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Not long ago, Brandon Perlberg had a growing law practice and a Manhattan apartment he shared with his partner, who is British. They hosted themed dinner parties and wine tastings for a wide circle of friends.
But Mr. Perlberg, an American who is gay, now lives in London. Early last year he reluctantly left his law firm, rented out his apartment and said goodbye to friends. After nearly seven years in the United States on legal but temporary visas, his partner had not been able to obtain a visa as a permanent resident. The two were facing the possibility of permanent separation.
Americans with a foreign-born spouse of the opposite sex are able to get them resident visas, or green cards, with relative ease. But federal law does not allow Americans to petition for green cards for same-sex spouses or partners. Eventually, they face a choice of remaining in the country with the immigrant here illegally or leaving the United States.
"Ultimately, we resolved that staying together was the most important thing for us," Mr. Perlberg said. "And the only way to guarantee that we got to stay together was by making this move."
IOW while Teh Ghey may be legal locally, it's not internationally.
Mr. Perlberg is part of a diaspora of gay Americans who have found they had to uproot and leave the country to continue to live with foreign partners. And this year, binational gay couples like his are a new — and controversial — focus of the debate in Washington on an ambitious overhaul of immigration laws. In a blueprint that President Obama presented last month, he pledged to give citizens, and also immigrants who are legal residents, the ability to petition for a green card for a same-sex foreign partner, if they can show they have "a permanent relationship."
The Supreme Court will also take up same-sex issues this year, with hearings in March on two cases that challenge the definition of marriage as being a union between only a man and a woman. One case deals directly with a 1996 statute, the Defense of Marriage Act, that prohibits the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriage and governs the exclusion of gay couples from visas and other immigration benefits.
The politics of same-sex marriage are rapidly shifting, with polls showing Americans viewing it increasingly favorably but still divided. Many Republican voters strongly oppose it. Leading Republican lawmakers have questioned whether Congress should include such a hotly disputed issue in the debate when it will also wrangle with giving legal status to 11 million illegal immigrants.
"There are so many other, bigger issues the Congress has to resolve in immigration reform before we would even get to a point where we would be discussing a change to a longstanding policy like this," said Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the highest-ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is working to prepare immigration legislation.
Frankly few things are bigger these days than LGBT love and happiness.
The restrictions in the marriage act, known as DOMA, have a direct impact on Americans with foreign-born spouses or partners who want to live in the United States.
"A straight couple living in the U.S. can apply for a green card based on their spousal relationship," said Rachel B. Tiven, the executive director of Immigration Equality, a legal advocacy group focusing on gay men and lesbians. "Gay couples simply can't do that."
The operative term is "simply."
For the first time, in Mr. Obama's blueprint, same-sex couples have been included in a comprehensive framework for immigration legislation.
The president "has long believed that Americans with same-sex partners from other countries should not be faced with the painful choice between staying with the person they love or staying in the country they love," the White House spokesman, Jay Carney, said when Mr. Obama announced his plan in Las Vegas on Jan. 29.
Did you say "Vegas"?
The president's proposal was echoed in a bill introduced last week in the Senate by Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, a Democrat who is the Judiciary Committee chairman, and Susan Collins of Maine, a Republican. A similar bill was introduced in the House of Representatives this month.
Mr. Perlberg, 34, has been following the debate in Washington from the apartment in London where he landed with his partner, Benn Robert Storey, 31. In a telephone interview, they recalled that Mr. Storey had never felt like an exile during the years they lived together in New York. A graphic designer, Mr. Storey already had a job and a work visa lined up when he moved to the United States.
"I did not feel like a British person in New York, I felt like a New Yorker," Mr. Storey said. "And during that time, my relationship with Brandon grew stronger and stronger."
A circumstance that doubtless engraged
But the end of Mr. Storey's temporary visas was approaching. Because he does not have an advanced degree in a technical profession, lawyers advised them that Mr. Storey's chances of gaining a green card based on his employment were very slim.
The uncertainty of Mr. Storey's immigration future became "a dark cloud that hung over our relationship," Mr. Perlberg said. In July 2011, same-sex marriage became legal in New York State. But under the federal marriage law, Mr. Storey still would not have been eligible for a green card as a spouse.
When immigration also became a volatile issue in Britain, they decided to move quickly, fearing that they might not be able to live in either country.
In contrast to Mr. Storey's indefinite wait in the United States, Britain approved a resident visa for Mr. Perlberg in 48 hours. But the move was wrenching for him.
"I had developed an identity as a New Yorker," Mr. Perlberg said, "and, really, a passion for the city and the country in which I lived. And then in one fell swoop I was just pushed down to the bottom of the ladder."
When they arrived in London in January 2012, neither one had a job. In New York Mr. Perlberg had practiced marriage law. But there was no demand in London for a lawyer versed in New York State marital code. After a year of searching and financial hemorrhage, Mr. Perlberg finally took a job at an international accounting firm.
Well at least you've GOT a job.
Gay Americans in binational couples have settled in many countries in Europe, which have friendlier laws for them. One American, Martha McDevitt-Pugh, started a group in the Netherlands, the Love Exiles Foundation, to bring gay Americans together. Speaking by telephone from Amsterdam, she said she moved to the Netherlands so she could live with her wife, Lin, who was born in Australia. They were married in the Netherlands in 2001.
"So many Americans have met someone from another country," Ms. McDevitt-Pugh said. "They fall in love, and they have no idea that anything could go wrong. They assume there must be some way to get your partner to stay in the U.S." She said there were also communities of gay American immigration exiles in Australia, Canada, Germany and Spain.
In a sign of the emerging differences among lawmakers, a bipartisan Senate group that is drafting a comprehensive bill did not include any reference to same-sex couples in a blueprint it released last month. A Republican in the group, Senator John McCain of Arizona, has warned that adding the divisive social issue to the legislation could "derail it."
As Mr. Perlberg watches from London, he acknowledges that things could be worse. "London is not Siberia," he said. "I have a new job and a new career, and I'm excited about that."
But he said he wrestles with resentment. "It's very difficult as an American to have gone through all that and know that the country just pushed us out for being in love," he said, "and being gay."
Because "Gay" and "Love" aren't supposed to go tgether, according to the Heterosexual Dictatorship.
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Brown Mouse
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Posted: Sun 02 Feb 2014, 08:39
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Does multisession work better in laptops now?
Has the multi-session problem that existed when burning saved sessions to disc using laptops been eradicated yet?
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Posted: Sun 02 Feb 2014, 15:02
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I don't know. I've never had a laptop. The reports of such problems have dropped off, so maybe it works now. If you have a laptop with a CD or DVD burner, you could burn a Puppy iso onto a CD- or DVD- RW, then boot it a few times, saving after each shutdown. Let us know if it works.
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Posted: Sun 02 Feb 2014, 17:25
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Depends on how old the laptop. Some old ones had only a CD
, so obviously, you couldn't operate Puppy in multi-session mode on those.
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yes. especially if you clean led its very exposed so gets dirty easy. Also much easier to clean. The problem has been a BIOS bug and never really a puppylinux issue.
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I don't have a laptop to be able to test this on but I wanted to give a copy of my remastered multi-session disc to others who do use laptops,hence the original question.
This is the message I see at first shut-down.
Thanks for the comments.
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Posted: Mon 03 Feb 2014, 05:32
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yes barry and his scary messages... he must have a small book of them.
actaually for laptops usb sticks might be a better idea...perhaps make a master and clone. Those low profile ones are neat and less vunerable.
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Have ALWAYS run a CD/DVD based configuration for every PUP I have tested or used in an everyday mode. In fact, I have a laptop that I carry around which for the past 4 years is ONLY booting and operating from its DVD without issues.
I have assisted many people in the past where they were left with running their PCs using PUPs. In every case, they were left with the CDR or DVDR. They were guided in what to expect at Shutdown (as it takes longer) and to NOT turn the PC/Laptop off until they see the PUP eject the DVD magazine.
So far, I have NEVER had a callback on any problem in boot/shutdown of PUPs. (I have from time to time gotten calls on how to do something with Movies/Pictures but NOT issues with shutdown.
The ONLY PUP which is NOT designed for CD/DVD use is Barry's latest Quirky, while ALL other PUPs run with CD/DVD operations as a part of the fabric of PUPPY Linux.
Multi-Session works!
(assuming no hardware problems)
Hope this helps
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Posted: Mon 03 Feb 2014, 12:34
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Lol Barrys scarey messages.. My wording after the burn was either success or failure STILL exists from our PMs in 2005. Still makes me laugh, it was never expected to be retained for years... It was just a statement on the unfinished error checking...
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I have been a multisession bunny in the past...barry did not believe I was running in 160MB ram and no hard drive (puppy 1.08 and 2.02) Ok there was 5mb left but hey.... it could browse, flash and movie at the time with a k6....
The hardware thing... if there is one aspect of laptops i see fail its the optical drives...often not completely but enough to get upset .... and laptop drives are more expensive than their tower equivalents so get replaced less.
Hmm perhaps we could make a list of the scary messages...there's is that mbr one for the installer if its still around and stuff for not removing your flash stick ever again....
perhaps you should take the amiga approach and have audio warnings to really make you jump like the bark does ...or a fire alarm bell to go with a pop up...
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do you guys recall that one orange themed puppy with a wallpaper that looked like the outback AFTER nuclear war. The poor puppy was photoshoped in the desert wasteland.
Together with the unsoft scary warnings language. To his credit those warnings are not easy to misunderstand. Ive always had a Mad Max feel to puppylinux.
its like the antiApple. more scary is The WOZ is now an Aussie and living near BK...
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Posted: Mon 03 Feb 2014, 15:52
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Could have that have been pizzapup...1.09 based and bright orange...but that's about all I remember..was actually quite good as long as you wore sunglasses
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Posted: Mon 03 Feb 2014, 17:30
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still have pizzasgoods isos no not that one. It was eye popping but in a optimistic teenager way. That kid has major talent both as a coder, problem solver and eye candy-ier
Wish his method of making puppylinix multiuser dominated, The hybrid spot under root directory bothers me to the core...
But I digressed what was this thread topic again..
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Posted: Mon 03 Feb 2014, 17:39
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do you all recall the loud quack from very early macs and the fish bubbles error sounds. I would love to get those on my phone..
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Posted: Mon 03 Feb 2014, 17:53
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don't think I was doing computers when macs were early....
I multiusered 2.12 and 4.12.... not that I particularly use it but it forces a better stucture of the system boot and shutdown so worthwhile.
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That is sad to miss the decade when all electronic devices with buttons had to make teacher angering sounds... TI calculators could make tones to play a melody.
Apples sound effects where so irritating but fun...
But to answer posters issue. It depends on the laptop. If you reburn a iso with the directory intact. Then the cd should boot as a multisession but without the actual cd being multisession.. if that makes sense.
if you can wait Ill post code on this thread to reburn a multisession as a single session with directories Thursday. Do you need CD or blueray/DVD scripts?
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What we read while halting our nuclear development program…
- Breaking down the A-Rod saga, from both points of view.
- On Taylor Swift's reign over pop music.
- Yet another story of systemic police harassment of minorities.
- The History Channel "live-tweeted" the assassination of JFK for its 50th anniversary.
- Speaking live-tweeting momentous events: Kyle Ayers documented two strangers breaking up on a Brooklyn roof.
- Chris Gethard explains the reasons for his Comedy Central pilot.


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Replacing the deck was the first thing I did too. The plastic one was aweful and dangerous.drc wrote: ↑Jan 30 2018 4:44pmSo the information is coming in thick and fast ! so i need time to digest everything . so my photo bucket is fixed for now so i will use this to post progress so watch this space. This is going to be a slow build as i want to tackle each part in bite size pieces .
in answer to some of the questions : i have replaced the deck and fitted a solid plywood deck and grip taped this. this was done on day one of ownership. the last thing i want is to slip of in a corner due to a slippy surface. i have also taken the advice an orderd a thumb throttle as being planted on the scooter will give me full control. I have also picked up a 3 position handle bar switch for toggling the different settings ( jogging speed, traffic speed , and all out hell speed) .
The controller is being planed and developed by EG as this is the brains of the operation and needs to right!
so this is something i am going to read up on for the next .
i plan to research and source all the part after this and lay them out and build it all in one go. Well that is the plan .
While you are messing with the deck seal up the battery box so dirt and water can't get in anywhere. Weather stripping is great for this purpose. It's sticky on one side and not on the other. Once you have it supposedly sealed up, spray the scooter down with water and see where the water is getting in. I bet you missed something. It took me 3 tries to get mine to be essentially weather proof. You will never be able to immerse the scooter, but riding in driving rain or through a deep puddle shouldn't be a problem.


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New products introduced over the last week include plans by BlackRock to launch a platform for bond trading that will bypass Wall Street, an agricultural fund from United States Commodity Funds and a fallen angel-bond ETF from Market Vectors.
In addition, a global high-income fund has been rolled out by Saturna, and Grendel Online added ASI's portfolio-rebalancing solution to its CRM suite.
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1) BlackRock to Launch Bond-Trading Platform
BlackRock will launch a bond-trading platform this year that will allow it and other money managers to trade bonds directly with one another and leave Wall Street out of the loop.
The new platform is to be run by BlackRock Solutions and will provide a means to trade corporate bonds and mortgage securities, as well as other assets, for 46 clients, including sovereign-wealth funds, insurance companies and other money managers.
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2) Commodity Funds Introduces U.S. Agriculture Fund
United States Commodity Funds on Friday introduced the United States Agriculture Fund (USAG), which tracks the SummerHaven Dynamic Agriculture Index (SDAI). USAG's objective is for the daily changes in percentage terms of its units' net asset value to reflect the daily changes in percentage terms of the SDAI, less USAG's expenses.
USAG's target is a portfolio of agriculture-futures contracts designed to be an investment benchmark for agriculture as an asset class. The SDAI is composed of agriculture-futures contracts traded on major exchanges in the United States and Canada, and it attempts to maximize backwardation and minimize contango while using contracts in the liquid portions of the futures curve.
3) Market Vectors Rolls Out Fallen-Angel Bond ETF
Market Vectors ETF Trust announced Wednesday that trading has begun on Market Vectors Fallen Angel High Yield Bond ETF (ANGL), a fund designed to focus on the U.S. dollar-denominated "fallen angels" segment of the corporate high-yield bond market, which currently accounts for roughly 15% of the dollar-denominated high-yield bond universe.
ANGL seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Bank of Americal Merrill Lynch U.S. Fallen Angel High Yield Index (H0FA), which is comprised of below-investment-grade corporate bonds denominated in U.S. dollars that were rated investment grade at time of issuance.
Bonds may have been issued by either U.S. or non-U.S. issuers, but qualifying securities must be issued in U.S. dollars in the U.S. domestic market for inclusion in the index. ANGL has a gross expense ratio of 0.52% and a net expense ratio of 0.40%, which is capped at least until Sept. 1, 2013.
4) Saturna Launches Sextant Global High Income Fund
Saturna Capital Corporation announced Tuesday that it had launched the Sextant Global High Income Fund (SGHIX), which seeks high income from a globally diversified portfolio of debt and equity securities.
SGHIX permits investments in U.S. and foreign bonds, as well as in common and preferred stocks. Its secondary objective of capital preservation integrates risk-exposure constraints into its fundamental strategy.
SGHIX is co-managed by Bryce Fegley and John Scott.
Its global investment universe includes the 1,200 largest dividend-paying common stocks, targeting yields above 4%; global high-yield bonds, including sovereigns and U.S. high-yield corporates, and, to a lesser extent, preferred stocks.
It may hold no more than 50% of its assets in common stocks, no more than 50% in securities of U.S. issuers, no more than 50% in bonds rated A-minus or higher, and no more than 33% in securities of emerging market issuers.
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5) Grendel Online to Offer ASI Portfolio-Rebalancing Solution
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The portfolio-rebalancing solution was previously only available to enterprise-level clients, and the partnership with Grendel Online now allows individual advisors who use Grendel's CRM platform to easily integrate portfolio rebalancing into their practices.
The portfolio-rebalancing solution covers the full spectrum of investment products, including mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, separately managed accounts, stocks, bonds and variable annuities.
Its Web-based platform allows advisors to realign investor portfolios with their selected allocation strategy, while eliminating the time-consuming task of manual processing.
Under the licensing agreement between the two firms, advisors already using Grendel Online's CRM module can add ASI's portfolio rebalancing solution at a highly affordable price point.
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to European Union
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The European Union has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for six decades of work in advancing peace in Europe.
The committee said the EU had helped to transform Europe "from a continent of war to a continent of peace".
The award comes as the EU faces the biggest crisis of its history, with recession and social unrest rocking many of its member states.
The last organisation to be given the prize outright was Medecins Sans Frontieres, which won in 1999.
Announcing the award, Nobel committee president Thorbjoern Jagland acknowledged the EU's current financial problems and social unrest.
But he said the committee wanted to concentrate on the EU's work over six decades of advancing "peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights".
'Biggest peacemaker'
Mr Jagland highlighted the EU's work in sealing the reconciliation between France and Germany in the decades after World War II and praised the organisation for incorporating Spain, Portugal and Greece after their authoritarian regimes collapsed in the 1970s.
The EU's reconciliation work had now moved to Balkan countries, he said, pointing out that Croatia is on the verge of membership.
And he added that the possibility of EU membership for Turkey had also "advanced democracy and human rights in that country".
Senior EU figures were overjoyed with the award.
EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso called it a "great honour", while European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said it was recognition for the work of "the biggest peacemaker in history".
In an interview with the BBC, Mr Barroso said that in awarding the prize to the EU, the Nobel Committee was saying that the European project should be cherished, both within and beyond Europe.
"I believe it is justified for the European Union to see its work for peace recognised, not only in the unification of the continent, but also outside our Europe," he said.
"This started after the war - putting together former enemies. It started with six countries and we are now 27, another one is going to join us next year and more want to come. So the EU is the most important project for peace in terms of transnational, supernational co-operation."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she regarded the Nobel as a "personal incentive" to build on six decades of peace in Europe.
"We must never forget that in order to keep this peace, democracy and freedom, we have to work hard over and over again," she said.
French President Francois Hollande said the EU needed to show it was "worthy" of the award. "We are honoured, we are proud and at the same time we have our responsibilities before us," he told journalists during a visit to Senegal.
The BBC's Europe correspondent Matthew Price says the EU's achievements are clear, but the committee has picked a strange time to highlight them.
The eurozone crisis has made the EU look more divided and fragile than it has for decades, he says.
EU 'like Yugoslavia'
Alongside the chorus of praise, several eurosceptic politicians were quick to deride the award.
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"Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence," he said.
Dutch eurosceptic Geert Wilders questioned the timing of the award.
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The Nobel committee has rarely shied away from controversy with its choice of winner.
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We certainly enjoyed every minute of our journey. Visiting farms, parks, beaches and places outside the city that made our little trip even more fascinating. Fortunately we had beautiful sunny days-- That also led me to many pictures opportunities! Our days were filled of outstanding sceneries, picnics, and relaxing time. We traveled to the northland of New Zealand which has a unique view. And it is famous for its outstanding beaches and its picturesque parcels of vineyards. Colorful farms full of fresh produce and aromatic seasonal fruits.
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The long walks by the crystal blue-turquoise waters were followed by late afternoon picnics { One of my favorite parts :) } We enjoyed sides like cheeses, nuts, salads, fresh fruits and mortadella sandwiches with rye bread. Something easy enough and satisfying to keep us going throughout the day until dinner time. And after enjoying such long day filled with sun and cool breezes from the ocean it was nice to warm up with a hot cup of peppermint tea.
We have walked through a farmland with more than 130 years of history. The view was simply magnificent. In fact, I had never seen a farm by the ocean. This truly fascinates me! The barn, the milking shed, and the other little farm buildings looked stunning with such a view.
Driving back home we stopped for a strawberry ice cream and a large tray of fresh strawberries at the strawberry farm.
There's so much yet to be seen and enjoyed around here. But now I have to prepare for a different kind of trip. Yes, soon we will be traveling to my homeland; Argentina. A long time promise, that I have been looking forward for about two years. Soon I will be cooking and sharing recipes with my mom and enjoying some time with my brothers. I leave you with the pictures from our little trip around New Zealand. I will be back soon with a delicious strawberry recipe with strawberries from the farm. I hope you are enjoying the beginning of this New Year with your loved ones. Thank you all for your beautiful comments and thoughts!


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Ten years ago we founded Gebrüder Martin in Shanghai. Initially as a representative office. Seven years later, we converted it into a subsidiary. Since then, the company has been operating under the name of KLS Martin Medical (Shanghai) International Trading Co, Ltd. and has been pushing the marketing and sales of our products in China. And with success.
For the first time, 25 renowned hand surgeons from eleven countries met for an international exchange of experts with our engineers, planners, product managers and specialists discussing the use of patient-specific implants in hand and forearm surgery.
Find out about what is making our marLED® X special, what the advantages are for the various user groups and what the future holds in the interview.
The KLS Martin Group is foregoing the Christmas present for customers and business partners and is supporting the regional German Child Protection Association in Tuttlingen with a donation of 10,000 euros this year.
For fifteen years now, our group companies have been operating under the name KLS Martin Group. We take this as an opportunity to present figures, facts and individual milestones of this period.
IPS Implants® Hand includes patient-specific reconstruction of the distal radius and forearm (radius and/or ulna). Our experts Christoph, Ines and Johannes report in an interview on the indications for which IPS Implants® Hand is suitable and the experience gained by first clinical users.
The topic of handing over a company is on everyone's lips, especially in medium-sized businesses. Karl and Christian Leibinger, Presidents of the KLS Martin Group, also dealt with this topic. Today, Karl Leibinger can look back on a successful handover of the company.
Today we officially opened our KLS Martin WORLD North America training center at our site in Jacksonville, Florida. After a construction period of 14 months, the training center finally joins our North American campus, which previously included our marketing and sales company KLS Martin LP as well as our development and production company KLS Martin Manufacturing LLC.
After only six months of construction, the topping-out ceremony for the extension at Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik (KLM) in Mühlheim an der Donau was celebrated. The shell of all the concrete work has now been completed on schedule. With an expected investment sum of 13 million euros, the new building is the largest single investment in the company's more than 100-year history.
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Ever since I came back from Gaza, I haven't felt the same. I have been through other traumatic experiences through the revolution, of course nothing like Gaza, but I am even surprised how heart-felt Gaza has hit me. It is like it shattered all my core into little pieces of sadness, not because 'poor them, people are dying' feeling, but because i wish we could do more as Egyptians. We are one of the most crucial countries in solving this whole "complicated issue" also known as, the deadly Zionist occupation. After all the path to Jerusalem passes through Cairo, not just symbolically or physically, but politically.
For Israel to exist, Palestinians must die, this is a fact proved over the last 60 years since Israel's existence This is not an even battle field for war, where two countries are fighting over land like most Western media, academics, and pundits insists on explaining the reason behind the deeply rooted conflict. This is a genocide, this is colonialism, this is Zionist imperialism, where Israel together with the support of the United States administration (all of them) kill, destroy, steal, rape, and expand at any cost in order to simply sustain the Zionist state. I have always believed so, I will always do, and my trip to Gaza reassured this belief even more.
After 8 hours on the road from Cairo to Rafah, 4 hours in the Rafah border on the Egyptian side, 2 hours on the Rafah border on the Palestinian side, the 8-bus Egyptian People's convoy reached Gaza city at Shifaa Hospital, the main and largest medical center in Gaza. We spent the entire night of 7 hours in the hospital and around it hearing the soundtrack of war, Israeli rockets and drones shaking the ground and our hearts with it every few minutes one was dropped on the civilian people of Gaza, injuring mostly children, women, and elders as I saw in the hospital.
I can't even describe in words how that was like, for even an Egyptian who spent most of the revolution on the front lines of the battle field, the war on Gaza shook me to the core of my soul on every level. It was the first time I experience how a rocket feels when it hit near by five minutes after we reached the Rafah Border Port on the Palestinian side, I literally almost fell over from the impact. Israel was attacking Gaza from sea and air while the buzzing sound of drones never stopped all the time we were there. Gaza was seemed like a ghost town, pitch black, only the light of our buses lit the road. Power kept going off every hour leaving us in a pitch black night with our uncertain future and Gazans' resilience & courage to carry us through the intense night.
Once we reached Shifaa hospital we were greeted with ear-to-ear smiles from Palestinians, who were so happy to see that some Egyptians would risk their lives at a time of war to bring them solidarity. What they didn't realize was how much each Gazans we met lifted our spirit and gave us more power to fight than any solidarity we may have brought them. I went into the hospital expected to find sad faces, miserable people who have just lost their families, but I was amazed at how every doctor, nurse, volunteer, injured patient, and family was in the highest revolutionary spirit full of strength, courage, resilience, and determination against the Zionist occupation.
It was as if every drop of blood gave them more fuel to fight and optimistic that they themselves are still alive despite the harshest conditions to live in anyone can possibly imagine. This is exactly what brought me to tears a lot of times because we, as Egypt, could be doing much more to lift the blockade on Gaza and support the resistance in every way we could; it is not only our duty, it is in our very own interest and security.
The continuation of same-old Mubarak policies when it comes to Palestine will no longer be tolerated. Egypt post revolution especially with a president, who phrases himself on being 'pro Palestine and revolutionary', must and ought to take radical steps in support of Palestinians against Israel. Symbolic change like recalling our ambassador or even evicting the Israeli ambassador in Egypt was our demand since 2000 if not even before! We must cut all ties with Israel, we must open the Rafah border for all goods and people without any strings attached, and we must end the Camp David accord even with a referendum.
This is the least we could do and anything Morsi does less than those three things would simply be bogus.


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Continue to remember those…who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.
—Hebrews 13:3b (NIV)
As we see in Hebrews chapter twelve, once we "keep our eyes fixed on Jesus," we will be aware of how we should then live. The writer now turns to the issue of remembering those who are mistreated. And again he adds empathy and personalized application. Remember them as if you yourself were the one suffering!
Dr. Jan Pit often shared the poignant story of a young Christian in Egypt he met named Timothy. Through the Christian radio broadcasts of Trans World Radio Timothy was introduced to Jesus whom he received into his heart and began to follow.
But when he shared his new faith with his Muslim family, they reacted so strongly that he was told to leave home and never come back. After several years of living with other Christians, he decided to try and make contact with his family again. On his mother's birthday, he bought some flowers and walked to his family's home. When he knocked on the door, his mother opened it.
"Happy birthday, Mother!" Timothy said. "I brought you these flowers because I love you!" Timothy's mother turned to him with a stern look and said, "I don't know who you are!" And she slammed the door.
Timothy said to Jan with tears streaming down his face, "I don't have a family anymore. Will you be my family?"
Today you can be a surrogate family for Christians treated this way. You can also remember to pray for Christians like fifteen-year-old Shirin who has gone through a difficult time of persecution.
When Shirin became a believer he also met with much opposition from his relatives. They shouted at him, threatened him and finally gave him a choice: Jesus or the family.
He chose Jesus and then left his home. He was living on the streets; alone, hungry and very poor. A local Christian saw him, had pity on him and took him into his house.
"Shirin loves God with all his heart! His mother and father are in prison now for being drug addicts, but he is witnessing to many about God's great love which has been revealed to him.
RESPONSE: Today I will remember those believers who are mistreated and do everything possible to assist them in the way I would want assistance if I was in their shoes.
PRAYER: Lord grant me empathy and a giving heart for those being severely persecuted today.
Standing Strong Through The Storm (SSTS), a daily devotional message by SSTS author Paul Estabrooks. © 2011 Open Doors International. Used by permission.


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Settle in, girls and boys, because we got a gooood Roundup for you tonight. Looks like everyone took their vitamins today, because holy shit I was howling. Let's round 'em up!
Favorites and Duds from Today's Commenting
Favorites, in no particular order:
What a way to start off the morning. Someone named JakeTheSnake offered up a breath of fresh air in the Cliff Lee post that's the niftiest among a number of solid efforts.
It seems that SavetoFavorites couldn't get Andrelton Simmons out of his head earlier, and so returned for a second stab that holds echoes of last week's top favorite. You know they say "insanity is hitting yourself in the head with a hammer to get rid of your headache" right, StF?
So I guess any story related to Michael Sam or Tony Dungy or Michael Sam and Tony Dungy will become a quagmire within ten minutes. Great. What's so fucked up about all of the Very Important Points that need to be made is that they're all the same shit piles, just of varying colors, consistencies, and odors. And Christ, bald hypocrisy like Dungy's is such a great mine for joke-making. Anyway. I'm a big fan of Pleatherface's longish effort in the Olbermann takedown, especially because of the midstream hairpin that spins Dungy's response into unawares ogling of the male nude. And the Body Issue tie-in? What the hell, Pf.
girlwonder returns twice to the favorites, first with this excellent fuck-you to the state of Florida in the Casey McGehee thing. gw can spin one-liners with the best of you assholes, and always with this sort of sinister darkness that makes you back away slightly before typing "+1." Take for instance her later submission in the Peyton Manning Dadness post that drew a breathless "oh, god" from Your Curator. Excellent stuff, g-dub.
Here's StuartScottsEye with a wonderful point-and-grunt knock in the Dan Borislaw story. That line is of the type a certain DougExeter could be proud.
Two favorites in Petchesky's Legitimizing Bigotry post. First up, Pleatherface returned from lunch for a tidy continuation/attribution joke that fits quite well within the past two days' chicanery. Next, marmol heater wrote one of the best Idiot joke/wordplay gag/Emmitt Smith knocks I've ever seen. Like, holy hell, it's so goddamn simple and perfect. Have a Comment of the Day, why don't you?
I rather liked BloodGames' grand build-up gimmick in the Saban-Spurrier screencap, if only because I have it on good authority that Nick Saban wears human skin in the privacy of his home. Also, goddammit, rubdirtinittakealap, this awful photoshop is just so ridiculous.
In Same Sad Echo news, resident moron-stupid-head penned one of the sillier dialogue jokes I've seen out of him, which is saying a lot. I don't know if it's because of SSE's overall delivery that I start laughing almost immediately when he publishes a comment, but the very first line of that one had me stitches.
Bringing us home this evening is OldBeigeGuy, who dropped a very erudite zinger down in the Clint Trickett Dumb Joke blurb.
Okay. Everyone sit down. I talked to Shitehawk about chupacabra69 earlier today—who, yes, I know, is getting on quite a few people's nerves—and asked whether I should do a longform takedown under the duds heading, or an extended listing of his comments with a bunch of "get fucked" imperatives, or simply ask one of the writers to ban him. The shit of it all is that Petchesky already called him out under his extremely creative titz69 handle, which, if ever there was a standard-bearer name for Yahoo!-level neanderthalism, I can't think of one better. Instead what I'll do is cull out the one comment that typifies this fucker's entire I-got-a-middling-C-in-logic-101-at-directional-state-community-college comment history. So, chupacabra69, you find casual, lazy, adolescent misogyny funny? Congratulations. You're lower than the dregs of internet sports commenters. You're the negative inverse of PFTCommenter, the shtick for which PFTCommenter exists. You're the imbecile-fuckhead King of willful ignorance, false equivalency, and noxious boredom. You spew myopic, malodorous logorrhea as a species of "argument," which isn't argument at all, but simply emotional masturbation dressed up as correct and informed opinion. Keep stroking that jaundiced, crooked, and gnarled rod of a cock-brain, you twit, and you'll get your ass shot into Kinja outer space soon enough.
[massages arthritic hands; spits wildly at computer screen out of impotent rage] Looks like I have to stop here. There was very much funny out there today, and I'm sure I left out some of your personal favorites. I invite you to link to those below in the "Replies" section, or, if you have any opinions about, say, Tony Dungy's remarks regarding Michael Sam, you can go fuck yourself. Voltaire out.


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A journalist who exposed the Religious Right's efforts to infiltrate America's public schools and a Mississippi student who bravely challenged unlawful religious activity at her public high school will be recognized by Americans United for Separation of Church and State on Nov. 10.
Katherine Stewart, author of The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children, will receive Americans United's Person of the Year Award.
Stewart's book dissects an evangelical Christian movement aimed at students attending public elementary schools. Called "Good News Clubs," the effort focuses on children who are in many cases too young to read. Sponsors of the clubs, which often meet immediately after school, believe that even very young children can make professions of faith. Many parents view the program as an ecumenical Bible study and aren't aware of its hardcore fundamentalist slant.
Kirkus Review said of Stewart's book, "Solid reporting… compelling investigative journalism about an undercovered phenomenon." The Minneapolis Star-Tribune noted "the book is an important work that reveals a movement little discussed in the mainstream media, one Stewart worries is poised to damage 'a society as open and pluralistic as ours.'"
In addition, Gracie Bedi will receive Americans United's David Norr Youth Activist Award. Bedi sued her school, Northwest Rankin High School in Flowood, Miss., after the school held Christian assemblies sponsored by Pinelake Baptist Church. (The Youth Activist Award is named in honor of the late David Norr, who staunchly backed the principle of church-state separation and generously supported Americans United for more than 25 years.)
"Katherine Stewart and Gracie Bedi are courageous individuals who, in two very different ways, exposed the machinations of those who would turn our public schools into centers for preaching," said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United. "We are pleased to have the opportunity to honor two activists of this caliber."
The awards ceremony will take place during a luncheon meeting of the Americans United Board of Trustees in Washington, D.C.


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[This note covers all of the "Chemicals" folders for 1915.]
These folders contain correspondence, financial statements, contracts, technical notes and reports, and other documents relating to Edison's expanded production of organic chemicals in the year following the outbreak of World War I. Included are items pertaining to the design, construction, and operation of plants to extract benzol, toluol, and other valuable chemicals from coke oven gases. These plants were established in cooperation with the Cambria Steel Co. in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the Woodward Iron Co. in Woodward, Alabama, and the Dominion Steel Corp. in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Also included are documents regarding the establishment of several new chemical plants at Silver Lake, New Jersey, to convert benzol into phenol (carbolic acid), aniline, paraphenylenediamine, and other chemicals that could no longer be imported from Europe.
The subjects covered in the documents include shipments of benzol and toluol from the coal plants to West Orange and to other buyers, the sale of toluol to the British government to make trinitrotoluene (TNT), and the opening of a second phenol plant at Silver Lake to supply the U.S. military with chemicals for the manufacture of picric acid, a derivative of phenol used in explosives. There are also references to methods of aniline synthesis, railroad freight rates and customs duties, labor issues, and shortages of raw materials, as well as undated notes and draft letters by Edison relating to plant design, specifications, and operation.
Edison employees who appear in these documents include engineer William H. Mason, who supervised the installation of the benzol plants at Johnstown and Woodward; John Bacon, Jr., and Claude H. Opdyke, who managed the plants for Edison; Edison's personal assistant William H. Meadowcroft, who oversaw most of the chemical sales; chief engineer Miller Reese Hutchison; Silver Lake chemical engineers H. H. Meno Kammerhoff and Peter C. Christensen; and traffic manager John T. Rogers. Among the other correspondents are Shunzo Takaki of Mitsui & Co., which helped finance Edison's benzol plants and sold the products in Japan and Russia; C. L. Campbell of the E. B. Badger Co., which supplied distillation apparatus; steel company executives R. H. Banister, J. H. Plummer, and Edwin E. Slick; John D. Rockefeller and Henry C. Folger of the Standard Oil Co.; sales brokers Stanley Doggett and Robert T. Lozier; and representatives of numerous other companies with which Edison had a business or technical relationship, including Bayer, Du Pont, Merck, Monsanto, J.P. Morgan, Squibb, and firms in the rubber and gas industries. There is also correspondence with military officers, including Rear Admiral Samuel McGowan, paymaster general of the U.S. Navy; Lieutenant Colonel Odus C. Horney of Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, New Jersey; and Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss of the Department of the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance.
Approximately 20 percent of the documents have been selected. The selected items relate primarily to Edison's personal involvement in the chemical projects. Much of the unselected material consists of routine business correspondence to and from Meadowcroft, including requests for price quotes on benzol, phenol, toluol, and other chemicals, most of which received standard replies stating that all quantities had already been sold. Other unselected items include proposals for business arrangements with various companies that were ultimately not pursued, follow-up material on topics already represented in the selected documents, and duplicates of correspondence found in the General Letterbook Series. Also unselected are letters between engineers on specific technical details not involving Edison; internal shipping documents concerning drums and tank cars; monthly aniline sales summaries; and unsolicited and unanswered requests for information. Marginal notations by Edison on incoming correspondence that merely repeat the information in the selected documents have also been excluded, for example in the case of the numerous inquiries from representatives of the textile, fur dyeing, and rubber industries.
Related material can be found in the Harry F. Miller File -- Chemical Correspondence and Contracts (Legal Series) and in the Chemical Production Records (Special Collections Series). Courtesy of Thomas Edison National Historical Park.


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I attend a secular college. My major is education/counseling and the issues of injustice toward gay marriage and diverse family groups is constantly a topic. I am the only Christian in the class and find myself changing my language and accommodating to the culture of the class by including or acknowledging this group in discussions. I am afraid that even by discussing issues related to this group, that people will think I support it when I don't. I had to listen to a two hour presentation and stayed in hope that they will respectfully listen to me when I talk about my identity in Christ. I am grieved to hear many misconceptions about how Christians use hate speech and oppress their rights. I know our focus and priority is the gospel; to what extent should we go in protecting our families from the aggressive homosexual agenda and should we actively oppose gay marriage on a civil level?
Your concern can be separated into two issues:
1) How a Christian should conduct him/herself in an academic environment hostile to Biblical ethics; and
2) in your own words, "I know our focus and priority is the gospel; to what extent should we go in protecting our families from the aggressive homosexual agenda and should we actively oppose gay marriage on a civil level?"
The second lends itself to fairly clear answers, in my opinion, so I will deal with that first. When Christians live in a culture saturated in sin (in this case, violations of the 7th Commandment), they will find that those around them "think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you." (1 Pet. 4:4) We are obligated, nonetheless, to obey God rather than man. In thinking of how to live out God's Law, we do well to remember the teaching of our Larger Catechism #99 (p. 237), which is on the interpretation of the Law. It lays out eight principles; most pertinent to our discussion are principles 7 and 8.
7) That what is forbidden or commanded to ourselves, we are bound, according to our places, to endeavor that it may be avoided or performed by others, according to the duty of their places.
8) That in what is commanded to others, we are bound, according to our places and callings, to be helpful to them; and to take heed of partaking with others in what is forbidden them.
These principles are supported in numerous places in the Bible; I will simply cite 1 Tim. 5:22. "Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure."
Thus, to whatever extent our families may be subjected to an aggressive homosexual agenda, we must be on guard. This begins by teaching our children a Biblical view of sexuality, which of course would address not only forbidden sexual practices, but more importantly the role of sex within Christian marriage as a gift with which to serve one's spouse. As gay marriage would certainly be a sin, then we ought to oppose it; to endorse it for any reason or in any form would be to encourage others to do that which is forbidden by God.
With regard to your academic environment, the matter is more complicated. The basic rule, of course, is to offend only with the Gospel. I commend you for making an effort to listen respectfully to offensive points of view. The challenge is to how to engage those productively. My own experience as a university student at a state school taught me that a Christian who disagrees with his or her professor (or department)'s philosophy must work at least twice as hard as other students. That is, you must know and understand the course material thoroughly so that you can identify its strengths as well as its weaknesses. Then you must research and discover the best arguments, Scriptural and otherwise, for your own positions. You must treat those with whom you disagree with intellectual respect: this is a straightforward application of the Golden Rule.
My experience, and the experience of many students in the humanities, is that professors are glad to engage with thoughtful students who hold different opinions. Thus, one ought not to assume a hostile reaction or a lower grade merely because one expresses explicitly Christian positions. At the same time, that may be the consequence of bearing Christian witness in your environment. Whatever may come, I encourage you to seek counsel on any specific matters from your pastor and elders, and also to meditate regularly on 1 Pet. 3:8-22. I think you will find the Spirit inspired this passage for persons in circumstances just like your own so that in all things you might always rest securely in the Cross of our Savior Jesus Christ.
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