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What is flat foot?
A flat foot is a structural deformity resulting in the lowering of the arch of the foot. This is sometimes referred to as fallen arches. A person with a flat foot or a highly arched foot that is fairly painful is in need of treatment. People with flat feet may have ankle, knee, or low back pain.
Causes of flat feet:
- Musculoskeletal disorders.
What can you do?
- Wear supportive shoes.
What will Dr. Allen do for you?
- Perform a physical examination and gait analysis.
- Perform x-rays.
- Prescribe custom orthotics.
- Perform surgery as indicated.
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U.S. Navy Film Reveals Cold War Chemical Weapons Plans
Declassified at last – the training film shows the military preparing for a toxic battlefield
During the early years of the Cold War, the Pentagon heavily prepared to use — and defend against — new and improved poison and germ weapons.
Now we have detailed look at those plans from a newly declassified 1952 U.S. Navy training film. Earlier in October, the independent website GovernmentAttic.org posted an electronic copy of the footage. A private individual had requested the footage 15 years ago via the Freedom of Information Act.
“Biological and chemical warfare have two principle objectives,” the film’s narrator says, “to reduce food by destroying his crops and his food-producing farm animals and to incapacitate the enemy’s armed forces and that portion of his human population that directly supports them.”
This clinical and disturbing description of wreaking chemical and biological death on an opponent is accompanied by images of fields, pigs and marching Soviet troops.
The U.S. Naval Photographic Center produced the film to explain how the military planned to deliver deadly chemicals and diseases, and protect its own sailors from similar attacks. The narrator describes the results of experiments that — if they had involved real chemical weapons — would have resulted in the deaths of thousands of people. The film also details equipment designed to spray toxic particles from airplanes, ships, submarines and more.
The Pentagon put the U.S. Army in charge of cooking up the specific agents and producing them in sufficient quantities, the narrator notes. Originally formed as the Chemical Warfare Service in 1918 during World War I, the Army’s Chemical Corps researched dozens of possible payloads.
The ground combat branch already had decades of experience with gases like mustard and phosgene that burn the skin and attack the lungs. The United States and the Soviet Union – as well as other allied powers on both sides – appropriated work Nazi Germany had done on organophosphates that strike the central nervous system and prevent a person’s brain from communicating properly with their vital organs.
The same year the Navy produced the film, scientists in the United Kingdom invented a new nerve agent codenamed Purple Possum. After learning of the weapon, the U.S. Army started producing the substance with its own moniker, VX. On top of that, the Chemical Corps explored the possibility of weaponizing various bacteria, viruses and toxins. Pentagon experiments included work on anthrax, bubonic plague, smallpox and ricin, among others.
Lastly, as alluded to in the Navy film’s introduction, the Army considered various chemical and biological agents that could specifically kill crops and livestock. As a result, the Pentagon had an advanced defoliation program well before it sprayed gallons of Agent Orange over Vietnamese jungles.
With the Army in charge of these terrifying chemicals, the Navy focused its efforts on the delivery systems. The film describes weapons dispersed from ships, dropped or sprayed from airplanes or released by submarines.
According to the narrator, the Navy conducted its first ship-borne tests two years earlier in 1950. “A rather crude spraying system was installed on a mine layer, which … secretly cruised off California and sprayed some 50 gallons of biological stimulant along a track two-to-five miles off shore,” the narrator says.
The Pentagon regularly used non-threatening bacteria or spores to secretly test how far a real germ weapon would spread. In this experiment, as in the case with chemical and biological weapons in general, weather patterns and the terrain largely dictated where the particles went.
During the California test, technicians used special collectors to determine that the spray covered some 48 square miles of total area. “Had an infectious agent been used in the spray, there might have been 210,000 casualties,” the narrator says.
In April 1952, the minesweeper USS Tercel sprayed more simulated toxins along the coasts of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. “The rather flat terrain would be favorable to wide dispersion of wind-borne particles,” the narrator says in the film.
Tercel sprayed 250 pounds of zinc cadmium sulfide during an eight-hour voyage along some 100 miles of coastline. Evaluators later found evidence of the fluorescent material across 20,000 square miles spread over all three states.
But surface ships such as the Tercel would be vulnerable to attack during an actual war. Recognizing this vulnerability, the Navy planned to mount sprayers on submarines for actual operations.
After reaching periscope depth, the submarines would — as the concept went — vent their deadly payloads into the atmosphere. If everything went according to plan, the vessels would then submerge and escape without anyone on land knowing the attack had even happened … until it was too late.
The Navy also worked on underwater chemical and biological mines. A sub would lay these devices along the ocean floor and then leave the area. After a predetermined time had passed, the mine would float to the surface. A tube would then pop out of the top and release its gas or germs. Aircraft could carry the same weapons and drop them into lakes and rivers further inland.
Alternatively, an airplane with a giant spray tank could do the job. At the time, bombs loaded with noxious chemicals were hardly new, but spray tanks would be more effective and accurate for seeding large amounts of toxic agents.
Some of the early concepts involved modified drop tanks with pumps and nozzles. This meant that any plane that could carry the original fuel tanks could also carry the spray gear loaded with poison gases, biological particles or defoliants. Nearly all of the Navy’s carrier-based propeller- and jet-engine fighters and bombers of the day – including the F4U Corsair, F7F Tigercat, AD Skyraider, F2H Banshee and F9F Panther – could lug this equipment.
Larger land-based patrol aircraft, such as the P2V Neptune, could carry more traditional crop-dusting spray gear under their wings. Further, the Navy planned to put the smaller spray units on its new Gorgon V cruise missiles.
One of the Pentagon’s first long-range weapons, the radio-guided Gorgon V had a range of some 30 miles and flew close to the speed of sound. These qualities meant that Naval aviators could lob the weapons well away from an enemy’s anti-aircraft defenses.
The sailing branch planned to turn the more potent Regulus missile into a chemical weapon, as well. Slower, but with a maximum range of 500 miles and able to be launched from a surfaced submarine, the Regulus easily put the older Gorgons to shame.
And there were the chemical commandos. The Navy cooked up a small tank for its Underwater Demolition Teams, the predecessors of today’s elite SEALs. The Navy envisioned dropping these troops in the water near a shoreline, who would then creep up to the beach and prepare it for an amphibious assault.
“These swimmers may be discharged through torpedo tubes of submerged submarines or they may be dropped overboard close to shore and would tow the tank to a point near the beach,” the narrator explains to footage showing the system in operation. “While this test tank was manually operated, future developments will provide a time delay and automatic release of the spray while the swimmer escapes.”
Near the end of the movie, the narrator notes that the Navy’s battleships, destroyers and other surface vessels could lob shells filled with chemical or biological weapons at targets on shore. The Marine Corps could do the same on land with howitzers and mortars.
“Where can the Navy attack?” the narrator asks. “As long as the Navy commands the seas, it can deliver a biological or chemical attack anywhere on that three quarters of the earth’s surface that’s covered by water.”
“And its carrier based aircraft can strike hundreds of miles inland from any coastline and attack a large portion of an enemy’s population, shipping and industrial centers,” the speaker adds.
The Navy also prepared to defend against an enemy who might launch similar attacks. Special water spray systems and air purifiers would hopefully keep contaminants off ship decks and away from sailors inside. Otherwise, sailors had to rely on gas masks and other protective gear.
More than a decade after the Navy made its film, the sailing branch began the Shipboard Hazard and Defense program – a.k.a. Project SHAD – to find out just how vulnerable the fleet was to poisons and germs. The tests were part of a larger Pentagon effort known as Project 112.
By then, the Navy and its sister services had decided to focus on nuclear weapons as the primary means of countering a massive Soviet offensive. In 2000, the Pentagon and the Department of Veterans of Affairs began looking at possible long term health issues stemming from the Project 112 experiments.
The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention and the 1992 Chemical Weapons Convention now bans these horrible weapons. Reviewing the film, and what the U.S. military had once planned to do in the event of a major war, it’s easy to see why those bans exist. | <urn:uuid:d53d6f1d-8581-41f8-93a5-3575980bcf76> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | http://warisboring.com/the-cold-war-us-navy-was-prepared-for-a-toxic-battlefield/ | 2018-08-18T04:20:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221213286.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20180818040558-20180818060558-00179.warc.gz | en | 0.956549 | 1,915 |
The Good, the Bad and the Guacamole
Tex-Mex waitress and part-time reporter Josie Callahan is about to serve up some Lone Star justice in this spicy Taste of Texas Mystery from the author of Here Today, Gone Tamale.
Tourists are pouring into the town of Broken Boot for the annual Homestead Days Music Festival. Opening the celebration at Two Boots dance hall is smooth-talking country singer Jeff Clark, the ex-boyfriend of Josie’s best friend, Patti Perez. When the charming Clark woos Patti onstage in an attempt to rekindle some sparks with his old flame, Josie fears her friend will end up as just one more notch on the singer’s guitar strap.
To impress her editor at the Broken Boot Bugle, Josie and her Chihuahua, Lenny, pursue the singer to Patti’s house, hoping for an interview. Instead, they discover Clark facedown in a bowl of guacamole with a bloodied guitar at his side. With Patti suddenly a murder suspect, Josie must use her reporter skills to find out who had a chip on their shoulder—before the killer double dips….
Rebecca Adler grew up on the sugar beaches of the Florida Gulf Coast. Drawn to the Big Apple by the sweet smell of wishful thinking, she studied acting on Broadway until a dark-eyed cowboy flung her over his saddle and hightailed it to the Southwest.
Prior to writing women's fiction, Gina always found a way to add a touch of the dramatic to her life: dinner theatre in Mississippi, can-can club in Florida, and playing a giant Furskin in the New York Toy Fair, plus the occasional play and musical.
She's currently content to pour her melodramatic tendencies into writing her Taste of Texas culinary mystery series. Set in far West Texas, her humorous stories are filled with delicious suspense and scrumptious Tex-Mex recipes. Her alter ego, Gina Lee Nelson, writes sweet contemporary romances with a sweet, Southern-fried flavor.
Book Review by Bree Herron
I always love a good mystery with a southern flare. And this book was more than chips and salsa. The Good, the Bad and the Guacamole, gives you an entire mystery that is so well written that you can’t put it down. And you will end up needing to have Tex-Mex or anything Mexican during, and after reading this yummy book.#Review #Mystery This book is the salsa, chips and cheese of the cozy mysteries! Click To Tweet
I truthfully, adored this book. The characters are smart and fun. The murder, well I am going to say that Guacamole will be seen differently from now on for me but it was delightful. I loved that it didn’t take chapters (5-8) to get into the murder. It happened nice and swift. When a murder can be the primary theme to a cozy it is five stars in my book.
Rebecca Adler writes wonderfully, I felt she did a nice and tidy ending and solving of the murder. I loved the spunk she gave Josie, who is as smart witted as she is talented in solving the crimes. Josie is a great friend as well. She is a character that you would want to be close to if someone had to break bad news to you, or clear your name. She is tenacious and exciting.
With this book comes the hunger pains for more, not only of Rebecca Adler’s works but of the food that is mentioned or can form in one’s hungry mind while reading. I hope you you curl up with your favorite snacks (chips, and salsa) and enjoy this talented author’s book!
What is your favorite food inspired mystery?
*Please note that this review is prior to the release of the yummy book, you can pre-order now and be one of the first to get your copy!
**DISCLAIMER: I was provided an opportunity to read this book as an Advanced Reader Copy in return for a fair and honest review.
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Our passion is helping local businesses attract and retain the right customers. We specialize in Branding, Lead Generation, Customer Engagement, and Business Consulting.
We consider every business as if it were our own, that’s why we invest the time to get to know you and your business and to understand the challenges you are facing. Helping businesses thrive is what fuels our fire.
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Here’s a little bit about what makes us different:
We Know What You’re Going Through
What sets us apart is that we’re founded by entrepreneurs that have actually run a business. We’ve experienced everything from real-life gut-wrenching failure to over-the-moon success.
These experiences can’t be manufactured or faked. They’ve taught us how to be creative, quick-thinking problem solvers, to never take “no” for an answer, and have given us the grit to overcome any obstacle.
Since we've been there, seen it, and done it, we’re able to put ourselves in your shoes and utilize our experiences to drive change and make an impact.
You have Nothing to Lose
Before you decide to hire us, we first want to spend a good amount of time getting to know you and your business. We like to call this the ‘Three-Meeting Rule’ at Thrive.
We believe that it takes at least three interactions to fully understand a business and how it works on a day-to-day basis.
These meetings also gives you the opportunity to get to know us and decide if we’re the right solution for you. We do all this at no cost to you.
What you’ll get from us is an independent, objective perspective on your current marketing strategy and program. We’ll tell you what you’re doing well, what you need to improve or change, and where we see opportunities for growth and profit.
If we believe we can help, we’ll present you with a detailed plan on how we can work together to help your business grow by attracting and retaining the right customers.
Some problems we can help you solve:
- You are struggling with acquiring customers or leads
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If any of these apply to you and your business, we would love to help! Use our contact information above to set up a consultation with us. We will contact you within one-business day.
CEO & Founder
Kwame’s passion for solving complex challenges with innovative and creative solutions is the foundation upon which Thrive is built. Having run a small business, Kwame has experienced and solved most problems that businesses face at one stage or another. He brings a wealth of knowledge to every client engagement, delivering out of the box solutions to help local businesses attract and retain the right customers.
Previously, Kwame was the CEO & Founder of Gift Card Rescue, which gained prominence when he successfully pitched his then startup on the debut season of ABC’s hit show, Shark Tank. The company went on to sell over $60 million in gift cards during its 8-year run and was listed in the 2013 Inc. 500 as one of America’s fastest-growing private companies. Gift Card Rescue also made the Inc 5000 list in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Kwame has since received numerous awards and recognition for his entrepreneurial success, including being named to Baltimore Business Journal’s “40 under 40” list. He is a 2014 winner of the prestigious EY Entrepreneur of The Year Award in Maryland. He has been featured in many leading publications, including The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Entrepreneur, Inc. Magazine, NPR, and Forbes.
Kwame is a recognized thought leader on Entrepreneurship and Digital Marketing and is a regular speaker and panelist at business events. He has served as a mentor at incubators and business schools in the Greater Baltimore area, helping startup founders get their companies off the ground.
He has also worked as an advisor to early-stage companies, helping them navigate the chaos of a growing company. He is a member of the Betamore advisory board and since 2014, he has been an active member of the Baltimore chapter of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), the world’s most influential community of entrepreneurs.
He is a graduate of Middlebury College, with a B.A. in Economics. Kwame also holds an M.B.A. from Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School.
Outside of work, Kwame enjoys Crossfit as a way to stay fit and during the last few years, has discovered intermittent fasting. He has a passion for traveling and experiencing new cultures and food. He is also an avid soccer fan, and watches the English Premier League whenever he can make the time.
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- The big marketing opportunity local business are neglecting
- What most entrepreneurs are too embarrassed to admit.
- His two favorite cities in the world
- The one question you should ask every job candidate
- How intermittent fasting has helped him become more productive
On his Bookshelf
- The Obstacle Is the Way By Ryan Holiday
- The Power of Habits By Charles Duhigg
- What I Know for Sure By Oprah Winfrey
- As a Man Thinketh By James Allen
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Serving as Thrive’s Chief Operating Officer, Carrie specializes in helping clients achieve greater operational efficiency and evolve their marketing strategy. She has been especially successful in designing and implementing innovative digital marketing and brand strategies to drive engagement, improve conversion, and increase customer loyalty.
Prior to Thrive, Carrie was head of operations at Gift Card Rescue, an Inc. 500 company where she oversaw the day-to-day functions of the company, including Sales and Marketing. Her leadership in operations accelerated the company’s monthly revenue growth and lead to the achievement of multiple financial milestones.
Carrie brings a wealth of valued business experience to the projects she takes on. She has a reputation for being extremely detail-oriented and a problem solver, including her ability to laser focus on troubleshooting complex challenges. Carrie is known for her natural-born creative eye and particularly enjoys projects that focus on bringing the inherent power of customers and brands together.
Carrie holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Marketing from Salisbury University. When she’s not working, you can find her unwinding at the beach, trying out a new recipe or local restaurant, or going on an adventure with her Golden Retriever.
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Jay Inslee for Washington: Field Organizers
We are looking for motivated, experienced and talented individuals to be Field Organizers for the campaign. Field Organizers are the face of the campaign, representing Jay Inslee in communities across the state to advance his agenda of building a working Washington. This race will be the top gubernatorial race in the country and we need someone who is willing to work hard and commit themselves to electing Jay Inslee as Washington’s next governor.
Field Organizer job responsibilities include:
Field Organizers will work directly with the Field Director and other campaign staff to manage voter contact efforts. Your primary responsibilities will be to recruit, manage and train volunteers who will communicate with voters about Jay Inslee and the campaign. Specifically, you will:
- Manage voter outreach and volunteer recruitment: Voter contact will primarily take the form of phone banking and doorbelling. It will also require significant data management, as well as recruiting and training volunteers to contact targeted voters.
- Represent the campaign in communities across the state: Other responsibilities include planning and attending events, maintaining a local presence for the campaign, and engaging community leaders.
Most of all we are looking for someone who wants to make a difference and elect Jay Inslee Washington’s next governor, but specific requirements include:
- Experience working on a campaign in at least one election cycle
- Attention to detail and ability to manage large quantities of data quickly and accurately
- Experience working with excel and a level of comfort with technology in general
- Outstanding verbal, written and leadership skills
- Ability to handle multiple priorities and meet established deadlines
- Ability to work well and creatively under tight timelines, in a team environment and independently
- Proven ability to manage and motivate a large team of volunteers
This isn’t a clock-in, clock-out sort of job. We’re looking for someone who is willing to go the extra mile to make the difference. You will be expected to work on evenings and weekends. The positions are based across the state and run through November 2012. Salary is commensurate with experience. Women and persons of color are strongly encouraged to apply.
HOW TO APPLY:
To apply, please send resume and cover letter to Emily Walters at firstname.lastname@example.org with the subject line “Field Organizer.” Applicants will be considered on a rolling basis and no later than 5/1/2012.
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When he was a senior at Hallandale High in 1989, Esau Frazier was regarded as one of the top football players in Broward County. About 15 years later he is still viewed as one of the best around.
At a time when most are winding down their career in professional football, Frazier, 33, is still chasing his dream, and when he heads to Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Friday for the DSM Pro Football Combine/Tryout, the 5-foot-10, 190-pounder will attempt to do something few have the opportunity to do -- get paid to play.
"I have been to so many tryout camps and have come close," Frazier said. "I have always maintained that I can play in the NFL or the arena league, but for one reason or another, I have come up short."
Frazier was a standout wingback and linebacker in high school and played in the defensive secondary at Hancock Junior College in California.
The birth of his daughter, LaPorscha, nine years ago, slowed Frazier from realizing his dream as he went to work for the Broward School Board and worked with his father's lawn service.
Even while working a full-time job, Frazier attempted to keep his goal alive by playing on several semi-pro teams and attending tryouts. His outstanding play with the Broward Outlaws over the past few years gave him more confidence.
"In 1995 and '96 I attended camps that I felt that I gave the effort to have a team sign me," Frazier said. "When you run a 4.4 (40) twice and come up with excellent play in the secondary, and still never get signed, it's very frustrating."
As he gets ready to head off to South Carolina, Frazier said that he owed himself one last try. He says he still has the speed, strength and ability to play the game.
"Over the past year, I have worked harder than ever before," Frazier said. "If I don't make it, I will get on the plane, go home and go back to work. At least I will have given it everything I have."
With the college softball season still a few months away, Broward Community College coach Kim Eason released the 2005 roster.
The roster includes local players Ashley Byrd (American Heritage Delray), Sarah Guhring (Sheridan Hills), Shayleen Francis (Fort Lauderdale), Shelby Kirwan (Chaminade-Madonna), Wendy Britton (Plantation), Krystal Brookes (American Heritage), Bonnie Heier (St. Thomas), Christy Rutherford (Highlands Christian), Denise Lafaman (Taravella), Jenna Fountain (Cooper City), Jenny Kercheimer (Cooper City), Kim Rawles (Hollywood Christian) and Yalitza Medrano (Flanagan).
Nova High School record-setting pitcher Anthony Swarzak, who was selected in the second round of the June Free Agent Baseball Draft by the Minnesota Twins, finished his first pro season with a 5-3 record.
Swarzak was selected to attend the Twins' postseason Instructional League, which is reserved for the top 35 young players in the organization.
The Miramar Optimist track and field team won 17 medals at the AAU National Junior Olympics at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. The event, which attracted more than 6,000 athletes from throughout the United States, awarded medals to the top eight finishers in each event.
Demeria Lewis and Melony Morgan -- attending AAU Junior Olympics for the first time -- led the Miramar squad against some of the best athletes in the nation. Junior Olympics marks the end of the track season.
In the Girls' Primary Division, Lewis was fourth in the 200- and 400-meter runs and sixth in the 100 meters. Morgan was fifth in the 100 and 200 and fourth in the long jump. Kendall Ellis was seventh in the 400.
In the Sub-Midget Division, Joscelyn Bivins was fifth in the 800 meters, and in the Midget Division, Chelsea McLeod, Imari Baines, Iris Nevins and Ana Hoyos were sixth in the 4 x 400 relay.
Nicco Wigham was fourth in the 400 meter run in the Boys' Bantam Division, and the team of Neil Anton, Anthony Bush, Jordan Steiner and Wesley Dixon was fourth in the 4 x 800 relay in the Midget Division.
Contact Larry Blustein with story ideas, scores and standings from Hollywood, Hallandale Beach and Dania. You may fax him at 954-894-3267 or e-mail LBlustein@aol.com. Joe Luciano contributed to this report. | <urn:uuid:a6e9a3b5-6070-48ba-a1b9-ffd924407ec7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2004-09-12/community/0409090538_1_top-football-players-hollywood-christian-broward-school-board | 2017-01-17T18:12:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00131-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971129 | 976 |
First days in 2011: nothing better for an amazing year than a good start.
The magical lake of Caburgua in the south of Chile was the perfect place to rest, meditate and plan whats going to happen this next 12 months of my life. Here everything is a good plan, a walk near the beach, a cup of wine or renting a kayak for a day.
Next time here I will definitely go to one of those special trips to the top of the Caburgua Volcano that's constantly calling me down here!! | <urn:uuid:29f5783f-8d4f-4e53-9a18-ccf8f8fe73a3> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://megiraffe.blogspot.com/2011/01/cup-of-wine-for-sunset.html | 2018-06-21T09:56:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864139.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20180621094633-20180621114633-00208.warc.gz | en | 0.946827 | 109 |
Housing Assignments are made based on the date the application is received and length of stay requested. Submitting an application does not guarantee placement.
We begin making long-term assignments in March and weekly thereafter. Assignment notifications will go out via email in March. An initial assignment notification, including room type and charges, will inform you that we are able to assign you. Submitting an application does not guarantee placement.Specific assignment information, including apartment and telephone numbers, mailing address, and apartmentmate information, if known, is sent in May. Short-term assignments are made in April, based on remaining available space.
Specific apartmentmates may be requested but cannot be guaranteed. Each apartmentmate must submit a separate application form indicating apartmentmate preference. Apartmentmate information will be distributed via email in early May.
Once assigned, requests for reassignments will not be granted.Assignments are processed based on the information provided on the application. Once assigned, requests for reassignments will not be granted. You will be contacted only if we are able to offer you a housing assignment.
Waitlisted applicants who do not have a housing assignment may cancel their housing application and will be refunded their initial payment.
Those applicants on the waitlist will be notified in the event we are able to assign them based on cancellations received.
We reserve the right to process reassignments when necessary.
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Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) New York State Department of Transportation and State Police tell drivers to slow down and pay attention in work zones.
That was the message at a NYSDOT and NYSP conference along I-81 Thursday afternoon.
National Work Zone Awareness Week is April 15 to19.
Eighteen people were killed and there were over 500 crashes in construction work zones in New York last year.
NYSDOT Commissioner Joan McDonald said drivers need to pay attention and slow down, to save the lives of her employees.
"This is our DOT construction employees, this is their office. They're out here everyday, as well as the contractors, and we want to make sure they go home safe every night," McDonald said.
The conference comes just days before major construction starts on Prospect Mountain at the I-88 and I-81 interchange.
Route 17 eastbound will be down to one lane starting on Monday.
"There's going to be a major traffic shift in the beginning of May and in order to for that to happen, all of this work has to take place," said Jack Williams, regional director for NYSDOT.
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Hani Ghattas is a corporate lawyer based in Dubai. He has practiced law in multinational and regional firms and in-house in California, Jordan and the U.A.E. He grew up in the Middle East and has worked in Dubai for over a decade.
His corporate experience encompasses advising clients in transactional and local law matters in multiple areas including petrochemical, medical, finance, labor and immigration, securities, aviation, real estate and insurance.
Hani is a member of the California and U.S. Bar Associations as well as the Dubai and Northern Emirates and Abu Dhabi Business Councils and publishes and speaks in respect of various aspects of U.A.E. law.
- 2001 - J.D., New York University School of Law
- 1998 - B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Economics and International Relations, University of Southern California
- Qualified as a lawyer in the State of California, USA
- Attorney at Law, admitted in California
Hani's work includes advising:
- U.S. multinational financial institution regarding share exchange and restructuring of US$55 million debt and equity investment in multinational hospital operator and medical services provider ahead of planned initial public offering, including security arrangements.
- Saudi artificial turf and geotextile manufacturer regarding €30 million purchase of grass yarns business of competing U.K. multinational manufacturer of yarns, fibres, industrial and coated fabrics and composite materials, including assets and employees in multiple E.U. jurisdictions and U.S. and manufacturing facility in U.A.E.
- U.S. multinational financial institution regarding restructuring of US$100 million debt of paper products manufacturer to facilitate existing operations and construction of new manufacturing facility in U.A.E.
- Saudi plastics manufacturer regarding construction of new state-of-the-art manufacturing plant for production of geomembrane film for international markets.
- E.U. multinational chemical and pharmaceutical company regarding U.A.E. aspects of sale of global diabetes health care division to competing U.S. multinational.
- Japanese petroleum company regarding joint venture relating to construction of new manufacturing facility in Saudi Arabia for motor oils and related distribution arrangements.
- U.A.E. electronics distributor regarding joint venture relating to Middle East and Africa markets with Chinese manufacturer and French trademark holder relating to mobile phones and other personal electronic devices.
- U.S. professional association regarding joint venture with hospital operator and medical services provider relating to provision of optical medical services in Middle East.
- Saudi trading company regarding joint venture relating to construction of new blending facility in Saudi Arabia for specialty oil and water drilling chemicals.
- U.S. multinational aircraft manufacturer regarding sale and financing of aircraft to customers in Middle East.
- U.A.E. foods manufacturer regarding securing intellectual property rights including evergreen trademark license agreement in relation to new product line.
- Canadian architectural consultancy regarding settlements with multiple real estate developers relating to in excess of US$30 million in outstanding consulting fees.
- Saudi trading company regarding distribution agreements relating to pharmaceutical products, including with respect to regulatory considerations.
- U.A.E. wind tunnel manufacturer regarding template sale and purchase agreement for use in its expansion into North American market.
- U.S. multinational petroleum company regarding termination of joint venture and related aviation fuel concession agreements, fuel farm lease and development agreement and sale and purchase of hydrant asset agreement relating to multiple airports.
- U.K. multinational environmental consultancy regarding pledge of shares held directly and in trust in U.A.E. subsidiary of U.K. holding company in connection with securing additional group financing.
- E.U. multinational bank in relation to local laws and regulations regarding desired commercial offerings involving discounting of purchase orders and structuring of such offerings.
- E.U. multinational financial institutions in relation to local laws and regulations regarding share and unit offerings and other securities matters.
- U.A.E. distributor regarding registration of new onshore and free zone presences in U.A.E. relating to sales and associated support regarding joint venture manufactured electronic goods
- U.A.E. specialty restaurant/café concept regarding corporate reorganization, including equitizing shareholder loans, in anticipation of global franchising.
- U.S. multinational pharmaceutical manufacturer regarding registration of U.A.E. presence in support of Middle East operations and annual renewal of license and authorizations.
- U.S. multinational architectural consultancy regarding registration of U.A.E. free zone subsidiary in support of Middle East operations.
- Saudi lighting products manufacturer regarding reorganization of U.A.E. division, including realignment of shareholding to entities wholly owned by client and deregistration of entity.
And acting as:
- Interim Middle East region general counsel for top ten pharmaceutical multinational, including coordinating regulatory compliance, transitioning between distributors, entering into memoranda of understanding with governmental entities and lease negotiations.
- Middle East region general counsel for U.S. multinational Fortune 100 automotive parts manufacturer subsequent to their global acquisition of heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration manufacturer and supplier with operations in Middle East, including implementing FCPA compliance regime, negotiating distribution and agency agreements and implementation of revised human resources policies.
- Co-author, "UAE: Anti-Bribery Considerations", The Oath magazine – June 2014.
- Contributor, "Doing Business in the United Arab Emirates" released through American Business Council of Dubai and the Northern Emirates, 2014.
- "UAE Labor Law," Knowledge Exchange Series, American Business Council of Dubai & the Northern Emirates, 2015
- "Labor, Immigration and Emiratization," I.D.E.A.S. Business Forum, American Business Council of Dubai & the Northern Emirates, 2013
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Commissioner Patricia Horton Models Significance and Service in the City of Chicago
CHICAGO, IL (January 10, 2007) – A trip to Bangladesh several years ago fueled the nationally honored, innovative work of Patricia Horton C’95 in disadvantaged neighborhoods of Chicago.
The trip halfway around the world also led to this North Park alumna’s recent successful bid to become a commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Chicago, which she admits is not a glamorous job, but which makes sure people have clean water while enhancing the environment.
Horton already was working to strengthen the lives of disadvantaged women in the city, when she traveled to see the work of Muhammad Yunus, who was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in developing micro-enterprises.
"That was an awakening to me as a person, as a woman and as a spoiled American," Horton said.
Through micro-enterprises, people – generally women – are given low-interest loans to develop businesses that will lead to self-sufficiency. In honoring Yunus, the Nobel committee said Yunus’ work had "shown that even the poorest of the poor can work to bring about their own development."
Since her trip, Horton has helped thousands of women to achieve self-sufficiency. Her innovative work as an enterprise agent at the Women’s Self-Employment Project helped lead the organization to receive the first Presidential Award for Poverty Alleviation awarded by the White House in 1997. The Project was the largest micro-enterprise program targeting low-income urban women in the country.
Horton is now vice president of the Madison Western Chamber of Commerce and executive director of the West Side Business Group in Chicago, through which she helps nonprofits obtain grants for development and growth in neighborhoods that have been written off by others. She also teaches entrepreneurship at a local college.
Sworn in last month as a commissioner to the Water Reclamation District (see photo, taken at the ceremony picturing Horton with Ken Schaefle, under whom she studied at North Park), Horton will help oversee a budget of $940.7 million – the fifth largest governmental budget in the state – and 2,100 employees. The District collects and treats the wastewater from more than five million people and the industrial equivalent of another 4.5 million people in Cook County each day. The District also operates the Deep Tunnel Project to collect and treat sewer overflows, and provides stormwater management for all of Cook County.
While in Bangladesh, Horton watched people bathe in filthy water, and saw the devastating effects of not having clean water to drink.
"When I came back to the U.S., I wanted people to be aware of the need for clean water," Horton says. "As a commissioner, I can set policy, and I can educate people."
Horton says her own education at North Park has proved invaluable.
"North Park really took care of me," says Horton, who earned a bachelor’s degree in organizational management. She also was the top player on the Viking tennis team.
"When I first started at school, I just wanted to be a missionary," says Horton, who had worked at two churches in Chicago and Portland, Ore. But she realized she also had "a passion for business."
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Barbed wire fences up to six feet (1.83 metres) high were put up during the night, and Berliners woke this morning to find themselves living in a divided city.
Train services between the two sectors of the city have been cut, and all road traffic across the border has been stopped.
Thousands of angry demonstrators quickly gathered on the West Berlin side of the divide. At one crossing point, protesters tried to trample down the barbed wire, only to be driven back by guards with bayonets.
The West German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, appealed for calm, saying in a broadcast to the nation this evening: "Now, as always, we are closely bound to the Germans of the Russian zone and East Berlin.
"They are and remain our German brothers and sisters. The Federal Government remains firmly committed to the goal of German unity."
There has been outrage from the international community at the abrupt decision to cut off one side of the city from the other.
A Foreign Office spokesman in London said the restrictions were contrary to the four-power status of Berlin, and therefore illegal.
The American Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, called it a "flagrant violation" of East-West agreements, and said there would be a vigorous protest to Russia.
The tide of people fleeing East Germany has grown to a flood in recent days, as the Soviet Union has taken an increasingly hard line over breaking away from the three Allied powers and forming a separate peace treaty with East Germany over Berlin.
Nearly 12,500 people left East Germany this week - over 2,000 more than the previous week.
The East German government has been taking desperate measures to stem the flow. Yesterday, border guards were intercepting trains near Berlin and interrogating passengers. Those who arrived in Berlin said only one in 10 was allowed through.
There had been rumours of a decisive crackdown on refugees since the East German parliament met yesterday and approved new, unspecified measures against them.
The rumours provoked an even more frantic exodus. Just before the borders were closed, the numbers more than doubled, with some 3,000 East Germans fleeing to the West in just 24 hours.
Within days troops began replacing the barbed wire with concrete blocks, and the wall became a permanent structure.
The concrete section eventually reached nearly 12 feet (3.6m) high and 66 miles (106km) long. There was a further 41 miles (66.5km) of wire fencing, as well as more than 300 watch towers.
Nearly 200 people died trying to cross the wall, and another 200 were injured.
As the Iron Curtain over Eastern Europe began to lift in 1989, thousands of East Germans found another escape route, via Hungary and Austria.
On 7 November 1989, the Communist government of East Germany resigned, and two days later a jubilant crowd tore down the Berlin Wall piece by piece.
The following year, East and West Germany were finally reunited.
The two architects of the Berlin Wall, East German leaders Erich Honecker and Egon Krenz, faced criminal charges over their actions.
Honecker escaped conviction due to ill health and died in exile in 1994. Egon Krenz was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail. He was released early in December 2003 following an appeal.
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We are looking for a highly motivated PhD student to strengthen our research portfolio. Careful experimental analysis, involving microscopy combined with digital image correlation to investigate fiber slip, Raman spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy, will be employed to analyze, model and quantify fiber damage. Understanding the physical background of internal degradation processes will ultimately underpin lifetime prediction of these ropes.
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The Department Mechanics of Solids, Surfaces & Systems (MS3), part of the faculty of Engineering Technology (ET) is currently seeking a PhD student in the area of fibers, ropes and damage mechanisms. The work will be done in the Surface Engineering and Maintenance group, where we work on topics related to damage mechanisms and lifetime prediction.
Degradation mechanisms happening at surfaces are typically highly complex in nature. Many degradation mechanisms involve multiple physical domains, like interacting thermal, mechanical and chemical effects. Analysis and modelling complex degradation phenomena is foundational for maintenance. Improvement of lifetime and maintenance is important, ultimately to make our society more sustainable.
Ropes composed of aramid fibres are commonly used in all kinds of applications, mostly applications that are in one way or another critical. For reasons of safety, it is very important to have a clear understanding of degradation taking place in these rope structures. The aim of the research is to analyse, quantify and describe internal degradation in rope structures due to mechanical interaction between the fibers. Ultimately this should lead to the development of a damage indicator. Although the research will primarily be performed on aramid ropes under conditions typical for extreme environments, spin off to other high performance fiber structures is expected.
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As an employer, University of Twente offers jobs that matter. We equip you as a staff member to shape new opportunities both for yourself and for our society. With us, you will be part of a leading tech university that is changing our world for the better. We offer an open, inclusive and entrepreneurial climate, in which we encourage you to make healthy choices, for example, with our flexible, customisable conditions.
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Thomas ‘Beckna’ Eberharter – legendary Zillertal shredder and current Vans European Team Manager – gives his insight into the Dos and Don’ts when it comes to getting hooked up. This was in the mag last year but we thought it was only fair that we’d share Beckna’s thoughts for everyone in the world wide wizzle to check out…
In the mid 90s Thomas “Beckna” Eberharter was one of the first Austrian riders to make a living out of his passion. “My first board sponsor was the Swiss company ‘Steep & Deep’ who were making boards using a car-lift. I didn’t earn any money at the time but back then fun and trips were more important to us,” he recalls. For years now Beckna has been making a living from snowboarding and now works as the European team manager for his sponsor, Vans. Who better than Beckna to give advice on how to get and keep a sponsor?
– “Today it is quite hard to become a pro snowboarder as there are loads of young, talented riders. The days when companies offered a contract to everyone who was halfway good are gone. But never forget your goals, enjoy snowboarding, learn new tricks and develop your style. If you’re able to throw down sick tricks on rails but can’t get out of the pipe, submarine in the powder and or avoid kickers, you won’t be up for sponsorship for a long time”.
– “The first step towards a sponsor deal should lead you into your local snowboard shop as the owner probably has good connections to the companies he orders stuff from. If you can convince the owner of your skills, he might put in a good word for you at one of the companies – it is always better if others talk about your talent than advertising yourself.”
– “Start with local contests – results are always the best way of getting the attention of potential sponsors. The Zillertal local Tom Klocker won the Ästhetiker Groms Contest at the Vans Park Opening last January for example, which has already earned him some shots in the mags and a ticket to the US Open in Stratton in March.”
– “Be aware that it can take a long time until you earn money from snowboarding. In the beginning you need to invest a lot. I did a lot of Austrians Cup and only after I won the juniors a couple of times, did Nitro start supporting me with a tiny travel budget.”
– “Show your personality! Stick out of the crowd, show tricks that nobody does or jump a meter higher than everybody else. But you also need character: It doesn’t help if you are the best rider but can’t deal with people.”
– “If I discover a young and talented rider, he first gets support in the form of product (for example boots or a board), then he needs to stay tuned! In the end it is not only me who decides if a rider joins our team but many different people and elements. The team is part of marketing and things like the budget or the representation of a country all play a role.”
– “Once you have made it into a team, you should stay in contact with your sponsor. Find out who in the company is responsible for you and send an email with your results and coverage from time to time (not every week!).”
– “You are responsible for gathering all your coverage and present it to your sponsor; that is not his job! Always be aware that nobody owes you anything; it isn’t he other way around. You need to prove your value to the company!”
– “Try to cover every aspect of snowboarding: Contests, video parts, photo shoots. A sponsor can’t deny results and/ or coverage when you try to get a better deal.”
– “A professional snowboarding career can be short. At the beginning don’t change your sponsor after only half a year, because you don’t earn thousands of euros from the start. You should show loyalty towards the company you are riding for and only change sponsors when you have the feeling that you are getting stuck or the sponsor has other goals than you.”
– “Follow the strategy of ‘smart snowboarding’ and listen to your inner feelings. You can take some risks when you feel good but slow down when you get the feeling that this is not going to be your day. The demands to your body and the pressure to be successful are bigger today than a few years ago. But in most cases, it is not the fault of the companies but the riders themselves who think they have to give 120 percent 365 days a year.”
– “Finish school! You might think you missing out if you are only going snowboarding at the weekends but from my personal experience I can tell you that you will be more concentrated and more motivated if you don’t have so much time on snow. The career of a pro can be over after one failed jump and to drop out of school is the most stupid thing you can do.” | <urn:uuid:84343aa1-850a-4f91-800c-aa62160f2d7b> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://onboardmag.com/features/sponsored-snowboarding.html | 2018-06-25T00:26:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267867304.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20180624234721-20180625014721-00052.warc.gz | en | 0.966561 | 1,108 |
Wrestling: Perham defeats New York Mills 42-24
PERHAM -- The No. 12-2A Perham Yellowjackets never trailed and handed New York Mills their first dual loss of the season 42-24 Thursday evening in wrestling action.
Brady Sazama had the match of the night at 152 pounds. He trailed New York Mills' Kacee Skoog the entire match before pulling out a 5-2 win in the final seconds.
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Reviewed by Austin Powell, Fri., Nov. 20, 2009
Time to take Svan, the Laughing's stuffed tiger mascot, out of retirement. After two promising EPs, the local art-rock outfit finally hones its Anglo safari into something tangible and enjoyable on Fever, the band's full-length debut co-produced by Erik Wofford. Densely layering post-punk guitars, huge Congo percussion, and various African accents, the LP alternately shakes Byrne & Eno's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts with the pop playfulness of Paul Simon's Graceland. There's a noticeable cohesion that carries over even into the hidden track, with the swirling, exotic "Runner" and title track being obvious highlights. While the loss of multi-instrumentalist Abram Shook has tightened the Laughing's sound, the quartet still struggles at times to balance its various eccentricities, most notably the shambled "Help Me," though leader Logan Middleton gets considerably more mileage out of his quivering vocals on slow jam "Favorite." As for the Laughing's matching white denim vests of yesteryear, best leave those in the closet. | <urn:uuid:f75c2455-159c-4a4a-8f11-e14469371708> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2009-11-20/919086/ | 2020-10-24T06:44:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107882102.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20201024051926-20201024081926-00576.warc.gz | en | 0.936517 | 247 |
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With a stay at Jinjiang Inn Harbin Convention & Exhibition Center, you'll be centrally located in Harbin, convenient to Wanda Plaza and Heilongjiang Provincial Museum. This hotel is within close proximity of Long Ta and Harbin International Conference Exhibition.
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I’ve been busy the past few days! I’m officially a Mrs. now! 🙂
As of May 2nd, Kuba and I are officially husband and wife. 🙂 We had a simple minimalist ceremony here in Dundee, Scotland. Our friends Ivy and Leo were there to witness it and support us. They also helped us photograph and film our big day. Thanks to them for everything!
We’ve planned to get married for a while now but kept this on the down-low because we wanted it to be a surprise. We also didn’t want it to turn into a big to-do because we didn’t want anything to detract from our original intent behind getting married. In the simplest terms, we married each other because we’re in love and we are committed to being together forever. We’ve known this pretty much from the start of our relationship. 🙂
We didn’t want a large ceremony or many people involved. We didn’t want to wear anything “fancy” since we don’t have clothes like that. We also didn’t see the point in purchasing new clothes just to wear them once. Minimalist problems! 😉 We figured a casual ceremony fits our personalities anyway.
As my dear friend Ivy pointed out after watching my wedding vlog, our day was filled with laughter. There was absolutely no stress involved. It was truly the best day and a blissful start to this new chapter of our relationship!
After the wedding, we headed to The Flame Tree Cafe for lunch. What better way to celebrate! I actually planned the wedding for 11:00 so we could get lunch after. 😉
Even though the nature of our relationship won’t change because of this official status, we’re still very happy about it!
Thank you to everyone who’s since congratulated us on social media. It means a lot that you care! And even if I don’t know you in person, I still feel connected and wanted to share our day with you. I feel like the only way to increase happiness in the world is to share it. We are fortunate that we have so much to share! 🙂 | <urn:uuid:362133af-eac7-4431-8a3b-8bb28aa06723> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | https://vegannomadchick.com/category/relationships/ | 2017-08-21T12:19:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886108268.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170821114342-20170821134342-00555.warc.gz | en | 0.977469 | 461 |
Voniati: The international public opinion and especially the Muslim world seem to have great expectations from the historic election of Obama. Can we, in your opinion, expect any real change regarding the US approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Chomsky: Not much. Quite the contrary: it may be harsher than before. In the case of Gaza, Obama maintained silence, he didn’t say a word. He said well there’s only one president so I can’t talk about it. Of course he was talking about a lot of other things but he chose not to talk about this. His campaign did repeat a statement that he had made while visiting Israel six months earlier -he had visited Sderot where the rockets hit- and he said “if this where happening to my daughters, I wouldn’t think of any reaction as legitimate”, but he couldn’t say anything about Palestinian children. Now, the attack on Gaza was at time so that it ended right before the inauguration, which is what I expected. I presume that the point was so that they could make sure that Obama didn’t have to say something, so he didn’t. And then he gave his first foreign policy declaration, it was a couple of days later when he appointed George Mitchell as his emissary, and he said nothing about Gaza except that “our paramount interest is preserving the security of Israel”. Palestine apparently doesn’t have any requirement of security. And then in his declaration he said of course we are not going to deal with Hamas -the elected government the US immediately, as soon as the government was elected in a free election the US and Israel with the help of European Union immediately started severely punishing the Palestinian population for voting in the “wrong way” in a free election and that’s what we mean by democracy. The only substantive comment he made in the declaration was to say that the arab peace plan had constructive elements, because it called for a normalization of relations with Israel and he urged the arab states to proceed with the normalization of relations. Now, he is an intelligent person, he knows that that was not what the arab peace plan said. The arab peace plan called for a two state settlement on the international border that is in accord with the long standing international consensus that the US has blocked for over 30 years and in that context of the two state settlement we should even proceed further and move towards a normalization of relations with Israel. Well, Obama carefully excluded the main content about the two state settlement and just talked about the corollary, for which a two state settlement is a precondition. Now that’s not an oversight, it can’t be. That’s a careful wording, sending the message that we are not going to change their (Israel’s) rejectionist policy. We’ll continue to be opposed to the international consensus on this issue, and everything else he said accords with it. We will continue in other words to support Israel’s settlement policies- those policies are undermining any possible opportunity or hope for a viable Palestinian entity of some kind. And it’s a continued reliance on force in both parts of occupied Palestine. That’s the only conclusion you could draw.
Voniati: Let us talk about the timing of the assault on the Gaza Strip. Was it accidental or did it purposefully happen in a vacuum of power? To explain myself, the global financial crisis has challenged the almost absolute US global hegemony. Furthermore, the attack on Gaza was launched during the presidential change of guard. So, did this vacuum of power benefit the Israeli assault on Gaza?
Chomsky: Well, the timing was certainly convenient since attention was focused elsewhere. There was no strong pressure on the president or other high officials of the US to say anything about it. I mean Bush was on his way out, and Obama could hide behind the pretext that he’s not yet in. And pretty much the same was in Europe, so that they could just say, well we can’t talk about it now, it’s too difficult a time. The assault was well chosen in that respect. It was well chosen in other respects too: the bombing began shortly after Hamas had offered a return to the 2005 agreement, which in fact was supported by the US. They said, ok, let’s go back to the 2005 agreement that was before Hamas was elected. That means no violence and open the borders. Closing the borders is a siege, it’s an act of war … not very harmful but it’s an act of war. Israel of all countries insists on that. I mean Israel went to war twice in 1956 and 1967 on the grounds, it claimed, that its access to the outside world was being hampered. It wasn’t a siege, its access through the Gulf of Aqaba was being hampered. Well if that is an act of war then certainly a siege is, and so it’s understood.
So Khaled Mashaal asked for an end of the state of the war, which would include opening the borders. Well, a couple of days later, when Israel didn’t react to that, Israel attacked. The attack was timed for Saturday morning – the Sabbath day in Israel – at about 11:30, which happens to be the moment when children are leaving school and crowds are miling in the streets of this very heavily crowded city … The explicit target was police cadets… Now, there are civilians, in fact we now know that for several months the legal department of the Israeli army had been arguing against this plan because it said it was a direct attack against civilians. And of course, plenty civilians will be killed if you bomb a crowded city, especially at a time like that. But finally the legal department was sort of bludgeoned into silence by the military so they said alright. So that’s when they opened -on a Sabbath morning. Now two weeks later, Israel – on Saturday as well- blocked the humanitarian aid because they didn’t want to disgrace Sabbath. Well, that’s interesting too. But the main point about the timing was that there was an effort to undercut the efforts for a peaceful settlement and it was terminated just in time to prevent pressure on Obama to say something about it. It’s hard to believe that this isn’t conscious. We know that it was very meticulously planned for many months beforehand.
Voniati: In a recent interview with LBC, you said that the policies of Hamas are more conducive to peace than the US’s or Israel’s.
Chomsky: Oh yes, that’s clear.
Voniati: Also, that the policies of Hamas are closer to international consensus on a political peaceful settlement than those of Israel and the US. Can you explain your stance?
Chomsky: Well for several years Hamas has been very clear and explicit, repeatedly, that they favor a two state settlement on the international border. They said they would not recognize Israel but they would accept a two state settlement and a prolonged truce, maybe decades, maybe 50 years. Now, that’s not exactly the international consensus but it’s pretty close to it. On the other hand, the United States and Israel flatly reject it. They reject it in deeds, that’s why they are building all the construction development activities in the West Bank, not only in violation of international laws, US and Israel know that the illegal constructions are designed explicitly to convert the West Bank into what the architect of the policy, Arial Sharon, called bantustan. Israel takes over what it wants, break up Palestine into unviable fragments. That’s undermining a political settlement. So in deeds, yes of course they are undermining it, but also in words: that goes back to 1976 when the US vetoed the Security Council resolution put forward by the arab states which called for a two state settlement and it goes around until today. In December, last December, at the meetings of the UN’s General Assembly there were many resolutions passed. One of them was a resolution calling for recognition of the right of self-determination of the Palestinian people. It didn’t call for a state, just the right of self-determination. It passed with 173 to 5. The 5 were the US, Israel and a few small pacific islands. Of course that can’t be reported in the US. So they are rejecting it even in words, as well as -more significantly- in acts. On the other hand, Hamas comes pretty close to accepting it. Now, the demand which Obama repeated on Hamas is that they must meet three conditions: they must recognize Israel’s right to exist, they must renounce violence and they must accept past agreements, and in particular the Road Map. Well, what about the US and Israel? I mean, obviously they don’t renounce violence, they reject the Road Map – technically they accepted it but Israel immediately entered 14 reservations (which weren’t reported here) which completely eliminated its content, and the US went along. So the US and Israel completely violate those two conditions, and of course they violate the first, they don’t recognize Palestine. So sure, there’s a lot to criticize about Hamas, but on these matters they seem to be much closer to -not only international opinion- but even to a just settlement than the US and Israel are.
Voniati: On the other hand, Hamas has been accused of using human shields to hide and protect itself. Israel insists that the war was a matter of defense. Is Hamas a terrorist organization, as it is accused to be? Is Israel a terrorist state?
Chomsky: Well, Hamas is accused of using human shields, rightly or wrongly. But we know that Israel does it all the time. Is Israel a terrorist state? Well yes according to official definitions. I mean, one of the main things holding up cease fire right now is that Israel insists that it will not allow a cease fire until Hamas returns a captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit – he’s very famous in the West everybody knows he was captured. Well, one day before Gilad Shalit was captured, Israeli forces went into Gaza City and kidnapped two Palestinian civilians (the Muamar Brothers) and brought them across the border to Israel in violation of international law and hid them somewhere in the huge Israeli prisons. Nobody knows what happened to them since. I mean, kidnapping civilians is a much worse crime than capturing a soldier of an attacking army. And furthermore this has been regular Israeli practice for decades. They’ve been kidnapping civilians in Lebanon or on the high seas … They take them to Israel, put them into prisons, sometimes keeping them as hostages for long periods. So you know, if the capturing of Gilad Shalit is a terrorist act, well, then israel’s regular practice supported by the US is incomparably worse. And that’s quite apart from repeated aggression and other crimes. I don’t like Hamas by any means, there is plenty to criticize about them, but if you compare their actions with US and Israel, they are minor criminals.
Voniati: Though of Jewish decent, you have been repeatedly accused of anti-Semitism. How do you respond?
Chomsky: The most important comment about that was made by the distinguished statesman Abba Eban, maybe 35 years ago, in an address to the American people. He said that there are two kinds of criticism of Zionism (by Zionism I mean the policies of the state of Israel). One is criticism by anti-Semites and the other is criticism by neurotic self-hating Jews. That eliminates 100% of possible criticism. The neurotic self-hating Jews, he actually mentioned two, I was one and I.F. Stone, a well-known writer was another). I mean that’s the kind of thing that would come out of a communist party in its worst days. But you see, I can’t really be called anti-semite because I’m jewish so I must be a neurotic self-hating Jew, by definition. The assumption is that the policies of the state of Israel are perfect, so therefore any kind of criticism must be illegitimate. And that’s from Abba Eban, one of the most distinguished figures in Israel, the most westernised … praised, considered a dove.
Voniati: How do you comment on the Davos incident concerning Erdogan’s verbal attack against Peres?
Chomsky: It was impolite. You are not supposed to behave like that at Davos. But the idea that Peres was given 25 minutes to justify major atrocities and aggression, that’s what’s shocking. Why have that at Davos? I mean, do you allow Saddam Husein in such a gathering to justify the invasion of Kuwait? So Erdogan reacted, in my view, not in accord with the gentile atmosphere of the collection of the people who but basically appropriate under the circumstances.
Voniati: Have you, by any chance, been informed about the Cypriot-flagged vessel “Monchegorsk” that is docked in Limassol and seems to have been carrying weapons to the Hamas-run Gaza Strip? Israel and the United States requested that the vessel be stopped…
Chomsky: I don’t know about the Iranian vessel but I do know that right in the middle of the Gaza attack, Dignity was blocked in international waters and attacked by the Israeli navy and almost sunk. Now, that’s a major crime. That’s much worse than piracy off the coast of Somalia for example. If the Iranian vessel was stopped in international waters, that’s completely illegitimate. Israel has no authority to do anything in international waters. And the talk about not sending arms to Gaza …I mean, do they stop sending arms to Israel? I mean right in the middle of the Gaza war, the pentagon announced that it was sending a huge shipman of armaments to Israel. Did anybody stop that? They should say that those armaments are not intended for use by the Israeli army. The pentagon also announced that they are being prepositioned, that is, that they re being placed in Israel for the use of the US army In other words what they re saying is -and it’s been true for a long time- is that the US regards Israel as an offshore military base of its own, which they can use for their aggressive acts throughout the region. | <urn:uuid:582c33ec-79a1-44fb-b851-fa010631e3c4> | CC-MAIN-2016-36 | https://chomsky.info/20090216/ | 2016-08-25T08:10:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471982292975.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823195812-00196-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974023 | 3,049 |
CHONGQING, China -- Fan Zhongcheng last year joined 1.4 million people forced to flee rising Yangtze River waters caused by the government's massive new Three Gorges Dam. His elderly parents' mud-brick house collapsed as the family tried to dismantle it to comply with official orders. Mr. Fan and his wife were buried alive for hours, and his parents died.
The family's troubles aren't over. Now the Chinese government says it plans to induce as many as four million more people to move from homes near the shore and in the surrounding mountains. The Fans' new homestead, up a hill from the old one, may be among them.
WSJ's Shai Oster interviews Fan Zhongchen, one of 1.4 million people forced to leave their homes by the creation of the Three Gorges Reservoir.
The mass uprooting is just the latest controversy to plague the $25 billion Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric project. Built to tame the violent annual floods of the 4,000-mile Yangtze River and to harness its power, Three Gorges is now threatening many of the rural residents it was intended to help. Since the dam first cut off the Yangtze's flow in June 2003, parts of the reservoir's shoreline have repeatedly collapsed. Waste from neighboring farms and villages is creating a water-pollution crisis. And by flooding hundreds of square miles of rich farmland, the reservoir has robbed hundreds of thousands of farmers of their livelihoods and overcrowded the remaining land.
How Beijing handles the challenge could have great consequences both for the environment and for political stability in the region. National and local officials have responded to the twin problems of ecological and economic peril in the countryside with a massive urbanization plan, promising jobs for those who relocate -- a move that also meets economic development goals.
The plan could be complicated by simmering resentment over the fate of the people already displaced by the dam, may of whom were left without jobs or government subsidies that were promised. "They had so many problems with moving one million people. How are they going to move four times that many?" asks Wu Dengming, head of the Green Volunteer League of Chongqing, a local environmental group.
The government has not called the project, which does provide electricity and has stemmed floods, a mistake. But in September, five days after approving the relocation plan, Beijing's State Council acknowledged the dam's problems for the first time after a meeting called by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. Officials of the cabinet-level Three Gorges Commission warned that the dam was having an "adverse impact" and could cause an environmental "catastrophe" unless drastic measures are taken, according to state news agency Xinhua.
For nearly a century, China's leaders dreamed of building a dam to harness the 4,000-mile Yangtze River's power. Mao Zedong, who believed man could control nature, wrote a poem extolling the plans. Dissent was suppressed, and in 1992, construction was approved by the government despite an unprecedented "no" vote by one-third of China's legislature. Environmentalists at the time predicted many of today's problems.
Begun in 2003, the dam created a 400-mile reservoir stretching through the narrow valleys of the Three Gorges, named for a series of canyons once known for their fast currents. On the other end from the dam sits Chongqing, one of China's biggest cities, capital of a municipality with 30 million people in the urban area and surrounding countryside.
Problems started soon after the dam first cut off the Yangtze River's flow in June 2003. Slopes along the riverbanks started to warp, and within weeks on July 14, two dozen farmers and fisherman were killed in a massive landslide. At first, officials blamed heavy rains but Chinese and foreign researchers later showed the rising waters were to blame.
Today, the water has risen about 514 feet and is set to rise 60 more by 2009. Regional officials have declared 60% of the new shoreline too steep to farm, and are moving 141 million cubic feet of fertile earth inland. Critics warn that the riverside port of the region's huge main city here, Chongqing, will be silted shut within a decade because of the slower-moving current.
Already, belts of polluted water surround the shores of cities upstream from the dam along the reservoir, including Chongqing on its far western edge. The dam is preventing the upstream waste from being flushed out to sea, says a study last spring by the World Wildlife Fund. Sewage and other pollution collecting in the stagnant reservoir also have backed up into tributaries, causing blooms of algae. Fish harvests in the Yangtze River basin have fallen sharply because of disrupted river flows. The dam even has increased local rainfall and fog and lowered temperatures because of condensation forming over the huge reservoir, according to a study by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Beijing is providing more than $5 billion to build hundreds of sewage-treatment plants and garbage-disposal centers in the area, and officials plan to clear a riverside greenbelt more than half a mile wide to keep fertilizer runoff or other pollutants from the water. Meanwhile, more hydroelectric dams are planned for the upper reaches of the Yangtze and its tributaries. They might help reduce silting upstream, but the missteps at Three Gorges are spurring criticism of more dams in state-owned media, and Beijing has started to rethink those plans.
"The best way to protect the water quality in the Three Gorges region is to reduce the population," along with strengthening environmental protection, says Chongqing Vice Mayor Tan Qiwei, who oversees economic development in the area.
The initial round of relocations, spurred by rising water levels, was fraught with difficulties and ended up more widespread than first planned. In August 2005, Mr. Fan's family and 600 other villagers signed contracts with the government agreeing to abandon their old homes in the hamlet of Tonglin and move several hours' travel away, closer to Chongqing city. The reservoir was soon going to cover the flat valley bottom where they had farmed for decades. The government offered roughly $1,500 to each family, more than their annual income, and promised it would demolish the homes.
At the last minute, documents show, officials said farmers must do their own demolition or forfeit $250. In May 2006, Mr. Fan's elderly parents hired a few workers to help them knock down their home. Mr. Fan and his wife also helped. It was a hot clear day, after weeks without rain. Mr. Fan saw dust hanging in the air as the workers used hammers and picks to tear down the mud bricks.
Then a wall collapsed, burying the whole family under a pile of bricks and shattered timber. Neighbors rushed to help painstakingly pull off the rubble from the trapped bodies. Mr. Fan's mother's skull was crushed. His father's arms and legs were broken. Mr. Fan, 41 years old, remembers little from the hours he lay under the pile with a punctured liver. Then for 45 days, he lay in the hospital while his injured wife shuttled between his and his father's rooms to care for them.
The family, like most farmers, was uninsured and had to borrow from friends and relatives to pay the mounting bills. When they could no longer afford to care for both father and son, the family decided to send Mr. Fan's father to the new home they had built up the hill in the larger village of Yanglu. There, without access to modern medicine, his wounds became infected and within a dozen days, he too was dead.
Officials held lavish ceremonies that May to mark completion of the 1.4-mile concrete structure of the dam. At the same time, Fan Xiao, a geologist for a government-affiliated institute based in Chengdu, published an article questioning Beijing's assurances about the dam's impact on sedimentation, earthquakes, and pollution. "They shouldn't have built the dam, the price paid was too high," the geologist says in an interview.
This spring another series of landslides forced more villagers to evacuate their homes. Scientists working with the World Wildlife Fund and some Chinese universities began reporting mounting pollution and silt problems. Researchers from government-funded institutes warned officials in the past year that as many as 4.8 million of the 11 million residents on the reservoir shores cannot survive there because of the combination of pollution and limited farmland and infrastructure, though they have since cut that estimate in half. Chongqing officials said 91 incidents had caved in more than 22 miles of shoreline, though they later retracted the statistics.
The concerns finally began filtering up to the central leadership. On June 27, China's cabinet, the State Council, met to discuss the future of Chongqing and the dam. Premier Jiabao said addressing the worsening ecological and environmental problems at the Three Gorges was a primary concern, according to a later account of the meeting by the state-run Xinhua News Agency. A day later, four villagers were killed in another landslide.
With Beijing worried, Chongqing's leaders put together the new relocation plans, calling for 2 million people to be moved from near the reservoir shores and a similar number from the surrounding mountainsides. The State Council approved them on Sept. 20, though they were only announced weeks later. Meanwhile on Sept. 25, Beijing's Three Gorges Commission acknowledged the problems at the dam publicly for the first time.
Mr. Tan, the vice mayor, says the migration will be voluntary over the next 10 to 15 years and will rely on job creation in 40 industrial zones, free health care and education and housing subsidies to entice villagers from the homes. Some critics are skeptical, given the stakes and complaints of abuses in previous relocations.
The city also is offering farmers a coveted hukou, or official permission to settle permanently -- not available in the far-off coastal industrial centers of Shanghai and Guangdong, where many Chongqing-area farmers have gone for city jobs because the opportunities and pay are much greater. Nationwide, urban residents earn more than three times what farmers do, and the gap is growing. In the Chongqing city center, shopping malls filled with high-end shops such as Brooks Brothers and Versace line the city's glittering central square.
Chongqing elders say Beijing's funding will help the city absorb the planned influx of labor -- the equivalent of adding the population of Oklahoma City each year -- without creating slums. "This migration is already starting to happen as a result of economic development," Mr. Tan says. "The government should lead it." All told, private and public investment will reach about $100 billion, he says.
In Yanglu, where most of Mr. Fan's 600 neighbors have resettled instead of where the government directed them, anger runs high. Yu Qingfa, Mr. Fan's cousin, 30 years old, complains that he hasn't received the money the government promised, unlike others with political connections. The far-off community the government designated had no jobs, he says. Of trying to hold the government to its promises, he says, "The mountain is tall and the emperor is far away."
An hour's drive upstream, in a Chongqing satellite city, lawyer Zhou Litai is putting the finishing touches on a new office he believes will soon be busy with claims from a new, even bigger wave of migrants in the Three Gorges region. This summer, Mr. Zhou received about 1,000 claims related to relocations connected with another dam, convincing him there was more work coming. "The law and policies are good, but there are problems with how the local government implements them," says the lawyer, who has become well known in China for representing migrant workers from the Chongqing region in disputes with factory employers.
Mr. Fan, now managing a local pharmacy, is among those suing over his farming family's losses from the first relocation. He says he was given about $2,000 by the local government. Local officials say they donated to the family about twice as much and deny any responsibility for the accident.
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Morrisville, NC 27560-2009
Joel L. Thomas
June 8, 2009
Alliance One International Reports Continued Earnings Growth for Fiscal Year 2009
Morrisville, NC June 8, 2009 Alliance One International, Inc. (NYSE: AOI) today announced results for its fiscal year ended March 31, 2009.
Fiscal Year Results
For the year ended March 31, 2009, the Company reported net income of $132.6 million, or $1.50 per basic share, compared to net income of $16.9 million, or $0.19 per basic share, for the prior fiscal year.
Robert E. Harrison, Chief Executive Officer, said By all measures Alliance One had a very solid year that fully met our expectations. Our global and talented workforce executed extremely well against our plans in a turbulent environment, both from a supply and demand standpoint as well as from a highly volatile foreign exchange environment. We were able to navigate through the various growing and selling seasons globally in close consultation with our large customer base to ensure that the economics along the supply chain were appropriate in order to ensure the security of future supply. The scenario we see going forward as a result should reflect crop sizes sufficient to serve future demand, weather permitting. We continue to work closely with our global farmer base to ensure their sustainability while using our significant agronomy resources to also ensure that best practices and total product integrity is being maintained in the face of increasing product regulation.
Mr. Harrison concluded, Heading into the coming year our balance sheet is in good shape with strong liquidity and is well positioned to support future growth. As we look forward global supply and demand remains dynamic with flue-cured tobacco near equilibrium and burley filler styles potentially in some degree of over supply due primarily to the large Malawi crop this year that should adjust itself the next. Our global footprint, customer initiatives, new products and expense discipline are all contributing to our improved performance and our commitment to drive further shareholder value.
Performance Summary for Fiscal Year 2009
The following is a brief overview of our financial results for the year ended March 31, 2009. For additional information and a more detailed discussion of these results, please refer to our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on June 8, 2009.
Sales and other operating revenue increased 12.3% to $2,258.2 million in 2009 as the result of a 25.3% increase in average sales prices and a $7.0 million increase in processing and other revenues in response to increased green tobacco and processing costs partially offset by a 10.4% decrease in quantities sold.
South America Region tobacco revenues increased $19.8 million, reflecting an increase in average sales prices substantially offset by a decrease in kilos in sold. The increase in average sales price is primarily due to improved customer pricing in response to increased green tobacco and processing costs, while the decrease in volume is mainly attributable to reduced inventories carried over from last year and smaller crop sizes.
Other Region tobacco revenues increased $220.0 million or 20.2% primarily as a result of a $0.70 per kilo increase in average sales prices and a slight increase in quantities sold. Average sales price increases due to improved customer pricing in response to increased green tobacco and processing costs, as well as increased byproduct volumes in the Africa region, were the main contributor to the increase in revenues in the Other Region operating segment. Average sales prices and increased volumes as well as changing product mix in the Asia and North America regions also contributed significantly to the increase in revenues. In Europe, improved customer pricing more than offset decreased volumes that resulted from the exit from the Greek and Spanish tobacco markets as well as reduced demand in Russia. Processing and other revenues increased 8.9% from 2008 to $85.5 million in 2009 primarily as a result of increased processing volumes and prices in Africa.
Gross profit as a percentage of sales increased 44.1% from 2008 to $360.8 million in 2009 and gross profit percentage also increased from 12.4% in 2008 to 16.0% in 2009.
South America Region operating segment gross profit increased $26.1 million primarily as a result of the non-recurrence of significant grower bad debt and interstate trade tax provisions in the prior year. In 2008, as a result of the poor quality of the 2006 crop and the resulting surplus quantities on hand combined with substantial increases in both green tobacco and tobacco processing costs for the 2006 and 2007 crops due to the strengthening Brazilian Real, 2007 crop production and purchases declined as expected. The continued decline in market conditions again resulted in an increased grower bad debt provision for the 2007 crop. As a result, a $37.5 million bad debt provision associated with farmer accounts related to the cumulative impact of the lower quality of the 2006 crop and smaller 2007 crop was recorded. The positive impact on gross profit from the non-recurrence of these provisions in 2009 was partially offset by the impact of decreased volumes and net losses on derivative financial instruments. During 2009, gross profit from sales of the 2008 crop remain negatively impacted by higher grower bad debt and other costs that result from the decreased supply of available tobacco volumes. However, increased sales prices mitigate the impact of these higher costs. The net impact to gross profit from derivative financial instruments was a reduction of $9.3 million compared to the prior year driven by Brazilian Real volatility.
Other Region gross profit increased $84.3 million mainly as the result of Africa and Asia. Gross profit in Africa increased as a result of better sales prices and increased volumes combined with lower freight costs and lower period costs driven by more throughput due to increased third party processing. Gross profit in Asia increased as a result of delayed shipments from the prior fiscal year into the current fiscal year, increased sales prices in Asia, changing product mix and lower freight costs. Gross profit in Europe improved as a result of enhanced customer pricing, lower period costs and the favorable impact of exchange rates. North America results remained relatively consistent with the prior year.
Selling, administrative and general expenses decreased 0.9% from 2008 to $156.0 million in 2009. The decrease is primarily due to reduced travel, insurance and the movement of foreign currency exchange rates which were partially offset by increased incentive compensation costs. The stronger U.S. dollar positively impacted expenses denominated in foreign currencies, including the Brazilian Real, the Euro and the Pound Sterling. Foreign currency denominated expenses accounted for approximately 29.4% and 33.1% of the total selling, administrative and general expenses in 2009 and 2008, respectively.
Other income decreased $20.0 million to $0.2 million in 2009 from 2008 largely driven by gains of approximately $9.5 million and $7.0 million on the 2008 Malawi factory and Greek properties sales. These sales occurred primarily during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008. The remaining decrease in other income between 2008 and 2009 is related mainly to the change in gains on other sales of fixed assets.
Restructuring and asset impairment charges were $0.6 million in 2009 compared to $19.6 million in 2008. The charges in 2009 are primarily employee severance charges related to the closure of an operation in Germany. In 2008, asset impairment charges of $10.6 million were incurred mainly as a result of a $6.1 million charge from the CdF sale. In addition, we reported a $2.7 million impairment charge related to long-lived assets in Turkey following anticipated reductions in future Turkish flue cured and burley tobacco volumes. The remaining restructuring charges of $9.0 million were mainly employee severance charges primarily in Malawi due to the sale of one of the Malawi factories, in Turkey due to the planned reductions in future volumes, in Brazil due to the sale of one of the operating facilities as previously disclosed and other employee severance charges as the execution of our merger integration plan continued.
Debt retirement expense of $1.0 million in 2009 and $5.9 million in 2008 relate to accelerated amortization of debt issuance costs as a result of debt prepayment and retirement in both years as well as other one time costs associated with the retirement of senior notes including premiums paid for the repurchase of the senior notes and other debt related fees.
Interest expense decreased $3.9 million from $101.9 million in 2008 to $98.0 million in 2009. Interest expense decreased primarily due to the reduced impact of Brazilian farmer financing in 2009 compared to 2008 and lower average rates. The decrease in expense was substantially offset by higher average borrowings driven by working capital requirements from higher farmer prices.
Interest income was $3.8 million in 2009 and $16.2 million in 2008. The decrease of $12.4 million was largely due to lower cash balances and decreased interest income from Brazilian farmer refinancing in 2009 compared to the prior year.
Effective tax rates were a benefit of (20.1)% in 2009 and a benefit of (268.8)% in 2008.
Income from discontinued operations was $0.4 million in 2009 compared to $7.9 million in 2008. The $7.5 million decrease is mainly due to gains on the sale of the remaining wool assets of $7.2 million in 2008.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of March 31, 2009, available credit lines and cash decreased 29.7% over the prior year to $489.8 million comprised of $87.7 million in cash, $362.0 million of credit lines and $40.1 million for letters of credit. The decrease is related to the Companys selectivity following pricing increases and revised terms and conditions by some lenders as a reaction to the recent global financial crisis, as well as delayed timing of seasonal line renewals for new crop purchases based on market conditions that have dictated later purchasing in Brazil, Argentina and Malawi.
Additionally, from time to time in the future, we may elect to redeem, repay, make open market purchases, retire or cancel indebtedness prior to stated maturity under our various global bank facilities or outstanding public notes, as they may permit.
Fiscal Year 2009 Financial Results Investor Call
The Company will hold a conference call to report financial results for its fiscal year ended March 31, 2009, on June 8, 2009 at 5:00 P.M. ET. Those seeking to listen to the call may access a live broadcast on the Alliance One website. Please visit www.aointl.com fifteen minutes in advance to register.
For those who are unable to listen to the live event, a replay will be available by telephone from 8:00 P.M. ET Monday, June 8 through 8:00 P.M. ET Saturday, June 13. To access the replay, dial (888) 203-1112 within the U.S., or (719) 457-0820 outside the U.S., and enter access code 1412376. Any replay, rebroadcast, transcript or other reproduction of this conference call, other than the replay accessible by calling the number above, has not been authorized by Alliance One and is strictly prohibited. Investors should be aware that any unauthorized reproduction of this conference call may not be an accurate reflection of its contents.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on current expectations of future events. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements about future financial and operating results, plans, objectives, expectations and intentions and other statements that are not historical facts. Such statements are based on the current beliefs and expectations of management and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. If underlying assumptions prove inaccurate or unknown risks or uncertainties materialize, actual results may differ materially from current expectations and projections. The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ from those set forth in the forward-looking statements: changes in the timing of anticipated shipments, changes in anticipated geographic product sourcing, political instability in sourcing locations, currency and interest rate fluctuations, shifts in the global supply and demand position for tobacco products, and the impact of regulation and litigation on customers. Additional factors that could cause AOIs results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements can be found in AOIs Annual Reports on Form 10-K and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) which are available at the SECs Internet site (http://www.sec.gov).
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Found a fabulous story earlier this morning that ties in 2 concepts we’ve been following in the last three weeks – social media as a resource and disruptive innovation. Hope you enjoy; it’s a quick, great read!
Travis Kalanick sent this tweet out in January 2010. The reply from Ryan Graves came 3 minutes later. That tweet was worth over a billion dollars.
January 2010 was the month Travis was doing a test run with 3 cars in New York for a mobile app that he and his friend, Garrett Camp, had just created.
They had decided it was time to start a company around the app and, needing to find a General Manager to run it, Travis took to Craigslist and Twitter looking for the right person.
Ryan’s reply to Travis came as he was looking for something new. He had some experience at GE, and had worked for Foursquare for a while for free after the company turned him down for a job. He was ready for a new opportunity – and took a chance with this tweet.
Travis replied back, they met, they hit it off, and Ryan joined Travis and Garrett on March 1st as their first hire.
With their new company started, the three of them then invited all their friends to demo the product and they officially launched in San Francisco just 3 months later on May 31st.
That was five years ago.
This week, the team that started with that tweet has built their company, Uber, into a company that is currently valued at over $60 billion (they just announced another funding round of $2 billion this week http://bit.ly/ubers-next-2-billion).
Today, Travis and Ryan are worth over $6 billion, and that tweet from Ryan (who today is Uber’s Head of Global Operations) began a journey which has made him a billionaire today as well.
How are you using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Youtube today? As a wall of content? As a broadcasting tool?
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Likes: Playing in the snow, as you can tell by this picture. He loves his best doggie friend Geisha Girl. He likes the neighbor boy Eric. Gus and Geisha Girl love to walk in the fish pond and then run in Mom's gardens.
Pet-Peeves: Loud noises and when mom and dad go to work.
Favorite Toy: Any squeaky ball, or toy, and Dads old work socks.
Favorite Food: science diet for puppys and pigs ears
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The All-on-4® treatment concept offers patients without teeth a rapid, relatively cost-effective and uncomplicated treatment using dental implants and fixed dentures. Previously, a fixed bridge required the replacement of all teeth, with at least 8 dental implants in the upper jaw and 6 in the lower jaw. The All-on-4® system requires only 4 implants in each jaw. Because dental implants are very expensive, the All-on-4® treatment concept significantly reduces the cost of your dental prosthesis. A further advantage: To ensure the correct anchoring of implants and dental prostheses, a thin jawbone must be augmented. However, since the All-on-4® treatment concept uses a special implantation method, patients whose jawbone would normally be deemed too thin or narrow can also be fitted with implants. All-on-4® is a safe treatment alternative without the need for bone augmentation. Additionally, with All-on-4®, patients are fitted with a temporary bridge directly during the operation which is worn during the healing processes. This means you don’t have to wait a long time before finally having your permanent teeth. In most cases, the entire treatment can be carried out on the same day – from tooth extraction to placement of the implants to fitting of the first permanent teeth. | <urn:uuid:2304abf1-21d5-47e6-be6d-b902da556173> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://www.berliner-zahnarzt.de/en/services/tooth-replacement/all-on-four/ | 2020-07-12T21:52:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657140337.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20200712211314-20200713001314-00115.warc.gz | en | 0.933209 | 266 |
Guiping Yan and
First and second authors: Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6430; and second author: United State Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Wheat Genetics, Quality, Physiology, and Disease Research Unit, Pullman, WA 99164-6430.
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Accepted for publication 8 September 2007.
Sustainable control of plant diseases can be achieved by developing cultivars with durable resistance. ‘Bancroft’ barley has durable high-temperature, adult-plant (HTAP) resistance to stripe rust caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. hordei. The objectives of this study were to determine the inheritance of the HTAP resistance in Bancroft, develop molecular markers for the HTAP resistance using the resistance gene analog polymorphism (RGAP) technique, map the HTAP resistance quantitative trait locus or loci (QTL) on barley chromosomes, and determine the usefulness of the RGAP markers in other barley cultivars for marker-assisted selection. The parents and F4 recombinant inbred lines (RIL) and the parents and F5 RIL were evaluated in 2004 and 2005 in one and three field sites, respectively, in Washington State. Infection type (IT) and disease severity (DS) were recorded three times at each location during each growing season. Area under the disease progress curve (AUDPC) was calculated for each parent and RIL based on the DS data. Genetic analyses of IT data of the parents, F1, and F2 tested in the adult-plant stage under controlled high-temperature cycle in the greenhouse and the parents, F4, and F5 RIL in the field indicated that one dominant gene controlled the HTAP resistance in Bancroft. Using 119 F5:6 RIL and IT data, a linkage map on chromosome arm 3HL was constructed with eight RGAP markers and three simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. Using the QTL analysis, a QTL for HTAP resistance was mapped with the DS and AUDPC data on the same chromosome location as with the IT data. The QTL explained >70% of the total phenotypic variation for the DS and AUDPC. The heritability of the HTAP resistance based on the AUDPC data was 76%. The two markers most close to the QTL peak detected polymorphisms in 84 and 88% of 25 barley genotypes that do not have the Bancroft HTAP resistance when used individually, and detected polymorphism in 100% of the genotypes when used in combination, indicating that the markers could be used in incorporating the HTAP resistance into these barley genotypes to improve the level and durability of resistance to stripe rust.
Additional keywords:Hordeum vulgare.
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by French Press Agency – AFP
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced he will resign Tuesday, in what media reports said was an attempt to build a new government after weeks of political turmoil.
He called a cabinet meeting for 9 a.m. (8 a.m. GMT) when he “will inform the ministers of his desire to go to the Quirinale (President Sergio Mattarella’s office) to resign,” his office said.
Media reports suggest Conte will seek a mandate to form a new government to run Italy as it battles the coronavirus pandemic, which has left more than 85,000 people dead in the country and crippled the economy.
The ruling coalition has been teetering on the edge of collapse since former premier Matteo Renzi withdrew his small Italia Viva party on Jan.13.
Conte survived a parliamentary vote of confidence last week but failed to secure a majority in the Senate, the upper house, leaving his government severely weakened.
His resignation comes ahead of a key vote on judicial reforms later this week, which commentators suggest the government was on course to lose.
“Conte’s calculation is that by moving early, and thereby avoiding a humiliating defeat in the Senate later this week, he would increase his chances of securing a mandate from Mattarella to form a new government,” noted Wolfango Piccoli of the Teneo consultancy.
He will likely then seek to widen support beyond his coalition, currently comprising mainly of the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) and the center-left Democratic Party (PD).
“However, it is currently unclear whether Conte can succeed in such an effort,” Piccoli said.
He added that if he fails, the M5S and PD could “ditch Conte and look for another candidate” to head a new coalition government.
The ruling parties are keen to avoid snap elections, which opinion polls suggest would lead to victory for the center-right coalition comprising Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia and Matteo Salvini’s far-right League party.
Shortly before the resignation announcement, key figures in both M5S and the PD offered their support to a new Conte government.
“We remain at Conte’s side,” said a statement from M5S’s leaders in both parliamentary houses, Davide Crippa and Ettore Licheri.
“The transition to the so-called Conte ter (three) is now inevitable and is the only way out of this wicked crisis.”
Conte, a once-obscure law professor, has been at the helm of two governments of different political persuasions since he took office following elections in 2018.
The first was a fractious coalition between M5S and Salvini’s League, which ended when the latter pulled out in August 2019.
Conte went on to preside over another unlikely coalition between M5S and the PD, two former sworn enemies.
PD leader Nicola Zingaretti tweeted that he was “with Conte for a new government that is clearly pro-European and supported by a broad parliamentary base.”
Italy was the first European country to face the full force of the pandemic early in 2020 and remains one of the continent’s hardest-hit countries.
It has been allocated a large share of a 750-billion-euro ($910 billion) European Union rescue fund, but Conte’s 220-billion-euro spending plan was a trigger for the current turmoil.
For weeks, Renzi had criticized Conte for his leadership style and his handling of the pandemic.
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Cass County not requiring fair to file inspections paperworkWEST FARGO – Cass County has not maintained the oversight mandated by the state to ensure carnival rides at the Red River Valley Fair have been properly inspected.
By: Kyle Potter, Forum News Service, INFORUM, Forum News Service
WEST FARGO – Cass County has not maintained the oversight mandated by the state to ensure carnival rides at the Red River Valley Fair have been properly inspected.
Fair and county officials say there’s no reason to think any of the 45 mechanical rides at this year’s fair are unsafe – the company running the fair’s Ferris wheels, carousels and roller coasters inspects every ride before opening each day.
But state law also requires ride operators to file with the county an affidavit that each ride has adequate insurance and has been inspected by the insurance underwriter.
Until now, that final step has gone unnoticed.
“Nobody has ever asked us for those papers,” said Cathy Murphy of Murphy Brothers Exposition, now in its fifth year of running the Red River Valley Fair’s midway rides. Murphy said the company has all of that information ready and available.
Bryan Schulz, the fair’s general manager, said the fair’s board of directors has Murphy Brothers’ affidavit of insurance but not for its insurance inspection. Cass County has never dealt with that paperwork for any of the fair’s rides, said state’s attorney Birch Burdick.
Because the fair board is authorized by the county, it may be an adequate agency to oversee the carnival rides. But Burdick said if he were to “dot my i’s and cross my t’s,” he’d direct that information through the Cass County Commission.
Schulz said the question of oversight won’t disrupt this year’s fair but will need to be addressed after it concludes. The Red River Valley Fair opens today at 11 a.m. and runs through Sunday.
Murphy Brothers ride operators will comb over every fair ride each morning, doing a test run and checking “every bolt and pin,” said Gary Zaitshik, who oversees ride safety for the company. Their inspection sheet calls for a check on 14 different items, from the tightness of nuts and bolts to making sure there’s enough lubrication.
“Safety is our No. 1 priority. It’s non-negotiable,” Zaitshik said. He said that’s reflected in a good track record with few injuries and no major incidents over the years.
The Amusement Safety Organization, which tracks safety at carnivals throughout the nation, reported 11 safety incidents on Murphy Brothers rides from 2004 to 2011. Three children were treated for scrapes and bruises at the 2008 Tulsa State Fair after a lock came undone in a train ride, causing the car to tip over, according to a report from Fox23.com.
There’s a 1-in-24 million chance of being seriously injured on an amusement park ride in the United States, according to the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions, and a 1-in-
750 million chance of being killed.
While North Dakota requires inspections by a private company, other state governments – like in Murphy Brothers’ home state of Oklahoma – do their own investigations. Six states don’t regulate amusement rides at all: Alabama, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming.
Murphy Brothers also operates the rides at the North Dakota State Fair in Minot, where fair manager Renae Korslien said they bring in a third-party inspector for daily inspections. Murphy said that’s feasible for larger state fairs, but the cost makes it unrealistic at the Red River Valley Fair and other smaller fairs.
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Many forces act upon a bullet in flight, and as the distance of a shot increases, so too does the influence that these forces can have on a bullet's trajectory. Shooting at close range may not require the shooter to compensate much for these variables, but the further out a shot is taken, the more a rifleman must account for these effects on the projectile. Many will find that for shots made beyond point-blank range, a little computational assistance is appreciated-and for hits on targets at extreme range, can even become essential.
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Review by Darren Gawle
'New country' may be the music you love to hate, but face it -- it's good times music for brainless evenings down at the ol' watering hole. Steel Horse know this, and, believe it or not, Vol. 1 is a lot better than most other local independent product; certainly, it's miles ahead of bands like Nickelback or Scrubbengretchen, and a lot more fun.
The boys in Steel Horse don't leave a lot of room for misinterpretation. Our urban cowboy protagonist in "Tall Dark and Country" is just out to sip a few whiskeys, make love to the ladies and ramble on down the road in the morning. That's it. For God's sake, all you have to do is drink beer and dance to this stuff -- we're not talking about art here.
Maybe it's the penultimate difference between Canadians and Americans that Steel Horse don't come across like some lowest common denominator white trash schlock-fest, either. And no matter how much you hate this stuff, if you can get through this CD without your toes tapping at some point, check your pulse.
So I may not ever end up wanting to listen to this disc again; but at least the time I spent listening to it wasn't a total waste, and for small mercies I'll be thankful.
Artist Contact Info: 14429 - 105A Ave, #B, Surrey, B.C., V3R 1S2, Canada, firstname.lastname@example.org
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|The French centre with Prussians and Bavarians in the distance.|
|The Prussian artillery would potentially dominate the battlefield.|
|The French cavalry before it blundered off in the wrong direction!|
|Some fast moving Prussians beat me to the church.|
|The Bavarians took their time advancing on their objective but still proved to be a nuisance.|
|A lone French 4pdr covering my extreme right.|
|Chasseurs making heavy going of crossing the river.|
|The Prussian attack in the centre developed slowly and John's Jager in the wood to the left were driven off by some snappy chassepot fire.|
On the Prussian right Johns Artillery blunted an advance by my troops trying to cross the river and occupy the church and farmhouses. At this point there were only cavalry and artillery facing them on this flank so it seemed like a good idea. Tell that to my shaken and disordered Zouaves as their bodies floated down the river after being shelled by the Prussians! Things got worse when my cavalry blundered and failed to cross the river as well! All this farting about gave the Prussians time to push a battalion into the church and some jäger into the vineyards.
In the centre the Prussian attack was slow in coming and eventually fizzled out although some progress was made against Champagne Farm by the Bavarians and supporting Prussians. They failed to get in though, despite giving the defenders a battering in the run up to their assault. Sniping by my Chasseurs in the wood to their flank lessened their enthusiasm slightly, er.... lots. The Prussians did manage to kill one of my brigadiers, meaning that the entire centre and right was without a commander for a turn.
|The Prussian Uhlans were broken after failing ALL their saves.|
|The Bavarian assault on Champagne Farm.|
|My dragoons running away.|
Meanwhile my Chasseurs a Pied were making no progress against the enemy in the church but the
Zouaves and Turcos were moving up in support. However, both of our cavalry brigades were somewhat battered, the Prussian assault in the centre had stalled and no progress was being made by the Bavarians against Champagne Farm.
We called it a night at this point. The Prussians had done better than last week but had still failed to dislodge the French from their ‘position magnifique’. A minor French victory I think, but probably a short lived one.
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States are working to make educator evaluations more reflective of effective instruction, more attentive to student learning, more diagnostic and more informative for making human resources decisions. Changing familiar patterns presents challenges both for teachers and for those evaluating them, as performance expectations and roles shift. The Teacher and Leader Effectiveness & Standards and Assessment Community of Practice (TLE-SA CoP) assists States as they introduce new evaluation systems. This CoP urges States to engage with teachers, both to explain the systems and invite feedback for improving them.
Developing Data Dashboards and Scorecards to Improve Educator Evaluation Reporting and Management
The Reform Support Network (RSN) co-hosted a webinar on “Developing Data Dashboards and Scorecards to Improve Educator Evaluation Reporting and Management” on June 5, 2014, with the ESEA Flexibility team. The webinar presented information and resources that have been gathered through the RSN’s Quality Evaluation Rollout (QER) Work Group subgroup on Data Analytics. Data dashboards and scorecards can be effective tools for States and districts to report on key educator evaluation metrics and regularly manage the new systems. During the webinar, States reviewed the key features of data dashboards and scorecards and how to build and use them to manage educator evaluation systems. States also heard lessons learned from representatives of Delaware and New Jersey as they begin implementing these tools. You may access materials from the webinar on the Quality Evaluation Rollout Work Group Webpage. An archived recording of the webinar can be accessed here.
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This publication shares lessons learned and promising practices based on State and school district experiences with teacher compensation reform. In spring 2013, the Tennessee State Board of Education passed a new policy requiring the Tennessee Department of Education to help school districts design new teacher compensation systems, many of which will take effect in school year 2014-2015. To assist Tennessee in its support of local districts transitioning to differentiated pay plans for teachers, the Reform Support Network organized a virtual peer feedback session in June 2013. This report summarizes the advice from experts to Tennessee on topics such as engaging stakeholders, creating bold pay models, developing training sessions and collecting and acting on feedback. The report broadens the Tennessee-specific feedback to make it relevant to States and districts working to better align compensation systems with performance.
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Educator Evaluation Communications Toolkit
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Educator Evaluation: Reaching and Engaging the Most Critical Stakeholders
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Rev. Murray’sRev. W. John Murray
ANSWERS TO STUDY QUESTIONS
The Murray Course in Divine Science
Society of the Healing Christ
New York, 1927.
1. Life is the animating Principle of the Universe, the sustaining power of Being proceeding from the Creator.
2. God is the Source of all Life.
3. Religion is the consciousness of God within the soul and its function is to bind together man and his Maker.
4. Health is wholeness, soundness; the perfect manifestation of Life and the perfect functioning of the physical.
5. Man is spirit and is an emanation from the one and only Spirit. Therefore man is spiritual and not material.
6. Mind is the functioning or distributing power of the soul. It is the master of the body and the source of creative power through thought. It is the mind that apperceives, and nothing exists for us except as apprehended by the mind.
7. We have the power through the mind and the will, directed by the soul, to accomplish or to be whatever we desire.
1. We do our thinking with the mind through the brain.
2. The brain is not the source of thought but the instrument of the mind.
3. The difference between man and all other creatures of the earth lies largely in the fact that man’s mind alone has the power of word-making, and that man alone expresses thought in articulare speech.
4. The theory of man’s ascent through all forms and species of animal life is unprovable because of the law confining each species to its own sphere, but particularly because Man has the Logos, or the Word.
5. Because the brain is but the instrument of the mind. Confusion of terms frequently produces the impression of brain power when mind power is meant.
6. The influence of the mind upon the body is powerful enough to cause even death, or to suspend pain that amounts to agony. Mental influence cures “hopeless” paralytics and makes giants of weaklings.
7. We can be sickly or well, strong or weak, prosperous or otherwise, according to the direction given to Thought by the mind, which always dominates matter.
8. When it is ordered by the mind acting under the direction of the soul. Whenever mind diverts thought from the soul’s purposes it becomes destructive.
9. It is within the power of each of us to use the mind so as to produce the best results possible for the realization of our desires and ambitions. The comprehension of the immense powers of mind, operating under the direction of the soul, which in turn is under the influence of Spirit, enables us to bring about the conditions we desire, providing we desire with intensity.
1. The discovery of the nature and functions of the subjective mind has revealed the power man has over his body and his activities through mental suggestion to the subconscious.
2. The objective mind is the mind that sees, thinks, reasons, wills and determines from facts placed before it. The subconscious or subjective mind does not reason but acts entirely on suggestion and is capable of marvelous performances under that power. All habits are formed by the subconscious mind, which is at work incessantly carrying out the orders of the objective mind.
3. “As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.” This truth is confirmed by a knowledge of the methods of mind operation, for all that we do and all that we are proceeds from mind, and happiness or unhappiness, peace or disorder; health or ill-health, are all results of mental states.
4. The necessity of coming to an apprehension of the truth on this subject and of putting our mental house in order are preliminaries towards beginning the work of recovery or achievement.
5. Constructive or destructive processes are determined by positive or negative thoughts and the conflict between them produces only confusion, disorder and disease, while the intelligent choice of thought produces the results we want.
6. This Lesson is a disclosure of the powers of the objective and subjective minds and a revelation of the fact that by right use of them we have the accomplishment of our dearest ambitions entirely in our own hands.
1. Health and success are combined because one is the result of the other. With renewed health comes renewed mental activity.
2. You must be convinced of the fact that your healing lies within your own hands and make up your mind to do all that will be required of you to recover or achieve it.
3. Positive thoughts bring good results, negative thoughts bring evil results. To effect a change of thinking one must put one’s house in order and determine what results we wish to secure.
4. The mind is comparable to a garden and if it is overrun with weeds we must treat it as we would a garden plot similarly afflicted. The offensive weeds must be removed and the ground spaded over and replanted. We must then watch the new growths carefully and keep them free from mental pests and insects.
5. A list of positive and negative thoughts helps us to know what we have to cast out and that with which we must replace. The old thought can be made the basis of implanting the new. Here we have a chapter on practical work that we should often read and think over, as it is filled with suggestions based on experience in thousands of instances.
6. How to start well in the morning, how to make work a joy and gladness during the day and how to see what is best in your neighbor. How to spend the evening and how to acquire time for reflection and solitude, the planting and cultivating period. How to charge the subjective mind with constructive thought on retiring, the best time to instruct the subconscious mind.
7. The value of denials and affirmations and how to use both in the treatment of disease and failure, and for health and prosperity. Following this practice produces results, for it is a law.
1. This Lesson contains briefly the teachings of Divine Science as contrasted with the teachings of the Christian Churches of various denominations, and in conformity with the teachings of Jesus.
2. The God that we have been taught to believe in is an angry and wrathful Man-God, dwelling in the skies in a far-off heaven, with surroundings pictured by the Oriental mind of the Jewish people.
3. This is not the God that Jesus taught about, who dwells within us and who is at all times accessible to us through out consciousness.
4. The works that Jesus did we can do, for he passed the power on to us as power obtained through him with God, who “doeth the work.”
5. The age of miracles has not passed but is existing now as “miracles” of healing are wrought through the Christ consciousness in man.
6. It is necessary in order to contact with the source of Mind to use spiritual healing instead of mental healing. The mind is a part of the Universal mind and the Universal power can be attained to co-operate with, direct and guide it.
7. It is possible to all of us to add to our own powers those of Omnipotence through spiritual union and by understanding of the laws under which the Spirit operates.
1. God, the source of life, is the source of health. He is the fountain of health.
2. God is apprehended more through feeling than through the mind. St. Paul’s address to the Greeks is quoted as revealing this truth and disclosing the Apostle’s knowledge of God as immanent, indwelling, Principle in all of us.
3. God is not Person but Principle. As Person He could not be omnipresent. As Principle He is the active power in and through all things.
4. The Universe is God’s thought expressed by the Word of Creation and externalized in form. It is the Idea in the Divine Mind pressed out into visibility.
5. Principle is best defined by illustrations from mathematics, music and goodness. Spiritual or metaphysical truths must be expressed in terms of human relations, and much confusion of thought results because of lack of proper words to express ideas relating to the spiritual plane. The conception of God as Father is the one generally adopted, although God is really Father-Mother.
6. An understanding of God as the source of creative energy and the Co-operator with us in expression is the proper way to view the subconscious mind.
7. No description of God is as convincing as God’s witnessing of Himself to the individual soul that seeks Him. It is in the depths of our own being that God makes Himself manifest. To attempt to define God is to lose Him.
1. The Scriptural summary of Jesus’ life is: God annointed him with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.” (Acts 10:38, R.V.)
2. He began his ministry by healing and working wonders. His powers came from identity with Spirit. He spake as never man spake before because he was teaching the Divine Science to mankind.
3. Yes, as man is divine, or can become divine. Jesus developed within himself the divinity which is in all of us, and developed it to the highest point, to identity with God. In Jesus God is manifested as He is and as man ought to be.
4. To teach mankind the nature and obligations of Divine Sonship. To show us that what he did we could also do and that what he was we could be. To restore to man his spiritual inheritance.
5. It is of the highest importance that we realize Jesus as man, even as ourselves; otherwise we lose the point of his teaching. What he asked of us was perfection, and his life was an example of a perfection to which we may attain.
6. It is to permeate the world. It is certain of world adoption, not by old methods, but by world penetration. It will reconstruct civilization, revolutionize educational systems and clear the way to every man for his spiritual emancipation.
7. Jesus was not the victim of hallucinations or a visionary. His sanity is attested in all his words, his actions and his philosophy. To say otherwise is to attribute the highest thought of which man is capable to the possessor of a deranged mind, which, logically, is a fallacy.
1. See Scriptural quotation at end of first paragraph of this Lesson (VIII).
2. The healings of Jesus were not miracles in the sense that they were a suspension of Nature’s laws, but were the result of the application of the knowledge that Jesus had as the Christ in his union with the Father, God. “The words I speak are not of myself”; he said, “it is the Father who dwelleth in me. He doeth the works.” “It is the Father. He doeth the works.”
3. The churches threw away the key to this control through the Christ consciousness of the higher laws which Jesus gave us access to. A recognition of the fact that they were effected through spiritual means in union with the Father recaptures the Truth in the teachings of Jesus.
4. The spiritual means are faith, purity of life and a development of spiritual powers within us not exercised by us. Jesus gave us his word that “the works that I do ye shall do, and even greater than these shall ye do.”
5. Jesus healed people not only of their diseases but of their sins. To “save” means to heal. This is what is meant when it is said that Jesus came to save us from our sins. We have power through the Christ consciousness to heal ourselves and to heal others. It is not too much to say that we should regard Jesus as the Healer rather than as the Saviour.
6. The belief that sickness or disease is sent by God as a punishment for our sins, or as a discipline for our souls, is totally erroneous, since sickness and disease do not come from God but from ourselves. Jesus, in healing disease, would not set aside the operation of the will of God or of his discipline.
7. The promises of Jesus are of as much force and importance today as they ever were and can be relied on to the uttermost, since he declared that his word should never pass away.
1. Final analysis of what we call “matter” reduces it to the atom and in more minute reductions we come to pure force or energy, the manifestation of Spirit.
2. The word that we should use for “matter” is form, shape or appearance. As for instance: “That appearance which we call matter.” All forms are visible to us through the optic nerves telegraphing to the mind’s eye, which is our real visual power.
3. Intuition, presentiments of things happening or about to happen, foreseeing and foreknowing, telepathy, visions of things happening at a distance, revelation through apparitions and the power of projecting itself beyond the physical plane and time and space as we know them.
4. The soul is the ego, or man; the individual. The body is its visible manifestation created so as to give it visibility. The soul has the creative power of Spirit and makes the body for itself here as it will make a form for itself hereafter.
5. The soul is the man; the body the physical appearance; the spirit the divinity within man. Soul and mind are interconvertible terms meaning the same thing. Spirit is God and our spirit is God manifesting Himself in us.
6. By the violent and lawless operation of the soul in turning away from the direction of Spirit and following the carnal impulses of the senses. By failure to realize Truth, the “Truth that sets us free.” To follow Truth is to live in the kingdom of heaven, and it is this we pray for when we say: “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”
1. Faith is implicit belief. It is the indestructible confidence in a power that is higher than ourselves, a Power that directs our affairs, comforts us and protects us. St. Paul’s definition of faith is “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
2. Because it proceeds from the heart, and God, knowing the heart in all its movements, rewards it. Because it is faith in the unseen. By faith we call into existence our strongest forces and the greater our faith the more do we intensify them.
3. The essence of faith is to believe that the thing we desire and ask for is the thing we have already received. It is in existence, and our belief in its being, combined with fervent prayer, brings it into objective reality.
4. By holding in mind a picture of what we pray for, and by the prayer of a living faith, we are certain of an answer to our desires. Generally what we want is at our hand if we could open our eyes to see it, and prayer, inspired by faith, opens the eyes.
5. Faith is a most intense form of mental action, a union of the intellectual and the emotional. It is a means of unifying all our powers. It was what Jesus required, above all, from those whom he healed, and the quality that he set forth as a basis of power.
6. Conscious faith, because it is a union of heart, soul and intellect–all that we have–in a confession of unquestioning loyalty to the Father of all.
1. The importance of this Lesson lies in the opening of the mind to the meaning and power of the spoken word.
2. All the messages of God to men have been expressed in words by a Voice speaking and the term “Word” has a mystic significance as the instrument of the Creator in uttering thought into form.
3. Christ is the “Word,” St. John declares, by which all things were made, who was with God in the beginning, and who was God, “and without him nothing was made.”
4. The capacity of man to share creative power with the Creator is manifest in his sole power, with God, to create by the expression of the word.
5. That we are to be held accountable for every idle word is a declaration to be taken with the utmost seriousness, for not only does our brain mechanism record words and our subsconscious mind retain them, but it would seem as if the very ether held them forever–that they are imperishable.
6. The word we most frequently use is the name of God as given to Moses: ‘I AM.” I-Am is especially a word of power in creating conditions of existence.
7. The value of the word of affirmation is that consciously spoken in appreciation of Divine co-operation we can bring about all the conditions that are necessary to our happiness and welfare.
8. Affirmative declarations for the morning, the day and the night consecrate the thoughts that we hold and the works that we do.
9. We cannot be too careful in the use of our words, for our accountability for them is a positive declaration of the Lord Christ.
1. The old method of prayer, by recitation of set forms of prayer, conflicts with the true conception of prayer, because of its “vain repetitions” and “much speaking.”
2. Prayer is an opening of the mind upward to receive what God is willing to give. It is a natural instinct of the soul and it is a part of the Divine plan that we should find relief in it.
3. The true form of prayer is Contemplation, in which we meditate upon what we are, upon the Omnipresence and Omnipotence of God, on what we need to aspire to, and upon God’s promises to those who seek Him in this manner.
4. We can be certain of God’s co-operation because, after adopting the practice of meditation, we discover the entrance into our lives and affairs of many new things and we gain a new consciousness for ourselves.
5. The practice of silent prayer, or meditation, brings a new state of mind because it involves the elimination of carnal thoughts and conceptions and the adoption of Truth in the form in which it is most adaptable to our disposition and which will bring us the largest rewards.
6. To physical exercises or athletic training. Our long-used spiritual faculties respond to meditation on Truth in just the same manner that the muscles and sinews of the body respond to physical exercise.
7. That too much emphasis is laid on that power so far as Meditation is concerned. Concentration may be developed in the Silence, but we are not to refrain from taking up the practice of the Silence because of a belief that we cannot concentrate.
8. It is a test of the spiritually-minded and to adopt this method of prayer is to enter upon the Way.
1. The word “consciousness.”
2. Fear consciousness, poverty consciousness, disease consciousness, etc.
3. A war consciousness, a spirit consciousness, a political consciousness, etc., the state of mind that constitutes what we know as “public opinion” is a public consciousness of certain important facts.
4. This is a personal matter to be best answered by the student himself.
5. This is to briefly review the points enumerated in the Lesson.
6. No, we can reach the heights only through the union of our mind with the Divine Mind. The more perfect the will in that direction the more close the union is likely to be.
7. It is that all of life that I have lived so far culminates at this moment. The past is dead and the future is determined now. I am now in the Way to begin.
The Murray Course in Divine Science
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To all the people who’ve taken the time to read or share my posts over the past year, thank you.
Your feedback, positive and constructive, has been invaluable to my personal development. The simple fact of knowing that you’re there, even if you don’t announce your presence, is meaningful beyond what words can express.
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Here we have the very first watch I ever purchased for my own use: a 1995 Fossil Felix the Cat timepiece.
I discovered Fossil watches one morning by perusing the inserts which are dispensed with the Sunday paper. An advertisement featuring this and another watch by Fossil intrigued me enough to make a run over to the Emporium.
Felix cost seventy-five dollars (a lot of money for a teenager in 1995) but I steeled myself for the purchase knowing that this was a limited edition timepiece and it would certainly appreciate in value. The watch came with a Felix the Cat lapel pin too.
Of course the Felix did not appreciate the way a Rolex might, but I’ve still held him dear to my heart.
Felix wasn’t quite as bullet proof as a Rolex either. The watch glass cracked in 1999 and began to splinter a year or so later which resulted in him being confined to my junk box. When I married my sweetheart he moved up to the jewelry box, but there he stayed for many years.
My youngest daughter rediscovered Felix this month and brought him to me for repair. Until now I’ve had a hard time justifying a repair since I have my Navitimer, but at the same time I’m not ready to part with Felix just yet, so I heeded her request and set to work.
Now, I normally would do a proper repair service involving disassembly and cleaning of the movement, but as I stated earlier, this watch isn’t going to get used anytime soon and since I broke the stem right off the bat, it just felt best to let those sleeping dogs lie.
Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of the piece in situ so the first pic here is of the movement removed from the case.
As you can see the watch case is watertight with a snap-on caseback. The rubber caseback gasket has broken in two and will need replacing in addition to the shattered crystal. The stem has broken off just below the crown.
The dial is pristine as one would hope from a (relatively) new watch; I do like the hands on this piece too.
The crystal is set into a brass bezel which is pressed into the steel case.
I used a crystal press to remove the glass from the bezel.
A replacement watch crystal came from Esslinger and was pressed in using the same crystal gasket as before. I put a new brushed finish on the dinged-up bezel using my lathe and a bit of fine sandpaper.
I used a stem extender to refit the crown to the broken stem.
The movement was re-cased and the stem fitted before replacement of the caseback. The movement is quartz and wholly unimpressive when matched against the recently completed Accutron. It does have one jewel though. The jewel and other bearings still held a healthy amount of watch oil.
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Poster Display Boards
koning at ECSUC.CTSTATEU.EDU
Fri Oct 22 09:50:44 EST 1999
At 8:28 AM -0500 10/22/99, Terry R. Conley wrote:
>Good morning Plant-Ed.
>We find ourselves in the position of having to buy 4 ft x4 ft display
>boards for posters for an upcoming meeting. I'm not certain what sort
>of material would be best to purchase, and a stroll through the local
>builder's supply didn't turn up much. Can anyone recommend a suitable
>material--it should take push pins readily, be sturdy and reusable, and
>(hopefully) not terribly expensive. Thanks!
>Dr. Terry R. Conley
>Department of Biology
>Oklahoma City University
>2501 N. Blackwelder
>Oklahoma City, OK 73106-1493
>(405) 521-5468 (Fax)
>tconley at okcu.edu
The best stuff is called "homosote" and is a gray
fibrous board that comes in various thicknesses
and l/w dimensions. You can get/order it at any
lumber yard. You need it sturdy enough to stay
where you want it. It is indeed quite expensive IMHO.
Your plant staff would need to figure out how to
display it...maybe two sheets back to back with
duct tape at the top and bottom to make an A-frame?
The cheaper way to go is to drop into Staples (etc.) and
pick up their tri-fold poster board (simple corrugated
board but nice looking...white surface). All you need
is to supply some banquet tables to stand them on.
They are good for a few uses before you put them in
the recycle bin.
Our problem is that we do a conference about once a
decade and we just don't have storage space for homosote...
so I am pretty sure we will be using the cardboard ones
for our spring conference this year...besides the tables
offer a place to park handouts, demonstrations, equipment,
etc. in front of the poster. AND some of our presenters
want to have a place for their laptop as part of their
poster...the tables allow that too.
Ross Koning | koning at ecsu.ctstateu.edu
Biology Department | http://koning.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/
Eastern CT State University | phone: 860-465-5327
Willimantic, CT 06226 USA | fax: 860-465-4479
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Diocese of Macedonia
|Diocese of Macedonia|
|Diocese of the Roman Empire|
|Historical era||Late Antiquity|
|•||Reforms of Diocletian||306|
|•||Thessaloniki became the Prefecture's new capital city||379|
|•||Slavic invasion of the Balkans||7th century|
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The Diocese of Macedonia (Latin: Dioecesis Macedoniae, Greek: Διοίκησις Μακεδονίας) was a diocese of the later Roman Empire, forming part of the praetorian prefecture of Illyricum. Its administrative centre was Thessaloniki.
The diocese was formed, probably under Constantine I (r. 306–337), from the division of the Diocletianic Diocese of Moesia. It included the provinces of Macedonia Prima, Macedonia Secunda or Salutaris (periodically abolished), Thessalia, Epirus vetus, Epirus nova, Achaea, and Crete. Alongside Dacia and, until 379, Pannonia, it made up the Prefecture of Illyricum. In 379, Pannonia was detached and merged into the Praetorian prefecture of Italy and Thessaloniki became the Prefecture's new capital city instead of Sirmium.
- Notitia dignitatum, Pars Orientalis, III
- Joseph Roisman, Ian Worthington, A Companion to Ancient Macedonia,
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Immigration Medical Exam in West Covina, CA
SmartClinic Urgent Care Clinic Provides a USCIS Civil Surgeon Doctor who Conducts I-693 Immigration Physicals in West Covina, CA
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Immigration physicals are an important part of becoming US citizens. The number of physicians that are certified to perform these screening physical examinations is limited.
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c) Shout, oy, numpty look where you're going!
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Jupiter is the largest of all the true planets and is known as the planet of growth and optimism. Lucky Jupiter is also associated with wealth and good fortune. As the planet of abundance, it is concerned with the higher mind, philosophy, truth, and religion. Jupiter is focused on big-picture matters and gives us a larger lens through which we can experience the world. So, when this overarching planet finds itself in a detail-oriented sign like Virgo, things can get a little frustrating.
Jupiter continuously encourages us to zoom out and get a broad view, and Virgo wants to get up close with a magnifying glass and analyze each individual feature. These two energies tend to butt heads, so when the planet of expansion finds itself in the sign of precision, we may feel constrained and internally torn. Jupiter is considered to be in its detriment in Virgo, but both influencers are compassionate and hard-working. If we can embrace the spirit of service and psychology, we’ll find ourselves being more emotionally efficient than ever before.
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When Jupiter is in Virgo
Jupiter likes to make a lot of noise, while Virgo prefers being humble. Because of this, you can expect Jupiter in Virgo to be a time when we all pay extra attention to doing our jobs and doing what’s right without worrying so much about gaining anyone else’s approval. Faith is a Jupiterian quality, but faith will center around what is most practical when Jupiter is in Virgo. Productivity and efficiency will be areas we can certainly expand on during this transit.
When technically-oriented Virgo finds itself in the planet of abundance, it’s a chance for us to hone our craft! Virgo is a diligent sign that craves details, and Jupiter increases our sharpness and optimism around the work we’re doing. During this transit, we’ll have a greater understanding of how things function, along with the ability to apply it to the overall concept.
Unfortunately, learning to focus while Jupiter is in Virgo will be harder than it sounds. We might find ourselves being pulled in different directions when it comes to deciding on how to achieve our goals. Jupiter will urge us to keep our eye on the ultimate goal and press towards the end result. Virgo shakes its head at that method, because it feels obligated to make each step of the process perfect. If we can’t learn to find a harmonious balance, we may not get anything done.
Jupiter and Virgo both have lofty standards. They appreciate high-mindedness and intelligence, so much so that when pushed together, they can be a little judgmental. This is a time for us to raise the bar in our own lives, but we’ll also have to be acutely aware of the way that we absorb and address others. Life is more fun when we color outside the lines at times! Remembering to enjoy our social settings and relax a little will benefit us greatly during this transit.
Jupiter Retrograde in Virgo
Outgoing and optimistic Jupiter takes a step back from its extroverted lifestyle when it turns retrograde. Normally, Jupiter encourages us to be energized, idealistic, and forward-thinking, but when this giant planet turns retrograde, we’re forced to pause and reflect. This is a chance for some serious introspection. If we’re able to take the time and embrace Jupiter Retrograde, the work we put in will pay off greatly.
During Jupiter’s retrograde through Virgo, the Virgin, we turn our attention to our service and what we’ve done to help those around us. Are we doing our part for humanity? Are we putting in the amount of time and effort the world deserves? Are we serving others because it’s the right thing to do, or because it makes us feel good about ourselves? Doing good deeds for others will in turn make us feel fulfilled and happy, so asking these questions, as tough as they may be, is important for our own lives and the lives we impact.
If you were born with Jupiter in Virgo
Mother may I! Those born with their Jupiter in Virgo may be known as the nurturing caregiver of the group. You’re a busy bee who finds genuine joy in taking care of others. While many of your loved ones appreciate your helpful hand, it’s not just a favor to them -- it’s also a gift for yourself! You’re a natural-born hard-worker who needs to keep moving to stay balanced.
With Jupiter’s need for growth and Virgo’s desire for details continuously playing in your mind, you feel best when you are mentally productive. Whether it’s in your day-to-day work or by having intellectual conversations, you need some kind of stimulant to keep you occupied. This can be both beneficial and exhausting for you and the people in your life.
You’re incredibly smart and driven, always working to be the best within your own field. It’s not about the competition; rather, it’s that you feel you owe it to the world give one hundred percent. You have faith -- maybe spiritual, maybe not -- that reminds you what goes around comes around. This is the source of your energy to serve and work diligently.
While you hold a place in your heart for each person you encounter, you may not always be willing to forgive their inane nature. You hold yourself to a high standard of perfection, and it’s not easy to understand why others can’t do the same. There may be a lot of judgment coming from you at times. Do your best to open your mind and let things go. You’ll be much happier if you adopt a more carefree attitude, especially in your relationships with others.
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A side surface of a pyramid can be cut into many equilateral triangles, whose vertices can be grouped into different levels from top to bottom, such that the first level contains one vertex, the second level contains two, and so on.
As the image shows, for example, two adjacent level-k vertices with a level-(k − 1) vertex can form an upright equilateral triangle, and two adjacent level-k vertices with a level-(k + 1) vertex can form an inverted equilateral triangle as well. Also, three vertices at three different levels can form an equilateral triangle, which may be oblique.
If we only consider vertices between level l and level r (inclusive), in how many ways can we choose three equidistant vertices so that they can form an equilateral triangle?
The input contains several test cases. The first line contains an integer T indicating the number of test cases. The following describes all test cases. For each test case:
The only line contains two integers l and r.
For each test case, output a line containing “Case #x: y” (without quotes), where x is the test case number starting from 1, and y is the answer to this test case.
3 1 3 2 4 3 5
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I do things based on what feels right. It’s difficult to explain, but I’m very good at determining how people are feeling based on a feeling inside of me. Another thing that has always been a part of who I am are my dreams. I’ve always had a knack for dreams coming true, having the … Continue reading Perks of being Highly Sensitive
You spend your days acting in a questionable manner, Feeling your thoughts drown in the depths of your mind. Everyone around you knows you are acting strangely, But you pretend and persuade that all is fine. The void you feel in your heart weighs heavily, Making you feel guilty about your mysteries this coming night. … Continue reading Deep Sea Diver
Since I'm going to write this book as a memoir, I have to find a way begin again. Scrapping my previous pages wasn't as heartbreaking as I thought it would be, and I think that's because I knew the story wasn't as powerful as it could be. Here is a very rough draft of a … Continue reading Very Rough Start of My Book
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I haven't gone to church in years. I used to be Catholic and had to go to mass every week or multiple times a week. I have nothing against people who go to church or who are religious, I just personally don't go anymore. However, just last week my friend got married and had a … Continue reading A women’s duty…???
Well I did it. I attempted to try on my wedding dress. Let's just say that last night was not my ideal night. For starters, I was told to try on my bridesmaid's dress that I had purchased for a friend's wedding next weekend. The other bridesmaids said that when they tried on the dress … Continue reading How do people do it??
Some days you get into a strange stage of remembrance. They can be happy thoughts of nostalgia or thoughts that haunt you from the past. Whichever you are feeling that day, know that the confusion won't last. I'm sure we can all relate when we look at pictures from the past. A flood of emotions … Continue reading Time
Am I a weak person or am I simply human? I can't decide whether to laugh or cry. Dry those eyes and leave certain memories behind. Why is it so difficult to let go of the past? Why is it a strangulation on myself to leave behind all the rest? Am I really a weak person … Continue reading Am I weak?
Tears cascade directly down her cheek, but her instincts tell her, "Do not speak." They watch and judge as you walk by, but hold your head high and voice your battle cry. Stand tall and strong to hide the pain. The darkness is only something you can feign. Feel the depth of your despair, as … Continue reading It is everywhere… | <urn:uuid:8a1f5785-2acf-479c-bdcb-03de4324f7d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://girlwiththepawprinttattoo.wordpress.com/tag/emotions/ | 2022-07-04T22:05:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104496688.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220704202455-20220704232455-00388.warc.gz | en | 0.976441 | 597 |
Travel Liability Waiver and Hold Harmless Agreement
The Point Retreats & Bounce Travels
Liability Waiver and Hold Harmless Agreement
Please read this carefully, sign it, and return to the address below. Completion of this form is required to participate in this travel adventure.
By participating in the travel adventure through Innovations in Resilience, LLC, d/b/a Bounce Travels (hereinafter “Bounce Travels”) and The Point, LLC (hereinafter “The Point”) you affirm that you and your trip companions fully understand and agree to the following Liability Waiver and Hold Harmless Agreement Terms and Conditions. This Liability Waiver and Hold Harmless Agreement (the “Agreement”) is entered into by and between The Point, LLC and Bounce Travels, and the person who has affixed his/her/their signature below (hereinafter “I” the “Participant”). I acknowledge, attest, agree and represent as follows:
- I am at least 18 years of age.
- I understand that my safety is my responsibility.
- I understand and agree that the loss, theft, or destruction of my belongings is my sole responsibility.
- I fully understand and accept, without limitation, sole responsibility for all of the risks associated with my participation while traveling, including injury and death whether through my own actions or those of other participants, travel guides, pedestrians, restaurant patrons, automobiles, public transportation, acts of nature or any other external parties.
- I understand and agree that the safety, wellbeing, and supervision of minors under the age of 18 accompanying myself or my party are my sole responsibility.
- I agree not to consume alcohol during the trip if I am under 21 years of age or do not have valid government issued identification in my possession during the trip.
- I understand that I will be consuming food and beverages on this trip and I accept sole responsibility for all risks associated with my participation including food sickness, allergic reaction, and death. I am free to choose which foods, if any, I consume.
- If while on the trip I begin to feel faint or nauseous, I will notify the trip guide and seek medical attention if necessary. I understand that my safety is my sole responsibility.
- The Participant acknowledges that Bounce Travels and The Point assume no duty or responsibility for the management or treatment of his/her/their medical issues or concerns, including the duty to make diagnoses. For diagnosis, management, and treatment, the Participant relies solely on his/her/their medical doctor(s).
- I understand and agree that the trip leader reserves the right to disqualify anyone at any time during the trip if he or she feels the trip participant is incapable and/or if a trip member’s continued participation will jeopardize the individual involved or the group. Refunds are not given under such circumstances. Further, Bounce Travels and The Point bear no responsibility for coordinating or financing alternative travel expenses, should such a situation arise.- I agree that Bounce Travels and The Point are not liable for delays or cancellation resulting from acts of fire, natural disaster, strikes, civil disturbance or pandemic.
- Risks and dangers may arise from the Activities from foreseeable or unforeseeable causes, including but not limited to: human errors in judgment, health conditions, terrain, weather, water conditions, route locations, misuse of equipment, animals, and/or fire.
- With full knowledge of the inherent risks in the Activities, the Participant assumes all risk and responsibility surrounding his/her/their participation in the Activities.
- I agree to grant to Bounce Travels and The Point an irrevocable, sub-licensable, non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free right to use my photographic, video and digital likeness as well as any content submitted via website(s) or electronic mail, solely for our promotional and/or commercial purposes without further obligation or compensation.
- The Participant permits the use of any photos, films, or sketches of himself/herself/themselves taken during or related to the Activities for publicity, advertising, promotion or other commercial purpose. The Participant permits use of his/her/their email for correspondence from The Point and Bounce Travels.
- The Participant is financially responsible for any damage done to The Point, Bounce Travels or another entity’s equipment and/or property utilized by the participant throughout the duration of this event.
I waive liability and release Bounce Travels and The Point, its affiliates, owners, vendors, operators, agents and employees from any and all actions, suits, claims, controversies, damages, judgments and executions whatsoever, in law or in equity, direct or indirect, known or unknown, foreseeable or unforeseeable, which I may have or acquire, arising from, concerning or related to entry in, travel to or from and/or participation in Bounce Travels or The Point events.This Participant Waiver & Release of Liability and subsequent Terms & Conditions shall be construed in accordance with, and its validity and effect (including any claims for breach of any of the terms thereof) shall be governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota, and this Participant Waiver and Release of Liability and subsequent Terms and Conditions contains the entire understanding and the agreement of the parties hereto and supersedes all other written and oral exchanges, arrangements or negotiations among them, whether written or oral, concerning the subject matter hereof.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Participant shall release, hold harmless, and indemnify The Point and Bounce Travels and its owners, members, officers, directors, staff, guides, representatives, employees and agents, all owners of property on which the Activities take place, and all parties who provide goods or services in connection with the Activities, from and against all present or future claims, losses, expenses or liabilities in any jurisdiction for injuries to person or property which the Participant may suffer, or for which the Participant may be liable to any other person, related to his/her/their participation in the Activities resulting from the acts, omissions, or negligence of Bounce Travels and The Point or any other person or entity.
Any dispute related in any way to your use of company website or participation on a trip through The Point and Bounce Travels shall be submitted to confidential arbitration in Minneapolis, Minnesota and governed by the laws in the State of Minnesota. Arbitration under this agreement shall be conducted under the rules then prevailing of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitrator’s award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Bounce Travels and The Point hereby expressly disclaims any liability for any personal injury, property damage, accident, delay or irregularity, and any claim for special or consequential damages, or any other loss which may be occasioned by the acts and/or omissions, whether negligent, intentional, wrongful or otherwise, of any entity or individual not under the direct supervision and control of Bounce Travels, The Point, Corey Martin, Christa Rymal, or any other agents or organizers of Bounce Travels.
Participants are required to follow company requested guidelines relating to COVID-19 while participating in the Retreat, including but not limited to vaccinations, virus testing, or wearing of masks. Participant assumes any risk of contracting COVID-19 or similar viral strains, illness, or disease (collectively “Viruses”) while participating in the Retreat. Participant releases The Point and Bounce Travels from any claims of liability or for damages relating to or resulting from Viruses. I acknowledge that there is an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 in any public place where people are present. By attending the Experience, I voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19.
COVID 19: Due to the 2019-2020 outbreak of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), the Company is taking extra precautions with the care of every client to include health history review and enhanced sanitation/disinfecting procedures in compliance with CDC guidance. I warrant and represent that neither I nor any of my household members: currently have, or within the last 14 days have experienced, any of the symptoms listed above; have been diagnosed with COVID-19 within the past 30 days; to my knowledge have been exposed to anyone diagnosed with COVID-19 or with any of the above symptoms within the past 30 days; or have traveled outside of the country or to any location considered to be a “hot spot” for COVID-19 infections within the past 30-days.
*Symptoms of COVID-19 include Fever, Fatigue, Dry Cough or Difficulty Breathing
I have read and agree to all the above conditions.
The Participant has been advised of the Participant’s right to consult with an attorney of their choosing in regard to this general liability waiver and hold harmless agreement.
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No oral or written representations can or will modify the contents of this Agreement.
BY SIGNING THIS WAIVER AND RELEASE OF LIABILITY, I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I HAVE READ THIS AND FULLY UNDERSTAND ITS TERMS, INCLUDING BEING ADVISED I SHOULD OBTAIN INDEPENDENT LEGAL ADVICE IF I HAVE QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS, AND HAVE SIGNED IT FREELY AND VOLUNTARILY WITHOUT ANY INDUCEMENT, | <urn:uuid:9d7ac5bb-5959-4d29-94e9-f2b350ef5f6f> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://thepointretreats.com/travel-liability-waiver-and-hold-harmless-agreement/ | 2022-09-26T18:06:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334915.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20220926175816-20220926205816-00740.warc.gz | en | 0.916315 | 1,979 |
India’s top judge is facing calls to resign after asking an accused rapist whether he would marry his schoolgirl victim to avoid jail.
Chief Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde told an accused rapist at a hearing: “If you want to marry (her), we can help you. If not, you lose your job and go to jail.”
Bobde’s comments sparked a furore and prompted women’s rights activists to circulate an open letter calling for his resignation, which has secured more than 5,200 signatures, campaigner Vani Subramanian said on Wednesday.
According to the letter, the man is accused of stalking, tying up, gagging and repeatedly raping the girl four years ago before threatening to douse her in petrol, set her alight and have her brother killed.
“By suggesting that this rapist marry the victim-survivor, you, the Chief Justice of India, sought to condemn the victim-survivor to a lifetime of rape at the hands of the tormentor who drove her to attempt suicide,” the letter said.
India’s abysmal record on sexual violence has been the focus of international attention since the 2012 gang rape and murder of a student on a bus in New Delhi sparked nationwide protests.
Victims are regularly subjected to sexist treatment at the hands of police and the courts, including being encouraged to marry their attackers in so-called compromise solutions.
The letter also drew attention to another hearing on Monday during which Bobde reportedly questioned whether sex between a married couple could ever be considered rape.
“The husband may be a brutal man, but can you call the act of sexual intercourse between a lawfully wedded man and wife as rape?” he said.
“This comment not only legitimises any kind of sexual, physical and mental violence by the husband, but it normalises the torture that Indian women have been facing within marriages for years without any legal recourse,” the letter by the rights campaigners said.
Marital rape is not a crime in India.
Bobde has not responded to the criticism. His predecessor Ranjan Gogoi was the highest-profile figure in India to face a #MeToo backlash after he was accused by a former staffer of sexual assault.
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Ideally located, Novotel Suites Bangkok Sukhumvit 34 is situated in a private residential area with a relaxed tranquil atmosphere in the heart of one of the busiest districts on Sukhumvit Road, near Thong Lor. It is one the best locations for travelers who are looking forward to staying for Long Stay residence in Bangkok as a local.
With apartment suite style accommodation, this Long Stay residence in Bangkok, is close to the luxury department stores such as Emporium and EmQuartier. Guests can travel by BTS or use the hotel’s shuttle bus. Keep up your daily fitness routine with key facilities including fitness room and outdoor swimming pool, When it comes to working, there is ample space in your room, as well as a dedicated co-working space for guest to use, ideal for that small meeting, or just a place to escape and work. Take time to relax with the hotels exclusive Japanese onsen, Cold plunge pool and steam facilities. When it come to dining this long stay residence in Bangkok also offers an experience not to be missed at the ‘White Shuffle‘ on the ground floor, ideal for a special occasion dinner, or just a casual meal for one.
With 148 rooms this long stay residence in Bangkok offer a range of accommodation options form Superior Rooms and Deluxe Room through to Premier Rooms, Junior Suites. These modern contemporary rooms, are decorated in warm colors with a mixed Thai and Japanese style. All rooms offer key facilities including
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Make it an experience to remember while staying at the Novotel Suites Bangkok Sukhumvit 34. Take time to dine at the ‘White Shuffle’. Serving stylish, all-day modern European brunch you won’t forget.
The restaurant is recognisable by its signature white ceramic tableware, white faux white-grey marble tables and mesmerising glass light fixture which hangs from the ceilings of the lofty indoor dining room. The adjacent wall to the minimally designed entrance, is made of floor-to-ceiling glass. The pristine white walls, delicate cane furnishings and metallic bronze copper interior accents gleam under the natural light, providing a feeling of warmth and splendour. Its the perfect place to entertain guests, have a special occasion meal, or simply a homely dinner for one.
White Shuffle’s venue manages to seamlessly integrate into the design of Novotel Suites Bangkok Sukhumvit 34, where comfy and secluded outdoor al fresco dining is complementary to the refined indoor, all day dining setting. For intimacy, guests may enjoy the cosy upstairs mezzanine floor, where private functions and special events are often held.
When it comes to the food the White Shuffle is the ideal all day dining concept that encourages leisurely breakfast, brunch and dinners or relaxed corporate dining in a comfortable and sophisticated setting. The White Shuffle brunch-inspired dishes are not only beautiful to behold but full-of exciting modern twists among the comforting, familiar flavours. The White Shuffle is the perfect accompaniment for guests at this long stay residence in Bangkok
Offering great accommodation, in one of the most sort after locations the Novotel Suites Bangkok Sukhimvit 34 is the perfect choice for a Long Stay Residence in Bangkok. Served with White shuffle to compliment your stay and key unique faculties including Japanese Onsen, there are few other hotel residences that can compare. Be quick and take advantage of the great long stay offers when you book direct at the Novotel Suites Bangkok Sukhumvit 34 today! | <urn:uuid:63ec93b6-e1c7-4a30-9ef6-228c329c6e7f> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://www.novotelsuitesbangkoksukhumvit34.com/bangkok-hotel/long-stay-in-bangkok/ | 2021-07-28T16:24:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046153739.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20210728154442-20210728184442-00561.warc.gz | en | 0.923431 | 763 |
Windows Azure, Microsoft's fledgling cloud computing platform, is piquing the interest of IT specialists who see it as a potential solution for dealing with variable compute loads. But an uptick in deployments for Azure, which becomes a fee-based service early next year, could take a while, with customers still just evaluating the technology.
"We'd be targeting applications that have variable loads" for possible deployment on Azure, said David Collins, a system consultant at the Unum life insurance company. The company might find Azure useful for an enrollment application. "We have huge activity in November and December and then the rest of the year, it's not so big," Collins said. Unum, however, is not ready to use Azure, with Collins citing issues such as integrating Azure with IBM DB2 and Teradata systems.
"From a scale-out perspective and for the future, it's kind of interesting to hear" about Azure, said Michael Tai, director of development at Classified Ventures. But his company is probably not looking to use Azure in the short term, he said.
Meanwhile, an advertising agency that has done ads for Windows 7 already has used Azure. An official of that company also cited benefits in offloading of compute cycles to the cloud. "We've used Azure on a couple of projects already and had great success with it," said Matthew Ray, technical director at Crispin Porter + Bogusky. "I think what helps us is we don't have all the time and money" to build huge server clusters for projects that get a lot of traffic but only live for a month, Ray said. Using traditional platforms, "you can spend inordinate amounts of money -- hundreds of thousands of dollars -- to support something like the Super Bowl, something like that, and you're done in a day, basically," he said.
Microsoft has improved Azure since the last time the company looked at it. "It wasn't as rich as it looks now," said Sean Gordon, an architect in the strategy architecture emerging technology team at Chevron. "We're looking at offloading compute resources, potentially, into the cloud," he noted.
A Microsoft SharePoint software vendor sees Azure's potential for purposes such as extranets. "A lot of applications I can see being extended to the cloud," said Stephen Cawood, community director at Metalogix. "For big companies, they're still going to want to have their own datacenters and host things like SharePoint, but I can see them using cloud computing possibly for extranet scenarios where they're working with partners or even customers."
David Nahooray, software developer for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an international intergovernmental agency, said any decision to go to the cloud would be made a higher level. "[Azure] looks interesting, but it's probably up to my boss to decide if we can go and put stuff outside in the cloud," Nahooray said. Data such as economic indicators could be deployed on Azure for access by other organizations, he said.
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Mayo dropped his highly-anticipated sophomore mixtape, “Dream Big”, on Enliten today and it definitely lives up to expectations… and then some! I’ve had the opportunity to listen to a sample of the complete tape over the past couple of weeks, and I’m more than impressed. This “mixtape” is more like a studio album with excellent production to go along with Mayo’s always quality flows. Be on the lookout for Mayo quick rise to fame in the near future. If you haven’t already checked out his freshman tape, “The Naked Truth”, do so now here, and be sure to check Mayo’s Enliten Elite page for more updates.
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Alex Jordahl – Wake Up mixtape
Alex Jordahl literally dropped his “Wake Up” mixtape minutes ago, and it does not disappoint. Fortunately for me, I got a sneak peak of the tape and have been bumping for the last few weeks. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: beat selection is crucial to making a quality tape – Alex obviously knows this. Featured artists include Enliten Elite member Mayo as well as Alex Theesfield, XXL and TeeJay. Check the steam here or download here.
Here’s an update on what’s new in the Enliten world over the past few weeks as well as a look into the near future:
On April 20th, Enliten Elite sponsored artists Amerikas Addiction dropped their newest mixtape titled “The Enlitened Ones”. Check it out on their personalized page at www.enliten.me/amerikasaddition and download the exclusive tape for free. You can also stream their tape here.
Also happening this week, DyMe-A-DuZiN announced his upcoming “20=X” mixtape, which will drop on Enliten in
early May 2011 mid-June. This tape will be available exclusively for free download on his Elite page at www.enliten.me/dymeaduzin.
As a reminder, Enliten is still dropping affiliate tapes that are available for free download at www.enliten.me/mixtapes. The most recent affiliate tape was dropped on April 20th by Spadez. Download that tape here or stream it here.
Finally, Enliten will be releasing a new mini-line titled “Spring into Summer” in early May 2011. Signup for the mailing list to be notified first – you can signup on the bottom our splash or homepage. This line will highlight some of our new tee designs including a collab tee with Lucratif. | <urn:uuid:6bbceff5-0b2b-4cfe-aa34-74d054c70994> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | https://withakenliten.wordpress.com/tag/stream/ | 2017-08-23T12:08:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886120194.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170823113414-20170823133414-00384.warc.gz | en | 0.945579 | 581 |
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Tuesday emerged from a White House meeting with Senate Democrats saying he's "cautiously optimistic" about finishing a health-care overhaul but said some differences still remained to be ironed out before crossing the finish line.
"It's clear that we are on the precipice of an achievement that's eluded Congresses and presidents for generations," Obama said at the White House, flanked by top Senate Democrats including Majority Leader Harry Reid and Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd.
Obama met with Democrats following a closed-door meeting among his party's senators on Monday night, in which a plan to expand Medicare as part of the Senate's 10-year bill was dropped. The move upset liberals, who have also had to trade away the government-run health-insurance plan as the leadership seeks to nail down 60 votes to pass the huge bill.
Obama said the final bill won't include everything everybody wants. But he said he told senators that "we simply cannot allow differences over individual elements of this plan to prevent us from meeting our responsibility to solve a longstanding and urgent problem for the American people."
Time is running out to pass a health-care bill before the end of the year, and Reid is trying to round up the votes of 60 senators and pass the Senate's overhaul before Christmas. Monday night, Senate Democrats dropped the idea of letting people ages 55 to 64 buy into Medicare. Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent who votes with Democrats, objected to the idea.
The $848 billion bill has undergone significant changes as the leadership has sought to build support for it.
Among those changes is the dropping of a government-run health-care plan favored by Senate liberals. Reid and other Democrats are awaiting a Congressional Budget Office analysis of a compromise that would create nationwide health plans run by private insurance companies but overseen by the government's Office of Personnel Management.
Senators began their 13th day of debate on the bill Tuesday. It aims to expand insurance coverage to millions of Americans, bar insurers from denying coverage to sick people, and extend subsidies to poorer Americans to help them buy insurance. Individuals would be required to buy insurance, and most employers would be required to offer it. The House of Representatives passed its version of the bill on Nov. 7.
Republicans dug in against the Democrats' bill on Tuesday morning, citing public opinion polls that show opposition to it.
The American people "are asking us overwhelmingly, 'Please don't pass this bill,'" said Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.
The latest average of polls from RealClearPolitics shows 53.3 percent opposition to the bill, with 38 percent support.
Reid said that votes on amendments are planned for Tuesday evening, including on one about allowing imports of prescription drugs from foreign countries. | <urn:uuid:3980fa66-0e0d-45c1-bab2-43d1ebdbd09e> | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2009/12/obama_cautiously_optimistic_ab.html | 2014-03-09T07:56:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1393999675662/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305060755-00021-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967108 | 562 |
British fintech Revolut on path to $10 bln valuation with new funding
Digital banking app Revolut is on track for a new fundraising that will value the company at more than $10 billion, Sky News reported on Saturday.
The London-based financial technology startup is lining up FT Partners, a U.S.-based fintech-focused investment bank, as its adviser on the new funding, which is expected to take place after the summer, the report added.
Revolut declined comment on what it said was speculation.
The company, which raised $500 million in a funding round at a valuation of $5.5 billion in early 2020, has established a presence in more than 35 countries.
The company, which provides bank accounts via its app, has attracted more than 15 million retail customers since its launch in 2015 with a range of money management tools, including a debit card connected to an app that allows users to spend different currencies at the interbank exchange rate with low fees.
Revolut said last month it had completed the first step to apply for a U.S. banking license that would allow it to offer more services to U.S. customers such as overdraft protection, loans and deposit accounts. | <urn:uuid:f08cf4dc-993d-48a6-9023-3f90d0a3caf6> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://www.trifectadirectory.com/british-fintech-revolut-on-path-to-10-bln-valuation-with-new-funding/ | 2022-06-26T02:35:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103036363.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220626010644-20220626040644-00763.warc.gz | en | 0.966734 | 259 |
Jeff Binder doesn't mention that the title character of "Scapino" was written for him.
Binder, associate artistic director of Gulfshore Playhouse, talks about admiring Moliere as a playwright-actor whose intimacy with the stage filtered into his scripts.
He mentions the ultimately benevolent tone of "Scapino" — the Gulfshore Playhouse production opening Saturday — as a new facet of Moliere for some theatergoers weaned on the more acid "Tartuffe."
He talks about the opportunity to examine the play, like a jeweler inspecting a diamond, rolling its words around in his mind "through five of these old public domain versions" during his Hurricane Irma-enforced sabbatical.
But truth is, Binder is looking at playing what may be one of his favorite characters in theater: the sly, scheming, Scapino, who rationalizes his behavior because justice is a lover who has jilted him — rather conveniently, one suspects. Binder didn't flinch at rewriting the script to bring it into a pair of 20th century mob families suspected of commandeering their son's life to forge an alliance in their fractious relationships, with Scapino running comic interference to stop the freight train.
It's very much an actor's play and Binder, in the lead role, has the rarest of opportunities to put the words that would energize that character into his mouth.
Judiciously, of course: "It's an all-new, a completely new text. We call it an adaptation of Moliere. That's what it is. But obviously Moliere was French, and writing in the 1680s," he said.
This audience is 21st century, when fathers generally don't choose their sons' spouses, and when women are heard as well as seen. Binder, director Zeljiko Djukic and Gulfshore Playhouse Artistic Director Kristen Coury wanted to bring the female characters out of the cardboard cut-out level they had been relegated to in this play.
They further needed to retool the landed gentry status of its characters into something more familiar to American identity.
"The plot structure is very much Moliere's, but line for line, we decided to do it as an homage to 'The Godfather,' in a comic way," Binder said.
"We were trying to find a context in a modern sensibility to bring the audience into a world where they understood the stakes for these young lovers and what they were up against. — and these fathers who have these demands they've gone against. The idea that these weddings between the families can mend a rift and avoid a turf war ... puts the stakes at a very fun level you understand."
With a mission to stay true to the playwright's premise, Binder said the down time when the Norris Community Center in Naples was closed after Hurricane Irma actually gave him three weeks to craft his changes.
"My family and mom and four cats and I drove to Mobile, Alabama. I'm sitting in Mobile and I had many days of time in front of me," he recalled. Still, plunging into it was "a little scary," he conceded: "You don't know whether you're going to get two-thirds of the way through it and say, 'This is just not coming together.'"
Luckily, this play made the four-century leap gracefully. Binder spent several days with Djukic in Chicago and, to test the newly stoked roles for the female characters, he and Coury had them read aloud: "The cast of 'leading ladies' were very gracious to do a cold read so we could hear what it sounded like."
Binder estimates he has several hundred hours in this play. That's possibly not too much different from what the playwright had when he wrote to enable his actors to keep working with minimal sets during a theater renovation.
"It's really kind of a celebration of commedia, of comedy, of farce and of actors and how they transform. Scapino actually becomes all these people. He also enlists his friends in the task to do this thing. ... It really allows actors to dig into some fun, hilarious material and shine in their craft."
Where: Gulfshore Playhouse at Norris Community Center, 755 Eighth Ave S., Naples
When: 8 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays (8 p.m. Feb. 25) through March 18, with audience talkbacks and other events on various days
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The converted hayloft in the old cowshed is ideal for meetings, birthday parties or even for your hen nights or stag dos. You can be self catering or let us provide you with meals and entertainment to guarantee a memorable evening.
Fall asleep in the converted cowshed, and choose a room in yellow, green or blue Your bed will be freshly made up and upstairs you will find a fully equipped kitchen with dining facilities and comfortable seating for reading or watching TV.
Our extended farm grounds offer excellent camping sites with bathroom facilities nearby., The common rooms in the old cowshed can be used for cooking and relaxation. Our outdoor areas are suitable for all kinds of outdoor activities.
Experience sauna like never before. The magic of our smoke sauna can be experienced by up to 20 people at a time. Refreshing dips in our little lake to cool down between sessions in the sauna make for a truly enjoyable evening. After the sauna relax in the spacious cabin next door eating,drinking and chatting with your friends. You can even spend the night there. It has been especially popular with newly weds. | <urn:uuid:ddc2eb06-e213-4a76-8a58-8e1dcf3706ab> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.virtualtampere.com/eng/maatilamajoitus-saarinen/pihapiiri | 2023-09-28T02:06:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510334.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927235044-20230928025044-00256.warc.gz | en | 0.931991 | 226 |
Larissa - posted on 10/05/2012 ( 1 mom has responded )
It seems that almost overnight our baby boy went from being a fairly happy (he has his fussy moments) baby. I've heard that there is a 6-8 week "hump" where fussiness is at its worst. Does this happen overnight?
Also, he doesn't take naps during the day (I have tried everything!) which contributes to his fussiness. Does anyone have any advice on getting him to take naps so that his fussiness might be reduced during the day? I am REALLY getting tired of getting yelled and cried at all day long! | <urn:uuid:50730bda-f229-41d5-8bb7-639162d131db> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.circleofmoms.com/welcome-circle-moms/incredibly-fussy-6-week-old-716688 | 2016-10-25T17:30:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720238.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00369-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.994428 | 134 |
2008 Hall of Fame Inductees
Louie D. Carleo ('70)
Class of 1970. Louie began his efforts to redevelop downtown Pueblo by purchasing properties and redesigning them to meet 21st century standards. Starting in 1987 with one building, his holdings now encompass over 50 properties; including the Thatcher Building, Midtown Shopping Center, The Colorado Building and the Andrews Produce Building - which he rebuilt into a state of the art office building along the Historic Arkansas Riverwalk that houses AT&T Wireless and employs more than 500 people. Louie is the President and CEO of LDC Properties, CEO of Commercial Builders, Vice President of Sound Venture Realty, Vice President and CFO of Tri-County Auto Dealerships, Community Director and Bank Director of Southern Colorado Community Banks and Trustee of Colorado Technical University. He has received numerous awards for his leadership and commitment to the betterment of Pueblo which include; The Pueblo Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year, National Sam Walton Business Leader Award and the Charles W. Crews Business Leader Award.
Patricia Erjavec ('75)
Since her induction into South High's Hall of Fame, Patty has been president of Pueblo Community College since 2010, the institution's first female in that top role. She has been chosen President of the Year twice by the Colorado Community College system, in 2013 and 2018. Before joining PCC, Erjavec was president and CEO of El Pueblo Boys & Girls Ranch, the second-largest residential childcare facility in Colorado. Patty more than doubled its service capacity and increased its asset base more than $18 million. She implemented high-performance teams and directed the development of a cognitive behavioral model for residential treatment that was copyrighted in 2002 and is in use nationwide. Her community involvement includes service on countless nonprofit, educational, youth and children's agency boards and commissions. She chaired the State Board of Community Colleges and Occupational Education and was interim president of the Community College System. She has been recognized professionally as Administrator of the Year by the Colorado Child & Adolescent Mental Health Coalition, Pueblo Public Library's Outstanding Woman Award, the YWCA's Anna Taussig Tribute to Women Award, the Greater Pueblo Chamber of Commerce's Business Person of the Year, and CSU-Pueblo Outstanding Alumnus Award.
Keith R. Swerdfeger ('65)
Soon after graduation, Keith built his family owned business, K.R. Swerdfeger Construction Company. He started with a one-person operation using a rented backhoe and grew it into a multi-state construction enterprise that employs 500 people. Keith has served as CEO of the Pueblo Economic Development Corporation (PEDCO) and has been instrumental in drawing many new businesses to the area. Keith also has worked with Fort Carson officials to make Pueblo an attractive home to base personnel. Over the years, Keith also has served in leadership positions both statewide and nationally in the construction industry. He has served on the PCC Foundation Board and the CSU-Pueblo Hasan School of Business Advisory Board, among others. Keith has donated time and money to many local concerns, including work for the PCC Mall area, Rawlings Field at CSU-Pueblo, the Pueblo Convention Center, a football field at El Pueblo Boys & Girls Ranch, a visiting room at the animal shelter and a child care playroom at the new YMCA. Keith donates a continuing scholarship at PCC. His and wife Sharon's quiet philanthropy in support of many Pueblo concerns, while usually unpublished, has had a positive effect on the Pueblo community.
Jerry Traylor ('73)
Jerry was a nationally recognized motivational speaker who delivered his message to more than a million people at 4,000 audiences in 49 states and abroad. He died in June 2018 in Phoenix. Born with cerebral palsy, he never let that define him. He addressed Fortune 500 corporate functions and professional athletic teams, and was featured in national media reports throughout his life, including Paul Harvey's 'The Rest of the Story' and The Larry King Show. Jerry underwent 14 corrective surgeries, spending nearly a year in the hospital when he was 6 years old. He finished 28 marathons on his crutches, climbed 14,110 foot-Pikes Peak, jogged 3,528 miles across America and parachuted from 12,500 feet. The late Dr. Norman Peale summed up Jerry's influence this way: "Building a career as a motivational speaker, Jerry Traylor has prepared himself by becoming a motivational doer. That way he is more convincing when he tells people what it takes to achieve difficult goals, for they know he has achieved many." Jerry was living proof that you can do anything if your desire is great enough. | <urn:uuid:c0deb232-0b36-4273-84bd-aaa0173801a1> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://www.shsaf.org/copy-of-2008 | 2021-08-02T09:51:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154310.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20210802075003-20210802105003-00321.warc.gz | en | 0.96914 | 992 |
|| HAPPY!! SOOOOOOOO HAPPY!
gilmore girls and one tree hill were soooo good!! hurray for those shows!!
yesterday i went to the library and got 10 and 11 of the Christy Miller Series...i havent been reading it in a long time and im really excited cause im A Time to Cherish (the 10th book) and its really good! i love todd (the guy in the book) sooooo much!! he is such an awesome guy!!
well i did my extra credit report and it turned out pretty darn good if i do say so myself...
OH! my uncle is SUCH A STUD! see my gramma made all these tapes of my mom and my two uncles when they were younger...and my uncle will put my mommys on a cd. and she had such a southren accent. it was when she was in 3rd-6th grade...its SOOO cute. she sings and such, its muy muy cute!
^^ that was all yesterday ^^
TODAY!! well i got the best news of my whole freakin life. it seriously makes life living. but i said i would keep it a secret...so if ur DYING to know...and i dont think that it will effect anything if i tell u drop me a line ;)
lol i have church tonite yay! i <3 church
lol my eye itches... no worries...i itched it
OMG IM SO HAPPY! ha sry!
dude...glyndon is hot... sry thought u might want some of the random emilyness..stuff ish... yeah ok im done
AM I DUN DUN DUNNNNN
so im listening to usher i know i know right, you're thinking "what a loser"
BUT I <3 HIM SO SHUT IT!
haha so in drama we have to do this 2 minute scene from a movie... me, kaylee, and nikki are doing something from POTC and im captian jack and its gonna rock so hard!!
well im way to hyper to be typing away on this crap! haha jk
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The package is available from 27/12/2021 to 03/01/2022.
The earlier you book, the less you pay:
THE PRICE INCLUDES:
NEW YEAR’S EVE ATTRACTIONS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE:
FOR THE YOUNGEST GUESTS:
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Szczyrk is one of the most popular ski resorts in Poland and skiing is certainly a marvellous way to spend your free time in the open air. Healthy and amusing at the same time! So, if you love the white craze, come and join the fun!
Skiers and snowboarders have more than 30 ski pistes of varying difficulty at their disposal, set out on the picturesque slopes of Skrzyczne, Pośrednie, Malinów, Beskid and other mountains enclosing the city. The total length of all the ski pistes in Szczyrk amounts to 40 km.
SKRYCZNE SKI RESORT - COS SZCZYRK
The resort has the longest ski pistes in the region. You can reach them by a chairlift:
Part I – Szczyrk-Jaworzyna
4-person chair made available to the visitors in September 2017;
Part II – Jaworzyna-Skrzyczne
4-person chair made available to the visitors in December 2013.
SZCZYRK MOUNTAIN RESORT
The largest ski complex in Poland.
Opened in December 2017, Szczyrk Mountain Resort is the largest and most modern ski resort in Poland.
Numerous ski pistes and modern infrastructure – including a 10-person gondola and three 6-person chairs – it’s all at your disposal.
BESKID SPORT ARENA
Ski Complex with a modern 6-peron chair, ski lifts, a sleigh track and year-round sports and entertainment facilities, opened in December 2016.
Our hotel offers you the Eskimoski Ski Preschool.
It’s the most popular meeting places amongst children here in Szczyrk. We organise skiing classes for kids aged 4-7, 8-12 as well as for teenagers and adults.
Remember: Make your booking at least 5 days in advance on our website: www.eskimoski.com (a few weeks in advance would be preferable). We will confirm your booking per e-mail.
Only then is your booking valid if you make an advance payment or pay the whole amount due. If you wish to cancel your booking, call us at least 5 days before, by 4:00 pm, and your whole amount paid shall be refunded.
We also offer individual lessons for everyone!
Both children and adults are most welcome!
We always adapt our lessons to the age and individual skills of the skiers.
You can make your booking per Internet or by calling us: +48 511 456 227
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New York City Welding Accident Lawyer
Welders are among the most important laborers on New York City construction sites. Without their expertise and contributions, structures quite literally couldn’t be built. Welders not only do important jobs, but also some of the most dangerous in the construction industry. Unfortunately, deviations OSHA welding safety standards can increase the risk of accidents.
It’s no surprise that hundreds of thousands of welders are injured every year. Since welders work with extreme heat and are exposed to incredibly bright lights, the injuries they sustain tend to be quite severe. Many welders hurt on the job suffer eye injuries, burns, and even death.
Are you a welder who has been hurt in an accident on a New York construction site? Contact the construction accident attorneys at Mirman, Markovits & Landau, PC to learn about your legal rights and options. You may be entitled to workers’ compensation benefits or damages from a negligent contractor or engineer. We will fight to help you get the money you need and deserve.
Give us a call today to schedule a free consultation. We’re always available to take your call and discuss your case, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
You Deserve an Experienced NYC Welding Accident Lawyer
When you get hurt in a welding accident, you’re vulnerable to severe and debilitating injuries. These injuries can require extensive medical care and keep you out of work. Few things will be more important than seeking compensation for your injuries. You deserve to work with a law firm that cares about you and has a proven track record of success handling cases like yours.
At Mirman, Markovits & Landau, PC, we’ve been fighting on behalf of injured welders in New York City for more than four decades. Our law firm is like one big family. When you call us for help after you get hurt, you become part of that family. We’ll try to make the process of recovering compensation as easy as we possibly can. Our passionate attorneys will handle every aspect of your legal case so that you can focus on getting better.
Our hard work and commitment to our clients pay off. We’ve successfully recovered more than $1 Billion in settlements and verdicts. When you call us for help after a welding accident in New York, we’ll go above and beyond to get the money that you need, too.
Our NYC welding accident lawyers represent clients across New York, in:
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Ignoring OSHA Safety Regulations Can Result in Welding Accidents
The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) recognizes the dangers welders face every day. To help minimize accidents and protect welders, OSHA creates rules and regulations that have to be followed on every job site across the country.
These regulations dictate how welding equipment – including compressed gas cylinders, hoses, and torches – have to be used and maintained. The OSHA regulations also explain what type of safety devices have to be provided to welders on worksites, especially when working on scaffolds.
When property owners and contractors ignore these safety rules, welders suffer the consequences. Welders might have legitimate claims for compensation if they get hurt. In New York, owners and contractors can be liable for injuries caused by dangerous working conditions, and strictly liable for injuries related to scaffolding and elevated work.
How Do I Get Money If I’m Injured in a New York Welding Accident?
There are a couple of ways to seek compensation after you get hurt in a welding accident in New York City.
Workers’ Compensation Benefits
Almost all employers in New York are required to carry workers’ compensation insurance coverage. If you get hurt in a welding accident at work, you can seek benefits from your employer’s policy. You will waive your right to sue your employer, but you’ll be able to get money for medical bills, lost wages, and even disability.
Keep in mind that there are strict limits on how much you can recover and how long you receive benefits. You should not hesitate to contact an experienced New York personal injury lawyer who is familiar with the construction workers’ compensation system.
Personal Injury Lawsuit
You only waive the right to sue your employer by collecting workers’ compensation benefits. If you get hurt because of a negligent third party, you might still have the right to file a lawsuit to recover additional compensation.
In New York, you can potentially recover compensation from anyone who contributed to your welding accident. This might include:
- Property owners
- General contractors
- Architects and engineers, or
- Companies that sold or manufactured defective construction or welding equipment.
It’s important to know what caused your accident and who’s to blame. At Mirman, Markovits & Landau, P.C., we’ll carefully investigate your welding accident and determine the causes(s). This will help us identify why it happened and who’s to blame. Then we’ll seek money from anyone who allowed you to get hurt.
Common Welding Accident Injuries
Welding is a dangerous job. When you’re involved in a welding accident on a New York City job site, you might sustain severe injuries, including:
- Welder’s Flash
- Electrical shock
- Lung, brain, and nerve damage
- Parkinsons’ disease
- Eye injuries
- Lost limbs
- Wrongful death, and more.
Have you been hurt in a welding accident in New York City? Don’t hesitate to call our New York City personal injury attorneys for help. We’ll review your case, explain your rights, and answer any questions you might have. Your first consultation is free, so reach out to us for help today.
How Long Do I Have to File a Lawsuit or Injury Claim in New York?
There’s a limited amount of time to pursue compensation after a New York City welding accident. The length of time you’ll have depends on how you decide to move forward and seek damages.
Workers’ Compensation Benefits: You have to notify your employer within 30 days of your welding accident. After that, you’ll have one year to formally submit a claim for benefits.
Personal Injury Lawsuit: The statute of limitations for bodily injury claims is three years. You will lose out on valuable compensation you deserve if you wait too long to assert your rights.
NOt sure how much time you have to seek damages after your welding accident? Let the legal team at Mirman, Markovits & Landau, P.C. help. Call us as soon as you can after you get hurt. We can get started on your welding injury case right away so that you don’t miss out on valuable compensation.
What Money Can I Get If I Get Hurt in a New York Welding Accident?
It depends. If you want to collect benefits from your employer’s workers’ compensation insurance policy, you’ll only be able to recover compensation for medical expenses, lost income, and (possibly) disability. No benefits for pain and suffering or emotional distress would be available.
You’re generally entitled to seek a wider range of benefits if you file a personal injury lawsuit. You can recover everything you’d be able to get through a workers’ compensation program, in addition to money for emotional trauma, chronic pain, loss of enjoyment of life, disfigurement, and more.
Call Our NYC Welding Accident Lawyers For Help
Have you been injured in a welding accident in New York? The attorneys at Mirman, Markovits & Landau, P.C. are prepared to help you fight to maximize your compensation. Contact our New York City law office to schedule a free, no-obligation case assessment. There’s no risk in asking for our help, all you have to do is make the call. | <urn:uuid:c52052ae-1a51-402d-8dd9-751a8ff7a1ab> | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | https://mirmanlawyers.com/new-york-construction-accident-lawyer/welding-accidents/ | 2019-10-19T18:08:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986697439.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20191019164943-20191019192443-00549.warc.gz | en | 0.923694 | 1,715 |
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Inside The Kitchen: Chocolate Nutella Cookies
My daughter is taking part in a cookie bake off this week and we had to bake our batch last night. There was one rule – it had to be from scratch. I tried to say that adding walnuts to a chocolate chip cookie mix was similar to homemade… but they didn’t buy it. So, from scratch it was!
I had a lot of Nutella in my house – so I looked online and found this recipe. Her pictures are WAY BETTER THAN MINE. So, go check them out.
Click here for full recipe. I threw everything in the mixing bowl. Didn’t separate wet and dry – never do. So, if that part scares you – then skip it.
The kids enjoyed smashing down the cookies to make them flat. It kept them occupied for a while which was a real treat.
Throw them in the oven for 11 minutes at 325 and VOILA! Chocolate Nutella Cookies. Yeah – they taste as good as they sound. 🙂
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Because You Love Nice Things
Tuesday, February 06, 2018, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
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Charles Nix A'89, senior type designer at Monotype, will delver a free, public lecture on the work of George Abrams, a standout lettering artist during advertising’s golden age. Abrams was known for his lively casual-script, but produced headlines, taglines, and logos in an impressive array of typographic and calligraphic styles. Charles Nix will describe the arc of Abrams’ career—concentrating on handlettering work from the 50s, 60s, and 70s—with copious images of both process and product.
This event is free, but reservations are requested.
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It was just a matter of time. I remember watching Glenn Beck one evening (it might have been as long ago as 2010) and there was much ballyhooing over the fact that Tea Party Patriot organizers had come into money. Well, apparently since then the group has come into LOTS of money!
I also wondered at the time, where the money would be used because you sure didn’t see it trickling down to the small local grassroots groups that were doing the meeting and the rallying (and ultimately the campaigning to change Congress in 2010).
Now comes news, hat tip: Doug, that a big chunk of change was spent putting on that Republican debate in South Carolina.
From The Daily Caller:
Tea Party Patriots co-founder Mark Meckler told The Daily Caller that he resigned his leadership position with the grassroots organization last week out of frustration with how money is being spent and how closely the group has aligned itself with Republicans.
Tea Party Patriots (TPP) officials say they’re a coalition of more than 3,400 local tea party groups made up of more than 15 million members.
In an interview, Meckler — a well-known figure in the movement — cited, as an example, how Tea Party Patriots spent $250,000 to sponsor the Southern Republican Leadership Conference presidential debate in South Carolina this year.
“That bothered me on a lot of levels,” he said.
In an email obtained by TheDC, Meckler told the group’s board of directors last week that the expenditure was “a colossal waste, which served to foster the narrative that TPP is a tool of the Republican Party, while providing minimal [public relations] value at best.”
Now I don’t know Meckler or Martin. I am sure they each have their loyal supporters and their critics. However, most Tea Partiers are doing their own things in their own communities completely separate from what all those jockeying for the “leadership” of the movement are doing. TPP may just be having the usual internal conflicts and the growing pains of any movement.
But, honestly, I have been suspicious of the motives of many of the groups that have big bucks—I raged about it here in December. Who is giving them big bucks and why? The only logical conclusion I’ve come to is that whoever has that kind of money wants to steer the movement.
In the past I’ve likened the Tea Party phenomenon to a grassroots folks-filled train coming down the tracks, but with all sorts of people and groups (probably establishment Republicans! among others) vying to be recognized as the engine driving the train (Freedom Works and Americans for Prosperity are two examples of groups that would like to be the engineers and drive that powerful train).
Again, I don’t know Meckler, but I definitely agree with what he says as he leaves the organization:
He also made the case that $250,000 could have been better spent to further the tea party cause.
“I can’t even describe to you how much good that amount of money can do on the ground across the country,” Meckler said, suggesting that giving 25 local tea parties $10,000 would have been a better use of those funds.
Meckler said the group has raised millions since its founding, and yet “very little of that money flows through to local chapters.”
From the outset, I’ve liked the idea that the movement is leaderless, that local groups can work in their own communities to change things from the ground up (as it should be!), but I wouldn’t be averse now to some decent strong person with the leadership skills to begin to pull the various threads together—separate from the Republican Party. | <urn:uuid:d5a4c515-3b2c-4a6b-8c77-407845b1a156> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://potomacteapartyreport.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/tea-party-patriots-internal-rift-reported-over-too-close-linkage-to-republicans/ | 2017-01-20T07:48:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280801.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00520-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976959 | 791 |
On this episode of the podcast, the shaggy dog horror, MADMAN.
Yes, it’s a rather paint-by-numbers “maniac in the woods movie”.
There are campers. There are counsellors. There are woods. There are tales of things lurking in the shadows. Urban legends. Some unique kills.
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Familiarize yourself with Barack Obama’s personal and professional history.
Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, is 61 today. Obama, who was born in Honolulu on August 4, 1961, made history when he was elected the first black president of the United States in 2008. Obama’s mother was a white Christian American woman, while her father was a Muslim economist from Kenya.
In honor of one of the most popular and effective presidents in American history, Barack Hussein Obama’s birthday, we’ll share some details about his life that you might be surprised to learn. I should inform you that when he was young, his name was Barry. Obama’s parents split up when he was a little boy. His mom eventually wed an Indonesian man. At the time, Obama was just six years old.
Additionally, Obama was brought up in the United States by his grandparents. After Obama entered American politics, his detractors said he was born in Kenya and hence not a true citizen of the United States. At age 27, Obama completed his undergraduate degree and enrolled in Howard Law School.
His former teammates and pals dubbed him “Obomber” because of his legendary athletic prowess. In addition to his political success, Obama has also made a name for himself on the basketball court.
While working at a Chicago legal firm, he crossed paths with Michelle Robinson. A number of Obama’s friends and family have said that the first time they met Michelle, Obama fell madly in love. Thereupon the two began their rendezvous. These two met, fell in love, and tied the knot in 1992. He is the proud father of two young ladies, Sasha and Malia.
Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize as well in 2009. Not only that, but he also received recognition for his profile in a carriage with the Profile in Carriage Award. The Audacity of Hope: Reflections on Reclaiming the American Dream and Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance are Obama’s two books.
As previously said, Barack Obama was re-elected as president. He was re-elected president after his party soundly defeated Mitt Romney in the election. During his early career, Obama also worked as a cashier at Baskin-Robbins.
The Summer Playlist of 2022, According to President Obama
Another summer means a new set of tunes.
In a social media post, President Obama revealed his top 44 summer music. The usual variety of pop, r&b and hip hop songs are included. The list is dominated by classic songs such as “Let’s Go Crazy” by Prince, “Dancing in the Dark” by Bruce Springsteen, “Blue and Green” by Miles Davis, and many more. It makes sense that he would favor music from the same time period in which he was raised or that his parents would have played in the home.
In the past, I’ve written about how sharing my summer playlist has been a source of joy for me because I get to discover new music thanks to your comments. Listening to the following has been a staple of my summer. Exactly what music would you recommend we include?
Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul,” Tem’s “Vibe Out,” Bad Bunny and Bomba Estereo’s “Ojitos Lindos,” Hope Tala’s “Cherries,” and other recent singles were also on the list.
President Obama’s taste spans multiple genres, and he does so with panache. I recommend these tracks to everyone who enjoys listening to music since I find myself agreeing with many of the other reviewers that they are excellent. Listen to the songs on Spotify!
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John Lee Hooker
|Born|| or 1917August 22, 1912|
Tutwiler, Mississippi, U.S.
|Died||June 21, 2001 (aged either 83 or 88)|
Los Altos, California
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi hill country blues. He developed his own driving-rhythm boogie style, distinct from the 1930s–1940s piano-derived boogie-woogie. Hooker was ranked 35 in Rolling Stone's 2015 list of 100 greatest guitarists.
Some of his best known songs include "Boogie Chillen'" (1948), "Crawling King Snake" (1949), "Dimples" (1956), "Boom Boom" (1962), and "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" (1966). Several of his later albums, including The Healer (1989), Mr. Lucky (1991), Chill Out (1995), and Don't Look Back (1997), were album chart successes in the U.S. and UK. The Healer (for the song "I'm In The Mood") and Chill Out (for the album) both earned him Grammy wins as well as Don't Look Back, which went on to earn him a double-Grammy win for Best Traditional Blues Recording and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals (with Van Morrison).
Hooker's date of birth is a subject of debate; the years 1912, 1915, 1917, 1920, and 1923 have all been suggested. Most official sources list 1917, though at times Hooker stated he was born in 1920. Information found in the 1920 and 1930 censuses indicates that he was actually born in 1912. In 2017, a series of events took place to celebrate the purported centenary of his birth. In the 1920 federal census, John Hooker is seven years old and one of nine children living with William and Minnie Hooker in Tutwiler, Mississippi.
It is believed that he was born in Tutwiler, in Tallahatchie County, although some sources say his birthplace was near Clarksdale, in Coahoma County. He was the youngest of the 11 children of William Hooker (born 1871, died after 1923), a sharecropper and Baptist preacher, and Minnie Ramsey (born c. 1880, date of death unknown). In the 1920 federal census, William and Minnie were recorded as being 48 and 39 years old, respectively, which implies that Minnie was born about 1880, not 1875. She was said to have been a "decade or so younger" than her husband, which gives additional credibility to this census record as evidence of Hooker's origins.
The Hooker children were homeschooled. They were permitted to listen only to religious songs; the spirituals sung in church were their earliest exposure to music. In 1921, their parents separated. The next year, their mother married William Moore, a blues singer, who provided John Lee with an introduction to the guitar (and whom he would later credit for his distinctive playing style).
Moore was his first significant blues influence. He was a local blues guitarist who, in Shreveport, Louisiana, learned to play a droning, one-chord blues that was strikingly different from the Delta blues of the time.
Another influence was Tony Hollins, who dated Hooker's sister Alice, helped teach Hooker to play, and gave him his first guitar. For the rest of his life, Hooker regarded Hollins as a formative influence on his style of playing and his career as a musician. Among the songs that Hollins reputedly taught Hooker were versions of "Crawlin' King Snake" and "Catfish Blues".[page needed]
At the age of 14, Hooker ran away from home, reportedly never seeing his mother or stepfather again. In the mid-1930s, he lived in Memphis, Tennessee, where he performed on Beale Street, at the New Daisy Theatre and occasionally at house parties.
He worked in factories in various cities during World War II, eventually getting a job with the Ford Motor Company in Detroit in 1943. He frequented the blues clubs and bars on Hastings Street, the heart of the black entertainment district, on Detroit's east side. In a city noted for its pianists, guitar players were scarce. Hooker's popularity grew quickly as he performed in Detroit clubs, and, seeking an instrument louder than his acoustic guitar, he bought his first electric guitar.
Hooker was working as janitor in a Detroit steel mill when his recording career began in 1948, when Modern Records, based in Los Angeles, released a demo he had recorded for Bernie Besman in Detroit. The single, "Boogie Chillen'", became a hit and the best-selling race record of 1949. Though illiterate, Hooker was a prolific lyricist. In addition to adapting traditional blues lyrics, he composed original songs. In the 1950s, like many black musicians, Hooker earned little from record sales, and so he often recorded variations of his songs for different studios for an up-front fee. To evade his recording contract, he used various pseudonyms, including John Lee Booker (for Chess Records and Chance Records in 1951–1952), Johnny Lee (for De Luxe Records in 1953–1954), John Lee, John Lee Cooker, Texas Slim, Delta John, Birmingham Sam and his Magic Guitar, Johnny Williams, and the Boogie Man.
His early solo songs were recorded by Bernie Besman. Hooker rarely played with a standard beat, but instead he changed tempo to fit the needs of the song. This often made it difficult to use backing musicians, who were not accustomed to Hooker's musical vagaries. As a result, Besman recorded Hooker playing guitar, singing and stomping on a wooden pallet in time with the music.
For much of this period he recorded and toured with Eddie Kirkland. In Hooker's later sessions for Vee-Jay Records in Chicago, studio musicians accompanied him on most of his recordings, including Eddie Taylor, who could handle his musical idiosyncrasies. "Boom Boom" (1962) and "Dimples", two popular songs by Hooker, were originally released by Vee-Jay.
Beginning in 1962, Hooker gained greater exposure when he toured Europe in the annual American Folk Blues Festival. His "Dimples" became a successful single on the UK Singles Charts in 1964, eight years after its first US release. Hooker began to perform and record with rock musicians. One of his earliest collaborations was with British blues rock band the Groundhogs. In 1970, he recorded the joint album Hooker 'n Heat, with the American blues and boogie rock group Canned Heat, whose repertoire included adaptations of Hooker songs. It became the first of Hooker's albums to reach the Billboard charts, peaking at number 78 on the Billboard 200. Other collaboration albums soon followed, including Endless Boogie (1971) and Never Get Out of These Blues Alive (1972), which included Steve Miller, Elvin Bishop, Van Morrison, and others.
Hooker appeared in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. He performed "Boom Boom" in the role of a street musician. In 1989, he recorded the album The Healer with Carlos Santana, Bonnie Raitt, and others. The 1990s saw additional collaboration albums: Mr. Lucky (1991), Chill Out (1995), and Don't Look Back (1997) with Morrison, Santana, Los Lobos, and additional guest musicians. His re-recording of "Boom Boom" (the title track for his 1992 album) with guitarist Jimmie Vaughan became Hooker's highest charting single (number 16) in the UK. Come See About Me, a 2004 DVD, includes performances filmed between 1960 and 1994 and interviews with several of the musicians.
Hooker died in his sleep on June 21, 2001, at home in Los Altos, California.
Awards and recognition
Among his many awards, Hooker was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. He was a recipient of a 1983 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. He was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He is also inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame.
Two of his songs, "Boogie Chillen" and "Boom Boom", are included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. "Boogie Chillen" is also included in the Recording Industry Association of America's list of the "Songs of the Century".
- Best Traditional Blues Recording, 1990, for I'm in the Mood, with Bonnie Raitt
- Best Traditional Blues Album, 1995, for Chill Out
- Best Traditional Blues Recording, 1998, for Don't Look Back
- Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, 1998, "Don't Look Back", with Van Morrison
- Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, 2000
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|1949||"Hobo Blues" / "Hoogie Boogie"||Modern 663||—||5 / 9||—|
|"Crawlin' King Snake" / "Drifting from Door to Door"||Modern 714||—||6||—|
|1950||"Huckle Up Baby" / "Canal Street Blues"||Sensation 26||—||15||—|
|1951||"I'm in the Mood" / "How Can You Do It"||Modern 835||30||1||—|
|1958||"I Love You Honey" / "You've Taken My Woman"||Vee-Jay 293||—||29||—|
|1960||"No Shoes" / "Solid Sender"||Vee-Jay 349||—||21||—|
|1962||"Boom Boom" / "Drug Store Woman"||Vee-Jay 483||60||16||—|
|1964||"Dimples" / "I'm Leaving"||$tateside SS 297||—||—||23|
|1992||"Boom Boom" / "Homework"||Point Blank/ Virgin POB 3||—||—||16|
|1993||"Boogie at Russian Hill" / "The Blues Will Never Die"||Point Blank/ Virgin POB 4||—||—||53|
|"Gloria" (remake) / "It Must Be You"||Exile VANS 11||—||—||31|
|1995||"Chill Out (Things Gonna Change)" /
|Point Blank/ Virgin POB 10||—||—||45|
|1998||"Baby Lee" (remake) / "Cuttin' Out" (remake) /
|Silvertone ORE CD 21||—||—||65|
|"—" denotes a release that did not chart|
|1967||House of the Blues||Marble Arch MAL 663||—||—||34|
|1971||Hooker 'n Heat||Liberty LST-35002||73||—||—|
|Endless Boogie||ABC ABCD-720||126||||—|
|1972||Never Get Out of These Blues Alive||ABC ABCX-736||130||—||—|
|1989||The Healer||Chameleon D2-74808||62||—||63|
|1991||Mr. Lucky||Point Blank/ Virgin 91724-2||101||—||3|
|1992||Boom Boom||Point Blank/ Virgin 86553-2||—||—||15|
|1995||Chill Out||Point Blank/ Virgin 7243 8 40107 2 0||136||3||23|
|1997||Don't Look Back||Point Blank/ Virgin 7243 8 42771 2 3||163||3||63|
|1998||The Best of Friends||Point Blank/ Virgin 7243 8 46424 2 6||—||4||—|
|2002||Winning Combinations: John Lee Hooker & Muddy Waters||Universal 008811264628||—||6||—|
|2004||Face to Face||Eagle ER 20023-2||—||3||—|
|2007||Hooker (box set)||Shout! Factory 826663-10198||—||14||—|
|2015||Two Sides of John Lee Hooker||Concord 888072375970||—||12||—|
|"—" denotes a release that did not chart|
- The Blues Brothers on Maxwell Street (Chicago) outside Aretha Franklin's restaurant (1980)
- John Lee Hooker & Furry Lewis DVD (1995)
- John Lee Hooker - That's My Story DVD (2001)
- John Lee Hooker Rare Performances 1960–1984 DVD (2002)
- Come See About Me DVD (2004)
- John Lee Hooker: Bits and Pieces About … DVD and CD (2006)
- Eagle & LeBlanc 2013, p. 190.
- "John Lee Hooker biography". Johnleehooker.com. Archived from the original on May 28, 2011. Retrieved February 19, 2011.
- In the 1920 federal census, series T625, Roll 895, p. 235, in the city of Tutwiler, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, Supervisor's District 2, Enumeration District 87, Sheet #29 A, line 25, enumerated February 3, 1920, John Hooker is one of nine children living with William and Minnie Hooker. John is listed as 7 years of age at his last birthday. If this is accurate – and if his birthday is August 22, as he claimed – he was born August 22, 1912.
- Dahl 1996, p. 115.
- "John Lee Hooker Biography". johnleehooker.com.
- "Rolling Stones 100 greatest guitarists". Rolling Stone. December 18, 2015.
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- Brian McCollum, "John Lee Hooker to get year-long 100th birthday tribute", Detroit Free Press, May 1, 2017.
- Palmer 1981, pp. 242–243.
- Murray 2011, p. 24: "In 1928, Will Hooker Sr. and Jr. made a profit of twenty-eight dollars" from farming, making his death in 1923 impossible. sfn error: no target: CITEREFMurray2011 (help)
- U.S. Census, Series T625, Roll 895, p. 235, in the city of Tutwiler, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, Supervisor's District 2, Enumeration District 87, Sheet 29 A, Lines 18–19, enumerated February 3, 1920.
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- Oliver 1968, p. 76.
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- Wogan, Terry (1984). Shoes Off the Record. New York City: Da Capo Press. pp. 116–18. ISBN 0-306-80321-6.
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NLL eyes city for expansion team
The National Lacrosse League is interested in bringing an expansion franchise to Oklahoma City, according to a report in The Oklahoman. The report quoted Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett: We feel that once the sport gets introduced, it will do really well here. Home games would be at the Ford Center, according to the report.
But the thing is where I am in Buffalo we are a boarder city to Canada where there is a huge pool of box lacrosse players. The NLL has not been real successful in alot of cities that aren't either one a boarder city to canada or where there isn't a huge pool of lacrosse players to draw from.
If you have to do alot of flying in for games your lacroose players that drives your cost up so keep that in mind with potential NLL expansion cities. Also NLL teams tend to do better finacially if there owned by a major league franchise and that said major league franchise owns or has full control of the events in said arena. Example Buffalo again, the NLL Buffalo Bandits are owned by the NHL Buffalo Sabres and said Buffalo Sabres have full control of HSBC Arena and the events in that building.
So basically the Buffalo Bandits are paying the Buffalo Sabres rent so there basically paying rent to themselves so they can set the rent price. That helps a NLL lacrosse team on its bottom line. A market to watch is Kent, Washington in the suburbs of Seattle. Many NLL fans think that franchise won't make it including myself for many reason one being the arena is just to small for a NLL lacrosse franchise.
The reason why I mention Kent is a market to keep an eye on hawk174md is because if Kent is successful than maybe the NLL will look at a market like Spokane with a smaller arena.
Oklahoma City is a good size market but the geographical location I personally would wonder about for NLL lacrosse. I would keep an eye on the Orlando Titans if there successful than maybe the NLL will look at Oklahoma City. But with NLL lacrosse it is tricky and market size doesn't seem to mean a hill of beans in NLL lacrosse.
The NLL has burned through alot of markets that are bigger than my Buffalo for many different reasons some that I have mentioned. Examples Portland, San Jose, Anaheim, Chicago, New York City, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Washington, DC, Detroit and Charlotte. I am looking forward to the NLL season in Buffalo in 2010. Let's Go Buffalo
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NLL eyes city for expansion team
The National Lacrosse League is interested in bringing an expansion franchise to Oklahoma City, according to a report in The Oklahoman. The report quoted Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett: We feel that once the sport gets introduced, it will do really well here. Home games would be at the Ford Center, according to the report.[/quote]
If it's anywhere, I think it'll be at the Cox. The Thunder kicked out the Blazers and Yard Dawgz...how they'd let a lacrosse team in is beyond me...
Did anybody think there could be a clash of egos there between the owners of the OKC Thunder NBA and owners of the Blazers and Yard Dawgz so they kicked them out. I don't live in OKC so it is just a guess. Let's Go Buffalo | <urn:uuid:ffb8fa73-edae-406c-b2c3-42a18a3f9bfc> | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | https://www.oursportscentral.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=126221 | 2020-02-18T19:15:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875143805.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20200218180919-20200218210919-00406.warc.gz | en | 0.966579 | 724 |
CAPS-I Conference 2018
- ISP Educational Solutions is the leader for almost 20 years in providing schools all over Canada the software to manage their international students, homestays, and agents.
- Customer support and product development are provided by a team of over 20 people, part of a larger organization including Round13 Capital.
- Our company shareholders are Bruce Croxon, a well renown Canadian entrepreneur, television personality and Remus Lechintan, CEO of ISP Educational Solutions and RoundAssist, part of Round13 Capital, who has an experience of over 20 years in the Services and IT industry.
- We take pride in having Paul Robinson the founder of ISP Database, and currently, Ambassador of ISP Educational Solutions to share with us all the experience he has gathered over the 20 years while working closely with schools all over Canada dealing with international students.
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Congratulations SIA - way more than 200 hosts!
I've been following the number of hosts on SIAPULSE for a while
the network's number of hosts seem to be on a good path growth wise.
What we need now is stability in the various areas of the client/wallet AND some good inventions to have sotrage demand boosted and made easy for consumption for the hosts to provide capacity for - that was the ideas from the fouding fathers I think :-)
I'll follow any activities in that area closely :-) ..
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On Wednesday, Samsung launched its new smartphone, ‘Galaxy A70’ in India. The smartphone was first launched globally last month. The smartphone is a part of the new ‘Galaxy-A series’. The new Galaxy A series includes Galaxy A10, Galaxy A20, Galaxy A30 and Galaxy A50 which are already launched in India. There is also Galaxy A40 and Galaxy A80 which are also expected to launch soon in India.
Galaxy A70 is the first Galaxy A series smartphone in India to use a Snapdragon processor. It is also the first smartphone in India with a 20:9 display aspect ratio.
The latest smartphone sports a Super AMOLED Infinity-U Display, Triple Camera Setup, Snapdragon 675 SoC, 4500 mAh Battery and much more.
Top Highlights of Smartphone:
The main highlights of the smartphone are Super AMOLED Display, Snapdragon 675 SoC, USB Type-C and One UI.
Samsung Galaxy A70: Price in India, Sale Date and Offers
- Samsung Galaxy A70 price in India is Rs. 28,990 for the 6GB RAM/128GB internal storage variant. It will come in Black, Blue and White colour options.
- The smartphone will be available for purchase via Samsung e-Store, Samsung Opera House, leading e-commerce portals and retail stores starting May 1.
- Pre-booking starts from April 20 till April 30.
- Pre-booking offers include Samsung U Flex Bluetooth headset at Rs. 999 which is worth Rs. 3,799.
Samsung Galaxy A70: Specifications and Features
Now coming to the specifications, Galaxy A70 sports a 6.7-inch Super AMOLED Display with 20:9 aspect ratio and Full-HD+ (1080×2400 pixels) resolution. Based on Android 9.0 Pie on the top of One UI, the phone runs on 2GHz octa-core Snapdragon 675 processor with Adreno 612 GPU. It comes with 6GB RAM option. The smartphone has the support of Dual-SIM (nano+nano+microSD).
In optics, there is a triple rear camera setup, the first camera includes a 32MP sensor with f/1.7 aperture, the second camera includes an 8MP 123-degree ultra-wide angle sensor with f/2.2 aperture and the third camera includes a 5MP depth sensor with f/2.2 aperture.
On the front, there is a 32MP sensor with f/2.0 aperture. The phone has LED flash on the back.
When it comes to storage, the smartphone comes with 128GB internal storage with the support of microSD upto 512GB. Connectivity suite of the smartphone includes Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth v5.0, GPS, NFC, GLONASS and USB Type-C port. The sensors on board the handset are accelerometer, gyroscope, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor and in-display fingerprint sensor. Galaxy A70 battery capacity is 4,500mAh with the support of 25W Super fast charging. The handset measures 164.3×76.7×7.9mm and weighs 183 grams.
The smartphone pack a lot of features which are listed below:
- The smartphone sports Full-HD+ Super AMOLED Infinity-U display.
- 3D Glasstic design at the back in which a prism effect will give visual flair.
- Samsung Pay wit NFC payments support.
- Samsung Knox support for device security.
- Samsung Pass which can be used to login into apps and sites by the fingerprint sensor.
- Samsung Health and Bixby support.
- In-display fingerprint sensor.
- Face unlock feature.
- NFC support for payments via Samsung Pay.
- Camera features include Night mode, AR Emoji and Selfie Focus.
- Scene Optimiser camera feature which analyses the scenes across 20 modes and enhances the photos by adjusting the colour, contrast and brightness
- FM radio support.
- Widevine L1 certification.
The Samsung Galaxy A70 is a mid-range premium smartphone. It comes with an elegant design and a bezel-less display that compliments the overall look. The processor is strong enough to handle a number of functions as we have seen on Redmi Note 7 Pro.
Talking about the competition in this price range of around 29K, the real competitors of this smartphone are Poco F1, Vivo V15 Pro, LG G7 ThinQ, Asus Zenfone 5Z and Nokia 8.1. So, the competition in this price range is comparatively low.
If compared with the competition, the smartphone is offering a feature like Super AMOLED Display panel, In-display fingerprint sensor, bigger battery, Samsung brand value, 25W fast charging, Triple cameras, etc.
Overall, We recommend Samsung Galaxy A70 to buy in this price range. However, at the time of writing this article, our first recommendation will be Poco F1 (Flash Review).
Note: These are my initial impressions of the smartphone. For Full Flash Review, Stay tuned with our Instagram Page.
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Offering a seasonal outdoor pool and spa centre, La Dolce Villa is set in Formello in the Lazio Region, 20 km from Rome. Viterbo is 46 km away. Free WiFi is featured throughout the property and free private parking is available on site.
Facilities of Guesthouse La Dolce Villa
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lady in the water
the man in the moon (w/ reese witherspoon not the other one!)
the white diamond
murphy's romance (lol)
going in style
i'll even stick in he's not that into you, the title's great anyways, but no clips really available. gene sak's brighton beach memoirs has no hits on youtube.
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2000 Chevy Silverado Trailer Wiring Diagram – People today understand that trailer is a vehicle comprised of rather complicated mechanisms. This vehicle is designed not only to travel 1 place to another but also to take heavy loads. This article will be discussing 2000 chevy silverado trailer wiring diagram. What are the advantages of understanding such understanding? You will be surprised to understand it.
To begin with, understanding the diagram of cables for trailer will be useful during troubleshooting. When issues occur with the trailer, driver might wish to understand where the problem place can be located. It will help immediately in fixing errors. Second, knowing the diagram of wires for trailer is great for those who wish to try gathering for themselves.
Learning Trailer Wiring Diagram Better
Normally, there are three types of diagrams which people can have a look at when planning to assemble wires such as trailers. Each cable has different function and layout so it’s important for motorist to match the needs before deciding on one.
- 7-Pin Connector
This 2000 Chevy Silverado Trailer Wiring Diagram model is much more acceptable for sophisticated trailers and RVs. It can transfer electricity better hence the connector is suggested for higher-level electric in the vehicle. Here is the diagram for 7-pin connector.
- White Pin to your ground.
- Brown Pin for unwanted markers, tail lights, and running lights.
- Yellow Pin for left brake light and left handed mark.
- Green Pin Yellow Pin for appropriate brake light and right turn markers.
- Blue Pin for electric brakes.
- Red 12 volt auxiliary power.
- Purple for copy lighting.
- 5-Pin Connector
This 5-pin trailer wiring diagram is very good for trailer which has large capacity. But, it does not have as sophisticated and electrical consuming features that RV and other costly trailers may have. Below is the configuration to get 5-pin connector for improved understanding.
- White wires for ground power.
- Brown wires for conducting lights, tail lamps, and side markers.
- Yellow cables for abandoned brake signal and left turn too.
- Green cables for right brake sign and right twist too.
- Blue wires for electrical brakes so the automobile can function much better.
- 4-Pin Connector
There’s a very fundamental 2000 Chevy Silverado Trailer Wiring Diagram. It’s the 4-pin connector. This kind of connector is perfect for customer trailers. It should not be carrying significant loads during the journey. Besides being light, it’s recommended that the connector does not have any power-draining accessory. The basic diagram for the connector is rather similar to aforementioned types.
- White cables for any power that occurs on the lighting.
- Brown cables for virtually any running lights, rear lights, and peripheral markers.
- Yellow cables for almost any left brake signal and left sign turn.
- Green cables for any appropriate brake sign and appropriate signal turn.
Driver should note several things linked to the diagram, though. These items will prevent driver from encountering any electric problem during utilization. It is advisable that the white cable must connect the floor to some white wire on top. Although this sounds tedious, it is going to save consumer from hassles in the future.
There’s another thing linked to diagram however is particularly concerning routing. A way to wrap it around the trailer can be very intriguing. It’s because the wire will have the ability to distribute power to additional trailer’s components in equal manner. Wires should be safeguarded by material that is powerful and durable but does not interfere with its working.
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If you like wild animals, we are sure that you will love this new Animal games category, in which dear friends you will see how hard is the life of a big and wild lion. In this game, you will have the chance to be one of these lions, a lion that have to hunt but, even dough it’s considered the king of the jungle, you will have to be very careful, because you will see that there will be a lot of animals like rino’s that will fight your lion, and you will not be able to win this battle. You will have to feed your lion in this 3D game, and so you will have the chance to gain points in this game. For starters, you will have to hunt down chickens and little sheep that will be in the wild, and so your lion will be fed and you will have the chance to become one of the best predators here on games-kids.com, where you will see new online Animal and 3D games from your favourite categories. Have fun!
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Eight Hartford residents recently completed Leadership Greater Hartford's (LGH) Quest Program:
• Siling Deng, Senior Actuarial Assistant, The Phoenix Companies
• Ivelisse Maldonado, EDGE Senior Consultant, Travelers
• Katelyn Morgan, Board of Directors, Organized Parents Make a Difference
• Jodi Palerma, Business Project Leader, Cigna
• Lauren Rose, IT Leadership Development Program Participant, Travelers
• Rashia Schand, IOLDP Participant, Travelers
• John Soos, Supply Chain Specialist, Pratt & Whitney
• Steven Yanicke, IT Engineer, Travelers
Quest is the most recognized community-based leadership development program for professionals working throughout the Greater Hartford region, a landmark initiative of LGH for more than three decades. The program brings together rising and established professionals from the corporate, government, nonprofit, academic, and small business sectors and provides them with the opportunity to build the skills, contacts, and knowledge of the community needed to be effective in their careers and their communities.
The 11-month Quest program kicks off with an orientation and retreat in January and ends in November with class presentations and commencement. Quest consists of workshops, field experiences and, central to the program, a community service learning component that partners with various nonprofits in the Greater Hartford region. Through hands-on community projects, Quest participants work in teams and learn the tools and insights needed to become collaborative leaders, think creatively, act collaboratively, and take purposeful risks. This real-world experience is invaluable to assuring positive leadership growth and development.
Rashia Schand, IOLDP Participant, Travelers, shared that this "Quest journey has been amazing; I worked with a phenomenal group of leaders who brought their unique experiences and skill sets to the table. I was able to take little nuggets from each of them that I can apply in my journey towards becoming a future leader. I'm so glad I had the opportunity to be part of such great work." Schand, along with Maldonado, worked on the Helping the Homeless in Hartford task force. This group worked to strengthen resources and opportunities available to Hartford's homeless population in order to reduce the number of homeless.
Morgan, Palerma, and Yanicke worked on the Hartford Rocks! team, which successfully developed a concert that incorporated different genres of rock and roll. The 2014 concert took place in Bushnell Park and became a fundraising concert benefiting youth music and arts programs in Hartford.
Soos worked on the Empowering Employment taskforce, which developed a sustainable program to aid individuals with intellectual disabilities seeking employment; Rose was part of the Chronic Student Absenteeism taskforce, which raised awareness about the importance of education and being present in school to achieve post-secondary success; and Deng participated on the iQ2 team, which is working to raise money to buy picnic tables for Bushnell Park in an effort to create a hub of activity for residents and visitors of Hartford that reinvigorates the city and showcases the iQuilt plan and the city's cultural assets year-round.
Leadership Greater Hartford is accepting applications and nominations for those interested in Quest 2015. The class begins in January. To ensure enrollment in the Quest 2015 class, apply now. Applications must be submitted as soon as possible. For more information contact Ana Valentin-Jackson, Program Director, at (860) 951-6161 x2200 or e-mail email@example.com.
Leadership Greater Hartford is the most comprehensive nonprofit community leadership organization in the country. It provides leadership training to individuals ranging from high school students to retirees, with community service projects featured in most programs. These projects and the program graduates continue to have lasting impact in the Hartford region. For more information about how to be a participant or sponsor, or to inquire about customized training with Leadership Greater Hartford, call 860-951-6161 (x1800), email firstname.lastname@example.org, visit www.leadershipgh.org, or like them on Facebook. | <urn:uuid:b4d36d4c-64b2-4aa6-9687-3d25126a5fad> | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | http://www.courant.com/community/hartford/hc-ugc-article-hartford-residents-complete-the-quest-of-a-li-2014-12-02-story.html | 2017-02-25T10:11:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501171706.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104611-00023-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935848 | 835 |
A success story witnessing the validity of the GISELA WP3 methodology is the porting of Industry@Grid applicationon the GISELA Grid infrastructure. In the context of a Memorandum of Understanding between EPIKH and GISELA, Luiz Rossi, from the Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca (CEFET-RJ) of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), has spent one month at INFN Catania to learn Grid technology and to "gridify" the Industry@Grid application. At the end of this period the application was successfully ported to the Latin American Grid and Luiz came back to Brazil with the expertise to spread the Grid paradigm within his organization and country.
The Industry@Grid ShopScheduling application uses LiSA (http://lisa.math.uni-magdeburg.de/) routines to solve scheduling problems representing decisions that manufacturing industries face on daily or weekly basis. Business restrictions such as due dates, machinery availability, operations precedence's among other, can be modeled to represent factory floors. The application solves the scheduling problem to help the decision makers to plan the production in order to respond to market demands on time, trying to keep costs down so the company can generate bigger profits or charge cheaper prices. These decisions are hard to take due to the computational complexity to solve this kind of problems to optimality. Although many different heuristics available generate good solutions, they may not be close to the absolute maximum in the space of parameters. Neighborhood searches may find local maxima and stop execution while significantly better solutions may exist. The use of grid computing allows researchers and practitioners to experiment and run the application millions of times that otherwise could take months running on a single desktop machine. One of the latest experiments was run with a sample of one million problems. It was designed to run on 150 CPU cores, with an average solution time of 11 CPU hours. The total computational time was 1650 hours (more than 2 months). Although the results were not optimal, they are close to the benchmark solution, yielding considerably good results in an affordable amount of time for the industry. The application is designed to work in parallel solving millions of instances of the same problem but in a different fashion. From an initial problem, the application is capable of generating random initial solutions and to apply neighborhood search algorithms to improve each different solution. After execution, the results are filtered and only the better solution is brought back to the user (and a log reporting all the objectives found, so a graphic can be drawn and different analysis made). The dissemination of this approach may allow not only better solutions for companies' shop scheduling operations, but also substantial economies in hardware and software investments. | <urn:uuid:a2b3612d-ba80-40cb-b638-c9b225b0315b> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://gisela-gw.ct.infn.it/success-stories-industry-grid | 2017-11-23T16:21:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806844.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20171123161612-20171123181612-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.929803 | 559 |
A real life version of the online game, this would be a fun way to get the family off the electronic devices and spend some time together. This Bejeweled Game is just $8.88 and ships for free with a qualifying order of $35.
- When you earn 3 coins of the same color; it’s a triple; earn 3 triples before anyone else to win
- Match gems in a real version of the addictive online Bejeweled game
- Earn coins for matching gems
- Win by earning 3 sets of 3 coins
- Includes 84 gems; 7 power gems; 7 scoring coins; bag; game base and instructions
It’s the real-world version of the addictive online Bejeweled game. Swap and match twinkly gems and earn coins by matching 3 or more gems.
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Blackjack, also known as twenty-one or Pontoon, is one of the most popular casino card games in the world. Much of blackjack’s popularity is due to the mix of chance with elements of skill, and the publicity that surrounds card counting (keeping track of which cards have been played since the last shuffle). Blackjack’s precursor was vingt-et-un (“twenty-one”), which originated in French casinos around 1700, and did not offer the 3:2 bonuses for a two-card 21.
When blackjack was first introduced in the United States it wasn’t very popular, so gambling houses tried offering various bonus payouts to get the players to the tables. One such bonus was a 10-to-1 payout if the player’s hand consisted of the ace of spades and a black Jack (either the Jack of clubs or the Jack of spades). This hand was called a “blackjack” and the name stuck to the game even though the bonus payout was soon abolished. As the game is currently played, a “blackjack” may not necessarily contain a jack at all.
Blackjack hands are scored by their point total. The hand with the highest total wins as long as it doesn’t exceed 21; a hand with a higher total than 21 is said to bust. Cards 2 through 10 are worth their face value, and face cards (jack, queen, king) are also worth 10. An ace’s value is 11 unless this would cause the player to bust, in which case it is worth 1. A hand in which an ace’s value is counted as 11 is called a soft hand, because it cannot be busted if the player draws another card.
The goal of each player is to beat the dealer by having the higher, unbusted hand. Note that if the player busts he loses, even if the dealer also busts (therefore Blackjack favors the dealer). If both the player and the dealer have the same point value, it is called a “push”, and neither player nor dealer wins the hand. Each player has an independent game with the dealer, so it is possible for the dealer to lose to one player, but still beat the other players in the same round.
The minimum bet is printed on a sign on the table and varies from casino to casino, and even table to table. The most common minimum in the U.S. is $5 although these games can be difficult to find on the Strip in Las Vegas. After initial bets are placed, the dealer deals the cards, either from one or two hand-held decks of cards, known as a “pitch” game, or more commonly from a shoe containing four or more decks. The dealer gives two cards to each player, including himself. One of the dealer’s two cards is face-up so all the players can see it, and the other is face down. (The face-down card is known as the “hole card”. In European blackjack, the hole card is not actually dealt until the players all play their hands.) The cards are dealt face up from a shoe, or face down if it is a pitch game.
A two-card hand of 21 (an ace plus a ten-value card) is called a “blackjack” or a “natural”, and is an automatic winner. A player with a natural is usually paid 3:2 on his bet. In 2003 some casinos started paying only 6:5 on blackjacks; although this reduced payout has generally been restricted to single-deck games where card counting would otherwise be a viable strategy, the move was decried by longtime blackjack players. | <urn:uuid:a42f4fad-cd41-437f-a2fe-cb9e7ebcd484> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://bestbetcasinox.org/about-blackjack/ | 2019-07-18T00:22:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525483.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20190718001934-20190718023934-00051.warc.gz | en | 0.979617 | 781 |
1 strip of Card Stock + Scallop Tag Topper Punch=Quick & Cute Valentine Treats
Love the simplicity of these cute little Valentine Treats to make for your kids, grandkids, neices, nephews or students.
How to Make Valentine Gifts for the Kids
- Cut a 2" x 8-1/2" piece of card stock. I used Coastal Cabana.
- Score at 3-1/4, 3-3/4", 7, 7-1/2"
- Punch with the Scallop Tag Topper Punch at the end closest to the 7-1/2" Score Line to form a flap.
- Stamp. I used the Love You to the Moon Stamp Set.
- Stamp a Tag. I used the Oh Goodie Stamp set and punch with the Duo Tag Punch.
That's it! Make enough for the classroom. They are so quick and easy to make and the kids will love them.
Here's a view of the back of my Scallop Tag Topper Valentine Treat Holder.
Place a sweet treat inside.
Yum, Yum! The Kids will love these.
Stamps: Love You to the Moon, Oh Goodie
Paper: Coastal Cabana, Very Vanilla
Ink: Baked Brown Sugar, Tangerine Tango
Accessories: Retro Fresh Designer Washi Tape, Silver Bakers Twine
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What's Inside Johnson & Johnson's Pharmaceuticals Business?
Mar 12th 2013 6:33PM
Updated May 9th 2013 2:20PM
When it comes to health care companies, there's no bigger name than the largest firm in the business: Johnson & Johnson .
What doesn't J&J produce? From pharmaceuticals to consumer care goods to medical devices, this major medical player has it all. That can make it tough on investors trying to understand this highly diversified company, however: With so many parts, what do you need to keep an eye on? To get a grip on this colossus of the health care sector, let's take a look at Johnson & Johnson and the company's top pharmaceuticals powering its revenues today.
Rising to the top
Anything related to J&J's pharmaceuticals has to start with Remicade. The anti-inflammatory biologic is the engine to this company's drug sales, pulling down more than $6 billion in 2012 alone at year-over-year growth of nearly 12%. This drug has crushed expectations and keeps on rising.
Merck , J&J's partner on Remicade, turned over the marketing rights to the drug in certain geographic areas back in 2011, fueling J&J's share of the revenue. Remicade doesn't face a patent expiration until 2018 in the U.S. and 2014 in Europe and Japan; its status as a biologic, rather than a chemical compound, should also impede generic drugmakers from stepping in to launch competition too quickly. Remicade might not be able to keep this level of growth up with such high sales, but it's a safe bet to keep powering the foundation of J&J's pharmaceutical revenue for the next few years.
Johnson & Johnson's pharmaceuticals are more than just Remicade however, even if the drug takes the spotlight today. Fellow immunology drug Stelara has put on a show worthy of any growth investor's attention recently as sales swelled nearly 39% in 2012 to exceed the $1 billion mark. This drug, used to treat severe plaque psoriasis, was estimated early last year to hit peak sales of more than $1.5 billion by 2016, but its surge could send sales far over that mark.
Stelara has also shown effectiveness in combating symptoms of Crohn's disease in clinical trials. While the drug's still being evaluated as a treatment option, if Stelara is ever approved to fight Crohn's -- an inflammatory bowel disease afflicting more than 1 million people -- J&J could see the drug's sales soar.
Some of J&J's former blockbuster heavyweights are on the way down due to generic competition, such as neurology drugs Concerta and Risperdal. However, new blockbuster arrivals have risen to take their place. Oncology drugs Velcade and Zytiga both grew significantly last year -- the latter by a whopping 319% to $961 million. Zytiga has picked up expanded approval as a pre-chemo prostate cancer drug from the FDA recently, and peak sales could hit up to $1.8 billion. While Zytiga's facing tough competition -- Medivation's own prostate cancer drug and rival Xtandi is predicted to reach peak sales of up to $2.2 billion -- the drug still should help J&J stay on track.
Leading the sales of today
With Remicade as its foundation, Johnson & Johnson's pharmaceuticals business is in good hands in the near future. Promising growth stories like Stelara and Zytiga offer blockbuster power in coming years, and with a pipeline full of tomorrow's cash cows, J&J's drugs are on the right track.
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(Quin Hillyer, Liberty Headlines) With passage of a law protecting American families from imposition of foreign-law doctrines in state courts, Texas this week became the 11th state to ensure that only American laws will apply in American domestic courts.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday signed the Texas Foreign Law Procedural Protection Act – a slightly slimmed-down version of similar laws either passed or under consideration across the country. Often dubbed “anti-sharia” laws, these “American Laws for American Courts” (ALAC) efforts would protect against judges imposing any foreign doctrine – not just sharia – which violates American constitutional rights.
Most such conflicts of legal doctrine occur in family-law disputes – child custody battles, for example – where at least one of the parties claims to be guided by foreign cultural or legal practices. The Texas law, in fact, is narrowly tailored specifically to cover foreign child custody judgments and child custody arbitrations, rather than applying more broadly.
But as sharia doctrines – female subservience and the like – are most often at issue in just these sorts of court battles, the Texas law is still seen by its advocates as a major advance, even if not fully following the model of other ALAC laws.
Earlier this year, Arkansas had become the 10th state to adopt ALAC protections, joining Tennessee, Louisiana, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Washington. (South Dakota and Florida also have laws that are somewhat similar, but not truly ALAC, according to ALAC’s main national sponsors.)
The most prominent organization pushing ALAC bills, the Center for Security Policy, produced a 2015 study called “Shariah in American Courts: The Expanding Incursion of Islamic Law in the U.S. Legal System.” CSP reported 146 cases in 32 states in which a party to litigation attempted to have the matter resolved by applying sharia, rather than the statutes of the state in question – and more than two dozen cases where judges either at the trial or appellate level actually ruled sharia trumped U.S. statutes. The CSP web site says that such rulings “have often resulted in a denial of equal protection to American Muslim women or children seeking justice in American courts.”
“We’ve been working on this issue in Texas since 2011 – and they have sessions only every other year, so if we hadn’t won this time, we would have had to wait two more years,” said Chris Holton, CSP’s vice president for outreach, in an interview with Liberty Headlines. “So we’re thrilled.”
In addition to the ALAC laws passed this year by Arkansas and Texas, two other states passed legislation aimed at related issues this year. Tennessee passed a “Freedom to Report Terrorism Act,” which immunizes, against lawsuits alleging discriminatory intent, individuals who in good faith report suspected potential criminal or terrorist activity. Florida, meanwhile, passed a law allowing greater means for recovery of civil damages against terrorists.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, which some critics accuse of pushing an agenda in tune with radicalized Islamists, strongly opposed the Texas law and other similar ones, saying such legislation “demoniz[es]” their beliefs and promotes “Islamophobia.” In printed material, CSP responds that its laws protect the rights of Muslims, too, and that the laws are religiously neutral. Also, it says the model ALAC law “specifically says that the law cannot detract from the right to free exercise of religion, which would include religious courts like Jewish Bet Din or Catholic ecclesiastical courts; and it states that the law would not interfere with compliance with international treaties the U.S. has signed.”
Outside of Christian publications and some coverage in Texas, the Lone Star State’s adoption of an ALAC law has received scant media attention.Click here for reuse options!
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