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Cyclists: Want love? Show respect - Opinion - The Boston Globe
Here here. Absolutly spot on. One bad apple can make all drivers think we all behave that way. Simply following rules and traffic signs are not to much to ask.
As for not wearing a helmet? Hopefully they get taken out before they can mess up the gene pool any more. A helmet is such an easy way to help you out, it's a no brainier.
I suspect that there is a correlation between wearing a helmet and riding with a degree of compliance to traffic laws and common sense about being safe (defensive riding) in traffic. So I would expect a higher proportion of non-helmet wearers than helmet wearers in accidents. Do they have some sort of data set on helmet use?
All these arguments recently came up here with a cycleway funding vote (win). Hoons like the 'red runner' guy in the illustration however didn't really figure apart from some complaints about lack of lights.
It was the roadies hogging the road and wearing sweaty lycra in cafes that seemed to offend most motorists. That and cyclists in general treating red lights as give way, which in many cases shouldn't present a real problem to anybody, illegal because of lack of consideration.
I hate that people who do not identify themselves as cyclists yet claim to be cycling advocates are always talking about how great cycle tracks would be for cyclist. I DO NOT want to be relegated to using a narrow confined track of pavement. I want to be able to go with the flow of traffic, because I can. If we are to get cycle tracks don't you think that motorists will get even more short with us if some of us refuse to use them? Will it be mandated that if they are there then we must use them? **** the author for saying he sees cyclists blow through 4 ways while motorist patiently wait their turns. Regardless of what part of the road the law says I can use, I am neither viewed nor treated like an equal on the road and that's even when I hug the shoulder, stop at lights and signs and keep up with traffic, so I do ride through about a third of red lights after stopping but I always stop for stop signs both in my car as well as on my bike. My friends even think I'm weird for coming to a complete stop. You know how many motorists and cyclists I see stop at stop signs? About 3%, cops included. Nobody (cops included) takes these laws seriously, and why should we, we are all in a hurry and our time is worth more than the safety of others, be them bikes or kids at play or a family driving home.
I thought it was a good article, and on point. It doesn't matter how you feel about traffic laws, the fact is they are laws and if we (as cyclists) are gonna ride those roads, then we are expected and have a responsibility to obey those laws. If/when we don't, how can we then expect any sympathy from motorists and law enforcement when we are unfairly treated or even assaulted. Admittedly, many rules are inconvenient, and most don't take our (cyclists) size, speed, acceleration and such into account, but any attempt to modify those rules in our favor will, not maybe, but will fail if the public at large perceive cyclists as a whole, as a group, as a bunch of law breaking whiners. Remember, most motorists won't recall seeing you stop at stop signs, and signaling your turns, but they will always remember the jerk who ran the red light, then changed lanes in front of them, make an illegal turn, then pedaled away against the flow of traffic.
The ridiculousness of cycling clothes increase exponentially in relation to the distance from your bicycle.
I for one don't care for the rules of the road. I obey them not because they are the rules, but because it is safest to do so. Nobody, and I mean nobody sets out for their day saying "gee, I think I'll watch out for the well being of Joe Re" except for me and most days my guardian angels. I have been struck multiple times and it is always some person running a stop sign, red light, not yielding to rotary traffic and once someone who turned left across me with headlights on during the evening (still light out) and I had a headlight that was still blinking after I got hit. I filed a report at the Somerville police station a bunch of years back and went back two weeks later for a copy and they had shredded it! I have a crushed helmet, a tee-shirt with tire tracks on it and I still have a very slight mallet finger from that. Imagine If I had gone over the bars a second earlier. I would have gone under the SUV in front of the rear tire instead of slamming my helmet into it. After they told me they don't always save the reports filed and that it is SOP to shred "some" of them I lost it in the station (which was stupid) but I lost pretty much all respect for the system because I realized that day that this system, which is supposed to be protection for the victim, is not there to protect me as a victimized cyclist.
What experiences has anyone here had that would lead them to believe that the system is unbiased and fair? All I ever hear is "legally blind driver hits and kills cyclist/mother of three, No Charges Filed"! Some of the worst three words we as cyclists can hear and then we stand up in front of the legislators who stand to profit greatly from more cars on the road and the dollar signs attached and we say, " please, can we have a little ribbon of road with some paint on it so we feel safer", to which they reply "we'll consider it in our next session", or perhaps they say yes. Yay, we have a bike lane that anyone can double park in and nobody does dick about it, what a win! I won't say it's hopeless in those two words but when cars and pedestrians do whatever the hell they want and nothing is done about it, well then monkey see monkey do and please don't give me shit about it.
So, how many drivers don't wear their seat belt? I do a regular commute of 18 miles form north of Boston to Brighton. I ride to be safest. I always stop at the red lights. I will, however proceed once no other cars are coming cross traffic. How many car drivers don't signal? I think the difference that the car drivers don't make is that the cars will kill or hurt all others, while the bike scofflaw is mostly endangering themselves. I would love to see more traffic enforcement for ALL road users. It would also be helpful to teach new drivers the rules of road sharing. Again, it is the usual bad 5% of drivers, bicyclists and jaywalkers that make a bad name for the rest of us.
Drivers hate everyone. Cars that go too fast, and cars that go too slow. Taxis, and buses, and big trucks, and little cars. Motorcycles, and pedestrians, and hot air balloons, and unicorns. And of course cyclists.
Everyone else is/was/will be at fault for something/anything/everything.
Expecting their love is pretty silly.
Um, sometimes the reds won't change for bicycles because they don't have enough mass so you don't have a choice but to run through them... after 10 stupid minutes.
^^ I have one light like that, which I can avoid if I cut through an alley to go right, but I need it for a left turn. It takes 90 seconds to change for one car either side after having just changed. No positioning of the steel bikes on the loops has helped. In Indiana, a motorist/cyclist can treat a malfunctioning light as a stop sign. So I go as soon after 90 seconds as traffic safely allows if no cars have joined me to force the change. So there is no traffic with me either side of the main road and I pull out with little traffic to witness the act. My trouble will come when an officer witnesses this maneuver and decodes to pull me over. I wonder how few are aware of the faulty light law.
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Drivers hate everyone. Cars that go too fast, and cars that go too slow. Taxis, and buses, and big trucks, and little cars. Motorcycles, and pedestrians, and hot air balloons, and unicorns. And of course cyclists.
Everyone else is/was/will be at fault for something/anything/everything.
Expecting their love is pretty silly.
That pretty much sums it up. Nothing you do will change minds that are already made up. If I am riding responsibly and obeying traffic laws I will not stand out in the mind of a motorist, the guys running lights and riding 3 wide will.
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ok Boston globe, as a counterpoint to the mythical scofflaw cyclist: find me one single motorist in your city that doesn't break some traffic law every time they get in a car. I'll wait.
Since you can't do that, I expect an editorial calling for banning cars from public roads, since 100% of people that drive them are unable to obey the all-important rules.
This just drives me nuts, they'll point to one cyclist as a reason to discriminate against all cyclists, yet you will never in 1,000,000 years find a motorist that doesn't speed, tailgate, fail to stop, talk on the phone, use turn signals (I estimate at least 70% of drivers aren't even aware their cars are equipped with signals) every single day. You'll never even see a police car strictly obeying the law. But no, it's cyclists that are the problem.
If people like the author of that article were capable of rationally forming a thought they'd be calling for cars to be banned from all roads.
That's the rub.
Motorists think they are fine ACCELERATING PAST THE SPEED LIMIT THROUGH A YELLOW-RED LIGHT because hey, it just turned red and I don't want to wait, whereas that guy on a bike who stops at an empty intersection on a red, looks, and then goes "should be in jail".
And speed limits? Yeah, they were deliberately set painfully low as an assault on the liberties of hard-working tax-paying drivers everywhere, just to get ticket revenue, so speeding is a statement that you are rising up against injustice, and your time is valuable.
And he completely avoids the thing that makes motorists fly into a rage the most often, i.e. WHEN A BIKE IS USING A PART OF THE ROAD THAT THEY WANT.
So yeah, I'll be happy to respect pedestrians, and other cyclists, and buses full of people.
The sociopaths in black 500-hp-luxury-SUV-missiles can get bent.
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↑ Leica M10 + Undisclosed Lens #7.
Very nice, Peter. incredible skin tones. that lens seems a long focus the way his face is a bit (compressed?). f/1.? for background? still, handsome fellow.
Thank you Henry! I've been honing my M10 processing of skin tones.
As for the focal length of this lens, my apologies but I cannot disclose the answer.
no problemo. this is always fun..
75mm Noctilux is my guess…
f/1.25 BABY!!
Seriously though (never having shot with it…) it looks a bit 75 Lux-y. Nice rendering at the point of focus, unsharp quickly, with rapid fall-off. Nice compression. Something 85 or 90-ish I would infer.
All-in-all, a nice looking portrait lens!
Now this is getting interesting! That is a very astute guess my friend.
As for all the lens possibilities, you've seen them all.
I'm not telling…. yet. Though you have given me a good idea for a post.
How can you infer that it is around 75mm when the distance between the nose and ears is so big? In my opinion this is a below 50mm lens, maybe 40mm 😉
A dissenting view from Kostas! Excellent.
Sometimes I think I should just do away with identifying any of the gear I use (as I have here), and I'll tell you why:
I posted a portrait a few months back and most people reacted favourably to it but one person pointed out that the face exhibited distortion from the 50mm lens I used, because it was shot "too close". The reality is that the image had been cropped to appear as if the subject was near, so in actuality there was no distortion of the facial features.
I have no doubt that if I had instead identified the lens as a 90mm prime then no one would have "seen" any distortion.
Peter, nice. I have gained a new appreciation for your skin tones. I shoot with a 35/50, and it's not those lenses. Never shot with a 75. I like the way the sharpness rapidly falls off.
Thanks George. In this one a tweaked the settings I shared with you, but just slightly.
I've revealed the identity of this lens: https://prosophos.com/2019/01/04/the-identity-of-undisclosed-lens-7/
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Democrats and other plaintiffs in a legislative redistricting case in state court asked three Superior Court judges to rule the GOP-controlled legislature violated the state constitution when it redrew five House districts last summer. They want those districts in and around Charlotte and Raleigh returned to their shapes as originally drawn in 2011. They also want changes made to districts surrounding the five that also were recently redrawn by a special master appointed by a federal court.
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These "lady computers" spent over a decade completing one of the greatest astronomy projects of the 20th century.
The person who made this discovery was the keeper of the archive of the Vatican's Astronomical Observatory, 93-year-old Jesuit astronomer Sabino Maffeo.
Nonetheless, most of the merit belongs to American reporter Carol Glatz, of Catholic News Service, who reconstructed the story of these four nuns, the only record of whom, up to recently, was a black and white photograph in which two of them are peering through a microscope (yes, not a telescope) and another is taking notes on a shared table.
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Journalist Carol Glatz narrates how, consequently, the priest simply contacted the convent of nuns nearest the observatory (the Sisters of the Holy Child Mary, who are still today the community of women who live closest to the Vatican) to request their collaboration, and an official letter was later sent to the superior by Archbishop Pietro Maffi of Pisa, whom Pope Pius X had asked to oversee the staffing of the Observatory.
According to archivist Sabino Maffeo's reconstruction of the story, the congregation wasn't enthused by the idea of "wasting" two sisters on something that had nothing to do with works of charity, but the superior ceded to the request because she felt that God's hand was behind every petition the convent received.
So, in 1910, two religious sisters began to work at the Vatican Observatory, and later on, two more would join them. Their names were Emilia Ponzoni, Regina Colombo, Concetta Finardi and Luigia Panceri.
Sabino Maffeo discovered their names by chance, organizing old documents in the archives.
They worked for eleven years (until 1921), and according to the information collected by Glatz from documents conserved in the archive, the sisters analyzed the brightness and position of 481,215 stars.
The fruit of their labors, a 10-volume catalog, mentions their "swiftness and diligence" and their "zeal, surpassing any praise, for a job so foreign to their mission."
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Nice shot above of Rodger's flower (Rodgersia aesculifolia) emerging quickly in the shade garden with bold foliage! It was another nice Thursday with a consistently large group of volunteers coming in to help out. While we were quite short staffed (Janice, Cindy and me), a lot of work was accomplished throughout the gardens. It was nice to see more visitors and more kids out in the gardens for our youth education programs. With our first volunteer planting Saturday coming up this weekend (8 am – 12 noon), I spent a good portion of the day hauling plants out to various garden areas and will continue that process tomorrow as well. Our wonderful volunteers included Kathy, Eva, Suzi, Bob K., Alan, Ron R., Steve E., Lloyd, Ron Y., Dave, Vern, Jim, Dick H., Dick P., Maury, Dr. Gredler, Bill, Peg and our talented Chestnut House Volunteers (under Janice's guidance) among many others. We also saw Mark S., Gary, Jim H., Larry O., Steve J. and many others today.
Coppertina® ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius 'Mindia') – woody shrub
'Miss Honeybee' magnolia (Magnolia hybrida) – woody tree
'Golden Gift' magnolia (Magnolia hybrida) – above and below – woody tree
Eva (left) and Suzi H. (above)
Dick H. (left) and Dick P. setting memorial bricks (above)
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Weight loss no help for diabetes heart risks, but other benefits found
People living with type 2 diabetes are at high risk for heart disease that includes heart attack, stroke and other disorders of the blood vessels. Results of a new study show weight loss is no help for curbing diabetes associated heart risks. But the good news is the study showed other health benefits associated with staying active and shedding pounds for people living with the disease.
Researchers wanted to see if intensive lifestyle interventions that lead to weight loss can lower the chances of cardiovascular disease for people living with diabetes. Unfortunately, the study was halted early after no cardiovascular benefits were found after 11 years.
But that doesn't mean people with type 2 diabetes shouldn't stay active and try to reach their weight loss goals.
According to findings, even though heart outcomes weren't improved with weight loss, there were "…many positive health benefits for people with type 2 diabetes", Dr. Rena Wing, chair of the Look AHEAD study and professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University wrote in a press release.
The investigation included 5,145 people. Scientists from 16 centers across the U.S. assigned half of the participants to receive intensive lifestyle intervention. The other half was given diabetes education and support. Both of the groups received regular medical care.
Weight loss was shown to decrease sleep apnea, reduce the need for medications to treat diabetes, helped maintain physical mobility and improved quality of life.
One of the most important findings for type 2 diabetes is that the study showed you can lose weight. After 1 year, participants lost more 8% of their initial body weight with lifestyle changes. After 4 years, they maintained an average of 5% weight loss.
The NIH stopped the investigation this year at the advice of the study's data and safety monitoring board because cardiovascular events didn't decrease. No harm resulted to any of the participant in the intervention group.
The board recommended continuing to follow all of the participants to find out what the long-term benefits might be.
"The intervention group did not have fewer cardiovascular events than the group receiving general diabetes support and education, but one positive factor we saw was that both groups had a low number of cardiovascular events compared to previous studies of people with diabetes," said Dr. Mary Evans, director of Special Projects in Nutrition, Obesity, and Digestive Diseases within the NIH's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).
Another very clear benefit of weight loss and activity gleaned from the Look AHEAD study is that exercise and a prudent diet can delay and even prevent type 2 diabetes that currently affects 24 million people in the U.S.; paralleling rising rates of overweight and obesity.
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A booking with Mandy Beth Photography is going to be a little different than what you might be used to. Many times, having photos taken involves a lot of posing and "say cheese" moments. And while this approach can result in some great photos, I want to capture you and your awesome loved ones as you really are. Your passion, your traditions, and what is important to you. I don't want to just book a session – I want to capture an experience. What can be easily overlooked as "boring" or "typical" is a distinct reflection of your current season of life.
I have provided photography services under a different name but my heart felt inspired to better represent my clients. While contemplating the direction to go, I kept coming back to the following:
- People are the most beautiful when they are doing something they love.
- There is a need for traditions to be preserved.
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Two cottages, Judy House & Kim's Place – are fully furnished with Air Conditioning and consist of one bedroom that can sleep 1, 2 or 3 persons, private bathroom with hot water shower, fully equipped kitchen, front verandah and private patio.
Double Private Room, Zoe's – is fully furnished with Air Conditioning and consists of a double bedroom that can sleep 1 or 2 persons, private bathroom with hot water shower and private garden. Use of a shared kitchen is also available.
Two single rooms, Rita and Mickey – are more private and slightly bigger than the Hostel Rooms and consist of one room with ceiling or standing fan, shelving and hanging space.
The Single Rooms have use of shared (and fully dedicated) outside bathrooms (one with hot water), fully equipped kitchens, dining areas, hammocks and wet weather gazebos.
NOTE: Zoe's and Rita's can combine to create a shared 2 room, 3 bed apartment for 2/3 at $80US
The Judy House Cottage at $75US per night
Kim's Place Cottage at $73US per night
Zoe's Double Private at $54US per night
Rita and Mickey's Single Rooms $26US per night
A 50% deposit is needed to hold your reservation payable by Card or Paypal and with the balance due on arrival, payable by cash, card or Paypal. NOTE: All Taxes are included in the published prices
Judy House Cottages offer all modern amenities to make your self-catering stay comfortable including:
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Theresa Bernstein Mixed Media Still Life
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Theresa Bernstein mixed media still life with red flowers.
Broad strong stokes and an exuberant immediacy give life to this almost abstract floral arrangement.
Image - 13" x 16 1/2".
With frame - 21 3/4" x 25 3/4".
Signed lower left.
In very good condition.
Bernstein, was born in Philadelphia on March 1, 1890 and lived to the age of 112.
She graduated from the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now the Moore College of Art and Design) in 1911.
Bernstein rounded out her art education at the Art Students League, where she studied with William Merritt Chase.
Her paintings are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Chicago Art Institute, the New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Museum. She has had more than 40 solo exhibitions.
Although not a formal member of the Ashcan School, Bernstein shared with it a passion for modern subject matter, to which she added a radically expressive manner.
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Standard Range Hood Duct Sizes
Ducts come in several sizes for range hoods. Minimum duct sizes and recommended duct sizes are based on the cubic feet per minute rating of the duct fan. These sizes based on the rating can be superseded by the required minimum and recommended duct sizes from the fan hood manufacturer, which might be larger than the standard sizes.
Standard Duct Sizes
The cubic feet per minute rating is a measure of how much air the fan can exhaust from the kitchen in a minutes time. The duct size is directly proportional to the CFM rating. Using too small a duct offers too high a resistance to air flow and defeats the value of a higher CFM fan. The proper duct size ensures a hood range works as efficiently and quietly as possible.
The minimum duct sizes and recommended duct sizes based on a hood fan's CFM rating are as follows: A 0 to 400 CFM fan requires a 4-inch minimum duct size, but a 6-inch duct is recommended.
A 401 to 600 CFM fan requires a 6-inch minimum duct size, with an 8-inch duct recommended.
A 601 to 900 CFM fan requires a 7-inch minimum, but an 8- to 10-inch duct is recommended.
A 901 to 1200 CFM fan requires an 8-inch minimum, and a 10- to 12-inch duct is recommended.
At 1200 CFM and above, the duct size will depend on the type of fan motor and the length of the duct run, but it should never be smaller than 10 inches in diameter.


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Halloween is a huge event on college campuses across the country. My roommate and I have created costumes together the past few years and they're generally a big hit among our friends. In the months leading up to Halloween we bounced around a few ideas. But our favorite and our final decision was to dress up in a CatDog costume.
The TV show CatDog was a huge children's show starting in 1998 through 2005. The show based on a cat and a dog are stuck together and have very different clashing personalities. Ironically the personalities of the cat and the dog kind of fit the personalities of myself and my roommate, so we decided on which we would be accordingly.
Making our CatDog Costume
To create the CatDog costumes we purchased dark mustard yellow colored dresses from Forever 21 (for about 10 dollars each). To create the spots we cut out brown felt dots and hot glued felt to the dresses. We created ears using dollar store headbands, brown felt, yellow felt, pipe cleaners, and hot glue. To create the signs that the cat and the dog had we bought white foam board, drew the respective logos, cut them out with exacto knives, threaded string through the corners and hung them around our necks. Finally we painted our faces in the same design as the typical cartoon.
Just a little disclaimer: my roommate and I decided against going all out and actually attaching fabric between the two of us so that we would actually be connected. It seemed like a decent idea but not very functional at all. We like to be around each other but not that much.
This costume was a big hit at our college, really going with the late 90s – early 2000's kids. We went to a few different places and everyone knew exactly what we were going for. Overall I think it was one of our best costumes yet.


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Universe Game Jam Hackathon 2018
November 6, 2018 - November 7, 2018
Welcome to Universe Game Jam Hackathon 2018!
This Jam's purpose is to bring game developers togheter from the different aspects of game developing – programmers, visual designers (all over the vast spectrum of it, from 2D and pixel art to animators and 3D artists) and also sound and music designers to take part in developing a game within 48 hours under a concept that will be declared in the event itself.
The purpose is mingling, get to know people that are involved in game development, developing and connecting the games developers and just enjoy our time together.
Project universe is an active studio which also works as a friendly home for indie-games developers to interact with each other and ask for any kind of help in the developing process and also to be a place of different services that are required for the developing process – Animators, Programmers, Musicians, Concept artists, narrative writers, and pretty much every aspect of the development Process.
The event is hosted by MicrosoftHub, we will get a place with all the things that we will need and we will give the place back just like we got it, so be responsible to your surroundings.
The event is launched and happening in association with BPM College to sound and musical production.
Schedule – Day 1:
8:00- Gathering and registration. (Coffee and refreshment at the place)
9:30 – Opening conversation and dividing into groups.
10:15 – Industry professional talk.
10:45 – Mingling and brainstorming time.
11:30 – Keynotes and launch break.
12:00 – Starting engines.
19:30 – Going back home.
Schedule – Day 2:
8:00 – Gathering and sharing the progress (Difficulties and success)
9:00 – Keep working.
13:00 – Launch break.
15:00 – Hyping your game through teaser/video art/paint/screenshots
18:30 – Play testing!
When? 06-07/11/2018
Where? Microsoft StartHub, WeWork, Ibn Gvirol 30 (London MiniStore) 3rd Floor, Tel-Aviv


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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Goldberg Law PC, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit against TechnipFMC plc ("TechnipFMC" or the "Company") (NYSE: FTI) for violations of §§10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Investors who purchased the Company's shares between April 27, 2017 and July 24, 2017, inclusive (the "Class Period"), are encouraged to contact the firm before October 2, 2017, the lead plaintiff motion deadline.
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss during the Class Period, click here to participate.
We also encourage you to contact Michael Goldberg or Brian Schall, of Goldberg Law PC, 1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90067, at 800-977-7401, to discuss your rights free of charge. You can also reach us through the firm's website at http://www.goldberglawpc.com/, or by email at email@example.com.
The class in this case has not yet been certified, and until certification occurs, you are not represented by an attorney. If you choose to take no action, you can remain an absent class member.
The Complaint alleges that during the Class Period, TechnipFMC made materially false and/or misleading statements, and/or failed to disclose material information, about its business, operations and compliance policies. On July 24, 2017, the Company revealed that its audit committee concluded that the financial statements included in its quarterly report for the three months ended March 31, 2017 and prior year prepared and included in the quarterly report for comparison purposes, should no longer be relied upon because of material errors. TechnipFMC further stated that errors existed within "certain rates used in the calculations of the foreign currency effects on certain of its engineering and construction projects" resulting in its net income for the quarter ending March 31, 2017 being overstated by $209.5 million. Thus, the Company lacked effective internal controls over financial reporting. When this news was announced, TechnipFMC's stock price fell materially, which caused investors harm.
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The project deals with the problem of tradition in phenomenology. To this extent, it aims to combine the structural perspectives offered by three great areas of phenomenological research: memory, habit and sedimentation. All three represent manners in which, at the elementary level of everyday life-world, we are able to carry along, assume and assimilate our lived past. Our starting point is the analysis of the life-world conducted by Husserl and Heidegger. The life-world is the horizon of our daily practical life, and as such it represents the primary field of all constitution of meaning. In view of the dimension of the life-world, we seek to document the forms, the functions and the structure of the way we retain our own lived past, by trying to find their unity in the phenomenon called by Husserl traditionalizing. Our research will systematically lay out, by means of a rigorous exegesis, the significance of Husserl's conception, also following its later developments in the work of other phenomenologists, like Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricœur, Patočka, Schütz, or Alexandru Dragomir.
Finally, we wish to sketch out a few concrete hermeneutical applications, by analyzing some exemplary phenomena of everyday life-world, like the wearing of habitual things (Dragomir, 2005), past-depositing objects (photography, souvenir), the familiarity of lived spaces, the habitual forms of everyday motivational processes, like routine, boredom or monotony etc. Through our entire research, we will emphasize the points in which philosophical conceptual analysis need to be further complemented by empirical sciences like psychology, sociology or cultural studies.
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Atari has sold off Cryptic Studios, the maker of online games such as Star Trek Online, to China's Perfect World. Perfect World is paying 35 million euros, or $49.8 million in cash.
The deal is another sign of the times: cash and stock-rich Chinese online game companies are flexing their muscles on the world stage of the video game market. Beijing-based Perfect World operates a number of its own massively multiplayer online games. The deal is subject to closing conditions.
Michael Chi, chairman and chief executive of Perfect World, said the strategic acquisition will add attractive game titles to the company's portfolio and help further penetrate into the U.S. and global online game markets. He said he had a lot of respect for the development team and technology platform that Los Gatos, Calif.-based Cryptic has developed over the years.
We'll be exploring the most disruptive game technologies and business models at our third annual GamesBeat 2011 conference, on July 12-13 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. It will focus on the disruptive trends in the mobile games market. GamesBeat is co-located with our MobileBeat 2011 conference this year. To register, click on this link. Sponsors can message us at firstname.lastname@example.com. To participate in our Who's Got Game? contest for the best game startup, click on this link.
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1999 Ford Fiesta Zetec S 1.25 from UK and Ireland
It's Grrrreat!!!
I have a '99 Fiesta, and I have to say I love it.
Rear brakes tend not to be hard wearing, and the handbrake cable needs replacement again. Other than that, no real trouble.
Need to change the door lock again; they just tend to wear out.
General Comments:
My Fiesta has very high milage, almost 190,000 miles, and is still flying. It still returns 60 miles on 10 euros of petrol, and cruises along at 75/80 mph on the motorway.
Handling is quite good too for a car that was designed about 20 years ago.
Service it regularly and use a decent quality semi synthetic oil, and a car will rarely let you down. Also check the levels every month, as higher mileage models tend to use a bit of oil.
Despite its age and high miles, my car still performs well and has very few rattles or squeaks.
I hope it keeps going well for another while, and hopefully it will fly through the NCT again in May.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
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Arsenal v Atletico Madrid: Early team news as Danny Welbeck says winning Europa League would be 'icing on the cake'
PUBLISHED: 14:09 25 April 2018 | UPDATED: 14:09 25 April 2018
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If a week is a long time in politics it is an age in football.
The Islington Gazette has been covering in-depth the news Arsene Wenger is to leave the club since it broke, including attending Ivan Gazidis remarkable press conference on Friday evening.
We were at the Emirates on Sunday to cover the 4-1 victory over West Ham in an atmosphere that was strangely subdued, as much a nod to the rancour Wenger as manager has prompted from the divided fan base.
We also reported from the club's open training session from London Colney on Wednesday morning and Wenger's press session with Danny Welbeck alongside him.
To say the news has been met with mixed emotions is an understatement. This correspondent was invited on BBC 5 Live to discuss the long-serving Frenchman while featuring in an in-depth Sky Sports feature on their website.
The overriding feeling was one of joy mixed with regret. Joy because Wenger had simply gone on too long and had long passed his sell-by date – certainly compared to the glorious first ten years of his tenure when everything he touched turned to gold.
Regret because it was sad to see such a globally respected figure effectively being given his cards – as our exclusive revealed.
There was also shock at the apparent bitterness and frustration he hinted at during his post-match press conference after West Ham – where he appeared to want to say a lot more than he did, while mentioning that a section of the fans had 'harmed' the club's reputation.
However, the most pressing matter at the moment is the looming clash with Diego Simeone's Atletico Madrid on Thursday.
The Europa League semi-final first leg clash against Atleti will see Mesut Ozil return after he trained with the squad on Wednesday morning. As did Petr Cech and Jack Wilshere, who missed the West Ham game.
A club source told the Islington Gazette Henrikh Mkitaryan is 'close' to playing again but is not expected to be included in the squad for the first leg.
Wenger said afterward training: "One of Atletico's strengths is that they have no weaknesses. I am focused on the game. Atletico are a very strong team. They are strong offensively and defensively.
"[But his Arsenal team] has quality. This group of players is special. I want to [win the Europa League] for them. It will be my biggest satisfaction."
Former Manchester United striker Danny Welbeck praised Wenger saying: "I've worked with two giants of the game [in Sir Alex Ferguson and Wenger].
"'m just fortunate to have played under both.
"I wanted to win the game before Wenger was leaving and I want to win it now. It would be the icing on the cake [to win the Europa League]."
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As of right now, it's impossible to cancel a ship building queue. I propose the idea of implementing this feature. But to prevent exploitation of it, (like setting a build & cancelling it later to hide resources from an attack.) An example of preventive measures could be to only deliver 50% ~ 75% of resources back for cancelling.
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When you think about your security strategy; firewalls, endpoint protection, insider threats, external attackers, malware and vulnerabilities all come to mind. It's rare that your backup and disaster recovery (BDR) comes into the conversation. It's probably that your organization, like most, thinks of BDR as being a business continuity thing and not a security thing.
But nothing could be further from the truth.
Your security strategy, no doubt, is a defense-in-depth model, where you have multiple solutions, initiatives, processes and policies in place – each one providing another tier of protection around your organization's most precious data, applications and systems. But, with attack vectors like the ever-growing threat of ransomware – that if given the opportunity will turn the tables and keep you out of your own data – it becomes evident that you also need to know "can we recover if all this security stuff fails?"
Because you know the possibility exists that an external threat could get through, there are a few questions that will help identify where your current BDR needs to change while simultaneously fitting into your security strategy:
It makes sense to have BDR as part of the conversation at the beginning of the security strategy discussion (so you are prepared for the worst). And, at the end of the day, should the very threat you've spent countless hours building a layered defense against have its way with your network, BDR becomes the last defense in your security strategy. By being able to turn back the clock to before an infection, before data was destroyed, before ransomware took hold – you place your network back into a secure state.
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PORTLAND —New York-based sculptor Sarah Sze has been selected to create art for the redesign of Congress Square.
The unanimous vote came at a Public Art Committee meeting Monday in City Hall.
Sze's commitment to collaborate with design consultants Wallace Roberts & Todd of Philadelphia was cited in the choice. Committee members said they were delighted with all four artists who applied for the $75,000 design grant.
"They were all great finalists and it was a very hard choice," local sculptor Pandora LaCasse said.
LaCasse and committee member Allison Hildreth were co-chairwomen of the Congress Square Public Art Commission, which endorsed Sze at its Aug. 15 meeting.
Joining Hildreth and LaCasse on the Congress Square Public Art Commission was Public Art Committee member Tony Muench, who also complimented Sze and the other applicants Monday.
"They were all different and incredibly gifted … It is not a right or wrong call, each one of them could have been and would be good for the job," Muench said.
The Congress Square Public Art Commission also included Jessica Tomlinson of the Maine College of Art; Jessica May of the Portland Museum of Art; neighborhood resident and artist Anne Buckwalter of Space Gallery; architect Scott Simon, and Portland Westin General Manager Bruce Wennerstrom.
"We didn't just have one unanimous choice, some had two people, but (Sze) was on almost everyone's list," Muench said.
Sze has been exhibiting her work globally for almost 20 years and presented examples of work that fit into the context of outdoor settings while bringing viewers into the art itself.
Her creations of suspended fabric and rock were on display at the 56th Venice Biennale in Italy last year, and her work will fill the new 96th Street subway station in New York.
Sze, along with Ned Kahn of Sebastopol, California, Patrick Marold of Denver, and Matthew Ritchie of New York, were named finalists after 97 artists applied for the grant. Each finalist presented their work at an Aug. 8 forum at the Portland Museum of Art.
WRT was selected as the design firm in May.
Sze and WRT will next host a three-day "storefront workshop," city Urban Designer Caitlin Cameron said. The plan is to set up shop near Congress Square and show new preliminary concepts for the art and park redesign while inviting the public to be part of the process.
"That will be the most visible next step," she said. "It will be them already working on the designs."
Cameron said the workshop is expected to take place in late September or early October.
Sze's commission comes from $225,000 the Public Art Committee has accumulated over the last few years from city capital improvements budgets. There are no estimates available for the redesign project, because as Cameron noted, there is no final design in place.
Cameron did estimate as much as $300,000 to $400,000 could be spent on art for the redesign, at least to give Sze a baseline for what she might create.
Public Art Committee Chairwoman Lin Lisberger said the overall fundraising effort will not begin until designs for the area from the PMA to the Westin Harborview, including the intersections of Congress, High and Free streets are more detailed.
"We are hoping to kick-start fundraising late winter and early spring," LaCasse said, adding that online "crowdfunding" will be a component of fundraising efforts.
Sze's selection continues the progression of Congress Square redevelopment that began after the attempted sale of 9,500 square feet of the area outside the Westin Harborview to hotel owners, who envisioned building an event center in the space.
Portland councilors approved the $543,000 sale in September 2013, but before it was completed, a successful June 2014 referendum placed the area in the city's land bank and changed the requirements needed to sell land bank parcels to private companies.
Following the referendum, the Congress Square Redesign Study Group renewed its work on the area's future, leading to the request for proposals from artists and design firms.
Last year, the Friends of Congress Square received a $100,000 grant from Southwest Airlines and the nonprofit Project for Public Places to improve the space and expand its potential public uses.
David Harry can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 110 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @DavidHarry8.
Artist Sarah Sze presents her design for Congress Square Aug. 8 at the Portland Museum of Art. Sze was selected to work with design firm WRT on Aug. 22.
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ENSO-neutral conditions persisted in the tropical Pacific during August 2018. Atmospheric indicators became aligned with oceanic indicators during August, for a climate system that is gradually moving in the direction of El Niño. This is consistent with the consensus from international models, which forecast a transition toward El Niño over the next three-month period (62% chance over September – November 2018). The probability for El Niño conditions being established reaches a peak during early 2019, with a 78% chance for El Niño conditions over March – May 2019.
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The effects of El Niño in Tonga usually include cooler night time temperatures, lower rainfall during the rainy season and increase in the frequency of tropical cyclone occurrence. El Niño events normally last for around a year however, they can be shorter, or last much longer depending on the nature of the event. Usually Tonga is affected by 1 cyclone per year but increases to around 2 during El Niño.
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