Inventor(s): Johan Tjeerd Strydom (Santa Clara, CA), Olivier Trescases (Toronto, , CA), Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay (Allen, TX) Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX) Law Firm: No Counsel Application No., Date, Speed: 15659062 on 07/25/2017 (504 days app to issue)

The country was in the midst of tourism ”super cycle” and this meant the country’s biggest gateway would soon be processing 20 million passengers a year.

The pilot sites have been selected following extensive consultation with local boards, resulting in seven of the 21 Auckland local boards participating.At the outer edges of Auckland, the Franklin and Rodney local boards have approved seven and eight sites respectively.Hibiscus and Bays Local Board has approved five sites and the Upper Harbour Local Board has approved the use of Rosedale Reserve in Albany for the pilot scheme.The Howick Local Board has approved sites in Eastern Beach, Lloyd Elsmore Park and two Howick public carparks.In Maungakiekie-Tāmaki, sites have been approved at Panmure Lagoon’s Domain Reserve and the Panmure Wharf Reserve.Puketapapa Local Board is offering Margaret Griffen Park for the pilot and Albert-Eden Local Board has a site at Western Springs Community House."A key aim of the pilot programme is to try and reduce the impact of freedom campers on local access to parks, beaches and amenities," says Councillor Linda Cooper, chairwoman of the council’s regulatory committee.Throughout the trial, council officers will be ensuring the sites are kept well maintained and tidy, with clear accessways for the public to traverse and park."Both park users and campers need to be kept safe, and toilets and other amenities need to be maintained in good operating order.""We want to be welcoming hosts to our visitors. Campers bring an estimated $1.2 million a month into our economy over summer. However the influx of freedom campers into hot-spot areas – particularly in northeastern coastal and inner city locations – is creating problems. Overcrowding, parking and access difficulties, and increasing rubbish at popular destinations is frustrating local communities and other park users," says Cooper.Auckland is the gateway for most of the 3.4 million tourists that come to New Zealand and Auckland Council estimates 320 freedom camping vehicles a day are either travelling on its roads or parked in public places over summer."If we can encourage campers into new areas, we hope to reduce overcrowding and spread the tourism dollar to other local board economies, while also introducing visitors to some of the lesser-known but lovely corners of our city," she says.The council proposes using a range of regulatory and non-regulatory approaches to try to move campers around Auckland."We’ll be making good quality travel planning information more readily available to campers, using social media and printed information about alternative paid and free camping sites," says Michael Sinclair, manager – social policy and bylaws for Auckland Council.Information about day trips, events and things to do in participating local areas will encourage campers to explore and enjoy their surroundings."We want to do everything we can to encourage voluntary moving on, including ensuring our suggested alternatives feel safe for visitors, so we have been careful with location choices and will have security monitoring at sites," says Sinclair. There will also be increased monitoring of toilets and rubbish bins."During the pilot we will be vigilant with compliance monitoring. We will retain the ability to deploy a quick response team to any areas not coping with demand, and we will modify the conditions of camping (for example, by reducing the length of stay) or even shut down designated sites if they are causing a nuisance," he says.A report on the pilot programme will be presented to the council later in 2017 and will help inform the development of policies and regulations on freedom camping in Auckland.

The fact that the youth population among Nigerians in the diaspora is obviously sizeable means that the nation should not lose sight of how valuable the youths are to nationhood.   A trip to most embassies and consulates in Abuja and Lagos respectively unarguably would corroborate my stance on the youth population of diaspora Nigerians, as many, who visit the missions daily to seek entry visas of different countries for greener pastures, are often young Nigerians who believe in their inherent human capacity legitimately or otherwise in pursuit of subsistence and to excel.

Supporting role: By her side was husband John, who looked dapper in a burgundy suit while holding his love’s hand

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Abstract: A memory device and associated techniques for programming a select gate transistor. The programming of the select gate transistors in a NAND string is performed under similar biasing as is seen during the programming of a memory cell, when the select gate transistors are required to be in the conductive or non-conductive state for selected and unselected NAND strings, respectively. Program-verify tests for the select gate transistors use a current which flows from the source end to the drain end of the NAND string, and can be performed separately for odd- and even-numbered NAND strings, to avoid the effects of bit line-to-bit line coupling. The tests account for uneven doping in the channel of the select gate transistor. Program-verify tests for the memory cells use a current which flows from the drain end to the source end and can be performed concurrently.

But as she points out: "Who’s going to be there to enforce it if you’re scattering the ashes in the Waitakeres [or out at sea]?"

[F16B] DEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING (couplings for transmitting rotation F16D)

Inventor(s): Timothy J. Bennett (Coloardo Springs, CO) Assignee(s): TUESDAY MORNING PARTNERS, LTD. (Dallas, TX) Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros) Application No., Date, Speed: 29549460 on 12/22/2015 (1085 days app to issue)

Girls’ night out! Beth Behrs (L), Katherine McNamara (C) , and Bellamy Young (R) also all attended the star-studded event

I experienced a pain in my chest last week that I initially thought was indigestion. The pain progressed so much that I tried to make myself throw up, hoping to get some relief.