time is the time the device needs to find the data and start delivering it.
There is no way on earth your IOPS can be high with a low access-time.
Sorry Olin, but you better find a new job if you don't understand the importance of access-time.
And yes I have read your article, and it's way too much focused on band-weight.
Typical mistake, why do you think SCSI drives are twice as fast as the fastest IDE drive at the same RMP and band-weight?
Exactly, it's the low access-time that causes this...not throughput.
Because of your wrong interpretation of access-time, I consider your entire article and conclusion as useless for anybody.
Do research on the matter, you will find I'm right.
Your IOPS versus Access-time is completely wrong.
IOPS means I/O operations per second, if your access-time is low it means it will do LESS I/O operations per second as it needs to wait for the device to access the data.
Do your research before writing rubbish as you make a fool of yourself.
Practice ... preach ... honestly.
It would be nice to see some Tests/Reviews of Benchmarks that provided results for both camps ( Intel & AMD )
I would also be appreciative to see Microsofts AHCI Driver tested/included as well as AMD's ATI AHCI Driver tested/included. As well as the Marvell AHCI driver that is more commonly seen in AMD platforms verses what shows up or is seen in the Intel Platforms.....
Thanks for this review, but it is hard to apply what I have read to my AMD Platform which uses ATI AHCI Drivers &/or Microsoft AHCI Drivers if I use the MS Windows 7 generic AHCI driver......
If you would like to push a drive to the maximum performance in a real world situation, you should put a single large paging file on the drive and use programs that drive the paging rate as high as possible. When that settles down to a constant rate over time, then a measurement of paging rate will tell you what the maximum performance is in a real world situation. I am not sure that TRIM will actually improve performance in a busy drive, and it certainly loses the ability to recover any deleted file. A smart TRIM handling on a drive would queue the TRIM requests up and satisfy them when the drive is not otherwise busy, rather than giving them the priority they have under existing classification. TRIM could certainly help in a situation where the read to write ratio is high and the drive is not particularly busy, but this also would lessen the advantage the SSD has over a drive with a large built-in cache.
There is no point in doing NCQ as there is no rotation of the drive where command ordering is needed or even wanted.
NCQ has been proven to hinder the performance as it can stall the controller by making the computer WAIT before giving new commands.
SSD is a matrix and ordering is silly as all cells deliver data at the same speed, there is no ordering wanted to optimise the rotations in where data can be read.
But AHCI is still doing it, as such it lowers performance, and this can be noticed when using better benchmarks that can do proper I/O reading and writing combined with multiple commands at the same time. That benchmark has been here for ages, called ATTO.
Give ATTO a high command-que depth and see what happens, it will show the difference. As ATTO gives read and write speeds, for me it's the best harddisk/ssd benchmark on the planet when used properly.
Meaning VERY large Block-size and high Que-depth, then it gives pretty accurate numbers.
That's only applicable in a single-threaded system.
Your modern PC is more akin to a large downtown reconstruction effort after Catrina...
Also, comparing the HDD with a big cargo ship...
On a large cargoship, unless your goods are all in one container, or all the containers with your goods have all been stacked on top of each other, they will need to unload some containers inbetween yours. Then probably reload the inbetween containers.
A better analogy would be a long freight-train carrying cargo containers that passes under a single crane that can lift containers off the wagons.
What is more effective?
1. Unloading the containers belonging to one customer(1, 15, 33, 7 - the last one was a recent addition that was fitted there after container 7 was removed on an earlier stop), then the next customer(4, 8, 12, 13, 14, 53)?
". Or to offload them in a sequential order?
Remember, the crane can only offload containers at a fixed speed, the train can only be moved forward or back at a low accelleration...
Vertex 3 120gb SSD
WD 1.5tb SATA2
A recent BIOS update added VRM MOS protection.
This disables access to the BIOS settings during POST .
If the Windows 7 based TouchBIOS utility is used, and the SATA type is changed from IDE to AHCI in CMOS and the system is rebooted. Windows renames the Boot drive from C:\ to E:\ and Windows Blue Screens during loading. Normally this wouldn't be a big problem, since the BIOS setting could be changed during POST. However, the VRM MOS protection forbids changing those settings during POST. The BIOS must be reflashed with a legacy BIOS (F6) or earlier, that does not have VRM MOS protection, in order to enable the IDE type support that Windows was installed with. I believe this VRM MOS protection is a standard part of the new types of BIOS required by Windows 8. So it must be enabled during OS installation or it could be lost


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This column a few years ago discussed nuclear power and how our country was underutilizing it in generating electricity.
A man who works for a company called ConvertCoal, Inc., or CCI, recently contacted me because of that article. The company, founded in 2005, claims to have a process that will enable it to generate petroleum, clean water and cleaner-burning coal fuel from the low-rank coal that is readily available here in the U.S.
There are certainly many subjects about which I have no particular expertise, and the mining and processing of coal are among them. But what this man was saying intrigued me, so I decided to pass along his thoughts to you.
There are basically two types of coal in the world, high-rank coal and low-rank coal. High-rank coal is found deeper in the ground, which means it has been compressed by the weight of the mass of material above it and heated much more fully than low-rank coal. Thus there is less water in high-rank coal and that coal is also more concentrated, which in turn means that it takes less of it to run a power plant generator.
Since strip mining is not feasible because it is so deep, high-rank coal is also more expensive to bring to the surface, because the only practical way to mine high-rank coal is to use deep shafts and tunnels like those that trapped the miners in Chile. Unfortunately, that also makes the deadly "black lung disease" more prevalent due to the miners breathing more of the coal dust inside the mines.
About two-thirds of the Earth's known coal deposits are low-rank coal, and because it is cheaper and more plentiful, that is mostly what is used in the generation of electricity. In fact, about 35% of all the electricity generated in the United States is fueled by low-rank coal. But with the new process, according to CCI's brochures, that same low-rank coal can now be converted into a low-emission coal-char fuel, clean water and synthetic crude oil that can be refined into petroleum. CCI further says it can actually recover between a half to a full barrel of oil from every ton of coal that is run through its process.
That means that, since a standard coal conversion plant would convert about 10,000 tons of coal per day, that coal alone would produce about 500 gallons of clean water each minute, as well as 7,000 barrels of oil each day, along with sufficient upgraded clean-coal char fuel to run a 500 megawatt power plant — and all with fewer emissions! If this is true, and if it could be done economically, this process could spur an economic revolution.
In 2008, the recoverable oil reserves in the U.S. were estimated to be about 21 billion barrels, with an average production of 5.7 million barrels per day. (Since the cost of oil just recently passed $100 per barrel, we are talking about lots of money!) But according to CCI, the potential domestic production of oil from low-rank coal simply using existing power generating plants would be about 1.9 million barrels per day. So just based upon current capacity and using this new technology, we could reduce our oil imports significantly.
Although all of this certainly sounds attractive, I really have no idea whether this process works or not. But the thoughts I am left with are that if this process really does work as well as advertised, why haven't I heard of it before, and why aren't people already making millions of dollars putting it into operation?
When I asked my host these questions, he said the coal conversion process actually was successfully demonstrated in a project run in Gillette, Wyo., between 1992 and 1997. But the reason it was not put into operation at that time is that the process is not economically viable unless oil is priced at more than $60 per barrel. So now that it is priced well above that level, they are optimistically going forward.
Even more fundamentally, though, I am left scratching my head over the federal government's huge and continual subsidizing of corn-based ethanol as a gasoline additive at the rate of a 45-cent per gallon tax credit. The yield in energy from corn does not even approach the yield that could be obtained from the petroleum extracted from coal, if this process would work.
So why is the government doing this — particularly since the government's interference in the market has resulted in substantial increases in the worldwide prices of corn and corn products, such as tortillas, cereals and food for animals like pigs and chickens?
So all of this simply once again brings home the libertarian lesson that governments should put a quick and permanent end to their subsidy programs and leave the market alone! Fundamentally speaking, if there is value in this new coal conversion process, the market will support it, which means that the new technology will be implemented and society will be benefited.
And if there is no value in this process, it would and should fail, but along the way the markets for other products will not be upset, and society would be no worse off. In other words, politicians are not good at choosing what technologies will be successful in the marketplace, and they should leave those issues alone.
JAMES P. GRAY is a retired judge of the Orange County Superior Court, the author of "Wearing the Robe: the Art and Responsibility of Judging in Today's Courts" (Square One Publishers, 2010), Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It, A Voter's Handbook, Effective Solutions To America's Problems and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or http://www.judgejimgray.com. Judge Jim Gray is also currently offering his 25 years of experience on the bench to ADR Services in Orange County for Arbitration and Mediation services.
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There's a fine line between a tragic story and a sad one. Dwight Gooden's is very, very sad. A tragic story should have room for sympathy. With Gooden, the fear is he hasn't even hit rock bottom yet and is losing any chance at sympathy and redemption.
There's a fine line between a tragic story and a sad one. Dwight Gooden's is very, very sad.
A tragic story should have room for sympathy. With Gooden, the fear is he hasn't even hit rock bottom yet and is losing any chance at sympathy and redemption.
The story of the strikeout artist formerly known as "Dr. K" is filled with "what ifs" of a career that should be celebrated, instead of disappointment over what could have been.
Gooden's latest brush with the law came last week when he was involved in a two-vehicle accident with a child in the car. The worst part, however, is that Gooden got arrested for driving under the influence of drugs, leaving the scene of an accident, as well as child endangerment and other traffic violations.
This from a man who has had several battles with alcoholism, drug abuse, been in and out of rehab clinics and even did time in prison.
It's a long way from his days as a flame-throwing phenom for the New York Mets in the mid-1980s. That's what makes his story so difficult to tell and recall.
This is a man who should be remembered for being one of the most dominant pitchers of all time for a team that should have won more than one World Series championship during that era. Instead, he's the former Mets' pitcher who did drugs with Darryl Strawberry.
Strawberry's story also is littered with tales of wasted talent and "what could have been," but so far — knock on wood — he's been able to get himself straightened out. Like Gooden, Strawberry, 48, also went to jail and kept falling further and further, but unlike his buddy, "Straw" has seemingly learned his lesson.
Gooden, 45, Strawberry were on a collison course with Cooperstown with a Mets team ready to explode. Strawberry won the NL?Rookie of the Year in 1983, followed by Gooden's historic 1984 rookie season and legendary 1985 campaign.
Adding Keith Hernandez, Gary Carter, and a few other key spare parts, and the 1986 New York Mets were born. Steam-rolling through the regular season, the Mets played a classic NLCS against the Houston Astros and one of the most memorable World Series ever against the Boston Red Sox.
With Strawberry and Gooden just entering their primes, there should have been more trips down the Canyon of Heroes. Not an endless line of arrests and a far-too-quick fall from grace for the Mets.
They came close in the years following, but nothing was the same for that team, and it wasn't all on Gooden and Strawberry. That was a roster full of boozing, skirt-chasing bozos that were great at what they did — on and off the field — and that actually ended up being their downfall.
Whether you are a Mets fan or not, a must-read is Jeff Pearlman's "The Bad Guys Won," which chronicles that entire 1986 season and sets up what was about to happen to that group. Myself, I've read it cover-to-cover twice and have thought about picking it up again.
It'll be tough to find a professional athlete more underappreciated than Donovan McNabb has been in Philadelphia. He's been a five-time Pro Bowler, has led the Eagles to five NFC?titles games and a Super Bowl. While he's failed to deliver the big prize, he has taken far too much of the blame despite a very productive NFL?career. He's certainly not above criticism, but to be booed, beaten, and bashed the way he has during his career is ridiculous.
The Pittsburgh Steelers may have a crucial decision to make very soon. With both Ben Roethlisberger and Santonio Holmes facing lawsuits, the team has to tread lightly with how they handle the future of their star players. Neither has been charged with a crime, which probably makes their current state all the more difficult. The team and the league is stuck, waiting for the legal process to take its course and see if these accusations are legitimate or false. There's nothing they can do right now, as far as disciplining the players until they know what truly happened.
That being said, for both Holmes and Roethlisberger, it's not the first accusation for either, and you hate to think the worst, but at the very least, their decision-making has to be brought into question.
Paul Jannace writes for the Daily Reporter in Wellsville, N.Y.


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Just when did the Republican Party become a religious organization? I am disgusted by anti-gay statements made by Republican candidates for the top elected office in the United States. These candidates are using religious-based bigotry to play on the public's fears in an effort to garner votes from the religious right. Since when is it OK to demonize a class of people in the United States, vowing to strip away civil rights?
Barry Goldwater – Republican Senator from Arizona tried to warn us about this public threat in a speech to the US Senate in 1981.
On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in "A," "B," "C" and "D." Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of "conservatism."
Goldwater issued another warning in 1994 , as quoted in John W. Dean's book Conservatives Without Conscience:
Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.
That time has come. Republicans using the name of God have declared war on gay Americans, vowing to repeal all marriage equality laws stating that gay Americans can be cured despite the fact that being gay is not an illness. We have Republican Presidential candidates like Rick Santorum wanting to reinstate the military's failed DADT policy. Santorum who never served his country in the military, stated the repeal of the policy was "detrimental to soldiers". The Republican pseudo-religious group calling themselves the Family Research Council stated that repealing DADT would cause 30% of the military forces to leave the military.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The repeal of the policy has had absolutely no effect, other than to finally end the discrimination against gays and lesbians who serve.
The Family Research Council is listed as a HATE GROUP by the Southern Poverty Law Center because of their anti-gay rhetoric that uses false information to persuade political opinion such as linking gay men to pedophilia and pushing to criminalize gay behavior. The actions of this group are not unlike those exhibited in Nazi Germany who criminalized, warehoused and executed gays and Jews in World War II.
The Family Research Council isn't really pro-family as much as it is anti-gay. The FRC awarded Republican Representative Joe Walsh with a pro-family award despite the fact that the deadbeat dad owed $117,000 in unpaid child support to his ex-wife.
With each day that passes, more Americans are beginning to understand how the Bible was misused in the past to bolster personal prejudices and fears in trying to control the masses. It was used to enforce slavery, to prevent interracial marriage and to treat women as second class citizens. Today the minority target is gay Americans. It is NOT OK to bring these beliefs into the political arena. The Separation Clause of the 1st Amendment was interpreted by the US Supreme Court as prohibiting the same.
Attempting to legitimize this type of bigotry against gay Americans in the name of religious teachings also has a detrimental affect on children in today's society, giving them a reason to bully others who are gay.
New York State legalized same-sex marriage last year and previously instituted legislation to prevent discrimination based on sexual orientation in the form of the Hate Crimes Act of 2000. In 2003 the term sexual orientation was added to the NYS Human Rights Act which among other things, prohibits discrimination in job hiring, public accommodation and housing.
Under NYS Education Law, the Dignity for all Students Act becomes effective July 1, 2012. This anti-bullying law states in part:
§ 12. Discrimination and harassment prohibited. 1. No student shall be subjected to harassment by employees or students on school property or at a school function; nor shall any student be subjected to discrimination based on a person's actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender, or sex by school employees or students on school property or at a school function.
Gay Americans have faced discrimination and adversity for far to long to have these civil rights (yes they are civil rights protected by the 14th Amendment) stripped away by Republican wannabes wearing religion on their sleeves.


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A = ALCOHOL—Greencastle police strictly enforce the city's open container law, so let's get that out of the way first. Greencastle and Putnam County police forces will be in full force, as well as private security at the game. Be careful if and when you drink. Ride in fan buses or with designated drivers.
B = BELL—We've never seen it placed on a scale, but it is said to weigh over 300 pounds. The Bell itself is brass colored, though the cast iron stand is painted half red and half gold. The Bell was a gift from the Monon Railroad in 1932 as a trophy for the rivalry.
C = CHRIS CREIGHTON—Wabash's coach is 3-1 in Bell games, winning his first three by scores of 27-21, 35-7, and 37-20. He lost last year's game 14-7. He's 2-0 in games in Greencastle.
D = DEPAUW—The Tigers are on a seven-game winning streak after opening the season with a loss to Wesley. Since that time, DePauw captured a share of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference title with Trinity since the two teams did not play due to Hurricane Rita.
D also = DIRECTV—For the second year in a row, the Monon Bell Classic will air on DirecTV channel 321. The game is being produced by WHMB-TV (over-the-air channel 40 in Indiana; channel 7 on Crawfordsville cable).
E = ERIC SUMMERS—Wabash's senior wide receiver (pictured at left) is on a roll, having caught 27 passes for 462 yards and four touchdowns in his last four games. "E" has three 100-yard receiving games in that stretch, and four on the season.
F = FORD—Wabash President Andy Ford will sit in the Blackstock Stadium stands for the last time as the school's 14th president. In his first game he donned a commemorative Monon Bell jersey and showed spirit of life-long Little Giants. This year he will be saluted on television between the third and fourth quarters of the game.
G = GENTLEMAN'S RULE—Use your heads: Indecent T-shirts and banners will not be allowed in the game; screaming obscenities at officials will get you tossed out; drunken, disorderly conduct will earn you the weekend in the Greencastle clink; tearing up Blackstock Stadium after a Wabash victory will similarly get you arrested. Be Gentlemen and celebrate in Crawfordsville.
H = HARBAUGH—Russ Harbaugh starts his third Monon Bell Game Saturday, and is the current North Coast Athletic Conference Player of the Week for completing 19-of-20 passes for 317 yards and three touchdowns vs. Denison. He is one of the ten most efficient passers in Division III with a rating of 180.2, and is the odds-on favorite to be named NCAC Player of the Year.
I = IMAGINATION—Big games like the Monon Bell Classic tend to make coaches get conservative. However, if the opportunity arises, look for Coach Creighton or Coach Rogers to get imaginative. At Ohio Wesleyan, Coach Creighton ran two gadget plays. Last week against Rose-Hulman, tailback Jeremiah Marks threw a touchdown pass to quarterback Ross Wiethoff. IMAGINE a purposely tipped pass going for a touchdown late in a game? Nah, that would never happen.
J = JEREMIAH—Jeremiah Marks (photo at right) is the fuel for DePauw's offensive engine. The 6-0, 207-pound sophomore is a load and comes into the Bell Game with 850 yards rushing and 15 touchdowns. Discount two games when he was sick, Marks has rushed for over 100 yards in every game this season, and is coming in off a 162-yard thrashing of Rose-Hulman. Oh yeah, and he had 87 vs. Wabash as a rookie.
K = KICKING GAME—Coach Creighton thinks this game will come down to special teams and turnovers. Wabash kicker Chad Finley hit 7-of-7 extra points and a 31-yard field goal last week. For the year he's 32-of-41 on extra points, 5-of-7 on field goals, with a long of 43 yards. DePauw counters with Tyler Mallory, who is 30-of-34 on extra points and 5-of-8 on field goals, but has not hit a field goal longer than 30 yards. Finley averages 39.2 yards per punt, while DePauw's Jon Williams averages 36.3.
L = LINEBACKERS—Pound for pound, man for man, Wabash's linebackers are probably the fastest, most dominant, experienced group to take the field for Wabash in recent history. Seniors Josh Foster, Aaron Selby, Tim Parker, and Pete Kempf are all multiple letter winners and each has played in at least two Monon Bell Games. Oh, and then there is Adrian Pynenberg, the sophomore (see "P" below).
M = MYTH—The Wabash-DePauw rivalry is NOT the oldest continuous rivalry west of the Allegheny Mountains. There are rivalries older and more continuous than the Monon Bell Game. It might be, could be, the oldest continuous SMALL COLLEGE rivalry west of the Alleghenies. But just bag it and call it what it is: "The best damned rivalry anywhere."
N = NO—There is NO truth to the rumor that Blackstock Stadium was once an unfinished basement. Okay, so we borrow that one from Dick Ristine, Wabash '41 who refers to Blackstock as "having all the charm of an unfinished basement." But with a cemetery view, Dick.
O = OFFENSE—Wabash enters the Bell Game averaging 486 yards and 38 points per game, while DePauw averages 384 yards and 33 points per game. Still, the offenses are likely to take a back seat to defense this week. Wabash's NCAC-leading defense gives up just nine points, 67 rushing yards, and 249 yards per game. DePauw's defense has held teams to 10 points or less four times, and gives up just 12 points and 270 yards per game. Anybody remember that 7-2 game in 1995? Or last year's 14-7 tilt?
P = PYNENBERG—Wabash's defense is led by sophomore linebacker Adrian Pynenberg (pictured at left). He'll lead the Little Giants in total tackles for the second straight year (72 coming into the Bell Game), while adding 15.5 tackles for loss, seven sacks, three interceptions, and a forced fumble. He's a force. If he's able to shed blocks and bring down Jeremiah Marks for short gains, things turn in favor of Wabash.
Q = QUIT—Quit analyzing stats and records. The Monon Bell Classic comes down to will and determination. Former assistant coach Max Servies used to say it's all about "blocking and tackling." Coach Creighton says "special teams and turnovers." Former DPU coach Nick Mourouzis said it is "a game for the seniors." Hogwash. Which ever team wants it the most, who executes plays as practiced, will win.
R = ROSS WIETHOFF—DePauw's senior quarterback is a multi-talented athlete who can beat teams with his arm (1,007 yards and five touchdowns) or with his legs (400 yards and three touchdowns). He's scored on long touchdown runs against Wabash in each of the last two years. Last year's 40-yard TD run provided the Tigers with the game's first score.
S = SELBY—Aaron Selby (pictured at right), the oft-injured Little Giant linebacker, is healthy for this year's Monon Bell Classic and is ready for anything. If Pynenberg is the team's defensive stopper, Selby is its heart and soul. His 29 tackles on the year are not awe-inspiring. His game-ending tackles on key plays vs. Wittenberg and Allegheny were eye-popping. If Selby's name is being called frequently by the PA announcer Saturday, it's a good sign for Wabash.
T = TAILGATING—We've had mixed signals from DePauw indicating that the lower, south lot at Blackstock Stadium will be first come, first served with the parking lot open at 8:00 a.m. That would provide a good tailgating spot for Wabash fans. However, there have also been reports that RVs will not be allowed in that lot and that RVs will park in a lot near the Peeler Art Center. More later.
U = UNDERDOG—Nope, not this year. With Wabash 9-0 and DePauw 7-1, there is no underdog this year. And since there is no common opponent, throw out the records, too. Both teams boast senior quarterbacks and talent-laden defenses. Nope, no underdog this year.
V = VICTORY—A victory for Wabash almost assures the Little Giants of two home playoff games. Wabash already has locked up the NCAC automatic bid to the tournament. A win over DePauw would likely give Wabash the number one seed in the North Region and thus two home playoff games. A victory for DePauw would likely get the Tigers into the playoffs, though it's anyone's guess if the Tigers would play in the South Region or be moved (for geographic reasons) to the North Region.
W = WABASH—Wabash won its second outright North Coast title last week with its 52-0 win over Denison and secured for the College its third trip to the NCAA Playoffs. In 1977, Wabash made it to the national championship game. In 2002, Wabash lost in the quarterfinals to eventual champion Mount Union. But Coach Creighton insists that nobody is talking playoffs this week—just DePauw.
X = X's AND O's—Wabash will execute a game plan similar to what it has done all year. A spread, West Coast style offense with gun-slinging Russ Harbaugh (that's him on the left) throwing to five, six, even seven different receivers. Three running backs will rotate through. Wabash's defense will play base early, then come with linebacker blitzes as the game dictates. DePauw will counter with a hard-nosed rushing attack, using a fullback and tight end to bust open holes for Jeremiah Marks in Wabash's smaller, but faster defense. Defensively, DePauw will use a variety of defenses, from cover 2 to cover 3 to man-to-man. Like Wabash, the Tigers will come with unpredictable blitzes as the down and distance dictate.
Y = YUCK—Anyone remember the weather in Greencastle two years ago? Driving rain throughout the game? Anyone remember the weather in Greencastle in 1995 (blizzard-like) and 1997 (sudden snow storm). What about 2001 when it was sunny and warm? So, bring your parka and gloves, sunscreen and baseball hat and be ready for any weather.
Z = ZERO—Tickets remain for the game. Buy 'em on eBay for $50 and higher.


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It takes more than a week longer to sell a property in 2018 compared to last year, according to research by Post Office Money and the Centre for Economics and Business Research.
The report, which looks at housing data in 35 major cities across the UK, found that it takes 102 days on average to sell a property.
This has increased since 2017, when the same research found that properties took 96 days to sell.
Homes in in Edinburgh and Glasgow were the fastest to sell, taking 39 and 48 days respectively.
However, homeowners in London and Blackpool had average wait of 126 and 131 days.
Ross Hunter, spokesperson for Post Office Money, said that while properties are taking longer to sell, "this doesn't mean that interest in moving up the housing ladder is waning".
He said the Post Office has seen a rise in mortgage applications, with first-time buyers increasing by 12% in the last year.
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How Do I Customize WebCit?
Look & Feel
The default WebCit installation will create an empty directory called
Easy install will do so in
/usr/local/webcit/; the debs in
You may place a file called
webcit.css into this directory. If its present, its referenced after the default stylesheet. If you
know CSS and wish to customize your WebCit installation, any styles you declare in
static.local/webcit.css will override the styles found in
You may also place other files, such as images, in
static.local for further customization.
Your customizations will not be overwritten later upgrades.
to make the changes take effect restart webcit:
/etc/init.d/webcit restart
Wording / Translating
WebCit utilizes GNU Gettext to provide localization. As WebCit is threadded, you need threadsafe locale support. They 're available in the GNU libc used in usual Linux Distributions, and Apples MacOS X. *BSD doesn't; if you need it, report a bug to them.
This would be also the right way to change some strings, if you don't like ours.
If you want to create a translation, you should log into Uncensored! and ask if anybody already started this language. If not, here's how to get started:
- grab the latest WebCit sources from the SVN repo
- untar it, you will find webcit/po/webcit.pot, which is the template file containing all strings to be translated.
- you need at least an UTF8 capable editor (as the citadel project has chosen utf8 as charset for its po files, and in the end po's are just text files)
- you could use kbabel
- you could use the eclipse plugin
- you could use this web editor
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- Next Untranslated: u
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- use the vim po tools
- … before you ask… RSVP aka Répondez s'il-vous-plaît Is the term that the recipient of an ical-invitation should please answer this request.
- you need to watch out for fuzzy translations, as they're guessed by gettext and need to be reviewed. the fuzzy flag needs to be removed.
#: c-file the string is kept in #: fuzzy if gettext isn't shure what to do; remove this msgid "The original Message Text" msgstr "Your translation in some other or the same ;-) language"
- post your po file to the citadel development room, it will be integrated with next webcit.


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Fayette has lost the services of a veteran law enforcement officer following the resignation of police chief Rick Kline.
Village council members regretfully accepted Kline's resignation, ending a 28-year career with the village.
Kline's resignation took effect Oct. 30.
Council member Mike Maginn thanked Kline for his many years of service to the village.
Mayor Anita Van Zile said Monday that a council committee would begin discussing the next step to take to replace Kline.
Jason Simon, who serves as the department sergeant, is the only remaining full-time officer. Until a chief is hired, he will supervise the nine part-time officers who help provide police coverage for the village.
Van Zile said Tuesday she has spoken with the sheriffs from Fulton and Williams counties for advice about the situation and Sheriff Darrell Merillat will attend the next public safety committee meeting to discuss the matter further.
"Our primary concern is maintaining the best coverage for the village while staying within our budget," Van Zile said. "I anticipate accepting applications in the near future."


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The International and American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR) have published a paper titled "Rare Bone Diseases and Their Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Manifestations." The complete review by researchers Sunday O. Akintoye, Andrea B. Burke, Alison M. Boyce, Michael Collins, Brian L. Foster, Rachel I. Gafni, Janice S. Lee, Mary Scott Ramnitz, Martha J. Somerman and J. Timothy Wright is published in the OnlineFirst portion of the IADR/AADR Journal of Dental Research (JDR).
Hereditary diseases affecting the skeleton are heterogeneous in etiology and severity. Though many of these conditions are individually rare, the total number of people affected is great. These disorders often include dental-oral-craniofacial (DOC) manifestations, but the combination of the rarity and lack of in-depth reporting often limit our understanding and ability to diagnose and treat affected individuals.
In this insightful and thorough review, researchers focused on dental, oral and craniofacial manifestations of rare bone diseases. Discussed in this report are defects in four key physiologic processes in bone/tooth formation that serve as models for the understanding of other diseases in the skeleton and DOC complex: progenitor cell differentiation (fibrous dysplasia), extracellular matrix production (osteogenesis imperfecta), mineralization (familial tumoral calcinosis/hyperostosis hyperphosphatemia syndrome, hypophosphatemicrickets, and hypophosphatasia), and bone resorption (Gorham-Stout disease). For each condition, the authors highlight causative mutations (when known), etiopathology in the skeleton and DOC complex, and treatments.
By understanding how these four foci are subverted to cause disease, the researchers aimed to improve the identification of genetic, molecular, and/or biologic causes, diagnoses, and treatment of these and other rare bone conditions that may share underlying mechanisms of disease.
"On behalf of the Journal of Dental Research, I thank the authors of this comprehensive review on rare bone diseases for publication in the Journal Special Supplement on Clinical Research," said JDR Editor William Giannobile. "This research contributes to our knowledge and understanding of rare bone diseases and further paves the way for the treatment of these diseases."


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Police have released the identifies of two men from Navarre who were shot Thursday afternoon.
FORT WALTON BEACH � Police have released the identifies of two men from Navarre who were shot Thursday afternoon.
Terrence L. Robinson, 19, was found dead in a blue Saturn sedan about 3:15 p.m. near the intersection of West Audrey Drive and Sullivan Street, Sgt. Matt Holt with the Fort Walton Beach Police Department said Friday.
The driver of the vehicle, 20-year-old John Selfridge, was taken to Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola with non-life threatening injuries, Holt said.
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Reports of the shooting came from Spanish Villas Condominiums on Marshall Drive about 3 p.m. Robinson and Selfridge rode from there to Sullivan, where the car pulled to the side of street.
Holt said police believe there are other people involved.
�We�re going to find them. It�s just a matter of time,� Holt said.
Meanwhile, callers reported hearing gunshots at Spanish Villas at about 5 p.m. Friday. Police sped to the condos and searched the area, but found nothing.
Anyone with information about Thursday�s shootings can call Fort Walton Beach Detective Tracy Hart at 833-9537.
�If anybody has other information or witnessed anything, any pertinent information into the investigation, we want them to call,� Holt said.
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Jalisco Imports Inc necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 56 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
Jalisco Imports Inc
We are an importer of dried goods such as dried chili peppers, corn husks, tamarind, habiscus flowers, snacks and candies, spices and herbs. 80% of my market is wholesale to grocery stores and other vendors. 20% of my market are local retail customers.
I am looking for something upscale ethnic. Not something cheesy with a sombrero but something that comes across as professional. Im open to mascots or other ideas, just remember I do not do produce. Something that may remind you of back home in Mexico or the old country. Nostalgic for goods from back home.
Our company colors are dark and rich like burgandys, mustard and browns. Even though the name of our company is named after the state in Mexico my family is from, we do not just import from that state. In fact we sell local goods, from Mexico, Canada, China and now Peru.
My target audience is @ 90% Hispanic but I am looking to expand to other markets soon. Your everyday housewife looking for items to make dinner with.
I am looking for an eye catching logo to complete with others in the ethnic supermarket eisle. Something clean and simple that can be mass printed on labels, stationary and uploaded on a website.
Our brand name is the name of our corporation, but I am open to a catchy name for our products.
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On June 14 on LPB's Louisiana: The State We're In, Vice Chancellor Raymond T. Diamond discussed the Voting Rights Act and Shelby County v. Holder, recently decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Professor Christina Sautter served as a discussant on the Money and Markets panel at the Law and Society Association 2013 Annual Meeting held in Boston, MA on May 31, 2013. As a discussant she commented on papers written by Professors Mehrsa Baradaran (University of Georgia School of Law); Elisabeth de Fontenay (Harvard Law School); Joan MacLeod Heminway (University of Tennessee College of Law); Kristin Johnson (Seton Hall University School of Law); and Summer Kim (University of Illinois College of Law).
Professor Philip Hackney's article, What We Talk About When We Talk About Exemption, will be published in the forthcoming issue of the Virginia Tax Review.
Professor Hackney was part of a panel on exempt organizations at the 8th Annual Junior Tax Scholars Workshop at University of Miami Law School on May 23, 2013.
Professor Christopher J. Tyson has been named to Lawyers of Color's 50 Under 50 list, a comprehensive catalog of minority law professors making an impact in legal education.
Professor Keith Hall taught International Petroleum Transactions at Baku State University Law School in Azerbaijan in May 2013. His students were Azeri lawyers who are seeking graduate degrees in law that are equivalent to an LLM. The students received two semester hours of credit for the course, which focused on an industry that is very relevant both to Azerbaijan's economy and the country's history. The country's first oil well was drilled in the 1870s and by the 1890s Azerbaijan was a major oil center. Azerbaijan remains a major producer of oil today.
Professor Ed Dawson's article, Adjusting the Presumption of Constitutionality Based on Margin of Statutory Passage, has been accepted for publication in volume 16 of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.
On May 12, Professor Dawson presented "Anatomy of a Good Oral Argument," a video-based demonstration of effective and ineffective oral advocacy, at the National Association of Attorneys General Appellate Practice Conference in Washington, D.C. He previously presented this training at a joint training conference for the Illinois Attorney General's office and Illinois State's Attorney Appellate Prosecutor office, organized by The National Attorneys General Training and Research Institute (NAGTRI) on April 25.
Professor Christina Sautter's article, Promises Made to be Broken? Standstill Agreements in Change of Control Transactions, was published in the most recent issue of the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law.
Professors William Corbett and John Church spoke at the second annual University of Louisiana-Monroe School Law Conference on April 30. Professor Church discussed Louisiana Legislative Act 1 (tenure reform and charter schools). Professor Corbett spoke on the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 and tort liability of schools. The conference is geared toward attorneys, school board members, school administrators, central office staff, or those interested in the legal issues affecting K-12 education in Louisiana.
On April 19, Professor Blake Hudson spoke on the topic of "Subnational Forest Policy, Regional Governance Culture, and Global Climate Change" on the "New Governance Structures in Urban Forestry Panel" at the Urban Forests and Political Ecologies Conference held at the University of Toronto in Canada.
Professor Keith Hall spoke on the topic Hydraulic Fracturing: Trade Secrets and the Mandatory Disclosure of Fracturing Fluid Composition at the Legal Aspects of Hydraulic Fracturing Symposium organized by the Idaho Law Review in Boise.
Professor Bill Corbett was interviewed by KATC about teachers who are required to sign contracts that contain a morality cause.
Professor Maggie Thomas provided opening remarks and moderated a panel discussion at Louisiana Law Review's annual symposium: Eastern District of Louisiana: The Nation's MDL Laboratory.
Professor Thomas was interviewed by 225 about her efforts to establish Red Stick German Shepherd Rescue, a local animal welfare organization.
Professor Christina Sautter presented her article, Auction Theory & Standstills: Dealing with Friends and Foes in a Sale of Corporate Control, (forthcoming in 2013 in the Case Western Reserve Law Review) at the third annual Junior Faculty Business and Financial Law Workshop hosted by George Washington University Law School's Center for Law, Economics & Finance (C-LEAF) on April 5-6, 2013. The workshop supports and recognizes the work of young legal scholars in accounting, banking, bankruptcy, corporations, economics, finance, and securities, while promoting interaction between them and selected senior faculty. Her article was one of 12 papers selected for presentation from a pool of over 70 blind submissions.
Professor Christina Sautter participated as a panelist on Current Issues for NDA's for M&A Deals at the American Bar Association Business Law Section's 2013 Spring Meeting held in Washington, D.C. on April 6, 2013.
Professor Elizabeth Carter's article, New Life for the Death Tax Debate, has been published in the Denver Law Review.
Professor Carter was quoted in The Times Picayune regarding the collection of criminal debt on a defendant's estate.
Professor Lee Ann Lockridge was interviewed for two Baton Rouge Business Report articles concerning trademarks: The Name Game and Faux Pas.
On March 15, Professor Blake Hudson participated as a panelist on the Gulf Coast Sustainability and the RESTORE Act at the American Society for Public Administration Conference on "Governance & Stability: Local Concerns, Global Challenges" that was held in New Orleans.
Professor Christina Sautter spoke at the University of Iowa College of Law's Journal of Corporation Law Symposium on Ten Years After Omnicare: The Evolving Market for Deal Protection Devices. Other Symposium speakers included: Chief Justice E. Norman Veasey (Former Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court); Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster (Delaware Court of Chancery); Professor Steven M. Davidoff (The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law); Sean J. Griffith (Fordham University School of Law); Professor Brian J.M. Quinn (Boston College Law School); and Megan W. Shaner (The University of Oklahoma College of Law) as well as partners from Potter Anderson & Caroon LLP; Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates.
Professor Kevin Bennardo's commentary, Prisoner-Plaintiffs and the Frontiers of Frivolousness: Why Claim Value Should Play No Role in In Forma Pauperis Frivolousness Determinations, was recently featured in the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law's Amici Blog.
In "Founders' Fear of Division Made the Deal Inevitable," Vice Chancellor Ray Diamond examines the three-fifths clause in an op-ed as part of the New York Times' Room for Debate series.
On February 19, in connection with Black History Month, Vice Chancellor Raymond Diamond presented a paper, "Brown v. Board of Education, History, Legacy, Implications," at the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Asylum Division of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service.
Professor Keith Hall spoke on the topic "Recent Developments in the Regulation of Hydraulic Fracturing" at the Florida State University College of Law Spring 2013 Environmental Forum, "Effectively Governing Shale Gas Development," in Tallahassee.
Professor Robert Lancaster has been appointed to the Louisiana State Advisory Committee for the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Congress has directed the Commission to establish state advisory committees (SACs) in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to study issues and forward advisory reports to the Commission on matters within the agency's jurisdiction that reflect the views of the majority of SAC members producing the report.
Professor Christina Sautter presented a work-in-progress tentatively entitled, The Real Deal on Deal Protection, on February 2 during the 2013 Northeast Regional Scholarship and Teaching Development Workshop at Albany Law School in Albany, NY.
Professor Kevin Bennardo's article, Sweeping Up Guideline Floors: The Misguided Policy of Amendment 767 to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual, was published in the UCLA Law Review Discourse. The article challenges a recent amendment to the federal sentencing guidelines that raises the floor of the Guidelines range of imprisonment for all counts in a multi-count conviction to match a mandatory minimum sentence applicable to one of the counts.
Professor Christina Sautter's work-in-progress, Auction Theory & Standstill Agreements: Dealing with Friends and Foes in a Sale of Corporate Control, was featured as a poster presentation during the January 2013 American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA.
Vice Chancellor N. Gregory Smith's article Judicial Disqualification in America was published in volume 2 of the International Journal of Procedural Law.
Professor Bill Corbett's article, Unmasking a Pretext for Res Ipsa Loquitur: A Proposal to Let Employment Discrimination Speak for Itself, was published in volume 62:3 of the American University Law Review in early 2013. On January 6, 2013, Professor Corbett spoke on a panel with other professors at the AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans on the topic of "Torts and Compensation Systems – Tort and Compensation Principles in Related Fields."
Professor Melissa Lonegrass' article, Finding Room for Fairness in Formalism—The Sliding Scale Approach to Unconscionability, will appear in the upcoming volume of the Loyola University Chicago Law Review. She participated in a panel titled, Collegiality and Service: A Balance, during the inaugural Beginning & Newer Law Teachers Workshop held at the 2013 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting. Professor Lonegrass, who served as Secretary for the Central Law Schools Association during the 2011-2012 academic year, was elected Vice President of the same organization for the upcoming academic year.
Professor Heidi Thompson presented her poster, Over the Rainbow: Using Color and Pop Culture to Gently Introduce ILs to the Structure for Legal Analysis, at the 2013 AALS conference in New Orleans in January.


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 12,
Livermore, CA – The Center for Biological Diversity ("CBD") filed a lawsuit today against Florida energy producer FPL Group, Inc. (NYSE symbol: FPL) and Danish wind power company NEG Micon A/S for their part in the illegal ongoing killing of tens of thousands of protected birds by wind turbines at the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area ("APWRA") in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Through their subsidiaries and associated entities, FPL Group and NEG Micon own or operate roughly half of the approximately 5,400 wind turbines at the APWRA. Each year, wind turbines at the APWRA kill up to 60 or more golden eagles and hundreds of other hawks, owls, and other protected raptors. These bird kills have continued for 20 years in flagrant violation of the Bald Eagle and Golden Eagle Protection Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and several California Fish and Game Code provisions. The lawsuit alleges that these violations and bird kills are unlawful and unfair business practices under the California Business and Professions Code.
"Altamont Pass wind turbines are causing extremely high levels of bird mortality along a major raptor migration route and are likely depleting eagle, hawk, and owl populations not only locally but throughout the western U. S.," said Jeff Miller, spokesperson for CBD. "We absolutely support wind power, but it is past time for the primary turbine owners, FPL Energy and NEG Micon, to address this problem."
"Altamont Pass has become a death zone for eagles and other magnificent and imperiled birds of prey. Recent studies have proposed numerous recommendations for mitigating the devastating effect of Altamont Pass wind turbines on birds, yet the industry is blindly charging ahead replacing existing turbines with new and much larger turbines without any requirement of effective preventative measures or remediation for ongoing bird kills," said Richard Wiebe, attorney for the plaintiffs.
The APWRA was established in 1982 on 160 square kilometers of private cattle ranches in eastern Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. Due in part to the local abundance of raptor populations in the region, wind turbines at APWRA cause more bird deaths than any wind facility in the world, a result of poor planning that allowed wind turbines to be built along a major raptor migration corridor and in the heart of the highest concentration of golden eagles in North America. Wind turbines at Altamont Pass kill over a thousand birds each year, including up to 60 or more golden eagles, 300 red-tailed hawks, 270 burrowing owls, and additional hundreds of other raptors including kestrels, falcons, vultures, and other owl species. In 20 years of operation, the wind power industry has yet to implement any effective measures to reduce the killing of protected raptors or come up with meaningful mitigations to protect bird populations affected by the wind farms. In recent months, the County of Alameda approved repowering and renewed permits for the majority of the wind turbines at APWRA without conducting any public environmental review or requiring any meaningful mitigation measures to reduce or compensate for bird deaths. CBD and CAlifornians for Renewable Energy filed a formal appeal of the permit renewals with Alameda County in November 2003.
The extraordinary numbers of raptor deaths continue unabated, due in part to the complete regulatory failure by federal, state, and local officials to enforce wildlife protection laws. "The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U. S. Attorney's Office, California Department of Fish and Game, and Alameda and Contra Costa Counties bear equal responsibility for the ongoing bird atrocity at Altamont for their failure to impose any meaningful mitigation requirements or protective measures on the Altamont Pass wind power industry," stated Miller.
To add insult to injury, the Altamont Pass wind power industry has been receiving massive tax credits as well as government cash grants funded by surcharges imposed on California's electricity consumers as part of the state's flawed deregulation plan, all of which serve to subsidize the killing of birds. "The wind power industry receives tens of millions of dollars in revenue from California's consumers, as well as enormous tax credits and government subsidies, based on the perception that it provides 'green' energy, yet continues to kill thousands of protected birds annually," said Miller. "The Altamont companies routinely kill rare birds that are the natural heritage of all Californians, and take taxpayer subsidies home to Florida and Denmark." According to wind industry reports, the Altamont Pass fiasco has tainted public perception of wind energy and hampered wind power development, as concerns about bird impacts has delayed or discontinued other wind facilities.
The magnitude of bird kills at APWRA has been known since at least 1988, when the first of many studies of raptor mortality was published. To date, the industry has not implemented effective mitigation measures to reduce bird kills, protect and maintain existing bird populations, or to compensate for killing large numbers of birds from imperiled populations, despite numerous studies by the California Energy Commission, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and others. "The birds have literally been studied to death, yet the Altamont Pass turbine owners have failed to take action to reduce the risk to birds of prey," said Miller. In fact some efforts at APWRA, such as a small mammal poisoning program, have actually increased the risk to raptors while also threatening other endangered species inhabiting Altamont Pass such as the San Joaquin kit fox and California red-legged frog. Recent research at APWRA determined that bird mortality has not lessened over time, that the industry's minimal mitigation measures have been ineffective, and that the actual number of bird deaths is likely 8 to 16 times the industry-reported number of bird kills.
The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in San Francisco, is brought under California's Unfair Competition Law (California Business and Professions Code section 17200), which prohibits businesses from violating other laws, in this case federal and state wildlife protection laws, in the course of their business activities. The lawsuit also alleges that FPL has violated California's false advertising laws and the federal Lanham Act by making untrue or misleading statements in publicly asserting that it complies with all federal and state environmental laws.
The issue at Altamont is not wind power versus birds, but rather whether the wind power industry is willing to take simple steps to reduce bird kills. Raptor experts have suggested numerous measures to reduce bird deaths, including retiring particularly lethal turbines, relocating turbines out of canyons, moving isolated turbines into clusters, increasing the visibility of turbines to birds, retrofitting power poles to prevent bird electrocutions, discontinuing the rodent poisoning program, and managing grazing to encourage rodent prey away from turbines. Raptor experts have also suggested mitigation through raptor habitat preservation to maintain the stability of the bird populations that are being depleted.
Concerns about the potential for wind turbines at Altamont Pass to kill endangered condors recently scuttled plans by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reintroduce condors into the Diablo Range east of Morgan Hill and Gilroy. The turbines may also be severely impacting local populations of the western burrowing owl, a declining species for which the CBD and bird conservation groups are requesting protection under the California Endangered Species Act.
The Center for Biological Diversity is a nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to the protection of native species and their habitats. The Center works to protect and restore natural ecosystems and imperiled species through science, education, policy, and environmental law. For more information about the impacts of wind turbines on raptors and the Altamont Pass issue visit our web site.


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I'd like to take this moment to thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting and reading this blog over the years. It has evolved over the years to be much more than I had ever hoped, and I am hoping to get back to posting more on it. However – first, I'd like to let you know that Coming Back Home is moving.
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The purpose of this trial is to determine the safety of rituximab for the treatment of bullous pemphigoid. Secondary clinical endpoints include the number of days to cessation of new blister formation, the ability to reduce prednisone to 25% of the initial dose by week 24 and bullous pemphigoid antibody levels at week 24.
The Division of Dermatology at Duke University Medical Center is recruiting patients for a clinical study using rituximab (Rituxan) to study the treatment of bullous pemphigoid in participants who continue to have blisters, skin ulcers or other disease activity despite therapy with 17.5 mg/day or more of prednisone therapy. 8 participants will be treated with intravenous infusions of rituximab on day 1 and day 15 and followed monthly for 6 months and then every 3 months for a total of 1 year.
Enrollment Criteria
Participants must be at least 18 years of age with a clinical diagnosis of bullous pemphigoid and ongoing disease activity and on 17.5 mg/day or more of prednisone. Participants that are taking other immunosuppressive drugs such as azathioprine (Imuran), mycophenolate mofetil (Cellcept), methotrexate, or cyclosporine A will undergo a 4-week washout phase before beginning the trial. Pregnant or nursing women are not eligible to participate in the trial. All potential participants will have a screening visit which will include a review of their medical history, physical examination and obtaining of a blood sample to determine their eligibility to participate in the study.
Contact Information
Please contact the Division of Dermatology at Duke University Medical Center by email or phone with questions regarding this trial and feel free to pass on this contact information to all interested individuals.
Principal Investigator
Russell P. Hall III M.D.
J. Lamar Callaway Professor and Chief
Division of Dermatology
Department of Medicine
Duke University School of Medicine
919-684-3110 (phone)
Clinical Trial Coordinator
Deborah Hannah
919-681-5797 (phone)


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Transations of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering(TCSAE), founded in 1985, is sponsored by the Chinese Chemical Society. TCSAE has been indexed by EI Compendex, CAB Inti, CSA. TCSAE is devoted to reporting the academic developments of Agricultural Engineering mainly in China and some developments from abroad. The primary topics that we consider are the following: comprehensive research, agricultural equipment and mechanization, soil and water engineering, agricultural information and electrical technologies, agricultural bioenvironmental and energy engineering, land consolidation and rehabilitation engineering, agricultural produce processing engineering.
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