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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 24
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 24
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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Naked Photos of Doug Liman are available at MaleStars.com. They currently feature over 65,000 Nude Pics, Biographies, Video Clips, Articles, and Movie Reviews of famous stars.
Actresses who appeared with Doug Liman on screen:
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Birthday: July 24, 1965
Birth Place: USA
Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for Doug Liman. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.
A 1988 graduate of Brown University, director Doug Liman found almost overnight success with his 1996 film Swingers. Only Liman's second film to date, it was written by his buddy Jon Favreau, who also acted as one of the film's stars alongside Vince Vaughn. The story of a group of Rat Pack-worshipping friends looking for a little love, the film hit an immediate chord among audiences who were intrigued — and perhaps even a little repulsed — by what one critic called "a worm's-eye-view" of male dating rituals. Its critical and commercial success enabled Liman (who had previously directed the 1994 black comedy Getting In) to have his choice of subsequent projects. He opted for Go, a 1999 ensemble piece featuring a virtual who's who of the Young and Hot (including Sarah Polley, Katie Holmes, and Scott Wolf). The film met with mixed reviews that tended toward the positive, ensuring that, whatever the future held for Liman, employment was most likely a given. Following a three-year period in which little was heard from the hot-property director, Liman returned with another attempt at capturing his unique brand of infectious energy, The Bourne Identity. Based on Robert Ludlum's novel concerning a hunted amnesiac attempting to unravel his mysterious past and inspired by the fever-pitch energy of Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run (1998), The Bourne Identity featured Matt Damon as the titular hero and Lola herself (Franka Potente) as the woman who aids him in his quest. Additionally, the film also served as a potential franchise springboard for a series of Universal films documenting the further adventures of Jason Bourne.
[ Matt Damon ]
Vaporetto 13 (2007)
The Killing Floor (2006)
[ Marc Blucas ]
Strife (2006)
[ Dougray Scott ][ Seymour Cassel ][ Steve Harris ][ Mark Derwin ]
Sex, Lies and Vinny Momo (2006)
Cry_Wolf (2005)
[ Jared Padalecki ][ Gary Cole ][ Jon Bon Jovi ]
[ Matt Damon ][ Brian Cox ][ Karl Urban ][ Chris Cooper ][ Marton Csokas ]
Mail Order Wife (2004)
The Ties That Bind (2004)
The Strip (2004)
The Shower (2004)
The Proposal (2004)
[ Damon Wayans ][ Chris Carmack ]
The Nana (2004)
[ Chris Carmack ]
Terry Tate, Office Linebacker: Sensitivity Training (2004)
Otto+Anna (2003)
One Man's Castle (2003)
Gabriel y Gato (2003)
Arrested Development (2003)
[ Johnathon Schaech ]
[ Matt Damon ][ Clive Owen ][ Brian Cox ][ Chris Cooper ][ Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ]
Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
[ Michael Ealy ][ Scott Cohen ][ JM J. Bullock ][ Michael Showalter ][ Brian Stepanek ]
See Jane Run (2001)
[ Kevin Corrigan ][ Richmond Arquette ]
Graduated from Brown University in 1988.
Graduated from USC School of Cinema-Television (1992)
Originally did not want to cast Scott Wolf in Go (1999) because Katie Holmes was already in the movie, and he did not want the movie to star two TV actors. However, he saw him talking in a hallway with Jay Mohr and realized that the chemistry between the two would be good in the movie.
As of 2001, Doug Liman is the Vice Chairman of HYPNOTIC.
Graduated in same high school class with actor/director Charles Herman-Wurmfeld.
Lives in Tribeca area of Manhattan.
Doug Liman's father, Arthur L. Liman, was one of the prosecutors in the Iran-Contra Affair. (in the Bourne Identity Liman portrays a likewise agency within agency...)
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Inhalation of ether.
[CASE XI: ether surgery of parotid tumor].
Warren, Jonathan Mason, 1811-1867.
Boston : David Clapp, Proprietor and Publisher, 1847.
Journal : Boston Medical and Surgical Journal ; vol. 36, no. 8 (March 24).
Description : p. 155-156.
Photograph : daguerreotype of the patient and his surgical team, led by Dr. Jonathan Mason Warren.
Photographer : Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808�01) of Southworth & Hawes.
Subject : Parotid gland — Tumors ; ether surgery.
Author's caption: By J. Mason Warren, M.D., One of the surgeons of the Mass. General Hospital.
Medical degree: Harvard College, 1832.
Audited the Paris surgeries of Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach (1792-1847).
Studied lithotrity under Jean Civiale (1792�67).
Credited with introducing the sponge for expressing ether vapor.
GM-5743.3: first rhinoplastic procedure in America, adapted from the Indian or Brahmin method.
GM-5745: significant advance in the closure of complete clefts of the palate.
Credited with the first amputation of hip-joint in Boston.
Offprint also issued.
Sim, Heritage of Anesthesia ; p 59.
Fulton-Stanton ; VII, 159.
Rutkow ANp17.
Cordasco 40-1311.
Osler 1396.
Index Medicus: 10403671310, 11600561030 (offprint).
Ether Dome daguerreotype No. 1 (1847). Owned by the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, and currently archived at the Fogg Museum (Object no. 3.1979). Number tags added for the following attributions: 1.) George Parkman 2.) Solomon David Townsend 3.) William Augustus Briggs—unverified 4.) Augustus Addison Gould 5.) William T. G. Morton 6.) Patient 7.) Samuel Parkman 8.) Jonathon Mason Warren 9.) Henry Jacob Bigelow 10.) Daniel Denison Slade 11.) Ward attendent.
A considerable amount of guesswork obscures the origin and meaning of Ether Dome Daguerreotype No. 1. The identities of the surgeons and the clinical subject represented by this historic image may never be fully known. Of the three possible scenarios, the least probable one is that the dag represents a "re-enactment" of the historic Abbott surgery prosecuted by Dr. John Collins Warren on October 16, 1846. The event marked the first use of ether within a hospital setting, officially entering anesthesia into the surgical armamentarium. The legend behind the re-enactment scenario holds that Josiah Hawes of the photographic firm, Southworth & Hawes, was on hand to capture the Abbott surgery, but because he was sickened by the sight of blood and incapable of completing his commission, a second photo session was later staged to commemorate the historic event.
There are too many inconsistencies in the composition of EDD No. 1 to support a re-enactment scenario. To my eye that is not John Collins Warren in the photo, but rather his son, Jonathan Mason Warren, who later testified that he was not present for the Abbott surgery (Morton, 1853; p. 387: »»). The House-physician Charles Bertody, who was one of the principals for the Abbott operation, is missing. Bertody can be identified in EDD No. 5 with his hand positioned on the patient's nape. Furthermore, the unmistakable identity of a medical student, Daniel Denison Slade, is seen standing behind Dr. Gould in the dag and is incongruous for a staged re-enactment scenario. Slade's first Ether Dome experience came as a witness to the amputation of the leg of Alice Mohan, conducted by Dr. Hayward on November 7, 1846. And finally, the figure in the dag who I identify as Dr. Samuel Parkman is questionable for a re-enactment scenario. Parkman was never deposed as a witness for the Morton patent trials, which casts doubt he was one of the principals for the Abbott operation.
A second scenario, that Morton himself arranged the photo session with his friends and champions gathered around, also lacks credibility. Morton was an avid self-promoter and spent a considerable personal fortune to maintain his historical relevance, but there is no evidence he distributed or advertised copies of the dag, or even owned a copy.
The third scenario, one in which the dag represents an actual surgical event, is the most promising. This would have to be a case prior to April, 1846, by which time the sponge had replaced Morton's apparatus at the hospital and his superintendence was no longer needed. According to Henry Jacob Bigelow's tables, there were twenty-six ether surgeries conducted at Mass. General Hospital from the date of the Abbott surgery to the end of March: ten were female and sixteen were male subjects (Bigelow, 1847; C.–2. »»). Only two cases of the male cohort match the age and physical description of the patient in the dag — late twenties to late thirties — and the type of surgery represented. Berthody supervised the etherisation of the first of these two cases, Parkman's reduction of dislocated shoulder, with ether delivered "by an apparatus furnished by Mr. Morton to the Hospital." The patient was discharged the following morning. Not only was there insufficient time to arrange for a photo session of an urgent care walk-in, but Morton was not present. This leaves the second case adduced from Bigelow's tables, Warren's parotid surgery, as the likely scenario represented by the dag:
Parkman's reduction of dislocated humerus on Dec. 9, 1846: "A stout healthy carpenter" (Parkman, 1846; p. 409: »»).
Jonathan Mason Warren's March 13, 1847 operation for parotid tumor (Case XI): "A large, powerful, full-blooded man" (Warren, 1847; p. 155: »»).
Morton was the etheriser for Warren's parotid tumor patient as stated in the report: "Ether was given him by Dr. Morton, who was desirous of seeing its effects on so powerful a patient." The other principals of the surgical team who were named included: "Drs. J.C. Warren, George Parkman, S. Parkman, Briggs and Mr. Slade." Although Warren failed to provide a date of the surgery, this is learned through a follow-up report in his epitome, Surgical observations, with cases and operations, published posthumously (Warren, 1867; p. 497: »»).
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Tag / Bluefield
March 17, 2017 March 17, 2017 by Linnea Wikander
ScoreStream’s #NextLadyLegend Finalist: Alyssa Lester
#nextladylegend, #WomensHistoryMonth, Alyssa Lester, basketball, Bluefield, high school, Hoops, Next Lady Legend, scores, soccer, Women's History Month
We are excited to introduce you to our next finalist from the #NextLadyLegends campaign! We will continue to release all the interviews for each finalist, and beginning the week of March 20th YOU will have your chance to vote for our NATIONAL WINNER! Read more about this campaign here, read ALL finalist interviews here and check out the action on twitter using #NextLadyLegend.
ScoreStream is ecstatic to reveal our #NextLadyLegend finalist, multi-sport athlete Alyssa Lester from Bluefield High School in Bluefield, WV. Whether she’s powering goals in the back of the net out on the field, making a quick drive to the hoop out on the court, or studying for her exams, Lester executes everything she does with passion and resilience. As a junior on her school soccer team, she has already recorded a remarkable 103 goals and 67 assists. She has been awarded Coalfield Conference First Team-All league for three years in a row, and earned the All-State Award in 2016 all for soccer. Lester has also earned three state championships with her traveling soccer team, the East River Raptors, who she’s been playing for since she was eight years old. The stats don’t stop there! Lester also averages ten points, two steals, and four assists a game as a starter on her high school basketball team. She has been a sectional champion for basketball all three years of her high school career! We got to know Lester and learn about her secrets to success in the Q&A below.
SS: How and when did you begin playing basketball and soccer?
AL: My dominant sport is soccer, which I have been playing since I was four years old. No one in my family has ever played soccer, so it was kind of a fluke that I started playing. My dad was a big basketball player back in his day, so of course he wanted me to play and I started at the age of five. Although I love both sports, soccer stole my heart because of the physicality and intensity of the game. Ever since I played in my first soccer game, I have never thought once about giving up the sport. I love basketball for the competitiveness as well. I am so glad I started out as a multi-sport athlete at a young age, because it has made me into the athlete and person who I am today.
SS: What is your favorite/most used app on your phone?
AL: I use the Pandora music app 🎧 the most because I love music and it relaxes me. It really helps me focus and get prepared on game day!
SS: What is your go to method when creating a scoring opportunity on the field or court?
AL: I am known for being a team player. I love getting my team involved in tough games. My method of getting the ball in the back of the net is a give and go, which is a quick, two-pass combo to get around the defender! In basketball I am a shooting guard so I have to make moves to free myself open for a shot. I shoot mid-range jump shots and make quick drives to the hoop.
SS: What female athlete do you think is changing her sport?
AL: Alex Morgan has made FIFA respect the women’s game of soccer. Her incredible love for the sport has opened the eyes of many to gender equality out on the field.
SS: You are a multi-sport athlete who scored 100 goals by your junior year on the soccer team and starts on the basketball team, while maintaining a 4.1 GPA. How do you balance everything?
AL: I was taught growing up that school always comes first, so I take my work very seriously. I am definitely not the procrastinating type and I like to get my work done quickly yet efficiently. I work extremely hard both on the field/court and in the classroom. I love challenging myself and keeping myself occupied. I balance my school and sports by pushing myself, and I am always open to learning something new. I do my work while I am at school, but once it’s time for practice, I am focusing 100% on my sport. I have to separate school from sports to keep from overworking myself.
SS: As a female athlete, do you think there are any misconceptions about women’s sports?
AL: Many people believe that women’s sports are less competitive than men’s sports, and I don’t think that is true at all. I have been playing sports my entire life and I’ve seen first-hand how competitive girls can get. It’s also assumed that women’s sports aren’t as tough as men’s. Women are as mentally and physically strong as any man. The only thing that separates us is our gender, not our sports 💪🏼.
You can keep up with Lester and her teams’ soccer and basketball success at Bluefield High School on ScoreStream!
Want to follow high school and club sports in real-time? Download the ScoreStream app for free here: Itunes or Google Play
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The Official Site of the City of Somewhere
This web-site is here to serve the citizens, and guests of the City of Somewhere, US. The information here will be updated on a regular basis with announcements and other events happening in and around Somewhere. City hall meeting agendas & minutes, city sign & zoning ordinances, the GIS and other useful information can also be found here.
Somewhere is a small city nestled in the foot hills of the Somewhere Mountains on the beautiful of Lake Somewhere. The people are friendly and organize lots of activities, including festivals and arts & crafts shows. There are plenty of trails for hiking and the views are breathtaking. The City of Somewhere and the surrounding area has become the antique porcelain figurine Capitol of the World. If it’s made of porcelain and it’s less than 3 inches tall, you’ll find it in Somewhere.
Somewhere is home to approximately 12,300 citizens, but the population nearly doubles during the porcelain season.
Home | About | Calendar | Contact | Employees | Employment | FAQ | Information Links
News | Photo Gallery | Press | Products | Promotions | Site Map
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Cyprus activities, Food & Drink
The Stardust variety Drag Show – The Best Family Night Out
If you have any preconceived ideas about variety drag acts you are in for one heck of a surprise when you visit the Octagon restaurant in Vrysoulles to see the amazing Stardust Variety Drag Show. This is family fun and entertainment at its best and the show has already gained an outstanding reputation with both locals and tourist alike.
Trip Advisor rates the show highly too and the cast and venue consistently receive the highest recommendations. The show is the dream child of seasoned entertainer Kieran who not only plays an active role in many of the sketches but is also both Stardust’s owner and director. Having come up through the ranks as a tourist industry entertainer, he always thought that there was a gap in Cyprus’s entertainment format for something completely different.
Making the most of what you have
One of the first things that strike you when you set off on your night out at Stardust is that unlike the host of karaoke venues and themed bars it isn’t located anywhere near a resort. In fact, Vrysoulles is a local Cypriot village located only a few miles from the British forces base and border crossing to the North at Agios Nicholas. Tucked away off the beaten track, the fact that it is so successful is another testament to the sheer determination and innovation of Kieran to bring his baby to life.
If you build it they will come!
You could be forgiven for thinking that walking around in the heat of high season in full drag costume is no laughing matter. That is unless you were one of the Stardust cast because that is exactly what drag queens Miss Roxxy, Misty Chance, and Bailey La Creame do most days of the week to promote the show on the resorts and in the hotels.
Along with transport from and back to the Islands South Eastern resorts, the venue also provides drinks and a meal in with the ticket price. The great news for Kieran and the girls (AKA boys) is that they have come up with a winning formula that has seen the shows reputation and popularity grow massively over the last few years
Being entertained by first class talent
The show’s catchphrase “the best looking girls in town are boys” is in no way an overstatement because the cast including the show’s director Kieran, are all professional performers in their own right. It is no secret that the shows outstanding success is due to the multi-talented cast who excel in everything from acting and comedy to vocals and dancing.
While the girls may come across as devas on the stage, the show doesn’t carry any passengers and they all put their hearts and souls into delivering what is undoubtedly the best night’s entertainment on the island. It is a one hundred per cent a family show and many of the rave reviews that Stardust receives cite it as the “highlight of the holiday”.
The whole team at Stardust are dedicated to delivering a good time and nothing swells their hearts more than the sound of an audience’s raucous laughter. While they may not make a big deal of it themselves, their concern for others less fortunate extends to their generous support of MacMillan Cancer Support in the UK through merchandising, special events, and personal fundraising including Kieran’s two and a half marathons and a skydive.
With a whooping €12000.00 already donated to a range of charitable causes that include the local Cypriot cancer charity Pasykaf and a local animal shelter, they look forward to continuing their welcome and much-needed support. Above all else, Stardust is about making people smile and Kieran and the boys….. I mean girls, value their customers above all else because they appreciate that without your continued support there would be no show at all.
Finding out more about the Stardust Variety Drag Show
Booking for the evening show is easy when you visit the Stardust website at www.stardustvarietyshow.co.uk. You can also access booking from the Stardust Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pg/StardustCyprus.
For friendly and helpful advice concerning places to visit in Cyprus, or to book your holiday there, please contact us at Cyprus Sun Holiday Rentals, or call us on 00 357 2383 1194.
This entry was posted in Cyprus activities, Food & Drink and tagged activities, Cyprus activities, holiday, kids entertainment, things to do in Cyprus, Tips.
Sea Caves In South Eastern Cyprus
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CHRISTIAN COLUMNS
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The Silence of The Lame--AARP
by Rev. Austin Miles
Category: Political
HE POWERFUL AARP purports to be an organization that assists senior citizens and represents their interests in Washington, D.C. when bills are proposed that affect them. However, this premise is built on sand shifting in the liberal tides.
In reality, the AARP is a front for the democrat/socialist agenda to undermine America. The millions of seniors who are members fund these plans with their dues money. A major part of that is the socialist health plan which would restrict medical treatment of seniors and withhold life saving procedures for those elders who are considered a drain on society and who are no longer useful to the Party.
Why has AARP failed to make a statement opposing this since they are presumed to protect seniors who will, with this plan, be harmed and face premature death?
Because the AARP BACKS this Marxist control ploy which links with the UN determination to reduce the earth's population while at the same time saving money.
Much of the language Obama uses comes straight from The Communist Manifesto. Words like, "Redistribution of the wealth" and for citizens to spy on each other for the State. Last week, Obama asked members of the public to report to them anyone who is 'spreading dis-information' about his Health Care Plan. That would mean anyone who opposes it. Objecting to this plan is not spreading
dis-information.
But citizens will be required to report on other citizens. In Communist Russia spies were involuntarily recruited to gather information on those in their sphere of influence. An example was the Moscow Circus. Popov the famed clown was required to spy on all the performers and give information to the authorities, which made him unpopular with his fellow artists. If he refused he would be dealt with severely. This is what Obama is bringing to America.
And did anyone catch this recent statement? Taking a cue from Communist China, Obama said that he wants to restrict the number of children each couple has and will send social workers to homes to reinforce this new rule.
On August 4, 2009, The AARP held a meeting in Dallas, Texas to talk to seniors and retirees about the health plan. As the woman spokesperson extolled the virtures of it, a man said that he doesn't agree with this restrictive mandatory plan. The AARP official curtly said, "You are not really running this meeting!" Others began to speak up in protest and she told them to keep their comments to themselves.
The crowd loudly objected. The woman said, "I am tired of this meeting," and walked off. As she was going out someone tried to say something to her and she said, "Quiet!" Another official of AARP shushed the crowd like a kindergarten teacher with misbehaving children.What the seniors wanted to do was ask questions about the bill. They were denied that right.
The meeting continued as the senior citizens voiced their opinions. As one man came to the podium to tell of his objections to the plan, an official who had stayed behind to see what was being said, walked up to the podium while the man was speaking, reached over to the wall to unplug the microphone, then took it off the stand and walked out with it. This has all been captured on video tape that is now posted on U-Tube.
The man at the podium said that he was cancelling his AARP membership and advised the others to do the same. I cancelled mine shortly after joining it when it became obvious what that organization actually is. Why would seniors and retirees want to belong to an organization that wants to destroy them, plus giving them the money to do it?
Rev. Austin Miles is a chaplain and Pastor of Seniors at a church in Northern California.Visit his website at: www.revaustinmiles.com
Rev. Austin Miles, a working pastor-chaplain, is a freelance journalist and commentator whose stories are published world wide.
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Observatory • social impact
Developing solutions to build a brighter future for children, families and communities
With Ayo Atterberry, senior associate with the Foundation’s Evidence-Based Practice Group and Leap Ambassador, we examine how the Annie E. Casey Foundation is working to empower grantees and help them become “evidence-based”
Hivos and Hivos Impact Investments
Our interview with Edwin Huizing, Executive Director at Hivos and Jaap Spreeuwenberg, Managing Director at Hivos Impact Investments on how to support frontrunners as change agents who can reduce poverty, foster sustainable use of natural resources and reduce social inequalities
Leap Update: 28 Fixes
Three years ago, when the Leap Ambassadors Community released the first version of the Performance Imperative (PI), the ambassadors made it clear that they would practice what they preach about learning and improvement by collecting feedback and eventually producing a version 2.0
The Impact Evangelist
The Chronicle of Philanthropy acknowledges the "Leap Ambassadors Community" launched by Mario Morino and its work toward helping funders and their grantees build and sustain high-performing organizations
‘Audacious Project’ Announces Grants Totaling $406 Million
The Audacious Project, a philanthropic collaborative launched earlier this month by TED, a nonprofit devoted "to ideas worth spreading," has announced grants totaling $406 million to seven initiatives
What works philanthropy: building evidence for transformational change
An interview with Jon Baron, Vice President of Evidence-Based Policy at the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, on how philanthropy can provide guidelines to private funders and public policies through impact assessment
Leap Update: Epic Example of Why Performance Matters
The day after Christmas in 2013, a young boy named Emile in the small West African nation of Guinea came down with a high fever, vomiting, and diarrhea. He died two days later...
BUILD-ing capacity for an impact-oriented philanthropy
Our interview to Kathy Reich, Director of the BUILD Program at the Ford Foundation, presents the cutting-edge $1 billion initiative to empower non profit organizations and enable them to raise effectiveness and sustainability.
Brewing Philanthropy: an interview with D.Sc. Flemming Besenbacher, Chairman of the Carlsberg Foundation
Good governance should be a priority for every philanthropic organization. But in the case of the Carlsberg Foundation it represents a precondition and the essence of a unique model created to ensure stability and long-term view to the business while providing substantial philanthropic support for scientific research, talent and knowledge-sharing
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Giving Back With Hughes Timber Craft
Hughes Timber Craft believes in giving back to the forests that provide lumber for our projects. We understand the value that our forests have to offer. The first designer furniture piece is on silent auction to protecting our trees. See “Portfolio”.
Cumberland Community Forest
The Cumberland Forest is a mature coastal forest surrounding the Village of Cumberland on Vancouver Island. This forest is an important wildlife corridor and home to two watersheds, at risk species, salmon bearing creeks, wetlands and riparian areas, heritage landmarks and hiking and biking trails.There are imminent plans to log this forest.
The Cumberland Community Forest Society is comprised of a group of residents dedicated to preserving the Cumberland Forest through purchasing and preserving forested land that was set to be logged.
Ancient Forest Alliance
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Immediate assistance for calamity hit area in Uttarakhand.
Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna called on Union Minister of Road, Transport and Highways Dr. CP Joshi and sought immediate assistance for calamity hit area in Uttarakhand. Mr. Bahuguna also met Union Defence Minister AK Antony and sought requisite assistance from him.
Chief Minister Bahuguna said that Uttarakhand was prone to disasters of various kinds and the recent monsoon had wrecked havoc to the road infrastructure of the State. Mr. Bahuguna said that National Highways at Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotry Dham routes had been damaged in the natural calamity and various bridges swept away in the deluge. He said that as a result pilgrims were stranded at those places and the goods movements to those areas had been affected leading to shortages and other problems.
Chief Minister Bahuguna urged the Union Minister to provide sufficient resources, manpower and machinery at the disposal of constructing agency i.e. Border Road Organization to deal with the disaster.
Union Minister Dr. CP Joshi assured Mr. Bahuguna to extend all possible help to the State. He said that BRO would repair the roads and bridges at Gangotri route in 10 days to facilitate a temporary traffic flow. He said that an immediate and long term measures would be taken in the disaster affected areas. Also present on the occasion were Union Minister of State for Road, Transport and Highways Jitendra Prasad and BRO Director General Lt. General S Ravishankar.
In his meeting with the Union Defence Minister Antony, Mr. Bahuguna expressed his dissatisfaction over the progress of General Staff roads in the State and said that it ought to be expedited. He said that need was to provide sufficient financial resources at the disposal of BRO for timely completion of the important roads. Stating that Uttarakhand was prone to disasters of various kinds, he asserted that it was imperative that BRO should have all the requisite manpower and machinery to deal with the disasters. He expected guidance and cooperation from the Union Minister in this direction.
Mr. Antony said that he was personally monitoring the situation in disaster hit areas in Uttarakhand. He said that a high level meeting would be convened on coming Friday. The Union Minister stating that helicopters had been sent for relief work, assured to provide more choppers if needed.
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clan mackenzie tartan
Wilson's 1819 pattern book records various widths and weights of cloth suitable for different ranks in the regiment. On his death the estates passed to his elder daughter, whose husband, Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, had recently died while serving in Indian waters. To this base the later Highlands regiments, the Gordons and the two Mackenzie formations, the Seaforths and the H.L.I., again added coloured over-checks, yellow for the Gordons and red and white for the others; some who claim expertise in these matters, and I do not, say that the latter are the colours of the uniform jacket facings. For more Information on our various Tartans and the history and meanings behind tartans, please visit our UK Society's page. Au début du XVIIe siècle, le territoire des Mackenzies s'étendait de Black Isle à l'est jusqu'aux Hébrides extérieures à l'ouest. Le château est entré en sa possession en 1623, mais fut laissé de côté jusque dans les années 1990 lorsque ses propriétaires actuels entreprirent de restaurer le bâtiment et les intérieurs. À la mort de Francis, il avait perdu la vue et l’ouïe à cause de la scarlatine qui lui coûta la vie. Le territoire du Clan Mackenzie s’est étendu de son berceau à Kintail jusqu’à dominer le paysage du Ross-shire et l’île de Lewis. Mackenzie 78th Highlanders – Re-created specially for the Millennium Gathering. During the later part of the eighteenth century it seemed as though the family of Mackenzie of Seaforth might again rise to lead the North, but the losses they had suffered eventually proved too heavy. High hills fall steeply down to Loch Duich, giving little space for cultivation. Tartans are on sale under three main headings, “Ancient”, “Reproduction” and, although the word is naturally not mentioned, “Modern”. Tous trois sont dits descendre de Gilleoin de l'Aird, un dynaste qui vivait au début du XIIe siècle, et les chefs du clan Mackenzie sont dits avoir été établis en 1297 dans leur grande forteresse sur l'île d'Eilean Donan1 . Cromartie's Regiment, as the force was called, joined the Prince at Stirling in January 1746 and fought at the battle of Falkirk. The original home of the clan is Kintail, which in Gaelic means "head of the sea." From shop CelticFolk. De récentes recherches ont conclu que le Clan Mackenzie fut créé par Gilleoin na h’Airde, un chef celtique du 11ème siècle, descendant direct des anciens Hauts Rois d’Irlande, et que le Clan Mackenzie partage ses origines avec les Clans Matheson et Anrias. L’emblème du clan Mackenzie représente une montagne en flammes et la devise «Je brille sans brûler». Redcastle, dans la péninsule de Black Isle, est aujourd’hui abandonné mais c’était autrefois un château royal qui fut visité en 1562 par Marie, la Reine d’Écosse. Cependant son clan paya une rançon pour sa libération. The Earl of Seaforth, having raised his men, sailed with them to India in 1781, but unfortunately died there a few month later. You must have JavaScript enabled in your browser to utilize the functionality of this website. The leaders managed to hold out for several months longer, but in the end they capitulated. 4.5 out of 5 stars (202) 202 reviews $ 20.00. In 1544 Huntly commanded Mackenzie of Kintail to raise his clan against Clanranald of Moidart and, when he refused, ordered an attach on Mackenzie. Pendant les guerres en Inde, Colin Mackenzie (1754-1821) était le surveillant général d'Inde et un collectionneur d'art. In 1725 General Wade reported that the Seaforth tenants, who had been among the richest of any in the Highlands, were now poor, through neglecting their business and applying themselves to the use of arms. In the days when the tartan was made by Wilsons’ (the well-known Bannockburn weavers) as “78th or Ross-shire Highlanders”, green was of medium strength and rather yellowish, and blue dark but distinct, producing a clear bold pattern that we do not get with any of the present day colours. If this, and not the shorter version, is the correct one, it is indubitably old (D. W. Stewart claims it as a relic of “The ’15”) and, bearing in mind the old affinity between the MacRaes and the Mackenzies, it might have inspired the red and white over-checks in the latter tartan; alternatively, if it is the short form that is the genuine one, the Mackenzie tartan could easily have inspired the longer version. The Mackenzie tartan as we know it today is a military tartan and was developed by the Mackenzie Lord MacLeod's 73rd Highland Regiment (and continued later by the Seaforth Highlanders), which was taken from the an early version of the Black Watch (developed … Photo by R. R. Mclan / Public Domain. Tous se sont distingués en combattant Napoléon et furent plus tard amalgamés dans la Queen's Own Highlanders. Coigach was also able to lay the foundation of the success of his own family. Many Mackenzies found their way overseas at this time. This would explain why different tartans were seen being worn by the same clan at the battle of Culloden. He might as justly have said that they were poor through having their houses and crops burnt by government troops as a lesson. Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn / Public Domain. Le nom de Mackenzie en gaélique écossais est MacCoinneach. All denote freedom, fairness, purity.
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Way Off White
City, Dresses
More modern brides are adding a splash of color to their special day — here’s how you can, too
By Shelby Bouck
When it comes to finding that perfect dress, every bride is looking for her own, unique version of — wait for it — the exact same thing.
They want the “wow factor.”
Brides on reality TV use the phrase to denote a desire to stand out, to be memorable, and hey, maybe even to startle a little. And what better way to do that than to choose a gown with a hue that’s a bit truer to your own colors than the gleaming whites of yesteryear? For fearless brides whose weddings don’t need to be too traditional, colorful gowns are among this year’s most coveted trends.
There are as many reasons to pick a colorful wedding gown as there are brides who choose them.
Some want to look like their favorite celebrities: Jessica Biel’s bright pink wedding dress caused a stir at her 2013 nuptials with Justin Timberlake. Sex and the City alums Sarah Jessica Parker and Cynthia Nixon got married in black and green, respectively, and glamour queen Elizabeth Taylor wore a yellow dress at one of her many wedding ceremonies. Others just think they look best in rainbow hues.
Experts say there’s not a thing wrong with that, either.
“Our brides want to look and feel their absolute best on their wedding day,” shared Kristen Barstow, owner of Tallahassee’s Vocelles | The Bridal Shoppe, “and sometimes that means opting for a gown in a color that will flatter their complexion, exemplify the season of their wedding or be just plain different and fun.”
These vibrant brides wouldn’t be the first ladies to start new traditions at their weddings. For many years British practice dictated that upper-class brides wore silver on their wedding day. White only became the norm after Queen Victoria married Prince Albert in a white lace dress.
Many cultures outside of the West don’t see white as a traditional wedding color at all. In Asian societies, for example, brides have chosen for generations to wear bright red dresses in keeping with family and national customs.
When it comes to Northwest Florida, the number of brides who deviate from all-white ceremonies has been growing slowly but surely over the past few years.
“It started out slow, as in ‘we’ll do a little splash of color,’” remarked Destin-based photographer Mari Darr-Welch. “Or jewels. The most (common thing) I’ve seen is a split back, or the belt, or different-color beading on the dress.”
A word of caution on this colorful trend. From a photographic perspective, Darr-Welch shared that brides who are choosing to wear rich colors should be careful about their venue’s décor.
“If you’re going with a bold dress, then you really need to make sure your wedding colors blend with that dress,” she warned. “You can’t have opposing colors, because at some point you’ll be walking by (your décor), and maybe you’ll be kissing your grandma, but you’ll have a red dress on an orange background and it will ruin everything.”
With that in mind, while celebrities in New York and Los Angeles pick bright, in-your-face colors for their wedding dresses, bridal expert Barstow notes that even the most daring Northwest Florida brides don’t stray too far from traditional colors.
“We are seeing many brides do shades of champagne, and a few even go with very pale shades of pink,” she shared.
Don’t worry, there are a wide range of choices even within those two hues.
“Our designers at Vocelles are giving brides the options of colors that range from café to bronze in the champagne family and pinks that range from moscato to blush,” noted Barstowe. “We love it when brides combine traditional fashion with modern taste — and this could mean having a beautiful ivory lace over a soft champagne underlay.
For brides who have already had a white wedding, a different color on the second time around might be something to consider.
“Brides who are getting married at a more mature stage in life will consider finding a dress that is not a traditional white or ivory color,” explained Barstow.
Traditionalists, meanwhile, have no need to fear. For Northwest Florida weddings, white and ivory gowns are here to stay. However, brides willing to take the sartorial road less traveled will be rewarded with memories and unique photographs that will last a lifetime.
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From tablescapes and entertainment to floral installations and fly kicks, we take a look at what's trending in this year's weddings.
Beauty · Dresses · From the Magazine
If there’s an aspect of my wedding day I would have pondered for years had I not had a timeline, it would have been my wedding day look.
Dress Styles Defined
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HomeDogecoinSnowfall Protocol (SNW) Presale Is Selling Out and Is Looking For 30X Gains in 2023. Will it Overtake Shiba Inu (SHIB) or Dogecoin (DOGE)
Snowfall Protocol (SNW) Presale Is Selling Out and Is Looking For 30X Gains in 2023. Will it Overtake Shiba Inu (SHIB) or Dogecoin (DOGE)
January 16, 2023 admin Dogecoin 0
Place/Date: – January 16th, 2023 at 5:10 am UTC · 3 min read
Source: Snowfall Protocol
Snowfall Protocol (SNW) has been a huge success so far, and many experts are tipping the SNW token to eclipse the incredible runs of Dogecoin (DOGE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB) in the spring of 2021. Dogecoin (DOGE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB) provided crypto investors with eye-watering returns on their capital, and many millionaires were made during that period. However, crypto investors now have their eyes set on Snowfall Protocol (SNW). Read on to learn why.
Over the years, Dogecoin (DOGE) has enjoyed the backing of one of the world’s richest men, Elon Musk, much to the gratitude of DOGE investors. Musk is responsible for single-handedly pumping the token at different times, with DOGE peaking at over 10000% increase in 2021. Because of Musk’s influence, The Dogecoin (DOGE) community has always rallied around Musk and continually pushed him to use his position as CEO of Tesla and Twitter to provide further utility for Dogecoin (DOGE), which was initially created as a joke in 2013. However, Musk’s interest in Dogecoin (DOGE) seems to have declined, which has also caused a steady decline in DOGE’s price. DOGE is currently priced at around $0.0806, 89.10% below its all-time high of $0.74. That explains why Dogecoin’s (DOGE) investors are turning to Snowfall Protocol (SNW) to enjoy the kind of gains they were accustomed to in the past with Dogecoin (DOGE).
Shiba Inu (SHIB) enjoyed great popularity in crypto during the memecoin craze in 2021. In fact, Shiba Inu (SHIB) inspired several spinoff tokens like Kishu Inu, Wakanda Inu, and the like. Shiba Inu (SHIB) has undoubtedly grown to be a household name in the crypto space, having one of the largest market caps in the crypto market. Furthermore, Shiba Inu (SHIB) is famous for changing the lives of many crypto investors back in 2021 when SHIB’s price climbed to a staggering 10000%+ at some point. Those who got in on SHIB early became millionaires overnight and achieved more than they could ever imagine in the crypto space. However, the excitement seems to have cooled off as Shiba Inu SHIB’s price has declined drastically since then. Shiba Inu (SHIB) is currently priced at $0.00000949, 70.65% below its all-time high of $0.000032.
Snowfall Protocol The Way Forward For Those Looking To Make Huge Returns in 2023
Snowfall Protocol (SNW) is a coss-chain bridge that allows users to swap their fungible and non-fungible assets, like NFTs, across EVM and non-EVM compatible blockchains. Snowfall Protocol’s (SNW) utility has attracted many crypto investors who believe the decentralized protocol is the next big thing in the crypto space. Because of this, there has been an increased demand for Snowfall Protocol’s (SNW) token, with over 250 million SNW tokens sold. Experts have also tipped Snowfall Protocol (SNW) to climb over 5000% upon launch. That is why other crypto investors are trying to purchase some Snowfall Protocol’s (SNW) tokens before they sell out. The fourth and final presale stage is ongoing; sign up here to purchase some SNW tokens today!
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Welcome to Athens!
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10 reasons to love Europe’s coolest city break destination; Athens!
1. The Acropolis
Seeing the Acropolis is essential and the epitome of a visit to Athens.
An unprecedented conceptual design embodied in architectural excellence that challenges all photographers! A “must” visit in some of our Photo Tours!
The history of the Acropolis of Athens is long, with ages that democracy, philosophy and arts thriven, leading to its creation. But there were also times when its most excellent standing pieces were removed and shipped away from the country, dividing the monument in two forever. The international community today wants to reunite all of the Acropolis sculptures in Athens and restore both its physicality and meaning.
The Acropolis and the Parthenon, in particular, is the most glorious and characteristic monument of the ancient Greek civilisation. It still stands as a symbol of democracy and of the whole Greek civilisation. It also symbolises the beginning of the Western civilisation and it is also an icon of European culture. The Parthenon was dedicated to Athena Parthenos, the patron goddess of the city of Athens and goddess of wisdom. It was built under the instructions of Pericles, the political leader of Athens in the 5th century BC. The Parthenon was constructed between 447 and 438 BC and its sculptural decoration was completed in 432 BC. It was inscribed as a World Heritage Site In 1987. Uniquely, capturing the gravity of the Athenian Acropolis as a symbol, UNESCO recognises that “… the Acropolis, the site of four of the greatest masterpieces of classical Greek art – the Parthenon, the Propylaea, the Erechtheum and the Temple of Athena Nike – can be seen as symbolizing the idea of world heritage…”
The Acropolis of Athens is the rocky remains of an ancient Greek city, located at the top of a hill overlooking the current city of Athens, Greece. Although it is believed that its location was inhabited in the 4th millennium BC, construction of its buildings began circa 460 – 429 BC. Some of its most notable buildings include the Propylaia, the Parthenon, and the Athena Nike.
“Acropolis” comes from two Greek words meaning “edge” (acro-) and “city” (-polis). Literally, it means “city on the extremity.” While the term can apply to any hilltop structure, the Acropolis of Athens is so well-known and iconic that it is assumed that when someone says “acropolis,” they’re talking about the one in Athens–the one that houses the Parthenon and other culturally significant structures.
This jewel of Athens served as the preeminent sanctuary of the ancient city of Athens, according to the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Its primary purpose was to provide sacred grounds dedicated to Athena, the city’s matron deity. The Acropolis played host to festivals, cults and historically significant events during the peak of Athens’ power. Today, it serves as an architectural masterpiece and source of national pride: it is the most famous site in Greece, it was a runner up for the New Seven Wonders of the World, and it provides a living monument to the splendour of Greece’s golden age.
One of our popular Photo Tours!
Live the experience of this Photo Tour and photograph one of the most iconic monuments of the world up and close and in a creative and inspirational way under the friendly expert guidance of PhotoToursinAthens!
Additionally, we throw in some Street Candid Photography taking advantage the tourism scene and the crowds consisted by very interesting characters that provide photo opportunities and interesting juxtapositions. Also, great panoramic views of the city of Athens will give a nice background to it and impressive urban landscape photos.
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An island in the city!
It is called Anafiotika, (“little Anafi”) after the Greek island of Anafi and here time stops…
The neighborhood was built to resemble the architecture of the Cyclades islands with stark white-washed cubic houses built of stone, flat roofs and brightly painted shutters and doors, so you get the feel of being in an island village. Wonder amongst the labyrinth of narrow alleyways that connect the whitewashed houses where bright magenta bougainvillaea spills over their walls and the narrow alleyways often end in dead-end terraces. Some of the houses have roof-top patios with gardens of potted plants and the occasional shade tree. If you want to step back in (the Athenian) time walk this piece of Cyclades islands situated at the foothill of Acropolis!
PhotoTour Athens with us and discover the hidden island look alike area of Anafiotika.
Our classic Photo Walk will get you there in a Photo Tour to capture the contrast of old and modern Athens in a creative and inspirational way under the friendly expert guidance of PhotoToursinAthens!
3. The Flea Market.
The perfect Athenian Sunday morning!
The Monastiraki traditional flea market has a festive atmosphere and is the place to be on a Sunday morning in Athens. Streets are filled up with collectibles and antique shops, vendors selling jewelry, handicrafts and bric-a-brac all ready for a bargain shopping!
They say “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” and that definitely stands for true in the Athenian Flea Market. A fascinating complex of people and objects; a photo takers’ paradise!!
PhotoWalksinAthens.com couldn’t have left this adventurous photo tour out of its route!
Join us in this exciting Photo Tour and photograph the heart of Athens in a creative and inspirational way under the friendly expert guidance of PhotoToursinAthens! Ancient ruins, shopping area, busy passersby, street vendors and lots of graffiti will provide witty and lively scenery for plenty of candid and street photography!
4. The neighborhood of Plaka.
The old Athens untouched by time!
Plaka is the old historical neighborhood of Athens, clustered around the northern and eastern slopes of the Acropolis, and incorporating labyrinthine streets and neoclassical architecture. Plaka is built on top of the residential areas of the ancient town of Athens. It is known as the “Neighborhood of the Gods” due to its proximity to the Acropolis and its many archaeological sites.
The name “Plaka” was not in use until after the Greek War of Independence. Instead, the Athenians of that time referred to the area by various names such as Alikokou, Kontito, Kandili, or by the names of the local churches. The name Plaka became commonly in use in the first years of the rule of King Otto. The origin of the name is uncertain: it has been theorized to come from the Arvanite dialect “Pliak Athena”, meaning “Old Athens”, or from the presence of a “plaque” which once marked its central intersection.
Book our Photo Tours and explore the tucked-away areas around the slopes of the Acropolis and uncover their ancient and recent past. Our Photo Tour will pass by the most picturesque spots and reveal fantastic photographic opportunities on a Photo Tour to capture the contrast of old and modern Athens in a creative and inspirational way under the friendly expert guidance of PhotoToursinAthens!
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5. The Athens Riviera
Did you know that Athens’ prefecture Attica (‘Attiki’ in Greek) derives from the ancient word “Aktiki” meaning a land with many “aktes”, meaning shores? Why not explore them while visiting Athens with PhotoToursinAthens.com, for an alternative photographic discovery of Athens!
Ok. You’ve seen the magnificent Acropolis; you walked the picturesque labyrinth little streets of Plaka, visited museums and archaeological sites, had delicious Greek food at a tavern, enjoyed a glass of wine on one of the many rooftop bars overlooking the city or the illuminated Parthenon and wondered around Monastiraki and its Flea Market, seen monuments and landmark buildings of Athens, even seen the breathtaking magical sunset from Lycabettus Hill!
Do you think you are done with Athens? Definitely not!
Few visitors to Athens realise that less than 15 miles south of the city center – and still defined as Greater Athens – lies this photogenic Athenian coastline with seaside resorts, mountains, mineral lakes, and sandy beaches with blue flag certified clean waters. Combined with the known, ideal Mediterranean climate, the Athens Riviera makes you feel the kind of island magic that many people come to Greece for, without having to set foot on a ferry.
The words are few to describe the 70 Kilometers (43 miles) of coastal road that connect the romantic and relaxing region of Piraiki to the known for its industry and mining operations from ancient times, town of Lavrio, on the tip of Attica peninsula.
Explore the city’s coastal line while visiting Athens with PhotoToursinAthens.com, for an alternative photographic discovery of Athens!
6. Coffee Culture
Drinking coffee in a slow, relaxing pace is the norm in the Athenians culture. Youth, couples, students skipping school, friends, creatives and business people flock to the most on-trend establishments in the city where outdoor tables are hot property. If you’re lucky to get a table, sit comfortably, order yourself a ‘freddo’ coffee, have long, meaningless discussions with your travelling partners or relax for hours enjoying (and photographing) the Athenian life passing by.
7. The Rooftop Bars
Although scattered throughout the city, Athenian rooftop bars are hard to find. Often hidden away, each one feels like a secret society for people in-the-know. You’ll have a different perspective of the Acropolis and the city below them no matter what time of the day you will visit one! Do your internet research, ask locals and find yours to either observe the everyday Athenian life passing by below or to enjoy a panoramic view of the city washed in the magic Athenian sunset light!
8. Sunshine
Don’t go to Athens without your sunglasses! Greece has over 300 days of sunshine per year and even if you travel in January you can expect highs of 10 degrees Celcius. March and May, September and October is an ideal time to travel to Athens when the skies are deep blue as the Greek flag (!) and temperatures are tolerable.
9. The Food
The Mediterranean area is home to sun and sea and delicious food that hold the key to good health. Greek cuisine has a culinary tradition of some 4,000 years and is a part of the history and the culture of Greece. Its flavors change with the season and its geography. Some dishes can be traced back to ancient Greece: lentil soup, fasolada, retsina (white or rosé wine flavored with pine resin) and pasteli (candy bar with sesame seeds baked with honey); some to the Hellenistic and Roman periods: loukaniko (dried pork sausage); and Byzantium: feta cheese, avgotaraho (cured fish roe) and paximadi (traditional hard bread baked from corn, barley and rye).
Spend a wonderful day discovering the heart of Athens and live an authentic Athens city experience in our “Athens Full Day Photo Marathon” Photo Tour and fill your table with succulent souvlaki, fresh seafood, mouth-watering mezzes along with ouzo drink, baked moussaka, tzatziki, yuvarlakia, keftethes, boureki, spinach rice, all kinds of pies, dolmadakia, fava, wild or cultivated greens, eggplant, soups and so on. Your options are endless! The more Greek food you eat, the healthier you become!
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10. Prices
Greece’s financial crisis has hardened Greeks’ life but has kept the prices of food, drink and alcohol low and extremely competitive, meaning you’ll be very pleasantly surprised when the bill comes. Local home wines are very cheap and equally (or even better) as delicious as their imported counterparts.
Take advantage of these facts and travel to Greece and Athens and treat yourself to a low budget but with high value Photo Tour with PhotoToursinAthens.com!
You are very welcome to join one of my set Photo Tours or to throw me a line about your special photographic styles and interests and what you would prefer to see in a city and I will alter a Photo Tour for you to remember!
PhotoToursinAthens will get you where the Athenians stroll, in and around Acropolis, old Athens, famous or hidden treasures of the city, the Sunday Monastiraki Flea Market, the Athens Riviera (Seafront), Syntagma and Omonia square, inside the lively Athens’ Central Food Market and to Peloponnesus Peninsula for a full adventurous day exploring some of Greece’s beauty and rich history!
See you in Athens!
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Will the JPEX Digital Bank be the next potential cryptocurrency exchange?
Link to the winning video ：
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Since 2021, the cryptocurrency market has ushered in a new round of prosperity. Web3 represented by DeFi has sprung up, further promoting the influx of a large number of funds into the field of cryptocurrency. With the rise of DEX, the traditional cryptocurrency trading platforms have also suffered a new wave of impact, and the industry as a whole has ushered in a reshuffle. With the further introduction of cryptocurrency-related regulations formulated by countries around the world, compliance has gradually become a new theme in the industry.
As a cryptocurrency exchange built by Japanese technology professionals, JPEX is expanding globally with the adherence to compliance, and continuously make progress. Currently, JPEX is regulated and licensed to engage in cryptocurrency activities in the U.S., Canada, Australia and other countries.
JPEX owns the IAIA (Ito Arbitrage Investment App) Cryptocurrency Circular Arbitrage System originally created by the Japanese intelligent technology team. Users can safely and efficiently gain derivatives income on this basis. So far, it has managed more than 15.6 billion assets worldwide, with several hundred thousand users.
JPEX Digital Bank is currently based on IAIA 2.1 System and operates intelligently and systematically in the form of traditional hedge funds. JPEX Circular Arbitrage Quantitative System is jointly monitored by six senior investment analysts, and the introduction of the Quantitative System will help the Arbitrage System of JPEX Digital Bank arbitrage more accurately and create higher yields. IAIA 2.1 System is equipped with 20-year historical data of 12 futures markets and can create profits for users in 7×24 hours. At present, cryptocurrency derivatives are gaining momentum. Circular Arbitrage of JPEX is expected to become a “troika” of cryptocurrency derivatives in parallel with futures and options.
JPEX also specializes in decentralization application development, smart contracts, cryptocurrency trading platform and its maintenance business. In addition to the corresponding services, JPEX is also realizing the diversification and expansion of business on the basis of the existing cryptocurrency business.
Market Development of JPEX
Previously, JPEX had bought scenic billboards on the whole floor of Hong Kong Railway Station, Tsim Sha Tsui Station, Mong Kok Station, Kowloon Tong Station, Hong Kong Station, Diamond Hill Station and Causeway Bay Station, as well as the spectacular billboards in the Cross Harbor Tunnel. In addition, it had spent huge sums of money to buy giant advertisement space in Malaysian shopping and business districts, Australian subways, bus stations and other spots on the street, and the prosperous areas of Sydney, to promote the JPEX platform, attract many citizens to stop and watch, and publicize to potential cryptocurrency users on this basis. JPEX has also set up offices in many places to further radiate to the potential users and head to globalization.
In late 2021, HMVOD Video, a Hong Kong listed company, officially established a strategic partnership with JPEX. They signed a “memorandum of understanding” and recorded the details of their cooperation. According to the memorandum, JPEX would provide HMVOD with its software and systems called Decentralization Application, Decentralization Application Wallet (DAPP Wallet), and Ito Arbitrage Investment App (IAIA), so as to further help HMVOD deal with cryptocurrency and non-fungible token (NFT).
At the same time, HMVOD is expected to make a three-year investment of up to $5 million for JPEX after the two sides reach an agreement. The specific investment rules will also be customized in the investment agreement. It means that while providing services for HMVOD, JPEX can obtain a certain amount of financing for further business development. At the same time, the cooperation is also helpful for JPEX to establish itself in the NFT market.
In the fourth quarter of 2021, JPEX launched an NFT game called “Rosefinch”, which attracted many users and became a hit. At the same time, the NFT game users of JPEX had reached 24 million.
Meanwhile, Western United Football Club also announced that JPEX became a new golden partner before 2021/22 season, and JPEX would sponsor the defender of Manchester United Football Club and the defending champion player Tomoki Imai in the coming season. It is expected that JPEX will cooperate in depth and extensively with Club in the next decade.
In 2022, cooperating with Simplex, JPEX created a more convenient way for users to enter the encryption world. Simplex is one of the world’s largest licensed financial institutions, enabling its numerous partners to accept the widest range of payment methods, including Visa, MasterCard, Apple Pay, SWIFT, SEPA, etc. JPEX will accept its credit and debit card purchasing encrypted assets. Meanwhile, JPEX will cooperate with Visa to launch Crypto-VISA CARD. JPEXCard allows users to purchase in cryptocurrency of their own choice wherever VISA CARD is accepted. Cardholders shall assume a fixed account management fee but no deposit, exchange or withdrawal fees, which makes it the best low-cost card.
The function of crypto debit cards is similar as prepaid debit cards: they can be loaded with cryptocurrencies, conveniently make online or in-store payments to merchants who don’t accept cryptocurrencies. These cards can convert loaded Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies to any other fiat money. Crypto debit cards can also be used to withdraw supported fiat cash from ATMs.
JPEX Won the “2021 Excellence Award”
In 2022, Oriental Daily News and on.cc held the “Excellence Brand Award”, where JPEX won the “Excellence Blockchain Asset Trading Platform Award”. It is reported that the Award aims to support the outstanding achievements and images of certain brands and set more examples in Hong Kong. Other award-winning members were high-quality enterprises such as Sun Hung Kai Properties, the Hong Kong Jockey Club, MTR, Emperor Watch and Jewelry, CDF Beauty, Hong Yip Service Co., Ltd., China Mobile, Differ Credit and Futu Group.
As a representative enterprise in the field of cryptocurrency and blockchain, JPEX is gradually going mainstream on the basis of compliance.
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When big shots go all to pot…
by Wex | Sep 11, 2009 | Jewish Week, Yiddish
The shocking recent slide in stock markets around the world could well leave many a private investor and Wall Street maven on the verge of turning into a knakker on a nun, “a knakker without the n” (but with the initial k).
A knakker is a “big shot,” the sort of person who does everything with knak, with enough pizzazz to make sure that no one pays attention to anybody else. And many a market insider displays a talent knakn, the Rice Krispies of Yiddish verbs, which has meanings that range from “snap” to “crackle” to “pop your tongue.”
Remove the n, though, and knakn turns to kakn, the knakker becomes a kakker (rhymes with “sucker”): literally, someone who is sitting on the toilet, but more commonly used to mean someone whose every activity turns to dung, the sort of person whom Yiddish also calls a loy-yutslekh, “success-challenged,” because he can’t seem to bring anything to fruition. Kakker also puts the wind into the sails of the well-known alter kakker, best translated as an “old wind-breaker,” a dithering oldster who blunders about vi a forts in rosl, “like broken wind in brine.” The knakker on a nun, “the n-less knakker” is a sort of human typo, someone whose knack has turned to kack.
This article originally appeared in The Jewish Week. Below are some items for sale from eBay for those of you with an interest in Yiddish.
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Crest Press was borne out of Notting Hill Press which had started in 1968 as a printshop for local community activism. It would later become part of Community Action Centre (CAC). The entry for Crest Press in the 1975 edition of Alternative London (Saunders): “Crest Press, 154 Ladbroke Grove, W10 have meetings anyone can attend on Fridays at 3.30 to decide what to allocate their printing time to the following week – they only print what they like and give preference to political pamphlets and posters. they will teach you how to print and expect you to help. You pay cost price. A similar set up is at 11 Hemingford Road, N1. their meetings are on Wednesdays at 5.” (JB)
Crest Press was in Ladbroke Grove, London W11 3-4 workers, unpaid. Equipment: Offset Litho, A3 Rotaprint R30/90; CT plate-making; occasional screen printing too.
Crest Press had been a commercial company that went bankrupt. However, all the equipment legally belonged to local community groups such as The Mangrove Restaurant (the local focus for police oppression and black people’s resistance), thus Crest Press was able to rise from the ashes as a phoenix for the people and the community. There was no commercial work – all its printing was community, leftwing political or progressive/artistic. It was all priced strictly by cost. Crest Press was in the basement of a terrace building. There were flats above, a shop on the ground floor and a corridor from the street led through to stairs down to Crest. Paper deliveries were by handing the reams over a garden wall at the back!
It allowed – even encouraged – customers to use the facilities and help out with their publications; if they wanted, they could learn how to make plates and run the press. There was just a single colour press, and the plate-making and printing was pretty basic: mainly black, with some spot colour work. All had to be hand collated (usually by the customers).
Sarah Grimes (Trained and worked at Crest Press 1971-74)
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That’s us
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RAQ’s – Randomly Asked Questions
We are Martin & Conny traveling in our van Ernst and with our doggie Laika. We started in Berlin and head eastwards to Boston. Follow our journey and if you meet us on the streets or in in the nature, just knock on our door and say hello.
Ernst signs of aging
14. February 2018 in Uncategorized
On Facebook, some of you have already guessed right, which we have made. Here comes the slightly more detailed resolution, because it was not that easy.
The road conditions of the last 3000 km were very different. From best-developed (funded by the EU) highways over mediocre country roads to the last dirt roads, but which are to be driven told by Googlemaps with a normal car. In some ways, it was also a bit up to us, since we are always looking for remote and pretty places to stay overnight. They are mostly not located directly on the main road. Now we rumbled over hill and dale. Ernst also did a good job for the most part.
In Thessaloniki we did a maintenancestop to do the laundry and look around the car. And what we found point 1: The dog was not allowed in the laundromat. Point 2: Greek construction workers are not afraid if you are sitting in front of the laundrette with your dog, throwing up the sidewalk two meters away with their hammer drill. Point 3: Ernst was fine, but the roof rack was broken and two bolts were sheared off. Such a crap, a repair was due. The Ernst was already 30 years old, but that was difficult after all. Finally we had up there our solar system, the sand plates, our laundry ton and the alu box with dog food. When we then calculated, we also came up with the idea that it was possibly, so under certain circumstances, maybe a little too much for the roof rack. Well, now it was broken and we had to think something over. Still in Thessaloniki on a busy and parked street, we made an extended damage record, loaded half of the dog food under the forward bench. We climbed up to the roof to take a closer look and made a battle plan.
Aluminum welding failed.. Tying together was not an option either. So it had to be a support structure. The next Praktiker hardware store (yes, it still exists here!) was ours and we got the following things:
two big and two small angles
a threaded rod
matching washers and nuts
perforated plate
bike tube
We still had to adjust the angles and bend them at the ends. One dares Martin so much, but with his bare hands, he would not have done that and the right tool (so best a vise) we had not with us. But we drove first very carefully towards our evening destination. On the way we wanted to refuel, but missed the first gas station, so we drove on. In the meantime, it had become dark and the roads curvy, so we drove as on raw eggs, so that the rack would not break us on the other side. We stopped at the next gas station (which was even cheaper) and an elderly woman fueled the Ernst. Of course, you do not do that yourself here. As this always takes a bit longer with Ernst, we had time to examine the gas station a bit. Pretty lumbering, lots of scrap and car parts, and … but wait! What was there? A vise! We asked the gas station woman if we could use it briefly and she nodded at us. Martin bent the bracket plates and the ride could continue. From that moment on, we really believe in Providence, and most of all, that things come easy, you just have to let them come.
The next day we were ready and could do the necessary work. So it was the firstthing to put down everything from the roof rack. Unpack the aluminum box, dog food pouches for dog food pouches. Laundry basket, sand plates and the associated lashing straps.
Then prepare material and make a puzzle photo for you;) And then it started: We bent the threaded rod in about 8 cm long U’s to then put this over the support tubes.
Inside came a bit of bicycle hose and from below the angles were attached and secured with a perforated plate, washers and nuts. The angles were then attached to the anyway existing bracket on the roof. We forgot to install the new stainless steel bolts because of our enthusiasm (Of course we do not drive without, we screwed galvanized steel bolts directly into Thessaloniki on the rack).
Then of course all the scraps back up, everything in the box, tie down, marvel at work. But at the prospect, you just could not complain about the whistling five degrees cold wind. In the end, we agreed: Holds better than the original.
When does a journey start?
19. January 2018 in Uncategorized
Finally, we are rolling. Not just the short rides to run errands or do important things. No, this time it finally starts. It does not feel right yet. We drive through Berlin, Conny’s hometown. The area is familiar, the last errands are actions as they are done in daily life. But today is the day. THE day. Today. We start our world trip.
Was that the beginning? We have been working towards this goal for so long, pushing the “Ernst” project forward, and the last days and weeks we have not been doing anything else, soone can say that the journey has begun for a long time already.
But when was that exactly? Was it the spark of the idea to do a world trip? Was it the purchase of Ernst, our camper? Was it the beginning of the conversion of our VW LT Florida? Maybe it will not start until we pass milestones like Georgia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia or when we arrive in Boston? Or was it 11:28 am today when we rolled from the parking lot of Conny’s parents?
No matter how you define a travel start, every journey around the world begins with the release of the handbrake.
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produced the degrees Gay-Lussac used to measure alcoholic beverages in many countries
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in 1808 he was the co-discoverer of the element boron together with Louis Jacques Thénard and Sir Humphry Davy.
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Why are hedge funds the fastest growing asset class among family offices?
Low interest rates and lacklustre returns in equities helped the hedge fund asset category gain the largest growth in allocations this year, but a diverse investment strategy from external managers meant that returns were a mixed bag.
Article | 27 November, 2015 02:34 PM | By Michael Finnigan
The multi-year trend of family offices taking on more risk continued in 2015, triggering a two percentage point increase in allocations to hedge funds, according to the second annual Global Family Office Report.
Data revealed that the average family office portfolio allocated approximately 9% to hedge funds in 2015, up from 7% the year before, making it the fastest growing asset class for the year.
The report also revealed that family offices invested approximately $73 million on average to hedge funds in 2014, primarily in long/short equity and global macro strategies, and found that they were particularly popular in North America and emerging markets.
Audrey Robinson, chief investment officer at Canadian multi-family office WaterStreet, has seen an increase in allocations to hedge funds in 2015, albeit one that is more modest than reported in the Global Family Office Report.
“The growth in hedge funds was only marginally higher than for developed market equities (1.8% vs 1.4%) and that the increases in each were still pretty modest,” she explains.
“If the increase is an explicit one (i.e. not market appreciation) then it may well be that family offices were adding to their long-short strategies as a protection against the long-only equity exposure. We have increased our use of a “protected beta” alternative strategy in our client portfolios over the last two years.”
The 25-year veteran of the Canadian investment industry believes the increased allocation to alternatives in Canada stems from lacklustre performance in her domestic market and the end of the commodity supercycle.
Yet she questions whether the drive towards alternatives in North America was caused by lesser returns in equities, and instead proposed that impetus south of the border was likely caused by market volatility brought about by seven years of artificially low interest rates.
When asked about the strategies family offices are utilising with their hedge fund allocations, Robinson says there has been a greater push towards alternative credit strategies rather than long/short. She adds: “We have used a global macro trend following strategy with great success over the past few years – it has offered our clients almost negative correlation to the other strategies."
xxThe Global Family Office Report 2015xx found that investment horizons for hedge funds are typically between four to six years, and are often outsourced due to the specialist requirements and knowledge of hedge fund managers.
Robinson says she has two fundamental beliefs when it comes to time horizons for investments and questioned why any credible manager would set a time horizon for holding a strategy.
“Firstly, if you think about constructing a portfolio as having similarities to baking a cake, then you need to let the cake bake. Too often in my career I have seen investors tinkering with their portfolios because of a short-term orientation. To me this is like taking the cake out of the oven during the baking period to add new ingredients,” she explains.
“My second fundamental belief is that on-going due diligence is as important as the due diligence that led to the original decision to hire the manager or set up the strategy. Every investment strategy will have its challenging moments. The key is to understand why it is having a difficult time and be prepared to walk away if your on-going due diligence identifies a systemic issue,” she adds.
While the report found that return expectations varied due to manager expertise, it concluded that expectations among family offices averaged at approximately eight percent in 2014, and from seven percent for market neutral to 11% for funds specialising in distressed assets.
The report also found that hedge funds are still regarded with some scepticism among some in the family office community. One chief executive officer from a Middle Eastern single family office, who participated in the report anonymously, said: “I don’t like hedge funds because of their risk profile and the way they operate in terms of a black box mentality”.
Stuart Rutherford, director of research at Campden Wealth, had some advice for family offices moving into the next financial year. “Hedge fund strategies employed by family offices are diversified, as seen across their whole portfolio. That being said, picking the right manager, with the right skills and risk-appetite for you is imperative,” he explains.
Robinson concluded by saying that the hedge fund asset class is likely to continue to offer low correlation returns to both long-only exposures and other alternative asset strategies. The report found that family offices remain bullish on their outlook for the asset class.
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Contest #563: Kennedy/Kasolo/Plum Pudding Island
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a brash young handsome Lieutenant, Junior Grade, in the Navy in 1943. He had used his father’s connections to rise quickly in the Navy and was offered command of a small “Patrol Torpedo” (or “PT”) boat with a crew of 11 sailors and another officer, Ensign Leonard J. Thom. The designation on that boat was “PT-109”
On August 2, 1943, while engaged in a large battle against Japanese forces in the area, PT-109 was run over and cut in half by a destroyer named Amagiri.
2 of Kennedy’s crew died immediately. The other 11, many severely wounded, clung to life aboard the remains of the boat. As the wreckage began to sink, the crew had to make the decision to swim about 3.5 miles (a little over 5 km) to this island, then known by non-islanders as “Plum Pudding Island”. One of the sailors, Machinist’s Mate Patrick McMahon, was so badly burned that he couldn’t swim himself. Kennedy, who was also injured, dragged McMahon attached to a life jacket strap clenched between the future president’s teeth — for 3 and a half miles. Two days later, the crew swam to nearby Olesana island and 4 days after that, with the help of a couple of native scouts and a message scratched out on a coconut, all were rescued.
JFK’s bravery and leadership on this mission were used extensively in his campaigns for the US House, the Senate, and later the presidency.
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MATRA-SIMCA MS 670b
CLASSIC, matra-simcaBy admin April 14, 2019
1973 - 3rd Le Mans / #12 - J.P. Jabouille, J.P. Jaussaud
The Matra-Simca MS 670 was a Prototype race car that won the Le Mans 24 Hours 3 times in a row (from 1972 to 1974) as well as the World Manufacturers Championship twice (1973 and 1974). It was designed by Bernard Boyer and Jean-Louis Cassin. A ‘B’ was added in 1973 to the ‘670’ name to indicate that a Porsche gearbox was used as opposed to the previously used ZF. The chassis was an Aluminium monocoque, coupled with a fibreglass body to reduce weight by 22 kg. It was powered by a 60°, 3-litres V12 engine, with aluminium block and head, whose bore and stroke were 79.7*50.0 mm. The Matra V12, named ‘MS 73’, was famous for its amazingly loud sound, and reached 480 CV at 10500 RPM with torque peaking at 320 Nm @ 8400 RPM. In Le Mans it raced with six-in-one exhausts, propelling the car to 320 km/h on the Mulsanne straight. Braking was guaranteed by outboard Girling ventilated discs, all-round. Rims dimensions were 13” x 11” at front and 13” x 17” at rear. The car weighted 693 kg. There were three MS670B racing in Le Mans in 1973, with No.12 driven by Jean-Pierre Jaussaud and Jean-Pierre Jabouille. They finished in third position.
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CLASSIC, limited edition, matra-simcaBy admin April 14, 2019
1974 - Le Mans Winner / #7 - H. Pescarolo, G.Larrousse
A Le Mans, nel 1974, le ‘MS 670 B’ iscritte erano tre. Henri Pescarolo e Gérard Larrousse, con la vettura n.7, dominarono la corsa vincendo per il secondo anno consecutivo. The Matra-Simca MS 670 was a Prototype race car that won the Le Mans 24 Hours 3 times in a row (from 1972 to 1974) as well as the World Manufacturers Championship twice (1973 and 1974). The car was designed by Bernard Boyer and Jean-Louis Caussin. The long tail version, designed specifically for Le Mans, was still called ‘670 B’, ‘B’ being the distinctive letter of all Matras fitted with the Porsche 5-speeds gearbox. The chassis was an aluminium monocoque, with fibreglass body. The engine, whose sound was extremely loud, was a 60° 3-litres V12, with aluminium block and heads, 79.7 mm bore and 50.0 mm stroke. The motor version used in ‘74 at Le Mans was ‘MS 73’, with maximum torque of 320 Nm at 8400 RPM , and maximum power of 450 HP at 10500 rpm. On the Mulsanne straight the car could top 320 kph. Brakes had Girling ventilated discs, all-round; in 1974, the rear brakes were moved inboard. Rims dimensions were 13² x 11² at front and 15² x 15² at rear. The car weighted 693 kg. Three were the ‘670 B’s racing in Le Mans in 1974. Number 7 was driven by Henri Pescarolo and Gérard Larrousse who lead the race from start to finish, winning Le Mans for the third time in a row.
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<img loading='lazy' class='aligncenter size-full wp-image-2809' src='http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/PA40-CH66-SP19-SP22b.jpg' alt='' width='200' height='428' srcset='http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/PA40-CH66-SP19-SP22b.jpg 200w, http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/PA40-CH66-SP19-SP22b-140x300.jpg 140w' sizes='(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px' />
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<img loading='lazy' class='aligncenter wp-image-6698 size-full' src='http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/W15808215a-PT1228C1_chassis.jpg' alt='' width='200' height='228' />
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CW18 - Album (pdf- 2,0 Mb)
1973 - Le Mans Winner / #11 - H. Pescarolo, G.Larrousse
The Matra vs. Ferrari showdown took place on the Circuit de la Sarthe, on June 9th and 10th, 1973, a day which also marked the 50th anniversary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The red Ferrari No. 16 driven by Merzario and Pace started from pole and run away in the distance, chased by the blue Matra of Beltoise and Cevert. When, after two hours, the italian leaders developed a fuel piping issue, the Matra No. 10 took their place on the leaderboard, only to be dangerously delayed, and later forced to retire, by tyre issues. At the end of a grueling race, the checquered flag was waved in front of the victorious Matra Simca 670B No.11 of Henry Pescarolo and Gérard Larrousse. The podium was completed by the surviving Ferrari 312 PB n.16 of Merzario and Pace, and finally Matra’s n.12 car of Jabouille and Jaussaud.
CW21 - Istructions body (pdf- 2,3 Mb)
The Matra-Simca MS 670 was a Prototype race car that won the Le Mans 24 Hours 3 times in a row (from 1972 to 1974) as well as the World Manufacturers Championship twice (1973 and 1974).
It was designed by Bernard Boyer and Jean-Louis Cassin. A ‘B’ was added in 1973 to the ‘670’ name to indicate that a Porsche gearbox was used as opposed to the previously used ZF.
The chassis was an Aluminium monocoque, coupled with a fibreglass body to reduce weight by 22 kg.
It was powered by a 60°, 3-litres V12 engine, with aluminium block and head, whose bore and stroke were 79.7*50.0 mm. The Matra V12, named ‘MS 73’, was famous for its amazingly loud sound, and reached 480 CV at 10500 RPM with torque peaking at 320 Nm @ 8400 RPM. In Le Mans it raced with six-in-one exhausts, propelling the car to 320 km/h on the Mulsanne straight.
Braking was guaranteed by outboard Girling ventilated discs, all-round. Rims dimensions were 13” x 11” at front and 13” x 17” at rear. The car weighted 693 kg.
There were three 670 B racing in Le Mans in 1973, with No.12 driven by Jean-Pierre Jaussaud and Jean-Pierre Jabouille. They finished in third position.
MCLAREN M8D
CLASSIC, mclarenBy admin April 14, 2019
1970 - 1st Can-Am Watkins Glen / #5 - Denny Hulme
CA26e
The M8D was a prototype race car, built in 1970 by McLaren Cars to compete in che Can-Am Challenge Cup. In comparison with the former ‘M8’, the M8D was wider and with a lower wing, which was also braced to the chassis, as the high mounted, suspension attached wings had been banned. Chassis was an aluminium sheet monocoque with steel bulkheads and stressed engine. Bodywork was in glass-fibre. The engine was a Chevrolet with Lucas fuel injection, prepared by George Bolthoff; it was a 7.6 litres V8 yielding 680 Hp of maximum power. The transmission was the 4 speeds Hewland LG500. The wheels had a 15 inches diameter, a width of 11 inches at front and 16 inches at rear. Tracks: front 1575 mm, rear 1486 mm. Wheelbase: 2387 mm. Width: 1930 mm. Length: 4166 mm.The overall weight was 634 kg. For the Australian Denny Hulme, Watkins Glen was the first of the many victories (more than half of the races) which led him to win the overall Can-Am 1970 championship.
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CA26e - Album (pdf- 1,5 Mb)
McLaren M8D Instructions (pdf- 866 Kb)
ALFA ROMEO 33/3
alfa romeo, CLASSIC, NEWSokBy admin April 14, 2019
2011 - Pocono #5 - J. Nastasi, A. Merzario
CA11m
The Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Sport Prototype was designed in the mid 1960s to race in the World Sports Car Championship. Eventually it succeeded and won the Manufacturers’ Championship in 1975, and again in 1977.
Designed by Carlo Chiti, a famous Italian engineer, the several variants of the car were raced by the Alfa factory and by many privateers as well.
After the initial victories in the 2-litres Prototype category, the ‘T33/3’ version made its debut in 1969 and gained its best results in the 1971 World Championship: the Autodelta ‘open’ Prototypes won the overall ranking at Brands Hatch, Watkins Glen and the Targa Florio, being even faster than the 5-litres ‘Sport’ cars. The ‘T33/3’ cars featured a monocoque chassis, paneled in aluminium and magnesium, a V8 2998 cc engine, and a 6 or 5 speed gearbox. Top speed reached 330 km/h, at Le Mans with long tail. This specific model of the Alfa 33/3 reproduces the car owned by Alfa Romeo collector Joe Nastasi, as it was tested on the Pocono circuit. The same car is often seen at various historic car shows and races, such as the Targa Florio of 2014.
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<img loading='lazy' class='aligncenter wp-image-8213 size-full' src='http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CS11b1_body.jpg' alt='' width='200' height='104' srcset='http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CS11b1_body.jpg 200w, http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CS11b1_body-24x12.jpg 24w, http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CS11b1_body-36x19.jpg 36w, http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CS11b1_body-48x25.jpg 48w' sizes='(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px' />
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<img loading='lazy' class='aligncenter wp-image-8218 size-full' src='http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/W14308015p-PT1088C1_chassis.jpg' alt='' width='200' height='227' srcset='http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/W14308015p-PT1088C1_chassis.jpg 200w, http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/W14308015p-PT1088C1_chassis-21x24.jpg 21w, http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/W14308015p-PT1088C1_chassis-32x36.jpg 32w, http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/W14308015p-PT1088C1_chassis-42x48.jpg 42w' sizes='(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px' />
<img loading='lazy' class='aligncenter wp-image-8222 size-full' src='http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/W15808215a-PT2120C1_chassis.jpg' alt='' width='200' height='228' srcset='http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/W15808215a-PT2120C1_chassis.jpg 200w, http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/W15808215a-PT2120C1_chassis-21x24.jpg 21w, http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/W15808215a-PT2120C1_chassis-32x36.jpg 32w, http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/W15808215a-PT2120C1_chassis-42x48.jpg 42w' sizes='(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px' />
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<img loading='lazy' class='aligncenter wp-image-8217 size-full' src='http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/PA01-45-GS1832-pl_chassis.jpg' alt='' width='200' height='197' srcset='http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/PA01-45-GS1832-pl_chassis.jpg 200w, http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/PA01-45-GS1832-pl_chassis-80x80.jpg 80w, http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/PA01-45-GS1832-pl_chassis-24x24.jpg 24w, http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/PA01-45-GS1832-pl_chassis-36x36.jpg 36w, http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/PA01-45-GS1832-pl_chassis-48x48.jpg 48w, http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/PA01-45-GS1832-pl_chassis-100x100.jpg 100w' sizes='(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px' />
<img loading='lazy' class='aligncenter wp-image-8219 size-full' src='http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CS11t-60b_chassis.jpg' alt='' width='200' height='117' srcset='http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CS11t-60b_chassis.jpg 200w, http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CS11t-60b_chassis-24x14.jpg 24w, http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CS11t-60b_chassis-36x21.jpg 36w, http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CS11t-60b_chassis-48x28.jpg 48w' sizes='(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px' />
<img loading='lazy' class='aligncenter wp-image-8226 size-full' src='http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CH67-CN06_chassis.jpg' alt='' width='200' height='221' srcset='http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CH67-CN06_chassis.jpg 200w, http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CH67-CN06_chassis-22x24.jpg 22w, http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CH67-CN06_chassis-33x36.jpg 33w, http://slot.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CH67-CN06_chassis-43x48.jpg 43w' sizes='(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px' />
CA11m - Album (pdf - 2,0 Mb)
CLASSIC, ferrari, NEWSokBy admin April 14, 2019
1971 - Le Mans #16 - C. Craft, D.Weir
The Ferrari 512S had failed to beat the Porsche 917s in the 1970 World Sportscar Championship. Despite their higher weight and greater consumption, the car had shown winning potential, but the rushed-in construction had left reliability issues unresolved.
An unusual bad luck struck at Le Mans, where an accident eliminated four of the five 512S in one stroke. For the ending part of the season Ferrari decided to create a lighter and aerodynamically advanced version: thus the 512M (Modified). The new ‘M’ model proved immediately faster than the ‘S’ version, but took its first steps only three weeks before the last Championship race at Österreichring (now Red Bull Ring), where Jacky Ickx led the race until he had to retire due to an alternator failure.
The first victory of the new Ferrari took place in South Africa on 7 November 1970, in a race outside the World Championship, in the hands of Ickx / Giunti who reached the finish line three laps ahead in the Porsche 917K driven by Siffert / Ahrens.
In 1971, however, despite the excellent end of the 1970 season for the 512M, Ferrari decided to concentrate the company’s efforts on a car in line with the 1972 regulations, leaving the 512M to private teams: the 512M, therefore, despite its outstanding performance, could never prove its true value. It remains, however, one of the most beautiful and iconic Sports Prototypes in the history of motorsport.
The CA51a model represents the car of Team David Piper which, driven by Chris Craft and David Weir at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1971. Starting 13th from the grid, the car dropped to 44th place in the 2nd hour of the race but climbed back to an excellent 4th place overall.
<p style='text-align: center;'><strong><span style='font-size: 14pt;'>CS51v</span></strong></p> <p>
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</p> <p style='text-align: center;'><strong><span style='font-size: 14pt;'>CS51b</span></strong></p> <p>
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</p> <p style='text-align: center;'><strong><span style='font-size: 14pt;'>CS51t-60</span></strong></p> <p>
CA51a - Album (pdf - 2,0 Mb)
1971 - Daytona #6 - M. Donohue, D.Hobbs
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CA51b - Album (pdf - 1,3 Mb)
FORD MKII
CLASSIC, fordBy admin April 14, 2019
1966 - 3rd Le Mans / #05 - R. Bucknum, D. Hutcherson
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CA20c - Album (PDF - 1,7 Mb)
CLASSIC, ford, NEWSokBy admin April 14, 2019
1967 - 12h Sebring / #19 - N. Vaccarella, U Maglioli
CA18f
The Ford GT40 is one of the most famous cars in Le Mans history, having won the 24-Hour race four times in a row. In 1966 it was with the Mk II version, in 1967 with the Mk IV, in 1968 and 1969 with the first one, Mk I. It was built to compete against Ferrari, who had won Le Mans six times in a row from 1960 to 1965. The development of ‘Mk I’ was carried mainly by Ford Advanced Vehicle in England, joined in 1965 by Carroll Shelby. It was a car built for racing, but also for road circulation; the name ‘GT40’ comes from the height from ground, which is 40 inches. The chassis was a steel semi – monocoque, the body was made of fiberglass. The engine came from the one used on the AC Cobra, with cast-iron block and head: naturally aspired V8, 4.7 litres displacement, 2 valves per cylinder operated by a central camshaft with push-rod; it was coupled with a ZF 5 speeds gearbox. Brakes were provided with vented discs on all the four wheels. This GT40, raced the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1967, driven by N. Vaccarella and U.Maglioli.
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CORE-emt to Represent BTU International in Baltics
November 4, 2019 | BTU International, Inc.
BTU International, Inc., a leading supplier of advanced thermal processing equipment for the electronics manufacturing market, is pleased to announce that it has expanded its partnership with CORE-emt to include the Baltics (Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia). CORE-emt also represents BTU’s PYRAMAX reflow ovens in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.
CORE-emt has been representing BTU International for more than seven years. Oliver Wehner, European Sales Manager at BTU Europe Limited, said, “After several years of successful partnership in Scandinavia, we are very excited about expanding our collaboration with CORE-emt to also cover all Baltic countries. Their capability of offering complete line solutions combined with their service team experience and responsiveness, promise a bright future for BTU—and more importantly to our customers in the area.”
“We see this expansion as the perfect fit,” said Steen V. Haugbølle, managing director at CORE-emt. “There is growing collaboration between electronics companies in Scandinavia—especially Finland—and the Baltic region; therefore it is only natural to extend our ‘a complete SMT line from one supplier’ concept into the Baltics. This is a part of our ongoing strategy; to continuously expand, in order to offer our ‘complete line solutions’ to a wider range of OEM and EMS companies.”
Haugbølle added, “The expansion has been carefully planned for some time. By adding on knowledge and manpower in our service department we can ensure OEM and EMS companies in both regions the very best service combined with quality machinery, for example our PYRAMAX reflow ovens.”
CORE-emt supplies OEM and EMS customers in the electronics industry with Surface Mount Technology assembly line equipment. The company’s service division offers skilled service on SMT equipment onsite. CORE-emt excels in all high-end SMT machinery, giving its customers a smooth-running assembly line. CORE-emt offers a full SMT lineup with pick & place machines, PCB board handling, soldering reflow ovens and a lot of supporting SMT units that will influence up-time in a positive way. For more information, visit www.core-emt.com.
About BTU International
BTU International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amtech Group (Nasdaq: ASYS), is a global supplier and technology leader of advanced thermal processing equipment in the electronics manufacturing market. BTU’s high-performance reflow ovens are used in the production of SMT printed circuit board assemblies and in semiconductor packaging processes. BTU also specializes in precision controlled, high-temperature belt furnaces for a wide range of custom applications, such as brazing, direct bond copper (DBC), diffusion, sintering and advanced solar cell processing. BTU has operations in North Billerica, Massachusetts, and Shanghai, China, with direct sales and service in the USA, Asia and Europe. Information about BTU International is available at www.btu.com.
The First India Pavilion
12/19/2022 | Gaurab Majumdar, IPC
For the first time, IPC APEX EXPO will host an “India Pavilion,” showcasing 16 Indian companies promoting India’s electronics manufacturing capabilities. The initiative was undertaken by the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India, and implemented by the Indian government agency, Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC) India.
Working on the Hill to Build a Future
11/08/2022 | Nolan Johnson, I-Connect007
The message can’t be emphasized enough: Producing IC substrates overseas weakens America’s position and national security. In this frank discussion with Will Marsh, president of PCBAA, he talks about his efforts to educate government policymakers on the dire need to consider the entire microelectronics ecosystem. There’s power in numbers, Will says, and he sees the association’s efforts making a difference.
Advanced Packaging Gets an Additive Upgrade
11/08/2022 | Art Wall, NextFlex
The recent approval of the CHIPS Act has reignited the U.S. semiconductor industry and shone a spotlight on the intricacies involved in chip manufacturing. As new technological innovations—such as 5G, IoT, AI, automotive and high-performance computing—come to market, they’re pushing chip manufacturing and integration capabilities. They demand more performance which leads to added complexity in an already extremely complicated process. All this requires a fundamental shift in the way that semiconductors are manufactured and integrated.
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Everyday use by alice walker. Short Story Analysis: Everyday Use by Alice Walker 2019-02-03
Everyday use by alice walker Rating: 5,5/10 715 reviews
Everyday Use Summary
Even the fact that we still used the benches her daddy made for the table when we couldn't effort to buy chairs. She insists that Maggie will use the quilts she desires for everyday use. While they may accept their fate, Maggie and Mama did not choose the life they were born into. After second grade the school was closed down. Maggie by the fire when she was younger and Mrs Johnson by her wish to be skinny.
Everyday Use by Alice Walker Summary
This conclusion, however, is largely born out of Dee's immaturity towards both her heritage and her own family. This is important as it suggests that Mrs Johnson still sees some practicality in the quilts whereas for Dee they are a sign of her oppressed past. Her immaturity and selfishness were tools used to escape a life she did not want. Hakim-a-barber attempts to kiss Maggie but she recoils in horror. Dee did not want to quilt to remember her heritage by, but instead to hang it up on the wall like some sort of trophy to show others where she has come from. She tells Mama she will do artistic things with the item. This was the way she knew God to work.
She is confused about the meaning of heritage. Bits and pieces of Grandpa Jattell's Paisley shirts. That being no longer is she oppressed. Even though Dee is interested in her heritage, Mama realizes that Dee is still distancing herself from the family and the true meaning of her heritage. A dress down to the ground, in this hot weather. No remainder marks or clippings. She wants to take parts of it and use them to decorate her own place.
Everyday Use Everyday Use Summary and Analysis
One was in the Lone Stat pattetn. She acquired this knowledge by learning about African culture. It is hard to see them clearly through the strong sun. Or maybe he don't know how people shake hands. In fact, there were a lot of small sinks; you could see where thumbs and fingers had sunk into the wood. Maggie nervously anticipates her big sister Dee.
Everyday Use by Alice Walker
Dee, in other words, has moved towards other traditions that go against the traditions and heritage of her own family: she is on a quest to link herself to her African roots and has changed her name to Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo. However, she is truly disconnecting herself from the roots of her family. Though Dee thinks the quilts will be used every day by Maggie and as a result they will no longer be any use. She turns, showing white heels through her sandals, and goes back to the car. The quilts for example, Dee wants to hang them up in her home yet Mrs Johnson has promised them to Dee for when she gets married. Something that is also noticeable by Dee taking photographs of the house.
Everyday Use by Alice Walker Essay
Dee does not appreciate the knowledge of her past that is living within and through her mother. I walked a mile and a half just to see the sight. I feel my whole face warming from the heat waves it throws out. Dee is described as the round character in the story. Dee gives Mama the option of not using her new name and Mama concludes that Hakim-a-barber must be related to a family of Muslims down the road. The yard seems to be a place to think for Mama, where she can imagine herself being someone more conventionally attractive than she actually is, but also remember just how much she has done for her family. A pleasant surprise, of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the show only to curse out and insult each other? Includes introduction, text of the story, interview with Walker, six critical essays and a bibliography.
Covers are clean and bright, show light wear - no tears. Dee did not understand the meaning of his family heritage and did not learn the art of sewing from her grandmother. Irony has been utilized in the story to enhance understanding of the text. It is crucial that in this fantasy, Mama imagines herself as lighter - in skin tone, body weight and wit. She wants black shoe for a green outfit and a yellow dress to wear to her graduation: even though these things are hard for the family to come by. Maggie attempts to show her displeasure with her sister by dropping a plate in the shadows but she finally succumbs to Dee's forcefulness. She overlooks American experience and insists in embracing her African traditions.
A casebook devoted to tracing the derivation and elaborating the importance of quilting as a metaphor for the creative legacy inherited by black Americans from their material ancestors. Then she had told they were old~fashioned, out of style. Maggie by now was standing in the door. Pages and cover are clean and intact. She only cares about herself. Heritage and inheritance both have the same French root… 935 Words 4 Pages when the writer states what the characteristics of the character are.
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Find Your Local Sale
Franchise of the Year 2022
Karen Miner | Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville, Woman-Owned, Small Business Receives Top National Award
Just Between Friends’ Karen Miner Named “Franchise of the Year.”
Gainesville, FL. – Feb 9, 2022 – A small, women-owned, Florida business is receiving national recognition as Franchise of the Year for Just Between Friends Franchise System, Inc. (JBF). JBF is North America’s leading pop-up children’s and maternity consignment sales event.
Karen Miner purchased JBF Gainesville in Fall 2017 and has since more than quadrupled revenue as of Fall 2021. Her event brings the community together twice a year so thousands of local families can save money and earn money on items for their growing children.
At JBF events, local families register to consign and sell the new and gently used children’s items their families have outgrown or never used, earning 60% of the selling price. Participating families declutter their homes, turning that “clutter into cash.” Families also shop the JBF events where they typically can save 50% to 90% off retail prices on items they need for their children: clothing, shoes, toys, books, baby equipment, furniture, games and much more.
The independent judges who chose Miner and her Gainesville event as the winning franchise said one key deciding factor is her passionate commitment to creating wins within and among all participants’ groups—from her staff, to the shoppers and charity partners whom her sale benefits.
The judges credited Miner’s heart and commitment to serving paired with her innovative marketing with the impressive increase in sales which grew by 54% from the Spring to Fall seasons: “This franchisee looks to continually grow consigners and shoppers and fosters strong relationships with multiple charity partners in unique ways translating not only to a strong Sale but also additional, meaningful donations to those in need.”
Miner accepted her award at the Just Between Friends annual conference in Seattle, Washington. She shares, "I am completely blown away to be named Franchise of the Year for 2022. The community we have built in Gainesville to help, validate and build up our families as we go through the trenches of parenthood is so great! For that hard work to be recognized on a national level is AMAZING! I can't wait to see what the future holds for my team and our community here in Gainesville. It takes a village, and our village is a strong one!”
Gainesville Just Between Friends is planning its spring event May 20 through 22 at the Legacy Park Multipurpose Center.
For more information or to set up an interview, contact Just Between Friends President Dianne Davis, 918-636-4106 or diannedavis@jbfsale.com.
Karen Miner with her Gainesville team who worked hard, taking the precautions necessary to serve area families during the COVID pandemic.
Karen Miner with her team at her sales event, celebrating their work together which helps area families make money and save money on all they need for their children.
Karen (center) receiving her award from JBF CEO Shannon Wilburn (left) and JBF President Dianne Davis (right) at the 2022 National JBF Conference in Seattle, Washington.
Interested in bringing a sale to your area?
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Denmark, European Union
Vestager’s profile hangs over Danish election
June 17, 2015 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
She’s not running for anything in Denmark’s parliamentary elections on Thursday, but even from Brussels, Margrethe Vestager, the country’s European commissioner for the high-profile competition portfolio, looms larger than just about anyone on the Danish political scene — included prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and her main challenger for the premiership.
Less than a year into her tenure as the EU’s top cop on competition law, Vestager has moved forward with narrow charges (in the Commission’s parlance, a ‘Statement of Objections’) against Google for allegedly prioritizing search results from its own Google Shopping program over other results. Hardly a week later, she filed charges against the Russian state energy company, Gazprom, for anti-competitive behavior that the Commission argues resulted in higher prices in the Baltics, Poland and Bulgaria. In recent weeks, Vestager also open an investigation into whether Amazon was abusing its dominant market position to restrict innovation and competition in the e-book industry.
That’s made her, increasingly, a bête noire in the powerful Silicon Valley. Mike Honda, a Democratic member of the US House of Representatives for a California district representing Silicon Valley, denounced the charges in April, arguing that Google was instead one of the most ‘innovative and life-changing technologies in human history.’
It’s not just American and Russian companies — Vestager is also looking into allegations that Luxembourg’s aggressive tax deals with companies violated European Union state aid rules, even though most of the tax decisions came during the administration of Luxembourg’s prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker, now the president of the European Commission and who nominated Vestager for the role last autumn. She’s also investigating several European governments for providing assistance to their respective utilities industries.
RELATED: How Helle got her groove back in Denmark’s snap election
Not since Mario Monti took on General Electric’s Jack Welch and Microsoft’s Bill Gates has an EU antitrust enforcer taken such an aggressive tone with companies operating in the EU marketplace. It’s certainly a more direct, even transparent way of proceeding that her predecessor, Spanish commissioner Joaquín Almunia, who preferred negotiating closed-door settlements — a tactic that did not work, so far, with Google. In a throwback to the Monti days, Vestager last week threatened to block GE’s bid to acquire the French energy business Alstom without further modifications to the proposed merger — and that’s after the French government last year stepped in to demand a better deal. Continue reading Vestager’s profile hangs over Danish election →
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How Helle got her groove back in Denmark’s snap election
Not so long ago, British prime minister David Cameron suggested that his Danish counterpart, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, would make a good alternative candidate for the presidency of the European Commission.
Thorning-Schmidt (pictured above) demurred the speculation. Ultimately, European leaders embraced former Luxembourg prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker and instead of seeking a safe job in Brussels, Thorning-Schmidt became increasingly convinced that she could lead her center-left government to reelection in a vote originally expected in September.
A Rorschach test for EU economic policy?
Thorning-Schmidt called snap elections for June 18, hoping to take advantage of a growing sense of momentum. Indeed, she may have taken a different sort of comfort from Cameron, who last month won an even stronger mandate for a second term in his own general election. After a period of GDP contraction and fiscal tightening, Thorning-Schmidt is betting that nascent economy recovery and the promise of greater welfare spending in the years ahead will be enough to replicate Cameron’s feat in Denmark.
If she succeeds, both sides on the European debate over economic policy will try to claim victory. For the European center-right, a Thorning-Schmidt victory would provide more evidence that an electorate is willing to reward a government’s hard grind to demonstrate fiscal stability. For the European center-left, it would show the way forward for social democrats struggling to salvage, reform and reinvent the welfare state in an age of austerity.
Furthermore, as the second-most populous Nordic country, Denmark (with 5.7 million people) is a weathervane of all the recent political, cultural and economic trends across northern Europe — and where the region may be headed.
How Helle turned a near-certain defeat into a dead heat
Thorning-Schmidt is the leader of the Socialdemokraterne (Social Democrats), the largest party on the Danish left, and she leads an informal ‘red’ coalition of parties that may be willing to join forces for a broad leftist government after the election. Not surprisingly, she won sympathy from voters in the wake of a radical Islamic attack on a Copenhagen cafe and synagogue in February. Moreover, she is hoping that forecasts of 1.5% or greater GDP growth will overshadow the GDP contraction and fiscal contraction that marked the first half of her government. Continue reading How Helle got her groove back in Denmark’s snap election →
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European Union, Luxembourg
Juncker’s first ‘scandal’ shouldn’t merit resignation calls
November 6, 2014 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
I spoke with RIA Novosti earlier today about the revelations that Luxembourg’s government has been much more intimately involved in granting tax concessions to international companies. Those revelations come less than a week after former Luxembourgish prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker officially took office as president of the European Commission.Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right, eurosceptic Front national (National Front) has already called on him to resign.
My full remarks follow below:
It’s a very embarrassing position for Juncker, because he only took office as the president of the European Commission a few days ago, and he’ll take some perhaps well-deserved political heat for the matter, and it probably reduces his credibility on tax reform matters.
Everyone has, in the back of their minds, the example of the Santer Commission, which resigned en masse in 1999 over corruption. For now, the revelations do not appear to implicate Juncker in anything more than the kind of aggressive steps that state leaders sometimes take to attract foreign development and investment. If, for example, Juncker was found to have taken personal kickbacks in exchange for favorable treatment, it would be a much more serious allegation for himself, for the Commission, and for confidence in Luxembourg’s institutions. But there’s no evidence of that.
Meanwhile, the Commission is a professional regulatory body, and any investigations into Amazon or other companies that received state aid in potential violation of European law will be conducted by Denmark’s Margrethe Vestager, the EU commissioner for competition, who is a former minister of economic affairs and deputy prime minister. It’s helpful, from an ideological perspective, that Vestager comes from the Danish Social Liberal Party, which should give some comfort to the European Parliament’s leftists. Ultimately, this is less a ‘scandal’ than a valid policy issue, insofar as Luxembourg and other countries have long pushed the envelope in making their jurisdictions extremely favorable to international companies. Note the Irish government’s decision last month to revise the ‘double Irish’ structure so common in the taxation of intellectual property assets. So as the Commission and other EU (and even international) institutions look into these decisions, it will help clarify the line between permissible and impermissible in the future.
Marine Le Pen is hardly the best critic on the matter, because her party has long been in favor of lowering taxes and promoting the kind of economic nationalist steps that Luxembourg’s officials may have taken with many international companies. Her call for Juncker’s resignation isn’t credible, but it’s very important for her to maximize support among the eurosceptic French right if she’s going to have any credible shot at winning the French presidency in 2017, a task made much more difficult by the return of former president Nicolas Sarkozy.
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The 13 key EU players in the proposed Juncker Commission
September 12, 2014 Kevin Lees 1 Comment
On Wednesday, the incoming president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker (pictured above), released full details on the proposed commissioners within his Commission, which will serve as the chief executive and administrative body of the European Union between 2014 and 2019.
The most important feature of the proposed Juncker Commission is that he’s introduced the greatest amount of hierarchy in an institution that used to be flat. It’s not a secret that some portfolios have always been more desirable than others, especially as the Commission has expanded to include all 28 member-states. But Juncker has introduced a first vice president and five vice presidents, who will also serve alongside Italy’s foreign minister Federica Mogherini, who was appointed two weeks ago to serve as Commission vice president and high representative for foreign affairs and security policy.
The delegation of so much power to five ‘super-commissioners’ with roving, supervisory briefs indicates that Juncker intends to be a much less hands-on Commission president that his predecessor, José Manuel Barroso. But it also reflects a Commission that, including Luxembourg’s Juncker, contains five former prime ministers (Finland, Slovenia, Latvia and Estonia). It also contains four incumbents (Germany, Sweden, Bulgaria and Austria) who have served throughout the full second term of the Barroso Commission. That makes the Juncker Commission possibly the most distinguished in EU history.
Each commissioner must be approved by the European parliament and, while individual nominees have had troubles in the past, the parliament typically approves the vast majority of a Commission president’s appointments, all of whom were nominated by their respective national governments.
With nine women, it’s not as unbalanced as feared even a week or two ago, and with 14 members of the center-right European People’s Party (EPP), eight members of the center-left Party of European Socialists (PES) and five members of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), it generally reflects the results of the May 25 European parliamentary elections, though some social democrats and socialists are grumbling that the left doesn’t have enough representation.
So what can we expect from this illustrious college of commissioners?
Here’s a look at the 13 most important players in the proposed Commission (aside from Juncker and Mogherini, of course). Continue reading The 13 key EU players in the proposed Juncker Commission →
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How Goldman Sachs nearly collapsed Denmark’s government last week
February 4, 2014 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
A crisis over whether to approve the sale of part of Denmark’s state energy company to Goldman Sachs divides the country’s beleaguered minority government, leaving the first female Danish prime minister and her administration in jeopardy.
It sounds like an episode of Borgen, the acclaimed television show about Danish political intrigue and the human costs of public office.*
But it was real-life Danish politics last week, when Helle Thorning-Schmidt pushed through a controversial sale of stock amounting to 18% of DONG (Danish Oil and Natural Gas) Energy, the national energy company, to Goldman Sachs, even though nearly seven out of 10 Danish voters oppose the sale and worry that Goldman will hold too much power over management and other key decisions.
Thorning-Schmidt (pictured above) leads the Socialdemokraterne (Social Democrats), the largest center-left party in Denmark. In the September 2011 parliamentary elections, the Social Democrats actually lost a seat. The largest party today in the Danish parliament is Venstre (Liberals, literally the ‘Left’), Denmark’s primary center-right party.
But the strength of other leftist parties in the 179-member Folketing, the Danish parliament, allowed Thorning-Schmidt to pull together a minority government with the coalition support of two additional parties. The first is Det Radikale Venstre (Danish Social Liberal Party, literally the ‘Radical Left’), a centrist liberal party that gained eight seats in the 2011 election. Its leader, Margrethe Vestager, currently serves as deputy prime minister and minister for economic and interior affairs.
The second is the Socialistisk Folkeparti (the Socialist People’s Party), a democratic socialist party that lost seven seats in 2011. Accustomed to opposition, the party joined government only for the first time since 1959, and its leader Villy Søvndal became foreign minister. But Søvndal stepped down in September 2012, due to criticism within the party about the 2011 losses and sniping that he was focusing more on government than on the party leadership. and in the ensuing leadership contest in October 2012, Annette Vilhelmsen defeated Astrid Krag. Though many party leaders supported Krag, Vilhelmsen’s victory represented a triumph for the party’s left wing, though the party never fully united behind Vilhelmsen’s leadership. Vilhelmsen clashed often with her coalition partners over economic policy, and it was Vilhelmsen’s decision to pull the party out of Thorning-Schmidt’s coalition at the end of last week, declaring that it wouldn’t be a part of government ‘at all costs.’ Continue reading How Goldman Sachs nearly collapsed Denmark’s government last week →
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A Call to Preserve Memory Through a Future Gaze
How is Palestine represented in contemporary art, and how do Palestinian artists deal with the notions of memory and the past? Larissa Sansour raises in her work many questions concerning ideas of sanctity, homeland, and memory, in a manner that helps turning them into an illusion. In an analytical review and an in-depth critical gaze, scholar Housni Alkhateeb Shehada presents a broad picture of the place, the dialogue, the memory, and the conflict the figures are experiencing in the work recently presented by Sansour, in the Danish Pavilion, at the 58th Venice Biennale.
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Other than Whom?
“There is no curatorial passivism, any more than there is a passivist war.” Michal B. Ron reviews Maura Reilly’s book Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating and adds a note about the heroless politeness of the recent Berlin Biennial.
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Returning to Accra: Between Nina Simone, Ama Ata Aidoo, Fassbinder, and the Cockettes
Moving across New York and San Francisco, Paris and Munich, Accra and Lagos, artist and scholar Malik Gaines’s Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible offers a lively and affirmative account of stage, dress, film and television, and music performance. Saadi Nikro reviews Gaines’s recently published book, discussing its many intersections of race, theatricality, subjectivity, and sexuality.
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Metaphoric Sites
In the midst of the general lack of commitment of the central exhibition of the Venice Biennale this year, Avi Lubin visits three significant and interesting projects that offer metaphoric sites and spaces for experimentation and cooperation.
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In Search of Critical Curating
In light of the recent criticism of documenta 14 and the Venice Biennial, Noah Simblist returns to the book/magazine issue “Curating Critique,” to comment on whether and where curating and criticality might meet today.
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Two Point Perspective (part II): the Dialogical Exchange
In the second part of his essay analysing Akram Zaatari’s 2013 work “Letter to a Refusing Pilot,” Noah Simblist addresses a previous work by the artist that involved a conversation with filmmaker Avi Mograbi. Simblist is reading this work through the prism of dialogical exchange, referencing Grant Kester’s definition of “dialogical art,” as well as Ella Shohat’s observations on the identity politics of Mizrachi or Arab Jews.
Two Point Perspective (part I): Letter to a Refusing Pilot
In the summer of 1982, during Israel’s incursion into Southern Lebanon, a story swirled around the port town of Saida that acquired mythological flourishes: One of the Israeli fighter jets that were sent to the nearby Palestinian refugee camp of Ain El-Helweh, aborted its mission to bomb a school building, its pilot dropping the bombs into the sea instead. In a text for Tohu Magazine, that will be published in 3 parts, Noah Simblist dives into Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari’s work, Letter to a Refusing Pilot, instigated by this true story.
No Tricks, No Scams. Marcel Broodthaers at the Fridericianum, Kassel
Did this year’s posthumous attempts at exhibiting Marcel Broodthaers's work rise to the challenge? Would his future retrospective at MoMA? Michal B. Ron is tackling these questions and their inherent paradox.
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Armeria denticulata (Bertol.) DC. (Plumbaginaceae)
Astuti, Giovanni, Bartolucci, Fabrizio, Conti, Fabio, Cera, Beatrice, Giaco, Antonio, Orsenigo, Simone, Sandroni, Luca & Peruzzi, Lorenzo, 2021, Chromosome numbers for the Italian flora: 12, Italian Botanist 12, pp. 123-131 : 123
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2 n = 18 (Fig. 2 View Figure 2 ).
Voucher specimens.
Italy. Liguria. Sarzana (La Spezia), nei pressi del castello della Brina (WGS84: 44.14732N, 9.95068E), 11 June 2021, L. Sandroni (PI049856-PI049876). Toscana. Rosignano Marittimo (Livorno), Poggio Pelato (WGS84: 43.43525N, 10.43103E), 25 May 2021, L. Sandroni & G. Astuti (PI049924-PI049948); Prato, Monteferrato (WGS84: 43.92042N, 11.07572E), 9 June 2021, L. Sandroni (PI049902-PI049923).
Squash preparations were made on root tips obtained from germinating seeds. Root tips were pre-treated with 0.4% colchicine for 3 hours and then fixed in Carnoy fixative solution for 1 hour. After hydrolysis in HCl 1N at 60 °C, the tips were stained in leuco-basic fuchsine for 7-8 minutes.
This species is endemic to ophiolitic substrates of western Liguria and Toscana ( Arrigoni 2015). The type locality of this species is in Liguria, but very close to the border with Toscana, where the vast majority of populations is found. We report here three counts, one obtained from plants collected in the type locality and two from elsewhere in Toscana. These data confirm the 2 n = 18 chromosome number reported for Impruneta, Firenze ( Arrigoni et al. 1976, 1980). This is also the only known number for the entire genus ( Rice et al. 2014 +).
Figure 2. Armeria denticulata (Bertol.) DC. from (a) Castello della Brina (Sarzana, La Spezia), (b) Poggio Pelato (Rosignano, Livorno), and (c) Monteferrato (Prato), 2 n = 18. Scale bar: 10 μm.
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CNN: VA to Apologize for Mistaken ALS Disease Notifications
Written by Ashley Hayes, CNN
(CNN) -- The Department of Veterans Affairs said Wednesday it will apologize to veterans who were mistakenly told they'd been diagnosed with a fatal neurological condition.
Letters were sent last week to 1,864 veterans and survivors, the VA said in a written statement. They were supposed to be sent to veterans with ALS -- also known as Lou Gehrig's disease -- to keep them apprised of expanding benefits eligibility.
"According to the records of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), you have a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)," said the letter, according to the National Gulf War Resource Center. "This letter tells you about VA disability compensation benefits that may be available to you."
But some who received the letters, like Brent Casey, do not have ALS. Casey, a disabled Army veteran from the first Gulf War, told CNN that when he received the letter, he was "just completely beside myself. Just floored. Went into a complete and total meltdown. I couldn't speak, couldn't -- I guess I was, truthfully, speechless."
After hearing from veterans who received the letter but do not have ALS, the VA immediately began reviewing individual claims files for all the recipients to determine who received the letter by mistake, agency spokeswoman Katie Roberts said in the statement. "VA employees are personally contacting these individuals to ensure they understand the letter should not be confused with a medical diagnosis of ALS, explain why they mistakenly received the letter and express VA's sincere apologies for the distress caused by this unfortunate and regrettable error."
"It's not right for it to happen this way," Casey said. "Regardless if it was the case that I was diagnosed with ALS, that would be the worst possible way for an organization to let an individual know."
Upon receiving the letter, some veterans sought a second opinion outside the VA, according to veterans' service organizations, paying for doctors' consultations out of their own pockets. The VA said it will reimburse those veterans for the costs.
In addition, the VA said it is reviewing its notification process to make sure a similar error doesn't happen again.
The AmVets service organization is "encouraged" by the VA's response to the situation, and pleased to see they caught the error, said spokesman Ryan Gallucci.
According to the VA:
Last September the Secretary of Veterans Affairs made amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) a presumptively compensable illness for all Veterans with 90 days or more of continuous active service in the military. As a result, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) can now pay disability compensation to Veterans with ALS. Their survivors are also eligible for VA benefits.
In an effort to provide Veterans this new and much-needed support, VA sent notification letters to Veterans with ALS advising them of their potential eligibility for disability compensation benefits. On August 13, 2009, VA sent outreach letters to 1,864 Veterans and survivors across the country. Unfortunately, VA made a coding error and a number of Veterans who should not have received this letter did. The Department is reviewing individual claims files for all the recipients of this letter to identify those who received it by mistake.
VA employees are calling Veterans and survivors to ensure that they understand the purpose of the letter, explain why they mistakenly received the letter, and express VA’s sincere apologies for the distress caused by this unfortunate and regrettable error.
Q & A:
Q: How many Veterans have been affected?
A: Approximately one third of the letters VA sent were miscoded.
Q: Will VA be issuing a formal apology?
A: Yes, the Department is calling all affected Veterans and will also be issuing them a formal letter of apology.
Q: Why did Veterans who do not have ALS get letters?
A: VA used data and information from its data base to identify Veterans diagnosed with ALS or who had filed a claim for ALS, but were not currently receiving disability compensation benefits for the condition. However, as a result of problems in the codes VA used to identify these Veterans, VA sent the letter to some Veterans who do not have ALS.
Q: What is VA doing to correct the mistake?
A: We are working to identify the specific problems that caused the misidentification of Veterans records. We will ensure any future data extracts for similar outreach purposes are properly formulated and independently validated to prevent these types of problems in the future.
Q: Will Veterans be reimbursed for medical expenses incurred?
A: VA will reimburse Veterans who incurred expenses for medical evaluations conducted as a result of receiving an erroneous notification.
Q: What will VA do to prevent this from happening again?
A: As a result of this incident, VA is creating a more rigorous process that includes thorough and careful screening of the data, comprehensive review and approval process that will include involvement from our stakeholders before release of notifications letters.
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Palin Goes Rogue on Afghanistan
Will Keola Thomas – Afghanistan Study Group
In Alaska, they say the only difference between Sarah Palin and a pitbull is lipstick. But on Tuesday, former Gov. Palin showed that unlike the famously obstinate pitbull, she knows when to let go.
In response to Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s comments threatening unspecified “unilateral action” if coalition airstrikes on civilian homes were not halted, Palin posted a statement on Facebook questioning the United States’ continued commitment to the regime in Kabul.
“If President Karzai continues with these public ultimatums, we must consider our options about the immediate future of U.S. troops in his country. If he actually follows through on his claim that Afghan forces will take “unilateral action” against NATO forces who conduct such air raids to take out terrorists and terrorist positions, that should result in the immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan and the suspension of U.S. aid. I still firmly support our mission in Afghanistan, but we must have the support of the host government. Our troops’ mission will be compromised and their safety endangered if the Afghan government threatens us.”
This is new territory for Palin and, as ASG co-founder Steve Clemons notes, it may be another sign that Palin is breaking with stay-the-course stalwarts like her former running-mate Sen. John McCain and “trust me we’re winning” neocons like Bill Kristol.
Kristol took a swipe at Palin in this regard during an interview with Politico’s Ben Smith:
“The surge in Iraq works. The surge in Afghanistan works…And now, everyone (even Palin, to some degree) decides, hey, time to back off? It’s foolish substantively and politically.”
Actually, it’s substantively “foolish” (putting it lightly) to throw billions of dollars and thousands of lives after a failed strategy and expect victory to follow.
And politically, Gov. Palin can take comfort in the knowledge that the conservative base is with her in questioning the logic of an open-ended commitment to a corrupt regime in Kabul.
The poll numbers support this conclusion. But Palin could also look to the 682 comments submitted in response to her Facebook post. If anything, Palin’s supporters are way ahead of her in demanding an end to the war.
From the comments:
Chris Cremeans My son is there. He is increasingly frustrated because his hands are basically tied. Let them do their jobs or BRING THEM HOME. Proud Army Mom.
Ashley Raber Dalland Its hard to read things like this cause my husband just deployed to Afghan, I would be more than happy if they pulled our troops out let them fight their own war if they dont appreciate our help. Sarah you are amazing!!
Jim Hinkle 1507 American Troops dead, $419Billion in American resources spent to date. Nine years in, we still don’t have and exit strategy, and this puppet is trying to tell us how to conduct the war. WHY ARE WE THERE? Time to plan our withdrawal.
Pat Hall I used to support our mission in Afghanistan – even when my grandson was there – but I no longer support it. We’re not getting anywhere. We’ve been there too long and have lost too many young men. Every time I hear of another one of our troops being blown up it breaks my heart. Enough is enough. And now – we’re being threatened by the Afghani govt????? We need to get out NOW.
Dave White We can support out troops without putting them in unwinnable situations, It’s time to bring the boys home, glad to see Sarah beginning to make that case..
Todd Arnold I’m moving to Afghanistan to get some US federal aid…sure as hell not getting it here!!!!!
Shayna Lee I think it is time to bring our troops home. It was time to bring our troops home two years ago, instead of escalating. I don’t know what we are doing in Afghanistan or hoping to accomplish.
Amy Weaver Jopson Sarah, I don’t know how or why you support the “effort” in Afghanistan. My husband is there & the majority of the troops realize everything they are doing is in vain! Our troops are dying in vain! We need to get out NOW!
Charles Zachary Belcher I have a son fighting with the Marines in Afghanistan. If we do not know why my son is risking his life, then bring him home early. Please do not risk my son for a government that does not want NATO there fighting for freedom and liberty.
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Jared Stancombe says:
As an aspiring scholar on Afghanistan and an American, this is equivalent to asking the gas station attendant after I fill my tank up “I will take $40 unleaded, and what do you think how we should move forward in Afghanistan?” The attendant’s uninformed answer is equivalent in intellect to Sarah Palin’s.
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Elegant icon wardrobe essentials: Keira Knightly in white shirt
Keira Knightley is among one of those time travelers, with a face and aura of someone who came from another time, another époque, another century.
In her films, she has been effortlessly traveling from centuries to centuries, countries to countries, and cities to cities. By putting herself into a white shirt or chemise of 19th century English countryside or that of the cosmopolitan Paris in the early 20th century, Keira Knightley becomes Elizabeth or Colette, she is Elizabeth or Colette.
When she walks down the screen and walks into her own life, Keira Knightley wears a different type of white shirt, simple, modern, and boyish, which fits her body as well as her nonchalant life style.
Keira Knightley in film Pride and Prejudice(2005)
Keira Knightley in film Anna Karenina(2012)
Keira Knightley with Joe Wright, 2007
Keira Knightley in film Can a Song Save Your Life?
Keira Knightley for ELLE UK, 2015
Keira Knightley in film Colette(2018)
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PARKS AND RECREATION JOBS IN NEBRASKA
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