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President Barack Obama, Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Gov. Rick Perry were among the speakers at today's memorial service for the 15 first responders who died last week in the fertilizer plant explosion in West. Here is a complete text of the president's remarks:
Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Thank you. Please. Thank you, Senator Cornyn, Governor Perry, President Starr, gathered dignitaries, the community of Baylor and Waco — most of all, the family and the friends and neighbors of West, Texas.
I cannot match the power of the voices you just heard on that video. And no words adequately describe the courage that was displayed on that deadly night. What I can do is offer the love and support and prayers of the nation.
The Book of Psalms tells us, "For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us. We went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance. "We went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance."
For this state, for our country, these have been trying and difficult days. We gather here in Texas to mourn the brave men who went through fire and all those who have been taken from us. We remain mindful of our fellow Americans in flooded states to the north who endure the high waters. We pray for those in Boston who have been tested, and the wounded whose greatest tests still lie ahead.
But know this: While the eyes of the world may have been fixed on places far away, our hearts have also been here in your time of tribulation. And even amidst such sorrow and so much pain, we recognize God's abundance. We give thanks for the courage and the compassion and the incredible grace of the people of West.
We're grateful for Mayor Muska and Mayor Duncan, and all those who have shown such leadership during this tragedy. And to the families and neighbors grappling with unbearable loss, we are here to say, you are not alone. You are not forgotten. We may not all live here in Texas, but we're neighbors, too. (Applause.) We're Americans, too, and we stand with you, and we do not forget. And we'll be there even after the cameras leave and after the attention turns elsewhere. Your country will remain ever ready to help you recover and rebuild and reclaim your community. (Applause.)
Until last week, I think it's fair to say that few outside this state had ever heard of West. And I suspect that's the way most people in West like it. (Laughter and applause.) Now, it is true that weary travelers, and now the wider world, know they can rely on the Czech Stop for a brief respite in the middle of a long stretch of highway. I want to say, by the way, all the former Presidents in Dallas send their thoughts and prayers, and George W. and Laura Bush spoke longingly about the kolaches — (laughter) — and the even better company, as they've driven through West. And what they understand, and what all of you understand, is what makes West special is not the attention coming from far-flung places. What makes West special, what puts it on the map is what makes it familiar: The people who live there. The neighbors you can count on. Places that haven't changed. Things that are solid and true and lasting.
Most of the people in West know everybody in West. Many of you are probably descended from those first settlers — hardy immigrants who crossed an ocean and kept on going. So for you, there's no such thing as a stranger. When someone is in need, you reach out to them and you support them, and you do what it takes to help them carry on.
That's what happened last Wednesday, when a fire alarm sounded across a quiet Texas evening. As we've heard, the call went out to volunteers — not professionals — people who just love to serve. People who want to help their neighbors. A call went out to farmers and car salesmen; and welders and funeral home directors; the city secretary and the mayor. It went out to folks who are tough enough and selfless enough to put in a full day's work and then be ready for more.
And together, you answered the call. You dropped your schoolwork, left your families, jumped in fire trucks, and rushed to the flames. And when you got to the scene, you forgot fear and you fought that blaze as hard as you could, knowing the danger, buying time so others could escape. And then, about 20 minutes after the first alarm, the earth shook, and the sky went dark — and West changed forever.
Today our prayers are with the families of all who we've lost — the proud sons and daughters of West whose memories will live on in our hearts. Parents who loved their kids, and leaders who served their communities. They were young and old, from different backgrounds and different walks of life. A few were just going about their business. An awful lot ran towards the scene of disaster trying to help. One was described as the kind of guy whose phone was always ringing with folks in need of help — help he always provided. That's just who these folks were.
Our thoughts are with those who face a long road — the wounded, the heartbroken, the families who lost their homes and possessions in an instant. They're going to need their friends in West, but they're also going to need their friends in Texas, and their friends all across this country. They'll still need you to answer that call. They will need those things that are lasting and true. For, as Scripture teaches us, "a friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity."
To the people of West, just as we've seen the love you share in better times, as friends and brothers and sisters, these hard days have shown your ability to stand tall in times of unimaginable adversity.
You saw it in leaders like Mayor Muska, who lost close friends. And you saw it in the hospital staff who spent the night treating people that they knew — toiling through their tears as they did what had to be done.
We saw it in the folks who helped evacuate an entire nursing home, including one man who drove an elderly resident to safety and then came back to do it again, twice.
We saw it in the people so generous that when the Red Cross set up a shelter for folks who couldn't go back to their homes, not that many people showed up, because most had already been offered a place to stay with their friends and family and neighbors.
Complete strangers drove from hundreds of miles to donate supplies. Firefighters from surrounding communities manned the stations so surviving volunteers could recover from their wounds. Right here at Baylor, students stood in line for hours to give blood. And a nearby school district opened its doors to the students who can't go back to their classrooms, putting welcome signs on lockers and in the hallways.
So that's the thing about this tragedy. This small town's family is bigger now. It extends beyond the boundaries of West. And in the days ahead, this love and support will be more important than ever, because there will be moments of doubt and pain and the temptation to wonder how this community will ever fully recover. And the families who have lost such remarkable men of the sort that we saw in that video, there are going to be times where they simply don't understand how this could have happened.
But today I see in the people of West, in your eyes, that what makes West special isn't going to go away. And instead of changing who you are, this tragedy has simply revealed who you've always been.
It's the courage of Deborah Sulak, who works as a cashier just around the corner from the fire station. She said, "It's going to be tough for the families. But we're going to rebound because we're fighters." And that courage will bring West back. (Applause.)
It's the love of Carla Ruiz, who used to live in West but now lives in Austin. And last week, she drove all the way back. "I had to be here," she said. "You have to be here for family." That love will keep West going.
It's the faith of someone like Pastor John Crowder that will sustain the good people of West for as long as it takes. His church was damaged in the explosion. So on Sunday, the congregation assembled outside. "What happened Wednesday was awful," he told them. "But God is bigger than all of this." (Applause.) God is bigger than all of this and he is here with you in West. He is bigger than all of this and he is here with you.
Going forward, it's not just your town that needs your courage and your love and your faith. America does, too. We need towns where if you don't know what your kids are up to, then chances are your neighbors do too, and they'll tell on those kids in a second. (Laughter.) America needs towns that holds fundraisers to help folks pay the medical bills and then take the time to drop off a home-cooked meal, because they know a family is under stress. America needs communities where there's always somebody to call if your car gets stuck or your house gets flooded. We need people who so love their neighbors as themselves that they're willing to lay down their lives for them.
America needs towns like West. (Applause.) That's what makes this country great, is towns like West. "For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us. We went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance."
You have been tested, West. You have been tried. You have gone through fire. But you are and always will be surrounded by an abundance of love. You saw it in the voices on those videos. You see it in the firefighters and first responders who are here. (Applause.) All across America, people are praying for you and thinking of you. And when they see the faces of those families, they understand that these are not strangers — these are neighbors. And that's why we know that we will get through this.
God bless West. (Applause.) May God grant His peace on those that we've lost, His comfort to their families. May He continue to bless this great state of Texas, and may He continue to bless these United States of America.
>>> Continue reading for text of remarks by Texas Gov. Rick Perry
"Thank you. A few years ago, we created the Star of Texas awards to honor our first responders who were injured or killed in the line of duty. Every year, we have family members of the fallen to the Capitol, along with any injured responder who can make the trip.
"I've met with these families, and I've heard their stories. Without exception, the stories of these brave men and women are touching,and demonstrate an extraordinary amount of dedication and community pride.
"To a person, our first responders know they're placing themselves in danger, whether braving the flames of a fire, transporting the injured via helicopter, or racing to the scene of an accident. First responders know better than anyone that there is no such thing as a routine emergency.
"The firefighters and medical technicians who died last week in West certainly knew that, but it didn't slow them down as they raced toward the burning factory.
"Their stories are as inspirational as they are heart-breaking. There are the brothers who did everything together, including fighting fires. There are the EMS technicians who left a training seminar and wasted no time in driving toward the growing plume of smoke. There is the Dallas fire captain, who was off-duty but responded anyway because his community was threatened.
"There are more. In fact, each of the men we lost had stories, stories we're seeing in these videos today. They each had friends and family, and hopes and dreams.
"But the true common thread that bound them all together was their love of community, and a sense of pride in who they were, and what they did.
"Again, these were volunteers, ordinary individuals blessed with extraordinary courage, and a determination to do what they could to save lives and property. They're the ones who proudly say, "Not on my watch."
"In the moments immediately following that explosion, which many described as sounding like a nuclear blast, many of the remaining volunteer firefighters did what they always do and headed to the flames, as well. They knew full well that another explosion was a possibility, but if there was a chance of saving their fellow volunteers…or preventing another blast…they were going to take it.
"It's also proper to acknowledge and commend all the people of West, who have seen their town so profoundly damaged, and seen so many injured. There are no words to ease the pain this community has suffered, and no way to put a sense of normalcy to it.
"Please know that the spirit that drove the men we lost lives on, in their fellow volunteers, and in the families and friends they've left behind.
"Let their deeds serve as inspiration for all of us to live lives of meaning, and commit to serving our neighbors and communities.
"We will never forget what happened, or forget the sacrifices of those who were first on the scene.
"May God bless you and, through you, may He continue to bless the great State of Texas."


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What we know so far
Operation stack:-
• Is put in place to manage flows crossing the channel through Dover and Eurotunnel when the service is disrupted by bad weather, technical or operational issues, blockages within the ports (e.g. migrant activity or industrial action in Calais.
• Implemented for 32 days in 2015, in January due to a fire in the tunnel, and during June and July where it was in operation for 521 hours from 23 June. This raised the issue to a national level and accelerated the work to find a solution.
• Interim measures were proposed were the flow issues to continue which included the use of Manston Airport as a temporary lorry holding area.
• Since July 2015 operation stack has not been implemented despite increasing migrant issues in France, where other issues, such as the erection of a fence to protect Eurotunnel traffic, seems to have prevented migrant activity halting cross channel traffic.
Access to channel crossings:-
• Dover TAP – This is a traffic management measure to hold HGV traffic outside of Dover to be released as port capacity becomes available. This solution prevents traffic blocking the roads in Dover.
• Often queues for the channel tunnel and Dover TAP stretch back to junction 11 of the M20.
Overnight lorry parking:-
• Depending on the source between 500 and 1,500 lorries are parked overnight on Kent's roads, due to drivers required to take their rest periods, and/or waiting to cross the channel / continue their journey. This happens to both HGVs entering the UK across the channel (where they rush to get across to avoid being held in Calais where the migrant activity is taking place) and to HGVs leaving the UK; i.e. to flow in both directions.
• Actions have been trialled by local councils to enforce parking restrictions for lorries through fixed penalty notices and follow-up.
• COBR (the government crisis response committee) requested that a preferred solution be put to them for their meeting of 21/8/2015. The proposal put to them by KCC contained:-
A. Strengthening the hard shoulder M20 J8-10 coastbound and amendments to central reserve J10-11a to improve resilience and flexibility of use of link
B. Potential improvements to A20 in and around Dover to increase capacity and remove bottlenecks
C. Increased use of traffic technology to improve communications and management of Operation Stack
D. Potential lorry park close to the M20 capable of catering for approximately 4,000 HGVs.
E. Potential extension of STOP24 lorry park site capable of catering for up to 1,000 HGVs.
This package of measures would cater for 1,500 -6,500 HGVs (1,500 being held on carriage ways) and was preliminarily costed at £468m (1).
• In the Autumn 2015 the government set funds aside to build a permanent area where lorries can wait to their turn to cross the channel without causing disruption to the local economy.(2)
• Two sites have been selected as potentially suitable for the M20 lorry area to the west and north east of M20 junction 11. These would possibly have the following functions:-
A. Emergency use as part of operation stack.
B. General Disruption – A above plus the management of the queues resulting from Dover TAP and approaching the Eurotunnel terminal.
C. A and B above plus chargeable basic overnight parking. Parking would be free during operation stack.
D. A,B and C above plus a lorry focussed motorway service area.
21st August 2015 Deadline for proposal to be put to COBR by KCC (tbc)
11TH December 2015 Stakeholder briefing by Highways England at Sellindge Sports and social club
12th December to 25th January 2016 – public consultation period
Both the proposed sites are in the green belt of Kent, beside Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. If a lorry park is allowed on either site they will be a visible blot on the landscape from many aspects, especially when viewed from the escarpment in the nearby ANOB. Despite recent claims that the Government is supporting schemes to safeguard British agricultural land from being purchased for other uses and keeping it in food production, this proposal will destroy 150 acres of prime arable land. The diverse flora and fauna currently present will be sacrificed forever. Depending which site is chosen a lake, waterways and mature vegetation will be removed. We understand from local residents that there are bats and newts – amongst other potential endangered species on site. Expert help from ecologists is being sought and we understand the Highways England are now monitoring air quality.
• The World Heath Authority & the British Medical Council have linked Diesel imitations to 28.000 (twenty eight thousand) premature deaths in the UK each year. The UK government accept these findings.
• Diesel HGV traffic produces the largest amount of emissions of Nitrogen Dioxide and particulate matter 2.5, that are extremely harmful to public health.
• Particulate 2.5 which are produced by diesel engines are so small that the human lung cannot filter them and thus they go straight into the blood stream. These particulates are directly linked to cancers, heart disease and lung disease, which all medical bodies accept cause premature death to thousands of people each year in the UK. There is no safe limit to these particulates entering the human body.
• Having one enormous lorry park as proposed in option 1, of 3500-5000 HGV with their diesel engines would increase significantly over and above the current emissions from the traffic using M20. The health and safety hazards caused by this proposed site would greatly increase the risk to the village communities of Sellindge, Stanford and Westenhanger and without doubt, cause the premature death of its residents.
• These pollutants cause most harm to the young and elderly. Sellindge has both a primary school and a substantial elderly demographic population.
• Under Article 2 of the European Convention of Human rights, public authorities should consider your right to life when making decisions that might put you in danger or which affect your life expectancy.
• Clearly having 3500-5000 HGV next to three village residential communities, producing pollutants linked to 28000 premature deaths in the UK, is going to effect the health and life expectancy of the local community.
• This size proposed Lorry Park would be in breach of Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights, "Right to Life".
Human rights legislation:
Article 2 of the Human Rights Act requires the government and local authorities to protect human life. This means that nobody – including the government – can try to end your life. It also means that you have the right to be protected if your life is at risk. Similarly, public authorities should consider your right to life when making decisions that might put you in danger or which affect your life expectancy.
Article 1 of the Human Rights Act (The protection of property) gives every person the right to peaceful enjoyment of their possessions. This imposes an obligation on the State not to: Interfere with peaceful enjoyment of property; Deprive a person of their possessions; or Subject a person's possession to control.
Direct stakeholders:-
Stanford, Sellindge, Lympne Parish Council (and others?)
Freight Transport Association
Kent County Council
Highways England
Damian Collins MP
Highways England
Shepway District Council
CPRE Kent
Road Haulage Association
Residents of Stanford North and South, Sellindge, Lympne, and surrounding communities
UK Government
Fire Service

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Extended Length Boat & Trailer Lift by BendPak
Boat and utility trailers typically are just too wide to fit on a standard auto lift. So until now, boat owners had no alternative. Bend-Pak is always in front with innovation and quality. BendPak manufactures some of the most technically advanced automobile lifts in the industry.
If you want to trust leaving your boat to store in the water, storage yards or dry dock, go ahead. But don't say we didn't warn you. You now have no reason to do that again. You now have an option to store your pride and joy in your own garage with the BendPak HD-7500 series boat and trailer storage lift. Not only will you save money on storage fees, you will also no longer have to worry about your boat getting rub marks, barnacles, corrosion or worse. When you're in storage, your boat is potentially exposed to all kinds of hazards by mother nature, or by man. And don't forget about theft or vandalism.
When you get a BendPak boat lift, you get a convenient storage solution that pays for itself in relatively little time. The typical automotive hoist can't raise your boat or trailer, because they simply weren't designed for the job. Their just not wide enough. Boats and trailers are typically much wider than the typical car or even full size truck. If you've got a speed boat, pleasure boat, sailboat or bass boat, you need one of these. But the BL-7500 series hoists pull double duty as a service lift for your cars and trucks as well. The runways can be adjusted closer together or further apart, depending on the width of the vehicle or trailer.
Each Bend Pak trailer and boat lift is manufactured to the same standards and engineering as their premium automotive lifts that have been around for decades. So rest easy. Your baby is safe. No other manufacturer offers so much for so little. These are a cost effective way of resolving a long-standing issue with boat owners. Cut your monthly storage bills and forget about the expense. This is an investment for your future that will pay dividends each year. No more water damage. No more fees. No more worries with a BendPak boat storage lift.Why Should you buy a Bend Pak garage lift?
Safety is a priority - Ten position pneumatic automatic safety locks up and down each column ensure your peace of mind. Added to that is a secondary slack cable locking system that will engage in the event off cable failure. Only true commercial quality lifts have dual safeties like this. Does that other lift you're looking at have dual safeties? Odds are, it doesn't. It also has an air solenoid safety release mechanism. Much more reliable than the typical mechanical safety release found on most lifts. Air compressor is required for safety lock operation.
Superior Lifting Systems - Superior lifting system features FOUR high tensile strength (rated at 14,500 lbs. each) cables that are used on model HD9 portable garage lifts. All rollers are made of hardened steel and utilize self-lubricating bearings. Bend-Pak's four post lifts also use a futuristic UHMW ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene load bearings. They never need lubrication and last virtually the life of the lift.5 Year Limited Warranty - Bend Pak guarantees your safety and satisfaction by offering a warranty few others will meet - (5 years on structure, 2 year on electric/hydraulic, 1 year on-site service) - call for details.Durable Finish - Runways are non-skid, to not only give your vehicle traction, but anyone standing on it as well.Heavy Duty Hydraulic Cylinder - Each lift is equipped with a single hydraulic cylinder, made to withstand heavy use. Hidden away under the runways for maximum performance and reliability.Extra Strong Wide Runways - wide, and formed with strong 3/16 steel. Made to stand up to unnatural abuse. Accommodates a variety of vehicle widths. Plus, wide design allows for added clearance.Optional Caster Kit - Allows you to move lift to any part of your shop!Surface Mounted Design - Avoids environmental issues.Easy Installation - No excavation required. All necessary hardware is included.Large Baseplates - baseplates provide solid stabilityElectric/Hydraulic Power Unit - Has a self contained maintenance-free electric/hydraulic power system that incorporates a fully regulated pressure relief system. All controls are easily within reach.Front Wheel Stops - Standard, can be replaced with additional drive-up ramps for drive-through capability.Extra Long Approach Ramps - Over 30". Helps when attempting to drive extra low profile vehicles onto lift. They're detachable as well. These guys thought of everything!ISO-9001 compliant manufacturing facilities - Means state of the art manufacturing processes and no shortcuts.Top Quality - Only the finest quality components go into each Bend-pak freestanding garage lift. Starting at the beginning with high quality ASTM steel and ending with superior welds, bringing you a truly unequaled product. This lift is basically a scaled-down version of Bend-Pak's 14,000 lb. commercial garage lifts. It's chocked full of all the features that make it a truly professional series lift!
Dependable design - Heavy duty aircraft lifting cables are made of stainless steel and premium hydraulic cylinder is conveniently located up underneath the runway making this a truly maintenance free product.
Dual-hub cable sheaves - Most manufacturers use single hub sheaves. Using dual hub sheaves may caost a little more, but means greater longevity. Plus, all pulleys are double diameter. This significantly extends the life of your cables. When you buy BendPak, you get premium features found only on commercial quality models.
Multiple level locking positions - The HD‐9 lifts are all fitted with multiple locking positions that are also adjustable. The adjustability is an unusual feature that most manufacturers don't offer. This is a handy feature that will help you adjust for various ceiling heights and for slope in your floor. A pneumatic safety release mechanism tops it all off by assuring that all four safeties disengage at the same time.
Heavy duty aircraft cable - Many competitors take a shortcut on the cables. BendPak uses heavy duty stainless steel aircraft quality cables that are rated at 14,000 lbs. each, providing a capacity that is 640 % greater than the rated capacity of the lift. Take a look under the runways. These cables are safely and neatly enclosed up underneath the runway in a system that makes sure that they won't flop around and catch on things like may others will.
Electric / hydraulic power system - So many inferior hydraulic power units are prominent in the market today. We see complaints from customers about other manufacturers units failing after only a few years. We utilize a maintenance free electric power unit that is dependable, reliable, and won't let you down after only a few years. One unique feature you'll find on the BendPak 4 post lifts is that the power unit is located to run in-line with the lift, not on the outside of the column. This means it wont take up as much floor space. Very important in a tight garage.
Large base plates - 12 x 10" base plates allow the lift to be free standing, and makes for a secure footing that won't cut out from under you.
Premium Hydraulic cylinder - Located safely up underneath one of the runways, so it won't get in the way. These are industrial grade cylinders. Not the inferior consumer grade cylinders that you'll finmd on competing models This is where you'll see many manufacturers take shortcuts. Premium single piece hydraulic cylinders are machined to precision with a pilot fitted hardened steel piston which is wrapped with custom fitted piston seals and wear bands and back ups, greatly reducing potential for leakage. The chrome rod is forged micro smooth to provide years of dependable use well beyond that of a typical cylinder and has a polished finish, plated to .001" diametrically. Advanced rod seals and rod wiper construction means that abrasion and wear are diminished to a fraction of the competition. Base materials with this attention to detail means that your end product will supply years of reliable service beyond the typical mass produced cylinder.
Durable powder coat finish - The powder coating process used on the all XPR series lifts is superior to others in that it is a meticulous process that takes 10 steps to complete. First, all components are inspected to ensure they are clean before being sandblasted. After sandblasting, all components are washed through 5 stages of huge phosphate tanks that can handle parts up to 25 feet long. Once cleaned, the parts are dried immediately to prevent rust. Then, the components are Out-gassed, which is a process that pre-bakes the components in an oven to prep for coating. Many systems take a shortcut here. Doing that could cause problems with the final coat, including imperfections like chipping and bubbling, which is common on many inferior models. High temperature masking tape and silicone plugs are then used to cover any holes or components that need to be covered. Next, all components are given a thinner wipe to remove any possible prints or debris that could have occurred. After that, they are suspended on an electrostatically grounded conveyor line. and an electrostatic spray gun applies the powder. Finally, the parts are cured in 400 degree ovens for 3/4 of an hour.
All this leads to the most durable powder coat finish in the industry, capable of standing up to the most harsh environments and chemicals you can dish out.
Five models to choose from Take your pick. There's the extra-wide, standard height HD‐9XL. The HD-9ST is the narrow model with standard height and length, the HD-9 is the wide model with standard height and length, the HD-9STX is the narrow-width, tall model car lift. Then, there is the HD9XW, extra high, extra wide, extra long model.
Integrated design - all components are fully enclosed within the structure of the hoist. Lifting cables, hoses, and safety mechanisms, and pulleys are all out of the way so as to protect them and also to not provide pinch points.
Longer approach ramps - Having approach ramps that are slightly longer allows you to drive lower profile cars up onto the runways without fear of bottoming out. You'll appreciate that if you've got a low clearance sports car. Extra long approach ramps are also available as an optional accessory.
Automatic safety locks - heavy duty cylinders assure that all four safeties will disengage when you press a button. This is a superior system to the typical mechanical safety release most lifts utilize. Safety locks are spring loaded and engage automatically when you raise the lift. plus, as an additional safety feature, there is a slack cable safety that automatically engages if the cable were to beak or slip off a pulley. Note - a small air compressor is required to disengage the safeties.
Color Options - The standard BendPak color is blue. BendPak offers Red or black at an additional cost. Custom colors available for an additional fee as well.While the HD series garage lifts are designed for home hobbyist car enthusiasts who take their cars seriously, they are truly a commercial grade hoist. They sport all the same features as their larger commercial quality brethren, except at a much more affordable price. It's true that BendPak could have cut corners to come in at a lower cost like all those other consumer quality models, but that's not what they're all about. Nobody pays more attention to detail, and nobody makes them better.
Why Should you purchase a Bend Pak lift from ASEdeals?
1) Guaranteed Lowest Prices - Listen, we monitor our competition's prices. We know we usually have the lowest price on most of our equipment most of the time. In the unlikely event you find any of our automotive lifts advertised anywhere on the web for less, just tell us where you saw them, and we'll beat them. It's that simple. Our prices will not be beaten!
2) Largest BendPak distributor -This means that you enjoy the benefit of our size. Not only does this allow us to offer the best pricing available, If you have any warranty issues that you feel are not being addressed quickly enough, or to your satisfaction, we have the influence with the manufacturer to get your issue resolved right away.
3) Years of Experience - So many internet companies have popped up over the past few years, claiming to have all kinds of experience, and then when you dig a little deeper, you'll find out that they've only been around for a few years. We've been carrying Bend Pak equipment for over 17 years now. When you call and speak to us, you're not getting just an order taker that knows nothing about the product. We know these products better than most. Not only will get you answers to your questions, we will make sure that you get the proper lift for your application.
4) Reputation - Right along with the years of experience comes our reputation. Check out our reputation on all of the various car enthusiast forums out there, such as Garage Journal or Corvette Forum. You'll find countless satisfied customers, praising not only our prices, but also our integrity, honesty and ability to help you choose the right product for your application. And then, there's our hundreds of satisfied customer pictures and testimonials to back it up. We'll gladly put our reputation up against anybody's.
*Not all BendPak lift models meet the standards as prescribed by ANSI/ALI ALCTV-2006 or ANSI/UL 201. Contact ASEdeals for a complete list.
Features & SpecsFeatures
- 7,500-pound lifting capacity
- Two different lifting heights to choose from
- Electric / hydraulic power system
- Internal anti-sway slider blocks in each column
- Both models feature heavy-duty 3/8" aircraft cable
- Multi-position safety locks in each column
- Ramps feature non-skid surface
- Optional 4,500-lb. capacity jack available (RJ-45)
- Two different ramp lengths to choose
- Runways include rail-kit for optional accessories
- Single hydraulic cylinder underneath runway
- Over-sized self-lubricating cable rollers
- Rugged 1-1/4" roller axles
- Adjustable lock ladders
- Push-button pneumatic safety release
- Durable powder coat finish
- TC-3000 Boat Trailer Tongue Platform Standard Accessory
- Lifting capacity*:7,500 lbs. / 3,402 kg
- *Max capacity / front axle: 3,500 lbs. / 1,701 kg
- *Max capacity / rear axle: 3,500 lbs. / 1,701 kg
- Overall width: 132" / 3,353 mm
- Outside length: 198" / 5,028 mm
- Overall length: 224" / 5,704mm
- Height of columns: 100" / 2,232 mm
- Runway min height: 5" / 125 mm
- Max rise: 82" / 2,083 mm
- Max lifting height: 87" / 2,208 mm
- Width between posts: 122" / 3,099 mm
- Runway width: 19" / 482 mm
- Width between runways (narrow setting): 49-1/2" / 1,257 mm
- Width between runways (wide setting): 69-1/2" / 1,765
- Runway centerline (narrow setting): 68-1/2" / 1,740 mm
- Runway centerline (wide setting): 88-1/2" / 2,248 mm
- Outside edge of runways (narrow setting): 87-1/2" / 2,222 mm
- Outside edge of runways (wide setting): 107-1/2" / 2,730
- Drive-thru clearance: 108-1/2" / 2,756 mm
- Length of runways: 188" / 4,775 mm
- Min wheelbase @ rated capacity: 135" / 3,429 mm
- Min wheelbase @ 75% capacity: 115" / 2,921 mm
- Min wheelbase @ 50% capacity: 95" / 2,413 mm
- Min wheelbase @ 25% capacity: 80" / 2,032 mm
- Locking positions: 15
- Lock spacing: every 4" / 102 mm
- Lifting time: 50 sec
- Motor: 220 VAC / 60 Hz / 1 Ph
Note: An air supply (minimum: 30 psi / 3 CFM) is required for the safety-lock mechanisms to function. It is solely the responsibility of the end-user to provide, install and maintain the air supply.
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EVENT: Experts Address HIV/AIDS Crisis Among African Americans
DATE, TIME, AND PLACE: Friday, Oct. 19, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., in the Hawkins-Carlson Room of Rush Rhees Library on the University of Rochester's River Campus.
WHAT: At some point in their life, one in 16 African-American men will receive a diagnosis of HIV, as will one in 32 African-American women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although African Americans make up less than 14 percent of the population, they represent half of all new HIV infections in the United States.
To understand the underlying causes of this health care crisis, a symposium on AIDS and the black community will bring together leading national experts on HIV/AIDS in the African-American community along with local scientists and activists.
The speakers will explore how racism, homophobia, poverty, politics, and other cultural factors contribute to the disproportionate spread of AIDS among communities of color. They also will outline possibilities for the eradication of the disease among African Americans.
The 30-minute morning talks will be followed by question and answer sessions. The symposium concludes with an afternoon panel discussion. Along with the national speakers, participants include leaders of local efforts to stop HIV/AIDS in Monroe County, which has the highest infection rate in the state, outside of New York City.
Angelique Harris, assistant professor of social and cultural sciences at Marquette University, will discuss "Cultural Constructions of Stigma: The Framing of HIV/AIDS within African American Communities." The author of AIDS, Sexuality, and the Black Church: Making the Wounded Whole (2010), Harris has studied the formation of the Black Church AIDS movement and the organizational development of The Balm in Gilead, the largest organization to work exclusively with the Black Church to promote AIDS education and awareness. She is currently collecting data and interviews about AIDS activism among black women in the United States.
David J. Malebranche, associate professor of medicine at Emory University and the Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, will discuss "Unequal Treatment: Racism in Medical Settings and Its Potential Impact on Current Biomedical HIV Prevention and Treatment Initiatives." Malebranche provides medical care to uninsured patients living with HIV/AIDS and supervises medical providers-in-training at the Primary Care Center at Grady Memorial Hospital in downtown Atlanta. Widely published in academic medical journals for his research on AIDS in the black community, Malebranche also has been featured in documentaries on CNN, ABC News Primetime, TV One, and Black Entertainment Television and served on the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS from 2006 to 2008.
Marjorie J. Hill, chief executive officer of Gay Men's Health Crisis, the nation's oldest AIDS service and advocacy organization, will discuss "Can the Black Community Really Become an AIDS-Free Generation?: Reflections on Hope, the Economy and the Social Determinants of HIV." A licensed clinical psychologist, Hill was the assistant commissioner for the New York City's Bureau of HIV/AIDS, served as a commissioner for the New York State Workers' Compensation Board, and was director of the New York City Mayor's Office for the Lesbian and Gay Community. She currently is on the board of the Public Health Association of New York, is a senior advisor to the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Research at Columbia University, and is on the Editorial Board of POZ magazine.
Cathy Bunce, a principal investigator with the University of Rochester Medical Center's HIV vaccine trials unit, which is promoting participation locally in HIV vaccine trials and studying issues related to those trials. Bunce has partnered with the MOCHA Center to develop a curriculum about HIV prevention targeted locally to black gay communities.
Bruce Smail, executive director of the MOCHA Center, a non-profit committed to improving the health and wellness of LGBT communities of color. MOCHA's programs and services focus heavily on HIV/AIDS prevention among young black men who have sex with men. Smail is an expert on how public policy is affecting HIV/AIDS prevention efforts nationally and locally and can speak firsthand as a black man living with HIV.
Ed Brockenbrough, director of the urban teaching and leadership program and assistant professor at the Warner School of Education. Brockenbrough has worked with LGBT youth of color at MOCHA around HIV and vaccine trials and is the president of the MOCHA board. Brockenbrough can speak to the broader social justice themes reflected in this symposium and the implications for prevention efforts in K-12 schools.
SPONSOR: The University's Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African American Studies. The symposium is organized by Brockenbrough and Cilas Kemedjio, director of the institute and associate professor of modern languages and culture. The symposium is made possible through funding from the University's Humanities Project, which supports interdepartmental initiatives in all fields of humanistic inquiry.
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The cuts keep coming for the Lions, who released veteran cornerback Travis Fisher today.
Fisher is the third prominent player (at least in name) to be cut by the Lions this week. Tight end Michael Gaines was released on Tuesday, and quarterback Drew Henson was let go Monday.
Fisher played the last two seasons with the Lions, mostly in the nickel role, and had two interceptions. He was deemed expendable after the Lions added three new cornerbacks this offseason. Phillip Buchanon and Anthony Henry will start, with Eric King and holdover Keith Smith as the primary backups.
Fisher was due to make $1.75 million this year, more than every defensive back on the Lions roster other than Henry and Smith.
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2007 was a very good year - we pick the top 10 dining spots
Sometimes we get so caught up in our daily lives that we don't stop to take stock, but this year-end column on the year's best restaurants forces me to do just that. I didn't think 2007 was a particularly great year - until I looked at the list of places I've reviewed and realized that in fact it was one of the best in a long time.
While there's always a spate of new restaurants serving Italian-Mediterranean-California in noisy loftlike surroundings, this year's best openings added new options to the dining scene. One of them, Ubuntu, may just be the top vegetarian restaurant in the country. I haven't been to all of them, naturally, but I'd be surprised to find one that's as focused and innovative. The reincarnation of Cafe Majestic is a restaurant where you can actually have a conversation in relative peace and quiet, and diners at Nick's Cove can have exceptional food and a view.
This year, I gave 14 places three stars overall. Am I getting soft?
I wondered that myself, but after looking at the list and revisiting some places, I realized that the dining scene broadened considerably this past year. Great restaurants seemed to pop up all over the Bay Area - half of my Top 10 are outside San Francisco.
A lot of really good places that opened this year didn't make my list for various reasons.
One is Spruce, the most talked-about restaurant of the year. I'd go back in a minute, but the food garnered only 2.5 stars; I'm optimistic it will get better. Pescheria is another place that required a lot of deliberation. I love its casual trattoria charm, and a recent return visit showed that it's still very satisfying; ask me tomorrow, and it might make the list. Others, such as Salt House, have improved during the past year, building justifiably loyal followings.
Staff changes kept other places off the list. Meadowood, which reopened after being closed for several years and received a three-star review from me and two stars from Michelin, is losing its chef, Joseph Humphries. He'll stay until the end of January, so if you want to taste his food in that setting, there's still time.
Nua, the chic wine bar in North Beach, also has a new toque; the food's still good but doesn't quite hit the heights it did when I reviewed it. Cav, too, has a new chef, and the cooking is just as good, including what I think may be the best charcuterie plate in the city. However, I didn't include it in my list, because the wine bar/restaurant is actually a couple of years old.
As you can see, I'm trying to find excuses for leaving out some restaurants, because in other years the second 10 might easily have made it into the Top 10. And here's another cop-out: I'm not listing them in order of preference but rather in order of review date, from earliest to latest. Most of the Top 10 restaurants opened this year, although a few, such as Perbacco, opened in late 2006, but the reviews couldn't be published until 2007 because of The Chronicle's three-visit policy.
This Italian-inspired restaurant would make my list for the breadsticks alone. Pencil thin, buttery and crisp, they're addictive. Yet this isn't a one-note restaurant. Chef-owner Staffan Terje also produces great charcuterie, exceptional pasta and main courses such as duck breast, sliced in two and served over chestnut polenta and roasted pears. With a side of beet greens sauteed in garlic, it's a meal to remember. Desserts are also exceptional, especially the "ugly but good" Piedmontese hazelnut meringue cookies. The interior is a long, narrow space with several seating areas and an open kitchen in back, but it has a very sophisticated urban ambience, appropriate for its Financial District setting.
Wood Tavern
Really, I'm not swayed by the fact that Wood Tavern makes one of the best Manhattans in the Bay Area. The drink only warms me up for what's to follow. Chef Max Dimare offers familiar yet stellar offerings on a menu that generally features about seven appetizers and nine main courses. It could be an amazing soup, rich rabbit rillettes or a fish stew with octopus, clams, mussels, black cod and Portuguese sausage in a lobster broth. The place is always crowded, but the staff has adjusted well in the transition from a laid-back neighborhood spot to a white-hot destination.
Cafe Majestic
In a world of bombastic noise levels, this refined restaurant is like a soothing sound chamber, with comfortable padded chairs and soft music playing in the background. Its butter-toned color scheme is a quiet backdrop to Ian Begg's boldly flavored food in dishes such as Dungeness crab salad layered with citrus, avocado mousse, radish and frisee, or pan-seared foie gras with Brussels sprouts and golden raisin sauce. Main courses include butter-basted halibut with shaved fennel, beets and a mustard sauce, or venison loin with blood orange and fiddlehead ferns.
Stephen Barber and Gene Tartaglia are reprising the winning partnership they forged at Mecca, this time opening a high-end barbecue restaurant in Napa. The handsome, refined interior features dozens of beautiful black-and-white photographs, but Barber's 'cue steals the show. The ribs need nothing to enhance their natural goodness, but each table has a variety of sauces so people can add their own. There's a great chicken soup, mini lamb burgers and homey desserts such as a bourbon pecan pie, chocolate ice cream sandwich and a hot fudge sundae.
It may be a prejudice, but people are continually surprised to find this caliber of restaurant in the Westin Hotel on Third Street just off Market. I can't tell you how many times people have written me to let me know they were skeptical but became converts after tasting Richard Corbo's take on rustic Venetian-inspired food. His specialties include a stellar sformato, a dense souffle made with lobster and ground polenta when I visited; perfectly done arancini (risotto balls); and halibut cheeks with polenta and jalapeno-mint marinara. With a sexy interior and one of the best outdoor spaces in the city, it's a great addition to the dining scene.
Nick's Cove
It's hard to believe that this remote, rustic restaurant is in the 415 area code; it could be hundreds of miles away. It's also hard to fathom that Pat Kuleto spent more than $10 million to create the illusion that he merely cleaned up this venerable spot and opened the door. It has a great fireplace for winter, amazing views of Tomales Bay year-round, and a San Francisco sensibility about food. There are outstanding fish tacos, excellent barbecued oysters - a must in this region - exceptional clam chowder and fresh local seafood such as petrale sole. You can also get a very good burger. Nick's is the kind of place that pleases a wide range of palates.
With Spanish plates crafted by Mark Denham and an all-Spanish wine list, this compact Marina restaurant offers some of the best rustic plates around. Diners can drop in to sit at one of the tables or at the 18-seat copper-topped bar. The menu is weighted heavily toward appetizers such as a cool gazpacho made of Gypsy peppers; rich mushrooms topped with a slow-poached egg; roasted bone marrow with a fennel salad; and house-made charcuterie. There are only four main courses, but all are beautifully executed, including petrale sole a la plancha and slow-roasted piglet with Brussels sprouts. For dessert, you need look no further than the pan con chocolate sprinkled with sea salt and olive oil.
Of all the restaurants that have opened in the past couple of years, this is the most exciting. Billed as a yoga studio-restaurant (you can see the shadows of students behind translucent glass on the mezzanine), it's one of the most significant restaurants to open since Greens. Chef Jeremy Fox, who was the chef de cuisine for four years at Manresa in Los Gatos, produces a "vegetable-based" menu using many ingredients from the restaurant's garden. Cauliflower is roasted and tossed with a puree and baked in individual iron pots, then topped with shavings of fresh cauliflower, for example. He also does a rustic stew of black radish, sunchoke and turnip, and a wild nettle pizza. The look of the place, with rock walls, lofty ceiling and a beautiful sculpture at the bar, makes this a prime Wine Country destination.
Plumed Horse
The original Plumed Horse in Saratoga opened in 1952, but new owners, a new chef and a multimillion-dollar redo have made this into an entirely new restaurant. Its cutting-edge design, with a barrel ceiling, blown-glass chandeliers that change colors, and a three-story glass wine cellar, creates a modern stage for Peter Armellino's contemporary California-inspired menu. Look for some interesting "surf and turf" variations such as Monterey red abalone with pork belly, artichokes and a meaty glaze; and sea scallops paired with smoked duck. Some main courses have subtle Asian influences, such as Beijing-style squab with a dried plum sauce and ginger cabbage.
It has such a warm, cozy feel that SPQR is a place in which I could eat every night. Shelley Lindgren and her partners, who also own A16, have created a charming restaurant with food that looks to Rome for inspiration. The menu, orchestrated by Nate Appleman and Daniel Holzman, offers more than 20 appetizers. At $7 each, three for $18 and five for $28, it's a great deal because you can get pork soffritto spooned over fresh shelling beans; celery and tuna conserva salad; house-made pork sausage with farro, cucumbers and mint; sweetbreads with celery; or fried Brussels sprouts and potatoes with capers, lemon and garlic. Lindgren creates a wine list of Italian labels many people haven't heard of, but she's adept at coming up with extraordinary matches for the food.
The Best of 2007
BarbersQ 3900-D Bel Aire Plaza (at Trancas and Highway 29), Napa; (707) 224-6600. Lunch, dinner daily. Beer and wine. $10.95-$19.95.
Cafe Majestic 1500 Sutter St. (at Gough in the Hotel Majestic), San Francisco; (415) 441-1280. Breakfast daily; dinner Tuesday-Saturday; Sunday brunch. Full bar. $25-$29.
Ducca 50 Third St. (near Market in the Westin Market), San Francisco; (415) 977-0271. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Full bar. $24-$34.
Laiola 2031 Chestnut St. (near Fillmore), San Francisco; (415) 346-5641. Dinner nightly. Full bar. $19-$23.
Nick's Cove 23240 Highway 1, Marshall; (415) 663-1033. Lunch Wednesday-Monday, dinner daily. Full bar. $12-$32.
Perbacco 230 California St. (near Battery), San Francisco; (415) 955-0663. Lunch weekdays; dinner Monday-Saturday. Full bar. Main courses: $20-$29.
Plumed Horse 14555 Big Basin Way (at Fourth Street), Saratoga; (408) 867-4711. Dinner nightly. Full bar. $32-$39.
SPQR 1911 Fillmore St. (near Pine), San Francisco; (415) 771-7779. Lunch (or brunch), dinner daily. $17-$19.
Ubuntu 1140 Main St. (at Pearl), Napa; (707) 251-5656. Lunch, dinner daily. Beer and wine. $13-$14.
Wood Tavern 6317 College Ave. (near Alcatraz), Oakland; (510) 654-6607. Lunch Monday-Saturday; dinner nightly. Full bar. $12-$23.


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Donald Spencer, mathematics professor emeritus, dies
Donald Spencer, a prize-winning mathematician who was a Princeton faculty member for 23 years, died Dec. 23 in Durango, Colo. He was 89.
Spencer was well known for developing the modern theory of deformation of complex structures with colleague Kunihiko Kodaira of the Institute for Advanced Study. That research has been important in such fields as geometry and mathematical physics.
Spencer earned bachelor's degrees from the University of Colorado and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University. He taught at MIT and Stanford University before joining the Princeton faculty in 1953.
Spencer again taught at Stanford from 1963 to 1968, but returned to Princeton for 10 years until he was granted emeritus status as the Henry Burchard Fine Professor of Mathematics. He retired in his native Colorado, where he was an avid environmentalist and outdoorsman.
The joint recipient with A.C. Schaeffer of the American Mathematical Society's Bocher Memorial Prize in 1948, Spencer was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1961 and was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1967.
He was awarded the National Science Foundation's National Medal of Science in 1989 for "his original and insightful research that has had a profound impact on 20th-century mathematics, and for his role as an inspiring teacher to generations of American mathematicians." In addition, he wrote numerous articles for academic journals and also served on editorial boards for several of those publications.
Survivors include his daughter, Marianne Pearlman of Columbia, Md., and his son, Donald Spencer Jr. of Boston.
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Better late than never.
AdAdapted Inc., an Ann Arbor firm that helps companies build ads designed for mobile devices, has finished raising its seed-stage round of funding of $725,000.
The company was expected to announce the news on July 7 — many months after it originally planned to finish raising capital.
Last September, the company was halfway to its original target of $600,000, and founders CMO Molly McFarland and CEO Mike Pedersen believed they were on track to receive $250,000 from the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund.
Instead, the Michigan Economic Development Corp. stopped funding the program.
"People told us, don't count on anything 'til you get it, but the truth is, we were counting on that money," said McFarland.
It was back to fundraising for AdAdapted.
Veteran angel investor and consultant Terry Cross made a personal investment in the company and helped bring in more money from his range of contacts.
What helped, too, was that the market for what AdAdapted was trying to do had quickly heated up. The company builds what's known in the industry as "native ads," which is advertising that is integrated with other content and sometimes appears as content itself.
Native ads create more click-throughs and less frustration on mobile devices than drop-down and banner ads, which are meant for larger screens. AdAdapted's customers are companies with mobile apps.
While AdAdapted worked to raise money, "native" had become a hot topic in the mobile ad industry and was attracting the attention of investors.
McFarland and Pedersen founded AdAdapted in 2012. Both left Amplifinity Inc., a fast-growing Ann Arbor company that uses social media websites to help companies build their businesses through customer and employee referrals. She had been a marketing officer and he had been a software developer.
McFarland said Pedersen got the idea for AdAdapted and, with the blessing of Amplifinity founder Dick Beedon, left to form the company.
"People were spending more time on smartphones," she said, "but the ad model was broken. Ads that worked on computers don't work on small screens. Ads only work if they're developed specifically for the platform they'll be seen on. You're more likely to climb Mount Everest than you are to click on a banner ad on your smartphone."
AdAdapted's ads are integrated into content, McFarland said. "So, if you have a grocery list, the ad might appear as a sponsored item on that list. Or, we may use colors, sizing and (type) font to format the ad so it reflects the app's look, feel and content."
What she described as the secret sauce for AdAdapted is that its technology allows clients to create ads automatically but make them look custom-designed. The company has applied for a provisional patent covering that process.
It is a process and patent that McFarland hopes will help AdAdapted carve out a niche in the soon-to-be crowded space of native advertising.
Large competitors include Toronto-based Polar Mobile Group Inc.; Bangalore, India-based InMobi; and San Francisco-based LiquidM Inc.
AdAdapted projects revenue in 2015 of more than $1 million.
"The goal is never to trick the user," McFarland said, "but instead to show users that each advertisement was designed for their favorite apps. And the ad messaging is connected to the app's content, not some generic ad blindly served anywhere."
Ronda Guimond is media director of Ann Arbor-based Enlighten Inc., a digital ad agency that decided to try AdAdapted last year when it was in beta testing.
Enlighten launched a mobile ad campaign for Biore, a line of skin care products.
Biore was trying to reach women ages 15-29, and the best way was with mobile ads. But traditional ads, developed for other digital media, were notoriously bad, Guimond said, annoying to the point that they engendered ill will in consumers and few click-throughs and sales.
Guimond said AdAdapted's ads were "low-cost, efficient and provided enough eyeballs and impressions to show it was well worth the spend."
AdAdapted also did some project work for the Detroit Lions last season, but the team is hiring a new digital director and so any work for the coming season is up on the air.
Scott Brew is president and CEO of Adtegrity Inc., a Grand Rapids-based digital advertising firm that has been around for 15 years, has about 50 employees and does about $20 million in business a year.
Brew said he heard about Ad-Adapted more than a year ago through Carl Erickson after McFarland made a pitch for funding to the Grand Angels, an angel investing group that Erickson is a part of. Erickson is also founder of Atomic Object, a Grand Rapids-based app, website and software developer that has offices in Detroit and Ann Arbor.
Atomic Object's Ann Arbor office has been serving as AdAdapted's temporary headquarters while it raised funding. AdAdapted now will be able to find space of its own, build up its team and heavily market the product.
Erickson told Brew that he ought to meet McFarland and that some synergies might be found between the two companies.
Brew said that he liked what AdAdapted does enough to become an investor himself and that the two companies probably will be "making pitches together to clients looking for broad advertising solutions. It's pretty exciting to be working with them.
"AdAdapted reduces the friction of advertising on mobile platforms. They've created a system that allows advertisers to run flowing ads that aren't disruptive and irritating. Companies can create customized ads based on AdAdapted's platform that make it easy to create a placement without having to go back to their in-house people and taking three weeks to do it."
Other investors include the student-managed Frankel Commercialization Fund at the University of Michigan; the Detroit-based First Step Fund; Grand Rapids-based Start Garden; Michigan Pre-Seed Fund 2.0, and the Grosse Pointe Farms-based Belle Michigan Fund LP, which is advised by Cross and invests in woman-owned technology companies.
AdAdapted also has received $100,000 in loans and $30,000 in grants from Ann Arbor Spark. It has four full-time employees and six part-timers.
Last month, AdAdapted was one of 10 finalists that pitched to AOL co-founder Steve Case in Detroit when he kicked off his Rise of the Rest tour to promote technology startups.
"They've got a good product that has already been validated in the marketplace," Cross said. "Mobile advertising today is something people hate, so native advertising is a big, big opportunity. And they've found a way to provide a platform so there's native advertising you can do yourself.
"But what I really like is they have someone who can market the heck out of it, and that's Molly. She leaves no stone unturned. She understands the industry, and she walks the walk."
Tom Henderson: (313) 446-0337, [email protected]. Twitter: @tomhenderson2
Correction: An earlier version of this story should have identified co-founder Mike Pedersen as the one who had the idea for the Ann Arbor company.


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From Europe to Asia and beyond, the hunger to innovate has created lots of entrepreneurial competition for America.
Start-up firms are helping to manage traffic in the teeming cities of Brazil and have allowed less-populous nations such as Israel to become fertile soil for new business ideas.
These nations view innovation as a vital source of economic competitiveness. Not that long ago, the United States was the clear world leader in most industries and technology.
Now, while it's hard to put any other nation as "No. 1," America no longer enjoys such a privileged position.
The global spread of inventiveness is a disruptive force but also a beneficial one, economists say. If more of the world's people are innovators, more will be creating new industries or solving problems like how to control carbon emissions.
"Innovation is growth, and growth creates jobs," says Vijay Govindarajan, who heads the Tuck Business School's Center for Global Leadership at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.
And increasingly, he says, innovation is occurring in a global matrix with ideas flowing among developed and developing nations.
"The United States can be competitive in the next 25 years only if we embrace globalization 150 percent," he says. "Globalization is like gravity. You can deny it only at your peril."
Here's a look at five nations that are using varied strategies to ride the elevator of innovation-led growth.
The competition isn't just between East and West. Brazil symbolizes the way continents of the South are ramping up efforts to nurture new businesses. A major government-backed effort to support start-ups includes a growing array of university-based incubator programs.
The effort is giving wings to people like Andre Averbug, a business school graduate whose start-up provides software for mass-transit services. "A few years ago, Brazil was seen as a commodity country," he says. "I think Brazil now is being looked at as a good country to do business."
This island nation has prospered not just because of investments in education and port infrastructure, but also because of its promotion of start-ups. Its experiments have run the gamut from subsidies for ventures involving targeted technologies to putting up public money alongside venture investors who come to the city-state, Harvard University business expert Josh Lerner writes in a recent report for the American Enterprise Institute.
The result: Even though its economy looked similar to that of Jamaica in 1965, per capita gross domestic product has reached $31,400 in Singapore, whereas Jamaica's had edged up to just $4,800.
Yes, India is known as a hub of outsourced customer service. But if anyone doubts India's ability to innovate, consider the build-it-yourself automobile. At a price below $3,000, the Tata Nano is providing affordable wheels and generating lots of jobs for people who specialize in assembling the boxed parts into vehicles.
"It's as close a thing as we've seen in a long time in the automobile industry to a fresh start," says Eamonn Kelly, a California-based strategic thinker at the consulting firm Monitor Group. He says firms like Tata in cars and Infosys in software have been "quietly reinventing the nature of work," breaking down complex processes into new formulas.
India is still in the early stages of discovering its potential. If it can succeed in raising education levels for the vast majority who lack a high-school degree, the flow of ideas from India will expand even more.
In Israel, a rich crop of enterprises draws strength partly from what may seem like a surprising source: the military. It's not that the start-ups are all defense-related. But the Israeli military is a lean, adaptive organization – and one where citizens serve during early, formative years, says Saul Singer, coauthor of "Start-up Nation," a new book on Israel's entrepreneurial prowess.
"The Israeli military is smaller at the top than most, and it forces more authority down," he says. "The sense of improvisation comes from being stressed and short on resources." Another factor: The government of this once-socialist economy has learned to promote free enterprise by getting out of the way.
Even as China has leveraged its huge market potential to lure technology partners from overseas, it has also been expanding its ability to generate ideas from the ground up using a self-created array of research universities. China's blend of sheer demographic scale, bottom-up commercial drive, and top-down planning may be rewriting the development rule book.
As China plays the traditional game of catch-up, it's also trying to push ahead into leadership positions in key areas such as nanotechnology. The advances come with risks and caveats. Critics see major violations of trade rules. And forecasters have a lively debate going about whether this race-ahead economy is poised for a bust.
Alongside these five nations, Europe and Japan remain innovative powerhouses. And Mr. Govindarajan cites other up-and-comers to watch, including Mexico, Vietnam, Turkey, and South Africa. The upshot may be an increasingly two-track process for innovation. He says the new climbers will create more products that filter upward to high-income nations, even as the developed nations still pioneer products that filter downward in a traditional way.
• Sara Miller Llana in Rio de Janeiro and Ilene R. Prusher in Jerusalem contributed to this report.


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Historians have postulated that, without Bletchley Park, the Allies may never have won the war.
But, despite an impressive contribution to the war effort, the Bletchley Park site, now a museum, faces a bleak future unless it can secure funding to keep its doors open and its numerous exhibits from rotting away.
The Bletchley Park Trust receives no external funding. It has been deemed ineligible for funding by the National Lottery, and turned down by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation because the Microsoft founder will only fund internet-based technology projects.
"We are just about surviving. Money — or lack of it — is our big problem here. I think we have two to three more years of survival, but we need this time to find a solution to this," said Simon Greenish, the Trust's director.
As a result of lack of funds, the Trust is unable to rebuild the site's rotting infrastructure and faces an uncertain future. "The Trust is the hardest-up museum I know," said Greenish. "We have this huge estate to run and it's one of the most important World War II stories there is."
Bletchley Park — code-named Station X to keep its location from the Germans — and its outstations were responsible for intercepting German radio signals intended for broadcast to the army, navy and air force, and decoding them into meaningful messages. The job was thought to be next to impossible: German encryption was so secure that the chances of decoding it with random guesses were 150 quintillion to one.
Nine thousand staff worked around the clock at the Buckinghamshire site to break the German codes, eventually gleaning enough information to head off critical enemy manoeuvres.
The operation all started in the mansion pictured above in 1939, when it became the home of the Government Code and Cipher School (GCCS), the forerunner of today's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).
The government had intervened to prevent a local property tycoon from developing the site for housing, hoping to provide a safer location for the GCCS, away from the obvious dangers of its previous home in central London. At the intersection of major road, rail and telecommunications connections and en route between the top two universities, Cambridge and Oxford, Bletchley Park was ideal.
Caption by: Richard Thurston
The intensity of the codebreaking operation meant it soon outgrew the confines of the mansion, spilling into the cottages in the surrounding stable yard.
It was in one of these cottages that the codebreakers first tasted success. Alfred Dillwyn Knox was believed to have broken the first German message in January 1940, five months after the GCCS moved in.
A cryptanalysist and scholar from the University of Cambridge, 55-year-old Knox was critical to Britain's efforts to crack the codes produced by the German Enigma machines.
Sadly, he never survived to see the Allies claim victory, passing away in 1943 while pursuing his codebreaking efforts.
Caption by: Richard Thurston
One of the most famous men to have worked at Bletchley Park was Alan Turing, who worked in this wooden hut. The hut, one of eventually a dozen on the site, was rapidly built after the codebreaking efforts overspilled from both the mansion and the surrounding cottages.
Turing is often considered to be the father of modern computing, devising the Turing machine, the Turing test and the Manchester Mark I, one of the world's first recognisable computers.
A Cambridge graduate, Turing was critical to Britain's codebreaking efforts, co-developing the Bombe codebreaking machine that decoded messages from the German Enigma machines.
Photo by: Bletchley Park Trust
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Turing's hut has been renovated and today hosts a variety of wartime exhibitions. The Bletchley Park Trust has recreated Turing's office at the far end of the hut.
Turing's office would have been one of the more comfortable places to have concentrated on the intensive work at hand, although it would still have been far from luxurious, given the noise and heat produced by the decoding machines.
Some of the work which went on in Turing's hut contributed to the Allied victory in the Battle of the Atlantic. Huge progress was made after German codebooks were retrieved from a U-boat and passed to Turing's codebreakers at Bletchley Park.
Caption by: Richard Thurston
Though Turing's hut has been restored to its former glory, most of the remaining huts are deteriorating. Despite the fact that they have listed-building status, due to their historical importance, most of the huts are uninhabitable, including this one, in which codebreakers focused on breaking code sent by the German high command to the army and air force.
"The site is deteriorating; the mansion is crying out; a lot of it is old and decrepit," said Simon Greenish, the Trust's director. "We're having to do something to the mansion roof — it's got 16 leaks just in one part of the roof — but we can't deal with all of that."
The Trust is just about surviving on revenue from its 60,000 annual visitors — entrance to the site costs £10 for an adult — in addition to income from renting out those buildings on the site that remain habitable.
Greenish is also pursuing the possibility of funding from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Milton Keynes Council, the local authority.
"This is such an important site. The government is largely responsible for the state it's in anyway, because it's a government site," Greenish said.
Greenish said he is attempting to work around the National Lottery's eligibility criteria for funding and also hopes that Microsoft's founder will come to the site's rescue: "I'm really looking for a personal link to Bill Gates."
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In addition to its financial woes, Bletchley Park faces another foe: housing developers.
Ever since the government's early tussles at the start of the war, when it evicted the local property tycoon, Bletchley Park has faced many battles to keep developers at bay.
Two years before Bletchley Park re-opened to the public in the early 1990s, it seemed that its existence was under threat. In 1991, the site was almost empty and plans had been drawn up to redevelop the whole site as a housing development. The site's proximity to Milton Keynes and the M1 made it an attractive prospect for such schemes.
It was only after a highly successful "farewell" party for the site, attended by 400 former codebreakers, and the formation of the Bletchley Park Trust in 1992 that the developers were halted.
Milton Keynes Council declared the site a conservation area in February 1992 and the landowners — the government's land agency and BT — withdrew all planning applications. Seven years later, former Bletchley Park Trust director Christine Large landed a deal with certain developers to secure the future of Bletchley Park in the hands of the Trust.
But some developers remain far from dissuaded, recently winning the right to build houses even closer to the wartime facilities. One of the site's exhibition facilities now rests just 10 yards from 21st-century residential properties.
With giant concrete mixers towering over the edge of the Trust's land, Greenish said he feels the remaining green space between Bletchley Park and surrounding surburbia may be lost, though he plans to fight the advance tooth and nail.
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Bletchley Park supplements its income from visitors by hosting a range of conferences and weddings. While many of the wartime huts are rotting, the insides of the Victorian mansion — including the ballroom, billiard room and the library — remain luxurious. A full wedding ceremony and reception in the ballroom (pictured) costs £3,250.
Caption by: Richard Thurston
This tiny building, tucked away at the back of the site, was Bletchley Park's secret post office. It served as the mail room for the codebreakers, who could be reached at the undercover address of PO Box 111, London.
Today, the post office of the 1940s has been recreated and runs a business in commemorative and first-day stamps, some of which fetch considerable sums at auction.
Photo by: Bletchley Park Trust
Caption by: Richard Thurston
A cinema exhibition, housed in this building, is one example of how the Bletchley Park Trust has branched out to widen its appeal. Inside is an exhibition of vintage camera equipment, technical drawings of projectors and old photographs. Visitors can watch wartime-show reels in the 1940s Enigma cinema.
Photo by: Bletchley Park Trust
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Bletchley Park has its own slice of film heritage tucked away in the mansion's garage.
The widely acclaimed film Enigma, produced in 2001 and starring Dougray Scott and Kate Winslet, featured the Talbot car and ambulance which are now on display in the garage. The 1976 film The Eagle Has Landed, starring Michael Caine, used the two Austins. The vehicles are positioned in a mock 1940s forecourt, showing the price of fuel and the tools used at the time.
Caption by: Richard Thurston
Just a short walk from the garage, this scaled-down Mark VII U-boat provides a reminder of German attacks. It was used in the 2001 film Enigma.
Behind it is Hut 12, which the Trust hopes to turn into a new display featuring exhibits on Naval Intelligence Division commander Ian Fleming, of James Bond fame.
Caption by: Richard Thurston
Listening stations like these were used to receive the signals intended for Germany's U-boats, army and air force. They were installed in the so-called "Y stations", secret listening posts scattered across the UK and abroad.
The Y stations received the German messages and sent them by teleprinter or motorcycle to Bletchley Park to be decoded and analysed. Many of the teleprinter operators were women, who were drafted in from the Women's Royal Navy Service (WRNS) and the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF).
This listening station is housed in Bletchley Park's growing National Museum of Computing. The museum is due to be expanded this summer with a display of computers from 1945 up to the present day, including everything from 1960s mainframes to more recent supercomputers.
Some visitors are fortunate enough to receive a tour around the museum from one of Bletchley Park's volunteers, many of whom worked there during the war.
Caption by: Richard Thurston
Here is an example of an Enigma machine. The operator would type in the message in plain text, sending electrical impulses through a series of rotating wheels, electrical contacts and wires to produce the enciphered text, which lit up on a panel above the keyboard.
Recipients of the code who knew the settings could enter the enciphered code into another Enigma machine to receive the plain text, letter by letter.
Because of the number of wheels, the chance of decoding a message at random was 150 quintillion to one. This particular model is a four-rotor U-boat machine, from post February 1942, one of eight now stored at Bletchley Park.
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This is a reconstructed Bombe, one of the two main British codebreaking machines. It was used to break the codes produced by the German Enigma machines.
Over 200 Bombes were eventually built, based on the expertise of Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman. Turing and Welchman achieved their codebreaking success by recognising several weaknesses in the Germans' communications.
Firstly, the Enigma machines would never encrypt a letter as itself, which markedly reduced the number of permutations. Secondly, the Germans often sent encrypted weather forecasts. Because Bletchley Park could predict the weather, codebreakers could accurately guess the contents of the message and, therefore, the encryption used.
After the war, all the codebreaking machines were destroyed on Winston Churchill's orders so that, in the early years of the Cold War, Russia could not learn of Britain's codebreaking efforts.
However, thanks to a 12-year rebuild project, based on partial component diagrams recovered from GCHQ, this model is now working and is used today to decode mock enemy messages.
Caption by: Richard Thurston
Despite the British starting to crack the Enigma code, Germany had another trick up its sleeve: the Lorenz machine. More complex than the Enigma, the 12-rotor Lorenz was used exclusively for the most important messages between central high command in Berlin and German army field marshals.
It was rather larger than the Enigma and, as a result, not portable. It used the so-called "International Teleprinter Code", with each letter represented by five electrical impulses. Messages were encoded by adding a series of apparently randomly generated letters to the original plain text.
Max Newman, another Cambridge graduate, was assigned the task of building machines to break the Lorenz code.
Caption by: Richard Thurston
Newman's answer was the Colossus. His 2,500-valve machine was the first to break the Lorenz code, although Britain had to wait until December 1943 to get the first one installed at Bletchley Park. Nevertheless, that gave time enough to verify that Adolf Hitler had swallowed the D-Day deception campaigns.
A Colossus Mark II was finally reconstructed last autumn after 14 years of work by Tony Sale (pictured). Widely acknowledged as the world's first, practical, electronic, digital, information-processing machine, tape passes through the machine's wheels at a 30 miles per hour, meaning it can read 5,000 characters every second.
When the rebuild was completed, it was pitted in a codebreaking competition against radio enthusiasts who were allowed to employ whatever computing means they had at their disposal. Ironically, Colossus was beaten in the challenge by a German. The competition is due to be repeated in June.
Caption by: Richard Thurston
The Typex was Britain's adaptation of the Enigma. It was more secure than its German cousin, boasting five rotors compared to the Enigma's three or four. The technology was eventually combined with the US's equivalent machine to provide inter-Allied communications during the war.
The machine pictured is believed to be the only remaining working Typex machine.
Caption by: Richard Thurston
This harrier, belonging to the Bletchley Park Air Cadets, lies on what used to be Block F, where work on the Colossus started.
Block F was demolished during the 1980s, but it didn't go without a fight. As a bomb-proof building, Block F was solid enough to take more than three weeks to demolish. Two cranes carrying out the work were damaged in the process.
Caption by: Richard Thurston
Churchill was keen to provide all the support he could to the codebreakers at Bletchley Park, who he referred to as: "The geese that laid all the golden eggs but never cackled."
In recognition of the former prime minister's support, the site now houses a large collection of Churchill memorabilia, much of it extremely rare, including a life-sized model of him, and a smaller model (pictured) of him posing with the famous "V for Victory" gesture.
Caption by: Richard Thurston
Britain owed much of its success in breaking the Enigma code to Polish mathematicians, who managed to reconstruct the Enigma machine and pass on their knowledge.
The Poles had broken the Enigma code as far back as 1932, when the machines were undergoing military trials.
Three of the most outstanding Polish mathematicians — Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Rozycki — have been commemorated with this memorial next to the cottage where the first Enigma code was broken.
Caption by: Richard Thurston
In British eyes, Turing was the ultimate codebreaking hero. His achievements now take pride of place at Bletchley Park in the form of this life-sized statue, made over 18 months from 500,000 slithers of Welsh slate.
The statue shows Turing, in typically scruffy attire, puzzling over an Enigma machine on his desk. The statue was paid for by a foundation set up by the late American philanthropist Sidney Frank, who wanted to recognise the war's unsung heroes.
To donate to the Bletchley Park Trust, please contact the Trust's director, Simon Greenish, or his personal assistant, Sue May, on +44 (0)1908 640404.
Caption by: Richard Thurston
The secret home to Britain's World War II codebreaking efforts could face closure in two to three years unless it receives more funding
In British eyes, Turing was the ultimate codebreaking hero. His achievements now take pride of place at Bletchley Park in the form of this life-sized statue, made over 18 months from 500,000 slithers of Welsh slate.
The statue shows Turing, in typically scruffy attire, puzzling over an Enigma machine on his desk. The statue was paid for by a foundation set up by the late American philanthropist Sidney Frank, who wanted to recognise the war's unsung heroes.
To donate to the Bletchley Park Trust, please contact the Trust's director, Simon Greenish, or his personal assistant, Sue May, on +44 (0)1908 640404.
Caption by: Richard Thurston


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