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Sixty-four Connecticut companies made this year's Inc. magazine list of the nation's 5000 fastest-growing private businesses, with a Norwalk-based provider of backup and disaster recovery services scoring the highest, at number 38.
Datto, Inc., founded in 2007 in a basement, had revenues of $8.8 million in 2011, according to the Inc. ranking. The firm added 68 jobs in the last three years, and now employs 75.
"Our solution is now used across the globe by thousands of customers to ensure their critical business data is backed up," Austin McChord, Datto's founder and CEO, said. "We firmly believe we have something special here at Datto, and we are focused and committed to our mission to provide the world's most reliable and advanced backup and disaster recovery solutions."
Datto's has more than 4,000 clients in North America and Europe, McChord said.
In addition to topping the Connecticut ranking, Datto also was the fastest growing business in the security industry in the country.
The ranking is based on revenue growth from 2008 through 2011. To be considered for the list, companies must have generated revenue by Mar. 31, 2008; generated at least $100,000 in revenue in 2008; generated at least $2 million in revenue in 2011; be a privately-held, for profit company based in the U.S.; be independent and not subsidiary or division of another company.
Other Connecticut companies in the top 10 percent of the list include Inspira Marketing Group (#44), Clarity Software Solutions (#107), Realgy (#180), Bongo International (#289), SCS Direct (#296), OpenSky (#328), Plan B Burger Bar (#370) and FM Facility Maintenance (#440).
Among the Connecticut companies on the list, the largest number were in IT services, at 12, followed by business products and services, at 6 and advertising and marketing, at 5.
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The Cunning Little Vixen, by Rudolf Tesnohlidek.
Place Published: New York
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Date Published: 1985
Description: Color illustrations by Sendack. sq. 8vo, d.w. N.Y: Farrar Straus & Giroux, (1985). First Edition.
Comments: Review copy. Inscribed and signed by Sendak in full on the title page- "For Walter - greetings!"Signed: Y
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6th Annual Report - 2000-2001
The Pollution Prevention Framework
The legislation and policies that form the federal government’s commitment to protect human health and the environment establish a strong pollution prevention framework
The federal government defines pollution prevention as “the use of processes, practices, materials, products, substances or energy that avoid or minimize the creation of pollutants and waste, and reduce overall risk to human health or the environment." The goal of pollution prevention is to eliminate the causes of pollution rather than treat the waste generated. Pollution prevention involves continuous improvement through design, technical, operational and behavioural changes. It also encourages transformations that are likely to lead to lower production costs, increased efficiencies and more effective protection of the environment.
Pollution prevention practices and techniques focus on such areas as substances of concern, efficient use and conservation of natural resources, reuse and recycling on-site, materials and feedstock substitution, operating efficiencies, training, procurement techniques, product design, process changes, product reformulation, equipment modifications and clean production.
- minimizes or avoids the creation of pollutants;
- prevents the transfer of pollutants from one medium to another;
- accelerates the reduction and/or elimination of pollutants;
- minimizes health risks;
- promotes the development of source reduction technologies;
- uses energy, materials and resources more efficiently;
- reduces the need for costly enforcement;
- limits future liability with greater certainty;
- recognizes that waste is a cost that can be reduced;
- avoids costly cleanup in the future; and
- promotes a more competitive economy.
Pollution Prevention Practices and Techniques
- Conserving natural resources and using them efficiently
- Substituting “clean” and “green” materials and feedstock
- Thinking “green” for purchasing, product design and reformulation, process changes, equipment modifications and production
- Reducing inputs and waste; on-site reuse and recycling
- Training everyone in pollution prevention techniques
- Introducing cleaner operating practices
Federal Pollution Prevention Strategy
Pollution Prevention -- A Federal Strategy for Action is the Government of Canada’s policy framework for advancing pollution prevention as the priority approach to environmental protection. Approved by Cabinet in June 1995, the strategy elaborates on government policy and sets priorities for action based on five goals involving partnerships with federal departments and agencies, other orders of government, the private sector, individual Canadians and the international community.
The goals of the Federal Pollution Prevention Strategy include the following:
- Within the federal government: Institutionalize pollution prevention across all federal government activities
- With other governments: Foster a national pollution prevention effort
- With the private sector: Achieve a climate in which pollution prevention becomes a major consideration in industrial activities
- With all Canadians: Provide access to the information and tools necessary to implement pollution prevention practices
- With the international community: Participate in international pollution prevention initiatives.
Federal Pollution Prevention Coordinating Committee
The federal Pollution Prevention Coordinating Committee was established in 1992 and is chaired by Environment Canada. It collectively promotes the implementation of Pollution Prevention -- A Federal Strategy for Action by encouraging the practice of pollution prevention throughout the federal government and with the federal government’s clients. The current committee membership, listed in Appendix I, includes representatives from 11 federal departments:
- Environment Canada
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- Canadian International Development Agency
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada
- Foreign Affairs and International Trade
- Health Canada
- Industry Canada
- National Defence
- Natural Resources Canada
- Public Works and Government Services Canada
- Transport Canada
Progress in Pollution Prevention, the annual report of the Pollution Prevention Coordinating Committee, was first published in 1996. This annual report informs Canadians and government officials of national progress in pollution prevention, highlighting pollution prevention achievements and successes across the country. By relating progress to the five target sectors of the federal pollution prevention strategy and action plan, this report provides a framework for monitoring performance, profiling federal environmental successes and assessing progress made towards the goals of the federal strategy.
Including the members of the Pollution Prevention Coordinating Committee, 17 federal departments and agencies contributed to this sixth annual report (see Appendix II), emphasizing the continued integration of pollution prevention across the federal government and demonstrating federal interdepartmental collaboration. Because of its example as a framework for monitoring performance and reporting on results achieved, Progress in Pollution Prevention has been featured in the Treasury Board Secretariat’s report Managing for Results 2000 as an excellent example of results-based reporting.
National Commitment to Pollution Prevention
Within Canada, federal, provincial, territorial, municipal and Aboriginal governments share jurisdiction for the environment. The Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) is Canada’s premier forum for intergovernmental discussion and action on environmental issues. The CCME comprises environment ministers from the federal, provincial and territorial governments with a mandate to improve environmental protection and promote sustainable development in Canada.
In 1993, the CCME contributed to the evolution of pollution prevention in Canada by releasing the report entitled National Commitment to Pollution Prevention. In May 1996, the CCME again addressed the issue by releasing A Strategy to Fulfill the CCME Commitment to Pollution Prevention. This strategy sets out a shared vision, mission and goal statement, as well as guiding principles for the implementation of pollution prevention by all provinces and territories and the federal government. As part of the strategy, the CCME jurisdictions adopted a common definition of pollution prevention: “The use of processes, practices, materials, products or energy that avoid or minimize the creation of pollutants and wastes, at the source.” As stated in the CCME strategy, pollution prevention is a shared responsibility among governments, individuals and industrial, commercial, institutional and community sectors.
To show its support for pollution prevention, the CCME presents pollution prevention awards annually and maintains a Pollution Prevention Network. The Network serves as a forum for information exchange amongst its members on an ad hoc basis and provides technical support to the CCME Pollution Prevention Awards Program.
The Government of Canada, with stakeholders in the private sector, environmental non-government organizations, communities, labour and academia, is putting pollution prevention into practice through a mix of regulatory, non-regulatory and economic instruments. This includes modernizing legislation and regulations, managing national programs, developing guidelines and codes of practice for industrial operations, establishing Canada-wide Standards for specific substances, supporting voluntary initiatives, ensuring accessibility of tools and information and implementing international agreements.
Key Pollution Prevention Policies and Regulations
2000 - Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999
2000 - Sustainable Development in Government Operations: A Coordinated Approach
1998 - CCME Policy for the Management of Toxic Substances
1996 - A Strategy to Fulfill the CCME Commitment to Pollution Prevention
1995 - Pollution Prevention - A Federal Strategy for Action
1995 - Greening of Government Operations Policy
1995 - Auditor General Act pertaining to sustainable development strategies
1995 - Toxic Substances Management Policy
1993 - CCME National Commitment to Pollution Prevention
1988 - Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1988
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Iglesia de los Jesuitas Sta. Catalina. ascochanga. Argentina
Argentina didn't get to be the second-largest country in South America overnight. Archaeological remains found here date to some 9,000 years BC, left by the ancient Mesoamerican civilization. Early inhabitants were nomads and hunters who followed prehistoric horses and llamas. By the year 1480 AD the Incan empire had stretched to reach northern Argentina and the stage was set for contact.The Europeans came in 1516 with Spanish explorer Juan Diaz do Solis, who claimed the area for Spain and tried to export a river of silver back to Europe. Wealth grew along with the cattle industry and after Napoleon conquered Spain, Argentina declared its independence and set up their own government. That was 1810 AD.Argentina stayed neutral in WWI and for most of WWII, declaring war on the Axis powers only in 1945. Following the war, the country entered into a long chain of military dictatorships with only brief forays into constitutional government. The current president is Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who's been in office since December 2007.Argentina is known for many things but the top of the list belongs to only two -- steak and the tango. Cattle graze on the abundant grasslands and produce some of the best beef in the world. The climate is well-suited for vineyards as well, and Argentina's wines make a fine companion to their steak.As for the tango, it has recently exploded to become a world famous dance with hotspots in every major city on the planet. It started in Buenos Aires in the middle of the nineteenth century, as the city was filling up with a mixture of European immigrants and porteños, people who were born in the port city. They melded their cultures of rhythm and harmony and came up with the tango, which has been described as the ultimate evolution of partnered dancing. And it's a great way to burn off your steak stupor. Food coma begone!Text by Steve Smith. | <urn:uuid:d104edab-2ea6-4b83-a9bf-f10cd84e0d1f> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.360cities.net/image/sta-catalina-jesuit-church-ascochinga-argentina | 2019-07-20T16:31:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526536.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20190720153215-20190720175215-00157.warc.gz | en | 0.965398 | 425 |
It’s a long journey from the hillside farms of Huila, Colombia, to your table at First Watch, with many steps along the way.
- Coffee tree seedlings are planted into moist soil during Huila’s wet season.
- Coffee “cherries” are handpicked by the Mujeres en Café once they reach their ultimate ripeness. It takes approximately 3–4 years for the plant to bear fruit, but it’s worth the wait!
- The “bull’s blood” red fruits are processed at the mill using “The Wet Method” to remove the pulp, producing two beans from each cherry.
- The beans are washed to get rid of the sticky “mucilage.” This process takes 18–24 hours during which the natural sugars liquefy, causing the beans to ferment and build flavor.
- Freshly washed beans are slow dried over several days. Slowly drying the beans is necessary if you want the best tasting coffee… and we do!
- The female coffee farmers take their dried crop to a “bodega” to have the beans inspected by hand. “Bodega” may have a few definitions, but in this case it most closely relates to a warehouse or trading post.
- A thin outer layer, called parchment, is removed, or hulled, from the beans to reveal a pale green bean. It’s still not ready for your coffee cup, but it’s getting there.
- The beans are analyzed for the right size, weight and color. Only the beans that meet the precise qualifications are chosen for the long travel ahead.
- Burlap bags are packed with the beans and trucked to port for shipping. Even this part of the journey could take between 3–4 days.
- The burlap bags travel by sea all the way from Colombia to the Port of Charleston in the United States.
- Finally, the beans are transported to the Royal Cup facility in Birmingham, Alabama, to be roasted. This is where they become the aromatic, brown coffee beans we all love so much.
- Expert tasters conduct “cuppings” to guarantee quality and consistency. It takes a trained (and lucky) individual to taste the nuances of each roast.
- Our well-traveled, exclusive coffee is ground, bagged and shipped to all of our First Watch locations for brewing.
- You say “Yes!” when your server asks if you’d like coffee, and a bottomless pot of Project Sunrise is presented directly to you.
From bean to boat to breakfast, the process couldn’t be done without the people who dedicate their lives to coffee. So, the next time you enjoy a cup, raise a toast them. Cheers! | <urn:uuid:89fb8f1f-dc43-4843-aef4-6b540dbb0039> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | https://www.firstwatch.com/journey-project-sunrise-coffee-bean/ | 2021-04-20T10:28:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618039388763.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20210420091336-20210420121336-00173.warc.gz | en | 0.935198 | 588 |
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Re: [OT] Re: What netbook to you run NetBSD on? (-> netbook.xml)
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Roy Marples wrote:
What doesn't work nicely about azalia on Eee PC? I confirmed that both
playback and capture work, and the volume buttons (Fn+whatever) work as
Well, on my ThinkPad z60m, I have to manually adjust channels to +248
from the default as it's too low. With the default I jack all available
sliders in GNOME volume control and/or equivalent in KDE and XFCE to max
and still can't here anything until I manually adjust in mixerctl AND
get it to save state on shutdown.
Whilst it "works", it's hardly "optimal".
Didn't realize Lenovo was selling Eee PCs now.
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Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering
"While we think of diamonds as very expensive jewelry, they can actually be made using methane and hydrogen. Diamonds are really just carbon, a light and simple element. Their simple yet unique characteristics create significant potential for use in a wide range of purposes, including generation of environmental energy and biological applications," says Professor Mutsuko Hatano.
Hatano joined Tokyo Tech with the goal of developing diamond-based semiconductors for use in power electronics and sensors.
Diamonds, although nonconductive, can be altered to function as semiconductors with the addition of phosphorus and boron. Silicon, the most common semiconductor, is widely used in memory devices and microprocessors. It is also used in power devices. As power devices are key for social infrastructure that facilitates smart grids, high capacity is required. As a result, the demand for high-capacity power production with minimal loss during power conversion calls for the development of new semiconductor materials.
The thermal conductivity of diamonds is 14 times greater than that of silicon, and electrical field resistance is 30 times greater. High thermal conductivity allows the release of heat, which can reduce the size of cooling systems normally required during the generation of increased levels of electric power. High electrical field resistance suppresses power conversion losses. With these characteristics, diamonds are the ultimate semiconductors for electronic devices that require several kilovolts (kV) of power, such as those used in electric vehicles, railways, and power transmission.
Although the formation of diamond-based n-type semiconductors, whose conduction carriers are electrons, and p-type semiconductors, whose conduction carriers are electron holes, has been achieved, the difficulty has traditionally lain in the formation of the lateral p-n junction, which is the basic structure of devices. Collaborating with researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Hatano established a lateral p-n junction, which was then applied to a junction field effect transistor (FET) prototype. This was the world's first high-voltage power device, whose application to power supply optimization in smart grids is significantly reducing environmental impact.
Hatano is now focusing on the development of a diamond sensor, which has attracted attention around the world due to its potential application to biology.
In a diamond crystal, carbon atoms can be replaced by nitrogen atoms to create nitrogen-vacancy complexes (NV centers). Negatively charged NV centers exhibit a magnetic property called electron spin*. Green light radiation causes the emission of red fluorescence. Depending on the magnetic field, fluorescence processes change, and magnetic field strength and direction can be detected. Diamond sensors apply these characteristics, and the imaging of a magnetic field is enabled.
Diamond sensors are superior to other sensors because they allow a wider range of spatial resolution — from nanometers to millimeters — and have a high magnetic sensitivity. Another outstanding characteristic is that while SQUID magnetic sensors conventionally require a low temperature, diamond sensors operate at room temperature.
Diamond sensors enable scalable application to spatial resolution, which is required for the nanometer-level analysis of protein structures, submicron cell measurement applied to drug delivery and immunological testing, and micron-level analysis of medical imaging, medicines, foods, and noninvasive measurement.
Hatano wants to address issues in both the dynamic use of diamond sensors in power device semiconductors and the application of diamond sensors at the nanoscale. In order to do so, she facilitates integration of research in areas such as the life sciences, theoretical physics, materials sciences, and her specialty — electronics and electrical engineering — and promotes collaboration with overseas researchers.
Hatano's research on diamonds is an outgrowth of her general interest in science, something that was sparked during her early childhood. On her fourth birthday, she received Virginia Lee Burton's Life Story from her grandfather. This children's story of the history of Earth impressed her deeply. Hatano's parents both have science backgrounds, and she often talked with her father about things such as which atoms made up the food they were having for dinner. She was also excited by the experiments in her elementary school science class. The professor looks back happily on her childhood. She says that the educational environment at home and school worked well for her, considering Japan's need to compete globally in the field of science and technology in order to compensate for its lack of natural resources.
At Hitachi, Ltd., where she was hired after graduating from university, Hatano was engaged in fundamental research on superconductivity and quantum effect devices for 12 years. During her employment, she also earned her doctorate. She then worked as a project leader in research and development for the commercialization of mobile displays, and projects related to environmental energy electronics.
Hitachi sent her to participate in joint research at University of California, Berkeley (UCB) for three years in 1997. That experience had a great impact on her way of thinking and approach to research. Her specialty was electronics, but she chose to collaborate with a professor specializing in machine engineering. Through the accumulation of research on heat, they deepened their mutual understanding and discovered a new field, something that was extremely meaningful for her.
"Coming from different backgrounds, our discussions had a synergistic effect that led to the establishment of a new field. Changing specializations and jobs is common in Silicon Valley. Through such mobility, technology and know-how are expanded to a wide range of locations. This leads to the establishment of new startup companies," Hatano says.
The professor was exposed to a wide range of stimuli living in a different culture. When she moved to UCB, her firstborn was an elementary school student while her second daughter was in nursery school. At that time, Silicon Valley was experiencing its peak period of new startups. The elementary school attended by her first daughter had students from over ten different countries, reminding Hatano that Silicon Valley was attracting specialists from around the world. The infrastructure, however, was struggling to keep up with the rapid growth in population, and schools had reached capacity. In an effort to counter this, Hatano was involved in the establishment of a new elementary school in cooperation with other companies in the region — HP Inc., Xerox Parc, and numerous startups. Some of the classes were taught by employees from universities, NASA, and major enterprises.
"My daughter's classmate's mother was a professor at Stanford University. She dissected a cow's eye for the students, which wowed everyone. Until then, my daughters had only had the chance to dissect frogs, making that an unforgettable experience for them," Hatano reminisces.
"I came to Tokyo Tech with a clean slate," Hatano says.
The professor moved from Hitachi Ltd. to Tokyo Tech in July 2010, a change she made after deciding to shift her focus to education. Although her work at Hitachi was fulfilling and secure, she chose a completely different environment because she dislikes complacency, opting instead to follow a scrap-and-build life. At first, she felt the stark contrast between private enterprise and university. Sharing her struggle with students, however, she was able to show that, regardless of the occasional ups and downs, anyone could start from zero at any time.
Hatano has a message for Tokyo Tech students. "It has become increasingly important to create new and innovative value rather than simply focus on problem solving. Tokyo Tech students should apply their knowledge to the creation of new value and the design of a new society through cooperation with people specializing in a wide range of fields. With mutual understanding and cooperative competition, things that you simply can't create alone emerge."
To conclude, Hatano reveals a secret. When producing artificial diamonds for sensors, some diamonds become pink. We are not exactly sure why this happens. Naturally colored diamonds are rare and sell for incredibly high prices overseas. In 2013, a 59-carat pink diamond sold for 8.3 billion yen. "I dream of being surrounded by diamonds one day, like 007," Hatano smiles. Her research continues.
The rotation of charged electrons, which can be regarded as a circular current, generates a magnetic field along the axis of rotation.
School of Engineering
—Creating New Industries and Advancing Civilization—
Information on School of Engineering inaugurated in April 2016
The Special Topics component of the Tokyo Tech Website shines a spotlight on recent developments in research and education, achievements of its community members, and special events and news from the Institute.
Past features can be viewed in the Special Topics Gallery.
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By Dr. Benjamin Shaw
This is not another post on Bible reading plans. There are about a thousand different reading plans out there, and I have no intention of adding to the list. What I will say first is that if you really want to read through the Bible in 2015, use a plan that takes you straight through from the beginning to the end. The Bible is one great big fantastic story, and if you’re reading a little here and a little there every day, you lose the plot.
The ESV and the NIV are both now available in what is called a reader’s edition. While I don’t much care for the NIV as a translation, if you do, look into it. What both of these editions do is eliminate the verse numbers, the cross references, and the footnotes. And they put the chapter numbers in a place where they don’t intrude on the reading. If you don’t want to buy one of those, at least get a plain text Bible (no cross references or footnotes). You’ll be surprised how much easier it is to simply read when you don’t have all those distractions on the page.
Third, read the whole thing. By that, I mean don’t skip over the annoying parts, such as the rules for sacrifices in Leviticus, or the censuses in Numbers, of the long lists of names in 1 Chronicles. Don’t puzzle over them trying to find some secret meaning in them, but don’t ignore them either. However obscure they may be, they are part of the story. Having those things in the Bible is a little like having accounts of dish-washing and vacuuming in someone’s biography. Maybe they don’t seem important, but they constitute a regular part of daily life. So these seemingly unimportant things in the Bible have a place.
Fourth, if you miss a day or two, don’t beat yourself up. Just pick up where you left off. If you don’t quite finish in a year, that’s okay.
Here’s to getting the big picture, reading the whole story in 2015.
Editor's note: Dr. Shaw has prepared a one-year Bible reading plan. See/download it here. If you wish to order a Bible from Amazon.com, be sure to go instead to smile.amazon.com and designate Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary as your charity to receive a portion of the purchase proceeds. | <urn:uuid:d5e57955-96a6-47d8-85bc-24c2a5e71cb3> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://katekomen.gpts.edu/2014_12_01_archive.html | 2017-03-31T00:29:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218205046.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322213005-00055-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940787 | 526 |
Lost Job, Lost Credit: A Newspaper Story
One thing we never hear about when journalists get laid off is what happens to their work after they are led out of the building. The leftover work -- notes, databases, even finished stories -- obviously belongs to the newspaper, but when it is published, what is the newspaper's responsibility to the former employee who produced it?
Sure, some reporters work almost exclusively day-to-day, but most have projects on the back burner, or, in the case of award-winning investigative journalist Mc Nelly Torres, on the front.
When Torres learned she was being laid off in May with 29 other newsroom staffers at the Sun-Sentinel, she says one question went through her mind: What was going to happen to her supermarket food inspection story?
I contacted Torres, and she told me she spent several weeks on the project, finding evidence of unsafe food handling and other health violations at local stores. Torres, an Investigative Reporters & Editors board member, had developed a database, tagged along with inspectors, and written most of the piece. She says she asked her editor, Cyndi Metzger, about it and was assured that the story would be published under her name. The day after she was laid off, she went back to the office to do some touching up on the project. When PBS' documentary show Exposé featured Torres in a web piece about the decline of
investigative reporting, she mentioned the project. That's how much she cared about it.
Flash-forward to Sunday. The story was published on the newspaper's front page, but there was no byline on the story at all, which is highly unusual for an investigative piece. At the bottom of the text, it was noted that the article was written by another staff writer (and it had been rewritten, with essentially the same content). Torres was given only a contributing line on the story she'd birthed. Adding insult, the newspaper got her name wrong, leaving out the space between Mc and Nelly. After Torres wrote for the newspaper for four years, you might think they'd remember how her name goes.
She was disappointed but sent what she said was a respectful email asking about the decision to Sentinel Executive Editor Earl Maucker, Managing Editor Phil Ward, and Metzger. She didn't hear back from any of them but did talk with Metzger on the phone. Torres, who is now working freelance, says that Metzger, who didn't answer questions submitted from the Pulp, apologized but offered no explanation.
"That story was a labor of love. What happened to giving credit where credit's due?" Torres asks rhetorically.
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Mary Singleton, PGgrowth’s Program Coordinator, has been a team member at The Hilborn Group since 1998. Her interest in fundraising (and newsletters!) was piqued as a youngster when she helped the local Lions Club establish a Leo Club division for teens wanting to become involved in community service. She actively participated in the fledgling club’s fundraising activities and assumed responsibility for writing the club newsletter.
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Christine Dougherty, being awesome as she is, is sharing some free books with us today. Well, awesome would be sharing one or two free books with us, Christine is giving away FOURTEEN!! That’s not awesome, that Kicks Ass!! So, I’m making 9/3 officially CHRISTINE DOUGHERTY DAY in Shadow World!
You can visit Christine’s Amazon Author Page , or each books individual page – (I found a neat way to share each link so is aesthetically pleasing).
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Lead Engineer - IP Operations (Access/MPLS) #102171
Job Title: Lead Engineer - Access / MPLS
Location: Oahu; 1177 Bishop St
Reference #: 102171
This position is responsible to lead all support operations of Hawaiian Telcom’s MPLS and IP Access based networks. The Lead Engineer Access / MPLS are expected to lead all support of various IP based products such as xDSL, IPVPN, VoIP, FTTP and IPTV. This position will be responsible for all MPLS and Access design and architecture acceptance and deployment into the production network to include interoperability and regression testing. The Lead Engineer will lead and participate in a variety of projects to support network enhancements and operational deployment of new products and access methods including providing design and architecture recommendation on MPLS/Access network based solutions. The Lead Engineer will work in a team environment to support customer CARE, NOC, Field/Central Office Sales, Planning, Engineering and Development organizations as well as providing a lead role in the promotion and development of organizational knowledge within this domain space. This job will also have oversight of alarm correlation, surveillance and reliability of various network elements. The Lead Engineer will be required to take a lead role in outage restoration, escalated trouble, network upgrades and vendor specific trouble tickets.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
30% Provide Tier 2 leadership on trouble tickets requiring escalation to the vendor, detailed analysis or in depth trouble analysis.
- Respond to after hours call outs for network outages and escalated customer trouble on a 24x7 basis.
- Perform release management, software upgrades, hardware support and configuration.
30% Analyze outage/alarm reports, trouble history, and performance reports; recommend proactive measures to prevent/minimize repeat occurrences, and follow-through on recommendations.
- Develop troubleshooting, performance and alarming tools. Work with various support teams to develop preventive maintenance techniques/routines and lower restorable times.
- Conduct maintenance, back ups, patching and upgrading of network elements.
40% Provide technical expertise and consultation on troubleshooting/provisioning processes, EMS, custom technical design/configuration and/or technical product development.
- Create/Enhance documentation including network diagrams, work instructions and process enhancements for support, provisioning & alarming of network elements and supported services
- Lead and/or participate on project teams to drive network transformation.
- Perform design review and acceptance for any production ready deployments
- Perform network interoperability and regression testing
This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities.
- Teamwork - Balances team and individual responsibilities; exhibits objectivity and openness to other¿s views; gives and welcomes feedback; contributes to building a positive team spirit; puts success of team above own interests; able to build morale and group commitments to goals and objectives.
- Design - Generates solutions; translates concepts and information into images; uses feedback to modify designs; applies design principles; demonstrates attention to detail.
- Problem Solving - Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; gathers and analyzes information skillfully; develops alternative solutions; works well in group problem solving.
- Oral Communications - Speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations; listens and gets clarification; responds well to questions; demonstrates group presentation skills; participates in meetings.
- Written Communication - Writes clearly and informatively; edits work for spelling and grammar; varies writing style to meet needs; presents numerical data effectively; able to read and interpret written information
- Organizational Support - Follows policies and procedures; completes administrative tasks correctly and on-time; supports organization’s goals and values; benefits organization through outside activities; supports affirmative action and respects diversity.
- Professionalism - Approaches others in a tactful manner; reacts well under pressure; treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position; accepts responsibility for own actions; follows through on commitments.
- Adaptability - Adapts to changes in the work environment; manages competing demands; changes approach or method to best fit the situation; able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
- Dependability - Follows instructions, responds to management direction; takes responsibility for own actions; keeps commitments; commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals; completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan.
- Initiative - Volunteers readily; undertakes self-development activities; seeks increased responsibilities; takes independent actions and calculated risks; looks for and takes advantage of opportunities; asks for and offers help when needed.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science; or three years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience, required.
- Cisco CCNA or CCNP required. CCIE preferred.
B. Professional Work Experience:
- Must have at least four (4) years of direct work experience with any of the following:
- Alcatel 7x50 and/or 73x0 training/experience and/or certifications preferred
- Adtran TA5000/TA3000 training/experience preferred
- Transport (SONET, Ethernet, Frame Relay, ATM, and/or MPLS) training/experience preferred
- Access (FTTx, xDSL, and/or Metro-Ethernet) training/experience preferred
- Scripting and/or programming (Unix shell, TCL, Expect or Perl) skills preferred
- Specialist or Analyst level work experience in IP Services desired to reflect skills in troubleshooting and problem resolution
- Four (4) years experience in an analytical, report development, use of alarming tools and/or system maintenance desired.
- Working knowledge of various automated system functionality including but not limited to dispatching, trouble isolation & administration, provisioning, facility records, outside & inside plant records, customer records and billing.
- Experience in developing process improvement plans, execution of the plans and measuring results for desired outcome.
- Experience enforcing corporate policies.
C. Computer / Technical Skills:
- Microsoft Office Suite: working experience with the use of all applications from the Microsoft Office Suite to create reports, analyze data, and present information.
- Ability to learn new products and applications as required
- Working knowledge of various automated system functionality including but not limited to dispatching, manpower management, time & task reporting, trouble isolation & administration, provisioning, facility records, outside & inside plant records, customer records and billing
- Working knowledge of outside plant safety practices and procedures
- Working knowledge and experience with WAN/LAN switching, routing, transport, access networks, CPE networking and EMS applications required
D. Certificates and/or Licenses:
- Must possess a valid Hawaii State Driver’s License.
- Able to qualify for D. O. D. security clearance.
- Daytime tour of duty; occasional scheduled night and weekend work.
- Subject to overtime and callout.
- Work may be performed in an enclosed area lacking windows
- Able to operate analytical test equipment such as data analyzers, etc.
- May require late hours and weekends to complete assignments and projects.
- Indoor work - exposed to indoor conditions, dust, noise, dirt, heat, various lighting conditions, etc.
- Ability to manage multiple functions and tasks in a very fast paced environment
- Flexibility to adjust quickly to many moving facets of the job.
- Ability to make quick situational assessments and react accordingly.
- Requires leveraging leadership and a variety of technical skills to work across internal groups as well as with vendors and industry partners to support service offerings and infrastructure capabilities.
- Requires alignment with the Company’s F.A.S.T. Values
o Fierce Resolve - be Focused, Determined, Overcome the toughest challenges
o Aloha Spirit - Heartfelt, Kind, Serve with warmth and humility
o Superior Service - Exceptional, Extraordinary, Strive to provide the very best
o Trustworthy - Honest, Reliable, Make promises a reality
- Requires alertness and attention to detail
- Work may be performed a various locations under varying conditions.
- Requires standing, sitting, lifting/carrying supplies and training materials up to 40 lbs, and reading paper documentation and electronic communications.
- May require traveling to various locations and company branches and departments throughout the State of Hawaii in a timely manner so must possess a valid Hawaii State Driver¿s License.
- May require sitting and/or standing for long periods of time.
- May require identifying and distinguishing colors.
- May require working in confined and dark areas for long periods of time.
- May require identifying and distinguish audible tones/levels and colors.
- Required to meet multiple priorities and project due dates. May require late hours and weekends to complete assignments and projects.
About Hawaiian Telcom:
Hawaiian Telcom (Nasdaq:HCOM), headquartered in Honolulu, is Hawai'i's technology leader, providing integrated communications, broadband, data center and entertainment solutions for business and residential customers. With roots in Hawai'i beginning in 1883, the Company offers a full range of services including Internet, video, voice, wireless, data network solutions and security, colocation, and managed and cloud services supported by the reach and reliability of its next generation fiber network and a 24/7 state-of-the-art network operations center. With employees statewide sharing a commitment to innovation and a passion for delivering superior service, Hawaiian Telcom provides an Always OnSM customer experience.
Posted date: 4 years ago
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Press note on police killings in Jacarezinho
Rio de Janeiro’s public security authorities must
stop relying on lethal interventions as a policing strategy
May 7th – Rio de Janeiro
The Igarapé Institute is deeply saddened by the brutal killing of 25 people, including a law enforcement officer, during a police raid in Jacarezinho, a neighborhood in the northern part of Rio de Janeiro. It is unacceptable that the state government continues to sanction a public security strategy that privileges the use of lethal violence, especially in vulnerable areas. The use of excessive and indiscriminate force puts civilians and public security forces at risk. According to the Public Security Institute (ISP-RJ), Rio police were involved in the killing of 453 people between January through March 2021. In 2020, a total of 1,245 residents were killed during police operations.
For over a decade the Igarapé Institute has supplied data-driven and evidence-led recommendations on how to build more responsible and efficient public security policies. Since 2018, the Institute has released several public security agendas (e.g. “Safer Rio” and “Public Security is the Solution”) advocating for preventive and intelligence-led policing. The Institute repeatedly stresses the importance of the use of proportional force to protect society and public security professionals. The Institute’s publications also underline the importance of treating police officers as guardians, not only as warriors or heroes.
This week’s massacre in Jacarezinho occurs amidst the most severe public health tragedy in the country’s history. More than 400,000 Brazilian men, women and children have died as a result of COVID-19 since it was first declared a pandemic in March 2020. In September 2020, Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court issued an order to restrict police operations in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas to exceptional cases. Their intention was precisely to reduce the indiscriminate use of force against vulnerable communities, especially during the pandemic. The decision was taken within the scope of ADPF (Arguition of Non-Compliance with Fundamental Precept) 635, known as “ADPF das Favelas”. The Court’s decision has been flagrantly disrespected.
The use of extreme force is a result of a failure of oversight and accountability. Rio de Janeiro’s state executive, the governor, commands the police while the public ministry is responsible for oversight over the activities of the civil and military police agencies. Yet just before the Jacarezinho raid, the Action Group Specialized in Public Security overseen by the Public Ministry (GAESP/MPRJ) was shut down. A public security coordination cell was created instead, but it is clear that there are minimal checks and balances over the actions and indiscretions of police.
The rationale for the Jacarezinho intervention is not clear. On the one hand, it was described as an operation to confront a criminal organization responsible for homicides, robberies, kidnappings, drug and arms trafficking and the recruitment of minors. Yet instead of confronting these crimes, the raid left two dozen people killed, several injured, and incalculable numbers of people psychologically traumatized, including minors. Heavy-handed operations rarely erode the power of criminal groups, but rather generate immense pain and suffering and a profound loss of trust.
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Edit- The sheets not eBay auctions, how could they sue anyone for selling something they bought?
Anyone with a Twitter account want to blow them up until they answer why they are doing this?
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Episode 234: “I had no quarrel with it…”
I’d like to apologize for the puns. This was going to be a perfectly fine/awful start to a bloodbath and then I drew our hero leaping through the air like a pincushion and the word “aerodynamic” sprang to mind and it was all downhill from there.
This episode has some of my favorite drawing so far – and I just ruined it with puns. 🙂
The orcs have come a long way visually from their first appearances – but they’re still pretty meta. I think I’ve learned a lot about cartooning in the four years since then. Though I’m certainly slower.
I needed one of the orcs to have a name in this episode and so the newest Patreon supporter Robert gets a shout-out.
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A hive ship comes out of hyperspace directly over the city of Atlantis and transmit's a garbled message. Despite missing data, McKay is able to make out a reference to Dr. Keller's gene therapy and an urgent request for help. On high alert, Col. Sheppard and his team launch a cloaked puddle jumper to investigate. They board the ship to discover the entire crew in stasis, and a prerecorded message from their nemesis - Todd. In it he reveals that he and the crew were stricken with a disease - a complication of the gene therapy developed by Dr. Keller, which they had tried to self administer. Many died and the rest were put in stasis. Now, they need Atlantis's help. After much deliberation, Mr. Woolsey gives the go-ahead. Back on the hive ship Dr. Keller struggles with the complexities of Wraith physiology as the other team members begin to notice something very unsettling - the hive ship itself has somehow been impacted by the disease, with dire consequences for all on board.
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I am taking a day of rest here in the California desert, at the home of a good friend, a retired priest from the Archdiocese of Boston. Here are a few photos (I took a few minutes ago) of the area around where I am staying:
Can you see why I would love to stay here for more than one day?
The Los Angeles Religious Education Congress was exhilarating and a wonderful boost of faith for me and—hopefully—for the tens of thousands who were in attendance.
We at World Library Publications received some sad news yesterday. Please keep in your prayers the repose of the soul of Judy Novak, wife of WLP's editor Michael E. Novak, who died yesterday morning after having lived courageously with cancer for several years. Our hearts are breaking at WLP for Mike and his family. This is a difficult time for us as a publishing family as we move through this time of mourning. If you could, please pause at this very second and pray this prayer with me:
Judy, may the angels lead you into paradise; may the choirs of angels come to welcome you, and take you to the holy city, the new and eternal Jerusalem.
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This is the final episode revolving around the Star Wars Trilogy. This episode is about Return of the Jedi.
C3PO recites the “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” theme song to the Ewoks.
A chicken escapes from an Ewok’s horn similar to that of “The Muppet Show”.
A child licks Han Solo while frozen in carbonite, thus getting his tongue stuck to it, ala A Christmas Story.
Jabba the Hutt is called Alec Baldwin, a jab at the hot-headed actor.
“Mess Around” by Ray Charles is played in a scene, lifted from Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.
R2 wigs out upon seeing the ghost of Obi-Wan similar to the characters from “Scooby-Doo”.
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With gratitude we accept these beautiful titles from Little Pink Dog Books to feature on the blog; showcasing enormous talents in the authors and illustrators that created them. One thing is certain – they are all sumptuously heart-warming stories, and a little fun, adventure and possibility don’t go astray either. Four latest picture books to get lost in…
Where’s Lucky? is a playfully written account of a rascally swamp wallaby and the other joey rescues, carefully hand-reared by Theresa and Tony at Our Haven Wildlife Shelter in Victoria. Author Jacqui Halpin and illustrator Sandra Severgnini combine to blend cheerful text and pictures that match the bouncy and spirited nature of their star, Lucky. Amongst the life-like, bright and colourful drawings and truth behind the words, this book captures an effervescent verve, energy and movement that sees Lucky causing havoc in the kitchen, hiding in the laundry basket or sleeping in the chook pen when he’s meant to be united with the mob. Hence the title and fun, repetitive phrase, ‘Where’s Lucky?’ The story brings an important awareness of the tireless work required to raise orphaned joeys, from keeping them warm, fed and washed, with space to grow and develop as healthy wallabies. Much emotion abounds throughout, from amusement and joy, awe and a bittersweet sadness when it’s time for them to leave. Parents and caregivers reading Where’s Lucky? to young children also have the opportunity for discussions around wildlife safety and care with the inclusion of valuable tips at the end of the book. With a percentage of royalties donated to the Wildlife Shelter, Where’s Lucky? is an important Australian treasure to preserve. A delightfully charming and cheeky book full of bountiful surprises for children from age three.
To add to the metaphorical beauty flying from the pages of this book, I can undoubtedly admit to the flutter felt in my heart upon reading Window of Hope. A view from a window that represents silence and loneliness to the wings of a bird that represent hope and triumph. Something special, something magical happens in this story, and it’s much more than the joy of its happy ending. It never ceases to amaze how much emotion Robert Vescio brings to his stories, and each time he has stolen another piece of my heart. The journey of the protagonist, Max, is exceptional, despite her initial insurmountable sense of despair and angst. Reflected in her thoughts are the one-legged trees outside her window; yearning for change, for growth and for life as the seasons pass by. ‘It felt safe and comfortable… It felt right.’ But this ‘view’ is only Max’s perception of the world. Until a little bird visitor, with one leg, brings possibility and potential, music and a new outlook on the world that she couldn’t see before. Haughton brings an exquisite light that touches the soul through her paintings, especially the pool of emotion reflected in Max’s eyes. The scarceness of joy evident in the lacklustre room is offset by Max’s rousing red hair and small touches, like hanging origami cranes, that provide readers that sense of optimism so vital to the character’s internal journey. Window of Hope poignantly casts promise and a valuable perception that disability is only a state of mind. Just stunning – literally, visually, emotionally.
Six Sleepy Mice, Heidi Cooper Smith (author, illus.), August 2019
It literally does not get any sweeter than Six Sleepy Mice and their house-rummaging antics! In frisky rhyming couplets that make your heart race, readers are invited to chase these six cheeky white mice from the pantry to the laundry hamper, through the wash, amongst the pile of teddies and out the back door. Heidi Cooper Smith deliciously tantalises our senses with her combination of enticing language and realistic quality illustrations that you can almost taste; entwined with lush texture, depth and energy that drag us into the action. Engaging and relevant ‘mousey-type’ verbs, like ‘twitch’, ’scamper’, ‘leaping’ and ‘wriggle’ are cleverly tossed in for preschool-aged readers to add to their vocabulary. Despite the mess and their unwanted presence, there is hope for these intruders with its humane message of gentle evacuation. Six Sleepy Mice is an absolute flurry of fun sweeping across the pages from start to finish.
So much magic awaiting inside The Christmas Garden. Told from the perspective of a grandfather, the narrator reveals all the secrets hidden within his neighbour, a fellow called Dawes’ garden. Plush rhyme by Caroline Tuohey pulls the reader in to this world of breathtaking pine trees surrounding the Christmas-themed adventures of angels, elves, reindeer and a sleigh. Once disguised as still garden ornaments, only to come to life on Christmas Eve ‘when darkness has fallen and shadows are deep’. Of course, Santa Claus (or Dawes) makes his appearance and delights children all over the world with what he does best. Illustrations by Sandra Severgnini charmingly delight with their transcending magnificence of wonder lighting up the pages in sparkles and colour against their backdrops. The amount of detail in this wood-trimmed, nature scene gives a wealthy visual display for young children to pore over. The Christmas Garden is brimming with imagination, joy, adventure and magic, adding another special touch of excitement to young children around Christmas time.
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FROM SHY TO CONFIDENT
Meet Manuj Mili, a 16-year-old boy of Bercape Balichapori village. He was a student of the Bercape LP School who has successfully completed his High School Leaving Certificate Examination (Class 10) this year. Manuj’s association with the AEA dates back to 2011 when we started a child club in his school as part of the ‘Access and Quality Education for Children of Mishing Community’ project in Assam.
The project volunteer remembers Manuj as a very shy boy who would reluctantly participate in school activities after much persuasion. Thanks to the Child Club, Manuj’s attitude transformed from a shy to a confident boy who secured 1st division in the recent Matriculation examination.
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If you are charged with a misdemeanor or felony following a domestic violence case, there are complications that will develop afterward. Defending domestic violence charges can lead to a variety of outcomes, but chances are that you will have to face consequences regardless of the outcome of your case. Know what to expect with this brief guide.
- Restraining Order: The court may place a no contact order on your following you case. This will mean that you cannot visit or speak to your partner or spouse. It is important that you comply with this rule, as defying it could lead to further complications and charges.
- Restriction On Firearms: Following your charge, you may not be able to purchase or own a firearm. The judge, along with your domestic violence attorney, will be able to explain the details of any restrictions and their duration.
- Child Custody Assessment: If there are children involved in the case, the court will carefully evaluate your custody situation. Since 30 to 60% of children living in homes with domestic violence suffer abuse and neglect, it is essential that the judge and attorneys consider their physical and psychological well-being.
- Difficulty With Employment: Depending on the severity of your domestic violence charge and your line of work, you may lose your current job and find it difficult to secure employment in the future. Be sure to speak to your lawyer about what your employment options will be for the time being.
- Further Expenses: In addition to any legal fees you need to pay, you may have fines required as part of your conviction. Be sure to pay these, as not doing so could jeopardize your financial future even more.
By finding the best possible domestic violence lawyer for your case, you will not have to interpret these consequences alone. They will help in defending domestic violence charges and handling the aftermath. Your attorney will also assist in interpreting the domestic violence laws in your state, as these are not consistent nationally.
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First Chapter, First Paragraph, is a meme hosted by Bibliophile by the Sea. Anyone can play — just copy the first paragraph of the first chapter (or prologue) and include a picture of the book cover. Leave your link at Bibliophile by the Sea. Today’s intro and teaser are from a book I’ve started out of turn and may not be able to put down until I’m done. I was first introduced to the infamous Dreyfus affair by Paulette Mahurin and her wonderful book, To Live Out Loud. Now, hoping to possibly learn more or at least enjoy an author new to me and a story told from a different perspective, here is the opening from An Officer and a Spy:
‘Major Picquart to see the Minister of War . . .’
The sentry on the rue Saint-Dominique steps out of his box to open the gate and I run through a whirl of snow across the windy courtyard into the warm lobby of the hôtel de Brienne, where a sleek young captain of the Republican Guard rises to salute me. I repeat, with greater urgency: ‘Major Picquart to see the Minister of War . . .!’
We march in step, the captain leading, over the black and white marble of the minister’s official residence, up the curving staircase, past suits of silver armour from the time of Louis the Sun King, past that atrocious piece of Imperial kitsch, David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps at the Col du Grand-Saint-Bernard, until we reach the first floor, where we halt beside a window overlooking the grounds and the captain goes off to announce my arrival, leaving me alone for a few moments to contemplate something rare and beautiful: a garden made silent by snow in the centre of a city on a winter’s morning. Even the yellow centre of a city on a winter’s morning. Even the yellow electric lights in the War Ministry, shimmering through the gauzy trees, have a quality of magic.
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, now being hosted by Ambrosia of The Purple Booker.
Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers! So, from the same book:
The day fades in the window. At seven, the bells of Our Lady of Rouen begin to peal — heavy and sonorous, the noise rolls across the river like a barrage, and when it stops, the sudden silence seems to hang in the air like smoke. p.120
Have you read this book? Other books by Robert Harris? What do you think? Would you keep reading? Leave a comment and a link to your First Chapter, First Paragraph and/or Tuesday Teaser! Thanks for coming by. | <urn:uuid:9968a4b7-3fde-49d6-96fb-7e0b74664687> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://mysmsbooks.wordpress.com/2017/08/01/first-chapter-first-paragraph-teaser-tuesday-an-officer-and-a-spy-by-robert-harris/ | 2019-07-17T10:29:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525136.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20190717101524-20190717123524-00419.warc.gz | en | 0.92717 | 688 |
Grey’s Anatomy is midway through its 12th season, but fan interest doesn’t seem to be waning at all. In fact, on Wednesday, the cast picked up their third People’s Choice Award for Favorite Network TV Drama.
“It's amazing is what it is,” star Chandra Wilson told ET’s Cameron Mathison backstage after the awards show. “It goes to show how devoted our viewers, our fans are to this show, how invested they are in these characters, how much they care about them. Whether they live, whether they die, you know, they are truly invested.”
Wilson is just one of four main cast members who have been on the show since season one, along with James Pickens Jr., Justin Chambers, and Ellen Pompeo, who won her second People’s Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic TV Actress.
“At the end of the day, it's great storytelling,” Pickens agreed. “I mean, folks still want to hear great stories, you know, they follow these characters when they are kind of ugly and they follow them when they're heroic. And I think that it's something that resonates with fans going on now twelve seasons.”
The show has become a bit of a revolving door for new and recurring cast members, as Kelly McCreary -- who joined Grey’s as Meredith's half-sister Maggie Pierce in season ten -- put it, “This show is a vampire, it can't be killed.”
The cast also cited the advent of social media with keeping their viewers involved and engaged in recent years, but admitted that all credit for the show’s longevity goes to creator and showrunner Shonda Rhimes.
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Ready to bend the handwriting rules a little further to create whimsical lettering?
You all did great with altering your letter styles yesterday, with simple changes to the bowls or slant of the letters.
Today we’ll add a touch of whimsy.
This is just one more small step towards creative lettering.
My favorite are swirls/curls. They make the letters and words dance
I also like to add serifs to some letters, or mix italic and basic print.
Allowing the cap height and ascenders to stagger over or just under the cap line, keeps it interesting.
I often add beads (or dots) to the tails of letters, also known as finials or terminals.
Mixing uppercase (majuscule) and lowercase (minuscule) looks random, but actually is methodical and can be done without effecting the readability.
You want to create rhythm, not confusion.
Here are some ways to add whimsy to your handwriting:
Some letters lend themselves to lots of opportunities for little additions.
Others have less variations.
Fill a page or two playing with different styles of print and/or italic letters.
Try a couple of words mixing features.
Don’t worry if the words don’t look like they do in your mind’s eye, this assignment is about experimenting.
Here is my video demonstration for this section:
If you’re just stumbling upon this series, welcome! Here is the introduction where recommended supplies are listed. They aren’t all necessary to start, but if you love lettering, these will be very helpful additions. | <urn:uuid:b4512147-aec3-4cd0-8571-22c6bcce5991> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://creativlei.com/2015/adding-whimsy-to-your-handwriting-loveyourlettering/ | 2017-08-16T23:25:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886102757.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170816231829-20170817011829-00002.warc.gz | en | 0.903914 | 350 |
Colin McDonald and Thomas Vanek replied for the Islanders,
who saw their four-game winning streak come to an end and fell
to 3-1-0 on their six-game road trip. Kevin Poulin stopped 22
shots for his first loss since Evgeni Nabokov was injured.
Barkov opened the scoring 32 seconds into the contest, finishing
a give-and-go with Brad Boyes for the eighth goal of the season.
Shore netted his first of the season on a sneaky shot from the
right faceoff dot and Bjugstad capitalized on a turnover with a
forehand deke to put Florida up 3-0 before the end of the
Upshall extended the advantage with 4:01 remaining in the second
period when he stole the puck from Andrew MacDonald and scored
on a short-handed breakaway. McDonald spoiled Thomas' shutout
bid with 31 seconds left in the second and Vanek added his 16th
of the season 2:38 into the third, but the Islanders could not
pull any closer.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Upshall, 30, has two career short-handed goals in
454 games. His only other one came on March 10, 2007 while a
member of the Philadelphia Flyers. … The Panthers were 0-for-5
on the power play, dropping to 0-for-22 in their last seven
contests. … Islanders captain John Tavares was held off the
scoresheet for the second time in three games and finished with
a minus-3 rating.
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It is not easy to lose weight. People work tirelessly to burn extra pounds, and one thing women who work out do not know is that the rigorous process of weight loss can cause their breasts to sag.
If you have put in a lot of effort in losing weight, and right now you are left with a sagged breast, you don’t need to worry so much because we have a solution waiting for you to discover in this article.
People go through surgery for getting their firm back, but these methods we found, are natural ways of making the busts appear firmer.
- Wearing tight fitting bra
- Doing exercises which target the muscles of the breast
- Use of breast enhancement method to improve the shape of the breast, restore its elasticity and increase the size.
These are some causes of breast sagging, and the ways you can make the tips listed above work for you.
MAKING SAGGING BREASTS FIRM AGAIN
- Work on Your Chest Muscles
A lot of women are scared of doing exercises that build chest muscles because they fear that it would make their bust flat, and give them a masculine look.
Though their fears are not unsupported, it is necessary to realize that chest exercise, when properly done will burn unnecessary fats, but will not make muscles grow in a way that will not make the woman look masculine.
The best way to improve the shape of your breasts is by targeting the pectoral muscles which are located at the base of the chest. Working on these muscles will tighten the ligaments and make them firmer.
- Take good Care of Your Skin
A healthy skin looks and feels better than an unhealthy one. You need to always take care of your skin, especially around the chest. That way, the skin will be more elastic and feel younger. It is true that skin elasticity is often genetically inherited, but taking care of your skin will help improve its condition. To maintain the elasticity of your skin, nourish it with creams and moisturizers that will provide the needed nutrients and vitamins and protect you from damaging rays of the sun.
- Wear Clothing that is Supportive
Though the kind of clothes you wear may not affect the shape of the breasts, it does matter because it improves your appearance.
When you wear bras and clothes that fit the busts properly, they will help keep them in shape, prevent them from falling and help compliment your efforts. Naturally, wearing fitting bra and clothes will help make them look firm and more attractive.
- Drink Plenty of Water
The health qualities of water cannot be overemphasized. Water has Anti-aging and anti-wrinkle properties, and as such, drinking enough water will make your skin look healthier and younger. So, good hydration will help you avoid sagging and also clear acne from your skin.
These methods listed above will help you regain the firmness of your busts after weight loss or childbirth, but they do not work magically. You have to be consistent in doing them, and be patient enough to continue till you start seeing results.
If you have shaded weight, it will take a little more time for your skin to adjust to the new body size, so you need to be consistent and patient.
- Natural Breast Enhancement
Did you know that there are natural breast improvement creams such as Brestrogen that can restore the firmness of your busts and increase their size?
When you apply these creams, they send signals to the glands and cause the ligaments to tighten and become firmer. These creams are safe, so you have nothing to fear.
How Does Weight Loss Affect Your Breasts?
Have you been asking why your breast became sagged and shrunken after you lost weight? The answer to this question lies in the anatomy of the human. At the base, the walls of the chest are lined with the pectoral muscles. These muscles exist in both male and female anatomy. It is the pectoral muscles that men work on obsessively to develop a very muscular chest.
The pectoral muscles are coated with fatty tissues; but in females, unlike males, the mammary glands are fitted into the fatty tissues directly under the skin. The mammary glands have hollow cavities and cells called lobules. The fatty tissues and lobules changes in response to pregnancy and weight gain.
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Letter: Student says books the smarter choice for education
(Editor’s note: Northview Academy ninth grade English teacher Lori Hill had her classroom practice writing formal letters by sending some to local and national businesses. Several chose to write letters to the editor. This letter came later than the others, which were published together on May 27.)
Tablets and textbooks are both very excellent ways to educate kindergarten through 12th graders, but I believe textbooks would benefit children much more.
Tablets are extremely costly compared to textbooks. If a younder child was to drop a tablet and it was to break, then there goes $500.
Textbooks give children the opportunity to learn how to look up what they need to know on their own. In addition, if you look at the tablet too long it can cause headaches and eye problems. Textbooks are and have been doing the job for hundreds of years.
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Whether it’s a cosy hot tub, a full-sized pool or something in between, having a private place to take a dip at home is one of life’s greatest luxuries. There is little that compares to shrugging off the day’s troubles with a few relaxing laps or a good book and the gentle massage of…
The occasional typo wouldn't bother me--I know I have them too, although I proofread every post (there are times I've written, proofed, published, proofed...and didn't catch the typo until I got my post via email). But several typos in a post, in many posts...I'll find something else to read. Same for bad grammar or text-speak; trying to get the sense of a blog post that uses "u" and "lol" and "evry1" all the time would give me a headache.
The way I view my blog is that it is a public representation of who I am, and it's important to me to have enough pride to show myself well.
Ooh I hate text speak. Even when using my Windows Live messenger I don't use chat speak except maybe lol and ttyl. I don't use u or 2 luv or anything else and I certainly don't want to see it in a blog post. LOL is about the only thing I would be okay with in a blog post.
Typos don't bother me as much as obvious spelling/grammar errors. Sometimes I forget to run the spell checker before I hit publish so I must be forgiving of others. I know my thoughts run faster than my fingers can type so I often make typos, I just usually fix them before I hit send.
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Clinical Trials Using Glucarpidase
Clinical trials are research studies that involve people. The clinical trials on this list are studying Glucarpidase. All trials on the list are supported by NCI.
NCI’s basic information about clinical trials explains the types and phases of trials and how they are carried out. Clinical trials look at new ways to prevent, detect, or treat disease. You may want to think about taking part in a clinical trial. Talk to your doctor for help in deciding if one is right for you.
Glucarpidase in Treating Patients with Central Nervous System B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
This early phase I trial studies how well glucarpidase works in treating patients with central nervous system B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Glucarpidase is a type of bacterial enzyme that breaks down proteins and other substances. It may also help activate certain drugs to kill cancer. Giving glucarpidase may work better in treating patients with central nervous system B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
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1. The following are the nations which the LORD allowed to remain, so that through them he might try all those Israelites who had no experience of the battles with Canaan
2. training them in battle, those generations only of the Israelites who would not have had that previous experience):
3. the five lords of the Philistines; and all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who dwell in the mountain region of Lebanon between Baal-hermon and the entrance to Hamath.
4. These served to put Israel to the test, to determine whether they would obey the commandments the LORD had enjoined on their fathers through Moses.
5. Besides, the Israelites were living among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
6. In fact, they took their daughters in marriage, and gave their own daughters to their sons in marriage, and served their gods.
7. Because the Israelites had offended the LORD by forgetting the LORD, their God, and serving the Baals and the Asherahs,
8. the anger of the LORD flared up against them, and he allowed them to fall into the power of Cushan-rishathaim, king of Aram Naharaim, whom they served for eight years.
9. But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, he raised up for them a savior, Othniel, son of Caleb's younger brother Kenaz, who rescued them.
10. The spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel. When he went out to war, the LORD delivered Cushan-risha-thaim, king of Aram, into his power, so that he made him subject.
11. The land then was at rest for forty years, until Othniel, son of Kenaz, died.
12. Again the Israelites offended the LORD, who because of this offense strengthened Eglon, king of Moab, against Israel.
13. In alliance with the Ammonites and Amalekites, he attacked and defeated Israel, taking possession of the city of palms.
14. The Israelites then served Eglon, king of Moab, for eighteen years.
15. But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, he raised up for them a savior, the Benjaminite Ehud, son of Gera, who was left-handed. It was by him that the Israelites sent their tribute to Eglon, king of Moab.
16. Ehud made himself a two-edged dagger a foot long, and wore it under his clothes over his right thigh.
17. He presented the tribute to Eglon, king of Moab, who was very fat,
18. and after the presentation went off with the tribute bearers.
19. He returned, however, from where the idols are, near Gilgal, and said, "I have a private message for you, O king." And the king said, "Silence!" Then when all his attendants had left his presence,
20. and Ehud went in to him where he sat alone in his cool upper room, Ehud said, "I have a message from God for you." So the king rose from his chair,
21. and then Ehud with his left hand drew the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into Eglon's belly.
22. The hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade because he did not withdraw the dagger from his body.
23. Then Ehud went out into the hall, shutting the doors of the upper room on him and locking them.
24. When Ehud had left and the servants came, they saw that the doors of the upper room were locked, and thought, "He must be easing himself in the cool chamber."
25. They waited until they finally grew suspicious. Since he did not open the doors of the upper room, they took the key and opened them. There on the floor, dead, lay their lord!
26. During their delay Ehud made good his escape and, passing the idols, took refuge in Seirah.
27. On his arrival he sounded the horn in the mountain region of Ephraim, and the Israelites went down from the mountains with him as their leader.
28. "Follow me," he said to them, "for the LORD has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your power." So they followed him down and seized the fords of the Jordan leading to Moab, permitting no one to cross.
29. On that occasion they slew about ten thousand Moabites, all of them strong and valiant men. Not a man escaped.
30. Thus was Moab brought under the power of Israel at that time; and the land had rest for eighty years.
31. After him there was Shamgar, son of Anath, who slew six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad. He, too, rescued Israel. | <urn:uuid:44f1a9eb-6e9c-4859-9b14-3a1f8236ee3c> | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | http://www.bibliacatolica.com.br/the-new-american-bible/judges/3/ | 2016-12-04T20:28:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698541396.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170901-00313-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983129 | 1,059 |
How do you write a book, people ask me. Well this is what I do. There is no right or wrong way, just your own way. My way is anarchic and chaotic but it works for me. I cannot understand how most of the following happens, it just does. I will not be holding seminars on how to do it this way - but it is here for your perusal.
1 My editor asks me for a synopsis of my next book. I am not a planner. All I can give her is ‘The lead characters are X and Y and they live in Z. They get together at the end.’ She needs more so I make something up. The finished story will bear absolutely no resemblance to this synopsis.
2 I try to plan my book this time. I take out a fresh block of post-it notes and write some details on them and stick them on a wall. I see the joy in being able to do this and move them around purposefully and I want to employ this process SO much but I can’t make it work for me. The few post-it notes stay on that wall until they either drop off or the dog nicks them to chew on.
3 I start to write. Chapter 1. I break that sea of white with one word and one number – I’m in. I have no idea where the story is taking me but the lines cue up in my head and I just carry on writing until I realise it is time to feed the dog/cat/rabbit/teenage boys or wee. Occasionally I will have an idea about something which might happen further down the line and I jot it quickly down in a notepad. Or, if in the middle of the night, on my arm.
4 I need a title because it has to mean something and the title has to be relevant to the book and blended into it, as surely as sugar is folded into egg-whites to make a meringue. I am always a lot more relaxed when I get the title which either arrives in a blinding flash of inspiration at the beginning or a whirl of panic at the eleventh hour. Usually the latter.
5 About a third of the way in I realise I hate the book. I have no idea what is going to happen next and I don’t know my characters well enough to have any opinion of them other than I hate them as well. I have been here enough times to realise this is not a brick wall but an illusion – it is fog. If I power through it, there will be light on the other side. There always is but in the thick of it, it is scary and I worry that this will be the time when the fog really is a brick wall.
6 At the other side of the fog I am more invested in my characters. I begin to like them a bit and know what makes them tick. They oblige me by helping me progress the plot. Nice characters.
7 I do not edit along the way. I complete the first draft. The first draft might have seven Saturdays in February and Andrew in chapter one has become Darren by chapter seven and Siobhan by chapter twenty-five. Green-eyed Mary might have blue eyes by the end of the book – and possibly brown ones in the middle. I don’t care. I do not edit here.
8 I HAVE COMPLETED THE FIRST DRAFT. TREAT TIME. Sparkling ice wine is ordered. I deserve this lots.
9 Second draft. I make a timeline. Easiest way to do this is by running off a calendar that I can write on, pin point on it where my last chapter ends, then I work backwards. Shape is happening. I now only have 4 Saturdays in February.
10 No title yet? I start to twitch a little.
11 Third draft. Continuity. Mary’s eyes are sorted out. I make sure that the features of my characters are set in stone. Darren is Darren at the beginning, middle and end of the book and maintains his brown hair and 5ft 7” frame throughout.
12 My work goes off to my editor. Whilst waiting for her to come back with her comments, my stomach is in spasm hoping she will not say ‘This is absolute crap, start again.’
13 My editor returns the manuscript, tells me to strip out a murder, cut back on Darren and beef up Mary’s story. It feels a mammoth task. I have to cut, whip out, add in and stitch up my story into a different whole. Somehow this happens.
14 I send it back to my editor sort of assured that we are on the same page (chortle). If we are…. Thunderbirds are go!
15 If that title hasn’t come yet, I am now flapping like a flock of sea eagles. My editor and agent and I bat titles back and forth. I despair. Four hundred suggestions and none of them fit. Some are actually so bad they make me vomit and have bad dreams. We need a title urgently.
16 WE FIND A TITLE. I can sleep. Wine helps.
17 Having had a couple of weeks away from the manuscript, when I see it again I spot mistakes and plot-holes everywhere. I work on getting these right and anchoring that title deep into the story.
18 I then do another draft where I enrich the language, deepen the emotion, this is the fun edit. The one where my creativity can flow. This edit is like the glossy top coat of nail varnish. It is as near perfect as I can get it.
19 Exciting meetings at Publisher HQ. So much goes on behind the scenes – PR ideas, marketing, sales. We sit around a table and they all excitedly tell me what plans they have for the book, which supermarkets and shops have bought them and how many. We plan and plot. It all feels real and wonderful – and we eat buns.
20 The cover comes from the art department and it is always a joy to see it. Except that the artist has usually gone off my initial synopsis, which as we know is full of lies, so a bit of tweaking has to go on.
21 My work goes off to the copyeditor and comes back with a million notes on it. Mostly pointing out glaring errors that I should have noticed, and highlighting awful grammar. She is a marvel. I feel as if she should be writing the book and I should be cleaning toilets.
22 Magic occurs. Something happens to my brain and it turns me into a copyeditor too now. A very anal one. This is usually panic-driven because I am terrified of overlooking errors. I trawl through every word of my manuscript, realising that I have written ‘just’ 42 times on one page. I take ALL the ‘justs’ out: 675. I read it again and have to put some ‘justs’ back in. My copyeditor’s hair turns white. This is my favourite part of the process because someone else reads it objectively in detail and you can work very closely with them as they are the first real pair of proper reader eyes. But you can work too hard on this. My copyeditor tells me it is okay to have a little natural duplication and working through a thesaurus changing every ‘said’ to a different word is counter-productive because the eye smoothes over many words that are doing a filling in job and don’t need to snag the eye. She’s right. Again. As always.
23 I like to look over the finished clean manuscript with all the mistakes ironed out. Still, you always miss a couple because you are poring over it so intensely. My brain now starts to wake me up at 4am. ‘Oy, Darren can’t be found in the park because in chapter 5 you said it was closed for a month.’ I have no idea how my brain does this but in the background it seems to be constantly scavenging for things to torment me with.
24 I start to panic that there is a deadline and I’ve just discovered something that is out of place and it has a knock-on effect to other stuff. That deadline is too close. I have a massive repair job to do suddenly. My record is sitting down at 9am, determined not to go to bed until I had made sure everything was sorted. I was still there at 9am the next morning. I was still there at 15.45 that afternoon. My eyes were out of focus and watering and on the verge of bleeding. I put one foot on the step to go to bed as my son entered and asked if there was any chance of a bacon buttie. The answer was ‘no’. But with more ‘f’ sounds.
25 I back away from the book, off it goes to be typeset. Whilst I am in limbo I can catch up with some jobs like shaving my legs/moustache, talking to the family, drinking something that isn’t espresso. I try to relax and have a day off but I have lost the ability to know what to do with spare time. I start designing bookmarks/bags/pens. I am the Queen of Merchandise for this reason, because I am now obsessed with my book. I trawl the internet for promotional goods that will look good with a sunflower/owl/Christmas pudding on them.
26 The typeset version comes back. I need to have an eagle-eye to spot any errors and really have to try not to alter anything that does not need to be altered. Yes, ‘packed’ would have been a better word that ‘put’, but keep it to the absolute bare minimum please. No one else will be thinking, ‘I’d have put packed there myself if I’d written that not put.’ I spend 15 minutes worrying if a sentence makes sense when a reader’s eyes would just drift across it. My stress levels are spiked. I spend half an hour looking at the word ‘was’ and thinking it looks as if it is spelled wrong.
27 By now I am so sick of Mary and Darren I wish they’d jump off a cliff. Familiarity breeds contempt.
28 The typeset manuscript is prised from my hands. It has to go to be bound into a book. NOW. There is no more time to edit. In the words of Frozen Elsa: ‘LET IT GO’.
29 Another editor has also been looking at the manuscript to make sure all is well. She will flag anything suspicious. I love this woman like my own mother.
30 The book is printed. I see it in all its magnificence and I am thrilled. Another to add to the shelf and I stare at them all and wonder if I really did write all those or am I actually the conduit for a dead spirit who was denied the time on earth and hunted around for a body with a vacant brain to write them for her.
31 Whilst I am preparing to launch the book into the world, I’ve started the next one. The editor asks for a synopsis…
32 The book is sent off to some lucky (I hope) buggers. One can just hope that the first reviews in are nice as they serve as a suit of armour for that first ‘This is terrible. Do not waste your money’, which inevitably comes. I only look at the first reviews to make sure the book is hitting the spot. Yeah course.
33 Mrs Outraged writes a review telling people how appalling my book is and encourages everyone NOT to buy it. I look at her other reviews. If mine is the only one she has commented on, I presume she is an evil twat from my past. But no – Mrs Outraged has 500 other reviews to her name and she has hated the books of every other female writer on the planet, which gives me some comfort. Also she has called the Bible far-fetched and thinks the Brontes were talentless. Although she has given her wart remover 5 stars, so she can be pleased by something.
34 We wait to see the public reaction to my new book baby. Will it make the top 10 - if it does… that’s bliss. The pressure is always on. If it got to number 5 last time, number 4 would be good. But then if JK Rowling has released 7 more Harry Potters on the same week as mine is out… my chances are the opposite of slim – they’re fat!
35 I have a busy schedule of meeting readers, signing their books, having pictures taken with them. It’s a joy, I feel exhilarated. I feel someone. Plus people give me a lot of scones. People feed writers and give them Prosecco.
36 I go home from being feted as an adored queen of romance to find that the cat litter tray needs changing, the ironing needs doing, I have no milk in the cupboard. And I have the next book to carry on writing… | <urn:uuid:691d427a-530d-4521-8d74-8f39f0802a56> | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | http://daftoldbag.blogspot.com/ | 2018-10-18T01:22:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583511365.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20181018001031-20181018022531-00343.warc.gz | en | 0.971634 | 2,744 |
I said NO this week to an appraisal and I wanted to share about it. This might seem like a random post, and maybe it’s just a reminder for me, but I hope there are some takeaways. Any thoughts? I’d love to hear your take.
Here’s a conversation I had:
Loan Officer: Can you appraise a triplex fixer and bring a screw gun to the boarded property so you can get in? We need an “as is” value (note: picture above is not the triplex).
Me: Sorry, but I’m not willing to take a screw gun. I’m handy with tools, but that’s too much liability for me.
Loan Officer: I understand. Can you do an “as is” drive-by appraisal instead?
Me: Honestly, it’s a huge liability to do a “drive-by” on a multi-unit property. I care about my license too. I wouldn’t know the size of each unit, condition, or even bed / bath count. Besides, you just told me it’s a fixer, which means it’s even more important to see how bad it is. I’d have to make big assumptions without knowing these things, and that’s not something I’m willing to do.
Loan Officer: Thanks. I don’t want to put you in a situation you’re not comfortable with.
I have conversations like this quite a bit. People don’t usually have ill-intentions, and I don’t think the loan officer did either. The truth is though despite someone’s innocent request, it doesn’t mean it’s a good situation for me.
1) Saying NO is okay: Sometimes the most professional thing to do is say NO instead of taking on something with too much liability or embarking on a situation that might actually be unsafe. In this case I was concerned about safety because of squatters and not knowing what I might find inside a house like this. I’ve inspected quite a few boarded homes, but I don’t remove the boards or go alone to these properties. Also, what if I didn’t properly close things up? Would any future damage be my fault?
2) Developing a credible value: If we can’t get enough information to produce a credible value, it might be best to not render a value. Sometimes the most professional thing we can say is, “I’d love to help, but in order to serve you I’m going to need __________________. If that cannot happen, then I cannot give you a value.” There is nothing wrong with walking away when we don’t have enough information or a client is asking us to do something we’re not comfortable with. This happens not only to appraisers, but also to agents who are asked to do BPOs on custom homes on acreage (without seeing them or knowing anything about them). Or in other cases we get asked to give a value to something even though we don’t have any clue on the cost to cure a mold problem or some other major thing. Yes, there are times when we need to make assumptions and disclaimers. I understand that and I do it all the time in the right situations. I’m just saying if there are bigger unknowns that could radically sway value, then we might need more information instead of assumptions.
3) Be honest about limitations: There are times when we have to say, “I’m not qualified to take this on”, “I think my colleague might be a better fit (and I can partner with him/her),” or, “I’ve never worked on a property like this before, but here are the steps I’ll take to be sure I become competent.” I know, there are people who think they can value anything. I love the passion, but everyone has limitations, and being aware of that is an okay thing. And if you didn’t get the Liam Neeson quote, it’s from the movie Taken.
Well, that’s what’s on my mind today. I hope it was useful. Who knows, maybe you’ll be inspired this week or next to say NO to something that’s really not a good fit for you. And that’s okay. Heck, it’s actually a good thing.
Questions: When have you said NO to something? Why do you say NO to certain things? What advice would you give to someone who never says NO in real estate? I’d love to hear your take. | <urn:uuid:9f203357-b2f7-4c9a-ab20-62f438fbc6fb> | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | http://sacramentoappraisalblog.com/category/random-stuff/page/5/ | 2020-02-18T06:59:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875143635.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20200218055414-20200218085414-00371.warc.gz | en | 0.953262 | 1,012 |
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Dreamhomekits 30×20 Inch LED Bathroom Medicine Cabinet with Lighted Mirror – Surface Mounted Cabinet with Open Light/Right Design
Presenting our LED bathroom medicine cabinet, the ideal fusion of design, usability, and innovation. This cabinet is made to provide you plenty of room for your bathroom necessities. It has a stylish metal frame and two thick glass shelves. Its elegance and toughness are enhanced by the double-sided mirror cabinet doors and cushioned door hinges.
- Sleek and Sturdy Design: The double-sided mirror cabinet doors, cushioned door hinges, and two 8 cm thick glass shelves are all included in the design of our LED bathroom medicine cabinet. The durability and elegance of this material combination are guaranteed.
- LED lighting that is easily adjustable: The cabinet is outfitted with three dimmable, color-temperature LED lights. You may make the ideal lighting for your needs by adjusting the color temperature in three steps from 3000K to 6400K.
- Defogging and Waterproof: Thanks to our recently developed technology, the mirror surface can quickly reach a temperature of 40°C for a speedier and safer defogging effect. When the lights are turned off, the defogging feature automatically shuts off. Better durability and safety for your bathroom are provided by the waterproof aluminum frame with an IP44 rating.
- Simple to Use: The LED medicine cabinet has two touch control buttons that make it simple and practical to use.
- This LED medicine cabinet is the ideal bathroom upgrade since it combines aesthetic, innovation, and practicality perfectly. Improve your bathroom experience with this chic and useful trick.
Looks great in my new bathroom.
Perfect size, mirrors inside and out, glass shelves. Looks so awesome in my renovated bathroom!
my family lovt it
Purchased this to organize makeup in my bedroom. I would purchase again and have recommended to my friends.
I like that it can be either a surface or flush mount. I also like the mirror surfaces inside. I use it as a medicine cabinet. | <urn:uuid:a0a041b2-5cc9-4f35-adbb-2d22c685eff6> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://dreamhomekits.com/product/30x20-inch-led-bathroom-medicine-cabinet-with-lighted-mirror-surface-mounted-cabinet-with-open-light-design/ | 2023-06-03T01:49:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224648911.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20230603000901-20230603030901-00600.warc.gz | en | 0.914261 | 463 |
Following a brief power outage at one of Samsung's production bases in Kiheung on Wednesday, there was some concern over what impact it would have on the company's production. Looking to put everyone's mind at ease, Samsung says the one hour blackout will not have a significant impact.
That's good news in what's already a tight DRAM market. The blackout hit Samsung's 12-inch Fab 13 and Fab 14 facilities, which are mainly responsible for DRAM and NAND flash production. Fab 13 churns out about 120,000 wafers every month, while Fab 14 pushes out about 130,000.
This isn't the first time a power outage has rocked Kiheung. In 2007, a serious blackout forced Samsung to temporarily shut down six of its production lines, most of which wreaked havoc on the company's NAND flash products. | <urn:uuid:5794bf63-764a-4763-8b16-5fdcc52a5701> | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | http://www.maximumpc.com/print/article/news/samsung_power_outage_wont_affect_memory_production | 2015-04-19T21:15:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1429246639482.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20150417045719-00266-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945405 | 174 |
CJPME Factsheet 180, published November, 2013: In the summer of 2013, the government of Mohamed Morsi was overthrown by the Egyptian Army. This factsheet looks at the circumstances of the coup d'étât and the events leading up to it.
Egypt: Military Rule vs. Elected Government
Was Morsi deposed by a popular revolt?
Not really. It is true that there was considerable popular dissatisfaction with Mohamed Morsi’s inability to lift the economy out of the doldrums. Secular groups had also become nervous about the Islamic slant that Morsi’s party was giving to the proposed new constitution, although another party, Al Nour withdrew its support for Morsi, claiming the new constitution was not Islamic enough. And unfortunately, Morsi governed as if his narrow electoral victory allowed him to ignore the wishes of other major political currents. As a result of these and other factors, large demonstrations opposing Morsi erupted June 30, 2013.
How big were the anti-Morsi demonstrations June 30?: Anti-Morsi forces, including the military, claimed that 13 to 34 million Egyptians demonstrated for Morsi’s resignation, more than had voted for Morsi in the first place. However, writer and long-time Cairo resident Jack Brown sagely notes that the combined surface area of Tahrir Square, adjacent streets and the Qasr Al-Nil bridge is 56,200 square meters. Even tightly packed (4.7 people per square metre), these spaces could not have held more than 264,100. Adding the maximum number of people that may have participated in the other Cairo demonstration, in Heliopoolis in front of the Presidential Palace, 211,000, the anti-Morsi demonstrators in Cairo numbered well under half a million, [i] far less than the 3 million Cairo and Giza citizens who voted for him in even the first round of the election.
However, the military and the remnants of the Mubarak-National Democratic Party power structure had every reason to exaggerate the degree of public rejection of Morsi. This was an essential pretext for the July 3rd military coup, during which Morsi and most of his cabinet were arrested (to be subsequently kept incommunicado until trial in November.) Egypt’s military elite and powerful former regime interests in business and media thereby reasserted their control over Egypt.
Why did Egyptians reject ex-President Hosni Mubarak in February 2011?
Protests erupted January 25, 2011, swiftly growing into massive demonstrations that attracted international attention and eventually led to Mubarak’s withdrawal from office February 11, 2011. Key motives for the protests were:
- Unhappiness with decades of rigged elections[ii]
- Anger over decades of grave human rights violations and oppressive “security” laws.[iii]
- Mubarak family corruption: According to reputable sources, Mubarak and his two sons accumulated $15 to $30 billion in family wealth during his years in power.[iv]
- Tremendous poverty and increasing concentration of wealth.[v] Mubarak’s National Democratic Party was the primary vehicle used by the new business class to consolidate and protect its wealth.
In short, Egyptians sought an alternative to poverty and corruption, but had few instruments other than protest to press for change. While the leaders of Egypt’s armed forces allowed ordinary Egyptians to depose Mubarak during Egypt’s “Arab Spring,” they still hoped to emerge at the top of an amended but still authoritarian post-Mubarak order. (The Armed Forces were miffed over Mubarak’s plan to install one of his sons, rather than a military man, in the presidency.) Within hours of Mubarak’s fall, a group of aging generals—the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF)—assumed control of Egypt, promising elections and a transfer of power to civilian rule.
How did Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood win elections in 2011 & 2012?
Legislative elections (November 2011-January 2012): The elections for Egypt’s parliament, the People’s Assembly, took place in phases between November 2011 and January 2012. They left the Freedom and Justice Party, tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Nour Party, a harder-line Islamist party, in first and second place, respectively.[vi]
Freedom and Justice Party - 235 seats 47.2 %
Nour Party - 121 seats 24.3
New Wafd Party - 38 seats 7.6
Egyptian Bloc - 34 seats 6.8
Al-Wasat Party - 10 seats 2.0
Reform and Development Party - 9 seats 1.8
Revolution Continues - 7 seats 1.4
Other parties - 18 seats 3.6
Independents - 26 seats 5.2
Presidential elections: In the first round (May 23-24, 2012), Mohammed Morsi, the Freedom and Justice Party’s candidate, received 24.78 percent of the vote. Ahmed Shafik, a former Air Force commander whom Mubarak had appointed Prime Minister during the crisis that toppled him, enjoyed the SCAF’s backing and received 23.66 percent. Hamdeen Sabahi—a prominent dissident during the Mubarak and Sadat regimes—was the candidate of the left-leaning Dignity Party and received 20.72 percent. Abdel Fotouh, an independent candidate backed by the Salafist Nour party as well as more liberal Islamist parties, obtained 17.47 percent. Amr Moussa, an independent secular candidate, received 11.13 percent. The other candidates obtained a combined total of 2 percent of the first round vote. These results left Morsi and Shafik as the only candidates in the run-off elections of June 16-17.
Two days before the run-offs, Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court—composed of Mubarak-appointed judges—dissolved the new parliament and ruled that Shafik could stand as a candidate, despite his alleged financial improprieties during the Mubarak years. Notwithstanding these machinations, Morsi emerged with 51.23 percent to Shafik’s 48.27 percent.
Morsi is Egypt’s first president to come to power through elections and also the first not from a military background.[vii]
Were the elections fair?
The left-leaning, centrist and secular currents—still recovering from decades of repression—insisted they needed constitutional guarantees and more time in order to be able to compete safely and effectively in elections. In contrast, the Brotherhood, although technically illegal under the final years of Mubarak, had enjoyed more tolerance, and had been organizing for years in the mosques. As a result, the Brotherhood was much more election-ready. The Brotherhood—with little to lose and everything to gain by early elections—agreed to the election timetable proposed by the SCAF. The balloting itself appears to have been relatively fair.[viii]
Regarding the legislative elections, the Carter Centre noted:
“(T)he strict regulatory environment for civil society organizations, the ongoing implementation of the emergency law and the subjection of civilians to military trials, the repression of political activists, and the stifling of political dissent in the state-owned media led to confrontations between the military and civilians, sometimes resulting in violence. In spite of these concerns and in spite of visible flaws in the election process itself, it is the assessment of the Carter Center’s mission that the results of the parliamentary elections appeared to broadly represent the will of Egypt’s voters.”[ix]
The electoral authorities prevented the Carter Centre from observing the situation on the ground in the critical weeks prior to the presidential elections. The Centre noted that the transition to civilian rule, and the elections themselves, were plagued by the lack of a constitution protecting fundamental rights and ensuring checks and balances of power.[x]
What has happened since the coup?
On August 14, Egyptian security forces killed hundreds of mostly peaceful supporters of President Morsi in Cairo. According to Human Rights Watch, “in dealing with protest after protest, Egyptian security forces escalate quickly and without warning to live ammunition, with deadly results. Thirteen hundred people have died since July.”[xi] SCAF has jailed most of the Muslim Brotherhood leaders, injured, killed or jailed hundreds of its grassroots members and confiscated its assets.
SCAF has appointed 10 retired generals and two police commanders from the Mubarak era as provincial governors.[xii] Mubarak himself was released from prison by the new interim government in August and is under house arrest in a military hospital at the writing of this factsheet.
SCAF has discarded or is now ignoring most of the civilian forces that called for Morsi’s resignation, and in some cases supported the coup.
[ii] Mubarak—a former military officer who had, unelected, assumed the presidency in 1981—had continued in power thanks to rigged elections and the establishment of a vast network of people at all social levels who were beholden to the National Democratic Party for work, services and favours. The 2010 elections that extended his rule for another term were characterized by rampant ballot-box stuffing, armed intimidation of voters, a media crackdown and detentions of political activists.
[iii] An emergency law giving security forces sweeping powers to detain people indefinitely remained in effect from 1981 to 2011, despite Mubarak’s 2005 promise to let it expire. Arbitrary detention and torture of social activists and assaults on protesters were common, and press freedom was restricted. Egypt’s constitution did not genuinely protect fundamental human and civil rights.
[iv] CBC. “Just where does Hosni Mubarak's wealth come from really?.” Feb. 8, 2011
[v] According to a CBC report, Egypt’s Gross National Income was a mere $2000 per family. Human Rights Watch estimated that 40 percent of Egyptian families were under the poverty line. Egyptian labor law inhibited the formation of independent unions and severely restricted the right to strike, leaving Egyptian workers unable to press for a fairer distribution of income. Under Mubarak’s sweeping privatisation policies, families close to his regime appropriated profitable public enterprises and vast areas of state-owned lands. They also acquired monopoly positions in strategic commodity markets such as iron, steel, cement and wood. Meanwhile, hazardous industries grew without effective regulation, to the detriment of public health, while “backbone” industries were allowed to decline.
[vi] BBC News. "Egypt's Islamist parties win elections to parliament." January 21, 2012
[vii] Mubarak had assumed power following Anwar Sadat’s 1981 assassination. Sadat had assumed the presidency after Gamal Nasser died in office in 1970. Nasser had assumed the presidency in 1956 after he put President Muhhamed Naguib under house arrest. Naguib and Nasser had led the Free Officers’ Revolution of 1952, which deposed King Farouk. Nasser took over after an assassination attempt led by the Muslim Brotherhood.
[viii] However, Sabahi, who came third, alleged that the interior ministry had provided 900,000 ID cards to soldiers to enable them to vote for Shafik.
[ix] The Carter Centre, “Final Report of the CarterCenterMission to Witness the 2011–2012 Parliamentary Elections in Egypt”, p. 2
[x] The Carter Centre, “Presidential Election in Egypt. Final Report. May–June 2012.” p 3.
[xi] Human Rights Watch. “Protester deaths not being investigated.” November 2, 2013.
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As the world’s best mountain bikers descended on Fort William for the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Scottish Cycling’s young stars showed the future of the sport is in very safe hands.
In windy conditions, 70 talented mountain bikers caught the eyes of the crowds as they competed for ScottishPower Race Series glory.
Each rider had to qualify for the Mini Downhill final through performances in previous events at Fort William, Comrie Croft, Aberfeldy, Innerleithen and Keilder Forest.
Stewartry Wheelers, a cycling club based in Castle Douglas, were celebrating as their rider Polly Henderson was the pick of the Under 14 defeating hot prospect Tea Jensen in the final.
After a busy weekend of Mountain Biking, Bob MacFarlane, ScottishPower National Youth Racing Series Events Officer for Scottish Cycling, praised the performances of the youngsters.
He said: “With some of the best mountain bikers in the world in Fort William, the young racers involved in the ScottishPower youth series really managed to get people talking.
“It was a tremendous weekend and the series has produced a group of athletes who are well prepared for serious competition thanks to the challenges and competition they face throughout the year. Many will make the step up next year.
“It is a huge showcase event and it is worth remembering that those involved today had to qualify for the event so we were seeing the best of the best in youth Scottish Mountain Biking. Each one of them did themselves very proud, it was a tremendous weekend. “
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Good news, Niners fans: reports out of Santa Clara indicate that NaVorro Bowman is progressing well as he rehabs from surgery to repair the torn ACL in his left knee.
Progressing well, as in he reportedly ran a 40-Yard Dash in the 4.5-second range.
Bowman, if you recall, suffered a gruesome knee injury in the NFC Championship game back in January. He opened the 2014 season on the physically unable to perform (PUP) list and appears to be on target for a late November return, according to CSNBayArea.com.
One may wonder: why is Bowman running a 40-Yard Dash, the headlining event of the NFL’s annual scouting combine, in the first place? And what does it mean for his general prognosis?
On the surface, his blazing 40 time would indicate that the 6-foot, 240-pound linebacker hasn’t lost any speed during his recovery, especially considering he clocked an official time of 4.7 seconds when he tested at the Combine in 2010.
In a larger sense, running the 40-Yard Dash serves as a baseline for testing the strength of Bowman’s surgically repaired left knee.
For a 2012 article on ACL injuries, athletic trainer Anna Hartman told USA Today that high-performance athletes are typically cleared to begin running straight-ahead around the 12-week mark of their rehab programs.
Running in a straight line, however, is only among the first of many evaluations in the protocol required to clear Bowman for football.
“I won’t allow somebody to cut until they’ve shown me they have good strength and hip stability and are tolerating things well,” says Hartman, who previously served as director of performance physical therapy at EXOS (formerly Athletes’ Performance) in Phoenix.
Before he begins practicing, Bowman will likely perform a battery of drills to test his ability to cut, backpedal and change direction at full speed.
Niners head coach Jim Harbaugh acknowledged that Bowman has been running and doing some lateral cutting, but there is still no set timetable for his return. It is unlikely that a 49ers team focused on the stretch run into the postseason will rush their star defensive player back onto the field until he is 100 percent ready to go.
“The work I put in, it’s real,” Bowman told STACK last off-season. “And I can’t fall off, I have to continue getting better.”
Bowman’s faster 40 time presents the question of whether his surgically-repaired left knee is actually stronger than it was prior to the injury.
In addressing rehabilitation after an ACL procedure, Dr. Freddie Fu told USA Today that surgeons are working to make the replacement as close to the original as possible.
“We feel that we are re-creating a knee that is very similar to the pre-injury knee,” said Fu, who serves as chair of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Modern-day innovations in ACL rehab are enabling some of the game’s best players to return with a neuromuscular and proprioceptive edge that athletes in the past did not have. Kansas City Chiefs RB Jamaal Charles rushed for a career-high 1,509 yards in 2012, after suffering a season-ending ACL injury the previous year. This season, Jeremy Maclin of the Philadelphia Eagles is on pace to post career-high numbers in receptions, receiving yards and touchdown receptions after suffering an ACL injury in training camp that sidelined him for the entire 2013 regular season. And less than a year removed from a torn ACL in his right knee, New England Patriots TE Rob Gronkowski appears to have returned to his beastly ways following a monster performance—nine catches for 149 yards and three touchdowns—in Week 8 against the Chicago Bears.
An ACL injury was akin to a career death sentence not long ago. Now, the combination of surgical and rehabilitative advances have enabled recovering athletes to return to their previous—if not higher—level of performance in record time.
For Bowman, a former third-round draft pick who evolved from situational player to a three-time All-Pro linebacker, the fast 40 time is a promising sign that he’ll soon pick up where he left off—as the one of the league’s premier inside linebackers.
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Police: Woman was driving drunk with child in the car
Indiana State Police arrested a woman in Daviess County on Sunday night on a drunken driving charge, and said the woman's 9-year-old daughter was in the car at the time.
Rachel Curry, 31, of Vincennes, Indiana, was charged with two misdemeanors -- drunken driving and drunken driving endangering a child -- and one felony, neglect of a dependent.
In a news release, a state police spokesman said a trooper stopped Curry on East National Highway in Washington because her 2003 Hyundai only had one working headlight.
"Through the course of the traffic stop, Johnson believed that Curry was driving under the influence of alcoholic beverages," the news release stated.
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This is a challenging platform game with the focus on just the platforming.
You play as a king that on unknown circumstances is stuck in a deep cave. On your journey you will dodging lava, spikes and maybe some bugs ;)
The goal is to get out as fast as possible! The clock is always ticking so play smart and chill!
Hope you enyoy it and post your best scores in the comments!
- Added character animations
- Added scene transitions
- Added ways to play the game with different skill levels
- Fine tuned all levels to make them more fair and fun + foliage
- Remade start screen
- Remade the enire last run
- fixed bugs and various improvements!
UPDATE CHRISTMAS EDITION
- Remade all levels to make them more fair and fun
- Added a startscreen and two modes(normal, chirstmas)
- Added new sprites and sound
- Added particle-effects to make it look awesome
- You have longer time to finish the game
- Fixed collsision on lava on the sides
- Patched holes on the top, I think most levels will not be escapable(lv 5 is escapable)
- A message will tell you that you have to hurry up at a certain score, so you you do know why you died.
- Made some levels a little easier
- Made the controls more stiff, but it it also made it easier to control the king
Thanks for playtesting and commenting! Stay awesome!
It's not that bad, Tyroney. Tell ya what, go to play "Action 52" on the NES and come back to me about game mechanics (or lack thereof). :D
When I first tried it out, I REALLY thought my keyboard was messed up (and I mean royally). Turns out it was just very bad programming on the Action 52 cart. Just about unresponsive controls, really bad design. Welp, see for yourself.
In Elastiskalinjen's favor, I did figure out how to do the double jump, but yeah, controls are a little spotty and mapping a little shaky. Needs work - but it's still better than I could do in PICO.
I like it a lot. I think the controls could be a little tighter, but for a short project, it feels nice. The jumpads were really fun once I figured them out.
Also, the screen when the time runs out is a nice touch. The colors change in a jarring way and it looks really cool. But the first time it happened to me, I wasn't sure why I was in a new area. Maybe you could make some sort of indication that time is going to run out soon. Mario games handle this by speeding up the music, for example. Maybe a text effect or something would work well (if you agree that it's a good idea, of course).
I haven't beaten it yet. Gonna try now!
@dw817 yes, it can be tricky but there is many helpful people that can help you with that! I think I will make a puzzle game next! ^^
@KQl1N thanks, ye I think i have forgotten to check collision on the sides on the lava, will fix that!
@Cranzor thanks, I will definitely adding that, it is a great idea!😊
This is a great game, very fun, I always try again and start over every time I lose, I think you nailed it about impressing that on the player :) However, I have to say it's very very Celestish, were you aware of that? :P Congrats for this cool piece, keep improving it!
Thanks for the comment! Yes I am aware on that, but I also take insperation from shovel knight, You Found the Grappling Hook(great obscure indie game, play it) and even some meat boy style challenges :)
I will try to get some time to do that, I also want to create some more games on pico 8! :)
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Enjoy these festive high quality paper bowls for any occasion. Perfect for soup, cereal, dessert, sides and more. Use these plates for a special party or for everyday use. Gives you a quicker clean-up and more time to spend with friends and family.
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Martyr Ayatullah al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr (b. 1353/1935 – d. 1400/1980) was a Shi’a faqih (jurisprudent), exegete of the Qur’an, and thinker, and also he was a political activist in Iraq….
His most significant works include Falsafatuna (Our philosophy), Iqtisaduna (Our economics), and Durus fi ‘ilm al-usul (known as Halaqat).
Al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr was both a religious and a political authority of Shi’a in Iraq. Hizb Al-Da’wat al-Islamiyya, the political party he established with the help of ‘Abd al-Sahib al-Dakhil, boosted its activities among Iraqi Shi’a following the victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran.
The most important political activities of al-Sadr include his issuing a Fatwa forbidding the membership of Muslims in the Ba’th party of Iraq (a party affiliated with Saddam Hussein), holding demonstrations in Shi’a cities in southern Iraq and in Baghdad with the help of his sister, Bint al-Huda al-Sadr. He and his sister were arrested by the Ba’th government, and following their imprisonment they were martyred.
The political and social thoughts of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr are very influential in present Iraq as seen in the leadership of former Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki who was also the head of the Al-Da’wa Party and a follower of al-Sadr.
Al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr was born in Dhu l-Qa’da 25, 1353AH/March 1, 1935 in Kazimiyya. His father was al-Sayyid Haydar al-Sadr al-‘Amili, and his mother was the daughter of al-Shaykh ‘Abd al-Husayn Al-i Yasin. He was the second child in his family.
Pedigree and Family
Al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir’s ancestors were all religious scholars. His grandfather Ayatullah al-Sayyid ‘Isma’il al-Sadr was a great Shi’a authority in the first half of 14th century AH and died in 1338/1920. His pedigree goes back to Imam al-Kazim (a), and his ancestors were Shi’a scholars in Iran, Lebanon, and Iraq.
Al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir’s older brother and teacher, al-Sayyid ‘Isma’il, was also a studious scholar in Najaf who died in 1388/1969 at the age of 48.
His sister Amina Bint al-Huda al-Sadr (a scholar, poet, writer, teacher of fiqh and ethics) was martyred with her brother.
Al-Sadr lost his father when he was 14 and was raised by his mother and brother al-Sayyid ‘Isma’il al-Sadr.
Al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr went to school when he was 5 and finished grade-level studies by the age of 11. He was enthusiastic to learn religious disciplines and continue the work of his father and his ancestors, and with the advice of his two uncles, al-Shaykh Muhamamd Rida Al-i Yasin and al-Shaykh Murtada Al-i Yasin, he began his studies in religious disciplines. He began to study Ma’alim al-‘usul with his brother, al-Sayyid ‘Isma’il, and finished other intermediary texts of the Islamic Seminary in a short time.
In 1365/1946 when he was 12 years old, al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir moved to Najaf with his brother, al-Sayyid ‘Isma’il, in order to study with the well-known scholars of the city. He studied fiqh and usul with Al-Sayyid Abu l-Qasim al-Khoei and al-Shaykh Muhammad Rida Al-i Yasin. He studied Islamic philosophy (Mulla Sadra’s Al-asfar) with al-Shaykh Sadra Badkube’i, and he also studied Western philosophy. It has been reported that he studied Western philosophy with ‘Allama Ja’fari.
He also studied philosophy, economics, logic, ethics, exegesis of the Qur’an, and history. He counts as the founder of inductive logic in the Islamic seminary.
Al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir studied and discussed different materials for about 16 hours a day over the course of his 17-18 years spent studying. He has been quoted as saying that, “I am studying as much as numerous studious students study.” It is reported that he was a mujtahid (expert in fiqh) when he was at his maturity, approximately about 15 years old.
Some of his most important teachers are:
* Al-Sayyid Isma’il al-Sadr
* Al-Shaykh Muhammad Rida Al Yasin
* Al-Sayyid Abu l-Qasim al-Khoei
* Murtada Al Yasin
* Sadra Badkuba’i
* ‘Abbas al-Rumaythi
* Muhammad Tahir Al Radi
* Al-Sayyid ‘Abd al-Karim ‘Ali Khan
* Al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Shakhs
* ‘Abbas al-Shami
Al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir began teaching when he was 20 years old. The first book he taught was Kifayat al-usul. When he was 25, he taught the advanced course of usul al-fiqh, and when he was 28, he taught advanced fiqh on the basis of al-‘Urwat al-wuthqa. He later taught philosophy and the exegesis of the Qur’an.
Sadr had many students during the 30 years of his teaching career. Many of those continued his intellectual, political and social path:
- Al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim
- Sayyid Mahmud Hashimi Shahrudi (the former head of the Judicial System of the Islamic Republic of Iran)
- Al-Sayyid Kazim al-Husayni al-Ha’iri
- Sayyid ‘Abd al-Ghani Ardabili
- Muhsin Araki
- Sayyid Kamal Haydari
- Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Muhri
- Sayyid ‘Abd al-Hadi Husayni Shahrudi
- Sayyid Husayn Husayni Shahrudi
- Muhammad Ibrahim Ansari
- Sayyid ‘Ali Rida Ha’iri
- Ghulam Rida ‘Irfaniyan
- Sayyid ‘Ali ‘Ishkiwari
The works of al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr are scholarly and mostly innovative. They include:
* Fadak fi l-tarikh (Fadak in the history)
* Ghayat al-fikr fi ‘ilm al-‘usul
* Falsafatuna (Our philosophy)
* Iqtisaduna (Our economics)
* Al-Usas al-mantiqiyya li l-istiqra’ (The logical foundations of induction)
* Al-Ma’alim al-jadida li l-usul
* Durus fi ‘ilm al-usul (known as Halaqat)
* Al-Fatawa l-wadiha (Sadr’s essay of fatwas that has a peculiar style)
* Al-Bank al-la-rabawi fi l-Islam (Banks without usury [riba] in Islam)
* Al-Madrasat al-Islamiyya (social and economic issues)
* Bahth hawl al-Mahdi (aj)
* Bahth hawl al-wilaya
* Al-Islam yaqud al-haya (Islam is the guide for life)
* Al-madrasat al-Qur’aniyya (lectures in the topical exegesis of the Qur’an)
* Dawr al-a’imma fi l-hayat al-Islamiyya (the role of Imams (a) in the Islamic life)
* Nizam al-‘ibadat fi al-‘islam (the system of worships in Islam)
* Commentaries on al’Shaykh Murtada Al-i Yasin’s essay of fatwas, under Bulghat al-raghibin (unpublished)
* Commentaries on Ayatullah Hakim’s Minhaj al-salihin
* Commentaries on Ayatullah Khuyi’s Manasik al-Hajj
* Commentaries on the Friday Prayers (Salat al-jumu’a) part of Shara’i’ al-Islam
* Mujaz ahkam al-Hajj (a brief on the rules of Hajj)
Because of his brilliant career in fiqh, usul, and philosophy, and the support of Ayatullah Khoei, al-Sadr came to be well-respected by scholars and laymen, and some people followed him as a marja’. After his political activities and, in particular, the establishment of Hizb al-Da’wat al-‘Islamiyya, more people started following him. However, after the death of Ayatullah Hakim, Sadr asked people to follow his master, Ayatullah Khoei. Nevertheless many people from Iraq and Lebanon followed Shahid al-Sadr as their marja’.
Relations with al-Sayyid Musa al-Sadr
Al-Sayyid Musa al-Sadr went to Najaf in Rajab 1373/ April 1954. His scholarly relations with Shahid al-Sadr began at that time. During 1954-1958, they were together at day and night in Najaf; they went to same classes, discussed scholarly materials, had family relationships with one another, had many common friends and more importantly had consulted with one another in cultural, social and political affairs. Therefore, they were very familiar with one another and planned for more cooperations in the future.
Political and Social Activities
The Establishment of Hizb al-Da’wat al-Islamiyya
Main article: Hizb al-Da’wat al-Islamiyya
After an examination of Iraq’s social and political affairs, some scholars of Iraq at that time, including al-Sayyid Muhammad Mahdi al-Hakim, al-Sayyid Talib al-Rufa’i, and al-Shaykh Mahdi al-Samawi, came to the conclusion that they should establish a political party on the basis of Islamic thought and ideology in order to organize Islamic campaigns and resistance. After a consultation with Shahid al-Sadr, they established Hizb al-Da’wat al-Islamiyya (the Party of Islamic Invitation) in 1377/1958.
Ayatullah al-Sadr set out an agenda for the party based on Islamic values and beliefs. For reasons not commonly known, five years after the establishment of the party, al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr resigned his position, but he asked the other members of the party to go on with their work and promised to support their efforts.
The political and social thoughts of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr are very influential in today’s Iraq which is evidenced by former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki position as head of Hizb al-Da’wa and a devout follower of Sadr.
Jama’at al-‘Ulama’ (The Society of Scholars)
Main article: Jama’at al-‘Ulama’
In 1958, the leftist politician, ‘Abd al-Karim Qassim, came to rule Iraq and opened the doors to communists. As a result, Iraq was dominated by a secular and atheistic atmosphere. Such events moved Shi’a scholars of Iraq to present the social, political, economic, and intellectual programs of Islam in accordance with the needs of the contemporary world. Thus Jama’at al-‘Ulama’ fi l-Najaf al-Ashraf (the Society of Scholars in Najaf) was established whose main members were great scholars including al-Shaykh Murtada Al-i Yasin, al-Shaykh Muhammad Rida Al-i Yasin, al-Shaykh Muhammad Rida al-Muzaffar, and al-Sayyid Mahdi al-Hakim (Ayatullah al-Sayyid Muhsin al-Hakim’s son).
At that time, al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr was too young (about 30 years old) to be a member of the Society, but he worked closely with them; in fact, he wrote their first announcement. One of the most important cultural activities of the Society was the Journal of Al-Adwa’ in 1961; the editorials of the first 5 issues of the journal were written by al-Sadr under “Risalatuna” (Our Mission), and his sister, Bint al-Huda, published some of her articles there.
At the time, al-Sayyid Muhsin al-Hakim, the Shi’a authority of the time, asked al-Sadr to write the book, Falsafatuna (Our Philosophy). The book consists of two parts:
Part one: The theory of knowledge according to modern Western philosophers and Islamic philosophy.
Part two: The Islamic philosophical insight regarding the world, and the rejection of materialist and atheistic worldviews.
Al-Sadr also studied the economic systems of Islam and the Eastern and Western schools of thought (socialism and capitalism, respectively) that resulted in the novel research in Iqtisaduna (Our Economy). This is the best work regarding the Islamic economic system consisting of two parts:
- the economical schools of the East and the West with Sadr’s objections to them.
- a detailed program of an Islamic economical system.
The book was published in 1381/1962.
Sadr’s Support of the Islamic Revolution of Iran
Al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr considered Imam Khomeini’s movement as a window of hope for the Islamic Umma (nation). Thus from the very beginning in 1342/1964, al-Sadr was concerned with the Islamic Revolution of Iran and supported Imam Khomeini.
In Jumada II 9, 1385 AH (October 5, 1965), Imam Khomeini was exiled from Turkey to Najaf. Al-Sadr and other scholars welcomed Imam Khomeini. During the 14 years of Imam Khomeini’s stay in Najaf, al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr had close relationships with him. His famous slogan about Imam Khomeini was “devote yourselves to Khomeini as he has devoted himself to Islam”.
Al-Sadr further supported the Islamic Revolution of Iran by writing the series of Al-Islam yaqud al-haya (Islam is the guide for life) in six volumes, including issues such as the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the power sources of the Islamic government, and the economics of the Islamic society.
Boycott on Joining the Ba’th Party
One project of the Ba’ath regime in Iraq was to Ba’athize the Iraqi education system. The regime ordered the schools and universities to join the Ba’th party. At this time, al-Sadr issued a fatwa forbidding any cooperation with the party. The fatwa clarified the situation for the people, causing them to avoid joining it. An official within the Ba’th party admitted that “al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir [al-Sadr]’s fatwa ruined our project, and nobody—except some coward people—joined the party and cooperated with it.” Thus the Ba’th party knew its major enemy.
Lectures on the Exegesis of the Qur’an
After Al-Sadr completed his courses in fiqh, he began conducting lectures on the exegesis of the Qur’an in order to awaken people in Iraq and prepare them for a revolution. It is not common for a Shi’a authority in Najaf to have lectures on the exegesis of the Qur’an.
The lectures were held two days a week from April 15, 1979 to June 1, 1979 for 14 sessions, but the Iraqi government did not allow the lectures to continue.
The government arrested and imprisoned all representatives of al-Sadr in all the cities of Iraq. Al-Sadr announced the Rajab 16, 1399 (June 12, 1979) as the Day of Objection, and expressed his opposition to the regime. People followed him and stopped working. That night Ayatullah al-Sadr was arrested and sent to Baghdad.
Al-Sadr was asked to stop his support of the Islamic Revolution, but he replied: “I am a Muslim, and I am responsible for the fate of all Muslims throughout the world—not just those in Iraq and Iran. I have to act on the basis of my religious duties that are not restricted to Iran and Iraq. It is a religious obligation to support the Islamic Revolution of Iran and its leader.”
On the same day, Bint al-Huda al-Sadr delivered a lecture in the Holy Shrine of Imam ‘Ali (a) and asked people to go to the streets and object to the imprisonment of Ayatullah al-Sadr. People went to streets, and the Ba’th regime had to release al-Sadr in order to prevent more unrest.
In order to cut people’s relations with Ayatullah al-Sadr, the Ba’th regime sent security forces around his house. The house was under siege for nine months.
During this time, the regime sent its representatives to Ayatullah al-Sadr in order to dissuade him from his path, but he continued to support Ayatullah Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution of Iran.
On Saturday, Jumada I 19, 1400 AH (April 5, 1980) the head of the Security Organization arrested al-Sadr and sent him to Baghdad.
The day after, Bint al-Huda al-Sadr was also arrested. Barzan Ibrahim—Saddam Hussain’s step-brother and the head of the Security Organization—asked Ayatullah al-Sadr to write some words against Imam Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution of Iran in exchange for his freedom. He warned al-Sadr that he would otherwise be killed. Al-Sadr refused the request and said: “I am ready for martyrdom (shahada) and I will never accept your anti-religious requests; my path is what I have chosen…”.
When the regime realized they could not dissuade al-Sadr and his sister from their path, they killed them on Tuesday, Jumada I 23, 1400 AH (April 8, 1980).
When al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr was executed in 1980, his body was surreptitiously buried in Wadi l-Salam Cemetery. After the Sha’ban Revolution of Shi’a in Iraq in 1991, an assistant of Saddam asked him to revenge from Shi’a by destroying their respected cemetery. The regime constructed some roads on the cemetery and destroyed many graves, including al-Sadr’s (it was then located in the middle of a road).
Some people who knew Sadr’s grave marked the place, and with the permission of Shi’a authorities and al-Sadr’s widow, they secretly moved his corpse to the Holy Shrine of Imam ‘Ali (a). They moved the corpse around the Shrine three times and later returned it to Wadi l-Salam and buried it there.
However, when some people learned about al-Sadr’s grave, his companions got worried it would be disrupted by government officials. Again they secretly moved the corpse to a different place (about 1 meter further) in 1997. The corpse was still fresh after 17 years.
Finally in Ramadan of 1427 AH (October 2007), his corpse was moved to the Gate of Najaf in order to make some academic and social institutions around it. This time his whole grave was moved without exhumation. | <urn:uuid:77f8418e-f66f-46d9-b250-1a17962968b9> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | http://www.welayat.org/en/personalities/al-sayyid-muhammad-baqir-al-sadr/ | 2019-08-26T07:20:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027331228.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20190826064622-20190826090622-00345.warc.gz | en | 0.964757 | 4,575 |
By Paul Kennedy
Baby steps are first steps for National Women's Soccer League. At least four clubs that have signed jersey sponsorships for the new women's league that kicks off its first season on Saturday.
-- The Boston Breakers signed a partnership agreement with Ocean Spray Cranberries, which will be their official juice -- as well as jersey sponsor. "This is a fantastic partnership and hopefully one we can build on across the years," said Boston Breakers General Manager Lee Billiard in a statement. "We want to have large corporate companies be part of our Breakers brand and this is a great start, one I am sure will be beneficial for both parties." Boston-Based sports and entertainment agency Altus Marketing and Management brokered the deal.
-- FC Kansas City signed a three-year agreement with TITLE Boxing Club, founded in Overland Park, Kan., as the team’s jersey sponsor. The fitness center has locations in 27 states, including five of the eight NWSL states. “FC Kansas City fans and soccer fans in general lead an active lifestyle and are a perfect match for our fitness clubs," said Tom Lyons, one of TITLE Boxing Club’s founders, in a statement. "We strive to empower women and change lives like the National Women’s Soccer League is doing for these athletes.”
-- Providence Health & Services will be the primary jersey sponsor of Portland Thorns FC, as well as the presenting sponsor in the multi-year deal. Both home and away jerseys also feature a secondary sponsor logo from local retailer Parklane Mattresses on the back of the jersey.
-- Insurance provider Moda was introduced Thursday as the Seattle Reign FC jersey sponsor. The name will appear along with the Reign crest on royal blue home and white road kits.
THORNS LANDS RADIO DEAL. Portland Thorns FC will have all 11 home matches broadcast on Freedom 970 AM. Veteran sports broadcaster Ann Schatz will provide play-by-play with former University of Portland All-American goalkeeper Angela Harrison adding analysis as the broadcast team on Freedom 970 AM.
UNAWARE IN SEATTLE. At Thursday's Media Day, Seattle Reign FC owner Bill Predmore was asked how season-ticket sales were going ...
"I would say probably disappointed that we’re not further ahead on that. Probably part of that is just my expectations were too great going into in. But part of it, quite frankly, is we -- and by that I mean me -- have just not done a great job of building awareness for the club out there. People are still figuring who is the Reign is, what are we all about, so I think our biggest issue is just one of awareness."
MLS P.R. MOVES. Susan Marschall will be Major League Soccer's coordinator of sports communications, handling all soccer information activities, while Lauren Brophy will be manager of corporate communications, focusing on lifestyle publicity and analytics of media coverage, among other non-sports items.
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The World Federation of of Stock Exchanges recently updated it’s monthly measure of stock market capitalization, showing that the total value of equity markets in the 58 countries it tracks has reached an all-time high.
As you can see, the value of global equitites has more than doubled since it’s post-recession low in 2009. Perry writes:
“The global stock market rally over the last five years has added back more than $34 trillion to world equity values since 2009, and demonstrates the incredible resiliency of economies and financial markets to recover and prosper, even following the worst financial crisis and global economic slowdown in at least a generation.”
It’s also worth mentioning, however, that central banks around the globe have kept interest near zero during this period, while bond buying from the fed has also helped boost equity values in the U.S. and abroad. These numbers are also not inflation-adjusted, so it’s unclear whether global stock market capitalization could technically be considered at a record high if inflation were taken into account.
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[No major spoilers up front; I will warn you later when I head into spoiler territory so be cautious if skip-reading ahead]
In high school I went on a road trip with my D&D cadre of friends to the 13th Gen-Con (founded by Gary Gygax) when it was in Racine, Wisconsin. Yes, Gary Gygax was there and we heard him speak (I realize this means nothing to most people). We also discovered that the way most people played D&D sucked compared to the way we played it at home. I later found this suck way of playing to be endemic across lots of role-playing games, even up through the 90's when I'd drop in on them occasionally.
But I was not part of that group of friends and acquaintances exclusively, which itself did not fit the cliché at all – football players, straight-laced straight-A kids that were also relatively skilled at hitting on their female counterparts at nightclubs, a bit of juvenile delinquency here and there, Bob-Marley-cassette-toting-weightlifting-vegetarians-in-man-sandals, preacher’s sons, aspiring photographers, talented soccer players (when soccer wasn’t popular), you name it. But I was never wholly in any one niche at that age; rather I had one foot in all of the cliques to one degree or the other.
This man-without-a-country tendency only grew as I moved on from high school though I gravitated for the most part to the fresh textures, raw energy and the wonderful spectacle of the non-mainstream. To me music in the 80’s was much more about Black Flag, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Minor Threat, the Cocteau Twins, Big Black, Sonic Youth, Nick Cave, The Chills, and Brian Eno as it was any of the 80’s musical references made in the book (I can’t even remember the references in the book because most of the names didn’t ring a bell, though the songs themselves irritatingly did once I YouTubed them).
Rush 2112 is different for me though because it and Rush in general is set squarely in the 1970’s for me. I first heard more of Rush than just the radio hits like "Fly By Night" at a friend's house in junior high after a late guitar jam session when he popped the 8-track for "Hemispheres" in as we crashed on the couch and drifted away to that ethereal album. Later, I not only listened to my vinyl copy of Rush 2112 over and over (and had the poster from the album on my wall along with Einstein in a hammock), I actually saw Rush live on the supporting tour for that album. Ouch. Worse still, I can actually play most of the riffs and chords to 2112, excepting the amazing odd-ball meter guitar solos of course. However, I quit listening in 1981 except for what I heard on the radio now and then – Rush had become big enough to be mainstream and so it fell off my everyday cultural radar at that age.
I felt similarly about the TV and cinematic references – he hits the obvious movies but since I did not own a TV for a good chunk of the 80’s all of the TV references went over my head – yes, having never seen a full episode of Family Ties or Eight Is Enough I apparently mix them up and I had no idea Michael J. Fox was known early on for anything other than his role in the Back to the Future movie trilogy. However, I did watch Twin Peaks live, episode by episode at a friend’s house, and to me that is as much a vital part of that era of TV as any of the standard references but then again Twin Peaks hit in 1990, right when Nirvana still seemed ground-breaking and before Teen Spirit came out and heralded the end of the 80’s for good..
So I’m voicing a complaint here about the incongruity of 80’s musical geekdom depth to the game and lit geekdom depth, which itself runs adequately deep for my tastes (or is my rancor on the musical and TV selection of focus just radical subjectivism on my part, Bananasuit?). It can’t be easily answered by emphasizing the “pop” part of the cultural reference frenzy, as the depth of gaming attribution is anything but surface-level.
And that minor complaint leads to a major observation that I am recusing myself from tackling: How in the world does this book read to anyone not already familiar with late 70’s and 80’s American generally-middle class pop culture? It relates to the age-old tension between the philosophical poles of decreeing that art must stand on its own versus that it must be evaluated in the context of its time and place: Putting aside for a moment whether this is a work of art or not, for anyone that knows this cultural era, Cline’s book really forces one down towards the context-weighted end of that spectrum in strong Duke Nukem 3D fashion.
This problem is actually woven into the storyline of Ready Player One itself, where he contrives a social and ultimately economic obsession with 80’s culture as the explanatory mechanism for why so many people would be interested and able to participate in this Willy Wonka style quest for geek glory and riches. I have tried to imagine that I know nothing of this era and how the story would read but I simply can’t do it. I mention some specifics in the self-indulgent post script below. But I don’t have time to play with myself right now. Sorry, had to get more Duke Nukem into this discussion.
Which leads me to my bottom-line review of Ready Player One, including spoiler material, and wherein I explain how I found it a light-weight romp that was thoroughly enjoyable from chapter two all the way through to the last page. It was like watching True Blood - not on par with say, The Wire, but still a guilty pleasure indeed. The title of the book says it all. “Ready Player One” is what blinks at you in the most classic of early video and arcade games as you ready yourself for another run at it. Reading this book is like playing a game. Many readers I've polled say they like the first half better and then are disappointed in the wasted story potential in the second half. But to me it was like playing out the game to the end - and of course Wade is going to triumph over the dark cynical competing interests and of course the unsung hero gets the girl and saves the planet - what kind of a loving homage to the game experience would it be if it were otherwise? I'd fallen in crush with Art3mis by the end myself!
I can’t help but singling out one scene (the prize-winner though being the playing-Joust-with-a-liche scene in a D&D module that my group actually played through at one point!) that didn’t overtly mention a specific game reference but which strongly triggered a game memory for me. It is the floating club scene in chapter 18 where then-celebrities Wade and Art3mis attend the Ogden Morrow 80’s Dance Party at the Distracted Globe. The description of the scene with the suspended DJ pod at the center establishes the feel of it and then the ensuing combat action immediately invoked in me strong sense memories of hours spent playing the video game Descent, though I had to search for the title online since I couldn’t even remember it and it wasn’t mentioned. If any of you played that game about flying spaceships on a remote mining colony with six degrees of control (unheard of at the time and difficult to get the hang of at first but creating a truly liberating feeling once mastered), re-read that chapter and see if there isn’t some resonance there.
As far as the issue of moralizing at the end about “you kids oughtta get outside in the real world and PLAY!” (something I feel strongly about in RL, actually), any preaching on valuing real life rather than playing games would seem like a silly and unnecessary plug-in to this light work but even that aspect struck me as more an indulgent game-play narrative related to getting the girl (and a positive relationship) in the ultimate sense at the end (in real, not just virtual, life) than it did any real finger-wagging, so for me it fit right into the obligatory warm-glow-of-success ending duties - the equivalent of the never-ending hobbit-hugging scene at the end of the Lords of the Ring movies - and I didn't really notice it much or take it seriously. After all, the kid that was supposed to win against all odds had just won the all-time high score – and the kids that were collectively supposed to win against all odds all won, including, again, in reality, not just in the quest, which itself is the ultimate Easter egg I suppose.
While I went into it with a chip on my shoulder and was feeling nothing but disparaging towards it as other readers began to comment on how much fun it was even during the introduction, once I began to view the book as an offering to immerse myself in a video role-playing game extravaganza, I didn’t bother to compare it to the predictive fantastic imaginings of Gibson or Donaldson – those are real science fiction; this is not. But there is enough of a framework there to hang the game questiness on and allow the American pop culture love to shine through in spades and he provided enough hooks for those of us that are culturally predisposed to dive in for the campy ride.
SELF-INDULGENT POST SCRIPT:
Ready Player One is bizarre in its effect that I assume makes anyone who was young in the late 70's into early 80's feel like a secret club member in one way or the other. Other than the general ensnaring like recognizing video games we played back then or music or movies or TV from the era, here are just a few of the pre-existing specific hooks it leveraged in me as best I can recall:
- I had not literally seen "TRS-80" in print in decades when I first read it in the introduction. A voice in my head blurted out "the Trash 80!". I discredited the author at that point for not being aware of the popular bastardization of it but lo and behold it is not only mentioned later in the book but plays a role in plot development.
- I remember using BBS's, Gopher, Lynx, FidoNet, IRC, etc. and the exciting leaps forward in baud rates on dial-up modems, getting bounced offline when a roommate picked up the line to make a call in the middle of a game or download, so forth. Social media has been around forever; it's just that it's far easier to use nowadays and you don't have to actually use your mind to create the visuals. Curmudgeonliness acknowledged.
- Not only did I used to play D&D for a short stint in high school but in fact for a while I was a DM (no, not a Direct Message). I later sampled Vampire and others, but it wasn’t quite the same.
- I remember lining up quarters on the metal band across the marquis on arcade games (similar to stacking quarters on a pool table) and also walking through an arcade glancing at lines of quarters to estimate wait times on various machines.
- I used to watch Ultraman during the early years of grade school in the afternoons when it was on; we used to play Ultraman outside on the playground and argue about who had the beta-capsule and if Ultraman's red warning light had started blinking yet.
As I read through the book, I increasingly enjoyed the orchestrated feeling of belonging to a secret club - I got so many of the references and details it's frightening. I thought I'd successfully repressed most memories from that era. Cline pulled strings like a master puppeteer throughout.
A final comment on the power of gaming - when I was in Santa Monica recently (I'd never been there in my life) the people that were driving the car said "Oh you have to check out the boardwalk and pier while you are here; it's such an icon" and we turned onto Santa Monica Blvd several blocks uphill from the pier and when I saw it stretched out into the ocean with the carnival rides silhouetted in the afternoon sea glare I got the strangest feeling. We drove down and onto the pier and I heard the click-clack click-clack under the wheels and took in more detail and I got a powerful sense of deja vu until it suddenly hit me that I knew this place because I had played a virtual version of it for untold hours in "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas", running through both mandatory scenarios as well as just free-world playing, on everything from cars to motorcycles to bicycles to walking and running. All of this virtual game play and it was positively uncanny how real my memories felt when I encountered the physical location years later. Maybe someday we all really will have haptic gloves and headsets. | <urn:uuid:b25c70c8-e97d-4906-bb6a-f2e5bcddf31c> | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | http://pbrbookclub.blogspot.com/2011/11/ready-for-easter-eggs.html | 2017-09-25T11:27:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818691476.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170925111643-20170925131643-00044.warc.gz | en | 0.969394 | 2,794 |
Our Opinion: Get over it
It appears a substantial number of liberals consider politics to be not the art of compromise, but a stage for temper tantrums.
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who has a reputation of being among the more liberal Republicans in the Senate, is being targeted by some left-wingers. Her offense? Daring to introduce Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sessions is President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general. He is undergoing confirmation hearings this week.
A liberal protester at Collins’ office in Portland, Me., lashed out at her for supporting “the most racist, homophobic, anti-woman, anti-immigrant person” to be attorney general.
Similar rhetoric is being used to smear several Trump nominees, not to mention the president-elect himself.
Not so long ago — about eight years, actually — another president-elect with many political foes was about to take office. Perhaps liberals today should recall the advice they handed out so smugly to Republicans then:
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‘Floridians who buy health insurance on the individual market for next year will face an average increase of 13.2 percent in their monthly premiums, according to rate proposals unveiled Monday by the state’s Office of Insurance Regulation.
The rate proposals affect all Affordable Care Act-compliant health plans on the individual market, whether they’re sold through the federally-run exchange or not. Small and large group health plans typically offered by employers were not included in the data released by the state.
Fourteen companies filed ACA-compliant plans for Florida’s 2015 individual market, including three new companies that did not participate on the federally-run exchange last year.
Of the 11 returning plans, eight filed average rate increases ranging from 11 to 23 percent, and three filed rate decreases ranging from 5 to 12 percent, the state’s insurance regulator reported.’
‘About 893,000 people or 91 percent of Floridians who bought coverage on the exchange also receive a federal subsidy to lower their share of the premium, according to federal data.
According to the state report released Monday, most insurers propose double-digit premium increases, including the state's largest health insurer, Florida Blue, which announced last week that premiums would increase by an average of 17.6 percent for its exchange plans.
Health First Insurance, which sold 15 types of plans on the ACA exchange in 2014, proposed an average increase of 23 percent for its PPOs plans next year — the highest jump of all companies offering coverage on the individual market, according to the state.
Humana, which offers 35 plans on the ACA exchange, proposed increasing average monthly premiums for its HMO by about 14 percent.
Nancy Hanewinckel, a Humana spokeswoman, said in a written statement that the proposed increases were “primarily driven by underlying cost of services, including physician and provider fees; health care utilization; and increased prescription drug costs, particularly the fast-growing use of high-cost specialty medications, such as Sovaldi for Hepatitis C.’’
Joe Mondy, a spokesman for Cigna, said the company’s proposed 17 percent rate increase was “based on our customers’ 2014 early clinical experience and claims payments, expected medical trend, along with other factors such as the phase out of the government reinsurance program and expectations on the changing risk pool in 2015.’’
Most insurers echoed the explanations from Cigna and Humana — attributing increases to higher-than-expected health costs as a result of attracting customers who previously lacked coverage and are using more services than expected.
They also blamed regulations mandated under the health law, which forbids insurance companies from denying people with pre-existing conditions, limits the amount that they can charge their oldest members, and no longer allows them to charge more for women than men.
A dearth of young and healthy enrollees also has contributed to the increases, Florida Blue officials said last week. About 30 percent of the 984,000 Floridians who signed up for a plan on the exchange is younger than 35, according to federal data.’ - Proposed prices for health plans in 2015 unveiled, Miamiherald.com, 08/04/2014
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Today's news brought a tale of a new security breach, this one at Anthem, a health insurance company that manages terabytes of health and financial data and has annual revenue of $73.9 billion--yes, billion with a b. Just imagine the cyber-security resources available to Anthem and the likes of Sony, Staples, Home Depot, JP Morgan Chase, Michaels, and Target--all real-world victims of hacking.
If none of these companies were able to prevent malicious interference, what chance do our shoestring-funded elections officials and their vendors have? How can we possibly expect them to protect our election results, with their voting-machine keys earnestly locked in the clerk's desk and their tamper-evident plastic seals carefully placed on every voting machine stored in the courthouse basement?
We cannot. The only prudent course of action is to assume that unauthorized programmers can get into our voting-machine software any time they want. We don't stand a chance of marshaling the IT resources needed to keep them at bay.
That might sound defeatist, but it's actually empowering. Once we realize we don't have to sink our resources into an unaffordable, unwinnable technology war with hackers, we can turn our attention to the fight we can win.
The Machinery of Democracy: Protecting Elections in an Electronic World, by the Brennan Center Task Force on Voting Security, Lawrence D. Norden, and Eric L. Lazarus, is a layperson's summary of a report by a national task force on voting-system security convened by the Brennan Center in 2007. Electronic elections technology has evolved at a snail's pace over the past decade, so the eight-year-old material is still current.
A group of "internationally renowned government, academic, and security professionals" came together to perform an NIST-approved methodical, systematic threat analysis of the three most common types of voting systems used in the US--direct-recording electronic machines (DREs) with and without paper trails and precinct-count optical scan systems (PCOs).
In threat analysis, experts pool information about the known strengths and weaknesses of each system and the possible skills, resources, opportunities and actions of those who have reason to tamper with the system. This task force identified 120 different types of attacks that might successfully alter the outcome of a statewide election. With this information, they identified which of these attacks would be the least difficult. They then identified and assessed possible countermeasures that elections officials might take to increase the difficulty of each threat, its likelihood of detection, or both.
As the book talks its way through the most likely of these threats--how many informed participants would be needed? What sorts of skills and access would be needed?--the reader almost feels as if he or she is eavesdropping on the planning of a crime. Few of us--thankfully--have much practice in thinking like a criminal, and it gives the reader a little guilty thrill to be taken down that mental pathway.
But my purpose in writing this blog isn't to sell books, so--spoiler alert!--here's the conclusion to this crime thriller. The most likely attack on our voting machines is the insertion of corrupt software into the machines before Election Day, likely through some pathway involving the vendor. The attack is most likely to involve only one programmer--and the person who hires him or her, if it's a contract job. That single programmer is likely to have worked at some time for a voting-machine vendor, independent testing authority, or government certification agency. The hacker would not need access to even one voting machine; he or she would insert the malicious software into a system that at some point communicates with or reprograms voting machine software through patches, updates, or set-up for each new election. The hack itself would switch no more than 7.5% of the votes; would not operate in every precinct; and would activate only on Election Day during voting hours.
State and local election authorities don't have the authority, time, money, or expertise to inspect every piece of software active on Election Day in every precinct. But that's not a problem because the best countermeasure against this most-likely attack (and against many of the less likely attacks) doesn't involve IT skills at all.
The number-one most effective security measure against the number-one most likely attack is to conduct routine audits comparing the voter-marked paper ballots against the electronically tabulated record on the day after every election. Conducting the audits promptly allows little time or opportunity for ballot-tampering and provides election officials opportunity to correct the manipulated results before they are declared final. In addition, the routine audits serve as a powerful deterrent, because subverting the audit in addition to hacking the software dramatically increases the difficulty of the attack because additional people need to be involved and paper records--not just electronic bits and bytes--need to be manipulated. | <urn:uuid:934db235-045d-44f1-bbca-6892cd9db397> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://www.wisconsingrassroots.net/no_match_for_hackers | 2021-09-22T06:08:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057329.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20210922041825-20210922071825-00044.warc.gz | en | 0.953943 | 1,003 |
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Guns of Icarus 1.4.1 Introduces Stamina and More
Guns of Icarus’ latest patch, 1.4.1, has brought some important new changes for players.
A key feature among these changes is a new stamina system. Stamina helps grant additional unique abilities to each role on the ship, allowing them to boost their efficiency as they work. Stamina refills naturally over time and refills whenever the ship gets a kill. Stamina bonuses are:
– Pilot: +125% ship thrust , -20% longitudinal drag, +150% climb force, +150% descent force, -20% vertical drag, +15% angular drag.
– Gunner: -25% reload time, +30% rotation speed, +20 degrees yaw arcs (not percent!), +40% pitch arcs
– Engineer: +85% movement speed and jump height
The patch also introduced Steam Workshop creator revenue sharing, new GameGrumps voice packs, and adjustments to the match system. Full patch notes are here.
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Sixth Sense is back with another season to entertain the audience.
Recently the channel released a promo showcasing the start of the show which created a buzz among the audience who were eagerly waiting for it to begin.
Sixth Sense is a popular game show which is telecasted on Star Maa.
Popular TV host Ohmkar will be the host of the show.
As the name of the show, it demands the contestants on the basis of their instincts and at the same time wants them to make knowledgeable guesses.
As a result, they are rewarded on the basis of how good their decisions went on.
Sixth Sense Season 4 is all set to be premiered on 12th June 2021 at the 9:00 PM time slot.
Viewers can also download the official Disney + Hotstar app to watch the show.
Sixth Sense Season 4 Start Date, Timing
|Show Name||Sixth Sense Season 4|
|Channel||Star Maa & Disney + Hotstar|
|Start Date||12th June 2021|
|Telecast Timing||9:00 PM- 10:00 PM|
Sixth Sense Season 4 Contestant List (2021)
For now, there is no update about the contestant list but we will soon be updating the complete list of contestants who will be part of the game show this year.
Sixth Sense Season 4 Promo
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Cisco makes the world’s best collaboration solutions and technologies with their WebEx meeting software, Jabber for soft phone, IM and presence, Telepresence in room HD audio/video systems, and the new email killer Spark. However Cisco learned that just making the best products and services isn’t enough to ensure it gets used, and they had big customer adoption problems. Cisco engaged LIFT to help design a program that incentivized Cisco’s global partner network to help customers with adoption of their colloration technology and ultimately increase their ROI from Cisco technology.
Cisco started with a series of partner incentives to pay partners to begin delivering adoption services to end customers. LIFT then helped Cisco develop a 10 step partner adoption process that would anchor this partner transformation, then design a series of workshops that would be delivered around the world and virtually to educate the partner on the business opportunity adoption services provided and best practices for delivering. Finally LIFT designed and delivered a coaching program where Cisco could nominate priority partners to get one on one coaching to help design the partner’s unique adoption processes and offers, and get started with their first customer engagements.
Cisco’s Collaboration customers have substantially increased adoption of their owned technology and therefore increased the value they receive from Cisco’s solutions, but more importantly LIFT prepared Cisco for the future by engaging Cisco’s partners in solving this problem. Prior to the program, very few partners had a formal adoption practice focused on Cisco Collaboration, now there are hundreds and soon thousands.
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This section contains some ideas for troubleshooting common problems experienced with distributed hypertables.
ERROR: cannot create a unique index without the column "<COLUMN_NAME>" (used in partitioning)
You might get a unique index and partitioning column error in 2 situations:
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For more information on how to fix this problem, see the section on creating unique indexes on hypertables.Products:
ERROR: invalid attribute number -6 for _hyper_2_839_chunkCONTEXT: SQL function "hypertable_local_size" statement 1 PL/pgSQL function hypertable_detailed_size(regclass) line 26 at RETURN QUERY SQL function "hypertable_size" statement 1SQL state: XX000
You might see this error if your hypertable indexes have become very large. To resolve the problem, reindex your hypertables with this command:
reindex table _timescaledb_internal._hyper_2_1523284_chunk
For more information, see the hypertable documentation.Products:
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French police have dismantled an illegal Bitcoin exchange and seized 388 virtual currency units worth some 200,000 euros ($272,800) in the first such operation in Europe, a public prosecutor said on Monday.
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Lt. gov. crashed Marine's funeral, kin say | This story has caused quite a stir: "The family of a Marine who was killed in Iraq is furious with Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll for showing up uninvited at his funeral this week, handing out her business card and then saying 'our government' is against the war." Knoll has since apologized, as has PA Governor Rendell, but does combing through a simple Google search of the soldier's outraged sister-in-law shed some light on what influenced this 'misunderstanding'?
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Innovative solution developed by Transcom improved customer experience for a global pharmaceutical company
One of our clients is a well-known international pharmaceutical company that always has had very high demands regarding the quality of their customer care service. Early in 2013, they asked Transcom if we could help them excel in their customer service even further. The assignment was to develop an innovative solution that would provide a more personalized and caring service, and at the same time improve and enrich the client’s database with new information. What the client needed was a CRM system that not only acted as a repository for contact information, but that also could identify incoming calls. Transcom customized a solution for the client and our system has improved both the customer experience as well as handling times. Every call is now immediately identified by the system, which automatically extracts up-to-date information about the customer from the registry and a list of past requests. The average waiting time is reduced to zero and the speed and accuracy of the agent’s answer has also improved, offering the user a customer experience of superior quality.
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Riot Games are bringing the esports experience to the players with the arrival of Clash, a team-based competitive mode for League of Legends. Starting on May 25, Clash will bring three-day knockout tournaments to the game, allowing teams to compete for prizes and unique rewards every weekend.
Ever wonder which is the best MOBA? Look no further.
Clash tournaments will take place on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (although they’ll open on the prior Monday, allowing you to get your teams and entries together in advance). On Friday, you’ll be entered into a four-team knockout tournament based on your overall rank. Win that, and you’ll progress to an eight-team tournament on Saturday. Find further success, and you’ll get the chance to play in a sixteen-team tournament on Sunday.
You’ll need to buy-in to the tournament, through a new ticket scheme. You only need one ticket each to enter, but you can also enter with five tickets for increased prizes. Lose a match and you’ll be knocked out of the tournament, but you can buy back in the next day (although you’ll be limited to a four-team tournament every time you start again). Tickets can be gifted, bought with RP or Blue Essence, and will also be offered as rewards for completing certain missions.
You don’t have to commit to all three days of a given Clash – you can also begin on Saturday or Sunday – but only teams who play through all three days without loss will be able to win the biggest prizes in Sundays’ sixteen-team tournaments.
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Indications for EPIVIR:
HIV-1 infection, in combination with other antiretroviral agents.
CrCl ≥50mL/min: 300mg once daily or 150mg twice daily; CrCl 30–49mL/min: 150mg once daily; CrCl 15–29mL/min: 150mg for 1st dose then 100mg once daily; CrCl 5–14mL/min: 150mg for 1st dose then 50mg once daily; CrCl <5mL/min: 50mg for 1st dose then 25mg once daily.
<3mos: not established. ≥3mos (oral soln): 5mg/kg twice daily or 10mg/kg once daily; max 300mg/day. Use all-tablet regimen when possible, unless unable to swallow tabs (14–<20kg): 150mg once daily or 75mg twice daily; (≥20–<25kg): 225mg once daily or 75mg in the AM and 150mg in the PM; (≥25kg): 300mg once daily or 150mg twice daily. Renal impairment: consider dose reduction and/or increase dosing interval.
Exacerbations of hepatitis B. Important differences in formulations of Epivir.
Not interchangeable with Epivir-HBV. Not for treating chronic HBV infection; closely monitor patients co-infected with HBV and HIV for several months after stopping treatment (discontinuing therapy may exacerbate HBV infection); if appropriate, initiate anti-hepatitis B therapy may be warranted. Suspend if lactic acidosis or pronounced hepatotoxicity (eg, hepatomegaly, steatosis) occurs. Children with prior antiretroviral nucleoside exposure, history of pancreatitis or risk factors for pancreatitis. Oral soln: lower virologic suppression rates and increased risk of viral resistance; consider monitoring HIV-1 viral load more frequently. Renal impairment. Women. Obesity. Elderly. Pregnancy. Nursing mothers: not recommended.
Nucleoside analogue (reverse transcriptase inhibitor).
Avoid concomitant sorbitol-containing products. Caution with drugs eliminated by active organic cationic secretion (eg, trimethoprim). Monitor for treatment-associated toxicities (esp. hepatic decompensation) with interferon-alpha with or without ribavirin.
Headache, nausea, malaise, fatigue, nasal signs/symptoms, diarrhea, cough; lactic acidosis, severe hepatomegaly with steatosis, immune reconstitution syndrome. Children: fever, cough, rash; pancreatitis (discontinue if occurs), paresthesias, peripheral neuropathy.
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Richard Falk posts cartoon of bloodthirsty dog wearing kipa on his blog9/11 'truther' Richard Falk is the United Nations' 'Human Rights Council's permanent investigator of Israeli violations. Falk recently posted on his blog a cartoon featuring a bloodthirsty dog wearing a kipa (skullcap) of the type worn by Jews on its head. The cartoon incites hatred against Jews and Americans. UN Watch is demanding action from UN 'human rights' chief Navi Pillay, who has made anti-racism her primary focus. In January, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned Falk for using his blog to propagate the 9/11 conspiracy theory. US Ambassador Susan Rice said he should be fired. However, Ms. Pillay declined to speak out. Falk has also been barred from entering Israel, which he has compared to Nazis.
UN Watch has written the following letter to Navi Pillay, demanding that action be taken against Falk.
Ms. Navi Pillay
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Palais des Nations
1211 Geneva 10
July 6, 2011
Dear Madam High Commissioner,
We write to convey our grave concern over the publication of an overtly anti-Semitic cartoon by Richard Falk, an expert of the UN Human Rights Council. We urge you—as the highest moral authority of the UN human rights system—to condemn Mr. Falk’s actions, which constitute incitement to hatred and racial discrimination as defined under Articles 1 and 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Mr. Falk published the attached cartoon in his blog post of June 29. As you can see, it depicts a dog urinating on a woman symbolizing justice, and devouring a dead body with blood and bones spewing out of its mouth. The dog is shown in a garment marked “USA” and wearing a Kipa, the Jewish religious head covering, which is marked by a Star of David. The cartoon is manifestly anti-Semitic and, before a worldwide Internet audience, incites hatred against Jews as well as against Americans.
We are aware that mandate-holders are answerable only to the Council, and that Mr. Falk and his supporters will claim that the cartoon was published in his “personal capacity.” As you know, however, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in identical circumstances, unequivocally ruled that Mr. Falk has “a clear responsibility to uphold the high standards of the United Nations and the Council.” Accordingly, the Secretary-General twice condemned Mr. Falk for having propagated the 9/11 conspiracy theory and insulting the memory of the 3,000 victims of that attack. Likewise, in 2005, your predecessor, High Commissioner Louise Arbour did not hesitate to condemn expert Jean Ziegler for what she described as his “inflammatory” and “highly irresponsible” remarks.Don't hold your breath waiting for Pillay to do something. Just another UN embarrassment.
For the UN human rights system to be credible in the fight against racism, its own representatives must not be allowed to incite hatred and racial discrimination with impunity. We urge you to speak out.
Hillel C. Neuer
UPDATE 1:06 AM
Falk has denied posting the cartoon to his blog, but has not deleted it from his image data base. You can see a screen capture of the original post here.
For your further entertainment, here's Falk's twitter feed:
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Discussion in 'Politics & Religion' started by noob_trad3r, Feb 5, 2010.
Interesting correlation. Since Brown won in MASS an new Bear market has emerged.
May be its because of BROWN. Why not put the blame on him, because if the market had rallied, I'm sure the ideological and neo conservatives at CNBC, WSJ and other publications would have credited the rally to him. I laugh when I hear the cerebral lightweights at FOX news, etc cry about the liberal media bias
PINHEAD! On Ignore.
you are a noob trader.
So... nothing wrong with that. Weren't we all noobs at one time?
This market's plunge has more to do with a PIIGS default, the unveiling of the new Obama budget proposal and weaker than expected jobs data.
this is the dumbest thread ever posted on ET; quite an accomplishment.
hehe. Actually what happened is When Brown won, Obama got pissed off and decided if people are going to fight his Health Care initiative, then he will Declare War on Wall street instead.
The Whole Health Care BS had everyones attention and everyone forgot about Wallstreet,regulations,taxes on trading,etc..
Now the spotlight is back on Wallstreet and even Volker was brought back from the closet.
Maybe the selloff is due to Reid pointing out that the president lacks a negro dialect.
Or Chris Matthews realized that the president is black.
Wait until there is a big attack on America which will be blamed on Al Qaeda... THEN you'll see attention misdirected for evil purpose.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah...we get it Mondays suck (we've read Garfield). But it means the start of a new week, which means a bunch of killer shows in and around Phoenix.
And here are a few of the coolest, our top five must-see shows this week.
Nick Lowe has worn more than a couple stylistic hats in his 40-plus years as a songwriter, performer, and producer. He played ambling country rock with Brinsley Schwarz, ushered in pub rock, punk, and new wave with solo records and production for Stiff Records, and eased into a remarkable career as a singer/songwriter, touching on blues, rockabilly, country, folk, and blue-eyed soul.
Johnny Cash (his one-time father-in-law) and Elvis Costello have covered his songs. He's produced records for The Pretenders, The Damned, and even an early Motorhead single. He's played with Los Straightjackets and Little Village (featuring John Hiatt, Ry Cooder, and Jim Keltner).
Through it all, he's proven his knack for a hook, melody, and charming wit.
His latest, The Old Magic, shows no signs of diminishing returns: "Checkout Time" winks slyly at death, "Sensitive Man" cracks wise on the state of men in the modern age, and "I Read A Lot," is positively crushing, the kind of sad bastard ode that has finds hardened listeners reaching for a handkerchief. -- Jason P. WoodburyMonday, October 1: Mount Eerie @ Crescent Ballroom
In 2004, Phil Elvrum decided to start making music as Mount Eerie while retiring his old band moniker, the Microphones. And while there is sense of inscrutability inherent in both projects, Elvrum has definitely blossomed as the sole musical mastermind of Mount Eerie.
His somewhat sporadic output has come in fitful creative bursts as of late. Elvrum has two albums this year on his own record label, P.W. Elverum and Sun, with the hypnotic, moody pulse of Clear Moon released in May, and Ocean Roar just now seeing the light of day.
It's clearly a fruitful period for Elvrum, and he's graciously bringing Mount Eerie on the road for a few special shows. . -- Erik Thompson
Space is the place. It is the (claimed) birthplace of legendary jazz composer Sun Ra; it's where Captain James T. Kirk boldly traveled; and it was there to give Cold War strategists something else to think about as people raced for the moon.
It's also where acclaimed hip-hop artist and founding Wu-Tang Clan member GZA is gathering inspiration for his upcoming album, Dark Matter. An avid fan of science and the cosmos in particular, GZA -- real name Gary Grice -- first conceived the concept to lay out the Big Bang in rap form after expounding on the notion that Saturn's rings were actually a record.
"God put the needle on the disc of Saturn / The record he played revealed blueprints and patterns," GZA raps on the album, which he's called "cosmological."
A high school dropout, the rapper also known as The Genius has always been guided by his curiosity and the mysteries of science hold great interest. Dark Matter, which he claims is "clean" after denouncing profanity in rap music, is designed to promote science to school children and, at the very least, get adults wonder about that giant turntable in the sky. -- Glenn BurnSilver
The gorgeously gauche atmosphere of Sanctum is often a prowling ground for curiously dressed creatures of the night, whether it's the grotesque goths who come for Tranzylvania or the tattooed-and-pierced freaks who frequent Doom Disco.
Wednesdays, however, are the domain of the industrial-music rivetheads, who put on their big boots, leather pants, and quasi-military gear before stomping over to Sanctum to get their ears assaulted at :Fallout.Shelter:. Crimson-haired femme fatale Self.Destrukt and punky partner Defense.Mekanizm serve as audio taskmasters, dispensing driving industrial dance hits from the elevated DJ booth.
Besides the relentless grind of Front 242, the gloom of Velvet Acid Christ, or the harsh onslaught of Front Line Assembly, the pair are known to rain down plenty of EBM and some dark electro. -- Benjamin Leatherman
Speaking with Robyn Hitchcock back in 1996, the conversation quickly diverged from music to the difficulties of growing tomatoes at high-elevation. It was not his issue, but mine, as he lives in England where growing tomatoes is much easier, and I was in Colorado. Still, that conversation made it clear that while Hitchcock is an acclaimed musician and songwriter with an acerbic wit and slightly twisted vision that manifests via his astute insight into the world around him, talking about his music is secondary to simply having a good conversation.
These days, however, even his tomatoes have taken a back seat to the more immediate global demand of "be here now" that circumvents such conversations in favor of incessant reporter (and other) emails requesting some of his time. "I have stopped having time for gardening since I started doing email -- I do emails instead of gardening," he says, by email of course, from his London home.
But somewhere amongst the cyberspace demands -- he has also caught the Twitter bug, mostly as an outlet for his paintings and photographs -- Hitchcock finds time for his latest passion: environmental causes.
"We need songs about the collapse of the environment, but more than that, we need to take action to stop the collapse of the environment!" he says.
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His latest release on his Phantom 45 label (available only at www.RobynHitchcock.com), "There Goes The Ice," follows this lead as he addresses the obvious effects of global warming. Written while traveling on a Russian ship off the coast of Greenland at the behest of Cape Farewell, an organization that takes scientists, filmmakers, writers and artists to visit endangered environments, the spontaneous, echo-y, almost haunting acoustic track features the willowy voice of KT Tunstall, who was also onboard.
"KT was in the cabin next to ours, and her husband had a recording studio in his briefcase. I wrote the song as our ship was drifting past the broken glaciers and recorded it immediately with Kate singing harmony," he explains. "The way we have to live is at a terrible cost to the environment. You can fly around the world telling people not to fly. I don't know what to do about this. So far all I've managed is to write that song!" -- Glenn BurnSilver | <urn:uuid:de2a3311-0037-41e3-a21a-c137f41920f1> | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/music/top-five-must-see-shows-this-week-6587529 | 2018-07-17T12:06:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589710.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20180717105812-20180717125812-00489.warc.gz | en | 0.969225 | 1,465 |
I went to San Fransico with no flowers in my hair
San Francisco Travel Blog› entry 9 of 10 › view all entries
July 2nd, 2008 – by: goldfishflosser
Then we swapped buses, leaving nothing but patches of sweat behind.
Overall the journey took nine hours which not only put a knot into my spine, but also allowed me to have some fantastic conversations. E.I. with this amazing woman of Italian descent, who had been a film director, model, geographer and now was working as an English teacher at a University.
When I finally got out of the bus, and life started to fill my limbs again, I called Jenn, the friend of my trav-buddy Heather, and appointed volunteer for putting me up for a few nights because of Heather’s sudden illness. Jenn didn’t know me; I didn’t know her and I guess that at this very moment we were both hoping to meet someone bearable at least.
Jenn approached me “Excuse me, are you Ragnar?” I looked at her with a startled expression: “Uhm.
We got into her car and I asked her to find the nearest restaurant (I was starving). Despite having a lot of small talk quite frankly it took us a while to really warm up with each other. After all I was some stranger with a German-British accent, intending to stay at her house for the next three nights. So I really did understand Jenn’s caution. (It didn’t help that I mentioned dungeons and sex-slaves within the first 5 minutes. Hahaha! Sorry, I just couldn’t help it. Naughty me.)
In the restaurant (Japanese) we met Jenn’s housemates Matt, Steve and one of their friends called Fran.
Eventually, I entered Jenn’s, Matt’s and Steve’s house which would be my home for the next three days. I was impressed by Steve’s DJ equipment, by Matt’s philosophic considerations and by Jenn’s luxurious shower with the most powerful and perfect stream of hot water on this planet.
We decided to go out for a relaxed drink or two and ended up in this posh place, which name I have forgotten.
I finished the night by crashing on three big square pillows and aligned them as a kind of surprisingly comfortable mattress on the floor of the living room.
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Right. Of course we do.
And we all follow that wisdom, always, without fail, right?
I mean, except for that throwaway password. You know the one. The same one you’ve been using for random I’ll-probably-never-be-here-again sites (and apps) for years and years. The one you never use for important things. I mean, who cares if anyone cracks that one? That’s why it’s OK that it’s short, and crackable, and re-used so often.
For “fun” this morning, I opened up 1Password and created a Smart Folder like so:
That blurry part there, is of course, my throwaway password of choice. That count is, indeed, 104 logins. 104 logins that were somehow trivial enough for a junk password, yet worthy of a “Save” click when I created them.
But hey, none of those are important sites, right? Nothing with financial implications or anything.
- The site where I sell most of my music.
- The other site where I sell music through iTunes, etc.
- Kickstarter, where some of that music was funded.
- And so on.
I had planned to spend the rest of the morning doing my taxes; that sounds like more fun than what I ended up doing.
Changing 104 passwords takes a while, but at least I’m not doing it in a blind panic after one of those many sites had their database compromised.
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When it’s time to finalize your choice of doors and windows, there’s a host of details to consider: decorative glass, brick mould, hardware, simulated divided lites, Low-E glass, hung windows, casement windows, awning windows, etc.
Regardless of the collection or style you eventually choose, JELD-WEN doors and windows are available in a wide range of finishes and colours to suit whatever architectural style you want your home to have.
Our site, of course, is an excellent starting point for your online shopping. Just visit the collection of your choice and at your leisure browse all the standard and optional features available.
For technical questions, the best resource is always your JELD-WEN retailer. They’re equipped and trained and will take the time to advise you according to your needs, tastes and budget.
Note too that you can visit our Facebook page at any time for additional information or to hear what other members of the JELD-WEN community are saying.
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202 Grand Street
Commute to Downtown Jersey City
Daily errands do not require a car.
202 Grand Street has a Walk Score of 95 out of 100. This location is a Walker’s Paradise so daily errands do not require a car.
202 Grand Street is a three minute walk from the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail at the MARIN BOULEVARD HBLR STATION stop.
This location is in the Downtown neighborhood in Jersey City. Nearby parks include Van Vorst Park, Paulus Hook Park and Meluso Park.
Explore how far you can travel by car, bus, bike and foot from 202 Grand Street.
Hudson-Bergen Light Rail
PATH Journal Square - 33rd Street (via Hoboken)
PATH Journal Square - 33rd Street
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PATH Hoboken - World Trade Center
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will put in place a four-layered regulatory structure for non-banking financial companies to keep a stricter vigil on the shadow banking sector aligning it with the changing risk profile of NBFCs and addressing the systemic risk issue.
The detailed set of norms, which will come into force from October 2022, provides for a Scale Based Regulation (SBR) framework that takes into consideration capital requirements, governance standards, prudential regulation and other aspects of the non-banking finance companies (NBFCs).
The reputation of the non-banking financial sector has been dented in recent times by failure of certain entities due to idiosyncratic factors. The challenge, therefore, is to restore trust in the sector by ensuring that few entities or activities do not generate vulnerabilities that go undetected and create shocks and give rise to systemic risk through their interlinkages with the financial system, he said.
NBFCs like Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) and Dewan Housing Finance Ltd (DHFL) became ‘gone concerns’ primarily due to lack of corporate governance and non-disclosure of possible NPAs. For instance, IL&FS paid a huge dividend to its shareholders during 2015-2018, though it had continuous negative cash flows from operations and investments during this period.
A forensic audit by KPMG found that DHFL disbursed loans aggregating Rs 24,594 crore with insufficient legal documentation to 65 shell companies. Of these, 35 entities with Rs 19,754 crore, were directly or indirectly controlled by the promoters. However, DHFL had not disclosed these related-party transactions in its annual reports. The review revealed that a few trusted employees of DHFL were generating thousands of fake accounts, using customised software to create retail borrowers for the money flowing into its various group companies.
Borrowing short term and lending long term is a common practice among NBFCs. They borrow through money market instruments such as Commercial Paper for cost effectiveness and keep rolling them over to fund their long-term loan assets, thereby facing asset-liability mismatches apart from liquidity and re-pricing risks.
Under the SBR framework
Currently, the threshold for systemic importance is Rs 500 crore. Under the SBR framework, the Middle Layer will consist of all non-deposit taking NBFCs classified currently as NBFC-ND-SI (Non-Deposit Taking Company-Systemically Important) with asset size of over Rs 1,000 crore and all deposit taking NBFCs irrespective of size.
The upper layer will comprise of those NBFCs which are specifically identified by the Reserve Bank as warranting enhanced regulatory requirement based on a set of parameters. The top ten eligible NBFCs in terms of their asset size shall always reside in the upper layer, irrespective of any other factor, RBI said.
"The Top Layer will ideally remain empty. This layer can get populated if the Reserve Bank is of the opinion that there is a substantial increase in the potential systemic risk from specific NBFCs in the Upper Layer. Such NBFCs shall move to the Top Layer from the Upper Layer," it noted. Regulatory minimum Net Owned Fund (NOF) for NBFC-Investment and Credit Companies (ICC), NBFC Micro Finance Institution (MFI) and NBFC-Factors would be increased to Rs 10 crore and a glide path has been charted out for meeting this requirement.
However, for NBFC-P2P, NBFC-AA, and NBFCs with no public funds and no customer interface, the NOF will continue to be Rs 2 crore. The extant NPA classification norm stands changed to the overdue period of more than 90 days for all categories of NBFCs. A glide path is provided to NBFCs in base layer to adhere to the 90 days NPA norm, the statement said.
In order to enhance the quality of regulatory capital, RBI said that NBFC-UL would maintain Common Equity Tier 1 capital of at least 9 per cent of Risk Weighted Assets while they will be required to hold differential provisioning towards different classes of standard assets. In addition to the CRAR, NBFC-UL will also be subjected to leverage requirements to ensure that their growth is supported by adequate capital, among other factors. A suitable ceiling for leverage will be prescribed subsequently for these entities as and when necessary.
According to RBI, Housing Finance Companies would continue to follow specific regulation on sensitive sector exposure, as are currently applicable. There shall be a ceiling of Rs 1 crore per borrower for financing subscription to Initial Public Offer (IPO). NBFCs can fix more conservative limits, RBI said.
Further, the central bank has outlined a large exposure limit for all counterparties and groups of connected counterparties and for the capital market and commercial real estate. To strengthen corporate governance, it has suggested inclusion of independent directors on the board, among other requirements.
Failure of any large NBFC or HFC may translate into a risk to its lenders with the potential to create a contagion.
Failure of any large and deeply interconnected NBFC can also cause disruption to the operations of the small and mid-sized NBFCs through a domino effect by limiting their ability to raise funds. Liquidity stress in the sector triggered by failure of a large core investment company (CIC) broke the myth that NBFCs do not pose any systemic risk to the financial system, Rao had said. | <urn:uuid:b47f2fff-222b-4078-8d73-42227e9c9407> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bfsi.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/nbfc/can-the-new-rbi-framework-on-nbfcs-stop-dhfl-ilfs-type-failures/87711805 | 2022-08-20T02:19:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00635.warc.gz | en | 0.949796 | 1,124 |
The deal-cutting season starts now for San Joaquin Valley freeze relief.
By this morning, the Senate will pass an emergency spending bill that includes funding for California farmers, farmworkers, dairy producers and small-business owners. It's more money than the House offered, so lawmakers must negotiate a final package.
"We've worked hard to get where we are," said Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. "The losses have been substantial, the disasters have been large, and families that ... lose their farms if they can't make the payments, can be helped by this. So I hope it remains in."
Nonetheless, several potential sticking points will confront congressional negotiators in coming weeks. These include:
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Juggling numbers. The Senate bill offers $40 million to help citrus producers replace trees damaged by a sharp January freeze. The competing House bill offers $20 million for the same purpose. In negotiations like this, lawmakers often simply split the difference.
Targeting crops. The House bill includes a $25 million package for California spinach producers who lost sales because of an E. coli-contamination scare last year. The Senate does not include similar funding, and budget hawks have highlighted the spinach money as unnecessary.
Targeting the needy. The Senate bill includes $100 million for farmworkers and small-business owners hurt by natural disasters. The House bill does not offer this money, and some conservatives are leery of public funds going to help illegal immigrant workers.
Defining disasters. Both House and Senate bills cover the waterfront, with money for disasters ranging from freeze to drought. Some critics question this wide scope, which includes in the Senate bill $95 million for farmers who lost milk production due to last summer's blazing heat.
"When some people saw that there was also an appropriation for dairy milk loss, some people actually laughed," Feinstein said, "and I was really offended, because [last July] California experienced two weeks of blistering triple-digit temperatures."
Taken together, the agricultural aid proposals account for roughly $4 billion in legislation primarily designed to fund the U.S. war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan. Language setting timetables for a U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq has already drawn a White House veto threat. The Iraq language fight, in turn, could shape what the rest of the 169-page bill looks like when bargaining stops.
"This is something where the leadership will have to go down the street to the White House," said Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Merced.
Already, the Bush administration has admonished Congress for stuffing the Iraq war bill with domestic provisions. The White House has not specified any of the farm items, so far, but the general unhappiness is clear.
"This bill adds billions in unrequested spending that is largely unjustified and nonemergency," the White House's Office of Management and Budget warned.
House and Senate bills reflect different political imperatives. The Senate bill, for instance, includes the $95 million for dairy farmers whose cows died or dried up during a San Joaquin Valley heat wave that drove temperatures above 105 degrees. More than 30,000 cows and calves died in California last summer, while surviving cows produced less milk.
"And what's more," Feinstein added, "this funding can be accessed by dairymen on the Gulf Coast, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, who also suffered losses."
But the House proposes something different. There, the chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee is a Wisconsin Democrat, Rep. David Obey. Obey insisted on a $252 million dairy provision whose primary beneficiaries will be the smaller dairy producers in the Midwest and Northeast. | <urn:uuid:4b26861f-9aa3-4df6-9b9e-c21f0217196d> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | http://www.fresnobee.com/news/business/article19496541.html | 2018-03-24T19:58:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257650993.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20180324190917-20180324210917-00714.warc.gz | en | 0.95235 | 753 |
Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people, especially those with the fewest resources, have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life.Based in Seattle, Washington, the foundation is led by CEO Jeff Raikes and Co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the channel through which the Dutch Government communicates with foreign governments and international organisations. It coordinates and carries out Dutch foreign policy. Based on the policy programme of the first Rutte Government, the government sees its mission as being to promote the security and well-being of the Netherlands and the Dutch people, and to that end it will focus on international stability and security, energy and raw material security, the international legal order (including human rights) and the commercial and economic interests of the Netherlands and Dutch businesses.
RWJF is the largest philanthropy dedicated solely to health in the US and is funding the US Spotlight Index, which will be launched in 2018. For more than 40 years the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has worked to improve health and health care. We are working with others to build a national Culture of Health enabling everyone in America to live longer, healthier lives.
The Department for International Development (DFID) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for administering overseas aid. DFID tackles issues such as poverty and disease, mass migration, insecurity and conflict. Its aim is to build a safer, healthier, more prosperous world for people in developing countries and in the UK too.
The Access to Nutrition Index rates food and beverage manufacturers´ nutrition-related policies, practices and disclosures worldwide on a recurring basis.
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Simpsons writer Don Payne died yesterday at the young age of 48. The cause is unknown at this time, but former writing partner John Frink told the Wilmington Star-News he’d been suffering from bone cancer.
Fellow Simpsons writer Mike Scully broke the news yesterday afternoon on Twitter. Executive producer Al Jean issued a statement saying Payne was “beloved in the ‘Simpsons’ community and his untimely passing is terrible news to us all.”
Back in the 90s, Payne and Frink wrote for sitcoms like Veronica’s Closet, Men Behaving Badly and a bunch of unproduced pilots before they were both brought in to The Simpsons in 2000. Together they wrote the Simpsons episodes “Insane Clown Poppy,” “Bye Bye Nerdie,” “Simpsons Tall Tales,” and “The Bart Wants What It Wants.” They ended their writing partnership a few years later on amicable terms. Payne’s solo Simpsons credits include “Thank God It’s Doomsday” and “Fraudcast News,” the latter of which earned him a special Paul Selvin Award from the Writers Guild of America. In 2007, he gave the Star-News ten reasons why he loved working on The Simpsons, including “We can do jokes about socialism and Homer’s butt catching on fire.”
Rather than be constrained to writing television, Payne managed to achieve his childhood dreams of conquering Hollywood and writing boffo blockbusters. A lifelong comics fanboy, his first credited movie was the superhero spoof My Super Ex-Girlfriend, which later led to him co-writing the Marvel films Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Thor, and its upcoming sequel Thor: The Dark World. According to a 2011 interview, he had an idea for his own comic that he was keen to do if he could ever find the time between his Simpsons and film duties.
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Rested India gear for tough season
Mentally fresh. Physically fit. Phrases you don't usually associate with Indian players these days, given the constant madness that passes for their schedule. But this time, it's different. For the first time after an IPL, India are beginning their season with a break of almost two months. There are no battered bodies crying out for rest, no weary minds cutting practice short. MS Dhoni says "everybody is looking fresh" and there is no major fitness concern going into the first of five ODIs against Sri Lanka in idyllic Hambantota. For the moment, Dhoni wants his players to get used to the large outfield and the "windy" conditions in the wilderness that surrounds the stadium for several kilometres.
"Before the start of the series, the good thing is that everybody is looking fresh and the guys are putting in a lot of effort," Dhoni told reporters at the team hotel, located right on the Indian Ocean shore. "You see a lot more guys going to the gym. Even after the practice session gets over, even if we have had some fitness session, the players are going for a round around the park. Which means they have more energy in them to consistently put in a bit more effort than they could have if the continuous season goes on. So that definitely is a big plus-point for us."
The energy showed today during practice. Even Zaheer Khan, who does not extend himself unless absolutely required to, sprinted in and bowled with decent pace. Dhoni and Virat Kohli took turns in walloping the spinners. The fielding drills were intense and enjoyed at the same time.
The break has revitalised this team. Dhoni welcomed it, and contrasted it with what has happened post-IPL during previous seasons. "It is the first break we have literally got in the last six-seven years for such a long period. Of course, in between, the players were missing series because of injuries or some of the senior players opted out of a few series, but that is not complete rest as to you cannot get yourself off cricket completely. You still think about cricket, you still think about the coming series. So it was good to have this break.
"In the coming year, the schedule is quite busy. Also we will be playing a lot of Test matches, it is quite tough. You play on for five days in a row. The amount of Tests we are playing, it is good we got such kind of rest, because mentally we are fresh and physically we got some time to work on our fitness level."
India's fitness will be tested tomorrow on the Hambantota outfield, which despite being pulled in by several metres, still looked big enough to make preventing twos a tough job. Dhoni acknowledged it.
"It was quite windy out here. It can be a factor. Even the fielders because it is a very big field and in the way you need to be positioned so that the batsmen don't push for the twos and the threes, which is quite common in the shorter formats nowadays. What will be a big concern is where you stand. How quick you adapt, as to, if you are fielding on midwicket from one end, and if you move to some other part of the field, then you have to reposition yourself as to whether you need to be seven yards inside or seven yards behind because it is a very strong wind."
India have done what they could in terms of preparation as they begin another long season. "Last few days, we have mixed up our training, not only with the skill sessions, we have involved a lot of fitness sessions also," Dhoni said. "We have incorporated drills that will enhance our performance on the field. I don't think fitness should be a real concern. It is just that after a long time, we will be playing a full 50-over game." We'll find out tomorrow how rusty India are.
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I love auctions. My favourite ones are held monthly in local village halls, you never know what is going to be there. There are no online listings in advance, you have to go and have a look, take pot lot, sometimes there are rich pickings, sometimes nothing. If I can’t make one I do feel regret at what I might have missed!
In January I left the house just as it was getting light to go and have a good rummage at my favourite monthly auction held in a village hall in Radley, Oxfordshire. I came home with two lots, a small box of old toys and games and this delightful handmade 14 drawer storage chest full of electronic spares. I’m guessing it’s previous owner did repairs in the 1970s and 80s.
At first my intention was to sell the contents on ebay and use the chest to store my postage stamps. But then my creative side kicked in and I decided to upcycle the contents and make some new greeting card designs. This involved buying a soldering iron – I do love a new bit of kit. It also took me right back to my very first job working as a lab assistant where I first learnt to use a soldering iron, and at one point ended up with a trip to A&E after flicking some solder into my eye!
Here are the first designs I have made, both have sold well in the lead up to Valentines Day.
The geek card is my favourite and will be staying in the range. I’m very excited and looking forward to playing and making some different ones soon! | <urn:uuid:372a5135-c06e-4cd4-94ee-6f6e57180c38> | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | https://laneendvintage.co.uk/love-auctions-upcycled-geek-cards/ | 2018-10-22T12:45:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583515041.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20181022113301-20181022134801-00497.warc.gz | en | 0.977146 | 331 |
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The welcoming Hampton Inn Salem lies in a downtown area of Salem. Hampton Inn Salem was opened in 2004 and offers contemporary rooms.
The hotel is set in a central location 16 km away from Civic Center. Restaurants and a stadium are stroll from the hotel.
This hotel is conveniently based near a valley and hiking trails.
It will take a 20-minute drive to get to Roanoke Regional airport.
Hampton Inn Salem offers 89 rooms on 4 floors that come with satellite television, Wi-Fi, a safe, a microwave and a sofa along with a dishwasher and a fridge. Some rooms open up to great views of the river. Bathrooms are fitted with a shower, a hairdryer and bath sheets.
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A healthy hot buffet breakfast is served every morning. The garden bar stocks tea and coffee to enjoy in a warm atmosphere. Serving both food and drinks, Omelet Shoppe and El Rodeo are situated around 650 meters from the property.
All visitors are offered a full breakfast for a fee.
Guests are welcome to use free self-parking, a safety deposit box and an elevator for general purposes and a business centre, a meeting room and a photocopier for business needs.
Spa therapy and massage therapy can be provided at a surcharge. The youngest guests are offered high chairs, a playroom and a playground. On-site fitness amenities include a gym and a fitness center.
Wireless internet is available in the entire hotel for free.
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Had a great dinner with Linda Monk, constitutional scholar and great friend.
Another shooting. It is so crazy. I would say, “Something would happen in this country if there were…” But we’ve seen almost every scenario imaginable. We’ve seen a shooting in the middle of an army base. Fort Hood. We’ve seen a shooting in the middle of a elementary school. Sandy Hook. These horrors simply keep happening. Aaron Alexis, someone with mental illness, opened fire and killed 14. The Washington Post has several great articles. There’s one about the anatomy of the shooting with exactly what happened inside of building 197. Then there’s more and more background on the shooter, Aaron Alexis. As I’ve mentioned before, I think we have to approach this problem from two separate vantage points. First of all, we have to do a better job of taking care of mental illness in this country. Secondly, too many people have too many guns (recent study shows that more guns equals more gun violence). Gun ownership is a privilege. If you had a run-in with the law in Seattle which seems to suggest mental illness, you really shouldn’t have a gun a decade later unless you’ve proven to be mentally stable. I guess the biggest question that remains unanswered is how did this gentleman, Aaron Alexis, pass a background check? How was he allowed on a Navy shipyard?
Oh, by the way, I didn’t talk about the election that was going on in Colorado. Colorado voters who were infuriated over their representatives’ having the audacity to pass a bill that limits gun violence, had a special recall election. Basically, the NRA decided that they did not want two progressive state Senators and signed a petition to have both senators removed. Yes, the actual details are more complex, but that’s basically what happened. There was a special election which included many special caveats, like no absentee ballots, which seem to always benefit the conservative candidates. The bottom line is that two progressive senators are out and 2 NRA stooges are in. DKos has more – 1) Core Democratic groups (Latinos, African Americans, youth voters, single women) have the worst voter performance, and 2) Republicans will do everything they can to prevent our people from voting.
Let’s go to school. I was confused about the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Was does it do? Why was it necessary? Why was Section Five so important? Constitutional scholar Linda Monk answers all of these questions and more.
As you listen to this podcast, I would encourage you to check out some references. First, here is the Voting Rights Act. Secondly, Linda mentions a case that I had never heard of – South Carolina verses Katzenbach (more information here). You should also review the 15th amendment, which gives Congress the power to make voting fair across the US. We discuss the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Section Five of the Voting Rights Act. Finally, we discuss Eric Holder’s bid to try and make sure that elections are fair for everyone.
This is a great interview and conversation. Sit back and enjoy.
Update: Linda Monk clarifies: “FYI, technically the Supreme Court did NOT decide to strike down Section 5 of the VRA; it struck down the threshold definition used in Section 4, which meant that Section 5 did not kick in.” As usual, I was kind of clueless. So, I went back to the Voting Rights Act and looked at Section 4. Of course, Linda is correct. Here’s how ScotusBlog puts it – Today the Court issued its decision in Shelby County v. Holder, the challenge to the constitutionality of the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act. That portion of the Act was designed to prevent discrimination in voting by requiring all state and local governments with a history of voting discrimination to get approval from the federal government before making any changes to their voting laws or procedures, no matter how small. In an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts that was joined by Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito, the Court did not invalidate the principle that preclearance can be required. But much more importantly, it held that Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, which sets out the formula that is used to determine which state and local governments must comply with Section 5’s preapproval requirement, is unconstitutional and can no longer be used. Thus, although Section 5 survives, it will have no actual effect unless and until Congress can enact a new statute to determine who should be covered by it.
Linda Monk is a constitutional scholar and friend. She just posted this powerful piece on HuffPo:
In rallies much like those currently being held in Wisconsin, and across the nation in state capitals this Saturday, workers during America’s first Gilded Age fought back against the forces of corporate greed that ground them to the bone.
In those days, the Supreme Court believed that the First Amendment to the Constitution, which protects freedom of speech, only applied to the federal government, not the states and the local governments. So any governor, or mayor, or town boss was free to put you in jail or kick you out of town for saying something they didn’t like — union organizing usually being at the top of the list. But union supporters didn’t take that lying down — they flooded towns with speakers who violated local laws that limited free speech.
One of those early union leaders in the fight for free speech was Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the “Rebel Girl” of martyr Joe Hill’s famous song. Flynn worked for the Wobblies, the Industrial Workers of the World, who organized miners and migrant workers in the western states in the early 1900s. These workers had little political clout because they moved from job to job and weren’t registered to vote. Presaging the civil rights movement, their principal recourse was a mass protest.
Flynn helped lead one of those “free speech fights” in Missoula, Montana, in 1908. Here’s how she described it:
We sent out a call to all ‘footloose rebels to come at once — to defend the Bill of Rights.’ A steady stream of I.W.W. members began to flock in by freight cars… As soon as one speaker was arrested, another took his place. The jail was soon filled.
These mass protests in favor of free speech definitely had an effect. In 1925, the Supreme Court finally ruled that the First Amendment did apply to state and local governments, nationalizing the protection of free speech. Without the concerted action of union supporters, that victory would not have been possible.
Unions have contributed remarkable things to the American way of life: the growth of the middle class; expansion of health care and social security; paid vacations and paid sick leave; a work week that leaves time for families to enjoy each other. None of these things were possible in Elizabeth Gurley Flynn’s day. As she said in 1962: “We never heard of vacations, let alone vacations with pay.”
Make no mistake: What is at risk in Wisconsin, and every state in America, is the quality of life that American workers have fought — and died — for during the past century. When plutocrats like the Koch brothers tell the governor of an American state to roll back the clock on public employees, they are seeking to end protections for all workers. The Kochs are part of an ideological movement that hopes to end all legislation controlling wages, hours, and workplace safety — returning America to a “Social Darwinism” that ensures survival of the fittest (read: richest). This is the constitutional theory that prevailed before the New Deal. To these extremists, Ayn Rand is on par with James Madison.
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having failed to enter the. ,plea of. bankruptcy in the proceeding for revival, or to suggest his: bankruptcy in. the original suit, has, all\ to ;King's judglDent againJilt hbn, 10sLby,his own laches the bep.efit 19,'f :tliS, d,ischarge i.Q<bankr"uptcy, an,d the judgIPent on scire facias, as, well as the lien of the ,fieri facias, is good against him. be expected to help. those who sleep on their rights. The injunctioItJ;llust be denied.
UNITED STATES v. ONE PACKAGE OF DISTIU,ED SPIRITS: (District Court, S. D. Illinois.
April 4, 1.898.)
INTEHNAL REVENUE-POWER' OF (JOMMISBIONER.
Rev. ,St. § 3249, which provides that the commissioner of Internal revenue may prescribe rules and regulations to secure a uniform and correct system of Inspection, weighing, marking, and gauging of spirits, not empower the commissioner to require an additional mark upon package of distilled flpirlts in the event of a reduction in proof or volume, so as to make the absence of It a forfeitable offense.underRev. St. § 3289, as not "having thereon such mark and stamp required therefor by law," where the statutes neither Pl"ohiblt such reduction nor provide for any additional marks In the event it is so reduced. .
Mere evidence that the contents as to volume and proof does not conform to the volume and proof as marked on the package, without more, fails to make a prima facie case for seizure or forfeiture.
J. Otis Humphrey, U. S. Dist. Atty. W. M. Hough, Stuart Brown, and Logan Hay, for claimant.
ALLEN, District Judge. A proceeding to forfeit a package of distilled spirits, under section 3289, Rev. St. U. S., as not "having thereon each mark and stamp required therefor by law!' The package in question bore stamps and marks indicating that it was entered into bond December 23, 1891, containing 48 wine gallons of 100 per cent. proof; was withdrawn, and tax paid, April 2, 1896, containing 36i wine gallons of 107 proof; and, being gauged by a revenue officer at Cairo, 111., in December, 1896, and found to contain 3St wine gallons of 101 per cent. proof, was seized for forfeiture. The plaintiff proved these facts, and introduced evidence tending further to show that the change between the condition of the spirits at the time of tax payment and its condition at the time of seizure could not have occUI'red from natUl'al causes alone, but witnesses for the plaintiff testified on cross-examination that the change could have been occasioned by the addition of about two gallons of water, after allowing for an evaporatioo of about three gallons of spirits and a loss of a gallon and a half by leakage or removal. Plaintiff further introduced in evidence a regulation of the commissioner of internal revenue to the effect that distillers or wholesale liquor dealers may reduce to original proof, by the addition of distilled water; such distilled distillery warehouse, provided spirits as have increased in proof in they do so in the presence of a United States. gauger, and put a mark upon the stamp head of the package; indicating that it had been so reduced. With the further evidence that no such mark appeared UDon the cask in Question, the -laintiff rested. Thereupon the claim-
UNITED STATES V. ONE PACKAGE OF DISTILLED SPIRITS.
ant demurred to the evidence, moved that the information be dismissed, and the package ordered released to him. The demurrer raised the question whether evidence alone of a diminution in volume or proof of distilled spirits ina cask which had originally been properly tax paid, marked, and stamped, and which still retains all the original marks and stamps, is sufficient to make a prima facie case for forfeiture. In quite a line of decisions the courts of the United States have held that the addition of water or sugar to a package of distilled spirits on which the tax: has been properly paid (either of which will have the effect to reduce the proof of the spirits) is no violation of law, and does not work a forfeiture of the spirits.. U. S. v. Thirty-Two Barrels Distilled Spirits,' 5 Fed. 188; Three Packages of Distilled Spirits, 14 Fed. 569; U. S. v. Bardenheier, 49 Fed. 846; U. S. v. Sixty-Four Packages of Distilled Spirits, 51 Fed. 191; U. S. v. Fourteen Packages Distilled Spirits, 14 C. C. A. 220, 66 Fed. 984. Witnesses have testified that there is a continuing variation in both the volume and proof of spirits, from the marks and stamps upon the package, resulting alone from evaporation and lapse of time. In seeking a forfeiture, therefore, not upon direct evidence of an alleged act, but upon proof of a condition, a condition must be shown which could not have occurred by natural causes or by legal means; in other words, the government should negative every presumption of legality. The rules of evidence apply as well to the government as to other plaintiffil, with the exception that under certain conditions the burden is upon the claimant to prove that the tax has been paid on distilled spirits. That burden was removed in this case by the allegations of the infurmation on that point, and a condition once proven is presumed to continue until evidence to the contr'ary. Since it was in evidence that the condition of the spirits at the time of seizure, as to volume and proof, might have been occasioned by means heretofore declared by the courts to be lawful, and all the original stamps and marks are still upon the package, no prima facie case was made, unless there is required by law some additional mark or stamp whenever the proof of spirit3 is so reduced as aforesaid. The district attorney insists that the mark required by the regulation of the commissioner of internal revenue hereinbefore referred to is such a mark. Section 3:::81, Rev. St. U. S., prescribes the marks and stamps which shall be placed upon a cask or package of distilled spirits at the time of manafacture and entry into the distillery warehouse, and section 3295 prescribes the stamps and marks which shall be placed upon the package at the time of its withdrawal and tax payment. Section 3249 defines proof spirits, and the latter part of this Section is relied upon by the district attorney as authority for the regulation of the commissioner above referred to. It reads as follows :
"And for prevention and detection of frauds by distillers of spirits, the commissioner of Internal revenue may prescribe for use such hydrometers, saocharometers, weighing and gauging instruments, or other means for 8scertainingthe quantity, gravity and producing capacity of any mash, wort or beer used, or to be used, in the production of distilled spirits, and the strength and quality of 'spirlts subject to tax, and he may deem necessary; and he may prescribe rules and regulations to secure a uniform and correct system of inspection, weighing, marking and gauging of spirit.."
.Intbe,caseoflJ; S. v. Barrels of 'Whisky, 95U. S. 571, the' supreme ct)urtof the UnitE:ld Sotates held tbe, ,regulllJions of the· department could not have. ,tlffi \:effect of amending the . laws ; that they might aid in it IlltO execution, but they cannot change its positii\:;Jlprovisjons. In the,:case of U. S. v. Eato:n, 144 U. 677, 12 eup., based upon the regulation of the commissioner of internal revenue with reo spect to the "ale of oleomargllrine, ,the supreme court held that the or amend, a revenue law, department could and all the commissioner lfOQ,ld do, the authority conferred by was to reguillte the 'mode ofcafIi'ying into effect what con· a very dangerous principle gress had, indicated; and that it would to hold that a thing prescribed by a COmmissioner of int,ernal revenue as a needful regulation to carry into etIect acts of congress could be cpnstrued as a thing "required by 'law'1 .in such manner as to make a failure to observe such regulation a criminal ,offense. ,f'Regulations prescribed by the president .andby tqe heads of departments under authority granted by congress may be regulations prescribed by law, so as lawfully to support acts done under them and in accordance with them, and may thus have, in a proper sense, the force of law; but it does not follow that a thing-required by them is a thing so reo quired by law as to make: the neglect to do the thing a criminal of· in a citizen, where a statute does n()t distinctly make the neg· The doctrine announced in these lect in question a criminal followed in case of U. S. v. Three Barrels of Whisky, cases. 77 Fed; 963, which was a suit for forfeiture based upon a regulation of the commissioner of internal· revenue. It follows from the doctrine, wellest/lblished by these cases, that, as congress has prescribed the marks and stamps which shall be put upon a package of distilled spirits at t4e time .it .is produced and tax paid, and prohibits the reduction J;n. proof or volume of spirits in the original packages, nor providesfor aIlY additional marks in the event it is so reduced, the com" missioner otinternal revenue can.p.ot, by regulation, r;equire such ad,di. tionaI mark, so as to make the absence of it a fCil#eitable offense under section 3289, Rev. ,St. U, S., as not ''having thereon each and stamp required therefOr by law." , As the law, therefore, does not r·equire anx additional m,i.lrks or stamps when the proof or volume an original package ot spir.its is reduced, either from natural orAhe water, it follows that the original marks the proper marks and stamps for such a package; that the contents to volume or proof not and mere volu:me or.propf a" on .thepackage,without more, .fails tOr make a prima facie cas,e. for seizure or forfeiture. The demurrer to tlla. is sustained, .the information d,ismissed, and the claimant., ' the package ordered to ., The at the time on the de)llurrer was announced, a motion tor' a: :of probable which I have felt constMined to deny,::I!lince,fbegJ.\antingof such a certificate wou,ld be utterly inconsistent with myrulingoD the demurrer.
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CITY OF ATLANTA V. OLD COLONY TRUST CO.
OITY OF ATLANTA v. OLD COLONY TRUST CO. et aL
(Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
May 31, 1898.)
STREET RAII,ROADS-COMPUJ,SORY TRANSFERS-AUTHORITY OF CITY.
'.rhe city of Atlanta, Ga., has no authority to Impose a compulsory system of passenger transfers upon the Atlanta Consolidated Street-Railway Company, either under the city charter, the charters of the two corporations whose property was purchased by the said consolidated company, the state statutes ratifying and confirming the Incorporation of street and suburban railroad companies, or under the constitution of Georgia and the ordinance of the city of Atlanta, made in pursuance thereof, consenting to the occupation of Its streets by the said consolidated company. 83 Fed. 39, affirmed.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the North· -ern District of Georgia. J. T. Pendleton and Alex. C. King, for appellant. N. J. Hammond, J. Carrol Payne, John S. Tye, Morris Brandon, RndPreston S. Arkwright, for appellees. Before PARDEE, Circuit Judge, and and PARLANGE, District Judges. PER CURIAM. This is an appeal from an order continuing an injunction pendente lite restraining the city of Atlanta from executing a certain ordinance of that city relating to compulsory transfers on the lines of the Atlanta Consolidated Street-Railway Company. The case was heard in the circuit court before Circuit Judge McCormick and District Judge Newman upon a demurrer to the complainant's bill, which demurrer raised all the questions presented on this hearing. In overruling the demurrer the two judges concurred in an elaborate and well·considered opinion, which is found in the record (83 Fed. 39), with the reasoning of which we substantially concur. On this hearing we conclude: 1. Under the charter of the city of Atlanta there is no power given to the mayor and general council to pass and enforce the said transfer ordinance. 2. 'The charters of the Atlanta Street-Railroad Company and the West End & Atlanta Street-Railroad Company, of which companies the Atlanta Consolidated Street·Railway Company has become the purchaser and successor, do not make the rates of fare on the Atlanta Consolidated Street-Railway Company's lines subject to the initial control of the mayor and general council of the city: of Atlanta. 3. The statutes of the state of Georgia (1 Laws Ga. 1890-91, p. 169), ratifying and confirming the incorporation of street and suburban railroad companies, or any other acts of like nature to which our 1l;ttention has been called, do not give the right of regulating and tlXiIlg fares and transfers on street railroads to the city. of Atlanta. : 4. Under the constitution of the state of Georgia, which prohibits any street-railway company from building upon the streets of a city | <urn:uuid:99bddd51-dc56-4f37-8095-f0c4f18a93ea> | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | http://openjurist.org/88/f1d/856 | 2014-07-29T19:25:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1406510267824.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20140728011747-00267-ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939714 | 3,049 |
Have you ever stood up for something you believe in? A brave and proud woman takes a different path at the … Borders.
Locate the following on a map:
- Western Canada
- Western United States
- Follow Alberta Highway 4 to the border where it becomes Interstate 15 in Montana.
- Follow I-15 through the states of Montana, Idaho, and Utah to Salt Lake City
- Locate other place names: Vancouver, Edmonton, Vermilion, Lethbridge, Coutts, Sweetgrass, Medicine Hat, Moose Jaw, Kicking Horse Pass, Banff, Cardston, Browning, Calgary, Pincher Creek, Chief Mountain.
- Locate the Blackfoot reservations closest to Coutts.
Refresh your familiarity with the Blackfoot. What details did you already know? What new interesting details(3-5) have you found?
Read the short story “Borders,” by Thomas King.
Respond to the Story
- Why is not stating her nationality such an important issue for Laetitia’s mother?
- Do you think the mother did the right thing in not telling the border guards what they wanted to hear? Explain fully.
- What role does one’s nationality play in forming your identity
- “Native literature gives readers new ways of looking at the distinctions between the real and the imaginary, diffusing the tensions of identity checking by looking beyond to wider contexts.” Discuss.
- To what extent do you believe the mother and her son suffered discrimination from both the American and Canadian border guards. Use explicit information from the story to support your view.
- When asked what he found so “compelling” about borders, Thomas King, in a 1999 interview, replied, “The fact that there is one. The fact that right in the middle of this perfectly contiguous landscape someone has drawn a line and on one side it’s Canadian and therefore very different from the side that is American. Borders are these very artificial and subjective barriers that we throw up around our lives in all sorts of different ways. National borders are just indicative of the kinds of borders we build around ourselves.” He speaks further of the need to keep constructing new borders: “As soon as we get rid of the old ones we construct new ones” (Interview with Jennifer Andrews). Discuss.
In “Borders,” Thomas King uses a variety of sentence structures: simple, compound, complex, and parallel structures. Any story that is full of simple sentences tends to be choppy and sound, um, boring. King uses different sentence types to create variety and keep the reader interested.
Write a post about Thomas King’s sentence structure.
“Her gun was silver.”
“The Canadian border guard was a young woman, and she seemed happy to see us.”
“The border was actually two towns, though neither one was big enough to amount to anything.
“He leaned into the window, looked into the back seat, and looked at my mother and me.”
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Where they from?
Toronto, Canada. Holy shit, it looks like we got a brand new surge off Covid hitting us right before the holidays. I know this because 90% of my precious NHL games have been postponed this week. You know times are desperate when I’m betting on a Stars/Wild game. Either way, stay safe and make sure to wash your hands, you filthy mincers!
Why the hype?
When I was 17 years old I saw Car Bomb support for Pig Destroyer at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia. The band that opened that show was a trio from Brooklyn simply called Child Abuse. I was so impressed by their manic, jarring skronkcore that I bought a CD from them (I’m old).
I recount this because I feel like this band plays a very similar style to Child Abuse but with shorter songs and a bit more blast beats. I have always enjoyed the tiny synth-driven wave of grind bands who are influenced by the Locust and Ghengis Tron and Im glad to see that it still has it’s flag-bearers even at the close of 2021. Neon Hiss do this sound plenty of justice while adding their own unique take, especially on the slower stuff in which the synths are contorted to plum certain bass-heavy depths normally reserved for… um… a bass. Add on some truly anguished vocals that perfectly encapsulate life under lockdown and, boom, you got some dynamite stuff.
The aptly titled shame, self-released. A.C. from Holy Grinder does all the music and the vocals here were recorded by someone simply referred to as CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP on their Bandcamp. But that’s not even what I wanted to focus on. What I really want to point out that they have a song called “Mormon Beautician,” which is one of Richard Lewis’ best lines from Curb Your Enthusiasm. It is truly the chef’s kiss off this album — bon appetit. | <urn:uuid:62c757c3-271b-47b7-a9e2-262534407007> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2021/12/21/blast-worship-neon-hiss/ | 2022-01-20T11:22:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301737.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120100127-20220120130127-00602.warc.gz | en | 0.970489 | 434 |
Feb. 20 (UPI) -- A woman visiting her grandfather in North Carolina took her elder's advice and ended up winning a $100,000 lottery jackpot.
Kaitlen Raney told North Carolina Education Lottery officials she traveled from her home in Saluda, Va., to visit her grandpa in Mebane.
She said she usually only buys $1 scratch-off lottery tickets, but during a trip to Hawfields General Store in Mebane her grandfather urged her to take a chance on a $20 ticket.
Raney selected a $20 Ruby Red 7's ticket and returned to her grandfather's home, where they both scratched off lottery tickets and she discovered she had won a $100,000 prize.
"Maybe he's not so crazy for playing the lottery after all," Raney said while visiting lottery headquarters Wednesday in Raleigh. "I guess I owe him dinner. Good job, granddad."
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Posts Tagged ‘Business Plan Sample’
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The actual consultant’s objectivity allows non-emotionally-based predictions and anticipation for your company. The consultant is going to be a lot more goals along the way as well as question your own presumptions, which makes it more unlikely that this company may have issues following the financing is available in.
Regardless of what, don’t allow a company preparing consultant speak you in to putting details within your strategy which you not necessarily more comfortable with. If this does not look directly to a person, this probably is not. It really is your company, and will also be tired of the program after you have paid the actual consultant’s expenses. | <urn:uuid:a0a3f132-07d1-4057-b454-d30ea7d5ce1d> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://freemarketingmadeeasy.com/tag/business-plan-sample | 2014-12-19T03:59:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768205.146/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00098-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970731 | 898 |
I've asked Jesus to heal me. I'm healed now. I longer feel cursed. That story is my story now. I've never told all what I've told you to anyone. I was ashamed of it. But now you can share it whenever you tell God's stories. I'm no longer ashamed. Jesus has set me free. Thanks for sharing Bible stories with us.
So now our top instructor has been leading them and refining their training. He said, “In both places the pastors are now coming and learning and participating in the training because of the effects they’ve seen in the lives of their people.” One pastor said, “As I watched my wife teach, I saw the people convicted by the Word of God; I’ve never seen God’s Word have such an effect.”
Anna never had the opportunity to go to school. She grew up as an ordinary village girl amongst her Turkana tribe in Northern Kenya. Years later she married a police officer and settled into the quiet life of a housewife. Anna tried to set up a business, but with her husband being transferred from one town to another due to the nature of his job, she struggled to establish a stable business.
As she sought answers to life’s questions, Anna met a Christian evangelist who told her about the love of Jesus, and she gave her life to the Lord.
Newly passionate for the gospel, Anna visited her pastor and shared her desire to become an evangelist and witness for Jesus.
But Anna carried a secret. This secret had been carefully kept by Anna as she always carried a Bible, a pen and a notebook to church. But, this day, the secret was uncovered when the pastor asked Anna, “Tell me about your educational background. Then maybe I can recommend a training program for you.”
Anna revealed, “I have never been to school Pastor, I cannot read.” The surprised pastor told Anna, “Then I don’t think it will be possible for you to get training, so ministry life is just not for you.”
She, as a new believer, was disappointed, but still remained determined.
A few months later, she heard about a Simply The Story training in Kinango, where she and her husband lived. She attended the entire 5-day workshop and was so excited to discover that even non literate people like her could learn and teach God’s Word through the stories of the Bible. Her hope for ministry rekindled as she began to witness to others by sharing the Bible stories she had learned in the workshop.
The following week, an Oral Bible School was established in Kinango. Anna signed up! Anna attended the six months of classes that were spread out over the next year showing great determination to succeed.
On graduation day, Anna stood out as the best student having never missed a class. But as well, she had learned and internalized the most number of stories of any graduate; 210 stories! She went on to establish a Bible study in her church, much to the joy and amazement of her pastor, the one who initially had thought that non-literates couldn’t lead ministry or teach Scripture!
By the time Anna graduated, she had already identified a new location for ministry and recruited Oral Bible School students in Nyahururu, where she began fulltime to lead the twelve month term.
Long Time in Bondage
A sweet, quiet, lady missionary attended an STS workshop in Michigan.
Afterwards, she shared this with several of the staff Instructors. “For 38 years as a missionary in South America, I have been living as the Bent Woman.” [The Bent Woman story in Luke 13: 10-17 is one of the stories we learn and share in a workshop.]
“For all the time we have been serving as missionaries, my husband has wanted me to teach the women, but I told him, ‘I can't.’
“All along, as I refused to teach, I felt guilty. What kind of a missionary am I to not teach, but I can't.
She told the staff, "At the workshop, I discovered that I CAN tell Bible stories and CAN talk about them.
She happily declared, "As I go back to the field, I am no longer the bent woman. I am freed of that bondage. I will teach telling stories"
Not ParticipateAt a workshop in TX, USA, a lady attendee who by looks, seemed not to fit with the congregation. She intrigued us. She looked like a person who had been battered by life. We discovered from the workshop host that this lady was a Katrina victim who this church had adopted.
The ladies at the church had loved on her for almost a year, but up until the workshop, during church functions and Bible studies, the lady didn't talk.
Amazingly, during the small group time of exploring for treasures in a story, this discarded lady spoke out loud a few times. The church people who knew her were amazed.
Finally, on the last day of the 5-day training, she announced, "I will tell a story!" She did not commit to leading the discussion on the story; someone else in her group would do that part. So, when storytellers rotated to tell their stories to a new group, this extremely withdrawn lady actually told a Bible story to a group of six other attendees.
Toward the end of each workshop comes the fun time for each small study group to select a story to tell and to dramatize for the last evening’s grand finale. One person would be selected to tell the story, while the rest of the group silently acts the story out in front of everyone.
Wonder of wonders, the once beaten down lady volunteered to tell the story! Not only that, when the evening came, she brought her Down's-syndrome daughter.
When we looked out and saw 70 plus people in the audience, we realized that the storyteller would have to use a microphone; which for a withdrawn person presented an added hill to climb!
We all watched in awe, some even in tears, as that withdrawn mom told the story, over the microphone—and her daughter took part in the drama!
The STS way of empowering people gave this broken lady that courage to speak God's Word. God is no respecter of persons!
A note to my pastors’ wife:
I am so happy to tell you that your prayers were answered. God was very kind and encouraging to me the day of the Tea. But I can't tell you about the Tea without telling you what God has been doing leading up to it. Let me tell you about it in stages:
Preparation: The Perspectives course last fall deeply affected me, as did the missions speaker in March, and a 5-day workshop I took in January called Simply The Story.
Prayer: A few of my friends and I prayed a lot for this Tea. I’m so grateful that you were praying too. It was an adventure in prayer, because my prayer this year is to die to self. But how does one do that? I'm looking to the Lord to find out what that looks like. My inspiration is John 12:24, "Truly, Truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit."
I wanted the tea to be memorable: to break the ice in the neighborhood conversations. How do I do that without being the center of attention? The purpose was excellence, not self promotion.
But it was hard to go to so much work (5 weeks of planning, cleaning house, weeding and pruning the garden, practicing recipes, preparing and sending invitations, renting round tables, linen and chairs for 32, etc.) without feeling that I was “responsible” for the success of the whole process. But it was hard not to not be disappointed when some who were invited couldn't come.
Then again, sometimes I was afraid so many would respond I’d run out of food and seats. Finally, I quit trying to analyze everything and decided to just do my best and leave the results to God.
I purposely did not invite my Christian friends, who would have come in droves and made it look successful. Invitations went to the ESL adult students I teach, piano teacher colleagues, neighbors, International Friendship Connection students, and of course, family. Besides my family and a couple of Christian neighbors, I had no idea where the others were spiritually.
Purpose: The Tea had two specific purposes: to build relationships and to make God a topic of conversation. I wanted them to see in a Bible story how amazing God is, and to become interested in reading more Bible stories. In January that 5-day Simply The Story workshop so impressed me regarding the deep spiritual conversations we can have just by telling a story and discussing what happened in the story. That’s it: simply the story!
A new friend from the workshop came to the tea and told the story of Mary and Martha when guests came to their home. I had mentioned in the invitation that a Bible story would be told, so guests wouldn't be surprised. The take-away from this story: the most important thing we can do in life is sit at Jesus’ feet and learn from Him.
The Tea: 77 were invited and 25 came. (Actually a 26th came late, but no one heard her at the door, so she went home!) Reminder! Put a sign on the door to come in. Of course, I invited the Lord too, and told Him I wanted Him to have fun: working in hearts in ways I may never know about.
A talented high school cellist added an elegant touch to our eating time. The food was a success. All but one or two Spanish speakers participated in the story discussion. The only request the Lord didn't answer was the weather -- it was very hot that day.
The cellist's mother, whom I insisted on her participating in the tea rather than waiting in the car, told me privately as she left that she was so grateful to be a part of the Tea, and would I please invite her back if I ever do something like this again? I'd never met this woman before that day.
Three of my teenage piano students helped in the last-minute food prep and decorating, serving guests and doing clean up, so I could concentrate on the guests.
The cost? Yes I did have to spend some money for renting supplies, hiring the cellist and piano students, and purchasing the food, and making a small jar of jam for each guest. But the cost was far less than the $2300 being spent by each person in the group going on a short-term mission trip this summer." And rather than having just one week with them, I will have months and years of opportunity for personal follow up with these women.
The lost who haven’t yet clearly heard the Gospel are across the sea AND are also living close to me.
I’d like to see us have a yearly training on hospitality evangelism, sharing ideas, teaming up with Christian neighbors to reach a neighborhood, pooling resources (I borrowed teacups), etc. Perhaps those who cannot be a hostess could sign up to help with cost, baking, joining in a prayer group for it, decorating, etc. I’d like to see us women initiate more intentional interaction with those around us.
One ESL student, whom I have taken to lunch and had her family to our home house several times for ESL parties, asked me as she was leaving if I would please invite her back if I did this again. Her teenage daughters interpreted the story to her and the grandmother who was visiting from Mexico.
While thanking the guests for coming at the end, several chimed in, "We must do this again next year. We'll help with the food!" Of course, I agreed, saying it was an excellent idea. Privately, I'm not willing to wait a year, and am planning to enlist them in organizing together a Christmas cookie exchange after Thanksgiving. I'll hire a Victorian quartet to sing carols, or another instrumentalist.
Follow up: First, I’m taking copies of the recipes to my neighbors, visiting, and asking if they have read any more Bible stories and encouraging them if they haven’t. They are all aware of my husband’s recent illnesses and regained health. I have told some of them that it is in answer to the prayers of many people.
For the next step, I want to tell them how much I believe in the power of prayer. Simply praying is so effective. My question to them will be, “Is there anything you would feel comfortable sharing that you would like me to pray about?” We’ll see where that leads. In my private prayer time, I fully expect God to give me more ideas.
Sorry this is so long. I wanted to tell you of my excitement about how God is opening so many doors to be relational. And thank you so much for praying.
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OUTDOOR GARDEN POTS
LARGE GARDEN POTS AND PLANTERS
Lightweight Fibreglass and GRC
EFFICIENT DELIVERY SERVICE
trustworthy and “economical”
made with the highest quality standards
SECURED ONLINE TRANSACTIONS
secured by SSL encryption
Sigma Planters Australia is a retail division of the trade planter supplier IOTA Designer Planters. We are Brisbane’s largest supplier of trade quality Fibreglass and GRC planters. If you want cheap go to the big warehouse franchises. If you want stylish designs and high quality that is backed by a 3 year warranty, then Sigma Planters Australia is for you.
We only sell online through our online store and do not have a shop.
My name is Nicholas Jones and I can be contacted directly on 0417 371 201. I am happy to take appointments at my warehouse for budgets over $1000. There is really not much to see except pallets of pots wrapped in pallet wrap, but I have a range of samples I can show you so you can see and feel the product up close before buying online. There is also a display along the fence at 8-10 Storie St, Clontarf where you can come any time without an appointment and view them for yourself through the fence. | <urn:uuid:0330e76d-14bb-4726-aee3-72adf3ff45d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sigmaplanters.com.au/ | 2022-08-17T12:31:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00304.warc.gz | en | 0.907717 | 287 |
8 February 2017
King's College Golfers on Top Form
The King’s College golf team have qualified for the Independent Schools Golf Association (ISGA) finals for the first time in our history!!
It was a tough route to the
final, beating Truro and Sherborne twice before playing Monkton Coombe School
in the final at Burnham and Berrow.
Enduring the wet and windy
conditions, the players were fantastic. The team was superbly led by our
England player and team captain Taylor Stote, who won his match convincingly.
Will Chesterman won his match by
seven holes and Jack Veale also played some fabulous golf, resulting in a win
by a considerable margin.
Mention should also be made of
Adam Shimali, who has also helped the team during the earlier stages.
Congratulations to Taylor Stote,
Will Chesterman, Jack Veale and Adam Shimali for this wonderful achievement.
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Someone Apparently Wants City Manager in Charge of Public Records Requests
Above: City Manager George Lahanas, City Clerk Jennifer Shuster, and Mayor Mark Meadows.
With no explanation for the shift provided, and no public discussion of the matter planned, City Council is set to vote tomorrow night to put the City Manager’s office in charge of handling public records requests, instead of having the City Clerk’s office in charge.
If the item passes as written, City Manager George Lahanas will also be in charge of setting the policy for how such requests are managed. He will then be able to decide, without consultation with Council, such issues as who rules on appeals of denials of public records requests – deciding, for example, whether the Mayor will have powers that might otherwise be held by City Council as a whole.
The change has not been discussed in public meetings.
The East Lansing’s City Clerk’s office has been handling Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for many years. Former City Clerk Marie Wicks tells ELi that when she took the office in September 2011, she handled FOIA, and did so “through my tenure,” except for police- and fire-related FOIA, which is handled by staff in those departments.
Wicks’ successor Jennifer Shuster has been handling FOIA since taking over the office from Wicks early this year.
Wicks and Shuster followed policy specifically voted on by City Council as a whole. The existing policy, unanimously approved by City Council in May 2015 and signed by then-Mayor Nathan Triplett, specifically named the City Clerk as the FOIA coordinator, a position required by the State of Michigan’s open records law.
But now, for unknown reasons, the current City Council is set tomorrow to vote on its consent agenda on a resolution to give Lahanas the FOIA coordinator position and to let him “set forth the City’s policies, procedures, and guidelines for accepting and processing FOIA requests in accordance” with State law, without consultation with Council.
An item listed on the consent agenda is normally an item considered unworthy of discussion by Council. Multiple items on the consent agenda are passed together with a single voice vote, although any member of Council can ask to have an item pulled off a consent agenda for discussion and a dedicated vote.
If the resolution passes, one thing Lahanas could change is who rules on appeals when records are denied to the public.
ELi reported on Saturday that Mayor Mark Meadows recently issued a legalistically-elaborate ruling declaring himself the ultimate authority in terms of East Lansing’s responses to denials of FOIA requests. Meadows insisted in his undated response to an appeal from ELi that he is the “head of the public body” according to the City Charter.
But this is in direct contradiction to the City’s existing FOIA policy, which states, “The City Manager, being the chief administrative officer of the City pursuant to the City Charter, is designated the head of the City for purposes of all appeals made pursuant” to State law.
Again, if the policy passes tomorrow as written, Lahanas could then, without asking Council, make the Mayor the "head of the public body" for purposes of deciding on FOIA appeals.
In an unusual move, the nature of the resolution on tomorrow’s City Council agenda isn’t even mentioned in the agenda itself. It is referred to merely as “Approval of Policy Resolution 2018-14,” with no explanatory title or memo.
ELi contacted Shuster and the five members of City Council this morning to ask why this change was being put into motion. None have responded.
FOIA is a chief means by which citizens (including reporters) find out what’s going on behind-the-scenes in local, state, and national government. FOIA can be used, for example, in cases like this to try to find out from whom this resolution originated.
ELi has previously reported that under the current City administration of Meadows, Mayor Pro Tem Erik Altmann, and City Attorney Tom Yeadon, it has been challenging to obtain records that are supposed to be public.
UPDATE: Find out what happened at the meeting in our follow-up report.
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In response to a suggestion that there should be a
Super Search nodelet,
I offer the following: a customizable
mini-SuperSearch form for your
This is just an example. You can (and should) decide for yourself which fields
you want to hard-code (using inputs of type hidden), and
which fields you want to let yourself enter values for.
(The remainder will get their defaults as defined by Super Search.)
<form method="post" action="?"
<input type="hidden" name="node" value="3989" />
Author:<input type="text" name="a" size=20 value="`author_title`"/><!-
Title:<input type="text" name="HIT" size=20 value="`title`"/><!--"-->
Sep:<input type="text" name="HIS" size=2 value=" " />
Search only in/under `root_type_title`:
<input name="`root_ss_type`" value="1" type="checkbox">
<input name="re" value="A" type="radio" /> All
<input name="re" value="S" type="radio" checked="checked" /> Section
<input name="re" value="N" type="radio" /> None
<input type="submit" name="go" value="Search" />
This is pretty cool, because it uses Free Nodelet macros
to determine the type of the current thread's root node (replies are
simply type 'note', regardless of section) . The mini Super Search form is pre-loaded
with that and other relevant values from the current node: the author
and the title. You can delete/edit these values as you like before
clicking the submit button. If you decide you need more flexibility
than this (or than you can hack in your Free Nodelet), then...
you know where to find it. :-)
For extra coolness, use the Fake a Nodelet technique
to make your Mini Super Search look like a genuine nodelet!
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Central America’s ‘Mosquito Coast’, the home of the Miskito people, stretches between Honduras and Nicaragua. The border is at a point that juts out into the Caribbean: Columbus called it Cabo Gracias a Dios for the shelter it provided on his last voyage. As the storm that became Hurricane Eta formed above the seas of Venezuela on 30 October, it headed west towards the cape 2000 kilometres away, following the track of Hurricane Edith in 1971, Mitch in 1998 (which killed seven thousand people in Honduras and three thousand in Nicaragua), Felix in 2007, Ida in 2009 and many other lesser cyclones.
Eta swung south as it approached, devasting coastal settlements and then, at hurricane force 4, turned inland to Nicaragua on 3 November, destroying the Miskito village at Wawa Bar. At the nearby port of Bilwí, 77 houses collapsed and 803 were damaged. As the winds weakened, heavy rains began and ten rivers broke their banks. A day later, heading north-west, Eta crossed into Honduras. It hit Cuba at the weekend and made landfall in Florida on Sunday evening.
Nicaraguan authorities had five days’ notice of Eta’s arrival; Honduras had six. Nicaragua’s disaster agency announced its plans on 30 October, and the next day lorries were carrying roofing materials, mattresses and food to Bilwí. Thirty thousand people were evacuated and moved into stronger buildings such as churches and schools. Two people died: artisan gold miners working despite the warnings, buried by a mudslide.
In Honduras, where the Covid-19 epidemic is still at full strength, 4 November was to be the start of a traditional holiday that the government hoped would lift the public mood. Faced with warnings of up to 60 cm of rain, they focused on whether or not to let the holiday go ahead, rather than preparing for the emergency. By the time the festivities were cancelled on 2 November, coastal settlements were already flooded.
On 3 November, the valley that holds Honduras’s second city, San Pedro Sula, began to flood. NGOs warned that a ‘catastrophe’ was happening and people should save themselves. A red alert was issued only when 400,000 people had fled their homes, collected on the roofs of buildings, and began sharing video clips of the water lapping at their feet. One man, Julio Guerrero, appealing for help on Facebook, blamed the government for his imminent drowning and that of ‘thousands of Hondurans’. He was eventually rescued along with many who had spent as much as thirty hours stranded in heavy rain. By 7 November, the official death toll had reached 25 but one morgue was said to be preparing to receive 100 bodies; more than 1.7 million people’s homes were lost or damaged; twenty road bridges were destroyed, one swept away dramatically by rising waters, and 51 major roads are unusable.
Recriminations began. The minister responsible for dealing with disasters, whose nickname is ‘Killa’, blamed the victims for not leaving their homes quickly enough. Journalists who had criticised the government for encouraging people to travel during the holiday week, despite the pandemic, attacked it for prevaricating while the disaster unfurled. Well-known presenters from Televicentro and Une TV made stinging comparisons between Honduras’s inaction and Nicaragua’s early preparations. When officials blamed the pandemic for depleting the public coffers, journalists blamed the corruption that has siphoned off much of the international aid sent to Honduras to deal with it.
Honduras was in crisis before it was hit by Eta. The president is running a narco-state, having fraudulently gained re-election in 2017. Since the murder of Berta Cáceres in 2016, there has been no respite in attacks on human rights defenders: in the midst of the pandemic, five members of an indigenous coastal community fighting against tourism developments were kidnapped and have yet to reappear. Well before Covid-19 arrived, the health service had been stripped of funding, some of it redirected to fund the ruling party’s election campaigns.
Both Juan Orlando in Honduras and Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua took calculated risks when the pandemic began in March. Ortega relied on his investment in 19 new hospitals and – above all – a community-based health system to ride the crisis without imposing a lockdown. Hernández knew his health service wouldn’t cope and enforced a strict lockdown with regular police violence. Nicaragua has officially registered 5600 virus cases in a population of 6.6 million (opposition sources claim the real total is 10,900). Honduras reached 100,000 cases this weekend in a population of 10 million. After the deluge, the virus is likely to proliferate.
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Besides being an amazing designer, Rick Owens is one very cool man before his shows. This wasn't my first time backstage with him and every time he is calm, collected and pensive. In this quick video, you see Rick going over with the makeup artists how he would like to see the look altered. They had just finished the run-through under the runway lights and Rick thought that the makeup used to elongate the forehead was too much, so it had to be toned down. By the looks of it, you might think this was an hour or two before the show, but no, it was about 20 minutes before it went on. At this point, two models still hadn't shown up yet, yet everyone was still cool as a cucumber.
—Rebecca Suhrawardi Austin
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My brother told me the other day that Nebbiolo is named after the Italian word for fog. The fog is that dusty film that covers the outside of all grapes, whether they are ripening on the vines in Piedmont, or in a plastic bag in the supermarket. Blueberries have these fog clouds, too. This fog is the yeast colonies that settle on the outside of the fruit, drawn the sugar stored behind the skins, I imagine. This yeast is the yeast that eventually ferments the wine. As any homebrewer knows, when you make beer, you have to add the yeast yourself. When you make wine, the yeast comes to you.
Nebbiolo is the grape, and I will be paying it a visit in a few weeks with my sommelier chef brother. The wine that is made from these Nebbiolo cloud grapes is Barolo. I have tasted Barolo before with my brother. And last week I tried a Nebbiolo d’Alba. Both of these wines are made in Piedmont, and both of these wines are from 100% Nebbiolo grapes. And they are so different.
Here is a random smattering of some other people’s word attempts to capture the personality of the Barolo:
a stern-faced ‘worthy’ of Italian wine; a big, tough, terrifying red; a giant of propriety; dark, chewy, and exhausting for the first few years of their life, yet which can blossom out into a remarkable shower of flavours; a class apart; massive
To me, a Barolo tastes like a very old house with glass windows that have started to waver with time. The windows face east, and the sun is shining into them at an angle, and as a square of the wood heats up under the sun, it comes alive with the smells of time. And it changes. A carpenter once told me that wood is a vein. It changes with water, and it absorbs from the air. The older the wood is, the more life it has absorbed and can breathe out. | <urn:uuid:62e734f2-c32d-447a-b538-a53b339a1c93> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://www.cupboardsundries.com/about-that-nebbiolo/ | 2017-08-23T15:52:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886120573.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20170823152006-20170823172006-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.966081 | 434 |
eBay Inc. Expects to Enable $300B of Global Commerce
SAN JOSE, Calif. (March 28, 2013) – Declaring mobile is leading a “commerce revolution†that will create significantly different consumer and retail experiences worldwide, eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) today outlined its three-year growth strategies to lead and innovate in this technology-driven, more connected new commerce environment.
In a company-held meeting for the financial community, eBay said it intends to drive strong continued growth in its core Marketplaces, PayPal and GSI Commerce businesses. At the same time, the company is focused on leveraging its global mobile commerce leadership and other commerce technologies to enable new experiences for consumers and retailers.
Led by mobile, a commerce revolution is under way,†said eBay Inc. President and CEO John Donahoe. “Technology is creating a new web-enabled retail interface, a new seamless, multiscreen commerce experience that connects consumers anytime, anywhere. This will expand shopping beyond conventional store environments and e-commerce sites. How we shop is being transformed, and eBay Inc. intends to be a leader in this new commerce world.â€
In 2015, the company expects to enable $300 billion of global commerce, compared to $175 billion in 2012; the company expects revenues to grow over 50 percent to at least $21.5 billion in 2015, up from $14.1 billion in 2012. Enabled commerce volume is the total commerce and payment volume across all three business units, consisting of Marketplaces gross merchandise volume, PayPal merchant services net total payment volume and GSI global ecommerce merchandise sales.
Donahoe outlined three advantages that he believes will drive the company’s growth:
1. An expanded addressable market. eBay Inc. is no longer just an e-commerce company, but a global commerce leader, Donahoe said. That means the company now has growth opportunities across the estimated $10 trillion commerce market.
2. Mobile commerce leadership and innovation. eBay Inc.’s mobile innovation capabilities across all operating systems and devices are a competitive advantage, Donahoe said. In 2013, the company expects to generate $20 billion of mobile commerce and payments volume.
3. A strong portfolio of technology assets and capabilities. The company’s core businesses and assets well position eBay to capitalize and win in the new commerce environment.
Based on current business trends and expectations, the company provided the following financial outlook for 2013-2015:
- Total company revenues are expected to reach $21.5 billion to $23.5 billion in 2015, up from $14.1 billion in 2012, led by continued innovation in the company’s core businesses and the company’s mobile commerce leadership.
- The company expects compound annual non-GAAP earnings per share growth of 15-19 percent from 2012 to 2015.
- Free cash flow is anticipated to be greater than $11 billion over the three-year period.
- Marketplaces is expected to achieve revenues of $10.5 billion to $11.5 billion in 2015, representing a 14% compound annual growth rate at the midpoint.
- PayPal is expected to achieve revenue growth of $9.5 billion to $10.5 billion in 2015, representing a 22% compound annual growth rate at the midpoint.
- GSI Commerce is expected to achieve revenue growth of $1.5 billion to $1.7 billion in 2015, representing a 14% compound annual growth rate at the midpoint.
About eBay Inc.: Founded in 1995 in San Jose, Calif., eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) is a global commerce platform and payments leader connecting millions of buyers and sellers. We do so through eBay, the world's largest online marketplace, which allows users to buy and sell in nearly every country on earth; through PayPal, which enables individuals and businesses to securely, easily and quickly send and receive digital payments; and through GSI, which facilitates ecommerce, multichannel retailing and digital marketing for global enterprises. X.commerce harnesses the developer community of Magento, an ecommerce platform, by providing technology solutions and eBay Inc. capabilities to merchants of all sizes, supporting eBay Inc.'s mission of enabling commerce. We also reach millions through specialized marketplaces such as StubHub, the world's largest ticket marketplace, and eBay classifieds sites, which together have a presence in more than 1,000 cities around the world. For more information about the company and its global portfolio of online brands, visit www.ebayinc.com.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures: This press release includes the following financial measure defined as a “non-GAAP financial measure†by the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC: free cash flow. This measure may be different from non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. The presentation of this financial information, which is not prepared under any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles, is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
Forward-Looking Statements: This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to, among other things, the future performance of eBay Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries that are based on the company’s current expectations, forecasts and assumptions and involve risks and uncertainties. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the company’s projected financial outlook for 2013-2015 and future growth in the Marketplaces, PayPal and GSI businesses, mobile commerce and mobile payments. The company's actual results could differ materially from those predicted or implied and reported results should not be considered as an indication of future performance. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to: changes in political, business and economic conditions, including any European or general economic downturn or crisis and any conditions that affect ecommerce growth; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; the company's ability to profitably integrate, manage and grow businesses that have been acquired recently or may be acquired in the future; the company's need to successfully react to the increasing importance of mobile payments and mobile commerce and the increasing social aspect of commerce; the company's ability to deal with the increasingly competitive ecommerce environment, including competition for its sellers from other trading sites and other means of selling, and competition for its buyers from other merchants, online and offline; the company's need to manage an increasingly large enterprise with a broad range of businesses of varying degrees of maturity and in many different geographies; the effect of management changes and business initiatives; the company's need and ability to manage other regulatory, tax and litigation risks as its services are offered in more jurisdictions and applicable laws become more restrictive; any changes the company may make to its product offerings; the competitive, regulatory, credit card association-related and other risks specific to PayPal and Bill Me Later, especially as PayPal continues to expand geographically and introduce new products and as new laws and regulations related to financial services companies come into effect; the company's ability to timely upgrade and develop its systems, infrastructure and customer service capabilities, including GSI's v.11 initiative, at reasonable cost; and the company's ability to maintain site stability and performance on all of its sites while adding new products and features in a timely fashion. The forward-looking statements in this release do not include the potential impact of any acquisitions or divestitures that may be announced and/or completed after the date hereof.
More information about factors that could affect the company's operating results is included under the captions “Risk Factors†and “Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations†in the company's most recent annual report on Form 10-K and subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, copies of which may be obtained by visiting the company's Investor Relations website at http://investor.ebayinc.com or the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Undue reliance should not be placed on the forward-looking statements in this release, which are based on information available to the company on the date hereof. eBay assumes no obligation to update such statements. | <urn:uuid:333db80a-f355-4405-8e3f-3ce5e0d3650c> | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | http://www.ebayinc.com/in_the_news/story/ebay-inc-expects-enable-300b-global-commerce | 2015-04-25T01:51:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1429246645606.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20150417045725-00221-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938155 | 1,706 |
MS Modeling’s quantum mechanical tools CASTEP and DMol3 have been used to study the properties (structural, mechanical, vibrational, and electronic) of carbon and boron-nitride nanotubes.
Carbon Nanotubes and Their Properties
If nanotube technology is to reach its full commercial potential, the ability to control and fine-tune properties such as these will be vital to manufacture of tailored devices. Carbon nanotubes are long, thin cylinders of bound carbon atoms, about 10 000 times thinner than a human hair, and can be single- or multi-walled. They have remarkable electronic and mechanical properties that depend on atomic structure and more precisely on the manner in which the graphene sheet is wrapped to form a nanotube (chirality). They can be either metallic or semiconducting.
Potential Applications of Carbon Nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes are a hot research area owing to their novel properties, fuelled by experimental breakthroughs that have led to realistic possibilities of using them in a host of commercial nanoelectronic applications: field emission-based flat panel displays, novel semiconducting devices in microelectronics, hydrogen storage devices, chemical sensors, and most recently in ultra-sensitive electromechanical sensors. As a result they represent a real-life application of nanotechnology.
In addition, their high strength extends their potential application sphere to include composite reinforced materials.
Boron Nitride Nanotubes
Boron-nitride nanotubes also show potential for similar applications, and may even improve on the performance of carbon nanotubes, as they can tolerate heat, have a constant band-gap that is independent of tube-diameter and chirality. It has also been shown that boron-nitride coated carbon nanotubes show better field emission than non-coated ones.
Nanotube Studies Carried out at Wrights-Patterson and Rice University
Researchers at the Airforce Base Research Laboratory (Wrights-Patterson) and the Rice University, Houston, TX, used MS Modeling’s density functional theory (DFT) codes CASTEP and DMol3 to study and compare the properties (structural, mechanical, vibrational, and electronic) of single-walled carbon and boron-nitride nanotubes, looking at the effects (if any) of inter-nanotube coupling.
The studies concluded:
• While Resonant Raman spectroscopy has become a key experimental technique for studying the optical and electronic properties in nanotubes, theory and models are important for predictive purposes as well as detailed analysis of observations. This work demonstrates various ways in which DFT methods can impact on this, including (a) testing and validation of simpler model relationship between nanotube structure and RBM, (b) quantifying the effect of tube interactions, and thereby the difference between single and multiple tube materials, (c) prediction of RBMs beyond the case of carbon nanotubes, here including boron-nitride nanotubes. For example, the study reveals that a model proposed by Bachilo et al. for predicting RBMs of isolated semiconducting tubes does not hold for large diameter tubes
• DFT methods give a detailed picture of variation in the structural, mechanical, and electonic properties of both C and BN nanotubes as a function of their radius, chirality, and interactions. It reveals features with potentially significant impact for applications. The location of the van Hove singularity, which for example impacts optical transitions, was studied, revealing that tube interactions do not always lead to an outward expansion with respect to the Fermi energy, but to an inward shift for tubes of smaller radius. | <urn:uuid:ae656ded-637d-422f-aec4-2a56bcd4b612> | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | https://www.azonano.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=1407 | 2018-02-17T19:13:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891807660.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20180217185905-20180217205905-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.925524 | 775 |
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Coldplay is an alternative rock band, famous for their songs including "Yellow", "Clocks" and "Viva La Vida".
Behind the LaughterEdit
Singer Chris Martin of the band Coldplay guest starred as himself in the episode. Coldplay drummer Will Champion commented on the appearance: "We actually went to a read-through for an episode about seven years ago. We were staying in Los Angeles and our friend—our manager—I think knows someone to do with the whole program. So we just went down and had a listen, while all the actors were reading their lines and we were just blown away that we were even there. From then, we just thought it would be amazing to make it on an episode. It's definitely one of those moments where you have to pinch yourself. It's been around for so long."
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