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|E.Vicary Blogs from Stillwater|
|By Elizabeth Vicary|
|July 20, 2007|
by Elizabeth Vicary
Thank god I finally played a decent game against Camilla Baginskaite, and didn't choke like a complete moron. It's funny, I love sacking the exchange for some reason, I feel really cool and ultra-sophisticated doing it, but I can't remember winning a game with an exchange sacrifice before. This game against Camilla is probably one of my best ever, actually.
Of course then I lose to Melekhina:
It's an interesting, instructive game, at least I'm hoping when I figure out what I did wrong it will be instructive. Lots of tough choices: which pawn structure is better and which pieces to exchange and how to recapture. This tournament has definitely convinced me that I should always play in the Open section, every game is like four times more instructive than normal. It's a hard choice for me because I love to win so much and sulk like a baby when I lose, but I probably just need to deal with it.
My games from yesterday I have already almost completely forgotten, hopefully a testimony to my brain's ability to erase traumatic experiences, and not something more serious.
During my game against Chimi, I was convinced I was winning but my pawn sac is highly suspect if she plays ...c4 quickly.
People are telling me I had a draw if I played BxQe7 instead of f4, but at that point I just wasn't looking for one.
As for the Sveshnikov against Tatev...see, it happens frequently that I get really good positions out of the opening, then screw them up. I guess this means I'm not very good at middlegames and endgames.
It's Friday morning now, and I should be preparing for Anna Zatonskih. I guess by the time you read this I'll be finished, unless Jenn is super quick. Normally, Anna plays the Scandanavian with Qd6 and the French, but this tournament she's switching it up-- I've seen 2 caros and 1... e5. Maybe she's really changing her repertoire, maybe she's avoiding preparation, who knows. Against me she needs to try to win and hope Irina and Kat are both held to draws, although this is a double long shot as they are playing Tatev and the Airplane (Ed.Note- As noted below by Mark Ashland, Katerina is actually playing against Alisa Melekhina in the final round.). So I'm guessing she reverts to the Scandinavian. Amusingly, my preparation comes directly that big supporter of women's chess, Braden Bournival, the guy who's posting insane rants about how much this tournament sucks. I only met him briefly, but he's friends with my coach Dave, which is how I come to have this file. Kinda ironic, no? Anyway, THANKS BRAD!!! Way to support women's chess!!!
I would write more about all the fun I'm having here, amusing stories of late night parties etc, but I'm doing absolutely nothing except preparing and playing. My world has shrunk to a 100 square meter area of Oklahoma and a 64 square board. Hopefully tonight some fun? A wild Friday night in Stillwater, Oklahoma? I'll do my best... | <urn:uuid:2aab7df0-c61f-4fba-8c8e-c7fae04163be> | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | https://www.uschess.org/content/view/6607/358/ | 2015-07-30T23:08:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438042987775.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728002307-00171-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972589 | 711 |
Water follows me home like a ghost. La grisaille with long feathery arms lets me in. ‘Whereto next?’ it whispers, and white birds fill my heart with longing. ”How much room is there for memory, in the loose girdle of soft rain?” I want to tell you, too late, it can hold a hurricane, if you […]
Grey as the watery dawn, wet with the guts of frogs, the blood of moorhen chicks, Ardea Cineriae: ghosts upon the foreshore, patient for fish and history. Separate and sentinel, misplaced milestones, attendants to the helicoidal flow which undermines the river bank (the sliding snake that slowly eats the water-meadow).
During the month of The Kowloon I parted ways with my employer rain degged the raby mere where misspelled headstones sprung up like strangled teeth during the month of The Golden Wheel I returned home a man answered the door a messianic man at my mother’s side I ran toward Friday’s field a traveller dispute […]
Oyster by Michael Pedersen, with illustrations by Scott Hutchison (Birlinn, paperback, 128 pages. Out now and available here) Review by Will Burns In a world whose machinery has become increasingly greased with hate, a love poem can certainly be charged with radicalism. For Graves, they may have had to be bounced off the moon, but […]
The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life by André Naffs-Sahely (Penguin, paperback, 80 pages. Out now) Review by Robert Selby ‘All my life, I’ve felt like a Jew, or a Gipsy, or some hapless scion of a lost wandering tribe’, writes André Naffis-Sahely in his poem ‘This Most Serene Republic’, ‘But they, at least, have […] | <urn:uuid:c26b6219-66da-47d9-a066-c9b87ce033be> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://www.caughtbytheriver.net/category/poetry/page/2/ | 2017-11-19T01:22:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805242.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20171119004302-20171119024302-00778.warc.gz | en | 0.906265 | 415 |
It seems that Gov. Mitt Romney will stop at nothing in his quest to outlaw gay marriage. On Dec. 27, the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled on a Romney lawsuit against the legislature. The SJC rejected Mitt’s demands to force the Legislature to vote.
Last week, the Boston Globe reported that Romney is threatening legislators by holding up their pay raises, which are supposed to be automatic.
I urge our legislators to continue to resist Mitt’s ploys. Gay marriage has hurt no one, and it has made many people very happy. My personal experience with it was my joy at the fact that two of my close friends who had been together were finally able to make their union legal.
I believe there are many more pressing matters that need the attention of our legislators, such as education, health care and the economy. Let’s spend our tax money working on improving life in Massachusetts, rather than on a protracted debate about same-sex marriage! | <urn:uuid:522bf236-380b-4faf-b09b-03e50b7b33fb> | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | http://jamaicaplaingazette.com/2007/01/05/resist_governor%E2%80%99s_ploys_to_end_same_sex_marriage/ | 2014-09-17T23:37:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657124771.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011204-00185-ip-10-196-40-205.us-west-1.compute.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982921 | 200 |
|Saturday night, five Summerset High cheerleaders and their boyfriends
celebrated Halloween at the annual Fright Night Party at the school.
None of the girls came to the event disguised as a cheerleader; instead,
each dressed as her favorite Walt Disney heroine, with one masquerading as
Ariel. The boyfriends took the Fright Night theme seriously, each dressing
as a horror film character, with one coming as Halloween's Michael
Myers. From the clues below, can you find each couple's names and the
characters they became on Fright Night?
- Sean and his date and Emma and her boyfriend, who isn't Will, were the
first two of the five couples to arrive at the party.
- Danielle, whose date didn't dress as Leatherface of Texas Chainsaw
Massacre fame, isn't the girl who went to the party as Snow White.
- Beth, whose boyfriend isn't the one who masqueraded as Jason from
Friday the 13th, didn't dress as Pocahontas.
- Ally's date didn't dress up as Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy
- Paul isn't the boy who took on the role of Chucky in Child's Play.
- The last two of the five couples to arrive at the party were the girl
dressed as Pocahontas and her boyfriend and the boy disguised as
Leatherface and his date.
- The boy who dressed as Freddy Krueger and the girl who dressed as Snow White,
who isn't Will's girlfriend, aren't a couple.
- Thad's girlfriend is neither Courtney nor Danielle.
- Emma's date didn't go to the Fright Night Party as either Freddy Krueger
- The boy dressed as Chucky and his date, who didn't masquerade as
Pocahontas, weren't one of the first two couples of the five to arrive
at the event.
- Ross's girlfriend isn't the one who dressed as Tinker Bell.
- The five girls are Danielle, Will's date, the one who dressed as
Cinderella, and the girls whose boyfriends went to the party as Jason
and Freddy Krueger. | <urn:uuid:a5480896-a632-4d50-a41a-b1cf96b97c16> | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | http://www.allstarpuzzles.com/logic/00241.html | 2018-02-19T12:17:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891812584.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20180219111908-20180219131908-00589.warc.gz | en | 0.97286 | 461 |
This tea didn’t impress me as outstanding in any way, despite its pretty blue malva blossoms. The complexity I look for in an oolong just wasn’t there. Toasty taste without sweetness or florality, not even the promised (and hoped-for) violet. A bit of spice and caramel emerged in the third steep. However, it must be noted that added flavorings, such as (in this case) violet, weaken with age faster than the innate flavor of the tea. My sample came from a swap, in a well-worn bag, which might indicate an old or ill-kept bit of tea. So I moderated my rating accordingly. | <urn:uuid:30b44895-05eb-4740-9cf2-9b5ec91d41ac> | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | http://steepster.com/teas/teanoir/973-ultraviolet | 2016-07-25T22:19:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469257824395.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723071024-00240-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96565 | 141 |
As is obvious from the Alito opinion that has been leaked, if Roe is overturned, abortion will not be outlawed.
If Roe is outlawed, legislatures, elected by citizens, will regulate abortion.
In my opinion, it is the fact that the people, not a Court, might define access to abortion is that has Blue MAGA progressives poopin their pants because they know that the people disagree with them and, in practice, agree with pro lifers, not the pro choice crowd.
Here in Pennsylvania, the 022 Primary election is on May 17. On the very day that the Alito opinion was leaked, candidates in both parties began to stake out their position on abortion.
For the Dems, both the Senate and gubernatorial nominations are, essentially, settled. The man leading in the polls, in both cases, has a huge lead.
On the day the opinion leaked, both men came out strongly in favor of keeping abortion legal. While they have not been specific, their language suggests that they favor access to abortion to the moment of birth.
On the GOP side, there are about a half dozen serious candidates for the GOP place on the fall ballot for both Senate and governor. Many of them have already staked out their position on abortion. From what I can tell, a few are as absolutist in being pro life as the Dems are in being pro choice. But, not most.
The GOPs tend to favor limiting abortion to protect the life of the mother, some include exceptions for rape and incest. Bottom line: there's more care, more nuance among GOPs than there is for the Dems.
So, when people vote, what happens?
First, most voters don't make decisions based on a candidate's position on abortion.
As much as Pocahontas and Kammy want people to storm the polls to vote out pro life GOPs,...ain't happening.
Second, among the what?, 10-15 percent of voters who vote on abortion, the standard, absolutist position of the Dems, favoring the sucking out of a baby's brain in mommy's 39th week of pregnancy?, few voters groove on that. Very few. Very, very few.
If the Court follows through on the Alito opinion, either the federal legislature or state legislatures will regulate abortion and the extreme views of nearly all Dems won't be popular.
I've made the point that the GOP has become the party of openness and inclusion. And, it is.
But, on abortion? Noop.
On abortion, Dems are wacko pro choice and GOPs are pro life...in it's many shades. And, most voters will be far more comfortable with the nuanced sanity of the GOP than the extremism of the Dems.
GOP ads featuring the rage of Pocahontas, bahahahahahahahahahaha, will fill the airways and GOPs will, undoubtedly, win on abortion. | <urn:uuid:a502a52b-1dfa-488d-9abc-c916ef81df30> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://selectsmart.com/post/index.html?article=1470 | 2022-08-18T05:35:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00747.warc.gz | en | 0.961375 | 602 |
I am finally going to blog on CSA and Coop groups!!!!!
For those 9 of you, who follow my blog, you will know that we are apart of a food share (or a CSA group). You may not know that we are also part of a Coop group. The Coop group is where we pick up local RAW milk and RAW butter, along with other great organic and local produce and vegetables.
This is our family's first year being apart of a CSA or Coop... This will NOT be our last. We will be joining these groups FOREVER!!!!! We have really enjoyed weekly pick ups of delicious (LOCAL and Organic) fruits and vegetables!
I wanted to make sure that I posted these GREAT resources for you, my 9 followers! :) These websites will help direct you in the right direction for local produce. I know that the season is slowing down in some areas but at least you will have the information for next year.
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Directory.
Coop Directory Group Directory.
Also - here is a great site to find out when and where Local Farmer's Markets meet in your area!
Please feel free to ask me any questions about CSA and Coop Groups! I am here to help!!!!
I will list these resources on the sidebar of the blog!!!! I really hope that this websites help you eat more LOCAL grown food!!!! :) | <urn:uuid:d04ab990-aa17-4be1-8b52-40f7b33b6bfb> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://enjoyinghealthyfoods.blogspot.com/2010/08/csa-and-coop-groups.html | 2017-10-22T22:56:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187825473.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20171022222745-20171023002745-00434.warc.gz | en | 0.942889 | 289 |
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The documentary that first aired on the network in 1997. Just in case it's taken down (as has been in the past), there's a backup copy in five parts after the jump.
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Time to Rock!!
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Winner of Miss Universe pageant 1994 and Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen has always managed to impress her fans with her amazing looks and style quotient. The ‘Main Hoon Na’ actress recently shared a stunning selfie on Instagram where she looks unrecognizable.
Sushmita Sen shared a dazzling selfie on Instagram where she looks unrecognizable. Sushmita Sen won’t not be doing movies at show but rather she’s reliably fulfilling her fans with her Instagram posts.
Thinking of her as prevalence via web-based networking media, it isn’t shocking to see that she has collected 1.2 million followers in under one and a half years. She took the twitter and shared her selfie where the previous lovely lady looks totally unrecognizable.
She took the twitter and shared her selfie where the former beauty queen looks completely unrecognizable. She captioned it, “Our version of #khaleesi The Game of Dragons see I read all your comments…ALWAYS!!! #passionately yours….mmmuuuaaah!!! I love you guys!!!.” It looks like, Susmita is huge fan of popular TV show ‘Game of Thrones and fan of the character Khaleesi aka Daenerys Targaryen played by Emilia Clarke. | <urn:uuid:cffb3ba4-bdf8-4313-9288-9bdd74ac5438> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | http://circleofbollywood.in/2017/07/take-a-look-on-this-picture-of-sushmita-sen/ | 2018-03-19T00:44:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257646189.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20180319003616-20180319023616-00528.warc.gz | en | 0.950397 | 265 |
You are thinking of adding a new string to your bow. And want to enhance your career by gaining a qualification in mediation and dispute resolution. With the state of the modern world, there are plenty of tensions between colleagues, neighbors and communities which require professional help. And you can start to make a change for the better. Help people resolve their difficulties using communication and negotiation skills. Whether you already have some form of qualification in mediation and want to enhance your career. Or want to start learning with accredited mediation training courses. Edwards Mediation Academy can provide the training that you need to become a professional mediator.
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If you want to become a mediator, then you will need to learn the basic skills and principles which underlie the practice of mediation. For example, you should know how to work with people. Talking to individuals to reveal their goals. Showing them also how to meet their needs through discussion and compromise. Edwards Mediation Academy can show you how a two-party mediation system works, and allow you to experience a real-world situation. Showing you how it can be formed into clear and predictable states.
They will give you guidance and allow you to learn from this experience. Allow yourself to get the best results possible from your learning skills. This is a complete program which can be broken down into different modules. Taken online and easily completed with 40 hours of training and work. EMA will also encourage you to reflect on your new skills and practice what you have learned. Apply it in online exchanges and worksheets.
Develop Your Career
The next stage in learning mediation to improve your career is to take EMA’s course. Which will allow you to develop that career. They believe that people in the legal profession, HR managers and staff, business professionals and community leaders are all able to benefit from this course. As it will encourage you to think more about your mediation skills, and where your particular talents lie. Either in commercial, corporate, government, public or community mediation processes. By studying their course, you can learn more about how to get the most from your career by focusing it upon one particular area of dispute resolution.
Do More With Mediation
When you become a student of Edwards Mediation Academy, you will be able to access accredited mediation training courses that will teach you to become a skilled mediator in a variety of disputes. They can help you to boost your career by focusing upon one particular area, and show you exactly what you need to do in order to succeed. If you would like to know more about how mediation courses could help your career, or you would like to take one of their specialist courses, then you need to contact the Edwards Mediation Academy team, either by contacting them through their online message form, or by calling (877) 927-1362 today. | <urn:uuid:ab3c40c1-221c-4721-a4f6-7277f4b3a971> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | http://bronsonstar.com/try-new-career-accredited-mediation-training-courses/ | 2021-04-23T14:45:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618039594808.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20210423131042-20210423161042-00410.warc.gz | en | 0.969782 | 577 |
Jaisalmer, the "Golden" city
Trip Start Feb 07, 2008
17Trip End Mar 31, 2008
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Palace Hights (hotel name is as it appears on outside sign)
In the eastern most part of the state of Rajasthan (close to the Pakistan border)
Population = 60,000
Founded in 1156, Jaisalmer's strategic position on the camel-train routes between India and Central Asia brought it great wealth. The townspeople and merchants built great mansions exquisitely carved from wood and sandstone (the art of carving wood and sandstone is still alive today as you can see in our pictures). The rise in the importance of shipping and the port of Mumbai resulted in Jaisalmer's decline along with other factors such as water shortages and cutting of the trade routes through Pakistan.
Bordering the Great Thar Desert, Jaisalmer is a giant sandcastle with a town attached, an emblem of honor in a land of rough and tumble
Jaisalmer is known as the "golden city" because everyone uses natural gold colored sandstone to build houses, monuments, and other buildings. When the stone is polished, it shines like the amber gemstone. Most outside walls of buildings are not polished but you can still see the golden hue of the stone.
Sights that we saw:
3 famous Havelis owned by the royal family and still run by the descendents of the family. | <urn:uuid:b215ea9c-6b67-4b1a-93b1-e24ec759ffd1> | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | http://blog.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/josie_ty/1/1202902200/tpod.html | 2014-08-30T00:22:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1408500833525.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20140820021353-00357-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946525 | 317 |
Looking for new volunteers
Posted in: News on September 8, 2016.
In order to make sure that the Willows Support Group can continue to maintain and grow its support to bereaved parents, the Group is seeking new committee volunteers and a fundraiser to join us.
Would you be interested?
The role will include:
Being present at the monthly meetings
Helping reply to email correspondence
Encourage sponsorship opportunities
Identify and implement ways to educate the public in the subject of stillbirth & neonatal deaths
Be present at each quarterly committee meetings and one AGM.
We seek committee members who have lost babies themselves, so they can offer an empathetic, understanding and judgement free support role. Given the nature of the role, we recommend that people have had at least one year since their loss before applying to join the committee.
For a full description of both roles, please email email@example.com | <urn:uuid:cc906d93-2b37-4416-804f-6817655c233e> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.willowssupportgroup.co.uk/news/newvolunteers/ | 2019-07-20T00:58:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526401.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20190720004131-20190720030131-00415.warc.gz | en | 0.934086 | 194 |
Divorce mediation is a voluntary process where divorcing couples work together with a trained mediator to negotiate and resolve their differences in a non-adversarial forum.
For many divorcing couples, mediation has become a viable alternative to the financial and emotional costs of traditional adversarial legal representation. Sensibly used, mediation provides the opportunity to find fair and realistic solutions to the economic and practical issues facing the family and also helps to heal the psychological rift.
Mediation is based on the premise that the people getting divorced are in the best position to make decisions that will have long-term personal and financial consequences on their lives."The central quality of mediation...[is] its capacity to reorient the parties toward each other, not by imposing rules on them, but by helping them to achieve a new and shared perception of their relationship." | <urn:uuid:ec066667-c65c-46e4-8636-ba0f156881ce> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://barryberkmanmediation.com/divorce_mediation.html | 2017-08-16T21:24:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886102663.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170816212248-20170816232248-00131.warc.gz | en | 0.962893 | 168 |
So many ways to help
If you’d like to be a part of “Building Tulsa, Building Lives” there are a number of ways you can help. Choose one or any number of these options:
As a public-private partnership, “Building Tulsa, Building Lives” is funded by state and federal funds, along with private contributions from people like you.
Your donation is an investment in the future of Tulsa. Your generosity helps those who have been homeless to re-establish their lives and re-integrate into the fabric of our community.
Donations to the project can be made through the Tulsa Community Foundation.
You can donate online or send your tax-deductible contribution to:
Building Tulsa, Building Lives
1870 S. Boulder
Tulsa, OK 74119-5234
Checks should be made payable to "Tulsa Community Foundation". Please include a signed note indicating the name of the fund, Building Tulsa, Building Lives Fund, and the account number, 91-0061-WC-0.
- Kitchen items
Dishes, silverware, small appliances, pots and pans, cooking utensils
Sheets, blankets, comforters, towels
Love seats, chairs, dressers, tables, bed frames
(Note: Space is limited in our small one-bedroom and efficiency apartments)
- New toiletries
Bar soap, shampoo, deodorant, disposable razors, shaving cream, toilet paper, toothpaste, toothbrushes, dental floss
Cleaning supplies, laundry baskets, laundry detergent, lamps, light bulbs, paper towels
Sorry, we CANNOT accept paint, large appliances, children’s items, or tires.
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Next Member's Meeting: ALL meetings cancelled until further notice
The AUAN is a non-profit, non-political organisation campaigning to bring about the legalisation of homes in Andalucía currently considered to be "illegal".
Our association originated in the Valley of Almanzora. According to figures published by the Junta de Andalucía there are 12,697 illegal constructions in the Valley of Almanzora. Many of these are homes purchased in good faith by European Citizens (the majority British) in the period from 2000-2006 when the valley witnessed an uncontrolled construction boom. Today many are without mains water and electricity. Many more have dubious electricity connections and lack a final habitation certificate.
The area is blighted as a consequence of the arrangements made between the then serving Town Hall officials and builders, to construct with building licences granted by the Town Hall but without authority from the regional government. Some developers were allowed to construct houses with inadequate building licences or no licence at all. During this period an estimated £100m+ was paid to developers by unsuspecting families, some with children and (the majority) of retirement age.
Our members bear witness to corruption and greed amongst government employees, builders, estate agents and the supporting professions (lawyers, architects etc) many of them in denial, but still in possession of massive sums of money obtained through their activities.
Our experience in the Almanzora Valley is a microcosm of problems throughout Andalucía where there is an estimated 300,000 illegal properties according to the regional government.
We are open to everyone in Andalucía who purchased their property in good faith, and now find themselves in a position of legal uncertainty.
We are federated to FAUN, the National Federation of Organisations against urban abuse.
• To bring about, as far as it is possible, the proper legalisation of land and houses in Andalucía that are currently considered to be 'illegal' through collective representation to our councils, to the Central and Regional Government in Spain and to Europe if necessary for remedies in this regard.
• To secure a proper supply of water and electricity from the relevant providers as a legal right.
• To prevent or mitigate, as far as possible, any potential 'land-grab' or infrastructure costs having to be borne by owners of properties where these should be borne by other parties i.e. property developers where owners had not been informed of the future potential expense.
• To inform, support, and where possible, advise our members on matters which commonly affect them in relation to the foregoing, as far as is practicable.
What do we want?
We believe that the following changes are necessary to resolve the problem and make sure that it doesn't happen again.
Propuestas de AUAN (en Español)
1. PROPERTY ACQUIRED IN GOOD FAITH: In all cases of demolition of a property acquired in good faith by citizens, as a result of any administrative, contentious administrative or criminal proceedings, mechanisms must be established to ensure prior, real and effective compensation. Without prejudice to the previous statement, with regard to houses with licences belonging to owners who acted in good faith, these houses should only be demolished if there is an overriding public interest (areas of risk for example), and where no other alternative exists; otherwise such houses should be considered as assimilated to the regimen of 'fuera de ordenacion'. Citizens should not become victims of the maladministration of the state.
2. RECORD PROCEEDINGS IN THE PROPERTY REGISTER: The initiation and final outcome of any administrative or judicial review or file relating to urban discipline, the restoration of disturbed planning order, or relating to the annulment of licences or planning permissions should be inscribed in the Property Register. Failure to do so should oblige the responsible administration to indemnify the purchaser in good faith of the property for the damage and prejudice caused. This serves to promote legal certainty and prevent administrative neglect that results in prejudice to innocent third parties.
3. INSCRIPTION OF LIMITATIONS OF USE: As a statutory property right, any limitations or conditions which affect the use of land, or its ownership, for planning or environmental reasons should be the subject of inscription in the Property Register. Failure to do so should oblige the responsible administration to indemnify the purchaser in good faith for the damage and prejudice caused. The Register of Property should reflect reality. Over and above registration, the register should promote the principles of disclosure, the legal authority of the register, the protection of legal transactions and of inscribed rights.
4. EXPIRY OF ILLEGAL LAND PARCELS: The illegal creation of urban land parcels should be subject to the normal term of expiry established in article 185.1 of the LOUA and the inscription of the subdivision in the Property Register should be allowed. It goes against the constitutional principle of legal certainty not to set a time period in which the administration must act.
5. DUPLICATION AND LACK OF PROPORTIONALITY IN PROCEEDINGS: Administrative sanctions, which are currently disproportionate, should be tempered. A response via the penal route to an infraction should impede other courses of action. Submitting citizens to a series of different proceedings, added to the possibility of large fines, bankrupts the principle of proportionality.
6. EXTENSION OF THE REGIMEN OF ASSIMILATED TO 'FUERA DE ORDENACION': The status of assimilated to 'fuera de ordenacion' should be given to all houses, whether they are in settlements or scattered rural settlements, granting them a licence of first occupation even before the planning changes take place. The same should apply to houses in areas of special protection which were completed prior to the establishment of the protection and these houses should be subject to the same time limits established in article 185.1 of the LOUA. The concept of assimilation to 'fuera de ordenacion' is confusing in the 'Regularisation Decree', is inconsistent with case law on the subject and establishes a number of 'second class' houses.
7. SETTLEMENTS ON PROTECTED LAND; It should be possible to incorporate a settlement of houses into planning even when the settlement is on protected land, if these houses: are not in zones of public domain or natural risk; when there is no serious damage to the environment; when the environmental values which resulted in the protection no longer exist; and when the demolition of the houses does not serve to effectively restore those values, or when the reestablishment measures are too costly or disproportionate.
8. FACILITIES FOR INCORPORATION INTO PLANNING: It must be possible, via a change to the LOUA, to create areas of planning regularisation, with improved planning standards, cessions and equipment; to establish a regional fund with eligible activities relating to the management of these areas, and to provide aid (deferred payments, loan facilities etc) to families whose economic situation prevents them from meeting the costs of urbanisation without substantial prejudice to their families finances.
9. INFORMATION AND TRANSPARENCY: Planning proceedings or planning infractions should be communicated individually and effectively to those directly impacted by these proceedings, or to those who may be prejudiced by them. Electronic consultation (via the Internet) of planning and environmental documents, pending approval or approved, should be ensured and should be a prerequisite for their validity. The Catastro should agree with the Property Register in a real and effective way.
10. PROFESSIONALS INVOLVED IN REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS: Establish measures to ensure the protection of the consumer in the purchase and sale of real estate. Establish the requirement for professionals involved in the negotiation or management of property transactions to meet adequate standards in terms of ability, skill and knowledge. Necessitate proper qualifications and professional indemnity insurance. Establish standards of practice designed to avoid conflicts of interest.
11. PROMOTERS AND CONSTRUCTORS: Should be covered by adequate guarantees, insurances or sureties, to cover possible liability to third parties, the proof of same should be a requirement in order to operate.
12. ARBITRATIONS: An independent system of arbitration should be established to settle conflicts between citizens and the administration in matters relating to urban planning.
Our fears for the future
1. We are fearful that current actions, especially those relating to any fines; demands for infrastructure payments; and the like; will lead to many home owners being put into a worse financial situation than they are in at present. This is already leading to much stress and anxiety for our members and, of course, many others.
2. We are fearful that this could also lead to many being forced to return to their homeland having lost their life savings because they cannot afford to legalise their home.
3. We fear that our constructors, our Town Halls, our architects and our lawyers will get away with what they have done because continents drift faster than a Spanish civil court case. A moot point anyway if you can’t afford to sue.
4. We are concerned that NEW areas of urbanisations will be included in some plans before the legalisation of properties already being occupied.
5. We believe that if the current plan of action continues without significant change many owners will not see a solution in their life-time. Under current Andalucian Planning Laws (LOUA) an urbanisation can only grow by a permitted amount over a certain period. This restriction has knowingly been far exceeded in many districts. Many owners will therefore not be made legal as authorities ‘hide’ behind this rule. The very one they broke in the first place! This law needs to be altered to allow for the existence of homes on rustic land for purposes not related to agriculture. You can imagine the constant fear and concern this brings when people see a distinct possibility that they will pass the problem and the possible financial burden on to their children.
6. We fear that we will be blamed and held responsible. In many cases home owners have been ‘duped’ into becoming a promoter of their property therefore liable to future infrastructure costs and any possible penalties (civil and criminal) that should have been the responsibility of the builders. We are already experiencing a problem where builders charge owners for various utilities and then fail to pay the supply company. Some owners have now been cut off from these services and asked to pay the outstanding charges or pay a large sum for re-connection.
7. We fear that we are seen as a ‘cash generator’ for our impoverished Councils. 50% of our members do not have access to mains water or electricity. Some local councils now require that the owners pay exorbitant amounts to be given permission to connect to these services.
8. We have no certainty! Some members have fully legalised documents for their property, now to be told that the Junta of Andalucía has withdrawn building licences for ‘irregularities’, in many cases court proceeding are being actioned. Their documents have official stamps from the very people that now take these actions.
9. We fear there is no justice! While many of our Human Rights have and continue to be abused, we know that we would struggle to see justice due to the slowness of Spain’s judicial system. While it would be our right to do so, it is a futile action and one that would probably take as long, if not longer, than the process they are currently taking. Many cannot afford it. To this extent we implore you to continue to seek, on our behalf, a fair and speedy solution.
10. We fear (with some justification) that we will be pilloried in the Spanish press, made scapegoats and portrayed as somehow complicit in the scandal of urban abuse. For example, an article in Teleprensa published 2nd September 2009 titled ‘Harsh attack by the British Community in Cantoria on the issue of illegal houses’ asserts that British residents knowingly purchased property on non urbanised land, made ‘black money’ payments to avoid Spanish tax, bought houses cheaply and most bizarrely of all, moved to Spain to take advantage of a free health care system.
11. We fear that our homes will be left in limbo, outside of any known planning regulation or ‘fuera de ordenacion’ with semi-legal status and simply left to return to the dust as a forgotten statistic of the Spanish planning scandal. We observe that this fear is already becoming a reality as the town plans emerge. | <urn:uuid:d23b6457-087a-4d8c-917a-75c55542f3e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | http://almanzora-au.org/ | 2022-10-05T18:38:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337663.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20221005172112-20221005202112-00346.warc.gz | en | 0.94151 | 2,600 |
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Recently, Arnab Goswami’s new channel ‘Republic ‘put out the following tweet about what kind of journalism it stands for. Not surprisingly, PR professionals were in the firing line:
The tweet sparked off a heated debate in specialised PR WhatsApp groups such as ‘One Source’ and ‘IPRF’.
Senior communications consultant, Anup Sharma believes that it’s not so much the use of the word ‘PR agent’ that is a problem, but the context in which it was used that seems to encourage the view that PR professionals are ‘fixing the news.’
Sharma points out that by that logic the late Pramod Mahajan, who was such a strong communicator for the BJP or any other party spokesperson who appears on TV shows are as much ‘agents’ of the cause they represent. Sharma opines that advertisers too, in that sense are brand ‘agents’. And journalists ‘news agents’.
Senior PR professional Rahul Rakesh, who is very active on various PR forums says, “My Initial response to such remarks is always- Ah! Not again. And then I get normal like "Please forgive them Father, for they do not know what they are saying ". However, I was taken by surprise by this tweet of Republic as it was somewhat not expected from them. Such tweets go on to prove one point- we are in a thankless profession. Our work, efforts mostly go unnoticed.”
Subhash Pais, founder and business head, i9 Communications sees the issue differently, as an obvious marketing position for the ‘Republic’. Says Pais, “I saw the tweet put out by Arnab and did not have any reaction. My $0.02 on the tweet were that Arnab was probably trying to draw attention to the tweet and was trying to bait a few people. He is starting a new venture and wants to be as much in the face of people and top of their mind as possible. Outrage was his currency at ‘Times Now’ and outrage is what he will continue to manufacture. I wouldn't be too bothered by the tweet.”
Murali, from the Tamil Nadu based ‘The PR Workshop’ agrees that one shouldn’t react to the tweet. He says, “Prima facie, I believe the PR fraternity has misunderstood what Arnab may have actually meant – he may be suggesting that his channel, ‘Republic’ is not looking at journalists who have been in the past acting as PR agents, be it for the political or business class. This has got misconstrued to be an attack on public relations professionals, given the tone and tenor of the tweet.”
Adds Murali bluntly, “Like it or not, we PR professionals are agents of communication for our clients – the client could be a corporate, a celebrity or just about anyone. It is our responsibility to hold the brief for them, and build an image and get media coverage, irrespective of the odds that may be stacked against us in some cases. Just because some prominent media face accuses the profession, it no way will affect our credibility, if we are wedded to the fundamental principles and ethics which bind us.”
Others have a few sharp questions for journalists.
B N Kumar, executive director, Concept PR & national president, Public Relations Council of India (PRCI) says that, “As someone who has come to PR from journalism (and continues to write), I can say with authority that journalists do need PR help for fling stories and getting the right contacts. In fact, there is no need to treat PR professionals with such scorn. We PR people only facilitate journalists get information, assist them verifying facts and thus contribute to avoiding publication of wrong news or even lies.”
A question of respect: PR vs. Journos
Finally, it boils down to one critical question. Respect, at the end of the day, must be earned. Says Pais, “I think we also need to closely look at ourselves and ask how we conduct ourselves. PR exists in the shadows, it’s a decent sized industry with a large number of people drawing employment and yet we are nowhere near to being anywhere close to organized, neither do we have any sort of a code of conduct. We roam around media persons like touts peddling our wares. Can't criticize others for not perceiving us right when we don't exactly conduct our own affairs with the right set of ethics.”
Sharma also agrees that sometimes PR professionals can act like an “Unbrand Ambassador”. He says, “PR consultants must move from being paper pushers to PR consultants. PR professionals contribute a lot to the stories that emerge. But, at press events this is not visible. Instead of interacting with the journalists, many PR professionals are busy with logistics. So, the image the journalist goes back with, is that of a person who hands them their press kit and organised their car.”
But many believe this is changing. Nitin Mantri, president, PRCAI agrees that “The PR industry has grappled with a perception problem for a while now. However, the nature of the profession is changing across the world. CEOs are getting more concerned about managing reputational risks as a company’s reputation is its most fragile asset. The profile of our external stakeholders has also dramatically changed to include the government, analysts, civil society, industry experts, bloggers, media, besides consumers. Communication strategists are supporting business objectives and successfully driving campaigns that leverage earned, owned, paid, shared and promoted media in all channels.”
Is the PR-Journo relationship changing?
Sharma feels that due to the crisis that many publications are facing and cutting down editions and journalists, journalists are seeing PR pros differently.
Pais agrees that, “I also think the last few years has brought media and PR closer together. I do think media persons realize that PR pros can be capable partners and facilitators and I think PR professionals are fast recognizing the need to build trust with the media I think the dynamic has positively changed over the last few years and I think that is set to continue.”
Commenting on the quality of journalists, Pais says that, “, I do come across the odd quack but that is a once in a blue moon phenomena. I understand my colleagues who work with me in my firm have faced all kinds; media persons who lie and misrepresent to ones who harass women with lewd text messages (Yes, there are those in journalism too) but for the most part we come across people who are very professional and want to do a good job.”
Pais also says that, “On the other hand, it would do us and individual firms no harm to put in a code of conduct in place for its people in terms of what is expected from them when they deal with media. I think this will ensure that a lot of strife and bad blood that is currently existent between the media and the PR industry is addressed in a professional manner. Right now, most firms just have a senior professional teaching the ropes without any checks and balances from above. That doesn't inspire much confidence for the industry.”
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1966: Douglas Charles Haring served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bolivia in Huywasi, la Paz beginning in 1966
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Douglas Charles Haring can be contacted at douglasharingayahoodcom
Country of Service: Bolivia
Training Group: 20
Cities you served in: Huywasi, la Paz
Arrival Year: 1966
Departure Year: 1968
Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:
Received a Masters in Architecture from Harvard in 1970 Have now relocated from Boston MA to 49 Knollwood Rd., Huntington, NY 11743.
Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:
It made me less confident in the self-centered role the United States has tried to maintain as a "upper power" in world affairs.
Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?:
Kirsten Jean Johnson, Mexico City
Any message for returned volunteers?:
I hope that other volunteers have shared their enlarged view ponts with their children and neighbors and that they continue to spend some time each week in community service and political discussion. What we learned may help other Amercians understand why everyone abroad does not love us while we try to convince ourselves that were have the highest standard of living.
Originally posted: December 8, 2006
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JazzTimes (p.93) - "[Vashlishan] distinguishes himself on the free trio number 'Pieces' and on his tribute to a towering sax influence, 'Blues for Brecker.'"
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Audio Mixer: Kent Heckman.
Liner Note Authors: David Liebman; Matt Vashlishan.
Recording information: Redrock Recording, Saylorburg, PA (12/17/2008-12/18/2008).
Photographers: David Coulter; Fran Kaufman.
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Spanish transfer expert Guillem Balague has ruled out a summer move for Sadio Mane, saying on his YouTube channel that Real Madrid are interested in signing a forward.
Yesterday, a report from the Guardian claimed that Los Blancos were willing to offer Raphael Varane in exchange for Sadio Mane.
Ballague has refuted these claims, saying: “[Is Sadio Mane a Real Madrid target?] No.
“Their intention is to get a striker, but there’s no money at the moment.”
As much as I would love to see Varane in a Liverpool shirt, it’s not a transfer I’d like at the expense of Mane. On current form, the 26-year-old is the best player at the club and is just one goal away from being the joint top goalscorer in the Premier League.
As much as Mohamed Salah was incredible last season, Mane has stepped up at a crucial point this year. His goals over the last few weeks have almost singlehandly ensured Liverpool are still in the title race.
Against Fulham, he scored and won a penalty to help the Reds to a dramatic win that sent the Reds back to the top of the table.
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Discussion in 'Rugby League Forum' started by Dee Why Eagle, Sep 20, 2013.
Just a quicky to say I thought Gallen was gracious when interviewed
it was all class, have to agree.
Totally agree. I was expecting the usualy stuff you get after games but his interview was actually really gracious and good.
They put in a top effort so should be proud
Nothing wrong with a good loser.
And he loses a lot, so he's got the practice.
Compare that to Thurston ...
Gallen has really matured in recent years. I used to think he was a tool, and was happy back around 07/08 when he wasn't playing Origin. Completely changed my mind over the last couple of years.
Well done Gallen and Sharks boys, it's been one helluva tough year for you and to get to Week 2 of the semis is a mighty effort.
He's a New South Welshman, a bit of class is expected, and he delivered.
Yeah i thought when he was talking about the know try and admitted the try was a no try was quite mature.
Have to agree, Jonathan Thurston could take a leaf out of Gallen's book.
JT was robbed - Gallen was beaten.
Good to hear - watching from the ground it looked like a whinge.
The sharks supporters on the bus with me all hate Morris now - it was a near thing for a try without his interference. Oh well too bad so sad
That is sport, it doesn't give you an excuse to act like a spoilt brat after a decision goes against you. How many times do we see teams score off the back of a penalty that wasn't justified, a dropped ball that was raked etc.. Does that then allow every captain to claim that the NRL is biased towards their team ?
Still can't stand the grub, but good to see he was gracious about it. In his interview with Fittler he said that Manly might not have stopped him anyway (he's right, we might not have), but rules are rules and he copped it sweet after seeing the replay knowing Morris had blown it.
A mature answer for someone who has matured a bit in the last few years. Thurston could learn a lot from that, but I seriously doubt he will. Once a whinger always a whinger.
Tell that to tooves. Mate he was robbed. We'd be spewing too. He'll I am still pissed at cechin for the ox penalty against the titans.
Their is a difference between questioning a decision and calling the whole competition as rigged. Why wasn't he fined ? I am not too sure that Toovey deserved a fine a few weeks ago, at what part of Toovey's rant did he lose his cool and say the refs were inept, was it the ridiculous call ?
The grammar Gods are crying
I like gal straight shooter, heart on sleeve not a bitch like jt
Who got CH9 Man of the match?
Tooves was basing his complaints on his opinion. I agree withi his opinion. JT was basing his complaint on a clear error that ended their comp. last year there was another clear error that ended their comp. I think the man Is entitled to show some passion and applaud him for it.
Loved how when Gallen was speaking to Hayne when his no try was being checked upstairs. "You cannot take that off me, I beat 5 guys".
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Abikyokan will be performing live on August 30th with one of the best lineups in recent Tokyo history. It is being organised by our friends Jebiotto who played with Abikyokan last year. Also playing will be N’Toko the electro hip-hop sensation from Slovenia, the always brilliant Praha Depart, the highly danceable Exoskeletone, and the experimental DJ Memai.
8/30 @ 東高円寺二万電圧 (Higashi-Koenji 20000 Den-atsu)
Open 18:30 / Start 19:00. Advance 1500 / Door 1800.
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MARIANNE LAKE: I've worked at JPMorgan for 14 years. It was something that was on my radar. The one thing I did to help myself was to really take opportunities during my time here to get a broad view of the firm. I worked in the corporate, investment, and retail arms, which isn't typical, and moved from London to New York in 2004. It was all a really helpful experience, but I didn't orchestrate [the promotion].
MC: Your predecessor, Doug Braunstein, left the post in the wake of the "London whale" scandal, in which JPMorgan's European bankers lost some $6 billion on bad trades. What kind of impact did that have on the firm?
ML: The organization did the right thing in trying to fix the issues, learn the lessons, and move on. We need to continue doing the work that regulators want us to do.
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ML: Not by the time I actually got the offer. This was the role on my list. It would have been irresponsible to go through the whole process, then get cold feet at the end. I thought hard about the impact this job would have on my life, and whether it was what I really wanted, before I threw my hat in the ring.
MC: What's a typical day like for you?
ML: No such thing. There are 7,800 people globally in our finance organization. I make sure we have the right staff and infrastructure, that our processes are efficient, that the numbers are right, and that the reporting is good. Then there's the business management aspect, working with Jamie [Dimon, JPMorgan's CEO] on everything from what's happening in the firm or industry to responding to what's in the news that day. Every day has a bit of everything.
MC: You report directly to Dimon. What's your relationship like?
ML: Our offices are right next door, and we're in and out of each other's offices multiple times a day. Every Friday night we try to sit down together and go over things, but it's not always necessary. We're usually on the same page.
MC: Why are women at your level still such a rarity on Wall Street?
ML: It's very hard to have a big answer to that question. Obviously it's true that as you go up the ranks, the number of women starts to decline. Whether that's because of "self-deselection" or other barriers—I think that depends on the firm, the industry, and the person. I've never felt that being a woman was a competitive advantage or disadvantage.
MC: What's your take on Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg's observation about the "ambition gap" between young women and men?
ML: I don't know if it's true. Sheryl's obviously smart and has done the work to support that idea, but I don't know all the data. There might be some truth to the idea that men are much more likely to self-promote. But if you are capable and do great work, your work will speak for you. I don't consider myself a massive self-promoter, and I don't feel I've ever had to behave in a way that didn't come natural to me in order to progress.
MC: You are the single mother of a one-and-a-half-year-old son, having chosen to have a child on your own. How do you manage, given the intense demands of your job?
ML: So far, so good. I rely on a small circle of friends and my great nanny. In the mornings, I try to spend anywhere from 15 to 60 minutes with my son. Failing that, I try for 30 to 60 minutes together at the end of the day. I try to make that work, but if I can't, I just move on. You can't beat yourself up about it. I never worried about raising a kid on my own. I'm 42, not 20 with my eyes closed. The circumstances aren't traditional, but I didn't hesitate to do it.
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ML: It's also been a massive opportunity to learn and grow. I think there are always phases in life when things get intense or difficult, whether it's the sheer volume of work or personal circumstances. And I've definitely had tough moments. The way I approach them is just to tell myself that this too will pass, and take it one day at a time. Soon enough, you look back and see the forest for the trees again. | <urn:uuid:510e17a9-7902-4911-86a3-0b9699e67389> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://www.marieclaire.com/career-advice/tips/a7720/marianne-lake-jpmorgan-chase/ | 2020-10-29T14:35:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107904287.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20201029124628-20201029154628-00410.warc.gz | en | 0.983269 | 966 |
A John Corey Novel: Book #4
Narrated by Scott Brick / 18 hours 46 minutes
Welcome to the Custer Hill Club--an informal men's club set in a luxurious Adirondack hunting lodge whose members include some of America's most powerful business leaders, military men, and government officials. Ostensibly, the club is a place to gather with old friends, hunt, eat, drink, and talk off-the-record about war, life, death, and politics. But one Fall weekend, the Executive Board of the Custer Hill Club gathers to talk about the tragedy of 9/11 and what America must do to retaliate. Their plan is finalized and set into motion.
That same weekend, a member of the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force is reported missing. His body is soon discovered in the woods near the Custer Hill Club's game reserve. The death appears to be a hunting accident, and that's how the local police first report it, but Detective John Corey has his doubts. As he digs deeper, he begins to unravel a plot involving the Custer Hill Club, a top-secret plan known only by its code name: Wild Fire. Racing against the clock, Detective Corey and his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, find they are the only people in a position to stop the button from being pushed and chaos from being unleashed.
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Centre students, faculty dig into history in Peru
Published 11:51 am Monday, September 4, 2023
One Centre College professor’s ongoing archaeological research project in Peru received a boost this summer.
Grissom Associate Professor of Anthropology Robyn Cutright has focused much of her archaeological research on the Andes region, specifically the north coast of Peru. She was joined this summer by two rising seniors and anthropology/sociology majors, Joseph Falcon and Ayiana Ognan, who took their experiential learning at Centre to South America.
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“What I learned in the classroom was only the beginning,” Falcon said. “By being able to participate in this research opportunity, I was able to learn at every step of my experience.”
The archaeological excavation and the mysteries that lay beneath the soil were riveting, he said.
“Whatever that may be dug out of the dirt,’ he said. ‘What is this? Could it be a human artifact?’”
Cutright, Falcon and Ognan formed part of an international team on the ground in Peru, where they linked up with Peruvian scholars and students. Cutright and her colleagues, University of Pittsburgh’s Gabi Cervantes and Sarah Taylor of the University of South Florida, helped secure $10,000 in external grants to fund the season of work.
The team worked at an archaeological site (or a frontier outpost, whichever you prefer) administered by the Chimú state, one that controlled costal Peru from the 1100s to the 1400s before being conquered by the Inca.
“This part of Peru has not been studied by archaeologists very extensively, which means that everything we found this season told us something new,” Cutright said. “We were able to see the impact of Chimú conquest on the local landscape and found evidence that local workers put their own stamp on Chimú buildings. We also found a workshop area where people were producing metal and ceramic objects, which tells us that they had an economic interest in administering the area, and a hilltop fortress, which tells us that the Chimú invested a lot of resources in fortifying their northern frontier.
“Overall, this season of research will really move our understanding of Chimú imperialism and Piura archaeology forward.”
Students and Cutright excavated sites and recorded their findings through photographs and drawings. From cooking pots and bones to fingerprints in adobe, the group spent the summer in field research at Monte Lima in Piura, Peru.
“Joseph and Ayiana worked side by side with Peruvian students and professionals, practicing intercultural collaboration and communication skills that are highly valued in today’s global workplaces,” Cutright said. “While gaining proficiency in archaeological field and lab methods, they also had an opportunity to apply creative problem solving and critical thinking skills in a physically and intellectually demanding environment. Hopefully they learned that archaeology is a little more collaborative and intellectually rigorous than Indiana Jones makes it seem!”
Falcon said his work in the classroom at Centre helped prepare him for the real-world experience in the field.
“My interest piqued with the mention of conducting actual archaeological excavations in Peru, an archaeologically rich country full of history,” Falcon said. “Taking what I have learned from my previous classes, I’ve been able to apply methods, as well as learning everything that comes with archaeological research from day one to its final day.”
That curiosity not only took the Louisville, Kentucky native to coastal South America, it also drove home the idea that the world is a classroom and life is full of lessons, especially for an anthropologist.
“Learning is not confined just to the classroom, and never should be,” he said. “Learning can take place anywhere in the world, whether it’s Japan, Malaysia, Peru or even at your local coffee shop.
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One of the hottest November months in history is about to come to an abrupt end with the Bureau of Meteorology warning of flash flooding across Victoria. Preparations are underway for some of the most significant rainfall experienced in more than 20 years.
To help you prepare, our team have put together these 10 handy tips to help protect and minimise the risk of damage to your property when severe weather strikes:
- Wherever possible move valuable items to higher ground.
- Place furniture on beds and then personal items on the furniture. Electrical equipment should be placed on top.
- Remove wooden drawers from built-in wardrobes, cabinets and furniture. Wood has a tendency to swell when wet, causing pressure between the drawers.
- Protect valuable machinery and equipment by enclosing them in waterproof covers. Certain machinery may benefit from a coating of grease (please check with the manufacturer prior to applying any substance). Another alternative is to consider is encircling equipment with a wall of sandbags.
- If you live in the country you may have to relocate livestock, machinery, pumps and irrigation equipment to higher ground. Prepare by knowing the flood heights that affect your property and being aware of where the higher ground can be found.
- Ensure all electrical equipment including computers is switched off at the power outlet and unplugged – reducing the risk of a power surge.
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- Boating, driving and walking in flood areas should be avoided unless absolutely necessary.
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- It pays to have a basic kit emergency handy at all times. Your kit should comprise of :
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Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS)
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Isolis might only be a small part in the plan of Star Revolution, but when the Core Alliance unexpectedly rolls into town with their weapons of war, it becomes more than an abstract concept for the locals. All Trebnor and his unit have to do is hold off the Alliance until their own weapon is ready. If they survive that long… SY
Isolis was a smallish planet—quiet, unassuming, of no particular strategic importance—so it was quite a surprise when the Dark Star Revolution showed up and started recruiting. Trebnor wasn’t particularly interested in their rebellion—no one on Isolis was—but the pay was good, and the uniforms snazzy, so he lined up with the others and signed on the dotted line.
That was two years ago, and it was only now, as he peered through his binoculars at the hulking, diesel-spewing monstrosity just appearing on the horizon that Trebnor realized what he’d gotten himself into.
“What is it, Treb?” Jenkins asked at his elbow.
Jenkins was nineteen and a hot-head—a young wolf among the middle-aged, down-on-their luck troop of shabby soldiers Trebnor had assembled. Most days he was all mouth off, macho posturing, but right now he just looked worried. They all did.
“Not sure,” Trebnor replied, fiddling with the binocular’s not-quite-autofocus.
Lieutenant Kellington is on tour in a far away galaxy, trapped in between the two indigenous races and their bitter blood feud. But Kellington has a secret. Will his past compromise his mission or will he lose it all? SY
2284 AD—Occupied Territories, Planet Adrella, Andromeda Galaxy
The red sky glimmered against the rolling hills of the Adrellan landscape. Planet Adrella was under the protection of the United Nations of Earth, or UNE. The planet’s population consisted of a humanoid race with a small skeletal structure, wrinkled foreheads, and narrow, sunken-in faces. Their physical bodies possessed less musculature than “Earthens,” making them physically weaker. Yet one area where Adrellans equaled human beings was the propensity to commit violence, and the headless torso that lay smoldering in the dirt was a definite example of that.
“Middle aged, Adrellan male,” Lieutenant Ryan Kellington confirmed, kneeling over the body. “The deceased appears to belong to the Tredder race. We can’t confirm that right now because there’s no way to piece together what’s left of the head.”
“That’s the sixth attack this year where the head has been disintegrated,” Arung, the Tredder official, cursed in broken but understandable English. He was an Adrellan belonging to the Tredder caste, a people who lived in the urban areas of the planet. He thrust his finger at the Sekena diplomat, who looked over Kellington’s shoulder. “The Sekena continue to act like barbarians, setting back any hope of peace between our people and yours!”
“Once again you blame Sekena for disrupting the peace,” Kestin B’urac, the Sekena diplomat, shot back. The Sekena people were concentrated in the rural areas of Adrella, and practiced a pastoral lifestyle. “How quickly you forget that it is the Tredder oppression of Sekena civilians that escalates our conflict. It is you who drive our people to these measures!”
“That’s enough! Neither of you are helping this situation.” Colonel Grey Norgale stepped in as he glanced over the body. The UNE commanding officer wiped his brow and let out a slow, defeated sigh. “What the hell is this planet coming to?”
Soldiers are drawn from the incarcerated to fight against the fast and bloodthirsty Trayg that threaten to overwhelm their world. When they offer them advantage in the form of upgrades, the prisoners would be fools to reject any help. In the war against invasion, isn’t any advantage worth testing? SY
Darrin shifted in his bunk, struggled against coarse blankets. Sleep teased the corners of his eyes. Thick drowsiness crept under his skin.
She pooled, bright white and red, a head splitting star in congealed blackness.
Slick moonlight beaded in her hair, blood drops bright on her blouse. Her last, surprised breath as she crumpled in his arms.
One night six years ago. A night he used to not care about. It wasn’t even the worst he’d done.
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Police federation aims to meet would-be Gwent commissioners
GWENT Police Federation's chairman said the organisation wants to meet all prospective Police and Crime Commissioners (PCC) before they are elected to explain the major issues facing frontline staff.
Jeff Mapps, who is also the chairman of the Police Federation in Wales, said these meetings would help give the incoming PCC an idea of what they will face as they take on a new role.
With PCCs set to replace police authorities in November, whichever one of the candidates is elected will have no predecessor to guide them, so will be in unfamiliar territory.
Candidates running for PCC in Gwent are Josh Worrad, Hamish Sandison and Chris Wright. Former Caerphilly borough councillor Ron Davies has also expressed an interest in the role.
The role of the PCC will be to set the force's budget and hold the force to account.
Mr Mapps said: "Whereas the Police Federation are debarred, and rightly so, from supporting individual candidates or political affiliation, we are of course allowed to discuss issues with elected and prospective elected candidates.
"The Police Federation are putting themselves forward to discuss issues that PCCs will face over the coming years and the initiative is designed to forge an understanding of major policing challenges that face the country, not least of the impact that policing cuts of 20 per cent will, and are, effecting the 'efficiency and welfare' of officers in the front line."
Mr Mapps said the discussions will be frank and constructive and called upon all PCC candidates to contact the federation so they can arrange meetings in the coming weeks.
Mr Mapps added: "The Federations message is quite simple, we want to meet, talk, understand and engage and we look forward to frank, but constructive discussions."
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So many projects, so little time
This article profiles a one-year project by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) to transform 20,000 workstations at 1,200 branch banks. In addition to using the accepted best practices, the bank's project management team used a planning methodology with three iterative cycles: Approach and Strategy, Process Design, and Detailed Job Procedures. Risks were mitigated by defining gates from phase-to-phase and obtaining sign-off by stakeholders, as well as through the use of checks and balances built into every process. Effective schedule and management control enabled the accommodation of scope changes during the year-long deployment. In a survey of branches following the CIBC deployment, 88 percent expressed satisfaction, thanks to meticulous project planning. | <urn:uuid:5704ae11-6f56-4ef3-900c-6f3af78fb745> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/planning-methodology-three-iterative-cycles-3377 | 2019-03-19T00:39:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912201812.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20190318232014-20190319013541-00056.warc.gz | en | 0.944487 | 157 |
The narrator learns more about Rebecca in the coming weeks. The servants ask the narrator if she’ll be hosting many guests, and when the narrator replies that she’s unsure, they often note that Rebecca was “so very popular.” The narrator also becomes conscious that there’s now tension between herself and Maxim due to her outburst about the cottage. He’s always polite with her, but there’s a distance between them now.
The “wall” between Maxim and the narrator is getting wider due to their argument about Rebecca. Paradoxically, the narrator is becoming more comfortable with her life at Manderley at the same time, even if she still resents the servants for being loyal to Rebecca.
One day, the narrator pays a visit to the wife of the local bishop. She says that she’s here to pay her respects and greet her new neighbors. Together, she and the bishop’s wife talk about hosting parties in the near future. The bishop’s wife remembers the wonderful parties organized by Rebecca, and the narrator blurts out, “Rebecca must have been a wonderful person.” When the narrator says this, she feels instantly relieved. She’s been thinking about Rebecca for so long that saying her name out-loud is a massive relief.
In this section, we learn about Rebecca’s power over her community: due to the parties she hosted every year, Rebecca was popular and well liked by everyone—not just those at Manderley. In other words, Rebecca’s influence is even greater than we’d thought. The fact that it’s a relief simply to talk about Rebecca suggests that the narrator’s anxiety stems from her attempts to ignore or forget Rebecca, rather than discuss her with Maxim head-on.
The narrator gets up to leave. The bishop’s wife tells the narrator to pass on her respects to Maxim, and to ask him to reorganize a ball that Rebecca used to host at Manderley. For the rest of the day, the narrator finds herself obligated to pay visits to the houses in the area. She quickly becomes exasperated with these visits, however—she finds them cloying and insincere, since most of the people only want to know when the next party at Manderley will be. Sometimes, the guests bring up Rebecca, and sometimes they imply her presence, as if she’s still alive and living in Manderley.
As the narrator gets more comfortable with Manderley, she finds that there’s a “script” she must follow at all times. As part of this script, she has to visit houses in the area and pretend to be polite and gracious to her neighbors. Life at Manderley consists almost entirely of rules for politeness and good manners—rules which, as we’ve seen with Mrs. Danvers, usually just serve to conceal people’s true feelings of contempt or dislike.
At the end of the day, the narrator drives back to Manderley and finds Frank Crawley waiting there. He greets the narrator, and the narrator thinks that she finds him very formal. The narrator asks Frank about the Manderley ball, and he explains that this ball was an annual affair, attended by hundreds of people from London and the country. The narrator confesses that she wouldn’t be good at planning a ball.
Although Frank Crawley is formal and stiff around the narrator, he at least gives her some information about the past. Since the narrator has been uninformed about Rebecca for so long, any straightforward information comes as a big relief.
The narrator asks Frank about Ben, the mentally challenged man who was working on the Manderley grounds. The narrator mentions the cottage that she entered. She explains that inside, it’s dirty and dusty—clearly no one enters it anymore. Frank seems uncomfortable discussing the cottage—eventually, the narrator asks, point-blank, if the cottage is full of Rebecca’s things. Frank says that it is.
Everyone at Manderley knows about Rebecca, and yet no one seems particularly willing to talk about her. This is the source of Rebecca’s power over the narrator: the narrator feels Rebecca’s influence everywhere, and this influence is all the more intimidating because it’s almost never discussed explicitly.
The narrator, sensing that Frank is going to be honest with her, asks Frank how Rebecca died. He explains that she was sailing on the ocean when her boat capsized and sank—Rebecca must have drowned while trying to swim back. It took two months for a body to be found. She asks Frank how the police were able to identify the body, then immediately feels ashamed for asking such a gruesome question. She apologizes for her line of questioning.
So far, the narrator has been forced to accept that Rebecca was a hugely important person to her husband, while also accepting that she can never ask Maxim about her. The line of questioning that the narrator pursues with Frank proves how desperate she’s been for information about Rebecca ever since meeting Maxim.
The narrator tries to explain herself to Frank. She tells him that everyone in her new life compares her to Rebecca. She admits that she’s beginning to feel that she should never have married Maxim. Frank assures her that she’s done Maxim a “great good” by marrying him. He adds that while the narrator doesn’t come from a noble background, she’s kind and sincere—far more valuable qualities. The narrator is surprised with Frank—at first, she’d thought him a quiet, trivial man. She tells Frank that she’s glad they’re friends now.
Frank phrases his response to the narrator oddly—instead of telling her that she didn’t make a mistake, he says that the narrator has been good for Maxim. This is reminiscent of Beatrice’s remarks about the narrator being good for Maxim’s health: even the narrator’s friends seem to think of her as an object, a remedy for Maxim’s depression. However, Frank also proves himself to be a kind, genuine man—a rarity in this novel.
The narrator and Frank walk back to the front of Manderley. The narrator asks Frank if Rebecca was beautiful, and he admits that she was extremely beautiful.
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Jack Durham, 81, passed away Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Jack was the son of the late Judson and Annie Griffin Durham and was preceded in death by his brothers, Charles Durham, Albert Durham and Jerry Durham. He retired from the United States Air force after 21 years of service and was a member of First Baptist Church. Jack also loved to play fast pitch softball. He is survived by his wife, Sachiko Durham, of Dalton; son and daughter-in-law, Dr. Jimmy and Meg Durham, of Chattanooga; daughter and son-in-law, Jo-Ann and Scott Waldrop, of Lawrenceville, Ga.; grandchildren, Joshua Durham, Erica Durham, Emily Durham, Chase Durham, and Rachel Waldrop; nieces and nephews. The family would like to thank Hamilton Hospice for their love and care. A private graveside service will be held for Mr. Durham. The family will receive friends from 1 to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday in the atrium of First Baptist Church. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 827, Dalton, GA 30722-0827, or RossWoods Adult Day Health, 1402 Walston Ave., Dalton GA 30721. Words of comfort may be sent to the family at www.lovefuneralhomega.com. Love Funeral Home, 1402 N. Thornton Ave, Dalton (across from Hamilton Medical Center) is in charge of arrangements. | <urn:uuid:caa45311-9798-42b7-a446-5e3327ef969e> | CC-MAIN-2016-36 | http://www.timesfreepress.com/obits/2014/apr/10/jack-durham/50741/ | 2016-08-31T16:06:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471982295966.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823195815-00249-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954021 | 307 |
Sargodha (Staff Reporter) Awareness of the deputy commissioner’s office being deployed to the deputy commissioner’s office to curb the rising proportion of population across the province, including Sargodha, a female employee posted on the counter due to a lack of women tendency Cancel orders According to details, in the light of the directives of the Punjab government, like the province’s Population District Sargodha, Population Information counters have been set up at dozens of places across the district to create awareness among the women and attract them to the benefit of the children. It can be done. The men and women were deployed by the department at this counter to be deployed inside the Deputy Commissioner’s Office to inform Silen, the incoming Deputy Commissioner, about the campaign. Sources say the female employee who was posted has canceled her deployment orders due to her influence after giving her two days’ attendance, but the district official said when contacted, the deputy commissioner’s office had more men because of the number of men. His orders have been canceled on identification. | <urn:uuid:48e565be-bc5b-473a-af75-05cc2f6007ed> | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | https://www.abbasyan.com/the-counter-by-the-welfare-department-is-lonely-in-the-deputy-commissioners-office/ | 2019-12-11T21:46:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540533401.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20191211212657-20191212000657-00329.warc.gz | en | 0.963757 | 219 |
I grew up watching “The Undersea World of Jacques-Yves Cousteau” on TV and reading anything associated with his name, from books to encyclopedias. Being a scuba fan in Buenos Aires in the late 70’s and early 80’s was not the best idea. The equipment was unaffordable for middle-class people and good places to dive were far away. However, my friend Claudio and I decided to take our recreational (“first star” as it was called) scuba certification at the “Centro de Actividades Subacuáticas Buenos Aires (CASBA)” in 1983. That same year, our super hero Jacques Cousteau (and his son Jean-Michel) came to town to give a series of lectures and we followed them everywhere (almost rock star craze). This picture was taken at Buenos Aires airport; just minutes before Jacques Cousteau boarded his flight back to France. We stood speechless with our hand painted Calypso logo (by my friend Claudio), but Jacques Cousteau was absolutely charming and even autographed our copies of his books (The Silent World and The Living Sea).
Fifteen years after that magic day (and still proud member of The Cousteau Society), my work brought me to Austin, and for our first wedding anniversary in the US my wife Ida gave me a gift that changed the way I perceived inland Austin (a book called “Diving and Snorkeling Guide to Texas”). So, after several years of skin diving and snorkeling with my “old school” wetsuit, I started to think about doing the Open Water PADI certification. One uneventful Saturday morning I was driving down William Cannon Dr. when I saw the dive flag of the Scubaland south store, and the rest is (fortunate) history.
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Silvia Caruso Bio and Family
Silvia Caruso is also known as Silvia is a notable Italian Model. She was born on 24th August, 1996 in Italy. He is from white decent and nationality Italian. Her zodiac sign is Virgo. There is ni information regarding her family background.
Talking about her shimmering career, she is an Italian model and social media influencer. she was also signed by Marvin Models Management. Apart, she rose to stardom through her Instagram, gaining 2.1 million followers account, carusosilva where she posts photos from her everyday life. Some popular Hollywood models are Anna Speckhart, Jacqueline Titone, Catriona Gray and Lourdes Leon.
Caruso became noticeable with her sizzling and hot photos on Instagram, which she joined back in 2014. Coming to this date, this hottie has amassed more than 2.1 million, making her one of the celebrated social media personalities from Italy. On Instagram, this social media influencer has posted more than 475 posts as of now, with the following 366 other people. With her colossal fame on this platform, Caruso endorses several fashion brands and beauty products through it. Besides that, this bold Italian model has also appeared on the cover page of several magazines and campaigns as of now. Right now, this hottie is trying to make her career in the fashion industry.
Silvia Caruso Relationship
The 23 years old model is yet to tie the knot. Looking at her mesmerizing personality, no man’s cane avoids loving her. there are definitely thousands of men dying to date this beautiful star. Silvia is a professional lady who loves to keep her personal details away from the media. so, there is no information if she is dating some or still leading a single life. Looking at her social media, she has posted several pictures with her male friends. However, she has not revealed anyone over there as her boyfriend. It seems like, she is currently single and living her life on her own.
Caruso’s Net Worth
She has successfully earned a hefty amount of money from her career. Along with a good name and fame, she has also collected a big chunk of money for herself. She has earned a massive amount of money with her hard works as Model and Social media Influencer. she is successful to accumulate her net with around $1 million as of 2020. However, there are no exact details about her financial transactions but looking at her lifestyle she seems to have a good source of income.
Similarly, her net worth is further added by several endorsements deals and advertisement campaigns. Well, much of money she makes from her Instagram account where she has a million followers she works also for many brands. As a rising social media personality, she will certainly add an impressive fortune to her account in the coming days. However, there are no information regarding the car she drives. Currently, she is living happy life with her earning.
Quick Facts of Silvia Caruso
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00:00 dropped off
00:05 read and signed some consents
00:13 paid (credit card; hooray for points!)
I am living the high tech life right now. I am sitting in a doctor's office, waiting to have my eyes operated on by a pair of state-of-the-art computer-controlled lasers. While I am waiting, I am working on my Dell laptop via WiFi to collaborate with two colleagues scattered across the USA, to help a third colleague in Brazil. And occasionally taking notes on my blog via Blogger's iPhone app. Pretty damn cool. All I need now is a robot butler serving me some brightly colored drink...
00:23 I watch a three to four minute video, along with a couple of other patients, discussing what will happen. There were no guns, sex, nor engaging characters. Two thumbs down.
00:45 They are taking my phone. Noooo! And they give me a valium...
1:00? They take me to a room where I lean back in a recliner and put on a hair cover and booties. Super sexy.
1:30? I am taken in, laid down, and covered with a blanket. Good thing, because it is seriously chilly in there, even for me (me likey cold).
1:45? Lots of drops of various kinds, repeated explanations about the process.
2:15? Walked over to another bed, situated between the two lasers.
Right eye positioned under the first laser. Eyelid retractor placed on my eye, a la Clockwork Orange, and a suction thingie lowered onto it. These are good things, as they keep your eye still for the Lasers!
Things go dim (as they told me they would) and I see some cool specular patterns. I focus every fiber of my being on not moving my eye in any way.
They tell me I did well, but I am not sure it's sincere, since there was not cookie or lollipop reward...
On to the left eye. Things do not go swimmingly. Something about positioning problems.
They decide to finish up the right eye and let me rest.
The bed swivels under a different laser. I stare at a green beam amidst an array of lights that is reminiscent of the end scenes of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Things get blurry and dim (as they told me they would) and I hear a bit of a squeaky sound...and I briefly smell burning, which make sense, since that is what is supposed to happen, but it is a bit disconcerting, nonetheless.
I did well again. I start to wonder if I should pursue Olympic competition in laying very still while lasers shine in my eye, but I am not sure I want to bother seeking sponsors.
A quick look at my eyes by Dr. Tylock to confirm the flaps look good. They do.
Drops in my eyes (I think maybe steroids for anti-inflammatory, not sure).
Back in the hall for "20 minutes".
Brought back in for pretty much the same routine, except they use a different laser for the flap cutting. It takes about three times as long, around 20 seconds, but it goes very smoothly. Then I hang out for a minute, then on to the IntraLASIK. Smooth again. Looks good.
More drops. Out onto the recliner to sit for 25 minutes, while they call my ride. I keep my eyes closed as much as possible.
I am handed a tote bag carrying my laptop, etc. Ironically, I had made fun of these very tote bags when I first visited for my exam for seeming to be a goofy way to advertise LASIK.
4:50 Back home. My vision already noticeably in spite of the tears. It's like a confused weatherman's prediction - clear but cloudy.
Sleeping pill taken. Ate a little bit of a salad (and some mac and cheese; lasers in my eyes warrants comfort food) so that hunger does not wake me up. Off to bed.
5:40 Eyes still stinging pretty badly. Having them closed seems to really magnify it. I know they are most though. Any time I open them, a river of tears flows from the corners of my eyes. Well, they gave me a second sleeping pill just for such an occasion, but when they did, they said "if you haven't gotten to sleep in 45 minutes take the second one" as opposed to "if you feel the urge to remove your eyes, take the second one."
So, I call the nurse to be safe, explain what's happen, she confirms everything sounds normal and to take the pill. Eventually sleep finally takes over.
Some weird dreams/thoughts...mostly just odd. Not sharing them here. You'll have to live in suspense.
13:05 Wow, that feels a lot better. They said I could get up and watch TV for a bit then go back to bed, but the also said sleeping was best...so back to bed I go and eventually fall back to sleep. But first, some pictures!
That is my right eye. Basically, it just looks red, like I have not slept enough, or been hanging around a Phish concert.
Brace yourself for the left eye.
This was expected. This was the one that required the older laser for the flap creation. Note: the damage is from capillaries rupturing due to the suction that is placed on the eye during the process and looks worse than it is; this eye was put under suction multiple times and the older laser takes about three times as long to make the flap, so this eye was under suction for a considerable amount of time.
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Posts with the tag “teaching”
Who's In Your TRIBE?............(Part 2)
by Deana Bell on December 11th, 2019
BY: Deana Bell, Director, Restored Marriage If you haven't read Part One…….click here.After God blessed me with a bevy of “angelic” women to walk through my toughest days, He spoke to me again in 2017, after my husband and I had been restored for over four years. The Lord showed me the word T.R.I.B.E. used as an acronym. At first, I just took ownership of the word, calling my friends my "tribe." H...
by Jackson Bell on September 23rd, 2019
By: a CK Leader and IntercessorWalking this journey for the last 11 years has been such a beautiful process of the Lord refining me and working out of me whatever does not reflect Him. The first few years were mostly me responding to attacks and insults out of my own flesh. Over time, and with a sincere heart to genuinely follow Him, my responses to attacks and insults the last several years hav...
God Dreams of Restoration
by Jackson Bell on September 18th, 2019
By Alison, Covenant Keeper and Frequent DreamerHow do you interpret the title of this article? Is the word “God” used as a noun, followed by the verb “dreams,” showing an action on the part of God? Or is “God” an adjective of the noun “dreams” implying the source of a dream as coming from God? The answer is that both are correct! And such is the ambiguous nature of dreams.Dreams can often be bizar...
Radiant JoyCovenant Keeping 101Covenant Keeping 201Now What Lord? - Part 1Now What Lord? - Part 2Spirit of AbortionHope - Part 1Hope - Part 2The Door: Shut and LockedEnormous Marriage Restoration Needs Great Spiritual GrowthHold on to Your Covenant PromisesHabits That Can Sabotage Marriage RestorationTaking OffenseSix Stages of ReconciliationComplete the Circuit - Stay Connected to the Source | <urn:uuid:bbacb908-516f-46e7-9028-979c6b8bcfd3> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://www.ckministry.org/blog/tag/teaching | 2021-01-26T03:07:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610704795033.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20210126011645-20210126041645-00004.warc.gz | en | 0.916345 | 452 |
When Forgiveness Doesn't Work
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With forgiveness being recommended now even by the medical world, many are looking for specific steps to be used in forgiveness. There are many "techniques" out there and many people have been through all they've read, and faithfully followed through with the suggestions, but still have this burning sting from words that were hurled at them at some time in their life -- or for actions that spoke much louder than words -- and they don't know how to get beyond what "that person did."
Recently I had a family member choose to dump our relationship because I made a one sentence statement in a gentle tone against listening to him rant about another family member. After instantly hanging up on me, he wrote me a note to cancel plans we had to meet on a future date, and then stopped all communication.
I had decided to take a stand against listening to "evil reports" of other family members and that was grounds for termination in his mind. It seems life holds nothing else for him but to repeat the worst of the tv news, weather or family issues. I didn't see that it was a relationship at all if the only function I was to have in his life was to listen to the ranting and reviling.
Then I also heard he'd already begun talking about it to other family members. I certainly wasn't surprised that he did, but I was very surprised that it bothered me. I was actually relieved that I took the stand and said that I didn't want to be in the middle of it. Admittedly I was initially delighted that he would no longer be calling 3-4 times a week for those downgrading conversations. The more I would try to add positive comments to these conversations, while trying to honor his position in the family, the more useless I felt about it all. He seemed to think I was a Pollyanna and it was exhausting to find enough Light to cover the Darkness that he chose to talk about.
So, why would I feel bad about this with so many obvious benefits for me? My wonderful husband is never lacking with resources on Spiritual issues, so he handed me a booklet called, "Rewards of Being Reviled," by Bill Gothard.
The book says that "reviling comes from a heart of scorn and contempt. It is the spewing out of anger and hatred. It is a verbal attack upon another person, given with deep emotional fervor. Its purpose is to vilify, to defame, to bring shame upon, to discredit, and to attribute evil and sinister motives to what that person says and does. It is to engage in ridicule. To ridicule is to cause others to laugh at a person or his ideas. It is to sneer, scoff, and belittle him. Ridicule is an expression of disdain."
It talks about all the ridicule and reviling that David experienced and I have always loved Psalms in times of trouble. His enemies provided opportunity for him to be able to write with deep emotion and insight.
The cool part of the deal is that the books says, "Notwithstanding the serious nature of reviling and the severe consequences for those who engage in it, there are great rewards for those who endure reviling and understand God's purposes for allowing it to occur. Matthew 5:12 tells us to "Rejoice and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven."
It gave a story of a little girl that had been stung a bark scorpion, the most poisonous scorpion found in Arizona, which results in excruciating pain and numbness, then swelling, physical weakness, dizziness, tightening of the throat, and tingling of limbs.
Since this had happened before to the mother, they now had a small device that produced a high-voltage, low-current electrical charge. When electrodes from this unit are placed in the area of the sting or bite, they send a positive electrical charge into the victim's bloodstream. This, in turn, neutralizes the venom, which has a negative charge, and renders it harmless. This leaves only a mild soreness for a short time and a small mark of where the scorpion struck.
Proverbs 18:21 says, "Death and life are in the power of the tongue." Reviling is using the power of the tongue for death, and blessing is using the power of the tongue for life. A curse is like a negative charge, and a blessing is the positive charge that neutralizes the destructive nature of the negative charge.
A verbal blessing is more powerful than a verbal curse because good is more powerful than evil. God is more powerful than Satan, and light is more powerful than darkness.
On a mission trip, a student was reviled by the leader during a heated conversation. The incident hurt and shocked her and weeks later she was still emotionally involved in the incident while continuing to rehearse the reviler's words in her mind and feeling the pain each time she did.
She had forgiven this leader, but her emotions were rooted deeper than her words and her forgiveness was hollow and insincere. As time passed, her wound only became more infected. Her forgiveness was a surface response that she knew was Biblical and right, but it did not reach the venom that was surging through her emotional veins. The venom of reviling is long-lasting.
One day she heard a message on the power of verbal blessings and why it is essential for us to bless those who curse us. She understood this concept, and that night she could not fall asleep until she verbally blessed the leader who had reviled her.
Since then, she has continued to have freedom in her spirit from the hurts of this past event. She also has a deeper walk with the Lord as a result of this experience.
How do we do this?
Scripture provides words that can be used: Numbers 6:24-26: "The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: The Lord make His face to shine up on thee, and be gracious unto thee: The Lord lift up His countenance upon thee, and give thee peace."
When we ask God to bring His benefits to the lives of revilers, we are blessing them. I have often looked back at some of the genetic options of my family tree and can easily say, "There but for the grace of God, go I." It certainly makes it easier to have mercy and grace on others who have not chosen to walk out of circumstances and generational curses.
My prayer for blessings my enemies is that those blessings will overcome the darkness of the curses that have caused them to be so angry. If you will look back on the situation you struggle with, you will find ways that God blessed you because of it.
Let me give you a personal example that Bill Gothard shared in his booklet mentioned above. He writes, "When attendance at the Basic Youth Conflicts Seminar first began to multiply, it was something of a phenomenon and was certainly a surprise to me. I could not explain it and was therefore hesitant to talk about it to reporters. They assumed that this constituted secrecy, and two Christian magazines published articles of a defamatory nature.
" I called the writer of the first article and tried to explain what I thought he had misunderstood. He reacted, and matters became worse. When the second article was published, God prompted me to have a different response. I called the writer. When he learned that I was on the phone, he cautiously answered. I then said, 'I have called to tell you how God has used your articles to benefit my life and ministry." He was totally surprised and said, 'Oh?' I continued and explained that God had used his article to do a work in my life, and in the ministry in three very positive ways.
" First, I was forced to reexamine what I was teaching and how people perceived what I was saying. Second, it unified the people who had been to the seminar and knew that the article reflected a misunderstanding of what was being taught. Third, as a result of this reviling, people had sent in thousands of dollars to encourage me and to support the seminar ministry.
" I'm sure the writer was not expecting this response. He became warm and friendly, and thanked me for my call. God has blessed both of our ministries since that day .... and today I consider him a friend."
My prayer is that this will allow you to give some thought to another approach to your memories and wounds. Ask God to first show you good that has come from it. Ask him to let you see how He has used it for good in your life as Romans 8 promises. Then, take the above suggestion from Scripture and choose to bless the person every time the memory returns.
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Todd Gordon, in his first season as a Sprint Cup crew chief, will return to Penske Racing’s No. 22 car in 2013, the team confirmed Wednesday.
Gordon will be the crew chief for new Penske driver Joey Logano, who is joining the organization after this season.
Logano tweeted Wednesday: “I’m Excited to announce that Todd Gordon will be the crew chief of the Shell/Pennzoil 22 car next year.”
The No. 22 team is 20th in the owner standings with AJ Allmendinger and Sam Hornish Jr. driving this season. Allmendinger drove the first 17 races before his suspension and eventual release from the team for failing a NASCAR drug test.
Hornish has run the past 16 races, with a best finish of fifth at Watkins Glen. The team has four top-10 finishes between the two drivers.
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Celebrating its twentieth year, Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing arrives at the West Yorkshire Playhouse direct from a West End run, as part of a short UK tour. Judging by this production, which is exquisitely directed by Nikolai Foster and ingeniously designed by Colin Richmond, it's not hard to see why the play has endured.
Set on a council estate in London's Thamesmead in 1993, the story concerns two teenagers, Jamie and Ste, coming to terms with their feelings for each other in a world that offers little hope for happiness and acceptance. But really, this is story about love, longing and needing somebody, which is what makes it so timeless and relatable.
The whole cast slip into their roles like a second skin. Given her high-profile TV and theatre work, Suranne Jones is the headline name, but from the moment she walks out on stage she's Sandra, Jamie's devoted mother; a woman whose tough life and daily struggles show in every word and movement. She's a character who could easily have let circumstances beat her down, but she's fighting back; whether it's taking pride in her job as a barmaid, or prettying-up her council flat with new wallpaper and hanging baskets.
The standout performance comes from Jake Davies as Jamie, a young man on the cusp of adulthood who falls in love, literally, with the boy next door. He's entirely believable and moving as an outsider coming to grips with his sexuality. Danny-Boy Hatchard brings a quiet intensity to the role of Ste, a popular young man with an abusive father and ambitions for a better life. The emotional struggles these boys go through form the heart of the play.
Rounding out the cast are Zaraah Abrahams as Leah, the boys' Mama Cass-obsessed neighbor, and Oliver Farnsworth as Tony, Sandra's arty, nice-but-dim, young lover. Both bring great emotional depth to their showy characters.
The love story itself is beautifully handled (never more so than in a scene with Jamie and Ste just kicking a football about) and this is the main strength of play. The relationship develops in such a way that you never once question that these two young men need each other. The odds may be stacked against them, but there is a glimmer of hope that things might just work out, and you're rooting for them the whole way.
Filled with raw humour, truthful emotion and authenticity, it's a play where you hope the actors don't come out for their curtain calls. Not because they don't deserve the applause, just because you want to leave these characters alone and unbroken in their world to continue their lives, having just seen a chapter in a much longer story.
In short, two hours at the theatre doesn't get much better than this.
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Why One Should Choose to Be a Vet Tech
There are many options that you can have once you love animals and you want to make it as a career. Being a veterinary technician is one of the options that you can have. There are a number of benefits that you are able to get once you will be choosing to be a veterinary technician.
One of the best things that you are able to do by being a veterinary technician is that you get to work with animals on a regular basis. It is this career that will let you work with cats, dogs, and even some exotic critters.
Seeing real-life benefits of your work is a thing that you are able to do by being a veterinary technician. Making a positive impact on the world is what you are able to do once you will become a veterinary technician. It is this career that will let you see the results of your work.
Being a veterinary technician in two years or less is a thing that you are able to get from this one. It is this ne that don’t require four or more years of education. By schooling two years or less then it is you that will become a veterinary technician already.
A high demand job is what a veterinary technician is all about. Once you take a look that this career then it has increased in the past years. There is a growing number of pet owners all over the world and that is the reason for this one.
Once you will become a veterinary technician then the field that you will have will vary. Once you will become a veterinary technician then it will not limit you to a veterinarian’s office. It is this one that where you can specialize in certain areas. Once you will be choosing this one then you will have a chance to try different opportunities. By becoming a veterinary technician then you can specialize in behavioral care, clinical pathology, emergency or critical care, or even equine or zoo care.
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An alarming rise in the number of deaths recorded on Lincolnshire’s roads since the start of 2016 has sparked a sobering reminder from the county’s road safety partnership.
Since the start of the year Lincolnshire roads have claimed 13 lives compared to three in the same period in 2015.
Three of those killed have been under 24 years of age and fall into Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership’s ‘Young Drivers’ category and as such are a vulnerable group.
Additionally the partnership, which was formed to reduce the number of incidents on the county’s roads, confirmed there are 12 investigations underway for those that have suffered serious injury on the roads.
Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership spokesperson John Siddle said: “Whilst we cannot make comment on those incidents that are under investigation, it is becoming clear that we are suffering a similar amount of incidents and casualties that came about at the turn of the century when 104 people died on our roads in 1999 (also 2003).
“The causation factors then were travelling too fast for the conditions as well as speed, travelling too close to the vehicle in front, not allowing enough time for the journey. Some were distracted by a number of in-car or external factors. The list goes on.
“Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership would like to remind drivers and riders to think about the journey they have to make, check your vehicle to make sure it is fit for the road, your tyres should be correctly inflated and legally within tread depth.
“Give yourself enough time to reach your destination without breaking the speed limit.
“Do not allow yourself to be distracted especially by using your phone, even a hands free call can distract you from what you should be concentrating on – the road!
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“We are experiencing a lot of early morning incidents, some are weather related, however some of these could be avoided with a little more care and consideration.
“At this time of year the low setting sun and sunrise can become a hazard. Use your headlights if the sun is behind you – it will hopefully let you be seen by those blinded by the low sun.
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How to Upgrade Your Client Experience to Get More Real Estate Referrals and High-Paying Clients
“Customer service shouldn’t just be a department — it should be the entire company.” — Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
What Tony is saying, in other words, is that customer service and client experience are hands down, no contest, without a doubt – the most important parts of any business.
Real estate included.
Without customer service, you don’t have customers. And without customers, you don’t have a business.
If you’re a working REALTOR®, you’re already doing something right in the customer service department.
But what if you took it to the next level? How would it change your business?
Hint: even better results. Going above and beyond for your clients is the key to enhancing your biz.
Let’s dive into how real estate agents can upgrade their client experience to get more referrals and high-paying clients.
1. Respond As Quickly As Possible
Today’s customer expects everything to happen fast.
We hit “Place order” on Amazon and pretty much count on that package showing up on our doorstep the next day.
Returning your client’s call, responding to their texts and answering their emails as promptly as you possibly can is the simplest way to upgrade the real estate client experience. Don’t star an email to reply to at the end of the day — reply now, and make your client feel taken care of.
Don’t want to have to write lightning-fast responses to messages that come in after 6 p.m.? That’s totally fine! Just make sure you set boundaries with real estate clients early on.
Maybe that means telling clients they can expect responses from you within the hour between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., and that unless it’s an emergency or during an offer submission, after-hours messages will be replied to the next day.
2. Keep a Client File
Clients inadvertently reveal a lot of personal details to their real estate agents over the course of their relationship. They mention annual trips to their vacation home in Florida, celebrating birthdays in October, their love of California red wine and their family backyard beer pong battles.
You should be listening closely to these seemingly meaningless details, and you should be taking notes for your client file.
A client file is a running list of everything you know about your client, from their age to their coffee preference. This file is your secret weapon for wow-ing your real estate clients.
Got their birthday month jotted down in your file? Drop off a card and present.
Need an awesome real estate closing gift? Consult your file for ideas.
Want to make a check-in call a few months after the deal closed? Check your list and have a few personalized conversation starters ready.
This is the sort of above-and-beyond behaviour that earns real estate agents a reputation for being a cut above the rest. That’s the kind of agent that high-value clients want to work with, and want to recommend.
3. Personalize Your Approach
Maybe you’re a warm, affectionate person who gives hugs to everyone. Or maybe you’re a bit quiet, reserved and thoughtful. Maybe you hate texting, maybe you love building friendships with clients.
Whoever you are and whatever you do, that’s great. You do you. Except when your client’s personality is radically different than yours.
Before we go any further, let us clarify.
We’re not saying that you should pretend to be somebody that you’re not. And most of the time, a client who is dramatically different than you probably won’t choose you to be their agent.
But it happens. And when it does, you have to adjust your approach to the relationship.
For example, if you have a…
• millennial real estate client who doesn’t answer your calls but texts you back right away, then swear off calling and start texting
• client who’s all biz, follow their lead and keep conversations focused on real estate and real estate alone
• mega outgoing client who hugs you every time you meet, return that warmth and treat them like a good friend
The adage says “treat people how you want to be treated.”
In the case of real estate clients, treat people how they want to be treated.
4. Anticipate Client Needs
Let’s say you have a haircut booked for next Tuesday with your usual hairdresser. You walk in, and she’s already got your favourite tea brewed and waiting, along with the latest copy of your favourite trashy magazine.
Be that person for your clients.
It can be as simple as bringing them a coffee when you meet, or packing an extra umbrella for them when it’s raining on a day of viewings.
Here are a few more ideas that will impress:
• Send a lawn-cutting crew to their place before an open house.
• Add your own thoughtful comments to a potential property’s listing sheet before sending it to them for review.
• Give them a list of recommended moving companies after they accept an offer.
• Offer them a temporary storage space that they can use for extra stuff while their house is on the market and being shown.
5. Empower Clients
The real estate industry is competitive. Sometimes, in an effort to protect their position as “experts,” real estate agents keep industry info to themselves, instead of sharing it with their clients.
We get the inclination. But the real estate client experience will be so much better if you’re actually forthcoming and open with your clients.
Take the time to explain complicated rules to them. Dispel real estate myths. Break down real estate jargon. Share your market observations.
Giving your clients all the information that you have won’t make them feel as though they could do your job.
It will make them feel like they’re your partners in the real estate transaction, which is a good thing.
A client that feels empowered is much more likely to be a happy client, and happy clients give great referrals.
6. Be Early
Don’t be late. Be early. Even by a minute or two.
It’s simple, it’s overstated, and it’s true, true, true. Being punctual is a sign of respect. It shows that you’ve got your act together. Being late — especially if you’re a repeat offender — communicates to your client that you’re unorganized and/or don’t really care about their time.
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Fred Shero, the coach of the Flyers' Stanley Cup-winning teams of the mid-1970s and one of the most innovative minds in the game's history, was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame on Monday night in Toronto. Flyers fans feel a great injustice has finally been addressed, although far too late for Shero, who died in 1990.
Proving that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, Shero's son Ray delivered a moving induction speech. Like his father, Ray Shero is building a very impressive hockey resume as the general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins, keeping the Pens' core of Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Marc-Andre Fleury together in the salary-cap era while keeping them perennial Cup contenders.
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GRAHAM CRACKERS COMICS OF EDGEWATER
5443 N. BROADWAY
CHICAGO, IL 60640
Monday: 11am - 7pm
Tuesday: 11am - 7pm
Wednesday: 11am - 7pm
Thursday: 11am - 7pm
Friday: 11am - 7pm
Saturday: 11am - 6pm
Sunday: 12pm - 5pm
We ROCK in Edgewater!
With Signings, Free Comic Wednesdays, 24 Hour Comic Day, Free Comics for Good Grades, and Sales all year round!
Even Stormtroopers need comics!
You just never know WHO will stop by during Free Comic Book Day, 1st Saturday in May!!
Watch for Creator Signings! Here you'll find Batman Incorporated artist Chris Burnham sketching Batwoman for an Edgewater loyalist!
Every Fall, our store holds it's annual 24 Hour Comic Book Day, where we challenge local artists to create a 24 page comic in 24 hours!!
On FREE COMIC BOOK DAY, we enjoy a carnival-like ambiance while fans dig through stacks of FREE COMICS!!
Your go-to store for comics, toys, and T-shirts on the Northside!
Graham Crackers Edgewater can be reached by taking the Red Line Train to the Berwyn Stop, cut through Jewel's parking lot for the quickest route. Walk north on Broadway for 1 and 1/2 block.
If you drive, there's an abundance of metered street parking, or free space on the side streets. You can also take the Broadway bus to the Catalpa Stop, and let it drop you at the front door!
1,700 square feet of FULL LINE COMIC SERVICE that you expect from Graham Crackers Comics, with an enormous selection of back issue comics (half off twice a year!), toys, magic, mugs, Heroclix, hats, t-shirts, & of course, brand new Comics and Trade paperbacks! Join our Club for stress-free Pull and Hold service!
Long time customers will recognize manager SHANNA BERRY from the CHICAGO LOOP location!
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LANS Informal Seminar
"An adjoint-based inexact Newton method for inverse problems governed by nonlinear full Stokes models of ice sheet flows"
DATE: August 24, 2011
TIME: 15:00:00 - 16:00:00 Description:
SPEAKER: Noemi Petra, ICES Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin
LOCATION: Building 240, 4301, Argonne National Laboratory
Modeling the dynamics of polar ice sheets is critical for projections of future sea level rise. Yet, there remain large uncertainties in the basal boundary conditions and in the non-Newtonian constitutive relations employed within ice sheet models. Here, we formulate an inverse problem which involves the solution of a nonlinear full Stokes equation to infer the basal slipperiness and the rheological exponent parameter fields from surface flow velocities. For this purpose, we minimize a regularized misfit functional between observed and modeled surface flow velocities. The resulting least-squares optimization problem is solved using an adjoint-based inexact Newton-conjugate-gradient method. This method requires only Hessian-vector applications rather than computing the full Hessian matrix, which renders it attractive for large-scale inverse problems. Results show that the inexact Newton method is significantly more efficient than the nonlinear conjugate gradient method, and that it is insensitive to the number of inversion parameters. In addition, a numerical study for the reconstructibility of variations in basal slipperiness from surface data shows that the reconstructions converge to the exact slipperiness field as the noise in the synthetic measurements decreases, and that the nonlinear rheology makes the retrieval of the basal slipperiness more difficult. For the inversion of the stress exponent in Glen's flow law we find that horizontally constant or smoothly varying volume fields can be reconstructed satisfactorily from noisy surface measurements.
TIME: 15:00:00 - 16:00:00
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Friday was work, and when I got home I quick helped Quincy put together his groovy tie-dyed headband and waistband for his costume for the Gay Men's Chorus San Diego concert, "That 60s Show," which was a lot of fun - good music, fun staging, and both Yudi and Travis did drag. After the show a bunch of us went to Brians' for dinner.
I made sure to give Yudi a copy of the Gaylaxicon program book and told him he wasn't allowed to ask me any questions about the con until he'd read it cover to cover, and that I wasn't mad that he didn't show but because he'd called me and/or Daniel every day for two weeks pestering us about it.
Saturday we slept in, then hit LYC coffee (Q's last one - wah!). He had to make his call, so a couple of us went to dinner at Amarin Thai, and then afterwards I went to the show again (much better the second night). After the concert they had to strike the stage, and then they had an after party at Bourbon Street. It was Yudi's birthday, so Q and I decided to give him a con t-shirt (his artwork, my con - truly a gift from the both of us).
While we were making our way out we ran into Joe Phillips, and he invited us over to his place this coming Satuday to hang out and play board games with none other than RuPaul! We may just stop over for laughs.
After just a few hours sleep Q kicked my butt out of bed so we could go to Disneyland! I called Lynda and Mom on the way up, and it turns out that Susan and Jim had another huge fight with Jim threatening her and she making plans to leave him... only to change her mind, so it's all back to business as usual. Ugh.
It was pretty crowded but I managed to work the hell out of the FastPass system pretty well so we didn't have to wait very long for anything, and we did manage to hit all of the "must-dos" and had time to hit a few of the "if you have times." We saw the new Snow White: An Enchanting New Musical at the Fantasyland Theatre and it was very well done (plus Patrick Stewart is the voice of the Magic Mirror). Needless to say by the end of it I got pretty choked up thinking how much Dad would have loved it, so it seemed the most appropriate time to head over to the Snow White waterfall and wishing well to scatter his lock of hair while "I'm Wishing" was playing in the background (Lynda and Mom did the same thing in Disney World in February). Even though he never made it out to California, a small piece of him will always be a part of the happiest place on earth. We made time to see "Believe... There's Magic In The Stars", the fireworks show, and Fantasmic, the water show, right before we left, did a little shopping, and got home around 2:00 a.m., but it was worth it.
Monday I overslept just a bit but still made it to work before 9. Q called during the day and him, Daniel and Tri went to see The Punisher, and afterwards I met them at Onami in Mission Valley for dinner but there wasn't enough in the buffet that I'd actually eat to warrant the cost, so I just sat and chatted and ate when we got home. Flor's mother is in the hospital but she made time for all 5 of us to go sing karaoke at a place Tri recommended in Clairemont, and I had a good time despite myself. Daniel wailed as only he can, Flor has a GREAT voice, of course Q and I were faboo, and poor Tri kept saying he wanted to sing but every time we told him it was his turn he was too shy. :) Afterwards Daniel and I dropped Tri off, and had a good conversation about our respective boyfriends on the way home.
Tonight it's an SDQSF meetup at David's, which means our gaming night is cancelled and I'm going to miss LYC gaming night at Yudi's. Because of various bullshit his family is pulling, Quincy has decided not to go to Sacramento after all to see his parents, but will be spending the day tomorrow driving up just past LA to drop off his brother-in-law's car, then take Greyhound back. It's all good, since that means we have 3 more nights to spend together. Saturday is Kris & Darrel's wedding, plus hanging out with Joe, and Sunday will be our day - probably a movie, and use that gift certificiate for Hunters steak house.
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On September 11, 2015, 24 hardy volunteers from West Denver TU and The Greenbacks Chapter joined with a Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) crew at Herman Gulch. We stretched our muscles, seared our lungs, and caught trout for relocation. 110 trout were moved to Clear Creek.After much planning and paperwork by CPW and the US Forest Service, this angling day was an enjoyable on-the-ground step towards restoration of native greenback cutthroat trout. The decades of greenback recovery work championed by Dr. Bob Behnke and implemented by several public agencies is acknowledged as prologue to the current work. The difference today is that greenbacks that will go into Herman Gulch are genetically most similar to late 1800’s museum specimens of native trout that inhabited Front Range waters.After Colorado Parks and Wildlife electro-shocks one of the 5 reaches for fish relocation,the next step leading to Herman Gulch greenback trout restoration will be a September 30, 2015 rotenone application to remove all remaining fish. This work will be conducted by Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Stocking the native greenbacks will take place in 2016.
Boyd Wright, Colorado Parks and Wildlife Native Aquatic Species Biologist explained our objective for the day: catch, keep alive, and remove, resident trout for relocation to Clear Creek.
Tim Toohey, WDTU President, and chapter member John Pern discussed plans for the day at the Herman Gulch trailhead. John took all the photos for this article.
The trailhead elevation measured at 10,320 feet, and that’s where we started. Then there was a steep climb to get above the cataracts on Herman Gulch. Pairs of fishermen each carried a bucket for trout collection, as well as gear
Above the creek cataracts, the trail leveled out to a more manageable grade for walking.
Boyd’s plan separated the creek into five reaches to fish. Each reach was about a half mile in length. Four to six fishermen worked each reach. Here Dennis Wiles is shown fishing in reach 5, the farthest reach from the trailhead.
Boyd stationed technicians within each of the five reaches to pick up fish and carry them in buckets to mesh pens for temporary holding.
This is what was being caught…..cutthroats of mixed lineage.
Mesh pens such as this one were set up in the creek by CPW technicians.
It surprised many of us that a little creek like Herman Gulch held trout of this size. We had joked at the chapter meeting that we would be taking a long walk to catch short fish.
Fishing was halted, as planned, at 1330 hours. Fish were loaded into buckets, or into plastic bags, and carried back down to the trailhead.
At the trailhead, fish were loaded into a truck-mounted aerated tank.
Fish survival down the trail was very good. Once in the aerated tank, the fish looked relaxed and happy. The tank truck took the trout a short distance to release points on Clear Creek.
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By MAMAMIA ROGUE
If you were alive in the 90’s, you obviously had the Alanis Morissette album Jagged Little Pill. You also probably spent a considerable amount of time confused about what the word ‘ironic’ means, since Morissette managed to write an entire song about irony that had no actual examples of irony in it.
A 90’s fave and one of Morissette’s most famous songs, Ironic became one of the most famous examples of not listening in English class coming back to bite you on the arse. It was also the song that gave English nerds brain aneurysms as they yelled out things like “THAT’S NOT IRONIC IT’S JUST UNFORTUNATE.”
Well, good news everybody: two hilarious women – Rachael and Eliza Hurwitz – have rewritten the song Ironic… So that it’s actually, really, finally ironic.
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Specifies allowable limits for residual ethylene oxide (EO) and ethylene chlorohydrin (ECH) in individual EO-sterilized medical devices and procedures for the measurement of EO and ECH. Does not apply for EO-sterilized devices that have no patient contact such as in vitro diagnostic devices.
Status : WithdrawnPublication date : 1995-10
Edition : 1Number of pages : 40
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Looking for a new job can be a big, if not daunting, task and it’s all too easy to get swept up in what a potential employer thinks of you. But it’s important to remember that looking for the right role is a two-way street. It’s just as important to find a company that you like as it is to find a company that wants you.
Before you consider a new job, think carefully about the type of company you’ll be working for, as it could make all the difference to your future happiness and success. Here are some tips to make that decision easier.
Know the culture
Workplace culture is something that has steadily evolved over the years, with more companies placing an emphasis on work-life balance and wellbeing. But when you’re looking for a job, it’s important to know what kind of environment you think will make you feel most at home. Do you work better in a loud, informal place or do you prefer a quieter or more corporate set-up?
Before you look at potential workplaces, you need to define what motivates and incentivises you in a job and have a clear idea of what kind of culture would both inspire you and keep you satisfied.
Once you know what kind of workplace you’re looking for, there are several ways to work out whether a company meets your needs; meeting behaviour, interaction among colleagues, the way employees dress and the office layout.
All of those factors will give you a good idea of the company culture, the type of person it attracts and whether you would be a good fit.
You should never overlook the management style of a company. You need to consider how fair or demanding performance management is, and what level of supervision is available. It’s also helpful to recognise whether you work better in a hands-on environment or if you flourish when left to your own devices.
The way you’re given feedback is absolutely key. All employees want interaction with their manager to be private, respectful and focused on improvement and development, rather than negative and embarrassing. Knowing how you’re informed of your successes and challenges will be a strong indicator on if the agency is right for you.
Vision and purpose
When you’re weighing up potential new workplaces, it’s important to consider the values and vision of the overall organisation and whether you could be a part of it.
It’s more than just the pay packet and benefits. You need to know if your views, and even morals, are aligned with the overall business. Agencies can often deal with a wide range of interesting and sometimes controversial clients, so knowing this will help to tell whether it’s the right place for you. The ideal role will fill you with a sense of pride and give you purpose in your day – ultimately making you more successful and driven in the business.
Then at the interview, ask for examples of how the company carries out its mission statement, look at their client list and see it matches up with what you want to achieve in the role. You can learn a lot from these answers and if anything doesn’t feel quite right, make sure you probe further.
Ask the questions and do the research
A job interview can be a challenge. You’ve only got a set amount of time to find out whether you’re a good match. The easiest way to do that is ask questions that will give you a better insight into the company and the people who work there.
Things like “How long have you been with the company?” are a great starting point. If you find that all the people you meet have only been there a short amount of time, it could be a warning sign. High turnover could be a sign of low pay, long hours, lack of opportunity or poor management and these red flags need to be raised early on.
Another key question is “What was the department’s biggest challenge last year and what did you learn from it?” Everyone thinks of an interview as a chance to grill the candidate on their accomplishments and problem-solving, but you should be making sure you’re finding out how a potential employer deals with challenges. Be sure to listen out to who or what gets blamed for failure. Like it or not, company politics play a huge role in overall job satisfaction and it’s important to know from the outset how decisions are made and conflicts resolved.
But that’s only part of the job. Making sure you’ve done enough background research on the company by looking at Glassdoor or exploring clients is an important part of deciding whether the place is right for you. It makes sense, you wouldn’t go into the meeting without knowing a bit about the person and company first.
An interview also gives you the perfect chance to hear how much importance is placed on building skills and development from the horse’s mouth. This could have a long-term impact on your career progression so understanding this is key. Knowing where they stand on mentorship and training will help you decide if it’s a position with a future or not.
Looking for a new job is an undoubtedly exciting time, with the promise of new challenges and opportunities. But it’s also crucial to find a company that suits your needs, values and working style. Ultimately, feeling out of place or uncomfortable could impact your performance and confidence in the long run so it always pays to do your homework. | <urn:uuid:85b04b32-f4b3-4301-8790-badd0c5c7ab1> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.fourthsource.com/careers/how-to-choose-the-right-agency-for-you-22815 | 2019-07-21T21:56:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195527204.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20190721205413-20190721231413-00554.warc.gz | en | 0.953733 | 1,134 |
FREMONT, Calif., February 13, 2017 — Identiv, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE) today announced that it has entered into a $10.0 million term loan agreement with Western Technology Investment (WTI) and an up to $10.0 million asset-backed line-of-credit agreement through East West Bank’s Technology Banking Division (EWB). The proceeds of the refinancing have been used to retire existing debt. The Company also announced unaudited preliminary results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016 at or above plan, with revenues in the range of $14.4M to $14.8M and adjusted EBITDA in excess of $0.7M.
“We’re very pleased to welcome WTI and East West Bank as partners going forward, as Identiv strengthens its position to provide highly secure, convenient access to all physical resources,” said Steven Humphreys, Identiv CEO. “After refocusing the Company in 2016, returning to positive adjusted EBITDA and re-establishing growth in our core business, we’re excited to have partners who share our long-term vision for the Company and the market. We are repaying debt that was due this year, replacing it with debt terms extending over the next two to three plus years. More importantly, we’ve replaced a lending partner which announced its intention to de-emphasize technology investing, with partners who are committed to technology and have expressed support for Identiv’s business opportunity. We believe this refinancing provides excellent operational flexibility, and represents a strong vote of confidence in our business model and our future growth prospects.”
The Company used the funds available under the financing agreements, together with approximately $0.2 million of cash on hand, to repay both the term loan and line-of-credit balances with Opus Bank. In connection with the transaction, the 400,000 Identiv warrants previously issued to Opus Bank have been canceled. The asset-backed line-of-credit agreement with EWB has a term of 24-months and includes a warrant to purchase 40,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, and the term loan agreement with WTI has a term of 42 months and includes a warrant to purchase 580,000 shares of the Company’s common stock.
“Through 2016 we’ve re-established our strong market position and our stable business platform, hitting our targets throughout the year while completing a thorough business alignment. This progress continued into the fourth quarter of 2016, and we’re pleased to report a preliminary revenue range for the fourth quarter of 2016 of $14.4M to $14.8M and adjusted EBITDA in excess of $0.7 million, both at or above our internal plans, representing solid year-over-year growth and business model improvement. Cash has been stable, closing the year above the $9M level,” added Humphreys. “Going forward, we believe our recently completed financing provides the strength and stability to focus our energy on driving our business’ growth and expanding our market position as we enter one of the most dynamic times in our industry, as all devices, sensors and access systems become interconnected, and as enterprises and individuals expect highly secure, convenient and business-enabling infrastructure. Our business focus now can be more directed to realizing our market potential.”
The preliminary results for the fourth quarter of 2016 are unaudited and based on management’s preliminary financial analysis and may be adjusted as a result of, among other things, completion of customary financial close review.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures (Unaudited)
This press release includes preliminary financial information that has not been prepared in accordance with GAAP, including preliminary non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA. Identiv uses these non-GAAP financial measures internally in analyzing its financial results and believes they are useful to investors, as a supplement to GAAP measures, in evaluating our ongoing operational performance. We believe that the use of these non-GAAP financial measures provides an additional tool for investors to use in evaluating ongoing operating results and trends. The non-GAAP measures discussed above will exclude items that are included in GAAP net income (loss) and GAAP operating expenses, and excludes provision (benefit) for income taxes, net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interest, interest expense, foreign currency losses (gains), impairment of goodwill, stock-based compensation, amortization and depreciation, and restructuring and severance. Non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered in isolation from, or as a substitute for, financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP. We have not provided reconciliations of preliminary and projected adjusted EBITDA to the most comparable GAAP measure of net income. Providing net income guidance is not practical at this time, given the difficulty of projecting certain operating items that are included in net income, including income tax valuation adjustments. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures with the most comparable GAAP measures for historical periods are indicative of the reconciliations that will be prepared upon completion of the periods covered by the non-GAAP guidance. Please reference the “Non-GAAP financial information” accompanying our quarterly earnings releases on our website at identiv.com for our GAAP results and the reconciliations of these measures, where used, to the comparable GAAP measures.
Identiv, Inc. is a global provider of physical security and secure identification. Identiv’s products, software, systems, and services address the markets for physical and logical access control and a wide range of RFID-enabled applications. Customers in the government, enterprise, consumer, education, healthcare, and transportation sectors rely on Identiv’s access and identification solutions. Identiv’s mission is to secure the connected physical world: from perimeter to desktop access, and from the world of physical things to the Internet of Everything. Identiv is a publicly traded company and its common stock is listed on the NASDAQ Capital Market in the U.S. under the symbol “INVE.” For more information, visit identiv.com.
About Western Technology Investment
Founded in 1980, Western Technology Investment (WTI) pioneered the concept of venture debt. The firm provides minimally-dilutive, truly usable capital to high-growth, public and private, technology and life science companies. For more information, please visit westerntech.com.
About East West Bank
East West Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: EWBC) is a publicly owned company with total assets of $33.3 billion and is traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “EWBC”. The Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, East West Bank, is the largest independent commercial bank headquartered in Southern California. It is a premier bank focused exclusively on the United States and Greater China markets and operates over 130 locations, including in the United States markets of California, Georgia, Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, Texas and Washington. East West Bank provides a full array of products and services to companies in various industries. The Technology, Private Equity and Life Science group is a national practice, with teams based in the Silicon Valley, Boston and China that provides financing, treasury management and international banking services to its clients. For more information on East West Bancorp, visit the Company’s website at eastwestbank.com.
Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are those involving future events and future results that are based on current expectations as well as the current beliefs and assumptions of the Company’s management and can be identified by words such as “anticipates”, “believes”, “plans”, “will”, “intends”, “expects”, and similar references to the future. Any statement that is not a historical fact, including the statements regarding the Company’s belief that it is on track to reach its targets, its expectations regarding future operating and financial performance, the benefits of the Company’s products, the Company’s beliefs regarding the strength of its business and that of the industry, traction within its customer base, market positioning and growth in market share, the Company’s ability to continue order trends into 2017 and the Company’s beliefs regarding the benefits of the announced financing, including the support and commitment of new partners, stability and operational flexibility, is a forward-looking statement. Forward-looking statements are only predictions and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside our control, which could cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the completion of the financial close process and audit of the Company’s financial statements, the actual impact of the restructuring on the Company’s business, the Company’s ability to continue the momentum in its business, the level of customer orders, the success of its dealer channels, the strength of the IoT market, and factors discussed in our public reports, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015 and subsequent reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements are based on information available to us on the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update such statements.
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Mercedes-Benz Insurance Services
More Benefits. Greater Protection.
Your Mercedes-Benz deserves premium Motor Insurance.
- For private cars up to 7 years old, Agreed Value will be applied on the Sum Insured of the car instead of subject to market value at the time of claim
- On site policy issuance at all Mercedes-Benz authorised dealerships
- The deduction for betterment is waived for cars up to 10 years old
- All claims up to RM30,000 are approved online for immediate repairs by Mercedes-Benz authorised service-centres. For claims exceeding RM30,000, approval will be given within 48 hours upon receipt of full documentation and adjusters report
- Only genuine Mercedes-Benz parts will be approved at Mercedes-Benz authorised service centres
- Cashless replacement of damaged windscreen at any Mercedes-Benz authorised service centre
- Free towage and on-site repair up to RM400. Accident towing is up to RM200 as per policy
- No excess for cars up to 10 years old
- Premium loading is waived for cars up to 10 years old
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November 18, 2014
By Neil Taylor, www.strikethreekayakfishing.com and www.capmel.com
I usually talk about “the merits of the dry bag” in my seminars, particularly for those who are new to the paddling sports. Those who are veterans to paddle sports and water figured out the merits of the dry bag the hard way, are pleased to be alive to talk about it. This one is just so simple. If you don’t have these, go and get one or more of them. This is just too easy and inexpensive and will not only save you money on valuables not lost, it is something that can be critical if you are in challenging situations and access to sensitive electronic equipment is your contact with civilization. The “merits of the dry bag” paramount lesson: It only works if you seal it. Regularly people will tell me stories of lost gear because they did not clip seal their dry bag. Just make it a habit. The only time you should have it open is when you are actively removing an item. Close it when you have the item. Close and seal it again after you return that item to the bag.
Common sense and survival of the fittest: This product exists. Owning dry bags is comparable to holding an any-uses “Get out of Jail Free” card. If you want to carry your cell phone in your pocket without a waterproof case around it, roll the dice. If you make one simple mistake and forget or there is some other happenstance: You may be out a phone. Not just a phone, anything that is prone to ruination from water is a candidate to reside in a dry bag.
Question: Safety: the cell phone, which may be your best access to assistance other than a VHF radio (channel 16 is emergency) wouldn’t you want to keep your phone dry and ready to use if you need it? Can you still make it back without being able to talk to someone first? Sure you can but I do not like losing my ability to call for assistance if something unusual comes up.
On cell phones, today’s phones there are great individual cases for your phone that can make it where you can still use the device, including the camera function. This eliminates errors you can make where you lose a phone “you took out of your main dry bag.” These days, the “dry case” specific to the phone is a better option than “the phone in the dry bag.” Tip: Incorporate a lanyard. If you have a clip to attach the phone to you, then have the dry case/phone in your shirt pocket, should it fall out of your pocket, it isn’t laying somewhere unknown to you or it doesn’t sink to the bottom of the ocean.
The handheld VHF radio is another “contact with civilization” item and are usually waterproof of submersible but Aqua Pac makes a pouch dedicated to the VHF radio and will extend the life of your unit.
What else is in the contents of the dry bag? I keep some batteries, my fishing license, wallet, car keys and even my camera if it is not in my pocket. My cell phone has a first class camera and I may pull it out of the dry bag for certain situations. You can put anything you want in there. Some people will devote one small dry bag for a First Aid Kit.
I would not put anything liquid in here, unless it is in its own package where it can’t leak on everything else. On that note, batteries can leak so I take them out of the packaging and put them in “pill bottles” which if there is an incident, confines the acid. I keep a lens cloth to clean my sunglasses in there as well, something I utilize regularly and has been a great asset for getting the spots off of the lenses.
Options and ideas for choosing dry bags. The concept is not new and the options are plenty. I have my own favorites from over the years. Different bags have different purposes.
Aqua Pac, a Captain Mel Classic sponsor, has many items to choose from. TheOtter Box is a hard-case choice. The Seal Line Baja Bag is a great one that I have enjoyed for years. The kayak shops have their own rebranded models with their logos on them and these are all quality dry bags. Over time and heavy use, watch for areas of stress and replace a bag that looks like it is wearing out. This should be rare. My dry bags with daily use last for years.
Common sense in play: The only time your dry bag should be open is when you are removing an item or when you are putting an item back in. One simple “fold and click” and the bag is secured even for the short periods of time you are using an item. Air sealed inside that also means it will float (and be more visible) if you are ever separated from your dry bag.
Open your wallet. Don’t lose expensive items because of bad decisions. Bad options? Zip Lock bags. I was that guy a long time ago, luckily before I carried anything that was very valuable. Buy a dry bag for less than twenty bucks and use it for years.
Dry storage is not just for the electronics or other valuables. It isn’t necessary most of the year in Florida but for several months it is and for kayak anglers and boat anglers across the world, oversize dry bags are crucial for carrying extra jackets and spare clothes in cold conditions. If you get soaked on a very cold day and need to change out clothes to fight off hypothermia, the dry bag with the extra set of clothes/jacket could be a real asset. Laid away somewhere even though you may not use it: Why not? Those items dry and clean can sit in hibernation until those times where you really need them.
These are top quality products, affordable and something that will keep you out of trouble and provide you with some backup insurance in certain situations. Come up with your own plan on what to put in dry storage and enjoy the extra peace-of-mind during your outdoor adventures.
Outdoor stores carry this item. Locally, Bill Jackson’s in Pinellas Park has one who section of the kayak accessory department devoted to dry bag and case options.
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(Columbus) - A state review team will soon visit a struggling district to see how well it's addressed academic performance problems.
An Ohio Department of Education administrator will lead a team into the Lorain City Schools on May 12th.
Clairie Huff-Franklin's team will help the district's academic distress commission revise its academic recovery plan for next year. The state assumed control of the district last year because of unmet academic standards.
The state team will analyze data and records and spend a week observing district activities and interviewing administrators, principals, the president of the teachers' union, students, staff and others.
Huff-Franklin says overall feedback will come right way, followed by a full report a couple weeks later.
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Could you elobarate a bit on what specific task you are trying to run? Also, the snippet you pasted refers to Policy Auditor product - if that's any help.
Yes, that's correct. It's an audit that is failing. I am trying to figure out why it is failing though.
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So, the World Cup is finally over. That was a lot of soccer!
If you’ve ever watched a soccer game where the announcers spoke Spanish, do you remember what happens when a team scores a goal?
Just one guy, Andres Cantor, made that very popular in the United States, but there’s more to the story of that famous goal cry.
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There is no better place or time than the Women Deliver 2016 Global Conference (WD2016) to highlight the importance of young people, and there is no better way to give the power of youth a platform than by meaningfully engaging young people and inviting their participation in all that WD2016 has to offer. From a two-day Youth Pre-Conference and the Youth Zone, to the plenary and concurrent sessions, young people – who will make up 20% of all participants of WD2016 – will be front and center embodying a new paradigm of youth engagement.
Women Deliver conferences offer multiple opportunities for learning, sharing, networking, and collaborating. Below are some of the features specifically designed for youth engagement in 2016:
One of the largest Youth Pre-Conference gatherings of young people on girls’ and women’s health and rights following the launch of the SDGs, it will be held on 15-16 May 2016, wrapping up just before WD2016’s opening plenary.
More than 500 young people under the age of 30 from across 125 countries (of which, approximately 35% are men) will hear from keynote speakers, hold roundtable discussions, participate in training workshops, and network with peers and high-level participants.
A physical space located within the exhibit halls dedicated to all youth attendees, the Youth Zone will be a bustling central hub for intergenerational dialogue, the discussion of ideas and best practices, and networking. To view the Youth Zone schedule please click here.
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The Pat Daniel era ends at Enbridge
Sphere of Influence
by Alberta Venture Staff
When Patrick Daniel took over as president and CEO of Enbridge on January 1, 2001, the company’s shares were trading at $10.93 and it had just completed a year in which it earned $392 million on revenues of $3 billion (putting it 16th on the Venture 100 list that year). When he punched his card for the final time this past September 28, the price was $38.40 (and that’s with the stock having split twice) and the company had annual income of $1 billion on revenues of $19.4 billion, putting it fourth on the Venture 250 list. To put it mildly, it’s been a good decade for Enbridge, which is now Canada’s largest transporter of crude oil.
Daniel is now 66 and retires as one of the titans of the Alberta business scene, but his tenure has not ended on a high note. With the Northern Gateway pipeline bogged down in opposition and the 2010 spill in Michigan fresh in everyone’s mind (courtesy of the “Keystone Kops” comment made by U.S. National Transportation Safety Board chair Deborah Hersman), Daniel leaves at a difficult time. But even on his final day he’s still trying to get his message out. “Many Canadians don’t appreciate that we operate by far the biggest crude oil pipeline system in the world,” he says. “It is a mechanical operation and we have a spill rate that is about half the industry average. I don’t think Canadians realize how much we put into pipeline maintenance and inspection.”
Daniel was born and raised in Entwistle, a small farming community 95 kilometres west of Edmonton. His father owned a hardware store and his mother was a schoolteacher. He graduated with degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Alberta and the University of British Columbia before beginning his career in the oil patch.
Enbridge has interests in close to 1,000 MW of renewable energy projects, including eight wind farms, four solar farms, a geothermal facility, four waste heat recovery facilities and a fuel cell.
The New Guy
“I don’t think we can stick our head in the sand and not pay attention to what is being said and read by the public,” says new president and CEO Al Monaco. Enbridge’s Northern Gateway critics, environmental activists, First Nations and scathing U.S. regulators may not be the company’s primary stakeholders,” he says, “but they are important stakeholders.”
“Enbridge has been around for 160 years in the gas distribution business and 60-some years in the crude oil business. When you’re the biggest and recognized as the best in the world, I would hope that Canadians would be proud of that.”
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The links between various components of our health are not always self evident.
Take high blood pressure as an example. You typically cannot perceive elevated blood pressure, and you wouldn’t feel any different than if it was normal. Internally, however, higher blood pressure can over time injure and narrow your arteries.
The effects of damaged arteries can ultimately result in stroke, cardiovascular disease, or kidney disease, which is one of the reasons we have an annual physical—to discover the existence of abnormalities before the serious consequences develop.
The point is, we usually can’t sense high blood pressure ourselves, and often can’t instantly understand the link between high blood pressure and, for example, kidney failure many years down the road.
But what we should realize is that every part of our body and aspect of our physiology is in some way related to everything else, and that it is our obligation to protect and promote all elements of our health.
The consequences of hearing loss to total health
Much like our blood pressure, we more often than not can’t detect small increments of hearing loss as it develops. And we certainly have a harder time imagining the possible link between hearing loss and, say, dementia years later.
And although it doesn’t seem as though hearing loss is immediately linked to serious physical disorders and cognitive decline, the science is revealing to us the exact opposite. Just as increases in blood pressure can injure arteries and cause circulation problems anywhere in the body, hearing loss can diminish stimulation and cause damage to the brain.
In fact, a 2013 study by Johns Hopkins University discovered that those with hearing loss acquired a 30-40 percent faster decline in cognitive function compared to those with normal hearing. And, the study also found that the rate of cognitive decline was higher as the extent of hearing loss increased.
Researchers believe there are three possible explanations for the link between hearing loss and brain decline:
- Hearing loss can lead to social isolation and depression, both of which are acknowledged risk factors for mental decline.
- Hearing loss causes the brain to transfer resources away from memory and thinking to the handling of fainter sounds.
- Hearing loss is a symptom of a shared underlying injury to the brain that also impairs cognitive functions.
Perhaps it’s a mixture of all three, but what’s evident is that hearing loss is directly connected with declining cognitive function. Reduced sound stimulation to the brain changes the way the brain operates, and not for the better.
Further studies by Johns Hopkins University and other institutions have discovered further links between hearing loss and depression, memory problems, a higher risk of falls, and even dementia.
The consequences are all related to brain function and balance, and if the experts are correct, hearing loss could very likely lead to additional cognitive problems that haven’t yet been investigated.
Going from hearing loss to hearing gain
To return to the initial example, having high blood pressure can either be catastrophic to your health or it can be taken care of. Diet, exercise, and medication (if required) can lower the pressure and preserve the health and integrity of your blood vessels.
Hearing loss can likewise create problems or can be taken care of. What researchers have observed is that hearing aids can minimize or reverse the effects of cognitive decline by re-stimulating the brain with enhanced sound.
Improved hearing has been associated with greater social, mental, and physical health, and the gains in hearing strengthen relationships and enrich conversations.
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Most women will peel away pounds eating fewer than 2,000 calories a day. In fact, with the exception of very active women, eating 2,000 calories or more in a day likely won’t cut it for effective weight loss. Your individualized weight-loss calorie needs are based on your body weight, current calorie intake and activity level.
Weight-Loss Calorie Needs
To shed pounds safely and effectively, most women require fewer than 2,000 calories a day. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute suggests most inactive women require 1,000 to 1,200 calories a day to drop weight, while active women and those weighing more than 164 pounds should aim for 1,200- to 1,600-calorie weight-loss diets. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests cutting your current intake by 500 to 1,000 calories daily to drop 1 to 2 pounds weekly.
You may need 2,000 calories, or more, daily to lose 1 to 2 pounds per week if you regularly perform hard-core exercises at vigorous intensities or for long durations. For example, if you keep your regular calorie intake constant but burn an extra 500 to 1,000 calories daily by increasing your physical activity, you should still shed 1 to 2 pounds per week. Harvard Health Publications estimates a 155-pound woman who runs for one hour a day at a pace of 6 miles per hour will burn about 745 calories daily, which leads to a 1.5-pound weekly weight loss.
Importance of Protein
Boosting your protein intake will make it easier for you to cut calories and melt away fat. Protein also helps maintain lean muscle when you shed pounds. A 2008 review published in the “American Journal of Clinical Nutrition” found protein increases satiety more than fat or carbs. A study published in a 2012 edition of “Physiology and Behavior” reports high-protein diets can help reduce body weight and body fat. Healthy, protein-rich foods include seafood, skinless poultry, egg whites, soy products, low-fat dairy foods, legumes, seitan, nuts and seeds.
Although eating fewer than 2,000 calories a day helps most women shed pounds, eating too few calories is a no-no. Very low-calorie diets containing 500 to 800 calories daily lead to rapid weight loss, but also cause unpleasant side effects. These may include nausea, diarrhea, constipation, fatigue and gallstone formation, according to Weight-control Information Network. Since rapid weight loss helps reduce obesity-related health conditions, chat with your doctor to see if you’re a candidate for a medically supervised VLCD program. However, a 2006 review published in the journal “Obesity” found that low-calorie diets containing 1,000 to 1,500 calories daily work just as well as very low-calorie diets long term.
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: How Are Overweight and Obesity Treated?
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Losing Weight
- Harvard Health Publications: Calories Burned in 30 Minutes for People of Three Different Weights
- Physiology and Behavior: Relatively High-Protein or 'Low-Carb' Energy-Restricted Diets for Body Weight Loss and Body Weight Maintenance?
- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: Protein, Weight management, and Satiety
- Weight-control Information Network: Very Low-calorie Diets
- Obesity: The Evolution of Very-Low-Calorie Diets: An Update and Meta-Analysis
- Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty Images
- Eating in Moderation to Lose Weight
- The Recommended Daily Intakes for a 1,200-Calorie Diet
- How Much Protein for an Active Lifestyle?
- How to Lose Weight in 60 Days With High Protein & Exercise
- The 1,000-Calorie Vegetarian Diet Plan
- Calorie Counts Based on Sizes of People
- Calorie Intake on a Low-Carb Diet for Women
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On 3rd May
Agnes Ann Benson my g.aunt married John Henry Barnett at St Thomas Parish Church, Hull, Yorkshire in 1903. Agnes Ann was one of my grandfather’s 5 siblings that no-one knew anything about, as he led the family to believe he was an orphan without siblings or any other family. He probably did this so that there would be no-one to tell that he had been discharged from the army and sent to an asylum. Although my gran came from Hull too, they married in Newport, Monmouthshire then went to Glasgow before settling in Manchester. Interestingly, they kept in touch with my gran's parents, aunts and uncles etc.
Sidney Henry Barnett, my 1st cousin once removed, and son of the above couple was born in Canterbury, Kent.
Millicent Stanton my 9 x g.g.aunt was born in Morton by Bourne, Lincolnshire in 1618
Jane Martindale (nee Goad), my 2nd cousin 5 times removed (a very distant ancestor) was born in Gleaston, Lancashire in 1792. Gleaston only has a population of 400 nowadays, although when Jane was born, there was a working mill (it’s still in working order) and at least 5 farms which probably employed many of the local men and women, so it’s possible it was a larger community in the late 1700s/1800s.
Arabella Charlotte Salter my 1st cousin 3 times removed was born in Falmouth, Tasmania in 1858. Both her parents had been transported to Van Diemen’s Land. Her mother Elizabeth Eliza Mumby in 1848 for theft of rather a large amount of goods and produce from her employer, which was her 2nd offence. She probably already had 2 children before she was deported at least one of whom she left behind with her parents. Her father was transported in 1836 for desertion from Wellington Barracks. Arabella Charlotte was named after her mother’s youngest sister who had died, aged 2 in 1827.
Jane Benson (nee Martindale) my 3rd cousin 4 times removed and daughter of Jane Goad above was baptised in Ulverston, Dalton in Furness, Lancashire in 1824. She married my 2 x g.g.uncle Thomas Benson in 1845, so I’m related to her on 2 different trees.
Lucy Collett my 3 x g.g.aunt was baptised at Stradbroke, Suffolk in 1766
Ann Gilchrist my 3 x g.g.aunt was baptised at St Mark’s Church, Frampton, Lincolnshire in 1802
Annie Elizabeth Hardy (nee Wadsworth) my husband’s g.grandmother died in Audenshaw, Lancashire 1898. The cause of her death was uterine haemorrhage, Metritis (inflammation of the uterus) and pneumonia. Reading about this condition, it is highly probable that she had either just delivered (no birth or death recorded so possibly a stillbirth) or had a miscarriage. She left 10 children, 5 of them under the age of 10 and their father died only 2 years later. Her eldest 2 daughters were married and so it fell to the 3rd daughter who was 18 when her mother died and 20 when her father died, to care for the rest of her siblings which she did until they, too, were all married. Only then did she marry herself by which time she was aged 39.
Catherine Collett (nee Baldwin) my 2 x g.g.aunt was buried at Mettingham Parish Church, Suffolk in 1891
Peter Pemberton my 1st cousin twice removed was buried at Kingsley Parish Church, Kingsley, Cheshire in 1875. He was 11 years old.
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A cardiologist from Cleveland, Ohio, has come forward to question the effectiveness of drugs made by Ranbaxy, the India-based pharmaceuticals company that pleaded guilty in May 2013 to seven felonies in a case brought by the U.S Department of Justice.
Citing several cases of health issues faced by patients of his who used Ranbaxy drugs, Harry Lever of the Cleveland Clinic said that those whose symptoms were either worsening or not improving with these drugs saw significant improvement after he switched them to drugs made by other manufacturers.
Speaking at a seminar organised by the American Enterprise Institute here Dr. Lever said that drugs made by Ranbaxy, which agreed to pay $500 million in fines for having sub-standard manufacturing processes and making false statements made to the Food and Drug Administration, came to his attention after the U.S. regulator found repeated violations of current Good Manufacturing Practices at multiple Ranbaxy facilities in India.
In one case, Dr. Lever noted, a patient with heart trouble, who was taking an 80mg dose of the Ranbaxy drug Furosemide, was suffering from shortness of breath even after the dose was doubled. Then Dr. Lever switched the patient to a drug made by another manufacturer and he lost 15 pounds of fluid in one week – a desirable result for this condition.
Commenting on the efficacy of Furosemide this case, Dr. Lever said, “Is it that their batch-to-batch consistency is a problem? Maybe some companies are more consistent at making consistent drugs, but some companies like Ranbaxy aren’t. They still put [in] the active ingredient but for some reason it’s not consistent.”
Speaking to The Hindu Ranbaxy USA spokesperson Charles Caprariello said that deducing the causes of certain health conditions and how they respond to medications was a complex matter, and sometimes the differences even came down to patients not taking the drugs per doctors’ advice.
He similarly outlined the case of a patient using Ranbaxy’s formulation of cholesterol-reducing drug atorvastatin, for which the company in 2012 announced a massive recall after glass particles were found in the tablets, where the cholesterol level was about 100 points above normal.
Dr. Lever said, “All I did was kept the dose the same, called the pharmacy and said ‘Give him the name brand drug, instead’. We checked within a month and [his cholesterol] was back to normal.” The comments mark one of the first few cases of physicians stepping forward to question the quality of drugs made by Ranbaxy.
Although Dr. Lever admitted that for heart failure patients the condition was relatively “multifactorial” and it could be harder to isolate the causes, in the cited cases other factors apart from the drug manufacturer were held constant, he noted
Responding to comments by former senior Ranbaxy officials Kathy Spreen and Dinesh Thakur, who disclosed details about forged drug testing data to CBS news channel last month, Ranbaxy said that there was “no evidence that patients were adversely harmed as a result of the manufacturing issues at these facilities.”
However Mr. Thakur, who is a whistleblower in the FDA case against Ranbaxy, said at the AEI event that Dr. Lever’s account was a testament that the quality-control process for new generic drug applications was not working as intended, and “we have no mechanism to follow that up and see exactly what is happening in the market when people are switched from the brand to the generic.”
Further, Mr. Thakur noted, this was exacerbated in the case of generics because “There are two different standards of drug manufacturing, one for drugs made in India and shipped to countries such as Ghana or Latin America, or consumed in India, and a second standard for drugs sold in places such as the U.S.”
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Catalan Spanish Wine Dinner
Join us on Wednesday July 1st at 7:30pm
Join us at The Chef’s Table at Meadowsweet for our Catalan Spanish Wine Dinner hosted by Jeremy Adona and Polo Dobkin Wednesday, July 1st at 7:30pm. Chef Dobkin will be cooking a unique 5 course tasting menu inspired by Northern Italian cuisine and Mr. Adona will be pairing each course with wine from the region. Enjoy and learn about amazing food and wine from the Catalan region in Northern Spain
with Chef Polo Dobkin and Jeremy Adona.
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Ingram Micro Inc. is increasing credit lines for more than 680 of its channel partners in hopes of spurring SMB and consumer revenue.
The distributor decided to raise overall credit by more than $8 million after fielding reports from credit analysts and analyzing studies from its internal Business Intelligence Center. As a result, more than pre-qualified 500 partners, including VARs and managed services providers, that target SMBs will be able to take advantage of the increased credit lines. So will 175 partners that focus on consumer electronics.
"Gaining access to working capital is a challenge for many channel partners – especially those who are focused on meeting the business technology needs of today's growing SMBs," Jamie Ferullo, director of U.S. SMB sales for Ingram Micro, said in a statement. "By identifying high-potential partners and extending them greater credit limits, we're helping to remove one of the biggest barriers to earning new and incremental business, and further enabling their success."
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Friday, August 31, 2018
The Vision (8.31.18): The Mystery of Belief
Image: Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park. Wyoming, August 2018
Note: Devotion taken from last Sunday's sermon on John 12:44-50.
John 12:44 Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. 45 And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.
Unbelief is a mystery to the believer, because it seems so irrational. Why would anyone in his right mind ever reject Christ?
Belief, however, is an equally astonishing phenomenon. How do hardened sinners come to believe in Christ? It would be easier to grow a vegetable garden on an asphalt parking lot! And yet God does it by his grace and power.
In v. 44 we read that Jesus cried out (the Greek verb is krazo). He also had done this when he taught in the temple at the Feast of Tabernacles (cf. 7:28-29, 37-38). Christ had hidden himself (v. 36), but now he makes himself known. He is like John the Baptist, a voice crying in a spiritual wilderness.
What does he cry? He who believes on me, believes not on me but the one who sent me. Here Christ speak, as the Son of God, as the second person of the Godhead, of his special relation to the Father.
He comes to make the Father known. As John the Evangelist put it in his prologue to this Gospel: “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him” (John 1:18).
To believe in Christ is to believe in the Father. One will not know the Father until and unless he knows the Son. We are Christians, not mere theists.
In a solar eclipse you need special glasses to look at the sun lest your eyes be damaged by looking at the sun’s glory. If we can draw an analogy, Christ is the means or Mediator by which we see the glory of the Father.
So, in v. 45 Jesus says, “And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.”
Philip will later ask Jesus, “Lord, shew us the Father,” and Jesus will respond, “he that hath seen me hath seen the Father” (John 14:8-9).
When we find Christ we need look no further. We do not need Christ and something else or someone else. We need Christ alone.
Yes, there is the mystery of unbelief. But there is also the mystery of belief. Those who believe in Christ believe in the one who sent him. Those who see Christ, see the Father.
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By Andreo Calonzo Yahoo
The Philippines Coast Guard said it drove away a Chinese warship in the South China Sea, in another sign of tension between the two nations in the disputed waters.
In a statement Monday citing a July 13 report, the Coast Guard said it had sent a verbal challenge to Chinese warship spotted at Marie Louise Bank.
The Chinese vessel eventually moved away from the area, the statement said.
The foreign vessel sent a radio message identifying itself as “Chinese Navy Warship 189” and asked the Philippine ship tailing it to keep distance, the Coast Guard said.
The two nations’ vessels have been locked in a standoff in the South China Sea for months, after hundreds of Chinese ships swarmed disputed territory earlier this year. The Philippines has repeatedly protested the ships’ presence and has been backed by the U.S., while Beijing has said its actions were normal and legitimate.
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Since school ended, my whole family is floundering. We have no summer plans. I’m feeling some pressure to make up for “COVID slump,” but I haven’t a clue how to do so. Neither of my teenagers have summer jobs or internships, and neither is interested in taking an online class. We need to find a purpose this summer—all of us. What, even, is the goal?
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India is land of wonderful and marvelous artistic work of wood which is being appreciated worldwide. India is very rich in its forest wealth having a huge land area under forests. It has established its reputation in the field of wood crafts and furniture. Antique furniture, intricate hand carving and traditional designs have helped India become an exporter. Popular wood types used in India include Walnut, Sandalwood, Teak, Sheesham, Deodar, Ebony, Redwood, Rosewood, Red Cedar and Sal. Teak accounts for almost 50 per cent of the total wooden furniture produced, Sal and Deodar account for about 20 per cent and the balance includes Mahogany, Cedar and other tree types. India’s organised furniture industry is expected to grow 20% per annum over the next few years and is projected to cross US$ 32 billion by 2019.We at India Project News.in bring out the latest upcoming projects in Plywood and wood boards, Wood products NES under Wood based industry. | <urn:uuid:38f593e0-b999-4c07-9d6a-1f5a6c3bfd94> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://www.indiaprojectsnews.in/wood-based-industries | 2021-07-24T11:46:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046150264.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20210724094631-20210724124631-00573.warc.gz | en | 0.947258 | 209 |
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During the early stages of the American civil rights movement and well before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, sisters Winifred and Frieda Parker were leading the effort to integrate student housing on Purdue’s campus and across Indiana. On Oct. 3, the Parker sisters were honored for their courageous leadership with the dedication of two residence halls in their names on the Purdue University campus.
The ceremony, which included hundreds of supporters and members of the Parker family, was the formal celebration of the Purdue Board of Trustees’ June 2021 vote to name the residence halls after the Parker sisters. When Winifred and Frieda were admitted to Purdue in 1946, Black students were denied access to housing in West Lafayette, which included Purdue’s campus.
While their father conducted a campaign encouraging Purdue to modify its policies, the sisters courageously paved the way for their peers and future generations of Black students on campus.
Winifred Parker and Frieda Parker halls — the first buildings on campus named for Black alumnae — stand as reminders to all students of the courageous steps it takes to make meaningful change. The buildings, and the tree planted during their dedication, represent more than a single heroic moment in time; rather, they are the latest manifestation of one family’s ongoing pursuit for and celebration of the power of equitable, accessible education.
“This tree, a dawn redwood, will become tall and strong just as Winifred Parker White and Frieda Parker-Jefferson grew and became strong leaders throughout their lives,” John Gates, Purdue’s vice provost for diversity and inclusion told the audience. “This tree will make the living experience on our campus more beautiful for generations to come and remind those who stop and gaze at its beauty of two young women who are forever linked to the great ongoing story of Purdue.”
Alongside the Black Cultural Center at the corner of Third and North Russell streets, the tree and residence halls are reminders that a legacy like the Parkers’ is not the result of one moment or one action. Though based on a single, core principle — that education should be available, accessible and equitable — the Parker’s actions became a legacy when Winifred, Frieda and their family chose to stand by that principle, in the face of adversity, each day of their lives.
By choosing to persistently pursue their values, the Parker family demonstrates how single steps made again and again and again can act as seeds of change that continue to grow for generations. Their story and impact on Purdue can be seen in a YouTube video posted to the Purdue University account.
Today, student employees working in the two Parker Halls boast a slogan that represents Winifred and Frieda well: “Pioneers in their own way. Boilermakers in every way.” After graduation, the sisters went on to live rich lives as educators, scientists and advocates. The Parkers and their families remained vocal Purdue loyalists long after graduation. Their story is featured in the 2009 documentary, “Black Purdue,” as well as “A Force for Change: The Class of 1950,” by historian John Norberg. Now, archival exhibits in the Parker Halls will share their story to new audiences.
“Like Neil Armstrong or Amelia Earhart, Winifred and Frieda Parker are heroic Purdue icons, and it’s my hope that these facilities and the exhibits within them will help amplify their role in the American story,” says Renee Thomas, Purdue’s associate vice provost for diversity and inclusion.
The great equalizer
The Parkers’ legacy as changemakers began with Winifred and Frieda’s father, Frederick. During the early part of the 20th century, Fred was one of several distinguished Black men recruited to attend Amherst College, an elite liberal arts college in Massachusetts.
“Selected to be educated amongst the most elite individuals from across the nation, my grandfather realized that education was the great equalizer,” says Adrienne White-Faines, daughter of Winifred Parker White. “He believed that when you are in the classroom, learning together, taking the same exams, it’s beyond your skin color, beyond your story and beyond your history.”
To his core, Fred believed in the power of education. As a teacher and principal at Crispus Attucks High School in Indianapolis, he is known for having instilled high academic expectations and cultural pride in his students, laying solid foundations for their aspirations of becoming doctors, lawyers, educators, artists and more. Fred Parker received the Harvard Award for Outstanding Teaching in 1970 and an honorary doctorate from Amherst College in 1973.
“Because of his opportunities and experiences, my grandfather dedicated his life to helping thousands of Black men and women gain access to and receive degrees in higher education,” White-Faines says. “He changed the trajectory of lives and families for generations.”
As firsthand recipients of this lesson, White-Faines says, there was no question that Winifred and Frieda would go to college.
After being admitted to Purdue in 1946, the sisters arrived on a campus still learning how to provide accessible and equitable education for all. Years before the landmark decision of Brown v. Board of Education opened the doors for desegregation in public schools and legally established the principle that separate accommodations could not offer equal opportunities, students of color were forbidden from living in West Lafayette, which included campus.
“My grandfather recognized that education in itself happens in a variety of environments,” White-Faines says. “Education happens in the classroom. Education happens in the dining hall. Education happens in the dorm room. Education happens because you come together to hear perspectives and learn.
“Black students, therefore, were being admitted into Purdue, but yet they weren’t.”
In the face of policy-supported segregation, adversity and prejudice, Purdue’s Black students bolstered their academic success by tapping into their shared strength and resiliency.
“Many, many Black students, in order to survive, relied on their own internal culture and community,” White-Faines says. “And it was those communities that allowed you to make it through. Those were your friends. They were how you were affirmed. They helped you find your strength to put on your coat, if you will, and go out into this environment to earn your education, understanding that you were navigating a very dynamic world of acceptance.”
No matter the strength of their support system, without full acceptance into the residential campus experience, the Parkers and their peers faced systemic barriers that prevented them from receiving the full potential of their education. In the rural Midwest of the 1940s, many basic services — including haircuts and restaurants — were not open to Black Americans in West Lafayette.
“Imagine being a student, having to study, to do your work, then to travel all the way across the bridge into downtown Lafayette to get home, often by foot — they didn’t have access to the transportation services we have today,” Thomas says.
“We’re not just talking about missing social events, which anyone would recognize as an important part of the residential college experience. Every basic need required a commute — getting a haircut, going to sleep at night, finding a place to eat. That takes an enormous amount of time and energy.”
Segregation denied Black students access to the most essential aspects of a quality education, making their college experience very different from that of today’s students.
The right women for the job
Convinced that Winifred, Frieda and their peers were not receiving the education he envisioned for them, Fred Parker and his family started a campaign on two fronts: As Fred began petitioning state and university leadership for integrated housing, Winifred and Frieda continued creating bridges on campus.
“He made it well known that Purdue was a land-grant school supported by state taxes, and his taxes supported the school just like everyone else’s. So why couldn’t his children live on campus?” Frieda Parker wrote of her father in her contribution to “Force for Change.” “The fact that Blacks were not allowed in the dorms was a policy that had been set up in the housing office at Purdue. It was not a law.”
White-Faines says, “Because of my grandfather’s confidence and courage, he was comfortable reaching out and taking the risks to say, ‘I know what equity looks like. I know what right looks like. And I’m not afraid to politely, but firmly, advocate.’ He was able to give voice not only to my mother and aunt, but to all of the Black students on the campus who were not yet allowed to live on campus or in West Lafayette.”
In January 1947, both sisters were admitted to Bunker Hill, which sat just down the block from the newly named Parker halls. The change brought its own challenges for the newly admitted Black residents.
It was Winifred and Frieda’s turn to show confidence and courage.
“We received a letter from the dean of women who did everything she could to discourage us from coming and living on the campus short of telling us how much happier we would be and how the people wouldn’t speak to us and, you know, the same old thing all the time,” Frieda says in the documentary “Black Purdue.” “We didn’t believe them anyway.”
Asked how her mother and aunt faced their move into yet another predominantly white space, White-Faines describes women capable of setting aside their own fears, “because you need to be present for those around you.”
“The beauty is, my mother and my aunt were both incredibly warm, kind — my aunt was infectiously funny — and approachable people. You couldn’t help but like them,” she says. “I can picture my aunt’s humor breaking awkward moments, because only she could do that. And my mother could turn with her empathetic and compassionate self and make people warm up to new things.”
It wasn’t only the Parkers and their peers who were treading new water. As the first Black residents of Bunker Hill, the Parkers bore the burden of making their white peers comfortable with the situation.
“What Purdue did by integrating the dorms was to open a whole different world, not just for Black people, but for all the white women who were living in their dorms,” White-Faines says. “It demystified the idea of Black women. They could walk away going, ‘They brush their teeth just like I do. They laugh in the room just like I do. They can be friends. I can see them as people.’”
“Access is not just about making a way for Black people. It’s making a way for the world to appreciate the diversity that exists within all of us, so we can all grow. We all suffer when that is denied,” she says. “Those were not easy days — lots of challenges — but they were the right women to do it.”
The Parker family’s legacy did not end with their class, with Black students, or even with Purdue. Friends with civil rights giants such as Charles Hamilton Houston, dean of Howard Law School and a founder of the National Bar Association, Fred Parker was connected to a number of individuals bringing forth litigation against colleges and universities across the nation for issues related to segregation and unequal access, Thomas says.
“This story really resonates with me because it provides historical context for the wonderful story that Purdue University has as it relates to the African American community. Yes, it started as a fault by the institution and society, but Purdue rose to the challenge to change, and we keep moving forward,” Thomas says.
An American legacy
During Sunday’s dedication ceremony, Purdue President Mitch Daniels expressed admiration not only of the sisters, but of their family’s shared commitment to a united cause.
“I love what a family story this is,” he said. “As unique as these two sisters were, you’ve just seen, and I hope you already knew, the story of a great American family.”
The Parkers’ story is just that – a story made of many moments, many people and many contributions. It began with Fred Parker’s belief in the value of education, carried on through the lessons he shared with others, persisted in the courageous actions of his children, and endures still in the actions taken by Purdue University in honor of the Parker family story.
With sunshine breaking through a hazy sky, Purdue leadership took the stage to iterate the role of education in creating a just society. They took the opportunity to reaffirm Purdue’s commitment to creating equitable pathways for all.
“Education is the great lowerer of barriers, and in the knowledge economy we live in today – where there has been a lot of progress – it is still the biggest barrier to upward mobility of free people,” Daniels says. “Purdue is committed to lowering that as our contribution to a more just and more successful society for all. Affordable, accessible and equal opportunity to a Purdue education is our highest commitment.”
Last year, the Purdue Board of Trustees created the Equity Task Force, whose assessment of structural and environmental barriers to success of faculty, staff and students of color resulted in an entire strategic pillar committed to not only bettering – but excelling – at creating an environment of success for Black Boilermakers.
“Our overarching goal is for Purdue to become the first-choice institution for Black students, faculty and staff,” Gates told the crowd. “Second choice just won’t do.”
Gates also relayed the university’s commitment to double Black undergraduate enrollment and substantially increase the number of Black faculty over the next five years, citing actionable plans for new scholarships, cluster hires, mentoring programs and community-building initiatives.
“The Board of Trustees has committed to a goal of $75 million during the next five years to support this initiative,” Gates says. “Seventy-five million dollars is one of the largest sums of any public university in the United States for such a cause. That’s our Purdue. Purdue is at a defining moment in creating a future for Blacks at this university that will be a model for other universities to follow – and we will succeed.”
Said White-Faines at the dedication event: “My mother, Winifred, and my aunt, Frieda, came to Purdue with the clear and unwavering goal to pursue and receive their bachelor degrees as their parents had instilled in them that education is the great equalizer. At the time and still today, it’s understood that likely the strongest and most efficient and effective pathway to a more just and peaceful world is through education.” | <urn:uuid:67833524-99db-496e-9079-2a923bfada19> | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | https://chicagocrusader.com/85481/ | 2023-03-31T00:00:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949506.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20230330225648-20230331015648-00004.warc.gz | en | 0.973637 | 3,179 |
Discussion in 'Maps, Mods, Mutators and Skins' started by Snuggs, May 2, 2020.
thank you for doing maps che, this plays well enough
the end is funny so much chaos
Will check it out m8!
Things I don't like with this version:
- docks can be reached from the underwater passage. Would prefer it to open after docks instead.
- final objective has too much health. Needing more than a sixpack of rockets is too much.
Otherwise I really like the new ending, great work on that
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This weekend I was piddling around with photos, making sure I have them labeled and burned onto CDs, and updating my database. I ran across some from a trip I made to Floyd, VA back in October of last year and realized I had not shared them with you here.
I didn't camp with the Sisters that weekend and was only around for Wednesday and Thursday of the gathering. Sue had posted that the campground was full, so I opted to stay over in Floyd, explore the area, and meet up with the Sisters at Daddy Rabbit's Campground for some visiting and supper.
First I'll share two photo collages from the campground...
Sometimes when I travel or camp, I don't mind going by myself because it frees me up to explore, make U-turns, and stop at places that might not interest my traveling companions. That's the kind of trip this turned out to be. I headed off in a general direction both Wednesday and Thursday without really having a destination in mind, knowing full well that Jill the GPS would get me back to where I really needed to be.
I found a couple neat coffee houses, two covered bridges, an old courthouse, an incredible fabric shop, some Buffalo China at a dilapidated antique shop, fresh apples at a mountain farmer's market, and some breath-taking fall color at Lover's Leap Overlook.
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You’re inside a box they call a condominium unit with a monthly amortization you dearly, regularly and religiously pay. You feel safe because unlike other people you call ‘unfortunate’ or ‘disadvantaged’ who have bridges as their dwelling’s sole roof, you stay in an air-conditioned building manned 24 hours by uniformed men paid by the developer to safeguard your safety.
And so you free yourself from this worry concerning security because the amount you paid for, you thought, covers the peace of mind that comes with staying in a high-rise apartment. Inside your unit which you thought is the safest place on earth second only to your mother’s womb.
You reason that you are given salary to think about keeping the national economy afloat, so worrying about your safety should be a another party’s job. Too mundane a concern to bother you. You may forget every once in a while to lock your door or secure the windows. You let other people enter your unit because after all CCTVs are all over the place. In case something awful happens, you have suspects to interrogate.
But what you failed to zero in on your equation is the fact that your secured aquarium of an apartment is located in a Third World country where inequality is as common as the shade of green in tropical rainforest. Your safety is not guaranteed. And so one cold, rainy night, while sipping a cup of steaming brewed coffee in your warm and dry room, when you least expect it, the lot starts to change and you see yourself reflected on a mirror being stabbed repeatedly by a stranger who came from nowhere. You see yourself being dragged to the toilet and there see your own blood gushing from your own cracked cranium that was obsessively banged on the sharp edge of your lavatory. Slowly, you see your self dying. A painful death.
By Nancy C. Carvajal
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 23:26:00 08/16/2009MANILA, Philippines—The body of a man who had been stabbed to death was found inside the toilet of his condominium unit in Katipunan, Quezon City, before dawn Sunday, the police said.
Chief Inspector Benjamin Elenzano, head of the Quezon City Police District homicide investigation unit, identified the victim as Winston Lou Ynlon, 28.
Elenzano said investigators who went to Ynlon’s unit at the Sunrise Condominium on Esteban Abada Street, Loyola Heights, found it in complete disarray.
He added that police have yet to determine what the victim does for a living and the motive for his killing, although their initial theory was that it was robbery.
Elenzano said police investigators were also still trying to establish if anything had been taken from Ynlon’s unit.
“We have not started the inventory of what [items are] missing as we have yet to talk to the victim’s family,” he told the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Ynlon’s body was reported to the police by his friend, Jojo Flores.
Flores told the police that he went to the victim’s unit after the latter failed to reply to his phone calls.
After his repeated knocks on the door went unanswered, Flores said he went to the building administrator and asked him to let him into the victim’s unit.
They later found the victim in the toilet inside his unit. His hands and feet were tied while his body bore several stab wounds.
Below is a call for help made by the Ayala Young Leaders Alliance (AYLA) and AYLC Secretariat on the death of Wynton Ynion, an alumnus (2000) of the leadership program of which the author of this blog was also once a participant of:
The Ayala Young Leaders Alliance (AYLA) and AYLC Secretariat would like to appeal for help regarding the death of our fellow Ayala Young Leader, Winton Lou G. Ynion (AYLC 2000 Alumnus) who was found dead this morning in his apartment. His remains will be at Charity Chapel, St. Don Bosco Parish, Makati City (beside Walter Mart, Makati).
For monetary assistance, you can drop by at AYLC Secretariat, 10th floor, BPI Main Building cor Paseo de Roxas, Ayala Makati or deposit at Mr. Simon Mossesgeld current account: 0011 1643 58. Please text or call Ms. Steffi Borromeo (AYLC 2007- 09275326150/752 1065) if you have deposited on the account.
For volunteers please get in touch with Ms. Steffi R. Borromeo (AYLC 2007) – 09275326150 or 752 1065. | <urn:uuid:12af55b6-dcd7-4b7d-819a-904d1eafe5e5> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://johnryanrecabar.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/in-cold-blood/ | 2017-11-20T11:33:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806030.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20171120111550-20171120131550-00097.warc.gz | en | 0.966585 | 1,016 |
If you’ve got a serious toothache, you’re likely experiencing a dental emergency. A toothache that lasts more than a day or two could indicate an infected tooth, which means you may need a root canal treatment to save your tooth.Read More
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Recount commission meeting to be streamed live via web portal
For Immediate Release
INDIANAPOLIS (Dec. 2, 2010) – Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita announced today this Sunday’s recount commission meeting will be streamed live via a web portal located on the office’s website – www.sos.in.gov/.
“Allowing the public to view the meeting live via the Internet is important in preserving the election process and achieving government transparency,” Rokita said. “Individuals can simply click a link and have a front row seat to this weekend’s meeting.”
The web portal will be posted to the home page of the Secretary of State’s website – www.sos.in.gov/ – before this Sunday’s recount commission meeting. The public meeting is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. in Conference Room B of the Indiana Government Center South Building, located at 402 W. Washington St. in Indianapolis.
During the meeting, the Indiana State Recount Commission will hear motions to dismiss that have been filed with respect to the contest petitions in the elections for House District 76 and for the Office of the Indiana Secretary of State. The contest petition filed in HD 76 is separate from the recount petition filed with respect to that election – the meeting will not address the recount petition.
Todd W. Darroca
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Pitch is also known as Auction Pitch or Setback. These rules are for solo-play Pitch. It can also be played as a partnership game with two teams of two players.
3 to 7 players, best with 4 players.
Some sources say 6 is the maximum number of players; some sources say you can play with 2 players.
Standard 52-card deck.
Ace is high; 2 is low.
To score the most points by winning tricks.
Shuffle the deck and deal six cards to each player. Traditionally, the cards are dealt three at a time.
Note: With 4 players, only 24 of the 52 cards will be in play. That's important to remember when making bids.
- Starting with the player to the left of the dealer and moving clockwise.
- Each player has one chance to bid on the number of points they expect to win. The only legal bids are pass, 1, 2, 3 or 4.
- A player may indicate a bid of 4 by immediately placing a card from his hand to the middle of the table, face up. (This is known as "pitching.")
- The high bidder (known as the "pitcher") makes the first lead and the first card played sets the trump suit for the entire round of six tricks.
- Note: If no other player bids, the dealer must bid at least 2. If other players have bid 1, 2 or 3, but no one has pitched (bid 4), the dealer may "steal the bid" by bidding the same as the current high bid.
If a player can follow suit, he may either do so or play a trump. (Said another way, a player may play a trump card even if he is able to follow suit.) If a player cannot follow suit, he may play any card in his hand.
Once each player has played a card, the trick ends. The winner of the trick is the player who played the highest trump, or if no trump was played, the player who played the highest card of the lead suit.
The winner of the trick leads the next trick.
At the end of the round, the cards are scored as follows:
- 1 point for winning the highest trump in play
- 1 point for winning the lowest trump in play
- 1 point for winning the Jack of trumps
- 1 point for winning the "game score" (described below).
Other scoring rules:
- If the Jack of trumps is not in play, that point is not awarded.
- If there's a tie for the game score, that point is not awarded.
- If there's only one trump card in play, it scores 2 points as both the high trump and the low trump. If the only trump card in play is the Jack, it scores 3 points.
The Game Score
The game score is determined by seeing which player has a plurality of the following "trick points" (more than any other player, but not necessarily a majority):
- 10 trick points for each 10
- 4 trick points for each Ace
- 3 trick points for each King
- 2 trick points for each Queen
- 1 trick point for each Jack
If the pitcher wins at least as many points as he bid, he scores as many points as he won. If he fails to make his bid, his bid is subtracted from his score.
Note: It's possible for a player to have a negative score.
Players who were not the pitcher win as many points as they earned.
Points won can be tracked on paper or by using Poker chips.
The player to the left of the dealer becomes the new dealer for the next round.
The first player to reach at least 7 points at the end of a hand in which he was the pitcher wins the game. Some prefer to play to 11 or 15 or, for an even longer game, 21.
Note: The requirement that you can only win the game after a hand in which you are the pitcher means that it's possible for the winning player to have fewer points than a losing player. | <urn:uuid:a6dedd9b-d185-488f-a267-0029d55c351c> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/pitch-complete-card-game-rules-411140 | 2019-05-23T19:28:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257361.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20190523184048-20190523210048-00151.warc.gz | en | 0.983409 | 850 |
A special court on Friday framed various charges including cheating and criminal conspiracy against former Coal Secretary H.C. Gupta, two public servants, private firm Vikash Metals and Power and its two officials in a coal blocks allocation scam case.
Special Judge Bharat Parashar put on trial all the accused in the case in which the CBI’s closure report was earlier rejected by the court, asking the probe agency to further investigate the matter.
The case pertains to alleged irregularities in allocation of Moira and Madhujore (North and South) coal blocks in West Bengal to VMPL. In September 2012, the CBI had registered an FIR in the case.
Besides Mr. Gupta and the firm, the court ordered to put on trial K.S. Kropha, ex-Joint Secretary in Ministry of Coal; K.C. Samria, then Director (CA-I) in the Ministry, Vikash Patni, VMPL’s Managing Director; and Anand Mallick, VMPL’s authorised signatory.
The accused pleaded not guilty and claimed trial after which the court fixed the matter for further hearing on September 9, 2016.
Mr. Gupta, an accused in several coal scam cases and presently out on bail, had recently told the court that he intended to “face trial from inside the jail” and withdraw his personal bond to secure bail due to financial difficulties.
He had also refused to accept the court’s offer to avail an advocate from New Delhi Legal Aid Services Authority or an amicus curiae appointed by the court. His application is presently pending before the court.
While ordering framing of charges in the present case, the court had said “prima facie” offences of criminal conspiracy, cheating and criminal breach of trust by public servants under IPC and various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act are made out against the accused.
“Keeping in view the overall facts and circumstances of the case coupled with the submissions made, I am of the considered opinion that prima facie charge for the offences under sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and for the offences under sections 120-B, 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servants), 420 (cheating) of IPC and under sections 13(1)(c) and 13(1)(d) (criminal misconduct by public servants) of the PC Act is made out against all the accused…,” the judge had said.
The court also said prima facie substantive offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act are made out against Mr. Kropha and Mr. Samria.
“Charge for the offence under section 409 IPC and for the offences under PC Act are made out against accused Gupta.
“Charge for the offence under section 420 IPC is also prima facie made out against accused company M/s Vikash Metal and Power Ltd (VMPL), Patni and Mallick,” it said.
The CBI had on January 28, 2016 placed before the court a Central government order according sanction to prosecute Mr. Kropha and Mr. Samria for their alleged involvement in the case.
It had also filed a report on its further probe in the case.
Regarding Mr. Gupta, the CBI had said that lapses in processing the application were found on his part too, but since he had retired, no action was being recommended.
The CBI had said that VMPL wrongly claimed that it had been allocated 300 acres of land in Begusarai in Bihar by the Bihar Area Development Authority.
The agency had found that the land was deallocated and directors of the company failed to inform the screening committee members about it, it had said. | <urn:uuid:aeba365b-aa60-4a13-b047-0a8d1f44aea6> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | http://telanganadigest.com/five-others-charged-in-coal-blocks-case-ex-coal-secretary/ | 2018-11-21T06:52:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039747215.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20181121052254-20181121074254-00263.warc.gz | en | 0.980529 | 762 |
An initial cryptocurrency offering (ICO) designed to put artificial intelligence (AI) on your smartphone was scheduled to start January 29, 2018. A company called Daneel plans to offer a personal assistant based on IBM’s Watson technology to the public.
Daneel is designed to you help make cryptocurrency investment decisions. The Daneel App will offer cryptocurrency news and signals, analyze market emotions, answer questions, educate you about the markets, aggregate your wallet, and make social media social posts about your trades.
Among other things, Daneel is supposed to “research, collect, and analyze all of the information on the web and the social networks.” The hope is to give everybody data intelligence about the crypto jungle.
Daneel Launches ERC20 Token via ICO
The Daneel team plans to raise funds by selling its DAN ERC20 tokens. The Ethereum-based DAN tokens will power the Daneel personal assistant.
Each DAN is supposed to be worth 29¢ or €0.25 (0.00026098 ETH). Interestingly enough Daneel plans to burn or destroy the unsold DAN Tokens at the end of the ICO to preserve their price.
Daneel plans to start taking subscriptions for its personal assistant in 2nd Quarter 2018. Some trading capabilities will apparently be made later in the year. The current plan is for Daneel to be made available as an Android and Apple IOS app in 4th Quarter 2018. That means it should appear in Google Play and the App Store at that time.
Daneel is a registered member of IBM’s PartnerWorld. PartnerWorld is a program that helps companies develop solutions with IBM (NYSE: IBM) technology. It seems to focus on artificial intelligence and cloud-based solutions.
Brining Artificial Intelligence to the Masses
Daneel is an example of what will be one of the big stories of 2018: “artificial intelligence for masses.” Expect lots of solutions that will make cutting-edge AI technology available to almost everybody to hit the market.
This will be incredibly disruptive and change the investment industry beyond recognition. Investment advisors and brokers are likely to be among the next victims of technological unemployment if apps like Daneel work as advertised.
If you see your investment advisor driving Uber or delivering pizza in a few years, apps like Daneel might be to blame. Expect to see calls to ban or “regulate” artificial intelligence begin the world’s legislatures when “investment professionals” realize that their cushy jobs and big bonuses are threatened.
Daneel will be just one of many disruptive artificial intelligence solutions coming our way in 2018. Expect the havoc that they will wreck to be great. For more information about Daneel visit https://daneel.io/ and read the Daneel whitepaper.
“When trillions of dollars are managed by Wall Streeters charging high fees it will usually be the managers who reap outsized profits; not the clients,” – Warren Buffett. “Both large and small investors should stick with low-cost index funds.”
Disclosure: your friendly neighborhood blogger holds a small position in Ethereum. Your blogger has nothing to do with Daneel even though his first name is Daniel. No, Daneel is not the author of this blog, although maybe it should start blogging too.
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...medication, come to the city Assembly chambers from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., Wednesday, July 28, and lend your public testimony to the Fluoridation Study Commission. If you don't speak up for your freedom, who will? Dr. Patrick Neary Juneau
...Atomic Bomb at www.fluoridealert.org/wastenot414.htm . Scan the references, journal articles, the opinions, the facts. I believe the truth lies somewhere between black holes and white spots. It wants to set us free. Patrick Neary Juneau
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Garland Power & Light: Small Commercial Lighting Rebate Program (Texas)
Last modified on February 12, 2015.
Financial Incentive Program
|Name||Garland Power and Light: Small Commercial Lighting Rebate Program|
|Incentive Type||Utility Rebate Program|
|Energy Category||Energy Efficiency Incentive Programs|
|Program Administrator||Garland Power and Light|
Garland Power and Light (GP&L) offers the EnergySaver Program for its residential and small business customers to increase the energy efficiency of homes and facilities. The program will end on September 30 of the program year or when program funds are depleted, whichever comes first. All rebates are given in the form of a credit on the customers' utility bill. The Small Commercial Lighting Program provides a rebate of $125/kW reduced. See the program web site listed above for equipment and installation details.
|Contact Name||EnergySaver Program|
|Department||Garland Power and Light|
|Address||217 North Fifth Street|
|Phone 2||(972) 205-2671|
- Incentive and policy data are reviewed and approved by the N.C. Solar Center's DSIRE project staff. | <urn:uuid:02a93c51-aa43-450a-a442-46bfd65c2a7f> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://en.openei.org/wiki/Garland_Power_%26_Light:_Small_Commercial_Lighting_Rebate_Program_(Texas) | 2017-03-27T00:57:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189316.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00127-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.714185 | 256 |
LocationKu-ring-gai Council Depot – 1-7 Carlotta Avenue, Gordon
Beasy Pty Ltd was engaged by the Client as the Principal Contractor to demolish the Ku-ring-gai Council Depot and SES facility in Gordon to allow for the construction of a Nursing Home on the site. The site was within a highly sensitive area between the North Shore Rail Line and nearby apartment complexes and Shopping Center.
Beasy was required to remediate the site of hazardous materials including asbestos from within the structures and restricted liquid wastes from above ground and underground storage tanks. The underground storage tanks were demolished and removed under Beasy’s Unrestricted Demolition Licence.
Large steel Council and SES warehouses were demolished including concrete slabs and piers within the ground. To accommodate the demolition of some of the piers, Beasy were required to divert an active storm water line running through the site to ensure all works were conducted without disrupting existing services within the ground. Prior to demobilising off site Beasy designed and implemented long term sediment and erosion control procedures for ongoing site maintenance. | <urn:uuid:7e56c917-a6b0-49a2-9600-0a221ebf20a9> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | http://beasy.com.au/projects/ku-ring-gai-council-depot-and-ses-facility/ | 2019-03-26T02:43:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912204768.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20190326014605-20190326040605-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.958792 | 224 |
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Rolling will die, then what?
He’ll be the third inmate to die in 35 days, but that pace likely won’t continue.
By CHRIS TISCH, Times Staff Writer
Published October 24, 2006
STARKE — Florida’s death chamber likely will claim its most infamous killer since Ted Bundy this evening with the execution of Danny Rolling, who murdered five Gainesville students 16 years ago.
Rolling’s death will cap a tumultuous two years for Florida’s death penalty, which has endured criticism from lawyers, politicians and the Florida Supreme Court. It was stalled for much of this year while a condemned inmate took an appeal all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
After an 18-month hiatus, the state resumed executions this fall and Rolling will be the third inmate to die in five weeks. Not since four inmates were executed within nine days in 1998 has the state’s death penalty moved with such speed.
But will that pace continue? Will the state begin to effectively empty a death row that has swelled to 376 people while averaging less than three executions per year over the last decade?
The short answer: probably not.
“We always get these little flurries,” said Carolyn Snurkowski, a longtime death penalty lawyer for the state Attorney General’s Office.
“And (people say) it’s always the end of the death penalty or the beginning of a ton of (executions) going through. And I’ve never seen either of those things happen.”
Danny Rolling has spent 12 years on death row, about average for the 61 people executed in Florida.
Rolling raped, mutilated and posed some of the five victims he killed in Gainesville in 1990.
He later was arrested for robbing an Ocala supermarket. Police learned he was a suspect in a similar murder in Louisiana, then matched his DNA to the Gainesville crime scenes.
Rolling pleaded guilty to the murders, after which a jury unanimously voted for execution. Rolling did not have much grounds to appeal.
Still, even the thinnest of death row appeals take years. The cases are automatically reviewed by the Florida Supreme Court, and the condemned are afforded appeals to the federal courts as well.
While death penalty supporters have tried to limit these appeals, opponents point to one statistic to reinforce their importance: Twenty-two Florida death row inmates have been exonerated during the appeals process. That’s more than any other state.
Rolling’s appellate lawyer, Baya Harrison III, tried to follow the path of two other inmates who won stays this year because of issues surrounding lethal injection. But once those issues were resolved, both those inmates, Clarence Hill and Arthur Rutherford, were executed.
Harrison acknowledged Rolling has little fight left and likely will die tonight. He said Rolling not only has accepted that, but believes he deserves it.
Said Harrison: “He told me, 'I have kind of a relationship with my maker. But I don’t think even a merciful God is going to cut me some slack.’”
Rolling’s will be the most celebrated execution in years, but even the most high-profile executions can’t cure the death penalty’s ills.
The problem, many legal experts say, is that Florida’s death penalty law simply scoops up too many people, clogging the system.
For every Rolling, there are dozens of other killers who committed crimes that, though atrocious, don’t require the ultimate punishment, said Michael Mello, a University of Vermont law professor who worked as an appellate lawyer for Ted Bundy.
“We have this system in the first place because we want to kill the Bundys and kill the Danny Rollings,” he said.
“But lo and behold, we end up killing others.”
Unlike each of the other 37 states with the death penalty, Florida juries aren’t required to unanimously agree. Only a majority is required to vote for death.
In an opinion last year, the Florida Supreme Court urged lawmakers to change death penalty law so that only unanimous juries can sentence someone to death. Lawmakers didn’t listen.
This year, the American Bar Association issued a report that criticized Florida’s death penalty on many fronts, including the unanimous jury issue.
“The (Rolling) execution should not dissipate concerns over the major flaws in the system,” said Christopher Slobogin, a University of Florida law professor who led the team that issued the ABA report. “This is just a blip on the screen. It’s going to continue as business as usual with very few executions, partly because … there are legitimate concerns about who deserves to be put to death.”
Gov. Jeb Bush hasn’t signed any death warrants beyond Rolling’s, though he said Tuesday that he is reviewing a couple of other cases to see whether all the appeals have been exhausted, making them ready for execution.
If Rolling is executed tonight, his will be the 20th execution under Bush’s watch. That’s almost a third of the 62 executions since the state reinstalled the death penalty in 1979.
But a number of inmates gave up their appeals during the Bush administration and were executed voluntarily. In fact, six of the last 11 people executed in the state were volunteers.
For those who did not go voluntarily, the process often proves long and arduous. Bush blames the courts.
“I think the judiciary … in general have been slow to handle their part of this,” he said.
But defense lawyers say the system’s flaws — and lawmakers’ unwillingness to fix them — give them ammunition to muster their appeals.
“The problem isn’t lawyers throwing monkey wrenches, the problem is the death penalty itself,” said Martin McClain, who has represented more than 100 death row inmates. “The death penalty is a government program. And like any government program, reliability is an issue.”
Robert Batey, a professor at the Stetson University College of Law, said a number of issues — be it lethal injection protocol or the unanimous jury issue — will continue to slow the process down.
“I would never predict that anything with regard to the death penalty is going to be smooth,” Batey said.
“Undoubtedly, there will be other issues that come up.”
Times research staff contributed to this report.
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Judith Heinsohn bij Art Singel 100, Amsterdam
FACE EACH OTHER
17th February – 11th March 2018
Opening Saturday 17th February 17:00 – 19:00 hrs
Art Singel 100, Amsterdam
Judith Heinsohn (Hamburg, 1967) worked on a large scale with industrial ceramics and all of here work has a monumental appearance. Her work shows a wide variety of ceramic methods that come forth from an unwavering need for experiment. Her figuration shows battered human figures, but there is always a deeply felt human identity behind the apparent rough skin. Some of her work is not far removed from the German neo-expressionists like Markus Lupertz, but the refined quality of Heinsohn’s work easily competes with it.
Heinsohn moved from Germany to Amsterdam in 1987 and studied sculpture at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy from 1988 to 1994. She was a guest teacher at the Rietveld Academy in 1995 and 2013. Since 1993 she exhibited regularly in the Netherlands with renowned institutions and took part in a variety of international projects. | <urn:uuid:af39ca82-bb73-4417-827f-fe14b9039369> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://xpositron.nl/judith-heinsohn-bij-art-singel-100-amsterdam/ | 2022-09-25T15:28:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334579.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220925132046-20220925162046-00283.warc.gz | en | 0.956762 | 236 |
Please join us on Friday, July 14th for our Sea Faces Exhibit Opening Reception and Viewing from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Enjoy fresh snacks and a cash bar while having the first look at our newest exhibit.
Using portraiture as a community building tool, Sea Faces is a collection of portraits of Gig Harbor area locals and their stories. Local artists Nathan Yeager, Kim Anderson, Sacha Brown and Nate Seay created portraits using charcoal, oil paint, mixed media, and photography.
The models shared the history of how they or their family came to live in the area as well as unique stories that contribute to our sense of local heritage.
Thanks to Nathan Yeager for coordinating this exhibit project.
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HPC data looks back at opioid impacts in Mass.
BOSTON -- Massachusetts in 2017 continued to have the highest rate of opioid-related emergency room trips among all states that report those numbers, according to data presented Wednesday.
In 2017, the most recent year for which data was available across all the states, Massachusetts also ranked second-highest for opioid-related inpatient stays, behind the District of Columbia.
Health Policy Commission staff member Laura Nasuti, who presented the data at a virtual meeting of the HPC's Market Oversight and Transparency Committee, said Massachusetts had "inched up slightly" from 2016, when it had the third-highest rate for opioid inpatient stays.
Nasuti told the committee that while Department of Public Health data shows a 6 percent decline in opioid overdose deaths from 2016 to 2019, the state continues to experience high rates of injury and death related to opioid use. Opioid-related stays make up a significant amount of inpatient hospital volume here, she said.
From 2016 to 2018, opioid-related emergency department visits declined by 6 percent, according to the HPC data. Opioid-related inpatient stays increased by 5 percent in the same time period.
That inpatient increase was driven by an uptick in hospitalizations with a secondary opioid diagnosis, meaning it was not the primary reason for the patient's stay, Nasuti said. Among those secondary diagnosis cases, 18 percent of all primary diagnoses were related to behavioral health.
Overall opioid-related hospitalizations, including inpatient and emergency department visits, decreased 2.1 percent from 2016 to 2018, according to the presentation.
That change was not uniform across the state. The Cape and Islands region had the largest drop in opioid hospitalizations in that three-year period, at 20 percent. The biggest increase, of 18 percent, was in the Fall River area.
The 2018 hospitalization data also indicates some disparities among income levels and racial and ethnic groups.
Residents living in lower-income areas accounted for 41 percent of all opioid-related hospital visits, while those in the highest community income quartile represented 11 percent, Nasuti said.
While the opioid hospitalization rate for white men decreased 6.8 percent, it grew 6 percent for Hispanic men and 8 percent for Black men, according to the presentation. Nasuti said it's unclear if the increasing disparity is due to new opioid use, lack of access to community-based treatment or other factors.
It's also not clear what the effects of COVID-19 will ultimately turn out to be.
"The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the opioid epidemic are unknown, although there is some emerging research that it may increase opioid-related injuries and deaths, especially among populations that are heavily impacted by COVID-19," Nasuti said. "These impacts may include social isolation, economic insecurity, and just the trauma of the pandemic."
She said the pandemic has also presented some opportunities for increased treatment for opioid use, including through expanded access to telemedicine, the easing of restrictions on dispensing methadone, and the authorization for additional providers to administer or prescribe opioid-use disorder medications. | <urn:uuid:ab70b9c5-f23f-44f6-a723-69a8fe36dc01> | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | https://www.tauntongazette.com/story/news/2020/09/30/hpc-data-looks-back-at-opioid-impacts-in-mass/114501260/ | 2021-05-18T23:55:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243989874.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20210518222121-20210519012121-00004.warc.gz | en | 0.960489 | 648 |
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