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SubscriptionsGo to the Subscriptions Centre to manage your:My ProfileThe twin 17 year old brothers killed early Saturday after tobogganing down the bobsled track at Canada Olympic Park have been identified as Jordan and Evan Caldwell.Read the latest on this story: Twins killed in Calgary bobsled track accident used to work at Olympic parkCalgary bobsled track incident kills twin brothers, injures 6 other teens"We were reminded today that life is but a vapour," the family said in a statement released by Calgary police late Saturday. MT."Our boys Jordan and Evan were bright lights to all who knew them. We are grieving their loss but confident in their new home of heaven. Our brief 17 years with them were a gift: filled with much love, laughter and fond memories,replica van cleef arpels alhambra necklace," the statement says."They leave a huge void and will be sorely missed."The boys were killed and six other teens were injured during an after hours visit to the track. Police say the boys hopped on a toboggan and went for a ride on the high speed run, but on the way down crashed into a gate separating the bobsled and lugeA family member living in the Edmonton area said Jordan and Evan should have had great futures."They were outstanding young men. They had straight A averages and had scholarships to several universities,replica van cleef and arpels turquoise clover necklace, and they were just really fine boys. Everybody's very perplexed how this came to be," said the relative,replica quatrefoil necklace van cleef, who asked not to be identified and was reached before the names were officially released.Emergency crews received a 911 call from the northwest WinSport facility at Calgary Olympic Park after a report of several injured people on a closed track.WinSport Canada owns and operates Canada Olympic Park, which hosted events during the 1988 Winter Olympics. Several World Cup events are held at the site as well.WinSport president and CEO Barry Heck told reporters late Saturday that as a father himself his heart goes out to the families.
SubscriptionsGo to the Subscriptions Centre to manage your:My ProfileThe twin 17 year old brothers killed early Saturday after tobogganing down the bobsled track at Canada Olympic Park have been identified as Jordan and Evan Caldwell.Read the latest on this story: Twins killed in Calgary bobsled track accident used to work at Olympic parkCalgary bobsled track incident kills twin brothers, injures 6 other teens"We were reminded today that life is but a vapour," the family said in a statement released by Calgary police late Saturday. MT."Our boys Jordan and Evan were bright lights to all who knew them. We are grieving their loss but confident in their new home of heaven. Our brief 17 years with them were a gift: filled with much love, laughter and fond memories,replica van cleef arpels alhambra necklace," the statement says."They leave a huge void and will be sorely missed."The boys were killed and six other teens were injured during an after hours visit to the track. Police say the boys hopped on a toboggan and went for a ride on the high speed run, but on the way down crashed into a gate separating the bobsled and lugeA family member living in the Edmonton area said Jordan and Evan should have had great futures."They were outstanding young men. They had straight A averages and had scholarships to several universities,replica van cleef and arpels turquoise clover necklace, and they were just really fine boys. Everybody's very perplexed how this came to be," said the relative,replica quatrefoil necklace van cleef, who asked not to be identified and was reached before the names were officially released.Emergency crews received a 911 call from the northwest WinSport facility at Calgary Olympic Park after a report of several injured people on a closed track.WinSport Canada owns and operates Canada Olympic Park, which hosted events during the 1988 Winter Olympics. Several World Cup events are held at the site as well.WinSport president and CEO Barry Heck told reporters late Saturday that as a father himself his heart goes out to the families.
Carondelet Street or bust
I always dream of,
with you who can be a failure.
My first love, Azalea. Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, from week ago Sunday, I saw the sunrise over the Mississippi River from my roof on Carondelet Street in New Orleans. I was up there with Wallace, a fellow refugee I had met the day before in Oxford, Miss.
I had vaguely recognized Wallace when I saw him in Oxford the previous day, but I couldn place him. We talked for a minute and he mentioned that he was a teacher and I was able to remember him. He was the hip English teacher at a struggling all black high school in New Orleans where I had taught street law to risk kids. He had John Coltrane posters on his classroom walls and tried to teach his students radical history. He made an impression on me when I taught his class because his students, who didn hear much, listened to him. He, in turn, listened to his students, who weren used to being heard.
Wallace proposed that we attempt to drive the six hours down to New Orleans in his old white Econoline van, in which he used to tour with his band, to assess the damage firsthand, to fix our homes if necessary, and to retrieve precious belongings that we had left behind. We had each just received nearly $700 in Wal mart credit from the Red Cross, so flush with cash, we stormed the Wal mart hardware section nervously buying anything that we thought might be useful on our trip, a trip that we had no precedent for and no way to have foreseen.
Wallace bought a set of battery charged power tools, walkie talkies for times we anticipated being separate, canned pineapples and water. I bought blue tarps, bungee cords, the biggest Maglite on the market and energy bars, and tried in vain to find rubber boots.
There was no traffic at all as we passed through Jackson and approached Hammond, La. We had a steady stream of conversation through the night, talking about our wives, both artists, both far away, progressive politics, and our hopes and concerns for New Orleans. Occasionally one of us would note the possibility that our 12 hour drive to New Orleans and back might be in vain because we could be turned back at the city limits. But we would quickly skip over this point and again rehearse the work related pretexts we intended to pitch if we were stopped. Maybe 10 times on the drive, one of us said, my story and I sticking with it.
We had a quarter tank of gas and two full five gallon gas cans in the back of the van when we stopped for gas in Hammond, about 60 miles outside the city. We figured it would be our last chance for gas before New Orleans and we were not sure we would make the 120 miles back and forth with the gas we had. It was the only gas station open when we pulled off Interstate 55 at 2 in the morning and it was so jammed full of cars that I assumed it was a gas line full of southern bound New Orleanians, like ourselves.
However, it turned out that teenagers, mostly black, hung out at the gas station in their cars until late at night, playing loud, bass heavy music and talking to friends. I figured this out quickly after watching five police cars simultaneously converge on the gas station, lights ablaze, to close down the place and chase off the kids. We pulled into the now empty gas station after circling the block and letting the dust settle. The pumps had been turned off so I walked up to the little gas station store. The glass door was locked and I stood staring in at the clerks until one came up to the glass and told us that they were closed.
In the weeks since evacuating New Orleans with my wife and two dogs and having no place to live, I have gotten used to asking for favors, begging and saying please and thank you. Through the glass, I told the clerk my story. I told him that I was from New Orleans and trying to get back into town, that I had seen a satellite photo of my roof and that it was damaged and getting worse, and then busted out the wild card that works with most men in most situations. I told him that my wife had her heart set on my getting her wedding rings and the diaries of her sister who passed away and that it would break her heart if I didn make it home to try to find these things and bring them back. I wasn lying and he could tell. He asked me if I had cash and when I said yes, told me that he would let me fill up. I thanked him, sincerely, not in the manner that I do in my normal life, when people do little more than is required.
Within minutes of getting back on the Interstate, we saw flares and police cars parked ahead on the highway, blocking the road. Wallace and I checked in on our story once again and slowed to a stop next to a tired looking, middle aged white police officer.
you doing, officer, Wallace said.
He asked us where we were going and we explained that we were going to New Orleans, that I was a lawyer and that I had legal business related to the storm, a half truth. We showed him our identification. He responded simply, too tired to care. You can do what you want. He commented that our car smelled of gas and chemicals: you got drugs in there?
We explained that we had cans of gasoline in the back of the van. He responded kindly, You know that not really safe get out of here.
We drove through the checkpoint and up onto the causeway, the elevated highway that runs through the swamps toward New Orleans. Since the balance of the ride back into the city would be on this two lane road, there would be little opportunity for anyone to send us back now. We were almost home.
On both sides of the causeway, we could see the glow of the massive factories,replica van cleef and arpels clover necklace, cities of industry now back in action, spewing flames.
We were quiet for a while, eager to see our homes, our city, and knowing it had changed. We were also exhausted.
We cut around the city to the south and onto Highway 90, the old highway into the city, on the West Bank. The West Bank is part of Jefferson Parish, the white flight suburb surrounding the city. It is the part of the city that throngs of people tried to flee into, over the bridge from the convention center, only to be turned away by armed sheriffs. Only a few days later, two white men in a van, we were trying to go the opposite direction.
The West Bank was in remarkably good shape. We passed a bingo hall with blinking lights. The Burger King was opening up, getting ready to sell egg sandwiches and Tater Tots. All of this minutes away from New Orleans. It seemed impossible.
As we approached the bridge, we reached another roadblock, manned by the Crescent City Connection Bridge Police. The officer standing guard was bleary eyed and looked as if he were about to fall over. He hardly listened as we told him why we were traveling into the city. He had no objections. Wallace asked him how he was doing. His pain poured out. He told us that he had lost his house, that the floodwater had risen to the roof, and that it was destroyed. He said that the insurance adjuster said that his policy didn cover flood. He told us that his wife and kids were in Florida, that he was worried about them and wanted to be with them but only managed to talk to them for a few minutes at a time because he was worried about roaming charges on his phone and because cellphone service was constantly cutting out. He told us about a classic Bronco that he had just finished restoring and about the huge tree that had fallen on it. We asked him when he would be relieved so that he could take care of his home and his family, and he laughed. He explained that there weren many officers on his detail and that they were all working 18 hours a day, unsure if they were even going to get paid. Wallace asked him whether his union was doing anything to help him. He laughed again, saying, You not even allowed to say that word around here.
We thanked him, sincerely, and drove off. As we pulled away, I saw him go back to sit with his fellow officers,replica van cleef and arpels necklace, none of whom could probably bear hearing each other sad stories another time. Each, perhaps, waiting to talk to the next couple of guys trying to pass into town who were willing to listen.
The city was dim as we passed over the bridge. We could see a big military ship docked on the side of the river next to the convention center. Within minutes, we reached my house,replica van cleef arpel necklace, five blocks from the Superdome. It was still dark.
I inspected the house with my flashlight, and it looked the same as I had left it. I unlocked the door and walked into my high ceilinged living room, and could smell the aroma of home, slightly stale, a little sour, but distinct. No water had come in; the flood had not reached us. I drank some water from the cooler I had left stocked with four five gallon jugs, then went upstairs, where I did not know what I would find.
I crept up the stairs, almost blind in the dark with my flashlight off, but knowing the steps, because I was finally home. At the top of the stairs I reflexively switched the light on, to no avail. I flipped on my flashlight and saw that my ceiling had collapsed from above. From the right angle, I could see the night sky through the wound in my roof. There was soggy sheetrock and wet bits of insulation, made of shredded newspaper, everywhere. I wanted to start cleaning up then and there but realized it was absurd, that there was still more to see. I crossed through my wife studio, unblemished, with her paintings on the walls, and then into our bedroom, where the ceiling had also collapsed onto our new pillow top mattress, which we had talked about with joy every night since its purchase as we got into bed.
I climbed the narrow ladder up into my attic, walked carefully along the rafters, then climbed through the hole in the roof I had seen from below. I nervously walked up the back face of my double pitched roof and could see with the flashlight that large portions of the roof were damaged and exposed. Jitters passed through my body. I had been awake for almost 24 hours, I was standing on my roof in the middle of the night in my abandoned city, and I felt nauseated. Even under the best of circumstances, I have no business out on a roof. But anticipating the damage, I had brought up a tarp, some screws, and Wallace new drill. I tried to secure the tarp over some of the damaged areas, but I began to feel my feet slipping on the remaining roofing tiles beneath my feet.
Knowing that I was a danger to myself, I slid back down the hole and made my way downstairs and told Wallace what I had seen and what I tried to do. He told me that he was good on roofs he would come up with me. We made our way back up. He did most of the work. He explained that we weren really accomplishing anything but that it was good to try, that I could tell my wife that I had tried to repair the roof in the middle of the night, and I would be a hero. I felt pathetic and scared but comforted.
Before making our way back downstairs, we watched the city come awake. New Orleans never had the early morning hustle and bustle of other American cities but, instead, a few people heading to work, a few stragglers still trying to find their way home. In New Orleans, sunrise meant to sleep about as much as it meant up, even among many of us who lived there. Now, however, with the city empty of its citizens, sunrise signified only wakeup time to the soldiers who, that morning,replica van cleef arpels clover necklace, occupied the high rise apartment building on St. Charles Avenue, the great Mardi Gras parade route, a block behind my house. They wandered out the building, absent mindedly gazed up at us on the roof, and got down to the business of brushing their teeth and shaving with little cups of water in their hands.
Back downstairs, I cleaned up what I could and packed some things and brought them down to the van. I found the rings and the journals but had lost the list my wife had given me. I panicked, knowing that I was in no state to make decisions. Everything seemed pointless by this time. Miraculously, I got through to my wife on my cellphone.
I always dream of,
with you who can be a failure.
My first love, Azalea. Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, from week ago Sunday, I saw the sunrise over the Mississippi River from my roof on Carondelet Street in New Orleans. I was up there with Wallace, a fellow refugee I had met the day before in Oxford, Miss.
I had vaguely recognized Wallace when I saw him in Oxford the previous day, but I couldn place him. We talked for a minute and he mentioned that he was a teacher and I was able to remember him. He was the hip English teacher at a struggling all black high school in New Orleans where I had taught street law to risk kids. He had John Coltrane posters on his classroom walls and tried to teach his students radical history. He made an impression on me when I taught his class because his students, who didn hear much, listened to him. He, in turn, listened to his students, who weren used to being heard.
Wallace proposed that we attempt to drive the six hours down to New Orleans in his old white Econoline van, in which he used to tour with his band, to assess the damage firsthand, to fix our homes if necessary, and to retrieve precious belongings that we had left behind. We had each just received nearly $700 in Wal mart credit from the Red Cross, so flush with cash, we stormed the Wal mart hardware section nervously buying anything that we thought might be useful on our trip, a trip that we had no precedent for and no way to have foreseen.
Wallace bought a set of battery charged power tools, walkie talkies for times we anticipated being separate, canned pineapples and water. I bought blue tarps, bungee cords, the biggest Maglite on the market and energy bars, and tried in vain to find rubber boots.
There was no traffic at all as we passed through Jackson and approached Hammond, La. We had a steady stream of conversation through the night, talking about our wives, both artists, both far away, progressive politics, and our hopes and concerns for New Orleans. Occasionally one of us would note the possibility that our 12 hour drive to New Orleans and back might be in vain because we could be turned back at the city limits. But we would quickly skip over this point and again rehearse the work related pretexts we intended to pitch if we were stopped. Maybe 10 times on the drive, one of us said, my story and I sticking with it.
We had a quarter tank of gas and two full five gallon gas cans in the back of the van when we stopped for gas in Hammond, about 60 miles outside the city. We figured it would be our last chance for gas before New Orleans and we were not sure we would make the 120 miles back and forth with the gas we had. It was the only gas station open when we pulled off Interstate 55 at 2 in the morning and it was so jammed full of cars that I assumed it was a gas line full of southern bound New Orleanians, like ourselves.
However, it turned out that teenagers, mostly black, hung out at the gas station in their cars until late at night, playing loud, bass heavy music and talking to friends. I figured this out quickly after watching five police cars simultaneously converge on the gas station, lights ablaze, to close down the place and chase off the kids. We pulled into the now empty gas station after circling the block and letting the dust settle. The pumps had been turned off so I walked up to the little gas station store. The glass door was locked and I stood staring in at the clerks until one came up to the glass and told us that they were closed.
In the weeks since evacuating New Orleans with my wife and two dogs and having no place to live, I have gotten used to asking for favors, begging and saying please and thank you. Through the glass, I told the clerk my story. I told him that I was from New Orleans and trying to get back into town, that I had seen a satellite photo of my roof and that it was damaged and getting worse, and then busted out the wild card that works with most men in most situations. I told him that my wife had her heart set on my getting her wedding rings and the diaries of her sister who passed away and that it would break her heart if I didn make it home to try to find these things and bring them back. I wasn lying and he could tell. He asked me if I had cash and when I said yes, told me that he would let me fill up. I thanked him, sincerely, not in the manner that I do in my normal life, when people do little more than is required.
Within minutes of getting back on the Interstate, we saw flares and police cars parked ahead on the highway, blocking the road. Wallace and I checked in on our story once again and slowed to a stop next to a tired looking, middle aged white police officer.
you doing, officer, Wallace said.
He asked us where we were going and we explained that we were going to New Orleans, that I was a lawyer and that I had legal business related to the storm, a half truth. We showed him our identification. He responded simply, too tired to care. You can do what you want. He commented that our car smelled of gas and chemicals: you got drugs in there?
We explained that we had cans of gasoline in the back of the van. He responded kindly, You know that not really safe get out of here.
We drove through the checkpoint and up onto the causeway, the elevated highway that runs through the swamps toward New Orleans. Since the balance of the ride back into the city would be on this two lane road, there would be little opportunity for anyone to send us back now. We were almost home.
On both sides of the causeway, we could see the glow of the massive factories,replica van cleef and arpels clover necklace, cities of industry now back in action, spewing flames.
We were quiet for a while, eager to see our homes, our city, and knowing it had changed. We were also exhausted.
We cut around the city to the south and onto Highway 90, the old highway into the city, on the West Bank. The West Bank is part of Jefferson Parish, the white flight suburb surrounding the city. It is the part of the city that throngs of people tried to flee into, over the bridge from the convention center, only to be turned away by armed sheriffs. Only a few days later, two white men in a van, we were trying to go the opposite direction.
The West Bank was in remarkably good shape. We passed a bingo hall with blinking lights. The Burger King was opening up, getting ready to sell egg sandwiches and Tater Tots. All of this minutes away from New Orleans. It seemed impossible.
As we approached the bridge, we reached another roadblock, manned by the Crescent City Connection Bridge Police. The officer standing guard was bleary eyed and looked as if he were about to fall over. He hardly listened as we told him why we were traveling into the city. He had no objections. Wallace asked him how he was doing. His pain poured out. He told us that he had lost his house, that the floodwater had risen to the roof, and that it was destroyed. He said that the insurance adjuster said that his policy didn cover flood. He told us that his wife and kids were in Florida, that he was worried about them and wanted to be with them but only managed to talk to them for a few minutes at a time because he was worried about roaming charges on his phone and because cellphone service was constantly cutting out. He told us about a classic Bronco that he had just finished restoring and about the huge tree that had fallen on it. We asked him when he would be relieved so that he could take care of his home and his family, and he laughed. He explained that there weren many officers on his detail and that they were all working 18 hours a day, unsure if they were even going to get paid. Wallace asked him whether his union was doing anything to help him. He laughed again, saying, You not even allowed to say that word around here.
We thanked him, sincerely, and drove off. As we pulled away, I saw him go back to sit with his fellow officers,replica van cleef and arpels necklace, none of whom could probably bear hearing each other sad stories another time. Each, perhaps, waiting to talk to the next couple of guys trying to pass into town who were willing to listen.
The city was dim as we passed over the bridge. We could see a big military ship docked on the side of the river next to the convention center. Within minutes, we reached my house,replica van cleef arpel necklace, five blocks from the Superdome. It was still dark.
I inspected the house with my flashlight, and it looked the same as I had left it. I unlocked the door and walked into my high ceilinged living room, and could smell the aroma of home, slightly stale, a little sour, but distinct. No water had come in; the flood had not reached us. I drank some water from the cooler I had left stocked with four five gallon jugs, then went upstairs, where I did not know what I would find.
I crept up the stairs, almost blind in the dark with my flashlight off, but knowing the steps, because I was finally home. At the top of the stairs I reflexively switched the light on, to no avail. I flipped on my flashlight and saw that my ceiling had collapsed from above. From the right angle, I could see the night sky through the wound in my roof. There was soggy sheetrock and wet bits of insulation, made of shredded newspaper, everywhere. I wanted to start cleaning up then and there but realized it was absurd, that there was still more to see. I crossed through my wife studio, unblemished, with her paintings on the walls, and then into our bedroom, where the ceiling had also collapsed onto our new pillow top mattress, which we had talked about with joy every night since its purchase as we got into bed.
I climbed the narrow ladder up into my attic, walked carefully along the rafters, then climbed through the hole in the roof I had seen from below. I nervously walked up the back face of my double pitched roof and could see with the flashlight that large portions of the roof were damaged and exposed. Jitters passed through my body. I had been awake for almost 24 hours, I was standing on my roof in the middle of the night in my abandoned city, and I felt nauseated. Even under the best of circumstances, I have no business out on a roof. But anticipating the damage, I had brought up a tarp, some screws, and Wallace new drill. I tried to secure the tarp over some of the damaged areas, but I began to feel my feet slipping on the remaining roofing tiles beneath my feet.
Knowing that I was a danger to myself, I slid back down the hole and made my way downstairs and told Wallace what I had seen and what I tried to do. He told me that he was good on roofs he would come up with me. We made our way back up. He did most of the work. He explained that we weren really accomplishing anything but that it was good to try, that I could tell my wife that I had tried to repair the roof in the middle of the night, and I would be a hero. I felt pathetic and scared but comforted.
Before making our way back downstairs, we watched the city come awake. New Orleans never had the early morning hustle and bustle of other American cities but, instead, a few people heading to work, a few stragglers still trying to find their way home. In New Orleans, sunrise meant to sleep about as much as it meant up, even among many of us who lived there. Now, however, with the city empty of its citizens, sunrise signified only wakeup time to the soldiers who, that morning,replica van cleef arpels clover necklace, occupied the high rise apartment building on St. Charles Avenue, the great Mardi Gras parade route, a block behind my house. They wandered out the building, absent mindedly gazed up at us on the roof, and got down to the business of brushing their teeth and shaving with little cups of water in their hands.
Back downstairs, I cleaned up what I could and packed some things and brought them down to the van. I found the rings and the journals but had lost the list my wife had given me. I panicked, knowing that I was in no state to make decisions. Everything seemed pointless by this time. Miraculously, I got through to my wife on my cellphone.
Bad weather 'most likely' caused the death of paragliders Robert Lithgow and Bruce Ottoway
On May 18, 2013, father of four and part time pastor Robert Lithgow was instructing Bruce Ottoway, a 66 year old retiree from Victor Harbor, and a second man,replica van cleef pearl necklace, Peter Evezard, in hang gliding .
But first Mr Lithgow, an experienced pilot, took Mr Ottoway for a joy flight in a tandem paraglider from Flaxman Hill near Nirranda.
Searching the Hang Gliding Federation Australia website, Mr Evezard noticed a warning to Flaxman Hill flyers that there were no beach landings to the east and advice to not fly off sheer cliffs if the wind was light or likely to drop off.
He contacted Rob Van Der Klooster, then the federation's contact for Flaxman Hill, who raised the alarm with emergency services and the doomed search began.
In his findings, Mr Byrne said bad weather most likely caused the accident, despite a request from Mr Ottoway's son Arron to find that Mr Lithgow was negligent and responsible for the death of his father.
"I am not comfortably satisfied Mr Lithgow intentionally undertook a potentially dangerous course putting himself and his passenger in danger. I reiterate he may have been a victim of weather events," Mr Byrne said.
In a letter to the coroner, Arron Ottowoy said the hang gliding federation had also been negligent in the management of Mr Lithgow, who had been subject of a previous complaint from a trainee.
"Had I clear evidence of recklessness,replica van cleef necklace butterfly, or even failure to comply with operational standards,van cleef and arpels imitation necklace, a wider investigation of these matters would have been permissible, but no compelling evidence of such is available," Mr Byrne said.
Mr Lithgow's wife strongly defended her husband, but also made an extraordinary claim that Mr Ottoway orchestrated his own disappearance to form a new identity.
"One can understand Ms Lithgow's grief following the death of her husband which obviously has deeply impacted upon her," Mr Byrne said.
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He strongly supported a recommendation that all pilots carry personal GPS trackers and emergency location beacons.
Mr Byrne said an investigation by a former federation member into the previous complaint against Mr Lithgow was substandard, but it did not contribute to the deaths.
On May 18, 2013, father of four and part time pastor Robert Lithgow was instructing Bruce Ottoway, a 66 year old retiree from Victor Harbor, and a second man,replica van cleef pearl necklace, Peter Evezard, in hang gliding .
But first Mr Lithgow, an experienced pilot, took Mr Ottoway for a joy flight in a tandem paraglider from Flaxman Hill near Nirranda.
Searching the Hang Gliding Federation Australia website, Mr Evezard noticed a warning to Flaxman Hill flyers that there were no beach landings to the east and advice to not fly off sheer cliffs if the wind was light or likely to drop off.
He contacted Rob Van Der Klooster, then the federation's contact for Flaxman Hill, who raised the alarm with emergency services and the doomed search began.
In his findings, Mr Byrne said bad weather most likely caused the accident, despite a request from Mr Ottoway's son Arron to find that Mr Lithgow was negligent and responsible for the death of his father.
"I am not comfortably satisfied Mr Lithgow intentionally undertook a potentially dangerous course putting himself and his passenger in danger. I reiterate he may have been a victim of weather events," Mr Byrne said.
In a letter to the coroner, Arron Ottowoy said the hang gliding federation had also been negligent in the management of Mr Lithgow, who had been subject of a previous complaint from a trainee.
"Had I clear evidence of recklessness,replica van cleef necklace butterfly, or even failure to comply with operational standards,van cleef and arpels imitation necklace, a wider investigation of these matters would have been permissible, but no compelling evidence of such is available," Mr Byrne said.
Mr Lithgow's wife strongly defended her husband, but also made an extraordinary claim that Mr Ottoway orchestrated his own disappearance to form a new identity.
"One can understand Ms Lithgow's grief following the death of her husband which obviously has deeply impacted upon her," Mr Byrne said.
"Being as sensitive as I believe I can in the circumstances, I reject Mrs Lithgow's contention as fanciful at best,replica van cleef gold clover necklace, inflammatory at worst."
He strongly supported a recommendation that all pilots carry personal GPS trackers and emergency location beacons.
Mr Byrne said an investigation by a former federation member into the previous complaint against Mr Lithgow was substandard, but it did not contribute to the deaths.
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In many older cars the rubber door seals don't seal the way they should. Often the seals have pulled away from the door frame and leave gaps between the frame and the seal, almost always in the corners. This lets in cold or hot air, sometimes water and almost always excess noise. So many older cars have a noisier, drafty ride because the seals are not tight.
Many people think that the reason for the seals not staying in the frame is that they have come unglued. They will often try to glue them back in place but the seals will not stay there. That is because they are not glued in to begin with. The door seals are held in place by simple pressure. When the rubber seals get older the rubber shrinks, the older the seal the greater the shrinking. As it shrinks it pulls away from the door frame almost always at one of the corners. No matter how much glue you use you will not get the seal to stay in place because the seal is now to small to fit the opening. But there is a simple and very cheap fix for the problem that is permanent. You have to make the door seal bigger. Its a lot easier to do than you might think.
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Once you have that out of the way you should see the place where the deal is joined. It will probable look like it has been glued or fused together. This is the easiest place to cut the seal. Most of these seals have a metal component running through them to make them rigid and cutting it can be hard. The seam has no metal so you can slice it through with a razor knife or a pair of heavy duty scissors.
After you have cut it you can push the seal back into the door frame corners where it is supposed to be. Sometimes it easiest to pull a section off and then start at the top pushing it back tight working your way back to where you cut it. Now you will be able to see how much your seal has shrunk.
Find an extra chunk of door seal, a foot or so will do. You can get this from a junk yard or from another car even. You can also buy seals but they are expensive. I took a piece out of a a minivan that is used as a parts car. The best one to get is one that matches your car. If you can't get that then try and get one that is a close match. Door seals can be difficult to cut because of the metal pieces in it. I used a pair of tin snips to cut mine. Really heavy duty scissors might work also. A knife will only cut the rubber. A hack saw will work but its a little more effort.
After you get your seal material figure out how much to cut to fill the gap. First make sure the seal is pushed completely into the door frame. Next mark on your chunk of seal where to cut. Make it BIGGER than the gap by about a half inch. This way when you put it in place it will push against the rest of the door seal and help to force it to stay in place.
Push the piece you cut into the gap and hammer it down with your hand. You should not have to do it very hard. It goes in pretty easily. You don't need to use any type of glue since the pressure will and the sill cover will keep it in place.
Step 3: All Sealed Up, Now Do the Rest of the Doors.
After you get the filler piece in place put the plastic sill cover back on. Again just a hit with your palm should be enough to snap it in place.
And that is it. Your door seal is now tight and will stay in place for years until it shrinks some more. If,van cleef & arpels replica necklace, when, that happens just put in a bigger filler piece.
Now how come the car makers don't make seals so you can add spacers to them? It would be an easy source of income for them to sell DIY spacers that people could just pop into place and seal up their doors. Oh, wait, that would mean they would be keeping the cars until they were older and not buying new ones. Never mind.
Do this same procedure for all the doors of your car. If one has shrunk then they all have shrunk.
Enjoy the quieter ride.
I saw this and thought YAY just the thing! But I looked at my Ford 500 gasket which has come loose, and it is one continuous piece, no joint and no on the bottom. Do you suppose silicone adhesive would hold it in place?
The main purpose of the threshold, as far as I know is to keep the seal from getting torn up from being constantly stepped on. It is likely that if you glue the seal in place it will last for a little while and then pull loose again. I would cut it at a spot where it is easy to expand it and then reseat it and see how much it has shrunk. You can use rubber cement or the stuff for repairing tires to glue in a small expansion piece. You will end up with a patched seal but it should fit tight again. It doesn sound like this will work for me, what do you think? Any suggestions?
This will work for you. After removing the plastic piece at the bottom, I found that my rubber seal was not a continuous piece, and that the plastic just holds the ends tightly in place. With the plastic remove, I could start at the top that kept falling down and just work the rubber seal up and around the entire door. Replacing the plastic bottom now holds the ends in place with the seal seated tight all the way around the door. Give it a try.
For 5 years I have just been pushing the seal back up when It started to pull away. I read your article, and today I removed the plastic bottom part and found that it actually holds the ends of the seal tightly in place. With the plastic off, I started at the loosest spot and pulled the rubber seal up and around the entire opening until it seated completely. I replaced the plastic, and it now holds the rubber tight all the way around. Presto! Thank you so much!
Is it OK that there is now a gap in the rubber at the bottom?
If it is a big gap I would try and fill it. Most likely it will not bother anything since it is covered by the plastic sill but it might let a little dust and noise it. Much less than if its pulled away from the frame. So given the choice, in my opinion, its better to have the seal in the correct place with a gap at the bottom than no gap but the seal pulled away from the frame.
In many older cars the rubber door seals don't seal the way they should. Often the seals have pulled away from the door frame and leave gaps between the frame and the seal, almost always in the corners. This lets in cold or hot air, sometimes water and almost always excess noise. So many older cars have a noisier, drafty ride because the seals are not tight.
Many people think that the reason for the seals not staying in the frame is that they have come unglued. They will often try to glue them back in place but the seals will not stay there. That is because they are not glued in to begin with. The door seals are held in place by simple pressure. When the rubber seals get older the rubber shrinks, the older the seal the greater the shrinking. As it shrinks it pulls away from the door frame almost always at one of the corners. No matter how much glue you use you will not get the seal to stay in place because the seal is now to small to fit the opening. But there is a simple and very cheap fix for the problem that is permanent. You have to make the door seal bigger. Its a lot easier to do than you might think.
The first thing to do to fix the problem is find the seam were the seal is joined,van cleef knock off flower necklace. This will almost always be located under the plastic sill that protects the bottom of the door frame. Pry the sill up and off to get access,van cleef replica necklaces. If yours is screwed down then remove the screws. Most have plastic connectors that go into holes in the floor and they are just pressed in place. They should pull up easily.
Once you have that out of the way you should see the place where the deal is joined. It will probable look like it has been glued or fused together. This is the easiest place to cut the seal. Most of these seals have a metal component running through them to make them rigid and cutting it can be hard. The seam has no metal so you can slice it through with a razor knife or a pair of heavy duty scissors.
After you have cut it you can push the seal back into the door frame corners where it is supposed to be. Sometimes it easiest to pull a section off and then start at the top pushing it back tight working your way back to where you cut it. Now you will be able to see how much your seal has shrunk.
Find an extra chunk of door seal, a foot or so will do. You can get this from a junk yard or from another car even. You can also buy seals but they are expensive. I took a piece out of a a minivan that is used as a parts car. The best one to get is one that matches your car. If you can't get that then try and get one that is a close match. Door seals can be difficult to cut because of the metal pieces in it. I used a pair of tin snips to cut mine. Really heavy duty scissors might work also. A knife will only cut the rubber. A hack saw will work but its a little more effort.
After you get your seal material figure out how much to cut to fill the gap. First make sure the seal is pushed completely into the door frame. Next mark on your chunk of seal where to cut. Make it BIGGER than the gap by about a half inch. This way when you put it in place it will push against the rest of the door seal and help to force it to stay in place.
Push the piece you cut into the gap and hammer it down with your hand. You should not have to do it very hard. It goes in pretty easily. You don't need to use any type of glue since the pressure will and the sill cover will keep it in place.
Step 3: All Sealed Up, Now Do the Rest of the Doors.
After you get the filler piece in place put the plastic sill cover back on. Again just a hit with your palm should be enough to snap it in place.
And that is it. Your door seal is now tight and will stay in place for years until it shrinks some more. If,van cleef & arpels replica necklace, when, that happens just put in a bigger filler piece.
Now how come the car makers don't make seals so you can add spacers to them? It would be an easy source of income for them to sell DIY spacers that people could just pop into place and seal up their doors. Oh, wait, that would mean they would be keeping the cars until they were older and not buying new ones. Never mind.
Do this same procedure for all the doors of your car. If one has shrunk then they all have shrunk.
Enjoy the quieter ride.
I saw this and thought YAY just the thing! But I looked at my Ford 500 gasket which has come loose, and it is one continuous piece, no joint and no on the bottom. Do you suppose silicone adhesive would hold it in place?
The main purpose of the threshold, as far as I know is to keep the seal from getting torn up from being constantly stepped on. It is likely that if you glue the seal in place it will last for a little while and then pull loose again. I would cut it at a spot where it is easy to expand it and then reseat it and see how much it has shrunk. You can use rubber cement or the stuff for repairing tires to glue in a small expansion piece. You will end up with a patched seal but it should fit tight again. It doesn sound like this will work for me, what do you think? Any suggestions?
This will work for you. After removing the plastic piece at the bottom, I found that my rubber seal was not a continuous piece, and that the plastic just holds the ends tightly in place. With the plastic remove, I could start at the top that kept falling down and just work the rubber seal up and around the entire door. Replacing the plastic bottom now holds the ends in place with the seal seated tight all the way around the door. Give it a try.
For 5 years I have just been pushing the seal back up when It started to pull away. I read your article, and today I removed the plastic bottom part and found that it actually holds the ends of the seal tightly in place. With the plastic off, I started at the loosest spot and pulled the rubber seal up and around the entire opening until it seated completely. I replaced the plastic, and it now holds the rubber tight all the way around. Presto! Thank you so much!
Is it OK that there is now a gap in the rubber at the bottom?
If it is a big gap I would try and fill it. Most likely it will not bother anything since it is covered by the plastic sill but it might let a little dust and noise it. Much less than if its pulled away from the frame. So given the choice, in my opinion, its better to have the seal in the correct place with a gap at the bottom than no gap but the seal pulled away from the frame.
Bombayla advance to Round of 32
23:42 Rio Olympics: Deepika, Bombayla advance to Round of 32: It was a disappointing finish at Rio Olympics for Indian women archers in Recurve archery ranking round after Deepika Kumari, who had maintained top spot in the early rounds, slipped to 20th, but qualified for the Round of 32 along with Bombayla Devi (24th).
The other Indian, Laxmirani (43rd) was out. India, who were at 5th spot midway in Women Team Ranking round finished in the 7th position.
22:57 Kerry rules out lifting sanctions against HuJI: The US Secretary of State John Kerry has ruled out lifting sanctions against Pakistan based terrorist outfit Harakat ul Jihad Islami (HUJI) which was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation by his predecessor Hillary Clinton some six years ago.
Based upon a review of the Administrative Record and in consultation with the Attorney General and the Treasury Secretary, Kerry in a federal notification concluded that the "circumstances that were the basis for designating HuJI as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation have not changed".
As such it does not warrant a revocation of the designation, Kerry said in a statement dated July 20, which was published in the Federal Register today.
The statement does not give reasons for carrying out the review of foreign terrorist organisation designation of HuJI.
On August 6, 2010, the then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is now the Democratic presidential nominee,van cleef and arpel copy necklace, had slapped sanctions on HuJI and its leader Mohammad Ilyas Kashmir.
22:25 Malaysian Islamic leaders say no to Pokemon Go: Islamic leaders in Kuala Lumpur said today that Muslims should avoid playing Pokemon Go because the popular mobile game was harmful and could "lead to gambling."
Senior religious official Zulkifli Mohamad al Bakri said the city's Islamic Legal Consultative Committee had taken into consideration top scholars' opinions on the cartoon creatures.
"Pokemon Go and all the Pokemon characters should be avoided as it can bring harm," he was quoted as saying by the national news agency Bernama.
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Pokemon Go is not yet available officially in Malaysia.
The Muslim majority country has long practised a moderate form of Islam but conservative attitudes are rising. The viral game uses satellite locations, graphics and camera capabilities to overlay cartoon monsters on real world settings, challenging players to capture and train the creatures for battles.
22:24 Haryana bans 'The Legend of Michael Mishra': Haryana government today banned the screening of the Hindi film 'The Legend of Michael Mishra' in the state for a period of eight weeks.
A decision to this effect was taken in view of the reports that there was resentment among members of the Valmiki community regarding some objectionable utterances in a part of the film, an official spokesman said.
This order would remain in force for eight weeks until further orders, he said.
The film, produced by Kishore Arora and directed by Munish Jha, was slated to be released today.
He said the government had received information that certain organisations and individuals were protesting against the exhibition of the film, as the lead actor Arshad Warsi in a particular scene utters "objectionable words" which have the potential to outrage the religious feelings of the community.
The order comes in view of the "security threat" following an "alert" by Indian Air Force.
"Restrictions have been imposed on the use of para gliders, parachutes, air balloons and other air borne activities within a radius of one km from any Defence or security installation in Udhampur district as a security measure following inputs from Air Force headquarters," District Magistrate Udhampur Niraj Kumar said,van cleef replica alhambra necklace, adding restrictions have been imposed under section 144 of CrPC.
"In case of any such activity, prior permission of the District Magistrate shall be required," he said.
Kumar directed private agencies, operating such businesses, to disclose their details along with details of equipment to the Additional Deputy Commissioner Udhampur.
22:06 US First Daughter Sasha Obama serves seafood in summer job: Sasha Obama, daughter of US President Barack Obama, has swapped the comforts of the White House for the counter of a seafood restaurant, US media report.
The 15 year old has taken a summer job serving food at the business in Martha's Vineyard,clover necklace replica van cleef, Massachusetts.
Sasha, using her full name, Natasha, has been accompanied to the restaurant by a contingent of six secret service agents, the Boston Herald reports.
23:42 Rio Olympics: Deepika, Bombayla advance to Round of 32: It was a disappointing finish at Rio Olympics for Indian women archers in Recurve archery ranking round after Deepika Kumari, who had maintained top spot in the early rounds, slipped to 20th, but qualified for the Round of 32 along with Bombayla Devi (24th).
The other Indian, Laxmirani (43rd) was out. India, who were at 5th spot midway in Women Team Ranking round finished in the 7th position.
22:57 Kerry rules out lifting sanctions against HuJI: The US Secretary of State John Kerry has ruled out lifting sanctions against Pakistan based terrorist outfit Harakat ul Jihad Islami (HUJI) which was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation by his predecessor Hillary Clinton some six years ago.
Based upon a review of the Administrative Record and in consultation with the Attorney General and the Treasury Secretary, Kerry in a federal notification concluded that the "circumstances that were the basis for designating HuJI as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation have not changed".
As such it does not warrant a revocation of the designation, Kerry said in a statement dated July 20, which was published in the Federal Register today.
The statement does not give reasons for carrying out the review of foreign terrorist organisation designation of HuJI.
On August 6, 2010, the then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is now the Democratic presidential nominee,van cleef and arpel copy necklace, had slapped sanctions on HuJI and its leader Mohammad Ilyas Kashmir.
22:25 Malaysian Islamic leaders say no to Pokemon Go: Islamic leaders in Kuala Lumpur said today that Muslims should avoid playing Pokemon Go because the popular mobile game was harmful and could "lead to gambling."
Senior religious official Zulkifli Mohamad al Bakri said the city's Islamic Legal Consultative Committee had taken into consideration top scholars' opinions on the cartoon creatures.
"Pokemon Go and all the Pokemon characters should be avoided as it can bring harm," he was quoted as saying by the national news agency Bernama.
"The game promoted a search for power and deities with certain powers which could lead to gambling,van cleef and arpels clover knock off necklace."
Pokemon Go is not yet available officially in Malaysia.
The Muslim majority country has long practised a moderate form of Islam but conservative attitudes are rising. The viral game uses satellite locations, graphics and camera capabilities to overlay cartoon monsters on real world settings, challenging players to capture and train the creatures for battles.
22:24 Haryana bans 'The Legend of Michael Mishra': Haryana government today banned the screening of the Hindi film 'The Legend of Michael Mishra' in the state for a period of eight weeks.
A decision to this effect was taken in view of the reports that there was resentment among members of the Valmiki community regarding some objectionable utterances in a part of the film, an official spokesman said.
This order would remain in force for eight weeks until further orders, he said.
The film, produced by Kishore Arora and directed by Munish Jha, was slated to be released today.
He said the government had received information that certain organisations and individuals were protesting against the exhibition of the film, as the lead actor Arshad Warsi in a particular scene utters "objectionable words" which have the potential to outrage the religious feelings of the community.
The order comes in view of the "security threat" following an "alert" by Indian Air Force.
"Restrictions have been imposed on the use of para gliders, parachutes, air balloons and other air borne activities within a radius of one km from any Defence or security installation in Udhampur district as a security measure following inputs from Air Force headquarters," District Magistrate Udhampur Niraj Kumar said,van cleef replica alhambra necklace, adding restrictions have been imposed under section 144 of CrPC.
"In case of any such activity, prior permission of the District Magistrate shall be required," he said.
Kumar directed private agencies, operating such businesses, to disclose their details along with details of equipment to the Additional Deputy Commissioner Udhampur.
22:06 US First Daughter Sasha Obama serves seafood in summer job: Sasha Obama, daughter of US President Barack Obama, has swapped the comforts of the White House for the counter of a seafood restaurant, US media report.
The 15 year old has taken a summer job serving food at the business in Martha's Vineyard,clover necklace replica van cleef, Massachusetts.
Sasha, using her full name, Natasha, has been accompanied to the restaurant by a contingent of six secret service agents, the Boston Herald reports.
Chinese firms to ramp up investment as costs rise
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At the Canton Fair, which kicked off this weekend for companies in the household electronics, decorative materials and building sectors other sectors follow later in the month more than 80% of companies quizzed by Reuters said they would be spending more next year.
That would represent a significant shift if matched throughout China economy. Official data on Wednesday showed private sector investment in fixed assets in the first nine months grew just 2.5%, picking up from a record low of 2.1% in the first eight months.
Kison Van said his company, Ningbo Cixi Import and Export Holdings, which makes fans and heaters, needs to develop three to four new products every year to stay competitive.
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More than 65% of the 103 exhibitors polled by Reuters in China southern city of Guangzhou expect to boost spending by up to 20% in 2017, while 16.5% expect to raise spending by more than 20%.
That will be welcome news to leaders in Beijing, as China private companies, which make up the bulk of exhibitors at the fair, are a crucial engine of growth for the economy, unlike the largely inefficient and indebted state owned sector.
Chinese growth slowed to a 25 year low of 6.9% last year, and third quarter figures released yesterday put it on track for about 6.7% this year.
Economists say the country mid sized private companies are the primary source of investment, innovation and productivity growth. Heavy machinery manufacturers at the fair said they spend over 30% of their investment capital upgrading production lines each year, while many building materials and household equipment makers said they were pumping money into automation.
China is achieving average annual growth of 18% in research and development (R spending, compared with just 1.4% across the rest of the world upper middle income countries, according to the Unesco Institute for Statistics.
While most exporters surveyed aim to boost spending, around 20% said they planned to cut investment. Other sectors that may be under pressure as global growth slows, such as textiles and apparel,van cleef arpel knock off necklace, will feature later at the fair, which runs until Nov 4. China is increasingly moving to modernise its manufacturing industry with robotics and automation, driven in part by a shortage of skilled workers and rapidly rising wages that threaten to erode its appeal as a low cost workshop to the world. Reuters
do a better job than workers; the quality is more stable, said Zhejiang Momali Sanitary Utensils Co general manager Selina Song.
Song said, however, that a drop in sales was slowing the company push to boost automation.
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Liu Qian, deputy general manager of Nanjing Panda Electronics Import Export Co, said investing in robots and automation was crucial, given wages had doubled in five years.
Several Chinese provinces have slowed or halted increases to minimum wages this year, as companies face pressure from rising expenses and weakening global demand, something that is also prompting more companies to shift sales to within China.
Liu acknowledged it would take longer for some companies to break even, given the size of the initial capital injection in automation and robots.
China is aiming for a top 10 ranking in automation for its industries by 2020 by putting more robots in its factories, according to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).
Torpedo Hsu, sales manager at heavy machinery transmissions maker CMEC, said the company plans to invest 10 to 20 % more in spending next year, which it hopes will lead to a pick up in orders after an expected 10 % fall in export orders this year.
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At the Canton Fair, which kicked off this weekend for companies in the household electronics, decorative materials and building sectors other sectors follow later in the month more than 80% of companies quizzed by Reuters said they would be spending more next year.
That would represent a significant shift if matched throughout China economy. Official data on Wednesday showed private sector investment in fixed assets in the first nine months grew just 2.5%, picking up from a record low of 2.1% in the first eight months.
Kison Van said his company, Ningbo Cixi Import and Export Holdings, which makes fans and heaters, needs to develop three to four new products every year to stay competitive.
important to continuously invest in R because once a new product comes out, you see it everywhere at the Canton Fair, said Van, one of tens of thousands of salesman at a fair that sprawls over 1.2 million square metres, almost twice the size of the world largest mall.
More than 65% of the 103 exhibitors polled by Reuters in China southern city of Guangzhou expect to boost spending by up to 20% in 2017, while 16.5% expect to raise spending by more than 20%.
That will be welcome news to leaders in Beijing, as China private companies, which make up the bulk of exhibitors at the fair, are a crucial engine of growth for the economy, unlike the largely inefficient and indebted state owned sector.
Chinese growth slowed to a 25 year low of 6.9% last year, and third quarter figures released yesterday put it on track for about 6.7% this year.
Economists say the country mid sized private companies are the primary source of investment, innovation and productivity growth. Heavy machinery manufacturers at the fair said they spend over 30% of their investment capital upgrading production lines each year, while many building materials and household equipment makers said they were pumping money into automation.
China is achieving average annual growth of 18% in research and development (R spending, compared with just 1.4% across the rest of the world upper middle income countries, according to the Unesco Institute for Statistics.
While most exporters surveyed aim to boost spending, around 20% said they planned to cut investment. Other sectors that may be under pressure as global growth slows, such as textiles and apparel,van cleef arpel knock off necklace, will feature later at the fair, which runs until Nov 4. China is increasingly moving to modernise its manufacturing industry with robotics and automation, driven in part by a shortage of skilled workers and rapidly rising wages that threaten to erode its appeal as a low cost workshop to the world. Reuters
do a better job than workers; the quality is more stable, said Zhejiang Momali Sanitary Utensils Co general manager Selina Song.
Song said, however, that a drop in sales was slowing the company push to boost automation.
Some economists said new and emerging sectors such as high end manufacturing equipment would see more room for development.
because these sectors get the government support,van cleef and arpels fake butterfly necklace.
They still see more room to grow despite slowing economic growth globally, said Nomura China economist Wendy Chen,van cleef necklace copy wholesale, who is based in Shanghai.
Liu Qian, deputy general manager of Nanjing Panda Electronics Import Export Co, said investing in robots and automation was crucial, given wages had doubled in five years.
Several Chinese provinces have slowed or halted increases to minimum wages this year, as companies face pressure from rising expenses and weakening global demand, something that is also prompting more companies to shift sales to within China.
Liu acknowledged it would take longer for some companies to break even, given the size of the initial capital injection in automation and robots.
China is aiming for a top 10 ranking in automation for its industries by 2020 by putting more robots in its factories, according to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).
Torpedo Hsu, sales manager at heavy machinery transmissions maker CMEC, said the company plans to invest 10 to 20 % more in spending next year, which it hopes will lead to a pick up in orders after an expected 10 % fall in export orders this year.
AP reports new Trump campaign ties to Russia Video
Let me bring in Jon Karl now for a story just breaking on Russia's ties to the trump campaign. The associated press reporting that trump's friend and former campaign chairman Paul manafort secretly worked with the prussian billionaire to advance it a decade ago. It was a $10 million contract with an oligarch. Reporter: It was directly involving Putin's interests and one memo written by manafort,imitation boucle d oreille van cleef prix, van gun we will be offering a gait focus both internally enexternally the policies of the Putin if government. George, manafort has flatly denied in the past including an interview last year with you that he had any contacts. It's important to point out that this contract by the way was 2006 to 2009 so in other words,van cleef earring faux, long before he went to the work for the trump campaign. We've just heard from manafort in a written statement on this saying I worked with the Russian billionaire almost a decade ago representing him on business and personal matters in countries where he had investments. My work with him did not involve Russian political interests. That would appear to be corrected by the memo that manafort himself wrote in 2005. His name came up several times I think more than two dozen times at that hearing of the house intelligence ties. The white house tried to distance themselves from manafort. There's been discussion of manafort who played a limited role for a limited amount of time. Reporter: George,boucle d oreille van cleef imitation, that is a demonstrably false statement. He was the chairman and began working for the trump campaign back in March of 2016. Stayed with the campaign all the way until August. He ran the convention for Donald Trump to say that he played a very limited role is not true. No comment from the white house this morning? Reporter: No comment from the white house. I reached out to a senior official who said to me why would we comment on Paul manafort's contracts? Suggesting there would be no comment to come. Thanks very much. President trump's supreme
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Let me bring in Jon Karl now for a story just breaking on Russia's ties to the trump campaign. The associated press reporting that trump's friend and former campaign chairman Paul manafort secretly worked with the prussian billionaire to advance it a decade ago. It was a $10 million contract with an oligarch. Reporter: It was directly involving Putin's interests and one memo written by manafort,imitation boucle d oreille van cleef prix, van gun we will be offering a gait focus both internally enexternally the policies of the Putin if government. George, manafort has flatly denied in the past including an interview last year with you that he had any contacts. It's important to point out that this contract by the way was 2006 to 2009 so in other words,van cleef earring faux, long before he went to the work for the trump campaign. We've just heard from manafort in a written statement on this saying I worked with the Russian billionaire almost a decade ago representing him on business and personal matters in countries where he had investments. My work with him did not involve Russian political interests. That would appear to be corrected by the memo that manafort himself wrote in 2005. His name came up several times I think more than two dozen times at that hearing of the house intelligence ties. The white house tried to distance themselves from manafort. There's been discussion of manafort who played a limited role for a limited amount of time. Reporter: George,boucle d oreille van cleef imitation, that is a demonstrably false statement. He was the chairman and began working for the trump campaign back in March of 2016. Stayed with the campaign all the way until August. He ran the convention for Donald Trump to say that he played a very limited role is not true. No comment from the white house this morning? Reporter: No comment from the white house. I reached out to a senior official who said to me why would we comment on Paul manafort's contracts? Suggesting there would be no comment to come. Thanks very much. President trump's supreme
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Anisotropic interactions of a single spin and dark
Y. K. Kato1AbstractExperiments on single nitrogen (N centres in diamond, which include electron spin resonance1, Rabi oscillations2, single shot spin readout3 and two qubit operations with a nearby13C nuclear spin4, show the potential of this spin system for solid state quantum information processing. Moreover, N centre ensembles can have spin coherence times exceeding 50 s at room temperature5. We have developed an angle resolved magneto photoluminescence microscope apparatus to investigate the anisotropic electron spin interactions of single N centres at room temperature. We observe negative peaks in the photoluminescence as a function of both magnetic field magnitude and angle that are explained by coherent spin precession and anisotropic relaxation at spin level anti crossings. In addition, precise field alignment unmasks the resonant coupling to neighbouring 'dark' nitrogen spins, otherwise undetected by photoluminescence.
a, The atomic structure and relevant energy levels. The green 'bond' depicts the N symmetry axis. b, The spatial image of IPL on a linear colour scale, showing the emission from several N centres; NV1 (left to right) are marked. c, The intensity correlation function g(2)() versus for NV1, indicating single photon emission. d, Optically detected ESR for NV1. IPL versus microwave frequency MW (circles) with a lorentzian fit (solid line). The laser power is 1 mW for b and 370 W for c and d.
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The single crystal samples investigated here are commercially available (Sumitomo Electric Industries) high temperature high pressure diamond with two polished parallel (100) surfaces and nominal dimensions of 1.4 mm1.4 mm1.0 mm. They contain nitrogen impurities with densities of 1019 cm 3, measured by ultraviolet absorption18. N centres are naturally present with substantially lower densities ranging from 1010 to 1013 cm 3. For ensemble measurements, samples are irradiated with 1.7 MeV electrons with a dose of 51017 cm 3 and subsequently annealed at 900 for 2 h to increase the N centre concentration6.
The phonon broadened 3E3A transition of the N centre is detected by means of non resonant photoluminescence microscopy (see Methods). For example, Fig. 1b is a spatial image of the spectrally integrated photoluminescence from a diamond sample with the laser focused roughly 1 m below the surface. Multiple resolution limited features are observed in the 20 m20 m field. In order to determine that a given feature is due to a single emitter, a histogram is plotted of the time between consecutive photon detection events using a Hanbury Brown and Twiss detection geometry19, yielding the experimental intensity correlation function g(2)(). Figure 1c shows the data from a colour centre labelled NV1. The value of g(2)(0) is below 0.5, proving that NV1 is a single colour centre20. In addition, the rise of g(2)() above unity with increasing is indicative of intersystem crossing to the 1A metastable state20, 21.
These single photon emitters are further characterized by optically detected electron spin resonance (ESR; see Methods). Figure 1d contains data from NV1 with zero applied magnetic field. In this case, the 1 ground state levels are degenerate so that only one resonance (mS=01) is observed at 2.87 GHz,faux boucles d oreilles anciennes, the characteristic zero field splitting of N centres11. The data are fit with a lorentzian of 11 MHz full width at half maximum (solid line), which is comparable to reported values in similar diamond samples1.
Strain dependent optical measurements on ensembles of N centres have indicated that electric dipole transitions are allowed for dipoles in the plane perpendicular to the symmetry axis6. Figure 2a depicts an N centre with transition dipoles and in a (111) plane. The excitation is along [001] for all measurements, therefore IPL depends on the laser polarization angle owing to unequal excitation of the two dipoles. The dependence of IPL on is measured for 20 N centres and shows either vertical or horizontal lobes, as exemplified for three N centres in Fig. 2b. The measured anisotropies, defined as the ratio IPL(=0 (=90 are roughly 2:1 and 1:2 on average; a simple anisotropy calculation gives 3:1, 3:1, 1:3 and 1:3 for the N symmetry axis along [111], , and , respectively (see Methods). The measured data are modified by the presence of polarized background photoluminescence (subtracted from the data) and a small dip, most visible for NV2 at =0 which varies in depth from centre to centre. Nevertheless, comparison of the measured and calculated anisotropies enables the number of possible orientations of a given centre to be reduced from four to two.
(61 KB)In order to investigate these peaks further,r��plique boucles d oreilles van cleef prix, IPL is measured as a function of B with B at a series of angles in the plane; a selection of such data from NV1 is shown in Fig. 3a. As B approaches the [111] direction (0 the LAC peak narrows, as expected from ensemble measurements22, 23. At sufficiently small angles, however, the LAC peak amplitude decreases for NV1 (Fig. 3b) or even vanishes for some centres, such as NV4 (Fig. 3c). This is in contrast to the ensemble measurements22, 23 that showed a maximum in the LAC peak amplitude at =0 According to the hamiltonian above,replique boucle d oreille van cleef, however, spin mixing should vanish at =0 The presence of residual spin mixing at =0 has been attributed to strain and nuclear interactions24, which vary from centre to centre.
Figure 3: Controlled level mixing by means of magnetic field alignment.
a, IPL versus B for NV1 at specified magnetic field angles . b,r��plique boucle d oreille van cleef, Zoom of data in a (points) with fits (lines) to model described in the text. Data for =0 are taken with smaller field steps and fit with an angle of 0.2 to account for residual spin mixing (see the text). c, IPL versus B for NV4 (points) and fits (lines) at specified field angles. d, Normalized amplitudes A (points) of LAC and 500 G peaks versus with fits (lines). Laser power is 1 mW for NV1 and 2.9 mW for NV4.
Y. K. Kato1AbstractExperiments on single nitrogen (N centres in diamond, which include electron spin resonance1, Rabi oscillations2, single shot spin readout3 and two qubit operations with a nearby13C nuclear spin4, show the potential of this spin system for solid state quantum information processing. Moreover, N centre ensembles can have spin coherence times exceeding 50 s at room temperature5. We have developed an angle resolved magneto photoluminescence microscope apparatus to investigate the anisotropic electron spin interactions of single N centres at room temperature. We observe negative peaks in the photoluminescence as a function of both magnetic field magnitude and angle that are explained by coherent spin precession and anisotropic relaxation at spin level anti crossings. In addition, precise field alignment unmasks the resonant coupling to neighbouring 'dark' nitrogen spins, otherwise undetected by photoluminescence.
a, The atomic structure and relevant energy levels. The green 'bond' depicts the N symmetry axis. b, The spatial image of IPL on a linear colour scale, showing the emission from several N centres; NV1 (left to right) are marked. c, The intensity correlation function g(2)() versus for NV1, indicating single photon emission. d, Optically detected ESR for NV1. IPL versus microwave frequency MW (circles) with a lorentzian fit (solid line). The laser power is 1 mW for b and 370 W for c and d.
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The single crystal samples investigated here are commercially available (Sumitomo Electric Industries) high temperature high pressure diamond with two polished parallel (100) surfaces and nominal dimensions of 1.4 mm1.4 mm1.0 mm. They contain nitrogen impurities with densities of 1019 cm 3, measured by ultraviolet absorption18. N centres are naturally present with substantially lower densities ranging from 1010 to 1013 cm 3. For ensemble measurements, samples are irradiated with 1.7 MeV electrons with a dose of 51017 cm 3 and subsequently annealed at 900 for 2 h to increase the N centre concentration6.
The phonon broadened 3E3A transition of the N centre is detected by means of non resonant photoluminescence microscopy (see Methods). For example, Fig. 1b is a spatial image of the spectrally integrated photoluminescence from a diamond sample with the laser focused roughly 1 m below the surface. Multiple resolution limited features are observed in the 20 m20 m field. In order to determine that a given feature is due to a single emitter, a histogram is plotted of the time between consecutive photon detection events using a Hanbury Brown and Twiss detection geometry19, yielding the experimental intensity correlation function g(2)(). Figure 1c shows the data from a colour centre labelled NV1. The value of g(2)(0) is below 0.5, proving that NV1 is a single colour centre20. In addition, the rise of g(2)() above unity with increasing is indicative of intersystem crossing to the 1A metastable state20, 21.
These single photon emitters are further characterized by optically detected electron spin resonance (ESR; see Methods). Figure 1d contains data from NV1 with zero applied magnetic field. In this case, the 1 ground state levels are degenerate so that only one resonance (mS=01) is observed at 2.87 GHz,faux boucles d oreilles anciennes, the characteristic zero field splitting of N centres11. The data are fit with a lorentzian of 11 MHz full width at half maximum (solid line), which is comparable to reported values in similar diamond samples1.
Strain dependent optical measurements on ensembles of N centres have indicated that electric dipole transitions are allowed for dipoles in the plane perpendicular to the symmetry axis6. Figure 2a depicts an N centre with transition dipoles and in a (111) plane. The excitation is along [001] for all measurements, therefore IPL depends on the laser polarization angle owing to unequal excitation of the two dipoles. The dependence of IPL on is measured for 20 N centres and shows either vertical or horizontal lobes, as exemplified for three N centres in Fig. 2b. The measured anisotropies, defined as the ratio IPL(=0 (=90 are roughly 2:1 and 1:2 on average; a simple anisotropy calculation gives 3:1, 3:1, 1:3 and 1:3 for the N symmetry axis along [111], , and , respectively (see Methods). The measured data are modified by the presence of polarized background photoluminescence (subtracted from the data) and a small dip, most visible for NV2 at =0 which varies in depth from centre to centre. Nevertheless, comparison of the measured and calculated anisotropies enables the number of possible orientations of a given centre to be reduced from four to two.
(61 KB)In order to investigate these peaks further,r��plique boucles d oreilles van cleef prix, IPL is measured as a function of B with B at a series of angles in the plane; a selection of such data from NV1 is shown in Fig. 3a. As B approaches the [111] direction (0 the LAC peak narrows, as expected from ensemble measurements22, 23. At sufficiently small angles, however, the LAC peak amplitude decreases for NV1 (Fig. 3b) or even vanishes for some centres, such as NV4 (Fig. 3c). This is in contrast to the ensemble measurements22, 23 that showed a maximum in the LAC peak amplitude at =0 According to the hamiltonian above,replique boucle d oreille van cleef, however, spin mixing should vanish at =0 The presence of residual spin mixing at =0 has been attributed to strain and nuclear interactions24, which vary from centre to centre.
Figure 3: Controlled level mixing by means of magnetic field alignment.
a, IPL versus B for NV1 at specified magnetic field angles . b,r��plique boucle d oreille van cleef, Zoom of data in a (points) with fits (lines) to model described in the text. Data for =0 are taken with smaller field steps and fit with an angle of 0.2 to account for residual spin mixing (see the text). c, IPL versus B for NV4 (points) and fits (lines) at specified field angles. d, Normalized amplitudes A (points) of LAC and 500 G peaks versus with fits (lines). Laser power is 1 mW for NV1 and 2.9 mW for NV4.
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He is not expected to play for the club again.
"We are thrilled that Edwin wants to help,van cleef earring imitation," Noordwijk director Peter Vink told Voetbal in de Bollenstreek before the game.
Van der Sar spent five years at VV Noordwijk before joining Ajax,boucles d oreilles van cleef r��plique, aged 20. He won four Dutch league titles and a Champions League title with the Amsterdam club.
After Ajax he signed for Juventus,boucles d oreilles van cleef prix faux, before arriving in English football with Fulham,boucles d oreilles anciennes replique, who sold him to United.
He earned a record 130 caps for the Netherlands and collected four Premier League crowns and another Champions League title at United, before retiring in 2011.
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But the European satellite PAMELA short for Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light nuclei Astrophysics recently found a self renewing supply of antiprotons in the Van Allen radiation belt. This belt is actually two donut shaped rings of charged particles surrounding our planet, with an inner belt nestled under an outer belt.
The discovery confirms earlier predictions that Earth's magnetic field can trap antimatter particles created by the interaction of cosmic rays with our planet's atmosphere, said study team member Alessandro Bruno, an astrophysicist at the University of Bari in Italy.
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The antiprotons were discovered in a particular region of the Van Allen belt called the South Atlantic Anomaly, where the inner ring of the belt dips closest to Earth's surface.
Antiprotons likely exist in other parts of the Van Allen Belt as well, but they are orbiting at altitudes too high for PAMELA to detect, the scientists say. (Related: "Thunderstorms Shoot Antimatter Beams Into Space.")
Space Station Device to Boost Antimatter Science
But the discovery of a natural reservoir of antiprotons in space provides a unique opportunity to study the rare particles in their natural state, Angelopoulos said.
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NASA scientists have even entertained the idea of capturing and harnessing antimatter to propel the next generation of spacecraft, but such scenarios are still a long way off.
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When cosmic rays high energy particles from the sun and beyond our solar system smash into atoms, they break them apart, creating a shower of exotic particles. A small percentage of these newly spawned particles is predicted to be antiprotons.
The trouble is that when antimatter and matter collide, both vanish in flashes of energy. Because our universe contains more matter than antimatter, any new antiparticles quickly disappear. (Read about a new material that may help explain why matter and antimatter are out of balance.)
But the European satellite PAMELA short for Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light nuclei Astrophysics recently found a self renewing supply of antiprotons in the Van Allen radiation belt. This belt is actually two donut shaped rings of charged particles surrounding our planet, with an inner belt nestled under an outer belt.
The discovery confirms earlier predictions that Earth's magnetic field can trap antimatter particles created by the interaction of cosmic rays with our planet's atmosphere, said study team member Alessandro Bruno, an astrophysicist at the University of Bari in Italy.
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In fact, the bulk of antiprotons detected by PAMELA were likely created indirectly, the University of Bari's Bruno said.
When cosmic rays break apart atoms several tens of miles above Earth's surface,van cleef replica bracelet alhambra, they also generate particles called antineutrons.
Some of "these antineutrons escape the atmosphere and subsequently decay into antiprotons at much higher altitudes," where the PAMELA spacecraft flies, Bruno explained in an email. Atom Smasher.")
The antiprotons were discovered in a particular region of the Van Allen belt called the South Atlantic Anomaly, where the inner ring of the belt dips closest to Earth's surface.
Antiprotons likely exist in other parts of the Van Allen Belt as well, but they are orbiting at altitudes too high for PAMELA to detect, the scientists say. (Related: "Thunderstorms Shoot Antimatter Beams Into Space.")
Space Station Device to Boost Antimatter Science
But the discovery of a natural reservoir of antiprotons in space provides a unique opportunity to study the rare particles in their natural state, Angelopoulos said.
"The magnetosphere is a pristine laboratory for studies of these basic processes, because there are no interactions with laboratory walls or laboratory detectors" to interfere with the particles and facilitate their escape, he said.
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