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Electrified Fleets: How Leading Companies and Organizations Reduce Emissions
According to the EPA, transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, making up 28.9% of all emissions in 2017. Not a surprise, gasoline and internal combustion engines (ICE) are the primary culprits. That's why leading organizations such as Amazon, Anheuser-Busch, and even the Hyattsville Police Department are adding zero-emission electric vehicles to their fleets. The marketing benefits of being a green company with electric vehicles are clear – it makes you look good! – but there are clear financial benefits to going electric. Here are three reasons why fleet operators are switching to electric vehicles.
Cost savings are one of the biggest reasons to go electric. Electric vehicles have fewer moving parts, so they require less maintenance. They use regenerative braking, which reduces wear and tear on brakes. By definition, electric vehicles are zero emissions vehicles that are free from fluctuating oil prices and do not need emissions inspections. Lower cost of electricity means lower fuel costs – a win for EV fleet owners and drivers. Plus, because EVs help utilities better manage grid demand and reduce emissions, many local utilities and state governments offer funding to businesses that install EV charging stations.
Simply put, electric vehicles are more efficient than traditional ICE vehicles. According to the Department of Energy, battery electric vehicles (BEVs) "convert over 77% of the electrical energy from the grid to power at the wheels," while ICE vehicles only convert between 12% and 30%. Bloomberg estimates that the total global increase in energy demand from electric vehicles is equivalent to 3.6 million barrels a day – far less than the 10 million barrels of oil produced by Saudi Arabia every day. The Sierra Club even calculates that a pure BEV that drives 15,000 miles per year could save $1400 in annual fuel costs!
What does this mean for fleet operators? Electric vehicles have higher fuel efficiency than gas cars, and their fuel comes from the local utility provider. Charge your fleet overnight using OpenADR 2.0b-certified smart charging stations, and your fleet can take advantage of lower fuel costs at times when the local grid experiences the lowest demand.
Support Sustainability
Sustainability is already an important factor in consumer choice. Increasingly, consumers want to know that their favorite brands value social responsibility. A 2017 Cone Communications study found that 63% of Americans expect businesses to lead on social and environmental change, and 76% "would decline to do business with a company if it held views and supported issues that conflicted with their beliefs." Last week, BlackRock even announced its decision to prioritize sustainability and remove carbon-emitting thermal coal from its portfolios.
Consumers and investors agree: organizations must prioritize sustainability and take meaningful action to reduce carbon emissions. As part of the company operations, EV fleets are one way to make sustainability a priority at your company. Are you ready to support your company's new electric vehicles with new EV charging stations? Ask your SemaConnect sales manager how to charge up your fleet in 2020.
It's not just customers and consumers who support corporate social responsibility. Click here to read more about how EV charging supports your company's employee satisfaction, retention, and morale.


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import java.util.List;

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Trending: TikTok Email Marketing Marketing 101 PPP Loans
Running a Contest? Here's How to Get More Entries
Published: Mar 10, 2015 by Shawn Hessinger In Marketing Tips 2
Running a contest is a tried and true marketing method to build an email list. But it can be frustrating if you don't get many entries.
A recent study reveals how to get more participation.
The study by Formstack, an online form builder tool, found that contest forms had the highest "conversion rate" of all forms.
In other words, a higher percentage of people completed contest forms than other types of forms. That old "what's in it for me" is alive and well, obviously. The incentive of a chance to win something is a major motivator.
Even so, only 35 percent completed the contest form all the way through.
But that's par for the course for forms in general. In fact, contests had a much higher percentage of completions than other kinds of forms, as the above graphic shows. (Click for larger image in new window.)
Compare a "Contact" form. A minuscule one percent of Contact forms are actually filled out and submitted!
So if you are concerned by what feels like a low completion rate for your form, you may not be doing any worse than your peers. In fact, you could be doing better.
Eva McKnight, team lead and project manager for the Formstack study, in a phone interview with Small Business Trends emphasized not to be discouraged. There are a number of ways to increase the amount of entries when running a contest:
1) Offer the Social Media Autofill Option
Instead of requiring people to fill in data such as their email address and name — give them a button to fill parts of the form using their Facebook credentials.
Per the study, there was a whopping 189 percent increase in conversions when users were given the option to automatically fill in data from a social media profile. It really is true — people like "easy."
Contests already have a high conversion rate to begin with, and autofill increases conversions, added McKnight. "I think you could surmise that's because contests are fun and people like to do them. And offering the social media autofill option resulted in a much higher level of conversion than requiring email credentials," she noted.
2) Embed Contest Forms in Social Media Pages
Conversion rates for filling out contest forms more than double when you embed the contest form on your Facebook page.
McKnight noted it's important to make sure you are first complying with Facebook's terms when running a contest.
She said that Formstack's Facebook Tab Embed feature is compliant with Facebook's data capture regulations. But she added. "We always encourage our users to review guidelines for Facebook, as well as prepare a Terms and Conditions statement, for any contest."
3) Limit the Number of Fields
The average number of fields for a contest entry form is 10.
That may seem like a lot, but by the time you include name, email, address and whatever else is necessary for entering the contest, it's really not. Just remember, don't make it hard on people.
4.) Make Long Forms "Seem" Shorter
Short forms aren't necessarily better. It's more about perception.
Consider: does it seem too long when the person is filling it out?
In short, make the form seem less intimidating.
How do you do that? Some form best-practices make sense:
Build a "smart" form that automatically shows or hides questions based on how users respond.
Give users a break with an option to "save and resume" instead of requiring them to perform the whole task at once.
Use a horizontal layout (in the case of check-boxes and buttons) to create the illusion the form is shorter than it really is.
Use a matrix field to ask several similar questions at once.
5.) Take Into Account Peak Times
Finally, McKnight offered this important piece of advice about timing for alerting people to the contest and encouraging entries.
"Remember peak submission times. Most conversion rates peak before 5 p.m. But by contrast, when running a contest the peak seems to be later at around 8 p.m.," she said.
"It's the end of the day. People are checking their email. They don't have anything else to do. They are winding down. Other forms like donations and questionnaires tend to be work related, so they fall between those peak work hours. But contests are a fun activity and so something people often wait until after work to do," McKnight added.
The study is based on data from 650,000 form users of Formstack. All data was treated anonymously for the study.
Image: Formstack
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Shawn Hessinger is the Executive Editor for Small Business Trends and a professional journalist with more than 20 years experience in traditional and digital media for trade publications and news sites. He is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists and has served as a beat reporter, columnist, editorial writer, bureau chief and managing editor for the Berks Mont Newspapers.
I have to agree with the autofill option. People are quite lazy to fill up these forms that you have to do their work for them.
Chris Maldini
Nice write-up, Shawn. I think it's interesting to read that contest forms had the highest "conversion rate" of all forms. You've laid out some good points about how to get more. I like the idea of limiting the fields and keeping it simple. Thanks for sharing.
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Wow Els, I have pressing equipment envy! I want a press bok!
Els, many thanks for writing this super informative post. I think it is the most incredible piece I've ever seen on pressing tools. Wow!
Yes, thank you. It was very informative indeed & now I'm despairing again over getting a better ham. And let's not even talk about that pressing buck. Sigh.
Wow, Els, you have some really great pressing tools!
WOW is right! I'm completely jealous. But thanks for showing us all of your tools. My wishlist just grew by leaps and bounds!
Press tool envy! I am going to study this post, and will recommend it to everyone. Thanks – a picture is definitely worth a thouseand words.
Now, using a chopstick or wooden pick to press open darts – that's brilliant Els. And it's nice to have old and useful tools, especially when they have a family connection. I use my grandmother's pastry board, it must be at least 70 years old by now, and I just love it.
Els, what a fantastic article! I enjoyed every word, every picture! This is mandatory reading to anyone interested in dressmaker pressing techniques; I too will recommend this article to everybody! I have problems finding professional pressing equipment in Portugal and I'm used to improvise (wood sticks, wood boards originally intended to cut meat on top of them, I also use a shoe brush as a clapper, etc.); I'm trying to get a point presser/clapper for ages now! Thank you for this very useful article!
As usual Els, outstanding! I so enjoy your posts to the Divas. So much wonderful information to soak up.
Hi, I've thought about acquiring some better pressing equipment, and now i know what to look for. Thanks for taking the time to share. Any suggestions on good sources for acquiring some of these tools?
Oh rats! I let DH throw away some scrap maple lumber-could have had some pressing blocks. Great informative piece- I am going to go find a nice large magazine to make a seam roll!
What can I say, well I'm now fully aware what pressing equipment I'm certainly lacking. Thanks Els for this comprehend information!
WOW Els – This definitely deserves a rereading and list making! What a great collection!
What truly informative post. Thanks for sharing!
What brand of steam iron is that? My steam generators keep breaking!
WOW!!! Where Oh Where can I go to look for that pressing buck????? Somebody tell me!!! Really wonderful article.
Thanks Els. I have learnt some really useful things here.
Thanks so much for the tutorials. You are a doll to share as much as you do.
Is the Nairobi pdf offer still good??… if so could you email it to me.
My goodness that was very educational. Thank you for sharing all those lovely tools.
Hello, It seems as though we have similar equipment for pressing. We also have the large tailor's ham but it is kidney shaped. I think it is German- a seamstress from Germany was working with us and she had one, so the company bought a few of them. We also have a large padded chest board that people use to baste canvases into jackets. They all help to get good results. I think people like the tailor's egg because as you baste you don't have to worry about stitching into a fabric covered ham, if that is the way you work.
We still have the industrial "Sheldon" steam irons with the big cast iron or stainless boilers. We have a couple of vacuum tables too, but the rest of our tables are built of wood and covered in layers of thick wool felting.
Equipment is a good idea for a post.


Is Your Strategy Leaving Space for Collective Power?
I first learned that instead of creating "power over" I had the possibility to create "power with" from training workshops put on by Nathan Jones at the Northwest Institute for Community Enrichment (NICE).
I had internalized the Alinskyist approach (i.e. "power over") to always focus on a single decisionmaker in a position of "power" and organize to make them bring about your goals.
Then the NICE showed me that by having every strategy address this individual "decisionmaker", we missed an opportunity to build our own collective power.
This is not to say that sometimes we may need to focus on a single decisionmaker, but it's important to always have the option of thinking "what can we do together" (i.e. "power with") instead of "what can they do for us." We need both options, not one or the other.
This means we need to both develop leadership so folks have the support and self-encouragement to take on projects, along with keeping our government institutions accountable to providing the services it ought to be providing.
For example, if you want to increase the amount of food grown within your city's boundaries, instead of going straight to a city councilperson asking them to start a municipal farming program, you could create "power with" by just starting to grow food in collaboration with others.
However, you might consider aiming for a "power over" strategy if you mobilize people to push your city councilperson to challenge city regulations that strictly limit areas where individuals can grow food in the city boundaries.
Basically, the point is that if we hand the "power" to a decisionmaker, we are limiting the potential of our own communities to start the process of change immediately. With a little skill, patience, and luck our collective power may even lead to some cases where the decisionmakers are trying to join us!
How to decide between a "power over" vs. a "power with" strategy?
While it may seem obvious to know what strategy to use when moving forward a campaign, just consider the possibilities of what other strategies might look like.
Below are a set of questions to consider before quickly setting your course.
Can you push forward BOTH a "power over" and a "power with" strategy? In other words, can you both push for someone else to make the change you seek, while working to fulfill your goals yourself/with others? Do you have the resources (e.g. people, time, money, etc.) to do both?
Is there a service an institution (e.g. government, business, nonprofit, etc.) ought to be providing or policy they should be creating/upholding? If so, then it makes sense to address the institution directly through a "power over" strategy.
Does the realization of your outcomes require substantial resources or impact a large area or number of people? Sometimes what you set out to accomplish can be so large that it could benefit from securing the resources of an established entity to implement what needs to be done.
Would your outcomes (e.g. projects, programs, etc.) be more resilient if those impacted created and maintained them? If this is the case, to have those involved maintain and manage the outcomes, then a "power with" strategy would be ideal for this work.
Do you aim to significantly increase individuals' and communities' capacity and confidence through your organizing? Once people realize what they can achieve with each other, then often they have the skills and attitudes that they can make even bigger changes.
There are many more factors that must go into whether to use a "power over" vs. a "power with" strategy, as I learned from Nathan Jones at the NICE, however the above questions provide a conceptual framework to get started. Just remember, try to think of ways when you can use both strategies concurrently!
What other questions should we ask ourselves before deciding whether to go with a "power over" or a "power with" strategy? Post your comments on the Organizing Change Facebook page!
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The latest news on President Donald Trump's presidency
Trump Unloads on Paul Ryan After 'American Carnage' Excerpts
"I'm telling you, he didn't know anything about government," Paul Ryan is quoted as telling the author of a new book. "I wanted to scold him all the time"
Published Jul 12, 2019 at 4:45 AM | Updated at 5:54 AM PDT on Jul 12, 2019
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In this file photo, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., escorts President Donald Trump to the House Republican caucus meeting in the basement go the Capitol on Tuesday, June 19, 2018.
President Donald Trump unloaded via Twitter on Republican former House Speaker Paul Ryan after Ryan's comments critical of Trump appeared in excerpts from a new book.
Ryan condemns Trump in "American Carnage," by Tim Alberta of Politico, in excerpts running in various publications. Alberta wrote the former speaker, who retired from Congress in 2018, could not stand the idea of another two years with the Republican president and saw retirement as the "escape hatch," according to The Washington Post. Ryan is quoted saying: "I'm telling you, he didn't know anything about government. I wanted to scold him all the time."
Trump blasted Ryan as a "lame duck failure."
"He had the Majority & blew it away with his poor leadership and bad timing," Trump tweeted late Thursday. "Never knew how to go after the Dems like they go after us. Couldn't get him out of Congress fast enough!"
Sparks Fly Between Sen. Warren, Mark Esper Over Ties to Defense Contractor at Confirmation Hearing
During a confirmation hearing for Acting Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Senator Elizabeth Warren said because of his ties to lobbying for defense contractor Raytheon and refusal to recuse himself, he is not fit to be Secretary of Defense.
Ryan had no comment Friday on the president's tweets about him, his spokesman Brendan Buck said.
Trump may have been angered by various revelations in the book, including accounts recalling widespread negative GOP reactions to his off-color videotaped comments in the "Access Hollywood" scandal in the closing weeks of the 2016 election campaign. Ryan's reaction was particularly harsh.
The book recounted Ryan, who served in Congress for 20 years, saying Trump's presidency was slipping as he was less willing to accept advice from Republicans to moderate his approach.
"Those of us around him really helped to stop him from making bad decisions. All the time," Ryan said. "We helped him make much better decisions, which were contrary to kind of what his knee-jerk reaction was. Now I think he's making some of these knee-jerk reactions."
And Ryan, who often was Trump's wing man on some congressional issues but had a strained relationship with him, was the main focus of Trump's Twitter rage.
"Paul Ryan, the failed V.P. candidate & former Speaker of the House, whose record of achievement was atrocious (except during my first two years as President), ultimately became a long running lame duck failure, leaving his Party in the lurch both as a fundraiser & leader," Trump tweeted.
House GOP Leadership Defends Trump's Tweets: 'No,' Not Racist
Republican leaders in the House responded Tuesday to the outcry over President Donald Trump's tweets during a weekly news conference to address the media. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said he didn't believe Trump's comments about four Democratic congresswomen of color were racist and Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., claimed GOP opposition to Democrats is based on policies and not "race or gender or religion."
Trump tweeted that when presidential candidate Mitt Romney chose Ryan as a running mate "I told people that's the end of that Presidential run."
"He quit Congress because he didn't know how to Win," Trump tweeted. "They gave me standing O's in the Great State of Wisconsin, & booed him off the stage. He promised me the Wall, & failed (happening anyway!)..."


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Falsifying Invoices
This archive displays posts tagged as relevant to false invoices in government contracts. You may also be interested in the following pages:
Government Contract Fraud
New Jersey couple Babu Metgud and Shubhada Kalyani, who operated defense contractor Shubhada Industries, were ordered to pay more than $232,000 for overcharging the Defense Logistics Agency for, and failing to disclose the origin of, munition vehicle light assemblies it had acquired from third parties and marked up by 5,400%. The case was decided on the government's summary judgement motion. USAO EDPA
Tagged in: Defense Contract Fraud, Falsifying Invoices, FCA Federal, Government Procurement Fraud, Trade Agreements,
UK-headquartered marine services contractor Inchcape will pay $20 million to resolve allegations the company and its subsidiaries defrauded the U.S. Navy by submitted exaggerated invoices, double-billing, and billing at rates in excess of agreed-upon rates under contracts for ship "husbanding" services, including ship-to-shore and local transportation, force protection services, food provision, and waste removal. The case was originally filed under the False Claims Act by former employees of Inchcape, Noah Rudolph, Andrea Ford, and Lawrence Cosgriff, who will receive approximately $4.4 million of the settlement. USAO DDC
Tagged in: Defense Contract Fraud, Falsifying Invoices, FCA Federal, Government Procurement Fraud, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,
Hartford, Connecticut-based Community Renewal Team, an action agency that received federal and state grant funding, agreed to settle allegations under the Federal and Connecticut False Claims Acts that it charged employee hours spent on state-funded grant programs to federal grants from HHS, HUD, and DOE, charged an employee's time to a Head Start grant when that employee was working on other programs, and failed to stop a program manager from misappropriating $18,500 for her person use; the agency will pay $362,000 to settle all claims. USAO DCT
Tagged in: Falsifying Invoices, FCA Federal, FCA State, Grant and Research Fraud,
DOJ Announces $20 Million Settlement with Inchcape Shipping Services
Yesterday, the Department of Justice announced a $20 million settlement with Inchcape Shipping Services Holdings Limited and several of its subsidiaries to resolve allegations that Inchcape overcharged for services provided to the Navy for nearly a decade. The case was filed in 2010 by three former Inchcape employees under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act. As a result of the settlement, the...
Virginia-based trucking company Beam Bros. Trucking Inc. and its principals Gerald and Garland Beam agreed to pay roughly $1 million to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act through the company's overcharging the U.S. Postal Service on contracts to transport mail. According to the government, Beam Bros. misused government Voyager Cards, provided by USPS to purchase fuel, to purchase fuel on contracts that did not allow for their use, resulting in inflated charges. The allegations originated in a whistleblower lawsuit filed under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act by former Beam Bros. employee Bobby Blizzard. He will receive a yet-to-be-determined whistleblower award from the proceeds of the government's recovery. DOJ
Tagged in: Contract Non-Compliance, Falsifying Invoices, FCA Federal, Government Procurement Fraud, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,
Maryland-based Integral Consulting Services, Inc., which provides IT solutions to federal agencies and commercial organizations, agreed to pay roughly $500,000 to settle claims it violated the False Claims Act by inflating certain indirect cost rates in connection with work performed on a Department of the Army contract. The allegations originated in a whistleblower lawsuit filed under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act. The whistleblower will receive a whistleblower award of roughly $92,000 from the proceeds of the government's recovery. DOJ (MD)
Kentucky moving companies Lynn Moving and Storage, Inc., Shadowens Moving and Storage Company, Inc., and E-Town Moving and storage, Inc., along with their individual owners, agreed to pay roughly $265,000 for violating the False Claims Act by systematically overbilling the United States Army for shipping costs associated with deploying and/or relocating United States Service personnel. According to the government, the companies caused false, inflated weight tickets to be created to increase the weight of the shipments and the amount of payment to the companies by the military. DOJ (WDKY)
Tagged in: Defense Contract Fraud, Falsifying Invoices, FCA Federal,
New York-based defense contractor Telephonics Corporation agreed to pay $4,250,000 to settle claims it violated the False Claims Act by overbilling the government under certain contracts to provide vehicle-mounted counter-improvised explosive device systems (Warlock Systems) to the Army and multi-mode radar systems (LAMPS Systems) to the Navy. DOJ (EDNY)
A Whistleblower Caught Between Two Worlds
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Forbes reports on the story of whistleblower Brian Aryai who brought a qui tam case in 2009 alleging a scheme of overpayments to labor union foremen by construction companies. The case was recently unsealed in September 2017 and has exposed the troubles Aryai faced when he was seemingly caught in a turf battle between two powerful former United States Attorneys. The two former...
Tagged in: Falsifying Invoices, FCA Federal, Government Procurement Fraud, Whistleblower Case,
Virginia-based defense contractor Triple Canopy, Inc. agreed to pay $2.6 million to settle charges it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims for payment to the Department of Defense for unqualified security guards stationed in Iraq. Specifically, the government alleged that Triple Canopy knowingly billed the government for security guards who could not pass contractually required firearms proficiency tests and that Triple Canopy concealed the guards' inability to satisfy the firearms testing requirements by creating false test scorecards that Triple Canopy was required to maintain for government review. The allegations originated in a whistleblower lawsuit filed under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act by a former Triple Canopy employee. The whistleblower will receive an award of roughly $500,000 from the proceeds of the government's recovery. DOJ (EDVA)
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Jindal Stainless (Hisar) commissions 26,000 TPA capacity Precision Strip Mill
J K Jha
Hans News Service | 20 Oct 2021 2:37 PM GMT
Jindal Stainless Hisar Limited
Jindal Stainless (Hisar) Limited (JSHL) on Wednesday, October 20, 2021, commissioned the 26,000 tonnes per annum (TPA) capacity Precision Strip Mill as part of the first phase of its latest brownfield expansion plan at its state-of-the-art Specialty Products Division (SPD).
Jindal Stainless (Hisar) Limited (JSHL) on Wednesday, October 20, 2021, commissioned the 26,000 tonnes per annum (TPA) capacity Precision Strip Mill as part of the first phase of its latest brownfield expansion plan at its state-of-the-art Specialty Products Division (SPD). This capacity expansion takes the total precision strip production capacity to 48,000 TPA from the existing 22,000 TPA.
The total CapEx for brownfield expansion is estimated at Rs 450 crore over the next two years. As part of the expansion of SPD, JSHL will increase its total precision strip capacity to 60,000 tonnes per annum by the end of Q2FY23 with an estimated CapEx of Rs 250 crore. To expand its market outreach, the Company will also augment its blade steel capacity to 24,000 TPA from the existing 14,000 TPA over a period of two years with an estimated total CapEx of Rs 200 crore.
The company in a regulatory filing at the BSE has said that the capacity expansion of precision strips will further strengthen the Company's presence in segments like auto, process industry, and oil and petrochemical, and will be augmenting supplies to aerospace and electric vehicles. The capacity expansion at SPD is part of the Company's plan to leverage its leadership position in specialty and value-added products.
After this expansion, the operational capability will expand and products up to 650 mm width would be manufactured. This expansion will further help the Company consolidate its leadership position in the international market.
Commenting on the commissioning of Phase I of expansion, Managing Director, JSHL, Mr Abhyuday Jindal said, "The latest capacity addition to JSHL's Specialty Products Division portfolio will strengthen our product mix in the value-added segment and double our share in the global production to 8%. The capacity enhancement is expected to boost JSHL's revenues by 8-10%. Over the next two years, the planned SPD expansion will also enable us to foray into new export markets with an expanded range of product offerings."
JSHL is among the world's leading razor blade steel producers and supplies to global brands in this space. The plant is equipped to produce blade steel in thickness as low as 0.07mm; nearly 20 billion blades are made out of Company's blade steel every year.
JSHL is also renowned for its world-class coin blank production facility and supplies coin blanks to Indian mint and international mints, such as Monnaie de Paris (France), Royal Canadian Mint, Mincovňa Kremnica (Slovak Republic), Royal Dutch Mint (Netherlands), The Royal Mint (UK) and Mint of Finland Ltd. (Finland), among others.
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Charging AGM and Flooded Batteries with One Charger?
One of the 3 house banks I want it to charge is an AGM battery, but the charger only takes one setting for all three banks, the other 2 being flooded acid. Their web site FAQ says that AGM batteries can be charged using the flooded setting, is that correct or advisable? Yet the AGM setting is a lower indicated charging voltage - 14.4 volts compared to 14.8 volts. How can I safely charge both types at same time?
You CANNOT mix and match AGM and flooded battery types on the same battery charger. You'll need a different charger for each different type of battery or it will shorten your battery life.


Technology can be both a tool for creation and a tool for destruction. Like any tool it depends on how you use it. Unfortunately for computers we have been throwing them away in other people's backyards and ignoring the environmental cost of computers. Computers have come a long way in people's lives from being mere calculators to tools that have the world's information in the palms of our hands. How we deal with waste management is one of the biggest problems facing e-waste. We need to be able to use these machines sustainably.
Originally computers were sought after for as a way to do mathematics. Some of the first "calculators" were in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries known as trigonometric tables. Many of these tables were used in applications such as navigational tables, engineering tables, life insurance tables, and so on. A man named Gaspard de Prony was a mathematician who worked on these math tables and decided to gather other men to work with him to create them mass scale. He decided to divide up the work in specialized tasks after reading Adam Smith's the wealth of Nations. Charles Babbage another 18th century mathematician saw problems with the tables and saw it mainly due to labor. By 1833 he made his difference engine which is still on display in London's Science Museum. Babbage then came to light of the idea of a machine which would do large scale information processing. Babbage was intrigued by the large scale information processing of the clearing houses of the 1800s. Then came the introduction of the telegraph which began as a solution to the problems of the early railroads.
The early U.S. also had large information processing problems one of which was the tedious tasks of census clerks. A man by the name of Herman Hollerith developed a mechanical system for data processing and created the Tabulating Machine Company in 1896 (Computer: A history of the information machine 2004). Many office machines were also important to the development of information processing such as the typewriter, record keeping systems, and adding machines. America was right on top of the technology industry as it quickly integrated comptometers into their office work. It was also one of the first in the world to adopt this technology on a wide scale. There were four office machine suppliers that topped the market and these were Remington Rand, National Cash Register, the Burroughs Adding Machine Company, and IBM. Many of the tasks assigned to these machines were that of creating documents, creating databases for information, and accounting. One of the first successful typewriters by Remington still has an impact on us today that use on our keyboards and that is the QWERTY arrangement. One of these companies IBM is still around and makes computer parts today.
In 1939, the Model K and the Z2 computer provide proof of concept for the beginning of computers. Another Company to Emerge in 1940 after that time was Hewlett Packard which made the HP 200A Audio Oscillator and they are still around today making computers. Another competing company Bell Telephone makes a complex number calculator that is credited to Stibitz. Another early computer was created in Germany and was called the Z3 but it was destroyed in the war. It could tackle arithmetic and aerodynamic calculations. Many other computer like devices were created during WWII such as the Colossus, the M-9 gun director, the British Bombe, and the Curta calculator. The Harvard Mark 1 built by IBM was a room sized computer that basically made math tables. After that in 1948 the first computer to have random access memory also known as RAM were built, known famously as the Williams Tube. Similarly large computers were made such as the ENIAC that weighed 30 tons. It is quite a difference to the computers that we can hold in our hands today. Another computer built by Remington Rand was the Era 1101 which was one of the first commercially produced and sold to the US Navy.
It's not until 1966 that we get computers that can fit a small space. The HP 2116A was HP's first computer(computer history museum). In 1968 the first mini-computer was made by Nova and it cost $8,000 dollars. The first commercially advertised computer with a microprocessor was the Scelbi in 1974. The Xerox PARC Alto was something that actually resembles something we have today that had a mouse and a keyboard. This is where Mac first got their inspiration from. In 1977 apple makes their first successful computer called the Apple II. In 1981 IBM introduces its first computer called the IBM PC and popularizes the name PC which refers to personal computers. Increasing computers get smaller, better, and faster.
One of the problems with computers is that "the PC requires 10 times the weight in chemicals and fossil fuels"(BBC 2004). The short lifetimes of computers and the consumer culture leads people to buy computers every few years instead of taking care of their computers and upgrading them. Instead of using less energy to create computers today we also are trending towards using more energy. When compared to manufacturing cars and refrigerators, computers take the cake in fossil fuel usage for production. Some of the more hazardous wastes that computers release into the environment are lead, arsenic, mercury, chromium, selenium, and cobalt. Unfortunately there is not a lot of research on the environmental impacts of the computers but we do know some of the effects of some of their byproducts.
Some of the problems with why computers are creating so much waste and energy usage is because they are left on overnight and draining energy. Because of consumer culture people tend to buy new products instead of fixing their old machines. It could go a long way to fix something on the computer instead of throwing it away. People also have a lack of resources in where to dump computer waste. Since there is a lack of places to deposit e-waste many developing countries get the waste dumped on them and are forced to deal with the environmental problems associated with it. Companies that take your recycled material are also not being honest about where they put their electronics and many times they end up overseas. This often happens because the labor required to remove the valuable material from the computer is often tedious so this labor is placed among the third world. China has even started to refuse taking waste since they don't know what to do with all of it. Some of this recycling is being done by certified recyclers but the problem comes with the cost. It has been proposed to burn waste but countries are leaning away from that since that has its own harmful byproducts.
The problem with computer waste for starters is that we actually don't have that much information on it to begin with. To even understand the impact of computers we need to evaluate the impacts of these machines. Some studies have focused on the problem in India. The average use of a computer is around 2-5 years for both domestic and commercial use of computers. The cost of recycling a computer comes to be a problem when it is no longer usable to another computer user. It can end up in a landfill or be reused. In order to tackle this problem it would be necessary to recycle the material even when it is no longer economically feasible to do so. Some ideas in order to tackle this problem is the life cycle analysis and to apply it to products like computers so that it can be better tackled with a cheaper cost. The ideal way of solving through the life cycle analysis approach has not been concluded yet.
Policymakers in other countries have tried take back and treatment systems to help e-waste. Some of this is handled by retail stores, others by commercial pick up, and some by local municipalities. In the EU 40% of e-waste is handled this way (UNU 2014). The problem can be that some e-waste ends up in trash cans and is processed with the other trash in the landfill. With take back systems private companies take what can be used and sell it on a second hand market. The country that does this has to enable the reselling of used goods. Another way in which computers can be recycled with e-waste are from imports of waste from other countries. These imported items can be sold to be used in a second hand market or to the recycling compounds. Sometimes self-employed entrepreneurs use this opportunity. Many of the materials from computers can be recycled and are valuable to be sold on the market. Some of these include copper, iron, aluminum, and sometimes precious metals.
In conclusion we need to better take care of our resources. I tackled both looking through computer waste in the political economy lense and the risks and hazards lense. It seems that market approaches to the answer will not suffice in that they will cost more to get the resources than it would sell on the market. Integrating these problems into the businesses that sell these products might be an answer to the problem in reducing some of the costs associated with getting these materials. However this could also increase the price of goods that are sold by those business. Solutions like adding costs to businesses fail like when Australia had a carbon tax. It hurt the economy and it was quickly taken out. If we want to help the environment then we cannot let our policies be removed. It would probably be best to incorporate both government and market solutions simultaneously to have the best results. Government solutions have yet to reach computers because they are not one of the big polluters. Computers along with other products probably will not be looked at until we first tackle energy solutions and carbon emissions from fossil fuels. The problem can also be that in order to fund these programs money must come from somewhere and we must tax citizens. Most people will not like more taxes so it is best to find a viable economic solution to this problem. Letting people recycle their own products and being environmentally friendly is not enough since many people are not skilled in taking apart many of these devices. Some of the problems that I see with e-waste are some of the same problems I see at the University. We need a separate organization that goes through the trash. Even with properly labeled waste bins some trash still ends up in trash or worse it ends up in the wrong bin and creates problems for the people who want to recycle the material. If we created an organization that sorts the trash then we would not have the problem of trash ending up in the landfills.
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"Computers | Timeline of Computer History." Computer History Museum, www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/#169ebbe2ad45559efbc6eb3572083fb7.
Hirsch, Tim. "Technology | Computers 'Must Be Greener'." BBC News, BBC, 8 Mar. 2004, news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3541623.stm.
Castillo, Michelle. "Electronic Waste: Where Does It Go and What Happens To It?" Time, Time, 14 Jan. 2011, techland.time.com/2011/01/14/electronic-waste-where-does-it-go-and-what-happens-to-it/.
"A Life Cycle Based Multi-Objective Optimization Model for the Management of Computer Waste." Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Elsevier, 15 Feb. 2007, www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344907000043.
UNU. "Global E-Waste Volume Hits New Peak in 2014: UNU Report." United Nations University, unu.edu/news/news/ewaste-2014-unu-report.html.


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The 2013/14 business plan was released this week. It identifies AHPRA's goals for the next year, explains the reasons they are attainable, and includes a plan for reaching them.
AHPRA releases 2013/14 business plan
Media release - AHPRA releases 2013-14 business plan - 19 July 2013 (252 KB,PDF)
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) has published its 2013/14 business plan, which outlines how AHPRA will achieve its goals in implementing the National Scheme for health professionals.
AHPRA is the national organisation responsible for implementing the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme in partnership with 14 National Boards that regulate their health professionals.
AHPRA Chief Executive Martin Fletcher said the 2013/14 business plan outlined what AHPRA needs to do to manage the here-and-now demands, while building the best health practitioner regulation system for the long-term.
'The plan outlines the actions we need to take to ensure we are able to effectively and efficiently protect the public and facilitate access to services and workforce mobility,' Mr Fletcher said.
AHPRA's commitment to consistency, service and capability again forms the backbone of the plan in 2013/14, as well as an increased focus on measurement and reporting.
Through this, AHPRA and the Boards will gain more insight into the issues facing health practitioners and in health regulation, and be able to report on national trends.
'Greater transparency in everything we do continues to be very important to satisfy ourselves and the public that we are regulating effectively by managing quality, timeliness and volume in all areas of our work,' he said.
Partnership between the National Boards and AHPRA continued to be essential to the success of the National Scheme.
'Working together, AHPRA and the National Boards have achieved a lot and we are proud of how far the National Scheme has come in three years,' Mr Fletcher said.
'We recognise there is more to do. The plan outlines how we will achieve this and meet our responsibilities to improve public and patient safety and develop the Australian health workforce.'
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Diane Kruger (née Heidkrüger; German: [diˈa:nə ˈkru:ɡɐ]; born 15 July 1976) is a German and American actress and former fashion model. Early in her career, Kruger gained worldwide recognition and received the Trophée Chopard from the Cannes Film Festival. She then became known for her roles in film as Helen in the epic war film Troy (2004), Dr. Abigail Chase in the heist film National Treasure (2004) and its sequel (2007), Bridget von Hammersmark in Quentin Tarantino's war film Inglourious Basterds (2009), and Gina in the psychological thriller film Unknown (2011). She also starred as Detective Sonya Cross in the FX crime drama series The Bridge (2013–14). In 2017, she made her German-language debut in Fatih Akin's In the Fade, for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. In 2014, she was made an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.


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MLB Sued by San Jose Over Oakland A's Proposed Move
By Adam Ramirez on June 19, 2013 | Last updated on March 21, 2019
Major League Baseball has dragged its feet for four years on an owners vote on the Oakland Athletics' proposed move to a new ballpark in San Jose. Now the city has taken matters to federal court.
The San Jose lawsuit (attached below) challenges MLB's exemption from antitrust laws and its right to deny clubs the ability to move without seeking league approval. Specifically, it is going after the territorial rights of the 30 MLB teams.
Under the rules that govern MLB, each of the 30 teams enjoys a monopoly in its market. No other team is permitted to intrude upon the home team's territory.
The San Jose lawsuit takes aim at the antitrust exemption from a 1922 Supreme Court decision. Some legal experts say the exemption is unlikely to survive the San Jose attack if the lawsuit is not settled and proceeds to a trial.
"There is no reason why antitrust laws should not apply to them, because obviously they're a business in interstate commerce," Joe M. Alioto, co-lead counsel for the Oakland Raiders when they beat the NFL in 1982 to relocate to Los Angeles, told USA Today.
"Even if you can't do it under the antitrust laws, it's obviously an intentional interference with a prospective business advantage for the Santa Clara (County) area. I think they would have a substantial likelihood of success."
MLB Sued by San Jose Over Oakland as Proposed Move
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The Center is not a funding agency. All Center initiatives involve a shared agenda between the County and philanthropy. We do not seek funding for community-based organizations or projects outside of our public-private initiatives.
Our involvement in cross-sector collaborations spans a continuum:
At one end of the spectrum, we go deep, helping to determine the who, what, and how of an innovation that our partners are seeking together. In these cases, we might help shape ideas, draft proposals, and secure commitments. Often we roll up our sleeves with County partners to implement the systems change, bringing our private sector partners into the space as thought partners and co-creators.
At the other end, we act as a matchmaker and support our partners in building their own collaborations. We identify issues and projects ripe for collaboration, broker relationships, bridge communication gaps, provide technical assistance to both sectors, and help our partners learn how to work more effectively together.
Regardless of where our work falls on this continuum, the Center enables each of our partners to do what they do best, leveraging the investments of all to create greater and more sustainable impact.
The Center for Strategic Partnerships is a fundamental and profound partner in advancing First 5 L.A.'s goal of ensuring all kids enter kindergarten ready to succeed in school and life. Because of the Center, we are better able to make progress in achieving that ultimate goal on behalf of L.A.'s kids and families.
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We are not a gatekeeper of public-private partnerships. If we were to be a funnel, we would be limiting the potential for growth. Instead, we foster the will to create public-private partnerships, and we will help to build them when we can. If partners are engaging in initiatives beyond that and outside of us, more power to them. I truly believe that we get better outcomes this way.
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The Center illustrates that when people come together, share their views, and align their funding, they can really make a difference. There has been a real shift in the culture at the County with respect to philanthropy, and a real shift in how philanthropy sees itself in relationship to the County, as a result of the Center's work.
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Woman takes rock-and-roll to another level with her stunningly slick dance moves
There's nothing like music to liven things up and to make you feel good all over. Whether you're the one playing music and dancing or watching, music can be electrifying. Just look at this woman's moves.
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It really doesn't matter what type of music you're into, it's just important to keep the music going. She keeps it going big time at this swing dance festival. What may surprise you is the song that she's dancing to.
It's none other than "Old Time Rock n'Roll". She comes out on the dance floor wearing white socks and a white pajama set. The clothing resembles Tom Cruise's iconic look in the movie "Risky Business".
While we love watching Tom Cruise in the movie dancing in his white socks and shirt, this woman's moves are truly epic. There are plenty of high-leg kicks and quick footwork. Just watching her will make you tired. Luckily, she has enough energy for everyone.
Her moves are electrifying and the jazz band she has playing for her doesn't miss a beat. They do a fabulous rendition of the song.
One of the big moves that really gets the crowds going is her moonwalk across the stage. Talk about epic!
The funny thing is that she makes these moves look easy. Any trained dancer knows that's not the case.
These routines take hours to develop and even longer to practice. It's only when you practice to the max that the results look like this. Don't you agree?
Here's a little fun fact about swing dancing that you may not have been aware of. Crowds didn't always welcome it like people in this video are.
Classically trained dancers actually used to look down upon swing dancing. That was until swing started taking over the dance club scene during the '40s and '50s. It was during this time that swing became known as a social style of dance.
Fast forward a few decades and swing dancing became a competitive form of dance, even getting its own festivals.
This woman could definitely attract new swing lovers. Her smile is electric and you can tell that she's really enjoying what she's doing. Her love for the arts and music is extremely noticeable.
Thank goodness that people's perception of swing has changed. If it hadn't, we would have never gotten to enjoy this woman's dance and fun swing festivals like this!
Her moves have gotten plenty of attention. The video of her moves has received about 45,000 views in just two weeks. It seems as though these feel-good videos are just what we need right now.
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If you want to know to forward calls on iPhone then you need to understand that it dependent on the provider of your device using GSM or the CDMA standard.
If you're provider users a GSM network, for example T-Mobile or AT&T, then you can forward calls from your device's settings. However, if the provider users CDMA, for example Sprint or Verizon, then the carrier codes need to be typed into your device.
Go to Settings and then tap on 'Phone'.
Now tap on the 'Call Forwarding' option.
Tap on 'Call Forwarding' and turn the option on.
Simply type in the number you wants calls forwarded to (you can forward it to your voicemail).
The number you just typed has been saved even if there was no indication.
The number you typed will now be seen in the Call Forwarding screen.
A new icon will also be present in the menu bar telling you that you have activated the Call Forwarding option.
You can disable the option by following these steps and switching off the 'Call Forwarding' option.
Re-enabling this option again will begin forwarding your calls to the last number you typed in unless you change it again.
You can't turn on the call forwarding through your iOS settings if you happen to be using a carrier that provides CDMA-based phones. You'll need carrier codes in order to forward calls. Carrier codes can also be used on GSM-based phones but it won't show the icon telling you that your call forwarding is on.
Type in the number you want calls to be forwarded to.
The code you'll need to enter in order to disable or enable call forwarding is dependent on the carrier. You can look at your carrier's website to search for the right codes you have to use. However, here is a whole list of codes used by major US carriers.
For AT&T: To enable call forwarding, dial **21* and then type in the phone number you want calls to be forwarded to. To disable this feature, dial #21# .
For T-Mobile: Dial **21* and the number you want all calls to be forwarded to. Dial ##21# to disable call forwarding.
For Verizon: Dial *72 and the number for your calls to be forwarded to. Dial *73 to disable.
For Sprint: To enable call forwarding, dial *72 and then the ten-digit number. Dial *720 to disable.
Which carrier do you use? Did you learn how to forward calls on iPhone depending on the carrier you have?


A variety of traditional memorials are in place within West Lothian for your choice.
Cremation Tablets, Mini Graves and Rose Bowls to name but a few.
Each will provide an exclusive and distinctive memorial burial plot. Inscriptions can be enhanced with motifs, emblems and photographs of your loved one.
Ash Vaults unlike other traditional memorials are secure granite vaults that hold the ashes urns above ground making them particularly suitable for shorter term leases.


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BURKE: Why Trump Is Lying About Voter Fraud and Crime
by WI Guest Author February 22, 2017 October 30, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks with Fox News's Bill O'Reilly in an interview that aired Feb. 5.
There are two subjects in particular that the Trump administration lies about the most: crime and voting.
During a recent interview on ABC'S "This Week With George Stephanopoulos," Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller lied about voter fraud during the 2016 elections.
"And you have 14 percent of noncitizens, according to academic research, at a minimum, are registered to vote, which is an astonishing statistic," Miller said.
That statement is simply false. Miller couldn't produce a single shred of evidence when Stephanopoulos pressed him on the subject.
But Miller was just repeating what his boss said shortly before the election.
At a rally in Cleveland on Oct. 23, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump said that "14 percent of noncitizens are registered to vote."
President Trump entered office lying about voter fraud and threatening an investigation. Civil rights leaders have called for an investigation of voter suppression during the 2016 presidential election. More recently, the lying crossed over into the topic of an increased "crime wave" that doesn't exist. Now, the lies about a vast American crime wave and record levels of illegal voting seem to be coming together.
On Jan. 23, during a meeting with members of Congress and the White House, President Trump lied about voting again. He and Miller, who was sent out on all the Sunday morning talk shows on Feb. 12, appear to be lying for two reasons. First, Trump can't come to terms with the fact that Hillary Clinton received almost three million more votes than he did, and second, the Trump administration appears to be laying the groundwork to justify a new law that would make it harder for people to vote, particularly minorities.
Trump's attorney general, former Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, has a history during his time as an assistant U.S. attorney of prosecuting African-Americans who were registering too many other African-Americans to vote. Having provided no explanation or apology for his past prosecutions, particularly that of the late Albert Turner Sr., there's no reason to believe that Sessions won't pick up where he left off in Alabama in the 1970s.
Even though, Sessions' past statements and actions as a prosecutor in Alabama are clear, the public perception of Sessions the man is mixed.
Turner's son, Albert Jr., issued a statement endorsing Sessions, calling him "someone with whom I and others in the civil rights community can work if given the opportunity."
Still, American history of the disenfranchisement of African-American (and other minority) voters is also clear. In the late 1800s, it was a poll tax, literacy tests and other requirements that black voters were unlikely to meet. Today it's voter ID, closing polling places, cutting Sunday voting and purging voting rolls.
The continued strategy used by present-day Republicans is still the "Southern Strategy" — they've just added Hispanics to the list of targets. The Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids started only two days after Attorney General Sessions was sworn in.
"The crackdown on illegal criminals is merely the keeping of my campaign promise. Gang members, drug dealers & others are being removed!" Trump tweeted on Feb. 12.
Trump tweeted about his "crackdown on illegal criminals" a day after El Paso ICE spokeswoman Leticia Zamarripa stated that, "ICE regularly conducts targeted enforcement operations during which additional resources and personnel are dedicated to apprehending deportable foreign nationals."
Many immigrant rights advocates knew the raids were not routine before anyone communicated anything.
"The President is lying when he says deporting immigrants is about fighting crime," Rep. Luis Gutierrez wrote on Feb. 10. "The President wants to show off and it appears he has unleashed the Department of Homeland Security to kick-out large numbers of immigrants and anyone they encounter, without much oversight, review or due process."
Gutierrez, who represents parts of Chicago, continued: "There is very little official information on what appears to be a new Trump deportation initiative. Homeland Security is deporting moms … under the smokescreen of criminal or anti-terror actions."
Republicans have lost the popular vote over two presidential elections since 2000. The demographics in the country are becoming more black and brown and researchers estimate that the share of white voters will fall a few percentage points every four years.
Trump, Stephen Miller and many others in the Republican Party are well aware of the math.
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1:13-15 Petition for forgiveness
Date and authorship
The Prayer was authored in the 1st or 2nd century CE, in Greek, though Charlesworth opines that it was doubtlessly composed before the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE. However our earliest exemplar is a Syriac version, contained in the Didascalia. It was then translated into Latin and appended to various editions of the Vulgate. However, at the Council of Trent it was listed as non-canonical and has since failed to be deemed 'Scripture' by any segment of the Christian Church. The author is anonymous.
The Prayer, which is really quite lovely and meaningful, is best taken in its intended sense: as a prayer of confession and petition for forgiveness. It's function is to express sorrow for sin and hope in God's merciful forgiveness.
Reception history
The Prayer seems to have been known to various tradents and editors of various Apocryphal texts. Echoes of the Prayer are to be found in, for example, Joseph and Aseneth 12:5,12, and 2 Baruch 64:8. It's appearance in both the Didascalia and the Apostolic Constitutions show that it was part of the liturgy of at least some segments of the Church.
"Prayer of Manasseh." Part IV Fasc. 6 of The Old Testament in Syriac According to the Peshitta Version. Edited by The Peshitta Institute. Leiden: Brill, 2017.
Gutman, Ariel, and W. Th. van Peursen. The Two Syriac Versions of the Prayer of Manasseh. Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies 30. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2012.
Charlesworth, James. "Prayer of Manasseh (Second Century B.C. – First Century A.D.)." Pages 625-37 in vol. 2 of The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. 2 vols. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1983.
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Dead Island Riptide gameplay video reveals a fight for survival
By emilygera Jan 24, 2013, 6:34am EST
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The first gameplay footage of Dead Island Riptide offers a demonstration of one of the new features being brought to the sequel, hub-defense.
The 9-minute video posted above demonstrates the system in which the player scavenges for machine gun turrets which are then brought back to their base to defend against waves of zombies. The gameplay footage suggests turrets can only be placed in pre-defined areas around the base, while the player can also use chain-link fencing to seal entryways through to the base.
Boats are also a new addition to the zombie sequel and can be boarded by multiple characters, one to steer the boat while another fires a turret against enemy undead. These will become the only way to travel to areas of the island following a monsoon.
Dead Island Riptide launches on April 23 in North America for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.


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Time for the juries to decide who is popular
18 songs: 21 juries
Eighteen songs will participate in the Second Semi-Final, and professional juries in each of the participating countries, as well as in Germany, France and the United Kingdom will be voting on tonight's dress rehearsal. They will account for 50% of the overall total.
Each jury will be comprised of five members, (including a chairperson) who will be the same jurors who will also be voting in the Final. They will monitored by an independent notary in each country. The jury consists of a variety of members in terms of age, gender, and background. They are all citizens of the country they are representing.
None of the jury members are connected with any of the participating songs or artists, in order that they can vote independently. All jury members have made signed declarations stating that they will vote independently.
The names of the jury members should be revealed by the broadcasters during the Final.
The Jury Voting
Each jury member will rank their top ten favourite songs, and award points from 1 to 8, 10 and 12 points.
The chairperson will allocate 12 points to the song having obtained the highest number of votes from all jury members, 10 points to the song having obtained the second highest number of votes, 8 points for the song having obtained the third highest number of votes, then 7 points next, and so on down to 1 point for the song having obtained the tenth highest number of votes from all jury members.
In the event of a tie for any of the above positions, the order of tying songs shall be determined by a show of hands by the jury members, with no abstentions allowed.
The EBU's televoting partner Digame will merge the points given by the jury and the televoters tomorrow night per individual country. If there is a tie between two or more songs between jury votes and televotes, then the song gaining the most televotes will be ranked higher.
Serbia: Nije Ljubav Stvar sung by Željko Joksimović
FYR Macedonia: Crno E Belo sung by Kaliopi
The Netherlands: You And Me sung by Joan Franka
Malta: This Is The Night sung by Kurt Calleja
Belarus: We Are The Heroes sung by Litesound
Portugal: Vida Minha sung by Filipa Sousa
Ukraine: Be My Guest sung by Gaitana
Bulgaria: Love Unlimited sung by Sofi Marinova
Slovenia: Verjamem sung by Eva Boto
Croatia: Nebo sung by Nina Badrić
Sweden: Euphoria sung by Loreen
Georgia: I'm A Joker sung by Anri Jokhadze
Turkey: Love Me Back sung by Can Bonomo
Estonia: Kuula sung by Ott Lepland
Slovakia: Don't Close Your Eyes sung by Max Jason Mai
Norway: Stay sung by Tooji
Bosnia & Herzegovina: Korake Ti Znam sung by Maya Sar
Lithuania: Love Is Blind sung by Donny Montell
The live show of the First Semi-Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 will take place on Thursday 24th of May at 21:00 CET and will broadcast live on eurovision.tv.
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Home News Content Blog Blog Items Opinions and Editorials Buildup in Lebanon
Buildup in Lebanon
Rockets Fired
Heavy weapons flow freely across the border from Syria, the U.N. Security Council is told.
Thursday, July 5, 2007; pg. A16, WashingtonPost
IT HAS been nearly a year since the Hezbollah movement staged an unprovoked raid from southern Lebanon into Israel, killing eight soldiers, abducting two others and triggering a 34-day war in which 1,200 Lebanese and 160 Israelis died. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the war, provided for a greatly strengthened international force to keep the peace in southern Lebanon, along with the Lebanese army. It also mandated the disarmament of Hezbollah, a ban on arms shipments to non-government forces in Lebanon and the clear demarcation of the border between Lebanon and Syria.
The deployment of the U.N. force, which now numbers 13,000, has helped to prevent further fighting in the past 11 months. But the failure to implement the rest of Resolution 1701 means that war in the Middle East could erupt any day.
Two U.N. reports issued last week clearly underlined the growing danger. One, by the secretary general, reported evidence of rearmament by Hezbollah as well as by extremist Palestinian factions and of shipments of heavy weapons across the Syrian-Lebanese border. It said that the Lebanese government had reported seizing a truckload of weapons belonging to Hezbollah, including Russian Grad rockets, and that the Lebanese army had observed four truck carriers bearing eight missile launchers across the border last month. A second report, by an independent group of experts assigned to inspect the border, found no effective controls to prevent arms smuggling and said that Lebanese forces charged with border security had not seized any contraband arms.
There's not much doubt about who is behind the military buildup, not to mention the growing violence in Lebanon itself. According to the secretary general's report, "it is widely believed in Lebanon, including by the government, that the strengthening of [Palestinian] outposts could not have taken place without the tacit knowledge and support of the Syrian government." It notes Israel's claim that "the transfer of sophisticated weaponry by Syria and Iran across the Lebanese-Syrian border, including long-range rockets (with a range of 250 miles) . . . [and] anti-tank and anti-aircraft systems, occurs on a weekly basis." And it says, "Hezbollah armed elements are alleged to be constructing new facilities in the Bekaa valley, including command and control centers, rocket launching capabilities and conducting military training exercises."
When Resolution 1701 was adopted, Israel urged the Security Council to deploy international forces or monitors along the Lebanese-Syrian border to prevent such weapons deliveries. Intimidated by threats of attacks on U.N. troops, the council refused. The result is that Syria and Hezbollah once again are positioned to rain missiles on Israeli cities, to wage war on the Lebanese government or to assault the foreign troops deployed in southern Lebanon. The Security Council has been fully informed; will it do anything to prevent another war?


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Soler Recharges In Brooklyn
Soler is ready to become a part of the Mets pitching staff again
After injuring his right calf on July 1, Alay Soler has just begun to work his way back into the major leagues.
Going 2-3 with a 6.00 ERA in eight starts for the Mets this season, the young Cuban has shown flashes of brilliance, hurling a complete game shutout against the Diamondbacks on June 10. Despite the early dominance, Soler's season did get rocky, having given up 16 earned runs in his last two starts against the Red Sox and the Yankees before the injury.
Making a rehab-start for the Mets Single-A Affiliate, the Brooklyn Cyclones on August 22, his first start since the injury, Soler was just happy to be on the mound again.
"I felt really good; it was first time I pitched in a month and a few days," said Soler through a translator. "The most important thing is my health and I felt fine out there."
Amassing nine strikeouts in 4.1 innings of work, Soler gave the Hudson Valley Renegades a little more than they could chew, overpowering the young Tampa Bay Devil Rays Single-A team with his fastball and electric slider. The Keyspan Park Crowd of 7,103 also seemed to enjoy watching Soler pitch, clapping faithfully after every K-victim made their way back to the bench.
While the minor league experience isn't new to him having played in the Cuban Leagues most of his career and in Double-A this season, Soler enjoyed pitching in Brooklyn.
"I liked the stadium and the energy in here," said Soler. "It's a good place to rehab if you have to."
Now with his first rehab assignment under his belt, Soler is now scheduled to make his next start for the Norfolk Tides, the Mets Triple-A affiliate. Feeling no after affects of the Calf injury that sidelined him for a month and a half, the 26-year old who the Mets signed as a free agent in 2004 is ready to pitch again in the major leagues.
"I feel a hundred percent," said Soler. "I just have to concentrate on pitching and it's up to the organization if they call me up so I can help them."
Soler is so determined to get back to the big club that he wouldn't even rule out the possibility of pitching out of the bullpen the rest of the season.
"I've done nothing but start during my career," said Soler. "But if that's what the team needs from me, I'd welcome the opportunity to come out of the pen."
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Hampton man driving stolen vehicle dies during 2-vehicle crash in King & Queen County
by: Julius Ayo
KING & QUEEN COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) — A man from Hampton died following a crash in King & Queen County involving a stolen vehicle.
According to Virginia State Police, the crash occurred on Friday, Dec. 23, around 5:50 p.m.
A preliminary investigation of the two-vehicle crash revealed that a 1998 Honda CRV was traveling north on Newtown Road, Route 721, in King & Queen County when it crossed the center line and struck a 2008 Ford F-150 pickup truck traveling southbound.
State Police say the driver of the Ford sustained serious injuries.
The driver of the Honda, later identified as 31-year-old Hampton resident Nicholas M. Lamastra, died at the scene.
After further investigation, police learned that the Honda has been reported stolen out of Newport News prior to the crash.
10 On Your Side is still learning more regarding the crash which is still under investigation.


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Zopa Celebrates a Decade of P2P Lending
By Ryan Weeks on Tuesday 10 March 2015
The original peer-to-peer platform Zopa has now been lending to UK consumers for a decade.
Zopa launched way back in March 2005, becoming the genesis behind the global movement that we now call alternative finance. Born in a barn in Buckinghamshire, the platform laboured for 5 long years as the UK's sole P2P lending outfit – ably weathering a recession in the process. Before being joined in Britain by second-movers Funding Circle and RateSetter in 2010, the Zopa spark gave rise to Prosper and Lending Club in the US. Not to mention every subsequently launched online, marketplace-based method of making loans that we at AltFi so feverishly cover.
The industry that arose in the wake of Zopa's emergence is now worth more than $10bn worldwide. A more precise value is difficult to come by, owing to the sizable but frustratingly opaque state of the P2P market in Asia.
Zopa remains the largest peer-to-peer lender in the UK in terms of cumulative lending volumes, having matched £764m to date. The platform reportedly expects to hit the £1bn mark this summer. As you might imagine, there are far too many accomplishments in the platform's decorated 10 year history to reel off each and every one, but we've listed a few gems below:
Lent money from over 58,000 individual lenders.
Lent money to more than 107,000 individual borrowers.
An average rate of return of 5.6% (post fees and losses from bad debt) delivered to lenders over the past decade.
A 0.58% historic default rate between 2005 and 2015.
Over £46m in interest returned to Zopa lenders so far, of which nearly a third (£14m) was returned in 2014 alone.
Lastly, consider this: a £10,000 investment in Zopa on day 1 of the platform's lifespan would be worth 70% more today (£17,000) due to the compound interest effect of relending via the platform.
The points about returns are especially important. The industry that Zopa birthed was founded around the principle of creating a better deal for the user – and on the investment side of the equation that meant providing bank-beating interest rates. You need only glance at the Liberum AltFi Returns Index (LARI) to get a sense of the consistency of returns generated by its three constituents (Zopa, RateSetter and Funding Circle).
Based on the above-noted 0.58% default rate, Zopa has maintained the best track record in managing risk of any UK bank or P2P lender over the past decade. The 70% return based on 10 years of continuous re-investment via the Zopa platform massively outperforms the rise in house prices over the same stretch of time (23.7% according to the Nationwide House Price Index) and significantly tops the overall return that could have been accrued from a typical UK Savings Account (36%).
Giles Andrews, Co-Founder and CEO of the platform, offered his take:
"Our customers are at the heart of what we do and this is reflected in the multiple awards we've won for outstanding customer service."
"It's hard to believe that we've gone from an idea in a barn to a global industry now lending billions of pounds in the course of a decade. We created Zopa because we saw the potential to bring people together over the internet without having to go through a bank. This has prompted a revolution in the financial sector worldwide. We are very proud to have pioneered a new way to do finance by allowing people to achieve their life goals through lending or getting a loan at a great rate. I see Zopa becoming the norm in the same way EBay has. Peer-to-Peer lending is certainly here to stay!"
Massive congratulations to the Zopa team.
Giles Andrews
Zopa Bank


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Adapting to Promiscuity
By Kate Wong on November 13, 2000
Among primates, certain species are quite promiscuous. Female Barbary macaques, for example, mate with as many as 10 males each day during estrus--risky behavior as far as sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) go. Or is it? The results of a study published in last Friday's issue of the journal Science suggest that the primate immune system may have adapted to this kind of behavior. According to the new report, females with more mating partners have higher white blood cell counts than do those who stick with a single mate.
Postdoctoral researcher >Charles L. Nunn of the University of Virginia and his colleagues set out to test whether evolutionary increases in three factors of disease risk--namely group size and density, time spent on the ground (which increases exposure to soil-borne pathogens) and number of mating partners--correlated with similar increases in white blood cell counts. Their analyses reveal that of those three factors, only the risk of STDs appears to have shaped variability in primate immune systems. The team concludes that "the precise reason for this result requires further study," but they propose that "it might be that STDs are much more common in nature than previously thought, or that behavioral mechanisms to avoid infectious disease are less effective against sexually transmitted pathogens."
Not all primates have this pumped-up immune system, ready to protect against promiscuity. White blood cell counts in humans, for instance, are apparently more consistent with monogamy. At least one reason for this difference shows up in a study of bees, which appears in the same Science issue. This work demonstrates that immunity can be costly, especially in an animal that is already under stress. "When an animal is already stressed, mounting an immune response may place excessive demands on stores of an essential factor," such as a rare amino acid or energy, >Andrew F. Read and Judith E. Allen of the University of Edinburgh explain in a commentary accompanying the two reports.
Read and Allen further note that whether the correlation between STDs and higher white blood cell counts among primates will hold up remains to be seen. Although the overall white blood cell counts are higher in promiscuous primate species in this latest report, numbers of the specific cell types were sometimes counterintuitive. "Certainly the idea that immune response variations in nature can be understood in terms of fitness costs and benefits is appealing," they assert. "The principle challenge is to marry this idea with our detailed understanding of how immunity works."
Kate Wong is a senior editor for evolution and ecology at Scientific American. Follow Kate Wong on Twitter Credit: Nick Higgins
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Proactively engaging with candidate databases will yield better results for recruitment firms, according to new research from CRM recruitment software provider Bullhorn and Herefish, a company that builds automation tools for recruiting.
The research centred on how recruitment firms engage with candidates amid talent shortages. It found that 63% of recruitment firms are more likely to have their applicant tracking system (ATS) as their main source of engaging with candidates.
At the same time, the authors surveyed 500 firms in different industries and found that most rely on job boards and LinkedIn to find candidates; 80% said that engaging candidates is important to their business and 83% said that ATS data is valuable.
Proactively engaging with candidates through ATS data will help identify the top talent in a field, said Jason Heilman, co-founder of Herefish.
"In the current candidate climate, firms can't just search their databases for long-forgotten candidates and expect to hire them. Regularly nurturing these candidates not only keeps relationships warm, but also alerts recruiters for when they might be ready for a new opportunity," he said.
59% of respondents said that email is the most effective means of communication yet only 32% said that they send emails regularly.
84% said email marketing would be an effective way of communicating with candidates.
44% of firms said they have some kind of full-time marketing staff while 14% don't do any marketing at all.
For firms with no marketing staff, they may rely on other staff to carry out this task. Firms with a proper marketing professional and divisions are 86% more likely to send out emails regularly and 42% more likely to have a referral program for candidates.
The authors of the research also added that recruitment divisions aren't engaging with their candidate databases because marketing departments usually manage these databases.


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Augustine Amamchukwu Ejide známý jako Austin Ejide (* 8. dubna 1984, Onitsha, Nigérie) je nigerijský fotbalový brankář a reprezentant, účastník 3 světových šampionátů. Mimo Nigérii prošel angažmá v Tunisku, Francii a Izraeli. V současnosti je bez angažmá.

Klubová kariéra
  Gabros International FC 1999–2002
  Étoile Sportive du Sahel 2002–2006
  SC Bastia 2006–2009
  Hapoel Petah Tikva FC 2009–2012
  Hapoel Be'er Sheva FC 2012–2015

Reprezentační kariéra
V reprezentačním A-mužstvu Nigérie debutoval v roce 2001.

S nigerijskou reprezentací se zúčastnil několika afrických a tří světových šampionátů (MS 2002 v Japonsku a Jižní Koreji, MS 2010 v Jihoafrické republice, MS 2014 v Brazílii).

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Narození v roce 1984
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Fotbalisté ha-Po'elu Beerševa
Fotbalisté Étoile Sportive du Sahel
Narození 8. dubna
Žijící lidé
Narození v Onitsha
Nigerijští fotbaloví reprezentanti
Hráči Mistrovství světa ve fotbale 2014
Hráči Mistrovství světa ve fotbale 2010
Hráči Mistrovství světa ve fotbale 2002

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