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Minnetonka, MN (June 17, 2013)—Alerus Financial has been named one of the Top Workplaces in Minnesota based on an employee-based survey project from the Star Tribune.
Annually, Top Workplaces recognizes the most progressive companies in Minnesota based on employee opinions about organizational health, job expectations, and employee engagement. The analysis included responses from over 64,300 employees at nearly 1,900 Minnesota public, private, and nonprofit organizations.
"We are very proud to be recognized with this honor, especially because our employees were the judges," said Alerus President & CEO Randy Newman. "Employee engagement and appreciation is an important component of our growth strategy, and we continue to be successful in attracting, hiring, and retaining top talent."
Alerus Financial currently employs 230 employees in the Twin Cities through three banking locations in Minnetonka, Oakdale, and Maplewood, MN; a retirement advisory services company operating as Alerus Retirement Solutions in Arden Hills, MN; a mortgage services company operating as Alerus Mortgage in Minnetonka and Arden Hills, MN; and an asset management and retirement plan consulting company operating as Alerus Investment Advisors in Minnetonka, MN.
2013 marks Alerus' 4th year being named to the Star Tribune's Top Work Places list. Alerus Financial was named to the Top Workplaces in 2012, and a Top 100 Workplace in 2011. In 2010, Alerus Mortgage (formerly RMG, A Division of Alerus Financial) was named to the Top 100 Workplaces, in addition to receiving a special "Ethics and Values" award by Star Tribune.
Star Tribune Publisher Michael J. Klingensmith said, "The companies in the
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Alerus Financial Corporation is a diversified financial services company providing commercial and consumer banking, residential mortgage, insurance, trust, securities brokerage, investment advisory and retirement plan administration, recordkeeping and advisory products and services, through it's wholly owned subsidiary bank, Alerus Financial, N.A., and its affiliates Alerus Investment Advisors Corporation and Alerus Securities, with banking offices in North Dakota's Red River Valley, Minnesota's Twin Cities, and Scottsdale, Arizona.
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I Didn't See the Baby
The video above is alarming. It shows a crime committed in the Bronx, New York earlier this week where a man took a running start to knock a woman and steal her cellphone. What makes it worse is that the woman was carrying a baby at the time.
This video look awfully heartless. But as if this was bad enough the perpetrator of this crime, after he was arrested, apologized telling reporters "I didn't see the baby."
Really? Seeing the baby would have made a difference? Running at and violently knocking down a defenseless person is ok if there is no baby involved? And for what? A cellphone that's trackable and will get you caught?
The stupidity of this act and the rationalization of the perpetrator are galling. Sad that this is the world we live in.
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Get Jetpack Publicize and All In One SEO to Publish Posts to Facebook
I've been using Jetpack to cover some functionality on a few blogs and the functionalities I've been using (Jetpack has many functions and I only use some of it) have been functioning very well. But I ran into a problem with the Publicize functionality on one particular blog.
This blog uses Publicize to post to Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn and Facebook. (Publicize can also post to Tumblr and Path.) At some point over the last several months (I don't know exactly when) Publicize stopped posting to Facebook. I scoured through the settings of the blog in question and couldn't find anything that changed so I reached out to Jetpack support.
It turns out that the All in One SEO plugin, which does exactly as it's name would imply, made a change a while ago in the way they implement Facebook Open Graph meta tags such that these meta tags were not being generated for this blog. With no Open Graph meta tags being sent by Publicize, Facebook rejected the post.
The fix for this is quite simple:
1 – In WP-Admin go to All In One SEO -> Feature Manager.
2 – In the Social Meta box click the "Activate" button.
3 – Now go to All In One SEO -> Social Meta and you'll be able to configure Open Graph and Twitter tags there.
With this feature turned on in All In One SEO posts started to be properly sent to Facebook. Case closed.
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The Trouble in Ferguson
The recent events in Ferguson, Missouri have been troubling. The sad death of Michael Brown and subsequent clearing of criminal charges of Darren Wilson, the police officer who killed Brown, is troubling enough. But the aftermath of the grand jury decision to clear Wilson has proven to be troubling as well.
After the grand jury's findings were released a night of violence broke out in Ferguson. Businesses were looted and set aflame. Shots were fired in the streets. I understand why people are upset and I don't blame them. What I don't understand is the violent reaction.
The grand jury in this case heard many hours of testimony and reviewed the available evidence then made a decision. The public, including the protesters, did not hear all the testimony or review all of the evidence the grand jury did. For better or worse this is the legal process for such cases. We don't have to agree with the grand jury's opinion. We don't even need to accept it. But we do need to abide by it.
The violence that broke out last night is nothing more than crime using a particular event as an excuse. It serves no purpose in finding justice for Brown and does not further the discussion of how to better handle such cases in the future.
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Where I Want To Be
In an effort to kick start my writing I'm taking on online writing class. Today's assignment is: "If you could zoom through space in the speed of light, what place would you go to right now?"
The 12 year old Balevenie is on the left side of the shelf. The 10 year old Laphroaig is on the right. In between are a dozen other single malts ranging from Aberfeldy to Talisker.
On the side table is a book. It doesn't matter what the book is about. It could be about anything from the Civil War to baseball to science fiction.
Next to the book is an empty whisky glass which won't be empty for long but will be empty again before this night will end.
The chair is comfortable. The light is soft. The atmosphere is quiet and warm.
I'm right where I want to be.
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Twenty Minute Flow
In an effort to kick start my writing I'm taking on online writing class. The first assignment is to write anything that comes to mind over a 20 minute period. The following is my entry.
I saw a news story today about online gamers calling 911 to send emergency services to the homes of their online opponents as a way to get an edge in the game. The calls usually report fake hostage situations or murders requiring SWAT teams be sent. As troubling as this is I'm not sure what's more troubling: the trend itself or the fact that there's a nickname for the phony calls ("swatting")?
I have been a New York Jets fan since I was a child and what's more infuriating to me than the fact that they haven't won a Superbowl in my lifetime is that they keep finding creative ways to lose. The latest instance took place yesterday in a 31-24 loss to the Green Bay Packers.
Late in the game the Jets scored a touchdown to bring the score to 31-30 (the pending extra point would have tied the game). But the game officials ruled that the Jets had called a timeout just before the ball was snapped. This, of course, nullified the touchdown. At first viewing it didn't look like anybody called a timeout but television replays showed that Jets Offensive Coordinator Marty Mornhinweg had signaled a timeout from the sideline. What is really wrong with this is that only a head coach can call a timeout from the sideline. So the timeout that cost the Jets a chance to tie the game was, by rule, not allowed to be called.
Game officials will say that when the snap is imminent they cannot take their eyes off the field of play to verify who is calling the timeout. This is understandable. But the rule exists so there must be a mechanism to enforce it. Unfortunately for the Jets yesterday that mechanism doesn't exist.
I've listened to the new U2 album, "Songs of Innocence", several times since it was released as part of Apple's iPhone 6 announcement last week. As a long time U2 fan I was excited for the new release. The actual songs on the album, however, tempered my excitement.
I had heard rumors that they were working on something so I wasn't surprised there was something new but I was surprised at the Apple promotion. Still, it was new U2 so I gave it a listen as soon as possible. Needless to say, based on what I've written so far, I am underwhelmed by the new tracks.
Though there are some points that I enjoy there is really nothing new here. The songs, of course, are new but there's nothing about their execution that is new. I could swear I've heard some of these tunes on other U2 albums. It's just the same sound in different packaging. They're no longer originating their sound but rather just sounds like their old material.
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I'm looking for one of the following: - ATA-4 Specification - A wrapper for the ATA-4 specification written in Real Mode Assembly (MASM/TURBO ASM)
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Stack Overflow is a question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers. It's 100% free, no registration required.
(see also http://t13.incits.org/t13sd4.htm)
If you want to read the actual ANSI standard you have to purchase it. Not sure who is the best source but I did find one source online.
as far as assembly libraries go... that sounds like a tough call, I found something but no idea as to its viability/correctness/licensing.


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Collection: Dallas Museum of Art Exhibition Records
Concentrations 26: Celia Alvarez Munoz, Abriendo Tierra/Breaking Ground [Exhibition Photographs]
Date: 1991
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Description: Photographs of the exhibition, "Concentrations 26: Celia Alvarez Munoz, Abriendo Tierra/Breaking Ground," May 4-June 30, 1991, held at the Dallas Museum of Art. They include thirteen gallery views of the installation.
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Giacometti: On Loan from the Maeght Foundation, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Date: 1979
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Description: Catalog from the exhibition, "Giacometti," September 26–November 25, 1979, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Includes: list of artworks in the exhibition, essay, chronology.
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Religion, Ballet and the Super Bowl
... a real showgirl. The children ranged in age from 2 to 16. Many want to be professional dancers. Our sewing supplies went to the 3 dance troupes we have visited in the last two days, since they all make there own costumes. We returned to the hotel at 5:00 PM. We have started the last two days at 9:00 AM, which has been great. It was a fun, but long day. A group of us watched the Super Bowl in a room that Gigi arranged and the others went to dinner with ...
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Las Vegas equipment expo will take place March 7-11, 2017.
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) has announced that the next ConExpo-Con/Agg exposition will be March 7-11, 2017, at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Richard M. Goldsbury, president of Bobcat/Doosan North America & Australia/Oceania, has been named as the event's chairperson. Bobcat/Doosan is part of Doosan Infracore Construction Equipment, West Fargo, North Dakota.
Goldsbury will lead the triennial show's management committee, a group of volunteer manufacturers and other industry stakeholders who oversee show planning.
Milwaukee-based AEM calls ConExpo "the Western Hemisphere's global gathering place in North America every three years for the construction and construction materials industry." The event is co-located with the IFPE (International Fluid Power Exposition) event for the fluid power industry.
The 2014 ConExpo show saw record exhibit and educational session attendance numbers and nearly 130,000 registered attendees, 24 percent of whom came from outside the United States, according to AEM.
"2017 will definitely build on the momentum of 2014, and we are already in analysis and planning mode just weeks after such a successful event," says Goldsbury. "Our focus is to amplify our efforts to deliver an outstanding quality show experience for our visitors, plus expand our exhibitor engagement outreach that results in improved exhibitor return on investment."
More information about attending or exhibiting at the 2017 ConExpo-Con/Agg will be made available at www.conexpoconagg.com.
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Mary Brown, widow of Bengals' founder, dies at 84
Mary Brown, the widow of the late Cincinnati Bengals founder and coach Paul Brown, has died. She was 84.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reported (http://cin.ci/1baTmc9 ) that Brown passed away Saturday at her Milford home. She was told in August that she had bone cancer.
Paul Brown died in August 1991, but Mary Brown still represented him at many events, including the 50th anniversary of the Pro Football Hall of Fame last summer.
The Browns were married in 1973 and had three sons. Mike Brown is the Bengals' president.
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World Cup 2015: Australia
Cummins gears for quick Adelaide track
Mar 15, 2015: Pat Cummins hopes three wickets against Scotland will be enough to hold his place for Australia's quarter-final in Adelaide, on what he described as the fastest pitch he has played on this summer
World Cup 2015: Australia
Faulkner out to prove fitness for Perth
Mar 2, 2015: The World Cup could finally begin for James Faulkner at the WACA on Wednesday. His availability for Australia's fourth group match against Afghanistan in Perth will hinge on how he pulls up after bowling in the side's optional training session on Monday a
Australia v New Zealand, World Cup 2015, Group A, Auckland
Hazlewood or Cummins for Australia?
Feb 26, 2015: The choice between Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood is an important decision, for the dimensions of the Eden Park ground allow little margin for error from the fast bowlers
World Cup 2015
Weather threatens Australia's rhythm
Feb 18, 2015: Australia's meticulously planned World Cup campaign may be about to experience a first hiccup, due to the dire weather forecast for Brisbane over the coming week
Australia v India, World Cup 2015 warm-ups, Adelaide
'We were pretty clinical' - Cummins
Feb 8, 2015: Australia fast bowler Pat Cummins rated the hosts' display in their warm-up match against India as a nine or 10 out of 10
Australia v South Africa, 2nd T20, Melbourne
'Happy to be playing anywhere' - Cummins
Nov 7, 2014: Australia fast bowler Pat Cummins is happy to be playing cricket in the lead-up to the Australian summer after regaining his fitness
Australia v South Africa, 1st Twenty20, Adelaide
Nov 5, 2014: Plays of the day from the first Twenty20 between Australia and South Africa in Adelaide
NSW v WA, Final, Matador BBQ's Cup, Sydney
Teams vie for more than just a trophy
Oct 25, 2014: The Matador BBQ's One-Day Cup final will offer both New South Wales and Western Australia players a final chance to impress Australian selectors ahead of the 2015 World Cup
Queensland v NSW, Matador BBQs Cup, Brisbane
Patterson clinches victory for New South Wales
Oct 10, 2014: Kurtis Patterson ensured New South Wales continued their unbeaten start to the Matador BBQs Cup campaign in Brisbane with some final-over heroics against Queensland
Botham's record, and Somerset's near-miss
Apr 29, 2014: Also, a ton of IPL matches, youngest Australians in World Cups, longest wait for a first-class hundreds, and the Don's lack of fifties
Big Bash League
Jan 14, 2014: Pat Cummins will finally make his long-awaited return to Australian domestic cricket for Perth Scorchers against Adelaide Strikers at the WACA on Thursday after Cricket Australia cleared the injury-prone fast bowler
The Ashes 2013-14
McDermott preaches bowlers' durability
Dec 30, 2013: Craig McDermott expect Ryan Harris to be fit for the final Ashes Test and is equally adamant a rich next generation of pace bowlers must be raised with the expectation to play long Test series
Australia news
Another long injury lay-off for Cummins
Aug 19, 2013: Australia fast bowler Pat Cummins is set to miss much of the 2013-14 domestic season after a recurrence of his lower back stress injury
Australia A in South Africa 2013
Aug 12, 2013: Australia fast bowler Pat Cummins has returned home from the A tour to South Africa to assess a lower rib/back injury
Australia A in South Africa 2013
Ahmed, Agar 'Ashes contenders' - Inverarity
Jun 19, 2013: The legspinner Fawad Ahmed remains in contention for a late Ashes call-up despite being named in the Australia A squad to tour Africa while England and Australia battle for the urn
Australia news
Jun 18, 2013: Pat Cummins, the Australia fast bowler, will play his first competitive match in nine months for the Northern Ireland Cricket Academy on Wednesday
Australia A in England 2013
Cummins to travel with Australia A to England
May 10, 2013: Pat Cummins will travel with the Australia A party to England later this month, although he will not be part of the official squad, and is hoping to make a full return during the Australia A tour of South Africa in July
Feb 5, 2013: The career of Bruce Reid, a cautionary tale in Australian cricket, has not been forgotten by those seeking to preserve the latest crop of young fast men
Australia v Sri Lanka, 1st Test, Hobart, 3rd day
Australian fast bowlers blow up
Dec 16, 2012: For the second time in three Tests, Australia have found themselves a bowler short less than halfway through a match, a ruinous state of affairs that will cause plenty of knock-on consequences
South Africa in Australia 2012-13
The plague of the back injury stalls Cummins, de Lange
Nov 6, 2012: If you are young and bowl quick, you stand prone to stress factors of the back; the promising, fast-bowling duo of Pat Cummins and Marchant de Lange is a case in point
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The greatest time of our lives
Whatever happens, the Australia-New Zealand World Cup final at the MCG will be the most divine fun
NZ 5, Australia 4 in our World Cup team
A World Cup 2015 composite XI as selected by ESPNcricinfo staff
India swept away by Australia's depth
India's Plan A in this World Cup had worked flawlessly over seven matches. When they came up against the toughest opponents in the World Cup, however, they were left scrambling for a back-up plan
Australia's youth and their warning to the world
The display of a young and hungry pace attack and Steven Smith's steel won the World Cup final and there were signs that this group can go on to dominate ODIs for the next five years
Dhoni masters numbers game to crack ODI code
Over the last few months, he has slowly moved from a flashy finisher, to a more measured risk manager
India swept away by Australia's depth (184)
India's Plan A in this World Cup had worked flawlessly over seven matches. When they came up against the toughest opponents in the World Cup, however, they were left scrambling for a back-up plan
NZ 5, Australia 4 in our World Cup team (158)
A World Cup 2015 composite XI as selected by ESPNcricinfo staff
The greatest time of our lives (142)
Whatever happens, the Australia-New Zealand World Cup final at the MCG will be the most divine fun
Australia's youth and their warning to the world (114)
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Touhami Abdelkhalek
Coordinator of MIMAP-Morocco
Time appears to have stood still along the road from Beni Mellal to Marrakesh in central Morocco. In the meagre shade of rocky outcroppings, jellaba-clad boys and old men desultorily watch over skinny goats scrounging the arid countryside for scarce fodder. Veiled women peek from the doors of ochre, low mud-walled compounds. Dozens of container-laden donkeys carry children to and from the communal well.
This is in sharp contrast to the frenzied traffic that speeds past on the paved highway and the gleaming service stations that serve both vehicles and passengers.
"There are two Moroccos," says Dr Touhami Abdelkhalek, professor and researcher at Morocco's Institut national de statistique et d'économie appliquée (INSÉA) — traditional and modern. Morocco is also rich and poor.
It is this second country that holds his attention. Dr Abdelkhalek coordinates a network of researchers working to understand poverty and develop appropriate poverty reduction strategies. The team is part of the Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies (
) network, supported by the International Development Research Centre (
), that links researchers, policy officials, nongovernmental organizations, and international experts in a dozen countries of Asia and Africa.
But Dr Abdelkhalek also knows poverty much more intimately. "When talking about development, I don't need to consult many textbooks," he says. "I have them all in my head." Born in an oasis in the province of Errachidia in southern Morocco, he was the youngest of 12 children. "All the indicators of underdevelopment, you can find them in my life," he says "a large family, illiterate parents, high infantile death rates, and rural-urban migration, as my parents moved to the city of Midelt when I was 9 months old."
Dr Abdelkhalek's father was a sharecropper for a French property owner. "Sharecropping is a concept that we now teach when covering economic theory," he says. "At the time my father earned four dirhams a day — $0.50 to feed all those mouths. I know hunger," he adds. " And my parents couldn't afford schooling for us all," he says, "so my sisters didn't go to school except for the youngest. My eldest brother left home very young to join the army to help support the family."
It was one of his older brothers who saw the importance of sending children to school. "My life changed the day my mother took me to register for school," he says. "That was the turning point." He remembers that, even then, on Sundays he sold shopping bags at a local store to pay for his first notebook — one cent a week for a year.
An economics window on the world
Dr Abdelkhalek discovered economics in secondary school, at one of Morocco's largest schools in the city of Meknès. "If I had to start over, I'd still choose economics," he says, "I find it a very open discipline." It can't be otherwise, he explains: "in economics you need to be interested in health, in energy, in agriculture. You need to be interested in the poor and in wealth — in almost everything."
There followed undergraduate and graduate studies at the INSEA, then doctoral studies in Canada. Why Canada? In the Francophone world, if you want to pursue advanced studies in French, outside of Africa," he says, " the world becomes very small: either France, Belgium, or Canada — mainly in Québec universities. He chose the Department of Economics of the Université de Montréal because of its strength in econometrics, a discipline more closely akin to statistics, then his area of specialization. "I'm really happy to have been in that department," he says. "There I discovered how people work, how people appreciate those who work, how people respect one another. That has marked me for life."
Dr Abdelkhalek pursued double areas of specialization in his thesis: econometrics and international development, thanks to the Programme de recherche économique appliquée en développement international (Programme PARADI), administered by the Université de Montréal's Centre de recherche et de développement en économique (CRDE) and Université Laval's Centre de recherche en économie et en finance appliquées (CRÉFA). (Financed by the Canadian International Development Agency (
), the Programme PARADI ended in 1999.) This is a fairly unique niche, he notes, since "econometrists don't generally know development problems, and development experts aren't econometrists." And so he straddled the two. "I seem to be made for work on poverty, on the politics of poverty, on modelling poverty, on all that surrounds it in the field of international development," he says. "That niche still interests me."
In 1995, after more than three years of study, research, and teaching in Canada, Dr Abdlekhalek returned to INSÉA in Rabat. "I think I'm more useful here than in Canada," he says. "Technology transfer, aid, can also take this form, in having people who are trained return to train, in turn."
Monitoring poverty in Morocco
But he has maintained close links with his former colleagues, as associate researcher of the CRDE and of CRÉFA and through his participation in the
network. The Morocco project was launched in 1998 to understand and analyze poverty and inequality in the country, and study how macroeconomic policies affected poor populations. To date the project has contributed substantially to the poverty debate in Morocco. For instance, the
team has called on the authorities to replace the traditional monetary definition of poverty by a new, multidimensional definition that takes into account such factors as access to education and health services, as well as other criteria important to poor populations. "The topic we are working on has not been explored in Morocco, and so the expectations are high," he says.
Dr Abdelkhalek and his colleagues are also working to improve statistical disaggregation techniques so that they can separate the effects attributable to an antipoverty policy from those occasioned by structural changes in the country. "For example, if we fail to take account of the effects of technological change," he says, "we may end up overestimating the effect of policies."
-Morocco project is now entering a second phase in which special attention will be paid to bringing the research results to the attention of Morocco's policymakers. "I know we have a long way to go," says Dr Abdelkhalek, "but we think we're on the right track."
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Source(June 5, 1920, ch. 250, § 17, 41 Stat. 994; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 12, eff. June 10, 1933; June 29, 1936, ch. 858, title II, § 204, title IX, § 904, 49 Stat. 1987, 2016; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, §§ 205(a), 207 (a), (f), 61 Stat. 501, 502; Pub. L. 97–31, § 12(45), Aug. 6, 1981, 95 Stat. 157.)
References in Text
Words "such other", referred to in first par., mean other than docks, etc., acquired by President by or under act Mar. 28, 1918, ch. 28, 40 Stat. 459, which was referred to in original first par. prior to repeal by Pub. L. 97–31. See 1981 Amendment note below.
1981—Pub. L. 97–31 struck out first par., directing Commission to take over, on Jan. 1, 1921, possession and control of docks, etc., acquired by President by or under act Mar. 28, 1918, ch. 28, 40 Stat. 459, and substituted "Secretary of Transportation" for "Commission" wherever appearing. For prior transfers of functions, see Transfer of Functions note below.
Change of Name
Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947. Section 207(a), (f) of act July 26, 1947, established Department of the Air Force, headed by a Secretary, and transferred functions (relating to Army Air Forces) of Secretary of the Army and Department of the Army to Secretary of the Air Force and Department of the Air Force. Sections 205(a) and 207(a), (f) of act July 26, 1947, were repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted "Title 10, Armed Forces", which in sections 3010 to 3013 and 8010 to 8013 continued Departments of the Army and Air Force under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army and Secretary of the Air Force, respectively.
Transfer of Functions
"Commission", meaning United States Maritime Commission, substituted for "board", meaning United States Shipping Board. For dissolution of Board and transfer of functions to United States Maritime Commission, see Ex. Ord. No. 6166 and act June 29, 1936. Ex. Ord. No. 6166 is set out as a note under section 901 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. For subsequent transfers of functions, see Reorg. Plan No. 6 of 1949, Reorg. Plan No. 21 of 1950, and Reorg. Plan No. 7 of 1961, set out under section 1111 of this Appendix.
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Israel's new national unity government has committed itself to codifying in law
– by August – the question of citizens' responsibility to serve in the IDF. For
years the ultra-Orthodox have been criticized for not serving. The arrangement
by which they do not serve has meanwhile prevented them from almost ever finding
gainful employment. While in recent years the government has succeeded in
enlisting growing numbers of ultra-Orthodox, this February the High Court
essentially ordered the government to draft thousands of them against their
will.One of the groups protesting the exemption granted to
ultra-Orthodox seminary students rallies under the banner "freierim," indicating
that anyone who serves is a fool, but this is meant ironically since they
purportedly all serve. However, a different banner flies over a second protest
movement, one that calls to treat those who serve as professional
volunteers.Official committees and now the public are asking how to make
army service a responsibility shared by all the nation's diverse population; or,
the other side of this question, whether the draft is still a
necessity.These are questions addressed by one of America's leading
economic thinkers, Milton Friedman, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday
this year and who held the accomplishments of the Jewish state in great
esteem.Friedman was famous for working in the 1960s to cancel the draft
in the US, and ever after to ensure it would not be reinstated. While many
differences exist between the US and Israel, some of Friedman's principles are
worthy of consideration.When Gen. William Westmoreland criticized
Friedman's support for a volunteer army by saying he did not want to command an
army of mercenaries, Friedman interrupted and asked, "General, would you rather
command an army of slaves?" Westmoreland said he did not want to hear draftees
called slaves; Friedman ended the discussion by saying he did not want to hear
volunteers called mercenaries, but in any case, he was a mercenary professor and
Westmoreland a mercenary general, and all the doctors and lawyers and
shopkeepers who served them were, if they engaged in their work voluntarily,
just as mercenary.In Friedman's work against the draft he pointed out
the economic cost to young men of serving and to society of forcing them to
serve.Back to Israel. During the underground war against the British in
the 1940s, and during the war with the Arabs that followed in 1948, many
ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students voluntarily enlisted. In 1948 they left their
yeshivas to dig trenches – even on Shabbat. One brilliant yeshiva student,
Abraham Ravitz, who joined the Lehi underground later became a member of Knesset
representing the ultra-Orthodox Agudat Israel party. It is a sad reflection on
Israeli society that today the ultra-Orthodox and others have to be threatened
with imprisonment to get them to serve. Or maybe it is a happy reflection on the
perceived level of threat Israel is facing.BUT SEVERAL points should be
considered in the debate about the draft in Israel that might lower the level of
bitterness between the different sides, and the volume of the
shouting.The idea that the Israel's draft is universal and that everyone
except the ultra-Orthodox serves is a myth.A recent study by the
Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies shows that nearly 25 percent of draft-age
men never enlist. And another 18% of the men leave the service before their term
is up. Forty percent of women do not enlist. The ultra-Orthodox are not the only
ones not serving.Reserve service is even less universal. Barely 4% of
eligible Israelis serve their month (more precisely, 26 days) each
year.Does this mean the IDF is in trouble? On the contrary.A
committee set up by then-defense minister Shaul Mofaz admitted that "the amount
of manpower conscripted today is higher than necessary" given the technological
means at the army's disposal and the nature of today's security work. Another
government committee determined that the army was already being selective in
whom it accepted and what to do with them, and differentiated on the basis of
sex, academic background and other factors.So the debate about drafting
the ultra-Orthodox is not about Israeli security, it is about social equality.
And with all due respect for the issue of social equality, the army exists to
protect Israel, not to make social policy.A better solution than
embittering people by forcing them to serve while actually reducing Israeli
security and paying more to do so – would be to pay a normal wage to the
dedicated soldiers the IDF already has. This would encourage the army to use its
soldiers more effectively and remove the stigma of their being called
"freierim." It would remove a point of contention in Israeli society and allow
more people to join the country's workforce.It would also show that most
Israelis want to serve even without being threatened.The writer directs
the Public Policy Center of the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies, which is
holding a conference on Religion and Economic Liberty in honor of the centenary
of Milton Friedman's birth, May 20-23, in Jerusalem.
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so im converting a 48 quart cooler into a functioning lauter tun (as so many people often do). i have looked around on line at several setups and am positive i can pull it off; but i have a few worries over the materials used in some of these set ups. i noticed that most of these setups contain pvc piping and/or copper tubing and other forms of metal or plastic. my question is this, will such common metals and non-"better bottle" grade plastics ruin my beer by infection or taste? or will it be taken care of in the boil? and what do you recommend for use? any help, comments and pictures are most appreciated. -cheers
As you said, this is a super common practice in home brewing. I've never tasted plastic in my wort or finished beer.
That being said I would not put boiling water in it. I once recirculated my strike water with a pump to preheat the mash tun and it formed a bubble in the the plastic. Even in that extreme case I couldn't smell or taste plastic in that batch.
As far a infection, you boil the wort so there is no need to sanitize your Mash/Lauter tun. You will not get an infection that would survive into the fermenter. (General Cleaning is all that is needed).
tap 1 - air
tap 2 - Pils (Magnum hops and S-23)
tap 3 - Bravo Brown Belgian Ale (T-58)
Keg 1/4/5 - starsan
Fermenting: 1.069 American Stout (15 gal)
You want to use CPVC, not PVC. CPVC is rated fro high temps. Better yet, use a SS hose braid.
Life begins at 60....1.060, that is!www.dennybrew.comhttp://www.experimentalbrew.com - the website for the book "Experimental Homebrewing"...coming Nov. 2014
+1 on the SS hose braid. I "upgraded" from a copper manifold. No change in my efficiency and much faster process!
I was inspired by this podcast:http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2011/1...th-podcast-27/
Thanks Denny!
I just started using a kettle screen from brewgadgets.com I used it in a 38 qt cooler and a hose up and over the side(used gromet for a bubbler and racking hose with shutoff). It had no slowing down. Even with 7 lbd of wheat and 1.5 lbs of 2 row. No rice hulls. Plus when I get a bigger cooler it will be permenantly mounted to it. With this setup u don't have to put a valve in it at first.
Kettle screen all the way. Pretty affordable piece of equipment, but works best with batch sparging versus fly sparging.
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Serious concern was expressed in the Rajya Sabha today over rotting of foodgrains in government godowns and supply of sub-standard foodgrains to tribals in the country.
Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Brinda Karat (CPI-M) said the government was not listening to the demand for distributing surplus foodgrains among the poor and allowing them to rot instead.
Showing samples of rotten wheat and rice in the House, she said that the foodgrains being sent by the government to remote tribal areas are unfit for consumption and demanded that government should replace them with good quality grains.
She said the government should constitute a monitoring agency to check the quality of foodgrains.
Deputy Chairman K Rahman Khan said the entire House associated with Ms. Karat and the government would take note of the sentiments of the members.
In a related subject, A K Ganguly (Nom) said the "country is sitting on a grain bomb" as good monsoon is expected to result in record wheat output of 82 million tonnes in the current season while storage capacity is very low.
The country needs extra storage of 1.5 lakh tonnes and one per cent construction of warehouses was completed last year.
At this point, Congress member Mabel Rebello shouted "shame".
Mr. Ganguly, a well-known name in corporate India said the impact of the use of insecticides and pesticides was harmful to children and women.
He urged the government to bring out a white paper "on calamity of plenty" which the country faces.
He said this year the country is going to reap a record output of fruit and vegetables as well, of which 40 per cent is likely to go waste.
Unless the APMC (Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee) rules are modified, inflation will again rise, he feared.
While countries like Russia and China are facing wheat crop failure, India is fortunate of reaping good harvest. "Let us not convert fortune of plenty into calamity," he said.
Noted agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan associated himself with the issue raised by Mr. Ganguly.
In another Zero Hour mention V Hanumantha Rao (Cong) cited media reports to pinpoint alleged irregularities in disinvestment of VSNL to the Tatas during the tenure of Arun Shourie as Disinvestment Minister in the then NDA government.
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Asymmetrical window placement, low ceiling, small room. Need help
My room is 13' 5" x 13' 10" and the ceiling is only 7' 9". The west wall has two windows not centered on wall. Previously, I had wallpaper up and hubby made me a bed crown out of deep crown molding that ran the length of the bed. I had beautiful lace hung over plain drapes all around the bed crown. With the blackout shade over window, you couldn't even tell there was a window behind it. Then I had matching lace panels over the other three windows in the room. I grew tired of all that and now want a more modern look. I removed all the wallpaper and glue this past weekend (I love wallpaper but hate removing it so I'm never doing it again) and took down the bed crown. Now I'm ready to redecorate.
I'm stumped on how to deal with the asymmetric windows. I would like to do an iron canopy bed so I can hang curtains along the back of headboard to hide the window. Do you think ceilings are too low for a canopy bed? I would have to remove the ceiling fan to have a full canopy. I could put a wall mounted fan up but I'm not sure then what to about an overhead fixture. Any and all ideas are appreciated. Any thoughts on a half canopy or are they too outdated?
I'm going to try to post pics with this so you can have a visual.
This post was edited by angie_m on Mon, Jul 28, 14 at 22:26
No canopy bed.
You know, it's your home. You should really have what you want at the end of the day.
I personally am claustrophobic, and a canopy bed in that room with low ceilings would not work for me, but may for you.
Is there another wall you could put your bed on?
What about an Art piece? Right over the window?
You could even make your own piece, by buying a piece of art and having it mounted.
Just an idea.
Thanks for the reply butterfly. You know, we have 9 foot ceiling throughout on the main floor, why they didn't do 9 foot ceilings upstairs is a question I use to ask all the time. I am use to it after 10 years though. It was an Aladdin kit home built back in 1921 or 1922, so who knows what the people building it were thinking.
I like the idea of artwork, except that the iron bed frame my husband is building will not work with that idea. The headboard will be 58 inches off the floor at its highest point, so artwork above it would look too crowded. While I am use to the low ceilings, I am not sure if I could get use to a tall iron post at each corner of the foot of the bed. That's why I was thinking of maybe just a half canopy. That way there is no foot posts and I can still have a curtain across the head of the bed.
I'm really hoping all you lovely garden web decorators can help me out. I've seen ya'll do some beautiful things.If none of ya'll can, then I'll know just how jacked my room is, lol.
I'll post a link to my inspiration bed. The bed I have designed is close to the pottery barn "Aberdeen" bed, but not identical. I'll do all the paint and upholstery after my husband makes it. It will not be identical to the "Aberdeen" bed, but it will be close, and most likely with just a half canopy. Unless ya'll think that is a stupid idea????
Here is a link that might be useful: Pottery Barn inspiration bed
Not normally a fan, but in your case it could work...or at least worth a try...can you angle the bed into the corner so it is between the windows? Then you'd be able to get light from all of them. You can mount a corner shelf behind the bed to put lamps and such on to use instead of night stands....
Tropical Bedroom by Beverly Hills Interior Designers & Decorators Lori Gilder
You could do shutters over the bed window that remain closed and a half shutter open on the corner window. I wouldn't try to hide it as much as use it as an architectural element.
But I do like the screen above.
Can you move the bed to another wall?
I love canopy beds. Would something like this fit with the frame/ceiling fan? And then do the whole wall with drapes.
There's only a window left in this pic.
Shutters, but leave the window side open
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Now, the fan may be more of an issue unless you go with a bed that doesn't have the canopy but just the four posters.
Or maybe even something like this
Or can you move the ceiling fan?
Ahhh..the joys of fitting a modern bed in a vintage bedroom. I know them well. Fortunately my window next to the closet leaves enough room for our queen bed to go against the wall as long as it's not centered in the room. A king would be out of the question!
I would not do a canopy frame in such a small room. Not only is it too tall, it will act like a fence around a small patio and make the room and the bed feel smaller. Also, if your bed isn't centered in the room, it will work with the light fixture to highlight that fact.
Because the room is so small, I don't think you can use a screen behind the bed unless it is straight flat against the wall. Why loose valuable space at the foot of the bed?
I do think a screen would work flat against the wall. Or I would just so a curtain across the entire wall and your bed frame against that.
I think there are plenty of small bedrooms with four poster beds that work. In fact, in some cases, the height of the posters or the curtains visually adds height to the room.
I think the half canopy in your husband's version of the style you linked to would be beautiful and solve the problem of the fan as well. With the curtains, your bed will be very similar to some the ones in nosoccermom's post.
Good luck!
Olychick - I LOVE the screen idea! That is one I have not seen or thought of. I can't do it though, because the outlets behind the bed are needed for the mechanical beds, and like 1929spanish pointed out, I would loose valuable space at the foot of the bed. I still love the idea though, and will be looking to see if I can find a screen that I like, that would look good flat against the wall, maybe with cutouts for the outlets at the bottom.
Missy-I have never even thought about using shutters. I'm not sure if I would like them since I can't mount them on the inside of the window frame. They would have to be mounted on the casing, and I'm not sure about that. But I will consider it cause I am being open minded to any and all suggestions. Oh, and no I can't put the bed on another wall. I could put the bed on the north wall, but then the closet door on the east wall would always be bumping into the nightstand.
Annie, I tried putting our bed in the corner and it just didn't look right. My room is just to small for that. Good idea though.
Soccermom - I love all the pictures, thank you. I have seen several of them before. The ones with the curtains going across the back of the bed is what I think I am going to shoot for.
If I was doing beautiful custom drapes, then I would do them across the back wall. I am too cheap though, and I am a OCD clean freak, so I must have washable drapes. I am going to use cheap white cotton tie top drapes from pottery barn. I think those would look kind of cheesy going across the whole back wall. I plan on painting the walls a pale blue, or light gray, maybe a light blue green. Undecided on paint and such right now. Ideally, my room would be bigger and symmetric, but its not, so I must work with what I have and not let what I don't have drive me crazy.
Junco - I think I'm leaning towards the half canopy. Like you said, it solves more than one problem.
Thank you all for the ideas. I will definitely be trying a few things out.


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Our driveway has a shear twenty foot rock face on the left side all the way down to our house. This rock wall is 110'
long and is about five feet high up by our gate and about thirty feet high at the grade of our house ,with only about 18 inches of soil above the rock face.
St John has poor soil and is mostly volcanic rock. At the end of the driveway near the house the soil is constantly eroding every time it rains. It causes a rock slide ending
down on our driveway which is soon to be paved. A thirty foot retaining wall of concrete is out of the question due to budget issues. This is complicated because the area above
this rock wall belongs to a neighbor and borders our property line so we are working right on the property line.
We were wondering if a concrete block wall two blocks high with rebar drilled down into the solid rock would be worth all the work and solve the rockslide problem.The grade above the edge of the rock wall is about 45 degrees.We would edge the top of the rock wall about a foot back with the blocks secured with rebar filled with rocks and concrete.
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need a good spaghetti sauce recipe
hi all, i am looking for a good spaghetti sauce recipe. i have tried most all of the jarred ones from the store and none of them really got my attention. how do you all make your great spaghetti sauce? :)
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2 cloves garlic
1 large onion, minced
1 pkg. mushrooms, sliced
1 28 oz. can whole peeled tomatoes, crushed with hands
1 28 oz. can tomato puree
1 6 oz. can tomato paste
1 handful chopped parsley
2 T. olive oil
1 lb. sweet Italian sausage
1 lb. hot Italian sausage
1 1/2 lb. ground beef
1 tsp. oregano
2 tsp. basil
2 T. salt
1 bay leaf
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp. sugar
1 handful freshly grated parmesan
Saute' onion, mushrooms in oil until onions are soft but not browned, add garlic saute' till aromatic. Remove from pan and put in large pot. Brown meat and sausage. Drain fat and put meat mixture in large pot with onion mixture. Add remaining ingredients. Cook uncovered an hour or so. Adjust seasonings as needed
The following is a meatless sauce for stuffed shells, lasagna or a side dish of spaghetti when your serving chicken Marsala, etc.
Marinara Sauce
4 cloves garlic, saute'd in 2 T. olive oil
3 cans whole peeled tomatoes, mashed through colander (discard pulp)
2 1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. oregano
2 tsp. basil
1 T. sugar
1/8 tsp. pepper
chopped parsley
Cook rapidly uncovered until thickened....45 minutes or so.
Sauce is meatless, grave has meat in it - from my Italian(born in Naples) MIL)
For everyday, I make a very simple gravy.
Brown my meat(boneless pork chops, meatballs, small beef steak and/or Italian sausage) in small amount of olive oil and some garlic.
Add I can of tomatoes(crushed or sauce), and 2 cans of water. After the gravy is hot, then add a wee pinch of baking soda and stir - the sauce will foam up (some people use sugar). This makes the tomato sauce less acidic.
Add some basil and crushed garlic cloves.
Turn heat down, and simmer.
Saute 1 or 2 gloves of gsrlic in olive oil for about 30 seconds. Add a large can of crushed tomatoes, l can of tomato paste, 1/2 tsp. of oregano, 1/2 tsp. of basil, 1 tsp. of salt, 1/4 tsp. of pepper, and 1/2 tsp. of sugar. Add browned meatballs or sausage per your preference. I don't bother with mushrooms or onion but you certainly can include them. Sometimes I also add some chopped green pepper and a little dash of tabasco sauce.


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As long as we're at war with our own minds, we are at war with the world and with the whole human race. Because as long as we want to get rid of our thoughts, anyone that we meet is likely to become an enemy. There is only one mind, and people are going to tell us what we haven't dealt with yet in their own thinking. "You're fat. You're stupid. You're not good enough." If you are an enemy to your own mind, other people have to become enemies too, sooner or later. Until you understand, until you can love the thoughts that appear in your mind, then you can love the rest of us. You work with the projector--the mind--not the projected world. I can't really love you until I question the mind that thinks it sees you outside itself.
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We do not really live but are being lived. There is nothing anywhere but the one universal, impersonal "I", and not a single object anywhere has any existence independent of it.
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What happens to the body and the mind may not be within your power to change, but you can always put an end to your imagining yourself to be body and mind. Whatever happens, remind yourself that only your body and mind are affected, not yourself.
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Your mind is steeped in the habits of evaluation and acquisition, and will not admit that the incomparable and unobtainable are waiting timelessly within your own heart for recognition. All you have to do is to abandon all memories and expectations. Just keep yourself ready in utter nakedness and nothingness.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from I Am That
True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the self and can be found in the self only. Find your real self (swarupa) and all else will come with it.
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Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.
The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.
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Capital mixed with skill and luck gives Cadence success
by Ted Carter
Published: July 12,2013
Tags: banking, Bauer Financial, Cadence Bank, Community Bancorp, finance, Sam Tortorici
A five-star Bauer Financial rating and a percentage of growth in commercial & industrial loans that topped all U.S. banks have made for a lot of pats on the back throughout the multi-state market of the $5.7 billion-asset Cadence Bank.
From Cadence CEO Sam Tortorici's perspective, "It's amazing what a lot of capital and a very experienced institution can do."
At the same time, it is important to factor in a sizable dose of luck, he adds.
On the luck side, the resuscitations Community Bancorp (which is now Cadence Bancorp) did on the three distressed banking companies it bought in the last two years turned out to be not as extensive as expected. "They actually performed better than we had marked their portfolio," Tortorici said, referring to the Cadence acquisition in March 2011, Birmingham's Superior Bank acquisition a few months later and the acquisition of Houston's Encore Banshares in summer 2012.
The CEO has a simple explanation for the five-star "Superior" rating it received in the first quarter from Bauer, a Coral Gables, Fla., financial sector research company that awards banks across the county from zero stars to five, based on assessments of growth prospects, earnings trends and asset quality.
"The Bauer rating scale's most important measure is capital," he said. "Capital is an important strength of Cadence. When formed, we deployed about $950 million."
Cadence ended the first quarter with $935 million in equity capital and $568 million in risk-based capital, according to its FDIC report.
The other highlight came at the end of last year, when Cadence ended the fourth quarter with an increase of 40.9 percent in commercial & industrial loan growth. The 10 percentage point increase surpassed all other banks, according to a report from SNL Financial of Charlottesville, Va..
C&I loans accounted for 44.7 percent of Cadence's fourth quarter loans, SNL reported.
The bank had $1.79 billion in C&I loans in the final quarter of 2012, up from $1.27 billion in the third quarter.
Market geography has helped, according to Tortorici, who said Cadence focused on key industries in each state and region such as energy in Texas and heath care in Mississippi.
Cadence had a not-unexpected slow down in C&I lending in the first quarter but is projecting a strong second quarter in C&I activity. "At the same time we're reducing our investments in real estate classifications," Tortorici said.
Lending growth has been strong in other categories such as small business, he said. "A big portion of that is in the Golden Triangle."
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Prayers please
Will you please keep in your prayers a 27 year old married women with a young child who has been diagnosed with stomach cancer. She is the daughter of a former co-worker of mine and the prognosis doesn't sound all that great.
Thank you. Deanna
Our prayers will be for the family and hopefully todays's meds can make a difference.
My sis's church has a prayer group and I have added your friend to the list. Even without knowing the name, I know the prayers work.
Let her fam know we are are praying for them.
Bless you and yours.
I just wanted to give an update. She moved into a hospice program yesterday as her cancer has spread. I feel so sorry for all of them. I think her parents and husband have taken leave of absence from their jobs to just be their with her. It does sound like the hospice center is very nice and allows her husband and daughter more of a homey atmosphere.
Please keep praying for her. Thanks.Deanna
Will keep her and her family in prayer.
I've heard the hospice hospital rooms are good size and lovely and the nurses are very caring and helpful.