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Good things are hard to kill. One of the most useful predefined compiler macros in C/C++ were __FILE__ and __LINE__ which do expand to the compilation units file name and line number where this value is encountered by the compiler. After 4.5 versions of .NET we are on par with C/C++ again. It is of course not a simple compiler expandable macro it is an attribute but it does serve exactly the same purpose.
Now we do get
The most important one is CallerMemberNameAttribute which is very useful to implement the INotifyPropertyChanged interface without the need to hard code the name of the property anymore. Now you can simply decorate your change method with the new CallerMemberName attribute and you get the property name as string directly inserted by the C# compiler at compile time.
public string UserName
get { return _userName; }
set { _userName=value;
RaisePropertyChanged(); // no more RaisePropertyChanged("UserName")!
protected void RaisePropertyChanged([CallerMemberName] string member = "")
var copy = PropertyChanged;
if(copy != null)
copy(new PropertyChangedEventArgs(this, member));
Nice and handy. This was obviously the prime reason to implement this feature in the C# 5.0 compiler. You can repurpose this feature for tracing to get your hands on the method name of your caller along other stuff very fast now. All infos are added during compile time which is much faster than other approaches like walking the stack.
The example on MSDN shows the usage of this attribute with an example
public static void TraceMessage(string message, [CallerMemberName] string memberName = "",
[CallerFilePath] string sourceFilePath = "", [CallerLineNumber] int sourceLineNumber = 0)
Console.WriteLine("Hi {0} {1} {2}({3})", message, memberName, sourceFilePath, sourceLineNumber);
When I do think of tracing I do usually want to have a API which allows me to
When I do print a trace message it is very useful to print out method and type name as well. So your API must either be able to pass the method and type name as strings or extract it automatically via walking back one Stackframe and fetch the infos from there. The first glaring deficiency is that there is no CallerTypeAttribute yet because the C# compiler team was not satisfied with its performance.
A usable Trace Api might therefore look like
enum TraceTypes
None = 0,
EnterLeave = 1 << 0,
Info = 1 << 1,
Warn = 1 << 2,
Error = 1 << 3
class Tracer : IDisposable
string Type;
string Method;
public Tracer(string type, string method)
Type = type;
Method = method;
if (IsEnabled(TraceTypes.EnterLeave,Type, Method))
private bool IsEnabled(TraceTypes traceTypes, string Type, string Method)
// Do checking here if tracing is enabled
return false;
public void Info(string fmt, params object[] args)
public void Warn(string fmt, params object[] args)
public void Error(string fmt, params object[] args)
public static void Info(string type, string method, string fmt, params object[] args)
public static void Warn(string type, string method, string fmt, params object[] args)
public static void Error(string type, string method, string fmt, params object[] args)
public void Dispose()
// trace method leave
This minimal trace API is very fast but hard to maintain since you need to pass in the type and method name as hard coded strings which can change from time to time. But now we have at least CallerMemberName to rid of the explicit method parameter right? Not really. Since any acceptable usable trace Api should have a method signature like Tracexxx(… string fmt, params [] object args) we not able to add additional optional parameters after the args array. If we would put it before the format string we would need to make it optional as well which would mean the compiler would need to figure out what our trace message and arguments are (not likely) or we would need to specify everything explicitly just like before .
There are ways around this by providing a myriad of overloads which in the end are routed to the very same method but that is ugly. I am not sure if nobody inside MS agrees that the above API is reasonable to have or (more likely) that the whole talk about you can use this feature for diagnostic purposes was not a core feature at all but a simple byproduct of making the life of INotifyPropertyChanged implementers easier.
A way around this would be to allow for variable argument arrays after the params keyword another set of optional arguments which are always filled by the compiler but I do not know if this is an easy one.
The thing I am missing much more is the not provided CallerType attribute. But not in the way you would think of. In the API above I did add some filtering based on method and type to stay as fast as possible for types where tracing is not enabled at all. It should be no more expensive than an additional method call and a bool variable check if tracing for this type is enabled at all. The data is tightly bound to the calling type and method and should therefore become part of the static type instance. Since extending the CLR type system for tracing is not something I do expect to happen I have come up with an alternative approach which allows me basically to attach run time data to any existing type object in super fast way. The key to success is the usage of generics.
class Tracer<T> : IDisposable
string Method;
public Tracer(string method)
if (TraceData<T>.Instance.Enabled.HasFlag(TraceTypes.EnterLeave))
public void Dispose()
if (TraceData<T>.Instance.Enabled.HasFlag(TraceTypes.EnterLeave))
public static void Info(string fmt, params object[] args)
/// <summary>
/// Every type gets its own instance with a fresh set of variables to describe the
/// current filter status.
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
internal class TraceData<UsingType>
internal static TraceData<UsingType> Instance = new TraceData<UsingType>();
public bool IsInitialized = false; // flag if we need to reinit the trace data in case of reconfigured trace settings at runtime
public TraceTypes Enabled = TraceTypes.None; // Enabled trace levels for this type
The generic version is wicked fast and allows you to add more features to your tracing Api with minimal perf overhead. But it is cumbersome to write the generic type argument always explicitly and worse if you do refactor code and move parts of it to other classes it might be that you cannot configure tracing correctly. I would like therefore to decorate my type with an attribute
class Tracer<T> : IDisposable
to tell the compiler to fill in the generic type argument automatically.
class Program
static void Main(string[] args)
using (var t = new Tracer()) // equivalent to new Tracer<Program>()
That would be really useful and super fast since you do not need to pass any type object around but you do have full type infos at hand. This change would be breaking if another non generic type exists in the same namespace where now the generic counterpart would be preferred. But this is an acceptable risk in my opinion since you can today already get conflicts if two generic types of the same name are defined in different namespaces. This would be only a variation of this issue.
When you do think about this further you can add more features like to trace the exception in your Dispose method if the method is left with an exception with that little trick I did write some time ago. You can think of tracing as a super fast and configurable switch to write data to an output destination or to execute alternative actions. With such an infrastructure you can e.g.
This stuff is really useful to have when your code is in production on a mission critical server and you need to find the root cause of sporadic crashes of your application. It could be a buggy graphics card driver which throws access violations into your application (ok with .NET 4 not anymore except if you enable a compatibility flag) where you would like to have a minidump or you have reached after two weeks of operation a state where you need a full memory dump at a specific point in time in the middle of an transaction.
At my older machine I do get with this super fast approach 50 million traces/s when tracing is disabled. When I do know that tracing is enabled for this type I can walk the stack by using StackFrameHelper.GetStackFramesInternal to check further if a specific action or output device is configured for this method which is about 2-3 times faster than the regular StackTrace class. Even with one String.Format I am down to 3 million traces/s so performance is not so important anymore since I do want to do something now.
The CallerMemberName feature of the C# 5 compiler is nice but I would have preferred to get direct access to the MethodHandle and not to the stringified version of it. But I really would like to see a CallerType attribute implemented to fill in the generic type argument of the call site to augment the static CLR type data with run time data.
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UCLA Staff to Learn Spanish: All Future Americans will learn Spanish under a North American Community.
(February 21, 2014) "UCLA will foot the bill for its employees to learn to speak Spanish under a new program launched this month at the Southern California-based public university.
"It is important as a university and employer that we are on the cutting edge providing our staff with the necessary tools needed to meet the future…The exciting opportunity for a staff employee to learn a language during working hours is priceless." Lee Walton, UCLA diversity coordinator.
Campus officials say that the Spanish language course has made it possible for managers 'to speak Spanish with their staff members…And 'they have noticed improved morale in the workplace."
The fact is that the Spanish language has been part of the plan to integrate North America since 2005 under Bush, Prime Minister Martin, and President Fox, injecting Spanish for all schools in the United States. The reason is that Spanish and other Spanish-speaking groups will dominate commerce (open borders) throughout the Southwest United States and other places in America, such as Florida.
Corporate CEOs are in charge of building a North American Community with no borders. This group, the NACC, a North American Competitiveness Council, is responsible for planning and implementing this new trading region, with governance by annual North American summits. CEOs also give advice and legislation to leaders and to cabinet members of all three nations. In turn, the data is passed on to members of all three legislatures of North America for passage.
The CEO plan for constructing a new governance in North America is to import large numbers of Mexicans into the United States and Canada in order to lower American wages. Right now U.S. corporate CEOs are moving their auto factories and other plants, such as Whirlpool, to Mexico where the maximum wages are $3.50 per hour and $.50 an hour for benefits. See the link below on pages 27 and 28 of a North American Community. The goal is to compete with the third world, meaning no more middle class and an abundance of unemployed Americans.
CORPORATE CEOs are in the process of making Mexicans and other Latinos the largest ethnic group in the Southwestern United States and in other areas, also. This means that Spanish will be the primary language and those who do not know the language can not get a job in their own country. Even now, Black and White Americans in this region often do not get a job because they can't speak Spanish. Some have noticed that a few Americans who can speak Spanish are sometimes discriminated because of their race and the history of the European invasion of the New World. The Mexican hatred of European Whites is widespread and, in general, if Mexicans had a choice, "they want all Whites to, as their signs say, "GO BACK TO EUROPE". (These videos should persuade you that this integration will only bring never-ending violence on a scale that only an armed region such as North America could.)
However, in the meantime, George W. Bush and Barack Obama have a plan to teach Americans to speak and write Spanish so they, too, can get $3.50 an hour. On page 30 of the link below, Building a North American Community:
"Develop teacher exchange and training programs for elementary and secondary school teachers."
"This would assist in removing language barriers and give some students a greater sense of a North American identity. Greater efforts should also be made to recruit Mexican language teachers to teach Spanish in the United States."
And you, too, can make $3.50 an hour.
That is why under this new governance, everyone will be controlled by a tri-regional police/military organization, which Obama is now constructing from pages 8 to 12 in Building a North American Community below. Mexican troops are in training (in photo) with Americans toward a tri-national military/police state. The photo is also a real Mexican Army convoy on its first mission as part of a 2005 North American relief operation across Texas to bring supplies en route to New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina.
But President Obama, in fact, has made more progress toward integrating the continent than Bush. That includes pushing Spanish for Americans. Go to thesigintreport.com and click on NAFTA, then scroll down to the videos where Obama pleads to a crowd in Georgia that all Americans must learn Spanish. Now you know why.
George W. Bush tried to bring Spanish for Americans in 2005 as part of a plan to integrate North America by Richard N. Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations in 2005. This integration (SPP-Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America) was "SIGNED" by the three leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States at Waco, Texas on March 23, 2005 (p.24, link below). The plan began with "working groups" from Canada, Mexico, and the United States meeting at the U.S. Department of Commerce, led by Geri Word. The plan is called Building a North American Community. Geri Word is still in charge for the perimeter task around North America.
The CEOs of Canada, Mexico and the United States agreed to integrate North America, surrounded by an outer perimeter, and eventually open all the the interior borders throughout the continent. This means that all "citizens of North America" will be free to "live and work" anywhere on the continent. It means that the United States will no longer exist. It means that in many parts of the former U.S., foreigners will now live there. (See pp. 27, 28 on the link above.)
The CEOs of the three nations put this new regional plan together and tried for completion by 2010 but Congress failed to pass several legislative bills, pushed by John McCain. It will be modeled after the European Union and the African Union. The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security would have been responsible for reporting to Congress each year for progress on completing this continental perimeter. A number of bills were put forth in Congress but they all failed from 2005 to 2007.
Read this link which shows two of these Congressional bills, their location (North American perimeter), and the U.S. officials in charge of the project.
When Barack Obama became President he agreed with Bush that he would continue integrating North America and the Partnership for Prosperity in the Americas-34 nations of the Western Hemisphere (PPA), an integration of the Americas. This is a region to compete with the European Union. The Secretariat would be in Miami, a Spanish-speaking area. Hillary Clinton was put in charge of both projects.
Obama was not happy with the progress of integrating the North American Community so he and Prime Minister Harper of Canada announced, illegally, that he would implement a North American perimeter around Canada and the United States, and work with Mexico to modernize the interior border with the United States. Once the goal of opening all interior borders for the continent is complete, all citizens of North America could "live and work" anywhere on the continent. (Reference to a perimeter can be found on pages 3 and 8, Building a North American Community in the link above.)
Initially all citizens would use biometric IDs. Mexico has already started by giving all children, from 5 to 17, biometric ID cards, making them eligible for a North American Border Pass. All Mexicans will eventually have these IDs with 10 fingerprints and eye scans.
Bush began integrating this continental Community and Obama agreed to finish it. Briefly, it means that, when finished, the continent will be one region, consisting of a North American perimeter and all interior borders will be abolished. Everyone in North America is supposed to have a biometric ID. Eventually, no one will be asked for a biometric ID once the perimeter is complete. All citizens of North America will then be able to "live and work" anywhere on the continent. (These Mexican children have been issued biometric IDs for over 2 years now and will continue until all Mexicans have biometric IDs.)
North Americans can then compete with the Chinese. NO MIDDLE CLASS. A lot of unemployed. The CEOs planned it this way so they could live it up until the end comes.
Building and implementing the 32-page North American Community will make the U.S. Constitution null and void.
Welcome to the NEW WORLD ORDER.

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Steve Watson
January 5, 2012
Ahead of the New Hampshire primary next week, three of the State's newspapers have endorsed Ron Paul for president.
The Littleton Courier, Berlin Reporter, and Coos County Democrat all announced today their support for Paul, citing Paul's consistentcy and legitimacy on major issues.
"Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has been in the lead for months," wrote the editors, "but voters still seem desperate for an alternative — there's always another candidate pulling stronger or almost as strong numbers in the polls. Voters have lost faith in Obama, but they are not sold on Romney to replace him."
Congressman Ron Paul, however, "has never voted to raise a tax and voted against all of the bailouts that have riled up Tea Partiers and Occupy Wall Streeters alike," they continued. "His prediction that the United States can no longer afford the economic cost of our overseas commitments makes many Republicans uncomfortable, possibly by the very truth of the assertion. For decades he has been that rare sort of politician who speaks what he believes to be the truth and doesn't flutter in the wind of public opinion. That could not be said of Obama or Romney."
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Two debates are scheduled to take place in New Hampshire prior to the primary next Tuesday. Ron Paul will be in attendance at both events.
The first, an ABC/WMUR sponsored debate to be held at the Dana Center at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, is scheduled for this Saturday at 9:00 p.m. Eastern.
The second debate is an NBC News/Facebook and Union Leader sponsired event, to be held at Chubb Theatre at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord. The debate will air on the NBC network as a special edition of "Meet the Press" and will stream live on Facebook.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.net, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.
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any update on version 1.0?
I'm currently active on other projects, but I will probably get back to FQ eventually though, especially if I can think of some good things to do with it.
On the plus side, FQ server licensing/usage is at an all time high, so it's looking more and more like it warrants some dev time.
I did update the FQ license server code a few days ago, should be more stable.
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Robinson Technologies
Any update on this?
How about now?
Maybe now???
Still the same situation I'm afraid.
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Announcing www.keepriding.org. The first website forum dedicated to the Inspiration, Information & Support of cyclists with cardiac issues.
Who would think that at age 37 they'd have heart problems? Not me. While I was 25 pounds overweight I exercised a lot, rode a single speed mountain bike, raced BMX 2-3 times a week, went to the gym twice a week, been a Vegan since I was 21, had not touched alcohol for 15 years, never smoked or done drugs, had no family history of heart disease..........Then while packing up to leave the BMX track I felt cold, sweaty and dizzy. About 2 miles later I couldn't drive a straight line and got a real fear of something terrible happening to me. I called the paramedics on my cell phone and they took me off to the hospital, thinking I was just dehydrated. If it wasn't for the great paramedics, doctors and nurses and a "clotbuster" shot, I'd be dead.
Even once I got in the best shape of my life & lost 30 pounds (now 41, I have since gained some back) I would get ready for a ride and all of sudden have the fear that I would have another heart attack if I kept up my pace. I found I needed to talk about the fears I would get and wanted to hear how others were coping. I have been in some great support groups but none that focused on fears relating to sports performance.
Ever since my heart attack I realized how hard it was to find anyone who still wanted to be very active and participate in sports at more than a leisure pace. One cardiac rehab nurse told me to never do another chest exercise! I hoped that by starting this site I would find people who were more than just sympathetic but understood the fears, questions and there must be others like me, at any age, who could use a forum to talk and share their stories.
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As we transition to our new site, you'll still find some Stats NZ information here on this archive site.
This section has information about data that does not change between releases.
The target population for the Household Labour Force Survey (HLFS) is the civilian, usually resident, non-institutionalised population aged 15 years and over.
The statistics in this release do not cover:
The HLFS sample contains about 15,000 private households and about 30,000 individuals each quarter. Households are sampled on a statistically representative basis from areas throughout New Zealand, and information is obtained for each member of the household. The sample is stratified by geographic region, urban and rural areas, ethnic density, and socio-economic characteristics. Households stay in the survey for two years. Each quarter, one-eighth of the households in the sample are rotated out and replaced by a new set of households. Therefore, up to seven-eighths of the same people are surveyed in adjacent quarters. This overlap improves the reliability of quarterly change estimates. The period of surveying/interviewing consists of 13 weeks. The information obtained relates to the week before the interview (referred to as the 'survey reference week'). Respondents are first interviewed face-to-face at their home. Subsequent interviews are by telephone wherever possible. Respondents also have the option to file self-complete questionnaires. Where practicable, the information is obtained directly from each household member. Otherwise a proxy interview is conducted, whereby details are obtained from another adult in the household.
Sampling error can be measured, and quantifies the variability that occurs by chance because a sample rather than an entire population is surveyed.
Sampling errors are calculated for each cell in the published tables and for estimates of change between adjacent quarters using a model-based approach. For example, the estimated total number of people employed in the September 2011 quarter is 2,206,300 before seasonal adjustment. This estimate is subject to a sampling error of plus or minus 21,800, or 1.0 percent (measured at the 95 percent confidence level). This means that there is a 95 percent chance that the true number of employed people lies between 2,184,500 and 2,228,100.
Smaller estimates, such as the number of people who are unemployed, are subject to larger relative sampling errors than larger estimates. For example, the estimated total number of people unemployed in the September 2011 quarter is 151,200 before seasonal adjustment. This estimate is subject to a sampling error of plus or minus 9,500 or 6.3 percent (measured at the 95 percent confidence level). This means that there is a 95 percent chance that the true number of unemployed people lies between 141,700 and 160,700.
Estimates of change are also subject to sampling error. For example, the survey estimate of change in total employment from the June 2011 quarter to the September 2011 quarter is a decrease of 2,000. This estimate is subject to a sampling error of plus or minus 18,600 (at the 95 percent confidence level). Therefore, the true value of the change in surveyed employment from the June 2011 quarter to the September 2011 quarter has a 95 percent chance of lying between -20,600 and 16,600.
A change in an estimate, either from one adjacent quarter to the next, or between quarters a year apart, is said to be statistically significant if it is larger than the associated sampling error. Therefore, the example quoted above does not represent a significant movement.
In general, the sampling errors associated with subnational estimates (eg breakdowns by regional council area or ethnic group) are larger than those associated with national estimates.
A non-sampling error is very difficult to measure, and if present can lead to biased estimates. Statistics New Zealand endeavours to minimise the impact of these errors by applying best survey practices and monitoring known indicators (eg non-response).
Cells with estimates of less than 1,000 are suppressed and appear as 'S' in the tables. These estimates are subject to sampling errors too great for most practical purposes.
The target response rate for the HLFS is 90 percent. The response rate is calculated by determining the number of eligible households who responded to the survey, as a proportion of the estimated number of total eligible households in the sample. The following table shows the HLFS response rates for the last five quarters.
In the labour market, cyclical events that affect labour supply and demand occur around the same time each year. For example, in summertime a large pool of student labour is both available for, and actively seeking, work. Demand for labour in the retail sector and in many primary production industries also increases. For any series, the estimates can be broken down into three components: trend, seasonal, and irregular. Seasonally adjusted series have had the seasonal component removed. Trend series have had both the seasonal and irregular components removed, and reveal the underlying direction of movement in a series. The series for each labour market statistic is adjusted separately. For this reason, the sum of the seasonally adjusted estimates for employment, unemployment, and people not in the labour force will usually not add up to the working-age population estimates. See Seasonal adjustment in Statistics New Zealand for more information about how we seasonally adjust our statistics. Seasonal adjustment makes data for adjacent quarters more comparable by smoothing out the effect on the times series of any regular seasonal events. This ensures that the underlying movements in the time series are more visible. All seasonally adjusted and trend series are produced using the X-12-ARIMA Version 0.2.10 package developed by the U.S. Census Bureau.
We monitor our data to make sure that our seasonal adjustment is robust. The X-12-ARIMA programme is highly customisable and can produce a wide variety of possible adjustments for any particular input series. Consequently, X-12-ARIMA produces a number of diagnostics which are useful in assessing the quality of the chosen adjustment. The following table provides a selection of diagnostics. The reference value provides an indication of the desired value for each. Most are acceptable, though there is evidence of a changing seasonal pattern for the number of males who are unemployed and females who are not in labour force. More detail about seasonal adjustment in the HLFS is available upon request.
During the seasonal adjustment process, X-12-ARIMA can give less weight to the irregular component. Specifically, if the estimated irregular component at a point in time is sufficiently large compared with the standard deviation of the irregular component as a whole, then the irregular component at that point can be downweighted or removed completely and re-estimated. Such observations are referred to as partial and zero-outliers, respectively. In practice, the downweighting of outliers will do little to seasonally adjusted data, but the impact of the outliers on the trend series will generally be reduced. However, if an outlier ceases to be an outlier as more data becomes available, then significant revisions to the trend series become possible. There are no outliers present over the last 4 quarters of data.
Each quarter, the seasonal adjustment process is applied to the latest quarter and all previous quarters. This means that seasonally adjusted estimates for any of the previously published quarters may change slightly. The following table lists the change in estimates between the current and previous publication for the seasonally adjusted data. For example, in the June 2011 quarter release, the seasonally adjusted number of females employed for June 2011 was 1,039,000. In the September 2011 quarter release, that same estimate has been revised to 1,038,000. These numbers are rounded to the nearest 1,000, but the relative change derived from the unrounded estimates is a downwards revision of 0.1 percent.
The following table presents information on how the trend estimates have been revised. Trend revisions are generally larger than those of the seasonally adjusted data.
Every estimate is subject to revision each quarter as new data is added, though in practice estimates more than two years from the end-point will change little. For example, the trend estimate of male employment for the September 2010 quarter was 1,171,000 when first published. In the September 2011 quarter, one year later, the trend estimate of male employment for the September 2010 quarter is 1,166,000, a decrease of -5,000 (-0.4%). This is an example of a '4-step ahead' revision. The table below shows the average of all such absolute revisions expressed relatively and gives some indication of how much the current estimates might be revised when the December 2011 data becomes available.
Figures presented in this release are rounded. Figures are rounded to the nearest hundred or to the nearest thousand for seasonally adjusted and trend estimates. This may result in a total disagreeing slightly with the sum of the individual items as shown in the table. Where figures are rounded the unit is shown as (000) for thousands.
The HLFS release includes specific statistics about industry, occupation, study, ethnicity, and region. This section defines what we measure for each of these statistics.
Since the September 2009 quarter, the industry statistics are based on the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification 2006 (ANZSIC06), the latest edition of the classification. When ANZSIC06 was introduced, Statistics NZ developed the New Zealand Standard Industrial Output Categories (NZSIOC). Classifying industries using NZSIOC will help to standardise outputs. The 1996 version (ANZSIC96), used in industry outputs in previous releases, has been updated to the 2006 edition. Industry outputs defined using ANZSIC06 are not comparable with those based on ANZSIC96. See Implementing ANZSIC 2006 in the Household Labour Force Survey for more information.
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We are the 99 percent the vast majority who will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1% who hold all the wealth. CODEPINK has been in Wall Street camping out with other activists in Liberty Plaza because we know real change begins with direct action to challenge corporate greed and endless war. Though we face serious obstacles, we are committed to disarming the military industrial complex with humor and positive energy, both at this vibrant American Tahrir Square to Freedom Plaza in Washington DC starting Oct 6 for the tenth anniversary of the Afghan War to denounce war and demand funding for housing, jobs, healthcare, and education.
The recent uptick in violence in Kabul provides a chilling reminder of the truth we've known all along: violence begets violence. The U.S. must stop propping up drug lords and war lords and bring our war $$ home. The international community must support real peace negotiations in Afghanistan, which includes women's equal involvement in the process. Let's stop pretending men with weapons represent the will of the people; we support real democracy.
We congratulate Obama for telling Congress it's time for the rich to pay their fair share and fund teachers and build bridges as part of the American Jobs Act, but there is trouble in the details we can't allow cuts to Medicare, and we all know the best way to save money is to cut military spending. Now that he finally appears to hear our call for change, we must push Obama to immediately end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Well it is that time of year again. With Christmas fast approaching it will be tough to get cards out this year for me but if you are anything like I am this year, the expense of stamps will thwart me from sending them through the mail to many.
I will however be glad to send email Christmas Cards and Greetings to my beloved friends of TORC!
Now if your mailing address has changed in the last year, you may want to let us know to contact you for the new address.
I may be contacting many for email addresses to send my cards out that way.
Rwhen (Jules) has moved and she said she would give her new address to anyone who contacts her for it.
Blessing this Christmas to one and all!!


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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
A report issued by the International Electromagnetic Field Collaborative and endorsed by 43 scientists from 13 countries has reviewed the evidence linking cell phone use to brain tumors, and refuting the methodology of a forthcoming industry-funded study expected to give the phones a clean bill of health.
"I fear we will see a tsunami of brain tumors, although it is too early to see that now since the tumors have a 30-year latency," study author Lloyd Morgan said. "I pray I'm wrong, but brace yourself."
Among the research cited in the study was a recent study by a Swedish team of scientists that found a 420 percent higher risk of brain cancer among people who had started using cellular or cordless phones as teenagers. Older analog phones, which are now mostly off the market, had been found to increase cancer risk by 700 percent.
Because children are especially vulnerable to radiation, the report recommends that parents not allow their children under the age of 18 to use mobile phones except in emergencies, or to sleep with cellular phones under their pillows. It recommends using corded land lines whenever possible, and using cellular phones mostly as answering machines, turning them on only to check messages and return calls. Use of cell phones inside buildings or in cars increases cancer risk, as it increases the radiation a phone must emit to function. Use of text messages and non-wireless headsets can reduce cancer risk. The report also advises against carrying cell phones against the body, even in pockets.
"Some countries are already banning cell phones over health concerns, with France saying children in elementary schools can only use them for texting," Morgan said.
The report also sets out 11 flaws in the forthcoming Interphone study, a study on cell phones and health being prepared by the wireless industry in 13 different countries. These flaws include the exclusion of non-cellular cordless phones (which also emit radiation), children and young adults (the most vulnerable demographics) from the study, the exclusion of certain types of tumors, and the exclusion of participants who died or were too sick to answer questions.
Sources for this story include: www.pcworld.com.
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This option was developed to address two important issues regarding deer carcass transportation. The first concern is about the movement of any material from a deer that may contribute to the transmission of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). While there is a lot yet to be learned about this disease, and how it is spread, it is believed that its transmission could be diminished if certain body parts affected by the disease are not moved from the site where the deer is taken. Because CWD affects the brain and central nervous system, the transportation of a deer head and skeleton from one location to another is considered a likely means for the disease to spread. The new registration system allows a hunter to leave these items at the kill site, minimizing the possibility of spreading the disease.
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Mere days before the Italian grand prix, the identity of Caterham's second race driver is still unclear.
Reports from Japan suggest Kamui Kobayashi will definitely not be back at the wheel of the car at Monza, having already sat out Spa-Francorchamps.
After reigning Le Mans winner Andre Lotterer and his sponsor Hype filled in at Spa, it was expected that Spanish rookie Roberto Merhi and his Russian backers had now put up the rumoured EUR 300,000 for the Monza seat this weekend.
But new speculation reports that Merhi, 23, admitted mere hours ago that "I still do not have the super license. I have to do 300 kilometres" in a F1 car.
Merhi is a former F3 euroseries champion, but the FIA is apparently nervous about a rookie getting his first experience of a F1 car at the sport's highest-speed circuit.
The Red Bull junior Carlos Sainz jr has also been linked with the Monza seat, but also still in the running is Lotterer.
"We're still in touch," German Lotterer, who impressed at Spa but retired early during the Belgian grand prix, told Racer when asked about Caterham, "and I think there's opportunities to do more races.
"It was a great experience for me and I have to look at the schedule and see if it is more of a one-off chapter for me or if it makes sense to do more."
Monza does not clash with the calendars for Lotterer's two racing responsibilities this year; Super Formula in Japan and the world endurance championship.
"(At Spa) it felt like everybody at Audi was behind me and all of the people who supported my career before and in Japan," he added.


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Pirates fall in 11th after bullpen has rare misstep
Pittsburgh unable to secure win for first time when leading after seven
PITTSBURGH -- It was a rare night at the ballpark. Only seeing the Loch Ness Monster stick its neck out of the Allegheny River would have been more unusual than what actually transpired on its shores, in PNC Park.
The Houston Astros outlasted the Pirates, 4-2, in 11 innings. Whenever two baseball teams meet, anything can happen, so the rarity wasn't the outcome itself, but how it came about.
The Astros had been 0-26 when trailing after seven innings. The Pirates had been 18-0 when leading after seven innings.
Naturally, then, the Astros tied the score in the eighth before breaking a 2-2 tie on a controversial run in the 11th that led to argumentative Pirates manager Clint Hurdle's ejection.
You want rare? Afterwards, Hurdle essentially apologized to plate umpire C.B. Bucknor, saying he had been right to call Jason Castro safe on his slide into catcher Russell Martin's block.
Castro, who had begun the 11th with a double off Bryan Morris (1-2), came in from third base on Matt Dominguez's grounder to second with one out. He slid into and over Martin's extended left leg. Bucknor signaled safe, Hurdle vehemently beefed and drew his second ejection of the season.
"I thought we had a play and weren't able to get an out," Hurdle said. "And then I went inside [the clubhouse to check on a replay] and the ump made the right call. He made a good call. He got a good look at it and he was right."
J.D. Martinez's pinch-hit RBI single later in the inning opened up a two-run lead and made the crowd of 32,925, the season's largest since Opening Day, accept the fact that the Bucs' four-game winning streak was about to end.
If the original mound matchup of A.J. Burnett against Erik Bedard seemed to favor the Pirates, the later duel between their world-class bullpen and Houston's young crew was even more in the Bucs' favor.
As it is often said, "That's why they play the games," and thus Mark Melancon, perfect in 15 previous hold situations, stubbed his toe in allowing the tying run in the eighth.
And Jose Cisnero, who throttled the Pirates for 3 2/3 innings, picked up his first Major League win.
"He did a tremendous job of saving the rest of the bullpen and keeping the game right there, and gave our offense a chance late to put together that two-run rally," Houston manager Bo Porter said.
Cisnero should have gotten more than just a win, according to Hurdle.
"He kept us off the board, and any time you get that kind of push from one guy, he probably should get the win and the save," Hurdle said.
The official save instead went to former Pirates setup workhorse Jose Veras, who retired the side in order in the bottom of the 11th for his sixth save of the season in his 344th big league appearance.
The Astros didn't hit Melancon hard for the tying run, but they hit him right -- identical bouncing singles up the middle by Trevor Crowe and Jose Altuve, then a cracked-bat flare into left by Chris Carter for the RBI to make it 2-2.
"Two three-hop ground balls and a broken-bat single. I think that shows you how impressive he's been all the times before -- because you can be throwing well and still give up a run," Hurdle said of Melancon, who had give up his only other run this season on April 14. "That's really good."
Burnett escaped major trouble in the first inning, when the Astros loaded the bases with one out. He responded the way one would expect of someone leading his league in strikeouts: He fanned both Carter and Carlos Pena, needing a mere seven pitches to do so.
The Pirates struck quickly for a 1-0 lead in the bottom of that first, on back-to-back two-out doubles by Andrew McCutchen and Gaby Sanchez.
McCutchen was the centerpiece of the go-ahead rally in the sixth, too. He followed Jose Tabata's leadoff bunt single with another double. Tabata was eventually erased on a grounder, so McCutchen got to score the go-ahead run on Brandon Inge's single.
Strange plays seem to follow the Astros around. Their tying rally in the fifth wasn't quite on par with their losing folly in the ninth inning Friday, but was odd in its own right.
Marwin Gonzalez began it with a grounder to second, on which Sanchez and Burnett converged at the first-base bag. Neil Walker had to make a snap decision to whom to throw the ball and picked Burnett, who couldn't step on the base ahead of the runner. Gonzalez then ran into Sanchez and required the trainer's attention for a jaw bruise.
Bedard managed to lay down a bunt on an 0-and-2 pitch. Martin went for Gonzalez, but his throw to second was tardy. Yet shortstop Jordy Mercer's relay to first nabbed Bedard. Gonzalez took third on a grounder and, following a walk of Crowe, scored as Inge tripped atop the third-base bag while trying to field Altuve's grounder, which went for an infield RBI single.
"I could've gone for the backhand," said Inge, who lost his balance when trying to get in front of the grounder, "but if it bounces over my wrist and goes down into the corner, it scores another run. I was trying to keep it in front of me, just couldn't handle it cleanly."
Burnett again went seven innings, allowing five hits and four walks to one run, while fanning seven. It was the fourth consecutive start that he has gone seven innings.
"That's my approach, to go deep in games," he said. "That's the biggest thing for me. I'm not a 'me' guy."
Bedard was a worthy adversary, as he is apt to be. The lefty went six innings, allowing two runs on seven hits to remind the Pirates of the Bedard they'd occasionally see last season.
Out of his 24 starts for the Bucs in 2012, Bedard went six-plus innings while allowing two runs or fewer seven times -- and did not see the fifth while allowing five-plus runs seven other times.


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James Pate ProgressiveChurchlady notes a piece on the practice of "hiding" the homeless during major events, which is doublespeak for arresting them for being an eyesore. It seems that with the Super Bowl this weekend, Tampa Bay has joined the long list of cities to sweep for vagrants and lock them in jail while the crowds have their fun.
Instead of dealing with the problem directly--which would require admitting the numerous ways we dehumanize and disenfranchise the homeless--we cart them off and pretend then don't exist.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
It's Easier If We Pretend They Don't Exist
by Ken Brown at 11:53 AM
Labels: homelessness, law enforcement, society, Super Bowl, systemic evil
3 comments:
- James Pate said...
Wow! Does the author of this blog have the same name I do?
- January 31, 2009 at 3:18 PM
- Ken Brown said...
Nope, I'm just an idiot. Blame it on Google Reader....
- January 31, 2009 at 3:23 PM
- James Pate said...
Well, I did mention homelessness not long ago, so that may have been where Google reader messed up.
- January 31, 2009 at 7:35 PM
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Negative Behavior Youth Movements in the United States and their Effect on Domestic Terrorism
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Negative behavior youth movements come in various forms; Goths, Juggalos and the most recognizable, Straight Edge. They are not well known by the general public but their increasing involvement in violent crimes and domestic terrorism is a growing concern for law enforcement and Homeland Security. These groups vary in objective but all of them share a common anti-establishment mentality.
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In Burma, now occupied by the Japanese, the British were experimenting with unconventional methods of warfare. Colonel Orde Wingate had won support for the development of a deep penetration guerrilla force that would march far into the jungle, way behind the front line. There they would disrupt the enemy's lines of communication by blowing up railway lines, as well as attacking Japanese troops. The new force soon became christened 'Chindits', after mythical Burmese creatures.
The conditions the troops were expected to live in were arduous enough. However, the problem of resupplying such troops by air was also experimental, and was to lead to further privations. The first column set off into the jungle in late February 1943 and received their first parachute drop of supplies in early March. Harold James was a nineteen year old officer on his first military operation:
The dropping area was strewn with ration tins, parachutes and mule fodder, and the men soon got to work collecting the stores. Burmese from the nearest village were called in to help, and in return were given the parachutes which they greatly prized, cloth being a scarcity. We soon learned that valuable information could often be obtained for a piece of parachute. The Gurkhas made handerchiefs and ration bags for themselves, and lanyards from the cords.
Four tins were dropped with each parachute, padded with a shock absorber fastened by thick webbing – although this did not always work if the parachute should break loose. The four tins could conveniently be loaded each side of a mule, allowing extra rations to be carried as reserve, and, as on this occasion, the supplies could be easily transported from the dropping zone to our camp for distribution to the men.
The hard scale daily ration laid down was:
Shakapura biscuits l2oz Cheese 2oz Milk powder 1oz Raisins and almonds 9oz Tea 3/4 oz Sugar 4oz Acid drops or chocolate 1oz Salt 1/2oz Cigarettes 2 packets of 10 Matches 1 box
To imagine that men could keep fit on a ration of this nature for three months of marching through very rough country, fighting, physically and mentally extended, is beyond belief, and would seem to show a definite lack of imagination in planning the ration menu.
But the expedition was heading into unexplored areas of logistics, and presented problems which had to be solved by guesswork before hard experience could produce the correct results.
There was no meat, although tins of corned beef were dropped later, and on occasion corned mutton for the Gurkhas. But it was bulky, and went bad quite quickly, so had to be eaten more or less in one sitting. The parachute ration was supposed to be supplemented from local produce, which often proved impracticable.
With over 300 mouths to feed, very few villages could provide more than a few mouthfuls of rice per person, and the odd chicken or egg. Some columns were lucky in coming across an extra friendly village which would be more helpful – but seldom more than once during the expedition.
The idea behind the rations selected was that they contained nothing that required cooking, except water for tea, since it was expected that troops would not be able to count on more than twenty minutes for meals. In practice
we rarely had to rush our meals.
It was also assumed that supplies would be dropped regularly, which turned out, after the first two drops, to be
a false hope, not because of any shortage of aircraft, just that the enemy's presence often made it impossible to pick and choose time and place. As a result, for most of the expedition, one day`s rations had to last at the very least for three, and too often much longer.
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Researchers at Stanford University have discovered a way to break state-of-the-security video Captchas of the sort deployed by companies such as NuCaptcha with a 90 percent success rate.
Rather than presenting users with a conventional static but scrambled series of letters and numbers, NuCaptcha's video version offers partially rotating text that also moves from left to right across the screen, in theory making it much harder for computer systems to reliably detect which elements of the image are the correct ones.
This has worked well - until now.
After converting the NuCaptcha videos into individual frames, the background image was removed by the researchers and the remaining letters turned into a black and white image to ease processing.
The team then used algorithms to nominate the most interesting objects in each frame, tracking these across frames as they changed. Next, they refined the number of objects by estimating the likely minimum size of the Captcha, subjecting the remaining ones to an algorithm designed to distinguish rotated letters from 'straight' ones.
Because the researchers had multiple frames for each Captcha they were trying to break - a feature of any Captchas that use video - they ended up with more data from which to do a complex pattern analysis using tools familiar to anyone from the field of machine or robotic vision.
Put another way, using the team's methodology video Captchas were actually be easier to beat than static ones because they offer more data from which to perform an analysis.
The team said its cracking technique worked between 80 percent and almost 100 percent of the time, depending on the analysis algorithms used to isolate Captcha letters from the moving field.
The researchers said they had worked closely with NuCaptcha during its research, which has since offered a technical response to news of the attack on its technology.
"It is with combined efforts of researchers [...] that potential weaknesses are discovered and resolved, prior to them becoming practice by attackers. No single Captcha will defend against every possible attack," NuCaptcha said.
The Stanford team believes that NuCaptcha's video security could still be made to work.
"What we need to do is to remove every discriminative feature that the attacker can use to tell apart decoy moving objects and the real Captchas," the researchers suggest, most easily by introducing visual decoys to reduce the effectiveness of pattern-isolation algorithms. NuCaptcha was working on a new version of its system to do this, the researchers and company confirmed.
Captcha (completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart) is not seen as the security barrier it was once believed to be, but it remains an important technique for slowing systems that register bogus accounts with webmail providers in order to generate spam.
Constant attacks have caused some to question the underlying effectiveness of the whole technology. Only a fortnight ago, the Cridex banking Trojan was found to be able to break the static Captchas used by Yahoo to secure its webmail services.
However, Internet companies would rather have an imperfect system that beats automated systems some of the time than none at all.
This story, "Researchers Break Video Captcha Security Using Robot Vision" was originally published by Techworld.com.


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Liquid Energy
With all the smoothie bars opening up and the natural supplements and herbs flooding the market, I'm starting to wonder if we'll even need solid food in the future. They say that modern day man evolved at the point of creating fire, because it allowed us to cook our food, thereby using less energy on digestion and more energy on mental development and awareness. Could this trend continue to the point where we don't even need food anymore and get all of our nutrition from liquid energy?
I personally love smoothies and protein shakes. They give me almost everything my body needs. I get vitamins, anti-oxidants, and amino acids (whey protein concentrate and/or whey isolate protein), all of which are the key building blocks to growth, energy and vibrant health. Lol, add in a little metamucil and carbs, and I'm good to go.
However, this new way of eating would obviously take away one of life's greatest pleasures, that of the taste experience. There's really nothing better than eating a fresh piece of salmon or some creamy italian gelatto… it's the texture variety mixed with the blend of tastes. Regardless, I have my juicer and I love my smoothies and whey shakes. I could definitely see my diet moving more and more to liquid energy as the days go buy. Better for evolution? That's for you to decide.Tags: Amino acid, Energy, Evolution, Food, Health, Nutrition, Smoothie, Vitamin, Whey, Whey protein


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Update from Darren Shaw of Whitespark: You can still access Places through a URL parameter: "tbm=plcs". Not sure how long that will last though. For example:
This came to me from Andy Kuiper of Calgary and Vancouver: the Places search menu option has been removed from Google.
Google has been cleaning up and removing links from Google search and attempting to rebrand Places as a part of Google Plus. Last week they removed the related search option from the search menu. While Places has been retained as a brand on the business listing side, the branding of the consumer side is still not clear and Places has not really been replaced with any clear forward facing consumer branding.
Google has been discouraging the use of Google+ Local (coined by Marissa Mayer) and is attempting to shift the name of the business pages to simply G+ Pages (although there still is a dizzying array of page types). But the net result is that for the first time in many years there is no local search option available from the front page of Google other than the main search box. Users can only make it to Google's local search options if they are in Plus. Equally significant is that there is no unique locally focused brand.
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Story highlights
- A high school teacher is accused of having sex with seven students
- Some of the relationships lasted more than a year, investigators say
- Suspended teacher will have an employment hearing, school superintendent says
A Georgia high school teacher was arrested Tuesday after being accused of having sex with seven students, one of whom was 15.
The Charlton County district attorney charged DaNita Wilson, 32, with seven counts of sexual assault, and more charges may still be pending, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.
"After we began the investigation, there was enough that developed to arrest Ms. Wilson," bureau assistant special agent in charge Stacy Carson said. "The investigation is still ongoing."
Six of the victims are over the age of 16, the legal age of consent in Georgia, while the seventh was 15 years old, Carson said. One was a former student who has since graduated.
"Some of the (relationships) had been going on for at least one year or longer," Carson said.
Wilson has also been suspended with pay, in accordance with regulations, until she has a formal hearing regarding her employment.
District officials began the inquiry Monday after receiving a complaint about the teacher.
"We received information within the school system," said Charlton County Schools Superintendent John Lairsey. "The main meetings continued on Tuesday. At that point, we got the sheriff's office and GBI involved, and (Wilson) was removed from class before lunch."
Lairsey, who used to be the principal at Charlton County High School where Wilson worked, said he knew her.
"There was no reason, no indication, that this would occur," he said.
Wilson has been at the school for a decade, he said. She typically taught ninth-grade math.
Lairsey escorted Wilson to waiting local and state investigators, he said.
"I gave her a letter explaining her suspension, and I transferred her to their custody," he said. "There was very little dialogue."
High school Principal Joshua M. Howard sent a letter Wednesday informing all parents of "inappropriate conduct by an employee," offering counseling services to students and assuring parents of their children's safety.
"We are dedicated to the well-being to all of our students and are fully cooperating with the GBI and their investigation," Lairsey said. "Anytime a school system employee or teacher commits an act that is inappropriate, that gives us a black eye on educators everywhere."
Wilson's bond was set at $35,000, $5,000 for each count of sexual assault. No other court dates have been set.
Lairsey said a hearing regarding Wilson's job would be scheduled within 10 days.
"I will be recommending termination," he said. "We're just shocked and disappointed. And it's just hard to believe. Just disappointed and disheartened that people we put our trust in would violate that trust."


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Ultra cool skeleton shoes, which giving out any your leg as X-ray picture!
The skeleton boots are all the rage, especially in the Gothic scene but also to Halloween costumes make this ankle boot wonderful.The bones shoes are black leather boots with long laces and a high heel.However, a visual highlight of this skeleton high heels is the white print, which shows the entire lower leg and foot bones.So if you as a creepy skeleton want to dress up, these Xray boots are just the right footwear for you.
With our skeleton boots you fall on guaranteed, because the high heels are an absolute eye-catcher and a very special pair of boots.In addition to the 10 cm high heel and the long lacing especially the print motif catches the eye because the white bones on a black background can not be overlooked.The top of the shaft, he begins with the lower leg bones, which then flow into the heel bone and go on to the foot skeleton.Together with our Skeleton Hoodie with skull mask or Skeleton Dress Costume SM act the skeletal boots particularly creepy and emphasize your Halloween outfit in addition.But even to normal Gothic clothing fit these extraordinary boots very good as bone motifs from the black scene are scarcely imagine.
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Richie Schley Rides for Rotwild
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Rumours were already afloat - now the deal has been confirmed: from 2007, freeride star Richie Schley will ride for the German brand Rotwild. The 37 year old Canadian, often referred to as pioneer of freeriding, has influenced the sport like no other; Schley is one of the most successful and most photographed mountain bike pros in the world. With his change to Rotwild the outrider of freeriding set the course for his future.
"After ten years with Rocky Mountain, I am very excited to align with an Elite brand like Rotwild because of their size and commitment to engineering quality", so Richie Schley. "The bikes are unique and very light. I can't wait to have a new ride that is much lighter. They are very interested in my ideas and should be able to implement them quickly because of the size of their business." With his change to Rotwild the Canadian has set another important milestone in his career as MTB pro. "Hopefully, I will learn more about designing bikes, a different market place and possibly importing bikes into North America. My long term goals are to continue to be involved in the biking as a rider on some level and to spread the bike love to as many people as possible. Mountain biking has given me a very fulfilling, healthy lifestyle and I would like to share that with others."
During a visit at ADP Engineering in November, Richie Schley thoroughly checked out the Rotwild bikes and was thrilled - above all by the ROTWILD RFC 0.4, which won first place in the freeride category at the 2006 MountainBIKE magazine reader polls. The elaborate long travel Enduro bike with 180 mm of travel and a sensitive X-Linkage carbon swing arm precisely meets the expectations of the Canadian. "I really look forward to ride that bike on my favourite trails in Whistler", he said.
"We are proud that Richie has decided in favour of Rotwild", said Peter Schlitt, managing director of ADP Engineering. "For us this strategic partnership is the start of a new era. This year we celebrate our tenth anniversary and the freeride segment has always been an integral part of our business. Since we introduced the first Rotwild bikes, in 1996, we followed an independent philosophy with a clear target: to create the optimum competition bike at the
highest level of technology. This aim was the origin of the Rotwild brand, and is still the basic principle behind today's product development processes. Our partnership with Richie goes far beyond classic athlete sponsoring. Richie will bring in many years of his experience into our development process and we will launch new products together so that in the end the Rotwild client will benefit from this partnership. And since Richie is not 'only' a freerider but a full-blooded mountain biker who also feels comfortable on a cross country bike, we will work together in many ways."
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text: Of all the cuisines to have taken the capital by storm, none seem to have had quite the same impact as the Japanese restaurant. The past decade or so has taken us from the realms of greasy noodle chains to Michelin starred brilliance. But, with so much choice in our hand pulled noodles and chicken gizzard skewers, how does the average Nipponophile even begin to navigate the many choices we now have amongst the spectrum of treats covered by the Japanese restaurant?Read More


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