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State Farm, liability only. $117 a month. Don't ask why because I nor the agency seems to know. It spiked almost $20 on the recent renewal but, I don't have so much as a ding on my record... Oh well, gotta get the license and truck switched over to Va sooner or later, will look for better rates then |
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State Farm Insurance for 16 years I pay $58 for full coverage, $500 deductible. I have multi-car discount and safe driver discounts, plus renters insurance through them. Includes rental car for accidents and road side assistance for FREE. Don't think I'm ever gonna leave them.
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You would be crazy to leave them for another insurance agency!. |
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Yeah, I get a pretty sweet deal. The wife's 04 Accord is less than $60 fully insured with same benefits as me. I pay $125 a month for 2 fully covered vehicles and renters insurance.. I don't know how I am pulling it off, but been that way for ever. I have had one fender bender when I was 17 and no tickets or accidents since. I'll take it!
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Cincinnati Insurance, for many many years. and i'm old. not old as dirt like Charlie, but pretty darned old. $46/month for full coverage with $500 deductible. look into GEICO. my kids have insurance there and it was cheapest for them. Do go with the higher deductible of $500. it'll pay for itself in one year, assuming you don't crash.
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i deal with gore mutual insurance. i think i pay $390/month for liability on my 2 trucks. when i turn 25 in a year my insurance should hopefully drop a good chunk. i have only been with the current insurance company for less than 2 months because the company i was with change everything which would have resulted in about a $50/month increase and i didn't even have a single ticket or accident yet. __________________
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I'm not sure why my bill is so high. I just did a quote with State Farm and here I should be able to get Full Coverage with the $500 deductible for less then $80 a month. The old home of Fitzgerald is a small town, so I can't believe that it makes up for the huge difference in insurance rates. |
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WIRELESS COMMUNICATION IN RFC.
By Ong Guan Lin @ Pikachu.
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In any organized events, communication plays a pivotal role in contributing to the success of the activity. Similarly in Rainforest Challenge, an event of such magnitude, employment of wireless communication is literally inevitable.
Two-way radio is an apparatus that is capable to transmit and receive (thus the word ? transceiver), unlike a broadcast receiver which only receives. Wireless operation permit services, such as long range communications, that are otherwise impossible or impractical to implement with the use of wires. These apparatus appear in walkie-talkies or on-board mobile units. Depending on the mobility and usage, there are many out there to choose from.
Radios communicate with each other through the use of radio waves with varying frequencies. It requires two radios to be of the same frequency to enable contact. Frequency is denominated in Hertz, abbreviated as Hz. (eg. 15 kHz= 15,000Hz or 149.200MHz= 149,200 kHz= 149,200,000Hz)
VHF equipment operates between frequencies of 30 MHz and 300 MHz. FM radios, two-way radios, and television broadcasts operate in this range too.
From past RFCs, use of radios operating at VHF band (non-fixed channel, simplex operation, variable frequencies and user programmable) is widely used and is preferred over radios operating at UHF band. This is because amongst others but not limited to, the robustness of equipment, ease of setting up, the range, and the terrain RFC offers ? often densely wooded, hilly territories and differing elevation.
In general, wireless transmission functions at optimum performance in outdoor where there is direct line of sight in addition to a precisely-tuned antenna, effective radiated power of a transmitter, well- positioned set up, weather, terrain and content of mineral in its path.
One frequently asked question would be ?With my mobile VHF set, how far I can transmit?? To answer accurately, more transmitting conditions are needed in order to give a clear picture. This is dependent on numerous factors like transmitter output power (expressed in Watt), the gain of antenna (dB), altitude, environmental condition, recipient set up and others.
For your reference, one can send and receiving station located 50 km away can legibly copy your message with a mere 10W transmission when all conditions are near perfect.
CB radio on other hand, while it is popular in USA and Canada, it is hardly used in RFC. It is a low power, short range service in the VHF 150 MHz Citizens Band radio spectrum.
One of many experiences as communication officer in RFC.
In 2010, erected a twin-stack 6.5 decibel gain base station antenna atop a 30-feet mast (combination of bamboo + extendable/retractable pole), at beach campsite along the shores of Tanjung Leman, Johor. The said antenna was hooked up to a mobile VHF transmitter working at full legal power and gradually decreased as RFC participants moves closer to base camp. The purpose was to monitor and provide support to RFC participants while transversing the feared Twilight Zone.
At the height of a recovery episode, provided unparalleled and seamless communications in the rescue and evacuation efforts of injured for further medical attention. This encompasses communication with the 7th Brigade Signals Corps of the Malaysian Armed Forces, Royal Malaysian Police Johor for all the 7 districts, our RFC officials in the TZ, RFC event doctor, paramedics, Fire & Rescue Brigade and medical team at Kota Tinggi Hospital.
It was the longest night but one which ended well due to the almost clockwork coordination by the authorities and our RFC officials at our beach campsite.
Some Golden Rules of Radio conversation:
Some commonly used codes:
Do you know why in wireless communication, the word ?copy? is often heard?
Answer: This does not imply making duplicate. It is actually when a sender transmits a message, the recipient on other end will listen and copy that message (presumably on a piece of paper) and thus the derived word ?copy?.
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Green groups of Zhang Yuliang. Figure /CFPZhang Yuliang, only 20 years ago, Shanghai City, residential office director, his job is to help the various systems of organ building, housing distribution.Because of system reason, many of Zhang Yuliang?s ideas is not in the original unit to achieve. In 1992, Zhang Yuliang took the Shanghai City Hall allocated 20000000 yuan into the sea, leading some ten young people, set up Green Space Development Corporation, which is now green group?s predecessor.In 1997, according to the requirements of modern enterprise system, green began to change for the group. After equity change, at present, the affiliated enterprises holding 51%, worker 46%, the remaining 3% shareholders holding for society. This kind of state-owned capital holdings, worker share ownership structure, make green has the background, yet modern enterprise flexibility. It was also Zhang Yuliang and Qing DynastyHu XueyanContrast, called him the ?red top trader?.In July 9th the United States ?fortune? magazine published the latest 2012 world top 500 list, the domestic enterprise green groups for the first time finalists, this is also China?s first real estate-oriented selected enterprises. 20 years ago, the green group leader Zhang Yuliang took 20000000 start-up capital venture into the sea, and now, green has a turnover of nearly 200000000000, the real estate industry, the sources of energy for the second industry, walking on two legs. Green semi official business to half the hybrid system in market economy rapid development. Zhang Yuliang believed in the ?the government wants to do, to do the needs of the market? business philosophy, also known as the ?red top trader?.On July 17th, the green group 20 anniversary conference held in Shanghai. On the meeting, Zhang Yuliang said, the future will continue to increase its overseasInvestmentLayout, by domestic, international integration of resources, the Chinese overseas consumer market also make up.Public private mixed mechanism20 years ago, Zhang Yuliang or Shanghai City, residential office director, his job is to help the various systems of organ building, housing distribution. At that time there was no real estate market, office worker housing problem, mainly through the housing units to obtain. While Zhang Yuliang was working with units allocated housing limited funds, more buildings.Because of system reason, many of Zhang Yuliang?s ideas is not in the original unit to achieve. In 1992, Zhang Yuliang took the Shanghai City Hall allocated 20000000 yuan into the sea, leading some ten young people, set up Green Space Development Corporation, which is now green group?s predecessor.Green initially in the green city as their responsibility, to seize the Shanghai municipal engineering construction will bring 844000 housing construction opportunity, in the real estate field, and the accumulation of funds into the real estate public green space, which also has accumulated experience in real estate development.In 1997, according to the requirements of modern enterprise system, green began to change for the group. After equity change, at present, the affiliated enterprises holding 51%, worker 46%, the remaining 3% shareholders holding for society. This kind of state-owned capital holdings, worker share ownership structure, make green has the background, yet modern enterprise flexibility. It was also Zhang Yuliang and Qing Dynasty Hu Xueyan, called him the ?red top trader?.20 years elapsed, the former Green Space Development Corporation, into the green group, spanning real estate, energy, finance, construction and other areas of the world?s top 500 enterprises. Staff development to the million, operating performance last year reached 180000000000 yuan.Super high up the kingdom of commercial real estateAs the green group of industry of the first pillar, the real estate industry has entered the country more than 60 City, in residential, office buildings and city complex fields have good results, as of last year, the green group real estate sales amount already amounted to 77600000000 yuan, the total sales area of 8080000 square meters, the country ranked third.In the field of real estate, the green group in recent years commercial real estate gradually increase, the construction of high-rise building and at last, green estate business real estate in proportion to achieve 30%, this year for 40%-45%, and in the next year to reach 60%, more than the domestic.The green group size of commercial real estate development is so rapid, and green building the core competitiveness is not divided. In 2003, a chance opportunity, make green groups exposed to Nanjing Zifeng building project, the project is located in the downtown district, but the government requested that the project not less than 150 metres in height, funding and technical problems that many enterprises and step back. But green groups successfully solves capital problem, and the design height of up to 450 meters, Jiangsu has become the first high-rise.At present the whole nation already had 15 ?green center? skyscrapers, including 3 ranks the world?s top ten.Walking on two legsGreen can precede the property protector Vanke to enter the world 500 strong, and this is closely related to the diversification strategy of green space.From 2007 onwards, the green group establish energy for the second pillar industries, vigorously develop energy, finance, construction and other industries, at present, the real estate and the energy industry of group revenues each accounted for 40%, other industry accounted for 20%.Zhang Yuliang thinks, moderate the development of other industries, not to lose business, but in order to do strong advocate course of study. Because each industry fluctuation is very big, especially the billion or more large enterprises, the main single difficult to sustainable development, so the need for the development of other industries against risk.Selection of energy as the second industry, Zhang Yuliang analysis said, first, Shanghai is China?s energy consumption in key areas of the Yangtze River Delta, have market appeal, things are sold out. Second, from the beginning of 1996, the State Council to carry out reform of colliery, green to seize the opportunity; third, from the point of long-term development, China is still a country on energy consumption.In fact, the energy industry cash flow abundant, grow faster, and more real estate to obtain financing, can complement the estate business capital is insufficient, the future will develop green finance third pillar industries, three industries are associated with each other, greatly enhance the anti-risk ability of green space.Zhang Yuliang Green established goal is to 2015, the business income of over 500000000000, one of the world?s top 200 enterprises, which he calculated brushstroke Zhang, of which real estate to contribute 180000000000 of -2000 billion yuan, energy to achieve 200000000000 yuan, the financial industry to achieve 100000000000 yuan, 30000000000 -500 billion yuan for other related industry.Step up the internationalization strategyStruggle, ambition is not decreased, from the national expansion to diversification, this time, Zhang Yuliang will be looking to overseas markets, to overseas investment distribution.Following the success of last year entered the Republic of Korea in Jeju Island, in August of this year, the green group of overseas investment will be the second single in Sydney, a total investment of about 8000000000 yuan to build residential, commercial and hotel in one of the large demonstration area of life. After the completion of the project, mainly for the Chinese market and overseas students.Reportedly, this green in South Korea to invest 900000000 yuan in Jeju Island health care city to start the construction, ?South Korean investment in 3000000 to immigrant, Jeju Island housing about 2000 sets, 70% will be sold to chinese.? For the development of the project, Zhang Yuliang has been very mature thinking.This year, the green and into Germany and Spain, two countries, specific investment to the city of Frankfurt, Madrid, and products are mainly concentrated in the residential, office, commercial, hotels etc.. Green was accelerated in overseas investment.Zhang Yuliang develops overseas market thinking is: a large number of overseas students need to buy a house, but a large number of Chinese tourists travel abroad need to live in a hotel, relying on China?s resources, develop overseas market, so more advantage, smaller risk. Zhang Yuliang will ?do the needs of the market? business intelligence to a broad overseas market.?Green hope, through domestic and international resources integration, the Chinese overseas consumer market also make up.? Zhang Yuliang says.Conversations with Zhang YuliangIn five years to win the green to the world 200 strongAbout the enterpriseNew capital signs up for: the green group?s future development is how to plan?Zhang Yuliang: at present the Greenland Group has been among the world top 500, total assets reached 180000000000 yuan. Over the next five years, will strive for the green group into the top 200 in the world.For the future market layout, due to limited effect, residential demand, Kita Kamihiro and other first-tier cities business in great demand, the green group in the future will reduce these regional residential products, and increase the scale of commercial real estate. Similarly, in the capital city, green also will be large-scale commercial real estate development. And the three or four line of the city in the early real estate development, housing shortages, will vigorously develop residential.About commercial real estateNew capital signs up for: green group at the construction of high-rise building, the scale of development how?Zhang Yuliang: actually, the green group of commercial real estate to develop a unique. The above 300 metersLandmarkBuilding 50% is composed of the green group to invest in the construction, and the world?s ten largest building, Greenland Group has 3, super high-rise building has become the green group of patent. This year the green groups will have 2 300 meters above the ?green center? project, the future also will have the 2-3 building ?green center? completion. But high-rise building is not the higher the better, 300 meters more suitable.News: the current housing enterprises have entered the field of commercial real estate, or even three or four line city also built commercial real estate property, commercial real estate will overdose?Zhang Yuliang: the next few years, commercial real estate will have a better development, the commercial real estate is the need of the development of city, due to the national policy needs, commercial real estate is also the future real estate development in recent years the main features.The coming of age of the long term, is begged for be more than, this is social progress. Commercial real estate is a bit to be begged for be more than I think is reasonable, appropriate, this can eliminate backward.On the regulation of the property marketNew capital signs up for: the property market turnover than in the first quarter of a rebound, the trend will continue?Zhang Yuliang: the first reason is the basic economy rule of the rebound effect, real estate demand remains in the. Second is the policy has bottomed out, at the same time we do policy to do some fine-tuning, fine-tuning for the rigid demand, commercial real estate has good development space, so the market than a quarter. But compared with last year, is limited to the callback. Third, developers are actively marketing, price to change measuring results. But it is not an equal level regulation before the recovery, the market structure is not the same, more residential, and commercial real estate in the growth increment.The current market rebound strength is limited, but the property market in the regulatory framework, is not too good, not too bad.This version of gathering news reporter Yuan Xiaolan
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Ryan Lochte steamrolled the rest of the field to win the gold medal. He was ahead of Phelps' world-record pace for much of the race but faltered in the freestyle leg. His winning time of 4:05.18 was more than a second behind the mark Phelps set in Beijing. The world record may have proved elusive, but Lochte drew first blood in his much-heralded matchup with Phelps.
[ Photos: Showdown between Lochte and Phelps ]
Even in defeat, Phelps still made the headlines. The loss to Lochte wasn't unexpected. To finish off the podium was a shocker. Even the most pessimistic scenarios didn't have Phelps finished any worse than silver in this event. This was one of his signature events in his prime, a race he didn't lose at a major competition for more than five years.
When Phelps barely qualified for the final in the morning heats, most believed he misjudged his time and would correct course in the evening session. Now the swimming world is left to wonder whether there's another reason for the Olympic great's dismal performance. He'll be favored in both butterfly events and should win multiple golds with the American relay team. Losing to Lochte by such a large margin in the 400 IM will likely make Phelps an underdog in the 200 IM when that race is contested next week.
Phelps vowed to retire from the 400 IM after winning the event in both Athens and Beijing. Now he and his coach Bob Bowman will be left to wonder whether he should have stayed that way. While Phelps rested, Lochte took over the event, winning the world championships in 2009 and 2011. It was widely assumed that the pair would finish one-two in London.
Thiago Pereira and Kosuke Hagino finished in second and third, respectively. "They swam a better race than me," Phelps said. "They swam a smarter race than me. They were more prepared."
The loss leaves Phelps three medals away from tying Larisa Latynina for most medals won in Olympic history.
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What is the African Union? The African Union, a successor to the decades old Organisation of African Unity (OAU), was set up in 2002 to provide a forum through which African countries might agree and adopt co-ordinated positions on international matters and defend continental interests. The vision of the African Union is: "An integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens and representing a dynamic force in global aren...
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LONDON (Reuters) - Euro zone money markets shrugged off the excitement created by ECB President Mario Draghi's comments that he will do whatever it takes to save the euro in a sign that investors believe the ECB does not have much more ammunition left.
Spanish and Italian government bonds rallied, while the euro currency and stock markets across the globe gained on Draghi's pledge on Thursday. Even though the comments came just one week before the ECB's next policy meeting, money markets did not move to price any move on the rates or the liquidity front.
"What does it take to preserve the currency union? If we look at the core of the problem it is not so much related to the level of interest rates in money markets which are extremely low," Rabobank's senior market economist Elwin de Groot said.
"The main (problem) remains the bond market and the trust that money market participants have in the currency union. I think he (Draghi) was just referring to the Security Markets Programme (bond-buying)."
The European Central Bank's bond-buying programme has had only a short-term effect in the past and failed to protect the access to capital markets of countries such as Greece, Ireland or Portugal.
As long as investors continue to fret about the possibility that Spain may have to seek a bailout that would dry up the euro zone's aid resources and leave Italy unprotected against an escalation of the crisis, the interbank market will remain dormant, analysts said.
With no access to markets for themselves, banks would be reluctant to lend to businesses in the real economy, which makes any conventional ECB measure on monetary policy less effective.
Euribor futures were 1 basis point higher on the 2012 strip on Friday, having changed little in the past week, meaning the market's view on where three-month Euribor interbank rates will settle later this year was virtually the same.
Forward euro overnight Eonia rates, which are sensitive to market expectations on the ECB's deposit facility rate, which it cut to zero at this month's meeting, were also stable.
At 0.04-0.05 basis points, Eonia rates dated for the last quarter of 2012 are still discounting a tiny possibility of a cut in the deposit facility to minus 25 basis points - which would effectively penalize banks for keeping their money with the ECB and not lending.
Eonia rates have settled at an average of 8 basis points over the deposit facility in recent months.
"They are still pricing in a small possibility of a move on rates, but those discussions have been going on for some time. The data over the past weeks justify a cut in rates," Commerzbank rate strategist Benjamin Schroeder said.
(Editing by Stephen Nisbet)
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Most of us now is nothing more than a few feet away from your computer or mobile device is located in our time, like most companies, most of the species depends on the computer. Many of us live our lives and saved by our PC, we love the photos, movies, music, contacts, literature, documents, finance, credit information, and everything you think that everything on the computer is maintained.
It is not surprising when you consider how our lives have become integrated, that is the next big step for criminals and criminal organizations, because they were able to take advantage of technological extension of our lives. Damage caused by malware and Dns Changer Virus, which is estimated at between 300 1-1000000000000 dollars, and immediately the theft of more than $ 100 billion in 2011, making it the seriousness of cyber crime debate today.
FBI and other international organizations will be small and large groups of cyber-thieves to identify serious and direct connections with organized crime syndicates and organizations. It is clear that for relatively little investment and even less risk than other forms of crime, organized crime, a successful cyber-attacks by malware and Dns Changer Virus, to start carrying millions in a relatively short time.
A look at some examples from the latest cyber threats for the last DNS changer virus successfully running for over 4 years, and brings more than $ 14 million in revenue and potential click fraud to steal millions of users of financial information through spyware installed with the Virus.
There are a few examples of e-money heist in which the individual mule around the world, where they were ordered to set up bank accounts in their name are used to pay, and then hundreds of millions collectively, this account, he will set each drop-off or transfer of the world.
Finally, look at the virus-infected fire recently the government and employee organizations of the government running through what was infected with the latest computer virus, malware and spyware has ever known. This is not infected millions of computers, but only a few thousand selected targets. This pest has the ability to take any action on the computer, record conversations and hack into the nearby device using the built-in wireless systems examined.
As we in the 21st century, we hope to move, even the threat of a wider range of our personal safety, security has become a national and global security as a cyber-attack, perhaps the most effective method of theft, fraud, social engineering, espionage, and in the world today. It is responsible for Internet security and, by taking steps in our own lives and help others to give us all more aware, take the next steps in their lives from Dns Changer Virus.
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Addressing a group of LGBT community members in a reception, Cameron vowed that he hoped to follow in Scotland's footsteps, which recently declared it would attempt to legalize gay marriage by 2015, reports CNN. ?
?I just want to say I am absolutely determined that this Coalition government will follow in that tradition by legislating for gay marriage in this Parliament,? he told the crowd.
A bold announcement, not all members of Cameron's party?nor the Church of England?met it with approval. Tory parliament member Peter Bone quipped that the government already making up its mind on the issue without consultation from the citizens and fellow government members would be a "sham", calling the issue "clearly divisive", reports the London Evening Standard.?
The Christian Instituter's spokesman Mike Judge also expressed discontent with the announcement. ?It is incredibly arrogant of him to tell churches what religious beliefs they should and shouldn?t hold", posted the Christan Institute.?
Cameron is facing increased pressure to open the issue to a free vote in parliament. While his Conservative party is likely to vote heavily against the law, the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties could still pass the law if their voting blocs backed the bill.
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Chinese Olympians were subjected to a state-sponsored doping regime in the 1980s and 1990s, a retired chief medical supervisor revealed to Australian media on Friday.
Xue Yinxian, the former chief doctor for the Chinese gymnastics team in the 1980s, said steroids and human growth hormones were officially treated as part of "scientific training" as the country emerged as a sporting power.
"It was rampant in the 1980s," she told the Sydney Morning Herald. "One had to accept it."
Xue said athletes often did not know what they were being injected with and medical staff who refused to participate were marginalised.
The newspaper said it was the first time anyone in the system had publicly contradicted Beijing's line that a host of embarrassing doping busts in the 1990s was the result of ambitious individual athletes and coaches.
Beijing has insisted it has cleaned up its act since the 1994 world swimming championships when China performed beyond expectations to win 12 gold medals amid widespread suspicions of doping.
Later that year seven swimmers tested positive for steroids at the Hiroshima Asian Games, which left the squad so decimated that it won only one swimming gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
The decline was only temporary and by 1998 China was back -- until four more positive tests and the discovery of human growth hormone in a swimmer's luggage at that year's world championships in Perth, Australia.
Cyclists and weightlifters also frequently tested positive for banned substances at international events.
Xue said she fought a losing battle against the systematic use of drugs at the time.
She told the Herald that the country's top sports official told a meeting in October 1978 that performance-enhancing drugs were simply new things that should be utilised, provided they were properly understood.
"He gave the example of how a woman could use tampons to continue training while having her period," she said.
"And so it was with human growth hormones, which he described as a scientific training method. Whoever rejected them would face punishment or criticism."
Ahead of the London Olympics, which start Friday, Chinese state media said all athletes and coaches were required to take an oath before the nation's flag and vow to remain clean.
In the lead-up, many Chinese athletes have been avoiding meat out of fears that domestic pork, beef and lamb could contain substances such as clenbuterol which has been used to raise Chinese livestock and is a banned anabolic agent.
At least 196 competitors under China's National Aquatics Centre, which governs swimming, diving and other water sports, have been off meat for weeks ahead of the Games, the Yangtze Evening News reported.
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We've received a few reports that folks with a stock Wifi Xoom (U.S. Models) are getting their Jelly Bean update pushed this afternoon -- enough of them for us to say with confidence that it's pushing out. Soak testers were asked yesterday if the update was ready for prime-time in their opinion, and apparently the answer was yes.
If you're still stock on your Wifi Xoom, it's time to start hammering some servers. Check for updates through the settings, and enjoy some tasty butter.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? Actor and comedian Russell Brand must perform 20 hours of community service and pay a $500 court fee to resolve a misdemeanor charge over a confrontation with a photographer in New Orleans, where he was filming a movie in March.
Brand wasn't in a New Orleans courtroom Thursday when his attorney, Robert Glass, entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf to a charge of simple criminal damage to property. The charge carries a maximum sentence of six months in jail.
Brand turned himself in to police three days after his encounter with a man trying to take his picture with a phone. Police said Brand grabbed the phone and threw it at a building, breaking a window.
"He's a good guy," Glass said. "He was harassed."
A deal with the district attorney's office calls for the case to be dismissed if the actor completes the service requirement by Aug. 31, Glass said.
"You'll return with proof that Mr. Brand completed the community service?" Municipal Court Judge Sean Early asked.
"Correct," Glass responded.
Glass said Brand may fulfill the requirement through his charitable work with people suffering from addictions.
"Some of it may be abroad in England. Some of it may be in California," Glass said.
Brand's publicists didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
In a Twitter posting after the incident, Brand wrote, "Since Steve Jobs died I cannot bear to see anyone use an iphone irreverently, what I did was a tribute to his memory."
Brand's film credits include "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "Get Him to the Greek." He has a late-night show on FX called "Brand X with Russell Brand."
A judge granted him a divorce from singer Katy Perry in February.
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German and Spanish finance ministers sought to contain fears for the eurozone on Tuesday, saying that Spain's soaring borrowing costs did not correspond to its economic strength or the "sustainability of its public debt."
Earlier on Tuesday, borrowing costs on the secondary market for Spanish 10-year bonds had risen to above 7.6 percent, well higher than the seven percent considered unsustainable and that has pushed others to seek EU bailouts.
The joint statement by Wolfgang Sch?uble and Luis de Guindos came after talks held in Berlin amid growing speculation ? hotly denied ? that Madrid is on the verge of seeking a full-blown sovereign bailout.
The two ministers also stressed "the importance to work ? together with European partners ? on the quick implementation of the European Council decisions of June 29."
This followed confusion and fury after Madrid said in a statement that France, Italy and Spain had agreed that emergency financial reforms agreed by the eurozone be immediately applied.
France and Italy later angrily denied they had signed up to such a statement.
The June accord paved the way for the eurozone's future ?500 billion bailout fund to recapitalise ailing banks directly, without adding to the national debts of struggling countries.
The statement also said that Spain had taken "important steps to put its economy back on track."
Such reforms, especially in fiscal and labour market policy, were "vital for the Spanish economy to achieve a sustainable growth path and to regain competitiveness," the ministers added.
Berlin has gone out of its way to praise the economic reforms carried out by Spain and urged them to continue along this path to restore competitiveness.
The statement also said the ministers agreed that the EU deal to plough as much as ?100 billion into Spain's stricken banking system was crucial to restore confidence in the country.
This will "contribute to breaking the vicious circle between the banking and sovereign debt crisis," the statement added.
One of the main problems Spain has faced is that bailing out its ailing banking system has pushed up its own debt, reducing market confidence in its economy.
The EU bailout aims to recapitalise the banks and allow Madrid to get on with tackling its other economic problems.
De Guindos will hold talks with his French counterpart Pierre Moscovici on Wednesday for what a Spanish government source billed as "a routine meeting."
Spain's economic difficulties sent stocks in Madrid and the euro tumbling on the market on Tuesday as traders fretted it could be the next domino to fall in the two-and-a-half year eurozone debt crisis.
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ScienceDaily (July 25, 2012) ? With an eye to the future, the results will let cells be obtained in the laboratory that can be transplanted into leukemia patients with no compatible donors.
Researchers from IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute) have deciphered the function executed by a protein called ?-catenin in generating blood tissue stem cells. These cells, also called hematopoietic, are used as a source for transplants that form part of the therapies to fight different types of leukemia. The results obtained will open the doors to produce these stem cells in the laboratory and, thus, improve the quality and quantity of these surgical procedures. This will let patients with no compatible donors be able to benefit from this discovery in the future.
The study, executed jointly with the Erasmus Medical Center Stem Cell of Rotterdam and published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, analyzed a chain of molecular reactions that are produced inside some embryonic cells and that play a role in the creation of a hematopoietic stem cells. 'Our study contributes to deciphering the code that makes a precursor cell that is only found in the embryo become a hematopoietic stem cell. In order for that to happen, the ?-catenin protein must be activated for a while and with a specific dosage' explains Dr Anna Bigas, head of the IMIM Stem Cells & Cancer Group and lead researcher.
This protein also plays a fundamental role in the cells that originate and maintain some types of leukemia. 'The parallelisms between normal and leukemia stem cells prove to us that the molecular pathways that regulate both populations are the same. For this reason, our work will help us understand the origin of these diseases', argues Dr Bigas.
In addition to embryonic stem cells, each of our body's organs has another type of stem cell that has the capacity to regenerate all the cells for the tissue in question. However, they are only formed in the embryonic stage and are maintained for the rest of our lives. hematopoietic stem cells are part of the blood and, when they are transplanted, they are the inception for all of this tissue's cells.
At present, transplanting these cells is dependent on the availability of compatible donors. Nonetheless, there is still a high percentage of patients with no donors and that, therefore, cannot be submitted to this procedure. The results of this article lay the foundations so that, in the future, these patients can benefit from a source of laboratory-generated hematopoietic stem cells created from compatible embryonic cells or other types of expressly transformed cells.
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A sleek display setup on a pop up banner stands at a location that sees a lot of customers passing by will definitely result into generating those all-important leads for your brand or services. Besides an attractive and uniquely designed stand is often remembered by the customers and your brand is recalled as an extension to the stand.
Visualize It
A roller banner stand can consist of a simple roll-out design that is supported by an aluminium framework or a more complicated design that involves in-built retractable springs and appropriately placed lighting instruments that highlight your display setup. The most common use during such branding and promotional activity is the use of multiple display systems.
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There are also those stands where the height of the stand is adjustable and the creative can be changed in a jiffy to enable the flexibility of advertising different products and making your promotional setup look fresh and interesting every time to potential passer-bys.
No matter what mode you choose to display your products and services it is imperative that you have roller banners that ensure the visibility of your brand in a crowded indoor or outdoor environment and attract new prospects to your setup.
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I am on behalf of Easydisplay.co.uk. It is one of the best companies in manufacturing of Roller Banners and pop up banners. I often write for the same.
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