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The 2007 Tour de Romandie served as the 59th edition of this event now held on the 2007 UCI ProTour. The stage race was held from May 1 through May 6, 2007 in the French-speaking area of Switzerland known as Romandy. The race winner was Thomas Dekker of .
Final standings
General classification
UCI ProTour points are not awarded to riders on UCI Continental Team that finish in the top-10 overall or a top-3 stage finish.
Mountains classification
Points classification
Sprints classification
Stages
Prologue – 2007-05-01, Fribourg, 3.5 km ITT
Italian Paolo Savoldelli () repeats his win in last year's prologue with a time of 4 minutes, 35 seconds over the 3.5 kilometer course at 45.82 km/h (28.5 mph).
Stage 1 – 2007-05-02, Granges-Paccot – La Chaux de Fonds, 157 km
Germany's hope for the future Markus Fothen of took the win after he escaped in the finale together with Francisco Pérez. Fothen beat him in a classical sprint-a-deux. The peloton bunch sprint was just behind the two leaders.
Stage 2 – 2007-05-03, La Chaux de Fonds – Lucens, 167 km
The only real sprinter stage of this edition of the Tour de Romandie was an easy win for Australian rider Robbie McEwen. The rider held off Borut Božič with ease.
Stage 3 – 2007-05-04, Moudon – Charmey, 163 km
Although the course was really difficult, the favourites did not feel like attacking today. And thus, the escapees got their shot at winning a stage. After a win in the Tirreno Adriatico cyclist Matteo Bono added another nice win to his palmares. He held of Japan's Beppu in the sprint. Beppu did score the first Pro Tour points ever for Japan though.
Stage 4 – 2007-05-05, Charmey – Pas de Morgins, 156 km
A long break by rider Gorazd Štangelj finished with 8 kilometers to go. By then, 's Eddy Mazzoleni upped the pace. He thinned out the group until there were about 15 riders left. Attacks followed by José Ángel Gómez Marchante and Sylwester Szmyd. But the only real successful attack was by Spaniard Igor Antón. Dutch rider Thomas Dekker saw the danger and took over from Mazzoleni. As a result, only five riders could follow. American cyclist Chris Horner attacked with 4 kilometers to go. Dekker replied instantly and with much pain and suffering also Frenchman John Gadret managed to follow. The trio caught up with Anton, who was happy he could sit in last wheel and follow. Although Dekker made the strongest impression and tried to get away twice, it was Anton who took the win. Dekker disputed the win due to a seemingly irregular sprint by Anton. But his protest was denied.
Stage 5 – 2007-05-06, Lausanne, 20 km ITT
In the finishing time trial around Lausanne Thomas Dekker didn't allow his competitors to have any hopes of winning the Tour de Romandie. Only riders Paolo Savoldelli and Andrey Kashechkin stayed somewhat in the vicinity of Dekker. The young Dutch hope of winning the Tour de France in the future did a triple strike by winning the time trial, the final general classification and the points classification.
The following UCI ProTour and UCI Professional Continental teams were named to the 2007 Tour de Romandie:
Individual 2007 UCI ProTour standings after race
As of May 6, 2007, after the Tour de Romandie
While the top 10 places remained the same, race winner Thomas Dekker scored his first UCI ProTour points and moved into 11th place. Australian sprinter Robbie McEwen gained three points to jump from 18th to 15th place. Paolo Savoldelli moves into 18th place thanks to the 45 points scored at the Tour de Romandie.
93 riders (up from 82 riders) have scored at least one point on the 2007 UCI ProTour.
References
External links
Official site (French)
2007
2007 UCI ProTour
2007 in Swiss sport
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Rugby World Cup News
New Zealand v Australia: Rugby World Cup Final preview
New Zealand meet Australia in the RWC 2015 final this afternoon at Twickenham: 4pm kick off
The world's two top-ranked sides have never met in the decider
One of the pair will become the first nation to hoist the Webb Ellis Cup three times
All Blacks could also become the first to win back-to-back titles if they win
New Zealand are aiming to make history this afternoon by becoming the first team ever to retain the Rugby World Cup as they prepare to go head-to-head with Australia at a sold out Twickenham Final.
More than 80,000 fans will be in attendance with the All Blacks starting as favourites having lost just three games from 53 since lifting the Webb Ellis Cup four years ago.
It will be the first time the All Blacks and Australia – the world's top-two ranked sides – have met in the World Cup showpiece and both have won the competition twice with no country having won the RWC three times.
Back home, both sides have been well supported, with the two countries' national airlines agreeing that their crews will wear opposing rugby jerseys on Monday should their team lose, while record TV audiences are expected, despite the early-hours kick off for both southern hemisphere sides.
The eighth Rugby World Cup has been dominated by the southern hemisphere over its six weeks and, perhaps fittingly, the semi-finals were made up entirely of countries from the south for the first time ever.
New Zealand have enjoyed a stellar four years since the last World Cup, but Australia's story has been wholly different after Michael Cheika has transformed the previously unsuccessful Wallabies in the last 12 months and he helped guide his country to a landmark win against the All Blacks in August, their only win against the All Blacks in 12 attempts.
RUCK PREDICTS
The all-conquering All Blacks are firm favourites, with good reason too. They have only lost three games in four years since their last World Cup title. Almost uniquely, they have strengthened since their last World Cup triumph an they look well set to become the first team to win back-to-back World Cup titles in history.
But their old rivals, led by the studious Michael Cheika, will provide a stern test. Expect a low-scoring afternoon with Dan Carter and co. coming out on top, just. New Zealand by 3.
New Zealand: Dan Carter
LONDON, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 30: Dan Carter of the New Zealand All Blacks kicks during a New Zealand All Blacks Captain's Run at Twickenham Stadium on October 30, 2015 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)
Fly-half Carter, the leading points scorer in Test history with 1,579 point to date, missed New Zealand's 2011 triumph through injury and has already told the press of his motivation to make it back to a final, a spirit which was arguably epitomised as he led his side to a hard-fought 20-18 semi-final win over South Africa last week. Playing what many believe to be one of his last games on the international stage ahead of his move to French rugby with Racing, the 33-year-old will be crucial to the All Blacks' cause.
Australia: Israel Folau
during the 2015 Rugby World Cup Semi Final match between Argentina and Australia at Twickenham Stadium on October 25, 2015 in London, United Kingdom.
Though hit by injury in this year's competition, Folau has remained one of the 2015 World Cup's most eye-catching performers. The full back, a recent Rugby League convert, is one of the most physically gifted players in the game and the stage of a World Cup final will be far from daunting for the 37-cap 26-year-old, he will relish the occasion.
Australia: 15 Israel Folau, 14 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 13 Tevita Kuridrani, 12 Matt Giteau, 11 Drew Mitchell, 10 Bernard Foley, 9 Will Genia, 8 David Pocock, 7 Michael Hooper, 6 Scott Fardy, 5 Rob Simmons, 4 Kane Douglas, 3 Sekope Kepu, 2 Stephen Moore (c), 1 Scott Sio.
Replacements: 16 Tatafu Polota-Nau, 17 James Slipper, 18 Greg Holmes, 19 Dean Mumm, 20 Ben McCalman, 21 Nick Phipps, 22 Matt Toomua, 23 Kurtley Beale.
New Zealand: 15 Ben Smith, 14 Nehe Milner-Skudder, 13 Conrad Smith, 12 Ma'a Nonu, 11 Julian Savea, 10 Daniel Carter, 9 Aaron Smith, 8 Kieran Read, 7 Richie McCaw (c), 6 Jerome Kaino, 5 Sam Whitelock, 4 Brodie Retallick, 3 Owen Franks, 2 Dane Coles, 1 Joe Moody.
Replacements: 16 Keven Mealamu, 17 Ben Franks, 18 Charlie Faumuina, 19 Victor Vito, 20 Sam Cane, 21 Tawera Kerr-Barlow, 22 Beauden Barrett, 23 Sonny Bill Williams.
Date: Saturday, October 31
Venue: Twickenham Stadium, London
Kick-off: 16:00 local
Referee: Nigel Owens (Wales)
Assistant Referees: Jérôme Garcès (France), Wayne Barnes (England)
TMO: Shaun Veldsman (South Africa)
Tags: New Zealand v Australia, Rugby World Cup Final preview
New Zealand v Australia: Five Key Clashes
Top 14 Round Seven Preview and Predictions
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Feeling Good - Nina Simone
Known as the High Priestess of Soul, Nina Simone's life was an impactful one. She overpowered the resistance of her time with her great talent, she had an evolving musical style, defining her own positioning in the world. Her body of work tells her story and that of the eras of which she impacted. I find her to be an endlessly fascinating being and would recommend watching the documentary: What Happened, Miss Simone? I had the good fortune of being at the premiere of at The Sundance Film Festival in 2015. We were treated to a surprise performance of Lilac Wine by John Legend after the screening, proof of her impact on artists that have followed her. I also love the biographical Princess Noire written by Nadine Cohodas, it's a gorgeous book that holds prominence on my shelf, with a velvety texture to the cover.
I first heard her name in The Fugees album, The Score (it was my first cassette) when Lauryn Hill rhymes on "Ready or Not" I'll be Nina Simone and defecating on your microphone. More recently Ms. Hill covered her own version of "Feeling Good." Nina Simone has been sampled on a number of songs over the years and the songs "Sinnerman" and "I Put a Spell on You" have been featured in a number of films, TV series, and commercials. Her haunting vocals matched with her classically trained pianist background, envelop you in an enchanting sensuality. Her music represents the bittersweet aspects of love and life. The passion she exuded blended with melancholic undertones allow you a sensory overload. The woman can make you feel.
To focus on "Feeling Good," a song that has been sung and sampled repeatedly over the years, but Miss. Simone's rendition remains the classic. The lyrics themselves, representative of the new era which our world is seemingly transitioning into, one that is built on gratitude. The simplicity of the experiences which the song discusses reminds us to enjoy the little things that create our present moment and to remember the small markings of a memory.
"Freedom is mine and I know how I feel." We all embody our own liberation, regardless of any circumstances. The takeaway I have from the lyrics now is the mastery (via acceptance) of self leads to ownership of your own freedom. The empowerment comes through the strength of the vocals with the booming rise of the instrumentals. The dramatic bravado of the musical arrangement resonates with your soul enlivening these simple joys. The song has the power to act as a constant reminder to stay positive and thrive through the difficulties.
So I write to the aspects of "Feeling Good" to act as essentially the gateway drug. It is a song that is arguably her most well-known and approachable, but in truth, it skillfully demonstrates the restless intensity of Nina Simone. It could be seen as a nod to her own mental suffrage, to find joy amidst the present moment as much as it gives the notion to the listener to find some sort of inner peace amidst the tumultuousness nature of our external world at this time. "Feeling Good" allows you the chance to explore her talent without an insinuated impression. Perhaps you will charge into her songs exploring social injustices or ease into the romantic and delicately feminine songs to well, feel good. To understand the shifts in the world today, it is worth tapping into your connection with the High Priestess of Soul, whether you know her well or she is new to your eardrums. She resonates in her authenticity.
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/ About / News, Events & Media / Events / Los Valientes
'Los Valientes'
DATE: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
LOCATION: Leslie Phillips Theater, Fine & Performing Arts Building
HCC welcomes The Core Ensemble for a musical and theatrical performance of "Los Valientes" (The Courageous Ones) on the stage of the Leslie Phillip Theater on Wed., Sept. 20, at 11 a.m.
"Los Valientes" is "a chamber music theater work" exploring "the artisit and political passions of Mexican painter Diego Rivera, the unwavering commitment to human rights of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, and the pursuit of social justice by Mexican-American desperado Joaquin Murrieta, otherwise known as 'Zorro.'"
The show features actor David Perez-Ribada as Rivera, Romero, and Murrieta, and Hugh Hinton on piano.
The Core Ensemble is a traveling performance group that combines chamber music with narrative, dance and visual arts.
The event is sponsored by the Community College Public Humanities Center at HCC, the HCC Student Activities office and the HCC Foreign Languages Department.
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Our Top 10 Super Bowl Commercials of ALL Time
by camille | Jan 31, 2017 | Blog | 0 comments
Guess what is coming this Sunday?
SUPER BOWL!
The anticipation for all the new TV commercials that will be revealed throughout the game is perhaps one of the top reasons that people watch the Super Bowl in the first place. We at Heartfire Media are definitely some of those people! These ads can cost companies up to $5 million for a 30-second spot, according to CBS President Leslie Moonves via Forbes. As pricey as that is, these are dollars that are well spent if you make a memorable, unique TV commercial that not only brings awareness to your brand but helps your image and yearly sells.
We have listed our picks for the top 10 Super bowl TV commercials of ALL time. These TV commercials are cultural staples. They have made their way from being talked about the days following the Super Bowl to becoming pop cultural icons. Definitely a goal any company would want to attain
10. Cindy Crawford, Pepsi, 1992:
Who remembers the movie The Sandlot? It included a funny scene of young boys in love with a much older lifeguard. Well, this Pepsi commercial is a 30 second version of that movie. The innocence of the boys in love with bombshell Cindy Crawford. Which you can't have an iconic TV commercial without the supermodel of the 90's Cindy Crawford. The young boys ogle her all while commenting how beauuutiful the Pepsi can, is. This is humorous, timeless and a winner.
9. Air Nike, Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny, 1992:
Michael Jordan was making a TV commercial for his Air Jordan VII and ingeniously the director could not think of a more well-known star than Bugs Bunny to be his co-star. It was a hit. So much so that the movie Space Jam got its beginnings from it. Looney Tunes meets real life. Quirky, fun and a sweet concept.
8. Mean Joe, Coca Cola, 1979:
An oldie but a goodie. This big, mean, football player (Joe Greene) is approached by a young fan. What brings them together? What shakes the mean out of Mean Joe? Coca-Cola. The young boy offers his Coke and as Joe takes and drinks it, everything changes. Cheerful music begins and happiness in Joe and the young boy is shown through the screen. A heartfelt commercial that made a mark for decades.
7. Apple, 1984
This was the beginning. The Apple we know today – innovative, on its own terms, sleek, started that brand image with this TV commercial. Competitors were vast for the home computer market in the 80's but Apple wanted to be its own entity. An allusion of George Orwell's novel, 1984, the woman running through with a hammer is the image of Apple saving humanity from conformity. It is a simple concept but is visually stimulating. They could do this same commercial today and it would be relevant to what we know Apple as a brand to be.
6. Cowboy Kid, Doritos, 2014:
Who doesn't love a good story of the underdog coming on top? This TV commercial is a humorous take on how a brother that was picked on by his other smart aleck brother gets back at him by taking the bag of Doritos. A dog as a horse? Probably not realistic, but cute nonetheless.
5. Betty White, Snickers, 2010
"You're not you when you're hungry." Snickers' tag line is beautifully done with this hilarious commercial. Betty White plays the "hungry" version of a guy who's playing football with his buddies. Grumpy but SO funny. He becomes "himself" after that first bite of Snickers. It's seamless and sends out the message of Snickers being your anecdote to hunger. A classic.
4. Time Machine, Doritos, 2014:
Doritos started a "Crash the Super Bowl" contest that allowed customers to shoot their own Doritos Super Bowl ad that would be voted by viewers. This one took the win and it's not hard to see why. It's practically a 30 second movie. Funny with an unexpected twist. By the way, who else was curious why the kid didn't keep the Doritos but gave it to his dog? Nonetheless, he/she was a cute sidekick.
3. Lost Dog, Budweiser, 2015:
So we have to admit, this is the only tear jerker on our list. You can't watch this TV commercial without having your heart strings pulled at. Puppy videos are always a win in our book but when you add an unbreakable bond with another animal? One that pushes through struggles: environmental (uh, can that rain shot not be any more heartbreaking?), a hungry wolf and miles between them, especially with that song in the background? Pass us the tissues. Such a sweet commercial and it shows the heart behind the brand, Budweiser. Beer nonetheless but they're smart in their marketing strategy and have time and time again done it just right. Remember the frogs saying, "Bud. Weis. Er." Kudos Budweiser, well done.
2. When I Grow Up, Monster.com, 1999:
18 years have gone by and this commercial is still relevant today. A lot of these "aspirations" that these kids share showed the bias and unfairness in many institutions. "I want to be a Yes Woman," "I want to be paid less for doing the same job," "I want to be replaced on a whim," are a few examples. It was a strong message that was relatable and definitely put Monster.com on the map as the anecdote to the jobs that were treating employees unfairly. The message was, "You wouldn't want a child to aspire to this. If this is how YOU feel visit Monster.com to find a job that appreciates you."
1. Walken Closet, KIA, 2016:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWMMHRJ2V4Y
When you put someone like the icon Christopher Walken in a TV commercial, whose voice is widely known, you get people's attention. KIA to be quite honest is not a name synonymous with luxury but that does not stop them from wanting you to think of them as unique. Not luxury, not cliché, but unique. Walken is telling the audience in short, "don't be khaki, don't be like everyone else, buy a KIA."
Here at Heartfire Media we love producing videos whether it is a TV commercial, a viral video, or a corporate video. We specialize in video marketing in San Antonio. Call us today for more information.
Enjoy the Super Bowl!
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Prospectus Hit List: Busting Out from Below
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Despite dropping a series to the Yankees in the Bronx, the Sox continue to enjoy a large cushion in the AL East. Even with Manny Ramirez hitting a paltry .250/.332/.407 (at least he's up to Being Manny Jiminez), slumping J.D. Drew at .237/.346/.333 (belly laughs for Dodger fans), and Julio Lugo sputtering along at .236/.296/.354, the Sox continue to put runs on the board; they're fourth in the majors at 5.3 per game. Picking up the slack are Mike Lowell (.333/.387/.574) and Kevin Youkilis (.347/.429/.535), as well as David Ortiz (.319/.436/.596); the trio are eighth, seventh and sixth in the league in VORP, respectively.
All Wright Now: David Wright blasts four homers in four games; the first two give the Mets the jump in claiming the first leg of the Subway Series, while the last keeps them ahead of the Braves in the NL East. After slugging just .311 in April, Wright's crushing at a .671 rate this month. Benefitting from those homers in besting both rivals is Oliver Perez–he's put together three straight quality starts while allowing just 11 hits and three runs in 23 innings, helping the Mets rotation to second in the league in SNLVAR.
Back-to-back beatings by the Royals knock the Tribe out of first place in the AL Central. If only they didn't have to play those pesky road games; the Indians are 17-4 at the Jake (and Miller Park) while outscoring opponents by two runs a game (6.0 to 4.0). They're just 11-13 on the road while being outscored (5.5 to 5.3). Most extreme splits: Jhonny Peralta is at .360/.437/.720 eight homers at home versus .195/.272/.329 and two bombs on the road, while Jeremy Sowers is at 4.74 ERA and a 1.5 K/BB versus 7.27 ERA and a 0.6 K/BB.
Andrew Miller blanks the reeling Cardinals for six innings in his first big-league start–setting off a sweep of the defending champs–but is sent back to Double-A upon Jeremy Bonderman's return from blister problems (and quite a return it is). At the plate, Magglio Ordonez continues to rake (.361/.441/.710), widening his AL VORP lead over Alex Rodriguez to more than five runs.
Kouz Cruise: Kevin Kouzmanoff caps a Herculean effort to raise his average from .113 to .202 with a 438-foot homer that slays the Cubs. Though he's still carrying a negative VORP (-2.0), Kouzmanoff is hitting .356/.421/.644 this month, with 14 hits in his last 10 games. The Pads are 7-3 in that span, pressing the slumping Dodgers for the NL West lead.
John Smoltz wins his 200th game in timely fashion, beating former teammate Tom Glavine in the rubber game of a series with the NL East leaders. Smoltz ranks fourth in VORP, while teammate Tim Hudson is second. At the other end of the rotation, the Braves lose Anthony Lerew to a nerve irritation, and cut bait on Mark Redman, providing young children with yet another cautionary tale about the importance of proper toenail care.
Stellar starting pitching continues to keep the A's afloat in the AL West, even as the offense sputters and the body count soars. Milton Bradley goes back on the DL with another hamstring injury, which comes as a surprise here–we weren't even aware he'd been activated. Bradley's the 10th Athletic currently on the DL; number nine is setup man Justin Duchscherer, whose arthritic hip prevents him from fulfilling interim closer duties in Huston Street's absence. That Alan Embree has the team's lone save since May 6 speaks volumes about the magnitude of the problem.
Going Flat: since getting off to a 24-10 start that had them ranked #3 here just two weeks ago, this young and restless club has gone 4-9 while dropping four series in a row, all of them to contenders. The rotation has been getting hit hard, yielding a 5.76 ERA while surrendering 1.6 HR/9 during the slide. Chris Capuano's put up three disaster starts in a row, allowing 14 runs in 13.1 innings; the team's been outscored 22-3 in those games. Claudio Vargas (7.20 ERA) and Jeff Suppan (5.68 ERA) have been cuffed around as well, and while staff ace Ben Sheets (3.15 ERA) has been the exception to the rule, he's got blister problems related to gripping his curveball… Late note: the team finally recalls Ryan Braun (.342 with 10 homers at Nashville) to replace the struggling Tony Graffanino/Craig Counsell platoon at third base (.214/.320/.273 combined).
The Angels smother the Dodgers by a combined score of 19-3 in their three-game sweep, and run their winning streak to six straight before getting mauled by a Tiger. Kelvim Escobar leads the way (8 3 0 0 2 5); he's 12th in SNLVAR (1.7) despite having spent time on the DL in mid-April. Reggie Willits (.342/.422/.378) sparks the offense from atop the lineup while Chone Figgins breaks out of an 0-for-22 slump. You can still count Figgy's hit total on both hands, which puts you one up on him given how his broken fingers helped generate that .133/.198/.187 line.
Martinized: Russell Martin drives in six of his team's eight runs over a two-game span, helping the Dodgers rebound from a sweep by the Angels with a series win over the Brewers. Martin not only leads Dodger hitters in VORP (16.8), he's the league's most productive catcher. On the hill, while Brad Penny gets the attention, Randy Wolf has more than regained his pre-surgical form. He's allowed five runs in his past four starts (29.1 innings) and is third in the league in both strikeouts (66) and strikeout rate (9.9).
Ryan Dempster goes from closer to starter and back again (not to mention over the river and through the woods) in the space of one Lou Piniella meltdown. But while the Cubs are still smarting from Dempster's five-run meltdown against the Mets, the closer's been the most effective (1.097 WXRL) of a lousy lot of relievers (0.087 WXRL, 13th in the league). In happier news, Derrek Lee makes a grand return from his neck spasms, but since then he's 1-for-12.
The Yankee Clippard: Tyler Clippard–the seventh rookie starter to take the hill for the Yankees–sparkles in his major league debut (6 3 1 1 3 6), helping the Yanks salvage some dignity in the Subway Series before taking two out of three from the Red Sox. Still, it's a rough week for the Bombers, who hover on the precipice of a double-digit deficit in the AL East standings. Jason Giambi's comments about steroids draw an audience with the Commish while setting off rumors about voided contracts and failed amphetamine tests; Joe Sheehan has a must-read column about the flap. Meanwhile, Carl Pavano will undergo Tommy John surgery, a procedure which Yankee fans hope will be performed by Dr. Octagon. Final tale of the tape: $35 million per marginal win, making the $13.1 mil per win on Darren Dreifort's deal seem like sound economics.
Barry Bonds remains stuck on 745 home runs; since his last one on May 8, he's hitting .152/.451/.182, and the most likely date for the big splashdown has shifted from June 15 to July 5. Meanwhile, Tim Lincecum baffles the Astros in consecutive starts (15 IP, 7 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 14 K); he's helped the Giants climb to third in the league in SNLVAR.
Frank Thomas snaps out of a 4-for-38 slump with career home run #493, tying Lou Gehrig and Fred McGriff for 21st on the all-time list. The Big Hurt is still hurting for hits; he's batting .227/.348/.383 with a 0.4 VORP. Considerably hotter is Matt Stairs, who homers in three straight games as the Blue Jays drop their interleague series to the Phillies, who used to be called the Blue Jays back when you could get five bees for a quarter and a turkey was known as a walking bird.
Brett Myers strains his shoulder amid a wild ninth inning that sees the Phils blow a four-run lead against the Marlins. Things get even wilder the next night, when benches clear after Jon Lieber hits Aaron Boone and throws behind Dontrelle Willis. Through it all, the Phils reach .500 for the fourth time in a week and a half, only to fall back under after losing their next game.
Erik Bedard fans a career-high 12–his third double-digit strikeout game in five starts–but the $41.5 Million Bullpen squanders his efforts against the Hit List's lowliest team. While the O's rotation is fourth in SNLVAR, the remade bullpen is a less-impressive ninth, and with Sam Perlozzo assuming the crash position, there's question as to whether Leo Mazzone will get to see his plan through. At the plate, Miguel Tejada briefly joins the illustrious Column Reversers when his slugging percentage drops below his OBP, but a homer–his first in 100 at-bats, and his first extra-base hit since April 25–brings him back from the edge.
With Sidney Ponson tossed over the side for ballast, Scott Baker wins his 2007 debut, but Ramon Ortiz gets beaten like a rented fifth starter; the latter has put up an 11.76 ERA over his last four starts while averaging less than four innings a pop. Meanwhile, Dennys Reyes and Glen Perkins land on the DL, further weakening a bullpen that's second in the league in Reliever Expected Wins Added (3.330), and already minus Jesse Crain for the year. In other news, say it ain't so, Batgirl. We hate to see you go.
Thome's Home: Jim Thome–the only Sox hitter with a VORP above 6.0–returns from a four-week absence just in time to help the Sox pile up a week's worth of runs (28) in a three-day span. Still, the Sox have the lowest OBP (.308) and SLG (.373) in the AL by a wide margin. Meanwhile, A.J. Pierzynski's comments about Toby Hall induce a profanity-laced tirade from Ozzie Guillen, about which we ask: who hasn't been moved to curse by something Pierzynski did? Or by watching Hall play?
Fish Fight: in a battle that may have interested no one outside the Sunshine State, the Marlins sweep the Devil Rays, with Aaron Boone hitting… eh, nobody cares. With a .395/.447/.651 run since May 14, Hanley Ramirez takes over the NL VORP lead, and he leads the league in runs scored as well. Also reeling off a hot streak of sorts is Sergio Mitre, who's had four straight quality starts since coming off the DL, allowing five earned runs in 28.2 innings to lower his ERA to 2.25.
Carlos Quentin caps a six-run comeback against the Pirates, then bashes two. He's still lost on the interstate, hitting just .194/.296/.333, which makes him one of numerous struggling youngsters on a team that's 14th in the NL in scoring (3.9 R/G) and 13th in EqA (.247).
Felix Hernandez struggles with his command, but still whiffs nine Padres in five innings in his second start back from the DL. Still, the M's rotation has underachieved considerably; they're 12th in the league in SNLVAR (-1.8), and while some of that is the dead weight of Jeff Weaver (-1.4 SNLVAR), the efforts of Miguel Batista (0.2 SNLVAR, 6.26 Fair Run Average) and Horacio Ramirez (-0.2 SNLVAR, 7.38 FRA) flatter GM Bill Bavasi about as well as a Speedo would.
Big Bellyache: a case of gastroenteritis lands Josh Hamilton on the DL. After a .266/.365/.609 April, he's cooled off to .255/.300/.418 in May. Just barely cooled off is Brandon Phillips, whose hitting streak ends at 22 games, one shy of Torii Hunter's season high; Phillips hit .351/.366/.588 during the tear. On a streak that's far less flattering is Kyle Lohse, who's reeled off three straight disaster starts while seeing his ERA increase in six straight outings; his ERA is 8.59 in that span.
Disastro: with six losses in seven games, Phil Garner's club makes sure its stay above .500 is a brief one. The offense manages just 15 runs in that seven-game span while hitting .184/.252/.250. More troubling than the continued presence of Adam "Automatic Out" Everett, Craig "Mr. 3,000" Biggio, and Brad "Wet Newspaper" Ausmus in the lineup–mules that have been repeatedly flogged in this space–are the power outages of Lance Berkman (.368 SLG) and Morgan Ensberg (.345). With the team hitting as though they're pining for those rainbow-clad Astrodome days, the impending return of Jason Jennings should improve things on the other side of the ball by bumping Matt Albers (6.35 ERA) from the rotation.
Hank Blalock undergoes rib-removal surgery to correct for Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. Third on the Rangers and fourth among AL third basemen in VORP (9.2), Blalock will miss 12 weeks. Replacement Ramon Vazquez goes 9-for-15 with a double and two homers while keying a pair of 14-run outbursts, the first of which clinches the Rangers' claim as the Tallest Midget Baseball Team in the Lone Star state.
Shealy Dealy: Ryan Shealy keys a five-run 12th inning against his former team; he's hitting .429/.484/.607 since coming off the DL May 16. More importantly, the Royals have won three series in a row; their 8-2 run is KC's hottest streak since the beginning of 2003. The rotation is, um, Meche-ing; they're eighth in the AL in SNLVAR, ahead of the Indians, Yankees and Blue Jays.
Jeff Francis blanks the Diamondbacks to run his career record against them up to 7-1 with a 3.35 ERA, not too shabby in a rivalry played out in the league's two top hitter's parks. He's 26-28 with a 5.08 ERA against everybody else, but more importantly, the outing is Francis' fourth quality start in a row, helping him shave his ERA from 6.19 to 4.11. Offensively, the Rox continue to struggle, scoring just 3.2 runs per game since May 6. Garret Atkins is hitting a feeble .143/.210/.214 in that span, but he's hardly the only offender on a team that's getting sub-replacement level production at third base, second base, catcher, and center field.
Devil Rays
Reports that Elijah Dukes threatened to kill his wife and their two kids surface, further blackening the reputation of a troubled prospect whose rap sheet includes five arrests, numerous restraining orders for domestic violence against multiple women, and countless suspensions. Perhaps wary of having a grievance filed against them (noooo, not a grievance!), the Rays don't act with the unilateral swiftness of the Diamondbacks or Mariners in recent domestic violence cases. While they refrain from letting Dukes play ball for a couple days, he remains in uniform, and the team's words and actions suggest they're content to keep him in the mix of their glutted outfield. In light of that, I'll refrain from happily charting the progress of this compelling young team until the smoke clears. But I'm done rooting for Dukes, period.
Sweeps Week: blanked by the Tigers in a hollow rematch of last year's World Series, the Cardinals snap out of a 6-14 slump by taking three from the oh-so-sweepable Pirates. Adam Wainwright, Kip Wells, and Braden Looper all make encouraging starts, though the team is still 15th in the league in SNLVAR. Perhaps more importantly, Albert Pujols is showing signs of life, hitting .424/.500/.636 over his past eight games. So long as his VORP remains in the single digits, these Cards are for the birds.
Jason Bergmann becomes the fourth member of the Nats' season-opening rotation to hit the DL. Volunteers to take his turn should email Manny Acta. In happier news, Ryan Zimmerman is finally showing signs of life, hitting .310/.375/.759 with three homers since May 16. We're not sure which is worse: that his VORP thus far is 4.12, that that's good enough for third among the team's hitters, or that Matt Chico and Shawn Hill are seventh and eighth.
Gorzelanny and Snell and the Rest is Hell: the Pirates are getting great work from their top two starters; Tom Gorzelanny and Ian Snell rank sixth and ninth in VORP while combining for a 2.92 ERA and 14 quality starts out of 20. The rest of the rotation… eh, not so much: (6.26 ERA, -0.4 SNLVAR, 7/26 quality starts). Staff whipping boy Tony Armas (8.46 ERA, 3.9 IP/GS) is being replaced by Shawn Chacon, who spent all of last year proving he can take a pounding.
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BALTIMORE — Senior Charlie Jones nailed the game-winning three-pointer with three seconds left to give the American University men's basketball team a 64-62 win over Loyola on Saturday afternoon at Reitz Arena.
American (8-21, 5-13) will travel as the No. 9 seed to No. 8 Army West Point on Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. The winner will head to top-seed Bucknell on Thursday for the PL Quarterfinals. Loyola (14-15, 8-10 PL) will be the other host on Tuesday when it welcomes No. 10 Lafayette at 7:30 p.m. The winner of this match will take on No. 2 Boston U also on Thursday.
Delante Jones led the Eagles with a team-high 15 points on 3-of-4 from the outside in 36 minutes. Matt Cimino had another solid outing in his second start. He finished with 12 points and three rebounds. Sa'eed Nelson chipped in 11 points, five assists, four rebounds and three steals in 36 minutes.
Loyola got a double-double from Cam Gregory with 20 points and 12 rebounds; Jarred Jones had 13 points and seven assists and Andre Walker had 10.
American led early in the contest with James Washington connecting on an old-fashioned three-pointer to give the Eagles a 7-4 lead at 14:37. Loyola took a 10-point lead, 28-18, with 2:57 remaining on a three-ball by Andrew Kostecka.
Loyola led 28-21 at the break. Both sides struggled with handling the ball with 18 combined turnovers. Cimino had seven points for AU with one of his three field goals coming from deep. Gregory nearly completed his double-double in 13 minutes, scoring 10 points with eight rebounds.
Midway through the second, American cut its deficit to four, 36-32, on a layup by Delante Jones. Loyola pushed the lead back to seven (47-40) on a layup by Gregory. From that points, AU went on a 10-2 run and took the lead on a three by Cimino with 5:16 left.
The lead seesawed in the final 80 seconds until Charlie Jones scored to put the Eagles ahead with three seconds left.
AU fans and alumni planning to attend the road game at Army West Point are encouraged to reserve tickets in the American fan seating block by calling the Athletics Tickets office at (202) 885-TIXX to purchase tickets or email petert@american.edu with contact information and a representative will return your call. All tickets in the AU fan section must be purchased by Tuesday at 10 a.m. Tickets prices, set by the Patriot League, are $12 for adults and $6 for students and senior citizens. Seating space is limited so reserve your tickets today.
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Hello Altenew friends! It's Virginia here! I am absolutely delighted to host the Inspiration Challenge for the first time! The inspiration photo was taken during my Panama Cruise in 2013. We were visiting the Naval Museum in Cartagena, Col0mbia where we enjoyed watching a traditional Colombian dance. It was such a treat to watch the dancers in their colorful and vibrant costumes. I was quite taken away by the sight and sound of this lively performance.
Here is my interpretation of the inspiration challenge.
I created a CAS design with Farmers Market stamp set. The solid pepper image is perfect for multi-color stamping. To kick it up a notch, I applied "Stamp-Kissing" technique. Basically, I first inked up the pepper image in various shades from Summer Afternoon Oval/Mini Cube, Warm & Cozy Oval/Mini ink and Red Cosmos Oval/Mini Cube. While the inked pepper images were still wet, I stamped sentiments from Precious Moment Stamp Set in Jet Black and let the two stamps "kiss"! Thus, you see the text background in the pepper! How cool is that, right?
I adhered a piece of wood texture to represent the dancers' straw hats. The subtle color and textures from Cheery Wood Paper add a lovely interest. I hope that you are inspired to create something super colorful and fun.
Challenge ends on Friday, March 31st at 11:55 pm EST.
After the challenge closes, FOUR WINNERS will be selected. Each will receive a $30 gift certificate to spend at www.altenew.com. Winners will be announced on Sunday, April 9th, 2017.
How would I enter this challenge if I don't have a blog???
Hi Stephanie, you can use Flickr, Twitter, Instagram, (your own personal) Facebook, ….any public site. You can then link your creation to InLinkz. If you still have trouble, please send me your photo and card descriptions (becr8ive2@gmail.com) and I will upload it for you over Flickr. Hope to see your creation. Thank you for the interest!
Wonderful inspiration photo and colors! Beautiful card, Virginia!
Love the interpretation…Great colors, Virginia!!
Thanks for the kind comment, Maye. Your country is BEAUTIFUL! I had a fabulous time visiting the Old Town as well. BTW the spelling was corrected (oh..my bad!!).
These veggies are so yummy Virginia!
Thanks for the beautiful inspiration :) loved playing along !
Fabulous challenge, I was thrilled to have gotten a hold of Altenew's Christmas Rose stamp & die set with an issue of Simply Cards & Papercraft. Thank you for the inspiration to create some cards to send to friends. Cheers!
Thank you for another great challenge, love Virginia's color choice, it is so bright and cheerful, fabulous entries, thanks for all you share! Have a wonderful day!
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Pictured below is a pair of traditionally made Assiniboine gloves from about 1900. They were hand made for James William Watson by a First Nations artist in Manitoba, likely a Lakota Sioux artist. In 1920 Watson made the 2000km journey from the Brandon Belmont area of Manitoba to a new residence in Port Haney. These gloves were among his possessions during his move and they stayed in Watson's new home until he passed away in 1964. His son held them for 13 years before generously donating them to the Maple Ridge Museum in 1977. They have been in our collection since.
Unfortunately there is no written record of who made these gloves or why they were inclined to give them to Watson. They were made in Manitoba near Brandon and the town of Belmont; an area inside the North American Great Plains that has been Assiniboine (Nakota Sioux) territory for at least 10,000 years. Sioux culture is strongly entwined in the hunt of buffalo. Multiple Great Plains cultures, including the Sioux, were dependent on it as main source of food and materials. Their diet consisted mainly of meat from Buffalo, Elk, Deer, and was supplemented with wild roots and vegetables. Large areas of land are needed in order to feed a group of people through hunting. Game needs to be followed over its migration, which means land ownership and the resulting right to hunt strongly shaped the cultures of nomadic nations. During the 19th century the Canadian government through a series of enfranchisement acts, broke down the traditionally nomadic lifestyle of the Plains people, eventually getting treaties passed. Eventually the once nomadic people were confined to reserves. This drastic change in culture led to the need of artists to make traditional objects for sale to the settler populations, who had a strong desire for indigenous artistry as a curiosity.
The gloves are made from what is likely elk or deer leather and were hand sewn together. They were given to Watson near Brandon city Manitoba which is the home of the Lakota Sioux people. This is likely the nationality of the artist who gifted these gloves to Watson. The Sioux are considered a "Plains First Nation", the same title given to the Cree and Anishinaabe among other First Nations.
This blog was researched and written by Darren Ragoonath, Douglas College
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Arkansas Congressman Rick Crawford on How to Help Rural Farmers
Emma Cosgrove
The state of Arkansas is home to Tysons, Walmart, a Nestle plant and a Frito-Lay factory, but much of the food produced in Congressman Rich Crawford (R) of Arkansas's first district is grown on family farms. According to Crawford, his district supplies about half of the rice grown in the US. The state is number one in the country for rice production and number two for broiler chickens, so it's no wonder that Crawford sits on the House Agriculture Committee and chairs the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management. Crawford recently led a hearing on technology and data in agriculture in preparation for drafting the next Farm Bill, coming in 2018.
We spoke to Crawford about what role, if any, technology will play in the next Farm Bill, the issues surrounding big data technologies in rural farming communities, and a few local issues in Arkansas.
How will technology be integrated into the farm bill in ways that it didn't four years ago?
I don't think we're going to have a technology title per se, but I think what we're looking at is reviewing technology: how we implement it in policy development. One of the things that came up today in our hearing was being able to streamline these programs at the (Farm Services Agency) FSA office and how the producers interface with those programs. I think we're going to be looking at opportunities to incorporate technology and improve services. And I think what the federal government needs to do mostly with regard to technology, is get it out of the way and let it happen. I think that what you're seeing in the marketplace is that it has the ability to meet the demand out there. The government's role in that regard is mostly to make sure that folks are playing by the rules and that producers aren't being taken advantage of. But, the government should create a favorable environment for those technological advances to take place.
One of the most interesting parts of the hearing today was around crop insurance and how technology can make that whole system more efficient and more accurate. Do you think there is a role for the federal government to play in integrating some of the existing digital agtech out there into crop insurance assessment and reporting since the government is such a huge stakeholder in that whole ecosystem?
I think obviously the government plays a role in that at this point in time. The question is going to be how much of a role will the government continue to play and for how long? And can we rely on technology to help bridge that gap? In the short term, certainly yes, the federal government is going to be involved and continue to be. In the long term, technology could make it much more favorable for the government to limit the role that it plays, and then rely more on the marketplace. None of this is going to change markedly overnight, but I do think we're on a path to a greater reliance on technology and less reliance on government.
Let's move on to broadband. It seemed at the recent hearing as if both the representatives and the private sector witnesses were looking at each other asking "What are you going to do about it?' How do you think the rural broadband issue gets tackled and who makes the first move?
Well, one of the questions asked was how much will it cost? And so far, nobody knows. And so I think there has to be some consideration there because regardless of what role who plays, whether we're going to rely on the federal government for this, or whether we're going to rely on the private sector, we still need to get our arms around what this is going to cost because as I said in the hearing, I believe this is like a three-legged stool. One leg is the technology that changes quickly, so there are going to have to be rural telecoms, ideally, but not necessarily rural. Then we have the infrastructure. Who's got the infrastructure? Who's got access to these rural areas? And the third leg of that stool is finance. Who's gonna pick up the tab and how? Are we going to do a public, private partnership? You can't bond this out in rural communities because you don't have the population to pay that back. We're going to have to have probably some sort of public, private partnership. Who's going to step up and do that? We don't really know.
All we're hearing is rhetoric in the private sector and rhetoric at the federal level. It's the next challenge for the 21st century, just like rural electrification was for the 20th century. I think the time has come to stop talking about it and actually figure this out. And the first step is can we get some estimate of what it's going to cost so when we start talking about this investment, we can put a dollar figure to it? We do know that per person it is going to be considerably more expensive than it would be for broadband in major metropolitan areas. That is an issue and those are things that, as technology continues to advance, maybe that cost curve bends down in a more manageable way. But we first need to know in real-time today what it's going to cost to connect rural America.
Could you ask that question, fund that research, and get that answer through the farm bill?
Sure! And I think that is probably going to come to fruition and that probably is the extent of the federal government's role at this point beyond what's already there in terms of rural utilities. We probably do need to put a provision in the farm bill to do some kind of a study so that we can know just exactly how much it would cost in 2018 dollars to connect rural America and then go from there. And then once we have a fairly good ballpark figure, then we can take that three-legged stool I mentioned before and start to engage those players. And as I said, I'd like to see the federal government play less of role in these kinds of things, but we can't rely 100% on the private sector on this because I think the cost of this is going to be so much that there is going to need to be some federal help. But I do think there is potential for non-federal dollars at the state level and for private investment.
It seems like you have two major food players in your state that would have a vested interest in spreading broadband through rural communities. Do you talk to the big ag and food players in your state about this issue?
I talk to anybody that is interested. Obviously, I have an interest in my district, in my state. But I have an interest in rural America and I represent a rural district. And in spite of the fact that we have the metropolitan area of Little Rock and Northwest Arkansas which is home to Walmart and Tysons and a couple other industries, we're still a decidedly rural state. If you think about North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, these are states that have a similar dynamic. We want to make sure that these folks that live down in Dumas, Arkansas have the same advantages that they would have in Little Rock or maybe St. Louis or Memphis.
We talk to a lot of startups and agtech companies for whom their physical hardware is quickly democratizing and so the value right now for precision agriculture is in that data and the analytics that they can draw from it. Today's hearing made it very clear that farmers are suspicious about data ownership and controlling their data. How do you think we mitigate this friction and keep technology moving forward?
Well, I think you have to bring it down to the turnrow level and you have to instill confidence in the producers. There are very valid privacy concerns and they are very well-founded. Farmers are inherently skeptical of the government as a lot of folks in rural America are, for good reason. I think we've seen some breaches that have taken place so that skepticism is certainly not unfounded.
One of the interesting things that's being developed is a co-op. Co-ops generally are comprised of farmers and generally have a board of directors, then they have a built-in level of trust there. So if you are able to create a tech co-op, then you would probably have a greater uptake and a greater willingness on the part of the farmer. It may be just as simple as that.
In every industry, it often seems to come down to trust between individuals, no matter how complex or impactful the technology.
Well, that's right and I think this is probably true in most farm communities and I represent a whole lot of them. Ya know, there are one or two bell-cows in the community that are early adopters and these are typically the more efficient producers, and they're out in front on most everything. There's something called the treadmill theory. The first ones on are the last ones to get kicked off. If you wait around too long to adopt technology, you're going to get left behind and we're in an environment of consolidation already. So you don't want to contribute to that. If you expect to stay in business, you're going to have to adapt and implement new technology on your farm. So that means you're probably going to follow the bell-cow, but you're probably going to have to do it a little quicker and you might end up having to become a bell-cow yourself. And sometimes that's not the most comfortable position for farmers. But, in this day and age with these market dynamics, I think it's important that you don't wait, but that you get out there proactively looking for every opportunity to improve your bottom line. Technology can certainly help do that.
Arkansas just accepted its first applications for cannabis growers today and I'm wondering what you think about the potential for that industry in your state since it's such a high margin crop compared to the mainstays of Arkansas.
I don't like it. I wouldn't grow it. That's me.
So you weren't in support of the approval back in November?
I wasn't. And I'm sorry, I guess you're used to politicians giving you long-winded answers.
Well, in the agtech world, cannabis has been a force for innovation since the high margins allow for investment in research, technology, and genetics.
It all sounds good. We'll see when we open Pandora's box. What we are not talking about are the security issues that are going to come with cannabis production. The equipment issues; so far there is no large, commercial equipment to harvest. It's like cutting cable. It all sounds real good. But maybe it's going to be really labor-intensive. Maybe you're going to have folks camped out on the turnrow waiting for sundown so they can cut a bunch of it themselves and start selling it illicitly. We don't know. Are we going to put more pressure on our law enforcement now we've got to secure cannabis fields? These are the questions that haven't been answered yet, so that's why I gave you the short answer.
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Restless Spirit is one of the many side quests that you'll find in Kingdom Come Deliverance (KCD). The quest you'll receive from the herbalist Kunhuta.
She tells you about Drahomira, who has been haunted by his spirit since the death of her neighbor. Now it's up to Henry to perform the smudging ritual and banish the sprit.
Before start the quest, make sure that you have enough poppies in your inventory, at least 10. If you don't have them then at the time of exorcism, there will be a bug where you can neither move forward nor leave the Drahomira's house.
- To get around the creature, you buy some poppies from Kunhuta. Overall, you need ten.
- Then go to the village Ledetchko and to Drahomira. She will send you to Sasau, to the grave of her neighbor, from whom you have to pick some flowers.
- Return to Ledetchko and performs the ritual with Drahomira.
- When the cutscene is over, Drahomira will send you away and come back the next morning to see if it worked.
Now Drahomira wants you to go and meet the pharmacist in Rattay to find out more about ghost exaggeration.
She will tell you about a book that she needs to read to help you out and steal it for her. And not from somewhere. Now, Henry has to break into the monastery library of Sasau and steal the Necronomicon from there. Here you need higher lock picking skill: If you don't have that, then you should wait a bit with the quest.
Go to Sasau and make sure that you enter the monastery at night. Most monks sleep at night, making it easier to sneak around. Since you should be quiet, you have to put on an outfit that makes low noise.
Go to the southeast of the monastery and go up the stairs. Go straight, there is an unfinished door that you walk through until you can go left through another, entering a forbidden area. Another left door, through the room with a bed. Take the door straight ahead of you.
In the next room there is a table and four chairs, but you want the chest behind it, which you get with the right lockpicking skills. In that you'll find the key to the forbidden books that you are interested.
Go through the next door, continue straight until you reach the library. There's a shelf right by the door that you can unlock by holding the Necronomicon. Some users report that they cannot pick up the book. Hopping around a bit and approaching it from different angles, then it should work.
Return to the herbalist. Give her the book and wait about half a day to read it.
She informs you that you must find the grave of the neighbor's dead wife. Where that is, Drahomira may know, so you - you guessed it. Now you must go to Ledetchko and ask about the Lada's grave. Drahomira does not know, but someone from the village does. Ask from the innkeeper in the tavern. You also need something from Alois' house. Just follow the quest marker and take some charred wood with you.
Before you go to the grave, you should first return to the herbalist, because then he accompanies you with the magic. Meet her at the indicated waypoint and go together to the grave of Lada.
Meet the herbalist at dusk. If she is not there, just let a couple of hours pass.
So go back and talk to Drahomira in the morning. However, she is still haunted by her horror. It turns out that Drahomira now wants the help of the priest.
Now Henry have to go and see Father Godwin, who tells you that this is not so much a ghost as a guilty conscience, in which he too can do little. He recommends that you address Drahomira one last time and let her set up a penitential cross, so you have to - yes, unfortunately - go back to Ledetchko.
To get the truth out of Drahomira requires little rhetoric. If you exceed 5/5/4, you are on the safe side. Give her some comfort with your words and agree with her idea to confess everything to the children. She then sends you to the quarry to order the Dowry Cross. She gives you some money. In the end, you only need ten groschen to get closer to the end.
The quarry is located northwest of Talmberg, so use fast travel or a horse back riding. If you are at a certain point in the main mission, the quarry is abandoned for a while. Since the quest is not timed, you have no time to do so. After a cutscene, Drahomira will thank you and reward you with a unique ring.
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Country star Russell Dickerson celebrates his Milwaukee-born wife Kailey in 'Home Sweet' music video
Country star Russell Dickerson owes his success to his Milwaukee-born wife Kailey, in more ways than one.
Beyond all the support she's provided as his partner for 11 years, Kailey, who grew up in Cedarburg, has inspired many of Russell's songs and acts as his creative director, taking photos and making videos, including directing the breakout music video for his country airplay-topping single "Yours."
Now Russell is honoring his wife and their life together in the music video for his latest single "Home Sweet." It premiered Wednesday — eight years to the date that Dickerson proposed.
The video actually starts with footage of that proposal. From there, Dickerson is seen singing the song in a house as photos and videos flash on the walls around him, chronicling their relationship from their early dating days to living in their own home with their newborn son, Remington.
"Wherever the wind blows, wherever this life goes," Dickerson sings. "Baby all I know, ain't nothin' like, nothin' like, home sweet, you and me."
" 'Home Sweet' is in my top 5 best songs I've ever been a part of writing," Dickerson said in a statement.
Kailey Dickerson responded to the song by sharing a picture of her husband's proposal to her 132,000 Instagram followers.
"I'd bet my life on you over and over again," she wrote in the caption. "Thank you for being the father and husband I'd dream you'd be and so much more."
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Contact Piet at (414) 223-5162 or plevy@journalsentinel.com. Follow him on Twitter at @pietlevy or Facebook at facebook.com/PietLevyMJS.
Piet also talks concerts, local music and more on "TAP'd In" with Jordan Lee. Hear it at 8 a.m. Thursdays on WYMS-FM (88.9), or wherever you get your podcasts.
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2014 brought improvements in refractive accuracy with technologic evolutions
Taking a look at the improvements made this past year in refractive accuracy through several new technologic evolutions.
By Lynda Charters; Reviewed by Peter S. Hersh, MD, and Eric D. Donnenfeld, MD
A highlight of 2014 is the increasingly widespread acceptance in Europe of the Small Incision Lenticular Extraction (SMILE) technique (Carl Zeiss Meditec) in LASIK.
The advantages are correction of refractive errors through a small incision with minimal pain, less induced dry eye, and a more rapid recovery, said Eric D. Donnenfeld, MD.
"The SMILE technique is gaining traction in Europe and we look forward to its coming to the United States. It may offer improved corneal refractive outcomes with reduced risks because of the small incision," said Dr. Donnenfeld, clinical professor of ophthalmology, New York University Medical Center; trustee, Dartmouth Medical School, and founding partner, Ophthalmic Consultants of Long Island, Rockville Centre, NY.
Topography-Guided Refractive Surgery
Clinicians in the United States also are eagerly awaiting topography-guided PRK and LASIK, Peter Hersh, MD, noted. Thus far, Alcon has received an FDA approval for this technology.
"Use of this technology has the potential to improve LASIK outcomes and would be helpful for any postoperative problems," said Dr. Hersh, professor of ophthalmology at the Rutgers Medical School, Newark, and Director, Cornea and Laser Eye Institute, Teaneck, NJ.
The iDesign (Abbott) aberrometer is now available in Europe and will hopefully be available shortly in the United States.
"The iDesign is the next generation aberrometer that will allow clinicians to measure and treat irregular corneas and optical systems that cannot now be treated with custom LASIK. I believe this technology will allow us to treat previously untreatable eyes and will work synergistically with topographic ablations," he said, adding that the accuracy of the iDesign will also improve the efficacy of current treatments with the excimer laser or normal eyes.
The KAMRA corneal inlays for presbyopia (AcuFocus) are very close to receiving FDA approval. The inlay is 3.8 mm in diameter and 5 µm thick, with a central hole of 1.6 mm.
Rather that changing the corneal optical shape as other refractive inlays do, the KAMRA inlay works on the principle of pinhole optics. This enhances the eye's depth of field and improves the near vision function while leaving the distance refraction unchanged. This mechanism contrasts with other methods that improve near vision by inducing corneal multifocality.
"The AcuFocus inlay has the potential advantage of improving presbyopia but not decreasing the distance vision via the use of pinhole optics rather than multifocal optics," Dr. Hersh said.
Femtosecond Laser
Dr. Donnenfeld is now creating most of his astigmatic incisions intrastromally using the femtosecond laser.
"The ability to perform intrastromal relaxing incisions is an added tool in the treatment of cylinder. When incisions are not made in the cornea, there are no need for antibiotics, less concern about wound gaping and cylinder drift, and fewer changes to the cornea," he said.
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Dr. Donnenfeld is a consultant to Abbott, Alcon, and Acufocus.
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Dr. Hersh has no financial interest in any aspect of this report.
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Fern Podocarpus has attractive grayish green foliage which emerges light green in spring. The narrow leaves are highly ornamental and remain grayish green throughout the winter. Neither the flowers nor the fruit are ornamentally significant. The furrowed gray bark adds an interesting dimension to the landscape.
Fern Podocarpus is a dense evergreen tree with a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. It lends an extremely fine and delicate texture to the landscape composition which can make it a great accent feature on this basis alone.
This is a relatively low maintenance tree, and can be pruned at anytime. It is a good choice for attracting birds to your yard. It has no significant negative characteristics.
Fern Podocarpus will grow to be about 50 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 25 feet. It has a high canopy with a typical clearance of 4 feet from the ground, and should not be planted underneath power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 50 years or more.
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Honestly, Hillary: Clinton misrepresents what she did to help Huma Abedin get
Alex Crown
NPR's report says the emails begin before Clinton became Secretary of State and they end a short time after she assumed that office.
The exchange of 10 or so emails, the existence of which were first reported by the Associated Press on Friday, largely dealt with personnel issues, according to the State Department.
Kirby, the State spokesman, told reporters at the time that the department did not intend to open an inquiry into the 15 missing emails. The letter mentions the two paid positions with the now infamous Clinton Foundation and a consulting firm called Teneo Strategies that is also tied to former President Bill Clinton.
Republicans have made an issue out of Hillary Clinton's emails, Bill said, to undermine her presidential candidacy. Before then, Clinton has said she used an old AT&T Blackberry email account, the contents of which she no longer can access. Chuck Grassley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, stated that a special probe by the State Department's inspector general uncovered possible leveraging of a State Department job by Huma Abedin that appears to have benefited her other employers while she worked for Mrs. Clintion.
Because Clinton set up her emails in an unofficial manner, can we assume that the "security experts and consultants" keeping her information secure were not vetted through the proper government channels for contractors handling classified information?
Hauser said they also discussed the challenges to women in the workplace. But by January 28 – a week after her swearing in – she switched to using the private email address on a home-brew server that she would rely on for the rest of her tenure.
"The press has to have somebody every election – we're going to give them you". Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, had been trying to distance herself from her husband's policies, many of which were rejected by liberals and of which the former president has said he now believes he was wrong to approve.
Today, the State Department ended up producing more emails, these ones dealing with Libya and Benghazi, that were not originally turned over. The email server has since been turned over to the FBI, where investigators have been able to recover both the personal and work-related emails. The State official said the agency remains focused on executing Clinton's request to review and publish the 55,000 pages of correspondence she turned over late a year ago.
"In 2008 she was the original birther", he said. The official said the emails were found because they have now been digitized and are easier to search.
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Defense Bill Gets Tangled in Fight Over Fiscal Policy
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But political reporters aren't the only ones taking notice of the Flo
White House Confirms Obama To Visit Roseburg Friday
"I would not just stand there and let him shoot me", Republican
Russian Federation seeks broader cooperation with US-led coalition in Syria
Four Russian warships in the Caspian Sea launched 26 rockets at Islamic Sta
NDP's Thomas Mulcair pledges universal drug plan, 200 more palliative care clinics
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Supermoon lunar eclipse sends moon blood red in amazing natural phenomenon
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Italy's Matteo Salvini live broadcasts closure of one of Europe's largest migrant centres
By Rachael Kennedy with Reuters • Updated: 10/07/2019
Italy has closed one of Europe's largest migrant camps amid its tightening of legislation against housing asylum seekers.
The camp near Mineo, Sicily, was at some points home to up to 4,000 people, despite having a maximum capacity of half this figure.
It was formerly used as a US military residential complex with its spread of 400 redbrick houses, before becoming the Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers (CARA).
But new legislation, which was approved last year, means Italy can be more selective on the protection and housing it grants to migrants travelling into the country.
Asylum will continue to be granted to those fleeing warzones and political persecution, but will not be granted on further humanitarian grounds.
Such grounds will include people fleeing brutal laws in their home countries against their sexuality.
Live-streaming his walk through the empty camp on Tuesday, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said the overpopulated centre had become a haven for crime, and he had kept his promise to Italy by closing it.
"This was a promise I made not only to the Sicilians but the Italians," he said.
"The biggest migrant centre in Europe, a business of dozens and dozens of millions of Euros, and it had become, as proven by the prosecutor's office, a centre base for the Nigerian mafia, for drug dealing, prostitution, theft and stolen goods, aggression, violence, rape and homicide in Palagonia, just a short distance from here."
But the Mineo centre was also a great source for employment, having upheld hundreds of jobs.
Local mayor Giuseppe Mistretta has demanded "reassurances for the post-Cara future" from Salvini for the futures of the hundreds of workers.
In an interview with Catania Today, he said "the residence must not be left as an island in the desert", and that meetings were necessary "to plan for the future."
Several dozen people also took part in a protest at the closure of the centre on Tuesday.
Salvini is widely known for his anti-immigration policies in Europe, having closed the country's ports to boats carrying migrants who had been rescued while crossing the Mediterranean from Africa.
'Salvini is a coward': Outburst as EU divisions persist on migration
Raw Politics in full: von der Leyen meets with MEPs, Italy closes migrant centre
Giorgia Meloni's first 100 days in office: What has Italy's PM done so far?
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France United Kingdom European Union Brexit Europe's energy crisis Music Cinema
FRANCE UNITED KINGDOM EUROPEAN UNION BREXIT EUROPE'S ENERGY CRISIS MUSIC
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Eight Down, Two to Go
May 31, 2018 May 31, 2018 Steven Guccione
I came across the New York Dolls via David Johansen's solo work. They were glam, punk, art and hard rockers before most of it even had a name. Still love this album. The first notes of Personality Crisis hit hard, and it never lets up, but in a fun way. Gotta go back and listen to Johanssen's live stuff again, though lots of it is Dolls covers. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Office Junk
Just something that caught my eye today at work. A pile of arms used to hold computer monitors. I see I still have two more albums to go …
The Pistols
Almost as much as Blonde on Blonde, the Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bullocks stunned me. My first reaction was: what is this noise? Then I played it again. And again. Hard to put it in context, but the radio was filled with bloated prog-rock from the previous generation. These guys were loud and angry. It was a hurricane of fresh air and a peek at where things were going.
I must have a couple of these albums left. Ok. It was mid-2000s. Had survived the dot-com crash and here comes Mr Bush with his 9/11 and his wars. I just kept thinking that the young people of America are getting screwed, but are too naive to realize it. Along comes American Idiot, and I realized the kids were going to be ok. The country would see lots more wreckage before it was all over, but at least there was some hope for the future.
I realized immediately that these guys have made a 1970s style Rock Opera, like Tommy or Jesus Christ Superstar! I never figured out why the whole Concept Album thing died out, but I was glad to see it make at least a small comeback. And who would have figured Green Day to rise to the occasion?
I remember playing this one over and over again at summer backyard BBQs with friends and neighbors. I don't think any of them picked up on it.
Taking a lazy day off. In the horse latitudes of this Top 10 Albums thing (and no, I don't think a Doors album is in the cards). So much stuff that I really like, that could easily make the list. New Orleans music like Dr John, Prof Longhair or even Wayne Toups. Bands with long strings of albums I bought like U2, R.E.M. or even early Elton John. Maybe some Bob Schneider to show I'm not just living in the past (does that even prove anything?) Maybe some older Jazz that I still listen to like Sun Ra's Blue Delight, to class it up a bit. Even some of my parents old music that I still listen to. Frank Sinatra, Louis Prima, Dean Martin. Sometimes nothing else will do.
In Britain, Austerity Is Changing Everything
BRITAIN'S BIG SQUEEZE
After eight years of budget cutting, Britain is looking less like the rest of Europe and more like the United States, with a shrinking welfare state and spreading poverty.
At the Lake
Out at Joel's on the lake.
Freshman year in college a guy down the hall in my dorm, John, tried to turn me on to Neil Young. He was certain that if I liked Bob Dylan, I would like Neil Young. I didn't. A few decades later I ran across Harvest Moon, an album I really didn't expect to like.
I listened to this one over and over again while I was writing up my dissertation. I had been working at Motorola but my time there was officially over, but I really needed their workstations, and mostly their printer. I would come in late in the evening around midnight, after my fiancee had gone to sleep and would work until dawn, having the whole place to myself. I played Harvest Moon almost exclusively, over and over.
I would come home at dawn, see the fiancee off to work and go to sleep for a while. I figured when the writing was done I would be sick of Harvest Moon, but that never happened. I still find listening to this one, end to end, a thoroughly enjoyable experience.
More 80s Music
When I started this I wanted to avoid putting out a list of the top albums of my high school and college years, but here we are. Goth pioneers Bauhaus turn psychedelic and come out as Love and Rockets. As the wiki pages says, there is still a thrill in Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven. I saw these guys in Minneapolis at First Avenue and their live show was as stunning as their studio album, which I didn't imagine possible.
Woman says her Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact
Well, we always knew this was a possibility. I wonder where else this data has been going (I'm think of you, NSA).
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Computer emoticons - Random Hookups!
Emoticons — those smileys and other faces made out of letters and symbols on your keyboard — are a great way to inject a little fun into your emails, online messages and text messages. Computer emoticons to see more? Click here to find even more expressions emoticons. See more emoticons that represent objects and things.
Check out more animal emoticons here.
How did you m the glasses guy? How could I make some curly hair on his head? You are so smart with these! Now seriously what is wrong here?
When I hit thethose squiggly linesthe closed parentheses I hit the shift button.
Here are some of mine: P Computer emoticons is the emoji blog…. I knew that you use your keyboard…. I needed to rephrase. This ones my fav: Dude, u should have written ur name instead!
How long did it take?!? D Sweet, big smile for you ;-P Winking smiley with sly expression O: Left Handed Tongue Touching Nose: Hi Adam, try this: Expressions Tongue in Cheek: Like this dinosaur, for example!
Random faces I like to use all the time. Are the tips archived somewhere or how do I print them.
It would be great to have tips bound. Thanks for sharing it… How are us Baby Boomers supposed to learn these things? Check the emails you'd like to receive Computer emoticons NYC weekly email: You might also like.
Our latest articles To complete your subscription, click on the Submit Computer emoticons and look for a confirmation email in your inbox.
Learn how the desktop pros quickly add emoji to their messages from Mac and Windows with this little-known shortcut. Plus, tips on. Our new mobile-friendly web app Computer emoticons a simple beautiful emoji copy and paste interface WITH search and auto-copy technology.
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First Concert: Matt Muñoz
Cactus Cafe manager Matt Muñoz revisits his first concert in El Paso: Van Halen
Fri., June 29, 2018
Matt Muñoz and Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford (l)
Matt Muñoz
Manager, Cactus Cafe
Who: Van Halen
When: Oct. 7, 1981
Where: El Paso County Coliseum
How old were you, how did you manage such a supreme first show, and how was it, anyway? Ten years old and it was my real first show. I paid for it with my paper route money! I was so in love with Van Halen. The show was big and loud, and Roth was a mess, but it is forever burned on my brain.
Why do you suppose Latinos are often ascribed with a love of hard rock and heavy metal, and does that conform to your own experience? Yes, indeed. As a young Latino growing up in El Paso in the late Seventies and Eighties, hard rock was it! Plus, El Paso and Juárez are almost one as everyone has family just across the border. The Q [KLAQ, 95.5FM] was the local rock station and MTV was about to make rock really big. We were the market that got the routing between Dallas, Albuquerque, and Phoenix dates!
What were your next few shows once that first domino fell and how did they fare in comparison? Halen was always my first rock & roll love, but I was lucky to catch Metallica at a small club called the Big Apple during the Ride the Lighting tour. It was a fantastic time to be a kid. I got to see all the fun stuff at the time, from Krokus, Dio, and Ozzy to the return of Van Halen and Metallica as they grew. It all culminated with a crazy opening band for the Cult by the name of Guns N' Roses in '87.
KEYWORDS FOR THIS STORY
Matt Muñoz, Van Halen, Metallica, Krokus, Dio, Ozzy Osborne, the Cult, Guns N' Roses
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The construction eNewsletter is among the most powerful tools in your arsenal because it gives you the means to speak to and influence your audience over time. Not to mention you own the contact list and content and can usually measure the results depending on which platform you use.
The underpinnings of an eNewsletter that people will read on a regular basis are content that is informative and helpful. If your subscribers see a trend toward excessive self-promotion, most will unsubscribe. The following are content ideas that will serve as the framework of an effective eNewsletter.
Construction is a "show me" industry where action beats talk. As Ben Franklin said: "Well done is better than well said." This is why project profiles should be a cornerstone for your eNewsletter.
Your customers and prospects want to see the work you're doing and the results you've achieved. Project profiles should be the lynchpin of your eNewsletter.
The most important aspect of any construction firm is the team. Is there an industry that believes more in teamwork and the collective power of its employees?
Your customers and prospects want to know what caliber of people you employ. Having some sort of profile for key employees is key. If your employees would prefer to fly under the radar, try an abridged version with some interesting facts about them instead of a full-blown profile.
Regardless of whether you run a top-down or flat organization, people want to know what the boss is thinking. He or she might sound off on the economy, legislation affecting your business segment, or the state of the company.
Keep the message short and sweet and focus on the issues that matter to your subscribers. Remember that this isn't about what the president wants to communicate; it's about what the readers want to know. It goes without saying that the message should come from your executive, not the marketing director.
The eNewsletter is an ideal place to share positive company news. Don't brag; the announcement will do the work. Let your readers arrive at their own conclusion. If it's truly newsworthy, they will appreciate the accomplishment.
Relevant news might include project awards, equipment sold or rented, new hires and promotions, etc. The key is to keep it short and sweet without blowing too much smoke.
If you really want to stand out, try being helpful. This approach is formally known as content marketing, and it involves attracting and generating new business by providing helpful information.
This approach works especially well for equipment dealers and suppliers since they have a tangible product and rely on traditional sales and marketing to generate new business. Distributors and manufacturers might focus on the proper use and maintenance of machinery, while material suppliers can advise on issues such as how to get the best results when using their product. While low bid contractors might not see the need to share how to content, those that do negotiated work for private sector clients should focus on content marketing.
Now that your eNewsletter has a framework of interesting content, your reader is primed and expecting the pitch. In digital marketing, this is known as the call to action.
You can either create an ad or include a body of text depending on your capabilities. The copy might suggest contacting a specific person, or even a special deal. Make sure to hyperlink the button or text to your website or a landing page.
Speaking of hyperlinks, construction eNewsletters that don't include them are missing a huge opportunity. Think of them as a way for your readers to dig deeper if they see something of interest. For example, let's say you include a profile about how your crane is being used on a bridge project. You might hyperlink the name of the crane to its page on your website so people can get the specs on the rig.
The eNewsletter is much like the traditional print newsletter, although it's usually more succinct since people are less tolerant of reading long-form copy on a screen than in print. People subscribe for countless reasons, but what they have in common is the desire to observe your company over time before doing business. Some want to learn more about your capabilities. Some are curious about what clients you serve. And others want to know about your projects.
Your end goal, of course, is to do business with your subscribers now. Some will become customers in the short- or long-term, and others never will. Approach your eNewsletter with a long-term perspective. Assuming your subscribers are relevant prospects and you generate informative and helpful content, you will generate inbound leads and new business over time.
Are there any other types of content you use in your eNewsletter that aren't listed here? Please share.
Need help with email marketing or a company eNewsletter? Fraley Construction Marketing can provide full-service email marketing for your construction firm. Click here to learn more.
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Terms of acting
About Scales + Partners
Christopher (John) Pearce
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Fee arrangements and Terms of Acting
At Scales + Partners we don't think that "one size fits all". Different types of matters involve different considerations as to the appropriate manner of charging and the terms and conditions which apply.
That may involve different methods of how we charge for our services. This includes the question as to whether the matter should be 'Pay-As-You-Go', 'No Win, No Fee' or involve deferred billing. We strive to agree to terms that will work for both parties, having regard to your individual circumstances.
Some particular matters to note are:
Initial telephone advice
In all matters we are happy to speak to clients by telephone in the first instance. We are often able to give general advice about the matter and advise if, and how, we can assist, and at what cost.
Free first interview
In litigious matters where you may be able to bring a claim for a payment of damages (such as a Personal Injury damages claim) or payment from a fund of money (such as in a Family Law property settlement matter or a Will Dispute), we offer a free first interview so that you can meet us, get some initial advice, and decide if you wish to take the matter any further.
Deferred billing
There are some cases in which a client may be unable to pay as the matter proceeds but where it is clear that, at the end of the matter, they will receive payment from another party, or from a fund of money. We may be prepared to defer billing until the end of the matter where the chances of receiving funds at the end of the matter are strong. Typical cases in which this applies are Family Law Property Disputes, Wills Disputes, Work Related Claims and Claims for Damages for Personal Injury.
No Win/No Fee
We offer a "No Win – No Fee" arrangement in a number of areas such as:
Personal Injury Claims (including Motor Vehicle Accident Claims)
Work Related Claims
Insurance and Superannuation Claims
Disputes regarding Wills
Many people have potential claims in these types of matters which have reasonable, but by no means certain, prospects of success but would be unable to enter into a 'Pay As You Go' arrangement. A simple deferred billing arrangement might also not be appropriate because of the risks involved. In these circumstances, we are prepared to consider entering into an agreement wherein we are only paid our fees if your matter succeeds.
Conditions apply to these arrangements including:
The arrangement is limited to our fees. Disbursements (out of pocket expenses for things like filing fees, experts' reports etc.) will have to be paid by yourself;
Our fees are subject to an increase on our normal rate of up to 25% to cover the risk we take in relation to the matter. (So, if our usual fees for a matter were $4,000, your increased bill for our fees would be $5,000.) However, no such increase will apply to WorkCover/RTWSA disputes conducted in the South Australian Employment Tribunal.
Written retainer letter
In some matters, we are required by our professional conduct rules to provide you with a written retainer agreement setting out the terms and conditions of our appointment.
Usually we do this by providing two separate documents, being:
A retainer letter which sets out, among other things our charges, our estimate of costs and the timing of our invoices; and
A comparatively standard Terms of Engagement document for your matter which sets out in more detail various matters relating to the agreement, some of which will be of less immediate importance to you.
Talk to us about your legal requirements today.
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Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose banked in a three-pointer at the buzzer to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 3.
Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose banked in a three-pointer at the buzzer to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers, 99–96, in Game 3.
The Bulls had the ball with three seconds remaining after Cavaliers guard J.R. Smith tied the game at 96 with a three-pointer with 10 seconds remaining.
Rose took advantage of a pick set by teammate Taj Gibson to get the shot off from 26 feet out. The win at the United Center gave Chicago a 2–1 series lead after the teams split the opening games in Cleveland.
Rose led all scorers with 30. He added seven rebounds and seven assists in 39 minutes.
LeBron James led the Cavaliers with 27 points, 14 assists and eight rebounds. Jimmy Butler added 20 points and eight rebounds for the Bulls.
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NARC – Consumer Guide
By Daniel Weissenberger on November 8, 2005 in Blogs
According to ESRB, this game contains: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language, Use of Drugs
Parents will find themselves in a bit of a jam. This is a game that lets players do drugs as powerups, so obviously your first impulse will be to bar kidsfrom playing it—but wait, drugs are only used in the game that way so that parents will keep their children from playing it, in the hopes of giving it some 'street cred'. Do you let your children play a bad, but inappropriate game, or do you turn it into a tantalizingly forbidden fruit? It's a tough decision, and I can't make it for you.
Fans of the original do not exist. Seriously. The original NARC appears on this game as an unlockable bonus, and I'd advise anyone who buys the game to try it, if only so they can see just how bad it really was.
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Gamers get majorly shafted by this one. Incidental dialogue and most mission instructions are subtitled, but no plot sequences are, which leaves the plot a near-complete mystery, and forces the player to go to the pause menu to get specific information on their objectives.
Daniel Weissenberger
What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?
Nothing relevant to this conversation, that's for sure! Because we're here to talk about (sorry, write and read about, respectively) GC_Danny, who's updating this profile for the first time in thirteen years!
So let's take a gander back at that time and see what's happened! In addition to writing hundreds of video game reviews, Dan produced a book that can be legally purchased by almost anyone! He also wrote two short films, two episodes of television, and two movies! Although, sadly, and through much fault of his own, the movies have yet to be released.
In addition to general game reviewing, he's also dabbled in more long-form work, writing some of the longest and most comprehensive game reviews of all time. Then there's his non-GameCritics blogging, where he's famous as the world's foremost expert on the TV show Criminal Minds, as well as the co-host of a weekly podcast - he's even working on a new videogame/critical experiment, which you can find out more about here!
If all that wasn't enough, just a few months ago he rebranded himself as 'The Hidden Object Guru', hoping to stake another claim of ultimate expertise, this time over a genre of casual games! Will he be successful? Only time will tell, but you're free to join the thrilling ride at his YouTube channel!
Latest posts by Daniel Weissenberger (see all)
Dan's Year-End Top 13 Games! - January 17, 2022
This Is Not A Review: Gravitators - January 12, 2022
UnMetal Review - December 27, 2021
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Q: How to batch delete with query builder I have array of id's I want to delete all of them with one query without foreach and eloquent, is there any way of it?
$data= array(
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DB::table('table_name')->delete($data);
A: You can use like this:
$data = array( 8, 9 );
DB::table('table_name')->whereIn( 'id', explode(",", $data) )->delete();
A: Try WhereIn:
$data = array(8, 9);
DB::table('table_name')->whereIn('id', $data)->delete();
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News that last year's federal deficit was smaller than expected is prompting economists to project a smaller deficit for the current fiscal year as well.
The Finance Department announced Tuesday that the final deficit figure for last year came in at $17.8-billion, an improvement over the $23-billion projection in the March, 2017, budget. The size of the deficit is still at odds with the Liberal campaign promise to keep annual deficits under $10-billion.
Economists at RBC now estimate this year's deficit could come in below $15-billion, nearly half the size of the $28.5-billion deficit Ottawa projected just six months ago. A big factor contributing to the rosier fiscal forecasts is the fact that the Canadian economy is outperforming the predictions of private-sector forecasts that informed the budget estimates.
This year's budget is built on an assumption that the economy would grow 1.9 per cent this year and 2 per cent next year. Private-sector forecasts since the budget have been gradually nudging upward and the Bank of Canada's latest estimate projected growth of 2.8 per cent this year.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claimed Tuesday that the improving economy is a sign his government's policies are working.
"What the numbers mean is that our plan to grow the economy for the middle class is working," he said, referencing increased support for families with children and the government's infrastructure program.
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer challenged that view, noting that Liberal deficits will ultimately force taxpayers to spend more on debt-servicing costs over the long term.
"The deficit's not down. The deficit is much, much higher than the $10-billion dollars that Justin Trudeau promised," Mr. Scheer told reporters at an event with small-business owners, noting that the Liberals have no plan for eliminating the deficit. "That is leaving my kids and future generations of Canadians with a big bill that has to be paid back. That's not fair."
Tuesday's report indicates that $16-billion of the $17.8-billion shortfall can be attributed to a year-over-year increase in program spending.
Shortly after forming government, the federal Liberals jettisoned their initial spending plans by claiming that weaker-than-expected economic growth had significantly worsened the assumptions for federal revenue and spending.
In December, 2016, the Finance Department released a long-term forecast showing that federal finances were on track to remain in deficit until the 2050s. The Liberal campaign promise was to eliminate the deficit in 2019.
The report released on Tuesday looks at the last fiscal year. It does not contain forecasts for future years.
Finance Minister Bill Morneau is expected to provide a fall fiscal update that will show how the recent string of good economic news will affect federal deficit projections. The Finance Department is also expected to update its long-term fiscal projections at some point before the end of the year.
For the 2016-17 fiscal year as a whole, Tuesday's report shows that revenue decreased by $2-billion, or 0.7 per cent, from the previous year. Program expenses increased by $16.2-billion, or 6 per cent.
Mr. Morneau has not announced a clear target date for eliminating the federal deficit and Mr. Trudeau repeatedly declined to provide a target when asked Tuesday by reporters. Instead, the government has said its so-called "fiscal anchor" is to keep the size of the federal debt on a stable and declining trend when measured as a percentage of the economy.
By that measure, the federal debt grew slightly. It now stands at 31.2 per cent of GDP, up from 31 per cent in 2015-16. The combined provincial and territorial debt also rose last year to an estimated 30.3 per cent, up from 28.5 per cent the previous year. Provinces and territories posted a combined deficit of $14-billion in 2016-17, up from $9-billion the previous year.
Randall Bartlett, chief economist at the University of Ottawa's Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy, said Liberal policies such as enhanced benefits to families with young children have contributed to stronger growth. However, Mr. Bartlett attributes most of the growth to other factors, such as an improving global economy and low interest rates.
"I think there was a positive impact of their policies on a net basis," he said. "But their policies are not the primary cause of what we've seen in terms of growth."
While Mr. Bartlett agrees that this year's deficit is on pace to be smaller than last year's, his forecasts project that the size of deficits will increase in future years due to higher debt-servicing costs.
With files from Laura Stone.
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Programming languages and applied logic
Temporal Logics in Computer Science
Finite-State Systems
Part of Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science
Stéphane Demri, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
Valentin Goranko, Stockholms Universitet
Martin Lange, Universität Kassel, Germany
Date Published: December 2016
$ 129.00 (P)
This comprehensive text provides a modern and technically precise exposition of the fundamental theory and applications of temporal logics in computer science. Part I presents the basics of discrete transition systems, including constructions and behavioural equivalences. Part II examines the most important temporal logics for transition systems and Part III looks at their expressiveness and complexity. Finally, Part IV describes the main computational methods and decision procedures for model checking and model building - based on tableaux, automata and games - and discusses their relationships. The book contains a wealth of examples and exercises, as well as an extensive annotated bibliography. Thus, the book is not only a solid professional reference for researchers in the field but also a comprehensive graduate textbook that can be used for self-study as well as for teaching courses.
Provides readers with a solid theoretical background and detailed practical knowledge of skills in the field
Self-contained treatment allows more advanced readers to focus on particular aspects of the theory
Contains 450 exercises to supplement the theory
Provides detailed bibliographic notes for students interested in exploring the subject further
'In summary, the book presents the most important and influential temporal logics, presents their properties, and introduces the most important tools to reason about temporal logics. It strikes a good balance between breadth and depth in coverage …' Martin Zimmermann, MathSciNet
contains: 180 b/w illus. 450 exercises
Part I. Models:
2. Preliminaries and background I
3. Transition systems
Part II. Logics:
4. Preliminaries and background II
5. Basic modal logics
6. Linear-time temporal logics
7. Branching-time temporal logics
8. The modal mu-calculus
9. Alternating-time temporal logics
Part III. Properties:
10. Expressiveness
11. Computational complexity
Part IV. Methods:
12. Frameworks for decision procedures
13. Tableaux-based decision methods
14. The automata-based approach
15. The game-theoretic framework
Stéphane Demri is a CNRS directeur de recherche at the Laboratoire Spécification et Vérification (LSV), Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, and he is currently the head of LSV. His current research interests include verification of infinite-state systems, temporal logics and analysis of systems with data. He has participated in numerous international and national projects and has been co-responsible for bilateral projects with Poland, South Africa and Australia. He is regularly involved in teaching, in program committees, in steering committees and in editorial boards. He has co-authored more than 125 publications in the field of formal/logical methods for analysing computer systems, including a monograph, 4 edited proceedings, 6 book chapters and 50 articles in international journals.
Valentin Goranko is currently a professor of logic and theoretical philosophy at Stockholm University. He has more than 30 years of university teaching and research experience in mathematics, computer science and philosophy in universities in Bulgaria, South Africa, Denmark and Sweden. His main expertise and research interests are in theory and applications of modal and temporal logics to computer science, artificial intelligence, multiagent systems and philosophy. He has authored and co-authored more than 100 publications, including two recent textbooks on logic and discrete mathematics. He is a member of several editorial boards and steering bodies of professional organisations and is currently the vice-president of the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI).
Martin Lange is currently a professor in theoretical computer science at the University of Kassel, Germany. His research interests include model checking and general decision procedures for logics in computer science with a focus on temporal logics. He has published more than 80 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He received an ERC Starting Grant in 2010 and a Heisenberg professorship from the German Research Council in 2013.
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'Nine in ten' Android apps send data to Google
A new study has revealed that 90 per cent of all Android applications share personal data to Google, raising questions about the volume of information collected by ad-supported software and the ability for tech giants to create profiles of individuals.
Researchers at Oxford University looked at almost one million Android apps available on the Google Play store and found the median app shared user data with ten third parties and a fifth shared it with more than 20.
The researchers told the Financial Times that the popularity of 'freemium' applications supported by advertising and the rise of vast advertising networks meant that many people, and often app developers themselves, are unaware of the scale of this data harvesting.
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Secure Data Act would protect device manufacturers from having to create a back door
A new bill introduced in Congress, called the Secure Data Act, would prevent a government agency or a court order from forcing a manufacturer to add a backdoor to a device that offers encrypted communications. The bill has bipartisan support, and was introduced in the House by Representatives Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Ted Poe (R-TX), Jerry Nadler (D-NY), Ted Lieu (D-CA), and Matt Gaetz (R-FL).
The bill would give manufacturers of encrypted phones, tablets, computers and software (including apps like WhatsApp) protection from being forced to weaken the encryption on their products. Not only would it prevent a law enforcement agency like the FBI from forcing a phone manufacturer from providing it with back door access to their devices, it would also prevent a court order from doing the same thing. There is one exception as mentioned in the bill. That would be for requests and court orders having to do with wiretaps under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act.
The Secure Data Act is a reaction to the battle between Apple and the FBI that took place in early 2016. The FBI was able to procure a court order demanding that Apple unlock the iPhon 5c that belonged to San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook. Apple ignored the order, saying that it would have to build a special version of iOS to unlock the device. Cook told law enforcement officials that he was reluctant to create this software, dubbed Govt.OS, for fear that it would be leaked. That would endanger the privacy of all iPhone users globally. As it turned out, the FBI paid to have the phone unlocked by a third party only to find not one shred of worthwhile information inside it.
source: EFF
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The Debug page includes quick access to log messages through an in-page logs panel, allowing you to see log messages next to your source code.
Note: The logs panel is currently only available for Google App Engine apps.
Click the Logs button below the file contents to expand the panel.
You can search through all of the available logs with simple text search. Logs are filtered as you type, so you can quickly determine if any logs match your query. Text is treated as an exact string. To make an AND search for multiple terms, press Enter between each string.
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Police Arrest 23-Year-Old Linked To Manchester Arena Attack
Medal Of Honor Recipient Says, "Release Gates Of Hell On ISIS"
Manchester Police Arrest Man Connected With Bombing
Manchester Police | Photo Credit Independent United Kingdom Police have arrested a 23-year-old man connected with the Manchester Attack, which killed at least 22 people and injured 59 others. The explosion took place at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester Arena.
After the event was finishing up, a "huge bang" was heard as fans were gathering their belongings to leave the arena. Manchester Police started receiving calls at 10:33 pm from concert-goers who were fleeing the scene.
Eyewitnesses only described the incident as "chaos" while thousands of people tried to flee the arena. Police originally said that a lone suicide bomber detonated the IED but it's possible he had an accomplish.
This is said to be the worst terror attack since the London Bombing in 2005.
Theresa May Speaks To United Kingdom
The Independent reports:
"A man has been arrested over the terror attack at Manchester Arena. The 23-year-old man was arrested in south Manchester the morning after the bomb and in relation to the attack, according to Greater Manchester Police."
"Theresa May had earlier confirmed that police believed they knew the identity of the suicide bomber, who died at the scene. They have not publicly suggested whether or not the killer was working alone."
"The report of the arrest came at the same time as police confirmed that a man had been arrested at the Arndale Centre, amid a bomb scare there. Police suggested that the arrest and the events were not thought to be connected to the night's attacks."
"All Acts Of Terrorism Are Cowardly."
Manchester Attack | Photo Credit The Globe
AOL reports:
"Islamic State, now being driven from territories in Syria and Iraq by Western-backed armed forces, claimed the attack as revenge against "Crusaders." But Western experts were skeptical, noting it had offered two accounts of the attack partly contradicting each other and the British police version."
"In a statement made outside her Downing Street offices after a meeting with security and intelligence chiefs, May said police believed they knew the identity of the bomber. "All acts of terrorism are cowardly," she said. "But this attack stands out for its appalling sickening cowardice, deliberately targeting innocent, defenseless children and young people who should have been enjoying one of the most memorable nights of their lives."
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CT Bear Bill Could Be First Step Towards Re-Introducing Statewide Hunt
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We have growing concern over a new bill that was introduced in Connecticut this year involving the population of black bears in the state. On the surface, HB 5315, seems like a decently acceptable bill as it advocates for punishing landowners who are feeding black bears…but a closer look reveals different motives. The fact that the Environment Committee of the General Assembly introduced a bill to stop people from feeding black bears in CT on behalf of the CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, proves there is something wrong with the DEEP's educational outreach about black bears.
If DEEP was effectively reaching out to the public, especially in areas considered bear habitat, the public would already know bears are attracted to garbage, pet food, compost piles, fruit trees and bird feeders around houses. Especially after March when bears come out of hibernation. By including bird feeders in the poorly constructed bill, DEEP is pitting bird-watchers against bears for hunting propaganda purposes. A look at their educational outreach program on their website shows that they're doing next to nothing when it comes to educating the public.
Friends of Animals is adamant that HB 5315 should not be supported as it's an attempt to pave the way for CT DEEP to institute a bear hunting season—as its testimony at the public hearing for the bill included language about how populations of bears and coyotes are on the rise in the state and so are negative interactions with the public. The truth is, and DEEP admits this— it isn't sure how many black bears are in CT, however a bear hunt would be a money maker for DEEP.
DEEP admitted in their 2015 wildlife management plan that their budget and staffing levels have been in steady decline and they are essentially desperate for additional funding. Imposing fines on the general public instead of educating them is one way they'd make money. But the real money maker for DEEP, which is beholden to hunters and trappers in the state, would be to re-introduce a bear hunt in CT and rake in profits from hunting licenses.
In fact, hunters aren't being shy about these real motives. Bob Crook, a lobbyist for the Coalition of Connecticut Sportsmen, believes a better tally of the state's bear population will provide concrete evidence to support calls for a state bear-hunting season, telling The Hartford Courant "If [black bears] are over-populated, it's a detriment to the animals themselves," said Crook. He added that a bear-hunting season "would be a money-maker for DEEP" at a time when when Connecticut's environmental agency is expecting even further budget cuts.
In Florida, New Jersey and New Hampshire similar bills that increased fines/penalties for inadvertently feeding bears passed and were followed by allowing bear hunts in those states. We cannot allow CT to follow a similar path.
Speak out against this bill that is detrimental to Connecticut's bear population and tell your state legislators they should say no to the bill, no to the fines, and YES to more public education. Find your House representatives by clicking here and contact the bill's co-sponsors below as well.
Representative Russell Morin of the 28th: Phone 860-240-8500
Representative Mary Mushinsky of the 85th: Phone 860-240-8585
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Graydon Oliver (born June 15, 1978) is a retired American professional tennis player. A doubles specialist, he won four titles during his career.
Upon retiring from the tour, Oliver took a job in the energy sector (Leor Energy), working for an exploration and production company. In 2010, Oliver took a job in the financial sector for a company in Texas.
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I am having a bit of a writer's block as I sit here, ready to type away. Our weeks have morphed into very predictable and mundane ones with not a lot of new and exciting information to share! We still spend our days hopping through appointments (6 this week). Malachi has had a great week, so I will share with you some of our tiny successes over the past few days.
Malachi has several different therapies, and one of those is "feeding" therapy. We work on trying to introduce new textures and foods with the goal being to get Malachi to eat table foods one day. In the last month Malachi has started to understand the concept of daddy and mommy sitting down and eating- and he wants some of whatever we have. Well, at least his mind is telling him he wants some. In reality, his system panics when we put anything that isn't pureed in his mouth. Sometimes doing so will spark a seizure while other times it induces vomiting, so we aren't always eager to share.
Previously when we have introduced new tastes it has not gone well, but with his increased interest we have been trying to step out of our comfort zone. So this week at feeding therapy I decided to pull out the "big guns" and give him some peanut butter. As you can imagine, it was a workout for his little mouth. We put a dab in and watched in anticipation to see what would happen. He moved that tongue like a champ and when it was gone he opened his mouth wide for more! I couldn't believe it!
After several small spoon fulls I put the lid back on and switched gears to working on his bottle feeds with the therapist. I asked Malachi "Do you want some ba-ba (bottle)?" and Malachi moved his little lips into a frown! Thinking it was a fluke, I asked him again and his little lips again turned downward. So I asked him "Would you rather have more bite bites?" and his mouth grew wide with a grin as he opened his mouth wide for some more peanut butter. Of course I immediately rewarded his communication with peanut butter, but still was wondering if I was reading into things. I repeated my questions and when I got the same responses from Malachi time and time again I realized two things: 1) He most definitely was communicating his likes and dislikes (for the first time EVER) and 2) that boy loves his Peter Pan peanut butter.
Maybe it is due to all the sugar we have been feeding him, but Malachi has been one wild man this week. In fact, he was so fired up with excitement this week that when I picked him up onto my shoulder he whipped around and bit my ear lobe! I wish you could have seen the look on his face when he realized what he did…it was a mix of pride and horror as his eyes read "I have never done THAT before!" I was very stern with him and made sure he knew not to do it again, but that made him giggle so I don't know that my lecture was successful.
This week our church took pictures for the new directory and I had so much fun dressing Malachi up in his church clothes! I snapped a picture for you, but the one the photographer took was much more successful. It only took about 25 minutes to snap a good one haha. Jake and I were both sweating through our clothes by the time we were through.
Malachi has not been sleeping well lately so I have been extra tired and doing extra silly things. For example, when I go to the grocery I push Malachi in his wheelchair while pulling a cart behind me with my other hand. It sounds complicated, but you really get used to the process and learn to navigate corners. It is extremely rare for me to go into a store without Malachi and the "cart caboose" process, so I was overjoyed when Jake sat in the car with Malachi and let me run in alone one evening! As I pushed the cart down an aisle, I moved to the left to avoid oncoming cart traffic and caught myself telling the woman "excuse us"…only to realize there was no "us". Just me. A single lady with a grocery cart. I laughed to myself as I wonder what was swirling around her mind.
If this were the only occurrence of this that would be one thing…but unfortunately this tends to happen every time I am somewhere without Malachi. It is such a habit for me to talk him through the process of whatever task we are doing. In fact, during our trip to Ohio I was shopping solo and pushed my cart over a door frame to leave. Without thinking, I leaned down toward the cart and said "bump bump" to warn it of our upcoming speed bumps. When I realized that I had just conversed with an empty grocery cart and NOT my son I grew hot with embarrassment. And then I laughed until I cried. They are probably still talking about that crazy lady who talks to carts, warning them of bumps in the path and then laughs until she cries.
Sleep deprivation over extended times can do some crazy things to your psyche haha.
God has been so good to our family. I have watched as time and time again pieces of a puzzle start to meld into their places and I get glimpses of the big picture. It is IMPOSSIBLE for me to deny that God is working in our lives. It is simply not possible. When I look at the blessings we have been given- both monetarily and in things that money can't buy- I am overwhelmed with gratitude.
As we continue to wander through this "building" we call life, it is so fun to see which doors God will open next for our family. It is that hope of something greater that keeps me going. This week I am finding it easy to live the life of contentment that we are called to live.
It is always so shocking and encouraging to me to hear that people still actively pray for Malachi. I think about Moses during battle when he realized that when he raised his arms, the Israelites succeeded, but when he lowered his arms they began to lose the battle. At one point, weary with exhaustion, his arms began to lower. It was then that his brother and another trusted friend came and held up Moses' arms for him, when he could no longer bear the pain.
There have been so many times over the last 3.5 years that my arms have grown so heavy with burdens that we have had to hold up to God. And in those weak moments, your prayers helped lift my arms back heavenward. You have stepped in when I couldn't bear the burden alone, and I am so blessed to know that you are ready and willing to come to our aide. Thank you for continuing to not only PRAY but also BELIEVE in miracles for Malachi's life.
Pretty good for someone with 'writer's block' Mrs Leah. Thank you for sharing.
Dear Leah, it is a joy and blessing to lift your precious family to the Throne of our gracious God!!
Your Sunday night blogs have become part of my Monday morning routine and I share them with my husband as we do our devotions!!
Love it that Malachi is enjoying his ph. What a doll! Miracle Malachi!
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MRU Choir Wins Gold Medal Diploma in German Competition
October 28th, the daily Lithuanian "Lietuvos Rytas" internet portal "lrytas.lt" published an article, "M. Romeris University Choir Participated in Choir Competition in Zwickau," (Germany). MRU's Choir won a gold diploma and an international certificate in the competition held Oct. 20th-24th. MRU's Choir was one of 22 choirs that participated from 7 different countries in the international Robert Schumann Choir Competition.
Lithuanian Radio: MRU Assoc. Prof. Aleknonis Presents Commentary
October 28th, Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) Political Science Dept. Head Gintaras Aleknonis presented a commentary on Lithuanian Radio titled, "The Birth of the Elite Wihin a Crowd." His comments dealt with the resignation of Edita Žiobienė, the Head of the Children's Rights Ombudsman's Institution.
MRU Student Team Captain Discusses MRU's Participation in New TV Project October 28th
October 28th, university student team captains, including MRU team captain Mindaugas Buckiūnas, appeared on Lithuanian TV's (LTV) programme, "Labas rytas" to discuss a new TV project. Buckiūnas talked about their participation in the "Ateities lyderiai" (Future Leaders) project, which will air for the first time on October 28th, 21:15 hrs. on LTV.
MRU Law Faculty Assoc. Prof. Comments on Myanmar's New Flag's Similiarities to Lithuanian Tri-colour Flag
October 23rd, the daily Lithuanian newspaper, "Lietuvos Žinios" (LŽ) writes about similiarities between the flag from the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and Lithuania's tri-colour yellow/green/red flag. Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) Comparative Law Dept. Head Justinas Žilinskas told LŽ that flags with yellow, green and red-colour stripes are not all that rare. (In PHOTO: on the left - Lithuania's flag and Myanmar's new flag with star on the right)
Lietuvos Rytas: MRU Young Financier's Academy Begins New Academic Year Oct. 23rd
October 22nd, the Internet portal newspaper "lrytas.lt" reports that Mykolas Romeris University's Young Financier's Academy (JaFA) begins its 6th academic year. Opening of the Academy took place on MRU's campus on October 23rd at 10 a.m. MRU Business Economics Dept. Assoc. Prof. Rimvydas Jasinavičius said the goal of the Academy is to develop the financial intellect of youth and foster leadership qualities.
MRU Chancellor Saulius Spurga Discusses the Meaning of the Nobel Prize in Radio Discussion Oct. 22nd
October 22nd, MRU Chancellor Saulius Spurga participated in a discussion, led by host Tomas Dapkus, on the Lithuanian Radio programme, "Akiračiai," on the meaning of the Nobel Prize. Swedish chemist and innovator Alfred Nobel, who held over 300 different patents including for dynamite, was born on Oct. 21st, 1833. In his last will, Nobel dedicated his fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes.
MRU Assoc. Prof. Sakalauskas Comments on Matters Relating to Resignation of Children's Rights Ombudsman
October 22nd, Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) Assoc. Prof. Gintautas Sakalauskas of the Mediation Dept., spoke on Lithuanian Radio and commented on matters relating to the resignation of the Head of the Children's Rights Ombudsman's Institution.
President Grybauskaitė Recommends MRU Law Faculty Academic to Vilnius District Ct. Bench
October 20nd, the daily "Respublika" reports that Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė signed a decree that opens the door for Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) Law Faculty Lecturer Vilija Mikuckienė's eventual appointment to the Vilnius District Court bench. Mikuckienė is an assistant to the Chairman of the Appellate Court and a lecturer in MRU's Civil Procedure Dept.
Lithuanian Radio: MRU Law Faculty Prof. Sinkevičius Participated in Discussion on Citizenship Issues
October 19th, Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) Law Faculty Prof. Vytautas Sinkevičius participated in Lithuanian Radio's programme, "Ant Svarstyklių," (In the Balance) which analyzed the issue of dual nationality. Sinkevičius is a professor of Constitutional Law in the Law Faculty of MRU. He is a former Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania.
Žinių Radijas: MRU Assoc. Prof. Aleknonis Comments on Contemporary Political Issues - Oct. 18th
October 18th, Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) Assoc. Professor and political analyst Gintaras Aleknonis participated in a discussion on the "Žinių Radijas," current events radio programme "Įvykiai ir Komentarai." Aleknonis was part of a panel that discussed and commented on the main news events of the past week. Aleknonis is the Head of MRU's Political Sciences Dept. (In PHOTO: Aleknonis on the left)
Veidas: Mykolas Romeris University - the Right University for the Nanotechnology Age
October 18th, the weekly news magazine "Veidas," published a full-page interview with Mykolas Romeris University's Social Informatics Faculty Dean Saulius Norvaišas titled, "Mykolas Romeris University - Studies Appropriate for the Nanotechnology Age." In addition, MRU's Electronic Business Dept. Head Prof. Mindaugas Kiškis is also quoted in the article regarding fostering entrepreneurship. (In the PHOTO: MRU Dean Norvaišas)
MRU Assoc. Prof. Dumbliauskas Comments on Campaign Financing on Lithuanian Radio - Oct. 18th
October 18th, Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) Assoc. Professor Vytautas Dumbliauskas commented on campaign financing on Lithuanian Radio's morning programme, "Ryto Garsai." Dumbliauskas is an Assoc. Professor in MRU's Political Sciences Department in the Faculty of Politics & Management.
MRU Professor Antanas Buračas Discusses Monetary Policy - October 11th
October 11th, Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) Professor and academic Antanas Buračas comments on monetary policy in the Lithuanian daily, "Respublika." Academic Buračas is a professor in MRU's Dept of Banking and Investments in the Faculty of Economics and Finance Management.
MRU Professor Participates in Live TV/Radio Discussion on Quality of Governance in Today's Lithuania
October 11th, Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) Prof. Antanas Kulakauskas participated in a live Lithuanian TV/radio discussion, "Between East & West" ("Tarp Rytų ir Vakarų") on the quality of governance in Lithuania. The programme was moderated by Rimgaudas Geleževičius. Kulakauskas is a professor in MRU's Political Sciences Dept.
MRU Assoc. Prof. Guogis Discusses Pension Reform in Lithuania
October 8th, in the daily "15 min.," Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) Assoc. Prof. Arvydas Guogis discussed pension reform and ways to improve SODRA, the State Social Insurance Fund Board of the Republic of Lithuania. Guogis is an Associate Professor in MRU's Faculty of Politics and Management's Dept. of Public Administration.
MRU Law Faculty Dept. Head Gutauskas Participates in Roundtable Discussion on Property Confiscation
October 8th the daily, "Lietuvos Žinios" invited Mykolas Romeris University's Law Faculty Assoc. Prof. Aurelijus Gutauskas to participate in a roundtable discussion regarding confiscation of property of criminals. Gutauskas is Head of the University Law Faculty's Criminal Law & Criminology Dept.
MRU Student Wins "Miss Princess of the World" Title in Prague Pageant
October 5th, the daily "Lietuvos Rytas," writes that MRU student Deimantė Bubelytė, 20, was crowned October 2nd "Miss Princess of the World" in a beauty pageant held in the Czech city of Prague. She was one of 43 contestants competing for the crown. In late August Bubelytė was the first runner-up in the "Miss Lithuania 2010" pageant, held in Vilnius.
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La famille d'Hemricourt (également: d'Hemricourt de Grunne) est une famille noble belge.
Histoire
À partir de 1648 au moins, les membres de cette famille faisaient partie des «États nobles» de Liège et, à partir de 1700, de ceux de Namur, sous le nom de famille d'origine de Mozet .
Nicolas de Mozet, Philippe-Antoine de Mozet, seigneur de Grunne et d'autres membres de la famille ont été élevés en 1747 par l'empereur Frans I Stefan dans la noblesse intitulée Comte de Grunne et du Saint Empire romain germanique, nommée d'après la gloire de Grunne qui est entré dans la famille par mariage au . Conrard de Hemricourt, en revanche, reçut le titre de comte du Saint Empire romain germanique de Maximilien, électeur de Bavière en 1745,
En 1816, le petit-fils de Philippe-Antoine, Mathias Carloman d'Hemricourt de Grunne ( Dresde, 1769 - Eltville, 1853), est reconnu membre de la noblesse néerlandaise avec le titre de comte pour lui et pour tous ses descendants. Il a été inclus dans le titre de chevalier de la province de Namur. Il est resté fidèle aux Pays-Bas en 1830. Néanmoins, cette famille est restée principalement en Belgique après 1830 et est depuis lors membre de la noblesse belge, à l'exception de quelques membres qui se sont installés en Autriche et ont formé une branche familiale qui s'est éteinte au XXe siècle.
Les bourgmestres
La famille a compté plusieurs bourgmestres :
Eugène de Hemricourt de Grunne (Francfort-sur-le-Main, 25 avril 1823 - Bruxelles, 14 avril 1903), maire de Bauffe .
Charles Arthur Philippe Ernest de Hemricourt de Grunne ( Liège, 15 novembre 1840 - Bruxelles, 25 août 1911), docteur en droit, sénateur, conseiller provincial du Limbourg, maire de Rutten .
Léon de Hemricourt de Grunne ( Thieusies, 1873 - Tremezzo, 1927), conseiller provincial du Limbourg, maire de Rutten, membre du Conseil supérieur de la chasse.
Philippe de Hemricourt de Grunne ( Horion-Hozémont, 1905 - Tongres, 1984), ingénieur des mines civiles, maire de Rutten, président de la Société des bibliophiles liégeois.
Alexandre de Hemricourt de Grunne (° 1949), marié à la comtesse Consuelo von und Hoenbroech, ne devint pas bourgmestre, mais continua d'habiter au château des parents de Rutten .
Thierry de Hemricourt de Grunne (° 1959), marié à la comtesse Bénédicte d'Ursel de Bousies, fille de Michel d'Ursel, bourgmestre de Heks, acquit le château d'eau de Schoonbeek à Beverst .
François de Hemricourt de Grunne (Bruxelles, 19 février 1850 - Denée, 10 octobre 1926), général, aide des ailes des rois Léopold II et Albert , devenu bénédictin en 1920 à l'abbaye de Maredsous sous le nom de Dom Dominique. Le couple a eu neuf enfants.
Charles François Prosper de Hemricourt de Grunne, dit Charles de Hemricourt de Grunne (Bruxelles, 1875 - Amiens, 1937), maire d'Aalter.
Eugène de Hemricourt de Grunne (Bruxelles, 23 décembre 1883 - Adegem, 26 mai 1940), maire de Wezembeek-Oppem (1926-1940), capitaine-commandant du régiment de chasseurs à pied décédé pendant la campagne de dix-huit jours .
Baudouin de Hemricourt de Grunne ( La Roche-en-Brenil, Côte-d'Or, 8 septembre 1917 - Wezembeek-Oppem, ), a été maire ininterrompu de Wezembeek-Oppem de 1947 à 1995. Sur le plan professionnel, il a été directeur général de l'Association des villes et communes belges. Pendant la guerre, il était actif dans la résistance en tant que chef adjoint du département de Socrates et membre de l'escadron Brumagne. Après la guerre, il était assistant de cabinet des ministres Camille Gutt, Albert Coppé et Jean Duvieusart. Il était plus loin:
Membre du groupe 'La Relève' et des 'Amis du Jeudi'.
Président du Club alpin belge.
Président fondateur de l'organisation à but non lucratif 'La Croix du Sud' (Afrique noire).
Président de l'organisation à but non lucratif "Delphus".
Président de l'association "Les amis du musée de Tervuren ".
Membre du CPS .
Xavier de Hemricourt de Grunne ( Rixensart, 11 juin 1894 - Gross Strehlitz, 4 juillet 1944), sénateur, maire de Wezembeek-Oppem (1920-1926). De Grunne est grièvement blessé et fait prisonnier de guerre dans les premiers jours de la Première Guerre mondiale, en août 1914. Il est resté en captivité pendant quatre ans. Il est devenu professeur de sociologie et explorateur en Afrique équatoriale (ascension du Ruwenzori ) après la guerre. Alpiniste accompli, il s'est souvent entraîné avec le roi Albert et a dirigé les recherches à Marche-les-Dames au cours de la nuit de son accident mortel. Il fut élu sénateur de Rex mais se détourna de ce parti en 1936. Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il appartenait à la Résistance, avec son propre mouvement, La Phalange, puis au sein de l'Armée secrète. Il a été arrêté et est mort dans un camp de concentration allemand.
Membre de la Justice
La famille a également fourni des membres à des services judiciaires tels que:
Carloman de Hemricourt de Grunne (1769-1853), chambellan de l'empereur Frans II .
Willem de Hemricourt de Grunne (1819-1894), chambellan de l'empereur d'Autriche.
Alexandre de Hemricourt de Grunne (1814-1841), chambellan de l'empereur d'Autriche.
François de Hemricourt de Grunne (1850-1926), général, aide des ailes des rois Léopold II et Albert
Guillaume de Hemricourt de Grunne (1888-1978), l'un des fils du général François de Hemricourt de Grunne, diplomate, grand maître de la maison de la reine Elisabeth .
Résistance
La famille eut beaucoup d'officiers supérieurs.
En temps de guerre, en particulier pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, différents membres de la famille se sont distingués dans l'armée et dans la résistance. Parmi eux:
Baudouin de Hemricourt de Grunne (1917-2011), chef adjoint du groupe de résistance Socrates et membre de l'escadron Brumagne (voir «maires»).
Gérard-Emmanuel de Hemricourt de Grunne (1921-1951), opérateur radio et membre de l'escadron de Brumagne.
Eugène de Hemricourt de Grunne (1883-1940), décédé à Adegem le 26 mai 1940.
Rodolphe de Hemricourt de Grunne (1911-1941), pilote de chasse, abattu au dessus de la Manche le 21 mai 1941.
Xavier de Hemricourt de Grunne (1894-1944) décédé dans le camp de concentration de Gross Strelitz le 4 juin 1944.
Comtesse Xavier de Hemricourt de Grunne, née Anne de Meaux (1894-1980).
Alpinistes
De nombreux membres de la famille se sont distingués comme alpinistes. Parmi eux:
François-Xavier de Grunne a conquis le Ruwenzori .
Françoise de Grunne, fille de François-Xavier, née en 1927, a disparu le 15 septembre 1960 lors de l'ascension du Bilchhar Dobani (Pakistan).
Baudouin de Grunne, président du Club Alpin Belge.
Généalogie
Famille de Hemricourt de Grunne
Bibliographie
A. DEMANET, comte Charles de Hemricourt de Grunne, homme de guerre, diplomate, dans: Biographie nationale de Belgique, Tome IX, Bruxelles, 1886
A. DEMANET, Nicolas de Hemricourt, comte de Grunne ou de Mozet, homme de guerre, diplomate, in: Biographie nationale de Belgique, Tome IX, Bruxelles, 1886
M.-J. TITS-DIEUAIDE, Inventaire des archives de la famille de Hemricourt, Liège, Archives de l'État, 1967
A. DUCHESNE, comte Xavier de Hemricourt de Grunne, alpiniste, explorateur, dans: Biographie nationale de Belgique, Tome XXXV, Bruxelles, 1969
JP GABIDE, Comte Rodolphe de Hemricourt de Grunne, aviateur, dans: Biographie nationale de Belgique, Tome XLIV, Bruxelles, 1986
Oscar COOMANS DE BRACHÈNE, Annuaire présent, Annuaire 1990, Bruxelles, 1990
Luc DUERLOO & Paul JANSSENS, Armoiries de la noblesse belge, Bruxelles, 1992
Oscar COOMANS DE BRACHÈNE, État actuel de la noblesse belge, Annuaire 1990, Bruxelles, 1990.
Marie-Pierre d'Udekem D'ACOZ, pour roi et patrie. La noblesse belge pendant la seconde guerre mondiale, Tielt, 2003
Humbert DE MARNIX DE SAINTE ALDEGONDE, Annuaire actuel, Annuaire 2007, Bruxelles, 2007.
AVdA, comte Baudouin de Hemricourt de Grunne, dans Bulletin de l'Association de la Noblesse du Royaume de Belgique, octobre 2012.
Famille noble belge
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Well known Punjabi singer and lyricist Sidhu Moosewala, who made his debut in the Punjabi Music Industry with the song 'So High', has released the teaser of his upcoming song 'Russian Tank'.
The song is sung by Khush Romana and its lyrics are penned down by Sidhu Moosewala, who is also featuring in this song.
The video of the song is directed by Teggy.
This would be Sidhu Moosewala's eighth song of the year 2018.
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vineæ florentes dederunt odorem suum.
Would any of you like to work on what the hymn really says?
This entry was posted in Lighter fare, Mail from priests, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM and tagged Motu Proprio. Bookmark the permalink.
The rain has gone and departed.
The blooming vineyards have given their scent.
The storm recedes, then is gone.
The vineyards bloom and bring forth their scent.
and lilies in the valley.
Not a consistent meter – is this more of a Prosa?
I like the translation of "nhaggin" above the best with the exception of "and as on a spring day" which I would change to "and like the days of spring" (chironomo above).
"What does the hymn really say?" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Happy third anniversary to the Motu Proprio.
BTW: Pope Clement VIII (re-)promulgating the Missale Romanum — 07-07-1604 — under the ring of the Fisherman.
Who is as lovely as a day in July?
Thou art more lovely and more septimate….
Seriously, that is a lovely motet text. Thanks for posting it, Fr. Z.
What a beautiful text-it would be wonderful if someone set it to a chant melody!
Happy third anniversary to the Motu Proprio….thank you, Holy Father Benedict!
I found a chant setting on YouTube, but it's an awful performance by a well-intentioned guy with a microphone. Unlistenable.
"For lo the winter is past" is the last section. It's a beautiful marriage of text and tune if you like the New England Singing School tradition.
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O vale do rio Agadón (também conhecido como Campo del Agadón, Campo de Agadones, Los Agadones ou vertente salmantina da Sierra de Gata) é uma subcomarca da comarca de Cidade Rodrigo, na província de Salamanca, Castela e Leão, Espanha. Os seus limites não se correspondem com uma divisão administrativa, mas com uma demarcação sobretudo histórico-tradicional, mas também geográfica.
Geografia
Demarcação
Compreende 9 concelhos: Agallas, La Atalaya, Herguijuela, Martiago, Monsagro, El Sahugo, Serradilla del Arroyo, Serradilla del Llano e Zamarra.
Comarcas de Salamanca (província)
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Daughter's appeal to raise £6,000 to bring dad's body home after holiday tragedy
Steve Barry, from Droylsden, passed away while on a break with friends in Benidorm
Sue Carr
Steve Barry
A woman whose dad died suddenly while on holiday in Spain has launched a desperate appeal for help to raise the money to bring him home.
Steve Barry, 50, was enjoying a break in Benidorm with friends when he died earlier this month.
The dad-of-one had no travel insurance and his daughter Katie now needs to pay the bill to fly his body back.
The nail technician was told it would cost at least £6,000 plus the cost of a funeral in his home town of Droyslden.
But since pals set up an online fundraising page, donations have flooded in.
Katie, 24, who lives in Barnsley, said: "The response has been absolutely incredible.
"Some people donating have been complete strangers, it really does restore your faith in people."
Steve, who lived in Littlemoss in Droylsden, was a former engineer at Mono Pumps in Audenshaw and a regular at the Kings Head pub in Droylsden where a fundraiser will be held on Friday night.
DJ Dennis Jones will supply the music from one of Steve's favourite bands Take That .
Katie said he had followed the Manchester group for as long as she could remember.
She added: "When they were at the Etihad Stadium that was the best week of his life, he went every night.
"He absolutely adored them." Close friend Sheryl Downes, landlady of the Market Street pub, is organising the fundraiser which includes a raffle with bottles of spirits and a hotel stay among the prizes up for grabs."
She said: "I was absolutely gutted when I heard.
"Steve was well known in Droylsden and I knew him very well.
"He loved Take That and he had been to see them loads of times so that's why we decided to have a Take That night.
"He kept himself to himself so I'm not sure what he would have made of all the fuss."
The fundraiser starts at the Kings Head at 8.30pm and anyone who wants to donate can also do so online at gofundme/ldnawo.
For more information about the appeal go to the 'Bring Steve Barry back home' Facebook page.
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Insights into the Editor-Writer Relationship
The editor-writer relationship is at the heart of the freelance writer's job. In this craft talk, we will cover:
How to find, contact, and pitch editors
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When it goes bad—kill fees, bad-faith editors, and when to back out
When it goes well—becoming an editor's go-to writer
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Description (Service) Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit, housing organization. Habitat builds simple, decent and affordable homes for local hard working families in need of a hand up. This hand-up, allows our partner families the opportunity to build equity and self-esteem through home ownership. With the foundation of a safe, healthy and affordable home, children do better in school and families set higher goals for their future. More attention can be devoted to jobs, education and community.
The ReStore is a retail home renovation outlet that accepts and sells donations of new & gently used home building supplies, windows, doors, furniture, lighting, electronics, seasonal items, appliances and home decor items.
When you support the ReStore, you ensure that 100% of every dollar donated to Habitat locally goes into building safe, decent, affordable homes for local families. The ReStore provides an affordable avenue for improvement projects while keeping tons of perfectly good items from ending up in a landfill.
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Keeping up with this years fall/winter nail trends I decided to actually use the grey I had purchased back in April.
This is almost opaque in one coat. But I added a second just to make sure I'd covered everything and there was no streaky bits or nail showing through. As you can tell by the picture, doing this has actually made it somewhat darker then the colour you see in the bottle. Application was a lot better then some of the Nails Inc. polishes that I've recently been having trouble with, which I'm sure to blog about eventually. I only managed to keep this on for a few days due to work but it wore really well. My only gripe is that I love bright colours, sparkle, glitter, duochrome, holographics. Anything on a polish! But this kind of bored me. I don't know, I always liked the look of grey nails which is what made me buy this. I think if it was perhaps a little lighter I'd like it more. I might try mixing in some white if I wear it again.
What do we think of grey nails and the nail trends for fall/winter?
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Telford, new town and urban area (from 2011 built-up area), Telford and Wrekin unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Shropshire, western England. It lies north and east of the hill of the Wrekin, which has an elevation of 1,335 feet (407 metres).
TelfordTelford Plaza, Telford, western England. Chris Bayley
Dawley, now part of Telford, was designated a new town in 1963 to draw off population and industry from the city of Birmingham and the adjacent industrial region known (because of its pollution-coated landscapes) as the Black Country. In 1968 the area of the new town was enlarged and the official name changed to Telford, and intense housing and factory development transformed the area. Pop. (2001) Telford and Dawley, 40,437; Telford urban area, 138,241; (2011) Telford built-up area subdivision, 142,723.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen, Corrections Manager.
New town, a form of urban planning designed to relocate populations away from large cities by grouping homes, hospitals, industry and cultural, recreational, and shopping centres to form entirely new, relatively autonomous communities. The first new towns were proposed in Great Britain in the New Towns Act of 1946; between…
Shropshire, administrative, geographic, and historic county of western England bordering on Wales. Historically, the county has been known as Shropshire as well as by its older, Norman-derived name of Salop. Shrewsbury, in central Shropshire, is the administrative centre. The…
England, predominant constituent unit of the United Kingdom, occupying more than half of the island of Great Britain. Outside the British Isles, England is often erroneously considered synonymous with the island of Great Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales) and even with the entire United Kingdom. Despite the political, economic,…
Birmingham, second largest city of the United Kingdom and a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands metropolitan county. It lies near the geographic centre of England, at the crossing points of the national railway and motorway systems. Birmingham is the largest city of the West Midlands conurbation—one of England's principal…
Black Country, industrial region closely corresponding to the small south Staffordshire coalfield in the Midlands region of England; its name derives from its pollution-coated industrial landscape. The Black Country extends immediately to the west of the city of Birmingham, which itself lies off the coalfield, and makes up the western…
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What is the purpose of the A-League?
When former Brazilian star Romario was initially approached by Adelaide City about a possible guest-player stint earlier this year, the last thing his suitors from the City of Churches would have had on their minds would have been be the form of Australia's Young Socceroos Under 20 team.
When former Brazilian star Romario was initially approached by Adelaide City about a possible guest-player stint earlier this year, the last thing his suitors from the City of Churches would have had on their minds would have been be the form of Australia's Young Socceroos Under 20 team.
But the 40-year-old's less than impressive showing in his debut match against Central Coast at the weekend has raised questions about the practice of drafting in ageing guns for hire and whether it is impeding the development of this country's young talent.
Some would argue that the failure of the Young Socceroos to qualify for the World Youth Cup is evidence that we haven't got our youth development right, and signing overseas players like Romario to play in the A-League only retards that development further.
Respected former Australian junior football coach Les Scheinflug certainly subscribes to that theory, saying in The Australian yesterday that he thought signing "past-their-best" players was seriously harming the local game and undermining the A-League.
"Do we want to be a retirement village or a serious competition that wants to produce young, exciting Australian players?" Scheinflug asked.
But it's Scheinflug's last point that raises its own questions about what Australian football officials want the A-League to be. Does the FFA want the A-League to become a successful competition with clubs that are only focused on winning championships, or is it a breeding ground for the next wave of international stars?
If you look to the top of the A-League table, you'll see that Melbourne, with five of its 20-man roster hailing from overseas, sits streets ahead of its nearest rival.
On the back of a tumultuous inaugural season, and with a passionate but impatient support base, Victory coach Ernie Merrick was forced to re-jig his squad from last year, bringing in three new faces from Brazil – Fred, Claudinho and Alessandro – and Scotland professional Grant Brebner. (James Robinson, a journeyman striker from England, replaced former Belgian international Geoffrey Claeys on the Victory roster last week.)
You could mount a strong argument that Merrick's recruiting philosophy is just as damaging to the development of the country's youth, but try telling that to the 30,000 fans the Victory is regularly getting to its games at the Telstra Dome. If they do happen to turn their successful regular season form into a premiership, you can be sure that other teams will look to copy their formula.
So what does that do for the young players coming through? Where is their chance to gain experience at senior level if a quarter of the eight A-League club squads is taken up by "internationals"? Would they be better off chancing their arm overseas in the manner of someone like Harry Kewell was forced to do before the advent of a strong national club-based competition like the A-League? If they did, wouldn't that signal a failure of what the A-League should be about?
Despite attracting healthy crowds, and the largely entertaining football on offer, the A-League is heading into an intriguing period under the stewardship of new FFA boss Ben Buckley. A good place for him to start is to decide what the FFA wants and expects from this country's flagship football competition.
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Sunday 22 July 2018 13:00-16:00.
There will be plenty to do at the Árbær Open Air Museum on Sunday 22. July where we'll be rolling up our sleeves and getting busy with the household chores. Every nook and cranny at the big house will need going over to get everything spick and span before the guests arrive. Visitors are welcome to check out the activities, help out with the cleaning and dance to some lively music from the sixties. Staff housekeepers will around cooking up delicious Icelandic lummur (small pancakes) for guests while others will be showing us the art of ironing shirts and polishing silver.
Visit Hábæ House for a bit of glamour, where staff will be demonstrating the art of grooming. And, who knows, they may even share the secret of how the fabulous pin-up hairstyle is done. Drop in and get some great advice from Katrín Rós.
The event program starts at 13:00 but the museum is open from 10:00-17:00.
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Prepared in Russia from the finest grain alcohol and crystal clear water from Siberian springs, triple purification, it's smooth, with a unique taste. Finest quality noble vodka, export.
Kauffman Vodka from Moscow is top of the line vodka, produced in limited quantities, and is the only vodka to have vintage varieties.
Stolichnaya vodka is a "classic." Praised for "potency," and noticed "hints of charcoal" in its flavor.
Stolichnaya Gold is made in Moscow and is one of the finest and rarest. It is exceptionally crystal-clear vodka with subtle tones of citrus and anise, medium to full-bodied, inducing flavors of powdered sugar and subtle spice, creamy-textured, rich flavored finish.
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There are hundreds of Russian Vodka brands and recipes, and some of the best vodkas are top quality Russian Vodka — The Queen of the Liquor Kingdom.
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It's unusual to see "frequently asked question." More typical is the word "questions." But in my experience, there is one question I hear with a frequency that is so much higher than any other – the plural is not needed.
When do I tell my kids what they're going to inherit?
My answer is always the same. "When they're ready to be a good steward of wealth." Inevitably, this is followed up with a barrage of questions, concerns etc. But I stick with that answer. Teach your children to be a good wealth owner, and it doesn't matter what age you tell them what they're going to inherit. The question they should be asking as a follow up is, "what makes them a good steward of wealth." Let's explore that a bit further.
There are a few elements that make for good wealth stewardship: competency around personal finance, a basic understanding of investing, a deeper knowledge of any areas the family focuses on be it business or investing, understanding of family history and legacy, connection with family values which may or may not be tied to philanthropy, and relationships with key advisors. At this point, a conversation around their personal trust and estate plan is paramount.
I start with this, because it is something that can be taught at a young age. In wealthy families, kids often have an allowance at a young age. This allowance doesn't have to simply be "fun" money that is given to kids on a weekly or monthly basis. Allowance can be used to teach basic budgeting skills. As children get older, it is wise to build on these budgeting skills, using real life such as the gift of a first car, to teach about bill paying and having a safety net in case of emergency. Though the tendency may be to simply pay for our children, after all that's often why we make money in the first place, the smarter option is to teach them to understand the value of both spending, and earning, a dollar. This way, when they are privy to their inheritance, they will more often see it as a finite amount that needs to be budgeted to sustain their lives.
I do not know of a single HNW family that doesn't invest in some form or another. And in fact, most invest in many different ways, ensuring a diverse portfolio that reflects the long term family goals. Though most, if not all, of the family money may be managed by one or more money manager, it is wise to teach your children to understand the reports they're going to be seeing quarterly for the rest of their lives. I highly recommend a basic understanding of different types of securities, their risk and rewards, as well as how to invest in them, before disclosing dollar amounts.
This is where things begin to vary from family to family. Some families may still run an active business. Some may invest in alternative markets, such as private equity, and some may be very active angel investors. No matter the family focus, a large amount of time should be spent in this area, because presumably, the next generation will eventually take over the portfolio, and will need to understand these areas.
This is an oft neglected area that is so important. I often hear from next gens that they feel disconnected to their wealth because they aren't the wealth creator. This is often indicative that they don't understand the blood, sweat, and tears that went into building family wealth. I know of no wealth creators who didn't go through a lot to get where they are. And in subsequent generations, maintaining and growing that wealth is often equally as challenging. Make sure to teach your kids about the wealth creators, and ties that bind with prior generations.
All families have a set of values that underline decision making. Hopefully they are written somewhere so that they can be shared early and often. Keep in mind that these may differ from your child's personal values. That's completely fine, if they understand that as they make decision that effect the family, the family value system should be considered.
One of the biggest mistakes I see is waiting to introduce the next generation to key advisors until they're "needed." The challenge here is that the children then default to the advisors, or fire them, because they're not comfortable with the relationships. Not to mention, in the unfortunate event of tragedy, having knowledge of key advisors and their roles can be extremely helpful.
Though you can certainly begin to teach your children about trusts and estates, and the structure of their own personal trusts before you complete the items listed above, I would highly recommend waiting to discuss details and dollar amounts.
1. It's never to early to start. Behavior is mimicked. If your kids see you being a good wealth owner, they have a higher likelihood of being good inheritors.
2. You have the control. Which means, if you think they are not learning what they need to learn, or are afraid of what will happen when they inherit their wealth – put parameters on their trusts.
3. And finally, don't think you need to do it all yourself. Hire consultants and educators to help.
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The issue of how state judges are selected in the U.S. has been an area of controversy for more than 150 years. There are a number of variations but generally speaking, state judicial selection takes place by one of two methods – by appointment or by election. Initially judges were appointed by the state governors or legislation. Mississippi in 1832 was the first state to write a provision into their constitution to have voters elect state judges. This eventually became the common method of choice for a majority of states for many years.
During the 1930's some highly publicized cases highlighting the role of corrupt politics in the election process, in judicial decisions and the excessive time involved in campaigning caused many people to rethink the judicial selection process. A new plan, commonly called the Missouri Plan became the model of choice for judicial selections.
The Missouri Plan is a method to combine election and appointment of judges. Under the plan, candidates for judicial vacancies are first selected by commissions. They forward a short list of names to the governor. If the governor does not select one of these names to fill the position within sixty days, the committee makes the selection. After one year during a general election, the judge enters into a "retention election" to determine if he will retain his office. This plan is also referred to as a 'Merit Selection Plan with Governor Appointment'. Currently 24 states use this plan.
Governor Appointment (no selection commission) – in use by 3 states.
Legislative Appointment (no selection commission) – in use by 2 states.
There are two different permutations of the election method of selecting state judges. These are Partisan and Non-Partisan elections. Partisan elections have the candidates' party affiliation listed on the ballot. A non-partisan election is one where the candidates are listed on the ballot with no label designating any party affiliation. Six states use partisan elections and 15 states currently employ the non-partisan election process.
The debate continues to rage over which method most limits the role of politics in the selection of state judges, with many states currently involved in trying to redefine their systems. Missouri faces an initiative on their ballot in November; the state's historical merit selection method would be discarded and replaced by direct judicial elections.
Advocates of appointment claim it minimizes political considerations in the selection of judges, improves the quality of the judiciary and ensures judicial independence in deciding cases. In particular, the use of a judicial nominating commission composed primarily of lawyers and distinguished members of the community is seen as bringing a degree of expertise to the process of picking judges. Their argument in its favor is that, unlike elective systems, the Missouri Plan is more likely to select qualified judges they say, because they are selected by experts. This assumes the voters, as a whole, are apathetic toward judicial races, are not familiar with the issues at hand, and are basically not competent to vote on judicial candidates.
Opponents of the so called merit plan say the selection is swayed by political insiders and the plan has handed influence over the judiciary to lawyers (mostly liberal leaning trial lawyers they contend) and bar associations.
Whatever the outcome, we can be sure the judicial selection process will be one of increasing controversy in the foreseeable future.
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Current: Connecticut State Rail Plan
Doing Business With CTDOT
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Connecticut State Rail Plan 2012-2016
The 2012-2016 Connecticut State Rail Plan was developed in compliance with the federal Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008, Public Law 110-432. The plan has been submitted to the U.S. Secretary of Transportation for review.
The Plan contains Connecticut's mission, vision, and values for rail transportation's role in an intermodal network. The Plan provides an overview and inventory of the commuter, intercity, and freight rail system and facilities in Connecticut, the services provided, and the asset condition and constraints. It aims to support Connecticut's role in developing a growing, interconnected rail system with adjoining states and to advance high-speed, intercity and freight investments in the region.
The Plan presents strategies and programs focused on ensuring that the existing passenger and freight rail infrastructure is maintained in a state of good repair, with another tier of investments aimed at maximizing the potential of current and future rail services.
The Plan outlines a Long-Range Service and Investment Program utilizing a twenty-year planning horizon (2012-2032) that provides the full extent of the state's rail program including costs, strategies, and steps for maintaining and expanding the system.
The development of this plan began in 2009 and is the result of extensive outreach and coordination with stakeholders and the public.
Please see a copy of the Connecticut State Rail Plan 2012-2016:Connecticut State Rail Plan 2012-2016
A copy of CTDOT Commissioner James Redeker's letter to USDOT Federal Railroad Administrator Joseph C. Szabo can be viewed here.
Questions concerning the State Rail Plan should be addressed to:
Ms. Brenda Jannotta
State Rail Plan Development
E-Mail Address: Brenda.Jannotta@ct.gov
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91JoW4mSiZo
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At Media Structures, we can bring your broadcast events to life with our innovative studio builds. Our in-house fabrication team strive to combine the latest innovations in metal, glass, Perspex, wood and bespoke PVC roof sheeting to create television studios to your exact specifications. Using 2D and 3D technology, we can show you what the finished studio will look like in the set venue, so you know we're on track to deliver the right product from the onset.
We are constantly developing new materials and techniques to add to our current stock of television broadcast studios and if we do not have what you need in stock, we will make you one!
With sound proofing and internal lighting rigs to aid in the overall effect, our studio fabrication team have the skills and experience to deliver the perfect solution, every time.
You will often see our bespoke studio fabrications on the most famous sets and sporting occasions, with prestigious clients such as SKY, BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5 and ITV to name but a few. Our team are proud to have past and present involvement with Premier League football clubs, Wimbledon championships, SKY Sports and even Game of Thrones in some of the most celebrated locations.
Not only have Media Structures been instrumental in creating the temporary TV studio, we believe we are also leading the way in taking this service forward.
With our fabrication management at the helm and a creative team on each project, we are confident that any criteria can be reached within the budget requirements.
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Q: How to use Log4j.xml to alter tomcat's internal logging I am developing a application to analyze the log files generated by tomcat. Tomcat generates various log files, but the most important one for me is localhost_access.log files. I want to alter the internal logging of tomcat so that tomcat create different local host files for the same day for different status messages.
Example:
1.localhost_access_log.2013-01-16.404.txt
2.localhost_access_log.2013-01-16.403.txt
3.localhost_access_log.2013-01-16.200.txt
I have a dedicated tomcat for my application. That is only one application runs on the tomcat, so no need to append application id.
Hope the question is clear. I searched for a long time in Google but could not find a reasonable site to start up. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance..
A: Tomcat does the access logging using valve configuration in server.xml. It uses in-built class org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve which does not provide configuration you are looking at.
I believe your best bet would be to look to override the org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve class or write your own implementation by extending ValveBase. Update the server.xml with your new class info.
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If you haven't heard, the Brooklyn Museum recently appointed a white person to curate narratives and artifacts for African Art. And, I will admit, that I am among the folks confused about this choice. Not because I think that white folks cannot be experts in African Art, but because I considered this appointment to be so out of touch. I tweeted, paced, and shuttered in disbelief. I thought I was alone in my incredulousness, but the cool part about the internet is that I would quickly see that I was not alone.
As a Brooklynite, Black person, and academic, I was highly insulted. I thought about the community of Black academics who have been invaluable to my education over time and the institutions of African art and culture created by our community for our community (F.U.B.U education) because our excellence, history, and heritage was often misinterpreted, erased, given a colonial spin, or exoticized for white consumption. I tried to calm down and rationalize why they would have made this decision, but I couldn't. One reason is that I felt let down and disappointed by this institution, which is in my community and I frequent. I'm a member, I attend lectures and events there monthly. I have been really excited and moved by the work that was being done to highlight the contributions of black and brown women in the art and the programs they have to engage young people of color. It couldn't possibly have been performative, right? Could it?
Well, about week later, I received an email from the museum saying that they were "standing by their choice." I wrote back. I decided that I would share my letter to the Brooklyn Museum with you all.
I haven't visited the museum since this happened, even though I get in for free. There is still a lot that I love about Brooklyn Museum. Seriously, as a huge David Bowie fan, that current exhibition is AMAZING. I give credit where credit is due. I don't know about the future though.
I just feel like this needs to be said, spread around, and heard. Calling these issues out takes a village, so I decided to make my thoughts on the matter public- in support of all of those individuals who are actively taking this issue on with the museum. Accountability, Y'all.
This is wrong. I'm not questioning Dr. Luna's credentials or experience. This response is definitive proof that white people remain delusional about how white supremacy operates. The idea that your "extensive" search resulted in no qualified Africans in diaspora, if true, should have been so concerning to you as an institution. In fact, it should have been one of the biggest red flags in Brooklyn Museum history. That's why this is so unbelievable and outrageous- especially in Brooklyn, NY.
Your choice to "stand by your decision" is a poor default that organizations use to discount and dismiss the voices of those who are fighting and challenging for appropriate recognition for our work and contributions. You chose to actively not consider the current social and political climate and ramifications of a decision in which a predominately white institution has actively chosen white individuals to represent and tell the narratives of non-white people. There is no way that her curatorial expertise and "anticolonial" approach outweighs the decision to reproduce systems of whiteness by way of this appointment.
Again, we, Black people, are told by white people, "We know what's best for you- it's for your own good." Hiring a Black academic and curator (we do exist) to represent African art and photography is not about taking something away from a qualified white person, but making a strategic and political decision champion inclusion and improve your department. It also sends a much overdue, fundamental message that African voices matter in telling African stories.
As a major institution, you get to decide who gets to represent a given area and culture. Our research and efforts are our currency! If her CV is impressive, it is not just because she is the best; it is because her whiteness provides her with access often denied, directly and indirectly, to scholars of color. If a white person is the best person to discuss and frame African art, culture, meaning, and experience, why does that not disturb or shake you to your core?! Why would your decision be one to stand by as opposed to one of immense crisis?
We understand that the work must appeal to all people, but the idea that African art and photography by its sheer existence cannot appeal to a broad audience is insulting at best. I'm referring to your quote in the letter:
"Her priority at the Museum is to create dynamic, multi-vocal installations that speak to all our communities, including those of African descent, both locally and nationally. All of us at the Museum are confident that with her expertise and care, we will revitalize and transform the presentation and interpretation of our collection, and amplify our capacity to illuminate connections and shared narratives with our broad and diverse audience."
Might I remind you that museums have acquired their collections in large part by theft of African resources. We know Europeans like and want to possess our art and culture. We have 500 years of colonial evidence. That is precisely why this matter has come about in the manner that is has. YOU DON'T GET TO BE DISMAYED at being called out for your appointment! Or, even personal attacks. While I may not be too fond of them, you aren't dumb people. You and she have to know that her appointment is another sign of the systemic racism. We, as the people of color, who are continually erased, dismissed, used for our talents and but not seen as experts, are sick of it. Bed-Stuy, the community just up the street from the museum is one of the largest African diaspora communities in the country. We possess PhDs, we curate museums in our own communities, we write papers, teach, travel the world, create the work! And still somehow lack what the Brooklyn Museum "needs." That's insulting, lazy, demoralizing, disheartening, and cruel. If your curator gets called a couple names, at the end of the day, she still has her job, and white privilege. You all will be okay.
Also, one of the most racist things that an institution can do is go find a Black person to corroborate their decision. It's like when Trump found Ben Carson and Omarosa. Watch yourselves and get better publicists. Whoever wrote this was clearly white or white adjacent.
I am a Brooklyn museum member, visitor, supporter, from Brooklyn, and a Black woman in academia. I know the shut out when I see it, because I navigate it daily.
I suspect that now, you all will lay low, maybe plan a few "diversity and inclusion" events to show your "dedication to presenting all stories" (even without the presence of all voices, clearly), and then the curators will have to do such a great job curating the next African (through the white gaze, of course) exhibition that we will all simmer down and accept your choice as being the right one. Am I right? Did I guess it?
I'm very disappointed in all of you, but I suppose I'm used to the continued narrative that Africans cannot be responsible for ourselves and our stories. White people make African palatable. I hear you loud and clear.
Us: #BlackExpertsMatter
You: #AllExpertsMatters
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As we age then one is able to get the Alzheimer's and it is one of the horrific diseases that one can get and it can happen in our minds and also the bodies. By changing some lifestyles then one can be able to prevent from having dementia or even the loved ones and this things can be naturally done. Some of the most effective things that one can do is by having a good diet and making sure that they have the right foods that makes one to nourish their brains and also the whole body.
If one has a fridge then one should make sure that they stock it with natural foods which always contains the vitamins minerals and also the antioxidants and thus one should make sure that they eat green leafy foods, whole grains and also the fruits and also other vegetables should always be included. Healthy fats, fiber and also proteins should also be included in the diet and also include the turmeric can also prevent dementia. One should always make sure that they can have exercise on a daily basis since it also reduces the risk of having dementia.
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A new story in the Seattle Times describes the difficult journey that salmon take from freshwater rivers and streams to the Pacific Ocean, and then back to the Northwest streams in which they were born.
The salmon face long odds, which makes it even more critical that humans do all we can to help the iconic species.
As WFPA Executive Director Mark Doumit wrote in the Seattle Times earlier this summer, there are several state agencies that are working to clear the fish passage barriers that stop many salmon from making it back to their birthplaces to spawn. The more recent Times article notes that it's forest landowners who have played the largest role in clearing the barriers.
These landowners have contributed their own money — more than $300 million invested in infrastructure to open up 5,100 miles of historic fish habitat. Private and state forest landowners are 84 percent done with their goal and are on track to clear all the fish passage barriers in forested streams by 2021.
Forest landowners help protect salmon not just by clearing fish passage but by their commitment to environmental stewardship.
The role that private forest landowners play is hard to overstate — leaving trees and vegetation along the banks that provide critical shade for salmon and trout, and setting aside uncut buffer zones along creeks and streams as they harvest timber. This helps keep water cool, and the vegetation keeps soil stable, with less sediment running off into the streams.
These practices are not easy to perform, nor are they inexpensive, but they are making a positive difference in protecting salmon populations that have tremendous economic and cultural value for our region.
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Tonkon Torp takes a prudent and practical approach to real estate matters. Our real estate attorneys have helped clients solve problems and achieve their objectives for more than 40 years. We understand that in real estate, time is money, so we strive to deliver prompt turnaround on projects without sacrificing quality. We customarily assign matters to a single attorney who takes responsibility for the project. However, we can also assemble a knowledgeable and efficient team when needed.
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Represented client members of the seller in the sale of a 17-story high profile downtown Portland mixed-use property that includes ZGF's world headquarters, luxury apartments, and ground floor retail.
Represented the purchasers in their acquisition of a 176 door cross-dock terminal located on 24 acres in north Portland.
Represented the purchaser in its acquisition of two office buildings in Suntech Corporate Park, in Hillsboro, Oregon. Sale price: $22,000,000.
Herb Pharm is a grower and producer of organic herbs. The company purchased its original farm, still in operation, from the founders of the company.
Represented the purchaser in its acquisition of a 170,000 square foot business center in Hillsboro, Oregon. Purchase price: $19,000,000.
Ongoing representations of major retirement residence companies in their real estate transactions, business sales and acquisitions, and construction and loan transactions, including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans, throughout the United States. Recent projects included sales of independent living facilities in California and purchase of others in Louisiana, and numerous construction and permanent loan transactions nationally.
Represented sellers in the sale of six affordable housing projects across the state of Oregon. Total sale price: $18,000,000.
Represented the seller of an 89 unit high rise affordable housing project in downtown Portland. Sale price: $12,400,000.
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Representation of landowner's series of agreements to implement the client's federal and state habitat conservation plans for threatened and endangered species.
Represented the owner of a retail mall in Corvallis, Oregon in negotiating a new lease with the anchor tenant.
Completed the acquisition of six tenancy-in-common and 10 LLC interests in a complex series of transactions which effectuated the separation of multiple owners from other multiple owners. Required a combination of real estate and LLC reorganization transactions.
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On behalf of The Greenbrier Companies, negotiated and prepared a Lease Amendment for their headquarters space which extended the lease term for eight more years and expanded the leased premises from 37,700 square feet to 58,000 square feet.
Represented hotel investor in sale of two Seattle area hotels and acquisition of a replacement hotel in a reverse 1031 exchange while simultaneously refinancing secured debt.
Represented major forest products company in purchase of 17,000 acres of Idaho timberlands, including associated agreements and acquisition of ancillary property rights.
Successfully overturned an Oregon county's approval of a rezoning that would retroactively authorize over 20 years of zoning code violations, to the detriment of neighboring property owners.
Successfully represented big box retailer in obtaining changes to City of Beaverton land use code to permit fueling station at site of existing store, and then obtaining conditional use permit for fueling station under revised regulations. Also obtained approval of fueling station at City of Tigard store over appeal by neighboring gas station owner.
Represented the owner of a downtown athletic club facility which involved termination of the defaulting tenant, repossession of the facility and consummation of a long term lease with a new tenant.
Represented the owner of a vacant headquarters office building in negotiating a long term build to suit lease with a state agency which provides for an option to purchase following occupancy by the tenant.
Represented various owners in connection with condemnations resulting from the Milwaukie Light Rail extension.
Represented complex limited partnership, with multi-state real estate holdings, in connection with separation from corporate general and limited partner and governance issues.
Represented Oregon tribe in the negotiation of a long-term ground lease of tribe property for operation of senior living facility serving tribal members.
Represented the developer in the development, construction and sale of 7.3 megawatts of solar energy projects in Eastern Oregon, including Oregon's largest operating solar facility, the 5 MW Outback project.
Represented the buyer of a Portland warehouse with SBA financing. Issues included purchase and sale negotiations, title, survey, environmental, property inspection, other due diligence review, negotiation of a short term lease back to the seller, and forming a new entity to take title.
Represented purchaser in acquiring inner-eastside retail center.
Assisted investor in purchase of partially completed mixed use development project in Portland, including assignment and assumption of related financing and construction agreements, followed by construction defect litigation and then refinancing of the completed project.
Represented purchaser in acquiring half-block of downtown Portland property with known environmental issues for future development.
Represented purchaser in acquiring Williams Sonoma's signature building on NW 23rd Avenue.
Represented one of the owners in the refinancing of a large mixed use project in downtown Portland.
Represented a non-profit entity in the removal of a historic designation from the primary portion of its campus in Lake Oswego.
Represented land owner in connection with a joint venture development of a multi-story retail, office, apartment complex in downtown Portland.
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Represented the owner of the Twin City Shopping Center in Longview-Kelso, Washington in negotiating and consummating a new lease with Harbor Freight Tools, USA, Inc. The leased premises contain 14,200 square feet.
Represented a company with its corporate headquarters in Wilsonville, Oregon in consummating a Development Agreement with the City of Wilsonville pursuant to which the city and the company shared the cost of constructing a major street project.
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Represented the seller in the $26,120,000 sale of the former InFocus office building to the Oregon Institute of Technology. The property consists of a 220,000 square foot office building constructed on seven acres that was redeveloped by our client as the Portland area campus for the Oregon Institute of Technology prior to the sale.
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Represented the owner of an entire block of downtown Portland in the sale of the block as part of a 1031 tax-deferred exchange, thereby facilitating two other purchase transactions in Portland and Salem for the client.
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Represented the seller of a Linn County, Oregon tree farm that had been family-owned for some 60 years.
Represented the seller on the sale of the Cannery Mall Shopping Center in Corvallis, Oregon. Sale price $7,900,000.
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Negotiated the sale and long-term leaseback of two locations of a prominent fast food franchise in Oregon.
Negotiated and closed a $16.7 million permanent loan with local counsel based in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania for an independent living facility in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Ongoing representation of several national and regional independent and assisted living owners in complex financing transactions, including securitization and defeasance transactions.
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Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Pollak, Benicio del Toro.
Police investigating an exploded boat on a San Pedro pier discover 27 bodies and $91 million worth of drug money. The only survivors are a severely burned and very scared Hungarian terrorist and Verbal Kint, a crippled con-man. Reluctantly, Kint is pressured into explaining exactly what happened on the boat. His story begins six weeks earlier with five criminals being dragged in by New York police desperate for suspects on a hijacked truck and ends with the possible identification of a criminal mastermind.
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Ballad of James Lawless
The Whatabouts
Nomadology: The War Machine
April 9, 2019 by balladofjameslawless
Nomadology was recorded two years ago in a cabin on Admiralty Island, AK. The name of the album comes from a chapter in Deleuze and Guattari's Capitalism and Schizophrenia titled Treatise on Nomadology- The War Machine. Most of the songs were written as I was either living subsistence, or as a hobo (in other words, nomadic). This book was a great source of bringing forth ideas that helped reflect not only on my own existence, but to those struggling in similar ways around me, and to anyone who felt some form of alterity in the world. Basically, I just had an overwhelming feeling that I could no longer populate an illusion, and wanted to understand why? I wanted to believe that nomadism was a viable alternative to a despotic structure, and that living this way was more than just a sporadic breakdown, but something meaningful.
The phrase War Machine, which is also the introduction to the album, can be misleading because it carries the connotation of being some violent military mechanism. It is only called this because the ideas derived are based on Pierre Clastres' ethnological theories of Native Amazonian cultures. He observed that their understanding of hierarchy was much different than what is found in Western culture (essentially non-existent). And when warfare did break out, it was used as a mechanism in preventing a formation of the State (in opposition to most societies use of war in progression of the State), defined as "the perpetuation or conservation of organs of power." War is not the main objective of the War Machine, but rather deterritorializing the coalescence of sovereignty. It is a tool of resistance used by the nomad.
I think of any movement or social assemblage that works in this way as being its own nomadic war machine. Today, there are so many important movements promulgating against different forms of oppression, but they still often seem to be operating within the interiority of the State. To be nomadic is to be completely autonomous, and that is the only way the War Machine is meant to function. I know that is a big part of the reason why so many, as well as myself, ever became hobos in the first place. It started as an act of activism, and eventually became a way of life.
In a sense, Nomadology is a concept album that binds much of this ideology with the stories or thoughts I was surrounded by. There's really nothing pretty about it. It is raw, stripped down, unpolished music that I do not think could exist (as a War Machine) in any other way.
If you are interested in purchasing the album, send me an email through the contact form and I will get back to you ASAP!
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The KEYWORD_SET function returns a byte value based on the value of the specified expression. It returns 1 (true) if its argument is defined and nonzero, and 0 (false) otherwise. The exact rules used to determine this are given in Return Value below.
The commands to be executed only if KEYW1 is set would follow.
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Providence, Alabama és una població dels Estats Units a l'estat d'Alabama. Segons el cens del 2000 tenia una població de 311 habitants.
Demografia
Segons el cens del 2000, Providence tenia 311 habitants, 124 habitatges, i 99 famílies La densitat de població era de 67,8 habitants/km².
Dels 124 habitatges en un 36,3% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 54,8% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 18,5% dones solteres, i en un 19,4% no eren unitats familiars. En el 18,5% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 8,1% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 2,51 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 2,81.
Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 27% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 8% entre 18 i 24, un 24,8% entre 25 i 44, un 26,4% de 45 a 60 i un 13,8% 65 anys o més.
L'edat mediana era de 35 anys. Per cada 100 dones hi havia 95,6 homes. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 84,6 homes.
La renda mediana per habitatge era de 33.542 $ i la renda mediana per família de 39.375 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 38.750 $ mentre que les dones 24.821 $. La renda per capita de la població era de 19.382 $. Aproximadament el 6,5% de les famílies i el 10,1% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.
Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.
Referències
Pobles d'Alabama
Comtat de Marengo (Alabama)
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Q: Speed up the load of an R package? It usually takes some time to load an R package.
R> system.time(library(ggplot2))
user system elapsed
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R> system.time(ggplot2::qplot) # run in a different R session
user system elapsed
0.612 0.088 0.906
If I just want to use a few functions in a package, it would be better to reduce the package load time. For example, if I just want to use qplot() and ggsave(), is there a way to speed up the package load time of ggplot2?
More generally, is there a standard method to reduce the pacakge load time for any package. Thanks.
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Q: Problem launching streamliit script from terminal I am having a problem when I try to launch my streamlit script from vs code or mac terminal.
I get the following error:
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python: can't open file 'streamlit': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
A normal python file runs it with no problems:
My Python version installed is 3.7.3.
I also have streamlit installed on the computer:
This happens to me from the mac terminal and from the vs code terminal.
I don't quite understand what is going on. I have changed computers recently and so far it always worked.
I hope you can give me some idea where the problem might be!
A: Not sure which command you use to run but this is the correct format;
streamlit run /Users/PATH/app.py
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Man charged with death of Ivy WICK
The Calgary Police Service Homicide Unit has charged one man in relation to the death of three-year-old Ivy WICK.
At approximately 11:30 a.m., on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, emergency crews were called to a home in the 5300 block of Rundlehorn Drive N.E., for a report of a child in medical distress. The girl, Ivy WICK, was transported to hospital where she succumbed to her injuries on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. Doctors who assessed Ivy upon her arrival at hospital do not believe her injuries to be consistent with a fall of any kind.
On Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, police released additional information about Ivy's death in hopes of generating tips from the public. Detectives received several tips as a result and are continuing to follow up on each one.
On Friday, Sept. 7, 2018, Justin Paul BENNETT, 25, of Calgary, was arrested and charged with one count of second-degree murder. He appeared in court today, Monday, Sept. 10, 2018.
BENNET is in a relationship with Ivy's mother, however, is not her biological father. Investigators are not looking for any additional suspects in relation to this case.
"Our homicide investigators have worked tirelessly to hold the alleged offender accountable and lay charges in this case," says Staff Sergeant Martin Schiavetta of the CPS Homicide Unit. "No matter how much time has passed, we are committed to making sure that each homicide is investigated thoroughly to bring justice for the victims. We were fortunate to have the assistance and cooperation from multiple agencies to bring this file to a close, including resources from the Sheldon Kennedy Child Advocacy Centre."
Police would like to thank the public and the media for their assistance with this investigation. Detectives would also like to thank investigators in the CPS Child Abuse Unit and members of the Sheldon Kennedy Child Advocacy Centre who assisted in the early stages of the investigation.
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This page shows the current snow webcam for the ski resort of Brides Les Bains. Some cams are not operational during the summer, however if you find one that is not working, or know of a better Brides Les Bains webcam, please let us know. Each day, we archive the webcam image at around 2pm (i.e. in good daylight) and present a rolling archive of images for the past four weeks. This provides skiers with a simple way to view when and how dumps of snow fell.
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A six-year-old girl is in hospital after being struck by a school bus in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. The incident happened at a. According to police, the girl was struck in the school's driveway, where buses line up to drop off and pick up the children.
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BODMIN TEAM MINISTRY
Barbara Brittain
Two Bishops in Bodmin and Plenty of Priests
If you went past St Petroc's Church on Friday 25th September, you might have seen many priests, socially distanced, having their photos taken outside the west door! Over three days, eleven deacons will be ordained as priests and eight will be ordained as deacons, either at St Petroc's or Truro Cathedral.
Bishop Philip explained how appropriate it was for ordinations to take place at St Petroc's Church, the original home of 'The Bodmin Gospels'. The names of slaves who gained their freedom were written, in Cornish, in the margin of the illuminated book, in manumission ceremonies. Jesus came to set at liberty those who are oppressed which is part of the calling priests continue to fulfil in their ministries.
The services were special, with Bible readings from Isaiah 52, "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces peace and brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion,
"Your God reigns."
and from 2 Corinthians 5, "So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation…"
A cantor beautifully sang several songs including 'Ich habe genug' 'It is enough', as said by Simeon when we saw Jesus as a baby in the temple – he was happy to depart this world as he'd seen the face of God in Jesus.
Bishop Hugh preached a cleverly crafted sermon,
inspired by the Bible reading from Isaiah, who was a prophet of the imagination. He looked at the disastrous situation the people of Israel were in but did not settle for it. He saw the situation and in the power of the Holy Spirit imagined something completely transformed. What is more, he described what he imagined, as he retold the story of God's faithfulness, in ways that engaged the people, who did not give up but trusted in God again.
Bishop Hugh first call to those ordained was to step into their new ministry to be prophets of the imagination. Their task is to tell the story of God's faithfulness in way that intrigues and entices people to enter in and have their understanding of the world transformed as they come to see it as the home of God's grace and mercy.
Secondly, he called them to give everything they've got to building communities that have this imaginative capacity. Isaiah didn't lead Israel into a brave new world on his own. He invited the whole people of Israel be involved and so too, the new priests are to shape the imagination of communities, so that they can do the Lord's work in the world.
In summary, priests are to be prophets of the imagination, called to build communities that share God's imagination.
The bishop anointed the priests with oil. Prayers were said, Communion shared and blessings given.
We all prayed for God's blessing on the newly ordained.
A huge thank you to Muriel, Andrew and Joanna who did the planning before the event, during it and after it. It went like clockwork.
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Contact the team administrator on: 01208 832477or by email
Safeguarding notice
Ensuring that children and young people as well as adults are kept safe whilst in our care is an integral part of our church life. If you have any concerns about safeguarding in any of the the parishes of the Bodmin Team Ministry please contact our Team Safeguarding Co-ordinator William Hazelton on 01208 77674.
Alternatively, you can contact the following:
Diocese of Truro: Sarah Acraman Diocesan Safeguarding Adviser, 01872 274351
Out of Hours for after 5pm and weekends: 01208 251300
In emergency situation:
Local Authority Children's Social Care: 0300 123 1116
Local Authority Adult's Social Care: 0300 1234131
Bodmin Way is the social enterprise for the Bodmin Team Ministry. For more details click here.
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Magic Auto World is your ultimate superstore for car parts. Some may say, "Parts is parts." But at the Magic Auto World, we know that quality makes all the difference between coming in 1st and coming in 2nd. There can only be one winner!
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Congratulations to Atelier de Yavorsky shortlisted for Hotel Suite – Americas & Caribbean Award in The International Hotel & Property Awards 2019
design et al are delighted to announce that Atelier de Yavorsky have been shortlisted for Hotel Suite – Americas & Caribbean Award in The International Hotel & Property Awards 2019.
The assignment as an architect consultant and interior designer came after the owner of the Coral Sands Hotel had seen a bar Atelier de Yavorsky did for Vintro Hotel in Miami Beach. The brief was simple, the client wanted to add a contemporary feel to his décor whilst keeping it more in tune with the island, so there was a lot of trust involved. The project required a redesign of the main entrance building, the lobby, the bar and the reception. This needed to be done without changing the original structure, nor their use and location of the areas within the given space. The contract also included the architectural consultancy and interior design of six new bungalows and three new beach front villas.
The site was inspected in person several times, the plan and survey included considerations such as sea views, the path of the sun light for new and existing constructions, the vegetation, the endemic culture, and a possible selection of furniture to be restored, as well as to develop a deeper understanding of the requirements from the client. Atelier de Yavorsky wanted to create a space that enabled the guests to experience the subtle ingredients that made up the site's distinctive sensation, while still closely engaged in designing solutions relevant to the operational nature and daily maintenance of the hotel. For instance, the proposal for the communal areas is very white, but the Gervasoni covers are durable and easy to wash. Meanwhile, the bedrooms have a light grey shade to provide for a deeper repose.
The use of louvres on windows and separation walls was particularly successful in managing the natural light and regulating busy or unwanted views. They create a Caribbean feel which resonates with the island's distinctive charm paired with the organic textures of lamps, furniture and fabrics create a relaxed but curated elegance.
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1. An easy one to start with! What was Lloyd's surname?
2. Which year was the film released in the US?
3. Which actor plays the character of Mary Swanson?
4. Where does Lloyd ask for directions to in the opening sequence?
5. What is the name of the pet sold to the blind boy?
6. Which resort city do Lloyd and Harry travel to in the search of the briefcase?
7. What colour tuxedo does Lloyd wear to the fundraiser?
8. Don't you go on me!
9. We've landed on the !
10. What was the first name of Mary's husband?
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Climbing Kilimanjaro is a life changing experience. It's the highest point in Africa and the tallest free-standing mountain in the world. Reaching the top and returning safely requires being fit, determined, having the right equipment, and knowing how to use it. Here is my recommended packing list for Kilimanjaro.
The baselayer. This unassuming layer sits next to your skin, transporting sweat away from you and into itself—so that it can evaporate slowly without leaving you chilled. It's the first thing we put on. (And often leave on the entire trip!) Baselayers can help stay cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Choosing the best baselayer is super-critical to your comfort and enjoyment of more intense climates outdoors. The market is full of brands. Full of styles. Full of Fabrics. How does one choose? It's a bit overwhelming. This post chips away at this problem by examining the two main baselayer fabric categories to head to head to determine which fabric is makes the best baselayer: Is it wool or polyester?
In Februrary 2016, Heidi and I set off for Tanzania. Our goal: Climb Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, and tallest free-standing mountain in the world. This was a super-adventure for us. Read our story, peruse the photos, or learn from the resources gathered in this section.
With the summit in the bag, and having descended an additional several thousand feet, the group had a bitter-sweet, but gentle hike out to civilization, Followed by a feast at a Moshi restaurant.
The air was crisp and still. Ice crystals formed over our packs and outer layers. The digital thermometer died in the cold and I was too miserable to pull my analog one out. It felt like it was in the single digits—which is actually quite good weather for this section of the climb. Our team of climbers, the guides and two summit porters slowly made their way through the night toward the summit another four-thousand feet above.
With Heidi feeling slightly better and myself well on the way to recovery, but still nervous about altitude issues, we took our sweet time on the short hike to basecamp. With the summit attempt beginning only seven hours later, my mind was filled with doubts.
Overnight, my altitude-related issues disappeared but Heidi came down with severe gastro-intestinal distress — conveniently on the day we had to hike the steepest section, and she's afraid of heights. What could go wrong?
Still not feeling very good, I struggled on the hike to Barranco Camp and poured myself into the sleeping bag as soon as we arrived. Late in the evening I began feeling some relief.
We plotted a course straight at the summit cone and slowly crossed the massive lava flow known as Shira Plateau. And then everything started going wrong. The group pushed on to Moire Hut, and completed a slack-pack acclimatization hike. Then I was rocked with altitude-related nausea and headaches.
On the morning of day two we emerged from the canopy and began to gain some noticeable elevation. The views were striking and the air noticeably thinner.
The bus dropped us off at this sign and we began walking into the rain forest. Our guides acquaint us with the local flora and fauna and begin drilling into our heads the importance of moving slowly.
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The US is not confirming the report at the moment, but the State Department hinted last week after the closure of the PLO's mission in Washington that there would be further steps against the Palestinian Arabs.
"As if the announcement that the U.S. would close our office in Washington D.C. was not enough, this vindictive action by the Trump administration is spiteful. The U.S. has taken its attempts to pressure and blackmail the Palestinians to a new level," Ashrawi said, according to the Wafa news agency.
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Board is close on funding for FCSO
Forsyth County commissioners appear ready to grant the sheriff the money he needs to keep his office operating, though the county wants a little more time to look for cost savings.
Sheriff Ted Paxton told the commissioners in June that the only way he knew how to meet his budget for 2010 would be to lay off about a third of his deputies.
At a meeting Tuesday, Paxton noted that the $3.1 million budgeted for the office's operating costs didn't even cover the $3.3 million historically needed to run the jail.
"We were in the hole to start with," he said.
The commission has agreed to take money from the county's reserves to meet the sheriff's operating costs.
"We've got to fund it," Commissioner Patrick Bell said. "But is there any area that can be defunded or eliminated ... just to whittle that down?"
Bell expressed concerns about pulling more money from the county's dwindling reserves.
To keep the 2010 budget afloat, the sheriff sought about $1.94 million, a number he said Wednesday was arrived at through meetings with county staff.
"Between our office and the finance office and the county manager's office, we have come to the conclusion that that is the dollar amount. That's it," Paxton said.
Still, he agreed it was first worth looking into some numbers that don't seem to add up.
The county is trying to determine why projections show the sheriff's office to be about $500,000 over its budgeted amount for salaries, wages and benefits by the end of the year.
A perplexed Paxton said the office had no raises or new jobs and some vacated positions.
"We should actually be showing a surplus," he said. "[County staff] are trying to go back and crank those numbers again and see if they can identify what went wrong."
On Tuesday, the commission did direct the county attorney to draft a resolution for its Aug. 5 meeting that would allow Paxton to use up to $300,000 from the jail fund to pay in part for a soon-due $200,000 bill to neighboring Hall County for inmates that are housed there.
Those funds were set aside for construction of a new Forsyth County jail. In April, however, commissioners authorized the money for all jail-related expenses.
Over the past 10 years, Forsyth voters have repeatedly rejected ballot questions calling for construction of a new jail.
Chairman Charles Laughinghouse said Tuesday the county is "going to have to rob Peter to pay Paul" by moving money around between accounts to fund the sheriff's office through 2010.
"We just have to figure out how deep we're going to dig in Peter's pocket," he said.
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Robert Frank was born in 1924, and was an iconic American photographer.
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Between 1950 and 1955 he worked freelance for a number of magazines and newspapers, including LIFE and LOOK. Fashion ended up not being his cup of tea. Too many restrictions at the time.He started traveling the US and documenting the curious "American lifestyle". It wasn't long before he caught the attention of Edward Steichen, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Walker Evans and others in the NY art community. With some prodding, he finally applied for, and received, a Guggenheim Fellowship. This gave him the freedom to travel America in 1955 and 1956 documenting all he experienced. It was these photos that would eventually become his most famous and acclaimed book,…."The Americans".
lens on his Leica III. And he has used many other cameras at various times since. Even a Mamiya 7! One thing Robert Frank truly believed; Equipment is the least important component of a great photographer.
"The Americans" was quite revolutionary at the time, a controversial look into the soul of the United States. His raw and bitterly honest view of American culture shocked many. But now, it's exactly these qualities and "rules be damned" photographic technique that have become the building blocks of the generation that followed. His work still shows as a contemporary look at all we value, and abhor, in American society today.
While his first inspiration was a show he attended of Henri Cartier-Bresson at the MOMA, and he received extensive advice from Edward Steichen, Frank knew it wasn't going to be emulation, but innovation, that would eventually make him an icon. A thought process lost on many of today's photographers.
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Madison, Wis. (February 18, 2014) – Edgewood College today named three finalists in its Presidential Search process. In September of 2013, Dan Carey, the current President, announced his intention to retire. Dr. Carey will serve through the end of August 2014.
Each finalist will visit campus in the next few weeks. A portion of each candidate's visit will include a campus presentation, which will be streamed live on www.edgewood.edu.
Libby Burmaster currently serves as President of Nicolet College in Rhinelander, Wis. Ms. Burmaster began her tenure at Nicolet College in 2009 after serving eight years as Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction. In that role she oversaw all public K-12 school districts in the state and served as a member of the Wisconsin Technical College System Board, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, the Educational Communications Board, and the Governor's Council on Workforce Investment.
In all, Ms. Burmaster has 34 years of experience in education, including extensive experience as a K-12 teacher and principal at every level - elementary, middle and for nearly a decade as the principal of Madison West High School. Her bachelor's and master's degrees are from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and she is the recipient of honorary doctorates from Beloit College and Edgewood College.
In his current role as Executive Vice President at Edgewood College, Dr. Scott Flanagan oversees admissions, advancement, financial aid, marketing and communications, and athletics. In addition, Flanagan coordinates institutional planning, leads the campus-wide effort to cultivate a campus climate of inclusion and serves as staff representative to the Board Committee on Trustees.
During his thirteen years at Edgewood College, full time enrollment has grown more than 50 percent while ethnic diversity and the size of the operating budget have more than doubled. Flanagan previously served as director of admissions and assistant vice president for enrollment services at the University of Saint Francis (Ind.). Flanagan is a regular presenter at national conferences, typically addressing trends in higher education or enrollment management, leadership, or Catholic higher education. He has also served as an enrollment management consultant.
Dr. Robert Pastoor currently serves as the Vice President for Student Life at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio. He joined the College in January of 2010. At Marietta, he is directly responsible for the direction and management of a comprehensive student affairs program serving 1,500 undergraduate students. Pastoor brings a wealth of experience in student life, including the development of first-year seminar programs, campus housing, judicial systems, academic warning programs, and a four-year learning model for student affairs integrated with academic learning outcomes.
He has more than 30 years of student affairs experience in higher education, including 20 years as vice president at four institutions. From 2002-04, Pastoor was Vice President for Student Affairs at the University of San Diego. He served as the President of St. John's Catholic Prep in Frederick, Md. from 2005-09. He was Vice President for Student Life at Carroll College in Helena, Mont., from 1995-2002, and Vice President for Student Affairs at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Md., from 1987-95.
Located in Madison, Wis., Edgewood College is a liberal arts Catholic college in the Dominican tradition. We serve approximately 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students at our Monroe Street and Deming Way campuses, and online. The College offers more than 40 academic and professional programs, including master's degrees in business, education, and nursing, and doctoral degrees in educational leadership and nursing practice. For more information about Edgewood College, please visit www.edgewood.edu, or call Ed Taylor in Marketing & Communications at 608-663-2333.
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This takes us to sign up form where there is a hidden field for referral and is populated using JS.
The is then captured by an observer and processes it.
Now, my question is how can I achieve the same using an third party identify provider such as Azure IdP in or there are any better way to do this.
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On February 1, 2017, the Finance Minister of India, Arun Jaitley, presented the government's budget for 2017. In a column in the Economic Times (link here) Deputy Director of the Raj Center, Professor Pravin Krishna discussed pre-budget expectations. In a second Column in Quartz India, he discussed the budget, describing it as a fiscally conservative and mostly incrementalist Budget lacking fireworks but also refreshingly free of overt populism (link here).
A new Op-Ed by Raj Center Director Jagdish Bhagwati, Raj Center Deputy DIrectory Pravin Krishna, and Columbia University's Suresh Sundaresan note that the government's declaration that the high-denomination 500 and 1000 rupee notes would be invalid as legal tender is a courageous and substantive economic reform that, despite the significant transition costs, has the potential to generate large future benefits.Click here to read the full Op-Ed.
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Q Why do the Japanese all wear black to funerals and weddings?
A Whether in the East or West, black brings out a mood of solemnness and austerity. At funerals, a ceremony enveloped in sorrow, wearing black or nearly black is considered most appropriate.
Black represents ill-omen and bereaving family members traditionally wore black. Now, black is worn not only by the bereaving family members but also by people who come to pay their respects.
Wearing black at weddings in Japan may strike non-Japanese as odd. Moreover, while women wear a semi-ceremonial kimono or a stylish dress, men are clad in a black or a dark suit.
One of the reasons is that the nobility of high ranking who served in the Imperial Court wore a black traditional court dress. Also, the samurai wore a black kimono on formal occasions.
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What does an elf – trained in the use of a bow and arrow – know about art?
Perhaps she fashioned broken fletching into quills, and trimmed broken shafts into brush handles during those quiet nights alone, scratching words and images onto whatever bits she could find and carry with her.
If you asked, she'd tell you that her sketchbook is her most prized possession. And if you pressed further, she'd tell you her name was Berryl.
I am a mother of two beautiful girls, 'Phee and Dragonet.
I am, at my core, an artist, although I cut myself off from that for reasons of self preservation (read: depression). There is a yearning to be true to myself, and get back to letting my passions define me (which includes archery, yes), but once you allow life to develop ruts, it's sometimes hard to break from that path. That's not to make excuses, but to explain where I am coming from, and where I hope to be.
May this place help accomplish that.
Oh, and why an elven assassin?
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Discussion in 'New Members Say Gday' started by MG2R, Nov 9, 2018.
Joined because I'm looking into getting an MC22 and want to discuss that bike a bit beforehand.
Been commuting on motorcycles for over 8 years now. Clocking in at over 30.000 km per year. Started on a Hyosung GV250, jumped onto an XJR1300 and then switch to a Super Ténéré after I noticed I couldn't resist going off the beaten path on my naked muscle bike.
Welcome. Those FJ/XJR Yamahas are a treat.
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This monogram decal is whaley cute! Add your monogram to personalize this whale decal available in 2 sizes. Choose a 3 inch size to personalize his or her water bottle, laptop, ipad or other smaller belongings. Choose the 5 inch to make a statement on the back of the Jeep. This vinyl decal is made of high quality outdoor vinyl, the expensive stuff that lasts a long time if you apply it right. We send allong instructions for prepping your application and a practice preppy clover decal so you can get the application right the first time. Quantity discounts apply with only 2 decals and will be automatically deducted beginning at 20% off as you add this cute whale decal to your shopping cart, small decals are $8, large are $10, so ready the whole swim or sailing team, gather all your orders and place your orders at once to get the best deal on your monogrammed whale vinyl decal.
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You are here: Home / Cheap Eats / TGI Friday's $10 ribs dinner deal (except in Manhattan)
TGI Friday's $10 ribs dinner deal (except in Manhattan)
Don't we love it when a national restaurant chain offers a great meal deal EXCEPT in NYC, or just not in Manhattan. TGI Fridays is doing just that with it's "Ribolution" promotion, $10 everywhere in the USA except in Manhattan.
That's an added insult and slap in the wallet, condsidering that the fast casual chain opened its very first location in Manhattan before growing into a worldwide brand.
Ah, yes, the press release says "participating locations", but it took a couple of email back-forths to TGI Friday's press representative to advise that the meal deal is available in Queens and Brooklyn, but "unfortunately" not in Manhattan. And we haven't heard what the Manhattan price actually is costing.
It's shameless, because TGI Friday's also is promoting the $10 deal with advertisements and a social media campaign featuring the man on the $10 bill, Alexander Hamilton, who lived in Manhattan, is buried in Manhattan, and created the Bank of New York in Manhattan.
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The $10 Ribolution promotion – except in Manhattan – is available daily through Monday, Labor Day, September 5th, for eat-in only. Here's what you get for $10, except in Manhattan:
Jack Daniel's® Ribs: Full-rack of slow-cooked, fall-off-the-bone tender baby back pork ribs fire-grilled and basted with our signature smoky-sweet sauce, and sides.
Signature Tennessee BBQ Baby Back Ribs: A full-rack of those baby backs basted in our Tennessee BBQ sauce, and sides.
The $10 Ribolution promotion – except in Manhattan – also includes grilled chicken and mahi mahi, and sides.
About TGI Fridays – In 1965, Fridays opened its first location in New York City. Today, there are more than 900 restaurants in 60 countries. Bringing people together to socialize and celebrate the freeing and liberating spirit of "Friday" is the concept's founding premise, from which the brand promise "In Here, It's Always Friday®" was born.
Filed Under: Buyer Beware, Cheap Eats
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Researchers at Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) have recommended improvements in slaughtering and hygiene to limit cross-contamination with non-typhoidal salmonella, particularly in poultry wet markets in HCM City.
The researchers made the suggestion after finding non-typhoidal salmonella contamination in meat at these markets.
Nguyen Thi Nhung, OUCRU's microbiologist, said that between October 2016 and March 2017 her research team purchased 117 samples of chicken meat, beef and pork from retail sites including supermarkets and wet markets.
Tests showed that 68.4 percent of the samples contained non-typhoidal salmonella, which causes gastroenteritis if the meat is not cooked well.
Based on EU 2014 surveillance data, the prevalence of salmonella in 25g meat samples was 2.26 percent, 0.6 percent and 0.23 percent for chicken, pork and beef, respectively, she said.
Respective figures in the OUCRU study released on January 26, with samples from HCM City, were 71.8 percent for chicken, 70.7 percent for pork and 62.2 percent for beef.
While most non-typhoidal salmonella infections are self-limiting, some can become severe depending on the number of salmonella bacteria present, she added.
OUCRU researchers also examined how resistant the salmonella in the meat samples was to antibiotics.
The researchers grew the salmonella isolates in the lab, and then exposed them to 32 different types of antibiotics.
Up to 52.2 percent of salmonella isolates were multidrug resistant, meaning they showed resistance to at least three antibiotic classes.
It was the first time that bacteria resistant against colistin, a last-resort antibiotic, had been identified in meat in Vietnam, Nhung said.
People can become infected with these antibiotic-resistant bacteria when they handle raw meat or undercooked meat, eggs and vegetables, James Ian Campbell, a microbiologist at OUCRU, said.
To avoid infection, people should wash hands after processing meats and carefully wash raw vegetables, he added.
Juan J.Carrique-Mas, veterinary epidemiologist at OUCRU, said that hygiene was critically important during slaughtering and food processing.
To limit the hazard of residues in animal products, more measures to promote responsible antimicrobial use in animal production as well as awareness about withdrawal periods, should be carried out in Vietnam including HCM City, Carrique-Mas said.
In a meeting between the Ministry of Health and the Food Safety Management Authority of HCM City last week, Deputy Minister Nguyen Thanh Long instructed the authority to work with agencies to strictly manage traditional markets.
More attention needs to be paid to breeders, foodstuff for pigs, chickens and other animals, he said.
The city authority is setting up procedures for breeding, transport and slaughter in food safety chains with neighbouring provinces to ensure food safety, Long said.
"Bacteria contamination in meat is often caused during transport and slaughter," he said, adding that currently, the city and certain agencies only control the origin of food.
Pham Khanh Phong Lan, head of the Food Safety Management Authority of HCM City, said the city would step up enforcement at markets, especially at illegal ones.
The city is piloting a model called Safe Food Traditional Market at Ben Thanh Market in District 1 and Hoc Mon Wholesale Market at Hoc Mon district.
More unannounced inspections will take place in the city, and rapid tests of food including meat will be done every day.
If inspectors find banned chemicals or bacteria contamination, the sellers will be forced to seal all packages of this food and will have to contact an independent testing organisation to test the food again, Lan said.
The city plans to work with independent testing organisations to find ways to speed up testing procedures, she added.
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Patrick Bromley
Founder and editor-in-chief of F This Movie!
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M.A. from Northern Illinois University in Communications and Media Studies
Patrick Bromley is a former writer for ThoughtCo, who wrote about comedians for seven-and-a-half years. He is a journalist and freelance writer from the Chicago area, who worked as a reporter with the Sun-Times News Group and DVD critic beginning in 2004. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of F This Movie! and a regular contributor to the Daily Dead and DVD Verdict. He has also contributed articles to You and Your Family, The Spit Take, and Deadly magazines. He belongs to the Chicago Film Critics Association and the Online Film Critics Society.
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We hold our hands up and say that carrying cleaning tools that are considered 'generic' or 'universal' has been a real struggle for us. We carry them for our customers who own vacuums where the genuine tools just aren't made any more. On our landing pages we do our best to explain within the product description what you need to do to ensure that the tools will fit. Regardless we still encounter a higher than desirable return rate on these items with the reason being that the tool didn't fit the cleaner.
As we all get more comfortable with online shopping it's not always the case that the full product description is read prior to the item being purchased. I'm guilty of this too and currently own a beautiful, but very oversized, laundry basket. After all if the tool looks identical to the one that you need that's basically all you need to know, right?
In order to combat this problem we're trying a different approach and using videos to convey the fitting information. Here are our two latest videos that we've shot, we're hoping that they'll decrease our returns rate for the products they feature and increase customer satisfaction.
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As a retailer you don't want people to return products to you, generally it means that you're doing something wrong. Even worse is when a customer orders a product, is unhappy with it, but doesn't bother to let you know or return it. We'll be keeping a watchful eye on the conversion of these products, their returns rate and customer reviews now that the videos have been added.
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Influencer Marketing is now just about the most powerful tools in the marketing teams' toolkits nowadays. It just isn't expected to be able to disappear whenever soon with a lot of the majority brands applying this effective method. Research demonstrates is probably going to continue through the entire years, exactly why? People will no longer trust the particular brands. Lots of people are will no longer influenced simply by these standard marketing techniques and they're now inspired by the individuals whom they will trust and also respect. Alternatively, there remain numerous brand names who nonetheless misunderstand what exactly is "influencer marketing and advertising, " thus rendering it an successful tool. In all honesty, 74% regarding purchases are manufactured by word-of-mouth tips, and influencer marketing is probably the most effective approaches to drive word-of-mouth revenue. It is not any wonder in which marketers are usually increasingly taking on influencer logos and marketing strategies to achieve their particular business' targets and targets.
This write-up outlines the most frequent influencer marketing and advertising mistakes to avoid them to be successful and prevent overlooked expense.
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In the event you wanted to start out influencer marketing and advertising, make sure to master what could be the process and also activities involve with this strategy. This may guide one to your accomplishment.
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